Matthew 17:20-23
“My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you.
May they also be in us that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they be one as we are one —– I in them and you in me —– so that they may be brought to complete unity.
Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.
* This is the prayer Jesus asked his Father and ours to say yes to. For his disciples that followed him and for all those who will believe through their message *
*** THAT ALL OF THEM MAY BE ONE ***
*** JUST AS JESUS AND FATHER GOD ARE ONE ***
*** THE SAME WAY FATHER IS IN JESUS AND JESUS IS IN FATHER ***
*** THEY MAY BE IN US ***
*** SO THE WORLD MAY BELIEVE THAT YOU FATHER HAVE SENT ME ***
*** I HAVE GIVEN THEM THE GLORY THAT YOU HAVE GIVEN ME ***
*** THAT THEY MAY BE ONE AS WE ARE ONE ***
*** THAT THEY MAY BE BROUGHT TO COMPLETE UNITY ***
Let me just ask a straightforward question.
*** IS AMERICAN CHRISTIANITY IN COMPLETE UNITY ? ***
*** IS CHRISTIANITY OVER THE WORLD IN COMPLETE UNITY ? ***
The best example I can give for American Christianity’s complete unity or not is the civil war. Was the north and the south in complete unity when they were destroying one another?
Were they when each side was praying to God for victory in destroying the cause of the other?
What about they black believers who were marching and being beaten by the white Christian believers in the south? That was not that long ago.
How about Donald Trumps making DEI illegal in America?
* DIVERSITY *
* EQUITY *
* INCLUSION *
How about Christians in America targeting other Christians because they have been deemed to have illegal status? Hurting Christian families torn apart violently because many Christians want it so.
Children violently separated from loving parents who need to care for them.
*** THERE ARE COUNTLESS EXAMPLES JUST IN AMERICA ALONE THAT THOSE WHO SAY THEY FOLLOW JESUS ARE NOT ONE PEOPLE, IN UNITY, WITH LOVE FOR ONE ANOTHER ***
*** FATHER GOD IS DEMANDING A GREAT CHANGE OF HEART IN AMERICA AND IN HIS CHURCH RIGHT NOW ***
*** HE IS CALLING US TO FOLLOW JESUS CHRIST HIS SON ***
*** LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, MIND, SOUL ***
*** LOVE YOUR NIEGHBOR AS YOURSELF
*** TREAT OTHERS THE WAY YOU WANT TO BE TREATED ***
*** LET GOD FILL YOU WITH HIMSELF **
*** LET HIM FILL YOU WITH LOVE ***
*** GOD IS LOVE ***
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