{"id":3881,"date":"2008-11-21T21:07:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-22T02:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/ch-spurgeon\/matthew-2820-2"},"modified":"2008-11-21T21:07:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-22T02:07:00","slug":"matthew-2820-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2008\/11\/21\/matthew-2820-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew 28:20"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Lo, I am with you alway.” 
              — Matthew 28:20 <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Lord Jesus is in the midst of his church; he walketh among the
golden candlesticks; his promise is, “Lo, I am with you alway.” He is
as surely with us now as he was with the disciples at the lake, when
they saw coals of fire, and fish laid thereon and bread. Not carnally,
but still in real truth, Jesus is with us. And a blessed truth it is,
for where Jesus is, love becomes inflamed. Of all the things in the
world that can set the heart burning, there is nothing like the
presence of Jesus! A glimpse of him so overcomes us, that we are ready
to say, “Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me.” Even
the smell of the aloes, and the myrrh, and the cassia, which drop from
his perfumed garments, causes the sick and the faint to grow strong.
Let there be but a moment’s leaning of the head upon that gracious
bosom, and a reception of his divine love into our poor cold hearts,
and we are cold no longer, but glow like seraphs, equal to every
labour, and capable of every suffering. If we know that Jesus is with
us, every power will be developed, and every grace will be
strengthened, and we shall cast ourselves into the Lord’s service with
heart, and soul, and strength; therefore is the presence of Christ to
be desired above all things. His presence will be most realized by
those who are most like him. If you desire to see Christ, you must grow
in conformity to him. Bring yourself, by the power of the Spirit, into
union with Christ’s desires, and motives, and plans of action, and you
are likely to be favoured with his company.<\/strong><\/u> Remember his presence may
be had. His promise is as true as ever. He delights to be with us. If
he doth not come, it is because we hinder him by our indifference. He
will reveal himself to our earnest prayers, and graciously suffer
himself to be detained by our entreaties, and by our tears, for these
are the golden chains which bind Jesus to his people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Lo, I am with you alway.”                — Matthew 28:20 The Lord Jesus is in the midst of his church; he walketh among thegolden candlesticks; his promise is, “Lo, I am with you alway.” He isas surely with us now as he was with the disciples at the lake, whenthey saw coals of fire, and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}