ONE FAMILY PLAN
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We are ONE person
"For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: SO WE, BEING MANY, ARE ONE BODY IN CHRIST, AND EVERY ONE MEMBERS ONE OF ANOTHER."
-Romans 12:4-5 (KJV)
IN Adam, IN Christ
"For as IN ADAM all die, so IN CHRIST all will be made alive."-1 Corinthians 15:22 (NIV)
Firstborn, from the Physical to the Spiritual
We are all from/of God. Collectively, we were placed in the Garden IN Adam ...from Adam comes Woman comes Mankind comes the Christ.
"And so it is written, 'THE FIRST MAN ADAM became a living being. THE LAST ADAM became a life-giving spirit. However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, and afterward the spiritual. The first man was of the earth, made of dust; the second Man is the Lord from heaven.'"(1 Cor 15:45-47)
ONE SPIRIT, ALL IN ALL
"Now, whenever ALL may be subjected to Him, then the Son Himself also SHALL BE SUBJECTED TO HIM Who subjects all to Him, that GOD may be ALL IN ALL." (1 Corinthians 15:28, CLT)
"Or know ye not that he that is joined to a harlot is one body? for, The twain, saith he, shall become one flesh. BUT HE THAT IS JOINED UNTO THE LORD IS ONE SPIRIT." (1 Cor 6:16-17)
"For BY ONE SPIRIT ARE WE ALL BAPTIZED INTO ONE BODY, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been ALL MADE TO DRINK INTO ONE SPIRIT." (1 Cor 12:13)
"There is ONE BODY, and ONE SPIRIT, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; ONE LORD, ONE FAITH, ONE BAPTISM, ONE GOD AND FATHER OF ALL, who is above all, and through all, and in you all."(Ephesians 4:4-6)
"...Therefore if there is any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and mercy, fulfill my joy by being LIKE-MINDED, having THE SAME LOVE, being OF ONE ACCORD, of ONE MIND." (Philippians 2:1-2)
"Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye STAND FAST IN ONE SPIRIT, with ONE MIND striving together for the faith of the gospel..." (Philippians 1:27)
"For through him we both have ACCESS BY ONE SPIRIT UNTO THE FATHER. Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God..." (Ephesians 2:18-19)
"who, being in the form of God, DID NOT CONSIDER IT ROBBERY TO BE EQUAL WITH GOD..." (Philippians 2:6, NKJV)
"...when he appears, WE SHALL BE LIKE HIM..." (1 John 3:2, NIV)
"And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: IN THAT DAY shall there be ONE LORD, and HIS NAME ONE."
(Zech 14:9)
"And the glory of the LORD will be revealed, and ALL MANKIND TOGETHER WILL SEE IT. For the mouth of the LORD has spoken." (Isaiah 40:5, NIV)
"Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is ONE!"(Deuteronomy 6:4)
"THAT ALL OF THEM MAY BE ONE, FATHER, JUST AS YOU ARE IN ME AND I AM IN YOU. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I HAVE GIVEN THEM THE GLORY THAT YOU GAVE ME, THAT THEY MAY BE ONE AS WE ARE ONE: I IN THEM AND YOU IN ME. MAY THEY BE BROUGHT TO COMPLETE UNITY to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me."(John 17:21-23, NIV)
ONE Family ONE Love
"LOVE SUFFERS LONG AND IS KIND; LOVE DOES NOT ENVY; LOVE DOES NOT PARADE ITSELF, IS NOT PUFFED UP; DOES NOT BEHAVE RUDELY, DOES NOT SEEK ITS OWN, IS NOT PROVOKED, THINKS NO EVIL; DOES NOT REJOICE IN INIQUITY, BUT REJOICES IN THE TRUTH; BEARS ALL THINGS, BELIEVES ALL THINGS, HOPES ALL THINGS, ENDURES ALL THINGS." (1 Cor 13:4-7)
"...WHOEVER DOES THE WILL OF MY FATHER IN HEAVEN IS MY BROTHER AND SISTER AND MOTHER." (Matthew 12:49-50)
"He replied, 'MY MOTHER AND BROTHERS ARE THOSE WHO HEAR GOD'S WORD AND PUT IT INTO PRACTICE.'" (Luke 8:21, NIV)
"For [if we are] in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but ONLY FAITH ACTIVATED AND ENERGIZED AND EXPRESSED AND WORKING THROUGH LOVE." (Galatians 5:6)
"So in Christ Jesus YOU ARE ALL CHILDREN OF GOD through faith, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, NOR IS THERE MALE AND FEMALE, FOR YOU ARE ALL ONE IN CHRIST JESUS." (Galatians 3:26-28)
"And will be a Father unto you, and YE SHALL BE MY SONS AND DAUGHTERS, saith the Lord Almighty." (2 Corinthians 6:18, KJV)
"Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave THE RIGHT TO BECOME CHILDREN OF GOD." (John 1:12, NIV)
"For I WAS HUNGRY AND YOU GAVE me something to eat, I WAS THIRSTY AND YOU GAVE me something to drink, I WAS A STRANGER AND YOU INVITED me in, I NEEDED CLOTHES AND YOU CLOTHED me, I WAS SICK AND YOU LOOKED AFTER me, I WAS IN PRISON AND YOU CAME to visit ME." (Matthew 25:35-36, NIV)
"For AS MANY AS ARE LED BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD, THEY ARE THE SONS OF GOD. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the SPIRIT OF ADOPTION, WHEREBY WE CRY, ABBA, FATHER. The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that WE ARE THE CHILDREN OF GOD: And if CHILDREN, THEN HEIRS; HEIRS OF GOD, AND JOINT-HEIRS WITH CHRIST; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together." (Romans 8:14-17)
"...God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under law, TO REDEEM those under law, THAT WE MIGHT RECEIVE THE FULL RIGHTS OF SONS. Because you are sons, GOD SENT THE SPIRIT OF HIS SON INTO OUR HEARTS, THE SPIRIT WHO CALLS OUT, 'ABBA, FATHER.'" (Galatians 4:4-6, NIV)
"Endure hardship as discipline; GOD IS TREATING YOU AS SONS." (Hebrews 12:7, NIV)
"Everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself, just as he is pure." (1 John 3:3, NIV)
"How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, THAT WE SHOULD BE CALLED CHILDREN OF GOD! AND THAT IS WHAT WE ARE!..." (1 John 3:1, NIV)
IN THE SPIRIT OF ONE
"It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: THE WORDS THAT I SPEAK UNTO YOU, THEY ARE SPIRIT, and they are life." (John 6:63)
"He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant... NOT OF THE LETTER BUT OF THE SPIRIT; for the letter kills, but THE SPIRIT GIVES LIFE." (2 Cor 3:6)
"This I say then, WALK IN THE SPIRIT, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh." (Galatians 5:16)
"For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would."(Galatians 5:17)
"But if ye BE LED OF THE SPIRIT, ye are not under the law." (Galatians 5:18)
"But THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. And THEY THAT ARE CHRIST'S HAVE CRUCIFIED THE FLESH with the affections and lusts." (Galatians 5:22-24)
"Endeavouring to keep the UNITY OF THE SPIRIT in the bond of peace." (Ephesians 4:3)
"For we are the circumcision, who WORSHIP GOD IN THE SPIRIT, rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh..." (Philippians 3:3)
"And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but BE FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT; SPEAKING TO YOURSELVES in psalms and hymns and SPIRITUAL SONGS, singing and MAKING MELODY IN YOUR HEART TO THE LORD; Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God." (Ephesians 5:18-21)
The Physical
"And it came to pass in those days, that HE WENT OUT INTO A MOUNTAIN TO PRAY, and continued all night in prayer to God." (Luke 6:12)
The Spiritual
"Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, WHEN YE SHALL NEITHER IN THIS MOUNTAIN, NOR YET AT JERUSALEM, WORSHIP THE FATHER. Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews. But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. GOD IS A SPIRIT: AND THEY THAT WORSHIP HIM MUST WORSHIP HIM IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH." (John 4:21-24)
"And he carried me away IN THE SPIRIT to A GREAT AND HIGH MOUNTAIN, and shewed me THAT GREAT CITY, THE HOLY JERUSALEM, descending out of heaven from God..." (Rev 21:10)
"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. But GOD HATH REVEALED THEM UNTO US BY HIS SPIRIT: FOR THE SPIRIT SEARCHETH ALL THINGS, YEA, THE DEEP THINGS OF GOD. For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; THAT WE MIGHT KNOW THE THINGS THAT ARE FREELY GIVEN TO US OF GOD." (1 Cor 2:9-12)
"Let all mankind be thy sect."(Sikhism, Adi Granth, Japuji 28, M.1, p.6)
"Happy is the unity of the Sangha. Happy is the discipline of the united ones." (Buddhism, Dhammapada 194)
"...May we unite in our minds, unite in our purposes, and not fight against the divine spirit within us..." (Hinduism, Atharva Veda 7.52.1-2)
"Meet together, speak together, let your minds be of one accord, as the Gods of old, being of one mind, accepted their share of the sacrifice. May your counsel be common, your assembly common, common the mind, and the thoughts of these united. A common purpose do I lay before you, and worship with your common oblation. Let your aims be common, and your hearts of one accord, and all of you be of one mind, so you may live well together." (Hinduism, Rig Veda 10.191.2-4)
"The pebbles are the strength of the wall."[African Traditional Religions, Buji Proverb (Nigeria)]
"Consider the family of humankind one." (Jainism, Jinasena, Adipurana)
