You would take your Bibles and turn to the most comforting words in the Bible. I thought I would decide to do a little bit of what Pastor Townsend has done a few times. I see some puzzle faces and I see some other ones that know exactly where they would go, but not sure if that's where I'm going to go. If you chose Hebrews chapter 13, you are correct. Hebrews chapter 13, no doubt there was probably many different passages that you might have thought of right off the bat, several of which we might mention, but Hebrews chapter number 13, thanks Brother Boyle for allowing me to speak tonight. Seems that often I'm asked when everyone else leaves. I don't know if that's just the opportunity and privilege to be able to trust me in the pulpit or if they don't want to be here when I have something to say, I'm not sure. But either way, I'm thankful for the opportunity and I hope I can share with you something very important. About 7, 10 p.m. after the service started tonight, service starts at 7 of course, I received a text message in my pew up here in the front and I just want to answer the question of the person that texted me. It was my mother. She's not here tonight. She's at home. She asked if I was speaking and to answer her question, yes, yes I am. She should be watching online, hopefully, and getting some rest. I would ask that you please pray for her. I don't know if she's mentioned it to many people, but she's going to be having a second hip replacement surgery, and so she's going to need to take time to get some rest. I know some of the worst words she's ever heard is, you need to rest. It's almost like for some people when they get to a certain age, it's almost like you're dying. and they don't like to hear it, but if you don't rest, you will die. So hopefully she'll get some rest, and never thought I'd have to tell her what to do, but I don't take pleasure in it, not really. And hopefully she does, so be praying for her though, and that the Lord will give her comfort, and that the Lord give doctors ability what they need to do to do it right. And so I told her second time's a charm in this case, right? So be praying for her. Hebrews chapter number 13, and we're gonna read a few verses here. We're gonna choose some verses in the passage. We'll expound on some of them that we're not gonna read to start. But as you might have guessed, when I asked you to turn to the passage, I'm gonna speak to you tonight on the most comforting words in all the Bible. No doubt many of you had some other ideas or some other passages you thought of that for yourself, the Lord had used in your life and worked maybe and used a passage of scripture that gave you comfort. Perhaps many would have chosen Psalm 23. Maybe many of you would have chosen one of the songs we sang tonight about Romans 828. We know that all things work together for good. I know my life verse is Proverbs 3, 5, and 6. No doubt many of us probably have several passages that we would say are very comforting to us. And there are several others. But this particular passage of scripture, I think, I could pinpoint to be the most comforting words in all the Bible. We're going to start reading here in verse number 5. It says, so that we may boldly say the Lord is my helper and I will not fear what man shall do unto me. Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God, whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation, Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever. Let's bow our heads in a word of prayer as we begin tonight, shall we? Let's pray. Dear Heavenly Father, we thank You so much for all You do for us. We thank You for salvation. And Lord, of course, we thank You for being able to meet here tonight and the opportunity, the liberty, the privilege we have to look into Your Word and to be able to speak to our hearts, Lord, the things we need to learn and to adhere to. I pray that you'd be with me, fill me with your spirit, and give me the words to say, and that we would be leaving here blessed and, Lord, comforted, Lord, with the words you have for us. And we ask these things in Jesus' name. Amen. No doubt if you've read the Bible in a certain period of time in your Christian life, you would have determined that the Bible is a comforting book. No doubt probably in times of trouble, perhaps maybe lying in a sickness bed. I don't know if you have a sick bed, but sickness in bed. Maybe there's been a time when you've been lonely. Maybe there's just been a time that you have what you would call a crisis in your life. No doubt you've read the scriptures and the scriptures have brought to you something that has been comforting to you. And when we think about comfort, there's obviously physically comforting needs that need to be met, things that we can do to comfort ourselves, but then also emotionally, but also spiritually. My dad used to use a phrase growing up that I didn't quite get, a one-line joke. He used to say things and he'd say, that's back when I was built for speed instead of comfort. I think I understood what he meant, but then until you actually experience in getting older and trying to stay out of the comfort category, staying in the speed category, I think I know a little bit more what he was talking about. But comfort. We all want to be comfortable, I would think, right? We want to be comforted. Our spirit needs to be comforted. And no doubt the Bible gives us a way by which we can be comforted in this particular pastor's scripture. And the Word of God is very comforting to us. Jeremiah the prophet said in Jeremiah 15-16, So I think if you're here tonight and you're saved, you've known the Lord for a certain period of time, you've studied the scriptures, you can honestly say you've had the Bible comfort you in some way or other. If you study the book of Hebrews, just really quickly to kind of get a summarization, and I don't want to be long tonight, but I just want to share this with you. The book of Hebrews, of course, is written, we don't know specifically by who. There are several who think that the Apostle Paul could well have written the book of Hebrews. we do know that it was probably before AD 70 which is when the temple was destroyed and of course during the time when probably Vespasian was the emperor of Rome at the time several others between Nero and him and so the book of Hebrews is written and it's written specifically to Hebrew Christians and Hebrew Christians of course were being persecuted they were under persecution they were having times of trouble and they're being martyred for their faith they were being the pressure of death was upon them and for what they believed and they were being pushed back into their old way of faith by which they were saved from and they were Jewish, Jewish people saved into the church of Christ and so therefore they were leaving that old system and yet they wanted to go back into that old way by which when they were saved from and so here the writer writes to them in encouraging them and shares things with them and of course the key word in the book of Hebrews is the word better and they have different chapters divided different ways by which Jesus Christ is better than the angels, He's better than the prophets, He's better than Moses, He's better than Aaron, He's better than Joshua and you get to the last couple chapters and it gives them some exhortation for running the race and having the faith that we need to have in the Christian life and you get to chapter 13 it's sort of a closing exhortation to encourage and exhort and that's where we're at here in chapter 13. And no doubt the Christians here were having a struggling time. We would call this probably for them a time of crisis. I think we would agree on that. So what does a Christian do in the time of crisis? How are we supposed to act? How are we supposed to behave? And if I could say this, we're of course living today in a time of crisis. Wouldn't you agree? I mean the world is filled with all kinds of things that perhaps as a child I never even imagined would be possible, let alone in place today. And my message is not political, it's not meant to be that way, but if you look at our society and you look at our country, it reflects on the fact of how People have rejected the teaching of the Bible. They've rejected the Lord Jesus Christ. It's very apparent that that's the case. In just a few years, in 2023, it will be the 50th anniversary of the official decision in 1973 of Roe versus Wade to allow abortion to be legal. How many children have been killed innocently because of that decision made in 1973? We live in an age where that is an allowed thing, sad to say. No doubt we live in an age when, when I was a child, which wasn't that long ago, there was a day when, let's say, let's go back even further. When my dad was younger in college, I remember preachers preaching back then and saying, you know, these, the homosexual lifestyle is wicked, but therefore they're just going to be out one day and they're going to be parading around in the streets. Guess what? That happened. When I was a child, they were trying to achieve a status of family and trying to adopt children and trying to act as a family. Today, they are. That's what they're doing. We've come to a place where it's progressively gotten worse. It's nothing surprising from us Christians because we know the Bible says things are going to wax worse and worse. It's shocking to me to understand that in major universities today, they're teaching in classes of society and other things that as young people grow up, they are born biologically with their sexual makeup, if you would, and that's how they are, but they have a decision later in life to decide whatever gender they want to be. That's what they're being taught in universities today. in colleges and then probably even in high schools many places. No wonder young people have decisions where they're mixed up and they don't know exactly what's going on. They have no confidence. They don't know because they don't have solidity. They don't have the truth of the Word of God in their lives. And so no doubt we live in a world and a society we could go on and on and on with things that are just misplaced. They're wrong because the devil hates everything God does. And he tries every way which he can to misplace those things that are true. And everything is the way it ought not be. You say, Brother McKeever, I thought you were supposed to be talking about comforting words. I'm going to, I promise. But sometimes in order to understand the comfort that God can give, we have to also see what's wrong. Just as as Christians, we have to first realize we're lost and we need Christ before we can actually come to a place where we accept Christ as our Savior. So how are Christians supposed to live in a time of crisis? And I believe we're living in a time of crisis now. I want to give you some things here by way of introduction. Won't be long. But just some things here listed in Hebrews that we as Christians can do in this time of crisis. You say, what are they? Number one. Verse number one, which we didn't read yet, of chapter 13 says, let brotherly love continue. I tell you there's nothing like being in a church that preaches the truth of the gospel. We have a great pastor who's not afraid to preach about sin and we have wonderful fellowship with each other. You can come to church and talk to another Christian. Perhaps if that Christian is close enough you can share your burden, your desire with that person. That other person can pray for you. They can go directly to God and ask for help for you. Isn't that wonderful? We had fellowship here the other night. We had watermelon, the blessed fruit of watermelon. I had to buy those watermelon and I was a little nervous, to be honest with you, because when I went to the store to get watermelon, I was a little pressed for time and I wasn't sure. All I saw was small watermelons. They're about the size of a cantaloupe. My first thought was, well, it says watermelon right on the sign. I don't know where else to get them right now. ShopRite had them. I didn't know that. So I went to BJ. I got these watermelons. I brought them back. My first worst fear was something to say, those aren't watermelon. I don't know what a watermelon is. I've seen big watermelons, small watermelons. Apparently they were good. A lot of people said they were fine. But we had a good time. Hopefully we had a wonderful time of fellowship. We got to commune one with another. Church fellowship is like no other fellowship you'll ever have if you ever have a fellowship of any other kind outside of the church. outside of Christian service. I've been to certain meetings, so-called work meetings before, and, you know, thank goodness they were labeled work. They had to be somewhat professional. There was no drinking or things like that. But they aren't very comforting and always encouraging times. You meet all kinds of people with all kinds of things they want to talk about and discuss that aren't always encouraging. But it's wonderful to live in a day and age with the Lord Jesus Christ living within us when you and I can converse and we can talk about the things that God has done for us. Fellowship is a wonderful thing. I need encouragement. I need friends. I need fellowship. Christians need time of fellowship with each other. We need to be praying for one another. You know how we can overcome the time of crisis? We can have brotherly love one to another. We can love each other. We can show love one to another. So many little things the devil gets in and tries to affect the church. Why? Because he knows when brotherly love isn't there, there's going to be lots of other problems. We need to be growing closer together. We need to be growing closer to the Lord as Christians. The second way we can also overcome this time of crisis is we need to be building strong marriages and homes. Look at verse number four. It says, Marriage is honorable in all, in the bed undefiled, but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. Men need to love their wives as Christ loves the church. Wives need to be submissive to their husbands and subjective to their own husbands, the Bible says. Children need to be submissive to both of their parents. The families need to be binding together. This whole idea of young people not knowing what gender they possibly could decide to possibly be and having all these other problems in society where people who doesn't know if they're man or woman and then they decide to have a family and the children go up and they wonder what in the world's going on. We can't have really a functioning society, leave alone the Christian aspect or the biblical aspect of it. You can't have functioning really society of it. Because as the home goes, so goes the nation, right? And homes build churches. Churches are made out of homes, right? And so as the church goes, also so goes the nation. We need to have strong homes and strong marriages. I'm thankful for a church that really, Pastor Townsley, really desires to focus and make sure our homes are the godly homes they ought to be. Notice thirdly, not only are we to have strong marriages and homes, but notice in verse number five, let your conversation, your manner of life, your behavior, be without covetousness and be content with such things as you have. Very simply put, nothing new under the sun. We ought not be caught up in the very simple things syndrome of the world. People have become the lover of things more than the lover of God. Working with unsaved people, it's always about the next thing. What can I accomplish? I'm going to save up and go on this vacation. Vacations are great. I think you should save up and go on a great one. Sail across the world. That'd be wonderful. But that's all that they live for. And they live for the next gadget, or they live for the next product, or they live for the next car, whatever it may be, money in general. And we know the answer to that. Obviously, all those things are going to one day perish. You can't take any of it with you. One day, everything you have or own could be gone. Never have it anymore. You say, are you trying to scare me? No, I'm not trying to scare you. I'm just trying to simply state the fact that the things of the earth are not going to last forever. We need to learn to live and be content with what we have. Number four, look at the fourth thing. Look at verse number seven. The Bible says, Those verses go together. Verse number eight, Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever. We ought to be listening and following the Bible teaching of a pastor. You know, one of the most wonderful things I enjoy is when I come to church, I know I'm going to receive a blessing, but I can't receive it unless I'm willing to receive it. It's very simply put. It's good to be in church. There are some times when I'm out somewhere and there's some stuff that's going on that doesn't feel very good to be a part of. Maybe you're in a place of purchasing something and there's music you don't like. I don't know. It could be many different things. Maybe you're in the middle of an argument with someone. You're not even in it, but you're just trying to calm. Maybe it's at work. Who knows? And my first thought sometimes is, I'd like to be in church right now. I like to be singing some songs, even though I have to look at some people that aren't so happy. They look like they've been chewing on sour grapes. But still, I enjoy singing some songs. I'm just kidding. Most people look pretty happy when you sing. But I enjoy being in church. I love hearing the Word of God. I love hearing the things in my life that need to be changed. My flesh doesn't like it very much, but my spirit loves it. I remember sitting in a prayer meeting when I had just graduated college and one of the co-workers I worked with when I was down in Tennessee, we were having a prayer meeting and he said, what do you think about the prayer meeting? It was kind of a sudden thing, you know. I was running sound for it so I was concentrating on making sure it was all working properly. And he said, what do you think about the prayer meeting? I said, it's good. And he looked at me and he just said, sincerely. He said, I need it. I said, well that's great. I don't know what else to say. You think about what we have as a church family, the opportunities to come to church, to hear instruction and to hear our pastor and other men on the pastoral staff give us instruction and guidance from the Word of God. We ought to be listening to that instruction. The Bible is very clear. Look at verse 17. that they may do it with joy and not with grief, for that is unprofitable for you." We ought to listen to our leaders. Don't become dull of hearing. Don't come to the place where you think you've learned it all. You always need to be changed. When pastor gives you advice, listen to it. I was able to hear last night, I don't know if many of you were able to, got the church email, Pastor Townsley spoke at the S.W.O.R.D. conference and he was preached last night. He was the first speaker and it was streamed online. We got to hear his message, wonderful message, and preached on his revival possible. It was wonderful to hear him preach. He preached a good message and he gives sound advice just like he does here because it's from the Word of God. And we should listen and adhere to instruction. He gave the example in his message, like he's given here many times, of those that may ask for advice. And he gives it to them, and then they say, is there something else I can do? And it's the truth. We don't want to hear always what we need to, but I'm glad for a pastor that gives it to us anyway. By the way, I'm thankful for a pastor that's a preacher. Not every church gets that. Some pastors, hey, praise the Lord, they have the pastor that God gave them. But some pastors are better pastors than they are preachers. And some preachers are better, you know, the other way around. We have a great pastor and a great preacher. So we ought to be listening and following the Bible teaching of a pastor. Notice the next thing. How do we face this time of crisis? Number five, look at verse number nine. He says, do not be carried away by unsound doctrines, strange things being taught. You know what that is? That's what the cults do today. Now the cults may not be the fastest growing religions in America like Islam might be, but they're still gravely dangerous. I mean, we talk about, after you study the cults just a little bit, if you study any of the founders of any of the cults, Seventh-day Adventists, Jehovah's Witness, the Mormons, Mary Baker Eddy and her creationists, I mean, you study any of these cultists, you study that most of them were people who just knew the Bible, studied the Bible, and somewhere along the line they did something, read something, Satan put it in their mind, and they got off track. That's honestly how most of it happens. And you look and you say, from where they were and where they went, how could they do that? I mean, William Miller was the man who started off the Seventh-day Adventist, not necessarily Ellen G. White. She took it over and ran with it in another direction. She was a visionary. He was a Bible student. He studied the Bible but nothing but a concordance and the Bible. That's it. How can someone that does that get led astray? How is that possible? Satan gets in and works in the mind of someone and just causes a slight change. That's why we're so careful with the way we do things and approach scripture. We have to be so careful and allow God to speak to us. and not us change what scripture has to say just because we may not like it. 1st Timothy 4.1 says, Paul warned us in 2nd Corinthians 11.13 to be on guard for deceitful workers. If there's ever been a time we need to be on the guard for against the cults, today would be the day. These are all things we can do to help us in time of crisis. You do these things, the writer is saying, and you'll survive. You do these things and you'll have victory. There's one I didn't mention. I skipped over it on purpose. In verse number five, the last thing that we can do in time of crisis, we can see this truth. The end of verse five says, For He hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee." If you're saved tonight, if you're a child of God, then you ought to be able to feel the presence of the Holy Spirit. I'm not talking about something that'll tingle your ears or tingle your toes, get you physically all just whoop-dee-doo-dah, but something that when we're saved, in times of crisis, it's not just enough to know that you're saved. Praise the Lord you're saved. It's not just enough to know that you're members of a church. But your churchianity is not going to save you. It's not going to keep you comforted. The truth of the matter is that we need to be able to know the presence of God. We need to know God. Is it not true that a Christian needs to grow in the Lord? Is that true? Is that what the Bible teaches? Then why do most Christians don't do it? He said, I'll never leave thee nor forsake thee. God wants us to experience His very presence. God wants you to know Him better than we can, anytime. I was thinking of different passages, as we mentioned earlier, that could be the most comforting words in the Bible. And you think about other passages, like Psalm 23, Romans 8-28, maybe Romans 5-20, where sin did abound, grace did much more abound, praise the Lord. There's many other passages of Scripture, but here God says something very important. He said He'll never leave us nor forsake us. So I want us to look at just a few more things. This is the meat, the heart of the sermon. Just a few things, a few words, just a note. Notice the first word in verse number five. It says, I. I will never leave thee nor forsake thee. God is, it's talking about God. God is saying, I will never leave thee nor forsake thee. Do you realize that there's no one else that's able to say this ever? No one. As much as you may love your father, your father cannot tell you that I will be with you always. As much as you may love your mother, your mother cannot always say, I will always be there for you. Isn't that the truth? He says, I will never leave thee nor forsake thee. Only that's something God can say. Psalm 27 verse 10 says, When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up. Only someone who is definitely infinitely perfect can do what Jesus said He could do. And that's that, I am with thee, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. Notice the next word that's of importance, I think, is never. I will never. You say, let's do some deep Bible study. What's the word never mean? Never. It means not ever. Never. You hear somebody say, don't ever say never. Well, guess what? Jesus can say never. He said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. Charles Spurgeon once said, oh, I'm getting ahead of myself. Never. Notice the next word. Actually, I want to notice two words, but focus on the second one. It says, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. leave and forsake. Why are both of those there? Why didn't God just say, I'll never forsake thee? Why did he say, I'll never leave thee nor forsake thee? The word leave has a connotation you can kind of take and say, well perhaps they're coming back. My parents, I remember we were really little, left us home alone for the very first time. It was stressful for my mother. They left and they were gone five minutes. Five minutes. My mother, just like most things, when she was nervous about children growing up, let's pray before we go. And so she said, my dad just said, you need to stand right here next to the phone. Wait right here. I'm sure it was a test. They knew, hey, this is a good opportunity to teach the children to be home alone. My sister's standing there with me, and they said, don't you move from this spot, and we'll be right back. They left. I can't remember. I think my sister said something like, can we walk around? All I can remember thinking to myself is, I'm not moving from this spot. my feet are planted, I shall not be moved." And they came back, we were there, and they could trust us, and they took it a step further, you know, we started staying home a little once in a while. But I remember that very clearly. They left, but guess what? They came back. God is saying, I will never leave you. He's not even gonna leave us and say, I'll be right back. And then He goes, and then we're left all by ourselves, and then God comes back and goes, okay, I came back like I promised. He says, I will never leave you. But then he takes it a step further and he says, not only that, but I'll never even forsake you. What does that mean? Forsake is a very interesting word. Forsake has the sense of a family type of a bond. It means, basically, when you forsake someone, if you have a parent that leaves or forsakes a child, they actually would leave them to be orphaned. It means the parents aren't coming back. But God says, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. Guess what? You'll never be a spiritual orphan. Charles Spurgeon once said, since God is with us always, what more could we possibly want? What could we want? I was listening to a sermon that my dad had preached years ago, and it's interesting listening to a message that I know I had heard at some point in my life, but it was on a Sunday morning apparently, that's what the tape was dated, the tape was dated that way. And so I listened to the sermon and my dad had given an illustration and mentioned in the illustration something that I had said. And of course I'm thinking to myself, what did I say? And it was shortly after, 1989, we were in a bad car accident. That's when my mother had a hip replacement the first time. And I was badly injured. Several of the kids were injured in the car. And it was a very stressful time, but it was also a time that God really showed Himself strong in my family and what He could possibly do and work some mysterious ways. And I guess I was either in the hospital, I think at the time, or I was about six years of age. And I remember being there in the hospital. My dad was not always able to be there. He had to pass through the church. And we were in a hospital that was actually in New York. So he had to drive about an hour, I think, to see us. Or maybe it was Erie. I can't remember. My mother will correct me if I'm wrong. But it was a ways away. It wasn't just down the street. And my dad, I remember he said in the sermon, he said he told me, son I'm so sorry that I'm not always able to be here for you. I had to go and come back. I'm sorry I had to leave. He said I was six years age. I looked at him in the eyes and I said, don't worry daddy, you're with me every other time. I don't remember saying that. But he said this and I thought of the same thing. It occurred to him that when he got saved at the age of nine, that all the years that he had been saved that the Lord had never left him. even though he wasn't able to be with his son. And then I got to thinking, for the past 23 years that I've been saved, the Lord has always been with me. And he's never left me nor forsook me. I'm not a spiritual orphan. Everything I've gone through, everything I've experienced, everything God has always been with me because of this promise. forsake. He'll never leave us nor forsake us. Notice the next important thing, and I'd be neglecting something important if I left this out. We've looked at the most important words, I think, but notice verse number 12. Notice the rebuke. There's something here that we are given that I think is very important to take note of. It says, verse number 12, Can you imagine the reproach that Jesus bore for you and I on the cross of Calvary when He was crucified. I mean, you've heard it over and over again. I hope that you often think about it because it's the moment of your salvation. The Lord Jesus Christ was convicted because the people just wanted to crucify Him. He was brought before Pilate, knew He was innocent, Still sentenced, the soldiers took him, stripped him of his clothes, spat upon his face. Some people I've heard say, well that's not so bad. Have you ever been spit in the face before? I've never been spit in the face. But I guarantee it's humiliating. And no doubt it wasn't just one spit, it was spittle. Not trying to be gross, but this is the truth. They spat upon him. They took the crown of thorns and they put it on his head and they pressed it down, no doubt bleeding, no doubt beaten, mocked, called terrible names, words that we would never want to hear, took the cross and walked all the way up to Mount Calvary to be crucified, stripped him of his clothes, put the nails in his hands, put him up on the cross, and still, throughout the day, made fun of him, ridiculed him, persecuted him, And that was God. That was Jesus. That was the Son of God up there. This wasn't just any man, this was God. The creation was crucifying the Creator. But yet He died for you and me. Think of the reproach. Can you imagine the reproach? Christ endured all those things, but notice next, I'm going to read the verse again, but then read verse 13. This is the challenge. This is the challenge. You say, what's the lesson here? Very simply put, Jesus Christ was willing to go outside the camp and suffer our reproach. Jesus Christ died on the cross. He died where you and I should have died. He suffered what you and I should have suffered. He died and suffered hell that we should have suffered. Think of the reproach And yet, so many of us decide or refuse to go with Him in life as Christians. The Bible says He will never leave us nor forsake us. The Bible says that He will never leave us nor forsake us, but isn't it also true that we've often forsook, left Him? Maybe not forsook, but we've left Him. We can count on Him always. We can trust Him always. We can know that He will never leave us, but how can He count on us? What comfort does He find in us? We find comfort in Him. Does He find comfort in us? Very few are willing to take a stand for Christ today. Very few are willing to bear His reproach. Many are not willing to hate the sin and love the sinner. I'm very grateful for a pastor who, and I didn't mean for this message to come out and just be all about praising pastor, but I'm thankful. What can I say? Thankful for a pastor who's not afraid to preach about sin, but he still loves the sinner. I think about VBS we just had last week, and the kids that come, and boy those bus kids, and they get together and you think, whew, a lot of work. And some of them misbehave a little more than they should. And as I get to take pictures, not the only one, but one of the photographers get to take pictures of these kids, some misbehaving, you don't want to take pictures of those, but some of the ones that are listening. And then you see the ones that Brother Boyle, my mother, I think Mrs. Lejeune, and they're talking to, separated from the class, because they want to hear how to be saved. That's loving the sinner. and not the sin. Some people don't know how to do that. Hate the sin and love the sinner. That's the way God's way. We remind these children all the time that God loves you. God loves you. God loves you. If any other reason Christians ought to rejoice is because they just know that God loves them. That's it. And no matter what the devil may put in your mind, no matter what twisted thought he may give you, no matter how you may feel, God loves you. It's important for a Christian to remember. So what have you done for Him today? What have you done with Christ? If you're saved here tonight, you know Christ is your Savior. That means you can say, He will never leave me nor forsake me. 1 John 5, 12, He that hath the Son hath life, and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. We're here in a Wednesday night crowd. I know most of us, we would hopefully say that we know the Lord is our Savior. But if there is someone who says, I don't know if I've ever known about how God will never leave me nor forsake me. Maybe I don't know Christ as my Savior. It is so important that you make that decision tonight to trust Christ as your Savior because, hey, don't you want the best insurance policy in all the world? The Lord said He'll never leave you nor forsake you. That's the best insurance policy in all the world. No other insurance policy I know guarantees something like that. Even if you have Allstate, you're in good hands. What a wonderful promise. You say, well what does the year 2018 hold for us? What is the next 10 years, the next couple decades? I remember people were asking that question in the 1990s. What's the next, the new year gonna bring? 2000s, whoo, seems so far away. What's gonna happen? You know what, I don't really know. What's gonna happen with the homosexual crowd and their agenda? I have no idea. What's going to happen with these groups of people that are just so liberal? And they're so far off, and they have so many agendas run by emotionalism, and everything's just, this is the way I want it. How's that going to work out? I have no idea. But I do know that He'll never leave me nor forsake me. I can't be worried. I can be concerned, but I don't have to be worried. I don't know what's going to happen, but I know that His promise today is that He'll never leave me nor forsake me. What about you tonight? Do you know this promise? Have you thought about this promise? It's a good promise. I tell you, when you sit down and just think about it for a while, you meditate on the scripture, and you just think, He'll never leave me nor forsake me. Let's pray.