Alright brethren, Philippians
4. We are going to finish up the
study in Philippians today. Philippians 4 verse 23. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ
be with you all. Amen. The translators put there
that this was written from Rome when Paul was in prison while
Epaphroditus was there visiting from Philippi. Paul, you know, the Lord never
gave him sight again after the Lord blinded him on the road
to Damascus. And so Paul used other men to
pin the words. God, the Holy Spirit, gave him
the words. And Paul dictated what he wanted written and men
would write it down for him. Because he could see. You remember
when he sold the Galatians, you would have plucked out your eyes
and given them to me. So that's how come they wrote
that there. But I want to focus today on
this subject of the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. We usually
speak of the grace of God. You know, we read that in Scripture
and we speak of the grace of God. But Paul ended his letters
saying, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.
This was Paul's benediction. This was his prayer for all God's
saints. That's who he's writing to in
these letters. That's who he's writing to in this letter is
to those chosen, sanctified, redeemed, called out saints,
to God's saints. He ended his letter to the Romans
this way, 1 Corinthians, Galatians, both letters to the Thessalonians,
his letter to Philemon, This is the same as saying the grace
of God be with you. Because Christ is God. He is
God. He is God and man. Grace is the
favor of God. It's not based on anything in
us whatsoever. It's due to God's immutable love. And that grace includes that
favor and that love. It includes God's full provision. The Word carries the meaning
of joy. And it's all given in our Lord Jesus and by our Lord
Jesus to guilty, helpless sinners. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ
be with you all. Salvations, all of grace. Salvation
is all of grace. From before time until there
is time no more, in all points in between, from election to
glory, in all points in between, salvation is entirely of God's
grace. And that grace is in Christ and
that grace is given to us by Christ. If any sinner boasts
in one detail of his salvation, then he ceases to be under grace. If he can do that, it's a manifestation
he was not under grace. Because grace and works can't
ever go together. If it's by grace, it's no more
of works. That's just so, period. Otherwise,
grace is no more grace. We came out of works and trust
in any work of our own and still be saved by grace. And the same
goes with works. Works have to be all of works,
otherwise it's no more work. Paul said, I do not frustrate
the grace of God, for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ
is dead in vain. That's how serious it is. He
said to the Galatians, Christ is become of no effect unto you,
whosoever you are that are justified by law, you are fallen from grace. And let me tell you something,
Paul in that letter was talking about justification, but he was
talking about sanctification too. Having begun in the spirit,
are you now made perfect by the flesh? And the same can be said
if we're trying to be justified or sanctified by the works of
the law, we're fallen from grace. Boasting excluded, pride I base,
I am only a sinner saved by grace. Now I want to show you that from
before time to the end of time and all point in time, The grace
of our Lord Jesus Christ has been with His people and shall
be. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ
be with you all. Now, in eternity, before He made
time, before He created the world or anything, the grace of our
Lord Jesus Christ was with His people. Now, I won't have you
turn there. You're familiar with Ephesians
1, but it says, God the Father and Father of our Lord Jesus
blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places
according as He chose us in Christ Jesus. according as He chose
us in Him before the foundation of the world. And it says in
Ephesians 1 verse 6, to the praise of the glory of His grace. That's how He blessed us. Now,
you know that God's glory, it is God's glory to be gracious
to whom He'll be gracious. You know, when that's attacked,
that that's not fair. That's attacking God's glory
because it's God's glory as God to be gracious to whom He will.
When Moses asked to see His glory over in Exodus 33, 19, God said,
I'll make all my goodness pass before thee. He said, I will
proclaim the name of the Lord before thee and will be gracious
to whom I will be gracious and will show mercy on whom I will
show mercy. That's His glory. That's His
glory. And God manifests His glory. He said He made all His goodness
pass before Moses. He proclaimed the name of the
Lord to Moses. And He showed Moses all His glory
by putting Moses in the cleft of the rock. And brethren, that's
how God gave grace to His people in eternity. That's how He manifests
His goodness to us. That's how He manifests His great
name. is He put His people in the cleft
of the rock, Christ Jesus. That's where He put us. And He
did it to the praise of the glory of His grace. He did it so that
everybody He saves, they'll be justified in Christ and they'll
give Christ all the glory. They'll praise God for His grace
and Christ for His grace. The grace of our Lord Jesus was
with us then because when the Father chose us in Christ, Christ
entered covenant with the Father to save His people. Right then. He became our surety in the covenant
and eternity. It's Christ Himself. It's Christ
Himself entering that covenant. to be the surety for His people
to do everything for us that makes it the everlasting covenant
of grace. That's what makes it a covenant
of grace. God chose us by grace, Christ became our surety by grace,
and Christ would do everything that was the Father's will all
by grace. We didn't earn a thing in it.
Not a thing in it. God, at that time, He predestinated
us to the adoption of children by Jesus Christ, by Christ doing
all the work to make us His children, to bring us to Himself as His
children, to the praise of the glory of His grace. And so, the
Father made His will known and Christ said, I'll work your will. We've looked different places
in the Scripture to see God's will, but here's a place that
tells you what God's will was that Christ came to accomplish.
Ezekiel 37, 26. He said, I will make a covenant
of peace with them. Christ entered the covenant with
the Father to do this for the Father to His people. This is
the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ with us in eternity. This is
what He promised the Father he would do. I'll make a covenant
of peace with them. It shall be an everlasting covenant
with them. I will place them and multiply
them and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them forevermore.
My tabernacle also shall be with them. Yea, I will be their God,
and they shall be my people. And the heathen shall know that
I, the Lord, do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in
the midst of them forevermore." Christ is that holy place. He
is that sanctuary. He's that tabernacle not made
with hands that He brings us into and in whom we're built
up and protected and kept all our days. You see, the grace
of our Lord Jesus Christ has been with us from before time. What is it? Paul's given a lot
of practical instruction in this Philippian letter. He began the
same way he's ending. He began praying grace and peace
be unto you from God our Father and from our Lord Jesus Christ.
But Paul had confidence. He said, I have confidence that
He that began a good work in you will perform it to the day
of Jesus Christ. How are you going to have that
confidence? Where's that confidence come from and what is that confidence? It's the grace of our Lord Jesus
Christ being with you. He gives that confidence by grace
and He is the confidence of grace. Paul said that he prayed that
their love would abound more and more, and knowledge and all
judgment, that they would approve things that are excellent. Where
are you going to get knowledge? And where are you going to get
judgment? And where are you going to be
given the wisdom to approve things that are excellent according
to God? It's going to be by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ
being with you. And what assures God's child
that our Lord will never fail and His grace will never fail
is that even before He made anything, this is where it all started. With the grace of our Lord Jesus
Christ being with us in eternity, as the surety promising the Father,
He would work it all. He would work it all. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ
was with His people when the Son of God came down and took
flesh for the purpose of laying down His life for us. Go with
me to 2 Corinthians chapter 8. 2 Corinthians 8. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ
was with His people when the Son of God came down and took
flesh for the purpose of laying down His life under the justice
of God in place of His people. Verse 9, 2 Corinthians 8, 9.
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. You know the
grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet
for your sakes He became poor, that you through His poverty
might be rich. Why is Paul telling them this?
He's thanking the Macedonian brethren for their generosity
in giving to their wealthier Corinthian brethren. through
which God stirred up the Corinthian brethren and made them want to
follow the example of the Macedonian brethren. Our motivation for
everything we do as God's saints, our motivation for everything
we do is this gospel message of the grace of our Lord Jesus
Christ that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became
poor that through His poverty you might be made rich. He's
the constraint, He's the motivation. Our Lord Jesus was rich. He created
everything and owned everything. He said in Psalm 50 and verse
10, every beast of the forest is mine. You don't talk about
somebody that had a, you know, rich folks will get these super,
super wealthy. Andrew Carnegie and all these
men of the past, they get really wealthy and they create them
a zoo. and have a zoo. Put their name on it, you know.
Talk about a zoo. Our Lord had a zoo. He said,
all the beasts of the field are mine. I made them all. They are
all mine. He said, and the cattle upon
a thousand hills. You want to talk about the preeminent
rancher that has all the cattle? It's our Lord Jesus. I know all
the fowls of the mountains and wild beasts of the fields are
mine. If I were hungry, I wouldn't tell you. That's what he said,
if I was hungry, I wouldn't tell you. For the world is mine and
the fullness thereof. Rich, he had need of nothing. And yet though he was rich, for
the sake of his people, who he loved from everlasting, he became
poor. in order to make us rich. Talk about the grace of our Lord
Jesus Christ. Do you know the grace of our
Lord Jesus Christ? Though He was rich, yet for your
sakes He became poor, that you through His poverty might be
made rich. The One who made woman was made of a woman. The One
who owned all things, made all things, owned all things had
not where to lay His head. He never owned a piece of ground
while He walked this earth. He became poised on the cross. The Holy One of Israel gave His
own body to bear our sin and to bear our curse that God might
be just and justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. I know
I preach this every time I preach. I pray God lets me preach this
every time I preach till the last time I preach. I was thinking
last night, wouldn't it be amazing, I thought, if the Lord gave me
the ear of some man that this world considers to be super wealthy
and super wise. And for some reason, Elon Musk
came to my mind. And I was thinking, if I had
an opportunity to talk to him, I know what he's going to say.
I know what he's going to say, because it's what all men say.
He's read all the philosophy books, he's read all the religions
in the world, he has. I've read where he's read up
on all of them, I've heard him talk about it. And this is what
he'll ask, how do you know that your religion is true? What is the truth? That's what
all men ask. How do you know yours is the
truth? The gospel of God's grace in
Christ is the only message, it is the only message in the world
where grace and truth meet in harmony. No other message in
this world among any religion in this world does what this
book does, what this gospel does. None other. And that's the truth. This is the truth. how God could
make mercy and truth meet in harmony, righteousness and grace,
justice and mercy, how He could make them meet in harmony. That's
the truth and that truth is Christ and that truth is in Christ and
by Christ. The law was given by Moses but
grace and truth, grace and truth, mercy and truth, righteousness
And free mercy and free justification came by Christ. Grace and truth
came by Christ Jesus. Christ is the truth. That's what
he meant when he said, I'm the way. I'm the truth. I'm the life. That's what he
was saying. The truth is God's righteousness. how God is both
gracious and righteous. The truth is how God is both
just, a just God and a Savior. No other religion ever solved
this dilemma. Remember Darius' dilemma? Remember King Darius' dilemma? Daniel 6, I'm going to briefly
touch on this, but I want you to see Daniel 6. Here was his
dilemma. Those counselors of his, they
were some deceitful politicians, and they come to him. He loved
Daniel and they wanted to kill Daniel. So they came to him and
they tricked him into signing a law that nobody could pray
to any other but him and his God for 30 days. And they came
and they said, Daniel 6 and verse 8, they said, They assembled together to the king
and they said, ìKing Darius, live forevermore. And they come
to him and they said, all the presidents of the kingdom, the
governors, the princes, the counselors, the captains have consulted together
to establish a royal statute, make a firm decree that whosoever
shall ask a petition of any god or man for 30 days, slave of
thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions. Now old
King established the decree and signed the writing that it be
not changed according to the law of the Medes and Persians
which altereth not. Wherefore King Darius signed
the writing and the decree. That sounded good to Darius.
puffed him up a little bit probably and he signed this decree but
the law of the Medes and Persians, this was their grand thing, the
law of the Medes and Persians could not be altered, could not
be changed. So he signed it and then they
caught Daniel praying to God because they knew what he would
And they brought Daniel to King Darius, and they reminded him
down there in verse 12. Then they came near and spake
before the king concerning the king's decree. Hast thou not
signed a decree that every man that shall ask a petition of
any god or man within thirty days, save of thee, O king, shall
be cast into the den of lions? The king answered and said, The
thing is true according to the laws of the Medes and Persians,
which altereth not. And then they told him, Well,
Daniel broke your law. The one he liked and loved, Daniel. They said, Daniel broke your
law. Verse 15, Then these men assembled unto the king and said
to the king, No, O king, yet the law of the Medes and Persians
is that no decree nor statute which the king establisheth may
be changed. And Darius walked the floor all
night long trying to figure out how, how can I uphold my law
and show mercy to this one I love? How can I do it? And he couldn't. And brethren, we can't either.
What does scripture mean when it says, let God be true and
every man a liar? At your most, you find the most
honest man there is in this world, the most honest man there is
in this world, compared to God who is truth, he is a bald-faced
liar. Every one of them. He don't tell
his children everything about him, he doesn't tell his wife
everything about him, he doesn't tell his neighbors everything
about him, and that's so of everybody that walks this earth. You mark
it down. Let God be true and every man
a liar. But God is true. And he has provided the truth.
He has provided his own son. And Daniel knew there's no way
I can uphold the truth and be merciful. And I can't be merciful
and uphold the truth. And you and me face that dilemma
every day. And if it's just up to us, we
cannot be merciful and be true. The fact of the matter is, We
can't establish the truth as God requires, because that would
be to establish righteousness. And we couldn't do that. We already
fell, we're already guilty, we couldn't do that ourselves. And
even as God's saints, because of the sin mixed with us, we
still can't do it ourselves. So Daniel sees, I don't have
the ability. This is where we got to be brought.
We got to be brought to see, we do not have the ability to
do what only Christ could do. And Daniel, when he, I mean,
it arrives when he put Daniel in that lion's den, look at what
he said to him. Verse 16, Then the king commanded, and they
brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. Now the
king spake and said unto Daniel, Thy God, whom thou service continually,
he will deliver thee. There's where we've got to be
brought. That's where we got to be brought
right there. The law was given by Moses, but grace and truth
came by one, Jesus Christ the Lord. God's law cannot be altered. His law changes not. God is holy. The Medes and Persians didn't
have a thing on God. God's law is perfect. He's holy. He knows no change whatsoever
and His law cannot be altered. The soul that sinneth must die. If you've ever sinned one time,
you're going to have to die. And I tell you, there ain't one
child of Adam that will not die under the justice of God. Every
single child of Adam will die under the justice of God. We
either died in Christ or we're going to face God and face that
justice on our own. but everybody is going to die.
The law of God cannot be altered, it cannot be changed, it will
be poured out to the fullest. And yet each elect child who
God our Father chose, He loved, just like Tarius loved Daniel.
He loved them. And it was His will to have mercy
on them and save us. How then can God Do both. How can He be just and how can
He save us? Grace and truth came by Jesus
Christ. Grace and truth came only by
Jesus Christ. Christ Jesus is the only one
and it's only by Him taking the place of His people. Only by
Him. It's only by Him bearing the
sin, all the sin, every sin of all God's elect people. It's by Him bearing it. It's
so that God is just now to view this one person as the only one
worthy of justice because He's bearing the sin of His people.
He wasn't looking at you. He wasn't looking at me to establish
truth. Because we're not the God-man.
And if He poured out justice on us, if we meet God without
believing Christ and we go to hell and suffer the wrath of
God for eternity, we'll never satisfy His justice. It'll be
poured out for eternity. But that One who is God and man,
everything He did as a man is eternal because He's God. And
it's only by Him bearing the sin of His people and going under
that fierce fury of God's wrath to declare that God is absolutely,
thoroughly just, thoroughly righteous, His law will never be altered.
And at the same time, only in Christ our substitute has God
justified His people from all our sin so that God now is a
just God and a Savior. That's what it means when it
says grace and truth came by Jesus Christ, the only one. Mercy and truth are met together. Righteousness and peace have
kissed each other in harmony. Oh, I pray that if I had the
ear of the wealthiest man who this world regards as the wisest
and he was willing to listen and ask me, what makes your religion
different than all the philosophies and all the religions I've studied?
What makes yours different? That's what I'd tell him. Because
that's the difference, brethren. separates the gospel of God from
every vain religion in this world. This is what I would tell all
other religions are of man and fallen sinners do not have the
wisdom to figure out how to make justice and mercy meet in harmony.
You know what every religion does in this world? It exalts
the sinner. Every one of them. This is the
only religion in the world that tells you and me, you can't save
yourself and exalts God. Man won't come up with that religion.
You know why? Because man is not going to humble himself in
the pit like that and say, there's nothing I can do to save myself.
But that's the message of God. You know the grace of our Lord
Jesus Christ that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became
poor that you through His poverty might be made rich. Apostle Paul
in his Philippian letter, he told us, he said, know that when
you suffer trials, he said, know that it's going to work out.
God's working it out for your good. What's going to make us
know that? when the grace of our Lord Jesus
Christ was with you, and you behold that Christ on Calvary's
cross, being rejected of the rulers and religion and all men,
was only doing what God determined before to be done. If He was
doing that and accomplishing that, whatever you're suffering,
God's going to work it out for the good of His child. What Paul
said, for me to live is Christ and to die is gain. What's going
to give you that heart to say to me to live? I want to live
for Christ. I want to spend and be spent
for Christ. I want to give myself to His
gospel and His people and I want to live for Him. And if I die,
I'll be happy. It's gain. What's going to make
you know that? The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ will be showing
you what Christ accomplished at Calvary for you. What's going
to make us, brethren? Paul said in chapter 2, be of
the same mind. Let nothing be done through strife
or vainglory, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem the other
better than themselves. What's going to make you do that?
It's this good news of knowing. My brother is perfectly righteous
in Christ. I don't care what he does. He's
perfectly righteous in Christ. Christ put his sin away. God
justified him. Christ is interceding for him.
He's perfect. I am perfectly just to be merciful
to him. That's the only way we can be
merciful and it not be at the expense of justice. Because justice
has already been poured out on him in Christ. So I can be merciful
to him. And at the same time know, as
Paul said, it's God in you, it's God in your midst who's working
it out and doing His good will and His pleasure. So you can
do all things without murmuring in the Spirit. You just hush
up and trust the Lord. And know the grace of the Lord
Jesus Christ with His people. It's because of seeing what He
accomplished. In whom we have redemption through His blood,
the forgiveness of sin according to the riches of His grace. The grace of our Lord Jesus be
with you. Paul called it the exceeding
riches of His grace and His kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
justified freely by His grace through the redemption that's
in Christ Jesus. What's going to bring us to praise
the Lord and not want any of the glory and never go around
boasting that we're better than somebody or we did this or we
did that? What's going to stop you from
that? What's going to mortify that pride in us? What's going
to make us to worship God in spirit, rejoice in Christ Jesus
and have no confidence in the flesh? It's the grace of our Lord Jesus
Christ being with you to remind you God did all this to the praise
of the glory of His grace wherein He hath made us accepted in the
Beloved. Alright, when we think of grace,
when we think of the grace of our Lord Jesus, brethren, we
can't put a price on the value of God justly saying to us, I,
even I, am He that blotteth out thy transgression for mine own
sake and will not remember thy sin. You can't put a price on
that. That's why Paul over and over calls us the riches of His
grace in Christ Jesus. Now lastly, the grace of our
Lord Jesus was with us when He called us by His grace and gave
us faith to rest in Him. The same grace that made Him
come and lay down His life for us, made Him enter into suretyship
from eternity, made Him come and lay down His life for us
and justify His people, that same grace made it so He protected
your mama and your daddy so you'd be born the first time. That
same grace covered you in His hand and protected you when you
was a lost sheep and didn't even know Him. And that same grace
sent the gospel to you and gave you a new heart through the Spirit
of God. Peter said, Who by Him do believe in God? We believe
in God by Christ Jesus. that raised him from the dead
and gave him glory, that your faith and hope might be in God,
who by Him believe in God. He said in Romans 5 too, by Christ
also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand
and rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. He gave you this
access. When we were dead in sins, He
quickened us together with Christ, by grace are you saved. The grace
of our Lord Jesus Christ was with us. He sent the gospel to
us. For by grace are you saved through faith. That's not of
yourselves, it's the gift of God. Not of works lest any man
should boast. We're His workmanship created
in who? In Christ Jesus. Two good works
which God had before ordained we should walk on. Before the
world was made, God ordained that everyone of His elect would
repent, they would believe Christ, they would walk by faith, they
would be constrained and motivated by the love of Christ only, and
they would do so all the way to the end. And so Christ Jesus
came and He works it in His people. He comes and works. Every gift
of grace is given us by Christ Jesus. Every gift. He said in
Ephesians 4, 7, unto every one of us is given grace according
to the measure of the gift of Christ. He doesn't give everybody
the same measure, but every measure He gives is all His gift. And
it's the gift of the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. Of His
fullness have all we received and grace for grace. And this is the truth. Paul said
there, he said, my brethren, he said, forget the things that
are behind and reach forward, pressing toward the high calling
of God in Christ Jesus. And he said, and trust that whatever
needs to be revealed, Christ will reveal it to you, brethren.
What's going to make us do that? When real bad things happen and
trouble comes and we're cast down and sorrowful, as Paul said,
rejoice in the Lord always. What's going to make us do that?
What's going to make us be not anxious and let our patience
be known, knowing the Lord's at hand? What's going to make
us think on the good things that He's accomplished for us and
in our brethren and is doing for us? What's going to make
us think on these things? The Lord said, if by one man's offense
death reigned by one, was Adam successful in making you die?
Was Adam successful in making you love nothing but sin? Well,
He said much more. They which receive abundance
of grace and the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus
Christ. It's going to be the grace of
our Lord Jesus Christ being with you. Paul had that thorn in the
flesh. What did Christ tell him? My
grace is sufficient for you. He said, My strength is made
perfect in weakness. Most gladly, therefore, I'll
rather glory in my weakness, that the power of Christ may
rest upon me. Paul tells us that he's in prison
and he says, But my God shall supply all your need according
to the riches of His glory by Christ Jesus. That's what our
Lord told Paul. He's telling Paul, my grace is
sufficient for you, Paul. I'm going to supply all your
need. I'm showing you you are absolutely, thoroughly, totally
weak and cannot do one thing without me. Why? To show you
that by me you can do all things. That's what Christ said. That's
what He said there in Philippians 4. He said, through Him I can
do all things. Being strengthened by Christ,
I can do all things. That's the grace of our Lord
Jesus Christ with us. And be sure to get this now.
Paul told the Galatians, he said, Brethren, the grace of our Lord
Jesus Christ be with your spirit. This is where we're talking about.
We're talking about in the Spirit. We're talking about in the new
man. Our religion is spiritual. We're talking about Christ speaking
in the heart through the Spirit of God into that new man. He's
made and strengthened you inwardly in the new man. The old man's
going to die day by day, but the new man's going to be renewed
day by day. And the God of peace will brew
Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ
be with you until then, Paul said. You know how the Bible
ends? Anybody here know what the last
verse of the Bible is? Revelation 22, 21, the grace
of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen. That's the last
verse. And what I'm trying to show you
is from before time, until there is time no more, through all
that space of time, it has been the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ
with us, and it shall be the grace of our Lord Jesus with
us, by which we shall be saved. That's who everybody is saved.
And go to Revelation 4, we'll end with this. This will be the
end. When our life ends, and we're going to awaken it in glory
face to face with our Savior. We're going to praise Him alone
and we're going to praise Him for His grace. Look here in Revelation
4 and verse 10. The four and twenty elders fall
down before Him and sit on the throne and worship Him that liveth
forever and ever. They worship Him. And they cast
their crowns before the throne saying, Thou art worthy, O Lord,
to receive glory and honor and power, for Thou hast created
all things, and for Thy pleasure they are and were created. Drop
down to 5-5. He says, And one of the elders
said to me, Weep not, He said, Behold, the Lion of the tribe
of Judah, the root of David, hath prevailed to open the book
and loose the seven seals. And I beheld in the midst of
the throne and the four beasts, in the midst of the elders, stood
a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven eyes and seven horns,
all-powerful, all-knowing, seven spirits of God sent forth into
the earth. And He came and He took the book. Verse 9 says,
And they fell down before Him, And they sung this song, thou
art worthy to take the book and open the seals there for thou
was slain as they redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every
kindred, tongue, people and nation has made us unto our God kings
and priests and we'll reign on the earth. And he says there,
and beheld, I heard. Now look, is anybody going to
be left out from giving him all the praise for his grace? He
said, I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels reign about
the throne, and the beasts, and the elders, and the number of
them was 10,000 times 10,000, and thousands of thousands. And
all were said with a loud voice, worthy is the lamb that was slain
to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and
honor, and glory, and blessing. And every creature which is in
heaven, and on earth, and under the earth, and such are in the
sea. And all that are in them heard I saying, Blessing and
honor and glory and power be unto him that sitteth upon the
throne and unto the Lamb forever and ever." Everybody is going
to be praising Him for salvation by grace. That new heaven and
new earth is going to be a place where Christ gets all the glory,
brethren. And I pray He'll grant each of us by His grace to know
He is abiding, unchanging, continual, ever-present grace with us. Make
us know it. Make us know it. When you get
to that point when your body won't hold up, and you have no
pleasure, and the windows are darkened, and you read Ecclesiastes
12, when all those things come about, and your body's crooked
and bent, and you can't see, and your grinders cease, your
teeth are gone, and just the body is worn down to nothing,
the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. And that's what'll
be your comfort in that day, and He'll make you come in His
presence. Saved by grace. Let's go to Him. Father, we thank You for this
Word. Lord, pray that you'd make us to value your grace, value
what you've done for us, and make us depend upon nothing else
but the grace of our Lord Jesus. Sustain us by your grace, strengthen
us by your grace. Lord, keep us rejoicing in grace,
grace, grace. Help us now, Lord, as we observe
your table and remember your broken body and shed blood. In
Christ's name, amen. All right, Brother Adam. Bill,
you helped him.