Do two walk together, unless they have agreed to meet? – Amos 3:3
When a dramatic effect is desired, or a point needs to be made, people often use a rhetorical question. While such a question may occasionally have no answer, most of the time the answer is obvious. You often find rhetorical questions peppered throughout the Bible. Isaiah uses them when ridiculing the worship of idols. “Shall I bow down before a block of wood?” (Isaiah 44:19). The devil poses a rhetorical question to God in Job 1:9-10, “Does Job fear God for no reason?” Paul uses this grammatical construct in his letter to the Romans, “Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound?” (Romans 6:1). Today’s verse is another example of a rhetorical question.
In order for Christians to have unity, there must be agreement between them. Of course, there will always be areas where disagreements persist, but keeping the main thing the main thing is the glue that binds believers together. Jesus gave His disciples the core of His Gospel—the main thing. Jesus is the Son of God, He was crucified for the sins of the whole world, and He was resurrected from the dead. One must repent of sin, believe Him, and seek to follow Him, and the believer will inherit eternal life.
Is your spiritual life focused on the essentials? Are you making the main thing the main thing? Pray for pastors and church leaders to adhere to the words of Jesus and the entirety of Scripture, to speak boldly and with clarity the things that are true. Intercede on behalf of the nation’s governing officials, and those who seek public office, that those who do not know the Lord would embrace the Savior, receive the Holy Spirit, and live in truth.
Today’s Verse: Amos 3:3
“Do two walk together,
unless they have agreed to meet?
All Scripture quotations and audio are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Recommended for further reading: Mark 8:27-38
27 And Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi. And on the way he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am?” 28 And they told him, “John the Baptist; and others say, Elijah; and others, one of the prophets.” 29 And he asked them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered him, “You are the Christ.” 30 And he strictly charged them to tell no one about him.
31 And he began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes and be killed, and after three days rise again. 32 And he said this plainly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. 33 But turning and seeing his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind me, Satan! For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man.”
34 And calling the crowd to him with his disciples, he said to them, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. 35 For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel’s will save it. 36 For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul? 37 For what can a man give in return for his soul? 38 For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son of Man also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”
All Scripture quotations and audio are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
