Summary
So that's the three here that's dispatched from Cornelius, that's going to be part of the gathering here. I said, well, I know exactly what you're talking about because I knew his son John. Satan wants to think that we can live outside of gathering together in community, that we can somehow just be the lone person there outside of community, but Satan knows the vulnerability of the lone wolf. If God wants us in community around his word, then Satan wants us outside of community to listen to the monologue in our own minds. If God wants us in community and around his word, then what the Satan wants us outside of the community, where we don't receive the inheritance and fallible word of God, and its multiplicity of avenues to which it comes to us, as we gather for the study and the worship of his holy name, he wants us to listen to the voices of the culture. If God wants us in community around his word, then Satan wants the exact opposite, the exact opposite.
Video citations
- The Gathering 3-24-19 — The gathering, the gathering. We see various gatherings throughout Holy Scripture. I think for example in numbers, when people are complaining against Moses and their thirsty, and so God grants them…