and teaching them to obey all that I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
Christ's presence with His Church is not bodily but spiritual, through the Holy Spirit: He makes us partakers of Himself and all His benefits even though His body is absent from us. This presence endures forever, to the end of the world.
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Christ commands His ministers to teach everything He ordained, baptism, the Lord's supper, all moral duties, all relative duties, not theories but practice; nothing of men's devising, only what Christ commanded. His presence is spiritual, granted to all true successors in the gospel ministry unto the end of time.
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The disciples went to Galilee after the second week and likely to the Mount of the Beatitudes, where Jesus had appointed them. The five hundred brethren who saw Him at once had assembled by the promise of this manifestation, which was His most conspicuous resurrection appearance.
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Commenting on Matthew 28:16-20