Two Become One, Part 3

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Two Become One, Part 3

July 12, 2006 • Pastor Star R. Scott

Amen. Let's turn to Matthew's gospel, we'll pick up where we were Sunday morning and just allow the Lord to minister to us. I've heard a lot of rumblings since we started on this subject. Some of you old folks are mad at me from Sunday night and those different areas. We're in a place of really trying to identify in all of our lives-remember why we started this teaching, and how we're relating to the wisdom of this world, that's what this teaching's all about. Are we people that are living by faith, walking in the spirit, living from the Tree of Life, or are we more influenced by that Tree of the fruit of the Knowledge of Good and Evil; humanism, secularism? What in our lives is out of order as it's pertaining to our fulfilling the will and the promises of God? We were studying-we saw as we talked in the relationship thing, and we'll get into the practical parts as we continue through, but the Scripture says it's not good for man to be alone. He tells us why and we realize the necessity of two becoming one flesh.

So let's turn to Matthew's gospel, Chapter 19, and again refresh our hearts with the Word of God, and remembering the Pharisees that come to the Lord tempting him. Their motive was not pure, they weren't wanting to know the truth and they were just wanting to try to trip him up. [Verse 3] "...Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?" They were looking for a way to justify their position. One of the positions that were being very strongly held by Hillel at that particular time was a perversion of biblical truths which is the authority of the man, prominent position of the man, and even until recent times outside of Christianity, women were seen as chattel, they were seen as property of men. Jesus, of course, debunked that, defused it, and revealed the truth. The Holy Spirit, through Paul's epistle, revealed the truth that it's not male or female (Galatians 3:28), amen? This body of Christ that we're in, we realize the unification of what God's doing in bringing two together, making them one is to bring that healing, that wholeness to man in the spirit, and that completion that was lost when God saw that Adam needed a help meet...

Two Become One, Part 1

July 5, 2006 • Pastor Star R. Scott

So let's go to Genesis and we'll see what happens. In that particular foundational principle, we see, then, that it's natural for there to be an attraction, for there to be relationships, none wanting to be alone. So what's the biblical order and what are the guidelines that lead to this particular phenomenon of two becoming one, because that's really what we're talking about-how do two become one? That's the end of relationships: two becoming one. The pursuit, the covenant, the union that is spiritual, and evidenced in the physical, for the purpose of being able to bring glory to God, because two are better than one. Now, in Genesis we find the Lord speaking to us. Look at Genesis, Chapter 2; we'll pick this up. Following the admonition, the verses that we've been teaching on for two years or more in so many different ways, about the tree of the knowledge of good and evil versus the tree of life-following those verses you read this in verse 18, "And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone . . . " I'm pausing for some of you men to say [the men in the congregation say "Amen"] and some of you ladies to say "It's about time"-I mean "Amen." "It's not good for man to be alone." I want you to catch this phrase and let it speak to you in the spirit. " . . . God said [this is God], It's not good that the man should be alone . . . " You've heard the will of God, and yet like everything, if we're walking in the flesh, we take things into our own hands. We want to control it, we want to manipulate, we want to know, we want to plan, we have an agenda, and that's why we mess up so often and are never able to really arrive at spiritual relationships, life in the spirit, and God's best for us. I heard such a sad statement, some statistics, just the other day on Father's Day. It said that 50 percent of our homes in America, on Father's Day, have no male figure in the homes at this particular time. And of those that do, 70 percent are not the original male figure of the home. That's a sad commentary on where we've come-man's way...

Two Become One, Part 2

July 9, 2006 • Pastor Star R. Scott

Let's turn to Matthew, Chapter 19. We want to continue along with the study on two becoming one. I'm going to reiterate a number of things that we shared at Men's Breakfast the other day, because as confident as I am that all the husbands came home and shared everything that took place in the meeting verbatim-I know that happens all the time-we'll try to hit some of the highlights anyway and see what we can do. It really starts there with the men. That's why we took the time in Men's Breakfast yesterday. Men, you are the final authority in the lives of your children as it pertains to their individual course that you oversee and spiritually as the patriarch of your household. There are requirements placed upon you, and you can't take it lightly. Ladies, of course, your role is to support them in God's ordained role as the head of the home. Children obeying their parents in the Lord; wives submitting to your husbands as unto the Lord; husbands loving your wives as Christ loved the church, willing to die to self for them: that's what love is really all about. So as we look at this subject, I was telling the men yesterday that the thing we have to do first of all is unravel all of the bondage that we're in in our thought processes. We just taught a couple of weeks ago on the battle of the mind: renewing the mind and putting on the whole armor of God, holding up the shield of faith against the fiery darts of the enemy, pulling down every thought and imagination that exalts itself against the knowledge of God. We talked about the battle we're having with the spirit of this age. As I taught that, many of us are thinking, "Yes, okay. I'm free from that. Praise God." I shared that we're under greater bondage than many of us really know as it pertains to the spirit of the age, the spirit of this world, the spirit of antichrist...

Two Become One, Part 4

July 16, 2006 • Pastor Star R. Scott

We want to continue with this relationship teaching. There's a lot of talk going on about it. Many of us are excited. Some of us are saying, "Amen," and some of us are saying, "Oh, me!" I would just encourage you to wait until the smoke clears and we're done. Then, try to find out where you are in the midst of all this. Don't worry about anybody else. It's like every other teaching. "How does this really apply to my life? What's God saying to me?" Also, don't get caught up in the periphery. We're trying to give a lot of examples. We're trying to speak toward many different aspects of a complex subject. We'll have to go over and over many of the specifics, but don't sit waiting for one specific point that will help you solve all of life's problems and miss the general principles that we're setting forth. In other words, if you can't identify and live by the general principles, you'll never get the specifics working for you. See the obvious, first of all, and say, "Am I doing the obvious? Am I doing the general principles that God's Word speaks toward?" If so, then I'm going to be able to clearly hear the specific guidance. I'll have confidence and faith that God will order my steps and put me specifically where He wants me. We all know the Scripture says, "He that findeth a wife findeth a good thing and obtains favor of the Lord." All the guys said, "Amen," even those with wives, especially those with wives! Amen? I asked the question in Men's Breakfast the other day, "How many of you love your wives more now than you did when you married them?" We didn't have a show of hands, so ladies; I can't give you the report. But, I'm sure it would have been the overwhelming majority, if not unanimous. Then the question was asked, "But how many of you love them differently than you loved them when you were first married, whenever that was?" Some have longer periods that have transpired; we have some newlyweds here that have been married less than a year. That's an exciting thing. They can't identify as much with that second statement, but some who have been married for longer can...