Unity As You And I Are One. Frequently, we talk about unity among the saints from the perspective that they might be one with each other. Now, I would like to take a turn, and talk about, as you and I are one. This is my heart. How is Jesus and God one? Jesus and God are one in essence. We are invited, into that essence, oneness, or unity relationship, between God and Jesus. This necessitates, the need to talk about, the difference between, an essence, a person, and a substance. The essence is, what "makes something what it is". This implies that the something is something unique. For example, a dog, a radio, a planet, a number, and etc.. Yet, unlike essence, substance is not necessarily about kinds of things. Since what is durable, separable, and identifiable may be an individual. Where as such, what it is is irrelevant. Thus, Aristotle distinguished "primary substances," for example individuals, from "secondary substances," for example a kind. A kind of thing is then to be associated with an essence. An essence can always specify more than one individual. Here we see that, an essence, is a kind of thing, such as a man or a God, are kinds of things. In Genesis 1 24 God said, let the earth bring forth after its kind. On the other hand, a substance is not necessarily about kinds of things. Rather a substance has more to do with an individual, or a subcategory of the kind of thing. Such as a poodle is a subcategory of a dog, or a person is a subcategory of a man. Just as all dogs are of the same essence, all men are of the same essence. All subcategories of poodles are not the same. Some are Standard Poodles, Miniature Poodles, and even Toy Poodles. Likewise, all sub-categories of persons are not the same. Some are refered to as individuals. Which happens to be a singular noun of a person. While others are referred to, in law, as the 1st person and the 2nd person. Which happens to be a plural noun of a person. Now a subcategory of a person, the 1st person, is an individual, or a substance. Now here is the heart of the issue. One God in three persons. A man is an essence. A man begets a man. A God is an essence. Gods beget Gods. Gods are a kind of a thing. Nature reveals this to us in Romans 1 20. It says. "For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the thinngs that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse”. If Jesus is God's son, and he is. Therefore, nature reveals that the essence of the father is always in the son. Because the essence of God is that he is infinite, then it is unthinkable that God could have a son that has a different essence than his own. It is unthinkable that an infinite God could have a son with a finite essence. That is like saying that a man could have a son who has a litteral essence of a dog. That is the heart of calling Jesus God's son. If a person cannot look at nature and see that this is true, then you are without excuse. If you believe that an infinite God, could have a finite son, then you are without excuse. 1st Timothy, chapter 3, verse 15 says: that the Godhead is a mystery by design. It reads: -Without controversy, great is the mystery of godliness. God was manifested in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, and then received up into glory. Who was? God was! Hear Oh Isreal the Lord our God is one God. There was no God created before him, along side him, nor after him. Yet, we say that there are many gods in heaven and in earth. God said that on the day that you eat you will surely die. Yet, Satan said you will not die. The explicit takes precedence over the implicit. We are invited into that oneness, or unity relationship, between God and Jesus. The bible has an abundant number of scriptures that speak of Jehovah as God. All others who are not a part of, nor associated with the one true God, are not gods at all. They are false gods. The scripture makes it clear in Isaiah, 44 24, that God created the universe by himself, with no help from anyone else. Isaiah, 44 24 says, "Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself". The scripture goes on, in Genesis 1 26 to say, let us make man. How can these things be? How can God say that He created the universe by himself, and then turn around and say, let us, make man? The scripture goes on to explain that if you are not that true God or affiliated with him in some way, then you are a false god, which is by definition not a god at all. On the other hand righteous men are in association with the one and true God. Thus making them gods acording to Jesus and God. For Jesus said in John 10 34, "Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Yee are gods?" Furthermore, God himself declaired that those who were in association with him were in fact gods. Psalms 82 6 says, "I have said, Yee are gods; and all of you are children of the most High". But yee shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes. Question. How do gods die like men? The form of authority that gods have is conditional authority. Angels' authority is upon condition that they obey God's will. Satan was an angel. With all the authority and godliness of angels. His job was to minister to Adam. While ministering to Adam, Satan realized that Adam had a form of authority that he himself as an angel did not have. That was unconditional authority. Unconditional authority was authority that was not contingent upon doing God's will. That was the type of authority that men associated with the tower of babel had. Men could come against God and still maintain some symblance to their authority. That is when iniquity was found in Satan. Satan devised a plan to get Adam to give him his authority, so that he could come against God, and not loose all of his authority. The bible went on to say in Psalms 8 5, that men were created a little lower then Elohîm. Then in 1 Corinthians 6 3 it says that men would judge the angels. We are invited into that oneness or Unity relationship between God and Jesus. For the bible goes on to say in Romans 3 22, that the righteousness of God comes by the faith of Jesus Christ. Not by our faith, but by his faith. For our faith was as dirty rags. So Jesus gave, or made available to, every man the measure of his faith. Everything that Jesus did he did using his faith. Therefore, if we have his faith then surely we can do the things that he did. We had, the imputation of sin. We have, the imputation of righteousness. Now, here in Romans 3 22, we have the imputation of faith, his faith. The idea was always there in the scripture, but we were not always aware of it. We resisted it. Even now we still resist the fact that we have unlimited access to Jesus's faith. When we truly are awakened by this realization, and stop saying that Jesus had the full anointing of the holy spirit, because Jesus was God. Yet, we are not God, therefore we only have a partial access to his faith. We can only do some of the things that Jesus did. No! Jesus had the full anointing of the Holy Spirit, as a man. Jesus was fully God and fully man. As he is so are we in this world. Our understanding that we have unlimited access to the faith of Jesus Christ will be the next great awakening. It is our ability to do the things that Jesus did that makes us gods now, not necessarily in the world to come as the Mormon, the new age, and others preach. An awakening such that men, when speaking of us would say as they said of Jesus, "what manner of man is this, even the winds respond to his will, because our will would be aligned with God’s will. An awakening such that the devil himself will say Jesus I know, and Paul, I know, and now, each of you he knows. An awakening such that we can with confidence say we are gods, for as he is so are we in this world. An awakening so that we can with confidence say that the things that Jesus did we can do also. An awakening so that we can with confidence say what Jesus said, "Is it not written in your law, I said, Yee are gods?" An awakening so that we can say with confidence that we understand the meaning of the scripture which sayeth, God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods and God himself have said, Yee are gods; But yee shall die like men. An awakening such that we might understand the difference between the unconditional authority which Adam had and Satan stole from him; and the conditional authority which angels and gods have, which is contingent upon us being obedient to God's word. Thus God said although yee are Gods, you will die like men. An awakening such that we can without shame talk about those things that are not as though they were. Devar! And expect that they will come to pass before we get to heaven at an age of 120 years. An awakening such that we can begin to comprehend that because with God there is no difference between a day and a thousand years. An awakening such that we are not the victims of impatience. An awakening that would cause us to realize that the thing that could take a thousand years to come to pass may very well happen overnight. Thus we can look forward to eternity invading time, where we don't have to wait a thousand years to enter into that Shekinah Glory, so that your will is done on earth as it is in heaven. We are invited into that oneness or Unity relationship between God and Jesus, now. So let it be. In Jesus name I declare these and all things. Amen. Thank you for listening.