• The Principle of Unanimous Agreement – Act 15:22-29
  • The Word of God
  • The teaching through gifted men
  • The Word of God and the mind of the Spirit are in unanimous agreement
• Learning and Understanding the Word of God – Act 15:30-35
  • Attention to the basics
  • The waiting on God
  • When the guidance is not clear
• The Principle of Responsible Concern – Act 15:36
  • They remembered the people
  • They wanted to “see how they are”
  • Concern for their growth
  • They took the initiative
  • They moved out in response to opportunity
• The Principle of Separation – Act 15:37-41
  • Agreeing to disagree
  • Paul and Barnabas disagreed
  • It was not good to remain in contention
  • It was better to separate
• The Principle of Flexibility – Act 16:1-5
  • Titus - all Greek
  • Timothy
    • Father - Greek
    • Mother – Jew
  • Timothy is circumcised – Titus was not
  • The governing principle – 1Co 9:22
• The Inner Witness of the Spirit – Act 16:6-8
  • Paul used common sense and went to the logical places
  • The Holy Spirit did not allow them to go into Bithynia – Act 16:7
  • The inner sense of confirming peace
  • The inner sense of denial
• The Sovereign Direction Through the Bible
  • A dream
  • A vision
  • The immediate obedience
  • The action of faith
• Some More Principles
  • The priority of God’s will involves relationship, not program
  • The priority of God’s will involves being, not doing
  • The will of God concerning character is universal – Rom 8:28-31; Gal 5:22-23
  • The will of God concerning service is individual
  • Discovering the will of God is primarily a matter of acceptance and not guidance
  • God does not usually unfold the details of our future, but does lead day by day
  • We should act on what we already know to be right
  • We must live with expectancy toward God
  • We should be willing to obey whatever
  • We should not see conditions
  • We must not avoid the responsibility of making decisions
  • We have great freedom
  • We must use our common sense
  • We should not keep looking for subjective confirmation
  • Don’t be overly suspicious about your desires
  • Don’t think that right decisions bring exemption from problems
  • Trust God’s over-all sovereignty to overlook all our wrongs

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