There Am I with You

All our hope rests on the shoulders of who Jesus Christ is. If Jesus Christ is not who He claimed to be, then our entire religion is pointless. This stance might sounds somewhat severe, but it is Jesus Christ who is the Rock on which we stand, and He is the very foundation of our faith. If we don't have Him, we don't have our foundation. As C.S.Lewis is often quoted as saying, "Either this man was, and is the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse."

Thankfully, Jesus is exactly who He claimed to be. We have confidence when we approach the throne of God, because we know, literally, who we are talking to. We are not blindly hoping or trusting in some random guy who died two thousand years ago. We put our trust in Jesus because we dwell in His presence, even to this day.

Matthew 18:20 and Matthew 28:20 are just two examples of Christ's omnipresence. The former passage shows that Christ meets with every group that gathers in His name, while the latter passage expresses that Christ always be with us. As William Plumer states about Matthew 18:20, "Christ could not thus meet all the little groups of his worshippers in all parts of the world, unless he were omnipresent.... If this promise conveys any natural and obvious sense, it is on that, beyond doubt, implies the omnipresence- and therefore divinity, of Jesus Christ."

Even to this day, Christ continues to meet with His followers. He assures us that, whenever there are two or three gathered together in the name of Christ, Jesus Christ is there with them.

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