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.
For Where Two or Three Are Gathered In My Name, There Am I Among Them (Jesus)
15 If 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. 16 But 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. 17 If 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. 18 Truly, 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. 19 Again 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. 20 For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.
Jesus made many bold statements, some of which we still don’t fully understand. One in particular is when Jesus was under attack by the Jews. Jesus stated that Abraham not only saw His day but was glad when he did. Abraham died more than a thousand years before Jesus came to the earth, so how could he see Jesus’ day? Join Rev. Kenny Yates as he searches through Scripture for the answer in his video, How Did Abraham See Jesus’ Day?
John 8:52-59 Genesis 22:1-2 John 3:16 Galatians 4:23-31 2 Chronicles 3:1 1 Chronicles 21:22 1 Chronicles 21:24 Hebrews 13:11-12 Genesis 22:8 Genesis 22:9 John 19:16-17 John 10:17-18 Hebrews 11:17-19 Genesis 22:18
Jesus and Abraham
How Did Abraham See Jesus’ Day?
48 The Jews answered him, “Are we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan and have a demon?” 49 Jesus answered, “I do not have a demon, but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me. 50 Yet I do not seek my own glory; there is One who seeks it, and He is the judge. 51 Truly, truly, I say to you, if anyone keeps my word, he will never see death.” 52 The Jews said to Him, “Now we know that you have a demon! Abraham died, as did the prophets, yet you say, ‘If anyone keeps my word, he will never taste death.’ 53 Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died? And the prophets died! Who do you make yourself out to be?” 54 Jesus answered, “If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say, ‘He is our God.’ 55 But you have not known Him. I know Him. If I were to say that I do not know Him, I would be a liar like you, but I do know Him and I keep His word. 56 Your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day. He saw it and was glad.” 57 So the Jews said to Him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?” 58 Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.”59 So they picked up stones to throw at Him, but Jesus hid Himself and went out of the temple.
The belief that God is made up of three separate persons (The Trinity Doctrine) with one mind, heart, and desire is the foundation of Christianity. This belief that Jesus is God is the very reason He was crucified and His followers attacked and persecuted. 2,000 years later, the divinity of the LORD Jesus Christ is still being questioned, debated, and discussed not just in the world but the Church. How can we say that Jesus saves us and call on His name for salvation, yet claim He was not God incarnate? This one statement alone is blasphemy if the divinity of Christ is from the Spirit of Error. Join ArieRashelle as she guides us through Scripture, pointing out multiple statements claiming the divinity of Jesus Christ in her video, Five Biblical Statements That Claim Jesus Is God.
Genesis 1:1 Isaiah 44:24-25 Genesis 1:1 Exodus 20:3 Deuteronomy 10:17 Psalms 82:1 Genesis 1:26-27 Colossians 1:15-20 Hebrews 6:19-20 Hebrews 1:1-4 1 John 2:22 John 1:29 Acts 8:32-35 Revelation 17:14 John 1 Revelation 19:13-16 Psalms 136:1-3 Matthew 22:37 Deuteronomy 6:5 Matthew 22:44 Psalms 110:1 1 Samuel 8:7 Isaiah 44:6 Isaiah 48:12 Revelation 1:8 Revelation 21:5-7 Revelation 22:12-13 John 10:11-18 Psalms 23:1 Zechariah 11:17 Jeremiah 23:1 Matthew 22:41-46 2 Corinthians 3:12-18 2 Corinthians 4:3-4 Matthew 1:23 Philippians 2:5-11 Matthew 1:1-17 Psalms 89:35-37 Acts 2:29-31 Revelation 5:5 Revelation 22:16 Philippians 2:10-11 Isaiah 45:23
Five Biblical Statements That Claim Jesus Is God
The Trinity Doctrine In The Bible
19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.
Matthew 28:19-20
6 And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!”
Galatians 4:6
22 At that time the Feast of Dedication took place at Jerusalem. It was winter, 23 and Jesus was walking in the temple, in the colonnade of Solomon. 24 So the Jews gathered around Him and said to Him, “How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.” 25 Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name bear witness about me, 26 but you do not believe because you are not among my sheep. 27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. 28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.30 I and the Father are one.” 31 The Jews picked up stones again to stone him.32 Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you going to stone me?” 33 The Jews answered Him, “It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you but for blasphemy, because you, being a man, make yourself God.”34 Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I said, you are gods’? 35 If He called them gods to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be broken— 36 do you say of Him whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’? 37 If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me; 38 but if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.” 39 Again they sought to arrest Him, but He escaped from their hands.
The doctrine that Jesus is not LORD has been around since He came on to this earth. This is the Spirit of Antichrist, the spirit that denies that Jesus is the Christ. In doing so, you deny that Jesus is divine in nature and an equal member of the Godhead. But when does Jesus ever claim to be God? Join Reverend Kenny Yates as he opens our eyes to not only the importance of believing in the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit but also the indisputable evidence of the divine nature of Jesus in his message, False Teachings Pt. 3: The Trinity.
Deuteronomy 6:4 Genesis 1:2b John 1:1-5 John 17:1-5 John 8:48-59 John 9:35-39 Matthew 14:33 Matthew 28:9, 17 Luke 24:52 Psalms 45:6-7 Psalms 110:1 Matthew 22:41-46 Mark 12:35-37 Luke 20:41-44 Psalms 2:11-12 Isaiah 59:16 Isaiah 63:5 Psalms 98:1-2 Zechariah 9:9 Psalms 3:8 1 Corinthians 8:5-6
The Trinity
The Godhead
One of the most dangerous false teachings taught is that Jesus is not God but only a man.
The Creator
1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
Genesis 1:1
26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27 So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
Genesis 1:26-27
If God alone created all things, then Jesus must then be God as Jesus is the Word of God.
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.2 He was in the beginning with God. 3All things were made through Him, and without Him was not any thing made that was made.4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
Before the Last Supper or the Crucifixion of Jesus, Mary anointed Jesus at Bethany. When she did this, she did something strange; she wiped Jesus’ feet with her hair. This seems like such an odd action, which obviously begs the question of why. Join ArieRashelle as she searches through Scripture to understand the purpose of Mary’s actions in her video, Why Did Mary Wipe Jesus’ Feet With Her Hair?
John 12:1-8 John 11:1-7 John 11:17-27 Luke 10:38-42 John 11:28-37 Mark 5:35-43 John 11:38-44 James 1:5-8 John 12:1-3 1 Corinthians 11:14-15 Luke 7:36-50 Ruth 3:1-5 Ruth 4:1-10 Exodus 4:24-26
Jesus Anointed At Bethany
Why Did Mary Wipe Jesus’ Feet With Her Hair?
1Six days before the Passover, Jesus therefore came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. 2 So they gave a dinner for Him there. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those reclining with Him at table. 3 Mary therefore took a pound of expensive ointment made from pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped His feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. 4 But Judas Iscariot, one of His disciples (he who was about to betray Him), said, 5 “Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?” 6 He said this, not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief, and having charge of the moneybag he used to help himself to what was put into it. 7 Jesus said, “Leave her alone, so that she may keep it for the day of my burial. 8 For the poor you always have with you, but you do not always have me.”
John 12:1-7
Mary wiped the feet of Jesus with her hair. Why? Could it have been an act of repentance?
Easter Monday is the day that we remember and rejoice in the Resurrection of Jesus. As Christians, this is one of our greatest and most important celebrations because, in Jesus’ resurrection, we have everlasting life. Though we celebrate that Jesus was raised from the dead 2,000 years ago, but who raised Jesus from the dead? Join ArieRashelle as she searches through Scripture to find the answer to this question and more in her video, Who Raised Jesus From The Dead?
Acts 4:8-10 1 Thessalonians 1:9-10 John 2:19-21 John 10:17-18 John 10:22-30 John 8:54 Mark 12:28-30 Deuteronomy 6:4 Revelation 17:14 Revelation 19:16 Philippians 2:5-11 Ephesians 1:3-6 Romans 8:11 1 Corinthians 15:47-57 2 Corinthians 4:4 Revelation 20:6
Who Raised Jesus From The Dead?
1Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, 2 and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. 3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, 4 that He was buried, that He was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, 5 and that He appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. 6 Then He appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep.
1 Corinthians 15:1-6
4 We were buried therefore with Him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have been united with Him in a death like His, we shall certainly be united with Him in a resurrection like His. 6 We know that our old self was crucified with Him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.
Many believe that there is too much evidence in the Scripture against Jesus being diving in nature for Him to be God. One major reason is because Jesus died on the cross for our sins. So how could God die? If anything, doesn’t that mean that the Father is greater than or above the Son, Jesus? Join ArieRashelle as she searches through Scripture to understand why Jesus was the member of the Godhead (the Trinity) that had to die on the cross for all of mankind in her video, Why Did God The Son Have To Die?
32 As they went out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name. They compelled this man to carry His cross. 33 And when they came to a place called Golgotha (which means Place of a Skull), 34 they offered Him wine to drink, mixed with gall, but when He tasted it, He would not drink it. 35 And when they had crucified Him, they divided His garments among them by casting lots. 36 Then they sat down and kept watch over Him there. 37 And over His head they put the charge against Him, which read, “This is Jesus, the King of the Jews.” 38 Then two robbers were crucified with Him, one on the right and one on the left. 39And those who passed by derided Him, wagging their heads 40 and saying, “You who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross.” 41 So also the chief priests, with the scribes and elders, mocked Him, saying, 42 “He saved others; He cannot save Himself. He is the King of Israel; let Him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in Him. 43 He trusts in God; let God deliver Him now, if He desires Him. For He said, ‘I am the Son of God.’” 44 And the robbers who were crucified with Him also reviled Him in the same way. 45 Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour. 46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” that is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” 47 And some of the bystanders, hearing it, said, “This man is calling Elijah.” 48 And one of them at once ran and took a sponge, filled it with sour wine, and put it on a reed and gave it to Him to drink.49 But the others said, “Wait, let us see whether Elijah will come to save Him.” 50 And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and yielded up His spirit.
2,000 years ago, the Lamb of God came to take away the sin of the world. God came in the flesh, yet the Pharisees and their followers didn’t recognize this visitation. They didn’t recognize God incarnate as He rode before them on a donkey fulfilling prophecy. They missed all of the signs. Will you? Join Reverend Kenny Yates as he opens our eyes to the importance of the sign of the times in his Palm Sunday message, The Day of Visitation.
Luke 19:28-44 Psalms 50:12 Psalms 118:22 Luke 20:17-18 Matthew 23:37-39
The Day of Visitation
The Triumphal (Triumphant) Entry
28 And when He had said these things, He went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem. 29 When He drew near to Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount that is called Olivet, He sent two of the disciples, 30 saying, “Go into the village in front of you, where on entering you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever yet sat. Untie it and bring it here. 31 If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you untying it?’ you shall say this: ‘The Lord has need of it.’”
32 So those who were sent went away and found it just as He had told them. 33 And as they were untying the colt, its owners said to them, “Why are you untying the colt?” 34 And they said, “The Lord has need of it.” 35 And they brought it to Jesus, and throwing their cloaks on the colt, they set Jesus on it. 36 And as He rode along, they spread their cloaks on the road.
37 As He was drawing near—already on the way down the Mount of Olives—the whole multitude of His disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen, 38 saying, “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!” 39 And some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Him, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples.” 40 He answered, “I tell you, if these were silent, the very stones would cry out.”
Jerusalem Missed The Day of Their Visitation
41 And when He drew near and saw the city, He wept over it, 42 saying, “Would that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. 43 For the days will come upon you, when your enemies will set up a barricade around you and surround you and hem you in on every side 44 and tear you down to the ground, you and your children within you. And they will not leave one stone upon another in you, because you did not know the time of your visitation.”
Before the Resurrection, before the crucifixion, and even before the betrayal of Jesus, Jesus was anointed at Bethany by an unnamed woman. Jesus said that this story would be told wherever the Gospel is preached in memory of this woman, but she’s never named in the story. So, how can this story be told of what she did in memory of her if she isn’t named? Join ArieRashelle as she searches through Scripture to find the identity of this mystery woman in her video, Who Anointed Jesus At Bethany?
Matthew 26:6-13 John 12:1-8
Who Anointed Jesus At Bethany?
The Story of the Unnamed Woman at Bethany
6 Now when Jesus was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, 7 a woman came up to him with an alabaster flask of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head as he reclined at table. 8 And when the disciples saw it, they were indignant, saying, “Why this waste? 9 For this could have been sold for a large sum and given to the poor.” 10 But Jesus, aware of this, said to them, “Why do you trouble the woman? For she has done a beautiful thing to me. 11 For you always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me. 12 In pouring this ointment on my body, she has done it to prepare me for burial. 13 Truly, I say to you, wherever this gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her.”
Matthew 26:6-13
The Name of the Woman Who Anointed Jesus at Bethany
1Six days before the Passover, Jesus therefore came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. 2 So they gave a dinner for him there. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those reclining with him at table. 3 Mary therefore took a pound of expensive ointment made from pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. 4 But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (he who was about to betray him), said, 5 “Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?” 6 He said this, not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief, and having charge of the moneybag he used to help himself to what was put into it. 7 Jesus said, “Leave her alone, so that she may keep it for the day of my burial. 8 For the poor you always have with you, but you do not always have me.”
Jesus describes the last Church in Revelation as being Lukewarm, neither hot nor cold. Because of this, Jesus rejects this Church and spits them out of His mouth. This was a warning from Jesus. He’s telling us that we should be doing something more than just going through the motions. Join Reverend Kenny Yates as he opens our eyes to our duties as Christians and how to be hot for God instead of Lukewarm in his message, Chasing His Presence.
Mark 6:30–34 Psalms 42:1–2 Numbers 6:22–27 2 Chronicles 7:14 Psalms 27:8 Psalms 27:9 Genesis 4:13–14 John 15:3–8 Philippians 3:12–15 Matthew 5:6b Mark 6:47–51 2 Samuel 6:20–23 Daniel 9:3
Chasing His Presence
1 As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God. 2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? 3 My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God?” 4 These things I remember, as I pour out my soul: how I would go with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God with glad shouts and songs of praise, a multitude keeping festival. 5 Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise Him, my salvation 6 and my God. My soul is cast down within me; therefore I remember you from the land of Jordan and of Hermon, from Mount Mizar. 7 Deep calls to deep at the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your waves have gone over me. 8 By day the Lord commands his steadfast love, and at night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life. 9 I say to God, my rock: “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?” 10 As with a deadly wound in my bones, my adversaries taunt me, while they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God?” 11 Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise Him, my salvation and my God.
