In the sermon based on John 14:18, Scott Brown emphasizes the sufficiency of Jesus Christ as the ultimate source of comfort for believers. He explains that Jesus comforts his disciples with promises that he will not leave them as orphans and that his presence will be with them through the Holy Spirit. The sermon contrasts the temporary and false comforts people seek in worldly possessions and relationships with the enduring comfort found in Jesus Christ. Brown highlights the importance of understanding the Holy Spirit as a person who conveys the truth of Jesus to believers. He encourages the congregation to rely on the promises of God and the truth of scripture rather than emotions or external circumstances. The sermon underlines the intimate relationship believers have with Christ, as he lives within them and they are loved by the Father. In conclusion, the sermon calls for a life grounded in the truth of the gospel, where Jesus' promises provide real and lasting comfort.

Please find verse 18 in John 14. I will not leave you as orphans, I will come to you. A little while longer and the world will see me no more, but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also. At that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you.

He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is He who loves Me. And He who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him." Judas, not Iscariot, said to him, Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us and not to the world? Jesus answered and said to him, If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. He who does not love me does not keep my words, and the word which you hear is not mine, but the Father's who sent me." Let's pray. Oh, Father, we thank you for these words of our Lord Jesus Christ to grow us up, to make us mature, to teach us the way that we ought to live in this world.

We thank you for this instruction and we pray, O Lord, that you would burn it into our hearts and that we would find many applications in it from this moment forward as we go into the week in Jesus name. Amen. Please be seated. Well these this This section exists in John chapters 13 through 17, which is the longest sermon of Jesus in the Gospels. We're just gonna deal with just seven verses.

I want us to hang on these seven verses in the midst of this great text. These words were designed by the Lord Jesus Christ to comfort His disciples. He's just announced that He's going away. Remember how shocking, how jarring this must have been. They've been walking with Jesus who could calm the storms, who could feed an army with bread, who could do anything.

And they've walked with Him and they've followed Him. And now the one who turns water into wine is saying, I'm leaving you. You can just imagine how shocking and jarring that might be. Think of the most important person in your life, the most helpful person in your life showing up and saying, I'm leaving. That's exactly what these disciples are experiencing.

And so Jesus spends this entire sermon not only Laying down truth bedrock for them to stand on in the midst of his departure he's comforting them. He's comforting them in almost every single sentence in this entire section from John 13 through John 17. But we're just going to deal with these very, very few words. He's comforting his disciples. We're just like his disciples.

We tend to be comforted when things are comfortable. We tend to be comforted because we have enough money. We have...we tend to be comforted because we have enough friends. You know, a woman might be comforted because she has enough connections. A man might be comforted because he has enough resources.

We, if you're, if you're single, you think you'll finally be comforted when you find that person, your soulmate, and you'll be comforted forever. And if you are married, you might say, if I only had a different spouse, I could be comfortable. And, you know, we're looking for all these external things to comfort us. That's what we do. And But this passage of Scripture brings us to what is the only true comfort that we'll ever have, and that is the comfort of Jesus Christ.

So here's what I want to try to say with everything that I say this morning, and that is that in these verses we learn that Jesus Christ is sufficient for your comfort. Now the message that we want to proclaim as a church is that Jesus Christ is sufficient for everything pertaining to life and godliness. Another way of talking about the sufficiency of Christ is to say that scripture is sufficient because every word of scripture is a word of Christ and every word of scripture is sufficient for life and godliness. Here's the message, Jesus Christ is all you need for comfort, and so don't look to these other things. The Scripture that we have before us makes it very clear that it is the truth that consoles us, that teaches us, that leads us, that convicts us.

We've been talking about the fact that, you know, we have the three members of the Trinity, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. We think of the Father as a person. We think of the Son as a person, but we don't think of the Holy Spirit as a person. But the Holy Spirit is a person. The Holy Spirit is not a feeling that you have, it's not a force.

The Spirit is not a force. It's not a force that comes upon you. The Spirit, the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of truth that speaks the word of truth to you and we have to get that straight because we live in a world Where people think well if I just would feel this moment then I would be filled with the Holy Spirit now The person who's filled with the Holy Spirit is a person who is filled with the truth of Jesus Christ. He is the Spirit of truth, and we have to get that straight or we're going to be, you know, run around roughshod by our emotions all the time. Here's what Luther said about this sermon and particularly these words, the aim of this whole sermon is to make disciples certain of the Father's love for them and to move them in turn to love the Lord Jesus Christ.

And so we...when we see the truth that are spoken here that are designed to comfort us, we realize how depending on man for our consolation is such a fool's errand. You know, we live in a world where people are going to comfort themselves by their exercise and what it gives them, or their food, or their movies, or their songs. They run to these things for their comfort, and these things are all false comforts. They don't comfort you the way that Jesus Christ can comfort you. Rather, depend on the truth for your consolation.

Hang your life on the truth, not on your feelings about how things are happening, you know, at this moment. Now this brings us really to the whole gospel message that we find in the Word of God. The gospel message is contained in the proposition that man is sinful and has fallen short of the glory of God but Jesus Christ died for sinners and he washed them and he brought them into his home and the gospel proclaims that our sin our inadequacy our fear is taken into Him. We're going to read about that in these verses in just a moment. And His death is swallowed up in victory and our grave clothes are replaced.

That's the truth of the gospel. Now if you rest your comfort on your feelings, you'll never have comfort, at least not enduring comfort. The only true...the only comfort that is true comfort that you'll ever find is the truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ. You think you might be able to get it in your prosperity? Oh, by the way, this week I actually listened to two sermons by Joel Osteen.

They were all the same. It was very interesting. Now, the two that I listened were almost exactly the same. He started out each sermon in this way. I want to tell you a funny story.

And then he had the congregation repeat some kind of a mantra. And then both sermons basically made it very clear that your only hope is to get that girlfriend, get that job, get that money, get that whatever you want, get rid of that sickness. Everything had to do with being relieved of some earthly trouble. But none of it had to do with the sufficiency of Jesus Christ for your comfort. He was pretending that you would finally get comfort if you finally got a girlfriend, or if you finally got that promotion that you wanted or you finally got that money that you were hoping for or you finally got rid of those headaches that have been driving you crazy, that would make you happy.

So go for it. Make all your prayers focus that way. Now I'm not saying that we shouldn't pray for those things or anything like that, but we have to be very clear that there's really only one source of comfort and that is in Jesus Christ and in His truth alone. So now one thing that's very clear here in this passage is that God pictures Himself as such a loving Father, and Jesus Christ pictures Himself as such a compassionate Savior. And the devil wants you to picture God the Father and His Son as far off and not near you and not a person who speaks His Word to you.

And he wants you to think that your only help is to have...is in your feelings and to fulfill your desires. But your hope is not in the instruction that you get from his word, And that's what we find here. And this really is the central matter of Christianity. We receive his words and his words are life to us. And it's his words that transform our lives.

I've been reading Martin Luther on this text, and he speaks very powerfully about this whole matter. Now there are six words of comfort that Jesus breathes to his disciples in these seven verses. And I think you can sum them all up in a statement from Hebrews 13 In verse 5, I will never leave you or forsake you. I will never leave you or forsake you. I think all of these can be summed up right there in that one phrase in Hebrews chapter 13.

Okay, if you have an outline in front of you, you'll see where I'm going. I've outlined six promises. Hang your life on the promises of God. Trust in His promises, not in the condition of your premises where you are right now. And I think that's what I really pray that God would do with us today, that He would help us to trust in His promises, not what's happening on your premises today, that He would use His Word to grow us up, to make us mature, to help us to see life the way it really is, to be guided by the truth, not our emotions, not what's going on around us, not our feelings about what's ahead, but on His truth.

By the way, you know, it's clear to all of us that we're getting ready to send a family to Turkey as missionaries today as their last Sunday. They have no idea what's ahead of them. No idea at all. They're gonna get on an airplane on Tuesday afternoon, and they don't know what's gonna happen. They're like the Apostle Paul or they're like Abraham when he left Ur.

Where the Bible says he did not know where he was going. Now, we know what airport they're going to, but everything after that, we don't know, and they don't know. Their only hope is to trust in the truth of the promises of God, not on the feelings that they're having about this moment. Of course, the rest of us are having feelings about this moment too. You know, we're going to cry when they go, but we trust in the promises of God for them and for us so let's launch into these promises I phrased these as if Jesus were speaking them directly to you, as you can see here.

And the first promise is, you are not an orphan. He says, I will not leave you as orphans. I will come to you. Everyone who comes to Jesus has a father. You may have not had a very good father.

You might not have had a father at all, but anybody who comes to Jesus Christ has a father, and you're not an orphan. Orphans are vulnerable. They are underage, and they do not have parents, and they're incapable of providing for themselves and they need help from the outside and there is a helplessness about being orphaned, but God never leaves His children like orphans. They're never helpless. He's always there.

He… literally what the word orphan means is without father. And what Jesus is saying is, I will not leave you without Father. What a wonderful thing it is. You know, in Psalm 27, David says, even if my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take care of me. In other words, and I'll say this very carefully, You don't even need an earthly father.

You need a father in heaven. In this world, people are deprived of fathers. Our prison system is full of them, but they can have a father. They can, who will father them every day of their lives by his truth communicated through his word there's no better father there's no better savior there's no better comforter than that now orphans need instruction they need protection they need provision and they need guidance And that's what God provides through His truth in that way. And then He says, I will come to you.

I will come to you. He will come and provide all these things. Now, what does this mean? It's in the future. I will come to you.

Is it referring to Jesus' appearances after the resurrection? He appeared to over 500 people. He appeared to believers during that time. Is it later on? Well, you know, my view of this is that this refers to the whole period after the resurrection And he he will he will come to his disciples in the appearances after the resurrection Before his ascension and then He will come in the person of His Holy Spirit, and He will continue to minister to His children in that way.

And that's why at Jesus' ascension, He said to them, Lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." And then he was lifted out of their sight. He is saying, I will come to you. And you know, this is why the Apostle John writes that our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son, Jesus Christ. This is the life of beholding the beauty of the Lord and knowing that we have a Father. Are you lonely?

Turn to the Word of your Father. Are you frustrated? Turn to the Word of your Father. Are you angry? Turn to the Word of your Father.

Are you disconfited? Turn to the comforts of the Word of God. Turn to God in His truth and find your comfort there and don't wait for some emanation of some flowing force that comes upon you. Don't wait for that. That's not the Holy Spirit, that is something else.

The spirit comes as a spirit of truth from the Word of God So Christ is sufficient for your comfort he will not leave you as an orphan The second word of comfort You will see him A little while longer in the world will see me no more, but you will see me. I think this is both figurative and literal. In a literal sense, they will see him no more. In other words, he is going to the cross, he is going to the grave, and he is going to be resurrected. And then they will see Jesus because the light shines in the darkness and those who love the Lord will see the light.

And you know he was the glory of the Father, full of grace and truth. And whoever received him, he gave them the power to become sons of God. And in being sons, they would see him. So the people saw Him physically, but there are those who could not see Him with spiritual eyes. But there will be a day when every eye will see Him, as the Bible says.

He will come in the clouds and every eye will see Him. Christ is sufficient for your comfort. You will see Him. The Apostle Paul in 2 Corinthians chapter 3 speaks about beholding the face of Jesus Christ, beholding Him and being transformed from glory to glory. Because you can't see Him, but you see Him through His Word, and He transforms you because it's the Word of God that transforms.

So Christ is sufficient for your comfort because you will see Him when you behold Him in His beauty. David talked about beholding the King in His beauty And that's what he's referring to here. The third, because I live, you also will live. You will live also. That's verse 19.

Now I think this is so pivotal and representative of everything that is said here, because He lives, you will live. The basis of our life is His life, And he says, I live. He said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father but by me. He says, whoever believes in me has everlasting life That he is the resurrection and the life that his words are spirit and they are life because he lives that's the basis of your life that's why we read in him was life and the life was the light of men so because I live, you will live also.

Now, there are many ways to look at this, I think. Here's one way. His love is proved by an empty tomb. That's proof. That should be enough comfort that the tomb was empty, that He died and He rose again.

And He's praying for you constantly and He is seated at the right hand of God, and He's caring for you, and He's gonna care for you all the days of your life. Because of an empty tomb, He lives, and He lives at the right hand of His Father. Now This whole idea of His living in us is communicated all over the New Testament. Like for example in Galatians 2.20 we read this affirming statement that He lives in you. I have been crucified with Christ.

It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me." In John 521, we learn that He gives life, for as the Father raises the dead and gives life to them even so the Son gives life to whom he will." In Colossians 3 14 we read, if you've been raised up with Christ keep seeking the things that are above where Christ is seated at the right hand of God and then he says, for you died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory. In Ephesians chapter 2 verses 5 through 8, you read that He made us alive together with Christ. Now this is a reality. Now you might not feel like this, but this is a miracle of the new birth.

He makes you alive Now you might be really sick or have some chemical thing going on in your life And you don't feel that he's alive, but the Bible says that if you believe in him He is alive and raised us up together and made us to sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus. So we have, the Bible makes it clear that we have died with him, we are buried with him, we are raised with him, and the life that we live, we live by faith in the Son of God. And it is a life where his fullness fills all of us. Mortality is swallowed up by immortality. That's just a reality.

That's a reality of truth. That is the truth about you and that is because he lives, you also will live that's a promise of God Jesus said in John 8 56 he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me and I in him." That is a promise of God. In Romans 5-10, we learn that we have been reconciled and we shall be saved by his life." Now there's, we are saved by his life. We're not saved by our lives. We're not saved by our righteousness.

We're not saved because we feel right about everything. We are saved by his life. And his life is imputed into us. His righteousness, his obedience is imputed and that's a reality of truth about a true Christian. In Romans chapter 6 we learn more about this.

He says, Do you not know that as many as were baptized into Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we were buried with him through baptism into death that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father even so we should walk in newness of life for if we have been united together in the likeness of his death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of his resurrection." So what does this all mean? When a person believes in Jesus and follows Him, is justified by faith, then the life of Jesus takes up residence in that person. And Jesus doesn't keep his life to himself. He shares it with his children.

And his life in us is all we need. Because he lives, then his strength is inexhaustible. Because he lives, his grace is sufficient. Because he lives, his presence is eternal. Because He lives, we live also.

And that's why we find people in the Bible who say he gives power to the faint. And we hear, like the Apostle Paul, he says, when I am weak, then I am strong. That's why David says, God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever, because he lives in you. He who believes in me though he were dead he shall live." So says the apostle Paul. Christ is sufficient for your comfort because he lives so will you also live.

So don't rest your comfort on things of this world. Rest your comfort on the fact that he lives, that he died and he rose again and he promised to take up residence within you. The fourth promise, I am in you. I am in you. Verse 20, at that day you will know that I am in my Father and you in me and I in you.

Now notice, Notice the contour of this. Jesus is saying, I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. That should be the source of your comfort. All along in the gospel, we've come by it many times, that He is one with His Father. I and the Father are one.

Now we get a glimpse of how significantly comforting this principle is and how wonderful is this promise that He is saying, I am in you. This matter of being in Christ, I've heard someone say that this is the most prominent description of the Christian life, that you are in Him and He is in you. That's what it means to be a Christian. And that's why in Ephesians 1-4 we read, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love. Now you might not feel loved right now, but the Bible says that if you are in Him you've been loved from before the foundation of the world.

You know, he doesn't stop loving you because he never started loving you. He's loved you from before the foundation of the world. Now the devil wants you to forget this and he accuses and he lies and he condemns you and he says you're not worthy to be in him. Luther speaking to the devil in his commentary, Luther speaks to the devil in his commentary. He writes to the devil.

Here's what he writes. Do you remember how you devoured Christ? But you had to release him, did you not? Indeed, he in turn has devoured you. Therefore, you will also be unable to devour me because I abide in him." Does anybody need to talk to the devil like that today?

You might want to talk to the devil today like Martin Luther. He continues, therefore, if the devil wants to frighten you with God's wrath and judgment, with death and hell, and if he tells you that God is angry with you and wants to kill or damn you, then you can tell him to unleash such thoughts on stubborn minds and on wicked hardened hearts. And then he says, as for me, you must say, I am determined to listen to what the gospel says to me. There I find a man whose name is Jesus Christ. To him I will bind myself with heart and ears and learn what he says and does.

So I don't know if anybody needs to tell the devil off like that today. I find that I need to do that pretty regularly, frankly. He says this, you should not be guided by your feelings or believe your own thoughts. You should believe the Word. Believe the Word.

Believe what the Word of God says about you if you're a Christian. Now if you're not a Christian you should be terrified. I want you to be so comforted if you're a Christian. Luther says your heart will counter. You've not been living right.

You are full of sin. Unfortunately, this is true. And what is the result? You must go to hell, says the devil. This is not the will of God.

He gives you a comforter who lives forever. All this to say there's nothing that can comfort your heart like a firm, settled belief in the truths of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Do not follow your own heart, follow the will and the heart of God the Father. So the whole idea here is the idea of intimacy and closeness and connection and relation. By the way, He's the only one that you really need that with.

Don't look to your brother or your sister to find your connections and your intimacies. If God gives it, He gives it. If He doesn't, don't worry about it. There's really only one intimacy that really matters, and frankly, there's only one intimacy one intimacy that really works for any length of time, you know. One of the commentators said this, happy are they who ever dwell by this river of life, clear as crystal, welling forth from beneath the throne of God and the Lamb and drink their fill of its pure immortal streams." He's talking about living by the Word of God, living by the promises and the truths of the Word of God.

All this to say, Christ is sufficient for your comfort because He is in you. Because He is in you. He made that promise. I mean, I want us to be comforted by that today just by that fact alone don't be governed by your feelings be governed by facts. Number five, you are loved by the Father.

You'll notice there's a bit of a condition here. He who keeps my commandments, He who has my commandments and keeps them, it is He who loves me, and He who loves me will be loved by my Father. And I will love Him and manifest Myself to Him." And then Judas asks a question. Judas, not as scary, said to him, Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us and not to the world? And If you're a kind of person who is grieved when you don't keep His commandments, and you desire to keep His commandments, and you do keep His commandments knowing that you can't keep any of them perfectly, you will be loved by your Father.

How about that? If you have a heart to keep the commandments of God, though you see that you fail, You'll know that God loves you. Do you want to keep His commandments? That's a real question. Do you want to?

Do you want to? If you want to keep His commandments because you love Him and you believe His commandments are not burdensome but they're beautiful then you'll be loved by your Father. The world does not get this by the way. This is only for people who love God and are called to it according to his purpose. Do you want to keep his commandments?

That's such an important question. How you answer that question determines whether you are going to heaven or hell. And this is so plain in this text. Christ is sufficient for your comfort because you are loved by your Father. Number six, the Father, the Son, and the Spirit will make you their home.

Verses 23 and 24, Jesus answered and said to him, If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, And we will come to Him and make our home with Him." Who's we? It's the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. We, three persons, will move in. They're moving in. If you become a Christian, it means that He moved in and He's there and He's keeping – He's helping you keep house, Your house.

He's dealing with your house. This is a second use of this word home. It's translated mansions in verse 41 of chapter He has come into our home. This is one of the most remarkable aspects of becoming a Christian, is that your heart is a home to somebody. You're letting somebody into your home.

And he takes up residence there. You know, many years ago, I think I was in my teens when I read this little essay called My Heart, Christ's Home. Anybody ever read that? My Heart, Christ's Home? Well, since almost no one here has even heard of it, I'll tell you about it.

It's a story of a person who comes to Christ, and Christ is now in his home, and so he is showing the Lord Jesus around his home. And he takes him to the library and the dining room where their appetites are, and the living room where they they meet with people and in the workroom where their skills are producing things either worthless or worthwhile and the rec room where they go to act with for activities and the hall closet Where you hide things? But let I'll treat you to the to the to the library he calls it the control room of the house He entered with me. This is the Lord Jesus Christ entering into a home into the into your library He entered with me and looked around at the books and the bookcases, the magazines upon the table, the pictures on the walls. As I followed his gaze, I became uncomfortable.

Strangely enough, I had not felt badly about this before, but now that he was there looking at these things, I was embarrassed. There were some books there that his eyes were too pure to behold. There was a lot of trash and literature on the table that a Christian had no business reading. And as for the pictures on the walls, the imaginations and thoughts of the mind, these were shameful. I turned to him and said, Master, I know that this room needs a radical alteration.

Will you help me make it what it ought to be, to bring every thought into captivity to you? Surely, " he said, "...gladly will I help you." First of all, take all the things that you are reading and looking at, which are not helpful, pure, good, and true, and throw them out. Now put on the empty shelves the books of the Bible, fill the library with scriptures, and meditate on them day and night. May I suggest that if you have difficulty with this little room of the mind that you bring your Christ in there. Pack it full of the word of God, meditate upon it, and keep it before you as the immediate presence of the Lord Jesus Christ.

And then the final scene is transferring the title of the home. I'll just read this to you. I said, Lord, you have been a guest and I have been the host. From now on I am going to be the servant. You're going to be the owner and the master and Lord." Running as fast as I could to the strong box, I took out the title to the deed of the house, describing its assets and liabilities, location and situation and condition.

I eagerly signed it over to belong to him, alone for time and eternity. Here, I said, here it is, all that I am and have forever. So Christ is sufficient for your comfort because he has made a home in you and you are now his home." And then John records What is really a sure sign that you are in Him, a sure sign that you have these promises for your own, because you need to make sure whether you have these promises of your own and not deceiving yourself. And so in verse 24 he says, He who does not love me does not keep my words, and the word which you hear is not mine, but my Father who sent me. Now Jesus all along in John 14 has been emphasizing that the evidence of your love is that you keep the commandments.

And we all understand that He's not talking about perfection and keeping commandments. He's talking about the inclination of your heart's desire to keep His commandments, to love Him. So in verse 15 He says, if you love Me, you will keep My commandments. That's the first time He says it. Then the second time is in verse 21, He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves me." And then in verse 23 he says, if anyone loves me he will keep my word.

And then in verse 24, he who does not love me does not keep my words. Matthew Henry explained this like this. He said, Christ will not be an advocate for any, but those that will be ruled and advised by him as their counsel. Follow the conduct of the Spirit and you shall have the comfort of the Spirit." And you know maybe you've been in church your whole life but remember that Indifference to the commands of God and indifference to obedience, it reveals a distant and a cold heart and an unbelieving heart. Now it might reveal that you've been sowing in the flesh and quenching the Spirit and grieving the Spirit.

And the only way to stop that is by seeking the truth of His Word and filling your heart and filling your heart with that and not the works of the flesh. One of the things that's really clear in this section is that it's not my grip that holds me. It's His grip that holds me. It's his sacrifice. It's his resurrection.

It's his living for all eternity It's my being raised with him and being cared for her him cared for by him So in these verses we learned that Christ is sufficient for your comfort. Now, here we are. We're a little local church. Here's my prayer for us as a family, that we would find all of our comfort in Jesus Christ, not in anything else. Our hearts are always making idols to try to comfort us, but they never really do.

And the only comfort that is true and enduring comfort is the comfort that you receive from the truth of God communicated in His Word. Because Jesus Christ is the truth, and His Spirit is the Spirit of truth and God the Father provided the word of truth for us in His word. So just to summarize Christ is sufficient for your comfort because he lives so will you live. Christ is sufficient for your comfort because he is in you. Christ is sufficient for your comfort because you are loved by your father.

Christ is sufficient for your comfort because He has made a home in you. Okay, let me wrap it all up in the words of a hymn. And I pray that the words of this hymn would bring it all together for us for what Jesus is promising here in this passage. I serve a risen Savior, He's in the world today. I know that He is living, whatever men may say.

I see His hand of mercy, I hear his voice of cheer, and just the time I need him he's always near. He lives, he lives. Christ Jesus lives today. He walks with me and talks with me along life's narrow way. He lives, he lives.

Salvation to impart. You ask me how I know he lives. He lives within my heart." And he promised that he would. Would you pray with me? Lord, you have given us exceeding and wonderful promises, and we're so thankful.

Pray that you would help us to be a church that lives on your promises, walks in the light of your promises, hangs on the truth not on the movements of this world or the movements in our hearts or the gyrations of our emotions, but to be the people of truth, who speak the truth, who live by the truth, and have the truth. In Jesus' name, amen.