Over the years as my wife & I have walked, striving to follow Christ; we have had MANY occasions to unite up with people who say they love God but they were lacking in many doctrinal areas or they kept certain sins. We chose to NOT unite to them ( we called them out of such things in love ) and the fruit has been us growing in God's truth and not being infected by ill doctrine and sin. If we would have gone that route, just to have fellowship with more people, I believe we would have shipwrecked our biblical faith and our walk in Christ. I praise God we did not do that as we wanted to be pure and keep out all sin!
Galatians 5:9
A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.
This article is really needed as there is a real void of truth regarding unity in the true body of Christ. Many so called saints today say "believers must unite up" with other denominations and various religious groups even though we have different doctrines; just for the sake of unity.
Is that true?
Let me search the holy word and find ALL the bible verses that tell us to unite up and forsake truth to do so:
* After searching the scriptures, I can say there are no verses that even hint of that false unbiblical mindset...not one!!!
But the fact is there are MANY verses that instruct true saints to stay pure, be holy, avoid sin, call out sin, avoid all bad doctrine, lies and disassociate from saints who sin or keep any false doctrines.
Jesus said this in John 17:21
That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
So many false people tell me to ease up Jim, compromise on truth, its ok man! They say "you can't agree with other saints in all things" so you have to just unite up anyway. It feels good to the flesh but I reject that completely. As proof;\ I want to show you what Apostle Paul said should be our goal in the NT body:
1 Corinthians 1;10
Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
It has been hard and not very common to find others but we do have that unity with some saints and it is worth striving for indeed. God commands we do it so how can we do otherwise lest we be man pleasers!
After seeking scripture is easy to see the goal of the Lord for His Holy body is truth and unity in all the doctrines and teachings of God and to NEVER compromise on truth for unity sake.
Ephesians 5:9
For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth
As I said, this is hard to find today and it means there will be FEW for you to truly unite to. But is that not exactly who Jesus said will be on the narrow road in Matthew 7.... FEW?
What we see today all over America is biblical compromise ( it's sin really ) and the over looking of God's Word to keep man made false ways and create a "false unity" among so called followers of Christ. Could this be part of the coming worldwide deception? Jesus warns in Matthew 24 of many false ways/teachers that will come in the last days. I believe it is this false unity with Islam, Roman Catholicism, evangelicalism and many other false groups that will be used to enslave the globe in satans one world order. The only people who will not be enslaved in it will be true biblical saints who hold to all scripture vs this false unity. ( they will of course be persecuted, jailed, tortured and killed over it )
Please go read Matthew 18, Romans 16, 2 Corinthians 6, 1 Timothy 5 and 2 Thessalonians 3
In those chapters Jesus and Paul make it clear that God's true saints are to call out and separate from ANYONE who teaches any false way or those who keep ANY sin... no excuses!
How hard is this to understand and obey ye saints of God?
Who are you obeying today God or man?
Acts 5:29
Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
Stop uniting to sin/compromise and seek to be in ALL truth for true biblical unity.
James 1:27 says:
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
This means what?
Keeping yourself unspotted from the world includes false man made religious systems full of sin, worldliness and false traditions of men. How can you be unspotted if you sit and unite with such places I would ask you?
Have you really pondered unity vs biblical unity? If you do you will be amazed how deceived you have been in it all.
This will cost you association to your family & friends but again didn't Jesus promise this of His true people, a dividing out of them from others? See Matthew 10
Here are several articles that give many scriptures on this topic:
https://spiritandtruthdiscernment.blogspot.com/search/label/Biblical%20Separation
https://spiritandtruthdiscernment.blogspot.com/2016/09/in-essentials-unity-in-non-essentials.html
Also here is a video that also discusses an aspect of false unity known as Fellowship Idolatry ( compromising to have unity and false fellowship)
https://spiritandtruthdiscernment.blogspot.com/2019/07/fellowship-idolatry-exposed.html
To be clear in closing:
unity ....is the uniting up with others, over looking differences to meet mans goals, have fellowship and find common ground/ways.
biblical unity...is the separating yourself from those who keep false ways / sin to keep God's Word and be holy / set apart for God's use and His glory. It is ONLY uniting to biblical saints walking in all truth.
God is watching so which one are you practicing today?
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