So open your Bibles if you would to Philippians chapter 4. Again we'll continue our study in this wonderful book written by Paul to the Philippian church while he was in house arrest in Rome. His church was very dear to him. He had spent some time with them and they were very dear. They developed a very close relationship.

Let's read verses 15 to 20. to see the context of our verses today. Now ye Philippians know also that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving, but she only. For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my necessity, not because I desire a gift, but I desire fruit that may abound to your account. But I have all and abound. I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you in odor of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God. But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. Now unto God and our Father be glory forever and ever, amen.

So the name of the message is all our needs supplied. Now we know as believers, we've learned this, that we have all spiritual blessings in Christ. And what really is all that a sinner needs? Christ, hey brother, yeah, exactly, Christ. Christ is all that a sinner needs. And one of the things the Holy Ghost does, the Holy Spirit, he shows us that we're sinners as he's drawn us to Christ, doesn't he? Because we didn't see ourselves as sinners before we were saved. I didn't, I thought I was fine. But my, oh my, when those Verses come, there's none righteous, no, not one. There's none good, no, not one. There's no one that seeks after God. Boy, those are leveling verses, aren't they? And we read that the law is given that all the world might become guilty before God, because none of us can fulfill the law. But here's the law giver, is also the law fulfiller, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Notice this in verse 18 or verse 19, but my God shall supply all your need According to his riches what in glory by Christ Jesus again Christ is the center Christ We have all spiritual blessings in Christ. He died for us and we have all spiritual blessings righteousness sanctification redemption We're made holy in Christ. It's amazing

Let's look at verse 18. We see Paul is thanking the Philippians for the gift which came from them at the hand of Epaphroditus. But I have all and abound, I am full, having received Epaphroditus, the things which were sent from you, an odor of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God. See the word abound there in verse 18? In the Greek it speaks of that which exists in excess. It was a gift of excess. More than he needed.

And these, think of this too. I was reading this and thinking of this. Here's Paul, right? He's a Jew by birth. And here's the Philippians, they're Gentiles, pagan idol worshipers. They hated the Jews, and the Jews hated them. But what a change God has wrought. Now they're one in Christ, where there's neither Jew nor Gentile, sister. And their love is manifested by this wonderful gift that they give, this wonderful gift that they give to Paul. We don't know what it was. It was probably some monetary gift and then some other things. But this gift in excess, just to help Paul in the ministry. He didn't ask for it. He didn't seek it. They just gave it to him. It's wonderful. And this gift, just with that Greek word bound, this gift was very generous. Very generous gift. In Epaphroditus, one commentator said, Epaphroditus must have been loaded down. Oh my. Again, what a demonstration of the work of the Holy Spirit. Here's these former piglet and idol worshipers. Sending money to a brother in the Lord, because they're not pagan idol worshipers anymore, are they? Now they worship the one true living God. And they want to help Paul. Because for the furtherance of the gospel. Isn't that amazing? They want to help Paul for the furtherance of the gospel. So they give him this gift. They send this gift to him.

Man, this gift is given to Paul, who in origin, as a Jew, again, in training and in religion, had been, in some ways, so different from them. So different from them. They were pagans, they worshipped rocks and stones and trees. And Paul was a Hebrew of a Hebrew. Pharisee. Such different spectrums. And the Philippians here, they were Greeks. They're not just any pagan idol worshippers, they're Greeks. And the Greeks were the intellectual of the ancient world. You ever meet intellectuals and sometimes they talk over our heads? And we don't really understand them and they really don't want nothing to do with us. And we really don't want nothing to do with them. Just talk to me in a common language I can understand. But this is what the Greeks were. They were the intellectuals. So you see right away here even the difference. They were the proudest of the ancient world that way. They were exclusive. They were Greeks. Now they'd been conquered by the Romans, but the Greeks had such influence that the Romans kept their language. Romans spoke Latin and Greek. And so these are the intellectuals, again, the exclusive people of antiquity. The Greeks were the intellectuals of the world then.

But now, having been born again, and now resting in the finished work of Christ and trusting in him alone, my, oh my, what a change. They're one who belong to the group. They are a loving one who belonged to a group of people that was looked down and despised by them, which were the Jews.

Let's read verse 18 again. But I have all and abound, I am full, having received Epaphroditus, the things which were sent from you, an odor of sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God. So now they're no longer pagan idol worshipers, they're worshipers of the one true living God now. They worship him now. They're born again like we are. They're different people. The things they hated, now they love, being God, in the gospel, in Christ. And the things that they once loved, now they hate, pagan idol worship. My, what a change God has wrought in them. By his regenerating power, they're born again by the Holy Spirit of God, just like we are. They've been given faith to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, who shed his precious blood for them in Calvary's groves.

See the words, I'm full. This verb is in that wondrous descriptive tense. The Greek words are in tenses. This one's in the perfect tense, the perfect tense, which And it's one Greek word. It says this, I have been filled full and at present and well supplied. See, the Greek language is magnificent because one word can have this whole meaning to it. Like we saw with that word never. In Hebrews 13, five, never, not ever, never will God forsake his people. Mine.

And see the words, an odor of sweet smell. It's a reference to the Old Testament Levitical sacrifices, which were offered up to the Lord, where a sweet smell in his nose. And the word sacrifice is the Greek word used of the sacrifices. We say that Paul wished to invest the gift of the Philippians with the sacredness of Jewish sacrifices. So he's showing the praise of Christ through their giving for the furtherance of the gospel. And it's well-pleasing to God. It's well-pleasing to God. Look at the last part of that verse. A sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God.

Beloved in Christ, all our sins are forgiven. because His sacrifice was a perfect sacrifice in the room and place of His people. Isn't that amazing? My, our sins were imputed to Him, and He bore them all. and that perfect righteousness that he wove, that he, you know, in his life, fulfilling the law, he was weaving righteousness for us that we're clothed in. He did that for us, so we're saved by his life and his death, beloved. It's wonderful. And his blood, his blood is a sweet-smelling sacrifice to the Lord for the sins of his people. God's satisfied. He's satisfied. And oh, we who are His people, we're washed in the fountain of blood, the fountain of the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. And we're cleansed from all our sins, beloved, all of them, by the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Now let's read verse 19. This is a verse that's being taken out of context. But as I said, we read it in the context and it's still connecting to the verses above that we've looked at where it's about being content, being content in the Lord, being content in Him. Look at this. We're gonna find in this verse that Christ is all we need, you know that? All we need. But my God, look at that. Look at that possessive. Charlie, my God. My God. Every believer can say that. My God. My God, sister. We can all say that. My God. The one true living God has revealed himself to us. He saved us. My God. He's my God and my Savior, praise his mighty name. My God. shall supply all your needs. Your needs. Shall, not maybe, shall. And he supplied all the sinner needs in Christ. Is it so for you? Everything I need is in Christ. Everything. My God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. That's the key right there. There's the key to this verse, by Christ Jesus, and also the first, my God. My God. Those are the two keys in this verse.

Mark the confidence Look at the confidence which Paul speaks of. Why is he speaking so confidently? Well, what have we seen in the book of Acts? We've seen him delivered, haven't we? Multiple times. And now finally, he's in Rome writing this letter after all those things happened. And he says, my God! We're gonna see, he gets shipwrecked. They all live. Look at that one time, they gave him up for dead. He rose up and went right back into the city, right? Today we're going to see God protect him. There's a plot to kill him. And we're going to see God uses a little boy, his nephew, to inform the Roman chief captain that there's a plot to kill my uncle. Mine. So he can write this with confidence, can't he? He's experienced God's sovereign power in his life, just like we have. We can look back and go, oh my gosh, look at that. Look what the Lord did many times. So much so we can say, my God, mine. Each individual child of God, my God. Look at the confidence. He's so confident. And notice the confidence that all their need will be supplied. Because all the sinner needs is Christ.

My. Paul brings forth the cry of every born-again, blood-washed believer. My God! My God. He's mine. He laid a hold of me. And I'm holding on to Him, aren't we? My God, my Savior, my King, Jesus Christ, my Lord, my God, by the grace of God. Oh, and we see that God the Father, my God, my God, God the Father, the one who chose me in Christ before the foundation of the world, the one who sent His own Son, His own Son, to come to this world, to live a perfect life, that we might be saved by His obedience, right? His passive and His active obedience, living that perfect life for us, and then actively going to that cross to save us from all our sins.

My, and God forsook God God the Father forsook God the Son on the cross that we might cry, my God. Oh my beloved. This is wondrous. Absolutely wondrous. Paul. brings forth the cry of every born-again believer. My God, God the Father, shall supply all your needs. How? By Christ Jesus. In Christ Jesus. My. Again, all that the sinner needs, beloved of God, is found in Christ. We need redemption. It's found in Christ. We need to be saved from our sins. It's found in Christ. We need to be made holy, it's found in Christ through his righteousness. Again, we need to be redeemed, it's found through his precious blood.

My. We need mercy, don't we? We cry out for mercy. God have mercy on me. He has mercy on us through Christ. Isn't that wonderful? My. And we're saved through his blood and righteousness, beloved. And look at the ground, look at, look, mark this, look at the ground on which God will supply our need. Look at the ground at which my God, our God, but individually my God, right? Look at the ground that he supplies our need by Christ Jesus. Oh my! It all comes back to our King, beloved. Paul's wrapping up this letter, and look what he's doing. He's just setting Christ before them. It's wonderful.

You know, when a child of God can truly call God, my God. God is our covenant God. He brings all the covenant engagements, right? And God the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit counseled together in eternity. And God said, I'll send my Son to redeem these I've chosen you. And the Son said, I'll go and redeem them. And the Holy Spirit says, I'll regenerate them. And all the covenant blessings come to us through Christ Jesus our Lord. And God has promised to his people. God has promised to his people in Christ that He will save every one of them. And every one of God's sheep, saved sheep and lost sheep, we can cry, my God, my God, He saved me. Isn't that spectacular? Isn't that wondrous? It's so comforting. That's why we give him the praise and glory for our salvation. That's why we cry out to him in joy, amid sorrow too. That's why we can look to him because he's my God.

And he's the same yesterday, today, and forever. He does not change. He's my God yesterday, he's my God today, and he'll be my God forever. Even when we leave this earth, then we'll see our God face to face. Oh my! That's exciting, isn't it? He's a faithful covenant God. He's the one true God. My God. God the Father. The Almighty One. Jehovah. The Self-existent One. Jehovah the Father. Jehovah the Son. And Jehovah the Holy Spirit. The three are one. My God! My God, my Savior, my...

Turn, if you would, to 2 Corinthians. 2 Corinthians. When God's elect are given the gift of faith, and with faith comes repentance before God, too, when we're born again by the Holy Spirit of God, we lay hold of Jesus Christ, don't we? We lay hold of Him. We're still holding on to him, aren't we? But more so, he's holding on to us. That's what's most important. He's holding on to us. And by faith, we hold on to him. We depend upon him. Because he's the only one who has accomplished salvation through his blood and righteousness for sinners. And look what we see here about God's promises.

Now, God gets promises in the Old Testament, right? All kinds of promises in the Old Testament. And I remember talking to someone, they said, well, that's only for Israel. Which Israel are you talking about? The nation of Israel or the Israel of God? Those promises are for the Israel of God all the elect of all the ages I suggest It would I think it would benefit you if you get one of those little books because called the promises of God and read those They are so comforting for the believer Look at this and this is why they're comforting This is why they're so comforting. Number one, because they come from God. But number two, they come to us through Christ. Look at this. 2 Corinthians chapter 1. We're going to start in verse 18. We're going to read to verse 22.

But as God is true, Our word towards you was not yea and nay, for the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me, Silvanus, and Timothy, was not yea and nay, but in him was yea. Look at this, here it is.

For all, all the promises of God. all the promises of God are in him are yea and in him amen unto the glory of God by us now he would establish us with you in Christ who establishes us in Christ God the Father does God the Holy Spirit does and hath anointed us to God who has also sealed us, that's we're marked, oh my, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.

Look at that though in verse 20. For all the promises of God, all those promises, where do they find their fulfillment? In Christ. Their yay and amen in Christ. Isn't that wonderful? And if a Christ is ours, then we have all those promises in Christ. Isn't that wonderful? My.

So beloved of God, may we not overlook this, that our, may our faith be grounded on the same security of the apostle here. He's a child of God, just like we are. And as a child of God, we can say, a born again child of God, God is my God. He's my God. It's not based on how I feel. He's my God all the time. Whether I'm happy or angry or sad, He's still my God. He doesn't change. My.

And so to say, my God, like Paul says here, my God shall supply all your needs. We see the confidence is not in himself, is it? The confidence in his needs being fulfilled is not in himself. Which it isn't for any of us, is it? It's all in Christ. It's all in Christ. All that a sinner needs is found in Christ. My.

And so we can find, now why did Paul find great comfort in this fact of my God? Because he knew that his God, like our God, the one true living God, right, is sovereign over all things visible and invisible. He is the sovereign one. He is the king of kings. So let us rest in Christ. Let us rest in his providence. And may we find great comfort in the fact that Paul said, may we say this too, my God, to supply all my need according to his riches and glory by Christ Jesus.

And let's look at verse 20 and then we're closed. Now unto God and our Father be glory forever and ever. Amen. To God, who is our Father in Christ.

Beloved God, let us praise God for all the grace he gives us now. Right now, while we're on this earth. And for all the glory and happiness we'll have in glory when we're with him. All because God has planned and purposed our salvation in eternity, in Christ Jesus, and our Lord is God incarnate in the flesh.

We have in our text the fact that God will supply all our needs, not our wants, but all our needs. both temporal and spiritual, in and through the Lord Jesus Christ, so that we can say with Paul, He'll never leave us nor forsake us.

Listen to this. Let your conversation be without covenants. That's lifestyle and conversation there. Be without covenants and be content for such things as ye have. For he has said, I will never leave thee nor forsake thee. Remember that's never, never, not ever. But listen to the next verse.

So that we may boldly say, the Lord is my helper. The Lord is my helper. I will not fear what man shall do unto me. We can cry, the Lord is my savior, the Lord's my redeemer, the Lord's my helper. I'm not going to fear what men say they can do or what they can do. I'm going to fear God, who can destroy both body and soul in hell. All man can do is destroy the body. They can't touch the soul. My, oh my.

Beloved, every good gift comes from our great God. And every good gift from God is to be ascribed to his free grace, his free and sovereign grace, and his favor shown to sinners such as we in and through the Lord Jesus Christ. So what do we say? To God be the glory. To God be the glory. for the grace he gives now, for the glory and happiness expected, and for the supply of every need, both temporal and spiritual, while we pilgrimage through this world.

And what do we say? Praise the name of Jesus. Amen and amen.

Brother Brian, can you close us in prayer?