All Together Now

Throughout the world the universal meaning of “one” is unity. In the Bible, “one” symbolizes unity and primacy (the state of being first), and the oneness of the Godhead, also referred to as the trinity (Father, Son and Holy Spirit). 

God has revealed true wisdom to us by His Spirit. No one can know the things of God, but the Holy Spirit, who is one with the Father and the Son, and who makes known Divine mysteries to His people:

“These are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man’s spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.” 1 Corinthians 2:10-11.

The apostles were not guided by worldly principles. They had understanding of these things only from the Spirit of God. These things they declared in plain, simple words taught by the Holy Spirit, completely different from the language of man's wisdom:

“What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words.” 1 Corinthians 2:12-13.

Unconverted men are called carnal. They are represented as of a carnal mind, which is enmity against God: “The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace, the sinful mind is hostile to God. It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. Those controlled by the sinful nature cannot please God." Romans 8:6-8.

Carnal behavior is giving into the lusts, the wants and desires of man's sinful nature. The canal man does not receive the secrets and mysteries of the Spirit of God. Prideful, worldly reasoning is a stranger to the Spirit of God and opposed to God’s ways:

“The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments.” 1 Corinthians 2:14-15.

Only the Spirit filled man, does God give the knowledge of his will. The awesome privilege of unity in Christ, is that we have the mind of Christ revealed to us by His Spirit. We can therefore experience His life changing power in our hearts, producing the fruit of the Spirit in one accord: “For who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.” 1 Corinthians 2:16.