Sermon 1525 - 36 Degrees of Sharing - 10th Message…..(Thu pm 10/21/93)

(Royal Regiments Teaching: Degrees 21 & 22)

The 21st Degree of Sharing is called Sharing Christ’s Reconciliation to One’s Brothers. The text is found in Matthew 5:23,24. If, when we bring our gift to the altar, we remember that our brother has something against us, we are to leave our gift and go our way and be reconciled to our brother. Then, we can return and offer our gift to the LORD. Our Salvation is a gift to us, but we have to work to obey Christ’s Command to go our way and be reconciled to our brother.

The Apostle Paul admonished believers to endeavour or work to keep the Unity of the Spirit in love. We do not have to work to create the Unity; God already has given the Unity. All we are asked to do is to keep or maintain the Unity by being reconciled to our brother. The Hebrew word for reconciliation is kaw-far, which is the same word for atonement or being one. When we go to our brother, we cover him, by faith, with a covering of Christ’s protective Atonement Blood so that we are not looking at his faults and failures. An atonement covering is not flattery; it is forgiving love.