Father of all, who is above
all, and through all, and in you all."

III. THE BASIS OF CHRISTIAN UNITY IS THE UNION OF EACH BELIEVER TO
CHRIST.--"I in them, that they may be made perfect in one." However
much true believers in Christ differ, there are two points in which
they agree.

(1) _Each believer is in Christ_: in Christ's heart, loved with an
everlasting love, the beloved name engraven on its secret tables; in
Christ's book, enrolled on those pages which are sealed so fast that He
alone can break the seven-fold seal; in Christ's hand, which holds the
ocean as a drop upon its palm, and which was pierced on Calvary, from
which no power shall ever pluck the trembling soul; in Christ's grace,
rooted as a tree in luxuriant soil, or a house in a foundation of rock;
but above all in Christ's Person, for He is the Head, "from whom the
whole body is fitly framed and knit together by that which every joint
supplieth." There are innumerable texts which speak of the Church as
the Body of Christ (Eph. i. 23; Col. i. 24); and directly a man
believes in Christ, he becomes a member of that mystical body. "We are
members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones." You may be a
very obscure member, or even a paralyzed member; but be sure of this,
if you are a Christian you are in Christ, as the eye is in the
eye-socket, the arm in the shoulder-joint, and the finger in the hand.

(2) _Christ is in each believer._--The texts that teach Christ's real
presence in the believer are as numerous as spring flowers. "Christ
liveth in me." "Know ye not that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be
reprobates?" "Ye shall know that I am in My Father, and ye in Me, and
I in you." The Lord Jesus is in the heart which makes Him welcome, as
the steam is in the piston, as the sap is in the branch, as the blood
is in the heart, as the life is in the body. It would be impossible
for words to describe a more intense spiritual Oneness than that which
is here presented to us. The Saviour is in each of us, as the Father
is in Him, and we are in Him, and He in God. "Our life is hid with
Christ in God." Therefore we are not only one with Jesus Christ, but
through Him we are one with God. "I in them, Thou in Me." The very
life of God is pouring its glorious tides through us, and would do so
more largely if only we were more receptive and obedient. He pours
water out of the mouth of the Congo at the rate of 1,000,000 tons per
second; and is