In Ephesians 2:18, Jew and Gentile are together before the Father in communion. The unity of
the Spirit begins here, but it goes a good deal further.

The three great principles of the unity of the Spirit are_ 1st, The new man,_2nd, Access by one
Spirit to the Father,_and 3rd, Builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.

The unity of the Spirit is the power of the Spirit which keeps saints in the realization of what their
relationship is to all other saints, and this secures, when fully carried out, the realization or
manifestation of the one body on earth.

The unity of the Spirit is an abstract idea, and the difficulty comes from making it an absolute fact.
The unity of the Spirit is when your mind and mine go on together with the mind of the Spirit.
When we do not see together, the unity of the Spirit is not realized; but one would not say it is
broken. If you and I are quarreling, we are not doing it in the unity of the Spirit.

But apart from all ecclesiastical questions or ideas, I am to go on with you; and if you are
naughty, I am to forbear with you in love. Then the unity of the Spirit is kept on my part,
whatever it is on] yours. Two godly Baptists might be morally endeavoring to keep the unity of
the Spirit, but they have also broken it by being strict baptists. Taking the unity of the Spirit in
its COMPLETENESS, you cannot separate it from "the one body". The "bond of peace" is
walking as Christ walked.

Unity is the power of the Spirit DOWN HERE when God’s mind and yours are all in one.
Abstractedly, I understand the unity of the Spirit to be God’s mind.

Walking ACCORDING to the Spirit can be done individually; but for the unity of the Spirit there
must be walking with others.

The unity of the body cannot be touched, for the Holy Ghost unites to Christ all those who have
been baptized by the Holy Ghost; that is, received it, and they are members of the one body. It
is the unity of the Spirit we have to keep; that is, to walk in that power of the Spirit which keeps
us in unity on the earth, and that needs "endeavoring".