The Power of Oneness - Victoria Osteen

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It was in the evening and 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:45.960 a lot of times we'll go ride bikes and get 0:01:45.959 --> 0:01:49.200 a little exercise. So we thought, well, let's just get 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:51.280 on our bikes and let's go out and see how 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:54.160 far we can go. We usually have a certain path 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:57.080 that we take, so we headed out in that direction 0:01:57.960 --> 0:02:00.800 and we get to this one intersection and it's a 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:05.640 large four way intersection with lights governing the cars. But 0:02:05.720 --> 0:02:09.920 when we got to this main intersection, we saw that 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:14.959 there was about six policemen out there overriding the lights. 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:20.720 They were actually moving the cars through the intersection, letting 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:23.960 the people go safely through the intersection. And as we 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:26.800 were waiting our turn, I was looking from a distance 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:30.480 and I was noticing those officers, and I thought to myself, 0:02:30.960 --> 0:02:35.360 isn't it interesting that they can be far apart they're 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:40.440 moving the cars through, but they're working in such unity together, 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:45.120 and they've got this communication as they're working together, and 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:48.520 I could see that their major goal was this to 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:52.760 move the people through safely so the traffic will flow 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:58.440 and to keep everyone at peace. Now, you know, through 0:02:58.480 --> 0:03:01.840 this flooding, we've had detours all over the city and 0:03:01.880 --> 0:03:06.760 the traffic is horrible. So these guys were literally moving 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:14.399 this traffic through, keeping peace. Road rage no no road 0:03:14.480 --> 0:03:17.760 rage at that intersection. Nobody was telling anyone how they 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:21.799 felt with hand signs because those officers were doing such 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:27.040 a good job. So I stood there amazed, and I 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:33.919 realized the strength in that whole process was unity, communication, 0:03:35.000 --> 0:03:39.880 working together. That's why the traffic was flowing and the 0:03:39.960 --> 0:03:44.800 people were safe and it was a peaceful situation. You see, 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:48.400 we the Church of the Living God, should have the 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:53.560 same goal to work in unity with one another to 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:59.000 be under the same bond of peace. You see, our 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:03.520 main goals you be to move people safely into the 0:04:03.680 --> 0:04:08.600 arms of Jesus. You see, the traffic was a difficult situation, 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:14.440 but because they had the ability to unite together, that 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:19.480 difficult situation was made easier. Can you imagine if one 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:21.840 of those officers said, you know, I want this car 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:24.040 to go through. I no, I don't want to wait 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:27.080 my turn. I like this green car. I want it 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:29.800 to go through. What would happen if the other one 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:32.039 was going, well, no, I want mine to go through. 0:04:32.920 --> 0:04:35.279 But you know what they did it They put themselves 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:41.920 aside and they stood in unity. You see, that's what 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:45.520 we have to do as a church. If we're gonna 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:48.279 rise up to the levels that God is calling us to, 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:52.920 we're gonna have to put our selfishness, our pride, our 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:56.599 own agendas aside and say we're gonna come together in 0:04:56.800 --> 0:05:03.239 unity under the blood of Jesus Christ through the bond 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:09.440 of peace. When God was taking the children of Israel 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:14.279 out of Egypt, the night that he was getting them 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:19.920 prepared to passover, he instructed them to take a sacrificial lamb, 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:24.159 and he instructed them to sacrifice that lamb, and to 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:27.880 take that blood and to put it over their doorposts. 0:05:28.520 --> 0:05:32.200 Each family took the blood of the lamb and put 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:37.160 it over their doorpost. He instructed them to prepare themselves 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:41.400 because in the morning they were leaving Egypt. It was 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:45.680 going to be a mass exodus out of the Fhoh's 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:49.520 hand and his army. This was it. This was it. 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:52.480 The power of the enemy was going to be broken. 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:56.599 But can I tell you one thing. You know what 0:05:56.000 --> 0:06:00.200 they were, what their common bond was. You know why 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:03.640 they were able to escape the power of the enemy. 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:09.000 The thing that brought them together, the sameness, the oneness. 0:06:09.960 --> 0:06:13.479 It was the blood. It was the blood over the 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:18.440 door posts that distinguished them as the army of God, 0:06:18.560 --> 0:06:22.400 as God's great people, and allowed them to move out 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:26.640 of Egypt. It was the blood that parted the Red Sea. 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:32.159 It was the power of oneness in their life. You've 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:37.400 seen Charlton Hested split the Red Seas, You've seen the movies. 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:42.359 Think about it. It was millions of people bound together, 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:49.279 millions of people with different opinions, different likes and dislikes, 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:57.040 different habits, but they were bound with that one likeness, 0:06:57.440 --> 0:07:01.680 that oneness, and it was the obedie to the blood. 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:07.440 We the church have the blood of Jesus Christ. And 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:12.560 if we will stand together in that oneness of Christ, 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:17.960 God will continue to part red seas for us. He 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:23.360 will continue to build cities, restore families, bring in the lost. 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:27.560 He will continue to do what he does best, redeem 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:31.600 the life of mankind. You see, the Bible says in 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:35.440 some on one thirty three, it says, where there is unity, 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:41.480 there is a commanded blessing. God is already commanded the 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:46.120 blessing under the blood. We need the commanded blessing. If 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:49.560 we're gonna make it through these difficult times. We need 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:53.640 to stand under that commanded blessing. We need to not 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:57.600 fight with each other about faith. We need to fight 0:07:57.680 --> 0:08:03.000 together for our faith and for the blood. For the blood. 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:10.360 You see, God is a faithful God. We must stand 0:08:10.400 --> 0:08:15.840 together in the spirit. Let your differences go. That's not 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:20.000 what's gonna save us. That's not what's gonna bring people 0:08:20.040 --> 0:08:24.040 to the arms and saving power of Jesus Christ. It's 0:08:24.120 --> 0:08:27.320 the love of God. It's the blood that he gave 0:08:27.600 --> 0:08:33.959 his son that makes us one together. We gotta fight 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:40.000 together for the faith. You know, the scripture says that 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:42.760 if it's as far as it is up to us, 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:45.600 each one of us, as far as it is up 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:50.679 to us, we are to keep the peace. We are 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:54.200 to be reunited in the spirit by the bond of peace. 0:08:54.800 --> 0:08:57.080 And God said it's up to us to keep the peace. 0:08:57.760 --> 0:09:01.240 See that tells me that I have a big part 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:04.360 to play in all this, that if it's up to me, 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:07.760 I don't have to get in conflict. Because if I'm 0:09:07.760 --> 0:09:10.240 in the middle of conflict, I have a choice. I 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:12.679 can either be in the conflict and be the conflict, 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:16.000 or I can be the peace in the conflict. And 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:20.040 God is saying, where there is peace, there's power because 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:24.080 unity and peace go hand in hand. They can't be separated. 0:09:24.840 --> 0:09:27.920 When you're united under the blood, you can have peace 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:31.880 because God has the final say you don't stand in 0:09:31.920 --> 0:09:38.160 your own righteousness, you stand in God's righteousness under the blood. Listen, 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:44.840 He's right every time. He's right every single time. And 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:47.520 you know. The scripture tells us in Philippians how to 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:50.120 put on the full armor of God, and it talks 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:53.080 about the different things that God has given us to 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:57.160 use to stand against the schemes of the enemy. The 0:09:57.200 --> 0:09:59.600 one that would try to separate us, cause us to 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:05.679 back to devour ourselves. See God new don't devour yourselves. 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:10.080 Don't talk about each other, don't argue with one another. 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:16.200 You'll implode. You will do it to yourselves. Stand in 0:10:16.240 --> 0:10:21.360 oneness under the spirit. And it talks about one particular garment, 0:10:22.000 --> 0:10:26.800 and it's the shoes of peace. Stand in the shoes 0:10:26.880 --> 0:10:31.440 of peace. Too many people want to stand in the 0:10:31.559 --> 0:10:35.520 shoes of rightness. They want to be right. I'm standing 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:39.839 for what is right. Can I tell you don't need 0:10:39.840 --> 0:10:43.320 to stand for what's right. If you stand in God's righteousness, 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:49.320 God will make you right. He'll make you right. See, 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:53.800 it's not about who's right anyway, it's about what's right. 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:58.600 It's about the blood. Listen. God is the one who's 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:03.200 gonna bring this whole thing. Hey, it's not if you 0:11:03.320 --> 0:11:08.960 do this or you say that. It's oneness in Jesus Christ. 0:11:10.160 --> 0:11:14.160 So can I encourage us as a church body to 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:19.800 not get entwined in civilian affairs. We are the army, 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:23.920 the warriors of Jesus Christ. We got a greater commission, 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:33.240 We've got a higher calleen. God is a faithful God, 0:11:34.120 --> 0:11:36.920 and can I tell you he wants to use you, 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:40.800 and he wants to use me to usher in the 0:11:40.880 --> 0:11:46.120 greatest revival, the biggest healing, the best act of his 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:51.120 goodness so far, and he wants to use us. Don't 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:55.160 fall prey to the enemy. Don't fall to the trap 0:11:55.280 --> 0:12:04.000 of the enemy. Don't allow him to steal commanded blessing. Listen, 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:08.440 our homes should be united. We should be united with 0:12:08.480 --> 0:12:12.560 our spouses, with our children. Listen. At the end of 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:16.600 the day, we have one God, one father. There is 0:12:16.720 --> 0:12:22.720 one heaven. It is not divided. There is only one. 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:25.640 And I want to tell you I don't know. I've 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:27.760 been married thirty years and I can tell you to 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:31.000 Joel and I agree on everything, absolutely not. But I'll 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:33.079 tell you, at the end of the day, we're standing 0:12:33.120 --> 0:12:37.439 in the shoes of peace under the lordship of Jesus Christ. 0:12:37.679 --> 0:12:40.480 We're gonna let him fight our battles for us. We're 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:44.480 gonna let him make our wrongs right, and we're gonna 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:47.960 stay in unity of the spirit with the bond of peace. 0:12:48.280 --> 0:12:51.079 And we're dedicated to that more than ever because as 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:55.679 leaders of this church, we have a responsibility. This isn't 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:58.240 the time to nitpick at each other, to say you 0:12:58.280 --> 0:13:00.320 should have done it that way. I told you so. 0:13:00.840 --> 0:13:03.400 It is the time to keep our mouths shut, to 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:09.760 stay in peace and unify ourselves, for our children, for 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:15.920 our churches, for our community. It's so much bigger than us. Listen, 0:13:16.360 --> 0:13:19.560 let your kids off the hook. Be a parent, be loving, 0:13:19.640 --> 0:13:24.800 be kind, instruct them, but don't break their back. Break 0:13:24.840 --> 0:13:29.160 the power and darkness over their life. You don't need 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:33.400 to break them. As long as you're standing under the blood, 0:13:33.440 --> 0:13:36.560 you can break that power of darkness, and you can 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:42.040 show love, an irresistible love of the Father. I just 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:43.960 want to pray for us right now, because this is 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:47.600 the time. We gotta get serious. We got to wake up, 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:50.880 we gotta take charge. You know, the beauty of God 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:54.200 and the beauty of Christ Jesus and his sacrifice was 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:57.000 that we can always come back and reapply the blood 0:13:57.600 --> 0:14:00.800 when we make a mistake, when we say the wrong thing, 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:03.640 we don't have to stay there, We don't have to 0:14:03.720 --> 0:14:06.440 spiral downhill. We can come back and we can apply 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:10.000 the blood. And guess what, that blood still speaks. It 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:14.800 still forgives, it still redeems, it still cleanses, it still 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:22.840 makes us righteous. I just want to pray right now 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:26.280 for unity and our community, our families, our churches, and 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:28.720 in our land. Father, I thank you that we are 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:31.840 joining our faith together. Father, I thank you that you're 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:35.200 a faithful God. And we put ourself under the blood 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:38.080 of Jesus Christ, because we know when we are under 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:41.200 the blood, that's where the power is. There is oneness 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:43.680 in the blood. Father. We thank you that you will 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:46.840 break the power of the enemy for us. Father, as 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:51.360 we keep ourself one with you and one with one another. Father, 0:14:51.480 --> 0:14:54.280 you will do the work for us. Lord. Let us 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:58.160 be just beacons of hope wherever we can. Let us 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:01.920 bring peace, Father, to every sin situation. Father, let us 0:15:01.920 --> 0:15:04.880 extend your goodness and your mercy and your love to 0:15:04.960 --> 0:15:09.160 all those who are lost and hurting and crying and desperate. 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