You might just read some of these
amazing words. He calls her in chapter 4 verse
8 to come with him and then he describes her in the most remarkable
ways. Verse 9 he says, Thou hast ravished
my heart My sister, my spouse, thou hast ravished thy heart
with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck. How fair is thy love, my sister,
my spouse! How much better is thy love than
mine, the smell of thine ointments than all spices, thy lips O my
spouse, drop us the honeycomb. Honey and milk are under thy
tongue, and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of
Lebanon. A garden enclosed is my sister,
my spouse, a spring shut up, a fountain sealed. Thy plants
are an orchard of pomegranates with pleasant fruits. Campfire
with spikenard, spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon,
with all trees of frankincense, myrrh and aloes, with all the
chief spices." And then I believe she responds, where does all
this come from? a fountain of gardens, a well
of living waters, and streams from Lebanon. Awake, O north
wind, and come thou south, and blow upon my garden, that the
spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his
garden, and eat his pleasant fruits." what pleasant fruits,
pleasant to him to behold in the garden that he has planted. And we looked last week at this
garden, we looked at the spring shut up and the fountain sealed,
and we looked at those pomegranates, those amazing fruit that grew
in those harsh climates, those beautiful fruits which are an
amazing picture Amazing picture of the Lord enclosing his people. Inside are all of these fruit
and they're all joined together as it were, individual but taking
their shape from each other and all enclosed. He says in verse
12, a garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse. The word garden enclosed
there means a paradise. Paradise is my sister, my spouse. Pleasant fruits in this garden,
a garden that he's designed, a garden that he's selected,
a garden he has separated from the common things of this world. the wilderness of this world,
a garden he protects, he plants, a garden he's watered, a garden
that's made fruitful, a garden that is beautiful, a garden that
not only has fruits but has spices in it, a garden for his delight. A garden of His delight, for
His delight and for those with Him. This is what He calls His
Bride. A paradise enclosed. A garden with pleasant fruits. And it's easy for us to skip
over all of these mentions of the spices here, and we could
deal with them all and look at the end of verse 14 and just
say with all the two spices, but I think in these spices,
in what is said about them and how they are joined together
is something that I hope the Lord will use for our blessing
this morning. Let's just pray. Our Heavenly
Father, we pray that you would come and take your words and
that you would seal your words to our hearts, Heavenly Father.
You would call us to see our Saviour as altogether lovely,
as altogether beautiful, as altogether the One who is the source of
all that we have and all that we need. We pray, Heavenly Father,
that you would make Him all that we need so that we know that
He is all that we have. Our Father God, we pray that
He would be again seen as a glorious gardener and that we would be
seen as the trees of His planting. that He might receive great glory. Help us, Heavenly Father, to
grow in our faith and our love for Him, and have our eyes taken
off the things of this world, the wisdom of men, the delights
of men, and that we would find our delights. In Him, and remarkably
Heavenly Father, we'd find our delights in what He has done
and what He says about us, His Bride. We pray Your blessing
on us. We pray in His precious Name. Amen. So we looked last week at the
pomegranates and they have peasant fruits and the idea of course
is one of abundance. There is no shortage of fruits.
You don't have to go searching for the fruits in the garden
of Eden. We won't have to go searching
for the fruits in the new garden that we are heading towards.
And the first of these spices that he talks about is camphire
and remarkably It's also that word that we use for henna and
henna hedges were dense and thorny hedges with branches and they
protected the vineyards from the winds and the wild animals
and they had clusters of beautifully fragrant flowers and the perfume
of these henna flowers drifted a long, long way. That's what
these trees, these shrubs are. And they grew plentifully near
Ngedi. And in chapter 1, verse 14, he
says, My beloved is unto me as a cluster of campfire in the
vineyards of Ngedi. He talks about her being this. But the word means In Hebrew
it means to cover. It means a covering. It really
figuratively means redemption price, pitch, ransom, satisfaction
for a sum of money. The beloved covers his bride. He ransoms her. He's satisfied
in her. He delights, he defends with
these henna hedges, he defends in shelters, and he delights
in his bride, and out of his work as we'll continually see,
she is delightful to those around her as this perfume is carried
a long way. The next one is spikenard and
spikenard is a small plant with a long stem and where the nard,
as it were, comes from is when the root is dug up and it is
crushed. and she calls him, she says,
the king, whilst the king sitteth at his table, my spikenard sendeth
forth the spill, the smell thereof. And you might well remember that
in Mark chapter 14, the Lord Jesus was anointed, anointed
by that woman, anointed for his burial. And what did she have? She had that alabaster jar. And what was it full of? Full
of amazingly expensive nard. And she took that alabaster box,
that expensive alabaster box with this incredibly expensive
nard in it, spikenard, and she broke it and she poured it on
the head of the Lord Jesus. And as we all remember, Judas
and the others thought this was such a waste. Such a terrible
waste. It could have been used to help
the poor. And they murmured against this
woman, and the Lord Jesus said to them, She has wrought a good
work on me. She has done what she could. She has come aforehand to anoint
my body for burial. And when we speak, even as I've
spoken now, we are fulfilling that promise, aren't we? That
this will be done and this will be recorded and this will be
preached throughout the whole world as a memorial of her, a
memorial of her acknowledgement that the Lord Jesus was to die. that he was going to shed his
blood. In John 12 there's another anointing,
and the whole house was filled with the odour of the ointment,
the sweet savour of his shed blood, his broken body, his perfect
obedience. And then she says spikenard and
saffron, Saffron is a remarkable stamen of a crocus, like a lily. and I spoke to Cole about it
yesterday because they use it in cooking and the remarkable
thing about saffron is that just a little bit of it colours dishes
in the most remarkable way with a rich yellow golden hue. It can be used to dye both dishes
and textiles. He describes the bride as being
spikenard and saffron, that ingredient that richly flavours and richly
colours. It's a picture of us, all of
these are pictures of us being one with the Lord Jesus. The
father looks on the son and sees delight in him and those given
to him. The son looks on the bride and
as we've seen, she ravishes his heart. He is delighted in her. Delighted in her as she's given
to him by the Father in eternity. Delighted in her as he entered
that betrothal, that espousal, said that she was his. And He
came to seek her, to buy her, and to make her fit and perfect
for Heaven, called out and redeemed. And He is glorified in us as
we are glorified in Him. It is remarkable, isn't it? The
Holy Spirit comes and gives life and lives in the Bride. And all
of this is a sweet savour to God in Trinity. He looks and
He sees us not black, but golden and beautiful. Father's work
is to look on the sun and see what the sun has done, and He
sees us as perfect. perfect in him. Calamus is the
next one. Calamus is a reed like plant
and it was a reed used for measuring. And from the seed of it there
was anointing oil made for the priest. And remarkably again we find
that this word means to buy. to purchase and to recover. What wonderful pictures we have
in these spices that the Lord Jesus calls us. Psalm 74 says,
Remember thy congregation which thou hast purchased of old. When did he purchase his congregation
of old? Before the foundation of the
world. This was written a thousand years
before the cross. Solomon looked back driven by
the Holy Spirit to pen these amazing words. He saw what happened
in eternity. He saw what was happening on
the cross and he saw what was going to happen in eternity future. I know we talk in those terms
and they don't really fit today. Eternity is just one for our
God. Solomon saw the Lord Jesus in
remarkable glory. Remember Thy congregation, they
belong to You, which Thou hast purchased of old, the rod of
Thine inheritance, this same word, which Thou hast redeemed,
this Mount Zion wherein Thou hast dwelt. These reeds remind us of our
condition in the fall and after the fall, don't they? What does
Isaiah 42 say of us and say of our Lord Jesus in dealing with
us? A bruised reed shall he not broke. This reed was broken, crushed
and oppressed as we fell in our father Adam. We are bruised by
the fall, we are bruised by sin, we are crushed as it were under
the weight of life in this world. But we are the reeds of His election,
the reeds of His redemption, the rods of His redemption. And
He will not break them. He comes to them and they are
bruised and they are broken. They are brittle and they are
damaged. They are like a smoking flax.
But where his life is, what is bruised and broken, is put back
together again. They're purchased and they are
recovered. She is bought. She's purchased
reed and a rod that he will not break. And it was used remarkably
for measuring things. Isn't it wonderful how our God
measures the things of our lives and all is perfect? Isaiah 11.11 is an easy verse
to remember and it says and it shall come to pass in
that day that the Lord shall set His hand again the second
time to recover the remnant of His people which shall be left."
This remnant that's scattered, He'll gather them, He'll recover
them, the same word. They are left from Assyria, from
Egypt, from Pathos, from Cush. from Elam, from Shinar, from
Hamath and from the islands of the sea. He'll recover them,
he'll gather them to himself. They are an enclosed garden,
they're never outside of his love. She's bought, she's purchased,
she's recovered. And cinnamon, as we know, is
a spice that comes from a tree and it comes from the inner bark
of an evergreen tree. In Song of Solomon 116 it says
that our bed is evergreen and this inner bark is one of the
ingredients for the holy anointing oil. And it has, as you well
know, a delightful Delightful flavor and adds delightful scent
to cooking Then he goes on to talk about with all the trees
of frankincense frankincense is the resin and sap that's taken
from these trees when they are cut and they cut a slit in the
trees and the sap that came out like sap comes out of a eucalypt
tree or a wattle tree, the sap then dried and it was called
the tears of this frankincense. And the word Frank remarkably
means free from guile, free from guile and free from anger. By his stripes we are healed,
free from the anger of Almighty God. And it talks about trees,
these sticks of woods, woods it really means, that are put
together to make something firm and strong. They're bound together
to make them strong. It was remarkable to read some
of the commentaries on these frankincense trees because they
look like most of the other spices we're reading about, trees you
could easily walk by and ignore. But they grow in the driest and
the harshest environment. And if somehow a seed gets lodged
on a rock, they actually grow on a rock and they form a different
sort of root. And the root actually lays flat,
like a bulb as it were, and wraps around the rock. And these trees
will have firm attachment on rock and they grow in hardy soils. Wonderful pictures of our Lord
Jesus in so many ways. His wounds are pictured in all
of this, just like the trees in the scriptures. So many trees,
obviously all of them pointing to this one particular tree. We have that ark, don't we? That
ark that was made of gopher wood for the salvation of Noah and
his family, and it was covered with pitch this redemption price
like a campfire. When Noah came out of that ark,
he sacrificed to the Lord. Noah, verse 20 of chapter 8 of
Genesis, built an altar unto the Lord, and took of every clean
beast and every clean fowl and offered burnt offerings on the
altar. And the Lord smelled the sweet
savour, and the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse
the ground any more for man's sake. he had satisfied his justice. It actually means this savour,
it's called a sweet savour, but it really also means it's a savour
of rest. God's people were at rest inside
that ark, and now as he sacrificed, God smelt that sacrifice, smelt
what he had done, smelt this picture of redemption in the
Lord Jesus. of rest. Abraham took that wood,
didn't he? Laid it on the shoulders of his
son Isaac and took that wood up to Mount Moriah. We have wood
of safety and preservation of God's people. We have this wood
of substitution. And we have that ship and wood
that the ark of the tabernacle was made of where our reconciliation
and our dwelling as one with God. And then, of course, all
of these trees are sort of emblems of that tree where our Lord Jesus
laid down His life. the sweetness and the savour
of that blood, those tears that flowed in the garden, that blood
that flowed from His side. God saw the sacrifice. God saw that propitiation. He saw that wounding. And it
says that it pleased him. It pleased his holiness. It pleased
his justice. It pleased his mercy, his grace,
his love, his honor, and his glory. and it pleased him because
we were in his son. And all of these things flow
to us from those wounds that he suffered, which is why The
next spice suspension is myrrh and aloes. You might remember
that Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea took 100 pounds, 40
kilos, of myrrh and aloes. Myrrh and aloes were preservatives
and how they must have been there to preserve and in a sense to
cover those wounds on that body that they had loved. Myrrh means bitter. It was a bitter suffering. and He calls upon His people
to come and suffer along with Him. He brings trials and tribulations
to us, to show us our frailty, to remind us that this is not
our home, to show us sins, ours and ours in other people around
us, to reveal that this is just a place that we are passing through. He was made sin. He was made that bitter thing,
that thing that He hated most, that in Him we might be made
the righteousness of God. He was made a curse to redeem
us, but in His bitterness He preserved us. and that myrrh
and the aloes were preservatives from putrefaction. The aloes
have grown down, grown by God, and they are again not an imposing
looking tree, but when they are cut down, there is this sweet
smelling savour that comes from them. In Numbers 24, we have another
mention of this same word, this line, alas, as they're called.
You might just turn there if you can. Numbers 24, verse 5
and 6. He says, How goodly are thy tents,
O Jacob! And then remarkably, he says,
thy tabernacles, O Israel." Israel, tabernacles with God. Jacob lives in a tent that's
disappearing, but Israel lives in a tabernacle of meeting with
God. As the valleys they are spread
forth, as gardens by the riverside, as the trees of line alloys,
which the Lord has planted. They are planted by our God and
when they are cut down they give off this amazing sweet smelling
savour. These are some of the spices
that are in this garden. This garden that is fruitful
and this garden that is pleasant to look at. This garden that
is protected and this garden that smells delightful when you
walk through it. And with all the chief spices. You see all of these spices are
rare and valuable and precious. They're all sweet smelling, but
some are evergreen, some grow in higher altitudes, some to
delight our souls, some to transform our food for our nourishment,
some to preserve, some that give off a beautiful scent when they
are bruised and crushed and burned. All of them in effect, all of
these plants, all of these trees of righteousness have to be wounded
by the Lord, wounded to produce these beautiful scents. And all
of these beautiful scents come from plants which seem insignificant,
And so it is with the graces of the Spirit. When they are
needed most in times of affliction, in the trials that we suffer
in what is likened to be the furnace of affliction, we find
that they give off in those times a beautiful scent, this holy scent. If you turn
your Bibles just a chapter back, you'll come to Exodus. It's just
a remarkable passage that talks about this anointing oil, this
amazing scent, this sweet savour, a pleasing aroma, as the scriptures
say, a pleasing aroma to God. Take thou under thee the principal
spices of pure Mortmer, 500 shekels, and sweet cinnamon half so much,
and even 250 shekels, and sweet calamus, 250 shekels. and Cassia 500 shekels after
the shekel of the sanctuary, and olive oil a hymn, and thou
shalt make it an oil of holy ointment, an ointment compounded
after the art of the apothecary. It shall be a holy anointing
oil. Thou shalt anoint the tabernacle
of the congregation therewith, and the ark of the testimony,
and the table and all his vessels, and the candlesticks and his
vessels, and the altar of incense." In this place where God met with
man, all of these spices were put together to be used. and
their anointing, and the altar of burnt offering, with all his
vessels, and the labour and his foot. And thou shalt sanctify
them, that they may be most holy. Whatsoever touches them shall
be holy." Thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate
them, that they may minister unto me in the priest's office.
And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, This
shall be a holy anointing oil unto me throughout your generations."
And there's a limitation. It is for a specific purpose.
Upon man's flesh shall it not be poured, neither shall you
make any other like it after the composition of it. It is
holy, and it shall be holy unto you. Whosoever compoundeth anything
like it, or whosoever putteth any of it upon a stranger, shall
it even be cut off from his people. And the Lord said unto Moses,
Take unto thee sweet spices, including this frankincense,
and you shall make it a perfume, a confection after the art of
the apothecary, tampered together pure and holy, and you shall
beat some of it very small and put it before the testimony in
the tabernacle of the congregation. where I will meet with thee,
and it shall be unto you most holy. And as for the perfume
which you shall make, you shall not make to yourselves according
to the composition thereof. It shall be unto thee holy before
the Lord. And if anyone makes anything
like it, they were to be cut off from the people. Just ask
Nadab and Abayi how precious these ointments and these incenses
were. They thought they could make
their own. They thought they could go to
God. They thought they could go to
God on the basis of their activities, their willful activities, their
worth. and God killed them. And he said that he will be seen
as holy. You see, all of these are but
pictures of the Lord Jesus, our great saver to God, our only
way of coming to God. In Ephesians 5 verse 2, he's
called has given himself for us an offering
and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savour. These days God
cuts off people in exactly the same way as Moses. Nadab and
Abihu and Korah and Dathan. You come to God without this
sweet-smelling savour and God won't have you. He won't have
your activities. He won't have your works. He'll
have His Son honoured. He is the sweet-smelling savour
to the Father. When the Holy Spirit comes and
makes us alive and we hear His voice and follow Him, it's a
sweet savour. Isn't the Gospel a sweet savour
to sinners? We love the savour of God's Word
to us that shows us that we are nothing and the Lord Jesus is
absolutely everything. And in a sense we savour the
truth of God. And the things that dishonour
our Lord Jesus have a smell about them. They have a smell of man
about them. They have a smell of man's pride
about them, man's willfulness, man saying, I will, I will. And they don't smell right to
believers. Believers love that sweet-smelling
savour. The same savour that pleases
the Father is the savour that pleases the Father's children
here. We love to hear that savour of
the Lord Jesus. It's the sweet savour that draws
us to Him. to Him, not to religion, but
to Him. Not to our works and not to doctrine,
but to Him. We are drawn to Him as He smells
sweet to us. And we know from the scriptures. that the things that God causes
His children to savour, causes His children to delight in. What
was the response of Judas? When that savour filled the house,
that woman poured out that nard on the Saviour. What was the
response? You can read the most horrifying
response in the Scriptures, isn't it? Jesus Judas went off to betray
him. There was that savour which was
life for her and the very same savour was offensive to the Lord
Jesus. In 2nd Corinthians we hear about
this savour don't we? He says, Now thanks be unto God,
which always causes us to triumph in Christ, making manifest the
savour, 2 Corinthians 2.14, the savour of His knowledge by us
in every place. We savour the knowledge of the
Lord Jesus. We savour the knowledge of Him
as God. We savour the knowledge of what
He came to do because of what He promised to do in eternity. We savour that perfect life. We savour His agonies and His
pain and those afflictions in the garden. We savour what He
did on the cross for us. We delight in the fact that He
loved His people so much. He loved them, as John 13 says,
He loved them to the very end. He loved them finally. He loved
them completely. And then verse 15, it says, for
we are unto God a sweet saver of Christ. Not a saver of ourselves,
we are a saver unto God, a sweet saver of Christ. and we are both to them that
are saved and in them that perish. To the one we are the saver of
death unto death, and to the other the saver of life unto
life. God has put his people, as he
put his Son in this world, to be a saver that divides the very
sinorama of Christ. which delights the senses, delights
the soul, delights the heart of God's people, that very same
savour, the things that we savour about the Lord Jesus, that particular
effective love, that amazing particular redemption, His absolute
sovereignty, He's reigning over all things, even the thoughts
of wicked men. We love the savour of the Lord
Jesus, that He rose victorious, that He reigns now, that He comes
in sovereign grace to dead and putrefying sinners, and He saves
them and savours them, that they become sweet-smelling to the
Father. They always were. They always
bound up in Him. It's just their flesh. And we, brothers and sisters,
will be a saver to this world around us. Now one that Paul
says, as he does in the next chapter, when he talks about
the ministry that he has been given, he says, who is sufficient? Who is sufficient for these things? Mercifully, if you read down
in chapter 5 of the next verse, our sufficiency is of God. God has placed us in this world
as a saver and we are and will be a saver. God will make sure
that his children are seen to be the trees of righteousness,
a planting of the Lord. What's the response of the bride? Let's just briefly look at verse
15. A fountain of gardens, a well
of living waters and streams from Lebanon. Isn't it wonderful? This fountain of garden talks,
it means the source for headwaters. All of these fountains, all of
this stream had a source. These living waters have a source. She sees what he says she is,
and she hears those words from her husband, and he calls her
delightfully and says, you've ravished my heart, and he says
that she's all fair and she's beautiful and she's captivating,
and he says that there is no spot in me, you're all fair,
And he calls her his sister, his spouse. And then he talks
about how fair her love is and how fair and beautiful her words
and her thoughts. And then he says she's a paradise
to him. And then in verse 15, she responds,
where does all this come from? Isn't it wonderful that it doesn't
come from us? Isn't it wonderful that the source
of grace and the source of salvation isn't from us? It's a fountain
of gardens, it's a well of living waters, it's streams from Lebanon. When the Lord talks about these
waters, almost always in the scriptures, they're in the plural
form. a fountain of gardens. They are
planted in places throughout this world. They are this planting
of the Lord. Isaiah 61.3 calls these people
the trees of righteousness, a planting of the Lord. He has planted his
people in a place by his sovereign grace. He says, these are my
planting, they are trees of righteousness, not their own righteousness,
they are trees of my righteousness. They are the planting of the
Lord and they are individuals planted and preserved and protected. But they are churches that are
planted and preserved and protected. And in the grace of God we've
come to know and come to be friends with churches throughout this
world. And in a sense as we look back
through history, we haven't discovered something new. We've gone back
to old paths. Go and read what our forefathers
said. The things that are a savour
to us are the very things about the Lord Jesus that were a savour
in the last century, in the previous century, and for the last thousands
of years. Abel savoured the things that
we savoured. He brought to God a blood sacrifice. He brought to God His Son, not
the works of His own hands. He brought the Lord Jesus, as
it were, to His Father. He's a fountain of gardens. He is, as Zechariah says, that
fountain opened for sin and uncleanness. We are fountains. We are for Him. We come to this
fountain. He is the fountain, not us. And
we receive from His fountain graceful grace, electing grace,
pardoning grace, justifying grace, redeeming grace, sanctifying
grace, preserving grace. And we read last week in John
Chapter 4 about that woman at the well. Those living waters. a well of living waters. Isaiah says in chapter 12 verse
3, Therefore with joy shall you draw water out of the wells of
salvation. Living waters are a reference
to flowing waters as opposed to stagnant swampy polluted waters. Flowing always flowing with His
fullness, flowing with His completeness, flowing with the excellency of
all that He has done. There are, as 2 Peter 2.17 says,
there are wells without water. There are places that offer,
as it were, a well. And they look like clouds, and
Peter says they are clouds without rain, they are wells without
water, but not our Lord Jesus. He is full of living water. In Jeremiah 2.13 we have a great
description of the transaction that was made in the garden and
the transaction that religion makes again and again and again. I have to find the right place. have committed two evils. My people Israel have committed
two evils. They have forsaken me, the fountain
of living waters, and hewed out for themselves cisterns. They've turned away from a fountain. They've turned away from grace.
And they've worked and worked and worked. And the more they've
worked, the bigger the hole is that they've dug for themselves.
And they've dug this cistern they think is going to hold water
by their own efforts. And they've dug these cisterns,
broken cisterns, that can hold no water. Out of this world we have nothing,
as the woman said to the Lord Jesus, nothing to draw with. but by His grace He gives faith,
and by the faith and the life that He gives us, we draw on
these living waters and we live on these living waters. When
we are weary like He is with the journey, we come to that
well and we find there is living water flowing. When we are hungry
from our wilderness journeys, We come to a well of waters,
living waters that give life. We go empty to be filled. We go to receive, not to give. To receive out of His fullness,
from the author and the perfecter. The one who begins promises to
complete. He gives us justifying grace. He gives us the right to eternal
life. He brings us and tabernacles
with us. He lives in us and we live in
Him. He gives us that sanctifying
grace. We are perfectly fit for Heaven. We are holy, spotless and blameless. There is no spot in you. You are all fair. They're always
flowing. And grace flows to God's people
like the streams from Lebanon. And we'll close here. Those streams
that come from that snow-capped mountain, they're flowing all
the time. How do you stop a mountain stream
from flowing? You can't do it, can you? I remember in 1978 when we had
the last flood that broke the banks I think it was 78, it might
have been earlier in the 70s. But there was a flood and the
biggest dam we have around here is the Tailawa Dam in Kangaroo
Valley. And the flood flowed so strongly down from those mountains
that it was 20 feet, 6 meters over the spillway of the dam. Man can try and dam the rivers.
But God's streams from heaven on are unstoppable. The streams
of grace are unstoppable. They come with a mighty force. They come with that mighty force
to turn dead, putrefying sinners and wash them and make them clean
and make them alive. It comes with abundance. As Romans 5.20 says, it talks
about our sin and then grace did much more abound. God's grace is bigger than our
sin, and that river of the water of life proceeds out of the throne
of God. If you ever want a delightful
picture, go to the end of Ezekiel and you'll see that that man
walked out, as it were, to measure the River of Grace. And the further
he got, the deeper it was. It's a beautiful picture, isn't
it? The Tree of Life beside that river in Revelation in that new
creation is on either side of the stream. It is just flowing
down from this very, very high mountain. It always has. It always will. And as Philippians
says, My God will supply all your need. And it's wonderful,
isn't it, the measure of the supply. According to His riches,
in glory by Christ Jesus. Let's pray.