Bible Study Being alone with god?

[Proudkorean]

20 For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.â€

Matthew 18:20



Does that mean god won't be there if you're alone? Or Jesus? Or is this some kind figure of speech.

 

[Gazelle]

God is omnipresent. He is. He is everywhere. What that verse displays is how God will come and fellowship with His believers.

But he is also with us when we are alone. Consider these evidences:
Moses was sent to the backside of the desert of Midian, and at the burning bush he was alone with God.
Elijah was disciplined by the Brook Cherith, and God was with him.
Jeremiah walked a lonely path, but God was with him.
John the Baptist was in the desert alone, but God was there.
Paul had two years of solitary confinement on that same desert-that was God's opportunity to train him.
The apostle John was exiled on the lonely isle of Patmos. But God was with him.

 

[jwoods4290]

great forum starter, lately i been feeling extremely alone. between people just being jerks or childish. tired of the childish life of others and nonsense and games. after the move recent post ^^ i feel alot more better and comfortable knowing i had my father and savior always with me.

 

[Nathan Alterton]

General rule of thumb, "Never read a Bible verse" (always read a passage or more).

Here's the whole the passage:

Matthew 18:15-20, ESV
"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. 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. 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. 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. 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. For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them."

The context of the passage is not about Jesus being with Bible study and prayer groups in a special way that he's not when you're by yourself, it is about Church discipline and the ideal way for Christians to deal with a brother who is engaged in unrepentent sin. Jesus is saying that where his disciples agree and then act in accordance with Christ regarding unrepentant members of his body, there he is genuinely active and present among them.

Similarly, He is active and present with each of us and between each of us when truly take his teachings to heart and allow them effect and change our lives and the way we treat others.