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Where Two Or Three Are Gathered

Jesus taught His disciples that wherever two or three are gathered in His name, He was there with them. This phrase has been used throughout the Church, especially whenever there is a small showing of people for a service. It’s used as an encouraging phrase today, but is that truly what Jesus meant? Even though we quote the verse correctly, are we misusing it? Join Reverend Kenny Yates as he searches through Scripture for the true meaning behind this saying in his video, Where Two Or Three Are Gathered.

Ezekiel 22:29-31
Matthew 18:15-20
Acts 10:28b-29
Deuteronomy 17:6
1 Corinthians 5:3-5
2 Corinthians 13:1-2

Where Two Or Three Are Gathered

For Where Two or Three Are Gathered In My Name, There Am I Among Them (Jesus)

¹⁵If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. ¹⁶But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. ¹⁷If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector. ¹⁸Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. ¹⁹Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. ²⁰For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.

Matthew 18:15-20

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Salvation Pt. 3: How Do I Get Salvation?

Many people in the Church take the term salvation for granted. How many of us would be able to explain what salvation is, why we all need it, as well as how to get/receive it to someone who has never heard? How can we spread the Gospel to the ends of the earth if we don’t fully know how to explain it ourselves? Peter told us to be ready to give a reason for our hope; therefore, wouldn’t why we need salvation and how we obtained it fall under that category? Join Reverend Kenny Yates as he lays out the foundation for our salvation that all Christians should have in his video, Salvation Pt. 3: How Do I Get Salvation?

Acts 2:37–41
John 14:5–6
Ephesians 2:8-9
Isaiah 53:5 (KJV)
Acts 10:34-35
1 John 1:9
1 John 2:1–6
Psalms 32:5
Matthew 11:28–30
1 Corinthians 10:13
Psalms 32:5

How Do I Get Salvation?

What is Salvation?

Salvation is the process of being forgiven and redeemed from sin.

How Do I Obtain Salvation?

³⁷Now when they heard this they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?” ³⁸And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. ³⁹For the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far off, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to Himself.” ⁴⁰And with many other words He bore witness and continued to exhort them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation.” ⁴¹So those who received His word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls.

Acts 2:37–41

⁸But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim); ⁹because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. ¹⁰For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.

Romans 10:8-10

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Salvation Pt. 1: What is Salvation?

Those who grew up in the Church are familiar with the term salvation and what that means. In fact, many of us take it for granted and expect everyone to know what it means to accept salvation and be saved. If someone were to ask for a definition of salvation, would you be able to give it? Are you someone who doesn’t fully understand what salvation is and wants to build a strong Christian foundation? Join Reverend Kenny Yates as he searches through Scripture for the best definition in his video, Salvation Pt. 1: What is Salvation?

Isaiah 12:2
Acts 4:12
Genesis 3:1–7
Romans 5:12
Romans 3:23
Romans 5:21
1 Peter 3:18

What is Salvation?

Definition of Salvation

² The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.

Psalms 18:2

¹¹ I, I am the LORD, and besides me there is no savior.

Isaiah 43:11

¹²And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.

Acts 4:12

Webster’s Dictionary Definition of Salvation

1. A saving or being saved from danger, evil, difficulty, destruction, etc.; rescue

2. A person or thing that is a means, cause, or source of preservation or rescue

3. Theol. Deliverance from sin and from the penalties of sin; redemption

Webster’s Dictionary Definition of Redeem

1. To buy back

2. To get back; recover, as by paying a fee

3. To pay off (a mortgage or note)

Salvation means to be redeemed which means to be purchased back.

Redeemed or Purchased Back From What?

¹²Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all menbecause all sinned— ¹³for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law. ¹⁴Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come.

Romans 5:12-14

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