Union in Christ

Jesus Comforts His Disciples


1“Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me. 2In my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. 3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. 4You know the way to the place where I am going.”

Jesus the Way to the Father

5Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?”

6Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7If you really knew me, you would knowb my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”

8Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.”

9Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you are not just my own. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. 11Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the miracles themselves. 12I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. 13And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father. 14You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.

Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit

15“If you love me, you will obey what I command. 16And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever— 17the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will bec in you. 18I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. 19Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. 20On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. 21Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show myself to him.”

22Then Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, “But, Lord, why do you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?”

23Jesus replied, “If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. 24He who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.


25“All this I have spoken while still with you. 26But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. 27Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. (how does the world give) Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.

28“You heard me say, ‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I. 29I have told you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe. 30I will not speak with you much longer, for the prince of this world is coming. He has no hold on me, 31but the world must learn that I love the Father and that I do exactly what my Father has commanded me.

God is The God of union.

God is in Christ is in the Holy Spirit is in us.

There are four main unions in place. They are;

1) The God-God union, The Father, the Son and The Holy Spirit are one. One can not function without the other and are inseparable. The devil has tried to separate them in many different religions, claiming that 1 or the other doesn’t exist or is of lesser consequence than the other, therefore nullifying the power of God to the people that believe in that religion.

2) The God-man union, God created us to be His companions, His friends, sharing in His creation with Him for all eternity. The devil throughout history has made a point of trying to separate this union through sin and unbelief. The relationship between God and mankind, over time, has gone from “walking together in the cool of the day” to “will the true god please stand up and what has God ever done for me anyway”.

3) The man-man union or the church-church union. The early church were all in one accord and had all things in common. The gospel was preached, the poor were fed and the widows were cared for and the

Holy Spirits power was present. They had a structure of apostles, elders, deacons and laborers all of which had a roll to play in the day to day life of the church (the bride of Christ) as a whole. The devil has continued to try and separate the church by introducing contentious issues about the law, the opinions of men, the introduction of pagan rituals and idolatry

4) The man-woman union. The mirror image of the union of God and the church. God designed marriage to be a replica or to be similar to the design of the God-man relationship. A perfect permanent union that brings fourth fruit, “more companions” and should never be separated by man. The devil separates this union with adultery, fornication, promiscuity and counts marriage as an outdated religious non event that is to be frowned upon.

The Christian marriage is the union that we see as the most abused in these days and is the outward sign of the condition of mankind as a whole.

The desicration of the marriage is the direct result of the decline of the other 3 unions and a form of completion of satans desire to undermine Gods perfect plan for us. Ie; the God-man union.

Gods way is perfect union through Christ and obedience.

If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him John 14;23

The devils way is total separation from God. The end result is eternity in the lake of fire.


Which way will you choose.


Read Luke 6;20-49