Roger
How do you focus on oneness? How do you maintain oneness? How do people get into “oneness? “
Ron
Okay, can I answer that?
Roger
Please.
Ron
You focus on the Lord individually. Oneness is not unity. Oneness is completely a different realm. If our focus is on the Lord, and we have, we're one with the Lord - if Roger is one with the Lord, and I'm one with the Lord, guess what? We're one.
Roger
That's the way I say it exactly Ron. And I was just thinking that, that it does, it remains for each individual, to grow into their own walk with God to know Him. And in our knowing Him, we know each other. And I think that's the only way it can work. And if people are reluctant to open their hearts to walk with God, I don't know if there's anything He can do about that. But those whose hearts are open, are continually - we are; I say, we are moving forward or upward into the Lord to know Him. And we are hearing His Word in a greater way. There is our true oneness when we're seeing and speaking the same thing, by the same thing. I mean, the same revelation of the Lord. There's our oneness.
Ron
I would agree with that because I don't think you break oneness. by disagreement. I don't think you break oneness because you think differently, or you move differently, because that's called diversity. And that's what Christianity has called division. I think the truth is, if you're open to the Lord, you're reaching into Him to be one with Him, to love Him to worship Him, then those that are doing the same thing - you're gonna gravitate together. You're just gonna gravitate together. But it's not unity. We may have unity. but I don't think that's the basis of oneness.
Jim
What maybe one observation about oneness, and that is, oneness is something that you walk into, it's an atmosphere that's already created, cannot work up oneness. You cannot go I have, I wasn't one here so I have to be one here. It's more of a melting together.
Roger
Like you were saying, Ron, it's about disagreement. You know, everybody's different, and that is totally irrelevant - you're right. If a person's heart is open, and sincerely seeking the Lord, and you recognize that, I think is a sin against God, if you were to close your heart to that person, don't see things exactly the way they do. God give us the discernment that we can sense the Lord in His people, and that they're open. If you're seeing something that Joe Blow over here doesn't see, then it becomes your responsibility to be blessing and blessing that person. So yeah, I agree, man, oneness is not about getting along in the soul realm. It's about having enough hunger and desire to submit to the Lord, and be one with Him, and then we are one with each other.
Dale
That new creature is what we're being created to, that's where we find our oneness - that you're neither Jew nor Greek, male nor female, bond or free. And that's where we start walking in a oneness is when we have left those things those like you say forms of division behind, and we have one focus is a new creature. It's a walk in the Spirit. It's not a walk of the flesh. It's a walk of total focus on the Lord. That's where we come together, it'll fulfill the great commandment. Great Commandment is like the banner over oneness. You're one with the Father, and you're one with your neighbor, based on your love for the Father is fostered or the love for one another. It's an interesting thing about oneness, the division is gone. The diversity is melded into one. So you might say, we're not necessarily diversified. We are now a body of parts that make the one work. Your eye and you see, and every part of the body receives from that other part of the body. It's one body functioning together.
Ron
I think as we get a deeper revelation, a deeper knowing of what oneness really is in one another, we will be more stable. And we will not fear disagreement, because we'll realize, if I don't agree on an issue, I don't have to contend. That goes nowhere, except negative. But what I can do is I can stand on my oneness. And if I stand on my oneness with a trust in the Lord, He's going to show me, He's going to show us. It's a total different animal, that people on a human realm, one has to be right one has to be wrong. And that's not the same in God. In fact, I think in God, two people can have diverse answers, and both of our right. God's just not limited that way - but we would never see that on the human realm. It's such futility, to think that way, because God could be opening doors of Revelation; and if we're open and we're solid in our oneness and a revelation of our oneness, we don't waste energy on contention, or trying to be right, I think is a huge thing.
Dale
Each one of us has a very unique gift that is totally unique to us. And what oneness does is oneness brings those unique gifts together into a total truth, that there is not one part of the body can survive without the other. And that's what we're doing. God is bringing us into a place where we complement one another in the sense that; and what you were talking about right or wrong, that's absolutely perfect. Because when we come into that place of being who we are, we'll recognize that there is no right or wrong, there is no competition - there is only what did God say? And that we will all know. We're learning to walk as a foot, a knee, an eye, an ear. He opened the door for the whole body to come forth as one
