Grace to all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with an undying love.Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with incorruptible love. Amen.Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen. Written from Rome unto the Ephesians by Tychicus.Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ with a love incorruptible.
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… This is inevitable. Check out the very last verse of Ephesians, chapter 6, verse 24. Grace be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with love incorruptible. Is that a good way to end? The whole passage, this whole Bible book, ends with a picture of a people who love Jesus more than life itself and a love relationship with him that is incorruptible, immortal, everlasting, never failing, which then leads us to Revelation chapter 12, verse nine through 11. Listen to this. This is how the whole story is gonna end. That great dragon was thrown down. Who's that? That ancient serpent. Who's that? Who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth. His angels thrown down with him. And I heard a loud voice in heavens, saying, now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come. For the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God. …
… peace to the brothers and sisters and love with faith from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. grace to all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with an undying love. It's the first greeting, and it's the last greeting. And it's the same in the letter to the Romans, 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Philippians, Colossians, 1 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians, 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon, 1 Peter, 2 Peter, and even Revelation, they all start with a salutation, grace to you, and all of them, but two end with the final sentence saying, grace to you. This was the byword of the early church, was we are in a story, and we have taken hold of the thread of the grace of God from beginning to end. And it is our greeting. His grace is our riches. Paul wrote in Corinthians, For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich. …
… Peace be to the brethren in love with faith from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with incorruptible love. There is a final command here in this text as Paul closes this monumental epistle, and it comes in verse 18 in the words, "'Pray at all times.'" Pray at all times. That is his final injunction, his final command to us. It's reminiscent of Pilgrim's Progress. Some of you will remember when you read Pilgrim's Progress. Christian received his armor, and he was given a weapon called all-prayer. That weapon was essential to him. With that weapon, he could stand strong when everything else seemed to fail. With that weapon of all prayer, He could prevail, Bunyan says, against the fiends which beset Him in the valley of the shadow. When He poured out His soul in prayer, they went back and left Him alone. Our Lord Jesus urges that men ought always to pray and not to faint or not to grow weary. …