Visual unity
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At the time of the apostles, the believers in Christ were on earth as one visible congregation. To the eye of God and to the eye of man, they were not in the Book of Acts, nor in the newspapers, but a local area that day was one body. There are no divisions among them. All of the apostles had a happy unity and fellowship, and they all joined together. That is the locality of the respective areas the congregations and congregations of many nations are seen as one body to God and men. They saw that all Christians are one, one body in Christ, governed by the power and authority of the Holy Spirit. As God intended all that is needed is that form - that is one body. Alas, like the body, that happy visible unity is destroyed and erased in eternity. The unsaved name-callers and the ungodly have sneaked into society. That is the community on earth it turned into a great house full of dignified and dishonorable characters. That is how divisions, corruptions, and departures from God's Word took place. In the eyes of God, the unity of the body of Christ remains outwardly I disappeared. Ruin, dissension, and confusion are the hallmarks of today's Christian world. By this, it is understood how far we are removed from the will of God, that is, from the truth that all believers are one body. The unity of the body of Christ may not be seen today, but this unity will be seen again when the Lord gathers all His people to be bought into the Father's house. When the Lord returns to rule this world, His Body, the Church, will be beautifully displayed in its glorious unity. CH. Mackintosh put it this way: “The 'unity' of the body of Christ is like a chain thrown from one side of a river to the other. The beholder can see this chain and that chain, but it is not visible in the middle of the river. That is the body of Christ. That quality is seen in the first century and again in the last century. In the middle ages it is there even if we do not see it. Like a lamp in the water it is visible only to God.
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