Preaching Goes Viral

Transcript of Necessity of In-person fellowship +B

Community themes; Unity of religious community; Social distancing; various aspects. Or; Not!

I think it's important to remember that God made man in his image and made man as a social creature. Okay. Because God was a made man in his image and there are three people, three persons in the Trinity right now, all those three are one, but even before the world was created and before the Lord decided to create all of this in motion, there was fellowship among the Godhead that was fellowship among the Trinity perfect fellowship. And God made man in his image, right? So God did not make man to be alone. You know, God did not intend for there's a reason why I'm the sheep that gets away from the fold is told that they need to be brought back into the fold. Cause she don't need to be by themselves. She needed to be in the midst of the flock under the direction of the shepherd, right?

When Jesus sent out the ministers to preach and teach in his day, he sent them out two by two. He didn't send them out solely by themselves. You know, we see in the old Testament, a man that was by himself before he had a tag team partner that was provided to him by the Lord, look at the, the highs and the lows in the life of Elijah when he was by himself, right? I mean, he's, he's casting down a fire own the false prophets one day. And then he gets threatened by Jesse bale. And he's, you know, under a Juniper tree saying, Lord, take my life. You know, that's what happens when you get alone by yourself solely with your own faults. And one of the benefits was certainly we're not going to take time to go over there and look at that. But one of the ways that the Lord encouraged Elijah, when he felt that way was, he said, I'm going to send you a lie HSA, which is I'm going to give you somebody to help you out. Somebody to shoulder the load, see that in the ministry. And we see that just in the companionship of marriage, it's God himself that said in Genesis chapter two, it's not good. That man should be alone. Man was made to be a social creature.

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And that's the way the Lord set up his church. That's the Lord. That's the way that the Lord orchestrated the body. You know, you think about the body, Jesus Christ as the head and we are members of the body. I've really been trying to meditate on that. I want to spend some time on that. And at a later date, at some point, but you know, members think about your bones. If there wasn't something in between those bones to allow a freedom of movement, it's not very pleasant when bone upon bone is having direct contact, right? There's something in between. There some cartilage that allows for flexibility among the members without hurting either one of those members. And I think that a spirit of love can be that cartilage in the body, but you also have blood that pumps all throughout the body. And part of that blood, I could think about that blood as being, being the Holy spirit that infuses that. But the reason why fellowship is different in the church is because of the Holy spirit, because it's spiritual fellowship. Okay. Think about this man was made in the image of God. So we have a desire for fellowship, but the question is, what kind of fellowship are we engaging in? And what kind of fellowship are we always seeking? Because even man in his natural state wants to not be by himself all the time.

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