When Jesus walked this Earth, everything that He spoke was the true Word of God.
From that time, even to this day, the devil has been fighting that truth for the sole purpose of preventing God's people from coming together into the unity of the faith.
He (the devil) knows that he has but a short time before God puts him into his future home where he can no longer deceive anyone, so he has pulled out all the stops to achieve his purpose.
Churches today contend that they are in the unity of the faith because they all believe in Jesus being the Son of God and that He provided us with the way to inherit eternal life. Well we probably are unified in that respect, but there is much more to it than that.
If we were in the unity of the faith, we wouldn’t have a Methodist church, or a Baptist church, or a Pentecostal church, etc. We would have one large church, all teaching the same thing and just meeting in different buildings. It is an abomination when a certain preacher can’t go to another church and preach, without having to be careful about teaching something that is not according to that church’s doctrine.
The early Church, founded by the Lord's Apostles, was in the unity of the faith because they believed and lived by every word that Jesus spoke. But down through the years, that true word has been distorted and misconstrued to a point that it has caused such a division in God's people that they are not sure what to believe.
And those outside of the Church see this division and disputing going on and want no part of belonging to the faith. This also is the plan of satan, to keep the sinners from converting to the faith.
Jesus asked the question, which is recorded in Luke 18:8: "when the Son of man comes, shall he find faith on the earth?"
What is going to be the answer to that question?
If we continue the way we are going, the answer will be no!
Loyalty to the Church assembly where you belong is fine; loyalty to your Church leaders is great also. These things are commendable, but loyalty to God and the truth of His Word and believing that word and the unity of the faith is what should be our most important objective. This could be what determines where our future home will be.
We all can do what we are doing now and say we are unified in the faith, but we are just fooling ourselves. We cannot be in the unity of the faith unless we all believe the same thing, the same doctrines just as the early first century Church did.
The Bible tells us that God has designated certain Apostles, Prophets, Evangelists, Pastors and Teachers to be in the Church. The purpose was for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: to bring us all into the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ: to the end that we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
That was God’s plan and intention for the Church, but it has not arrived at that point. We are not in the unity of the faith. Also, we are continually tossed about from Church to Church because of all the differences in doctrines, never coming to the knowledge of the truth of His word.
The problem we have is in the Bible we use and the teachers we have who have always been unprepared in the scriptures. There is only one true Bible and that is the one that was written by those who received the Word directly from God.
My friends, the time is very near when this dispensation will be over and the Lord returns to gather in the harvest. It's time to get serious and standup for what His perfect will is and hold to His perfect Word that will unite us in the unity of the faith.
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