For the help of the Lord, I direct
your prayerful attention to 1 John chapter 5 and verse 20. Verse 20. And we know that the
Son of God is come and hath given us an understanding that we may
know Him that is true and we are in Him that is true. even
in His Son, Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal
life. 1 John 5 and verse 20. The Apostle John, his main thrust
and desire to bring before the churches and before the people
of God is that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. This is what he again and again
brings forth and gives as the reason at the end of his Gospel
that the things that are written are written. He says, many other
signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples which
are not written in this book, but these are written, that ye
might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that
believing ye might have life through his name. And you know,
John in his gospel, it stands out from all of the others, the
statements concerning the Lord as being the Son of God, some
85 of them, compares with something like 15. in Luke and Luke would
be more than the others. And then John, when he comes
into the epistles where we are here, he is insistent on how
important it is that we have a right understanding and a right
belief in the Lord Jesus Christ. And linking to that, he is linking
eternal life. What a solemn searching word
is in verse 12. He that hath the Son hath life,
and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. How vital
for each of us to know clearly, do we have the Son or not? Because it is the difference
between having eternal life and not having it. Now many of the
Lord's dear people can have eternal life, have tokens of it and either
yet don't know it or yet not be assured of it. We think of
the visits like Samuel had, the Lord speaking to him three times
and yet he thought it was Eli. You can see a parallel. those
in our congregations, thinking that they're hearing the word
of the minister, the one that they know well. Well Samuel was
to prove that it was the Lord speaking to him. But he needed
directing in that way. We think of the two on the way
to Emmaus, the disciples had actually seen the redemption,
they had seen the sacrifice at Calvary. They've seen the great
antitype of all of the sacrifices in the Old Testament, and it
passed them completely by. They could not see that He had
redeemed Israel. They could not realize what had
actually happened, though it had happened and they'd seen
it, they didn't know it. And so there may be those of
you here that have had the work of the Spirit, that you have
had blessings, but you haven't recognised them, you do not know
it, and that you need the Word to actually show you and the
Spirit through the ministry to shine upon the path that you've
walked. This is why the emphasis here
at the beginning of the text is, and we know. It's a blessed thing, isn't it,
to have those things that we know. There are those things
that belong to the gospel day. You think of Solomon, and he
is saying, will God in very deep dwell upon the earth? The heavens cannot contain me,
how much less this house that I have built. In the gospel day,
we know the Son of God is come, Emmanuel. He did dwell among
us, we know that. Something that he didn't know.
Job, he says, I know that my Redeemer
liveth and that he shall stand to the latter day upon the earth.
He knew that by faith. But he struggled on how it could
happen. How can a clean thing come out
of an unclean? Seated a woman, but every one
seated woman is a fallen man. But we know of the virgin birth
and how the Lord came, and that interface to what Job struggled
to work out is a reminder too, isn't it? We can have faith in
what God will do even if we do not understand how He will do
it. Those Old Testament saints, they
died in faith, they were saved, but they did not know how. the Lord would come. They did
not know the details of it. In the Gospel of David too. But
it's a vital forest that we do know. We are brought to know.
And this is why the Apostle John here, he starts this verse with,
we know. And I want to look this evening
from verse 13 through, you'll find five times is stated, we
know. And in those things is really
a picture of the people of God, what God has shown them. And
in showing them, he's showing them that they are believers
and that they do have eternal life. On to look firstly at the true
God and eternal life. The end of our verse really. This is the true God and eternal
life. I want to begin there. And then secondly, those five
things. Five things that one in Christ
has been brought to know. And then lastly, that knowing
these things, then we may be assured that we are, as it says
in the latter part of our text, we are in Him, that is true,
even in His Son, Jesus Christ. So looking at the true God, eternal
life, the Lord Jesus Christ first, then those five things, and then
knowing those five things, what it means that we are actually
in Him. But firstly the true God and
eternal life. Sometimes it can be highlighted
what is the important thing. by the errors that have troubled
the Church. Some of you would of course know
that in Mr. Philpott's day, and that which
divided amongst the Street Baptists then, was the Eternal Sonship
controversy. There were those that taught
that our Lord only became the Son by His Incarnation. He was not the Eternal Son of
God, that is what they said. And Mr. Philpott intended for
the eternal sonship of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Now
amongst Repathists, amongst Reformed Churches today, there would be
very few that differed from our position in that. It's not the
same as in Philpott's day. There are other differences that
are between the Gospel Standard Churches and other Reform, but
that is not the main one. If you look back at some of the
books, as our Paul wrote, the main distinguishing feature between
the Gospel Standard Churches and the other strict actors'
churches was the eternal sunshine. That was the issue of the day. And rightly, Mr. Philpott saw
the importance of it. There was some thought he was
making a big deal out of nothing. What did it matter? It did matter.
He saw it did matter. And it's vital that we see it
matters. Today you get the contrast, if
you get the Jehovah's Witness come to your door, the very first
thing, the only thing really you should speak to them about
is concerning the Lord Jesus Christ. That he is the true eternal
God, one with the Father. and you will find a bitter opposition. They hate the idea, they ridicule
it, they scoff at it, they cannot understand it. And yet it is
a vital truth. And John when he comes to, and
no doubt with what they are thinking, what John is saying through here,
all that he is saying is that Jesus of Nazareth is the Christ,
is the Messiah. that he's not making a statement
whether he is truly God or not. But the Scriptures disagree with
that. I disagree with that. John disagrees
with that. When he speaks in the next epistle,
the second epistle, he makes this strong statement in verse
9. Whosoever transgresseth and abideth
not in the doctrine of Christ, And before we even go any further
there, you may say, what he is saying here is the doctrine of
Christ is vitally important. Whatever I'm going to say further
on, this is a vital point. One of the hem writers says,
what think ye of Christ is the test. Try both your state and
your sin. You cannot be right in the rest
unless you be right in Him. And so John, he says, if he does
not abide in the doctrine of Christ, has not God, he that
abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the
Son. And here he is bringing in the
Trinity. The Father and the Son are one. If you have seen me, you have
seen my Father. Also I and my Father are one. And when Thomas sees him, Thomas
who could not believe that the Lord had truly risen from the
dead, when he sees him, he worshipped him, my Lord and my God. But John, he says, if there come
any unto you and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into
your house, neither bid him Godspeed, for he that biddeth him Godspeed
is partaker of his evil deeds. Truly Paul says, in him dwelleth
all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. And what I just mentioned
about Solomon when he dedicated the temple, a type of the Lord
Jesus Christ, shall God in very deed dwell upon her. Yes, Emmanuel,
God with us. And so John when he opens His
Gospel, He joins the Word and the Creator. In the beginning
was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning
with God. All things were made by Him,
and without Him was not anything made that was made. In Him was
life, and the life was the light of men. Our text is speaking
of the Lord Jesus Christ, giving eternal life. In Him is life. In the book of Hebrews, we have
it set forth in verse 8 of the first chapter. Unto the Son,
He said, Thy throne, O God. The Son, O God, is forever and
ever. A scepter of righteousness is
the scepter of Thy Kingdom. So it is the Lord Jesus Christ
that is not just a created Son, He is the only begotten Son of
God. He is truly God and truly man,
two distinct persons two distinct natures, sorry, one person, two
distinct natures. Born of the Virgin Mary, overshadowed
by the Holy Spirit, that holy thing which shall be born of
thee shall be called the Son of God. And it is vital for us
to view Him, to see Him as He is set forth in the Scriptures.
The Jews had no doubt When he was teaching in John 10, the
I am, I am, the same I am that appeared to Moses in the bush,
and when he testified to them that I and the Father are one,
they took up stones to stone him they knew. And then he set
forth that he made himself equal with God. Of course the greatest
is that he was raised from the dead. All of those that said
that he was blaspheming, that he was claiming to be God when
he wasn't God, they said even when he was on the cross, he
said that he was the Son of God. If he be the Son of God, let
him come down from the cross. If God will have him, they derided
him. But he wasn't going to just do
what they wanted to prove him, the same as with Satan's temptations
in the wilderness. But the empty tomb does prove
him. He hath given assurance unto
all men, and that he hath raised him from the dead. How vital it is that we are brought
to believe in him. emphasize this point. We can
have, we can be like Naomi, the Syrian, and think, to believe,
well, I've got to believe that I'm a child of God, I've got
to believe that I'm going to heaven, I've got to believe that
I'm elect, and you can have all these things you think you should
believe, and many of them are what God's children do believe.
But the scriptures never speak of it in that way. Always it
is what you believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. It's as the Lord
is lifted up. Remember the contrast in Isaiah
53, the natural man, he is a root out of dry ground, there's no
form nor comeliness that we should desire him. But when one believes
unto you it's relieved, He is precious. Christ, the person
of Christ. I, if I be lifted up above the
earth, will draw all men unto me. It is that testimony that
was asked of the eunuch. If thou believest with all thine
heart thou mayest, I believe that Jesus is the Son of God. It is the testimony again and
again, right through scripture. that you look at it at your leisure
throughout the scriptures, the testimony of a believer is a
believing that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. And He's the
Holy Spirit's witness that sets before sinners, sets before His
people, His beloved Son, draws them to Him, causes them to believe
on Him, to be attracted to him, to trust him and to look to him
for their sole salvation. That is the real true token of
a believer. I want to look at our second
point and under that to look at five points, five things that
John says here we know. And we can only know them by
the Spirit's teaching. And so those things are going
to be a real assurance to us, a token to us, that we truly
are in the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, the first thing that I bring
before you, we go to verse 13. And this verse, it emphasizes
how one can be a believer and yet not really realise what is
bound up with that or really have the assurance of being a
believer. Because you might say, why is
he writing to those that believe on the name of the Son of God
with the purpose that he may believe on the name of the Son
of God? They already do believe. How
many of us would like to believe with a stronger faith, with more
assurance, more clear than what we do? And that we might know
what is bound up with that believing. As John says here, that you may
know that you have eternal life. A believer has eternal life.
I want to look down at this first poem, verse 13, and put it in
this way. We know, and it is, in that verse
it is, that ye may know ye have eternal life. And that knowledge
is that the word has been received by believers. He says, these
things have I written unto you. Many of the epistles, and Paul
especially, he's addressing to churches, he's addressing to
believers. In the Ephesians, especially
Ephesians 1, he's telling them, giving thanks for them as believers,
but telling them the power that made them to be believers was
the same power that brought up Christ from the dead. There you
have a situation where someone can be a believer but do not
really realise the power that has been put in them. What a
miracle of grace every believer is. And so Paul writes to the Ephesians
to tell them that. To tell them what has actually
been done in their hearts and in their lives. And what I felt
is this. We know that when the word is
sent to a person, when that person receives that word, when the
message of God comes to them, that is a true token. With the Thessalonians, the word
came not in word only, but in demonstration of spirit and of
power. And with the seven letters to
the churches in the Revelation, He that hath an ear, let him
hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches. If we're writing
a letter, then we write a letter, we address it, or we give it
to a person, and there's no doubt that that letter is for that
person. But with the Holy Scriptures,
as it is read in the house of God, as you have it in your You
might say everyone in the congregation has this letter. Everyone has
this word. The word is read in all of their
hearing. But does that mean that that
word is for everyone or that everyone hears it and receives
it? None may shut themselves out
and say the word is not for them. We mustn't do that. But where
it is my ear hath he opened, where one has a spiritual ear,
give him that. This is what the Lord says in
John 10, My sheep, they hear my voice. It's like I said concerning
Samuel. He thought it was Eli. God speaks
to people today. He speaks to sinners. He causes
them to hear His Word. And when he does, they are receiving
that word the same as what John would say here. These things
have I written unto you that believe. You that believe have the word
written for you. You can know of a certainty that
God has sent his word to you. Faith cometh by hearing and hearing
by the word of the Lord. And when there's that fruit and
effect from that word, you know that was not just a chance that
that word came. It wasn't just an ordinary hearing. There's a word coming expressly
unto us. Hearing that word, and some of
us here, I'm sure, would be able to think of texts, of scriptures,
of times. when the Lord has caused us to
hear his word and to hear his voice. They haven't been ordinary
hearing times, they've been special hearing times and may the Lord
give you and I many of those times when we hear the Lord's
voice through his sermons and hear the words spoken to us. So that is the first thing that
we are brought to know that Those things that are written are written
to us that believe. It's a pleasant thing to suddenly
realize this, that as a believer, the Word of God, much of it is
more opened up, very special. It's not like we're opening up
a letter written to someone else and thinking, should I really
be reading this? Does this really belong to me?
But to be reading the word of God, Lord spoke all of this to
me. These are the Lord's words to
me as a believer. The second thing is, is to be
brought to know the path of prayer. In verse 15, or if we go to verse
14, this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask
anything according to His will, He heareth us, And if we know
that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the
petitions that we desired of Him. And the path of prayer is
set forth here. Behold He prayeth, not like a
Pharisee, but one out of the depths of his heart, crying unto
the Lord, praying unto the Lord. Mark that. The secret of prayer
is known by those that are in Christ, that have eternal life. They know the worth of prayer,
the blessing of prayer, they know what it is. Also, when we
know that the Lord has heard us, that those petitions will
be granted. When faith is put forth with
the Word. Those are sacred times, may not
be many times in our lives, that is felt very, very distinctly. I've had some times have been
very, very sweet and very sealed by the Lord. We think of perhaps
a parallel with Hannah when Eli said, the Lord grant thee thy
petition that thou hast asked of him. He didn't know what that petition
was, but she went away and was no more sad. She hadn't received
yet the answers of prayer. that she knew the Lord had heard
her. And in due time for this child
I prayed. Great faith that Hannah had,
even after she had prayed, before she had received the answer.
May we be like that with prayer. The third thing is that we have
been taught to know the nature of the new birth. as being a
holy birth. In verse 18, it begins with the
same words as in our text, we know that whosoever is born of
God sinneth not, but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself,
and that wicked one toucheth him not. He is not teaching that
God's children are sinless, that they cannot sin, but what it
is making a clear distinction between the new birth which is
holy and pure from above and that which is the old nature. The new birth is not just a turning
around a new leaf. It is a birth from above. In Psalm, I think it's 110, it
says that, is holiness from the womb of the morning. Thou shalt
have the Jew of thy youth, right from the very, very beginning.
When the Lord passes by a sinner and bids him live, that's a holy
work. All the fruits of the Spirit
are holy fruits. By their fruits you shall know
them, you shall recognize whether or not that that actually is
the Spirit or not. Try the spirits whether they
are of God. And so it's a great blessing
to know this and it may be highlighted by what Paul found in Romans
7 when he said that the good that I would I do not, the evil
that I would not that I do, a wretched man that I am, who shall deliver
me from this body of death? If I do that which I would not,
is no more I that doeth but sin that dwelleth in me. And he knew
that conflict. He knew that which was pure and
holy from above. And he knew his own nature that
was sinful and vile and of the earth and the conflict that was
within. He said before the commandment
came, I was alive. He's a Pharisee of the Pharisees.
But when the commandment came, sin revived and I died. convicted by one's sin, brought
to be a sinner. But he testifies of the holiness
of God. When God brings that, he brings
that nature which is holy. And may you be encouraged, those
of you that have conflict within, a conflict that you did not have
by nature, a conflict between sin and that which is pure. If God has implanted holy life
in you, that is holy, that is from Him and He will keep that
alive and that will be grieved by what goes on in your heart,
your thoughts, your affections, your desires. It will be like
our Lord Jesus Christ on this earth, holy and pure in the midst
of a people who are contradicted, going against Him, all manner
of evil. What it must have been for the
Lord to be upon this earth beholding all of these things, hearing
their contradictions. A child of God knows a little
bit about that and fellowship with the Lord. When they find
that holy nature is put within, is grieved by the filthy conversation
of the wicked, is troubled, is distressed by it, when before
it wasn't a trouble. If we know that secret of the
new birth, that's another token of which John here says, and
we know. The fourth thing is in verse 19,
another and we know. What is this thing that we know? that we are of God and the whole
world lieth in wickedness." I'll put it this way, that what we
actually know have been taught, the difference between us and
the world. Who maketh thee to differ? There is a difference. May we
never be ashamed of the difference that grace has made in our hearts
and in our lives. May we never be ashamed that
there are those things we say, I cannot walk with you and go
with you. No, the world will ask a reason
of the hope that is within you. Why do they ask? Because you
do things they don't do and don't do things that they do. The Lord
has made a difference. That is what grace does, to change
the heart, renew the will, turn the feet to Zion's hill. Now
some might say, well, isn't John being very self-righteous here? What if this was an individual,
and what if this was an individual church, or a denomination? And perhaps sometimes we've been
guilty of this as the gospel standards. We are a God, and
every other denomination and every other assembly, they're
the wicked one. If they were of us, then they'd
be one with us, wouldn't they? That's a wrong spirit. Never
have that spirit. Never have that spirit. But remember,
John here is one of the apostles. This is the inspired Word of
God. This is not denominations or
individual assemblies. This is the truth of God. That which can never be differed
with and compromised, if any, he says in the second epistle,
bring not this doctrine, that's what he's emphasising on. And
the mark here is a difference. We should always be able to come
to the word of God as to why we believe what we believe. And
the world was saying, I know I've had it with my own brothers,
if you try to speak to them on the things that got all your
arguing from the Word of God. No, I'm not going to come down
to your world view and debase my thoughts and my directions
on humanist view. You might do that, but I'm doing
it on the Word of God. Never give way on that. Made me sad on the debate on
the assisted suicide bill. I was waiting and longing to
hear one of the Christians, of which one of our own, our own
ANP for Cranbrook, is a saved Christian, to stand up and say,
I am a Christian and because of the word of God, I do not
agree with this. I never heard it. But I did hear
one get up and say, I am a humanist, and because I'm a humanist, I
believe this, this, this. Unashamed. And I thought, why
cannot that in a Christian country? be one to state that what they
believe is affecting what they do and basing it on the Word
of God. We should realise if we have
eternal life and the Lord has blessed us that we know the Lord
has made a difference. The Lord has separated. Come
ye out from among them. Touch not the unclean things.
I'll receive you, you shall be my sons and my daughters, said
the Almighty." The last thing is that we know that the Son
of God has come. This is now our text, that we
know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding
that we may know Him that is true. When our Lord rose from
the dead and He visited the disciples in the upper room, Then opened
he their understanding that they might understand the Scriptures.
They shall all be taught of God. They shall not say, every man
his neighbour, know the Lord. They shall all know me, from
the least unto the greatest. On this very point, Philip, when
he comes to the eunuch, understandest thou what thou readest. this very point, this very token,
have given us an understanding. The poor unit would have said,
no, he hasn't given me an understanding, I don't understand it. Who is
the prophet speaking of, himself or some other man? But Philip,
he begins at the same scripture. He begins at the sufferings,
the death of the Lord Jesus Christ, our Lord before Pilate, silence
his dumbness, and then the bloodshed as a lamb led to the slaughter. He preaches Jesus Christ and
Him crucified. He preaches the Son of God. He preaches the only name given
among men, whereby we must be saved. And under that preaching,
the Ethiopian eunuch, he believes. He believes on this Son of God
as He's lifted up. He believes in Him that was set
forth in Isaiah. And then He desires to follow
Him according to the commission. There's no doubt Philip told
Him what their commission was. Go ye into all the world, preach
the gospel to every creature, hear that believer, and he's
baptized, shall we say. He that believeth not shall be
damned. And so the blessing, the knowledge
here, we know that the Son of God hath come and given us an
understanding. Are there things that you and
I have had that we didn't understand and now do understand? Has it been through the ministry? Has it been through the Word?
Has it been in answer to prayer? That our understanding has been
opened? These things that the Apostle
is bringing forth, he's not saying these are just common things
that we can just understand by learning like a schoolboy's task. No, he's saying these are scriptural
tokens of things that the people of God know. and we know. Things that they didn't know
but by grace and by the Spirit's work they have been brought to
know. This should be then our thought. Are there those things with us
that we have been brought to know? That we have been brought
to know what it is to hear the Word. Now as a different hearer,
as the Word coming expressly to us, we've been brought to
know the power of prayer and we have been brought to know
that the new birth is a holy birth within by that desire for
that which is holy. And we have been brought to know
the difference between us and the world. The natural man receiveth
not the things of God, neither can he know them, and you can
only just go through John, Nicodemus, John 3, Nicodemus always wanting
to understand, naturally know the Lord is speaking about a
spiritual birth. John 4, natural water, no, living
water, spiritual water. John 6, the manna, natural manna,
natural bread from heaven, how can this man give us bread to
eat? All the time they're looking natural and the Lord is talking
spiritual. If the Lord gives us understanding
for spiritual things, that is the gift of God, it's God's work. The natural man just does not
understand them at all. Those who have had no change
will know no difference. But those of us that have will
say, I once did not understand these things, and now I do. Once they were nothing, now they're
everything to me. Once I did not believe, but now
I do believe. And it is in these points, and
John, he goes through these methodically, remember his whole emphasis.
is to be strengthening the believers, and so they're able to see they're
standing, see where they are. So our last point, that we may
know Him that is true, and we are in Him that is true, even
in His Son, Jesus Christ. A position of being in Christ,
that I may be found in Him, says the Apostle, not having my own
righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is of faith,
of Jesus Christ. We'll sing a beautiful time is
the ark, Noah's ark. Noah and those that were with
him, they were in the ark. They were safe in the ark. The
Lord said, come. He was in the ark. and He shut
them in and they were safe in the ark. Christ is our refuge,
He is our ark, He is our hiding place. We are chosen in Him before
the foundation of the world. We are clothed with His lightness,
not our own. We are built up in Him as a spiritual
house. He being the foundation stone,
He being the top stone. We be lively, living stones built
up in Him. All the time a believer's relationship
is in Christ. And the Lord says that with a
believer, He and His Father will come and make their abode with
those believers. It is a blessed thing to realize,
to understand that we are actually united with Him and in Him, bound
up with Him, with the Lord Jesus Christ, eternally, from eternity
to eternity. Many of the Lord's people, they
don't at first feel to be like that. They're like Ruth in Boaz's
home. Why is Boaz being so kind to
me? Thou be not like one of thine
handmaidens." Didn't realise it many years before, I suppose
it was three years from the time the Lord first gave me spiritual
life to when I was brought to be able to put him on in open
profession. But many times in Melbourne,
I used to sit at the back of the chapel when the Lord's Supper
was being observed and felt such a gulf between me and them. I couldn't see myself as that.
And it was only under the blessings of the Lord, sitting in the lunchroom
at work, reading the cheering words, what think a humble believer
of the bread and wine-blessed memorials of Christ's dying love,
that I can still remember the surprise that swept over me,
what me, a church member, me, sitting at the Lord's table,
I knew under that blessing how precious that ordinance was in
setting forth the Lord whom I believed and loved. But the first time
it dawned that actually what the Lord had wrought in me was
what He works in God's people. That He had put me amongst His
children. That He had shown me these things.
And I hope it is so with some of you here as well. That time
that you realise that you are one of the Lords, the Lord has
taught you, He has shown you, He has given you some of these,
I know you can tick them off, I know these things. That's a blessed thing, when
that is so. I know there's varying opinions
of it in the earlier part of this chapter, but we have the
witness that is spoken of in heaven, the record Father, the
Word and the Holy Ghost in verse 7. But then we have the three
witnesses on earth, the Spirit, the water and the blood. These
three agree in one. The way I view that, it is the
Spirit that quickeneth. The Holy Spirit is the author
of the new birth and he bears a witness. When he changes and
converts a person, they are monuments of grace. made different, as
we said, a holy work within. And then
the Lord has given to the Church of God two ordinances. One is separately joined with
the believer, which is baptism, that is a witness on earth. Buried with him by baptism is
the death, risen again in newness of life. The second witness is
the blood, is the Lord's Supper. He do show forth the Lord's death
till he come. The Lord has chosen out those
two ordinances for the Church of God, and He's chosen out the
candidates for them, and He's chosen out the means of them
being brought to that position, quickened by the Spirit, born
of the Holy Spirit. Blessed be God, that to the end
of time the Spirit will work. I am with you always, even unto
the end of the world. And there will be those that
believe, have these I knows, and that they will see that they
are actually in Christ, in His Son, Jesus Christ, and they'll
desire, as they've had the Spirit's witness, to give the witness
in the other two parts as well, in baptism and the Lord's Supper. May the Lord bless the word and
make the Lord Jesus Christ precious. Amen.