My Prayer for You: Ephesians 3:14 -21

Thanksgiving for God’s Blessings and a Prayer for Worship

Good morning. Great to see you here this morning. What a blessing it is as we consider. This is the day the Lord has made. And we will rejoice and be glad in it. So we are here this morning to praise God and to remember all of his blessings and So let us be joyful this morning as we come and serve him.

Let's go to Lord in prayer. Dear father, we're thankful for all of your blessings upon us individually and as a church and as we Assemble this morning and worship you. May we worship you from our hearts father, and we give you all the glory this morning in Jesus name.

Good morning. Let's the Lord of my soul and all that is within me bless his holy name from forgetting on his benefits. My help comes from the Lord which made heaven and earth. Jesus Christ is Lord. It is Jesus Christ who saves souls.

Praise God the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit. It is in him that we are able that he It is him that is able to keep you from falling and to present you faultless Before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy.

To Jesus Christ the only wise God our Savior. Be glory and majesty. Dominion power now Forever. Amen. And please stand and let's sing. The Lord is my salvation For singing and please be seated at this time.

Well, good morning.

First want to say see a few new faces out there. So welcome to the Bible Church this morning. We're glad to have you. Giving you a hug right now, but you just can't so I hope you understand. It's it's everybody's resisting that impulse to extend themselves Physically to embrace someone else and especially as believers.

And so yes hard hug. Okay. There we go. Sign. But it's not quite the same thing, but you know, our heart is so welcome. This we're grateful. This is our second week of being open Corporately in this building and praise God for that.

So amen. It's another significant day and a few heavy hearts today. Ladies Bible study is next or this Saturday at 10 o 'clock. Meet here 10 o 'clock ladies and you haven't been to a lady's Bible study before you'd like to come out.

All visitors are welcome. I'm totally unprepared. But if you've been there before she so I think if I've come so I'll across her face turn to your Bibles to John chapter 17.

Eternal Life in Knowing the Father and the Son

Start with verse 1. Go to verse 3. These words spoke Jesus and lifted up his eyes to heaven and said father the hour is come glorify thy son that thy son also may glorify thee as thou has given him power over all flesh that he should give eternal life to as many as thou has given him and This is life eternal that they might know thee the only true God and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.

And may God bless the reading of his word.

Please stand and join us in singing beautiful Savior where he goes to God. Praise God. He is worthy, isn't he? Let's go Lord in prayer.

Dear Heavenly Father we exult in you this morning we Exalt your name on high because you are so good. You are so holy you are so Loving you are so worth serving and worth knowing and we are so blessed this morning as We come before you this morning and before your word.

We pray that you would bless us as we get into your word. That we might hide your word in our heart and produce fruit for your glory. And I ask this in Jesus name. Amen. My wife and I have received many blessings In life, but I would like to say perhaps one of the greatest blessings In our lives has been serving here at Faith Bible Church With you in the gospel.

It has been an incredible privilege. It has been a wonderful Blessing. I couldn't imagine a greater church a more loving church a more generous and caring and faithful Church than this church right here and you have been a blessing to myself and my wife all of these years and We've had to make a hard decision To leave but we know that it's going to be for the best and that you have an incredible future ahead of you and so we are Going with in a hard way in the sense that it's sad.

But we also know that God is going to be with you and in you are going to Be incredibly blessed as a church. Just as you have been an incredible blessing to us. So this morning I couldn't think of a better way to Have a Parting sermon so to speak then to have a blessing.

In other words the name of this sermon is my prayer for you. And my prayer for you is Paul's prayer for the Ephesians and That is basically summed up in this. That Christ will be your all-in-all. That's my prayer for you this morning.

Let's look at Ephesians 3 14 through 21. Ephesians 3 14 through 21 it's always good to read the verses before you preach. I Remember once I didn't do it I used to always do it. Then one of the brothers came up to me after the service said pastor There would be a good thing to do when you preach and that would be to read the verses beforehand.

And it's always stuck with me. Yeah. Yeah, that's a good thing to do. So that's why I do it. Verse 14. For this reason I bow my knees to the father of our Lord Jesus Christ From whom the whole family in Heaven and earth is named.

That he would grant you according to the riches of his glory. To be strengthened with might through his spirit in the inner man. That Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. That you being rooted and grounded in love May be able to comprehend with all the Saints.

What is the width and the length and depth and height. To know the love of Christ which passes Knowledge that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. Now to him who is able to do exceedingly Abundantly above all we ask or think According to the power that works in us to him.

Be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen. You know what those verses are so glorious. I feel like I can just stop and go home now. I hope you sense the glory in those verses.

First of all when I consider what my prayer would be For you this morning first thing is I Pray that you will find God's strength verses 14 and 15. We see true prayer now in this Prayer in these verses as Is the case with Paul's prayers for the believers?

He always prays that God's people Will know Christ in a deep and personal way and know his blessings and the blessings they have in Christ and That's what we see in this prayer now. Paul's prayer for the Saints is God's heart.

It's his desire for us. So my prayer for you this morning is Paul's prayer that you may grow deep in Christ and find the riches of his love and Be able to extend that to other people not only individually But as a church, that's my prayer for all of us now verse 14 Really goes back to chapter 3 verse number 1.

In chapter 3 verse number 1 Paul had been talking about the glory of the church Where he took Jews and Gentiles and he saved them through Jesus Christ. He redeemed them and he made them the Blessed Church God's spiritual Church his body which is called one new man.

And so after chapter 3 verse 1 Paul Goes into what we call a parentheses, which means that he goes into He goes off the beaten path a little ways and he talks about the mystery of Christ. Which is the glory of the church the one new man that God has made by saving Jews and Gentiles.

What a what a glory it is when when we not only have a high view of God but have a correct Biblical and high view of the church, even though we do see a lot of problems in the church. It's God's Church, right?

And it's made up of Jews and Gentiles that are saved and what a wonderful privilege it is To be a member of God's Church and to serve God through his church and again, I Just want to thank you For all the years of support that you have given my wife and I.

My heart can't tell you how much I appreciate that the love and support That you have given us. It has been Wonderful and God has done great things and God will continue to do great things at Faith Bible Church and So Paul says for this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Now When he says I bow my knees He's not saying that when you pray every time you pray you have to bow your knees. That's not what he's saying here but that expression I bow my knees is What should be our posture in prayer?

True prayer is Humility and reverence. When we come to God in prayer We come humbly don't we through Jesus Christ? Knowing who we are that we're sinners saved by grace and we come with sweet reverence before God our father and that's the idea and Paul Bows his knees before the father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Now that term in expression the father of our Lord Jesus Christ basically means the true God the true God is the father of our Lord Jesus Christ and here what we need to understand that so glorious here is Our Lord Jesus Christ is said to be Lord He's Lord.

He's God Jesus Christ, he's so glorious in Here he is equal to the father you see and what a blessing it is. That we here at Faith Bible Church are not only brothers and sisters in Christ. But we know and serve the true God and what an awesome privilege that is.

May I encourage you that whatever area God has you serve Outside the church or inside the church you consider it a great privilege to serve. Isn't it true beloved we can't give him enough for what he has given us through Jesus Christ in our salvation.

Isn't that true? Can we ever give him enough? And so we see verse 15 God is so glorious That he is the king over all earth the whole earth he is the creator of Everything and of you and I which gives us purpose and Dignity because we all of us no matter what background we come from no matter what?

Race or culture or whatever we come from we were created in the image of God, right. And God Has authority and power over all of his creation. That's what verse 15 means. That's the God we serve. Though it might seem like we go you know Three steps well one step forward put it that way and three steps backward a lot.

God goes with us as his church. God goes with us as His people and We serve the true God who has all power. All power to do anything and Nothing is impossible With God. That's why I serve. I serve. Because not only has God called me To serve as a pastor and gifted me by his grace.

But I also serve because it is an incredible glorious privilege to serve God and I have been one of the most privileged Individuals may I say that? Because I have been given the great honor and privilege to serve God in the gospel of And be a preacher of his everlasting Word that is a great thing.

That is a more glorious calling beloved than being president of the United States. I wouldn't stoop for that. I'd rather be the lowliest preacher of the word than to be the president of the United States and not know Jesus Christ and so We see in verse Number 16 prayer for strength.

It says that he would grant you. Notice that in that verse. Where's the emphasis? Who is the emphasis on in? Verse 16 is it on us? No, it's on God, right? It says that he God's the emphasis in other words.

It's God who gives us strength. We have no strength in ourselves. We need the strength of God. We need the strength of God in order to live in order to face our battles in order to serve him. And that's my prayer for you that God will strengthen you To do what he wants you to do to serve him.

He grants us strength praise God. You know, I think it's a good thing for us daily to pray God give me strength today To face this day. We all need that don't we we all need to do that. Say it says here that he would grant you according to the riches of his glory to be strengthened with might through his spirit you see God strengthens us by his spirit and He strengthens us according to the riches of his glory.

My that's some strength because the power and the might and the strength That God gives us is out of the riches of his glory. That's really the focus Here of the according to the riches of his glory. It's out of the riches of his glory and that means out of God's abundance.

Right. He gives us abundance To be strengthened with might through his spirit in the inner man and praise God for the Spirit of God that we have. When you have received Christ as your Savior you received the Spirit of God and the Spirit of God baptized you into the body of Christ and You have the Spirit of God and God strengthens us By his spirit in the inner man.

Now that phrase inner man means the immaterial part of us inside of us. The true person. It gives us inner strength, isn't that what we need? We're all kind of rickety and failing. Physically and outwardly.

I like to tell people I'm gonna go bandage to heaven, but at least I'm gonna go to heaven. You know, but what we need no matter how old you are No matter what your state is physically no matter how young you are.

What we need is God strength. We need inner strength. How do we get inner strength we get it through God? We get it through having a personal relationship With God through Jesus Christ and putting him first in our life and living for him and Living for his word and he strengthens us daily.

It's a daily walk with Jesus, isn't it? And he gives us Daily strength. I like the Old Testament verse according to To your days. So shall your strength be. I love it. God gives us strength for every day.

He gives us enough strength for every day. That's my prayer for you as A church that you will continue to serve God that he will strengthen you and you will serve him here at Faith Bible Church and You will be full of joy, and you will enjoy it and you will continue to be a blessing and You'll serve him by the strength That God gives you to serve him.

Knowing the Love of Christ and Living in His Fullness

Second I pray that you will know the love of Christ. That's my next prayer for you. That's Paul's next Prayer for the Ephesians verses 17 through 19 Live in Christ's love verses 17 and 18 and here Paul Basically is praying for the Saints.

He's praying. I pray that you will know Christ deeply. Is there is there anything greater than that? Knowing Christ in a deep and personal way. That's what he's saying that Christ may dwell in your hearts.

He's not praying that you're gonna be saved. He's praying That You're since you're already saved. That Christ may make a home in your heart because that's what the word Dwell means in the Greek to Settle down and make a home that Christ will settle down in our hearts and make his home that our whole life will be Christ-centered as Believers.

Christ is our life and That we will live for him and that everything we do Not only our thoughts but our deeds our words our actions Would be to glorify Christ. Oh that he would dwell In your hearts you see it's not just enough to know the Bible and To know that Christ Is Lord and he came for us.

But you have to have faith you have to receive Jesus Christ the Lord in your heart and Come to know him in a personal way. So that he is your personal Savior. That's the most important thing. My whole thrust as a pastor is very simple first of all It's to get the gospel out.

To see people come to know Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior and after that it's to build them up In Christ and in the Word of God. So they might do the work of the ministry. That's it. It's as simple and as complex as that that crop in Paul's praying that Christ may dwell In their hearts through faith and if Jesus Christ is your Lord and he is living in you and You are abiding in him.

You are gonna bear fruit and that's the great thing and it comes over a period of time. Rome wasn't built in the day and a Christian doesn't mature in a day. Sanctification is a whole lifetime process, isn't it coming to be more like Jesus Christ and so we see that the end effect of Knowing Christ in a deep and personal way is that we will be rooted and grounded in love.

I Remember once my wife said That her whole focus in life was to live in love to love and Personally, I think she's doing By God's grace a great job of it and that's what we are to do. My prayer for you is You'll not only be sound in doctrine and love the Word of God and teach and preach the Word of God but that you will live it out in love and that I would live it out in love and Paul says it this way That you will become strong and grounded in Christ and reflect the love of Christ and he uses a mixed metaphor.

The first one is an agricultural term and the second one is an architectural term. He says being rooted. Love that. You know when I think of a tree across street from our house is this great big tree and I look at it and I go Wow, how great is God that tree it I look at it's a like a tower of strength you see.

We need to be rooted and grounded in Christ like a tree. Whose roots go deep into the earth? Deep into the soil deep into grace. Our roots need to go deep into the grace of God. So that we're strong like a tree so that when the winds and the trials of life come It'll just make us stronger say That's what happens with a tree.

It bends in the wind and it becomes stronger and we become stronger if we're rooted in Christ, right? We become stronger through the trials. They're not easy, but God uses them to make us more like Christ and then grounded in love.

The word grounded in the Greek means foundation that our foundation will be in Christ. My prayer for you as an individual is that the foundation of your life will be Christ and the Word of God because Christ is a true foundation of Any life in any church and I pray as our heritage and faith.

Bible Church has been so rich and it's been a biblical heritage that you will continue the wonderful heritage of Christ and The Word of God and being a biblically minded church that preaches the Bible and lives the Bible and Gives out the word that this church would would grow strong in Christ and The word because that's how we grow.

Grow strong your deep your roots will go deep in the faith and deep in Christ. Paul says it this way in Colossians chapter 3 verse 17. Colossians 3 17. Nope wrong. Sorry. Colossians 2 6 7. Colossians 2 6 7.

This is the same thought In these verses is telling us how we are to walk as Christians when it says walk in the Bible. It means how we are to live our lives. And look what it says as you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord so walk in him rooted and built up in him and Established in the faith as you have been taught abounding in it with Thanksgiving first of all, you have to become a Christian.

You have to get saved, right? You're not a Christian until you have received Christ as your Savior. You received him by faith, you know that you're a sinner. You know that you can't save yourself and without Jesus Christ.

You are doomed for an eternity of hell in That he died on the cross for your sins as your substitute and you put your faith in Him and when you do he will save you. In other words, he will cleanse you of all your sin.

He will forgive you of all your sin, and he will make you a new creature. That's the beginning of the Christian life. You can't walk in Christ and have the power of God unless you're a child of God and So as you've received Christ Jesus the Lord walk in him.

How are we to walk in him rooted and built up in him established in the faith. That's the goal for this church. That's the goal for each of one of us to mature in Christ. To be grounded in Christ to be grounded in the Word of God and in the glorious faith of The gospel and Abounding in Thanksgiving.

Let's not forget that last part so important to be a thankful person and So Paul's praying For them For the believers To Know Christ deeply to be grounded in Christ to walk in love and also verse number 18 to be able to Take hold of Jesus Christ and eat the word there is.

To be able to comprehend him. Wow. That word comprehend in the Greek means to hold on to or to appropriate. Paul's praying that the believers would appropriate Christ in their lives. Know him experience him the glorious thing is is.

We can know Christ through faith. But we can't comprehend the totality and the essence of his being and his glory he's so glorious. But we can know him and that's what Paul's praying that you will know Jesus that you will Appropriate it to your life.

That he will be the focus of your life that you will now live for God and not Yourselves, and you will comprehend with all the Saints all the truly born-again believers The very glory of Jesus Christ that is unfathomable think of that the very glory of this person as God is beyond our Knowing intellectually.

It's so deep. It's immeasurable greater than any ocean and he's saying I Pray that you will Know the glory of G and to show The immeasurableness of his glory and how Expansive and Great and wonderful it is.

He uses these words that you'll know the width and length and depth and height. That God will continue to show you as you walk with Jesus and you grow in Jesus the greatness and glory and the wonderful calling that you have in Christ oh that we might understand The glorious calling that we have in Jesus Christ and what a wonderful thing it is to serve Jesus Christ, right.

To serve him together. It goes together, doesn't it? When you know the glory of Christ, you're gonna want to serve Jesus Christ. And so the first Exhortation in verses 17 and 18 is to live in Christ's love.

The next assertion is to let Christ's love live in you. Let Christ live in you. Verse 19. I Love this verse. I love them all. Let me tell you. I just love the Word of God. I Genealogies, I love everything about the Word of God.

I hope you do too if you love God you should love his word and I know you do. That's why that's one of the reasons why I love this church. Because you love God and you love the Word of God and you can't get enough of it.

That's the way to be. I hope you never lose that. I hope I never lose that. He's he's praying to know the love of Christ. Hey, can there be anything better than that than to know the love of Christ? There's nothing better than that.

You see it passes knowledge. It's greater than our intellect. You see Jesus Christ. The glory of this person has to be revealed to us. God reveals Jesus Christ to us through his spirit and his word and The love of Christ is so great it's beyond our Knowledge that you'll know it in a deep and personal way.

It's my prayer that you'll know the love of Christ. So that you'll be able to as a church share the love of Christ. With a world that so desperately needs it. I Know that you're in grief and sorrow over the situation.

In our country right now just as I am I'm in such grief. With what's going on in this country right now the division the violence and everything. But if you know the love of Christ You can not only stand strong in a world that doesn't but you can share The love of Christ with people who so desperately need Christ and his love that's what the world needs now.

We need Christ and his love. The world needs people like you that know Jesus Christ and show love not hate show forgiveness show tolerance show acceptance. That's what we need. The world needs God right now.

We need to show more love. Don't it really is applicable and if we know the love of Christ We will be filled filled with all the fullness of God. This word filled means being like a container that's filled with something and we are filled with the fullness of God.

You see if you are full of the fullness of God and you are walking in the Spirit of God. You are gonna be full of the love of God. You're gonna show the love of God. What a prayer. That we might be filled with the fullness of God.

You see when you receive Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. It says in Romans 5 5 that the Spirit of God shed abroad The love of God in your heart and he gave us the love of Jesus. We have his love.

We need to live in his love. We need to live it out and we need to let Christ live in us, right? That's the essential of Being a Christian. That's my prayer for you. I don't know many churches with as much love As Faith Bible Church, and I'm not just saying that I'm a pastor.

I've been to as many churches when you come to this church. You're always Welcomed you're always greeted with love and if you come for the first time You're not a stranger, but that's not the case in some churches.

God’s Power to Do Exceedingly Abundantly Above All We Ask or Think

I thank God for You for your love and I would say Encourage you as I would encourage myself. Let that love Abound more and more we can never be complacent, right? We can never love enough. We always have to love more lastly I Pray that you will glorify God.

What a great prayer. I pray that you will glorify God verses 20 and 21. We have a big God verse number 20. You see in verses 14 through 19 This is Paul's prayer. For the Ephesians and now in verses 20 and 21 It's the doxology.

Now doxology is a big word that simply means Praise to God, that's what doxology is. Paul is now praising God. Let me say Just like Paul our lives should be prayer and praise. We should be people of prayer.

And we should be people Who praise God? That makes a Christian and that's what we see right here. Paul is also telling us he he was praying about things that the Ephesians should be. Character qualities fruits of the Spirit that they should seek to develop in their lives.

He's telling us how we should live and how what we should strive for and now he is showing us How we can do it. He's showing us that we can do it by the power of God see. He's not telling us to do something without Having the power.

He's now saying you can do it because you have a big God. And that's what the doxology is telling us right here. I love it. Now to him who is able again. Who's the emphasis on here in the doxology God?

Giving glory to God that should be the whole focus of our lives. We should give glory to God for whatever. He gives us any blessings anything all glory. All praise goes to him. Praise God. Now to him who is able.

I love that God is able. That's what he's saying this word able in the Greek is Dunami. What English word do you think we get from that? Dynamite. There you go. I Think we've got a Greek scholar here.

Dynamite. God's power is dynamite. God is powerful. He's able. We can do all things through Christ who strengthens us, right? Amen. That's the idea. He is able to do more than we can imagine or think.

Isn't that true? We limit God, but God is so big. He's so much greater than we even think he is and Paul Emphasizes God's power by just piling up the adjectives. And here they are exceedingly abundantly and above.

Showing us those words show us how great and how powerful God is. Not only that the word exceedingly abundantly in the Greek means I kind of like this. Super abundantly. He can do super abundantly above all that we Ask or think in other words even what we pray for and what we think God can do.

God can do so much more. I love it because I Have seen God so many times. I pray for something. But he gives me something so much greater than I ever would pray for about. Can you relate to that? But it's so easy to limit God, isn't it?

As you know My wife and I are seeking to move to Idaho. And we didn't realize what a journey of faith it would be. We kind of put everything all together and we've got all these stress points going on and we Thought okay.

We got to sell our house here in Sacramento. And then we got to go and buy a house in Idaho. And we thought oh It's not gonna be any problem to sell our house Here in Sacramento because we have a pretty nice house.

At least we thought we did. We put it in the market and nobody wanted it. What a Realtor said you're gonna sell it the first weekend. We took his word for it. Why were we naive? First weekend goes By second weekend goes by.

The house still isn't sold three weeks later. It's still not sold. Well, we got it kind of coincide the sale of this house with the sale of the other house. We're getting worried. Nervous. You know what I was buckling a little I gotta admit it but God never buckles.

Even though I was buckling a little God came through he's faithful. We got somebody Who put an offer on the house? We thought the person was gonna buy it and the person bailed out and we Were nervous we lacked Faith or let me just say I did but God never Left us just like God.

I thought watch He's gonna open the floodgates now when we're really low because he's testing our faith, which he was and Sure enough right after that person bailed out of that buying the house. We got two offers on the house right after that and the very last person who looked at the house bought the house.

God's timing is always right. We limited God but guess what? God is still God. He's still glorious and he's still faithful and He's still great and we can trust him and look at it says according to the power that works in that in us.

I love that. You see as Believers we have God's Power, we have great power. We have the Holy Spirit. We know God. And that's how we live. That's how we face life. We don't face life on our own we face life with God and he empowers us and It's my prayer That you will continue to trust God as a church.

To do great things because beloved. Yes, this is a hard transition. You guys have been so great to us and faithful to us all these years and it's hard for us to leave. I I say it like this. It's like leaving family, but I want to tell you something God has a great future for you in this church.

And this is a new beginning for you a new beginning. He's gonna do great things. He can do great. We got a big God and that's what we have to believe. We don't live life on our own. We live life Depending on God and trusting him even in the midst of our disappointments and our Discouragements we get back up on the horse and we keep on riding.

You keep going. We keep going, right? We don't give up because God is so big the gospel is so glorious. His church Is so glorious and it's a privilege to know God and to be a part of his church and To serve him in his church, isn't it?

And that's what we see in verse 21. I Love it to him what be glory in where in the church. You see what Paul's showing again? Is that God's glory is shown in? His church in the redeemed Saints in the body of Christ.

It shows that not only can God save people he makes them his children. They have forgiveness of sins and we have the Spirit of God and how glorious it is To be a member of this church. And again, of course, I'm not saying the building.

I'm saying being his very people In whom he lives. You see the glory of God is seen in the church. If I didn't believe that I wouldn't be a pastor. If I didn't believe in the Word of God, I didn't believe in the gospel.

I would pack it up and I would sell used cars. We're packing and we're leaving. But I'm trusting God to continue to use us in ministry in areas that he has because there's no retirement in The kingdom of God as a pastor you just transition Into another area of service.

I'm getting older and I'm I'm tired and I can't do the work. I used to do and that's the big reason why I'm retiring. But God has something else for me and our family and He has good things in store for you because God.

God's glory is seen in his church. In his church are the people to him be Glory in the church by Christ Jesus. And it's all because of Jesus Christ. It's all because we are now His church we are now saved through Jesus Christ.

And he is risen and we he is our Lord and to him be all the glory. It doesn't mean it's not one person Beloved it's him. He gets the glory. It's his church in his church not only will stand against the gates of hell the gates of hell will not prevail against the church of Jesus Christ and the church is the pillar and the ground of the of the truth but it also Will remain and show his glory To all generations forever.

I like it when old Barry McGuire got saved some of you from the 60s. He was a rock and roll guy and He got saved and I actually saw him in concert as a Christian. He was a Christian. I love what he said he said I was on a Different bandwagon.

But now I'm on the only bandwagon and that's Jesus Christ. I hope you're on the right bandwagon. I hope you know Jesus Christ this morning. I hope you're saved. I Hope he's your Lord. I Hope you that he's the foundation of your life and my prayer is that for faith Bible Church.

That Christ will be the foundation of this church and the Word of God will continue to be the foundation of this church and By Jesus Christ, it'll show forth the glory of God. Be encouraged. Be faithful.

Continue to serve God. For he's able. He's able and He's doing a good thing. And as you have blessed us My prayer is that God will continue to bless you. So that you can continue to bless others With the Word of God and the gospel of Jesus Christ my closing Benediction is May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.

Please stand for a closing Benediction it is a sweet sorrow in a sense for a last Service and sermon, but it is great seeing you all you have all been Such an incredible blessing to our lives and We know that you will continue to be a blessing to our lives and to many many others.