Last week we we looked at the difference between confusion and fusion.
There is so much confusion in this world today. Confusion divides, and separates our hearts one from another… it pits one faction against another. Confusion is of the devil…. For where there is strife and contention there is confusion and every evil work. This is what James 3 says.
The devil uses confusion to divide and conquer.
Confusion separates, it atomizes, explodes, mortifies, deconstructs, repels, disintegrates and destroys.
The opposite of confusion is fusion. Fusion unites, implodes, constructs, attracts, Builds up, makes whole and integrates. Fusion produces unity.
The context of James 3;14-16 regarding confusion says:
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
However, to counter the confusion of this world and the god of this world, James 3:17-18 says, in contrast to the wisdom of this world:
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
And how do we receive the wisdom that is from above?
Last week we talked about the first atom bomb used in warfare. It wasn’t the atom bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to bring about the end of WW2. It was Adam bomb dropped when Adam bombed by committing the original sin. Adam and Eve bombed when they disobeyed God’s only command by eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Eve was tricked… she was beguiled and deceived by the serpent, the devil into doubting the love of God and the Word of God.
She succumbed to the wisdom of this world instead of God’s wisdom. The wisdom of this world is earthly, sensual and devilish.
Gen 3:6 says, And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
The original Adam bomb when Adam and Eve sinned was a nuclear fission reaction that separated all mankind from God. On the day Adam and Eve sinned their spirt died that day. The repercussions of the first Adam bomb has reverberated down through the ages from generation to generation and continues even today…. For we have all inherited Adam’s fallen sin nature that results in death. This is why we needed Jesus Christ to redeem with a fusion reaction to reconcile us back to God.
Romans 5: 17-21 says:
For if by one man’s offence death reigned by one; much lmore they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)
Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.
For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
The fusion reaction of salvation is in our reconciliation through Jesus Christ’s payment for sin on our behalf:
Romans 5 Verses 10-11 says:
For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.
The word atonement can also be translated at-one-ment. This is the word for reconciliation which means to bring together that which has been separated. Jesus’ atoning sacrifice is the nuclear fusion reaction that fuses our hearts back together with God’s heart.
What is the tie that binds our hearts together and reconciles us back together with God?
Colossians 3:12-15 says: Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.
The tie that binds is charity, the love of God, God’s agape unconditional love. The love of God through Jesus Christ fuses our hearts back together with God’s heart. Then the peace of God is the result of reconciliation through Jesus Christ.
The result of fusing our hearts with God’s heart through Jesus Christ is the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace.
Unity is the theme of Ephesians 4. Let’s read verses 1-5
I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,
With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;
One Lord, one faith, one baptism,
One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
In conclusion, the result of the fusion reaction set off by Jesus’ death and resurrection is Unity: the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace.
As Psalm 133 says, how good and pleasant it is that the brethren dwell together in unity….
Hebrews 10:24-25 says, And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
Unity is why God has fitted us together in one body, for the church is the body of Christ. According to Ephesians 4 verse 16:
From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love. God has set us in the body of Christ as individual fittings, fit to serve one another in love…. In the unity of the spirit.
We’re each living epistles, God’s love letters known and read of all men…. I’m honored to choke in your dust… because as the poem by Edgar A. Guest says, I’d rather see a sermon than hear one any day…
One good man teaches many, men believe what they behold;
One deed of kindness noticed is worth forty that are told.
Who stands with men of honor learns to hold his honor dear,
For right living speaks a language which to every one is clear.
Though an able speaker charms me with his eloquence, I say,
I’d rather see a sermon than to hear one, any day.
We were reconciled to God through Jesus’ sacrifice for sin on our behalf so that we could live in the unity of the spirit in the bond of beach….
Why did Jesus redeem us and purchase us with the price of his innocent blood? According to a poem by my sister Helen Porter, He died arose ascended so our lives could all be blended in one family rejoicing with our God.
That in the unity of the spirit we may together live to the praise of the glory of His grace!
Your brother in Christ,
Michael
