Jesus taught, that we should do Gods will on earth AS IT IS DONE IN HEAVEN. Matthew 6:9-10 “This, then, is how you should pray; “Our father in heaven, hallowed be your name, YOUR KINGDOM COME, YOUR WILL BE DONE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN…” In heaven, the church and body of Christ is one body with one leader and one teacher, one master, one Father, the Christ, our LORD Jesus! on earth we should be united as one, as it is in heaven. In John 17 Jesus Prayed that we should be one on earth, as he and the Father are one. John 17:11 “…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.”  We are called to be one body in Christ! In the early church, we see that they acted as one. Acts 2:44-46 “All the believers were together and had everything in common. Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need. Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts.” Everything they did, they did together for the glory of God!

Matthew 23:1-12 “Then Jesus said to the crowds and to is disciples: The teachers of the law and the Pharisees sit in Moses seat. So you must obey them and do everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach. They tie up heavy loads and put them on mens shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them. Everything they do is done for men to see: They make their phylacteries wide and the tassels on their garments long; They love to be greeted in the marketplaces and to have men call them Rabbi.(teacher).

BUT YOU ARE NOT TO BE CALLED RABBI (TEACHER), FOR YOU HAVE ONLY ONE MASTER AND YOU ARE ALL BROTHERS. AND DO NOT CALL ANYONE ON EARTH ‘FATHER, FOR YOU HAVE ONE FATHER, AND HE IS IN HEAVEN. NOR ARE YOU TO BE CALLED TEACHER, FOR YOU HAVE ONE TEACHER, THE CHRIST. The greatest among you wil be your servant. For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”

This scripture is talking to the fact that the pharisees liked themselves to be exalted, as church leaders and teachers, the pharisees had disciples, Jesus is saying YOU, MY DISCIPLES, YOU ARE NOT TO BE LIKE THE PHARISEES, you are not to have disciples, you are not to be in charge over someone, you are not to be called teachers or fathers or be elevated beyond the rest of your brothers, for you are one, and Jesus Christ our LORD is the only Father, the only teacher, the only discipler.

Back to the first point now, Jesus said we are to be as brothers, as one, not to elevate each other beyond one another, not to be exalted in any way, only the LORD is to be exalted.  His will in heaven, is that we are all one, and that we are together as one worshiping the Father as one body. In heaven, men are rewarded, but we are not elevated beyond one another as some would think, for God is not a respecter of persons. So if  Gods will is that, the way it is in heaven it should be on earth, then why do we try to elevate men above other men when Jesus said  not to do this! Do as it is done in heaven, in heaven men do not follow men, but God alone, so on earth we should not follow men, but God alone. We should be as brothers worshiping the Father as one body, as it is in heaven. How can men have disciples or be disciplers, when men are not suppose to be exalted above their brothers in Christ? When it is Gods will in heaven that we are one with only the LORD as father and teacher, yet we try to be father and teacher to other men. Ive heard the term spiritual father so much, men try to be spiritual fathers to other men, without knowing the scripture which says you have one Father, and he is in heaven. It is confortable to be a follower of a man, to trust in what you can see, to be discipled so to speak by a man, and oneday be a discipler yourself, this is gratifying and exalts the person who is the discipler, yet if we are in any sort of postion to be exalted, we are trying to rob God of his glory.

Nowhere in the new testament does it talk about the disciples having disciples, no where in scripture can you find a verse that it says the disciples of the 12 apostles, because Jesus taught them they were not to be disciplers, but fellow disciplees of Christ, we are called to go out and make disciples of all nations, these disciples were not disciples of the original 12, they were fellow believers in Christ, disciples of Christ.

There is a very thine line, moses hit the rock once water came out, God was got the glory, moses hit the rock a second time, he got the glory. Because of this he was not aloud in the promised land, because he tried to obtain glory for himself. The problem is that we get confused with the idea of fruit, we try to build people up as our disciples and train them in the Gospel so that they can go out and make more disciples, the fruit we bear is not our fruit, we are branches of one vine, that Vine is Christ. If we call men our disciples, it is like a branch calling the fruit of the branch its fruit, is it not the fruit the fruit of the vine, in this case our fruit we bear is not our fruit just because it grows off our branch, our branch is only alive because it grows off the vine, the vine can live without the branch, the branch cannot live without the vine, Jesus can live without us we cannot live without Jesus. We only bear fruit through Jesus, in Connection with Jesus. The fruit we bear, are believers and disciples of Christ. We go out into the world to make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit. We are suppose to branch out and with Christs spirit in us working through us we bear the fruit of the vine.

We are all brothers fulfilling the great commission to make disciples of Christ, we are one body, one church for we all live through one life, the life of Christ.  There is one father, one teacher, one discipler, and one disciplee, the church which is one body! We are called to bring people into the body of Christ, into becoming one body, one church of disciples of Christ!