"DIVIDED THINGS"........(1 Corin. 1:13)
Paul's 1st letter to the Corinthians addressed the subject of "division".  Theirs was a spirit of competitiveness that involved all the gifted particularly!-(Satan's primary target is the leadership of a church.)  In order to divide something one must draw a line, and the scriptures are filled with lines drawn by God himself....(Me & Camo sharing bedroom!)(Keeping the white clothes from the dark clothes!)  From the bible we learn that some separations are DIVINE, and others are DEMONIC.
di•vide (verb)--"to separate into groups or sections, or to part from something else; to distinguish.
Throughout the bible we see the story of division:
(a)-LIGHT was divided in the BEGINNING (Gen.1:4)
(b)-LANGUAGES were divided at BABEL (Gen.
(c)-LIQUID was divided to show the BIGNESS of God (Exo.14:21, 2 Kgs. 2:8)
(d)-LAND was divided among BELIEVERS entering the promised land (Num.26:55)
(d)-LEADER Solomon used division to prove his BRIGHTNESS-(1 Kgs 3:25)
(e)-LOVE & LOYALTY were undivided BETWEEN Saul and Jonathan (2 Sam 1:23)
(f)-LUNCH was divided into a BOUNTY for thousandds to enjoy (Gospels Lad)
(g)-LORD divided at passover when he BROKE the bread!
*These were all necessary divisions; but the word "divided" can mean that some things are better left apart than together! (i.e.-a match and dynamite.) "Divided" can refer to the ORDER of things....like adding ACID to WATER instead of WATER to ACID!!!  If you don't know how to divide some things, the mixture can become deadly!  
(2 Timothy 2:15--" Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.")  *Many of our modern-day translators are producing a deadly mixture by tampering with the truth!
(1)-JESUS IS THE SUSPENDER ACROSS THE DIVIDE-(Ephesians 4:10 He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.) 
He's not:   The Swinging bridge (cowers in the wind), The Draw Bridge (comprimises), Man-made bridge (crumbles), Metal bridge (corrodes with time)!  He is the one who holds us safely above the DIVIDE, the chasim beneath! (No weight Limit on THIS BRIDGE, No INSPECTION to verify it's ability to hold  the road in place!
(2)-JESUS IS THE SMASHER OF THE DIVIDE-(Ephesians 2:14 For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; )  (The Berlin Wall stood for decades in Germany until one day a law was cleared to take it down...On that day, the bringing down of the wall was a world-wide celebration!)   (Colossians 2:14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; )(The man who invented "White Out" is a millionare because he discovered that BLOTTING OUT something could be lucrative!.......10,000 x 10,000 in heaven-eternal life!)

(3)-JESUS IS THE SUSTAINER WITHIN THE DIVIDE-(Psalms 23:4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.)
The Wadi Kelt is the steep canyon that led to Achor and Jericho....one mis-step and you could plummet 1000 ft to your death, hence the name "The Valley of the Shadow of Death".  David walked within that divide many times...both figurativlyand literally; but God was with him!  (Psalms 3:5 I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me.)    (Psalms 55:22 Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.)

(4)-JESUS IS THE SHEPHERD WHO IS ABLE TO DIVIDE-While in Israel this past Spring, we were at the Herodian Place just south of Bethlehem.  Flocks of sheep were all over the side of that mtn fortress.  I made the comment when I saw the shepherd boy, "Look, that boy knows his sheep!"  Stephanie told me, "I'm glad that HE knows that those AREN'T SHEEP...they are GOATS!!!  And the closer I got to the flock the more I could tell the difference!  (Like the tares among the wheat-"Let both grow together until the harvest")
Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. 
	PERSONALLY KNOWS THEM-PASSIONATELY LEADS THEM-					PROTECTIVELY WATCHES THEM-PERMENENTLY KEEPS THEM!