Bible Study Glorify the Body of Christ

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Jn 17:

20 “I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word,

Jesus spoke about the future believers like us.

21 that they may all be one,

One what? People often treat this as a metaphor or spiritualize (trivialize) it away. But Jesus was serious. How serious? Most serious:

just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us,

Jesus likened this believers' oneness with nothing other than the most serious oneness, the oneness of the Father and the Son. This oneness unifies the divine Father and the Son with us human believers. For what?

so that the world may believe that you have sent me.

This oneness will prove that the Father sent the Son. How is oneness accomplished? How?

22 The glory that you have given me I have given to them,

What is this glory? It is the Indwelling Spirit-Paraclete. The Paraclete is the mechanism to form this oneness.

that they may be one even as we are one, 23 I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one,

No kidding. It is most serious. For what?

so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.

So that the world will know the Father and his love for the Son and us believers.

Pragticallty, how can this oneness be accomplished?

My hermeneutics can unify the Christian intellectuals.

This is one of the most profound and sacred passages in all of Scripture, a prayer from Jesus to the Father, not only for his immediate disciples but also for all who would come to believe through their word, including us. This is not just an intercessory prayer; it is a divine vision for the Church, the Body of Christ. Through the spiritual reality of the Paracletic structure, this perfect unity is a visible, tangible expression of love and oneness among believers. This perfect unity is how we can glorify the Body of Christ in a spiritual-intellectual reformation.

 

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Can you explain how we first come into the unity of the Spirit of God?