Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from August, 2017

Explaining Matthew 18:20

Matthew 18:20    For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.   I know this seems to be a short reading to start a sermon from but I pose to you that this is one of the most misused quotes in the New Testament. Everyone seems to use this to mean that Jesus will only be with Christians if they are gathered and that is far from the truth because the scripture clearly states that Jesus himself promised to always be with us when he gave us the great commission. Matthew 28:18-20 18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. 19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: 20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.   So, if Jesus is always with us why would it state that he wil...