Title How is Unification? / Ephesians 1:10
How is content unification? / Ephesians 1:10
“The two shall become one in your hand” (Ezekiel 37:17). “He is our peace, who made the two one, and broke down the middle wall” (Ephesians 2:14). “You are all one in Christ Jesus” (Galatians 3:28). “that all things in heaven and on earth might be united in Christ” (Ephesians 1:10). Christianity is a religion oriented towards unification, and the crucifixion of Jesus Christ is an event for the achievement of unification. The devil has brought division into the world, Jesus brought unity to the world through the cross, and he will complete the unity of the world and the universe in the future. But the world is still full of divisions, conflicts, hatreds, and condemnations. That is why wars, large and small, are continuing all over the globe, and the confrontation between North and South and East and West continues. Is there any way to achieve unity in this world? How on earth is unification achieved?
Fourth, I believe that unification is achieved through the work of the Holy Spirit, not through human thoughts. “I will cause breath to enter you, and you will live” (Ezekiel 37:5). “When breath entered them, they came to life and stood up, an exceedingly great army” (Ezekiel 37:10). “We are all filled with the Holy Spirit… fellowship and the breaking of bread” (Acts 2:4,42). “We were all made into one body by one Spirit, whether Jews or Greeks, slaves or free, and we were all made to drink of one Spirit” (1 Corinthians 12:13). The survival, unity, and reunification that appeared in Ezekiel 37 and Acts 2 in Pyongyang in 1907 were all accomplished by the work of the Holy Spirit. The work of the Holy Spirit in the New Old Testament and church history brought about three important fruits: repentance (awakening), evangelism (mission), and unity (unification). I think that what we need now is that our compatriots in the north and the south, even those in the south, have the thoughts and hearts of God that are moved by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, not those of people driven by regionalism or nationalism. It may be dismissed as too unrealistic and impossible, but this is the paradoxical and dynamic teaching of reconciliation and unity that the history of Christianity shows.