In the sermon 'Grace to You' by Scott Brown, the speaker concludes a series on the book of Revelation by discussing the importance of God's grace in the lives of believers. The book of Revelation is presented as a picture book, using vivid imagery to help believers understand the world they live in and the challenges they face. The sermon highlights the primary focus of Revelation, which is Jesus Christ's victory and the sustaining grace of His church. The speaker encourages believers to meditate on the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and trust in His sovereignty throughout history. He also discusses the role of grace in connecting believers to God and providing a protective dome against the arrows of the enemy. The sermon closes with a call for believers to continually seek and experience God's grace in their lives.

Your Bibles to Revelation 22. Revelation 22, find verse 20. Revelation 22 and verse 20. This is the inerrant, all sufficient, sweeter than honey Word of God. Revelation 22, This is the inerrant, all-sufficient, sweeter-than-honey word of God.

Revelation 22, verse 20. He who testifies to these things says, surely I am coming quickly, amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

Let's pray. Father, that you would give us such a vision of your grace For all eternity Lord bless this congregation with the word of your grace today Let it let it saturate Let it filter down into the deepest parts of our being. Amen. Please be seated. This is our final sermon in the book of Revelation.

It's always bittersweet to leave a book of the Bible that we've been in for three years. We launched this book at the height of COVID three years ago and while people were cowering in fear, we were looking at the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords who rules over the kings of the earth. That's what we were doing. A book always to me becomes like a good friend, becomes like a wonderful counselor and I never want to leave it. Every week when I'm preaching, I'm meditating on this book all day long and that's what I've done for three years is meditate on the words of this book.

It's been such a delight to my soul. So we're not leaving this book because I want to leave this book. We're leaving this book because I think we should move to the book of Romans. That's what we'll be doing next. When people come to our church, they often mark their coming by the book that we were in when they came.

And this is one of the things I'm so grateful for in this congregation. It's the people of the word. And our whole desire is to saturate this congregation with the word of God. That's why you heard the word of God read multiple times already this morning because it's the word of God that changes your life. It's the Spirit and life and it is, as you might expect me to say, sweeter than honey.

This is a book that most people have neglected their whole life long. Should not be so. I think reading it we've recognized that blessing is promised. It should not be neglected. Just this last week I had a young man say, I'm scared to read the book of Revelation.

Well, you shouldn't be scared to read it. In fact, we had a man here in our church, he told me this week, he says it grieves me that I neglected this book my whole life. And so we have this wonderful testimony. The Lord loves his church and he promises an ever flowing stream of his grace to shower on his people. And that's what this last phrase in Revelation speaks of.

In these final two verses in the book, the last book of the Bible, the final testimony in the canon of Scripture contains the very last cry of the church. Come, Lord Jesus, come. And the very last prayer in the Bible, which is our focus this morning, the very last prayer in the Bible of the many prayers, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen. This is the prayer for the church.

And so I want us this morning to reflect back on the book but then to dial in at some level of depth on this matter of grace, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. This last cry of the church, even so come Lord Jesus. It's a statement of historical reality that God is the governor of history. He sent his son in space and time 2, 000 years ago And he promises to come back in space and time when he desires. It's not for us to know times and seasons, says the Lord.

But to know that you'll receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you and just worry about today. Every day has enough trouble of its own, so be filled with the Spirit today. And this is really a promise to the church. It's a statement of God's presence with his church and his promise that he would shower you with grace. You know, we so lose touch with this.

We become concerned about our weaknesses, our lack of concentration, our lack of holiness. But we all always need to remember that we stand in the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ until he comes again. I want us as a church, as we exit Revelation, to be so aware of the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ day by day, and especially today. Now think about these words, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all, in context. Think about the context of this book.

God sends an angel and reveals to John the entire span of history. And he is in the spirit on the Lord's day when this happens, which means there is a Lord's day in the New Covenant, by the way. He's in the spirit on the Lord's day, and he is taken to see things, and he is seeing all of history unfold before him and he gives many pictures of Jesus Christ and he begins with a picture of Seven small beleaguered churches, persecuted churches, living in pagan cities. One of them, you live where Satan dwells. They are hated.

They are despised. Many of them, because of the government regulations, they can't even get jobs anymore because they don't go to the pagan temples and John sees pictures of heaven and earth he sees it all he sees dramatic violent beautiful pictures and now he says the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all I just think we have to understand the impact of these words and what what they really mean what they really mean is that in the warp and move of history and the difficulties that you experience in this world, the ups and downs, the losses, the heartbreaks, the deaths, the discouragements that happen, here's what you need to know. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ is with you all throughout all of history, and it has always been for all believers to have his grace. And every section of this book of Revelation says one thing, Jesus Christ reigns, he's in control. And I believe, I have come to believe over these months that God gives this final book of the Bible to finally choke out the fears of the church, to finally deliver them from sinful fear, to help them see that He is in control, that it's gonna be okay.

You're gonna be okay. Revelation is here to deliver you from all of your fears and to increase your joy. It has mine. I've been so delighted to be in this book. To drown your sorrows in thoughts of God.

To be shepherded by His grace through the world. Now Revelation explains the world as we know it in visual representations, dramatic imagery of historical realities during the church age. And Revelation is a wonderful help to assist you to understand the world that you already live in and why there's so much danger, why is there so much conflict. You know, I went and I looked at a news site this morning, and I was tempted to just read, you know, 10 of the entries, but this is a world of tumult and loss and heartbreak and attack and murder and hatred and slander. And when you read the news, you think, how could anything good come of this?

This is why you should read your Bible. The war, the disease, you know, you get a picture of why there's moral evil, why tyranny, why strong delusions. Do we live in a time of strong delusions? Absolutely we do. We live in the most delusional culture that ever existed in America, maybe not in other countries, but in America for sure.

The revolutions of delusion are just sweeping our land and you live here now. I praise the Lord that you live here now because you're not deluded and you're not struck down and you're not destroyed because you have the strength of the Lord. You have the grace of God. That's what you have. You know, I go around and I see people falling apart, but you're not falling apart because of the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ.

You know, how do you trust God with bombs being threatened? How do you trust God when economies are collapsing and currency is being controlled? What do you do with all these things? Well, Revelation really helps us to understand all these things. Here's one thing I want us to really grab.

You who are raising children right now, got a lot of people raising children in this church, I can hear them. I'm so delighted to hear their little voices. They're here, they're hearing the preaching, they're hearing the singing, and I want them to soak it in. Here's what I really pray that you get a hold of as parents, fathers and mothers look at me as what I'm talking to you right now if you're raising children. Some of you you know have children in your in your wombs, but hear this Make sure your children have thousands and thousands of visions of the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ.

And you get that through his word and also through the way that you engage what the Apostle Paul called marriage, the grace of life. A family is a place where grace, the grace of God and all of the goodness of His grace reigns. Let's walk through Revelation. There are really just two things I'd like to do here this morning and I'd like to talk about by looking back the message of Revelation and how to read the book of Revelation. I just wanna remind you one last time how to read this book as I'm encouraging you to read it over and over again.

And then I want to loop back and just in brief form speak about what John saw and that's the book of Revelation and then what John concluded. Well what John concluded is in this last verse. After seeing all what he saw, this one thing rolls it all up, the grace of God ruling in all of history. You know, when you get to the end of your life and you look back and You think of the hard things that happened. Here's what you're gonna say.

It was God's grace that sustained me. It was God's grace that held me through all my trials. So you might as well say that now. Today, you know earlier Trent referred to the fact that everybody walks in here with burdens on their back. The Book of Revelation is here to deliver you from those burdens.

Now, as many of you know, our church has a formal statement on eschatology. There are probably three or four different views of revelation and three or four different views of eschatology. Here is the, our doctrinal statement, the Baptist Confession of 1689 has a definitive statement on eschatology And if you don't hold this view of eschatology, you can't be a member of this church. The formal statement of eschatology in this church is this, Jesus Christ is coming back to judge the living and the dead. So you better be ready.

That's our statement. Now, you know, y'all can keep trying to figure out how to understand all the other views of eschatology, and you should do that, and it might change, you know, from time to time over the years I don't I'm not too worried about that but I am worried about that one thing that you believe that Jesus Christ is coming again to judge the living and the dead he's going to judge you according to the righteousness of his son, not your righteousness. Praise the Lord for that. Well, we've seen so many things here. Christ's victory, we've seen these dramatic comparisons from the first book of the Bible and the last book of the Bible from Genesis to Revelation.

In the first few chapters of Genesis, you find almost all of that imagery loaded into the last two chapters of Revelation. It's like a traffic jam of imagery all over the Bible that gets loaded up in heaven. You've seen the epilogue already. We exited heaven in chapter 22 verse five and then from verse six on up to where we are now is the epilogue, and in the epilogue, you have two things, And the first is that the word of God is powerful, trust every word of it. And the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.

Those two things, the word of God and the grace of God. Summed up right here in the epilogue of this book. And so John, after seeing all these things, seeing dramatic visions of heaven, from heaven, on earth, he's seeing the conflict and the tumult and the death and all these things, and he comes to this very last principle, and that is the church's greatest need. It's for the grace of God. We live by grace.

Okay, I'm just gonna do some summary, quick summary statements that you will find familiar after these three years. What is Revelation about? It's about the victory of Jesus Christ and the sustaining grace of his church. And then how to read Revelation. The first three verses in Revelation teach us how to read it.

First of all, It's understandable. It's a revelation. In other words, it's an unfolding. It's not hiding anything. It's revealing things.

Secondly, it has a very clear focus. The book of Revelation is about Jesus Christ. If you get anything else out of this book, you missed it. If you think it has to do with something particular, some particular view, forget it. It has to do with Jesus Christ.

It's very practical. It is something, quote, which God gave to show his servants. God gave this to us. And then it speaks of historical realities, the things which must shortly take place. And then it's filled with symbolism, and he sent and signified it.

Revelation is a picture book. It's why children can understand it so easily. It's doctrine in pictures. It's pictorial theology. It's what John saw.

They are visions. It's like movie clips, one after another. One clip from this angle of history, another clip from another angle of history. And its delivery method was by his angel to his servant John. This was revealed to John through an angel.

And then, and you can't miss this, the promised blessings. Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy and keep those things which are written in it for the time is near. And that's why it was written so that you would realize that Jesus Christ's coming is right around the corner. So let's do just a very quick flyover. Now in your outline here, if you have one in front of you, you'll see how I've broken up the book, and this is the way that I preached through the book.

This really is a guide for reading through the book of Revelation. What we see are seven parallel sections that describe the conflicts that occur in the world during the church age and Jesus Christ's victory over the works of the devil. And there are seven historical cycles, And each of these cycles actually end in the second coming of Christ. This is not a linear history. It's a cyclic representation of history.

It's not chronological, but it's rather cyclical or cyclical, however you wanna say it. These are parallel pictures of the different things that happen in different places all over the world. Some of the things that you see happening in Revelation aren't happening here, but they are happening somewhere else. And they actually have ever since Jesus Christ was resurrected. So chapters one through 11, it begins with the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, but it speaks of the vulnerability of the church and the flaws of the church and the pressures of the secular state and the tribulations that come, because secular states usually don't love the Church of Jesus Christ.

By the way, it's really hard to find a secular state that really treated the church well. So we shouldn't expect it. I think sometimes our expectations are a little bit different than historical realities. And then chapters 12 through 22 really kind of pull you back behind the curtain and show you the forces of evil behind the secular state, behind the corruption of the people in the world and the corruptors that are at work in the world. And these forces are really pictures of their coming destruction.

And the second coming of Jesus Christ, ushering God's people into heaven after destroying the works of the devil. And That's chapters 12 through 22. And so you can see this here just very briefly. The first cycle are these seven churches in chapter one, verse one through chapter three, verse 22. These are the letters to the churches.

These are representative of the strengths of churches and also the weaknesses of churches. Some of the weaknesses and strengths are in this church here. And they're really to give a picture of what churches should be paying attention to. One church is tolerating Jezebel. She's tolerating this terrible movement of Jezebel.

What you tolerate in a church really matters. And God has given the church and the world not to tolerate worldliness, but to root it out. We're patient with one another. We do it under the grace of God, but we don't play patty cake with the works of the devil in our own lives or in the life of the church. And you see that God wants to purify his church and rid her of her idolatry.

And then the second cycle is the opening of the seven seals. The lamb of God opens the seven seals and they represent God, the judgment that God brings on the world. When you see difficulty happening in the world, you can always point your finger to God. God is ruling all these things. God is the one who brings the calamities on the earth so that people would turn their faces toward him and worship him, cry out to him, and also to turn them away from their sins.

His control over history. And then in chapter seven, especially verse nine, sums up the result of the opening of the seals. After these things I looked and behold a great multitude which no one could number of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues standing before the throne and of the Lamb, clothed with white robes with palm branches in their hands, crying out with a loud voice, saying salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne and of the Lamb. They just can't get over how good God is. And as a result of all of this calamity, there are millions and hundreds of millions and millions and millions of people before the throne of God and they just couldn't be happier at what God did all throughout history, including their own lives.

And then you have the seven trumpets in chapter eight, verse two, that runs all the way to chapter 11, verse nine. And here you have natural disasters, pestilence, fires, destruction, death, and God actually is using the forces of evil to bring judgment on the world. And then next you have the War of the Dragon in the next section, Chapter 12, one through 14, 20. This section starts with the births of Christ and the opposition of the devil toward him and his death and resurrection and then the beast and Babylon and the harlot, the enemies of the church, and then the final destruction of the enemies of the church. They have no hope.

That's why the demons said to Jesus, have you come to destroy us before the time? Because they know their time is short. You see the powers behind all the suffering in the world because the curtain is being pulled back with these judgments. And then you have the seven bowls of wrath, seven trumpets and then seven bowls of wrath and the great battle and then the fall of Babylon in the sixth cycle in chapter 17 through 19, 21. This is a section where you see the brutality of God in judgment against the works of darkness and his hatred of evil and the final dissolution of all evil.

Praise the Lord for that. That day is coming. Until then, he's doing it in your life now, one day at a time, much more slowly than we wished. And then finally, the victory of Jerusalem and the bride, chapter 20, verse one, after the final doom of the devil, you see the triumph of the church. And the great celebration in heaven, the last battle, and then the new heavens and the new earth.

We spent a long time in that section. In chapter 21 verse one through chapter 22 verse five is the most detailed picture of heaven in the Bible. And I wanted us to stay there for a while. And I wanted us to understand that heaven is not some distant thing. Everything that's in heaven you've already seen on the earth.

And I kept saying to us, stop saying this world is not my home and say this world is my home and it's a foretaste of heaven. It's showing me the beauty of heaven, just in shadows. And My whole hope there was to try to banish vague thoughts about heaven and to be able to see heaven on earth and to pray the way that Jesus taught his disciples to pray. Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth, on earth as it is in heaven. Heaven is a pattern for the earth.

And it's a very vivid and beautiful distinctive pattern. It's not vague, Don't have vague ideas about heaven. Because when you see stars and when you see grass and when you see trees and when you see rivers, you're seeing pictures of heaven on earth. And those things are thrilling to us on the earth. We can't get over how beautiful the earth is.

But that's to draw us to heaven and to help us to see what awaits us. And then we come to this final prayer of the Lord Jesus. And this is preceded by the prayer of the church. Even so, come Lord Jesus. And it's preceded by the word amen.

Amen, even so come Lord Jesus. And this is the last prayer in the Bible in these two verses. Amen. It's a really important word. Amen doesn't mean, okay, we're done now.

Let's go have the potato salad. No, that's not what amen means. Amen means let it be. That's why we encourage our congregation to rise up and say amen after a prayer, to say Yes, Lord, I'm into that. I'm with you in that.

Let's do that. Let's go that way. Let's feel that thing together as one body. And amen unifies the body of Christ, all saying, yes, Lord. So ring it out when we pray.

Yes, Lord. And then this final, final benediction, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen. Amen. This word grace, there are approximately 130 occurrences of this word, and now we encounter it in John.

So here we're at the end of Revelation. Open your Bibles to Revelation chapter one. I wanna show you something. Revelation chapter one and find verse four. This is really a testimony of the bookends here of the book.

The beginning and the end as they're connected tells us something significant about any book. You know, often authors begin a book and then they end it with similar thinking and imagery. And that's what John does. John chapter one verse four. "'John, to the seven churches which are in Asia, grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come.

Same language. Now open your Bibles to the book of Romans. Romans chapter one verse seven. Romans one verse seven. While you're getting there I'll just say There are several books in the New Testament that end and or begin with these same words, grace to you and peace.

Romans 1, seven. To all who are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints, grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. All this to say, we're not done with this whole idea of grace. The book of Romans will take us into the depths of the grace of God. I can't wait to get there.

So what is grace? Louis Berkhof and his systematic theology makes it clear that grace is used in different ways in scripture, but its primary force is favor or goodwill, but it's not an abstract concept like that. He says It's an active working principle manifesting itself in beneficent acts. Blessings graciously bestowed are freely given and not in consideration of any claim or merit. Grace is something that's meant to energize your soul.

It's not just a concept. It's something that moves you and And Of course John He's talking about the whole flow of history. He's talking about every person who ever lived in the world and particularly believers. Noah experienced the grace of God. Moses experienced the grace of God.

Lot says it was your grace that got me out of Sodom. So grace is something that God brings to his people and it connects us, It connects us really to God. I think God's grace in some ways, it's like a protective dome that stops all the arrows of the enemy when you have the grace of God filling your heart. Your heart's gonna be filled with something, let it be filled with the grace of God. You know, Christian people have something different than the rest of the world.

Christians have an unfair advantage. They have the grace of God raining down upon them as they walk through this world. What's the best known Christian song? By the way, if there's a breakdown in the systems or something like that and you can't get to the words of a song, you can always sing Amazing Grace. Because it probably is the best known Christian song on the planet.

Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me. One of our children with very little use to sing that song that saved a witch like me. We didn't correct her for a while. God's grace is so, so marvelous. What effect is grace having in your life now?

Grace is a power of God that is working in the believer and all around the believer. And of course, grace is the heart of the gospel. But grace is God's disposition toward man, and it's God's work in man. And it's God's power for man. I want to give you many ways to understand grace this morning.

First, God's grace is really your only indispensable need in life. It's the thing you need the most. You can do without a lot, but you can't do without grace in all that you face in your life. And that's why the Apostle Paul, in a time of suffering, he prayed three times to get rid of this thorn in the flesh. It was like a dagger in his life, and he couldn't get rid of it.

He prayed once and it didn't go away. He prayed twice and it didn't go away. And he prayed a third time and it didn't go away. Because God was teaching them the hymn that His grace was sufficient, and that it was a minister of Satan. God was using Satan to teach Paul that his grace was sufficient.

God is gonna use Satan to teach you that his grace is sufficient, to wean you from the world, and to bring you to the best thing that could ever happen to your life. Well, you know the song. "'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear, and grace my fears relieved. How precious did that grace appear, the hour I first believed. Every Christian knows about that.

Do you know about that? I hope you know. If you don't know about that, it'd be good to know about that. Secondly, Jesus Christ was full of grace. In John 1 14, and the word became flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld his glory The glory as only of the only begotten of the Father full of grace and truth You could see the grace We beheld it's something that you see You can actually see grace the way that a person talks and lives and what they listen to and what they do and how they respond and what they love.

You can see grace and they saw grace in Jesus Christ. But everybody couldn't see that grace. But those who believe did see the grace. Thirdly, the grace of God is our message, is our message, despite what we might project to be really threatening outcomes. Paul was headed to Rome.

He knew he would be killed there by the Roman government. But why did he go, why? What would motivate a man like that to go into the lion's den to charge the fire like that? That's what he did. But he explains.

He went to finish his race and to, I'll quote him, testify to the grace of God. That's why he went. Fourth, this grace is abundant. Paul, he looks back on his life, and he's now facing in the face of death, and all he can see is abundant grace, Acts chapter 20, verse 24. I thank Jesus Christ, our Lord, who has enabled me because he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry.

And then he says, I was a blasphemer, I was murdering people in the church, I was a persecutor, I was insolent, I was so proud. Then he says, and the grace of the Lord was exceedingly abundant with faith and love which are in Christ Jesus. Exceedingly abundant. The songwriter says, grace greater than all our sins. It's abundant grace.

It's greater than your sin. Nobody ever sinned too much to be outside of the grace of God, nobody, nobody. Fifth, election by grace. It was God's grace that caused him to choose his children. It's God's grace that there's a remnant, an elect remnant in the world.

Because the remnant was chosen by God. Romans 11, five and six, even so then at this present time, there is a remnant according to the election of grace. And if by grace, then it is no longer works. Otherwise, grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace.

Otherwise work is no longer work. Well, we'll get to that in Romans 11. But God's election is by grace. Sixth, sinners are saved by grace. Ephesians two verse eight, for by grace you have been saved through faith and that not of yourselves, it's the gift of God.

Seventh, sinners are justified by his grace. Romans 3, 24, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Jesus Christ. Justified by a work of redemption. What does it mean to be saved? It means that you have been redeemed.

You've been bought back. To be redeemed means to be bought back. You're bought off the slave block and somebody else pays for you and sets you free. That's redemption by grace. You didn't deserve it, you didn't do anything as a slave to get it, It was God's grace.

Eighth, we are inheritors of God's grace, Titus 3.7. We are justified by his grace so that we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life. Ninth, we are predestined to declare the glory of his grace. This is one of the most significant passages of scripture on grace in the whole of scripture. What the Apostle Paul does is he goes back and he recounts history from the beginning to the end and he says, but to each, he says, why did all this happen?

Why history? To the praise of the glory of his grace by which He made us accepted in the Beloved, to the praise of the glory of His grace. That's why you were created, to be to the praise of the glory of His grace. Why did God give you a life? So that He would be praised for His grace, because you didn't deserve it.

God is gonna be praised because you are so bad, so out of touch with reality, and then He changed your heart, and you receive grace. 10th, the gift of grace is measured out to every believer. Ephesians 4, seven, but to each one of us, grace was given according to the measure of Christ's gift. This is the giftedness of the church. This is body life, how we can be a blessing to one another by grace.

Cry out for the grace of God to fall upon you today and minister to your brothers. We're gonna have a fellowship meal, what a great time for that. The 11th, we are daily strengthened by grace. Second Timothy 2, one, you therefore my son, be strong in the grace that is in Jesus Christ. Grace is something that strengthens your heart.

12th, we walk by grace, Ephesians 2, four. Why did God do all these things? That he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us in Jesus Christ, for by grace you have been saved through faith. God wants to demonstrate how good he is by saving sinners, saving people like us. He's demonstrating how glorious His grace is to have anything to do with people like us which should destroy all of our pride toward one another, against one another.

13th, we stand in grace, Romans 5, one and two. Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we also have access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We're like the church is standing like in a shower of grace. Don't you love walking out on a relatively warm day in a thundershower and lifting up your face and just being showered in grace. That's what the church experiences.

And then he says, and rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. 14th, we come before the throne of grace in Hebrews 4.16. In Titus 2.11, grace teaches us. And then we also, in Ephesians 5, we sing with grace in our hearts To the Lord and we are blessed with a bounding grace in 2nd Corinthians 9 Verse 8 God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you always having all sufficiency and in all things may have an abundance of every good work. We have sufficient grace in our weakness.

God said to Paul, my grace is sufficient for you. It's all you need. It's the only indispensable need that you really have is the grace of God. You can go through anything if you're walking in grace and strengthened by grace and standing in grace. The Bible goes on and on and on about grace.

And then we become stewards of God's grace in 1 Peter 4 verse 10. As each one has received a gift, minister to one another as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. Well, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. The justifying grace, the saving grace, the working grace, the strengthening grace, the keeping grace, the comforting grace, the correcting grace, the leading grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

Isn't it interesting that the very last words in the very last book of the Bible as the compendium of scripture is closed, that the very last word is a word of grace for the church. Well we're a local church So may the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. We're gonna pray, and then we're gonna have a moment of meditation, and then we'll move into the Lord's Supper and celebrate it. Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy and heed the blessings, the things which are written in it for the time is near. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all, Amen.

Let's have a moment of silence and meditation.