The Gospel Day; Or, the Light of ChristianityOrr, Charles Ebert
Religion
The Gospel Day; Or, the Light of Christianity
Orr, Charles Ebert
Christianity
By these two texts we learn that the church of God has but one mind; it
has but one mouth, and all speak the same thing. This is beautiful, this
is heavenly. “Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to
dwell together in unity.” Psa. 133:1. It is only the church of the Bible
that enjoys this pleasant unity, and we must never confound this church
with the confusive sects. Babylon has as many mouths as there are sects,
and they speak contrary things.
“For ye are all one in Christ Jesus.” Gal. 3:28. “Only let your
conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come
and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand
fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the
gospel.” Phil. 1:27. “Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the
same love, being of one accord, of one mind.” Phil. 2:2. “For as we have
many members in one body, and all the members have not the same office: so
we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of
another.” Rom. 12:4, 5.
“Other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring,
... and there shall be one fold and one shepherd.” John 10:16. The Savior
was here speaking of the Gentiles and the Jews. Before the coming of
Christ there was a partition wall between these two nations, but Jesus
came to break down the middle wall of partition, so there should be
neither Jew nor Greek, bond nor free, male nor female: but all one in
Christ Jesus. Gal. 3:28. “For as the body is one, and hath many members,
and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is
Christ. For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be
Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to
drink into one Spirit.” 1 Cor. 12:12, 13.
The “many members” here referred to are individual Christians, and not the
ecclesiastical bodies now extant, as some do ignorantly teach. “But now
are they many members, yet but one body.” 1 Cor. 12:20. In the fifteenth
and sixteenth verses the apostle uses the physical body of man with its
dependent members to illustrate the one body of Christ. These members work
in blissful harmony and are dependent upon each other. A destruction of
one member impairs the whole body. This is not illustrative of the
different denominations; they are not dependent upon each other.
Oftentimes they are opposed to each other, and thrive better when others
are destroyed.
“And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are
called in one body, and be ye thankful.” Col. 3:15.
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