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Our Enemies
Pastor Kerry Wilson
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Our Enemies
• Spiritual Confusion • Relational Confusion
• Genesis 10 • Conflict
• Forgiveness
• Substantial Healing
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Two Contents/ One Reality
Unity in Diversity • Unity in Diversity
There is an enormous push to • 1Corinthians 12.12 “ For as the
unify the religious world. body is one, and hath many
Evangelicalism is defined as members, and all the
“being a christian church members of that one body,
believing in personal being many are one body: so
conversion and the inerrancy also is Christ.”
of the Bible, especially the 4 • Vs. 18 “ but now God hath set
Gospels” the members every one of
From the greek “euangelion” or them in the body, as it hath
good news pleased him.
• Vs. 25 “That there should be
no schism in the body, but that
the members should have the
same care one for another”
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Two Contents/ One Reality
• The contents of the world • The gathering spoken of
standard has opted for in Ephesians 1.10 has only
unity. It is how to obtain one focus. That is the
that unity that is at stake. person of Jesus Christ.
• The real dilemma for us is • This the one reality, that
the definition of diversity. any other gathering
• Diversity in the world outside of this gathering
standard has been is deceptive and
defined as you are destructive in nature.
different from me and we • The two components of
accept that. this gathering are Truth
and Holiness
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Two Contents/One Reality
• Our world has the • Truth crosses all
ingredients for unity as personal lines of
Love and Experience. interpretation and life.
• Truth has become • Holiness is the mandate
subjective and what is for what that truth
right for you is right for produces in us.
you. • This creates one reality
• This changes the nature which is objective in the
of biblical unity from person of Jesus Christ.
“called out” to “all
inclusive”
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Two Contents /One Reality
• In this context, there • The reality of this
would never be schism gathering is that there
or the need to set aside are differences, and
our differences, there is conflict.
because you could think • We humble ourselves
or be what you wanted unto the calling of Jesus
and it would be Christ and His words.
accepted under the The New Testament is a
guise of love. composite of those
conflicts and there
corrections.
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Diversity, The Miracle of the Body
• Personal Unity is a pre-requisite of Body Unity
• Love is the motivation for keeping on keeping on.
Love can only be defined by God. It is what
enables us to move into this unity. We
reciprocate love to God as it is shed abroad in our
hearts by the Holy Spirit.
• It is what keeps us from throwing in the towel on
this world, and motivates us towards eternal life
for all in spite of how they irritate us. The value of
a human life is worth forgiving, and changing our
agendas.
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Diversity, The Miracle of the Body
• The failure in our world to resolve conflict and
hurt has left us with individualism and
isolationism.
• The trend of the 21st century is to agree that we
are just “no good”, stay away from people
because all they do is hurt us. We communicate
from empty rooms and electronic outlets.
Courage is lost in faceless conversations.
• The value of humanity is no longer defined by the
story of “The Velveteen Rabbit” but by “
Inpenatrable Translucent Houses”
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Exhortation
Comfort
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The Shallow Ones
• Philippians 4. “ I beseech Euodias and beseech
Syntyche, that they be of the same mind in
the Lord”