In the culmination of his earthly ministry, Jesus gave an enduring promise to His disciples: "I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen" (Matt. 28:20). This commitment, echoing through the centuries, assures followers of His constant presence in life's peaks and valleys. In this session, Pooyan Mehrshahi will explain how this promise becomes tangible through the Holy Spirit, Christ's ever-present companion. By trusting in the eternal "Amen," His disciples will gain comfort and hope. 

It's good to see you each one here to this meeting this morning. Please turn with me in your Bibles to Matthew's Gospel, Chapter 28. It is a passage which you have meditated upon a number of times this week, but it is a passage like an ocean. The depth of it is so great. And I want to read to you, If we can from verse 16.

Matthew 28 verse 16. Then the Eleven 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 these things whatsoever I have commanded you, and lo, I am with you all the way, even unto the end of the world. Amen. Let us pray. Our eternal God, we bow before thee this morning, to worship thee, to adore thee, to love thee, to remind ourselves of thy goodness and mercy that follows us all the days of our lives. We Bless thee, O God, for Jesus Christ thy Son, in whose name we come.

He's everything to us. He's altogether lovely. He's the fairest among ten thousands. And O Lord, we give thee thanks by grace, sovereign grace, free grace. He has become ours.

We bless Thee, O Lord, for one another. We give Thee thanks for that interest in Thy Word that Thou hast placed in our hearts to be here, to be at this conference. We pray that every one of us might leave this place changed, that we would be more like Christ. We would have His vision, His view, His thoughts. May the mind of Christ dwell in us richly.

Bless this gathering, O Lord, and all such gatherings around this place. May Thy Word penetrate deep, and may the Spirit of God may produce much fruit in our lives. And O Lord, may we return home giving Thee all the glory that we have been with Jesus. Blessed then each one for Christ's sake. Amen.

Dear friends, my text is found at the latter part of verse 20 of Matthew 28. The Apostle Peter writes in his second letter that there have been given to you exceeding great and precious promises. That's wonderful isn't it? Exceeding great and precious promises given to us, to God's people. They have been given to you this, it says, exceeding great.

Not just exceeding great, but then he says, precious promises. So if you're a disciple of Jesus Christ, that is what you need to feed upon. Your soul needs that, to feed on the precious promises of the Lord Jesus Christ. And you need that. If you are a disciple, And you need to pass these promises on to those that you are discipling as well.

And here we have a wonderful promise. Not from a man. Not from a mere man, but from the God-man, Jesus Christ. And this is what I need to feed upon. My soul needs this and your soul needs this.

This promise of Jesus. All these promises made to the apostles are made to the new converts too, new disciples, new followers. It's a miracle of miracles, isn't it, that here in this century, all these centuries that have gone by, And yes, Christ is coming, and this promise is given to us still. Lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. And then Matthew finishes it, our Lord finishes it by saying, Amen.

So, I have a number of points for you. It is very simple. My first point is low. My second point is I am. And it goes like that.

So you can follow it. But the subject here is that the disciples of Jesus Christ need to know about the presence of Christ. You need it. With all the challenges that you and I face, with all the things that we experience and which one of us doesn't feel lonely at times, which one of us doesn't feel that we are under so much pressure and we wonder where is the Lord in all of this? Where is God?

Have you ever thought about that? Which one of you, you've been parents, you have been seeking to raise up your children and you're facing all sorts of challenges and there are times you say well I know these things to be true, but where is the Lord? Where is He? I have no sense, I have no feelings. So let us look at this passage.

Our Lord says to us, first of all, lo, lo. This is a word that when you find it in the Bible, it is saying that you must give your total attention. Lo, the Lord Jesus Christ says. And that's what's translated here, lo. He's saying, give me your complete attention.

I'm going to say to you that it's so important. Jesus is saying to us, everything I have to say to you, Yes, it is all important, obviously, but listen to this in particular. Take this to your heart in a particular way. Underline it. Put it in bold print.

Impress it on your heart and your mind, because you need it for the rest of your life. That's what you need to know. You get hold of this. You grasp it. Never leave it.

Put it on your wall. Put it in your fridge. Listen to this. Lo, treasure it. This is a special.

This is what disciples need. This is what you must remind those that you are discipling. Lo, who is it talking? It's His eye. Lo, eye, who is it?

It's the Lord, the Lord Jesus Christ. One Lord. Because there is only one Christ. It doesn't say we. It says I.

One Lord. Whenever you hear the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, You should always think of, and I'm doing this for children, but adults need it too. Whenever you read and hear the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, you should think of this. 1-2-2-3. Can you remember that?

1-2-2-3. One Lord, two natures, two estates, and then I'll explain three offices. So every time you hear the Lord Jesus Christ says, I, When you hear the Lord Jesus Christ, His name, you think of this. The minister said, the pastor said, one, two, three, one Lord, because there is only One Christ. Two natures.

From all eternity, He is God. Conceived by the Holy Spirit in the womb of the Virgin Mary. He became man. He is what He has always been. He becomes what He has never been before.

But there is still only one Christ. As B.B. Warfield, that old theologian says, Two natures of consciousness, only one center of self-consciousness. It's a mystery, it's a second mystery in the Bible. What's the first mystery?

Do you know? The doctrine of the Trinity is the first mystery. If you understand it, you come and tell me. But this is the second mystery. The mystery of godliness.

The apostle says, God was manifest in the flesh. So Christ, one Christ, two natures, two estates, is born of the Virgin Mary. He lives in poverty. He does his miraculous wonders. He tells of those extraordinary stories.

But he is further humiliated by the cross and the agony of it. And he is further humiliated by the anger of his father who is in heaven. His Father God, His pours upon Him on that cross as He is dying for our sins. He is further humiliated by dying. He didn't have to die.

He could experience the wrath of God, but He could take it. But then he dies. And then furthermore, he goes under the power of death for a time. We call that the state of his humiliation. And furthermore, he's buried as well.

But then it follows by the state of exaltation. He rises from the dead. That's why we gather together every Lord's Day. The whole day is the Lord's, not just the morning. The whole day is a Sabbath unto God.

That's the state of His exaltation. He's alive, the tomb is empty. He ascends then to heaven. That's again part of his state of exaltation. He rises from the dead.

He is alive forever more. He presents himself alive to the disciples and to his father and then he Goes to sit at the throne of grace. He reigns Jesus Christ is king now. He is not going to reign in future He's reigning now their friends and what does he do? He makes intercession for us He intercedes and he's coming again Gloriously every eye shall see him Every tongue will confess him Every knee will bow to him.

Oh, that they would do that now. And this extraordinary Christ who is God and man, two natures, two states, exercises three offices. In other words, He's our prophet, priest, and our king. He's our prophet. Why?

Because he reveals to us the way of salvation perfectly. He's our priest because he himself is a sacrifice that takes away our sins, but he is also interceding for us. That is part of his intercession. We have one at the right hand of God who remembers you, dear friends. Remembers you with all of your needs.

He takes away our sins, of course, through his death, But then he upholds us before his father in heaven. And he's our king. Because we weren't always on his side. We weren't always in his kingdom. We were part of the kingdom of darkness.

That's what you were. But as He worked in our hearts, we trusted our souls to Him. He conquered our hearts and souls. We were conquered by Him. Jesus Christ always wins.

He is King. And now we are kept by Him, protected by Him, provided by Him. We are under His government, His rule. We will have this King to rule over us, we say. And this extraordinary Christ says this promise, Lo I.

So remember, 1, 2, 2, 3, every time you hear the name of Jesus Christ, the Lord. And he says to you, Lo, that's the first point, Lo, I. And then he says, I am with you. I am with you. Why did the Lord Jesus Christ say, I will be with you?

Well, if I was to say to you, I will be with you, I'll be with you tomorrow. It implies that probably between now and tomorrow I won't be with you. And then I will be with you. And then maybe I won't be with you. But then again I will be with you at a later date.

The Lord Jesus Christ uses what we call the perpetual or continual present. So he's saying whatever the present is, I am with you. I am. There's not a gap. This is not something to look forward to, He's saying to them.

This is something which starts and now will never finish. That's what Jesus Christ is saying. Do you believe that? Are you just following your senses and your feelings? Are you walking by sight?

I often do that. But we must believe, we must trust the Word of God and the promise of Jesus. That's why this is a precious promise. And he says, I will be with you. That's my third point.

Lo, I am, he says, is the second one. Third one, with you, he says. Lord, I am with you. With who? With who?

Who are you? Who were the disciples? Who are these people that you're seeking to make as Christ's disciples. Well, Peter is a disciple. The Lord Jesus Christ called him.

James and John. There are Andrew. They are the disciples. The Lord Jesus Christ called them. Well, there is Matthew, Levi, who's writing this gospel is.

He is a disciple. How? The Lord Jesus Christ came to him. Come and follow me, he said. He was at the receipt of customs, the Bible says.

He was a tax collector. The Lord Jesus called him. There is Nathaniel. He is a disciple. The Lord Jesus Christ called him.

If you look at the epistle to the Romans, what do you see? The Lord Jesus Christ or the Apostle refers to these people, they are the called. They are called by God again and again. These are Christian people. God calls them.

They're the sheep of Christ. The sheep hear His voice and follow Him. What makes a Christian different from a non-Christian is that the Savior called you. Now there was a day 24 years ago, I think it was February, there was a day in 1999, I was not a Christian one morning. But by the time I went to bed, I was a Christian.

What happened? In the morning I was anti-christian. In the morning I was still within the kingdom of darkness. I was still in the realm of Satan. Satan was my father at that point.

But who adopted me? What happened between the morning and the evening? I went to hear the Word of God. I began reading the Scriptures. I was reading the Bible.

And I was amazed by the words of the Lord Jesus Christ. They were convicting me. They had been convicting me for a long time. I was with a guilt of sin in the morning, with a heavy heart in the morning. But by the evening, through reading of the Scriptures, Jesus Christ called me to be His.

So my eyes were open. I saw Him. How wonderful! I heard the testimony of a minister years ago who said about his own conversion, I went into the chapel building as a non-Christian determined to remain a non-Christian. But something happened.

I couldn't close my heart to Jesus any longer, he says. Something happened. It happened as the Word was being preached. I couldn't close my heart to Jesus Christ anymore. And shortly after that, he said, he was taught a chorus That says, I heard the call, come, follow.

That was all. Earth's joys grew dim, my soul went after Him. That's amazing, isn't it? Something happened. I was won over by Jesus Christ.

Jesus Christ always wins. That's what we keep repeating. He wins. Nobody can say to Him, what are you doing? What doest thou?

The Christian life, dear friends, is not just believing a certain lot of propositions and behaving according to a certain code. It's an encounter with Jesus Christ. That's what the disciple experiences. That's what we want people to experience too. An encounter with Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

Something happens. He calls. He calls you. You can't close your heart to Him anymore. Now you begin to love Him.

You approach Him. You can't keep your distance from Him. You serve Him. You worship Him. And you'll never turn your back on Him.

And even when there is coldness that comes in, He convicts you, He chases after you, He brings you back again and again. Christ Jesus is our life, we say. That's to whom the promises are made. People who were born in sin, people who were lost, dead in trespasses and sins. But how can this be?

How can this be? He says, lo, I am with you! Because shortly he's going to ascend. There's no physical presence of Christ anymore. But he can keep his promise.

How does he do that? Well, we've been given the answer of course, in John's Gospel, in chapter 14 of John, the Lord Jesus Christ says, I am going to go away and yet I am not going to go away. That's interesting. I'm going away so you are sad but I'm actually not going to go away. I am going away but there is another comforter who is going to come to you.

And then he says this, I'm not going to leave you comfortless. I'm not going to leave you as orphans, he says. I will come to you, Jesus says. What's he talking about? What's he talking about in the work and ministry?

This is the work and the ministry of the Holy Spirit. In history often Christians have talked about the Holy Spirit as Jesus' other self. There's this person in the Godhead who makes Jesus Christ real to us, the Word of God real to us. He makes Jesus Christ precious to us. He bears witness in our soul of Jesus Christ, who gives us an appetite for the Lord Jesus, who shows us our sins.

That's what the Holy Spirit does. He convicts us of this, but He enables us and persuades us to grieve over our sins and sorrow over them and come to Jesus. He gives us repentance and faith. It's mysterious, of course. Who can explain any of these things?

It is spiritual, it is supernatural, it is totally different, it is totally other. So Jesus Christ calls and He holds us, He indwells us, He makes Himself known to us by His Holy Spirit. And this promise, I am with you, is to those people. I am with you. So I'm taking it word by word.

I am with you always, he says, always. Now for those of you who are grammar pedantics, I want to say one or two things. In the authorized version or the King James version, it translates as Olwe. The translators were trying to be as strictly grammatically correct to the Greek usage here. Olwe, it's no longer used except in poetry or something like that, but always is the English word that maintains the original linguistic and grammatical structure of the Greek here.

Rather than translating as always, Now we mix the two together and for us always means the same thing but in this text it doesn't it's actually three words that are used here and so the translators have used this term that is no longer used always. Let me explain what it is. The Oxford English Dictionary describes it like this. The word always means at every time or on every occasion. Which means that meantime we need Christ.

Here He is, He is there. Whereas the word always, so it means that always means that He would be there when we need Him. Okay? But always, it is to do with all the time, all the time. When you need Him, when you don't need Him, but we always need Him.

So He's there all the time, He's perpetually there, it's the word for perpetual. So there is never a time, that word always, there is never a time that He is not with us. So for example, the Lord Jesus Christ says in this passage, Lo, I am with you always, but then again you have another word that is translated always. It's a totally different word in John 12 and verse 8, where the Lord Jesus Christ said, but me ye have not always. What's that about?

It's a different word in the underlying Greek text. This is not a contradiction. Since John is describing Jesus' personal, physical presence, so even though Jesus Christ is not always on earth by His own physical person, yet He is always, continually, forever with His people on the earth. By the Holy Spirit. By the Word of God.

So this is just a grammatical matter. I thought for those of you English grammar teachers, you may be interested in that. But we mix the words together now and use the term always and don't appreciate the underlying connotations. The underlying connotations. If you have margins in your Bible, there are three words that are translated.

And the words literally are, all the days. All the days. Those are the three words. That's amazing. I like that.

I am with you always. I am with you all the days. The disciples of Christ and those we are discipling and preaching to and witnessing to must understand this. We must take it to our hearts. Now we have different sorts of days.

What day did you have yesterday? What days did you have last week? Last year. You look back and you look at your diary if you keep one. You look there's seven markers last year.

For good days, there were bad days. You have days full of joy and your mind is full of praise and thankfulness. You can unburden your heart to the Lord. You feel the presence of the Lord? You have days where it's easy to witness of Jesus Christ to somebody?

Have you ever had a day like that? You pray and the Lord is so close to you. You read the Bible, it makes sense to you. It's applying to your life in the details and you say, God spoke to me today. Ever had a day like that?

Of course you have. I have. Your prayers flows. You feel you could tell the Lord anything, everything. Everything you do seems to flow.

The Lord is with you. That's how you feel. Some news comes to you and you're so amazed, you're so thankful. Some bad news comes to you, You seem to be able to deal with it and it doesn't startle you. It doesn't shake you up.

The Lord seems to be near. Those are good days. Those are blessed days. And on those days, dear friends, isn't it easy to believe this promise? It's easy.

Yes, the Lord is with me. It's great. But do you ever have days when it is not easy to say these words? It's not easy for you to say, well, the Lord says this, but I have no sense of it. He is not with me.

I know somebody like that just now. No, the Lord has left me. He's left me. I'm destitute. I don't even think I'm a Christian anymore.

Have you ever had days like that as well? I've certainly had. Everything seems to be too much. You're easily provoked. There are days that people around you seem to easily be able to provoke you.

Everybody around you seem to be difficult people. When teaching and witnessing and preaching is so hard, do you ever have a day like that too? Where people are Aggressive to you. Family members, sometimes friends, people that you work with, they're aggressive to you, hostile to you. They're obstinate.

They don't understand where you're coming from. They misunderstand you. You do something and they take the wrong end of the stick. They misrepresent you. They judge you.

They don't understand you. They don't know where you're coming from. They don't understand what a Christian is and why you behave in this way. Do you ever have days like that? I certainly have.

Do you ever have days where if You had one word when you could write in your diary. What would it be? Just one word. Maybe you would write lonely. Everybody is around you.

And yet you sense the loneliness. Have you ever felt like that? Maybe I'm the only one. Does that ever happen to you? Do you have days when you you feel so unwell?

You feel so afraid? Oh, before people we speak boldly. But when we are by ourselves, how are we? We are what we are in the secret. That's what John Owen said.

We are what we are in the secret. Then it is that there is no assurance in your soul. You wonder, has it all been a fake? Am I a hypocrite? Do you have days just like that?

That you say, oh so what? So what? This temptation has come. So what? And you're so in a state of mind that you're not thinking straight.

And so you sin. You give in to the temptation. You regret it afterwards. But do you have days like that? Do you have days in your life where things happen and you say, well, I just don't understand what the Lord is doing with me?

Or days that you have to make certain decisions and you say, why do I have to make it now? I'm so confused about this. I prayed. Why is not God answering? Where is He?

Job had this feeling. He says, in one place I go north, he is not there. I go south, he is not there. I go to the place where I used to meet with him, he is not there. He is not hearing.

There are days that you might feel, you might write the word danger in your diary. You're in danger. Have you ever had days where you're shedding tears and your tears are so real and they sting you on your cheeks. And of course the worst of tears are tears of shame, tears of guilt. Have you ever days like that?

Days when you're wronged, when you're cheated, when you're insulted, when you're lied to, to your face, behind your back. This is why we need this promise. Lo, I am with you all the days. I am with you always. I am with you perpetually, continually, not just when you need me.

I am with you all the time. I never leave you, nor forsake you. The Lord says, He is the same yesterday and today and forever. The disciples needed this promise to that day. They're going out to evangelize the world.

They need courage. They're going out to an aggressive, obstinate, unbelieving world. They need comfort. They need hope. They need vision.

They need patience. They need the Lord. They need the promises of the Lord Jesus Christ as Christ disciples and when they are discipling other people they need to tell them, this is what you need. This is what the Lord has said to you. You won't be left alone.

They are individuals that we must leave. We witness to them. They are converted. Sometimes we try to fix things for them. And sometimes we worry for them.

But you know there is someone who is with them. If they are truly the Lord, the Lord will be with them. You don't have to fix everything. It's a great comfort. I don't have to fix people's lives.

The Lord is with them. So the disciples need these things too. We often feel so hopeless. Thomas Brooks, the Puritan, said, A Christian's motto always should be, Spero Meliora. Do you know what that is?

I'll translate it for you. I hope for better things. I hope for better things. That's the Christian's hope. I hope for better things in Jesus Christ.

I hope for better things than any world can give to me, or than any that Satan can take away from me. A Christian is always rich with this hope, because Jesus is with us always. And so Thomas Brooks says, a Christian always is rich in hope, So he has not always, even though he has not always a penny in hand. Another thing that is as serious is that Even apostles were tempted to sin. Even apostles were tempted to sin.

And to know that the Lord Jesus Christ is with us all the time. Always. Do you know what that does? Have you ever felt tempted? And then you have realized, but the Lord is with me here.

The Lord is right here with me. He is with me. He sees these things. If I engage in this sin, I'm dragging Him into it. But He suffered for this sin.

Why should I drag Him into this sin?" And so it helps us in terms of our sanctification. It helps us as we are tempted, lo, I am with you all the way. And then he says, even unto the end of the world. Even unto the end of the world. And time is nearly gone, but will finish soon.

People talk about the end of the world, but the Bible and the Lord Jesus Christ talk about the end of the world's realm or even the age in terms of time. The world, as the scripture teaches, is going to be burnt up in a fire. It's going to be consumed. It is going to be completely remodeled and remade. And there's going to be new heavens and new earth.

Thank you. And we shall live in those new heavens and on that new earth. That's how the world will end. Which is very different to the threats of the climate change activists and the ever changing media and news that the end of the world is near. You better change your vehicles.

You better stop doing this and stop doing that and stop living. My friends, The Bible tells us how the world will end. The Bible tells us. And the Lord Jesus Christ says all the way through it, I am with you. There's going to be a new heaven.

There's going to be an eternal city in which dwells righteousness. There's an eternity ahead of us. But until we get there, we are in this world, and I am with you, the Lord says, on every single day until the end of this world. The world is a terrifying place, I think. The news that comes to us from the mainline news propaganda channels, like the BBC we have in England, the ones that you can also...

No, I don't know them. I don't watch the American news. The papers, they're giving opinions than real journalism and news. They have an agenda of falsehood, control, and fear. And so it puts fear in people's hearts, unnecessary fear in people's hearts.

We need to find out, of course, what's going on by getting out, By looking up alternative media with an open Bible, testing all things, proving all things. Hold to that which is good, the scripture says. But there are great, monumentous things happening in the world. Leaders die. Leaders come.

So many changes are constantly happening around us. Jesus Christ remains king. He's king. He wins. We don't know what's happening really in this world.

We don't know what new laws are going to come in to restrict our liberties or sexualize our society and culture even further laws about life and death. Who can live? Who can't live? Then there is a world of natural disasters. The world of drought and wind and cold and heat and disease and a world full of disappointments.

This is a world under the judgment of God. This is a world under the curse of God. There are thorns and thistles everywhere. What is coming to this world? What's happening around us?

What's happening in our lives? Do you know? Ultimately, I don't know. What the world is coming to throw at us in the next five years, in the next ten years, in the next twenty years. Do you?

But one thing I know, Jesus Christ will stay on His throne. He's not wringing His hands worried. He knows and He's fulfilling this continued marching forward of His Church and His Kingdom. The gates of hell shall not prevail. That's what the Bible says.

That's what Christ says. Lo, I am with you all the way, even unto the end of the world, that I know, that you should know, that you should teach. But then finally the word amen, I hope your Bibles have it in. Matthew writes, amen. The Lord Jesus Christ says Amen.

Most Greek manuscripts have this word Amen at the end of Matthew. In the Armageddon text, Amen. What does Amen mean? Amen means amen. That's what the Lord Jesus said.

It's His name. The book of Revelation speaks about Him being the amen. And that let me just, I know my time is gone. I'll just take a sidestep here. Be very careful how you use that term, amen.

There are sometimes people are praying, and people instead of, they interject, they keep using the name amen, the term amen, constantly without thinking, This is actually the name of Jesus. We should be careful. Every time we need to use the name of the Lord, or Amen. Let us not take the name of the Lord our God in vain. But here is the name Amen.

It means truly. It means faithfully. It means verily. It means Amen. The Lord is saying, it is true.

What I'm saying is true. Every promise in This book is true. I am true. I will be faithful to you. The Lord is saying the Amen says this He says we are on the victory side We will at last conquer and the nations will be disciples for Christ because he will be with you always even to the end of the world and with a loud amen he finishes that.

Let me say in conclusion this is why the believers in the early church were willing to suffer for Christ. You've read about them. There are books, ample books out there for us. Despite facing the severe persecutions in the Roman empire, early Christians, what did they find? They found strength and courage in their faith.

Many were martyred, many were made torches, human torches for Nero, yet they steadfastly remained, Yet they had resilience. What does that show? The presence of Christ with them. I will strengthen you. I will help you.

I will be with you. You have read the stories of Perpetua and felicity. Who remained faithful. You know, I read a heart-wrenching account of felicity. Who was giving birth to her child before her martyrdom.

She said this, But I bore my little child with more cheerfulness than I had suffered my prison. And I was comforted because I had brought forth a living child that I might fight with the beasts so that my martyrdom might be complete. She wanted to fight with the beasts. She knew the Lord was with her. You have the Reformation.

During the Protestant Reformation in the 16th and 17th century, Reformers Martin Luther, John Calvin, others, many others. How could they stand against the Church of Rome? How could it just outside our house, five minutes from our home, there is the monument to John Hooper, the bishop of Gloucester, who was burnt alive at the stake for trusting in Christ and for preaching the gospel. And he was, As he was dying and burning alive, as his body parts were falling down off his body, because he was burning. Yet he continued on, praising God.

Who was with him? They said that it's as if he's talking to someone. He's talking with Christ, praising Christ. You have the missionary movement. You have Hudson Taylors of this world, Amy Carmichael's on this world, Henry Martins of this world, David Livingston of this world.

How can they live? How can they survive? How can these believers right now in North Korea, in China, in Nigeria, in other places, how can they survive? Jesus Christ is with them. His promise is true, dear friends.

His promise is true. And it will be true with you as well. It is true, dear friends. Jesus Christ will walk with you to M.A.S. When you are hopeless, when you are distraught, and when you don't know, they did not know, the scripture says.

He is there when they want to burn you, When they want to kill you, when you're in the furnace, the Lord is with you. He makes Himself known. When the doors, the windows are shut and you are there in danger and unsure of what is going to happen to you, Jesus Christ is with you. If you're a disciple, and as you make disciples, you need to know this. You need to know this fact and impress that on others, This promise of the Lord Jesus with an amen.

The amen says it. Amen is the name of our Savior and He has put His signature to it. May God bless His Word. Let us pray. Oh Lord our God, we give Thee thanks and bless Thy name.

How wonderful our Savior is. And we pray that Thou wilt then work in our hearts that we would have eyes to see. See Him whom our soul loves. May we have ears to hear his voice, even his whispers, that he is with us. O Lord, blessed and this congregation, this people, We ask that Jesus Christ would be magnified, that as we know He is with us, we would sing His praises, we would pray to Him, we would follow Him.

For Jesus' sake. Amen.