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WHERE TWO OR MORE ARE GATHERED (3 OF 4)
by Central Christian Church of Arizona
Scripture: Matthew 18:1-20, Matthew 18:22-35
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Where Two or More Are Gathered (3 of 4)
Series: That's What He Said
By Jeremy Jernigan
Matthew 18
1) Story: bedtime
a) Week 3 of our series ''That's What He Said''
b) Message title: Where Two or More are Gathered
c) Open your bibles to Matthew 18
d) Matthew 18:20 ''For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.''
i) It's often said when Christians gather together
ii) Christ is here! Get pumped!
2) But think this through...
a) Does that mean God isn't present with us when we are alone?
b) We might infer that despite God's omnipresence, He reserves Himself to groups only.
c) It's like a spiritual HOV lane
i) You can't travel this unless you have someone else
ii) Video clip: http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2015/02/27/police-l-i-man-caught-driving-in-hov-lane-with-fake-passenger/
iii) Does God check on us like the HOV lane?
(1) The apostle Paul: ''I need to write a letter to the Ephesians, get Barnabas so we can invoke the Holy Spirit''
(2) Or waiting till your spouse comes home so you can pray to God
(3) Or if I had to hire a second person to work on the sermon with me so that it could be written through the Holy Spirit
d) Is this verse really designed to measure critical mass for God to show up?
e) Mark 15:37-38 ''With a loud cry, Jesus breathed his last. The curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.''
3) Now if you back up just one verse, you get a different way of misquoting it
a) Matthew 18:19-20 ''Again, truly I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything they ask for, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.''
b) Maybe God hasn't answered your prayer because you didn't have other people praying it with you
i) Otherwise, He has to answer it if you have two people!
ii) ''God... both Ben and I agree that we need corvettes, so I'm pretty sure you're spiritually obligated to take care of that for us...''
iii) I hate ...
Series: That's What He Said
By Jeremy Jernigan
Matthew 18
1) Story: bedtime
a) Week 3 of our series ''That's What He Said''
b) Message title: Where Two or More are Gathered
c) Open your bibles to Matthew 18
d) Matthew 18:20 ''For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.''
i) It's often said when Christians gather together
ii) Christ is here! Get pumped!
2) But think this through...
a) Does that mean God isn't present with us when we are alone?
b) We might infer that despite God's omnipresence, He reserves Himself to groups only.
c) It's like a spiritual HOV lane
i) You can't travel this unless you have someone else
ii) Video clip: http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2015/02/27/police-l-i-man-caught-driving-in-hov-lane-with-fake-passenger/
iii) Does God check on us like the HOV lane?
(1) The apostle Paul: ''I need to write a letter to the Ephesians, get Barnabas so we can invoke the Holy Spirit''
(2) Or waiting till your spouse comes home so you can pray to God
(3) Or if I had to hire a second person to work on the sermon with me so that it could be written through the Holy Spirit
d) Is this verse really designed to measure critical mass for God to show up?
e) Mark 15:37-38 ''With a loud cry, Jesus breathed his last. The curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.''
3) Now if you back up just one verse, you get a different way of misquoting it
a) Matthew 18:19-20 ''Again, truly I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything they ask for, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.''
b) Maybe God hasn't answered your prayer because you didn't have other people praying it with you
i) Otherwise, He has to answer it if you have two people!
ii) ''God... both Ben and I agree that we need corvettes, so I'm pretty sure you're spiritually obligated to take care of that for us...''
iii) I hate ...
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