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Unity in Christ Jesus
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personality, an individuality, which will separate us from our fellow
laborers. We have a character to maintain, but it is the character of
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Christ. Having the character of Christ, we can carry on the work of
God together. The Christ in us will meet the Christ in our brethren,
and the Holy Spirit will give that union of heart and action which
testifies to the world that we are children of God. May the Lord
help us to die to self and be born again, that Christ may live in us, a
living, active principle, a power that will keep us holy.
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Strive earnestly for unity. Pray for it, work for it. It will bring
spiritual health, elevation of thought, nobility of character, heavenly-
mindedness, enabling you to overcome selfishness and evil surmis-
ings, and to be more than conquerors through Him that loved you
and gave Himself for you. Crucify self; esteem others better than
yourselves. Thus you will be brought into oneness with Christ. Be-
fore the heavenly universe, and before the church and the world,
you will bear unmistakable evidence that you are God’s sons and
daughters. God will be glorified in the example that you set.
The world needs to see worked out before it the miracle that
binds the hearts of God’s people together in Christian love. It needs
to see the Lord’s people sitting together in heavenly places in Christ.
Will you not give in your lives an evidence of what the truth of God
can do for those who love and serve Him? God knows what you
can be. He knows what divine grace can do for you if you will be
partakers of the divine nature.
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