Okay, this morning we're going
to take a look at Philippians chapter 4, one verse, verse 19. One verse, Philippians 4, verse
19. But God, but my God, but my God,
God who is God, God who is almighty, God who is eternal, God who cannot
fail, my God, my God, the God of scripture, the God of covenant
mercies, the God of salvation, my God shall, not maybe, not
could, or it could happen if you meet certain conditions,
my God shall supply. everything he does is successful. God shall. He says, I shall be
your God, I will be your God, and you shall be my people. My
God shall supply. He has a big storehouse. His storehouse of mercy You cannot
exhaust His storehouse of mercy, a supply, an endless supply,
a glorious supply of riches unending, the unsearchable riches of the
Lord Jesus Christ. How great are they? They're unsearchable. You see this text here, how it
just opens up to you? But my God shall supply all,
not some, all, your need. Do you have any? Maybe he'll supply some of them.
No, it says here that God of Scripture, God who is God, shall
supply all your need, all of them. Do you have a need? He
meets every one of them. Every one of them. Fully, totally,
eternally. All your need. I just need one thing. I just
need one person. In Him, I have everything. And
this is according to His riches. It's not according to my works.
I love that word, according. It's not according to my righteousness
that He blesses us. It's not even according to my
faith. It's according to His riches of His grace. the riches of His glory by, according
to and by, what? The Lord Jesus Christ. Everything
God has for any sinner is in the Lord Jesus Christ. We read
just a moment ago, Genesis 22, My God shall supply. My God will
provide all your need. Everything He provides, He accepts. Nothing else will He accept.
He only accepts that which He provides. The Lord Jesus Christ
is God's provision for us. He meets all our need according
to His riches in glory through Christ Jesus. You see why I'm
looking at that verse? You can just take that and suck
it in and meditate upon it. And it comforts your heart and
blesses your heart. It's just a blessing. Abraham
rejoiced in the Lord's provision, didn't he? Isaac rejoiced when
he saw that lamb caught in the thicket, and the Lord said, I
will provide a lamb for sacrifice. Abraham rejoiced in what the
Lord provided, and David The King of Israel rejoiced and meditated
upon the Great Shepherd, the Good Shepherd, the Chief Shepherd.
Remember, he writes in Psalm 23, the Lord is my Shepherd,
and because the Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want. I shall not
want for rest. I shall not want for peace. I
shall not want for righteousness. I shall not want for redemption.
I shall not want for anything. Why? The Lord is my Shepherd. He's a good shepherd who lay
down his life for the sheep. The great and blessed truth of
the gospel causes sinners to rejoice in the Lord. As it says
in verse four, rejoice in the Lord always. And again, I say
rejoice. Look back to chapter three. Verse
3, Paul said, We are the true circumcision, the true Israel
of God, which worship God in the Spirit, that rejoiced in
the Lord Jesus Christ, and we have no confidence in the flesh.
Even though the Apostle Paul was sitting in prison, two years,
he's in prison in Rome. What's he doing those two years?
He's writing and preaching the Gospel. He's writing these letters
back to us. Six of these epistles were written
from a Roman prison cell, and he says, I know how to abound,
and I know how to be abased, and everywhere in all things
I'm instructed both to be full and to be hungry, to abound and
to suffer need, not that I speak in respect of want, for I've
learned in whatsoever state I'm in, whatever state I'm in, Kentucky
or Virginia, prison or liberty, wherever I'm at, whatever state
I'm in and wherever I'm at, we find contentment and comfort
and peace in Him. Look at verse 7, verse 6 and
verse 7. Be careful for nothing, don't
be anxious, overly anxious, fret not, but in everything by prayer
and supplication with thanksgiving, let your request be made known
to God. Cry out unto the Lord, And the
peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your
hearts and minds in the Lord Jesus Christ. Pour out your heart
before Him. God is a refuge for us. And then
he says over in verse 9, These things which you have both learned,
being taught of God, and received as a gift of His free grace,
and of her. You've been blessed to hear the
gospel, and the things that you've seen in me, do those things. And the God of peace, the God
of peace shall be with you. Now what a blessing, what a blessing
these verses are to us. But I want to take a look carefully
at verse 19, and I have five I have five points in this message and the first one is this. This
word in verse 19, my God shall supply all your need according
to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. The word here I want to
look at first is the word need. Need. Need. All your need. We are by birth and by our sinful
nature, poor and needy creatures. We are bankrupt sinners on the
dunghill of humanity of sin and guilt. We have great need. We have great need. How did we
get in such a terrible shape? And Adam all died and Adam all
sinned. And because of that, his guilt
It's been passed right on to us. It's been imputed and reckoned
unto us. We not only have the guilt of
His sin, but we have the nature of that fallen nature of Adam
given unto us. There's none righteous, no, not
one. There's none that understands.
There's none that seek after God. They've all gone out of
the way. They're altogether unprofitable. There is none that do us good,
no, not one. That sounds like somebody has
a need. Do you have a need? Oh, we're needy creatures, aren't
we? Over ten times in the book of
Psalms, David says of himself, I am poor and needy. Ten times
he says this. I am poor and needy. I am poor
and needy. Yet, the Lord thinks upon me. I am poor and needy. Would you
think the Lord of glory would have left the realms of the throne
of God's glory and come here manifest in the flesh if we didn't
have a need that only He could meet for us? We need not borrow needs from
any others. I have plenty of my own. I don't
need to borrow any of yours. I'm just like you. I'm poor and
needy. I'm poor and needy. We have need of food, shelter,
clothing, don't we? Physical needs. Even in all these physical, temporary
things, the Lord supplies our needs. I'm using plural there,
needs. Food, shelter, clothing, housing,
He provides for us. Our Lord said, for without me,
you can do nothing. It's only by the Lord's mercy
and grace that we're able to work, have a job, earn a living
to meet the need of our family. Yeah, he says, as he says here
in verse 13, I can do all things through Christ that strengthens
me. It's only by His great mercy to us that we have any kind of
physical, mental ability to earn a living, to get up and go to
work. That too is a gift of His grace,
is it not? Our physical needs are many,
but they pale in comparison to our spiritual need, don't they? I need Him. I need the Lord Jesus
Christ. We're totally helpless and absolutely
dependent upon Him. Shut up to our great God to supply
our every spiritual need. Our need is great, is it not? Maybe we can say it this way.
What is it that we don't need? in the realm of a spiritual need. We need faith, don't we? Where does faith come from? Faith
is a gift of God, not a work that any man should boast. Our
Lord said, without me, without faith, you cannot please God. Those that come to God must believe
that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek
him. Faith is a gift of God. It's not of works. So we need
faith, don't we? We need repentance, both faith
and repentance are gifts of God. We need forgiveness from all
our sin and all our iniquities. I cannot put away my sin. You
cannot atone or make redemption for one sin, the least of the
sins that we have. We need forgiveness from all
our sins, all our iniquities. That is met in the Lord Jesus
Christ. We need life from the dead. We
need to be resurrected from the dead, regenerated and made new
creatures in Christ. Try that one. See if your free
will works on that one. Raise yourself from the dead.
Ain't gonna happen. You see, we're totally shut up
to the Lord Jesus Christ to meet our every need. Faith, life,
forgiveness. We need a justifying righteousness
before God. We need one. The best I have
is filthy rags in his sight. That's why Paul said they count
all done and ruined and lost that he might win Christ and
be found in him. Not having my own righteousness
which is of the law but that which is through the faith of
Christ. The righteousness which is of God by faith. By one man's
disobedience, many were made sinners. By the obedience of
another, shall many be made righteous. That's what we had on the radio
broadcast this morning. By his obedience unto death,
chapter 2 says, by his faithfulness, his obedience unto death, we
have salvation in Christ our Lamb. So, point number one, your
needs. Has God ever shown you in your
heart what great need you have of Him? Oh, I pray that He does. Over and over and over again,
just remind us, Lord, I need Thee every hour. We sing that
song in our hymn book, I need Thee, oh, I need Thee every hour.
I need Thee, precious Lord, I need Thee. Here's point number two. The poor and needy sinner has
a great good and chief shepherd. We have a great helper, a great
supplier, a great provider, a great Savior. My God shall supply all
your need. Now, what does a needy creature
need? He needs an almighty Savior. I like what Newton, I put it
in the bulletin today, The last sermon he preached, I'm a great
sinner, but I have a great Savior. And we do. We do. We have, my
God shall supply all your needs. He said, come boldly unto the
throne of grace that you may obtain mercy and find grace to
help in time of need. When is that? I know with me
it's all the time. My God. Who is this God? This
God of Paul. This God that he tells us about. God who is God, he said, beside
me there is no other God. The heathen asked David, David,
where is your God? David said, our God's in the
heavens. He had done whatsoever he had pleased. God is in the
heavens. Whatsoever the Lord pleased,
that what he does in heaven and in earth. He's a God of all creation. Look right across the page, Colossians
chapter one. For by Him all things were created
that are in heaven, that are in the earth, visible, invisible,
whether it be thrones or dominions, principalities or powers. All
things were created by Him and for Him. He is before all things,
and by Him all things consist. He is the great Creator. My God
shall supply. Who is He? He is the God of all
creation. He is the God of all peace, as
it says there. The God of peace. He made peace
for us with His own blood. The Lord Jesus Christ did. He
made peace for us with His own blood. He's a God of peace. He's a God of all creation. He's
a God of all providence. Psalm 145 said, when God opens
His hand, He satisfies the desire of every living thing. He opens
His hand. with a handful of all spiritual
blessings and He freely gives them unto us. He's the God of
all salvation. There's salvation in no other
than the Lord Jesus Christ. You remember back in chapter
1 where we started our study in Philippians chapter 1 verse
6. But my God, excuse me, being
confident of this very thing, that He who had begun a good
work in you, He will perform it, He will perfect it until
the day of the Lord Jesus Christ. God who had begun this good work,
He will finish the work. He's a God of all salvation.
In 1 Peter, He's called the God of all grace. He's a God of all
grace. There's no grace apart from the
Lord Jesus Christ. No part, no grace apart from
the Lord Jesus Christ. He's a God of all grace. He's
a God of all comfort. The God of all comfort. Comfort
you one another with these things. And He's a God of all victory
and power, is He not? Thanks be to God who has given
us a victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Aren't you glad
that you can read this verse this morning and say, My God. He's my God. My God, the God
of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, my God, shall take care of all
my need. I want to trust Him. I'm going
to trust Him for all my need. Sovereign, holy, eternal, almighty
God able to do all that He promised. And that's what saving faith
comes to this point. As Abraham was strong in faith,
giving glory unto God, being persuaded, fully persuaded that
all that God has promised, he's able to do. He's able to save
to the uttermost all that come to God by Him. He's performed
all things for us, able to keep us from falling. This is the
one who meets our need, my God. He's God our Savior, the Lord
Jesus Christ. The Word made flesh and dwelt
among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten
of the Father, full of grace and truth. Point number three,
His great resources. My God shall supply all your
need, not some of your need. Now that wouldn't be good news,
would it? God can meet some of your need,
No, I need all my need met. And His great resources my God
shall supply. Not some of your need, but all
of your need. Fully, freely, eternally, in
a grand and glorious way. He's plenteous in redemption.
Look one page over, Colossians chapter 2, verse 9 and 10. For in Him dwelleth all the fullness
of a Godhead bodily, and you are complete in Him, which is
the head of all principality and power." You're what? Complete. Nothing lacking. Complete. Complete in Him. My God will
fill to the full all your needs. How generously and freely the
Lord gives to poor and needy sinners. Remember from Romans
chapter 8, God who spared not His own Son, but delivered Him
up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us
all things? Romans 3, 24. All of you know
that scripture because I quote it every sermon I preach. being justified freely by His
grace through the redemption that is in the Lord Jesus Christ. He does so not according to our
merit, but rather according to His riches. Now, how rich is
He? How rich is He? Well, beyond
description. He's the owner of all things
according to His riches in glory. He's blessed us with all spiritual
blessing in the heavenlies in the Lord Jesus Christ. His storehouse
of mercy can never be exhausted. It's new and full every morning. His fountain and wellhead of
grace never runs dry. Remember, of His fullness have
we all received grace for grace. That's the reason. You know the
reason for grace? Of His fullness have we all received
grace because of His grace. Grace for grace. He's full of
grace and truth, and of His fullness have we all received every spiritual
blessing in the Lord Jesus Christ. According to the riches of His
grace, which are always springing up into everlasting life. He said, if any man thirsts,
let him come unto Me and drink. His love never fails, cannot
fail, because He's rich in mercy for His great love wherewith
He loved us. Remember that verse in Ephesians 2, but God who is
rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even
when we were dead in sin, hath quickened us together with him,
by grace are you saved. God committed his love toward
us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us,
in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of
sin, according to the riches of his grace. You see what he's
saying there? According to the riches of His
grace. The riches of His grace keep
flowing and flowing world without end, never ending. According
to the riches of His glory, our God is glorified in giving richly. Our Lord gives abundantly out
of the riches of His grace and glory, but He also gives richly
to magnify His grace and glory. Does that make sense? filled
with all the fullness of God in Christ, pictured our being
in God and God being in us. Now I read this illustration
years ago on this point of how that He is in us and we are in
Him. All of you have been to the ocean,
right? Most of you. If you took a bottle
a little bottle or a quart bottle and put ocean water in that bottle,
sealed it up, and threw it out in the ocean, what would you
have? You would have ocean water in
the ocean, right? That's what we have in Christ.
A bottle being filled with ocean water, and the bottle cast into
the ocean, and the ocean in the bottle, and the bottle in the
ocean. That is Christ in us, and us in Christ. Our life is
hid with Christ in God. Now let me see if I can give
you a scriptural illustration for that. Find John 17. Well, let's first of all find
John 10. Christ, our life is hid with
Christ in God, Colossians 3, 3. And here's what he's saying
here in John 10, verse 27. My sheep, they hear my voice,
I know them, they follow me. I give unto them eternal life
and they shall never perish. Neither shall any man pluck them
out of my hand. Okay? We're in His hand. We're called the people of His
pasture and the sheep of His hand. My Father which gave them
Me is greater than all, and no man can pluck them out of My
Father's hand. I and My Father are one. We're
in His hand, and His hand in the Father's hand. Now, I call
that salvation that cannot be taken away. Look over here in
John 17. Turn over there. Verse 20, Neither
I pray for these alone, but for them also which shall believe
on me through their word, that they all may be one, as thou,
Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in
us, that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. Verse
22, John 17, In the glory which thou gavest me, I have given
them, that they may be one, even as we are one. complete in Christ,
I in them, thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one, that
the world may know that thou hast sent me and hast loved them
as thou hast loved me. Wow. That's good news, is it
not? My God shall supply all your
need according to his riches in glory by the Lord Jesus Christ. Now the last point is the means
that God has ordained to supply every need. Notice, according
to His riches in glory by according to and by the Lord Jesus Christ. We're always blessed in Christ,
by Him and through Him, never apart from Him. There is no mercy
and no salvation from God apart from Christ. The Lord Jesus Christ,
it says over here, if you want to look at it, you can. In Colossians
chapter 3, he says, where there is neither Jew nor Greek, circumcision
nor uncircumcision, barbarian nor scythian, bond nor free,
but Christ is all and in all." Christ is all in salvation. Christ
is all. According to His riches in glory
by the Lord Jesus Christ. He's blessed us with all spiritual
blessing in the heavenlies in the Lord Jesus Christ. How does
the Lord give us all things? How does He supply everything?
We need, how does He do that? By giving us Christ Himself.
You see, if you have Him, you have everything. If you have
Him, you have everything. He that hath the Son hath life,
right? Now, is He enough? That's all God has given is the
Lord Jesus Christ. If you have Him, you have everything. eternal salvation. He obtained
for us eternal salvation. He worked out for us by His blood
atonement and obtained eternal redemption for us. He gives us
everlasting life, eternal life. If the Lord Jesus Christ is all
you have you have everything God has in store for His church.
He has made unto us wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption,
that according as it is written, He that glories, let him glory
only in the Lord Jesus Christ. I want to read one of the scriptures
to you because I can't quote it. In 1 Corinthians chapter
3, verse 21 says, Therefore let no man glory in men, for all
things are yours, whether Paul, or Paulus, or Cephas, or the
world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to
come, all are yours. Now watch it. 1 Corinthians 3,
23, And ye are Christ's, and Christ is God's. That salvation, my friend, in
the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, last statement, look at
verse 20. Who gets the glory for all this?
My God supplying all your needs according to His riches by the
Lord Jesus Christ. Who gets the glory? Verse 20
is the answer. Now unto God our Father be glory
forever and ever. Amen. Amen. So be it. God gets the glory
for all that He has given unto us in the Lord Jesus Christ. As Paul said, God forbid I should
glory. saved in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. God has
so designed salvation that he must have all the honor and glory. Worthy is the lamb that was slain
to receive all honor, glory, blessings, and power. The Lord
will provide and the Lord has provided all things for us. God will provide himself a lamb
for an offering and the Lord himself is that lamb John said,
Behold the Lamb of God that taketh away our sin. Now one more time,
look at Philippians 4 verse 19. Now take this with you. It'll
be a blessing to you. Take this with you today and
all week and think about this verse. My God, but my God shall
supply all your need according to His riches in grace and glory
by whom? By Him, by Jesus Christ our Lord.