Amos 3:3 Can two walk together, except they be agreed? Of course, we know the answer is a resounding "NO."
I have the responsibility as the pastor of Living Word Tabernacle to teach what we believe - as truth. Not what I believe as opinion or thought. Not as a law, but an understanding according to the message that has come to us SCRIPTURALLY as given by the Apostle Paul to the Gentile church. Not something different. And different in this one sense, we have a rapture Message, as the final age of the church.
IMPORTANT TO KNOW
That is why it is important to know what you are taught and from whom you are taught by. It would be a fallacy to join a church randomly without knowing what the church stands for. And yet, people do, by the hundreds and thousands.
It has been said; "why can't we all get along?"
UNITY FOR THE SAKE OF UNITY?
We do not compromise TRUTH for the sake of unity (Philippians 3:17-19), nor do we draw a circle so big that you can believe anything and be the Bride of Jesus Christ. There is a straight line that we must walk and only by that we can walk together.
To get along is to walk together, and to do that we must agree. To agree, there must be a tie post, an absolute to what we believe.
We have a Message, which originates from the altar of God in heaven, a message in Scripture form called the Bible and that is the only book we call Scripture.
THE CHURCH AGES
Through the Church Ages God has revealed this Book for our perfection (maturity), sending messenger after messenger to open this "Book" called the Bible, which is our absolute. Some of those were reformers to the entire Age (Revelation 2-3), others were Prophet's as the Apostle Paul at the beginning and the Elijah ministry in the final age (Malachi 4:5-6). Others were Pastor's and ministering gifts to the local church, called for this purpose (Ephesians 4:11).
It is by this we are made to walk together, and agree, as the literal life of Jesus Christ the Word, opens our heart to understand what each Age of Believers must know for their portion.
THE FINAL AGE OF THE CHURCH
May we in this final Age of the Church, sanely and sensibly take this standard, with a renewed heart by the Spirit life of Jesus Christ, and march together, to the Rapture and Resurrection.
This was the subject Wednesday night at Living Word Tabernacle, "Walking Together." Archived at our church website - www.livingwordtabernacle.com
Pastor Bill Ivy - Living Word Tabernacle, Campbell Missouri USA