CHRIST IS THE OMNIPRESENT GOD

"Where two or three are gathered together in My name there am I in the midst of them." -Matthew 18:20 [KJV]

Our hopes and comforts rise or fall, according to our conceptions and belief of what Christ is in Himself, and what He is to us. Attend to this. You will find this true in your experience. Therefore it is of no small moment, whether you believe Christ to be God over all, or only a mere man. Yea, it is of the utmost importance: it enters into the very life, peace, and joy of your soul. Our Lord here puts this beyond a doubt. None but God is, at one and the same time, in more places than one. But Christ declares, “Wherever My disciples are gathered together in My name, there am I.” 

Therefore Christ is the omnipresent God. This is the joy of our faith; this, the glory of our souls. Now, it should be our grand concern to bring this into experience and practice. (1st.) Remember “the eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good” (Proverbs 15:3.) O, soul! what have you to do at places devoted to sin and vanity? Know, the eyes of the Lord are there. If He sees you there, He will surely make you smart for it. 

But, (2d.) Our Lord delights in the assembling of His disciples in His name. If but two or three, no matter where. O! let this call up your attention to His name. Let this reprove professors, that they do not always meet in Christ’s name, speak to each other more of His glorious person, and precious salvation: this is the way to be helpers of each other’s faith, hope, and love in the Lord. Be ashamed of yourselves, ye frozen-hearted, tongue-tied professors! who can be all talk for the things of the world, but dumb when precious Jesus is the theme. What! can you go, day after day, without calling your family together, to speak a word of Jesus to them, and to Jesus for them? O, what seasons of peace, comfort, and heavenly mindedness do you abridge yourselves of! The presence of a king makes a court. The King of kings makes a court, a temple in your houses; yea, in your hearts, when you assemble in His name. 

(3d.) Let this precious word encourage you to this. “There am I in the midst of them.” Have you not found it so? the unworthiest of all has. “There am I!” as thought Christ was first there, waiting for us. Can His presence be with us, without shedding His light, life, liberty, and power among us? No: no more than the sun can shine in its meridian splendour, without darting light and heat. 

(4th.) Remember two or three are within the compass of the promise. Not angels, not sinless men; but poor, miserable sinners, Christ delights to be in the midst of. O! love and praise our dear Lord, for His marvellous condescension, and this precious declaration. Study more and more to improve it, to build up each other’s souls in them, and to glorify His precious name. See His affectionate notice of such. -Malachi 3:16, 17.

-preacher William Mason (1724-1797 A.D.)

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