The Secret Power Of Agreement

THERE IS A SECRET POWER THAT LEADS TO SUCCESS. THE POWER IN AGREEMENT

By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com (This is several part lesson.)

Henry Ford said: If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

Mother Teresa said: None of us, including me, ever accomplish great things. We can do small things with great love. Then together we can do something wonderful.

LET US EXAMINE THE POWER OF AGREEMENT… If a trumpet player is standing near a grand piano… If the trumpeter hits a B NOTE on his trumpet the B NOTE on the grand piano will vibrate? Wow, what a wonderful lesson here on agreement.

TEXT:

1 Corinthians 1:10 Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

1 Corinthians 1:10 (MSG) I have a serious concern to bring up with you, my friends, using the authority of Jesus, our Master. I'll put it as urgently as I can: You must get along with each other. You must learn to be considerate of one another, cultivating a life in common.

OUR ENEMY AND ALL THE DEMONIC FORCES POOLED THEIR STRATEGY MEETINGS AND CAME UP WITH ONE OF THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE PLANS KNOWN ON EARTH. ANYTHING SPLINTERED BY FUSSING AND FEUDING WILL EVENTUALLY FALL IN TOTAL DESTRUCTION.

Mark 3:25 And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN STATED A BIBLICAL TRUTH: He said: A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved—I do not expect the house to fall—but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or the other.

WHY DID THE UNION WIN IN THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES: A STRATEGY BASED ON DIVIDE AND CONQUER?

UNION GENERAL WINFIELD SCOTT DEVISED A MILITARY STRATEGY PLAN. THE NORTH DEVELOPED WHAT IS CALLED THE ANACONDA PLAN TO DIVIDE THE SOUTH 3 WAYS. 1. A blockade of all southern ports. 2. Then advance down the Mississippi River. 3. WILLIAM SHERMAN’S MARCH: led the Northern forces in a crushing campaign through THE SOUTH from South Carolina to Georgia. They burned houses and barns. They destroyed bridges, roads and railroads. These 3 plans were to DIVIDE and CONQUER to preserve the UNION, THE USA. THE PLAN WORKED.

*AGREE: concur, to share the same opinion, consent, to be in harmony, complete accord, to get along, to come to one opinion, to accept.

*AGREEMENT: harmony, common intention, mutual decision, understanding.

DO YOU KNOW THE BEST WAY TO GET RID OF AN ENEMY? --- MAKE THEM YOUR FRIENDS!

WISDOM KNOWS SOMETIMES WE MUST AGREE TO DISAGREE. THIS PROBLEM OF STRIFE COULD BE A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO BRING US TOGETHER.

What did you win? To win an argument and lose a friend? --- What did you win? Be quick to settle issues. Still come together. THERE IS A RARE LESSON FEW LEARN: LEARN HOW TO RECONCILE.

Matthew 5:25 Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.

NEVER FORGET DIVISION IS A DEMONIC TOOL TO HINDER THE ADVANCEMENT OF GROWTH. CLIQUES WILL ALWAYS REVERT TO FIGHT EACH OTHER.

Matthew 12:25 And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand:

Jesus knew their thoughts! Godly success is kind of like bubble gum, it needs to have STICKABILITY.

ABRAHAM AND LOT HAD CONFLICT AND DISAGREEMENT. LOT WAS FOCUSED ON MATERIALISM AND EASE. LOT HONESTLY NEVER CARED ABOUT HIS UNCLE.

Genesis 13:5 And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents. 6 And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together. 7 And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.

LOT WAS SELF-CENTERED AND SELFISH. LOT FAILED TO CONSIDER THAT HIS UNCLE WAS THE ELDER. IN LOVE LOT SHOULD HAVE PREFERED HIS UNCLE’S WELFARE! WHY WAS LOT SO SELFISH?

Genesis 13:10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar. 11 Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other. 12 Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.