in complete dependence upon our
Lord to help us that He may grant application of His Holy Word
to the profit of our souls and strengthening for life's pathway. I would ask your prayerful attention
by way of a text to the chapter we read in Paul's epistle to
the Philippians chapter 4 and in particular verse 19 Philippians chapter 4 and verse
19 but my God shall supply all your need according to his riches
in glory by Christ Jesus but my God shall supply all your
need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus these words here to the church
at Philippi are not vain words we do read in the scripture of
the vain words of false prophets at the time when Judah was surrounded
by the Chaldeans and Nebuchadnezzar was ready
to destroy that city there was many a false prophet that declared
peace where there was no peace they spoke those words which
the people wanted to hear that there would be deliverance from
the power of the enemy but they were founded on nothing
but their own desire and to please the ears of an afflicted people Dear friends, that's certainly
not the case here. These are the words of the Apostle
Paul. As we read at the beginning,
and of many of his epistles, Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ,
by the will of God. and therefore dear friends his
words which he spoke were in the spirit of God and they were
and still are words of truth but my God shall supply all your
need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus what a will it was of God to
bring Saul of Tarsus to be such an apostle. One who had a zeal for God, going
about to establish his own righteousness, satisfied with his own endeavours,
considering he was concerning the law blameless. ignorant of nature's darkness
concerning the people of Christ, the believers of Christ he was
murderer, injurious he did it ignorantly but he believed
he was doing it to the honor and glory of God oh what darkness,
what darkness of unbelief What power of Satan ruled his heart? You know, dear friends, the broad
way is very broad, isn't it? Perhaps we think of the broad
way of the ways of the murderers and of the drunkards and of those
who commit adultery and so forth. You know, the broad way can be
a religious way. A religious way. of one's own
endeavours one's own manner of life a keeping legally to the law
but knowing nothing of the grace of God knowing nothing of the
forgiveness of our sins knowing nothing of being brought out
of darkness into the knowledge of the glory of God in the face
of Jesus Christ now that was the calling wasn't it of Saul
of Tarsus it was the Lord's work it was the Lord's calling it
was the Lord's revelation a time came that changed his heart a time
came when his will, his heart and mind was completely
changed and he came to know this Jesus crucified as the way of
the salvation of his soul and so he testifies, doesn't
he, by the grace of God I am what I am Oh dear friends, how many of
us here this afternoon can say assuredly the same thing. Tasted
of the grace of God. Changed our hearts. Or we may
have been brought up, yes, to attend the house of God all our
days. Kept from many an evil way. Attending or to the prayer meetings
and so on and so forth but it's only been a custom and a practice.
Oh dear friends, you'll know when you have a change of heart,
don't you? You know when the Word of God comes in power in
the Holy Ghost and in much assurance and you're convinced of your
sin and you're drawn irresistibly or to look on to Christ pouring
out your heart before Him God be merciful to me a sinner it's not your own work is it? it's the time appointed by the
sovereignty of the grace of God to His elect, His elect all this Paul, this Apostle Paul
was a vessel of the Lord's mercy part of the election of grace
one of those whom the Father in the full knowledge gave on
to Christ to pay the price for his sin and that became his strength
in that also life as the Apostle Paul
was never the same again the Lord Jesus spoke to Ananias that
he would show Paul what he must suffer for Christ's sake what
he must suffer for Christ's sake and from that time forward Paul's
way wasn't his own way as it had been before Paul's way was
the Lord's way and dear friends that way was
a way of dependence upon the grace of God it was a way of
dependence upon the Lord to supply his need it wasn't a way of earthly
prosperity it wasn't a way of all goodness in material things
being given to him you could say it was the contrary We don't read of everything,
do we? Of what happened to the Apostle Paul after he was called
and began the ministry of the gospel to others. But we read
in his epistle to the Corinthians, that second epistle, the end
of chapter 11, he said, thrice was I beaten and withdrawn. Five
times he received those 39 stripes on his back. Once he was stoned,
they thought he was dead, didn't they? Three times he suffered
shipwreck, and that was before, when he wrote this, it was before
he was going to Rome. Night and a day he'd been in
the deep, in journeyings often, in perils of waters, perils of
robbers, perils of his own countrymen. perils in the city, perils in
the wilderness, in the sea, amongst false brethren, weary, painful,
watching often, hungry, thirsty, fastings often in cold, in nakedness. Dear friends, you know there's
many who would say, well if that was a God of love, I don't want
him to be my God. but through the grace of God.
Compelled, constrained to walk in love to Christ as Christ had
loved him and delivered him from the pit of corruption. Oh he
says here doesn't he in this epistle to the Philippians I
have learned in whatsoever state I am therewith to be content You know, that's not the spirit
of Saul of Tarsus, is it? He was content with his high
esteem and his riches and the glory he had as a faithful Pharisee
and having power to commit men and women unto prison and because
they did not walk in the ways of the Jewish faith as taught
by the scribes and the Pharisees That was Saul of Tarsus' way.
That was the way he was condemned. But now, what does he say in
the previous chapter? Those things that were gained
to me, I now count but done, that I might win Christ. Christ
was first, Christ was foremost. Christ was His all in all, as
the Song of Solomon says, the cheapest among ten thousand.
the altogether lovely one and as long as he knew he was in
the presence and under the grace of God and Christ he was content
I know both how to be abased I know how to abound everywhere
and in all things I'm instructed both to be full and to be hungry
both to abound and to suffer me I can do all things through
Christ which strengtheneth me. What a testimony! Dear friends, Paul's God is our
God, a never-changing God. And those, dear friends, who
are called by grace into the knowledge of the sin-atoning
blood of Christ, as our way of salvation, our hope of eternal
life. Our contentment lies in the same
place, doesn't it? The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ. When Paul was tempted by that
messenger of Satan to buffet him, he prayed three times for
the Lord to take it away, it was so severe. Oh, dear friend,
you know, if it was a messenger of Satan, it would be a lying
spirit, wouldn't it? Perhaps tempting Saul, that was
Paul, that because he had been Saul of Tarsus, oh, we could
never really be fully forgiven. Are you tempted sometimes, that
your sins, oh, will always blot you out of a hope of eternal
life? The sins of your youth, Oh, David
prayed, didn't he? Lord, remember not the sins of
my youth. What are our sins? How great
is our iniquity. And a lying spirit, dear friends,
can be a great trial of our faith. To say we're far greater sinner
than the Lord would have mercy upon. But the answer to Paul's prayer
was, My grace is sufficient for thee. Where sin abounds, His
grace doth much more abound. Oh, what a precious truth that
is! Dear friends, is it precious to you? There's nothing else we can depend
upon, is there? But this grace of the Lord Jesus
Christ for one to be able to say, for ye know the grace of
the Lord Jesus Christ that though he was rich for your sake, for
my sake he became poor that ye, that I by his poverty might be
made rich, redeemed, purchased, called into the knowledge of
the liberty of the sons of God with a glorious hope of eternal
life. Oh dear friends, such is the
blessing that is imparted to sinners through the knowledge
of Jesus Christ by the Holy Ghost. We've got no other hope, no other
way have we of salvation You know, the case of Job has
been very much with me of late. Was anyone so tried and came
into such trouble as Job? He lived, didn't he? Very early
on, so it's said. Even perhaps before the days
of Abraham. He lost, taken from him all his
possessions. He was rich. He lost his beloved
children. He lost his health and strength. All under the permitted hand
of God. Tempted by his wife to curse
God and die. Judged incorrectly, wrongly by
his friends. He said his kinsmen forsook him,
his own family. His breath was strange to his
wife. His servants took no more notice
of him. Children rose up and mocked him.
And concerning his prayers, oh that I knew where I might find
him. He'd even lost that access in prayer unto God. What upheld him? What strengthened
him? What caused him not to sink into
despair? I know that my Redeemer liveth. You know, dear friends, Job knew
then he was a sinner, otherwise he would not know a Redeemer,
would he? Job knew what it was to have his sins as one born
in sin, shapen in iniquity as all the sons of Adam are. He
knew what it was to know the saving grace of God through the
gift of his son. For Job said concerning his Redeemer
who shall stand upon this earth in the latter days. He knew what
it was to look by faith to the work of Christ. who alone could
save him from his sins and that was revealed in his heart by
the Holy Ghost the precious grace of faith I know that my Redeemer
liveth and whatever came upon him in this life he said it was
of the hand of God he performeth the thing that is appointed for
me and many such things are with me Oh, what a parallel there is,
isn't there, there with Paul, Saul of Tarsus, called by grace. Their foundation was the same
in the times of their troubles and in their solemn pathways.
Their Redeemer, their Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, what He
had done to cleanse them from all sin and deliver them from
the pit of corruption. to where they would be judged
in the day of judgment, if left to themselves. Now dear friends, this truth
remains the same today, doesn't it? Concerning the Lord's people,
those whom he hath called into the knowledge of his redeeming
love, my God shall supply all your needs, according to his
riches in glory by Christ Jesus what a love the Apostle Paul
had to this church at Philippi he knew like himself they were
the election of grace was he not specifically sent
to them We read, don't we, how Paul on
that first missionary journey went to Phrygia and into Galatia
and then the Spirit, the Lord, forbade him to preach the Word
in Asia. Dear friends, how mysterious
are the ways of God in His divine will and purpose. His ways are
past finding out, aren't they? He was to go and preach in Asia,
but not at that time. Or how Paul was led by the Spirit
of God. And when he sought to turn unto
Bithynia northwards, the Spirit forbade him. All he could do
was carry on westward, till he got as far as the sea coast at
Mycenae. At Troa, in Mycenae at Troa. And then there was that vision.
Come over to Macedonia and help us. Dear friends, did Paul object
to the leading of the Spirit of God within him? That revelation? No. He was constrained to go forth
in the way the Lord would have him go. there are times, don't
we, we need delivering from our own self-will our own reasoning
power, our own intellect or we need constantly to as a child
of God to commit our way unto Him that He will lead us in the
way that He will have us go isn't that how Jesus taught His
disciples to pray? Our Father who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be
done, in earth as it is in heaven. And dear friends, we often prove
His will and His ways are not our will and our ways, but they
are to be obeyed. Lord help us, help me, to walk
obediently before the Apostle Paul went over the
sea landing, was it Nicopolis, Neapolis and then went further
along the coast into Macedonia to Philippi you know we often
read when Paul went to a place, the first place he went into
was a synagogue of the Jews even though he'd been sent to preach
to the Gentiles but there was no synagogue at
Philippi and he went down to the riverside where prayer was
wont to be made and there the women that resorted there heard
the preaching of the gospel and for those the prayers the Lord
had heard for one to come amongst them and preach of the precious
riches of the truth in Jesus and we are not told directly
but all the Lord is a prayer hearing and answering God to
supply the needs of his people he was the need of this people
in Philippi and the Lord would supply it constraining his apostle
Paul to come and preach the unsearchable riches of Christ and there was
this one woman there but probably there was more but we are told
specifically of this business woman who came whose heart was
opened she received of the good things of the gospel and proclaimed
that gracious work within her soul and she was baptized there
and there was no delaying was there dear friends in these days
of the early churches when the Lord began a good work in her
soul they obeyed that which Christ
had ordained Oh, do think upon these things. And she was the
beginner of the church at Philippi. And we read the second member
was that rough jailer, that ungodly one. He would have been brought
up to be so aggressive against the prisoners. But through that
earthquake, and no doubt the prayers and the praises of Paul
and Silas, which he'd heard earlier that evening came and fell before
them when he knew they was yet all there what must I do to be
saved and Paul preached on to him the same preaching as he
preached on to Lydia and the other women and he and all his
household believed under the power of the Holy Spirit and
they were baptized and there was the formation of this church
at Philippi. The Lord's work. Oh, and what
a love, what a bond there was between Paul and this church
at Philippi. We can't really say, although
in one sense it was Paul's work. He was only the means in the
Lord's hand of calling these sinners by grace. it wasn't easy for this church
was it at Philippi Paul writing to them Paul says
for unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ not only to
believe on him but also to suffer for his sake to suffer for his
sake Dear friends, we're not promised
an easy, smooth pathway, are we? In this life. Jesus said,
in this world ye shall have tribulation, but be of good cheer. I have
overcome the world. And this is this overcoming,
isn't it? As we journey on through this life in this spiritual wilderness,
all surrounded with so many evils, in a sin-cursed world and the
evil of our own heart which is so much in league with the iniquity
and ungodliness that abounds my God
shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ
Jesus What need did this church at
Philippi now have? Hadn't the Lord supplied their
need in calling them by grace? Hadn't the Lord been merciful
to them? Was this now to be the end? No. They were to continue in suffering,
surrounded by those who would rise against them dear friends they needed to be
kept to be kept kept in the way of truth kept looking on to Jesus
the author and finisher of their faith kept from the evil kept
from falling oh our nature is very strong isn't it you know
we read in one at the end of one of the epistles where Paul
writes to those concerning those who were with
him in Rome remember he remarks about Lucas
and Demas my fellow labourers and then when he writes later
on to Timothy Demas hath left me, having loved this present
world." Oh, how solemn that is. You know,
dear friends, if these things are not a reality, they would
not be put in the Scriptures for our learning, and for our
concern, and for our observations, that we may be earnest in prayer,
praying unto the Lord that he will keep us from falling back
into the ways of iniquity. Now we know, we know that the
Lord's people, dear friends, will ever be kept. Perseverance of the saints. But dear friends, with that case
of Dinas, it appeared that he'd been caught by grace. but there
wasn't the fullness of the work within, was there? For he fell
away, having loved this present world. Oh, how sorrowful. Where there's a true work of
grace, where there's a true work, dear friends, of the teaching
of us by the Spirit that we are vile sinners, where there's that
work of growing brokenhearted, contrite, to pour out our heart
in humble confession before God and the receiving of the grace
of God that will be our keeper that will not let us fall like
Job, like Paul, like Peter, like John, like the others hope is
built on nothing less than Jesus' blood and His righteousness and
He is ever precious and when the temptations and the trials
of our faith come in oh dear friends how we are forced aren't
we compelled to that throne of grace pleading that precious
name of Jesus He, Her glorious High Priest who can be touched
with the feeling of our infirmity for He was tempted in all points
such as we are yet He without sin and through His name and
through that work, that saving work who offered Himself a sacrifice
for our sins we come boldly to the throne of grace to obtain
mercy and grace to help us in the time of need and that door
of His mercy is open all days, as the hymn writer put it. To
the poor and the needy, O knock by the way, my God, shall supply
all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. This spiritual supply of our
need, ever there I just mentioned Peter, haven't
I? Peter writes concerning the trials
of Athens. Peter writes, doesn't he, if
needs be. There are times of darkness,
manifold temptations, heaviness, for a season, if needs be. Now,
dear friends, that's a mystery, isn't it? Does the Lord permit
us to come into these trials of our faith through heaviness
and manifold temptations? Dear friends, these seasons are
of the Lord for the sanctifying of our souls, to growing grace
and the knowledge of our Lord, to strengthen faith. Oh, Peter
knew that season, didn't he? he was bold and of himself but
dear friends that boldness of his self had to come down to
nothing when he followed Jesus and went into the house of the
high priest and there amongst those unbelievers he was accused
oh he was comfortable warming himself by the fire just inquisitive
to what was going to happen to the Lord Jesus who'd been taken
but then they accused him, thou art one of his disciples thy
speech bereath thee did I not see thee in the garden with her?
I know not what thou sayest and he denied his Jesus with oaths
and curses this same Jesus of whom it said to whom else can
we go thou hast the words of eternal life and we know and
are sure that thou art the Christ the Son of the Living God What
faith? Now, in the trial of his faith,
denying his Lord with oaths and curses. Dear friends, I don't think we're
exempt from falling into such a terrible thing in the trial
of our faith. Oh, our body, we still have it.
Our hearts, by nature, we still have it. And we will seek first
of all to do what we think is best for our own earthly self,
don't we? And where is faith then? What upheld Peter when he'd sinned
and he wept bitterly? The Lord Jesus had said of Peter,
I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not. I have prayed
for thee that thy faith fail not. Oh remember that Peter remembered
the words of Jesus that before the cock crow he would deny him
thrice he wept bitterly but what else had Jesus said to him at
that time when thou art converted when thou art changed strengthen
the brethren there was to be a yet afterwards and nevertheless
afterwards Oh, what had Peter heard Jesus in John chapter 14
to John chapter 16. Oh, those lovely words. Yes,
ye now have sorrow, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy. And I've prayed for thee that
thy faith fail not. Dear friends, this is what upheld
Peter, you know. Judas Iscariot didn't have such
faith, did he? He didn't have any faith at all.
Not God given faith. Oh, how solemn! When he repented
and went back to the high priests, he never turned to Christ for
forgiveness. Peter, upheld through the grace
of the Lord Jesus Christ, came to see again all that mercy for
a sinner. The resurrection of Jesus Christ
His death, His resurrection, the wounds of Jesus He saw in
that upper room for His sins. There His joy, His sorrow, sorry,
was turned into joy. And dear friends, that's what
the Lord does, doesn't it, for all His tribe people. When we
sin, when we fail, when we come to a low state, He appears again
in mercy. He remembers us in our low state. He remembers that we are but
dust. For His mercy endureth forever. Oh, it's a sweet part of Psalm
136, isn't it? Remembers us in our lowest state.
This was the lowest state of Philippi. In all their troubles. Surrounded, no doubt, on belief
in their heart. Paul has to exhort them to be
humble, doesn't he? For the Spirit of Christ to rule
in them and so forth. But my God shall supply all your
need. He that hath begun a good work
in you, he says to them he will perform it unto the day of Jesus
Christ. Unto him that will not let you
fall. out of sight of that covenant
of His grace. Dear friends, to Him be all the
glory. My God shall supply all your needs, spiritual, according
to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. And then it's practical,
isn't it, as well? Providential, as we might say.
My God shall supply all your needs. when Jesus was upon the earth
preaching on the mount he spoke to the people concerning
their lusts and their desires he spoke of the Gentiles, the
unbelievers as that really means there as they love the things
of what they're going to eat and what they're going to drink
the essential things of our earthly life Jesus said unto them, seek
ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these
things shall be added unto you the Lord knoweth what ye have
need of yes even before we ask Dear friends, what a gracious
God supplies our need Paul says in his poverty having food and
raiment let us therewith be content we might desire many many more
things than just food and raiment but those are the essential things
aren't they for our earthly life and godliness with contentment is great gain
because Christ is all the glory far above all earthly things
but he will supply our needs he won't let you be tempted above
what you're able to bear, no these at Philippi obviously had
finances which they needed for their daily life and they gave
of that finance to the Apostle Paul to help him in his daily
need different than Lord supplies our needs, doesn't he? I can give you a true witness
of this the Lord exercised me regarding
the ministry I was very rebellious that wasn't my way and I fought
against that I couldn't deny the exercise
was there and it was of the Lord but I made a vow I said, Lord,
if thou will do such a thing, and it was a church matter, then
I will go. I thought I can hide behind that.
Of course, the Lord won't do that. But he did do that. A couple of years later, that
which I'd said came to pass. And I still didn't go. And the Lord made me redundant.
I knew why he'd made me redundant. It was coming to pass six months
time from I was told I would be redundant. I had five children,
two at university, three at school. We had a mortgage. Whatever was
going to take place. Before that redundancy came,
dear friends, the Lord of Word returned to me in power. The minister read John chapter
21 where the disciples after the resurrection of Christ were
on the ship they toiled all night they caught nothing I just before
the service been reading Luke chapter 5 where Jesus had said
to Peter launch into the deep and let down thy net for a draft
and Peter said we toiled all night and caught nothing nevertheless
at thy word we will let down the net and he caught that multitude
and here it was again Children, have ye any meat? No. Let down thy net on the right
side of the ship, and they shall find. Oh, it came to me in such
power I got to obey the Word of God. He would provide. He would provide. I had to go
forward on the strength of that. The deacon arranged the meeting
for me to preach before the church. And he said, Graham, he said,
the only time I can get everyone together and the ministers you've
asked for is the last Friday of September. I said, John, do
you know what that day is? That's the day I'm made redundant.
These things don't happen by chance. But when I went into
the ministry, yes, there was some redundancy money. We tried
to use it wisely. I said to my dear wife, I said,
we're all right for three months. If I haven't got another job
then, we're going to have to be very, very tight. I don't
know what we shall do. If I haven't got a job after
six months, I don't know what we have to sell the house. I
don't know how we're going to provide for things. Dear friends,
I was out of work for 12 months, and the bank balance never went
into the red. My God shall supply all your
need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. Dear
friends, it came to me so sweetly if we are constrained and have
to be by the power of God made willing in the day of His power
if we walk in the way the Lord would have us go He will provide,
He will provide. My God shall provide all your
need according to his riches in glory by Christ. What happened
after that one year when the Lord provided work for me? So
many bills were coming in at that time. Oh, there was the
car insurance, there was the home insurance, there was the
new fees for the university and so on and so forth. The need
was provided and he had all the glory. That's why he gives us
the trials of our faith, doesn't he? even in providential things
that when we come through we cry unto Him in the day of our
trouble He delivers us and then we glorify Him my God shall supply
all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus oh dear friend what is it with
you? have you got your own accounts to tell? of the Lord's mercy
and grace, kindness unto you in the supply of all your need,
spiritual and providential. Oh, this God is our God. He will
be our guide even unto death, kept, kept by the power of God
through faith unto salvation. ready to be revealed in that
last time. There is no other way. I am the
way, says Christ, the truth and the life. No man cometh unto
the Father but by me. And we prove it, don't we? His
people have to prove this complete dependence spiritually and providentially
on the grace of God through His Son, Jesus Christ. Dear friends, it's not only personal,
is it? It is also collective. All we
think of are churches. We're living in solemn days,
aren't we? But you know the Lord will yet supply our need, where
we gather ourselves together, determined to know nothing amongst
us, save Jesus Christ and Him crucified. It's not the bringing
in of all the entertainments to try and attract people into
the house of God. All the things which all might
entice and encourage and be pleasing and it becomes a very social
gospel and a social gathering. Dear friends, the Lord won't
supply all your need there. You're supplying to supply your
own need. And that won't prevail. Some of you know I was brought
up in the Methodist church. My grandfather was quite a faithful
one. He wouldn't have a youth club
or anything like that. But when he passed away, another
element came in. An element which is of the social
aspects of this life. You walk past that Methodist
chapel today as it was, it's now a mosque. the need wasn't supplied there
wasn't the glory given to God as it should be oh dear friends
let us endeavor to be determined to know nothing amongst us save
Jesus Christ and him crucified and he will supply the need it
doesn't mean to say a great number of people for where two or three
are gathered together in his name there he is in the midst
to grant the blessing of His saving grace unto those souls,
that He may have all the glory, all collectively in our churches.
May we prove the Lord is in our midst, and then nationally. Oh, what a solemn day we live
in today. We wonder if the days may come
where we read of Philippi and others, these persecutions. There's many who would have it
so, isn't there? Oh, how we earnestly pray the Lord deliver us from
the ungodly. The Lord will give wisdom to
our Parliament. Dear friends, we must pray for
them. That God, in His grace and love and mercy, will turn
away from deserved judgment and maintain within us, in our nation,
the freedom of worship. our protestant liberties that
he may yet be the God of this our nation and the young people
and the children growing up will always have the freedom and the
liberty that we who are older have enjoyed all our days and that they can rejoice in
Christ their Saviour oh dear friends what a need we
have today a great need, dependence upon a faithful God. My God shall supply all your
need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. Well, this is an anniversary
service of the church here in Portsmouth. May the Lord ever be merciful
to you, look down upon you and may you prove the power the truth,
the application of this Word. He that hath helped you hitherto
shall help you all your journey through providentially, personally
and collectively. My God shall supply all your
needs according to His riches in glory and by Christ Jesus. And so dear friends to each of
us personally you younger ones oh there's no better place to
come is there than in prayer pleading the Lord will supply
your need guide you and help you in the pathway of life none
of us know what is before us do we but we know one thing that
is before us dear friends and that's the end of life we've
all been born we've experienced that None of us here this afternoon
have experienced the end of life. What shall we need then? The saving grace of the Lord
Jesus Christ. Oh, that when we stand before
the Father's face, the sentence is this. Thou art all fair, my
love, there is no spot in thee. Come, thou blessed of the Father,
enter thou into the joy of thy Lord." That's through all the
riches in glory, isn't it? By Christ Jesus, who has gone
to prepare a place for his people. And if he's gone to prepare a
place, he will come again to receive them unto himself, and
there end his everlasting peace. A sweet and glorious gospel of
Jesus Christ. my God, your God, shall supply
all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. Amen.