In the book of Amos the question was asked, Can two walk together, except they be agreed?(1) Have you thought about how the answer to that question affects us in our daily walk with God? John was bold in saying, He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked. (2) John understood that to be in Jesus Christ requires more than saying, “We abide in Jesus Christ.” He understood and explained that if we are going to say, “We abide in Jesus Christ” we need it to be true in our actions and to be more than just mere words. My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth. (3)
For us to be able to walk in Jesus Christ’s ways we first need to agree with them. How willing are we when it comes to walking, living and letting the mind and attitude of Jesus Christ lead us in our everyday life? Well, that all depends on how agreeable we are with them and how agreeable they are with us.
Jesus Christ came to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord? (4) He did more than just preach these things. He lived in them and came to give us the strength and opportunity to live in the Spirit’s ways too. He came to overcome the carnal minded ways of seeing and living to deliver the spiritually minded ways of seeing and living.
Zechariah saw this and prophesied of the same. Behold the man whose name is The BRANCH; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the LORD: Even he shall build the temple of the LORD; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between them both. (5) Peace between the man and the temple of the Spirit so that they could be agreeable and work as one unit!
Paul recognized that Jesus Christ came and fulfilled this prophecy. It was the fulfilling of this prophecy that made Jesus the minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man. (6) Paul didn’t stop there though, he also recognized that this peace could be and was to be in us too! What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost (Spirit) which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s. (7) Jesus Christ not only came to make peace between the man and the temple of the Lord but he also came to deliver that same opportunity in us. These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. (8)
How will we or can we glorify God in our bodies and spirit if we don’t manifest the actions and mind that the body and Spirit of God wants us to produce? We can no longer use the excuse that we can’t do it because we’re flesh if we have received God’s
spirit. In fact, in describing the light that is to shine out of darkness, in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ, Paul says we are
not to wait until after we are dead to produce it But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us. (9)
What will it take for us to be agreeable with the Word and Spirit of God? We will have to mortify the mind, life and attitudes that are against Jesus Christ’s ways and instead seek to be joined unto him. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. (10) But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. (11)
It’s easy to look and say, “I can’t do it” but what about be renewed in the spirit of your mind? (12) Do you see that as an option or do you disagree with living and working to live in the confines of the Word and Spirit of God that it’s really not an option for you?
Someone is going to seek to agree with the Word and Spirit of God enough to live in them. The only question is will it be us? Jesus said, Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. (13) Do we hunger and thirst to be filled with more righteousness than we have and are right now? If we aren’t satisfied with what we have right now we need to do the work it takes to be joined unto that one spirit so that we can be resurrected from dead works. (14)
We are living in the day of peace between man and the temple of the Lord. The question that remains is do we agree enough with the mind, life and attitude it takes to accept that peace
Elder
Aaron Miller 
1. Amos 3:3
5. Zech. 6:12,13
9. II Cor. 4:6,7
13. Matt. 5:6
2. I John 2:6
6. Heb. 8:2
10. Rom. 8:7
14. Heb. 9:14
3. I John 3:18
7. I Cor. 6:19,20
11. I Cor. 6:17