Reading from the Gospel of Luke 24:49. "And behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high." Unity means one accord. The Hebrew word yachad means to become one, like a healthy body with every member doing its proper work. How good, how sound, how morally right, when covenant people are all together, each one in their proper place functioning at their maximized capacity. Don't covet the pastor's place, don't covet your neighbor's place. Tell him, "I don't want your place, I have my own place." I don't need to envy anyone. I do not need to sing like anyone. I have my own ministry. I have my own seat to sit in. No one can fill your seat. We need to stop this false humility that says let another brother do it. He is better than me. God did not call him to do your work. When you are out of place you confuse the chemistry; you ruin the joints. The joints must be in the right place in order to produce living, flowing blood.

Once more, as we get into this lesson, let it be known that the emphasis here today is to you who are called of God to be the mouthpiece of His church. We are His old men, and our job is to mold and melt this body of believers into one accord, to get every joint in its proper place so that life can flow through the body. The life of the flesh is in the blood. The blood of the body of Christ is the Holy Ghost. We have emphasized this over and over, that there is both blood and Spirit; but like the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost are one, the blood and Spirit become one. The Bible says "the life of this flesh is in the blood." The life of the body of Christ is the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit is the life. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free of the law of sin and death by giving me life. The Holy Ghost is the carrier of Life. He is the Life. God has set you in a seat. The Holy Ghost needs you in place before the oil can flow, the dew can fall, and the sound can come from Heaven. Jesus commands us in Luke 24:49, "...tarry ye...until..." Why tarry? Look at them, Peter said nobody's going to wash my feet, others were scheming for the top seats. That was the attitude of those in the upper room. So Jesus said, "...tarry ye...until ye be endued with power from on high."

The word tarry is found in many places in the Bible, translated from different words. The word in Luke 24:49 from which we get the word tarry means to seat. Luke 4:20 says, "And He closed the book...,and sat down." He is seated at the right hand of the Father. Jesus said to those mixed-up disciples, tarry until you find your proper seat, or place, in this kingdom, so that I can open up the heavens. To sit means that we find our place in the body. We are not trying to take somebody else's place. We must find our own place and function.

At a university, the Chancellor has a chair. Jesus is seated at the right hand of the Father. That does not mean He has been sitting down for two thousand years, it means that He is in His place at the right hand of the Father. So, Jesus commanded the disciples to tarry until they were seated in their proper place. This is the responsibility of those called to be the mouthpiece of the body. The old man must see that every sheep, every brethren, finds his place. What were they doing for ten days while waiting for this power? They were seeking their proper place in the kingdom of God. "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and everything else will be added unto you." They were seeking their place in His kingdom.

In telling them to tarry, Jesus was saying to covenant together. Let your brother get in his or her place, you get in your place. Together you formulate the body so that everyone can fulfill his own function to the ultimate. Then, and only then, will you hear a sound from Heaven. Acts 2:1-4 "... they were all in one place and in one accord." One accord. What is one accord? It is the word yachad. It is to dwell together in unity. It is to become one. They were together these ten days, seeking their place. The Bible says, "...they were in one place, in one accord, And suddenly there came a sound from heaven... One accord; each one had found his place. What is unity? Unity is everyone in the body in his proper place. They were all in one accord, one place, and suddenly! The moment we are ready, the fire will fall, the oil will flow, and the dew will come down from Heaven.

God is raising up local churches, setting them in place to be the incubator of the kingdom. When that happens in any church, it will be like precious ointment. That ointment is the life, the seed of God. What is the church? She is, first of all, the Bride of Christ. When the bride is in unity, every member in place and functioning, then God pours His life into the womb of the earth which is His church. When He speaks to His church, God first puts it inside of His Apostle, that is, His sent one, that is you who are called. God first puts the church on the inside of the man or woman of God. The oil first comes on the head of God's Old Man, the mouthpiece. Then God puts the prophets around the head. He then brings the Evangelist, teacher,all the gifts, and the offices.

When the church gets in place, everybody says, "This is my place and ministry. I am here Pastor, you won't have to worry about my tithes. They will be here every Sunday. Don't worry about my body, it will be on that pew. Don't worry about the carpet, it will be clean. Don't worry about the power, it will be on. Don't worry about the vans, I am going to take care of those. Don't you worry about anything, just get in your place, dream your dream, and I will be in my place." When we get in place it will happen. For God says, "For there will I command the blessings." (Deuteronomy 28:80) He will point down to this church and say, "Life on that house, life on that house." We are always praying, wanting revival, wanting God to move, wanting His presence and wanting His life. If we truly want that, we must understand this: if we will bring the church into one accord, where every member is in His right place, functioning in its right ministry, God will command life.

Many years ago, while pastoring the church in Beaumont, the Ecumenical movement was on the rise. Old-line organizations were coming together. I saw that there was no significance to that. I did not want to get involved because I saw by the Spirit of God, that this was going to lead to a Pentecostal imitation. When that happened, it would lead straight to demonism. I could see in the Bible that a call for unity was God's thought for His church. God said to me concerning the church I was pastoring. "I am not ordering you to unify this church with any body of believers or any organization of believers. I am calling you to unify believers that I have put under your ministry. Bring them together through your preaching of the message that I give you by the Spirit of God. Bring each one of them to this one accord, with every one in his place, fulfilling the ministry I give them, and I will command life there."

Everywhere that God can talk to the man of God the same thing will happen. Then those different local assemblies will be one. But they cannot be one except as each member is in his proper place and is functioning in his proper ministry, for life comes by commandment. It is not arbitrary, life comes by commandment. God calls those things that were not as though they are.

Where does the anointing oil start? On the head. The Hebrew word is Rosh, the Greek word elder, episcapod, or bishop. The anointing of the Holy Ghost does not start in a committee. If you want to build a dam and shut the door on the flow of the Spirit, just start presuming on the office of the bishop. You that are called to be the head, relinquish that office to some committee, to some Board, let them begin to make the decisions about the spiritual activity of that body, and the flow will stop immediately. For the flow of the anointing starts with the head.

Moses was the head of the Old Testament church. Aaron was the mouthpiece. Jesus is the head of the New Testament church. He is our head. The oil comes down from the Father. The word flows down, yarad. It is the word Jordan. Like the Jordan River it flows down. The anointing always flows down. This has got to be made real to God's Old men. The church has broken down because the office of God's Old man, the pastor and mouthpiece of God has been presumed upon by what we call Boards and Deacons, men whose job it is to wait on tables, so that the man of God can be in his place where the oil can flow down upon him. The anointing always flows down. The oil will flow down from the head to the beard, down to the skirts. What are the skirts? The Hebrew word is peh which means the mouth. Literally, it is the mouth of the collar, also, it is the mouth of faith, and confession of the body. We have to get the young men saved, the servants and handmaidens confessing and the sons and daughters believing and expecting. The moment we are in one accord, in our rightful place, the oil will flow and the dew will fall. The word for dew is the word cover, and it was that cover that brought the manna. How many of us really want the manna to fall in the church? How many want the anointing oil to flow on the ministry? How can we get it? Dwell together. That doesn't mean waste time together. It means to build your life into this body.

It means for you, as the mouthpiece of God, to build every member into that body, bringing them in, showing them their place, making them understand there is no place more important than their place. No matter how insignificant it may look, it must be in place for the body to function, and for God to command His life. It is the business of the mouthpiece, to build this into the body. Build it in the covenant until death parts you from it. The members of the body must be together in total commitment, so that we can become the incubator of the kingdom of God. This is what it is all about, our becoming the incubator through which life can be birthed. For that to happen, the church must be brought together in one accord. Every member must find his or her place in the kingdom. We cannot usurp the place of others. We must find our own place.

We must function in that place as a member in particular of the body of Christ. When God looks down and sees a body of believers in one accord, there He commands His life. I want to reemphaize the last three points. I ask this question. "How many want the anointing oil to flow on the ministry?" If you are to be the mouthpiece of God for His church, you must have the oil flowing on everything you do. Then the question, "How can we get it?" The answer, "By dwelling together." You must dwell together. That does not mean waste time together, it means to build your life into the body; then by the word of God, build the life of every member into the body. Yours is the unique calling. As a mouthpiece of God, you are to speak God's word into those who are the called. That believer, no matter what his ministry, must understand that his place in the body of Christ is as important as yours. He must know that unless he is in his place, the body cannot function. If you, as the mouthpiece of Jesus Christ, cannot function, the oil cannot come down upon you. The church becomes another religious debating society.

Build it into covenant-until death do us part, together in total commitment, you can truly become the incubator of the kingdom of God. We continue in these messages of unity, because we must renew the church. We must have a revival of the presence of God, and the key to that presence is bringing the body into one accord and one mind, with every member like-minded, in their own place. The key to that happening is you, the Pastor and Shepherd. You are the key. You must see what this unity is and how it is brought about. You must not only know with your head, this unity must be birthed in you, so that you reproduce it wherever God places you.