To the One Who Is Never Absent From Me

Q. Is Christ, then, not with me until the end of the world, as He has promised me?  

• Christ is true man and true God. 
• With respect to His human nature He is no longer on earth  
• but with respect to His divinity, majesty, grace, and Spirit He is never absent from me.

For the Bible Tells Me So...

Matthew 28:20 “…teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen. 

Matthew 26:11 “For you have the poor with you always, but Me you do not have always. 

John 16:28 “I came forth from the Father and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world and go to the Father.” 

John 17:11 “Now I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, keep through Your name those whom You have given Me, that they may be one as We are.” 

Acts 3:19-21 

• “Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, 
• and that He may send Jesus Christ, who was preached to you before, whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began. 

Hebrews 8:4 For if He were on earth, He would not be a priest, since there are priests who offer the gifts according to the law… 

Matthew 28:18-20 

• And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 
• Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
• teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

John 14:16-19 

• “And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever; 
• the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. 
• I will not leave you 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. 

John 16:13 “However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come.

The Heidelberg Catechism Lord's Day 18