All right, if you take your Bibles
and turn with me back to 2 Corinthians. 2 Corinthians chapter 12. 2 Corinthians chapter 12. The title of my message is, The All-Sufficient
Grace of Christ. the all-sufficient grace of Christ. The apostle, beginning in verse
7, says, lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance
of the revelations that were given to me, there was given
to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I
should be exalted above measure. For this thing I besought the
Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. But He said unto me,
My grace is sufficient for thee, for my strength is made perfect
in weakness. Most gladly, therefore, will
I rather glory Instead of the abundance of the revelations,
instead of glorying in the abundance of gifts that he had been given,
he said this, I'd rather glory in my infirmities for this reason,
that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Now this morning
I want to bring you a message from this text concerning the
thorn in the flesh. The thorn in the flesh that was
given to the apostle Paul Then we are going to look at the answer
of Christ, and we're going to look at the response of the Apostle
Paul. Now, it's always my harsh desire
to speak to every believer in Christ this morning. I'm called
to preach to God's people. And I know this, some of God's
people are lost, but they're God's people, aren't they? I
know this, that I'm preaching to those who He has called this
morning as well. And it's my desire that you be
comforted in the midst of your suffering, in the midst of your
afflictions and manifold temptations. My harsh desire is that God's
Word, God's Word would comfort you. And so I wish to divide my message
into three divisions. Three divisions. What is this
thorn in the flesh? And what's its purpose? What
is the thorn that was given to the Apostle Paul and why was
this thorn given to him? Second of all, I want us to see
the answer of Christ. The answer of Christ to this
thorn. And thirdly, I want us to see
the response of faith. What is the response of faith
to the Word of Christ in the midst of your affliction. So first, let's see these three
things this morning, and I pray by God's grace He reveals them
to us. First of all, what is this thorn? What is the thorn
in the flesh and what is its purpose? Now, the Apostle Paul
was given great grace. He was given great grace. He
was one as one born out of due season, wasn't he? They had all
those other apostles, the eleven who were with Christ, all of
His ministry. They saw Him crucified. They
saw Him risen from the dead. And He had already ascended up
into glory. And then comes the apostle Paul,
a blasphemer, a hater of the gospel of Jesus Christ, a persecutor
of the church. And what did Christ do for him?
He made him a minister of the gospel. He made him an apostle
of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles. Now, in our text, I don't want
to go back over this, but he's talking about a man that went
into the third heavens. He's talking about himself. He's
talking about himself. The apostle Paul was given such
graces that he was able, whether in the body or out, he said,
I don't know. I can't tell you God knows how it was. I just
know it happened. He went into heaven itself and
heard things it's not lawful for him to talk about. I don't
even want to think that I can imagine what great privilege
that was, that God allowed him to see these things that nobody
else had seen. You know what? Lazarus saw them,
but he was not even allowed to say he saw them. And the Apostle
Paul, he was given this. He didn't have to die to see
Him. Lazarus had to die. But the Apostle didn't. He ascended
to heaven. What grace God had given him. But because of these graces,
because of the privileges that he had been given of God, God
gave him this thorn. Look at this, verse 7. After
he described all these blessings, he said this, Lest I should be
exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelation
that it was given to me, a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of
Satan, to buffet me, to beat me, lest I should be exalted
above measure. Now some men speculate what this
thorn in the flesh is. Some say it's physical. Some
say it had to do with his eyesight or his speech. Some believe it
is internal. The afflictions that he had because
of his Persecution of the church. Can you imagine how painful that
would have been? To know that you had caused the
death of your brethren? You held the coat and consented
to the death of Stephen? This must have afflicted the
Apostle Paul. But whatever this thorn in the flesh was, it doesn't
matter. God does not reveal this to us
for a reason. And this, I believe, is so because
all believers may benefit from this. He doesn't reveal specifically
because whatever that thorn is, we too are given thorns in the
flesh by God. We too are given these thorns.
And so I want to ask you, you believer in Christ, are you suffering
in the flesh? Are you overcome with sickness? Are you afflicted by the pains
of this body? Are you brought to the dust of
death? That's a thorn in the flesh.
That's a thorn. It's painful. Are you suffering
from the thorn of depression or sadness of mind and despair? Is your conscience afflicted
because of the guilt of your sin? It's in these times. that like
Paul, this messenger of Satan buffets us. In these times of
weakness, the messenger of Satan comes in our grief, in our pain,
and it's then he accuses us and beats down our souls. This messenger
of Satan may be a man, he may be a devil, he may be Satan himself. His beating us is always the
same. It's always to accuse us, to cause doubt and fear. His message is simple, to remove
you from Christ. To set your eye on something
else for help. How often is He successful with
you? When the thorn of the flesh comes,
most of us do not go to Christ first. We always try to find
some other place. And this only breeds what? Doubt. It only breeds fear. In our affliction,
we are tempted to look to the flesh, or man, or religion, or
the law to find some comfort, some assurance. Is this your
case? Has God, by divine providence,
sent a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan? This question then comes to my
mind. Why? Can you not ask that question? Why? Why allow your people to
suffer with the thorns in the flesh? Why does God permit His
saints to suffer affliction? Well, look back at your text.
See what the apostle experienced. See why he received this thorn
in the flesh and you can understand why you and I received thorns
in the flesh. Look at this. Lest I should be
exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelation. There was a thorn given to me. The apostle tells us plainly
this reason. that he should not be exalted
above measure because of the revelation, because of what great
grace God had had on him. God gave him this thorn so that
he should not exalt himself. Believer in Christ, consider
the abundance of revelations that you have been given. Consider
the great grace that you have been given. the millions of people
today who have no understanding of the gospel of Christ, and
yet here you sit. You know Christ. You believe on Christ. What great
grace God has given you to reveal His gospel to you. Consider all the men and women
who are more noble More blessed, more wise in earthly things,
had more worldly influence than you. They were more zealous in religion
than you. And yet God saw fit to give you faith. So then we,
like Paul, have been blessed. We have been given great grace.
We have been chosen of God. Chosen of God. We have been loved
with an everlasting love. We have been redeemed by the
blood of Christ. We have been called by the Spirit
of God. And we have been kept by the
power of God through faith in Christ. We've been kept. Why
are you still here? You that believe, the one you
believed for a long time, why are you still here? You're still
here because of great grace. The same as all of us. We have
this abundance of grace given to us. John says, Behold, what
manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should
be called the sons of God. That we should be called the
children of God. Therefore the world knoweth us
not, because it knew him not. Beloved, now Presently, right
now, we are the sons of God. And you look in the mirror, what
does John say? It does not yet appear what we shall be. You
look in the mirror, you see a son of God in there? Can you make
out a son of God? Can you see the image of God
in the mirror? You can, though we can't see
it with our eyes, though we don't feel it in ourselves at times.
We know this. It does not yet appear what we
shall be, but when he shall appear, we shall be like him. We shall
see him as he is. Now consider the greatness of
that mercy. Consider that there is therefore
now. No condemnation. To those who
are in Christ Jesus, absolutely none. Absolutely no condemnation. No judgment to those who are
in Christ Jesus. None. Brethren, God has put us in union
with Christ Jesus, His Son. He has justified us. He has sanctified
us. He has redeemed us. He has called
us. He keeps us in His grace. And nothing shall separate you
from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing shall separate you from
the love of God that is in Christ Jesus. Who can condemn you if
God justified you? If God justified you, rather
Christ died. Your sins have been put away
forever by the blood of Christ. To condemn you is to condemn
Christ. You got that? Is to say His offering
is not sufficient. And to condemn me, His offering
would have to fail. Is that not abundance of revelation?
Is that not abundance? I tell you what, if you know
that, you've got a better blessing than if you went to heaven and
saw everything. You've got more understanding, you've got more
grace. We have abundance of revelation.
The Scripture is clear. It's made clear to us, isn't
it? Now consider the revelation of
Scripture that is clear concerning the purpose of God. In providence
and circumstance that all things work together for good. to them
that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose.
Isn't this abundant revelation? Isn't this sufficient revelation
for you? It is. It's abundant. Our Lord
Jesus tells us that in the last day He shall divide all men into
two groups. And what shall He say to you?
You who have this abundant revelation, who believe on Christ, what is
He going to tell you? He's going to say this, Come,
you, blessed. You see what he called
you? He called you blessed, didn't
he? You blessed of my father. Inherit the kingdom prepared
for you from before the foundation of the world. Oh friends, yet
believer, Though we have this abundance of revelation, though
we are heir of all things, though we have received all spiritual
blessings in Christ, yet we know this, it doth not yet appear
what we shall be. When you look in the mirror,
it doesn't appear what you shall be. In that song of Solomon, our
Lord says to the Shulamite, return, return, where I have seen in
thee a company of two armies." Two armies. God has ordained
that you should be conformed to the image of His Son. And
as such, He created in each one of us a new and holy nature.
But still, there remains the old man of sin. Though we have
the abundance of revelation, Though we have a new nature that
is created after God in true holiness, yet we still must contend
with the old man of sin. Paul said, O wretched man that
I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death? That has reference to a Roman
torture of sewing a corpse around a prisoner's neck. That is exactly
how we have this old man attached. He is sewn onto us until he rots
off in the ground. We must contend with this body
of death. And so every believer, we must
still contend with the flesh and the old man. And because
of the manifold revelations of God we've been given, yet we
are still prone to sin. And so the sin the apostle testifies
of in our text is the most abominable sin a person who has the grace
of God can perform, and that is pride. Pride. They say there's pride of race,
pride of face, but the worst is pride of grace. It is the
worst. And like Paul, The Apostle Paul,
the more we see of these revelations, the more our inner man glories. But yet, I'm telling you, the
more our inner man glories, the more the flesh desires to steal
glory for himself. We must be warned of the old
man trying to steal glory. Steal glory. Therefore you see
the reason then that God sends thorns in the flesh, so that
the recipients of His grace might not be exalted above measure. So why are you suffering? Why
are you having this thorn in the flesh? So that you who are
recipients of grace should not exalt yourself above what is
good. Paul says this in Romans 12,
And verse 3, he said, I say through the grace given to me, to every
man that is among you, not to think more highly of himself
than he ought to think. What do you think of yourself? Believer, what do you think of
yourself? What do you see? I promise you, it's not low enough. We truly think too highly of
ourselves. We do. Paul said, don't think too highly
of yourself. And so God, believer in Christ,
what sort of people would we be if God would not give us these
thorns in the flesh? If God would not chasten us,
what sort of people would we not be the most proud and presumptuous
people? I tell you, the Pharisees would
have nothing on us if God did not put this thorn in the flesh. Should God cease to chasten us
and give us thorns in the flesh, we would surely exalt ourselves
too highly. We would surely become proud
boasters as though we had some merit, as though we had some
righteous, as though we had something to do with this grace. If God
would, peradventure, if God would take away these thorns, many
of us would be so proud, so arrogant, so condescending. Therefore, believer, are you
pressed now? Do you feel the hand of the omnipotent
God as though he would crush your soul? Are you made to cling to the
dust and plead for mercy and strength to continue? Is your
heart so hard and your love so cold that you cannot feel His
presence? And consider the reason for our
thorns in the flesh is to keep us from sin, to keep us from
pride and self-righteousness. It is intended to abase us and
keep us humble. Now in verse 8, the apostle beseeching
the Lord, he beseeches the Lord. Now we see what the thorn is.
It's anything. It could be guilt. It could be
a physical ailment. It could be anything that God
puts on his people. But he does this for a reason
so that we should not be exalted, seeing what great grace we have,
seeing that we are the sons of the living God. If he would not do this, we would
exalt ourselves. And so the apostle, like all
of us, he asked this of the Lord, verse 8, For this thing I besought
the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. He cries to be
saved from it. He cries to deliver me. Lord,
comfort me, rebuke this messenger of Satan. And he sought the Lord
three times. Now often we read in Scripture
of God's people pleading for deliverance. Now who among us
has not pleaded for deliverance? There's nothing wrong with pleading
for deliverance. Matter of fact, go to Psalm 77.
Go over there. Here's Asaph. Psalm 77. Look at Asaph here, he said,
I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice.
In other words, silent prayer was no longer enough. He could not restrain. His voice
had to be heard. He cried with his voice. Now
listen, this is what faith tells him. He said, and he gave me
ear. Now you believer in Christ, I
know this, you know God hears you. When you cry, you know that. This is common understanding
of faith. God hears His people. Asaph recognized
God was hearing him. Now, notice. In the day of my trouble I sought
the Lord. Now, did his trouble cease? No. He said, My sore ran into
the night, and ceased not. He knew God heard him, but God
did not deliver him. Not immediately. And notice what he said, My soul
refused to be comforted. Behold the pride and hardness
of his heart, that he refused the comforts that he had been
given. Isn't it comforting enough to
know God hears you? If you're His child and He hears
you, that should be sufficient. Yet because the sore ran into
the knot, because it continued, He said, My soul would not be
comforted by that. That was not enough for Me. How often have we refused comfort? Your soul is so perplexed. so
hurt, so grieved, that no amount of comfort can penetrate. Look, he said, I remember God,
but this wasn't a help. He said, I was troubled. I complained,
and my spirit was overwhelmed. Can you relate to this? Have
you cried unto God, knowing He hears you, but yet He hadn't
answered? Have you been vexed and troubled,
so that you can't look up? Are you cast down to the ground,
brought to the dust by your afflictions? Then cry to the Lord, seek His
face to deliver you. Listen, He may deliver you. He may in a moment take away
all of your distresses. I'll tell you this, sometimes
He has. Sometimes we pray, and God delivers. What a wonderful
thing. We rejoice in those things. He may raise you from the deathbed
like He did Hezekiah. He may deliver you from the sword
immediately like He did David. Our God is able. Isn't that right?
Our God is able. He's able to part the Red Sea.
He is able to deliver us from any trouble. Any difficulty,
any trial, any affliction, the arm of God is never too short
to deliver you from anything. We confess that. Is that not
right? We as believers, we know that to be true. God is able.
We sing that song, He is able to deliver thee. He is able,
He is able to deliver thee. We believe that. We know that
to be true. But what if God delays? What if he delays in his deliverance? What if he allows you to continue
in the fire of affliction? What if he refuses to deliver
you the rest of your life? Now listen, I have no record
that God ever delivered Paul from this thorn in the flesh.
There is no record of him ever being delivered from it. Many times God leaves His people
in the thorn of affliction. What about that man that begged
at the rich man's gate, Lazarus? All his life he suffered as a
beggar with sores waiting for the crumbs of a rich man. And he died there. Purrent venture if God leaves
you in that affliction. What if He leaves you there? In Hebrews 11 we read, Others
had trials of cruel mockings and scourging, moreover bonds
and imprisonment. They were stoned. They were sawn
asunder. They were tempted. They were
slain with the sword. They wandered in sheepskin and
goatskin, being destitute, afflicted, tormented. Does that sound wonderful? They wandered in deserts and
mountains and dens. But I want you to see the grace
and love of God in these afflictions, in these thorns. No matter if
they're for a moment or the rest of your days, God has a purpose
for them, and that is not to destroy you. It is to keep you. It is to draw you to Himself. That's what these thorns in the
flesh do for believers. They draw us to Christ. So, believer, if God had willed
and purposed that we should suffer these afflictions the rest of
our days, How then should we endure these trials? What is the answer? Our Lord is not slack concerning
the answer. This is the second thing here.
The answer of Christ is very plain. Listen. My grace is enough. You know, I don't need to be
delivered from my thorns. I need the grace of Christ. Without that, I can't live. I can live with the thorns. I
can't live without Christ. My grace is sufficient for thee. My grace is enough. When Asaph,
over in Psalm 77, when he cried unto the Lord, He cried, how
did He endure His sufferings? Look at verse 11, if you're still
there. In Psalm 77, He said this, I will remember the works of
the Lord. Surely I will remember the wonders of old. He remembered
the deliverance of God's people. If you want to go through it,
you can. He remembered the redemption by the Passover lamb. He remembered
the deliverance of them through the Red Sea. He remembered the
deliverance by killing the enemies of Israel. in your affliction,
in your thorn, while we cry unto God. And it seems as though the
heavens have shut up our prayers. We can do this. We can remember. We can remember the deliverance
of God. Of our souls, you remember that. Can you remember his work of
old? How about this? Remember your
Passover lamb. Remember Christ. Remember how
He delivered you from the justice of God. Remember His work. How
He called you. Remember how He gave you faith. Remember how He gave you life and satisfied
the justice of God on your behalf. So then, let us in our affliction
Hear the words of our Savior, My grace is enough, sufficient
for thee. His work of old is sufficient.
First of all, remember His work of electing grace. Remember His
work of electing grace. How is it that you were quickened
to believe on Christ, even because the Father hath chosen you? In
the midst of your affliction, remember this. loved you. Before there was anything, He
loved you. Before there was anything, He
chose you. Remember that He, in sovereign
grace, without any merit, chose you and put you in union with
His Son. Remember by faith that He in grace adopted you to be
His Son. Not by your works, but by the
work of Christ. Remember. It was God, that God
has not done this by accident, but on purpose. Remember the grace of God in
choosing you on purpose. Isn't that how election is? It's
a purpose. God purposed to choose you. God purposed to save you. Paul
said, we know that all things work together for them that love
God, to them are they called according to what? It's purpose. This grace He's given you is
on purpose. For whom He did foreknow, He
also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son, that
He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Jesus Christ said
to His disciples, You have not chosen Me, but I have chosen
you. Behold the sufficiency of His
electing grace, that He chose us in Christ. Secondly, remember
the grace, the sufficient grace of His perfect redemption. Perfect
redemption. Behold, in our affliction, the
Son of God was set up to be our Savior from eternity. He was
purposed to be our surety. Paul said in Ephesians 1, he
said, according as He had chosen us in Christ before the foundation
of the world, this is the purpose that you should be holy and without
blame before Him. Motivation, in love, having predestinated
us under the adoption of children. How? By Jesus Christ. By Jesus Christ. God purposed
that it's by Christ you should be redeemed. Believer, remember,
the deliberate, willing love of Jesus Christ to be made your
surety. Can you think of anyone who would
willingly be your surety? Do you think of anyone that would
willingly lay down their life for you? And even if they would,
what good would it do you? Yet Jesus Christ said, I will
be their surety. I will be their surety. And so
in love and grace, what did our Savior do? He condescended to
be one of us. He was made flesh so that He
might be our federal head. He didn't come to be an example.
He didn't come to sympathize with His creatures. He came to
save us. God testifies of this in Isaiah
9 and verse 6. For unto us a child is born,
unto us a son is given. The child speaks of his humanity.
The son given speaks of his deity. And this is his responsibility.
The government shall be upon his shoulders. What does that
mean? It means the responsibility of your salvation rested solely
on the shoulders of Christ alone. Man, we could suffer afflictions
from now to the day we die. You know how much sin that pays
for? Not a thing. Not a thing. Why? Christ has already put away our
sin. He has already redeemed us. What
sufficiency is His blood? It is so sufficient, God says,
it's enough. When Jesus said, it is finished,
listen, it was finished. God was satisfied. God was forever
satisfied. So the whole responsibility of
the salvation of His people rested upon the shoulders of Christ. So now look, believer, in the
midst of your suffering, that our Savior, Jesus Christ, See
how he was mocked and rejected and suffered in the flesh. Behold
his poverty, his hunger, his thirst. Look at him who was just
and righteous and without sin. Yet God, in grace, made him to
be sin for us. It was an act of grace that Christ
died under the justice of God for our sin. Behold the sword of justice that
fell on him, and therefore by great grace our shepherd laid
down his life for us. He laid down his life for us. So then, how can we in the midst
of suffering ever question his love? Yet we do. How can we question His wisdom
who ordained our suffering? For the Scripture is clear, greater
love hath no man than this, than a man lay down his life for his
friend. Do you hear what He called you?
He called you a friend. Do you deserve to be a friend? We were enemies. haters of God,
and in grace, He called me friend. Is that not sufficient to sustain
you in your trouble, in your time of need? He has removed
our sins so far from us. His offering was so perfect that
God Himself cannot see Your sin. Jeremiah 50 and verse 20, In
those days and at that time, saith the Lord, the iniquity
of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none. None. The sins of Judah, and
they shall not be found. Why? I will pardon them. That's why. Whom I reserve. So then, believer, did Jesus
manifest this grace toward us? Did He wait for us to come to
Him? Did He wait for us to have sufficient
merit? No. The Scripture says even that
while we were sinners, Christ died. When we were without strength
in due time, Christ died for the ungodly. Is this grace not
sufficient? that Jesus Christ is your surety,
your high priest, your offering, and your righteousness before
God. We like to sing that hymn, Oh, the grace that drew salvation's
plan. Oh, the grace that brought it
down to man. The mighty gulf that God did
span at Calvary. And thirdly, remember His grace
He called you. His grace was sufficient to call
you. Remember how the Lord found you? How did He find you? In what
condition did He find you? We were like that infant, that
bastard infant, thrown out, left to die, polluted in his own blood. That's how God found you. He found you like He found Jacob,
in a waste, howling wilderness. He found us in the desert of
our sin and iniquity. He found us dead in trespasses
and sins. Consider the sufficiency of His
grace to call you to life. Sweetheart, your faith is the
power of God. That's the only reason you can
believe. That's the only reason we can believe. Faith is not
a simple decision as these fools think it is. It's the power of
God. Was it not sufficient? When He
lit this life inside of us, why does it continue? Because His
grace is sufficient. He who called you, He called
you from death to life. called you by His grace and by
His power. For God, who commanded the light,
this is how it happened. You were in darkness, and God
said, let there be light. Who could resist? Who could resist? When you believe, could you resist?
Is it possible? And how possible! Why, His grace
is sufficient! It's powerful when He called
us. He called us in power and demonstration
of His Spirit to faith in Christ. God who commanded light to shine
out of darkness hath shined in our hearts to give the light. You didn't earn that. You were
darkness. to give us the light of the knowledge
of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. And remember
this, His grace that called you is sufficient to keep you. Peter said that, that you who
are the elect of God, you are kept. You are kept. How are you kept? You keep yourself. It's just a cooperative effort. You're keeping. How many times
you try to keep yourself, and what ends up happening? The more
I try to keep myself, I just... It's worse. The more I try to
keep myself, the more it gets worse. But you know what? I don't keep myself. I'm kept
by the power of God. And it's as though God defies
anyone to try to remove them. That's what Paul said. He said that nothing shall separate
us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus. Why? You're
kept by the sufficient grace of God. Therefore David said,
He is my refuge and my fortress, my God. In Him will I trust. Surely He shall deliver me from
the snare of the fowler, from the noise and pestilence. He
shall cover me with the feathers, and under His wings thou shalt
trust. His truth shall be thy shield
and buckler, and thou shalt not be afraid of the terror by night,
nor the arrow that flyeth by day, nor the pestilence that
walketh in darkness, nor the destruction that wasteth in noonday.
Why? He is my fortress. His grace
is sufficient to keep me. Now then lastly, what is the
response of Paul? Go back to your text. See this,
we see that the thorn in the flesh is necessary. It keeps
us from pride. It abases us, exalts Christ,
and this is the answer in our afflictions. My grace is sufficient,
my electing grace, my redeeming grace, my calling grace, my keeping
grace. And then what is the response
of faith? Here it is. For my strength is made perfect
in weakness. Now what does Jesus mean by this?
Does our affliction actually perfect His strength? No. His strength is always perfect.
What He's meaning is this. My grace manifests my strength. And my grace manifests your weakness. How weak are you? How weak? Do you even know how
weak you are? We don't know. This is why the
thorns come. It manifests our weakness. Can you remove the thorn? What
can you do to remove it? You can. You're weak. But what
does it manifest? It manifests His strength. That even though this thorn persists,
yet our faith continues. Doesn't that manifest His strength?
It manifests His strength. It shows the perfectness of His
strength. Therefore, what does Paul say?
Most gladly, therefore, will I rather glory, not in the revelations,
but in the infirmity, that the power of Christ may
rest upon me. Believer, are you afflicted in
the flesh? Remember, this thorn is for your
good. Remember, in the midst of your
affliction, the grace of Christ is sufficient. Robert Hawker
says this, and I'll close with this, about this. It is as if
Jesus said to each one of you, My grace is sufficient for thee,
meaning that there is sufficient grace laid up for you, laid up for each and all, always
ready to be given at the moment of need. Christ's grace is in
exact correspondence with your want. It is laid up for His children
from everlasting. It is as if Jesus said, I foresaw
the very portion which you would require. I've kept it. I do keep it for the time foreseen
and provided for. Our Jesus is El Shaddai, God
all sufficient. How much grace does Christ have
stored up for you? infinite supply, an infinite
supply. So in the midst of your thorn,
listen, His grace is sufficient. I'll tell you, it's only sufficient
for those who have it. Yeah, the grace of God is sufficient. You know it is. You know it is. Therefore, let us glory in our
infirmities, that the power of Christ might be manifestly resting
on us. I pray that God will bless this
to your hearts and help you in your time of affliction to remember
His grace. Remember His grace. I pray he
would. Let's stand and be dismissed
in prayer.