WHAT DOES “AS ONE” MEAN

WHAT DOES “AS ONE” MEAN

Josimar Salum

   #ASONE simply means “ONE.”

   “I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be (I AM) one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me.

   I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in ONE, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.” — John 17:20–21, 23

   “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is ONE.” — Deuteronomy 6:4

   “And the Lord shall be King over all the earth; in that day the Lord shall be ONE, and His name ONE.” — Zechariah 14:9

   “There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called in one hope of your calling;

one Lord, one faith, one baptism;

one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.” — Ephesians 4:4–6

   “Oh, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in ONE!” — Psalm 133:1

   The Hebrew word “Echad” (אֶחָד) means “one” or “a united/composite one,” depending on the context. However, this is a very shallow understanding of its true meaning.

   It can carry the basic numeric meaning of “one.” For example, Echad often refers to the number one in a count. “Yom echad” (יוֹם אֶחָד) — “one day.”

   In Deuteronomy 6:4, the Shema 

   “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the LORD is ONE.”

   This does not mean “only” or “one” as in one, two, three…

   Literally: “The Lord is ONE (echad).”

   This does not mean God is a singular, isolated being (for that, Hebrew would use “yachid” – יָחִיד). Instead, ECHAD emphasizes ONE — complete, whole, the BEING.

   It is often misrepresented as a “compound unity.”

   As in Genesis 2:24: “And the two shall become one flesh (basar echad)” — not merely united, not one + one = two, but ONE!

   In Genesis 1:5: “There was evening and morning, the first day (yom echad),” not a day made of two parts joined together, but ONE.

   “And you ask, ‘Why?’ Because the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.

But did He not make them ONE, having a remnant of the Spirit?

   And why ONE?

   He seeks godly offspring.

   Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously with the wife of his youth.” — Malachi 2:14–15

   God does not have many children, but ONE — His Descendant, His Seed.

   You may follow this reasoning in:

   “Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He does not say, ‘And to seeds,’ as of many, but as of ONE, ‘And to your Seed,’ who is Christ.” — Galatians 3:16

   God has ONE Son. One Seed. One Heir.

   God’s covenant was not made with many seeds — but with ONE. And that Seed is Christ. The true Son. The perfect Image. The exact expression of the Father.

   Jesus is the only begotten Son (John 3:16), through whom all things were created (John 1:3), and in whom all things hold together (Colossians 1:17). He is not one among many — He is ONE, and we become sons only in Him.

   We Are Sons in the Son

   “For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus… And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.” — Galatians 3:26, 29

   We are not “many seeds” scattered in individuality — we are one seed in Christ. The Body. The fullness of Him who fills all in all.

   It is not a collection of individuals adopted separately, but a divine act of ONE — we were made ONE in the One who is ONE, and not apart from Him.

   “For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive.” — 1 Corinthians 15:22

   “He is the head of the body, the church… so that in all things He may have the preeminence.” — Colossians 1:18

   The Revelation of the New Man

   God’s eternal purpose has always been ONE. Not division. Not fragments.

   One Seed. One Body. One New Man.

   “For He Himself is our peace, who has made both ONE… to create in Himself ONE new man from the two, thus making peace.” — Ephesians 2:14–15

   There is not a Jewish Christ and a Gentile Christ. There is no fragmented church. There is no divided body. Christ is ONE, and we are complete in Him.

   The Son — Many in the ONE

   “For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.” — Romans 8:29

   Although Jesus is the only begotten, He is also the firstborn of a new creation — a family of sons, all as one in Him. Not isolated individuals, not independent seeds — but the fruit of the Seed, the expression of Christ in us, the hope of glory (Colossians 1:27).

   So we declare:

• God has one Son — Christ.

• Christ has a Body — the Church.

• The Church is a Man — the Son.

• The Son is ONE — and in Him, we are one.

   God did not create a man and a woman — God created THE MAN: male and female He created them.

   “Then God said, ‘Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.’

   So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.” — Genesis 1:26–27

   So much so that the first man and woman were called by God ADAM — man. Eve was not called Eve by God, but Adam. The man Adam, the woman Adam — male and female!

   “This is the book of the genealogy of Adam. In the day that God created man (ADAM), He made him in the likeness of God.

He created them male and female, and blessed them and called their name Adam in the day they were created.” — Genesis 5:1–2

   “And Adam called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.” — Genesis 3:20

   Echad means ONE in the sense of oneness — it is not merely “unity.”

   The word “oneness” refers to the state of being ONE — wholeness, completeness, perfection.

   It’s not that “nothing is missing” — it’s that the idea of something missing doesn’t even exist.

   It is ONE. Period.

   “For there are three that bear witness in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are ONE.

And there are three that bear witness on earth: the Spirit, the water, and the blood; and these three are ONE.” — 1 John 5:7–8

   Are they three or are they one? ONE!

God is ONE!

   And in God, we are ONE, perfect in ONE!

   1 + 1 + 1 = ONE!

   The final result of the universe will always be ONE!

   “He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the Kingdom of the Son of His love, in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.

   He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.

   For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers.

   All things were created through Him and for Him.

   And He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.

   And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence.

   For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell, and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself (ONE), whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross.” — Colossians 1:13–20

   #ASONE