We had been saying, “We’re in the Kingdom! We’re in the Kingdom!” And we really were, to some extent; but the Kingdom is characterized by relationships. All the relationships, as they had existed, began to sharply deteriorate. The relationships which God wanted to endure in the Kingdom, He devastated so completely that they came to a crisis. They did come to an end in one sense: they could not flourish, and they could not endure or be what they were before. Those relationships had to change because God wanted a better relationship. And out of that began to come a wonderful oneness with Christ.
The emphasis from that time on has been that Christ is the Lord, the One we relate to. Every Word was pointing toward that. The recent messages are about our relating to Him absolutely as Lord. As we face the present time, we realize that we are going through a battle, a tremendous battle!
The battle is to see our oneness with Christ, the only oneness that will endure. And out of that oneness with Christ, every other oneness will have to come forth.
“One Answer for a Thousand Problems, our oneness with Christ” will be the foundation for everything we have looked for and everything we will see in relationships. It speaks about trying to solve the problems of circumstances and relationships, and it says that these are not the problems; our oneness with Christ and our worship of Him are the issue. That has been the emphasis on this new level of worship! Out of that, there will be no bond except a bond that is related to that oneness with our Lord.
It is only as a woman worships the Lord that she can correctly relate to her husband. It is only as a husband really worships the Lord that he can correctly relate to his wife (Ephesians 5:18–33; Colossians 3:16–19). It goes beyond a priority of loving the Lord; there is no oneness except with Him. In the Kingdom, there cannot be those who are walking in division and deception. There will be only those who are walking in oneness with Christ as worshipers. The priesthood will not be a few here and there; they are the Kingdom. There is no Kingdom except in the worshipers who come forth in the name of the Lord.
“But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers. God is spirit; and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.” John 4:23–24.
The message “One Answer For A Thousand Problems” refers to Ephesians chapter 5, Colossians chapters 2 and 3, and various other chapters in the Word which show that the worship of the Lord is the basis of relationships.
Each time a passage switches from the subject of worshiping the Lord to the way of relating to one another, you see that you cannot keep the relationship rules. You cannot even get that relationship by rules. Only a worshiper can attain that relationship which is described in both Colossians 3:16–4:1 and Ephesians 5:18–6:9.
There must be a very definite shift in our focus until the oneness with the Lord is our basic foundation we build on, and we let everything else work out from there. If we focus on anything else it becomes a religious, legalistic trip.
It is the Lord who perfects a relationship. It is the Lord who brings about that oneness with us. As we walk with Him in the light, then we have the fellowship and the cleansing and the purity.
But if we walk in the light as He Himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin. I John 1:7.
Everything that we are looking for comes back to this oneness with the Lord. Once again, it is the Lordship of Jesus Christ; there is no Kingdom without the King, and the Lord only, having dominion over us.
Lord, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works in us. O Lord our God, other lords beside thee have had dominion over us: but by thee only will we make mention of thy name. Isaiah 26:12–13, KJV.
The people who have related to me (or any other minister) as an oracle of the Word from the Lord have had no problem in their relationship to me. But the people who were bonded to me wrongly by some relationship that they felt they had, apart from a oneness in Christ, have gone through severe shakings. Some of them are now bold and open to criticize, because the Lord shakes down a relationship that is based too much on the flesh. But a relationship cannot be destroyed if it is a relationship that is a bond to the Lord.
Some came into this walk and walked purely, all the way along: not because I was something special to them, but because there was a Living Word and a walk with God. They still remain strongly bonded to me because it is not a wrong bond; it is a bond based upon their bond and oneness with the Lord. We must get away from the word “bond,” because I do not think that any such thing in the Kingdom as a bond will endure.
There is only the oneness with the Lord, and every human bond is being shaken until it is a part of the oneness with Christ.
“But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added to you.” Matthew 6:33.
… being diligent to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all. Ephesians 4:3–6.
Christ prayed in John 17 for our oneness with Him and the Father. Satan battles all oneness.
All of Satan’s tactics are to create division and separation. God sent His Son to redeem and restore into One.
A true worshiper seeks oneness with the Father. Therefore he can attain oneness in other relationships.