Seeking the Lord's help and your very prayerful attention, I'll direct your thoughts for a few moments this afternoon to the second epistle of Paul to the Corinthians, chapter 13, and the 14th verse, the last verse in the epistle. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the communion of the Holy Ghost be with you all. Amen. These words are probably the most repeated words and verse in Holy Scripture, in the worship of God's great and holy name, as they end worship, and often perhaps when those of us who seek to preach Christ feel to have failed in so doing, we read these words that they contain all that we would wish both for ourselves and for our hearers. We could desire nothing better than this. As Solomon says in Proverbs, the blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich. and he addeth no sorrow thereto. Here then is the blessing of the Lord, in a sense a counterpart to that that Aaron was commanded to pronounce in Old Testament times, when he pronounced the Lord be with thee, keep thee, and through that benediction that was pronounced so often over the Old Testament church, Here we have the fullness of the gospel of the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ set before us in these desires, this great desire that the Apostle Paul was inspired by the Holy Ghost to write. Now it might surprise us that it was to the church at Corinth that this blessing was first pronounced. Had it been Philippi where we read Their names were written in the Lamb's Book of Life. He that begun a good work in it will perform it till the day of Jesus Christ. Or perhaps had it been in Ephesus, you had thee quickened, you were dead in trespasses and in sins. And yet, the history of Corinth, certainly when Paul wrote, was not a very happy one. Yet it was to this church, in its lowest state, in its difficultest state, in its perplexed state, that this blessing was pronounced. And dear friends, what else can put matters right in the Church of Christ than these three things? The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost. And should there be perhaps one here who has the affairs of the church therein, weighing heavy upon their spirits at the minute and wondering how or what or why, well, here is the answer to it. This is the word to take back to the great head of the church and plead that the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the Holy Ghost would be with you. Friend, that would put matters right. Bless God for it. A word about Corinth. It was known as the city which every sin the word of God condemns ran freely down its streets. It was a very wicked city where Satan ruled and reigned and seemed to hold supreme power. But it was at that city God said to Paul, even before his ministry had really taken root there, I have much people in this city And that much people at that time were rushing along the broad road that leads to destruction. They're without God, they're without Christ, they're without hope. And yet Paul was sent and what was he to preach? It's very instructive what Paul says about his preaching to Corinth because it's an example to us all. I determined to know nothing among you, save Jesus Christ and Him crucified. He went to that wicked city, planted the cross of Christ right down in the center of it. And he kept preaching Christ. And he kept preaching Christ crucified. And we know the wonderful effects of it. Sinners were called by grace. The Holy Ghost worked mightily. and a vibrant church was formed of members of Christ's mystical body who loved the truths that Paul was preaching and followed his example in setting before them the order of the church and what they should be to each other and most of all to their great head of the church. But friends, Satan has never been pleased to see the church prosper. And whenever we have a little prosperity in our churches, then always be on your guard, because Satan will seek an opportunity to, if he could, mar it, if he could even destroy it. He could never destroy the church of Christ, bless God for that. He could never destroy the word of God's truth, bless God for that. But we know only through sad experience in the history of the church, what havoc he can cause. And he did at Corinth. First of all, he brought a party spirit. Some were of Paul, some of Apollos, some were of Christ. He brought in Harrison. There were those who denied the resurrection of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. Immorality was countenance not dealt with. And many other things afflicted this church. And friends, what was the answer to it? What did Paul say when he began to deal with this matter? He went right back to the cross of Christ. He said, here is the standard, here is the precept before you, Christ and him crucified. And he writes these two epistles and they are precious epistles, much instruction, much teaching. And he comes to this blessed conclusion, looking on this church with all its defects, with all its deformities, and says, this is what I desire for you, the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost. Could we desire anything better for either ourselves or for our churches? I was very struck in thinking about this, how the Apostle James, in one of his chapters, and we don't often read James, you should read it more often than we do. His pages are very clean because they're not thumbed over enough. You read in chapter four these words. From whence come wars and fightings among you? Come not even your lusts at war in your members? Ye lust and ye have not, ye kill and desire to have, and cannot obtain. Ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. Ye adulterers and adulteresses know ye not, that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever thou be a friend of the world is an enemy of God? Do you think the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy. You see, whatever you read those words, if you were the Apostle James writing that chapter, what would you have written next? What would have been your next verse? What did James write? But he giveth more grace. In other words, what was the answer to all those terrible things that James records which are oh, so true about fallen nature? Grace. That was the answer to it. He giveth more grace. And that's a wonderful thing, dear friends, when the gospel is preached. This is the hope of every God-sent minister, that as they preach the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, we say with their ministry, that those very ills that I've just read of might be dealt with. in a way consistent with the justice of God, but also his mercy. Now, of course, we gather in the interest of the Trinitarian Bible Society, a noble society that God has done much good through. We bless God for it, to this generation. We know its history. that on this very foundation of a triune God, it was founded, separating from what was then the British and Foreign Bible Society, because they were counters and unitarians on their committee, and even hindering people pleading the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in prayer and committee meetings. It was the right thing to do, to come out from among them. and establish a society built on this foundation, the foundation of the one true and only triune God. Let us just pause for a moment in this then and just examine what do we mean by the Trinity. There is only one God. There's only room for one God actually. He fills time and He fills eternity. And He is the one true and living God. But we believe, not only because it says so in scripture, but because I believe all true believers understand that there are three persons. God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost. And there is a relationship, an eternal relationship between those three persons. God the Father has an eternally begotten Son. This is a great mystery, you cannot explain it, you're not called to. But the Word of God says it is true, eternally begotten. There is God the Son, and notice the way I've put it. You know, you sometimes get Jehovah's Witnesses knocking on your doors and meeting in the streets, and you can ask them a question. Do you believe in the Son of God? Oh, we believe that, they said. Do you believe in God the Son? Oh, no, we don't believe that. They deny the Godhead of God's Son. Friends, he is as much God as the Father. as the Holy Ghost. Do you remember that? And from those two glorious persons, God the Father and God the Son, proceeds that equally important person. And yes, he is a person, not just an influence. He's a blessed person, bless God for him. Nothing will ever be communicated from the throne of God without the power of the Holy Ghost. He is that third person, that co-equal, co-eternal, triune God. This is the mystery then before us this afternoon. But I believe all those with living faith in the salvation that the Word of God proclaims will be thankful. Thankful for the love of God, thankful for the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, thankful for the communion of the Holy Ghost, a threefold cord which can never be broken. And Ecclesiastes said it's not easily broken, speaking of a threefold cord. Friend, this could never be broken. Satan has striven to attacking this truth throughout the history of this world. He hates it. Why does he hate it? Because dear friends, he knows it is the truth. and he hates the one true and living God. And even from the earliest pages of scripture we have the inference, let us make man in our own image, there's a plurality of persons speaking. Isaiah chapter 6, whom shall I send, one God, who will go for us, the plurality of persons. You go to the baptism of our dear Savior at Jordan, the voice of the Father, this is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased, the dear Son of God, in our nature, God the Son there, and the dear Spirit descending like a dove upon Him. These are, and many other witnesses we could speak of, the one we read of, of course, in 1 John 5. I would not want to be unkind or ungracious, but I cannot understand a true believer wanting to exclude those verses in 1 John 5 which many virgins omit. Friends, I love those verses. They are my salvation. If that is not true, then there's no saviour, and there's no gospel to preach. Cleave to it, cling to it, whatever men may say against it. So what do we have first then? We have the grace. What is grace? Well, it has, to my mind, several meanings. One, of course, it is God's favor. It is God showing favor. And that's the desire of every child of God, is it not? Remember me, O Lord, with the favor that thou bearest to thy people. Oh, visit me with thy salvation. And if you have grace, dear friends, then you'll want more of that favor to be displayed in your heart. It's God's favor. He showed it to Noah, for example. Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord in that terrible day which he lived. May we find the same favour in this terrible day in which we're living. What is grace? It is God giving what we do not deserve. You say, what is mercy then? God not giving us what we do deserve. It's rather like the mortise and tenon joint. Now I am no DIY man, my people and my family know that. And when I was a boy doing woodwork, my mortar and tenon joints never quite fitted together. They were always loose. But if I tell you, my dear friends, I'll say it reverently, this mortar and tenon joint is eternally joined together. Grace. and mercy. Listen to Paul. The grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant, with faith and with love, which is in Christ Jesus. This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, for whom I am chief, except that I obtain mercy. You see, he brings the two together. The one thing he doesn't deserve, grace, that he marvels. But that that he did deserve, He has not endured. That is what grace is then. It is God's riches at Christ's expense. You know, when God created the world, it cost him nothing. He spake, it was done. He didn't have to borrow the materials or buy them from another being. There is no other being to buy them from. He spake and it was done. He commanded and it stood fast. My dear friends, when it comes to the giving of grace, oh, we say it most reverently, what it costs, the Trinity. God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believed they should not perish, but have everlasting life. See that dear saviour bearing his cross from the judgment hall to Golgotha. Not just the wooden cross on his bleeding shoulders, that it was heavy enough, but all the unseen burden of the guilt of a number that no man can number out of every kindred, nation, tribe, and tongue. See him hanging on that cross between two thieves in ignominy and shame. Here is sorrowful cry, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? There is the cost of redemption. There is the cost of mercy. There is the cost of grace, the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, the laying down of that perfect, pure, holy, and guileless life. Oh, we thank God for it. What is grace? Well, I like to think of what Paul has to tell us in 2 Corinthians 13, 12. There he's speaking about his thorn in the flesh, and the poor man felt so weakened by it, didn't he, that he couldn't bear it, he told the Lord. Three times, Lord, remove it. Sometimes it's been said the Lord didn't answer Paul's prayer, but he did. He answered in a better way than Paul could have imagined. And friends, he may answer your prayer just like that. in a way different to what you would have expected. There's an answer, though. What was the answer? My grace is sufficient for thee, for my strength is made perfect in weakness. And Paul went on to say, and this is the definition of grace in Paul's mind, the power of Christ resteth on me. Then he could live with his thorn. Then, child of God, you can live with your burden. that crook in the lot, that thorn in the flesh, that weighty cross, that deep disappointment, you say, how can I bear it? The power of Christ, the grace of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, that will be sufficient for you. Go back to those words I read in James, but he giveth more grace, blessed words. Friends, he never wearies of giving. He's not like that man in the parable who had a friend knock his door at midnight. Friend, lend me three doves. I cannot, he says, I and my children are in bed. Our Lord's not like that. The door of his mercy is open always, and he never fails, and he gives grace according to the day. In the 1930s, there was a very great depression, as you know, economically. And my late grandfather had a large family down in Kent, and he had a church who were quite numerous, but they were very poor and they couldn't support him in any large way. And oftentimes he was in a great strait, wondering where the next meal would come from sometimes. He told us he would write a letter and put it on the mantelpiece and wait for enough money to buy a stamp to post it. things got. One day, through the letter box came an envelope. And he opened it, it was anonymous, and in it was a ten shilling note, which you younger ones wouldn't know what that is, but those of us who are older know that in those days that was quite a nice sum of money. And with it was a little note, more to follow. And every so often, while he was in that great need, This comes with the letter box. More to follow. And friend, that's grace. That's grace. There's always more to follow. Why? Because the full letter's in Christ, and you can't exhaust that. No, not the barrel of mead and the cruise of oil that the widow woman enjoyed. Why did it remain? Why did it continue? Because dear friends, it resorts us in the God of Israel. And perhaps you've come to the end of your patience today, the end of your wisdom, the end of your strength. Perhaps you've been told the Lord like, Elijah himself did, oh, I can't go on, let me die. Did Elijah die? No. What did the Lord do? He gave him more grace, didn't he? So he went on. He went on. The journey's too great for you, Elijah, but My grace is sufficient. So maybe one of you this afternoon, what is the Lord saying? God? You say, how? My grace is sufficient for thee. And he doesn't wear you knocking at his door and asking for more grace. You know, we might get a little weary if a beggar knocked at our door. Perhaps the first time, we might say, give him something. Perhaps the next day, but if he continued knocking, I think because of who we are, we'd get a bit weary, wish he'd go somewhere else. Our God's not like that. He never wearies of giving more grace. The grace of thee, Lord Jesus Christ. My late brother-in-law, Benjamin Ramsbottom, who died recently, told me of an instance once in his early ministry. He had been preaching, and he felt to have failed in his preaching, and he was pronouncing the benediction. And he came to read what we are so used to reading and saying, the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord stopped him. He said, don't say they, say our. And he said, from then on, when everyone has a benediction, it was this, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. My dear friends, not that I want to amend the they word, I shouldn't say that in a TBS service, should I? But you know, it's a wonderful thing to say, this Lord Jesus Christ, our Lord Jesus, our strength, our wisdom, our grace, Our Redeemer, our Advocate. Oh, a sermon could be preached that little word, our, could it not? As the Puritans used to say, though, there is the divinity in the pronouns. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. It might surprise you why it comes first in this benediction. Why doesn't the love of God come first? We speak of God the Father, for example, as the first person of the Trinity. But no, the word grace comes for her. Why is that? There's no mistake. The Holy Ghost has not put it in the wrong order. Friends, it's grace that opens our heart to receive in the experience of it the love of God. It's grace that does it. You say, why is that? Well, because dear friends, your old nature and mine is not fit to receive grace. It's enmity. So we need a vessel, as it were, in us to receive it. And that vessel is the new birth, the new nature. In that new nature, God gives grace. And though the old nature is still there, and that's one of the greatest battles that a child would have to face, he's still got the old nature. That's why he needs more grace, and yet more grace, and still yet more grace, because the old nature is there. But blessed be God, wherever the Lord has given the new birth, then grace is working. And in that new birth, you begin to experience that love of God that actually precedes the giving of grace to you. I often ask my people that question. Does God love a child of God because he's quickened? Or does he quicken him because he loved him? Do you know the answer to that? He quickened him, dear friend, because he loved him. Grace sent forth that blessed work of the Spirit, flowing from the love of God. The love of God. So, what about this expression, the love of God? Can we measure it? You think of the prophet Ezekiel, and remember he was taken to a river. and he was told to enter the river and while he was just ankle deep he could move quite freely in it. Then he went a little further at God's command and it became to the knees and then to the loins and eventually he was out of his depth. It was a river to swim in. And my dear friend, that's just what the love of God is. You'll never plumb its depths. You're out of your depth trying to do so. It's a river to swim in. It's a river to swim in. Or the Lord might cause you and I to swim more often in it. We get so distracted, don't we? So diverted. But here is the essence of all real religion. The love of God shed abroad in the heart. The grace then of our Lord and the love of God. And I do like to think of this in another sense. The love of God at the centre of this benediction. As if God stretches out two hands in giving. One hand, the unspeakable gift of his dearly beloved son, thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift. The other hand, the gift of his Holy Spirit. Two blessed gifts flowing from the love of God through Christ Jesus, our Lord. Friends, it is a river to swim in, isn't it? Thanks be unto God for these two unspeakably precious gifts, both of them flowing from the love of God. And I like to think of it like this as well, and we need to ponder this. God was not bound by you or I to provide a substitute. You think of that. We had no claim on him so to do. And the fact that he was willing to accept a substitute for sinners is a great mercy. And a greater mercy yet, he was willing to provide that substitute, and a greater mercy even yet, that his dear son should be that substitute. What love? He that spared not his own son. Now that's a wonderful thing, isn't it? He spared not his own son. No person's ever endured more than the son of God endured on Calvary's cross. He drank the very dregs of the hell due to his church, right to the last drop. And as while good Murray McShane said, he drained that cup of the curse and filled it with the blessing, the blessing of this text. So it's the cup of blessing Paul speaks of in the Corinthians. Why? Because there's one who's drained it of the curse, all blessed work of God himself in doing that for his dear people. So we see the willingness of God to provide the substitute. And that is his dear son especially, how thankful we should be. Many years ago, in the 18th century, there was a justice of the peace who had a very unruly son. And this son caused havoc. In the end, he had to come before the bench. And it so happened his father was the judge appointed for that day. And the whole village gathered to see how he would deal with his son. Crimes were read out and they were quite numerous. And they waited now for the judge to pronounce it. Would he be lenient? Would he try his word to get his son off the hook? He pronounced the severest sentence he could possibly have given. And the villagers gasped. Is this a father dealing with his son like that? Then he laid aside his judge's robes, went and stood by his sons, and said, I'll pay it. That's what Christ has done. When he hung on the cross, as it were, he laid aside his own robes and said concerning his church what Paul said to Philemon, if he owes the old, I will pay it. I will pay it. And friends, all your tears and prayers, good though they are, and God forbid we should cease to pray and cease to weep, but they don't atone. Only one thing atones, the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ. And friend, it flows from the love of God, it's infinite. No wonder good Samuel Rutherford said, oh Christ, thou art the fountain, that deep, sweet well of love. Those streams on earth I've tasted more deep, I'll drink above. There to an ocean fullness thy mercy doth expand, where glory, glory dwelleth in Emmanuel's land. Friend, heaven will be thee enjoying the fullness of the love of God through Christ Jesus by his Spirit. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the Love of God. Just one further thought on this second point. In all his dealings with you, dear friend, there's love in all. You may not understand them all. A child doesn't always understand what his parents are about and why sometimes there is the frown rather than the smile. But it's always in love. It's always in love. Do you remember that? He's too wise to err. He's too good to be unkind. He gives and he takes, he makes no mistakes, whatever may be the amount. Have we a right, whoever he smite, to ask him to give an account? But friend, it's always, always in love. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God. And then he comes to this, the communion of the Holy Ghost. A communication. That's what salvation is. It's God communing with poor sinners through his dearly beloved Son by the Holy Spirit. I like to think of this in the likeness of the smiting of the rock. You remember in the history of the children of Israel, they came to one day murmuring times and grumbling times, no water, and it's easy for us to throw stones without little families need to supply. But they were grumbling again, it was all Moses' fault, and poor Moses did what he did again and again, he cried unto the Lord. The Lord says, take your rod, Moses, Go to the rock Horeb, I will stand there, you are to smite the rock, and water will come out. Notice the Lord didn't tell him to smite those murmuring Israelites, he was to smite the rock. And there, dear friends, the gospel was preached in a very wonderful way in the wilderness. Christ is that rock, divine justice smote him, that the Holy Ghost might flow out freely, fully, to sinners. What a mercy. And you know it's in the desert, sand. You know, you children would know what it's like at the seaside, how the moisture is absorbed by the sand. But this water was so abundant, so abundant, that it ran in the dry places like a river. And friend, don't you sometimes feel dried up? No, we do. If the Holy Spirit withholds, what is the answer? Oh, may the river flow again. There is a river. The streams whereof shall make glad the city of God. And what river is it? It's the dear Spirit coming in that blessed fullness into the hearts of His dear people. Oh, we should thank God for the communication of the Holy Ghost. Now, what means does He use? It's where we come to while we gather today. The Holy Spirit uses the Word of God, the uncorrupted, infallible Word of God as his sword or as his mouth. One good man said, the spirit without the Word is dumb, and the Word without the spirit is dead. And there's some truth in that surely. Friend, it is by the Word. And that's why this society that we love so much doesn't spread man's opinions. It doesn't spread abroad this, that, and the other. It sends forth the uncorrupted Word of God, knowing the blessed confidence that this is the sword of the Spirit. This is the hammer that breaks the rock in pieces. This is the dew that descends. This is the rain and the snow that comes down to water the earth, the word of God. And should this society ever divert from that one principle, then friends, we'll be on a downward track. The communion of the Holy Ghost, and we distribute the word with this desire. that the Holy Ghost will communicate through him to awaken sinners to their perilous state, to open their eyes to see the danger of the broad road that leads to the destruction, to open their eyes to see their need of a precious Christ and the dear spirit to fulfill his office in bringing sinners to Christ, that is his office. He delights to do it. That's a mercy, isn't it? He awakens sinners to a sense of their need, in conviction, and then he delights to point that sinner to the one and only way of salvation, the blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, that cleansed us from all sin. Oh, what a mercy then we cast this bread upon the waters, the word of God, in the humble confidence that it is God's word, it cannot return to him void. But we need, as we cast it is, the Holy Ghost to use it. The letter of the truth, yes, it's good in one sense. Every page of God's Holy Scripture is inspired. But why do we make just a letter, a printed letter on a page? It does us no good. We need the Spirit of the Word to take the Word and do what He did for the psalmist. Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee. So those of you perhaps here this afternoon, perhaps beginning to be concerned about your soul and its eternal welfare, this is the book to come to. These are the pages to read. As you open it, beg the Holy Spirit to communicate to you the life and the blessing and the love and the mercy and the grace that is in him. The communion of the Holy Ghost be with you all. And my dear friends, that must have put matters right at Corinth, mustn't it? It must have driven that party spirit away. It must have healed that heresy. It must have resolved that matter concerning immorality. It must have restored order. That's what's needed. And that's why, Fred, we should be so careful. You know, we read in the Prophets of Ezekiel where the Spirit was on the threshold, ready to depart, a solemn judgment. Or the Lord take His Holy Spirit of us personally, or from His church, we're utterly helpless and ruined. No wonder David prayed, take not thy Holy Spirit from me. So you see, every child of God I believe, they love this prayer. And then the apostle says two more things. Be with you all. He wasn't partial. He knew there were some were of Apollos and some were of Christ. Some were of him, but he wasn't partial. He said no. Be with you all. God is no respecter of persons, and those of us who stand in office in the church will remember that. The wisdom from above is without partiality, and the Holy Ghost operates without partiality. Be with you all. And then this word, Amen. Now some of us, when we were younger, it may be some young one here this afternoon is hoping, I'll soon say Amen. Well, I will in a moment, God willing. But you know, there comes a time in the life of a true seeker when they don't want the Amen to come too quick. They want to hear something and receive something for themselves. What does the word Amen mean? If God says it, and blessed be His name, He does say it, His dear Son is called the Amen, one of His many names. It means it shall be so. It shall be so. which when our Lord lifted up his once-wounded hands over the little gathering at Bethany, and he blessed them, and while he blessed them, as parted from them, he was saying the Amen to them, which pronounce in the blessing upon the Lord, bless thee and keep thee. Lord, make his face shine upon thee. The Lord, in the light of his, counts upon thee and grant thee peace. That's what he was saying in, if not in words, certainly in spirit. And he was saying our text in a way, was he not? Grace, love and communion be with you all. No wonder they went back to Jerusalem overjoyed. And so would you be, dear friends, if God pronounced in your heart this afternoon hour. You'd go on your way to the Ethiopian Union rejoicing. When we say it's a prayer, and when we pronounce at the end of a service, notice there's a wonderful way to close a service. we are saying, Lord, let it be so. Despite all the infirmities of our preaching and hearing, and there are many, Lord, let this be so. For where this is so, then there is that prosperity we so much long for. I read a little bit of good Charles Hodge, and he said this. The distinct personality and divinity of the Father, the Son, The Father, the Holy Ghost, with each of whom prayer is addressed, is here taken for granted. And therefore this benediction is a clear recognition of the doctrine of the Trinity, which is the fundamental doctrine of Christianity. For a Christian is one who seeks and enjoys the grace of the Lord Jesus, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost. That's what a Christian is. That's his definition. And I just close with this thought that I will say amen then. Some years ago I was privileged to go to the United States and I viewed the Niagara Falls. And it's a marvellous sight if ever you've seen it. Thousands and thousands of tonnes of water pouring over and going right down hundreds of feet. As I looked at it I thought yes, this is a faint picture of our text. the love of God in Christ Jesus through the Holy Spirit. And what struck me, dear friends, it was this, that the falls went right down to the bottom. And it's this that will reach sinners. It's this that will reach the case of those whom God is calling. This is what will change hearts, renew wills, turn the feet to Zion's hill. This is what will do it. So dear friends, whenever you enter the house of God, enter with this prayer. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God and the communion of the Holy Ghost be with us. And when you leave it, Lord, let it be so. Amen.