Believer Unity
1) Jesus Christ wants believers to be unified.
John 17:17-21 Sanctify them
through Your truth. Your Word is truth. As You have sent Me into the
world, even so I have sent them into the world. And I sanctify Myself
for their sakes, so that they also might be sanctified in truth. And I
do not pray for these alone, but for those also who shall believe on Me
through their word, that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in
Me, and I in You, that they also may be one in Us, so that the world
may believe that You have sent Me.
Note: Believers are unified through His word and focused on God.
2) Believers are unified according to Jesus Christ.
Romans 15:5-6 And may the God
of patience and consolation grant you to be like minded toward one
another according to Christ Jesus, so that with one mind and one mouth
you may glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Note: Believers in unity will praise God the Father.
3) Believers are to be unified in peace by the Holy Spirit.
Ephesians 4:1-3 I therefore,
the prisoner in the Lord, beseech you that you walk worthy of the
calling with which you are called, with all lowliness and meekness,
with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love, endeavoring to
keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
Note: Unified believers will be meek, loving, and humble.
4) Unity comes from faith in and knowledge of Jesus Christ.
Ephesians 4:13-14 And this until we
all come into the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of
God, to a full-grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness
of Christ; so that we no longer may be infants, tossed to and fro and
carried about by every wind of doctrine, in the dishonesty of men, in
cunning craftiness, to the wiles of deceit.
Note: Knowledge of Jesus Christ will guard against heresies.
5) Unity in the gospel is evidence of salvation.
Philippians 1:27-28 Only let
your conduct be as becomes the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come
and see you, or else am absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you
stand fast in one spirit, striving together with one mind for the faith
of the gospel, and terrified in nothing by your adversaries. For this
is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and
that of God.
Note: Believers will not be afraid of threatening non-believers.
6) Love, tenderness, mercy, and joy produces unity.
Philippians 2:1-2 If there is
therefore any encouragement in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any
fellowship of the Spirit, if any tenderness and mercies, then fulfill
my joy, that you may be like-minded, having the same love, being of one
accord and of one mind.
Note: Being in fellowship with the Holy Spirit is unity.
7) Unity produces compassion, love, and tenderness.
1 Peter 3:8 And finally, all be
of one mind, having compassion on one another, loving the brothers,
tenderhearted, friendly.
Note: Everything the world needs believers have.