Perfect Unity

Perfect Unity

This unity is extremely rare, because the way to it is to forsake everything. All strife comes from the lusts that war in our members. Therefore the beginning of perfect unity is to be crucified with Christ, and to be dead to the passions and desires of the flesh. Then Christ can begin to live His life in us, and only in this new and blessed life can there be perfect unity and harmony.

We need to make every effort to seek this perfect unity and preserve it if we are to have a share in it. We must always have this attitude of hating our own life and following Jesus in being lowly and meek in heart. If there is to be perfect harmony in this unity, we need to be filled with an abundance of the fullness of wisdom which “plays on all the keys” according to the laws of the Spirit of life.

Perfect unity in the brotherhood is the most exalted and glorious thing that can be found on earth—and it will be for all eternity. This unity is firmly united with Christ who is the greatest and most excellent of all the brethren. He is the head who gives guidance to each single member of His body, with good and perfect results.

This flock that is tightly joined together in perfect unity and harmony is the temple of the new covenant, the city that radiates an eternal glory, etc.

Only the love of Christ that is poured out into our hearts by the Holy Spirit can join us together in this unity, and only in this love can we grow up to the full maturity of manhood in all the virtues of Christ which produce this perfect harmony in the home and in the church.

This exalted unity in the brotherhood has such a powerful life that no foreign bodies can grow in it. The body possesses a power that either attracts or rejects. Stiffness, stubbornness, greed, pride, and other such things cannot in any way be united with the spirit and the nature of the brotherhood.

Christ has the perfect drawing and plan for this building, and everything has been clearly written down in His Word; for example, in the Sermon on the Mount. The gate that leads to this unity of discipleship is to forsake everything! Only Jesus’ disciples can have a share in this unity, and their common goal is that it is not enough until they have become like their Master.

“And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one: I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.” John 17:22-23.

There is perfect harmony in this unity.