God will not work in disunity. But Dr Tony Evans says when believers come together for

God's purpose he'll make himself present. So you literally can be holding

back the glory of the Lord if you are trying to glorify Him in division.

This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless biblical

teachings from the archives of Dr Tony Evans.

When a team works as a team, they're stronger and more effective than any of the individual

players.

In today's message from the archives,

Dr Evans explains why that's even more true within the church.

Let's listen in.

Second Chronicles, Chapter 5 is a worship service.

Everything is leading up to Solomon's celebration of the dedication of the temple.

The temple is the Old Testament House of Worship. When they were

preparing to gather to worship and to celebrate, he says even though there were a lot of people gathered together all the priests

verse 11 they gathered without regard to divisions there were 24 divisions of priests and these 24 divisions had

rotations of services that they were to perform. But it says on this day,

when they came together to worship God,

they did so without regard to which group they were a part of.

Perhaps we would say today which ministry you are a part of. It says they gathered

without regard to their ministry connection. If you will notice closely you will see

in verse 13 in unison when the trumpeters and the

singers were to make themselves heard and notice again with one voice.

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