Notes from Church Service

Date:  2003-02-22

Church:  Church On The Move - Tulsa, OK

Time: 7:00 Service

Title: The Power of Agreement (Part 4)

Speaker: Pastor Willie George

Notes:

Amos 3:3  
Can two people walk together without
agreeing on the direction?


If you are a Christian you are a disciple.  You are bound by the
Word. 


 If a person is a thinker, he can get confused because he will
challange the Word when it does not make logical sense.  For that
reason, thinkers need to stay in the Word.  They need to agree
with what it says. 


If you are not honor bound to your word,  you will move to the
leat level of resistance.


Acts 15:1 
While Paul and Barnabas were at Antioch of
Syria, some men from Judea arrived and began to teach the Christians:
"Unless you keep the ancient Jewish custom of circumcision taught by
Moses, you cannot be saved."


As we see here, growth produces problems. 



 
2Paul and Barnabas, disagreeing with them, argued forcefully and at length. Finally, Paul and Barnabas were sent to Jerusalem, accompanied by some local believers, to talk to the apostles and elders about this question. 3 The church sent the delegates to
Jerusalem, and they stopped along the way in Phoenicia and Samaria to visit the believers. They told them – much to everyone's joy – that the Gentiles, too, were being converted. 4  When they arrived in Jerusalem, Paul and Barnabas were welcomed by the whole
church, including the apostles and elders. They reported on what God had been doing through their ministry.
5  But then some of the men who had been Pharisees before their conversion stood up and declared that all Gentile converts must be circumcised and be required to follow the law of Moses.



These people were comming in and saying that the new Christians needed to obey the law of Moses before they could be Christians.  But what fixed the problem was commitment to the word.


6  So the apostles and church elders got together to decide this question.


You will never have agreement unless you get together on the Word.  Look what happened.


v. 7 Peter stood and addressed them...

v. 12  Barnabas and Paul told...

v. 13  James stood and said...

They all spoke about what God had done, and better yet, they got together and aggreded. 

Agreement at the top elimanates dificulties below

1 Corinthians 5:1-6 1 It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife. 2 And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you. 3 For
I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed, 4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
5
 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.


Paul got them all in agreement that this man was wrong, and that he needed to be turned over to Satan since he would not step out of the sin he was living in.  And it worked, when he got isolated, he got sick, and Paul says in 2 Corinthians that he asked forgivness to let him return to the church.  He asked for redemption, he got it.   Agreement can stop wickedness.

If people are in agreement, anything can be done

Genesis
1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. 3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. 4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. 6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

God had to stop them, they could do it otherwise.  But they were doing it for the wrong purpose.  They wanted to be on equal with God.  No.  God stoped them from doing that. 

In any of our relationships we must learn to walk together, if it be our church, our job, but especially with our mate.