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Date: January 6, 2019
Speaker: Rev. Todd Matocha
Series: Miscellaneous
Category: Sunday AM
Scripture: Psalm 133
The Beauty and Blessing of Unity
Sunday, January 6, 2019
10:49 AM
Rev. Todd Matocha
Psalm 133
Behold, how good and pleasant it is
when brothers dwell in unity![a]"
From <https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+133&version=ESV>
God delights in the unity of His people - His purpose was for man to fill the earth in unity in Him. - Gen 11 - Man sought the wrong kind of unity that exalted man, so God judged by the confounding of language.
running down on the beard,
on the beard of Aaron,
running down on the collar of his robes!"
From <https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+133&version=ESV> - it is an outpouring of the Holy Spirit - ie. Day of Pentecost is a reversal of Babel curse - unity is now possible
which falls on the mountains of Zion!
For there the Lord has commanded the blessing,
life forevermore." - From <https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+133&version=ESV> - the blessings of God (dew) come to the high (mt. Hermon) as well as the lowly - they bring unity.
13 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. 14 And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. 15 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.
From <https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=colossians+3&version=ESV>
The role of deacon should be to cultivate unity