Perfect Unity

Perfect Unity

Perfect unity is something that, on average, believers do not believe in at all in spite of the Scripture’s perfectly clear words about it.

And precisely because they do not believe it, even though it is undeniably written, they attempt to justify a kind of surrogate, a kind of replacement for the appalling lack of divine unity. How thoughtless it is to think that God would accept or be pleased by some kind of substitute!!! Pleased by something spurious! This is reminiscent of Ecclesiastes 7:29 that man has sought out many schemes.

We cannot write any more clearly as to what kind of perfect unity we are called to in the days of our flesh than the way Jesus stated it in John 17:21-23: “That they may be made perfect in one . . . .” as the Father and the Son are one!!! No one ought to be in doubt about any lack in this oneness!

Concerning this glorious unity, the very great, faithful, and trustworthy apostle Paul has very clearly expressed himself in 1 Corinthians 1:10. He fervently exhorted this church to achieve this oneness despite the fact that they were greatly lacking in it at that point in time. “Now I plead [exhort] with you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, 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 opinion.” Make no mistake about it! The only problem is that it is very difficult; nevertheless, it is fully possible for all those who, according to Luke 14:25 and 26 and 33, have truly forsaken everything, and thereby have truly become Jesus Christ’s disciples. In other translations of 1 Corinthians 1:10 it is written like this (for example): perfect harmony, perfectly joined together, perfectly one in understanding, opinion, and judgment.

Sin in all its various manifestations is the only thing that can hinder this perfect, divine oneness, especially if a person has not forsaken everything of his own in every possible sense of the word.

We have a very clear and powerful word concerning this matter in 1 John 1:7: “But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.”

This perfectly expresses the divine unity about which both Jesus and the apostle Paul speak. However, we need to read carefully, very carefully, or else we do not see what is written.

It is obvious that we do not commit sin if we walk in the light as He is in the light, and that we have fellowship with one another, that is, fellowship in life, perfect fellowship, which is an inevitable consequence of it!

Seeing that it also speaks about Jesus’ blood cleansing us from all sin, it cannot possibly mean from committed sin but rather from unconscious sin that we discover as we walk in the light, which is the same as sanctification, or growth.

Only this life-fellowship is genuine, true fellowship. Everything else that is commonly called fellowship is therefore necessarily a mere surrogate.