Christ’s life and death led to the groundbreaking, world-changing resurrection that forever altered the course of history. After this resurrection the living King Jesus commissioned his disciples to make known the earthshaking message of the gospel. The message of King Jesus is an international message designed to penetrate and invade the domain of human beings, bringing them face to face with God’s deliverer. Jesus was raised from the dead and declared to have all authority. This authority is worldwide for establishing His international glory, by working in families and churches. Let us come and delight ourselves in the glory of the King!

Well, good morning, it's good to see all of you this morning and My thanks to the NCFIC and staff for inviting me and having my family here. I was trying to preserve my voice as much as I could, but that didn't work well. So Hopefully I'm not going in and out in my speaking and that will not be a distraction if I do It was an intense week last week for me Well, let's get right to the business at hand if you have your Bible Matthew chapter 28 Matthew chapter 28 we will be looking at verses 16 through 20. And out of respect for the word of God, if you are able, please stand. So I read Matthew chapter 28, I will be reading from the King James Version.

Matthew chapter 28, The word of God, let us hear it together. Then the 11 disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them. And when they saw him, they worshipped him, but some doubted. And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, all power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I commanded you.

And lo, I am with you always, even until the end of the world. Amen, please be seated. Thank you for standing. Let us pray together. Our Father and our gracious God, hallowed be your name.

We come to you this morning in the name of Jesus Christ. We come with nothing in our hands we bring, simply to your son we cling. And we pray this morning that you would open up the heavens so that we would get a glimpse of King Jesus. You would be kind and generous to us by your Spirit, teaching us this morning, encouraging us this morning, growing us this morning, so that we would be more like your Son. Come and bless us, we pray.

Give me the tongue of Belernet, so that I may speak a word in season. It's my cry. In Jesus' name, amen. Well, let me say this. Jesus Christ is the most important person that ever lived.

There is none like him. It never has been. It isn't now or ever will be. Matthew in his gospel sets forth Jesus as the promised seed and the promised King. In his connection to Abraham, he is the promised seed.

We find that in Genesis chapter 12, verse 3, when God says to Abraham, in you shall all the families of the earth be blessed. But it's a beautiful thing in verse one when he tells Abraham, I am your shield. His name is Abram at the time. I am your shield. That is, I am your protection.

And I am your exceeding great reward. That is, I am your provision. In other words, I am your everything. And his connection to David, he's the great king. He is the promised King, the light that would come and sit on the throne, 2 Samuel chapter 7, 2 Chronicles chapter 21, Psalm chapter 89.

Jesus, the seed, Jesus, the King, the Old Testament points to him. The New Testament points to him. He's the centerpiece of the scriptures. He is the top and bottom, the sides and center, the sum and substance of the entire Bible. It's all about Him.

Can I just give it to you in a condensed form, something just for you to hang your hat on? From Genesis, the revelation is all about Jesus. When We read from Genesis all the way to Malachi. Those 39 books tells us, and 39 books actually tell us, in the words of the old folks, Jesus is a coming. And when we get to the gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, those four gospels tell us Jesus the King is here.

And when we get to the book of Acts, we see Jesus being proclaimed as the resurrected righteous ruler of the world. And then when we get to Romans and we track all the way to Jude, Those 21 books tell us who Jesus is and what he's done to save sinners. And then when we get to the book of Revelation, that book tells us that Jesus is victorious and he is coming again. The whole Bible is about him. There's something else about the beauty of the scriptures.

This King is glorious. He is the most written about, the most read about, the most talked about, the most sung about, and the most preached about. There's no one like Jesus Christ. So Jesus, in Matthew's gospel, is the on-the-scene king. That's how I want to picture him.

The on-the-scene king, Jesus did not come here to take sides. He actually reminds me of the captain of the host. You find that in Joshua chapter 5. When they're going to war, you get around to verse 13. And Joshua asks a question when he sees a man with a sword drawn.

He said, are you for us or for our enemies? He says, neither. Jesus did not come here to take sides. Jesus came here to take over. There is no one like this great one.

So I want to set the context and just give a background to this particular section. Let's think of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane. He's in there. He has his eight disciples with him, actually 10. And he has James and John and Peter with him, what we term the inner circle.

And he's in sorrow. He's praying unto the Father. And he asked them to pray with him, just to watch with him for an hour. Luke paints the picture this way. And being in agony, he prayed more earnestly.

And his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground." Luke 22, 44. This is our maker in the garden. He is not walking in the Garden of Eden in the cool of the day. He's in the Garden of Gethsemane in the sorrow of night. He is so heavy, it seems as though he would die there.

He knows Judas has betrayed him. The band of soldiers are on their way, and cavalry is looming. Jesus knows that there are reservations for him. Special reservations just for him. There is spitting reserved just for him.

There is a crown of thorns just for him. There is a tree reserved just for him. There are nails reserved just for him. There is mockery reserved just for him. Three hours of darkness just for him.

There's divine wrath reserved just for him. There is a spear reserved just for him. There is an empty tomb just for him. The garden is not the place to die. Think with me there in Jesus before the Sanhedrin Council.

He is captured, brought before the Sanhedrin Council, accused of blasphemy and guilty of death. They spit in his face. They punched him. They slapped him. Delivered him to Pilate, who would beat him and plait the crown of thorns upon his head, decked him in a scarlet robe, mocks him by saying, Hail, King of the Jews, and delivers him up to be crucified.

Jesus is not on Calvary. Jesus is crucified on Calvary, judged on Calvary, dies on Calvary, and is laid in a borrowed tomb. But hallelujah, that's not the end of the story. On the third day, he took the sting out of death and the victory out of the grave. And he commands his disciples to meet him in Galilee.

That's verses 7 and verse 10 of chapter 28, which brings us to verse 16. Then 11 disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain, where Jesus had appointed them. Now scholars are, in my judgment, wasting ink to try to figure out which mountain this is. But that's not the point of the passage. The point of the passage is not which mountain.

The point of the passage is the one who will be on the mountain. Jesus Christ, he's alive. That's the point. Jesus on the mountain, Jesus conquering death, Jesus conquering the grave. Verse 17 tells us, And when they saw him, some doubted.

What is that? Is this true, what we're saying? It seems too good to be true, and Not only that, Jesus says something that's shocking. Jesus says to them, I have all power. Now, think about that for a moment.

Remember, he was the one spat upon just a few days ago. He was the one stripped just a few days ago. He was the one slapped just a few days ago. He had his back ripped open just a few days ago. He had the thorny crowns on his head just a few days ago.

His hands and feet were pierced just a few days ago. He experienced the dark cloud of God's wrath just a few days ago. He had a spear driven in the side just a few days ago. And now, now he stands on the mount by saying, I have all power. A few days later, seemed to be some comfort, some confidence, and some encouragement for the disciples.

He has all power. He stands firm and full strength on the mount. So we have to ask the question, what does it mean by power? We get that in verse 18, and Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, all power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. What is meant by power?

The word literally means authority or jurisdiction. To have some power is to have some authority. And to have some authority is to have some power. But Jesus did not say, I have some power. Jesus did not say, I have a smidgen of power.

Jesus does not say, I have a portion of power. The adjective is crucial. Jesus said, I have all power. All power is given unto me. The text tells us he has it all.

That is absolute authority. It also means that there is no authority in this world above Him. Let me ask a question. Do you believe that? Or is this fiction to you?

It's kind of like Alice in Wonderland, Snow White, Seven Dwarfs. Do you believe Jesus has all power, all authority? All authority is Jesus's resurrected right to act as he pleases, where he pleases, when he pleases, and how he pleases without asking for or waiting on any approval. Let me rewind that and play it for you one more time. All authority means that Jesus has the resurrected right to act as he pleases, when he pleases, where he pleases, and how he pleases without asking for or waiting on any approval.

He has the right. He stands as the resurrected ruler on the mount as the king, and he declares that He has all power. All power. He's victorious, as we've said. Death could not hold him down.

But we have to ask another question. Who gave him that power? You saw it in the text. Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, all power is given unto me. In other words, I'm on the receiving end.

Who gave him that power, that authority? Same thing the Pharisees ask him. Who gave you this authority? Doesn't mean that Jesus didn't have authority on earth. He sure did exercise it, but we have it in a different realm now as the resurrected ruler of the world.

Who gave him that authority? Well, Matthew 11, 27 says something like this. All things are delivered unto me from the Father. That's your answer. He also says in John chapter 3, verse 35, John writing, that the Father loveth the Son and hath given all things into his hands.

And then we find in John chapter 13, verse 3, Jesus knows that the Father has delivered all things into his hand. The authority came right from his Father. But we have to ask another question. I like to ask questions. Why did he receive the authority?

Not only who gave it to him, but why did he receive it? Well, he said something like this. He finished the work that the Father sent him to do. That glorious work of magnifying God's law and making it honorable, that glorious work of coming on a rescue mission, a 911 rescue mission. Jesus didn't come here on vacation.

Jesus came on a rescue mission. That's what he came to do, rescue people from sin. Matthew tells us in it, in Matthew chapter 1, verse 21, he said, thou shall call his name Jesus, for he shall save, deliver, rescue his people from their sins. That's his activity But when you drop down to verses the verse 23, he said you shall call him Emmanuel and Matthew's I want to be clear I don't want anyone to be confused. So let me interpret that for you.

That simply means God with us. We have his activity and his identity. Jesus says in John 17, the father has given him power over all flesh. God gave it to him. And the Father loves the Son.

The Son always does those things that pleases the Father. Do you know that he's the only one who can say that? Did you know that? He's the only one who can say, I always do those things that please him, always. He finished the work.

And on Calvary, John, 1930, he said, it is finished. But I have another question. Not only did he receive the power, and we ask why did he receive the power, but where does he exercise the power? The verse tells us in verse 18, I'm still there. I haven't left my Bible.

And Jesus came and spake unto them, and saying, all power is given unto me. Where? In heaven and on earth. So let's just look at heaven for a moment. Peter tells us that Christ has gone into heaven and is on the right hand of God.

Angels and authorities and powers being made subject to Him. 1 Peter 3, 22. Jesus does not just simply have power over the sun, moon, stars, and planet, but Jesus also have authority over angelic beings. He exercises his authority in the heavenly realm. He has jurisdiction over the entire heavenly realm.

Michael is subject to him. Gabriel is subject to him. Satan is subject to him. He has authority over elect angels and fallen angels. All of this is fine, is it not?

This is exciting because Jesus has authority over things we can't see. And this is great that he has authority in the heavenly realm. But guess what? We don't live in the heavenly realm. Now I know some of you probably thinking of Ephesians chapter 1, we're blessed with all spiritual blessing, verse 3, in heavenly places in Christ.

And then you get to chapter 2, and you're thinking, we're seated in Christ in the heavenlies. Oh, and I like that. That's our union with Christ. But I'm not talking about our positional status. I am talking about our practical status.

Practically, we don't live in heaven. So that's beautiful for Jesus to have authority in the heavenly realm. That's wonderful for Jesus to be over angels and planets and moons and all of that stuff. But Jesus just want to clarify it with us. He said, not only do I have authority in the heavenly realm, Not only do I have jurisdiction in the heavenly realm, but I also have authority and jurisdiction where you live.

Hallelujah, somebody. I'm glad he has authority. It's right there in your Bible, not only in heaven, but on Earth. See, on Earth is where we dwell. On earth is where we take up our habitation.

On earth is where we wrestle with the forces of evil. On earth, on earth, dear people, on earth is where we face family issues. On earth is where we hear the gospel. On earth is where we repent and believe. On earth is where we fight the good fight of faith.

On earth is where we run the race. On earth is where we battle sin, the world, and the devil. On Earth is where we grow in grace. On Earth is where we face church issues. We need help on Earth.

And he said, I have all authority where you live. If I didn't think you would think something of me, I'd start running right now. This signifies that Jesus, with this authority in heaven and in earth, is saying, I have universal authority. I have jurisdiction everywhere in heaven and on earth. This is just another way of saying I have authority everywhere.

Everything you see even the things you don't see are all under my jurisdiction I love how Abraham Kuiper the Dutch theologian said it He said there's not one square inch of the entire universe where Jesus Christ does not say this is mine Everywhere authority do you believe it? You believe it it's everywhere The entire universe is under his control. Don't miss it. Don't miss what Matthew is driving at in this passage as he quotes Jesus. Don't miss it.

One moment in verse 18, I'll read it one more time. And Jesus said, Jesus came and spake unto them, all power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Listen, Jesus not only have power, or has power over angelic beings, Jesus also have power over human beings. He says again in John 17, the hour has come for the Father to glorify the Son as the Father has given Him power over all flesh. All flesh.

He has absolute authority over human beings. He has power to rescue human beings. This should be an encouragement for parents. We can pray for lost children because Jesus has power over all flesh. Oh, children even can pray for unconverted parents because Jesus has power over all flesh.

We can pray for family members, unconverted neighbors, unconverted friends, unconverted leaders because Jesus has power, authority over our flesh. All human beings. He does not need special permission. He exercises this authority everywhere. He doesn't need special permission.

I'm going to say that again. He doesn't need special permission from anyone, not from you and not from me to do anything. Jesus is not waiting on us to grant him some kind of right. He doesn't have to check in with the UN to see if he's violated some international sanction. He does not have to check in with anyone.

He's not afraid of being overturned by Kim Jong-un of North Korea, Vladimir Putin of Russia, Tsai Jingpin of China, or Donald Trump of America. He does not have to check in with state or federal officials to see if he has overstepped his bounds or he has access to certain areas. Oh no, my friend, Jesus Christ, the glorious one, crosses national boundaries, state lines, and city limits. He has jurisdiction everywhere, everywhere, at any given time. And notice Jesus is not ruling part time.

I hope you don't think about him that way. Jesus is not a part time ruler. Jesus is a full time ruler. In other words, it's 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, 366 when you have a leap year. Jesus is ruling all the time.

All the time. He is ruling when we're awake. He's ruling when we are asleep. He's ruling when we're not even aware of it. Please don't look at our culture and question whether or not Jesus is ruling.

If Jesus was not ruling, things would be far worse. He is ruling, even over our nation. We don't have to put up signs, by the way, and say Jesus for president. Don't do that. You don't have to stick a sign in your yard and say vote for Jesus.

Jesus is not on the 2020 ballot. He is not running for office. He's not a Republican, hallelujah. He's not third party, hallelujah. And he's not a Democrat, Hallelujah.

He's a theocrat, God on the throne ruling the world all by himself. He doesn't need any help. He can do it just fine. Jesus, if I can put it this way, Jesus is already the president on a universal scale. It is no one competing with him.

In other words, he's not waiting to see if 270 votes come through the electoral college in his favor. He is not concerned about us so-called casting a vote. He is on the throne as the president. You did not vote him in, You can't vote him out. He cannot be impeached.

He will not resign. He's on the throne to stay. And guess what? There's nothing you can do about it. Absolutely nothing.

He is on the throne to stay. Can I just say something else about this glorious king on the throne to stay? No one can get rid of him. He's planted there. God the Father, according to Acts chapter 2, has put him in office.

And he is in the office to stay. You can't give him four years and decide if he should take four more. He's there to stay. He cannot be interrogated, investigated, manipulated, humiliated, frustrated, intimidated. Not only that, he cannot even be eliminated, annihilated, or assassinated.

He's there to stay. He's there to stay. This glorious king cannot be shut in, shut out, shut up, or shut down. You can't do anything with Jesus. He's a kitten.

He says, I have all power. And guess what? You have to live with it. He is not losing his faculties. He is not walking up and down heaven like this.

I wonder what I'm going to do. I know they're threatening nuclear bombs and all. What should I do? What should I do? America's going down.

What should I do? He's not doing that. He is on the throne ruling everything. He is moving time towards eternity. That's what's happening.

He's not aging, He's not losing stamina. He is king forever invested with all power. Now, in the questions, he comes back to it. Do we believe that he has all power, or do we live as though he had no power at all? That's the question on the table.

All power, says the king. Well, the clock is not in our favor. Let's move on. We do some quick skipping around. And come to another point.

Not only did Jesus has all power, he says something else in verse 19. I want you to go all places. He said, go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. We ought to go all places. And this is based upon the fact that Jesus has all power, All authority, jurisdiction everywhere.

If I can say it this way, there's no closed countries. Now, there may be some countries we may have some hostility in. There may be some countries that we would die in. But if we believe this passage, Jesus, I have jurisdiction Everywhere, everywhere. The Father has given it to him.

The Father has rewarded him. Oh, this reminds me of Psalm 2. I will declare, he said this, yet have I set my King upon my holy mount, the mount of Zion, the hill of Zion. I will declare the decree. The Lord has said to me, thou art my son.

This day have I begotten thee. Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance that's what's happening right here and The outermost parts of the earth for your possession as the seed I'm gonna bless the world and as the king I'm gonna rule over the world go everywhere, because I have all power everywhere. Go everywhere, because I possess all power, all authority. Daniel puts it this way. And there was, he said, and I saw in the night vision.

And behold, one like the Son of Man came with the clouds of heaven and came to the ancient of days. And they brought him near before him. And there was given unto him dominion and glory in the kingdom that all people, nations, and languages should serve him." Does that sound familiar? His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom which shall not pass away in his... His dominion is an everlasting dominion in his kingdom, that which shall not be destroyed.

Notice what he told us. He commanded us to do something. He commanded us in that verse to go and disciple the nations. Go and tell the world, the world that I am the promised seed. Why?

We usually call this passage the Great Commission, and I understand that. But I think Jesus is saying something more. I want you to take the message everywhere, because it's my desire to get glory everywhere, international glory. Go to all the nations and tell them about me. Glory everywhere.

In chapter 10 of Matthew, I find it interesting, in chapter 10 we hear of the limitation of the gospel message. But in chapter 28 we hear of the extension of the gospel message. Let me tell you what I'm talking about. Matthew chapter 10, verse 5, Jesus limits the gospel to the Jews. But in chapter 28, he extends the gospel to the Gentiles.

Maybe I should just personalize it one time. In chapter 10, Jesus limits the gospel so he can rescue a Jew. But in chapter 28, Jesus extends the gospel so he can rescue me. If the gospel is not extended, you inherit. Jesus is breaking it all out.

This gospel message is not confined to one nationality or ethnicity. This gospel is to go everywhere because I'm seeking international glory everywhere. Everywhere. Take this gospel and I love why I love the fact that Jesus is saying that. You know why?

Because it reminds me of something. Our natural tendency, and hear me well, our natural tendency is to minister to people who only look like us. Can I just say that one more time? Our natural tendency is to minister only to people who look like us. I have some Bible for that.

When we get to Acts chapter 1, Jesus telling the disciples, I want you to minister in Jerusalem, Samaria, and the outermost parts of the world. So in chapter 2, we find them in Jerusalem. In chapter 8, we find them in Samaria. But when we get to chapter 10, a new chapter is opening up. Peter, among the Gentiles, ministering the Cornelius.

And as he ministers the Cornelius, something happens. God, God, God rescues a group of Gentiles. And then when he gets to chapter 11 in the Book of Acts, he's rebuked. Huh, you went to? Can I just southernize it a little bit since I'm in the south?

You went to them folk. Peter, you went to them folk. Not only that, Peter said, well, let me tell you what happened when I went to them folk. When I went to them folk and I started talking about the glory of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, something happened. God showed up and God showed out.

The spirit fell and birthed them into the kingdom. Them folk, yet because them folk need the gospel just like we folk need the gospel. God is breaking the disciples out of their cave of comfort. No, this gospel is not just staying with the nation of Israel. It's going everywhere, everywhere.

Is that our gospel? Or do we have something else? Is it just confined to one particular group, folks who look like us? And that's it. That's not what Jesus is saying.

Every nation, people, and tongue. We find it in Revelation chapter 5, verse 9. Jesus said, my purpose of coming into the world and rescuing sinners is to make my body diverse. That's what my purpose of coming into the world. Tell everyone about me because I'm looking at glory everywhere.

That's what Hebrews chapter one is about. All the angels should worship him, and if all the angels should worship him, God is not going to leave our man. We ought to take this gospel everywhere. We ought to be telling people about him, his glorious life, his precious ministry, his precious death. The death was precious, it was bloody, but guess what, we was saved through blood.

Saved through blood. We ought to be telling everyone about Him Oh my friend jesus's purpose is to rescue listen carefully is to rescue family members to place them in his family so they could be family members. This is how he builds his church. You can't build a church without people. And you can't build a church without families.

The folks in the church, rather than that local church, they come from families. And that's how he builds his church, by taking that long arm of salvation and snatching one as a brand from the burning. He came to redeem sinners, every nation, so why? So we could look like him. He says something else in here.

Oh man, who's messing with the clock? He says something else in here. He said, when we disciple the nations, that's the word for teach, we disciple the nations, we ought to be going, doesn't matter, there's no closed country, there are people, We ought to be going with this gospel message, not telling people about us, but telling people about Him. We ought to go. And He says something.

When you have discipled, Baptize them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. And there's controversy on what this means we're not going to spend a nickel of time on it. Should we be baptized in the name of Christ, as Acts chapter 2, or should we be baptized in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, the Trinitarian formula that we find right here. Well, one thing is clear. Disciple baptized.

Disciple baptized. Now, I know in a room this size, we can have various convictions, various views as to whether the person should be sprinkled, poured upon, or immersed. I'm a Baptist. I'm a very convinced Baptist. And I think it's believing, discipling, believing, and then baptized.

But one thing is clear. Whatever your baptismal position may be, whatever it is, one thing is clear, you can be baptized in every body of water from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, and every tadpole can know you by name and still not be in the kingdom. You have to be, must be, not might be, not may be, must be born again as there must be in your life. You must be. Say there must be.

I didn't ask you what the size of your Bible was. I didn't ask you your view of modesty. I didn't ask you if you're homeschooled. I didn't ask you the way you comb your hair. I didn't ask you if you have a Facebook account.

I didn't ask you if you pass our programs in the church. I didn't ask you if your dad was a deacon or your mom just sings hallelujah in the choir. That's not what I'm asking. Is there a must be in your life? Because you must be if you're going to be in God's family.

Must be born again. Must be. Not might be. Must be. So Jesus is driving at discipleship, baptism.

But guess what? He's letting us know at the same time. Doesn't stop at baptism. Teaching them, verse 20, teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I've commanded you. Notice, all things.

This is not a buffet when you come to, and what I mean by that, it's not a buffet When you come to the word of God, it's not a buffet. I like to tell our children, I won't embarrass them. When my wife, notice I say my wife, I didn't say your mom. When my wife fix a meal in this house, the moment you complain is the day you fast. Because in Candice's Cafe, you eat what's set before you or you may not eat at all.

And so when we come to the scriptures, this is not a buffet to pick and choose from. Jesus, I want you to teach them all that I have commanded you because it doesn't stop at baptism. We are constantly to be instructed in the things of the Lord We are constantly to have the gospel repeated to us because we're prone to forget We're so prone to forget God's I'm gonna give you something just to remember my son's death. What's that the Lord's Supper? He got to give us something to remember, because we're prone to forget.

Prone to forget. Jason messed with the clock. OK. We ought to continue in this way. We ought to continue in the profession.

Dear people, listen, our lives matter. Did you hear what I just said? Our lives matter. What you do matters. How you think matters.

What you say matters. And how you think, what you take into your mind, what you read, what you watch, and what you look at, what you listen to, all affects how you think. And how you think is how you will live. You cannot separate your life from your mind. Your mind and life are married together for life.

Well, we receive life. Notice something else. Verse 5. Oh, I hate it. I've got to do a lot of skipping, but that's all right.

Not verse 5. The last point is Jesus promises to be with us. Jesus has all power. We ought to go all places. We ought to teach all things and Jesus promises to be with us, teaching them to observe all things.

Notice whatsoever I have commanded you and lo, look, I am with you always, Even to the end of the world Jesus cannot make that claim unless he's omnipresent Did you know he just told you I'm God I have all power. I'm omnipotent, but guess what I can be all places I'm omnipresent. Can I throw a couple more words in there? He also I'm Omniscient I know it all give me Give me two more words. I'm omnispective.

I see it all. And I'm omniaudient. I hear it all. Jesus sees you all the time. He hears you all the time.

And so does he mean. Same thing to me. He knows all about us. And he claims this as God. He lets us know that he's with us to the end.

Everywhere we go, everywhere we go, Jesus says, I'm with you. If you go to the field, I am with you. Take my message everywhere. I have all power. It's all under control.

Well, let me say a couple of things, and we're done. Matthew starts off his gospel by saying, remember it, Emmanuel, chapter one, verse 23, God with us? And he ends his gospel by saying, God with us. I love it, it's beautiful. How will his ways be known upon earth unless salvation comes to all nations?

Unless we tell it, how will there be gladness anywhere unless the glad tizin' that Jesus saves, Jesus saves is proclaimed everywhere? This is how Jesus gets international glory. His blood is still deep enough. His blood is wide enough. His blood is pure enough.

His blood is still powerful enough to save any sinner. I'll tell you a quick story. It was a little girl, 14 years old, in Chicago. Couldn't walk. Her Father was wealthy.

He found a doctor in Australia. And the doctor came and worked on that girl for two weeks. He was able to walk. A little boy one day was reading the newspaper. He was reading the newspaper, started crying, and his mom came over and said, what's going on?

She saw that it was killing in the paper. She thought he was crying about the killing. He said, no, mommy, look at this story right here. It was about that 14-year-old girl he was reading about. See, this little boy can walk.

And he said, Mom, you think he'd do that for me? She said, his dad is wealthy, we don't have no money. But Mommy, can a little boy just hope? Can I just hope, Mommy, can I just hope? Mom ran out the house and started crying outside of the house.

She came back in after she gathered herself together, started going through the phone book, searching all the hotels, calling all over the place to see if the doctor's store was in town. And lo and behold, he hadn't left yet. She made her way to the hotel at the front desk, asked her for his room, went and knocked on the door. He was about to leave. She fell down on his feet and said, can you do anything, anything for my son?

He said, do you have any money? Do you have any money? She said, no, we don't have any money. Fell down again. Take me to your boy.

The doctor went and saw him, called for the EMS. The doctor worked on him for 11 weeks straight. One day, mom came into the hospital room. He was sitting in the chair. He said, Mom, go over there by the window.

Sitting in the wheelchair, she felt a little tap on her shoulder. Turned around, her boy was walking. Duck came in. He said, if you're okay now, I'm going back to my country. I want you to be a good boy.

I've taken care of all the bills. Let me say that, he's taking care of all the bills. Can I tell you something? We were not only spiritually dead, but we were crippled. We can walk.

Jesus came and worked on us if we are alive so that we could walk with him and walk by faith. But that's not all. Jesus cleared all the bills that we had with God. He covered all expenses, all the debts, covering it all in his precious blood. And he says unto us, I want you to be good.

I'm going to the country. I'm going back home. But I want you to be good. In other words, live soberly, righteously, godly in this present world. But that little boy did something.

He held onto the doctor's hand, and he started to kiss him. He wouldn't let him go. He said to the doctor, as long as there is a tongue in my mouth, I will never cease to tell people what you've done for me. Oh, my friend, we should be like that little boy and holding on to Jesus who gave us legs to walk and covered our payments and went back to the country. We should hold on to him and not let go and say, as long as there is a tongue in my mouth, I will never cease to tell people what you've done for me.

Never cease. If Jesus hadn't done anything for you, you don't have anything to say. But if he's done something for you, you should tell the world what he's done. May God help us to do so, so that he could receive international glory. Let's pray.

Father, we thank you that you are great and greatly to be praised. Thank you for your kindness to us. Thank you for coming to us. Lord, we had no concern for you. Thank you for roping us in, snatching us out of the kingdom of darkness and placing us into the kingdom of your dear son.

Help us to live as though he meant everything to us is our prayer. Hear our cry, in Jesus' name, Amen.