The promises Jesus keeps

I don't link to sermons very often here, because where would that end? And I partly figure that people who read blogs also find podcasts anyway. But here is one I want to link to. It's actually the fourth sermon in a series on Revelation, based on chapters 2-3, by Paul Dale, about what Jesus promises his church. Here is some of the introduction:

Have you ever asked the question, 'what's the point' or 'why bother' in your Christian life? Let's be honest - have you ever woken up one day and said 'what's the point of following Jesus? - why am I bothering being a Christian?'. Maybe you're here tonight and life hasn't turned out the way that you expected. Maybe you're disappointed by life. Maybe you're going through a real hurt, a real sadness and you've been a faithful servant of Jesus and you're asking the question 'why've I bothered? - what's the point of following Jesus?'. Maybe you're here tonight and you're struggling with a particular temptation and you're striving to be pure, striving to be holy, striving to be godly and yet the world is so tempting and you're thinking 'why am I bothering? - why don't I just go the way of the world? - why don't I just give up on Jesus?'. Maybe you're here tonight and thinking 'I've given up another Sunday night and I could be watching TV, I could be at the theatre, why am I here again? - why bother, why persevere following Jesus?'. Maybe you're here and you're just really lonely - you're desperately lonely. And you know the bible claims that Jesus loves you, but no other human being seems to love you and you don't really feel God's love and you're asking 'why bother?' ...