Alright brethren, let's turn
back now to Genesis chapter 11. Genesis chapter 11. We saw man, the divider. Now
we're going to see Christ, the unifier. Let's begin reading
in verse 5. Genesis 11 verse 5. And the Lord
came down to see the city and the tower which the children
of men built. And the Lord said, Behold, the
people is one, and they have all one language. And this they
began to do. And now nothing will be restrained
from them which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down,
and there confound their language, that they may not understand
one another's speech. So the Lord scattered them abroad
from thence upon the face of all the earth, and they left
off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called
Babel, because the Lord did there confound the language of all
the earth. And from thence did the Lord
scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth." Now man,
as we saw, is the great divider. He's the great divider. God said,
your sins have separated you from God. Now, in the garden,
man's sin separated us from God. But God didn't destroy man. He
didn't cast him out and separate him into all the earth. God waited. And between the fall and the
flood, man's sin separated him from God so that God brought
the flood. But God still didn't separate
him out into the world. God spared Noah and his family. And from that short space of
time, from right after the flood, about 120 or 130 years later,
to the Tower of Babel, man since separated himself again from
God. And so, God confounded their
language and He scattered them to inhabit all the land as the
heathen Gentiles. That's where the Gentiles came
into being. Now turn over to Romans 1.21.
Why did God do that? Turn to Romans 1.21. God's not arbitrarily casting
folks off. Look how the Lord works right
here. Romans 1.21 says, "...because
that when they knew God, they glorified Him not as God, neither
were thankful, but became vain in their imaginations, and their
foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise,
they became fools, and changed the glory of God into an image
made like the corruptible man, into birds and four-footed beasts
and creeping things. Wherefore, God also gave them
up." They gave God up. Wherefore, God also gave them
up. "...to uncleanness, through the lust of their own hearts,
to dishonor their own bodies between themselves." Look down
at verse 25. "...who changed the truth of
God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more
than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen." For this cause,
because they worshiped man more than God, for this cause God
gave them up to vile affections. Look at verse 28. Even as they
did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them
over to a reprobate mind. So they couldn't retain God in
their knowledge. Now, there's interesting passage
in Galatians 3.8. I want you to turn over there
with me. Galatians 3.8. Galatians 3, chapter 8. In the midst of judgment, God
always remembers mercy toward His people. In the midst of judgment. Now look at what Paul tells us
here in Galatians 3, 8. In the Scripture, Galatians 3,
8, in the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen
through faith. He would justify some of those
He cast out there into those lands. But He's going to do it
through faith in Christ. And seeing He would justify them
through faith, He preached before the gospel unto Abraham. He preached the gospel to Abraham
saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed. Not everybody in
all nations, but His people in scattered about in all the nations.
So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham."
They are the true children of God. Now look over at 1 Corinthians
1.21. He says, after that in the wisdom
of God, he waited after the fall, He waited after the flood. He
waited until the Tower of Babel. After that, in the wisdom of
God, the world, by its own wisdom, knew not God. They couldn't find
God. They couldn't confess their sin.
They couldn't come to just bow and say, God save us. They couldn't
do it. So it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save
them that believe. And so he went to Abraham In
the midst of this judgment, he went to Abraham and he preached
the gospel to Abraham. Now turn back to Genesis 12.
Genesis 12. Here's God preaching before the
gospel unto Abraham. He's calling him out of the world,
out of all those nations, out of his nations, his idolatrous
family and their idolatrous worship. He's calling him out of that.
You know what he's doing? God's calling him into His one
holy nation. This is where God's holy nation,
God's church began, right here, right here. Genesis 12-1, Now
the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country,
and from thy kindry, and from thy father's house, unto a land
that I will show thee. And I will make of thee a great
nation. Old Nimrod and his followers,
they were seeking to make themselves a great nation and see to it
that they'd always be this one great nation. God scattered them
to the four winds. And yet, by pure grace, He came
to Abraham and He said, Now I will make of thee one great nation. Look at verse 2 again, And I
will bless thee And I will make thy name great, and thou shalt
be a blessing. Nimrod, he sought to make his
name great among men. That's what everything... We're
going to make a name for ourselves in this earth. God turned his
name into shame and rebellion. And yet by pure grace, he came
to Abraham and he said, I will make thy name great. Oh, doesn't
Abraham have a great name? A sinner saved by grace. That's who Abraham's name is.
A sinner saved by grace. The father of all who believe. The friend of God. What a great
name. He was just down there in the
land of idolatry. He was just down there worshiping
the idols with his fathers. And God shows up with the gospel
and called him. He called him out of all that
and brought him into His holy nation. Look at verse 3. And
I'll bless them that bless thee, and I'll curse them that curse
thee. Everything Nimrod was doing with his followers was to build
a big old fortress so they could be protected from all their enemies
and wouldn't feel the curse of their enemies. And God tore down
all their little playhouse and scattered them out to the middle
of the enemies. Abraham in pure grace. And he
said, Abraham, I'm your shield and your exceeding great reward.
You have nothing to worry about ever. I'm going to protect you. Look at verse 3. And in thee
shall all families of the earth be blessed. That's what we just
read Paul quoted. And they shall all families of
the earth be blessed. Nimrod was seeking to make the
families of the earth, all of them, come under his rule and
his dominion so that they had to come to him if they wanted
a blessing. Can you just imagine how that
would have turned out? God broke all that up and came to Abraham
in His grace and He chose him to be the father of all who believe. And He said, and in you, all
the nations are going to be blessed. I'm going to have a people through
your loins that are going to be born into all the nations
in this world. And I'm going to call them all
out. Every one of them. So that in you, all the nations
of the earth are going to be blessed. And chiefly, because
Christ is coming through you. He's coming through you. Verse
4, So Abraham departed as the Lord had spoken unto him. You
know what happened here? After proving the sinfulness
of man three times, after proving man's ruined condition, totally
depraved in sin, he cannot bring himself to God. He cannot bow
to God. He cannot worship God. He cannot
ask God for mercy. After proving that three times,
now God says, I want to build my nation. I'm going to do it
through my gospel, and I'm going to begin with this man named
Abraham. Right here, while I'm scattering these folks, I'm going
to do it right here. Call him out right now. Start this work
right now. And that's what he did. He gave him faith. He made him to be born of God.
He gave him faith just like every other believer. Born of the Spirit
of God and gave him faith to believe. That's what God did.
And so Hebrews 11.8 says, By faith, Abraham. By faith. When he was called to go out
into a place that he should have to receive for an inheritance.
He obeyed. And he went out. He didn't know
where he was going. I've never seen heaven. But God's
promised me I have an inheritance there. I don't have to see it. I just go out believing Him because
He said it. He said it. And I believe Him.
It says, By faith He sojourned in the land of promise, as in
a strange country, dwelling not in a big fortress that He built,
but in tabernacles with those that were heirs of the same promise.
Why did He do that? Because He looked for a city
that has foundations, real foundations, whose builder and maker is not
some haughty, arrogant sinner who's lifted himself up in pride
and got him a following, but whose builder and maker is God. That's what he looked to. That's
why he went out. That's what God does when He speaks to you
in faith. Now here's what I want us to see today. The same God
that scattered the sons of Adam, all those in Noah's day at the
Tower of Babel, the same God that scattered them due to their
sins, is the only one who can and the only one who shall call
out every one of His chosen people. and bring them into His one holy
nation and make them one people in Christ Jesus. And He's going
to do every bit of it by His free and sovereign grace. Every
bit of it. Because there's not any difference
in any of us. There wasn't any difference in
Abraham and the rest of the folks he scattered. And there's not
any difference in us. He's got to do all the work.
If you don't look at the fall and the period before the flood
and the period between the flood and the Babel and see, we cannot
come to God by our will and our works and mustering up faith
in ourselves. If we can't see that, we're blind.
We're blind. Alright, first of all, God the
Father does everything in the building of this heavenly city
and this heavenly kingdom. He does everything. Satan couldn't
even use Nimrod. Just think of this. God takes
the restraints off. Maybe God called him like he
did with Job and said, have you considered Nimrod? But God took
the restraints off and Satan couldn't even take Nimrod amongst
the people. I love how God does things. He
brings them out of the ark as one family with one language.
And Satan couldn't even take Nimrod and lift him up to power
and make him such a dominant leader that he could keep them
together. When they started out as one family and one tongue.
He couldn't even keep them together. And then God turns around and
says, now I'm going to scatter them to the four winds. And I'm
going to call them out. I'm going to give them all different
languages. And I'm going to call them out and give them one language.
Make them one. You know what he's doing there?
He's showing you all the wrath of man in opposing God and rejecting
God. He's letting men do that in the
earth because he's going to show his praise and his glory. Nimrod, able to go and do all
that he did in wrath against God. And then we turn around
and see God then shut it all down and call Abraham out. We see great light, the great
light of God, the wrath of man praising God. And whatever is
left over of the wrath of man, He just restrains it. There's
not anything in this world that's out of the control of God our
Father. He's the sovereign God of heaven and earth. He's controlling
everything. And He's doing all this to show His people, His
vessels of mercy, what a good God He is. What a good Father
He is. That's why He's doing every bit
of it. Why He's doing every bit of it. He chose His people. He gave them to Christ. He set
forth the everlasting covenant of grace. He said how He was
going to create the world and how Christ was going to come
and all that He would do for Christ when He accomplished the
work. God the Father purposed every bit of this. He brings
His counsel to pass. He works all things after the
counsel of His own will. And there won't be anything that
will fail. He's going to do every bit of it. He calls the end from
the beginning. That's who God is. Now look,
secondly, just like God promised, Christ came into this world,
and He came into this world to redeem all those the Father gave
to Him. That's who He came to redeem.
Some of them were scattered among the Jews, some of them were scattered
among the Gentiles. It wasn't all the Jews and it
wasn't all the Gentiles, but there was some, a remnant among
the Jews and a remnant amongst the Gentiles. And Christ came
forth. Look at Ephesians 2, verse 16.
I want to turn to quite a bit of Scripture. I think it will
help us get the impact of this if we see these Scriptures. Ephesians
2, verse 16. Christ did every bit of this.
that He, not anybody, He might reconcile both, Jew and Gentile,
His elect from Jew and Gentile, both unto God in one body by
the cross, having slain the enmity thereby. That's why He came.
Look at John 11, 52. John 11, 52. Here are the Lord's
using Caiaphas. This is a man This is an enemy. And he's using
this man to prophesy, to declare what else Christ is going to
do. Not only is he going to give his life for that nation, that
nation who are his elect, he's going to do this too in verse
52. And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather
together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad. That's what he's going to do.
He's going to redeem them, and then He's going to gather them
all together. And you remember in John 17, when Christ was praying
to the Father, He declared what the end of it's going to be.
He declared what the end of His work shall be. He said this,
that they all may be one. As thou, Father, art in me, and
I in thee, that they also may be one in us. I in them, and
thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one." That's
going to be the end of this thing. We're going to be made perfect
in one. Separated, cast out, different languages, hating God,
hating one another. He's going to make us one. Perfect
in one, in Christ. And so when Christ came, the
first work He has to do, He had to redeem His people. We're all
under that curse from the garden. He had to redeem His people.
Look over at Revelation 5. We looked at this Thursday night,
but I want you to see it now in light of our text this morning. So God made all the sins of all
God's elect to meet on one. On one substitute. And on one
cross. At one time. By one offering. He made us perfect in one. That's
what Christ did. Now here's what we declare about
that. Romans 5, 9. Now look at the
middle of the verse there. We sing, Thou wast slain and
hast redeemed us to God by Thy blood. Now look where He redeemed
us out from. Out of every kindred and tongue
and people and nation. There's all those elect scattered
in every kindred and tongue and people and nation. Christ redeemed
us by His blood out of every one of those. And you know what
Ephesians 2 says now about us? When He's called us and brought
us to rest in Him. You know what it says about us
now? It says now, we're no more strangers and foreigners, but
we're fellow citizens with the saints There's not these over
here that are saints, those over there that are another kind of
saints, and those over there that are different kinds of saints.
No, we're fellow citizens with the saints. And whose house are
we in? He says, and of the household
of God. I love that. Now catch that.
He saved us out of every nation, every family. He made us of the
one household of God. the one household of God. Now
that's, that's what God can do. You let a Nimrod go out there
and try to do this and he's going to mess everything up. This is
what God can do. What God can do. Alright, now
Zephaniah chapter 3. Zephaniah chapter 3. If you've got my Bible, it's
on 1166. Zephaniah chapter 3. Zephaniah
chapter 3. Now to accomplish this aspect,
He's accomplished our redemption. He's purchased His people. He's
purged us of our sin. Now to accomplish this work of
calling us, now this is what Christ promised He's going to
do. Zephaniah 3 verse 9. He says, then will I turn to
the people, I'm going to turn to the people, that definite
article is important, I'm going to turn to the people, a pure
language, a pure language, that they may all call upon the name
of the Lord to serve Him with one consent, with one consent. You mean He's going to take all
these different sinners, speaking all these different languages,
and He's going to make us speak one language? And it's going
to be a pure language? That's what He said. That's what
He said He's going to do. Now go to Acts 2. Acts chapter
2. Now that people He's talking
about there are all God's elect, chosen in Christ. And that pure
language He's talking about is the one pure gospel of Christ
and Him crucified. as to one pure gospel of Christ
and am crucified." Now, we saw over there in Genesis,
we saw how that he divided the nations and gave them all different
tongues and languages there at Babel. Created confusion at Babel. And we saw how He began to do
this work with Abraham. But all through the Old Testament,
it's just pictures and shadows and glimpses of it. And He was
working it in them, but they didn't see it as fully as we
see it. Maybe they did, I don't know. But it doesn't appear they
did. But now, at Pentecost, He has arisen. And He's redeemed
His people. And now He's going to start doing
what He did for Abraham in this day of grace. in this gospel
age in a magnificent way to show us just how real He's going to
do this in His church, in His people, in every nation. Now
watch this. Watch this. Acts 2. Acts 2. Because He created all those
languages, when we get to Pentecost here, all these folks had come
up to worship at Jerusalem. Now look what it says in Acts
2.5. Acts 2.5. It says there, They were dwelling at Jerusalem,
Jews. Devout men out of every nation
under heaven. I think there's some significance
there to the fact that they were dwelling there. Because when
He broke them up over there with Nimrod, you know what they had
done out there on the plains of Shinar? They had started dwelling
there. That was their church. That was their Savior and salvation
and protection and confidence. Well, all these folks that have
come up to Jerusalem, they're dwelling in Jerusalem. Their
foundation is, we worship in Jerusalem. Their foundation,
their hope was, we're of the seed of Abraham, the natural
sons of Abraham. Their hope was, We know Moses
inside and out. Their hope was all these things.
You know just how people are about their church and their
denomination and this and that. They were dwelling there. But
they weren't on a solid foundation. Now he divided all these languages.
Now look at this. And they had come up there, verse
5 says, out of every nation under heaven. And look at verse 9. Verse 9, Acts 2, 9. He says,
and so there was Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the
dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judea, and in Cappadocia,
and in Pontus, and in Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia in Egypt and in
the parts of Libya about Cyrene and they were strangers of Rome
and there was Jews and there was proselytes, Cretes and Arabians. There's all these different languages
there. But Christ sent forth the Holy
Spirit. Christ sent forth the Holy Spirit and He gave each
one of His disciples the ability to speak that pure language of
the Gospel. in the language of each one of
those nations represented there. So one of them, he made him be
able to speak the Parthians' language. And he got up and he
spoke in the Parthians' language. Another one, he got up and spoke
in the Medes' language. Another one got up and spoke
in the Elamites' language. And on and on, they all stood up
and started preaching the gospel. And verse 6 says this, and when,
now when this was noised abroad, The multitude came together.
Isn't that something? Here they were all separated,
and they started seeing this thing, and here they all come
together. And they were confounded. Before, He separated their languages,
and that confounded them. Now, He's got all His disciples
preaching the gospel in their own language, and that confounded
them. They're just confused about this. Look at this. Because that
every man heard them speak in his own language. Now what was
this pure language? What was this message they were
preaching? Look at the end of verse 11. At the end of verse
11. They said, We do hear them speak
in our tongues the wonderful works of God. That's what they
heard them speaking. The wonderful works of God. Isn't it amazing that somebody
can read that scripture? Pentecostal folks have got the
same Bible we got. And they read that passage of
Scripture right there and still carry on this charade of passing
out on the floor and jumping over the pew and saying all the
garbage they say. Call that speaking in tongue. That's ridiculous. I've never
seen one of them yet that didn't know Spanish just all of a sudden
start preaching the gospel in Spanish. I've never seen one
of them yet that didn't know German, start preaching the gospel
in German. Wherever you find folks arguing
and carrying on and praising the Holy Ghost and giving Him
preeminence over Christ, the Holy Ghost ain't nowhere around.
No, sir. Christ said when He comes, He's
going to He's going to testify of me. He's going to bear witness
of me. He's going to take the things
of mine and show it to you. That's what His office is. That's
what His office is. Now look here. Peter preached
Christ. That's what he preached. The only work of man that he
declared on that whole message at Pentecost was, we took Christ
and crucified Him. That's the only thing He said
about our work. But He preached Christ can crucify.
He preached that He's the Lord and the Christ. And through that
pure language of the Gospel, through that pure language, Christ
turned that pure language into His people. He said, I'm going
to turn it into them. He turned that language into
His people. And so they started calling on
Christ for mercy. He said, I'm going to turn this
pure language into it so that they can call on the name of
the Lord. And they started doing that. And He worked it so that
they started believing Him and serving Him. That's what He did. You think about what He did that
day. Just think about what He did that day. Christ, when He
called them to faith, He called them out of all their nations
into His one holy nation. He called them out of all their
families into His one holy family. He called them out of all their
brothels into His one church. That's exactly what He did. And
He made them one. He made them one. Now that's
what He's doing. That's what He did then. That's
what He's doing now. He did it with Abraham. He did
it with all His saints through the Old Testament age. And He
showed us how magnificently He's working that work now in the
midst of His people, now that He's redeemed His people. Alright? Then the Holy Spirit. Let's see
what the Holy Spirit does now. When Christ calls us, look back
at Ephesians 2. When Christ calls us, He sends
forth the Holy Spirit, and by the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit
does what not a single babble builder can ever think about
doing. Here's what the Holy Spirit does. Ephesians 2.14. It says, He is our peace that
is made both one and broken down the middle wall of partition
between us. Verse 18 says, for through Him we both have access,
Jew or Gentile, by one Spirit unto the Father. Christ, by Christ,
through the Holy Spirit, one Holy Spirit, we have access unto
our one Father. And it doesn't matter who we
are, where we come from, what our background is anymore. He
gives us one language, one heart, just makes us one in God's family. Turn over with me to Ephesians
3 and look at Ephesians 3.15. Some of this is review for you
that were here during the Ephesian studies. But look here. Remember
this, Ephesians 3.15? What did he call God's family?
Verse 315, he says, he calls it the whole family in heaven and
earth. The whole family in heaven and
earth. That's God's family. And then look over here now at
Ephesians 4 and verse 4. Verse 3, he says, Endeavor to
keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. Now don't
try to do it in the bond of making your own bricks with your own
slimy mortar. Don't try it that way. But he
says, endeavor to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of
peace, that bond of Christ. Look at this, there is one body
and one Spirit, even as you're called in one hope of your calling,
We got one hope we're looking forward to, all looking forward
to the same hope. One Lord, one faith, one baptism,
one God and Father of us all, who's above all and through all
and in you all. Now that's one. That's where
He brings us, makes us one. Now look at Galatians 3 and look
at verse 28. He says in verse 26, you are
all the children of God by faith in Christ. In Christ Jesus. For as many of you have been
baptized into Christ have put on Christ. Now look at this. There's neither Greek, there's
neither, I'm sorry, there's neither Jew nor Greek. That means Jew
or Gentile. That's all the world was divided
into was Jew and Gentile. He said, now there's neither
one of them. For you that's believing on Christ is put on Christ. There's
neither Jew nor Greek. There's neither bond nor free.
Not some under the law and some that are outside of the law.
No, no. They're neither male nor female.
That was a big distinction, you know, to divide between male
and female. They sit on one side and the other ones sit on the
other side. That middle wall is broken down too, He said.
For ye are all one. Where? In Christ Jesus. In Christ Jesus. Colossians 3.11
says this. Let's see if I can get there.
Colossians 3.11 says this. We've put on the new man and
it's renewed in knowledge after the image of Christ that created
him. And it says where there's neither
Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian,
born nor free, but Christ is all and in all. He's all and
in all. Isn't it wonderful to know Christ
has taken away all the things that we use to try to build our
tower to God? All the things we use to try
to build up our walls, He's taken all that away. He's broken down
the... You know how He did it in Ephesians
2. He said He fulfilled the law. That was the enmity. We were
taking that law and trying to... I do this law a lot better than
you do it. Well, when He took it out of
the way, He said, you can't use that anymore. Can't use that
anymore. And we don't want to use it anymore
because we see we're all on the same level. Just worms. But He's
made us one in Him. And Christ now is all And He's
in all. If Christ is in this man right
here, how in the world could I possibly do anything ill to
Him? Hmm? Christ is all. And He's in all. That's to me. Christ is all and He's in all. That makes us want to love one
another. If Christ is all to you, and
you know He's in all your brethren, Ain't going to make you want
to love all your brethren. Isn't it? And then Christ makes us
so one that we delight to provide for each other. Look at Acts
4. Acts 4. We delight to provide for one
another. I'm sorry. Go to Acts 2. Let's
start there. Acts 2. All those He saved that day at
Pentecost, look at this, Acts 2.42, "...they continued steadfastly
in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of
bread, and in prayers. And fear came upon every soul,
and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles, and all
that believed were together." You see there, they were all
together. Came up there from all these different nations,
from all these different places, scattered, smothered, scuffed,
covered, scattered, and choked." That's how they came up there.
And Christ brought them all together. All together. Look at this. He
says, "...and they had all things common." Everything. "...and
sold their possessions and their goods, and they parted them to
all as every man had need, and they continuing daily with one
accord in the temple." Reckon what that one accord was. Reckon
what the one thing is they wanted to hear when they came to that
temple. I know. That pure language that saved
them. That's the one thing they wanted to hear. Preach Christ
and Him crucified to me. That's how I say about what Peter
preached. Go read what Peter preached.
You'll hear what they preached to him. One accord. Look at this. And breaking bread from house
to house. I believe that's from those they
met in houses, church to church where they met. Probably at one
another's house too. And they did eat their meat.
This gospel with gladness and singleness of heart. One heart. Just one heart. Praising God
and having favor with all the people and the Lord added to
the church daily such as should be saved. Look over at Acts 4
now, verse 32. He says over there, As you see, they provided for
one another. Acts 4.32, the multitude of them
that believed were of one heart and of one soul. Neither said
any of them that all of the things which he possessed was his own,
but they had all things common. All things common. You know the
Lord is still doing that today. He's still doing that today.
You know how I know that's true? My mom and dad called me yesterday. Bragging. Boasting. You know who they were bragging
and boasting on? You. Because of your generosity. And you know what that did? That
made me thank God for you. for you. That's why He does that.
So it will redound to His glory. He's still doing that today.
He makes His people generous. We have this peace now because
Christ promises, He shall not lose one. He shall not lose one. Neither shall any pluck us out
of His hands. We have this peace. We're going
to never be scattered like they were over there under Nimrod. He's going to hold us and keep
us. We'll never be scattered from Christ at all. And we don't
need any earthly walls like they built at Babel, because our walls
are Christ, our salvation. Listen to this, in Isaiah 60.18,
he said, "...violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting
nor destruction within thy borders." He's talking about within his
church. Look at this, "...but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation."
And that word Salvation is in a capital S. That's who our walls
are. Christ our Salvation. "...and
your gates Praise." With a capital P. Christ. So we don't need those
big old walls of that fortress. We don't need an earthly tower
like they built because our tower is Christ. He said, the name
of the Lord is a strong tower, the righteous run into it and
they are saved. And we don't need a plain at Shinar because
we are on Christ the rock. The Lord is my rock and my fortress
and my deliverer. So our oneness, you know what?
It is going to get better and better though. Look at Ephesians
1. I got one more thing to show you. Ephesians 1 and verse 10. In
the end, this was God's purpose in this whole thing from the
beginning. In the dispensation of the fullness of times, He
shall gather together in one all... That word things means
His people. All His people in Christ, both
which are in heaven and which are on earth, even in Him. And we'll obtain our inheritance.
That's it, brethren. That's God's kingdom. Now, I
don't know what to end with any better than this. What Paul constantly
wrote, what he constantly encouraged his brethren to do was this.
He said, I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ, by Him who brought us into this unity, that you all
speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you,
but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and
in the same judgment." Does that mean that I'm always like the color ties
that Art likes and he's going to always like the color ties
I like? No, that's not what that means. It means concerning this
pure language of the gospel, be of the same mind. And if we're
born of Him, we are. We are. Striving together, he
said, for the faith of the gospel. that you may with one mind and
one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. I pray God will bless you. Amen.
All right, Eric.