01/26/17 MYSTICAL UNION WITH GOD IS A LOVE RELATIONSHIP

01/26/17 MYSTICAL UNION WITH GOD IS A LOVE RELATIONSHIP

DIVINE UNITY, GOD'S PLAN
God is One, and God wants to be one with His people and God wants His people to be one with one another and God wants husbands and wives to be one in Christ.

Spiritually Discerned
1 Corinthians 2:9-10
(9) But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
(10) But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

It is beyond our ability to explain or understand:

* The ONENESS of God (One God in Three Persons),
* The oneness of reconciliation (believers become one with God),
* The oneness of the Church (spiritual unity, which transcends time and space),
* The oneness of marriage (when a man and a woman become one flesh).
(Note that oneness or unity is not the same in each of these categories).

Divine Work And Revelation
However, oneness in each of these cases indicates that there is at least a spiritual, mystical, and relational unity or union that exists.

Definition of "mystical."
a : having a spiritual meaning or reality that is neither apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence
b : involving or having the nature of an individual's direct subjective communion with God or ultimate reality

Divine Origin
* God is One by nature. There is only One God, though He is Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
* God and believers are one by miracle of redemption and regeneration.
* Believers are one with each other because they share the nature of God and are accepted into His family because of His grace
* Husband and wife becomes one, in a way that corresponds to the way the believer and Christ becomes one, through Divine action and human submission.

Divine Love Factor
* The Unity and Oneness of the Father and Son and Holy Spirit is eternally based in the nature of God, and the nature of God is love and holiness.
* The unity and oneness between God and man through the reconciling work of Christ is not unilaterally imposed, but is the result of loving, trusting, obedient, redeemed people responding to the gracious, merciful and loving gift of God.
* The unity of believers with one another in the Church is based in a love relationship, which is then manifested through self sacrifice, kindness and good deeds.
* The unity and oneness of a husband and wife is a Divine work, but it only comes to full fruition when the husband and wife love one another with Divine, holy and self denying love, and are willing to lose their individual identity in sacrificial service to one another. There is probably no human relationship or institution that has the potential for greater good than a husband and wife that have become one flesh, and then grow in that relationship throughout their earthly lives together.