Date:March 8, 2003
Church:Church on the Move
Time:7:00 PM
Title:Power of Agreement: Part 6
Speaker:Pastor Willie George
Notes:
Amos 3
3 Can two walk together, except they be agreed?
Acts
15 And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples, and said, (the number of names together were about an hundred and twenty,)
What is significant about 120 people being together. To us none, but it would have been to the Israelite. When Nehemiah returned to build the Temple, he realized that the reason that people were turning away from God so often is that they were not being taught properly the ways of God, so he instituted a structure that exist to this day, the Synagogue. Here the people that were scattered could learn the ways of God and turn from idolatry. In Jerusalem, there was a Great Synagogue that held 120 leaders of the Synagouges. So a number like 120 was something the Jewish people would notice. 120 can be broken up to 10 X 12. In Bible 10 tends to be the number of order and 12 the number for governments. So the number 120 has other importance as well.
4 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. 5 And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven. 6 Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language. 7 And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans? 8 And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born? 9 Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia, 10 Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes, 11 Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.
There is only one way possible to to have that type of ministry, and that is the Love of God.
John 13
34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. 35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
Love is the gas that makes the unity vehicle go. When things are uncommon, like people showing love for one another, other people are attracted to it and will flock to it.
Ephesians 5:
1 Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;
We are to be imitating God like a young boy does his daddy, but how are we to do that?
2 And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
4:
31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: 32 And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
What we see here are many types of anger. It does not matter what type it is, if it is slow, or slander, which is managed info. Clamor, from the greek that means the cry of a crow, which sounds like it is ticked or malice, a desire to see someone suffer, these things we are to put out of our lives.
Love is a choice, we have to choose to do it. When you do choose to walk in Love, the Holy Spirit will guide you
I John 4
16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
I Corinthians 13:
8 Charity [LOVE] never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; F49 whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
F49: fail: Gr. vanish away
Romans 5
5 And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
It has to clearly come from God.
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