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Jesus said, man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of

God. You're listening to Daily Truth.

We have a general promise that Christ will build his church,

that is grow, expand, increase his church, not merely sustain it.

Christ is not merely sustaining his bride, as a man would sustain his family,

but if a man is building his family, we would assume that he is adding to its ranks.

Not just sustaining it, but that he is building his house to build is to expand and increase. And the promise in Matthew 16 that Christ gives is it because he is the head of the church and the church is his body, his body here on earth,

his hands and feet, Christ will not only protect and defend and sustain his body on earth,

his church, but actually expand and

increase and build it. Of the increase of his government, there will be no end. Not just the

the once cataclysmically suddenly establishment of a universal government. Not that there is no

government and then one day, boom, here it is and it's all done. Increase implies progressive,

gradual, not cataclysmic, but rather progressive and gradual through a process over time.

And so we have general promises from the Lord, not only that he will sustain his church,

but that he will progressively expand and build his church.

And I know that you've heard me say this many times, but by God's grace,

there are new people who come to our church every week who may not be aware of this.

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