In 1871, there was a man living
in Chicago. He was a businessman, a lawyer
as well, and he had invested a lot of his money, a lot of
his wealth in real estate in that great city of Chicago. And
then that same year of 1871 was the Chicago Fire. and this man lost just about
everything in that fire. He had planned to sail to Europe
with his wife and family, but because of business he was detained,
but he told them to go ahead with the intention of meeting
them there later. Not long after the ship set sail,
he received a word that the ship on which his wife and daughters
were sailing had sunk. He received a telegram shortly
thereafter from his wife with just two words on it. Saved alone. Saved alone. Their four daughters
had perished when that ship went down. Afterward, after that,
when this man H.G. Spatford was sailing himself
to Europe to be with his grieving wife, the place where The previous
ship, where his daughters were on, went down, was pointed out
to him. And he sat down and he wrote
a hymn. He wrote a hymn. And this hymn,
you probably know where I'm going. You know the hymn. But it's a
testimony to the sufficiency of God's grace. When we read
what this man wrote, should we say, my, my, what a strong believer. What a man. Andre, that's a man's
man. Oh, what did he do? Where did
he find strength in such a time? Did he reach down and find his
own bootstraps and pull himself up? Oh no, no, no. This man found
the same strength from the same source that Job did, the old
patriarch who lost much in his life and was hurting and grieving. When his wife said, why don't
you just curse God and die? Why do you maintain faith in
a God that would allow such a thing? Just curse God. Get it over with. And you remember Job's reply? What sustained Job? How could
he say, God gave and God took? I'm not going to curse God. No,
the very contrary. I'll do the very opposite. I'll
praise my God. I'll praise God. The same way
that this man did. Why didn't Job curse God? Why
didn't this man, Spatford, curse God? Why haven't I or you, during
difficult times, why haven't we cursed God? No, we don't look
and say, what a man. We look and say, oh, hallelujah,
what a Savior. What a Savior. What a testimony
it is to the sufficiency of God's grace that He enables a man to
continue to believe, to bow and say, it is the Lord. It is the
Lord. That's not in man, that's not
in our nature to do so. Oh but grace, grace reigns and
grace abounds and it allows us, yes through the tears, through
the heartache, to be enabled to bow before our God and say,
it's His doing, let Him do what seemeth Him good. We learn again
and again what our Lord said to each of His servants, my grace,
nothing else will do it, but my grace is sufficient for thee. And Spatford wrote that hymn.
The original version of it, as he wrote it, has, I think, about
six verses, not as the one in our handbook does. But he wrote,
when peace like a river attendeth my way, when sorrows like sea
billows roll, whatever my lot, you have taught me to say, It
is well, it is well with my soul. For me, be it Christ, be it Christ
hence to live, if Jordan above me shall roll, no pain shall
be mine, for in death as in life, thou wilt whisper, thou wilt
whisper thy peace to my soul. Nothing else like that is there?
Peace to my soul? How can that be? How can that
be? Oh, the last verse says, my sin. There's nothing that a man or
a woman will ever experience in this life that will compare
to the peace of knowing your sins are forgiven. As Bobby sang
a moment ago, the peace of having Jesus Christ himself whisper
in my ear, thy sins, though many, though many, so very many, as
mountains, mountains above, as the depths of the sea, so many
sins, But they're all, they're all, all them are forgiven thee. Oh therefore, what did he say?
Go in peace. Go in peace. And Spatford wrote
about that. Oh my sin, oh the bliss of this
glorious thought, my sin, not in part but the whole, is nailed
to his cross, and I bear them no more. O praise the Lord, praise
the Lord, O my soul. Turn, if you will, to Ephesians
chapter 2. We want to read one verse of
Scripture, just one verse. Our text is found here. Christ
our peace. Christ our peace. Verse 14. For He is our peace. Nothing
in addition to? How could there be in addition
to Him who is all the fullness of God? Nothing lacking? How can there be anything lacking
in Him who is complete in Christ? Now He is our peace who had made
both one and had broken down the middle wall of partition
between us. He is our peace. I remember as a young man being
caught up, as I made mention of in my article in today's bulletin,
in what was known as the hippie movement. Yes, I was. Hair down to here. just a mess,
just a mess. I looked like a mess outside
and I was a mess inside. Oh, but we talked so much about
peace. Talked so much about peace. Had the peace symbols sewn on
our jeans. Gave the peace sign to everybody.
Peace! Peace! But I'd never had peace. When
I was alone at night, lying in bed, Not trying to put on a show in
front of my friends. I thought, peace? Really? Really? I thought, is this all there
is? Is this it? Is this all I have
to look forward to? Because I'm so thirsty. I mean, I'm doing all this stuff,
but I'm still thirsty. I'm saying one thing but I'm
feeling another. I'm still thirsty. The reality
is, is this all there is to my life? Is this all I have to look
forward to? I'll live a few years and then
I'm going to die? Is this it? I'm so thirsty, I
thought. God had made me so. God had gotten
me lost. The Prince of Peace made me hunger
and thirst. And I never had peace. I never
had peace in my life until the Prince of Peace found me, John. He found me. He found me. I was lost. He wasn't. He found
me. And he called me by his grace. He didn't try to call me. He
didn't attempt to call me. He called me. He called me out
of darkness into life, out of death into life. He called me by His mighty grace
and He gave me, I experienced for the first time in my life,
Real peace. Real peace. Nothing can compare
to that. Peace with God. And our text
tells us Christ is our peace. He's the cause of it. That's
our first point, just as the bulletin article. The cause of
our peace. Let us be careful not to put,
or rather not to pay our rent to the wrong landlord. In other words, not unto us,
O God, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory for thy truth
and for thy mercy's sake. As Peter told that crowd when
the lame man that they very well knew They saw him healed, leaping
and walking and praising God. And they all gathered around
Peter and John and just looked at him, marveled, marveled. And
Peter said, stop right there, stop right there. Why do you
look so earnestly on us? as though by our own power or
holiness we have made this man to walk. That's not how it happened. And he said, let me tell you
how it happened. Let me tell you what's happened to this man.
Jesus of Nazareth. God's glorified his son in raising
this man from the dead. And that's what God does. In
the salvation of every sinner, he glorifies his son. Whom the
prophet said, shall see of to avail of his soul. And he'll
be satisfied by his knowledge, shall my righteous servant justify
many, for he shall bear our iniquities. He is our peace. Literally, it
could read this way, he himself is our peace. Or this way, he
alone, he alone is our peace. Christ is the maker of peace
with God and Christ is the matter, the reason of our peace with
God. Nothing man does and all the
things men attempt to do to have peace with God. But nothing man does will bring
peace. Because nothing man does will
suffice to satisfy God Almighty. And what we'll do, what we'll
do to satisfy God, man cannot do. With men, it's impossible. Top lady wrote well, the old
hymn, Rock of Ages. It's not the labors of my hands
that can fulfill thy lost demands. Have you ever heard preachers
say, I have. They should sit down and shut
up. Anyone who stands and tells sinners they need to make their
peace with God. It can't be done. It can't be
done. I was told that. You need to
make your peace with God. How? Lester, how can I make peace
with God? How can I do it? What in the
world do I have? What can I do that would satisfy
God Almighty? That would be acceptable unto
Him who says it must be perfect to be accepted. Now how can I
make peace with God? Jesus Christ, the prophet said,
shall be called the mighty God. The everlasting Father. the prince
of peace. The prophet Micah said this man
shall be the peace. This man, the God man. That man who spoke like never
a man yet spoke. That man who taught not as the
Pharisees but as one who had authority. That man who talked
of God like someone who knew what he was talking about. That man who, when he said, arise,
take up thy bed and walk, there was no pause in between. That
man who reached out and touched that leopard John, and by his
very touch said, be thou clean, and that quick he was clean,
that's the God-man. When he speaks, thy sins are
forgiven, they're forgiven thee. This man shall be the peace. Turn if you will to Galatians
chapter 1. Galatians chapter 1. This is exactly what we read
here. Christ is our peace. Christ himself
is our peace. Christ alone is our peace. Here in Galatians chapter 1 verse
20. And having made peace. Made peace. Sounds like it's done. The job's
done. And having made peace, how? Through
the blood of his cross. By him, that is Christ, to reconcile
all things unto himself. By him, I say, whether they be
things in earth or things in heaven. And you that were sometimes
alienated, enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath
he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death to present
you wholly and unblameable and unreprovable in his sight. And that's what Paul says in
verse 15 here in Ephesians chapter 2. Look at it, verse 15. Having abolished, abolished in
his flesh that enmity even the law of commandments contained
in ordinances for the making himself of twain one new man
so making peace. Christ, his people's champion,
took up the quarrel between God and themselves And he alone,
as we just read, abolished the enmity. Christ took away the
reason for the argument between God and us. He bridged that otherwise
impossible gulf between a holy God and a sinful man. He bridged it. He bridged it. He bridged that Great gulf that
separated us from our God. Our sin. Christ in his own body
bore our sins away upon the cross. They're abolished. They're no
more. Turn back, if you will, to Galatians. We read a moment ago a few verses
in chapter 1. Look, if you will, in chapter
2. Galatians chapter 2 verse 13. And you being dead in your sins,
make your peace with God? Dead in sin? Looks like a pretty
helpless state to me. Can't do anything. You being
dead in your sins and uncircumcision of your flesh, had he quickened,
he did it, together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses. blotting out the handwriting
of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us,
and took it out of the way, knelling it to his cross and having spoiled,
you know what the word is for spoiled? Disarmed. Disarmed. I remember several
years ago reading a story in the paper about a pilot a pilot
in the Air Force. He was over a neutral territory
and I don't know if it was North Korea or some country sent word
up to him, you're in our airspace. Get out now. And he said, I beg
to differ. I'm not in your airspace. And
they said, we'll give you one more warning. If you're not out
of our airspace pronto, we're going to send up a missile. And
he said, well, this is an F-15. And I'm armed with such and such
great bombs that I can't remember would understand Andre would.
But he said, you go ahead and send them on up. I'll wait. I'll
wait. And there was no response. Jesus
Christ disarmed that. which was contrary to us. He
took it out of the way, knelling it to his cross. Look at verse
15 again. And having disarmed principalities
and powers, he made a show of them openly. What did he do?
Triumphing over them, over all of them. Yes, Christ himself
is our peace. He took them out of the way.
Christ met all the lost demands Head on. Head on. Christ was
made under the law. God sent forth his son, we read
in Galatians 4, made under the law. I came, he told the religious
leaders. I came not to destroy the law.
He said, you make void the law of God. You substitute your traditions
and call it the law of God. You set aside God's law that
you might keep your tradition. He says, no, not me. I don't
set aside God's law. I came not to destroy the law,
but to fulfill the law. People think that because the
law of God was a hill too high for us to attain to, we couldn't
keep the law. By the deeds of the law shall
no flesh be justified in God's sight. The law exposes our sin,
condemns us, proves us guilty, that every mouth might be shut
before God Almighty, but it can never justify. It can never justify. Christ did not set aside God's
law. He kept the law. He honored the
law. The law's precepts. Turn, if
you will, to John's Gospel chapter 17. John chapter 17. Remember when our Lord was praying
to his heavenly Father? In John 17, he says in verse
2, as thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should
give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him? And this
is life eternal that they might be a Baptist? This is life eternal
that they might understand five points? This is life eternal
that they might be religious? No, no, no. This is life eternal
literally reading, to know God, this is life eternal, to know
thee the only true God and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent. I
have glorified thee on the earth, I have finished the work which
thou gavest me to do. He hadn't yet gone to the cross
and yet he says I finished the work which thou gavest me to
do. I think that refers to the law's
precepts. Christ honored God's holy law. From the first breath he drew
in that stable in Bethlehem until that last breath that he expired
upon the cross, he did everything to please God Almighty. God Almighty
required the keeping of his law. His law had to be honored. And
Christ did that in his life. And then there was the penalty.
The soul that sinneth, it must die. That has to be honored as
well. And Christ met that head on.
In John's Gospel chapter 18, are you still there? In John
18? Look at verse 4. Oh, I love this picture. This
picture of substitution. Our glory a substitute. Jesus
therefore knowing. knowing all things that shall
come upon him, went forth, went forth, steps out before his frightened
sheep. The great shepherd leads the
way. He always does. He always does. And he says to that bloodthirsty,
mob, whom seek ye? Who did you come here looking
for? And they answered, Jesus of Nazareth. And he said, I am
he. I am he. And Judas also, which
betrayed him, stood with them. And as soon as he had said unto
them, I am he, they went backward and fell to the ground. Then
he asked them again, whom seek ye? And they said, Jesus of Nazareth. And Jesus answered, I've told
you that I am he. I'm the one you seek. If therefore
ye seek me, let these go their way, that the same might be fulfilled
which he spake of them which thou gavest me, have I lost none. Awake, O sword, against the man
who is my fellow. Smite the shepherd. Christ came
forward knowing all things that should come upon him. The soul
that sinneth God's justice said must die. And Christ steps out
as our glorious substitute and says that the justice and law
and holiness of God, here I am, take me. Awake, O sword, against
me. Smite me. But in doing so, All these, all these must go
their way. You can't take me. You can't
crucify me and my sheep too. Take me, oh glorious Savior,
glorious Savior. God has made Him Our peace, Christ,
who knew no sin, to be sin for us. And the sure result of that
is this. There's no question about this.
The sure result of that is this. What Christ himself, our champion,
our savior, our priest, the offerer and the offering, everything. When he had offered himself without
spot to God, when he was made sin, he who knew no sin, he said
this, it is finished. It is finished. When the devil
brings my sins up to me, oh, for grace to answer him with
those precious words, it is finished. You go take up the argument with
my captain. You go take up the argument with
my elder brother. He bore all my sins in his own
body on the tree. When he had by himself purged
my sins, he sat down. He got the job done. You go take
it up with him. He is our peace. He himself. Oh, he's the foundation of justice
satisfied. Oh, the mighty gulf that God
did span at Calvary. You remember what the psalmist
said? Mercy and truth are met together
at Calvary. The only place righteousness
and peace Not enemies. Reconciled. Friends. They have
kissed one another. On that foundation, Christ is
our peace. You remember, after his resurrection,
he appeared to the disciples when they were in that upper
room, just scared to death. Look what they've done to our
master. It's just a matter of time before they come for us.
And they've got the doors locked. But that doesn't keep the shepherd
from his sheep. I'll come to you, he said. I'll
come to you. And there he stands in the midst
of them. And he says to them, peace. Peace be unto you. And then he shows them his hands
and his feet. Oh, the purchase of peace. The
price of our peace. He who is our peace. Religion says, how can a man
have peace with God? And they say in answer to that
question, oh, that's easy. This will bring it. Make a decision
for Jesus. Go to an altar. I had a lady tell me, I think
I've related this story to you. I was in a store downtown. And
she asked me who I was, why I moved here, and so forth. And I told
her I was the pastor here at Fairmont Grace Church. Not Fairmont
Free Will Church, but Fairmont Grace Church. And she said, oh,
I was there one time. I visited it. She said, that's
the strangest church I was ever in. And I said, well, why is
that? She said, because the man preached.
And after he preached, he didn't give an altar call. She said,
how is anybody going to be saved without an altar call? They're saved not by the moving
of their feet, but God Almighty, by His sovereign reigning grace,
moving on their hearts and creating in them a new heart. That's how
men are saved, by the grace of God. They've never been saved
any other way. But religion says, how can a
man be just with God? How can I have peace with God?
Go to the preacher. Go to the priest. But God says,
that won't do. That won't do. I won't accept
that. That's not enough. It's never
enough. As we said a moment ago, this
is what God requires. Perfection. John, that's what
he requires. Years ago, my oldest son, Larry,
came to me, asked me about that. How can a man be saved? How can
he be just with God? And I gave him a tape back in
the days of the, not CDs, but the tape, the cassette, by Brother
Henry Mahan. I thought there's not a better
answer I can give him than to have him listen to that message
from Matthew 5. Accept your righteousness, exceed
the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you shall in no
wise inherit the kingdom of heaven. Larry listened to it and he came
back to me and he said, Dad, that man said in that message,
the only way a sinner can be saved, how good does a man have
to be to enter heaven? He's got to be as good as God
Almighty. And Dale said, Dad, I don't understand
that. How can that be? How can that
be? This is how it can be. This is how it is. This is how
it is. With his holy garments on, I'm
as holy as God's own Son. That's how it is. That's where
our perfection lies. Look here in Ephesians chapter
1 verse 7. This is where it's at. This is
where perfection is. This is where peace with God
is. Here's the grounds of justification. You want to go home tonight and
lie down and know, know that if God Almighty says concerning
you this night, this very night, your soul's going to be required
of you, I'm going to usher you in to my presence this very hour,
you know how to have peace in the light of that. Right here.
In whom? Not in what? Not in what? Not in religion, not in works,
not in man's will or man's merit or man's worth, but in Christ,
in whom we have redemption through His blood. There it is, the forgiveness
of sins according to what? The riches of His grace. That's where perfection is, in
the Beloved. Where else could it be? Where
else could it be? It's not my doing, but His. It's not my work, but His. Oh, dear dying Lamb, you know
the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. I've said that before. But John
said, he saw a lamb as if it had been slain in the midst of
the throne of God. As if to teach us that the sacrifice
of God's Son speaks perpetually, speaks everlastingly, satisfaction,
the God Almighty. It says continually before a
just and holy God, here it is, here am I, take me. And God says,
I'm satisfied, that's enough. Dear dying lamb, thy precious
blood shall never lose its power. To all the ransomed church of
God, be saved to sin no more. John Chapman, I ran across this
article in someone's bulletin the other day, speaking of the
power of the blood of Christ. The power of his blood shall
never change. It still cleanses from sin, no
matter how deep the stain has gone. I write now in my mind's
eye a picture of Judy Estes sitting at that piano. in Danville, Kentucky,
singing, oh, the blood that reaches deeper than the stain is gone. Oh, thank God for that blood
that reaches deeper than the stain is gone. No matter how
deep the stain is gone, His blood washes it away. His sacrifice
will never change. It will never lose its effectiveness
because it is always fresh in the midst of the throne of God.
We have a living sacrifice standing in the midst of the throne of
God. When we rise out of our beds in the morning and go through
our changes, Just remember that there is one who remains the
same yesterday, today, and forever. The Rock. Christ Jesus. He is our peace. The experience
of peace. The experience of peace. It only
comes through Christ. Christ really does give peace. The peace of God and peace with
God. He told his troubled disciples
that night. He said, in the world, You shall
have tribulation. But my peace I leave with you.
My peace I'm giving unto you, not like the world gives. Oh,
no, no, no. That's fleeting. That's temporary.
That's not real. Oh, my peace the world can't
give and the world can't take it away. My peace will allow
you. When sorrows like sea billows
roll, my peace will allow you to trust in your God. When your
heart breaks and you believe there's no one that you can speak
to, no one you can identify with, my peace like a river will keep
you. My peace give eye unto you. God is at peace with us through
the blood of Jesus Christ, long before he subdues our stubborn
wills to enjoy peace by faith. Thanks be unto God, Jesus Christ
does come, does come into our hearts with his power and gives
peace to the hearts and consciences. of his people. How much more
shall the blood of Christ, Paul asked in Hebrews 10, purge your
conscience from dead works? How much more shall the blood
of Christ do so to serve the living God? Spurgeon said, peace
with God is the treaty. Peace in the conscience is the
publication of it. Peace with God is the fountain.
Peace in the conscience is the stream that flows from that fountain.
Peace was made in the court of divine justice in heaven when
Christ's blood made an atonement for our sins. And peace is declared
in the heart when he sends forth his spirit into our hearts crying,
Abba, Father. Abba, Father. Turn, if you will,
to Luke's Gospel, chapter 7. There were so many examples of
the experience of peace with God, the peace of God that we
could give, but let this one suffice. Just this one. Luke chapter 7. There was a Pharisee
named Simeon, or Simon rather, that invited our Lord home one
day. And our Lord accepted the invitation.
He went to his house, we're told in verse 36, and can you picture
this? He invited a lot of other of
his order of the Pharisees to be there too. I don't know what
Simon's intent was, but in verse 37, behold, behold. Now why do you suppose this begins
with a behold? A woman? What's so great about
that? Oh, a woman in the city which
was a sinner. A sinner. Behold, Here's a woman
who was a sinner, and unlike Simon, and unlike most today,
she knew she was a sinner. She knew she was a sinner. If
you would tell her she's a sinner, when they saw her touching the
Lord and said, hmm, doesn't he know she's a sinner? She would
say, guilty, guilty, I'm guilty. This woman was a sinner. When
she knew that Jesus said it, Mead in the Pharisees' house
brought an alabaster box of ointment. Look what our Lord says in response
to Simon and those others who said, Oh, this woman's a sinner
that touches Him. Why does He allow her to do so?
Only sinners touch Him. Only sinners touch Christ, savingly. Verse 41, there was a certain
creditor which had two debtors. The one owed 500 pence and the
other 50. And when they had nothing to
pay, have you ever been there? Have you ever been there? Ever
been brought there? Ever been brought to know in
your heart of hearts, in the depths of your soul, I owe a
debt. I owe a debt to God's holy law
and I've got nothing to pay. Got nothing to pay. Justice calls
for payment, and I've got nothing to give. And when they had nothing
to pay, He frankly, freely, that's the word, freely, He freely forgave
them both. Tell me therefore, which of them
will love Him most? Verse 47, Wherefore I say unto
thee, Her sins which are many are forgiven. For, a better translation
would be, therefore. Therefore. She's not forgiven
because she loves. She loves because she's forgiven.
Therefore she loves much. But to whom little is forgiven,
the same loveth little. And he said unto her, thy sins
are forgiven thee. There's peace. There's peace. Thy sins are forgiven thee. And they that sat at meat with
him began to say within themselves, Who is this? Who does he think
he is that forgiveth sins also? And he said unto the woman, Don't
pay any attention to them. You ignore them. Thy faith hath
made thee whole. Go in peace. Go in peace. Do you reckon she left there
singing a hymn something like The one we sang a moment ago
or earlier in our service. I'm only a sinner saved by grace. Only a sinner saved by grace. This is my story to God be the
glory. I'm only a sinner saved by grace. His peace now cheers our hearts
and lifts above the earth. He is our peace, blessed peace
of heart, the gift of heavenly birth. This peace by Jesus given
is known by saints alone, the prelude and the pledge of heaven,
where he'll be fully known. And that brings us to our conclusion. The conclusion or the climax
of peace. Oh, it's to be with him forever. To be with that one who purchased
peace for his people by paying every debt they owe. to be with
that one who in the fullness of time came and was made sin
for you and I and because we're sons in time he comes and speaks
peace to our hearts there was a preacher who visited one of
his members one time who was dying and upon entering his room
he asked and what are you doing today my brother and he said
what am I doing I'll tell you what I'm doing He said, I'm lying
here and I'm gathering together all my good works and all my
bad works and putting them in one big bundle and I'm tossing
them overboard. Tossing them overboard. And I'm
sailing to heaven on the plank of free grace alone in Jesus
Christ alone. That's it. That's it. There's
an article in our bulletin Grace always. Grace always by Lloyd-Jones. And he said it is grace at the
beginning and grace at the end. Don't you like that? And everything
in between, that's grace. So that when you and I come to
lie upon our deathbeds, the one thing that should comfort and
help and strengthen us is that there is that one thing that
helped us in the beginning. Not what we have been, not what
we have done. Oh my soul. I've been at the
bedside of some folks who were dying and that's all they had. That's all they had. What they
had done. That's all they had. They're
going out to face a holy God. And all they had to cling to
was the filthy rags of a profession. Self-righteous. They're going
out to face God Almighty. And that's all they had. It'll
not be what we have done or what we have been, but the grace of
God in Christ Jesus our Lord. The Christian life starts with
grace. It must continue with grace. And it ends with grace.
Grace, wondrous grace. By the grace of God, I am what
I am. This wasn't in my notes, but
I'm thinking of it right now. John Newton said, I'm not what
I should be. Man, Newton, neither is Larry
Criss. I'm not what I should be, not
by a long shot. And I'm not what I want to be.
I hope that's true, too. And I'm not what one day I'm
going to be. But thank God, by His grace,
I'm not what I used to be. I'm not what I used to be. And
it's all because of His grace. By the grace of God, I am what
I am. Yet not I, but the grace of God
which is in me. Let us close with the benediction
in Hebrews chapter 13 with these words. Now the God of peace,
the God of peace, oh child of God, may he impress the reality
of that on our hearts this very day. Now the God of peace that
brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd
of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working
in you, that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ
to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. Amen. God bless you.