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Who do you agree with?
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Amos 3:3 Can two walk together, except they be agreed?
Leviticus 26:23,24 And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me; Then willI also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for you sin.
These two verses of Scripture easily show that there is power in whether or not we walk in agreement with the one we walk with. Lets take a look at Webster's Dictionary to see what the word agree means.
Agree: AGREE, CONCUR, COINCIDE mean to come into or be in harmony regarding a matter of opinion. AGREE implies complete accord usually attained by discussion and adjustment of differences. CONCUR tends to suggest cooperative thinking or acting toward an end but sometimes implies no more than approval (as of a decision reached by others). COINCIDE, used more often of opinions, judgments, wishes, or interests than of people, implies an agreement amounting to identity. Synonym see in addition ASSENT.
The word "agree" actually has several meanings. The word rendered as "agree" has several different words in the Greek. They all bear similarities yet have differences as well. The King James Version Bible uses "agree" and its variations, where in the Greek language you would get the word that is best suited to that particular instance.
AGREED:
Matthew 5:25 - well minded, reconcile (-ed), agree.
18:19 and 20:15 - to be harmonious, to accord, concur, agree together with.
Mark 14:59 - similar (in amount or kind), agree, as much, equal, like.
Acts 15:15 - to be harmonious, to accord, agree together with.
I John 5:8 - they are: agree, are, be, x is, were.
Revelation 17:17 - cognition ( to become acquainted with, know),resolve, con-
sent advice, one or first, + agree, to make or do, abide, band together,
cause, commit.
AGREEMENT:
II Kings 18:31; Isaiah 28:15 - a compact, looked upon with approval, a be-
holder in vision.
Isaiah 28:18, 36:16 - a look, stricking appearance, revelation, compact, vision.
Daniel 11:6 - agreement, aright, equity, upright (-ly),evenness, prosperity or
concord.
II Corinthians 6:16 - in company with, accord with.
I Corinthians 10:20,21; II Corinthians 6:14-18; Ephesians 5:1-11 and I John 1:6. Real, true fellowship is based on what is written above: agreement, well mindedness, reconciliation, being harmonious, in accord, concurring, agreeing together, similarities, equality, becoming aquainted with, consenting, banding together, committment, and cause.
We are to be very careful over who we walk in agreement with. Scripture asks if two can walk together unless they be agreed? No, they can't! Why? Sooner or later the partnership, the friendship, the fellowship will fall apart. Why? Simply this...it wasn't there to begin with.
How can two people have a marriage if they are not in agreement? How can two operate a business if they are not in agreement? They cannot, because there will be fighting, arguing, etc. II Corinthians 6:14 tells us not to be unequally yoked with unbelievers. Unequally yoked means to be paired, teamed or coupled, or associated discordantly. If you yoke or pair of animals, you would pair off in equal, even, alike animals: two horses, two oxen, etc., otherwise there is tension, trouble, great difficulty.
I believe with all my heart that the Lord directed me to write this message to alert all of us before we get ourselves into trouble. This is not calling believers to separation in the sense of walling ourselves off from all people except other believers. But we are being alerted to a problem that looms before all believers. We cannot walk in agreement with God and His Word while we walk in agreement with Satan. Matthew 6:24 and Luke 16:13 tell us that we cannot serve two masters. We will love one and hate the other. You cannot serve God and Mammon. The truth be told, you cannot serve God and serve anything else.
God desires us to be a witness and a testimony to Jesus Christ meaning we must walk in agreement, in accord, like minded and such, with God and His Word. If we try to serve two masters something somewhere has to give. It is never equal and it causes discord and disunity with one or the other. Have you ever noticed that sometimes it is hard enough to walk in agreement with other believers? Just take the idea of walking. If there is no agreement between two people walking together you will never get anywhere. One wants to stop and the other doesn't. One wants to walk fast, the other slow. One wants to go north, the other south. Do you see what the Word is telling us?
How many people have gotten married because they thought they could change the other person later? That very seldom works and the divorce courts are full of people that tried this. This is why before believers make decisions they should pray over the situations first. We should consult God and His Word and get His opinion and we would save ourselves a lot of heartache and trouble. We are living in such hard and unstable days that we need to go to God in prayer and get His mind, His opinion on what we are to do.
We need to alert our brothers and sisters in Christ and urge them to take stock of what or who they are in agreement with. Lines are being drawn today between real born again Christians and those that are not and want no part of it. make sure that you know what side you are on....AND what side those are on that you try to walk in agreement with.
Matthew 18:19,20 Again I say unto you, that if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of My Father which is in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in My name, there I am in the midst of them. That means it is pretty important who you are walking in agreement with doesn't it? If you need to reach God you surely do not want to be walking in agreement with Satan or one of his children do you? We need to be careful who we walk in agreement with. If you know anyone walking, living, ministering, etc. and they are not walking in agreement, share this word with them. If they are not walking, living, ministering and whatever in agrement with God and each other then their lives and their ministry will suffer. And when that happens it touches others that God wants to see enter into His kingdom.
We must be very careful in this area with our personal relationships. I wanted to include an incident from my own life. I had a close relationship with a brother in Christ. We had such excellent fellowship together. He became a part of my family. We walked in agreement. He eventually walked away from the Lord. We continued in a very close relationship hoping that it would end in him repenting and coming back to Christ. As a matter of fact he even lived with my family for a while.
He grew worse and worse in sin in his personal life and it started to spill over into our friendship. Our relationship became toxic as did his relationships with others around him. He blamed God and everyone else for his troubles but himself. He hurt me, my family and most people that knew him. Finally situations came about that I had to sever our contact completely. It was not an easy things to do, but the Lord showed me and my family it was the right thing to do. We had walked in agreement and I had never thought that I needed to sever that tie and bond between us.
Once my spiritual eyes were opened to the situation I went to the Lord about it in prayer and He helped me cut these ties. As soon as I did this, this person attacked me by spreading lies about me and my family. He told people that we were not real Christians and stuff along those lines. I was seeing him for who he really was and is. He actually hated us for not walking yoked together and in accord with him. He looked at me as a traitor, when in fact I didn't change... he did! Then I noticed something about me. I had changed...I had grown spiritually in Christ, growing closer to Him while this person went farther and farther away from Christ. So I speak of this with first hand knowledge. It had hurt but God brought us through it and made us stronger for it! Hallelujah!
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