Ephesians chapter 4. Paul begins his writings to Ephesus
by tracing the cause and effect of the truth. A lot, I would say all religion,
all false religion can be traced back to the root problem of cause
and effect. If the Lord is the cause of it,
then the effect will be done according to his purpose. If
you and I are the cause of something, we can neither We can't hope
to change anything, really, can we? We can't wheel away a cold,
can we? We can't, the next time you get sick, go ahead and just
wheel that away. We can't, can we? That's silly, isn't it? No,
the Lord has to be the first cause. And if he's the first
cause, then whatever he has purposed will come to pass. And Paul starts
immediately in chapter one by communicating this, how that
God chose, how they were adopted in Christ before the world began.
how that he redeemed them by his own blood. And in time, the
spirit regenerates his people. That's all the reason for salvation. That's the cause, the Lord is
the cause. Now he gives faith in time that
his people may believe we are his new creation, new creatures,
according to his purpose, according to his will. There's the effect,
isn't it? He's the cause and the effect
is salvation. Salvation for his people. Eternal
redemption. Righteousness revealed. This
is what Paul is telling them about justification by the Lord
Jesus Christ alone. Redemption by his work alone. Gospel is not complicated. It's simple, isn't it? It's so
simple that men call it foolishness. It's so simple that we would
not have believed it. It was not something that we
can come to the knowledge of by learning or something that
we can do to gain knowledge of the truth enough to where now
we believe the truth. No, it has to be by faith, isn't
it? And whose faith is it? It's the Lord's faith given to
us according to his purpose in time. It always reveals Christ
Jesus. We would never have believed
this truth. Number one, it takes faith, but number two, the flesh
hates God getting all the glory. Flesh hates God. Your flesh hates
God right now. My flesh hates God right now.
It's just how we are by nature. The flesh is enmity against the
Lord, but I'm thankful even though our flesh would want to dethrone
the Lord, it can't. He has all the power. We have
no power. He's God. He's seated. Let's read a few
verses here in Ephesians chapter four. I therefore, the prisoner of
the Lord, beseech you that you walk worthy of the vocation wherewith
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. There is one body, and
one spirit, even as you are called in the one hope of your calling. There is one Lord, one faith,
one baptism, one God and father of all who is above all and through
all and in you all. But unto every one of us is given
grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. There
is a union that the Lord has with his people in Christ. There's
a union that Christ has with his father. We're going to turn
to that in closing in John 17. But he mentions being one with
his father, I and them, thou and me. He mentions that. There's
a oneness that we have with him, the same oneness that he has
with his father we have in Christ Jesus. That's the word here,
unity, that we're gonna be looking at. I've titled the message Oneness
and Unity. There is oneness and there is
unity between Christ and his bride. There is oneness and unity
because Christ is the head of the church. Christ is the head
of the body. We are but the members thereof.
There's oneness. That's how it's described. He
is the vine and we are the branches. There's also oneness and unity.
There's union between believer and believer because we're in
the same body. There's oneness and unity. And
what is that oneness? What is that unity? It's Christ
himself. It's his gospel. It's his finished
work. There's our our union. That's
where we. are united. We totally agree
on the gospel, don't we? We totally, at any time, we can
disagree on a lot of things, but we don't disagree on the
gospel, do we? No, we believe the gospel. We rest in the gospel,
his gospel. The union is the love that Christ
has shed abroad in our hearts. Colossians 2 talks about that.
You remember, we've been here a year now, and I think the very
first message I preached as your pastor in that community center
was, their hearts being knit together in love. Colossians
2, do you remember that? Well, that's what we're saying here.
It says having hearts knit together in the love of Christ. It's that
love's given to believe Him and it's given to unify us. It's
given to unify. Isn't it sweet whenever we come
into this place and we're dirty with the worries of this life
and the sin that we see that we are and yet the Lord allows
us to hear His word. He washes us once more all over
again and we commune in sweet fellowship because we have that
oneness together of Him. That's having your hearts knit
together in love. That's why we love each other. That's why
we love each other. You look at, you have some brethren
that are doctors, some that are lawyers, some that are this and
that, and nobody would be able to bring those into, even the
Lord's disciples were totally different backgrounds, totally
different. So there were fishermen and carpenters, there was a doctor,
there was, I mean, there were just, from all walks of life.
And what united them, Christ did. The hope of glory did, the
love that he shed abroad in our hearts. That's what unites us
together. Looking into him, we have the same confession. And
what is that confession? Look at verse four again. There
is one body, one spirit, even as you're called in the hope
of your calling, there's one faith, One Lord, one baptism,
one God and father of all. That's pretty simple, isn't it?
There's just one. There's just one. There's not many. There's
just one of the entities mentioned here. There's just one of the
objects mentioned here. There's one of the works mentioned
here. There's not multiples. There's just one. Now there's
4,000 religions in the world. If you can trust Google, I don't
know, I Googled it. You can believe everything you
read on the internet, right? But Google says there's 4,000 plus,
actually it said 4,000 to 10,000, so I just went on the bottom
side of that to make sure I wasn't giving you a bunch of puffery.
4,000 religions all over the world. 4,000 disagreements about
something, because that's where religion stems from. If somebody
disagreed, that's why you have so many different stems of Baptists. so many different stems of Methodist,
so many different stems of all different religions, all different
religions because of disagreements. But I'll remind us there's only
one Lord. There's only one faith. There's only one baptism. Only those who are given faith
to believe we're not We're not looking to ourself and saying,
yeah, we've got this right. We're looking to Christ and saying,
Lord, keep me. And if I've never known you before
today, let today be the day I hear your voice. It's not about what
we know. It's about who we know. Our affections
on an object, the Lord Jesus Christ, our affection, we're
united in that affection together towards him. That's what he does
by his gospel. There's just one. There's not
many different gods. There's not many different ways
to heaven. There's just one. And it is, Christ said, I am
the way. That's singular, isn't it? That's
singular. No man comes to the Father but
by me, he said. He's the one that chooses to
call. He's the one that chooses to redeem. It's not us. It's
God, the one God. We are made to know the singularity. I like that word, singularity. He's single and all that he is,
he's complete all power, all sovereign, all glory goes to
him. He is singular in his purpose in salvation. He's singular in
what he accomplished on the cross of Calvary. Nobody could stop
Christ from dying and saving his people from their sin. It
was his purpose. He is the one God. And by Him, we have oneness and
unity with Him and with each other. Can you imagine being
one with God? That's what the scripture says.
We are one with Him. Now in marriage, My wife and
I, by what the scripture teaches us, by what we know to be true,
we took vows, she became bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh,
according to what the scripture says. Well, in the union with
Christ, we are literally bone of his bone and flesh of his
flesh. We are one with Jesus Christ, and Jesus Christ is God,
therefore we are one with God. Perfect oneness, perfect unity,
that's what he accomplished. That's what his blood accomplished.
And this is what his spirit bears witness of to this truth. Romans
8 tells us, you're not in the flesh, but you're in the spirit.
If so be that the spirit of God dwell in you. For as many as
are led by the spirit of God, they are the sons of God. Now,
if any man have not my spirit, the spirit of Christ, he is none
of his. Well, how do we know if we have
his spirit? Well, what does the spirit of the Lord always point
to? The Lord Jesus Christ. What are we looking to? If we're
looking to our works, if we're looking to our efforts, if we're
looking to what we think and what we do, we're not looking
to Christ. The spirit always directs us
to the Lord Jesus Christ, and it's by faith, isn't it? He gives
us life by his gospel. He says, live, and he gives us
faith that just believes Christ, just believes Christ. Therefore,
we're no longer in the flesh. That's how the Lord, that's what
the Lord said. Well, I see my flesh. Don't you see yours? He
said, you're no longer in the flesh. You're led by the spirit.
Well, that's a mystery, isn't it? Because I can see the flesh,
but I can't see the spirit. That's the point. The flesh can't
understand the things of God. They're high. They're above the
flesh. The flesh will never understand
anything about God. But the new nature that he's
given, the faith that he's given his people looks to Christ and
just believes, just believes. And that's what he's talking
about there. Who does the dove of peace reveal? Christ. Now,
if we hear the gospel and we're rejoicing in the gospel, and
you know that there's some days you'll have that the Lord, maybe
you heard a message that was a great encouragement and you
feel If I can say embraced by the Lord, does that make sense?
You're full of joy, you're full of peace, in that moment you
have peace. And then you start thinking about that peace and
what happens? It flies away, why? Because as soon as we look
to the spirit, the dove of peace leaves, it points us to Christ
only. It's not a feeling, it's not
an emotion, it's look to Christ. That's what it does, that's what
he does. It's not a it, it's a he. He is a spirit, God is
a spirit. The spirit always reveals Christ
and his glorious accomplished salvation. That is who, and that's
what we want to see, isn't it? Don't tell me about me. I don't
need to know any more about me. Don't tell me what a good job
I'm doing. I know I'm not doing a good job. I'm trying to live
a life looking unto Christ, but I keep, oh wretched man that
I am, who shall deliver me from this body of death? That's what
the scripture says. We wanna see him, don't we? And
that's what unites us, verse four, as one body, one body,
the faith that he's given. We are his, we are in him, and
we are of him. Then he tells us, being in that
one body, we have one hope. We have the one hope. There's
not many different hopes, he says. There is one body and one
spirit. And what did that spirit do?
He called, even as you are called in one hope of your calling,
the spirit calls his people to that hope. Well, what's the hope?
That when the Lord Jesus Christ died, I died in him. That when
he shed his blood, he shed it to put away my sin. That's my
hope. He successfully redeemed all those that he died for. There's
hope because he's God. It's the gospel of God's free
and sovereign grace. That's the hope we have. Then
he defines the hope as saying one Lord, one faith, one baptism,
one father, one God, and one father. He defines it by that.
And that's what I want to look at these four for the remaining
time. The first one is one Lord. Now
men, mankind, I'll say mankind, men and women, and all that are
under that umbrella, do not mind having a Jesus that has a baby-like
power, that is hindered by their will or their purpose or what
they want him to do, they can make him do it. Well, he's not
God at all then, is he? We're God. But he says one Lord
here. That word Lord, you can look
it up. That means one owner. He owns everything. It's his. The earth is the Lord and the
fullness thereof. He created it for his glory and for his
purpose. He doesn't try anything. He doesn't hope for anything. We hope. In him, he doesn't hope,
he's seated, he's Lord, he's God, and everything that he hath
purposed has come to pass according to his purpose, according to
his will, even in the manger. Jesus Christ
was the supreme, holy, sovereign creator and ruler of this world. In John chapter 1 it says, the
word Jesus Christ, in the beginning was the word, and the word was
with God, and the word was God. And a little later on it says,
the Word became flesh and dwelt among us. But in between telling
us that the Word is Jesus Christ, it says, all things were made
by Him. And without Him, there was not
anything made that was made. Jesus Christ, the baby in the
manger, was God in the manger, just as much on the cross, just
as much as He is now seated in the heavenlies. The only way
that you and I can believe that is if he gives us faith to do
so. It doesn't make sense that God became a man. How are you
going to explain that? But we believe it, don't we? And it's
our only hope. It's our only hope in salvation is that God
became a man and he successfully redeemed his people. That's our
hope. He is the Lord. He's the fullness of the Godhead
bodily. How do we know that he put away
the sins of his people? Well, God can't fail, can he?
Or he wouldn't be God. He's never tried to do something.
Don't you love that? I love God being God. He's never
tried. I mean, you try everything, don't
we? I'm going to get down here in
a minute and walk that aisle to the back to deal with the
computer. I'm going to try to do that. There's a possibility
I could fall. everything he did. It was not
possible for him to fail in anything that he did. Isn't that glorious?
It wasn't possible. Why? Because he's God. He's Lord. He is eternal. He's omnipotent. He's omnipresent. He is the eternal
I am. There is no wasted effort with
him. There's not the slightest possibility that he could fail.
There's not the slightest potential. of him foundering. It's not an
attempt, anything that he does, it's guaranteed because of the
doer of it. He is the one Lord Jesus Christ.
Do you believe that? Do you believe he is the one
Lord, that he's God, that he is the Lord Jesus Christ? If
you believe that, he's given you faith to do so. And that's
what he says next, isn't it? One faith. Look in verse five,
one Lord, one faith. There's not. My faith and his
faith, there's only one faith. It's not something that I produce
that pleases him. It's something that he produces. If he doesn't give it to me,
then he's not pleased with it. Everything that God requires
for salvation, everything that God requires, he must provide,
and he did. He did it in the person, the
Lord Jesus Christ. My faith must be his faith or
I have no faith. Now, some would have you believe
that God requires our cooperation by placing our faith in him. Put your faith in Jesus. God don't want your faith. Our
faith doesn't merit anything. No, if we don't have the faith
of Christ, we don't have faith of Christ, we don't have faith.
It's that simple. He's not looking for what we do. He's not looking
for what we produce to justify us. No, Christ justified His
people and therefore gives them faith that believes Him. His
faith. Only one faith. It's the faith
of Christ. Galatians 2.20 says, I am crucified with Christ. Nevertheless,
I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me, and the life which
I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God,
the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself
for me. See, God is not looking to my
faith or anything we produce, anything. You can take that as
far as you want, anything that we produce. If He does, if He
does look for anything we produce, because we are born in sin, shaped
into iniquity, because there's nothing we can do but produce
sin, if He's looking for us to produce good, for us to merit
salvation, we're all damned. It's that simple. Because we
can't produce any good. He said there's none good, no
not one. But, oh, if he he gives us faith that looks to Christ,
we'll see that Christ successfully redeemed and he is seated in
the heavenlies. The Lord was satisfied with his sacrifice.
He was satisfied with his offering on Calvary's cross and it successfully
redeemed by putting away the sin of his people. Therefore,
therefore, we've been given faith that believes him. Everything required has been
provided by the Lord Jesus Christ, even the faith whereby we live.
Now, if you believe the gospel, then you know that you would
not have believed the gospel unless the Lord made you do it.
I remember hearing it, hearing the gospel, the truth for the
first time, and I was angry, very angry, because I thought,
you're telling me God doesn't love everybody? That's not right,
that's not fair, but let's examine that a second. If everyone's
born in sin and shaped into iniquity, if the flesh is enmity against
God, and these ifs that I'm saying are so, If that be true, and
God hates, and He hates, look at Psalm chapter five, verse
five, all workers of iniquity. And iniquity is what we do to
try to fix our sin, do we realize? It's our best intentions. He
hates the workers of iniquity. If He hates the workers of iniquity,
and sin cannot come before Him without it being destroyed. Then what does it mean when he
says, Jacob have I loved and Esau have I hated? Are you surprised
that he would hate Esau? Are we surprised that he saw
the sin that Esau had and his justice, his holiness demanded
hate towards that? Doesn't surprise me at all, does
it you? Boy, it surprises me that he loved Jacob. I can't
understand why he would love a trickster, a liar, a supplanter,
a thief, all the things that Jacob was, unless Jacob had a
substitute. Jacob was found in the Lord Jesus
Christ. Now there's the gospel. That's
what this one Lord does. This is what the one faith reveals.
It's the Lord seated as the successful redeemer. We can't make a choice that would
merit God's faith or God's favor. It's the gift of God. Ephesians
2. We're in Ephesians. Ephesians chapter 2. You can
look back there at verse 4. For by grace are you saved through
faith in that it's not of yourself, but it's the gift of God, not
of works. It's not something you and I
work. It's the gift of God. If it was of works, we'd boast
about it, wouldn't we? Boy, have you seen my faith? Look at my
faith. Look what I'm doing with my faith. That's what it would
do, a boast. But no, not this faith. This
one faith, this true faith, looks to Christ and he gets all the
glory. He gets all the glory. Every soul ordained to eternal
life is given this faith. That's the work of the Lord's
Spirit, isn't it? That's what the Spirit does, is it reveals
Christ by giving faith. Now, the third thing he says
here is one baptism. Paul is not speaking of water
baptism here. He's not talking, we have a baptistry
as you all know, but he's not talking about that baptism. He's
talking about what that baptism represents. Turn with me to Colossians
chapter two. Colossians chapter two. Here
is what us outwardly confessing Christ in baptism represents.
Look at verse nine. Wherefore God hath also highly
exalted him, being Christ. God hath highly exalted him and
given him a name which is above every name. I'm in Philippians,
I'm sorry, I'm in the wrong place. I heard pages start to turn,
I said uh-oh, I'm not where I'm supposed to be. Okay, Colossians
2, look at verse 9. For in him, that's Christ, dwelleth
all the fullness of the Godhead bodily, and ye are complete in
him, which is the head of all principality and power, in whom
also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without
hands, in putting off the body of sins of the flesh by the circumcision
of Christ. Here it is, buried with him in
baptism, and wherein also you are risen with him through the
faith of the operation of God. There's that one faith again,
who hath raised him, the Lord Jesus Christ, from the dead.
And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your
flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you
all trespasses. blotting out the handwriting
of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us,
and took it out of the way, nailing it to His cross. And having spoiled
principalities and powers, He made a shoe of them openly, triumphing
over them in it." That is what the one baptism represents, being
buried with Christ in his death, being resurrected with him when
he was resurrected. That's what he did for his people.
And he put away all their transgressions in the process, didn't he? With
the sacrifice of himself. We must be baptized in Christ,
with Christ in death. Now, unless the Lord reveals
this baptism, unless we, if he doesn't reveal that we were baptized
with Christ, that's what faith reveals, isn't it? It reveals
Christ's finished work. That is our only hope, we were
baptized with him. He's not talking about water
here, but that is what we confess when we are baptized. Now, men
have taken baptism. I think I know the other day
I saw a video, my daughter showed me, she said, dad, they're dunking
this baby. What are they doing? He said, they're baptizing the
baby. What's that baby confessing? Nothing. That's not baptism.
There's only one baptism. And it is when Christ died, His
people died in Him. We were buried in Him. We were
resurrected in Him. That is what we confess. That
is why we obey the ordinance where He said, go into all the
world and preach to every creature, baptizing them in the name of
the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. That's what He said.
And that's the ordinance that we obey because the Lord said
it, confessing that when he died, my only hope is that I died in
him. When he paid the sin debt, my only hope is he paid my sin
debt. When he was resurrected, my only
hope is that I was resurrected in him. And when he sat down
on the right hand of the Father, my only hope is that he sat down
as my surety, as my inter sere, high priest, having successfully
redeemed his people. That's my hope. That's my hope.
That's what the baptism represents, isn't it? I love that he says he blotted
out the handwriting of ordinances that were contrary to us. That word contrary means the
opposite. The opposite of us. What does that mean? Every time
that we tried to blot out whatever was written against us, we were
just adding more to it. That's what he's saying. No, but he
blotted them all out. They're gone. He cast them, our
sin as far as the East is from the West. The law does not demand
justice twice. And Christ endured the wrath
of God, fulfilling justice for his people. That's the one baptism. We were in him when all that
happened. That's the baptism we have to have. If we don't
have that baptism, getting in a pool ain't gonna do anything
but make us wet. We're just taking a bath. It ain't gonna do any
good, is it? Lord, I wanna confess you. I wanna confess that when
you died, I had to be in you, and if I wasn't, I have no hope
of salvation. No hope. That's what the one Lord, that's
our one Lord, that's what the one faith reveals, and that is
the one baptism, isn't it? We must confess him alone. Now lastly, let's go back to
the text. Last thing he mentions, and I'm
gonna have us turn to John 17 in just a minute. But I'm still
speaking on the oneness and unity that we have because of all these
ones, because of all these ones. Ephesians 4 verse 4 says, there
is one body and one spirit, even as you are called in one hope
of your calling, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and
father of all, who is above all and through all and in you all.
Paul says there's one God and Father. Now prior to this he
had mentioned the Spirit of the Lord and then later on he mentions
the Lord Jesus Christ being the Son of God. We have all three.
This is the one God. This is the one Lord. There's
three distinct characteristics of the Lord, three distinct manifestations,
but it is one God. There's just one God. The Father,
the Son, and the Holy Spirit. These three are one. Scriptures
are very clear on this. This is actually who we are baptized
into, the Lord Jesus Christ, in the name of the Father, the
Son, and the Holy Ghost. That's why, that's what we confess
when we're, that's what we're baptized into. Now, faith causes
us to see there's one God. I can't explain, and I'm not
gonna try to explain. My calling is not to explain.
Well, I guess it is to explain something, but I think you understand
what I'm saying. It's to declare, because we don't understand anything
we believe. We can't explain it. I just know
that there's three manifestations of the Lord. He's very clear
in that. We can see it very clearly when, you remember the first
time John the Baptist saw the Lord as the Lord was approaching
him. The Lord given John the Baptist faith to believe Christ.
And he said, behold, the lamb of God, which taketh away the
sin of the world. Is that not what he said? And
then we see the heavens open up and the spirit descending
like into a dove. And we have the audible voice
of the father saying, this is my beloved son in whom I am well
pleased, in whom I am well pleased. There's the three, the three
distinctions, isn't it? The three. And these three are
the reason. that salvation exists. Salvation
does not exist by anything we do. Salvation doesn't come by
anything we don't do. Salvation came through and by
the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father elected
a people, gave them to the Son to redeem. The Son successfully
redeemed those people. And in time, the Spirit regenerates
those people by giving faith that says live. Actually, faith
is the evidence of life. It's not the cause, it's the
result, isn't it? It's like breathing. I'm gonna
die if I quit breathing, but a baby coming forth, and I mentioned
this to you, but it's a good analogy. A baby comes forth,
and the baby's alive when it's born, but it's not breathing
instantly. They have to sometimes help it
along, smacking it on the bottom or something, causing that breath
to come. That's what faith is. It just breathes Christ. He's
our oxygen, isn't he? He's our life-sustaining necessity. We have to have him. We have
to have him. We simply declare these things,
and faith just believes God. Faith believes that salvation
was accomplished by His doing, His doing alone. This is all
our hope, their oneness, their unity, that we are unified with
them. Now in closing, turn with me
to John 17, and I'll show you that. John 17 and look in verse 20. Christ is praying unto his father
and says, neither pray I for these alone, but for them also,
which shall believe on me through their word, that they all may
be one as thou father art in me and I in thee, that they also
may be one in us. Can we wrap our mind around being
one with the Father in Christ Jesus, that's glorious, isn't
it? I can't explain it to you, but
that's glorious. They also may be one in us, that
the world may believe that thou hast sent me, and the glory which
thou gavest me, I have given them, that they may be one, even
as we are one. I in them, and thou in me, that
they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that
thou hast sent me and hast loved them as thou hast loved me. God's people are eternally, unchangeably,
forever and ever in perfect oneness and unity to this one true God,
this one Lord, the one creator, the one father. I wish I could enter into that
and rejoice in it as I want to. Such things are too high for
me. They're there. That's what David said. I can't attain to
these thing How am I one with God? All I see is my sin No,
he said you're one with him if we're his we are one with right
now seated with him in the heavenlies Do you believe that if you do
it's because he gave you the faith to believe you can't explain
that to somebody and they say yeah I believe that's right.
It that makes sense. No, it doesn't doesn't make any
sense to these little minds does it but we believe it we believe
that we are one and with God in Christ Jesus, and how did
we get there? Was it something we did? Did
we choose before we were born to be? No, that's silly. Did
we choose in life? Did we have anything to do with
our first birth? How are we gonna have anything to do with our
second birth? No, he chose, didn't he? He chose to put us in Christ. And when did he do that? We'll
turn back to Ephesians chapter one. I said chapter one on purpose,
I wanna look at this verse. When did He place us in Christ?
Ephesians 1 verse 4, according as He hath chosen us in Him before
the foundation of the world that we should be holy and without
blame before Him in love, having predestinated us unto the adoption
of children by Jesus Christ to Himself. Why did He do that?
According to the good pleasure of his will to the praise of
the glory of his grace, wherein he has made us accepted in the
beloved. That's why we have unity. That's
why we have oneness, oneness with God. Understand, when we
enter into the thought of the Lord's holiness, we don't do
it justice, but we know this much is that if he sees any type
of sin, it must be punished. And the punishment for that sin
is death. But because of Christ putting away our sin, we can
approach the Father. We can enter into the most holy
place and not be destroyed because of the blood of Christ. We've
been made nigh because he chose us in Christ before the foundation
of the world, uniting us with him. And Christ put all his people's
sin away on the cross of Calvary. This was all his doing, was all
for his glory. We have eternal union to God
and his people by the blood of the Lamb alone, by the blood
of the Lamb. We have oneness. We have unity.