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    Sermon Notes May 22 2011

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    This document discusses the importance of unity among Christians. It provides several Bible passages that emphasize oneness in Christ, showing no partiality, maintaining peace, humility, and bearing with one another in love. While there are essentials like belief in Jesus' death and resurrection, there should be liberty in non-essentials. The overarching message is that Christians should strive for unity through love and focusing on their shared faith in Christ.

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    This document discusses the importance of unity among Christians. It provides several Bible passages that emphasize oneness in Christ, showing no partiality, maintaining peace, humility, and bearing with one another in love. While there are essentials like belief in Jesus' death and resurrection, there should be liberty in non-essentials. The overarching message is that Christians should strive for unity through love and focusing on their shared faith in Christ.

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    This document discusses the importance of unity among Christians. It provides several Bible passages that emphasize oneness in Christ, showing no partiality, maintaining peace, humility, and bearing with one another in love. While there are essentials like belief in Jesus' death and resurrection, there should be liberty in non-essentials. The overarching message is that Christians should strive for unity through love and focusing on their shared faith in Christ.

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    Introduction “When we quit dwelling on the non-essentials it frees up more time to

    preach about the cross of Christ”


    "Gentlemen, now we must all hang together, or surely we shall all hang
    separately." Benjamin Franklin How God Sees Us

    Eph 4:2 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor
    one another in love, free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
    Eph 4:3 eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
    Eph 4:4 There is one body and one Spirit--just as you were called to the Acts 10:34 So Peter opened his mouth and said: "Truly I understand that
    one hope that belongs to your call-- God shows no partiality,
    Eph 4:5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism, Acts 10:35 but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is
    Eph 4:6 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in right is acceptable to him.
    all.
    “Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the
    In essentials, Unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.- same fork are automatically tuned to each other.”
    Saint Augustine A.W. Tozer

    Essentials and Non Essentials Christian Love


    Colossians 2:11-17 2 Peter 3:15 And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our
    beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given
    Acts 2:22 "Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man him,
    attested to you by God with mighty works and wonders and signs that
    God did through him in your midst, as you yourselves know-- Romans 12:10 Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one
    Acts 2:23 this Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and another in showing honor.
    foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless
    men. Hebrews 12:14 Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness
    Acts 2:24 God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was without which no one will see the Lord.
    not possible for him to be held by it.
    Closing-
    1 Cor 2:2 For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ Nothing gets done where there is disunity
    and him crucified.
    are you striving for the unity of the Lord's Church?
    1 John 4:1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see
    whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into Are you a member of the body of Christ?
    the world.
    1 John 4:2 By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that
    confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,
    “Unity in 
    How to have eternal life

    Romans 10:9 because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord
    and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be
    saved.
    Romans 10:10 For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with
    the mouth one confesses and is saved.
    Diversity”
    Romans 10:11 For the Scripture says, "Everyone who believes in him
    will not be put to shame."
    Romans 10:12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for
    the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on
    him.
    Romans 10:13 For "everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be
    saved."

    All Scriptures used are from the ESV version

    Galatians 2:1­15

    May 22, 2011

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