“Are you joking?” No!
For most of us maintaining unity in our own homes can be a full time occupation. The challenge to establish unity amongst believers may sometimes seem impossible.Before I attempt to address this issue of unity, let me try and dispel some myths: First of all it is a myth to believe that we must all agree. How boring anyway! There will always be differences because all of us have a limited knowledge and understanding. Secondly many people confuse unity with “uniformity” or “ecumenical” oneness and that can lead to unscriptural compromise. In fact, we see in the prophecies that that will be one of the end time strategies of the enemy and that YHVH has called us to “come out of Babylon”.
There is a destructive kind of division that causes truth to fall in the streets.
Mar 3:25 “… if a house is divided against itself, that house is unable to stand.
In an apparent contradiction Yahshua said: Mat 10:34 “Do not think that I have come to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword,1 Footnote: 1 In Lk. 12:51 the word “division” is used, while “sword” has the same meaning here.
Mat 10:35 for I have come to bring division, a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law –
Mat 10:36 and a man’s enemies are those of his own household.1 Footnote: 1Lk. 12:53, Mic. 7:6.
We need to understand the context in which Yahshua was speaking. Yahshua was warning his talmadim (disciples) that they would often find themselves in an environment that