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Were Better Together
Were Better Together
9 Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: 10 If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up. 11 Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm. But how can one keep warm alone? 12 Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.
8 There was a man all alone; he had neither son nor brother. There was no end to his toil, yet his eyes were not content with his wealth. “For whom am I toiling,” he asked, “and why am I depriving myself of enjoyment?” This too is meaningless— a miserable business! 9 Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: 10 If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up. 11 Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm. But how can one keep warm alone? 12 Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.
Introduction
12 Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.
Ecc 4:
The Story from the Movie UP
The Movie Up/Tell the Story with Clips (pictures or video)
showing them as kids (Carl and Ellie)
showing their dreams
Getting married
Life Struggles
Ellie passing away
The Jar (Paradise Falls)
Russel Introduction
Flying to Paradise Falls
The House on the waterfall
Russel getting his last badge and Carl there with him
What they couldn’t do by themselves they did together
There’s an old Zambian proverb that says, “when you run alone you run fast. But when you run together you run far.”
Good words. Life i not a 50 yards dash
it’s a marathon
You want to make it to the end of life.
The only way your going to make it to the end of life the way God wants you to is by having other people involved in your life.
If you’ve ever watched in the fall when a flock of geese are flying south and they’re in “V” formation.
Do you know why they do that?
Because it an uplift in the back draft and it makes it easier and they can fly farther and longer when they fly together.
The same is try in your life.
Your going to burn out in life if you go through it without any meaningful intimate relationships.
God says that the key to happiness is not independence but inter-dependence.
We need each other. We belong to each other.
We need community in our lives.
God wired you to go through life not as a solitary individual but in community.
The Bible says in
5 so it is with Christ’s body. We are many parts of one body, and we all belong to each other.
God says community is not optional. You may not feel it.
God says community is not optional. You may not feel it. You may feel like “I'm very self-sufficient. I don't need other people in my life.” But the truth is you absolutely have to have other people in your life if you’re going to be all God wants you to be.
You may feel like “I'm very self-sufficient. I don't need other people in my life.”
But the truth is you absolutely have to have other people in your life if you’re going to be all God wants you to be.
It’s safer its supportive and it’s SMARTER
Smarter
It just smarter to go through life with a few really close deep friend you learn more by walking with others than you do by yourself.
26 Those who trust in themselves are fools, but those who walk in wisdom are kept safe.
In other words if I’m the only one who thinks this and nobody else agrees with me, guess what? I’m wrong
You may be walking in a wrong direction.
But if your’re walking by yourself through life you don’t have anybody to go, “We’re off the path. We it. We've got to get back on the path.” The bible tells us “in a multitude of counselors there is safety.”
What is the antidote of loneliness? It’s community.
God created two groups of families.
Physical Family and a Spiritual Family
The physical family is the one your grew up in.
The Spiritual family is the one you have the rest of your life.
physical families eventually move apart.
Spiritual family, God’s church going on forever and every.
God says I want you to be connected in my family, the church.
6 Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, 7 rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.
1 The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming—not the realities themselves. For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship. 2 Otherwise, would they not have stopped being offered? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt guilty for their sins. 3 But those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins. 4 It is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. 5 Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said: “Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me; 6 with burnt offerings and sin offerings you were not pleased. 7 Then I said, ‘Here I am—it is written about me in the scroll— I have come to do your will, my God.’ ” 8 First he said, “Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not desire, nor were you pleased with them”—though they were offered in accordance with the law. 9 Then he said, “Here I am, I have come to do your will.” He sets aside the first to establish the second. 10 And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 11 Day after day every priest stands and performs his religious duties; again and again he offers the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. 12 But when this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, 13 and since that time he waits for his enemies to be made his footstool. 14 For by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy. 15 The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First he says: 16 “This is the covenant I will make with them after that time, says the Lord. I will put my laws in their hearts, and I will write them on their minds.” 17 Then he adds: “Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more.” 18 And where these have been forgiven, sacrifice for sin is no longer necessary. 19 Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, 20 by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body, 21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God, 22 let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water. 23 Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. 24 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, 25 not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching. 26 If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, 27 but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God. 28 Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29 How much more severely do you think someone deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified them, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace? 30 For we know him who said, “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,” and again, “The Lord will judge his people.” 31 It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. 32 Remember those earlier days after you had received the light, when you endured in a great conflict full of suffering. 33 Sometimes you were publicly exposed to insult and persecution; at other times you stood side by side with those who were so treated. 34 You suffered along with those in prison and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property, because you knew that you yourselves had better and lasting possessions. 35 So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded. 36 You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised. 37 For, “In just a little while, he who is coming will come and will not delay.” 38 And, “But my righteous one will live by faith. And I take no pleasure in the one who shrinks back.” 39 But we do not belong to those who shrink back and are destroyed, but to those who have faith and are saved.
Heb 10
Col
Did you know that the Bible often
compares life to a walk? Why? Because you’re on a journey.
You don't just sit still in life. You’re not where you used to be. You’re not where you’re going to be. You’re on a journey.
So it calls the spiritual life, the Christian life, a walk.
Just like you wouldn’t walk down a dark road alone with nobody, in life it is just smarter to have someone with you
Smarter
Just like you wouldn’t walk down a dark road alone with nobody, in life it is just smarter to have someone with you
2. Supportive
Everyone once in a while we need someone to give us a good kick in the but.
4 Don’t look out only for your own interests, but take an interest in others, too.
Someone who is willing to put that relationship on the line to tell you when your doing wrong or on a wrong path.
3. Safer
26 Those who trust in themselves are fools, but those who walk in wisdom are kept safe.
23 Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. 24 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds,
1 The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming—not the realities themselves. For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship. 2 Otherwise, would they not have stopped being offered? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt guilty for their sins. 3 But those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins. 4 It is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. 5 Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said: “Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me; 6 with burnt offerings and sin offerings you were not pleased. 7 Then I said, ‘Here I am—it is written about me in the scroll— I have come to do your will, my God.’ ” 8 First he said, “Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not desire, nor were you pleased with them”—though they were offered in accordance with the law. 9 Then he said, “Here I am, I have come to do your will.” He sets aside the first to establish the second. 10 And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 11 Day after day every priest stands and performs his religious duties; again and again he offers the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. 12 But when this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, 13 and since that time he waits for his enemies to be made his footstool. 14 For by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy. 15 The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First he says: 16 “This is the covenant I will make with them after that time, says the Lord. I will put my laws in their hearts, and I will write them on their minds.” 17 Then he adds: “Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more.” 18 And where these have been forgiven, sacrifice for sin is no longer necessary. 19 Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, 20 by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body, 21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God, 22 let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water. 23 Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. 24 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, 25 not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching. 26 If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, 27 but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God. 28 Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29 How much more severely do you think someone deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified them, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace? 30 For we know him who said, “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,” and again, “The Lord will judge his people.” 31 It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. 32 Remember those earlier days after you had received the light, when you endured in a great conflict full of suffering. 33 Sometimes you were publicly exposed to insult and persecution; at other times you stood side by side with those who were so treated. 34 You suffered along with those in prison and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property, because you knew that you yourselves had better and lasting possessions. 35 So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded. 36 You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised. 37 For, “In just a little while, he who is coming will come and will not delay.” 38 And, “But my righteous one will live by faith. And I take no pleasure in the one who shrinks back.” 39 But we do not belong to those who shrink back and are destroyed, but to those who have faith and are saved.
23 Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. 24 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, 25 not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
Heb 10:23
Heb 10:23-2
Community is God’s answer to loneliness.
Community os God’s answer to loneliness.
Biblical Examples of people who decided
Danie Shadrack Meshack and Obendigo
Jesus and the Discipes
they couldn’t do alone what they needed to do together.
he had 12 and he was close to 3
6 Among those who were chosen were some from Judah: Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah. 7 The chief official gave them new names: to Daniel, the name Belteshazzar; to Hananiah, Shadrach; to Mishael, Meshach; and to Azariah, Abednego.
dan 1:
They were about to make the biggest stand of their life OR lose it.
What I believe is so important is they did it TOGETHER!
Exile
Changed Names
Trying to make them an infuece in his Kingdom.
However they would not submit to one specific rule
Bow down before the King Nebuchadnezzar.
Here is their reponse
16 Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego replied to him, “King Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to defend ourselves before you in this matter. 17 If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to deliver us from it, and he will deliver us from Your Majesty’s hand. 18 But even if he does not, we want you to know, Your Majesty, that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold you have set up.”
we know the rest of the story, they were thrown in the furnace but God rescued them
Matt
One of the key things to recognize they needed the strength of one another
WHY” They were Better Together
36 Then Jesus went with his disciples to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to them, “Sit here while I go over there and pray.” 37 He took Peter and the two sons of Zebedee along with him, and he began to be sorrowful and troubled. 38 Then he said to them, “My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with me.”
The New American Commentary: Matthew 1. Passion and Crucifixion (26:1–27:66)
Corporate prayer can often prove more powerful and supportive than personal prayer.
Jesus was about to walk through the most physical, spiritual and mentally challenging moment of his life
He needed his closes friends to “WATCH” with him
If in that moment, Jesus “needed” his closes friends to stand with him in prayer.
Who do we think we are by trying to walk through life alone?
Conclusion
Community is God’s answer to loneliness
What is God’s safety net? It is a group of other believers.
You don’t need a hundred. You only need five or six.
But it’s a group of other believers who are committed to you.
8 Finally, all of you be of one mind, having compassion for one another; love as brothers, be tenderhearted, be courteous;
The Bible says this in “You should be like one big family, full of sympathy toward each other.” When you’re in the hospital you don't want the whole church to visit you. In fact, it’d be kind of bad if all of us came. But it would be nice to have four or five come see you and say we’re praying for you.
11 Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.
1 thes
We all need each other. We need other believers to walk with us, to work with us, to watch over us, to weep with us and wait with us when we need to wait, and to witness with us. Say this, “I really, really, really need a group.”
That is your declaration of interdependence.
26 If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.
1 cor 12