Come unto Me all you Who labor, and are heavy laden, Having a true & close Relationship With God
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Personal Relations 10 How does Jesus' church look
We are going to take a look at how people would sit around Jesus in a circle and listen to Him teach.
Come Let Us Reason Together - 281
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(Prepositions)
In the prior examples, we looked at the prepositions:
We are now going to look into 2 more prepositions that are very exact in showing our time and place relationship to God, and His plan through the ages, to bring us closer to Himself!
These 2 new prepositions are:
Mark 3:31-35 "Then His (Jesus') mother and His brothers came and standing outside (ek), they sent word to Him and called Him. A crowd was sitting around Him and told Him, look, Your mother, Your brothers and Your sisters are outside (ek) seeking You. He answered them saying, who is My mother and My brothers? And looking about those who were sitting in a circle around Him, He said, "Here are My mother and My brothers! Whoever does the will of God is My brother, sister and mother."
Matthew 4:23 "Jesus was going all over Galilee teaching in their synagogues (συν + αγωγε sun + agogee) preaching the good news of the Kingdom, healing every disease and sickness among the people."
The word synagogue is directly from the Greek. It is a compound word, formed by combining sun + ago. Ago means bring, lead, go, be. Now joined with sun (see 14 above) and ou get: bring together, go with, be accompanied with.
Thus the fundamental idea behind a synagogue is a gathering together to:
1) Read the Bible - Luke 4:16-19
2) Preach the Good News about the Kingdom - Matthew 4:23
3) Heal every disease and sickness - Matthew 4:23
So where are (συν + αγωγε sun + agogee) synagogues or gatherings found in the Bible?
1) A place where the whole Bible is heard & read, Luke 4:16-19, Psalms 119:160 - not just 1 Bible verse and lots of words!
2) Jesus' house - not man's
3) Wherever 2 or 3 are gathered together in Jesus name, Jesus is there among them - Matthew 18:18-20
The Following Is The Blueprint Of A True New Testament Synagogue
False Church
- Only one verse in a sermon and lot’s of men’s words.
- Lot's of "I's" in the sermon (count how many times your preacher says "I" and remind him to emphasize Jesus, not himself.
- No healings
- No preaching about the kingdom of God
- Come out of her My people - Rev. 18:4
So, where do you stand my friend?
Psalm 14:5 "...for God is in the circle of the righteous."
Mark 2:1-4 "When He had come back to Capernaum several days afterward, it was heard that He was at home. And many were gathered together, so that there was no longer room, not even near the door; and He was speaking the word to them. And they came, bringing to Him a paralytic, carried by four men. Being unable to get to Him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above Him; and when they had dug an opening, they let down the pallet on which the paralytic was lying."
Mark 3:31-35 "Then His (Jesus') mother and His brothers came and standing outside (ek), they sent word to Him and called Him. A crowd was sitting around Him and told Him, look, Your mother, Your brothers and Your sisters are outside (ek) seeking You. He answered them saying, who is My mother and My brothers? And looking about those who were sitting in a circle around Him, He said, "Here are My mother and My brothers! Whoever does the will of God is My brother, sister and mother."
Matthew 18:18-20 "Truly I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven. Again I say to you, that if two of you agree on earth about anything that they may ask, it shall be done for them by My Father who is in heaven. For where two or three have gathered together in My name, I am there in their midst."