Boy, if 2020 has taught us anything, it's that the times are always uncertain and our

lives in this world are far less stable than we realize.

More and more, it seems like the only predictable thing about this life is its unpredictability.

So in the middle of the current social and medical and economic upheavals that very few

of us could have foreseen the spring, what do you turn to promises root us?

We in fact have some amazing promises from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, who apparently

knew that our lives would remain unpredictable until he returned.

So he left us with his closing words in Matthew 28, verses 16 to 20, and there we read

this.

Now the 11 disciples went to Galilee to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them.

And when they saw him, they worshipped him, but some doubted.

And Jesus came and said to them, all authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

So therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father

and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded

you.

And behold, I am with you always to the end of the age.

Here's Pastor John expounding on what these promises from Christ mean for us today.

Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, all authority has been given to me in heaven

and on earth.

All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

Now that's a very lofty claim for anybody to make.

It has been given to him by God the Father because he died, he overcame guilt, he overcame

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