Pure Truth (Pt.2)

The night He was betrayed, Jesus prayed for unity among His immediate disciples (John 17:11) but Jesus wasn’t through with His prayer. “I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word, that they all may be one as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe You sent Me” (John 17:20-21.) Now Jesus is praying for those who would be saved because of the preaching of the word. That refers to people even today. And Jesus wants them to be one - the same oneness that Jesus and God have. The dirty little secret is that there is no such thing as unity in diversity. Unity is based in God and Christ (“one in Us”) and following their will and their will is unified. A unified church shows that Jesus was sent by God. It is no wonder that folks have such a hard time finding Jesus. The religious division and pollution of today have hid the Lord. People looking for Him only find Him divided among the various denominations. How sad! The stream of Christianity continues to suffer from the pollutions of man and Jesus is “here a little, there a little” as each church makes Him in their image. Today, the stream is not drinkable.

All of this is serious business. We are not going to go to heaven because we claimed to be a Christian or that we held to the coattails of some church. We will go to heaven because we “did the will of the Father” (Matthew 7:21-23.) Much is made today of cleaning up our rivers from pollution, but we need to do it in religion too.– so get the nets out and get rid of centuries of corruption. Then the stream of Christianity will be clean and refreshing as it was in the beginning. In the 1st century, the truth of God was absolutely pure and by following it, we know we do right.