Title: Why We Need Each Other
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Title/ Why We Need Each Other
Text/ Ecclesiastes 4:7-12
Today's text makes clear "why we need each other."
The text begins with the declaration that “two are better than one” and ends with “a threefold cord never breaks”.
Why do we need each other on the path of life - what?
1, to get better results for your hard work. verse 9
“Two are better than one for they shall have a good reward for their hard work.”
One of the joint ministries recorded in the Bible is “cooperation between Barnabas and Paul” (Acts 11:19-26). Paul in Tarsus was afraid because of his past as a blasphemer and persecutor (Acts 9). :26-30) Barnabas brought them to Antioch and together they taught a great crowd.
In the early 1960s, when the so-called hippie movement was sweeping the American continent, wandering young people at the time started knocking on the church door, but the church was cold, saying, "If you want to come to church, come shave your head, come in new clothes, and repent first."
2, It is to lift each other up. Verses 10-11
The Bible calls our life path “the path of suffering from birth.”
“Life is born for suffering” (Job 5:7).
We fall because of material things, we fall because of people, we fall because of our religious life, and we do things that we cannot solve by ourselves.
“Woe to him who is alone and falls and has no one to lift him up.”
Example) - A child who grew up in an orphanage
Verse 11/ For the nomads of the Palestinian desert, making companions is a prerequisite.
During the day, the sun comes down to fight the scorching heat, but at night it is cold to the bone.
3, to win together. verse 12
In the community of faith, two people are at least a community, so a community of two or more people is compared to a “samgyeopsal” and it is said that the strength of the three-fold cord is not broken.
(Matthew 18:20) “Where two or three are gathered in my name, there I am among them.”
If we are together and the Lord is there, what stronger link can there be than this?
There will be a greater victory when two or three people come together than one person overcomes the obstacles of falling while living in the world.
(The man who met a robber while traveling alone, a Samaritan who showed mercy - Luke 10:30-37)
Neither the state, nor society, nor the denomination, nor the church, require reconciliation and cooperation, and for that to happen, “we need each other.”