Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!
True unity is a blessing from God, but not just any unity will do. There is a unity that is hostility with God. There is a bond that is breaking the covenant of Christ. There is, after all, a peace that violently opposes the peace of God and there is a unity that conspires to take its stand against our God’s Messiah.
True peace and unity are blessings from God, not knock offs manufactured by the compromises of men. Blessings are to be received from God by grace through faith in Christ alone, not grabbed or grasped at by our many good intentions.
Romans 8:4-5
Walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
So, pursue peace with God through Christ and unity with men by His Spirit, but realize that this requires you to be at war with your flesh, the world, and the devil. Peace like that is costly, but it is worth it.
Galatians 5:17
For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other.
The peace of God presupposes pugilism. If you are not at war with the flesh, you are on its side. The unity of the Spirit of the bond of peace is a concentrated and persistent war on sin, beginning within before aiming without.
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