Would you turn with me back to
1 Timothy, I'm sorry, 2 Timothy chapter 1. As we said in the
reading when we read the first chapter, these are the last words,
the last recorded words of the Apostle Paul. I watched an old
western not long ago where they were getting ready to drop the
trap on a bunch of fellas, about half a dozen that were all being
hung at the same time. allowed them to say some last
words if they wanted to. And this one old fella said,
well, just remember you're listening to a man who has no reason to
lie. The Apostle Paul certainly didn't. These are his last words. And
how full of comfort they are. This is our text. A familiar
text. You know it by heart. Look at
verse 12 here in 2 Timothy 1. Paul says, for the which cause
I also suffer these things nevertheless, I am not ashamed. I am not ashamed. Remember when your children were
young and they would do something they shouldn't have done and
knew better than to do it? To start with, you would say,
well, shame on you. Paul says, I am not ashamed. For I know, and here's the reason.
We'll get more into this in a moment. Here's the reason Paul gives
for not being ashamed. For I know whom. I have believed."
Now Paul's facing death, as we said again in the reading, he
was probably already gone to glory when Timothy read this
epistle from his beloved Paul. But Paul says, I know whom I
have believed. That enabled him to face death
with confidence, without fear, without doubts, I have believed
and am persuaded. If I know him, whom is Jesus
Christ of course, then knowing him, I'm also persuaded that
he is able to keep that which I've committed unto him against
that day. Mr. Spurgeon, I think it was
from chapter four of this last epistle of Paul, When Paul said,
my departure is at hand, Mr. Spurgeon titled that message,
Last Look Out, if I remember right. Paul doesn't say, I'm
not ashamed because I've suffered so much in the cause of Christ. That wasn't the foundation of
his hope or being unashamed. He didn't say, I'm not ashamed
because I, like none other, was caught up to the third heaven.
And I saw things that weren't lawful for me to try to relate
to anybody else, things that I couldn't utter. Or I'm not
ashamed because I'm an apostle. God called me to be an apostle. That wasn't the foundation. There's
not a word about those things. The singular, the singular, the
only reason Paul is not ashamed is this. I know whom I have believed. And the only reason, you say,
Larry, you're repeating yourself, I'm doing it on purpose. Because
the heart is deceitful above all things, who can know it?
The only reason any sinner will ever have to stand before God
and not be ashamed in the presence of an omniscient God who knows
everything about them. have no reason to stand there
ashamed will be because they know his son. They know his son,
the Lord Jesus Christ. I've got a real simple outline
concerning faith. The text is these few words,
I know whom. Where does real faith come from? Where does it come from? And
then, what's the object of genuine faith? And last of all, what's
the final outcome of those who've given the gift of faith? Where
does faith come from? I know this. I know this. It's not the result of anything
man does. Genuine faith is not the result
of anything that man does. Genuine faith is never found
in man by nature. Faith is the gift of God. These
verses that I'm going to read, you see them on churches all
over town, from time to time, all over the country. For by
grace, Ephesians 2 and 8, for by grace are you saved through
faith. And that not of yourselves. It didn't originate with you.
It's not maintained by you. It's not carried on by you. It's
not of yourselves. It didn't begin with you. It
won't end with you. It is the gift of God. It's something
that's not in a man by nature. Not of works lest any man should
boast. And as I said, you can drive
through town and see those verses plastered on the marquee of churches
everywhere. They all say, oh yes, we believe
that. We believe that. By grace are
you saved through faith. Well, do they really? Do they
really? Because ask. The faith that they
speak of, they speak of as beginning with man. And faith lies dormant
in man. And all he has to do, all he
has to do is exercise his will and use it to believe on Christ.
No, the faith that brings the reality. Now this is what we're
talking about, reality. Paul's facing death. I'm facing
death. You're facing death. I wonder
which one of us are going to be next. I mean, unless Jesus
Christ comes and his church, every redeemed one of his will
be changed, otherwise, one by one, as it has been over the
last several years, are going to leave this world. Who's going
to be next? The faith that brings Jesus Christ
into our life and makes him a reality is faith, is by faith. And that's
a gift of God. Faith is not a reward. We read
that in Ephesians 2 and 8. It's a gift. And that being so,
a gift can't be earned. It's something God gives. God
gives. Faith is God's doing. It's not
man's. In that same chapter, Ephesians
2, Paul went on the right in verse 10, we are his workmanship,
speaking of God. We're not our own workmanship,
we didn't make ourselves, we didn't create ourselves. Paul
says we're his workmanship, we're God's masterpieces of the work,
creating in Christ Jesus on two good works, which God had before
ordained that we should walk in them. Workmanship, literally
it means a thing of God's making, God's handiwork. A believer doesn't
make himself a believer, God does. God creates faith and God
keeps faith alive. Listen to the prophet Isaiah,
Isaiah 60 and verse 21, thy people also shall be all righteous.
They shall inherit the land forever. The branch of my planting, my
planting, Robin has a flower bed at home. We watered them
yesterday evening because they were so dry. But those flowers
just didn't happen. They just didn't pop up. We went
to the depot. We looked at what they had, we
bought them, we brought them home, we followed the instructions
and put them in the ground. Believers are the result of God's
planting. This is what the prophets said.
This is God's work. We are His people. His planning,
the work of my hands that I may be glorified. The psalmist said
this, Psalm 100 verse 3, Know ye that the Lord he is God, it
is he that hath made us. He that hath made us, and not
we ourselves. We are his people, and the sheep
of his pasture. God made us, we didn't just evolve. God made man, we're his creation,
and it's God that makes men a new creation in Christ. This is what
Paul wrote in 2 Corinthians 5, verse 17. Therefore, if any man
be in Christ, he's a new creature. The word is, he's a new creation. Old things are passed away. Behold,
all things are become new. He's not what he once was. Old
Newton said, I'm not what I ought to be. I'm not what I want to
be. I'm far from what I desire to
be, and I'm not what I'm going to be one day. But he said, I
can tell you this, by the grace of God, I'm not what I used to
be. Grace makes a difference. Grace
makes a difference. Grace changes a man. Grace of
God reaches deeper than the stain has gone. Grace gives us a new
nature. A new heart, a new being. I know we're living in a day
that this, most places, this would sound like a foreign language
too because we're told a man can accept Jesus and go on his
way and live just like he always did and everything's gonna be
alright. No, no, no, not according to
God's word. Oh, when God makes a man a new
creation, he doesn't think like he used to. His desires are different,
aren't they? He doesn't want the things that
he once wanted. Paul said the things he once
loved he now hated, and the things he once hated he now loved. He
has a new nature, a new heart. This is what God does. He's a
new being, new life, new light, a new mind, a new way of looking
at things. Everything's new is what we just
read. Creation work can only be done
by God the Creator, and that includes faith. You may have
seen a popular minute or two spot that runs on television
by the son of a popular evangelist who comes on and tells people
that if they want to be saved, this is what they have to do.
I don't think the whole spot took more than 60 seconds. Just
pray this simple prayer with me. Say, God, I'm a sinner. I'm a sinner. Your son died for
me. I accept you now as my savior
and I invite you into my heart. There's not one word of that
scripture. Not one word. Faith is not something
that easy. Faith is not something I can
reach in old fallen Adam and pull out cause it ain't there.
Faith is a gift of God and when God Almighty am I able someone
to see his son and to believe on his son, and to embrace his
son, and to say as Paul did, I know whom I have believed,
that's the result of a miracle of God's grace. There's no other
explanation. It comes from above. What I just
said concerning that television spot, that doesn't require God's
grace. To do that doesn't require God's
power. It doesn't require God to do
anything because man does it all. It's all his doing. And
that's not what Paul was talking about here. Paul knew it was
by God-given faith that he believed on Jesus Christ or else, or else,
he would have lived and died a self-righteous person. He would like the rich man, after
leaving this world, and left it up his eyes in hell. Paul
knew only God's grace made him to differ. I can make myself
a Baptist, and I could study five points and be convinced
of Calvinism logically in my head. That doesn't make me a
believer. That doesn't make me a result
of God's mighty work of granting faith to a sinner. Oh, no. Brother
Henry Mahan, and I'm just going to abbreviate the article, that's
in your bulletin today by Brother Henry. His text is, no man knoweth
the Father except the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal
him. Henry said men may believe in God. It's hard to find somebody
that doesn't. But there is no way that they
can know the living God except in Christ. They may know of his
existence. They may be acquainted with his
miracles. But his mercy and grace are only received in Christ.
They may behold his judgments, but his justice satisfied and
honored is only revealed in Christ. Only in Christ can the question
be answered, how can a man be just with God? I mean really
just, justified in the sight of God, pronounced justified
by the Son of God. That can only be done as an act
of grace. Henry said, if we miss a saving
knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ, And that's exactly what Paul
is speaking of here. He speaks personally. He's not
saying, I've heard this. I'm telling you something secondhand. I've experienced this myself.
I know whom I have believed. How can anyone face death? How
can anyone face death so calmly, so at ease, as the Apostle Paul
did? If they didn't have this hope,
I know whom? I know Jesus Christ. I'm not
just trying to convince myself, God's convinced me that Jesus... Jesus Christ is Lord. God enabled
me to see the Savior, or I would have never seen Him. Glory to
His name. If I know Christ, God Almighty
did a work of grace in my heart. Henry said, if we miss a saving
knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ, not just an intellectual knowledge,
no, a saving knowledge, we may talk of God all of our lives
and never really know Him. Wow, is that true? Is that possible? Absolutely,
absolutely. Remember what our Lord said to
Peter, in answer to the question, whom say men that I am? Peter
answered, thou art the Christ, the son of the living God. Oh,
Jesus answered him, Peter, you're a blessed man because God's made
you healthy and God's made you wealthy. Peter, you be happy
about that. No, no, no. God's given you greater
riches than that. He's given you something that
this whole world and everything in it's not worth. Simon Barjona,
you're blessed because flesh and blood has not revealed this
to you, but my Father did this for you. My Father which is in
heaven revealed to you who I am. Now you think about that. I don't
know up to that point how long Peter had been following the
Lord Jesus. But he had witnessed, I mean eye-witnessed. He said
we were eye-witnesses of these things. He heard with his own
ears, it wasn't hand-me-down. He saw the Lord Jesus, he lived
with the Lord Jesus. He heard him, he saw him. But
Christ told him, Peter, that's not enough. Unless God Almighty
reveals to you who... Judas witnessed and heard and
saw the same things Peter did. And he died and went to hell.
Peter, even though you've seen all these things, heard all these
things, unless God Almighty reveals to you who I am, you'll never
know it. You'll never know it. Oh no,
faith is a miraculous operation as well as a gift of God. It's
not simple as ABC. No, no, no. It's God that grants
faith and God that nourishes faith and keeps it alive. Flesh
and blood has not revealed this unto you, Peter. You didn't arrive
on this by yourself. You didn't come to this conclusion
on your own. Flesh and blood can't do that.
It never has and it never will. Then where does true faith come
from? I mean, if faith is the only
thing that unites me to Christ, if faith is the only way I can
embrace Christ and say with Paul, I know whom I have believed,
I'm persuaded that he's able to keep that which I've committed
unto him, my life, my soul, eternity, unto him against that day, how
can I know that? The answer is, Only by the gift
of faith. Only by God doing for a sinner
what he can't do for himself. Peter, our Lord says this knowledge
didn't come by your own wit or reason or by instruction and
information from somebody else. This light didn't come from nature. It didn't come from education.
It came from my Father which is in heaven. God Almighty did
for you something that he didn't do for Judas. He opened your
eyes as to who I am. You're a blessed man, Peter.
Most people think of being blessed today everywhere you go. You
know, you check out at Walmart, have a blessed day. Have a blessed
day. Hand somebody money for gas.
Have a blessed day. And you know what they mean by
that? Most of them mean, well, I hope everything's good for
you. I hope that you have everything you want. I hope you don't need
for nothing. I hope you've got all this world
that you can possibly possess. That's what they mean, material
things. No, to be blessed by God Almighty
is to know who His Son is, the Lord Jesus Christ. You go home
tonight and you lie down, whether you're lying in a shack or you're
lying in a Three-story mansion. Buddy, the blessing resides in
that heart who knows who Jesus Christ is. It doesn't make any
difference how much of this world he possesses or not. What difference
will it make when he leaves this world like the Apostle Paul did? The Christian faith is a revelation
that comes from above. John the Baptist said concerning
the Lord Jesus Christ, He said, I'm not the Christ. I've told
you once and I'll tell you again. He that comes from above is above
all. A man can receive nothing except
it be given him from above. In John 6, the Lord said the
flesh profits what? Zin. The flesh profits nothing. Salvation is all of the Lord.
The faith, the repentance, the will to come. All my life I heard
preachers say, well, believe on Christ and you'll be born
again. It's the exact opposite of that. I can't believe on Christ
until I'm born again. Nicodemus, you can't see the
kingdom of God unless you're first born again. The Spirit's
work, like the wind, you may see evidence of it, but you can't
know where it came from or where it's gone to. So is everyone
that is born of the Spirit. Blessed and happy Did you know
they come from the same Greek and Hebrew word? Blessed can
mean happy. And all have reason to be happy
that have faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Who, might I ask you,
who has, who in this world, listen, I heard someone, y'all talking,
two of y'all talking this morning, two or three about what happened
last night with Trump and the mess that the world's in and
everything, but then Billy looked up here and said, Larry, God's
still on the throne. That's right. That's right. God is still on
the throne. Who in this world has more reason
to be happy than that man or woman who's been given this precious
gift of faith whereby they have beheld the Lamb of God? They can say what Joe, Now, there's
a man went through some trial, didn't he? I mean, he lost it
all. But he said, I know whom, just
like Paul said, I know that my Redeemer liveth just. I don't understand why this has
happened to me. I don't know why God allowed
all this to happen to me. I don't know why God brought
all this on me. But one thing I know, it doesn't change this,
my Redeemer's still alive. He's still on the throne, he's
still ruling, and he's still reigning. Another article in
your bulletin, the story about that rich lady who was going
through some difficulty and went and visited a poor widow woman. And this poor widow was a believer
while that lady who had so much was sitting there lamenting whatever
she was passing through at the time. The poor believer took
her to her closet and opened it up and said, what do you see
there? And she said, nothing. She said, that's just about what
I've got of this world. I've got nothing. But she said,
why should I be unhappy? Why should I be unhappy? Why
should I grumble, gripe, and complain? I have Christ in my
heart and heaven in my eyes. I have the unfailing word of
promise that bread shall be given me, and water shall be sure,
and while I stay a little longer in this valley of tears. And
when I die, a bright crown of glory awaits me through the merits
of Jesus Christ." I like that hymn. I like that hymn that says,
I don't know. I know not how this saving faith
to me did impart. I don't know how God did that.
nor how believing his word wrought peace within my heart. Man, I've
told you before, when I was seeking Christ and seeking mercy and
salvation and grace, I wanted to know the living God, and I
was given directions to go everywhere, pointing me everywhere but the
Lord Jesus Christ. You talk about a miserable, miserable
human being, oh, but when God, when God enabled me to behold
his son, I don't know exactly how he did that, but I know that
he did. I don't know, the writer said,
I know not how the spirit moves, convincing men of sin, revealing
Jesus through the word, creating faith in him. I don't know. I
don't know. But, this is what Paul said,
but I know whom I have believed. That's all that matters. That's
all that's gonna matter when life's over. I know whom I have
believed and I'm persuaded that he is able to keep that which
I've committed unto him against that day. And that brings us
to our second question. What is the object of faith?
Notice, you've heard this all your life. It's not what you
know, it's whom you know. You can know what. You can know
what without ever knowing whom. The object of true faith is not
what but whom. Notice what Paul said, I know
whom. Paul said Jesus Christ, not things. Jesus Christ himself. I have
for myself personally experienced his amazing grace. I personally
know Jesus Christ. Christ said I know my she. Is that true or not? I know my
sheep, but he didn't stop there, did he? And he said, my sheep
know me. I know them and they know me. That's all that mattered to Paul.
That's all that matters to a believer. Like another believer before
Paul's time expressed it. When he, like Paul, so to speak,
was on his deathbed, facing eternity, getting ready to go out and face
God Almighty. These are the last words of David.
the son of Jesse, the man who was raised up on high, the anointed
of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel said,
the spirit of the Lord God spake by me, and his word was in my
tongue. This is from 2 Samuel 23. And
in verse 5, he said, although my house be not so with God.
We can all say that, can't we? Every believing parent can say
that. Although my house be not so with God, yet, yet, It doesn't
change this. He has made with me an everlasting
covenant, ordered in all things. And sure, this is all my salvation
and all my desire. God has made a covenant of grace
with his chosen people in Jesus Christ. And as David said here,
it's an everlasting covenant. It was from everlasting in its
purpose, in its planning, and it'll be from everlasting in
its continuance and its consequence. David also said, it's ordered.
It's well-ordered in all things. It's well-ordered to advance
the glory of God, the honor of Jesus Christ, our mediator, and
the comfort of believers. Whatever is required in the covenant
is promised and fulfilled by the Lord Jesus Christ. He made
a covenant with the shepherd on the behalf of his sheep. He
said, not only is this covenant everlasting and ordered It's
sure. It's sure. I like reading that,
don't you? I hear so many people who profess
to know God say, well, I'm just not sure. I just don't know. We really can't know till we
get to heaven whether we're saved or not. No wonder they look like
they're sucking lemons all the time. I would too if I believed
that. My soul, where's the joy in such
a theory? Such a false hope as they don't
know. This covenant is sure. The promised
mercies are sure. The performance of those mercies
are sure. The application to the believer is sure. It's all
sure. And David said, therefore, because
of this well-ordered, sure, everlasting covenant, this is all my salvation. Because none of it, none of it
depends on me. You remember Bruce Crabtree wrote
an article I used that has been several years ago. He's speaking
along this line and he said the best thing about it is I can't
mess it up. I can't mess it up. Davis said
this is all my desire. I remember on one occasion, I
can't remember exactly where, but sat in listening to dear
brother Henry Mahan preach a message somewhere and he was talking
about reading obituaries. And he said they would talk about
the man or woman who had died, what they had accomplished in
life, everything they possessed, what they had left behind, and
what clubs, organizations, societies they belonged to. They were a
member of the blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And Henry said, what
does it matter now? What does it matter now? What
difference does it make now, Billy Cobb? If God Almighty says
to you tonight, thy soul shall be required of thee, Billy Cobb,
what will it matter what you have or what you didn't have
or what you leave behind for your sons? What will it matter
if I don't know Christ? I like what Matthew Henry said.
I still like old Matthew Henry. He wrote, this is what he said
concerning death for the child of God. Death wants an enemy. has become a friend. It is the
gate by which we pass out of this troublesome, sinful world
into a world of perfect peace and purity, and the power thereof
is broken. For death does not triumph over
those who believe in Christ, but they triumph over it. O death, where is thy sting?
O grave, where is thy victory? The only nevertheless that will
make the difference when I stand before God and hear Him say to
me, either depart from me, because I never knew you, I never knew
you, or enter into the joy prepared for you will be this, nevertheless,
I know whom I have believed. Did I tell you the story? I think
I read it in one of Mr. Spurgeon's messages. Either he
heard the story or knew the pastor. It was either maybe he himself
visiting one of his poor members, this woman, And as they visited
together, her Bible was laying there open on the table, and
the pastor noticed that on the column of her Bible, on the margin
rather, there was T and P, T and P. He flipped it open, and just
about every other page, T and P. And he said, sister, what
does that mean, T and P, next to these verses? She said, that's
tried and proved. Those are promises of God. They've
been tried, and they've been proved in my own blessed experience. It is not I know how I believed,
no. But I know whom I have believed.
A feeble faith can still lay hold of a mighty Savior. Is that
not so? It doesn't say I know when I
believed, but I know whom I believe. God justifies the believer, not
for the worthiness of his faith, but for the worthiness of that
one in whom he believes, the object of his faith. Next time
you're tempted to doubt your acceptance with God, and the
devil asks you, how do you deserve to go to heaven? What gives you
the right to be in glory? Oh, don't ask what you deserve. Don't ask about your merits.
Ask about the merits of the Son of God. How does God view him? What's
God's estimate of his son? Christ represents us in heaven
right now. This is what we read in Hebrews.
Hebrews 9, for Christ is not entered into the holy places
made with hands, which are the figures of the true, but into
heaven itself now to appear in the presence of God for us. He represents us. In the Beloved. I was singing that yesterday
evening after I'd included it in the notes of this message.
The song In the Beloved. In the Beloved. Accepted in the
Beloved. And Robin said, I don't think I've ever heard that. I
said, you want me to sing it to Marsha? He said, sure. I said,
well, you probably would be the only one. But I'll read it. I've read it to you before. In
the Beloved. Accepted am I. Risen, ascended, and seated on
high. Saved from all sin through his
infinite grace. with the redeemed ones accorded
a place. In the beloved, how safe my retreat. In the beloved, account it complete.
Who can condemn me? In him I am free, savior and
keeper forever is he. In the beloved, God's marvelous
grace calls me to dwell in this wonderful place. God sees my
savior, then he sees me. In the beloved, accept it. and
free, all according to His grace. A Greek word for grace translates
into this, to be graciously accepted, made the subject of His grace,
or embraced in the arms of grace. And those arms are the arms of
our mighty Savior. And He says, I'll never let you
go. The everlasting union with Christ
is the spring of all the blessings of grace, which believers enjoy
now in this life and in the life to come. Because to whom God
gives grace, he's promised to also give glory. Father, I will,
that they also, those whom you also have given me, be with me
where I am, that they may behold my glory. Paul said, he that
spared not his own son, how shall he not with him also freely,
freely give us all things? What would God not do for the
sake of His Son? Be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted,
forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake had forgiven
you. It was for Christ's sake that
God chose His people. It was for Christ's sake that
God sent His Son to redeem His bride. made Christ to be sin
for us that we might be made the righteousness of God in him
and for Christ's sake that in time he quickened us by his grace
and revealed his son to us and in us and gave us life and faith
in the Lord Jesus Christ and when our journey ends and it's
we're on the downhill slide right now it's soon to end God will
receive us into heaven where we shall hunger no more thirst
no more, weep no more, feel pain no more, die no more, and God
himself by his omnipotent hand is going to wipe away all tears
from our eyes and we'll never have a reason to cry again. Let me bring this to a close.
Faith's outcome. The child of God will be kept
believing until faith is no longer needed. When will that be? When we step into heaven. We
shall shake hands with faith and bid it adieu, because now
we'll walk by sight and not by faith. Until that time comes,
faith will not die. It may be weak at times. It may
wonder sometimes if it even has true faith at all. But a true
believer can't stop believing. Why, Peter, I pray for you that
your faith fail not. And that gift of God's grace,
the gift of faith, He will never take away. Every child of God
can, by the same grace he gave Paul, when facing death, say
the same thing, I know whom I have believed. I know whom. Yet a little while, the Hebrew
writer said, Hebrews 10, verse 37, yet a little while, just
a little while, and he that shall come will come and will not tarry. Now the just shall live by faith,
but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in
him. But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition, but
of them that believe to the saving of the soul. These all died in
faith, Hebrews 11, 13. These all died in faith, not
having received the promises, but having seen them afar off
and were persuaded, the same word Paul used, persuaded of
them and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and
pilgrims on the earth. I love how old John Bunyan pictures
the departure of a believer from this world in his famous allegory,
Pilgrim's Progress. These are the last words of Mr.
Stanfast. He received the message that
it was his time to cross over Jordan to the promised land.
And this is what Bunyan wrote. Mr. Steadfast said, this river,
said he, has been a terror to many. Yes, the thoughts of it
also have often frightened me. But now I think I stand easy. I stand easy. My foot is firm
upon that which the priest trod that bared the ark of the covenant
and stood while Israel went over Jordan. The waters indeed are
to the pilot bitter, and to the stomach cold, yet the thoughts
of what I am going to, and of the convoy that waits for me
on the other side, are as a glowing coal in my heart. I see myself
now at the end of my journey. My toysome days are ended. I'm
going to see that head which was crowned with thorns, and
that face which was spit upon for me, I have formerly lived
by hearsay and faith, but now I go where I shall live by sight,
and shall be with him in whose company I delight myself. That's the climax of faith, the
consummation of faith, the end of faith. We shall see his face. Beloved, now are we the sons
of God. And it doth not yet appear what
we shall be, but we know then when he shall appear we shall
be like him for we shall see him as he is. Happy, one writer put it, how
happy is the dying saint whose sins are all forgiven. With joy
he passes Jordan's flood upheld by hopes of heaven. The savior
whom he truly loved now cheers him by his grace. A glory yields
his dying bed and beams upon his face. face. I know whom I
have believed. May God grant that testimony
to each of us. Amen.