Jesus Commands the Church to Meet. Period. (Various Texts)
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- "Jesus Commands the Church to Meet. Period." (Various Texts)
Preached by Pastor Jacob Reaume at Trinity Bible Chapel for May 24, 2020 (online service).
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Your courage Pastor Reaume is both palpable and inspirational. Godspeed.
Watching this 10 months later and still relevant; and such an important message. Now churches are still fighting to remain open.
Here we are a year later, and still the same battle, you're words ring true still today. We must open our churches. God is sovereign!
Most of the churches in LA are still closed.
when we honour God He honours us. We have nothing to fear only Him
What a breath of Spiitual air. Thank you for your Godliness Pastor. God Bless you.
This is exactly how and what I've been wrestling with ... God wants us to Worship Him.
Yes me too.
Amen Brother. The State has no Authority beyond regulating commerce. The Church, is not the Steeple, it's the People. WE CAN NOT SERVE 2 MASTERS. BOLD Faith in Love is our Order, be not Afraid.
Praying for you and your elders and congregation, Pastor Reaume. 🙏🏻💞 Keep the faith! 🙌🏻
God Bless 🤍 Much LOVE in Jesus Name from Montréal🤍
What a powerful message of Spirit filled truth. Praise God for your faithfulness to share with us what He gave you
This is so right on. God bless you brother for taking this stand. Our God Reigns
Preach it, brother.
Love brother's who Love and fear God more than men. God's Shalom and power as you move forward with your armor on!
Messaging is beautifully succinct and truthful. This pebble of truth in the pond of humanity will move outwards as every person who watches it shares with another then another etc and causes positive change. The message has an undertone of personal responsibility to stand against laws and civil servants that unjustly persecute those of faith and those who are frail of spirit and/or body.
Just saw this incredible sermon . It may be over a year old but still so relevant to today. Pastor Jacob you are a well spoken; calm but determined rock solid speaker of the truth. Excellent dear brother. I praise God.
Thank you Pastor. You knew the truth way back and preached it. Imagine if people had listened to you back then.
Now, as we have witnessed, the imprisonment of a pastor, the intimidation of the church around the country, tickets and summons, health officers bullying church members and intimidating congregants, taking pictures of services, over a year later, do you believe?
This pastor knew then and he knows now because he was listening to the Holy Spirit in him.
The churches are still closed and people are suffering. Speak to your pastors and tell them to open your churches, if they won't, find one that will.
Yes may we be bold and courageous!
Praise the Lord! Thank you for this message that answered so many questions I have had and it also was very confirming for me. God Bless! Maranatha!!!
AMEN!
A co worker of mine said last month his wife's 80 year old relative died from contracting covid at church.
I'm saddened that with the new location the church has moved very far from me. I miss you all and will be praying for you, even as I continue into a new church family. I pray many churches follow in your footsteps both in this message and in your dedication to scripture. I felt the Spirit in your words. God Bless you Pastor Jacob, Glory to Christ.
God bless you brother
The more draconian restrictions we submit ourselves to the higher the "cases" rise. Why keep doing what doesn't work?
Thanks Pastor Jacob. God bless you. Praying for you brother.
1 year later and we are still under tyrannical rule in Quebec, thank you for your brave truth preaching
Brother, I am deeply grateful that you spoke these words boldly. You have fulfilled your duty as a preacher of God's Word. We've always theorized that days like this would come, and prayed we would be found worthy to endure persecution and follow God in the face of opposition. That day is here. IT IS TIME.
Thank you for speaking out boldly. Psalm 11:3-4, 3 If the foundations are destroyed,
What can the righteous do?”
4 The Lord is in His holy temple; the Lord’s throne is in heaven;
His eyes behold, His eyelids test the sons of men. Let's trust the Lord and get back to church.
Amen, brother! Praise God for you! YES, you have every right and the DUTY to speak out on this! This must go viral. Churches should repent of forsaking the assembly!
"Covidism" - LOVE. THIS. Preach!!!
Amen brother! Blessings to you for being obedient to God to speak what you did.
You did well! No worries all will be as God has guided.
Blessed be you oh son of the most high.
wow, how this Pastor has been sounding the alarm since more than a year ago!!! And what is the church's response?? Hellooo!
What a timely sermon! Thank you. I have been thinking for a while now that the policies being pushed now are just a per-cursor of things to come.
This sermon was emailed to me it was right on Thank you and Bless you.
I agree with this completely.
Love it pastor ...may the LORD BLESS YOU
Not to be negative, but this whole idea of "agreeing to speak what the Lord wants me to say, and a burden lifted off from me and I was able to write a sermon and get a good night of sleep" I take with a grain of salt. Seriously I'm not trying being nasty. I say this because I understand how the human mind works.... Those who come out of the closet because of the sexual "orientation" make the same kind of statements only when they decide to be"true to themselves".
This idea of God/Paul not give an exception clause when commanding us to "Not forsake the assembling of yourselves together" in my name, needs to be put into context as well. Consider what it means to be created in God's image. God not only want us to love him who is the truth the way and the life, but he also wants us to be truthful and logical with a dangerous situation. Logic and truth are the two sides of the same coin, and, they are in the very fabric of the universe and our minds that He created. So... it's reasonable that God expects us to be logical and true. Therefore, when we're instructed not to forsake the assembling of ourselves as "his body", this means of necessity, it's not logical to assemble ourselves in front of a pack of wild lions, or, in the middle of a highway. BECAUSE we're created in his image, and we're suppose to treat this temple that is our bodies, that is in his image, with respect and care. (and by extension, our fellow man)
The METHODOLOGY of understanding God, is by asking: what is the greatest and deepest truth?
Does God want us to practice church by putting our lives at risk of a virus. Then ask (a seek out) how real a threat is the virus. We're basically asking "what is the deepest truth?"
I was able to detect based on my information bubble 6 weeks ago that the threat wasn't real as they said it was, and keep on saying that it is, or the consequences of the infection is harmful to the majority of the population. Additionally ignoring the deaths that result from the extreme lock down, or fixating on the tragic but inevitable deaths of the elderly, need to be weighed as a grand balance to come to the truth. This is actually a spiritual principle! Why? because even in scripture God both hates and loves. It's not either one or the other; it's both. Jesus also "weighted" the scale of giving financially when a poor widow gave one mite. That was 100%. But to others, it was a pittance. Yet God sees that one mite worth more that many denari.
The authorities however aren't in the same information bubble as I am, but are living in a bubble of fear, fiduciary duty, political repercussions, social repercussions and myopia. They didn't make it their agenda to ask "What is the deepest and weighted truth for the greatest good?"
To those who would rather have him only preaching about Jesus...
All truth is God's truth, even scientific data, and statistics. It's our job, in the context of being created in His image AND the rest of God's word to rightly interrupt that data.
And then there is corrupt and falsified data which is what this entire pandemic shutdown has been based on.
@@robynnbryar1977
And to all of us who were paying attention, it GRADUALLY became evident that it was corrupt and falsified. Be honest, you didn't know that it was corrupt and falsified right off the bat. The same process that allowed you to realize that it was false and corrupt is the same God given process that allowed you to assess the data.
Scientific and statistical data is not necessarily a full on once-and-for-all revelation from God. But if we're all paying attention the amount of time it took for the Bible to be compiled, neither is the Bible. God took his sovereign good time to gradually reveal himself, and gradually introduce the gospel even though he hard-wired within all of humanity that a sacrifice needed to be made. Behold the idolatrous pagans, they at least understood that a sacrifice was necessary in spite of not being blessed with the truth as we now have it revealed to us.
So take it from there. God seems to be delighted in having engage in HIS process in order to seek and find and it shall be found.
@@kennorthunder2428 "Be honest" Honestly I suspected that it was false because of the hype we were all going to die. It seems every other month CNN and other liberal channels are trying to scare everyone that they are goingt to die. Remember Zica and they wanted all the pregnant women to get abortions? Because their babies were going to be deformed from a mosquito bite? Sars. .... After a while when you hear that everyone is going to die and you see the liberal fake news setting off panic, that is a tell, and you know. You know that soon the truth will be exposed. Because YOURE GOING TO DIE is their worn-out ploy.
So, you believe in church and state. Which puts you in eternal danger.
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Puts me in eternal danger?! On what Biblical basis do you assert this?
When God assembled the nation of Israel after their liberation from Egypt, wasn't that the union of church and state?
Globe and Mail, May 28, “She cited reports that a single church service in Frankfurt, Germany, on May 10 had resulted in 107 cases of COVID-19 in the surrounding area - even though the church had followed strict government rules on the number of people attending and required 1½ metres of space between congregants. In South Africa, at least 67 people tested positive for the coronavirus after hundreds had attended a prayer breakfast in Free State province in mid-March. Authorities had to trace and test more than 1,600 people who had come into contact with those who tested positive.”
Gerald Dejong So sre they tracing everyone at the grocery stores? Golf courses? Liquor stores? You are fear mongering. The story was probably grosly exagerated like ao many are on the fake news. There is clearly an agenda to keep the churches closed. If you are Christian it is your perogative to say at home and not fellowship. But if theatres and hair salons are open there is no reason to argue for churches to remain closed just because of a news story of people getting sick after attending church. Especially when we have learned of the high number of false positive diagnoses. This disease has been grossely exagerated the world over. Deaths attributed to covid 19 when there was no positive test. And deaths such as heart attacks and car accidents being labeled covid 19 on death certs.
Robynn Bryar did the Good Samaritan go the extra mile for his neighbour? So what does Jesus say about our neighbours?
Matthew 22:37-40
37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself. 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
@@geralddejong3384 you can quote scripture all day long but if you dont understand the context, and you are of another spirit then it is pointless.
Yes the good samaritan stopped and helped but you wouldn't stop, you would be too afraid of catching Covid 19. You are afraid of Christians who are not sick who might be sick attending church. And it is Christians Gerald who are the ones in this society most likely to pick up the ailing person, (who might have covid 19 or be beat up in the road) to feed them, to minister to them. You are a man clutching at strawman arguments and scriptures. You have ignored all the points I made. You ignored all the points that the minister made in the video. You are here only to argue. You are here to tell Christians to stay in the box that the globalists want them to stay in. Again I call you out as not belonging in this conversation because you are not of the same spirit you have no right to quote scripture you don't understand to attempt to contain Christians at home. You use God's word as a slap in the face as a demon would use you to do. As scripture tells us even the demons can quote scripture. And even the demons recognized Jesus. It is only the fools like you who are demonized and blinded by the demons who do not recognize what is of God and what is His vourse of action for Christians to follow.
Robynn Bryar I am not addressing this just to you personally. I am addressing this to all of our Christian brothers and sisters. I am very concerned that by the purveying of fear and doubt and by the purveying of misrepresentations we as followers of Jesus are losing our witness. We are lashing out instead of reaching out. Christians are sharing on social media without giving any thought to the consequences to others of a social media share. Based on hypothesis at best Christians are without care destroying the names and the honour of our neighbours. We share “maybe or maybe not” videos that elicit fear and doubt. When Christians share these incredible and potentially ruinous hypothesis are they fully considering how they are being viewed by their neighbours? How they are being viewed by God? Are we sure that we are not sharing false witness? I suspect that our neighbours are starting to see us as raging and fear sharing Christians. Is this something that our neighbours would want to mirror and to be a part of? At this time I really doubt that we are being viewed as the purveyors of grace and the purveyors of the love of Jesus when we chose rage over grace. Just think, our neighbours are in dire straits. Sick, isolated, fearing for their life, out of a job, financially ruined, fearing the future etc. etc. While they suffer through this horrific pandemic the people of God who profess to be filled with love and grace are putting their intellectual focus on purveying fear, doubt and misinformation. How does this further the Kingdom? How can we share a view of the people of God that brings our neighbours to Him? How do we continue to love our neighbours and keep our witness?
Take care!
Gerald.
Here is a great biblically based “article” that helps us as Christians consider how to respond to COVID conspiracies before we lose our witness. It is worth the read.
classicchristianebooks.com/covid-christians-and-conspiracy-theories/?fbclid=IwAR36oZ-mBoLT8Ojdjrr1HFl-4t0fgELL8tfGUWbjUThHpqLF-_zCnc5T1Hk
@@geralddejong3384 YOU are a purveyor of fear. YOU ARE QUOTING FAKE NEWS. People who are believing fake news are caught up in a tsunami of fear. Is it Christian to go along with them to leave tbem stewing in fear? Those in fear are becoming violent. Is it rational to throw ourselves into their beliefs to make them feel good? No it is not. The world is waking up around you Gerald. You are spewing false data. It does not matter if you believe it or not. The more you spew the more dangerous you become. You are not helping anyone because no one in a tsunami wave can help themself to safety. Christians who just like all the rest of the people who are sick of the cooked numbers of deaths and infected are offering dry land to the people like you who are afraid. You trust and put your faith in fake news you certainly have no faith in God.
Jesus commanded us to meet. He didn't command HOW we are to meet.
If terrorists connected on line, wouldn't they reasonably considered to have met? Didn't they have community? Didn't they have purpose?
If that's true for them, why not for us?
@@yupnope2165 God is a God of truth. Logic and truth are two sides of the same coin. It's a reflection of who God is. He wove it into the fabric of the universe and our mental universe.
If we buck logic, we're bucking God.
I challenge any Christian to show me one example where logic and truth are NOT attached to each other.
@@kennorthunder2428 Here's our official statement as to why we believe it's important to meet in person. God bless! trinitybiblechapel.ca/here-we-stand-the-church-must-meet/
@@vanderlin4966 while there is much good in that positional statement which I whole heartedly agree with, there are two other thoughts that I have. 1. Science (accurate science) is actually an instrument of God. Secularists are not the only ones allowed to use it. Our detections/observations of what is going on in the world is just as much a scientific process as their's is. The other factor that both religious and non religious people must wrestle with is our psychology (proneness to fear) and politcal and moral power.
2. Wooden obedience to God's law to gather together in the knowledge that an invading army will in all likelihood mow you down isn't obedience to God. It's foolishness that God doesn't expect from us. He expects us to true to truth, to Himself, and to goodness. He also expects us to be brave in the face of danger. (You'd also be using science to determine whether the invading army is a genuine threat).
I wrote what I wrote earler on because of people's wooden appeal to gather together. I was making the appeal to the necessity of flexibility as well as logic. These are the attributes of God (Since truth and logic are two of the same coin) as well as wisdom.
Thanks for sharing. There was some good stuff in there but it could have had a little more.
Very well said: "my body, my choice"... & more than that... church is Christ's body on earth... don't belong to Cesar.
I think the Psalm 2 it is due to be mentioned here:
"The Reign of the Lord’s Anointed
1. Why do the nations rage
and the peoples plot in vain?
2. The kings of the earth set themselves,
and the rulers take counsel together,
against the Lord and against his Anointed, saying,
3. “Let us burst their bonds apart
and cast away their cords from us.”
4. He who sits in the heavens laughs;
the Lord holds them in derision.
5. Then he will speak to them in his wrath,
and terrify them in his fury, saying,
6. “As for me, I have set my King
on Zion, my holy hill.”
7. I will tell of the decree:
The Lord said to me, “You are my Son;
today I have begotten you.
8. Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage,
and the ends of the earth your possession.
9. You shall break them with a rod of iron
and dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”
10. Now therefore, O kings, be wise;
be warned, O rulers of the earth.
11. Serve the Lord with fear,
and rejoice with trembling.
12. Kiss the Son,
lest he be angry, and you perish in the way,
for his wrath is quickly kindled.
Blessed are all who take refuge in him."