{"id":825,"date":"2015-08-28T02:57:57","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T02:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/?p=825"},"modified":"2015-11-07T18:33:16","modified_gmt":"2015-11-07T18:33:16","slug":"togetherness-of-the-brethren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/togetherness-of-the-brethren\/","title":{"rendered":"TOGETHERNESS OF THE BRETHREN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-825-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/audio\/072915TogethernessOfTheBrethrenWPM.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/audio\/072915TogethernessOfTheBrethrenWPM.mp3\">https:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/audio\/072915TogethernessOfTheBrethrenWPM.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/solidrockbiblechurch.com\/srbc\/audio\/072915TogethernessOfTheBrethrenWPM.mp3\" target=\"_self\" class=\"emd_dl_blue_four\" download>Download<\/a>\r\n        <style type=\"text\/css\">\r\n    .emd_dl_blue_four {\r\n        -moz-box-shadow:inset 0px 1px 0px 0px #97c4fe;\r\n        -webkit-box-shadow:inset 0px 1px 0px 0px #97c4fe;\r\n        box-shadow:inset 0px 1px 0px 0px #97c4fe;\r\n        background:-webkit-gradient( linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0.05, #3d94f6), color-stop(1, #1e62d0) );\r\n        background:-moz-linear-gradient( center top, #3d94f6 5%, #1e62d0 100% );\r\n        filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr='#3d94f6', endColorstr='#1e62d0');\r\n        background-color:#3d94f6;\r\n        -webkit-border-top-left-radius:0px;\r\n        -moz-border-radius-topleft:0px;\r\n        border-top-left-radius:0px;\r\n        -webkit-border-top-right-radius:0px;\r\n        -moz-border-radius-topright:0px;\r\n        border-top-right-radius:0px;\r\n        -webkit-border-bottom-right-radius:0px;\r\n        -moz-border-radius-bottomright:0px;\r\n        border-bottom-right-radius:0px;\r\n        -webkit-border-bottom-left-radius:0px;\r\n        -moz-border-radius-bottomleft:0px;\r\n        border-bottom-left-radius:0px;\r\n        text-indent:0;\r\n        border:1px solid #337fed;\r\n        display:inline-block;\r\n        color:#ffffff !important;\r\n        font-family:Georgia;\r\n        font-size:15px;\r\n        font-weight:bold;\r\n        font-style:normal;\r\n        height:25px;\r\n        line-height:25px;\r\n        width:90px;\r\n        text-decoration:none;\r\n        text-align:center;\r\n        text-shadow:1px 1px 0px #1570cd;\r\n    }\r\n    .emd_dl_blue_four:hover {\r\n        background:-webkit-gradient( linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0.05, #1e62d0), color-stop(1, #3d94f6) );\r\n        background:-moz-linear-gradient( center top, #1e62d0 5%, #3d94f6 100% );\r\n        filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr='#1e62d0', endColorstr='#3d94f6');\r\n        background-color:#1e62d0;\r\n    }.emd_dl_blue_four:active {\r\n        position:relative;\r\n        top:1px;\r\n    }\r\n    <\/style>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">MAN HAS THIS ASPECT OF TOGETHERNESS AND UNITY&#8211;MANKIND IS UNIFIED IN TOGETHER DISOBEYING GOD.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><strong>Psalms 14:3<\/strong>\u00a0<em>They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"> 1. DOING THINGS TOGETHER COUNTS TO GOD.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"> A. THE ACTIONS OF GENERATIONS ARE PUT TOGETHER WHEN GOD JUDGES A NATION. <\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><strong>Isaiah 65:7<\/strong> <em>Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the LORD, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed Me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">B. WALKING DAILY WITH EACH OTHER SHOULD BE PLEASANT.<\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><strong> Psalms 133:1<\/strong> <em>\u00abA Song of degrees of David.\u00bb Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">C. GOD IS GOING TO BRING TOGETHER ALL HIS PEOPLE. \u00a0SO, GET ALONG WITH THEM AND LOVE THEM NOW. <\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><strong>Matthew 24:31<\/strong> <em>And He shall send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">D. GOD ENJOYS BRINGING BELIEVERS TOGETHER BEFORE HE GIVES\u00a0THEM POWER. <\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><strong>Luke 9:1<\/strong> <em>Then He called His twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority over all devils, and to cure diseases. <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">HE COULD HAVE DONE THIS SEPARATELY.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"> &#8211;HE ALSO BROUGHT THEM TOGETHER AT PENTECOST. NO RECORD OF ANYONE OUTSIDE THIS GROUP BEING FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT AT THIS TIME. THEY HAD TO DISPLAY A SPIRIT OF UNITY IN ORDER FOR GOD TO BLESS THEM INDIVIDUALLY.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">2. WE ARE INSTRUCTED TO SERVE GOD TOGETHER. <\/span><\/h2>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><strong>Acts 1:4<\/strong> <em>And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith He, ye have heard of Me.<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"> <strong>Acts 1:6<\/strong> <em>When they therefore were come together, they asked of Him, saying, Lord, wilt Thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel ?<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"> <strong>Acts 1:15<\/strong> <em>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,)<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"> <strong>Acts 2:6<\/strong> <em>Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"> <strong>Acts 2:44<\/strong> <em>And all that believed were together, and had all things common;<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">3. WE HAVE SOME OF THE SAME EXPERIENCES TOGETHER.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"> A. BAPTISM AND SALVATION. <\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><strong>Romans 6:5<\/strong> <em>For if we have been planted together in the likeness of His death, we shall be also in the likeness of His resurrection:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">B. WE BECAME HEIRS TOGETHER. <\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><strong>Romans 8:17<\/strong> <em>And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with Him, that we may be also glorified together.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">C. WE GO THROUGH DIFFICULTIES TOGETHER.<\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><strong> Romans 8:22<\/strong> <em>For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">D. WE SHOULD BE PRAYING TOGETHER. <\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><strong>Romans 15:30<\/strong> <em>Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ\u2019s sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in your prayers to God for me;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">E. WE SHOULD BE WORKING TOGETHER. <\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><strong>1 Corinthians 3:9<\/strong><em> For we are labourers together with God: ye are God\u2019s husbandry, ye are God\u2019s building.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">F. WE SHOULD BE HAVING THE SAME FAITH. <\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><strong>1 Corinthians 1:10<\/strong> <em>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.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">4. WE MUST NOT BE LINKED TOGETHER WITH THE LOST.<\/span><\/h2>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\"><strong> 2 Corinthians 6:14<\/strong> <em>Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">\u201dTogetherness Of The Brethren\u201d<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">A Bible Study with Dr. Ed J. MacWilliams<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">072915<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 MAN HAS THIS ASPECT OF TOGETHERNESS AND UNITY&#8211;MANKIND IS UNIFIED IN TOGETHER DISOBEYING GOD.\u00a0 Psalms 14:3\u00a0They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one. &nbsp; 1. DOING THINGS TOGETHER COUNTS TO GOD. A. THE ACTIONS OF GENERATIONS ARE PUT TOGETHER WHEN GOD JUDGES A NATION. 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