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Christ dwelt in the Father and the Father dwelt in Christ. In Christ dwelt all the fullness of the godhead bodily.
The great truth that is wide open to our understanding is this: We shall be made one with God the Father and
Jesus Christ the Son in exactly the same way as They are one. Christ knew perfectly the one and only place of
true unity. It was this knowledge that prompted His prayer and caused Him to ask, "That they all may be one,
as Thou, Father, art in Me and I in Thee, that they also may be one in Us; that the world may believe that Thou
hast sent Me. And the glory which Thou hast given Me I have given them that they may be one, even as We
are one: I in them, and Thou in Me that they may be made perfect in one." John 17:21-23. This is unity indeed.
It is the kind of unity God demands. It is unity of mind and unity of glory.
All over the world today there is talk of unity. Councils are being held with ever increasing regularity in an effort
to unite all phases of the church system. The words of Christ, "that they all may be one," are being wistfully
repeated, but the kind of unity they are striving to attain is not the unity of which the Bible speaks. Man strives
to unite all people under one authority and one earthly head that a united front might be presented to the world,
but this is a false unity based on slavish servitude to a system. It has nothing in common with the unity that
comes from oneness with the Father and with the Son. All the great religious systems of the world are certain
to come together and nothing can stop them. But do not be deceived by it. Rather flee from it as from a plague,
for it has the horns of a lamb, appearing harmless and good, but it has the voice of a dragon. Rev. 13:1. Isaiah
turned his prophetic telescope down to our day to behold the frantic endeavors for religious unity, then spoke
with exactness in these words: "Behold, they shall surely come together, but not by Me." Isa 54:15. This is not
the unity we need, for it will not be unity but slavery based on dread and fear. The only true unity is the unity
that flows like a universal river of life from the indwelling mind of Christ.
It is the mind of Christ that will order and govern the world in the kingdom age. Every son of God will be
imbued with the mind of Christ and from those holy omniscient minds the law and government of the Lord will
flow forth with a harmony that will encompass the earth with perfect peace and fill it to overflowing with the
knowledge of the Lord. Men will learn war no more, for there will be no cause for division. Then shall men know
the meaning of the prayer, "Give us this day our daily bread." No longer shall greedy, carnal minds seek to lay
up vast wealth for future days, but all will know the glory of living daily from God's bountiful hand.
At this trysting hour we cannot possibly emphasize too strongly the need to seek to become one with the will of
God, to cast off the carnal mind and let the mind of Christ dwell in us. As it is impossible for the oak that fell last
winter to up-rear its shattered stem, so also it is impossible for the natural mind to attain sonship. Only the
indwelling mind of the Father, which also indwelt Jesus Christ, can bring us to sonship, for as many as are led
by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. It is the Spirit of His mind that brings us into unity with the
Father, unity with the Son, and unity with each other.
Christian people of all ages have sought unity on the basis of beliefs and doctrines. They have tried to hammer
out doctrinal differences on the basis of the Bible, all viewing the distant mountain peak from a different angle,
all coming to a different conclusion, but all thoroughly convinced that they are right. We have been like the six
blind men of Industan who went to see the elephant. The natural mind can never bring unity. It knows only in
part and an infinitesimal part at that, but the mind of Christ brings perfect unity, no secret is hidden from its
universal wisdom. The apostle Paul opened the gates to a profound secret when he said, "Be not conformed to
this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and
acceptable and perfect will of God." Rom. 12:2. We have heard a great deal about the corruptible putting on
incorruption and the mortal putting on immortality. We have embraced many theories as to how this would be
accomplished, but in one mighty word of inspiration the apostle sweeps aside all theories to tell us that we
shall be "transformed by the renewing of the mind." Therefore he declares, "I beseech you, brethren, by the
mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice..." We present them to Him for transformation,
and this transformation takes places by the renewing of the mind. The old mind, carnal and human as it is, is
always conformed to the weak and beggarly elements of the world. It leaves us mortal, corruptible, and
unchanged, but the mind of Christ, which is the new mind, is a transforming mind. It renews not only the mind,
but the body as well.
A few years ago an article appeared in the Life magazine. It was most enlightening when spiritually applied to
the renewing of the mind. For many centuries biologists had wondered what could possibly cause a caterpillar
TREASURES OF TRUTH, Volume 9, Here Is The Mind That Hath Wisdom [George R. Hawtin] ~ BOOK 42