Dis-integration
Once we were part of the world’s problems.
These problems have sprung from man’s own self-will
which causes him to be separated from others. We were selfish
and greedy, and we manipulated others for our own selfish
profit and pleasure. Now, the deepest roots of the world’s
problems are being cut out of us. The ugly fruit which feeds
from this root, such as loneliness, alienation, division,
and disintegration of basic human relationships, has been
cut off among us.
Now we are part of the solution to these problems. For
we are the tribes of God’s inheritance, the nation
He is building, His servants whom He will use to strike
right at the root which causes all the oppression, poverty,
hunger, and injustice that plagues the world. We are no
longer merely trying to hammer away at the superstructure,
trying to find some remedy for the world’s problems.
For these superficial measures have long ago proven to be
ineffective. No, it is only there—
“If anyone serves Me, he must follow
Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also; if
anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.”
— in God’s habitation that true change can
come about. There not only the external problems
of man can be dealt with, but also the deep inner struggles
coming from guilt and rejection will find the balm that
will soothe.
For God regards the prayer of the destitute, the needy,
the comfortless, and the friendless. He has not despised
their prayers. For God makes a home for the lonely, and
only the rebellious dwell in parched land of alienation
and division, of disintegration of basic human relationships.
He searches the earth to find men from every nation who
fear Him and do what it right, and He welcomes them.
Alienation — to withdraw, as the affections;
to make indifferent or averse, where love and friendship
before subsided; to alienate the heart or affections; to
alienate a man from his friends; a state of abnormal function;
the feeling of being alienated from other people; separation
resulting from hostility.
Disintegration means the act of separating integral
parts of a substance; a decomposed state; separation into
component parts; total destruction.
Integrate means to renew, to restore, to perfect,
to make into a whole, to become one.
Integrant means making part of a whole, necessary
to constitute an entire thing; to make the thing entire
or ONE (as God is one).
Integral means each part is necessary —
sought out, not forsaken from the whole, essential or necessary
for completeness, possessing everything essential.
Man is divided without any hope of restoration. However,
he is meant to be integrated into one, to be made
whole again. This cannot happen by law or social programs,
but is only possible where God’s love dwells. Only
there—
“If anyone serves Me, he must follow
Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also; if
anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.”
— can we be perfected in unity.
This is the Messianic hope, the promise that our twelve
tribes hope to attain, as we earnestly serve God night and
day.9 We are living for this hope. This hope does not disappoint
because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts
through the Holy Spirit who was given us. We were the
ungodly, but He loved us so much that He gave His only Son
as a redeeming sacrifice for us.
“For the love of Messiah compels us,
having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore
all died; and He died for all, that they who live should
no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and
rose again on their behalf. Therefore, if any man is in
Messiah, he is a new creature; the old things passed away,
behold, new things have come.”
In order for all the old things to pass away so that all
things can become new, we must come out of the alienation
and disintegration of this world and be gathered together
into ONE. The dividing of mankind is the works of the Evil
One.
The mission and purpose for the redemption of mankind
is that there could be unity among men. When the world sees
the unity our Master prayed for in John 17:23, they will
believe that God sent His Son. If they do not see this,
how can they believe? Because of disintegration and alienation
the world perishes. But through sending the Son those who
believe in Him will not perish with the world, but will
in Him have eternal life. Whoever has eternal life in Him
is no longer disintegrated, but is ONE.
ALL are united into ONE body. Ephesians 2:11-12, 19-22 (NIV),
and 3:5-6 speak of the nations being drawn together in Him
— together, together, together... heirs together,
members together, sharers together, heirs together with
Israel, members together of ONE body, members together in
the promises in Messiah — joint heirs... joint body...
joint partakers... joint heirs with Israel.
Loneliness is rebellion against the Creator who made man
to be ONE, integrated into families where each can share
for others. This is why loneliness is rebellion, once a
person knows that God has made a home for him.
Loneliness gives witness to the fall of man. Man must
be integrated, renewed, restored, perfected in unity,
because each part of the whole is an integrant part, making
what was incomplete to be whole. You are necessary. We are
all sought out and necessary. Each member makes up the completed
whole of His Body, the Holy City, the New Jerusalem.
Loneliness means that you are divided, alienated, and
disintegrated from being an integral, integrant part of
the people of God who are ONE, without alienation, division,
or disintegration of basic human relationships. They are
exactly as the Master prayed for them to be. That means
“man” and that also means “one.”
How? Any outward separation is a sure sign that spiritual
unity does not exist, for there is no such thing as spiritual
unity which is expressed in outward separation (though many
contend that such an absurdity can actually exist).
Spiritual unity is ONENESS which is certainly expressed
outwardly and inwardly. The world must be able to see this
unity. If it is invisible they will not be able to see it.
If they do not see it they will never believe that God sent
His Son to end strife, divisions, alienation, and disintegration
of basic human relationships in order to make divided man
whole again — a one new man created in righteousness
and holiness of the truth.
The denominationalism of Christianity today is the anti-thesis
of the oneness that Messiah prayed for in John 17:21-23.
The thesis is “oneness” — as the oneness
between the Father and the Son, which is expressed outwardly
by those who believe in Him through the apostles. If the
Head is one with the Father and the Body is one with the
Head, most certainly the Body will be ONE also.
Inward unity which does not express itself outwardly negates
the UNITY that our Master prayed for. Outward unity that
does not express itself in inward unity is an empty husk.
That is, the walls of hostility, division, alienation, and
disintegration are removed in those in Messiah, in that
inward unity is expressed outwardly so that the world (who
only sees outward things) can know that the Father sent
the Son. They know this because they can see the accomplishment
of what He was sent into the world to do.
Did the Son of God pray for unity in diversity? Unity
in diversity is the outcome of the thesis and the anti-thesis.
And this is the synthesis: the ecumenical movement,
men agree to disagree. But there is NO DIVERSITY between
Messiah and the Father.
Colossians 1:12-13; Isaiah 63:17
Ephesians 1:18
John 12:26
Psalm 102:17
Psalm 68:5-6
Acts 10:35; Isaiah 62:12
Galatians 3:28-29
John 12:26
Acts 26:7
Romans 5:5-6
2 Corinthians 5:14,15,17
1 John 3:8
John 3:15
Psalm 68:5-6
John 17:23
All races, every nationality and ethnic group, the
“all” of 2 Corinthians 5:14-15; Colossians 3:11;
Galatians 3:28
Ephesians 4:3,11-16
Ephesians 4:14; Colossians 3:8-17
antithesis – the direct or exact opposite
John 3:16; Isaiah 49:6; Matthew 5:14; 1 Peter 2:9;
Ephesians 4:11-16
The combination of thesis and antithesis
in the Hegelian dialectical process whereby a new and higher
level of truth is produced.
Colossians 1:22; John 17:21-23
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