INTRODUCTION
Our text today comes at a definitive time in the lives of the disciples. The disciples have just finished eating the Passover meal in the Upper Room. Jesus will soon be arrested and condemned to death. In a few short hours, He will be crucified on the cross of Calvary. The disciples will be scattered, afraid, and doubtful. The One they believed in will have been taken from them. Their faith will be tested as never before. If there were ever a time in their lives when they needed each other, it would be then.
Our circumstances are much different today, but our difficulties are similar. The world in which we live is increasingly less tolerant of our faith. Our religious liberties are vanishing before our eyes. Our faith is being tested as never before. If believers, if the church ever needed each other, we do so today more than we ever have. The only advocates and defenders of the church today is the church. No matter what a leader or politician tells you, the church is as is…
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