Now this morning, we want to
look at John chapter 16. I'm entitling the message from
the words found in verse 33. John 16 verse 33. Let's read this verse one more
time. These things I have spoken unto you, the Lord of glory. That in me, that is in God our
Savior, that sinners might have peace with God through our Lord
Jesus Christ. In the world you shall have trouble,
but be of good cheer. And that's the title of the message.
Be of good cheer. Be of good cheer because I We could stop right there. Be
of good cheer because of Christ. Be of good cheer. The Lord said,
I have overcome all obstacles to your salvation. I've overcome
the world. Be of good cheer. As Paul said
in Acts 27, I believe God. And believing God, we can be
of good cheer. You see, truly, the Lord Jesus
Christ is our hope. He is our victory. We only overcome in Him. We're only conquerors through
Him. We only prevail over sin, death,
Satan, hell, and the grave because of Him, the Lord Himself. It's what He has done for us.
that we overcome, that we can be of good cheer. It's not what
we must do for Him. I can't find any comfort there,
but I can find great consolation in what the Lord has done for
me. I like what the Apostle Paul
writes in Romans 8, 37, and he says to believers there, we are
more than conquerors through Him that loved us. Can tribulation Separate us from
the love of God. He said yay. Nothing can separate
us from the love of God Which is in the Lord Jesus Christ.
You see it the Lord Jesus Christ who has loved us Chosen us redeemed
us washed us in His own blood and made us under our God Kings
and priests to whom be glory both now and forever Amen Be
a good chair Be of good cheer. Christ, He's the winner. And
we're winners in Him. I like this verse too, and I
quote this all the time. You probably think this is my
favorite verse. It's one of them. I have many, many thousand others,
but this is one of them. Thanks be unto God who has given
us the victory. Thanks be unto God who's given
us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Believers are living
the victorious life. Him because he's our victory
Now I want us to look at these verses here beginning at verse
25 down through verse 33 the end of the chapter and pick up
a few gospel nuggets along the way. I want us to look at these
last words of the Lord's instruction to his apostles before he dies. Now this, from what we read in
John 13 through John chapter 16, these are the words of the
Lord right before he goes the next morning, he's arrested,
or that evening rather, he's arrested, the next day he's tried
and crucified. These are the last instructions
to the apostles before the Lord dies for their sins and for ours. For the sin of His covenant people.
Now look at verse 25. These things have I spoken unto
you. What a blessing, just think about
it, to have God Almighty, Almighty God, speak His testimony unto
us. You see in John chapter 16 verse
1, these things have I spoken unto you. These things have I
spoken unto you. And again in verse 33, these
things I have spoken unto you. What a blessing to have the very
Word of God in your possession. in your hand. What you hold in
that book we call the Holy Bible is God's will and testimony concerning
salvation in Christ Jesus. How we ought to treasure it up.
The Lord speaks to us. through His Word, through His
truth. Now the Lord Jesus Christ in His earthly ministry often
used parables, as it says there, I've spoken unto you in parables,
or poverty, but now the time cometh when I shall no more speak
unto you in poverty, but I will show you clearly, plainly of
my Father. The Lord often used these earthly
stories, that's what a parable is, that represents heavenly
and a spiritual truth. He does that in chapter 15. He
said, I am the true vine and my father is the husbandman.
Abide in the vine, he says. Abide in the vine. I am the vine,
you're the branches. He that abideth in me and I in
him, the same bringeth forth much fruit, for without me you
can do nothing. That's a parable. about the vine
and the branches, but it teaches a great truth. All life and salvation
is in the Lord Jesus, and without Him we can do nothing. And there
is a time in our life when the gospel comes to us like a concealed
parable, and that's the way it comes at first. And that word
there, proverb, is a dark saying, a secret mystery. But when the
Gospel is finally revealed and we clearly see by the Spirit
of God, through the Word of God, that all of our salvation, not
some of it now, all of our salvation is totally dependent on Him,
accomplished by Him, determined by Him, and applied by Him, the
Gospel then is no longer a riddle or a parable, It is plainly made
known unto us when the Lord commands the light to shine. He turned
on the light switch, and He shows us our depravity, our guilt,
our sinfulness, but He doesn't stop there. He shows us the remedy,
the remedy for our ruin, the remedy for our sin is salvation
in Him, what He has done for us. But He gives us an understanding. Who he is and of what he has
done. Let me show you an example of
that turn back over here to Luke 24 Luke chapter 24 when the risen
Lord appeared to his apostles before he ascended to glory.
In Luke 24, look at verse 44. He said unto them, These are
the words which I spake unto you while I was yet with you,
that all things must be fulfilled, which are written in the law
of Moses, in the prophet, and in the psalm concerning me. Then
he opened their understanding. Now that's what God has to do
when He does that. You remember He said when the
Holy Spirit has come, He'll take the things of Christ and show
them unto you. Then He opened their understanding
that they might understand the Scriptures. And said unto them,
Thus it is written, and thus it behooved Christ to suffer
and to rise from the dead the third day, that repentance and
remission of sin should be preached in his name among all nations,
beginning at Jerusalem. And you are witnesses of these
things." They had a message to tell because they clearly understood
it when these things were revealed unto them. Now back at John 16,
look at verse 26, and at that day, John 16, 26, at that day, he
said, when I no more speak unto you in poverty, but I shall show
you plainly of the Father, at that day you shall ask in my
name, and I say not unto you that I will pray the Father for
you, for the Father himself loveth you, because you have loved me,
and have believed that I came out from him." In that day of
mercy, in that day of salvation revealed unto you when he takes
these things and reveals them and shows them unto us. We shall
pray unto the Father in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, Because
of the Father's eternal love for us, for he's loved us with
an everlasting love, Christ came to save us because of that love,
as it says there in verse 27, for the Father himself loveth
you because you have loved me and have believed that I came
out from God. Believers do pray unto the Father
in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and because of the Father's
eternal love for us, because the Lord Jesus Christ came to
save us because of that eternal love, because of the intercession,
the mediation of the Lord Jesus Christ who does pray for us,
We have confidence that when we approach the throne of grace
and cry unto our God that he will hear us. What an encouragement
to pray unto the Father always. Look back at verse 23 of John
16. In that day you shall ask me
nothing. Barely, barely I say unto you
whatsoever you shall ask the Father in my name that he will
give unto you. May God give us grace in our
soul to pray unto the Lord always. For the Father himself, look
at verse 27 again, loveth you, loveth you. And because you have
loved me and have believed that I came out from God and have,
you have loved me and have believed in me. Because of the Lord's
eternal intercession for us, our prayers will be heard. He ever lives and intercedes
for us, we've studied that in Hebrews 7.25. We are told in
Hebrews 4, 16, come boldly unto the throne of grace that we may
obtain mercy, find grace to help in time of need. Our Lord said
in Luke 18, men ought always to pray and not to quit. The
Apostle Paul said, let your request be made known unto God. What
a privilege we have to carry everything to God in prayer. In everything we're to give thanks
and we're to pray without ceasing. Father himself loves you because
you've loved me and have believed that I came out from the Father.
Now look at verse 27 again. The Father does not love us. The Father does not love us because
Christ intercedes for us. Now stay with me. The Father
does not love us because Christ intercedes for us. Christ intercedes
for us because we are object of His eternal love. He loved
us with an everlasting love. This is that sovereign, eternal
love. This is that sacrificial love.
Jacob have I loved, Esau have I hated. This is that sacrificial
love. Here in his love, not that we
love God, but that he loved us and that he sent his son to be
the sacrifice for our sin. Now look at something again in
verse 27 of John 16. He said, you have loved me and you have
believed me. Here we see faith and love, love
and faith cannot be separated. Where you find faith in the Lord
Jesus Christ, you find love to Him. Where you find love to the
Lord Jesus Christ, you also find what? Faith. You see, love and
faith, faith and love cannot be separated. Where you find
one, you find the other. Both! are the sovereign gifts
of God Almighty given unto us. The only reason we love Him is
because He first loved us. The only reason we believe Him
is because He's granted and given faith in Him. Faith is a gift
of God. We do love Him, don't we? We
do believe Him, don't we? And we do because of that eternal
covenant of God's grace. And we do believe that He is
the one Son of God to put away our sin. Now, he sums this up
in verse 28. You see verse 28? John 16, verse
28. I came forth from the Father. Where did this man... I thought
he's from Nazareth up north, Galilee. I thought that's where
he's from. Well, He did minister there for a long time. He did
grow up as a man in Nazareth, but that's not where he came
from. Have you ever had that question before? Where are you
from? People ask that all the time,
don't you? What part of the country are you from? Where are you from?
Well, down here at Job's Creek, up here at Greasy Fork, Greasy
Branch or some other greasy place. Some other creek, some other
fork, some other branch. That's one thing I learned about
Pike County when we moved up here. When they ask you where
you live, you don't say Route 22 or Route 23. You say creek,
this creek, that creek. I live on Wynn Branch now. Before
I lived on, what's this called back here, Raccoon Creek. But
our Lord Jesus Christ is from a much higher place. I came from
the throne of glory. I came forth from the Father.
I am come into this world. As the God-man mediator, again,
I leave the world and I go back to my father. Now, through this
discourse, our Lord has said many times, I go away and I'll
come again. I'll go away, I'm gonna leave
you, but you're gonna see me again. And here again, he says
this again. Now we see three blessed facts
of the gospel of God's grace. First of all, we see the Lord
again teaching his deity and his eternality. Before he was
born in Bethlehem, that's not where he started. That's where
he was incarnate as God manifest in the flesh, but he's the eternal
God. He is the eternal God. Turn back over one page, John
17. John 17, we're gonna see this
in verse five. And now, O Father, glorify Thou
me with Thine own self, with the glory which I had with Thee
before the world was. There we see the eternality. The Lord Jesus Christ did not
have His beginning at Bethlehem. From everlasting to everlasting,
He is the eternal God. I came forth from the Father. not only sent officially, but
come voluntarily by the willing consent of Christ himself. For he says, I took not upon
myself He took upon Himself the form of a servant, and was made
in the likeness of man. And being fashioned as a man,
He humbled Himself, and became obedient unto death, even the
death of the cross." So we see that He is the Eternal God. He
is our Savior, and then He has come into this world. In the
fullness of time, God sent forth his son, made of a woman, made
under the law. I am come into the world. Now,
here's a question. It's an important question. Why
did he come? Did he just show up here and
stay a little while and then take off? No, he came to do a
work. He came to accomplish God's purpose,
God's will in saving us. I am coming to the world. Why
did He come? Because He's the Savior of sinners. He's a mediator of a covenant
people. Listen to these scriptures Matthew
1 21 the angel from heaven declares that he shall come and he shall
save his people from their sin in Luke 19 verse 10 it said the
son of man has come to seek and to save the lost and And then
in 1 Timothy we read this, this is a faithful saying and worthy
of all acceptation that the Lord Jesus Christ came to save sinners. He didn't come to call the righteous,
He came to call sinners unto repentance. And my friend, He
cannot fail. I am come forth from the Father.
to do the Father's will. This is the will of Him that
sent me, that of all that He had given me I'd lose nothing,
that raise it up again at the last day. I am coming to the
world, and then He says, I'm going to leave it. I'm going
to leave this world. Now He stayed here about 33 years
or so, and then He died for our sin according to the Scripture.
I leave the world and go back to the Father. Now he goes back
to the Father, back to glory, having fully accomplished our
salvation. You remember the scripture when
he had by himself purged our sin? He didn't leave until he
got the job done. He finished the work that God
gave him to do and then he left back to the Father. When he by
himself purged our sin, he sat down on the right hand of the
throne of God. He was delivered from our offenses
and raised again for our justification. He does not go back to glory
defeated, though, does He? The death and resurrection and
ascension of the Lord Jesus Christ are not signs of defeat. They
are signs of completion. They are signs of victory. The Lord ascends victoriously
over death, over hell, over sin, over the grave. Now think about
this. The Lord Jesus Christ, our mediator,
our representative, He, when He died, we died in Him. We're crucified with Christ.
When he was buried, we were buried with him. Identification with
him. Union with him. Representation
with him. And when he came out of that
grave, he didn't come out of that grave as a private man. He came out of that grave as
a public man, representing his people. When he died, we died. His obedience is our obedience.
His resurrection is our resurrection. His ascension is our ascension. His enthronement is our enthronement. You remember we studied in Hebrews
6, the forerunner has entered in for us and is seated and you
know what? Because of our union with Him,
because He's our representative, we're already seated in the heavenlies
in the Lord Jesus Christ. You get a hold of that? That's
how real this union and oneness is with Christ and His church. What's through the head is through
the body. Where the head is, that's where
the body is. The Lord Jesus Christ is our
covenant head, and in Him we stand complete. I go to the Father. That's where His bride, His church
is right now. In Him, seated together in the
heavenlies in Christ Jesus. Now, don't turn and read this,
but this is what it says in Ephesians 2 verse 4 through verse 6. God who was rich in mercy, For
His great love wherewith He loved us, even when we were dead in
trespasses and sin, hath quickened us together with Christ Jesus,
and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenlies
in the Lord Jesus Christ, right now. Every believer is exalted
and seated and enthroned in Christ Jesus. Be of good cheer, I will
come. Now, in verse 29, verse 30 of
John 16, his disciples, his apostles, now this is Peter, John, and
James. This is not a mixed multitude. This is those 11 men who stuck
with him. Judas betrayed the Lord, but
these eleven men, his disciples, his apostles, said unto him,
Lo, now speakest thou plainly? And no longer speaking in dark
sayings, a proverb, now, he said, now, we. Maybe Peter is the spokesman. Often Peter was the one who spoke
for the others. Now we, we're sure. You know
all things. I think of another occasion when
the Lord said to Peter, Peter, do you love me? Yes, Lord, I
do love you. Peter, come on now, do you? Yes, Lord. The third time he
asked him, Peter, Do you love me? Lord, you know all things. You know I love you. Now we are
sure that thou knowest all things, and needest not that any man
should ask thee. By this we believe that you came
from God. You are the one Son of God. You are the Messiah. Remember
back in John chapter 6 when many That said they were disciples
turned and walked away from the Lord. You remember we've read
that many times and then he turned to the Apostles and said will
you also go away and Peter spoke up and said Lord to whom shall
we go? We believe and we are sure you're that Christ and His
testimony hasn't changed, has it? We believe and we're sure
you're the Christ of God. We're sure that you are the one
sin of God, the true Messiah. We are sure that you speak the
very truth of God. We are sure that you are our
Savior. We are sure that our salvation
is complete and full and final in the Lord Jesus Christ. We
are certain, we are sure. Sounds pretty good. I'm sure
these men believed the Lord, because look what it says back
in verse 27 again. The Lord said, you have loved
me and you have believed me. These men did love the Lord.
They did believe Him. But maybe don't you think that
there's a little bit of self in this? A little bit of pride
in this, a little bit of self-righteousness in this confession. Their faith,
no doubt, was genuine, but it was not as strong as what they
thought it was. Trials would come. Their faith
would be severely tested and shaken. Right? We see here a warning against
self-confidence. Lord, if you keep me, I'll never
fail. If you keep me, Lord, I'll never
fall. But without you keeping me, I will surely fail. I will surely fall. You remember
what we read a moment ago? Without me, you can do nothing. Our prayer is this. Lord, I do
believe you. Help my unbelief. Lord, I do
believe you, but don't leave me to my own devices. Don't leave
me to my own thoughts, my own affection. Surely I'll mess up. Lord, keep me. Keep me. I do
believe you, but Lord, keep me. One old writer said of these
early men, they had not yet estimated the weakness of their flesh.
Peter, I'll never leave you. I'll never forsake you. Really,
Peter? Just how strong you think you are? I'm pretty strong. No,
you're not. They had not yet estimated the
weakness of their flesh, nor the power of the devil, the feebleness
of their own resolve, the shallowness of their own faith. All this
they had to learn by painful experience. You men who are in
the military, you go to that basic training and they give
you all the basic defensive moves and they show you how to use
your rifle and all these different things. They give you the proper
boots and the proper equipment and the proper helmet. Does that
make you a soldier? Not really. Let's put him into
battle and see what happens. Put him into battle. That's where
soldiers are made in the battle. Let's see how you fight. You
see, we can learn these things, but not until we really experience
what He's saying do we find out that our faith is totally dependent
upon Him, that our salvation is totally dependent upon Him.
For He says in verse 31 and verse 32, Believe, they did, they did,
but oh how frail is our faith and theirs. Do you now believe? Behold, verse 32. Behold, you get a hold of this,
verse 32. Behold, the hour's coming. Just be an hour from now, Peter,
and you're going to deny that you know me, and the rest of
these men, they'll forsake me. They'll be scattered, everyone.
It was on, and you'll leave me alone. Yet I'm not alone, because
the Father is with me. The hour has come." You remember
many times when they tried to arrest him and tried to take
him? He said, my hour has not yet come. Now He said, the hour
is here. This is that appointed hour from
all eternity. This is that decreed hour. Him
being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of
God. This is that decreed time, the Lamb slain from the foundation
of the world. And these things the Lord said
unto them were given unto them, and shown unto them to strip
them of any self-confidence, any self-glory, any self-reliance,
and to shut them up to the Lord Jesus Christ alone, to cause
them to look unto Him fully, and to trust Him only." You know
that's the reason the Lord sends believers trials? to show us
that our total dependence is upon Him, not upon us. How long would you stand without
Him in the day of trial and temptation? Aren't you glad that He said,
I'll never leave you, I'll never forsake you, I'm with you always. Look what happens here in verse
32. Our Lord said, you shall be scattered When I'm arrested,
you will be scattered, every man to his own, and you shall
leave me alone. You shall be scattered." Well,
what happened when the Lord was arrested? Let's turn back to
the book of Matthew and let's read it. Matthew chapter 26,
verse 31. And all this was done that the
Scripture might be fulfilled in Matthew 26. Look at verse
31, Matthew 26, 31. All of you shall be offended
because of me this night, for it is written, I will smite the
shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered. That's
Zechariah 13, 7. But after I'm risen again, I'll
go before you in the Galilee. Peter answered and said unto
him, Though all men should be offended because of thee, Not
me. Oh, no, not me. See, his self-reliance
was upon Peter. The Lord had to strip him of
that and to show him, it's not you, Peter. Though all men should
be offended because of thee, yet I'll never be offended. Read
verse 34. Verily, verily, the Lord said,
I say to thee this night before the cock crow, thou shalt deny
me three times. And Peter said to all, though
I should die with you, I will not deny thee. Likewise also
said all the other. The ten other men said, uh-uh,
no sir. Wait a minute now, the scripture
said the sheep will be scattered. The Lord said all things must
be fulfilled. And yes they were. Yes they did. And yes they were scattered,
every man to his own home. You shall leave me. Peter did
deny Him, they all forsook Him, they fled back, they not only
left Jerusalem, they went back to Galilee, and they took up,
many of them, they took up fishing, back to their trade. The Lord,
notice it says, every man shall be scattered to his own, and
shall leave Me alone. Alone. Now the Lord Jesus Christ
must accomplish our salvation alone. The Lord must accomplish
all things by Himself, with Himself. Like the high priest of old,
when he went into the Holy of Holies on the Day of Atonement,
he went in Alone, didn't he? The Lord said, I must be alone.
He performed his work of atonement alone because he alone was qualified
to do it and decreed and appointed unto it. But yet, he says in
verse 32, I'm not alone. You'll cocktail and run. And you'll leave me alone. And
these things have to be according to the scriptures. Yet, he says,
I'm not alone because the Father is with me. Father's with me. He always had the love of the
Father. He said, this is my beloved Son
in whom I'm well pleased. He always had the approval of
the Father. He always had the presence of
the Father. It says in Isaiah 50, the Lord
God will help me, therefore shall I not be confounded, therefore
have I set my face like a flint. I know that I shall not be ashamed.
You remember Psalm 89, I've laid help upon one that is mighty,
the Lord Jesus Christ. He said, I'm not alone. You remember
He said, I am my Father, we are one. The Lord Jesus Christ as
a God-man mediator had the full support of the Father and of
the Holy Spirit to aid Him as a man, to sustain Him in His
hour of need, to bring Him to the hour appointed of God. But
when He was made sin for us, remember He prayed in the garden
so much so that His sweat He poured out great drops of blood,
and an angel from God was sent to strengthen His humanity, that
He might go to the cross and die for our sin. But when He
was made sin for us, upon Golgotha's cross, Golgotha's hill, upon
Calvary, the Father had to forsake Him then, didn't He? when He
was made sin for us. God is too holy to look on sin
with favor, even in His blessed Son in whom He is well pleased.
When the Lord Jesus Christ was actually made sin for us, when
our sin was laid upon Him, God had to forsake Him. And because
God did forsake him, he'll never forsake us. God's too holy to
look upon sin with favor. And the Lord Jesus Christ cries
out from the cross, you remember, my God, my God, why has thou
forsaken me? One reason, S-I-N. God must punish sin even when
it's found in the Lord Jesus Christ. But aren't you thankful
that the Lord went to Calvary and was made sin for us who knew
no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him?
Please God to bruise Him in our room and in our stead. Now, these things, verse 33,
These things have I spoken unto you, that in me Now, let's get
a hold of this. Three things here we see. That
in me you might have peace. These things I've spoken. We
find great comfort in the word of the Lord. His word is the
foundation of our faith. His word is the children's bread. His word is the light in this
dark world. His word and His gospel is the
power of God and the salvation. to everyone who believes his
word. And believing his word, he said,
in me you might have peace. In me your joy may be full. We only have peace with God through
our Lord Jesus Christ. Now this is not so much talking
about peace in here. This is talking about having
peace with God. And because we have peace with
God, we do have peace and ease of conscience before God. But
mainly, this is reconciliation unto God. He made peace for us
with His own blood. He is our peace. We only have peace with God through
Christ Jesus. We're reconciled unto God. This
sinner, vile and wretched as I am, I have peace. I'm reconciled unto God in Christ
Jesus. God's not angry with me at all.
Matter of fact, what he says of Christ, he says of every believer,
this is my beloved son. I'm pleased with him in Christ. You see, we have peace with God
through our Lord Jesus Christ. Now in this world, he says, we
will have trouble. The apostles, every one of them, died for the gospel. We will have trouble. Every true
believer will experience the wrath of men against the gospel. But we're exhorted to continue
in the faith that we must, through much tribulation, enter into
the kingdom of God. You take a stand for the gospel
of God's grace and live godly in this world, taking a stand
for the gospel, and you will hear from the enemies of God.
We will have tribulation, but here's our consolation. Be assured
of this. Be of good cheer. I've overcome. I have overcome all things. I
am he that liveth and was dead." The resurrected Lord said in
the Revelation chapter 1, I am he that liveth and was dead,
behold I'm alive forevermore, I have the keys of hell and death.
He said in John 14, 19, because I live, you shall live also. What a word of comfort and encouragement. Be of good cheer, I've overcome.
The battle is not ours. Christ has won the battle for
us. We do fight the good fight of faith, but the battle is won.
It says in Colossians 2.15, having spoiled principalities, that
is the Lord Jesus Christ, having spoiled principalities and powers,
He made a show of them, openly triumphing over them Himself. Can't you be of good cheer? The victory over sin is ours.
Be of good cheer. The victory over sin is ours. He appeared once in the end of
the age to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. The victory
over the law is ours in Christ. He triumphed over the law of
God for us. He redeemed us from the curse
of the law being made a curse for us. The victory over Satan
is ours. The accuser of the brethren,
remember Revelation 12, They overcame the accuser of the brethren. How? Through the blood of the
Lamb, the Lord Jesus Christ. We have victory over sin because
of Christ. Be of good cheer. The Lord Jesus
Christ has honored and satisfied the law, defeated sin and Satan. We can be of good cheer. The
victory over death is ours. Remember? Don't turn, let me
just get it for you quickly. The Lord said, I am the resurrection
and the life. He that believeth in me, though
he were dead, yet shall he live. Whosoever liveth and believeth
in me shall never die. Do you believe this? We have
the victory over death. Be of good cheer. Nay, he says,
Romans 8, 37, I close with what I started with. Nay, in all things
we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. Be of good cheer. Be of good
cheer. The only reason we have to rejoice
and be of good cheer is that our blessed Redeemer has performed
all things for us perfectly. Perfectly. His obedience is perfect. His righteousness is perfect.
Blessed is the man whom the Lord imputed righteousness without
works. He that spared not his own son,
but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also
freely give us all things? Can you bear one more scripture?
Turn to Matthew chapter 9. Let me close with this. Matthew
9. Be of good cheer. Be of good
cheer. These things have I spoken unto
you. In me you're going to have trouble,
but be of good cheer, I've overcome. Matthew 9. He entered into a
ship and passed over, verse 1, and came into his own city. Behold,
they brought to him a man sick of palsy, lying on a bed. And the Lord, seeing their faith,
said unto the sick of the pauly, Son, be of good cheer, thy sins
be forgiven. Be of good cheer. We have every
reason because the Lord Jesus Christ has overcome for us