In order to understand community you must first understand that God has always been a community. From the beginning of creation the Holy Spirit is seen throughout scripture as shown in Gen 1: 2Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. Likewise Gen shows us that God the Father has been there since the beginning of time. Gen1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. In John it shows us Jesus was there from the beginning as well. John 1: ¹In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ²He was with God in the beginning. ³Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. ⁴In him was life, and that life was the light of men. ⁵The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it. ¹⁴The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. These passages very clearly show the existence of the trinity as the God Head.

Since God has never been alone there has always been a community in Heaven known as the trinity.  This community functions as one in unity because they exist to give to the other members of the community. God the Father loves His Son so much He gives everything of Himself to His Son that He may glorify the Father (John 17: 2"Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you. For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him.). In a like manner God the Father loves the Holy Spirit so much that He gives everything of Himself to the Holy Spirit that He may testify of the Son. (John 15:26 "When the Counselor comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father, he will testify about me.)

John17:11 I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name—the name you gave me—so that they may be one as we are one

²¹that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. ²²I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one: ²³I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.

In verses 11, 21, and 22 Jesus prays that we may be one as He and “Father” are one. It is not physically possible for the body of Christ to become one so how is it possible for us to be one as Christ and “Father” are one? The answer is in verse 23 we become one through the unity of purpose and love that is God.

In coming into unity at home you then learn to be unified in the community that God created us to live in.

Ephesians 6:4
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

Paul commanded this because we as fathers are the example of Christ to our children and it is through the fathers that the children will learn to see Jesus either rightly or wrongly. Jesus does not provoke us and we are not to provoke our children.

We learn how to function in a community from our parents as children. Our parents teach us to communicate and to be real or to hide depending on the parents. Those of us who where taught to hide follow the break and stay away from God and keep the sin alive in our lives and in so doing keep havoc raging in the community here on earth. Those of us who are raised by parents who teach us to communicate learn to be open with others and with God and to give of ourselves for others. This is the church and community that God created in the beginning that He wants to rebuild on earth today in our homes and churches. He is waiting on us to begin to desire this kind of a relationship and to trust Him in establishing it.

Deuteronomy 5:16
"Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live long and that it may go well with you in the land the LORD your God is giving you.

This is commanded because in honoring your mother and father you learn to honor God as well even in those times we would prefer to do other things.

Gen 2: ²⁴ For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.

Ephesians 5: ²⁵Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her ²⁶to make her holy, cleansing^[b] her by the washing with water through the word, ²⁷and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. ²⁸In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. ²⁹After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church— ³⁰for we are members of his body. ³¹"For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh."^{[c] 32}This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. ³³However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

Men are commanded to love their wives as Christ loved the church. The question then becomes how did Christ love the church. The most common answer is He died for it and while this is true this is not the only way He showed His love for the Church

Matthew 20:28
just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.

1 Peter 3:7
Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers

Colossians 3:19
Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.  

We are to serve our wives and treat them with the same respect we would as if Christ granted us a precious gift, because they are exactly that a precious gift from Christ. Men do not like this ideology because it means they must treat their wives as equals and not lesser beings.

Ephesians 5: ²²Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. ²³For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. ²⁴Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

I always ask 1 very simple question with this and I have yet to find anyone who liked it so I do not expect anyone here to either. If Christ was to ask you ( ladies) to scrub the floor with a toothbrush would you do it gladly or would you do it grumbling and complaining? I ask this because it is the motive of the heart that is at issue in submission not your well being or anything else. Our heart motive is to be a servant to Christ at any time He wants us to do anything and do it with a joyful heart. (this is all of us, men and women alike) In like manner ladies you are to submit to your husbands.

1) Submission is voluntarily placing yourself under the authority of an equal.

2) Submission is moving out of Gods way so He can hit your husband

All of this stated between husbands and wives comes down to one very basic thing and that is that we are to place the emphasis on our spouse not on ourselves and in so doing you will, also , fulfill the great commandment in your marriage.

God created men and women equally but for different purposes. We have taken our differences and made them into a wall that separates us from each other.

Men are built for strength. We are rough and tend to be calloused. Our bodies are built to carry heavy burdens and our desire is to fix whatever is broke.

women are built to be nurturers and to care for the family in a way men never could. They where designed by God to mother and to care for those they care for. their desire is to heal and take care of all whom they love.

Don't you think it is time we allow these things to work in the unity that God created them to work in??

If we learn to live in this unity that is suppose to be the Body of Christ we can know we are doing the will of the “Father” in all we do and fulfill the requirements of a God who loves us and knows what is best for those whom He created and made the way they are.

Father's greatest desire is to draw the body into unity with each other and with the trinity as He originally made Adam and Eve in the Garden.

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