This is “One With Him So I’ll Be One With Them.” Being one with God is such an essential aspect of your life. As believers, we are called to avoid division that can lead to a disconnect between you and God. You may ask why unity is so significant? In this week’s message, Pastor Jentezen Franklin shares the keys to the power of unity and what it means to stop picking one another apart and love like God loves.
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>> If you have your Bibles
I want you to open them with me.
And I’m going to the Book
of Matthew 24.
Jesus said something
that is powerful.
He compares us to eagles.
He calls Christians eagles,
believers eagle.
And He said, “Wherever
the carcass is there
the eagles will gather.”
He’s referring to His own body.
His own carcass.
And He said, “When I present
a meal ‘speaking of communion’
the eagles will gather.”
He likens the believer
to an eagle.
Isaiah said that,
“They that wait upon the Lord
will renew their strength
like an eagle.”
Psalms 103 says,
“He satisfies our mouths
with good things.
‘Speaking of that table.’
And it renews our youth
like an eagle.”
Psalms 34 said, “Oh taste
and see that the Lord is good.”
There’s something interesting
in Deuteronomy 14.
It talks about the dietary
laws that the Hebrews
had under the old covenant.
And it forbids them
to eat certain food.
There were birds they
could eat and there were
birds they could not eat.
But it’s so interesting,
and I preached a whole sermon
on this many years ago
and I’m not gon’ do that today.
But I was reminded
of it in study this week,
that in Deuteronomy 14 he says,
“But you’re not to eat eagle.”
He forbids His people
to eat the eagle.
Because He likened you
and I to eagles.
And the apostle Paul put it
this way in the New Testament.
He said, “Don’t bite
and devour one another.”
He said, “You bite
and devour one another.”
And I preached the sermon,
this was my title:
It’s Illegal To Eat Eagle.
You bite and devour one another.
You’re eagles,
you’re chosen,
you’re God called,
you’re of the same family.
And you bite and devour one
another and God said stop that.
It’s illegal to eat eagle.
Now I wanna show you something
in Matthew 12 because —
this is what Matthew 12 —
Jesus in verse 25 said,
“But Jesus knew their thoughts,
and said to them:
‘Now watch the progression now.
Watch it.’
“Every kingdom divided against
itself is brought
to desolation.”
I just want to pause right there
and I want you to give me
your full attention because
this is powerful.
Any kingdom that is divided
against itself will
be brought to desolation
if they don’t deal with it.
And then he goes even
lower from kingdom.
“And every city that is divided
will come to desolation.
And every house ‘The family,
the home that is divided will
come to desolation against
itself will not stand.”
And then he goes one layer
lower and he says,
“And if Satan cast out Satan
‘watch these words.’
He ‘or you,
it’s a principle.’
is divided against himself;
how shall then his
kingdom stand?”
So you go from a divided
kingdom to a divided city,
to a divided house,
to a divided individual.
But notice if you flip that
around you get the way that it
ends up being a divided kingdom.
It starts with the individual
who becomes divided from
God and His word,
more and more distant from God.
And then that division
of not being close to Him,
being one with Him suddenly
it spreads to the house.
If you invert it goes from
the individual to the house,
suddenly the marriage
is divided,
the family is divided.
And then from the house
it goes to the city,
and then from the city
it goes to the nation
or the kingdom.
But it all comes back down
to the individual relationship
with Jesus Christ.
If we would all fall in love
and be one with Him then
it would affect the house,
it would heal the divide,
it would affect the city,
it would heal the divide,
it would effect the nation,
it would heal the divide.
Not that we would
agree on everything,
but we would love one another
because “by this shall all men
know that you’re my disciples.”
Not that you go to church
and talk a lot about the Bible,
but that you really love people.
Now this is the last prayer
that Jesus prayed in John 17,
in the garden of Gethsemane.
And He said, “I do not pray
for these alone,
but also for those who believe
in me and through the word;
‘Go to the verse.’
That they may be one.”
I’m praying — and the Literal
King James says,
“I do not pray for the world.”
Jesus said, “I’m not praying
for the world to get
their act together.
I’m praying for my church,
my disciples to be one as You,
Father, are in Me, and I in You,
and that they may be one in Us,
then the world will believe
that You sent Me.”
When they see us with
undivided homes,
undivided kingdoms,
undivided city,
undivided in our worship,
undivided — and it’s not
that we don’t have diversity,
but we come together in the name
of Jesus in love
and let there be no
divisions among you.
That’s what He said
and Jesus’ last prayer was,
“Make them one.”
Make the family one,
make the marriage one,
make the house one,
make the church one,
make the city one,
make the nation one.
It’s so important.
I don’t care what they say
or what they do,
zip it up and speak the truth
in love when you have to
and do your best to follow
after peace with All men.
Your very best.
And I’mmo tell you why.
I’mmo tell you why.
The elephants in Africa
are the largest land
animal in the world,
they can live up
to 70 years of age.
They grow up to 14/15 feet high.
They’re called the heavy
weight champions
of the African savanna.
The bull elephant weighs
up to 7 tons,
that’s the weight
of a school bus.
A full grown elephant
has no natural enemies
in the animal kingdom Except
another Full Grown Elephant.
And when there’s another full
grown elephant in it’s territory
and it goes into musk that male
bull suddenly becomes so
temperamental and so touchy that
he becomes extremely aggressive.
And the only thing that can
kill it, the only threat to it,
there’s no other animal
in the jungle that’s
it’s natural enemy.
The only thing that can destroy
it is if those two giants
start to fight one another.
During musk a full grown
male elephant can become
extremely aggressive.
It reacts with anger
at the slightest provocation.
The reason it does
that is competition for
domination to run the herd
becomes fever pitch.
It wants domination over
the whole say-so.
And it gets this hair trigger
rage that bulls into
a huge conflict,
and suddenly theses two
mammoth massive giants
are fighting one another.
The conflict can become
so ferocious that sometimes
the defeated elephants succumb
to their injury.
And even though their
of the same family,
nobody outside can destroy them.
But when giant fights giant,
when Christian fight Christian,
when pastor fights pastor,
denomination fights
denomination,
when church members
fight church members,
when moms and dads fight
each other there is no demon
authorized to destroy outside
that’s powerful enough,
cause greater is He
that is in you.
You’re a giant,
you’re an eagle,
you’re mighty,
you’re strong,
the weapons of your warfare,
you got tusks that can take
on any demon that comes,
so the only hope the enemy has
got is that he can get two
of you out of agreement.
For if any two of you
touch and agree,
don’t care what’s going
on right now,
if you touch and agree
and keep praying God said,
“I will hear that prayer.”
And I’m praying for you
‘Jesus said’
that He would make you one.
Cause if you stand as one
and not fight each other
the enemy knows of he can get
family against family,
if he can get —
that’s the only way he can
destroy the Church,
and destroy the City,
and destroy the Kingdom,
the nation.
Just as the giant
elephants and eagles
have no natural predators,
they have no natural enemy
so there’s no natural enemy
that can take you down
or your family down.
You have the power
to paralyze Hell.
You have the power
to terrorize Satan.
You have it.
Greater is He that is in you.
You’re gifted.
God says that Hell fears you.
God says that He can use you.
And He can use a couple
that stand together.
No natural enemy has authority
to prevail against your family
when you stand in faith
on the promises of God
and you do not to give up,
but you believe.
But the enemy wants you
to turn and use your stuff
against each other.
Beware of leader against leader.
Beware of husband against wife.
The little one are looking
on and they feel the vibrations
when those titans are
crashing into each other.
The whole family,
the whole business when
there’s fights going
on the whole church
feels those vibrations.
The leader will
eventually leave,
but the devastation is there.
This is what the Bible
says in Proverbs 15:1,
“A soft answer turns away wrath;
But a grievous words destroy.”
Proverbs 18 said,
“There is he that speaketh words
like the piercing of a sword.
But the tongue
of the wise brings healing.”
In the multitude of words,
the scripture said,
“There is quarrels,
fights and break ups,
but he that closes his
lips is wise.”
Isn’t that something?
Proverbs 15:4: “A wholesome
tongue is a tree of life:
but vicious words cause
fraction and tearing.”
I’m saying to you today that
the words that you speak,
the letters that you send,
the texts that you send,
the emails that you send,
the posts that you put up,
the saints and the sinners are
affected when leaders fight.
In a home, in a city,
in a nation,
when we as the body of Christ
are fighting one another
and allow that stuff
to come in here —
Not that we don’t have
disagreements,
not that all of us are exactly
the same in every persuasion,
in every area of our lives,
absolutely not.
The Bible clearly lets us
know that there are diversity
of gifts and there is diversity
in the Kingdom of God!
It’s not right
for giants to fight.
The only thing that can destroy,
is the house divided will
come to desolation.
A church divided will
come to desolation.
When giants fight
the saints suffer,
the children suffer,
the young people suffer,
the children suffer.
When husband and wife fight
all the family feels
the vibrations of those fights.
You’ve heard the expression,
“The elephant in the room.”
The expression “The elephant
in the room” has to do with
a controversy that everybody
knows is there,
but when we walk in we have to –
He’ll be in the dinning room
where the turkey is
and all the food,
and you’ll walk in there –
and if you’re like most families
and most people and anybody
all your relatives are
going to be there.
And there’s gon’
be some elephants.
Maybe two or three or four
will be in there and you’re
gon’ have to barely,
you won’t even,
hardly be able to get
to your seat.
I mean it’s gon’ be filled
up with elephants.
See I feel them
in here right now,
and I’m not afraid to take
the word of God
and surgically remove them.
So everyone there ignores
the obvious problem because
there’s an elephant in the room.
They know it’s not right,
it’s not right, it’s not right
but maybe because of discomfort
or embarrassment, or even,
“I don’t wanna further
worsen the conflict.”
But the truth is…
it’s an elephant in the room…
and it’s the little people
that get devastated…
when big people
attack one another.
Jesus said, “Father I ask
you for one thing,
I’m not even praying
for the world,
the lost people,
but make my church,
make my families that
call themselves Christian;
and they are, as messed up
as they may be they are.
But make their dream and their
desire and their effort be,
Make them one.”
The apostle Paul said,
“We are of one Spirit,
we have one hope,
we have one Lord,
we have one baptism.”
Isn’t that something?
Everybody say, “One.
One.
One.
One.”
God doesn’t care how much you
shout if you can’t get to one.
One in your marriage,
one in your family,
one, one, one.
The elephant in the room,
and we’re trying
to squeeze around it.
It’s even in the church.
It’s almost trying to overtake
every church that I know of and
turn races against one another.
Turn — I’m so sick of labels,
Conservative of liberal.
Right wing, left wing.
Aren’t you tired of it?
It’s the elephant in the room.
And when — are we gonna fuss
and fight every time
something happens?
And go online and the sinners
are watching and the kids
are watching,
and watch Christians
hit each other?
It’s not worth it!
It’s important —
I’m not talking
about the doctrine,
but I’m talking about the fact
that we never agree
on everything,
but that should have nothing
to do with the fact that
I am called to love Everybody!
No matter who they are,
no matter how they
disagree with me.
We must love one another.
Shout “Love one another.”
I’m so tired of the labels.
There’s a powerful, powerful,
powerful verse in Genesis 13
when Abraham and Lot,
two massive elephants crashing
into each other, the Bible said,
“They were in a big argument
over real-estate and over land.
And their family, their family
and families fighting family.
Bloods fighting blood.
And Abraham steps up,
Lot was being a jerk —
let’s just tell it like it is.
He was being dishonest,
he was being wrong but Abraham
stepped up and said,
“Let there be no strife
between you and me,
between my herdsmen
and your herdsmen,
‘Listen to these words.
For — everybody.
for we are brethren.”
That’s it.
And I’ve come to preach today
that whether you’re conservative
or liberal if you have one
Lord and His name is Jesus
I am not your judge
and I am not your enemy.
If you’re a conservative,
I’m not your judge,
I’m not your enemy,
I refuse to be enemies.
We are one, we are brethren!
Let there be no strife between
us over temporal things!
If we’re gon’ spend
eternity together in Heaven,
of every kindred and of every
tongue and of every nation.
We are — Turn to somebody
and say, “We are family.
Like me or don’t like me.”
Grab them by the arm and say,
“We are family.”
Stop tearing down
and believing the worst,
and lock arms
and find any ground that
you can get on and say,
“Lord Jesus you’re welcome here,
make us one.”
“Who are you to judge
another man’s servant.”
Jesus said.
And He was referring to that’s
my servant you’re talking
about if they’re Christian.
Romans 12:10 – I’m almost done.
But Romans 12:10 – I want you
to read it out loud with me.
Romans 12:10.
“Be kindly affectionate to one
another with brotherly love,
in honor giving preference
to one another.”
Read it again.
“Be kind affectionate to one —
‘Listen to that.
Not just affectionate.
Kindly affectionate,’
in honor giving preference,
‘giving honor one
translation says.’
To one another.”
When you understand
what I’m preaching.
Here’s what I’m saying.
You always stand for
the word of God.
I stand for pro-life,
I stand for marriage between
a man and a woman,
I stand for justice,
I stand for equality
cause this Book does.
I stand against sin,
which would be anything
that doesn’t stand for that.
But here’s the difference —
And maybe you’re having problems
with somebody in your family
or in your world
and it’s like this,
Stand against sin.
I can be against
what you’re doing,
the way you’re doing
it it’s against God’s word,
I’m against that sin
but I’m for you.
You have to learn
that as a parent,
you have to learn that
as a Christian,
you have to learn that
as a leader.
Sometimes we feel like
it’s our job just to, “Ugh.
It’s sin!
It’s sin!”
I can be against sin,
but I can be for
the person 100%.
And a parent understands
what I’m saying right now.
There are moment where
you cannot give,
you cannot support,
you cannot aid,
you cannot empower someone
that you know is openly doing
wrong lest you become
the enabler.
I’m against it but I’m for you!
And there’ll never be anything
that’ll separate you from me
in that way if you’re
willing to be one!
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