• Why Do We Assemble With
The Saints?
• As we look at all these positive examples, just consider the negative
impact by failing to assemble with the saints.
• Introduction
• We are going to look at some reasons why we should assemble.
• The excuses used by many who do not assemble are wasted energy and will
not bode well when Christ comes again.
• There are many reasons for wanting to assemble with the saints.
• These reasons are:
• I Love The Lord
• I want to be with Him
• Matthew 18:20 “ For where two or three have gathered together
in My name, there I am in their midst”
• 1 John 3:16 “We know love by this, that he laid down His life
for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren”
• I Want To Set A Good Example
• Ephesians 6:4 “ And, fathers do not provoke your children to anger;
but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord”.
• Matthew 5:16: “Let your light shine before men in such a way that
they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven”.
• 1 Thessalonians 1:7 “so that you became an example to all the
believers in Macedonia and in Achaia”.
• 2 Thessalonians 3:7 “for you yourselves know how you ought to
follow our example, because we did not act in an undisciplined manner among
you,”
• I Want A Good Conscience
• 1 John 3:20-22 “We shall know by this that we are of the truth,
and shall assure our heart before Him, in whatever our heart condemns us; for
God is greater than our heart, and knows all things. Beloved, if our heart does
not condemn us, we have confidence before God; and whatever we ask we receive
from Him, because we keep His commandments and do the things that are pleasing
in His sight”.
• I Do Not Want To Backslide
• 2 Peter 2:20-22 “For if after they have escaped the defilements
of the world by the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are
again entangled in them and are overcome, the last state has become worse for
them than the first. For it would be better for them not to have known the way
of righteousness, than having known it, to turn away from the holy commandment
delivered to them. It has happened to them according to the true proverb, a
dog returns to its own vomit, and a sow, after washing returns to wallowing
in the more”.
• I Love To Be With My Brethren
• 1 John 4:11 “Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love
one another”.
• Romans 1:9-13 “For God, whom I serve in my spirit in the preaching
of the gospel of His Son, is my witness as to how unceasingly I make mention
of you, always in my prayers making request, if perhaps now at the last by the
will of God I may succeed in coming to you. For I long to see you in order that
I may impart some spiritual gift to you, that you may be established; that is,
that I may be encouraged together with you while among you, each of us by the
other’s faith, both yours and mine”.
• I Do Not Want To Rob God
• Malachi 3:8 -9 “Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But
you say, how have we robbed Thee? In tithes and offerings. You are cursed with
a curse, for you are robbing Me, the whole nation of you!”
• 2 Corinthians 9:6-7 “Now this I say, he who sows sparingly shall
also reap sparingly; and he who sows bountifully shall also reap bountifully.
Let each one do just as he has purposed in his heart; not grudgingly or under
compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver”.
• I Am Needed
• Hebrews 10:23-25 “Let us hold fast the confession of our hope
without wavering, for He who promised is faithful; and let us consider how to
stimulate one another to love and good deeds, not forsaking our own assembling
together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the
more, as you see the day drawing near”.
• I Need To Satisfy My Spiritual Appetite
• Matthew 5:6 “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
for they shall be satisfied”.
• 1 Peter 2:1-2 “Therefore, putting aside all malice and all guile
and hypocrisy and envy and all slander, like newborn babes, long for the pure
milk of the word, that by it you may grown in respect to salvation,”
• 2 Corinthians 4:16 “Therefore we do not lose heart, but though
our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day”.
• I Need To Grow
• Ephesians 4;15-16 “but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow
up in all aspects into Him, who is the head, even Christ, from whom the whole
body, being fitted and held together by that which every joint supplies, according
to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body
for the building up of itself in love”.
• 2 Peter 3:18 “but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord
and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory, both now and to the day of eternity.
Amen”.
• I Do Not Want To Disobey God
• 1 John 2:3-6 “And by this we know that we have come to know Him,
if we keep His commandments. The one who says, ‘I have come to know Him’,
and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;
but whoever keeps His word, in him the love of God has truly been perfected.
By this we know that we are in Him: the one who says he abides in Him ought
himself to walk in the same manner as He walked”.
• Conclusion
• We need to gather together to worship God.
• And always worship in spirit and truth (John 4:24).
• We say a lot by our actions.
• Do you love God? Is there any evidence to support your claim?
• What does your attendance (and participation) say about you?
• Isn’t it time to make things right with God?
By Carey Scott
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