This is the manuscript of the seventh sermon in the "Doctrines Of Our Faith Series".
The doctrines of our faith serve the same function for our spiritual lives that the skeletal systems do for our physical lives. So the doctrines of our faith support and protect our beliefs.
The seventh doctrine is that Peter's confession, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God", is the foundation on which the ekklesia (the called out) the church is built and "the gates of hell" (nothing at all) can or will prevail against it.
To hear an audio of the sermon click on the YouTube image at the end of the manuscript.
The doctrines of our faith serve the same function for our spiritual lives that the skeletal systems do for our physical lives. So the doctrines of our faith support and protect our beliefs.
The seventh doctrine is that Peter's confession, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God", is the foundation on which the ekklesia (the called out) the church is built and "the gates of hell" (nothing at all) can or will prevail against it.
To hear an audio of the sermon click on the YouTube image at the end of the manuscript.
Scripture Reading:
Ephesians 2:19-22 ESV So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.
This scripture tells us that Jesus Christ is the cornerstone of the church and that everything is built around Him. That leads us to our text.
Text:
Matthew 16:16-18 ESV Simon Peter replied, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." And Jesus answered him, "Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
This is the seventh in our series “The Doctrines Of Our Faith”.
The first doctrine we discussed is that the Bible is divine revelation, or the Living Word. The second is the doctrine that the One we believe in and worship does exist and He is Almighty God. The third doctrine is that God Almighty who we worship and who we know exists took on human form and came to earth and actually lived among his creation as one of us. Almighty God is also the Incomparable Christ. Our fourth doctrine is that the Holy Spirit is the third person in the Godhead, or Trinity and that He is equal with God The, Father, and God the Son. He was sent by the Father after the Son Jesus returned to heaven to complete the plan of redemption by seeing to it that every person feels a call toward God's saving grace.
The fifth is the doctrine of mankind from generation, to degeneration, ending with regeneration.
Man was created to live in perfect relationship with God, to be at peace with themselves, and to live in harmony with their environment.
But man forfeited this holy and blessed position through sin.
Last week we talked about the doctrine of sin being the thing that spoils everything in mankind’s relationship with God. Sin is the thing that caused our degeneration.
Because Adam sinned, sin became universal and was passed to all people resulting in the loss of communion with God.
Romans 5:12-14 ESV Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned— for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law. Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come.
Sin resulted in a curse on mankind bringing decay, disease, disorder, and death.
The thing that we can rejoice in is that Christ actually “became a curse for us” on the cross.
Galatians 3:13 CEV But Christ rescued us from the Law's curse, when he became a curse in our place. This is because the Scriptures say that anyone who is nailed to a tree is under a curse.
Because He became that curse for us when a person repents of his or her sins, asks forgiveness and asks Jesus to come into their lives as Lord and Savior God takes that broken vessel and reshapes it.
2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
He gives people new hearts when they confess their sins and put their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Ephesians 2:19-22 ESV So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.
This scripture tells us that Jesus Christ is the cornerstone of the church and that everything is built around Him. That leads us to our text.
Text:
Matthew 16:16-18 ESV Simon Peter replied, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." And Jesus answered him, "Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
This is the seventh in our series “The Doctrines Of Our Faith”.
The first doctrine we discussed is that the Bible is divine revelation, or the Living Word. The second is the doctrine that the One we believe in and worship does exist and He is Almighty God. The third doctrine is that God Almighty who we worship and who we know exists took on human form and came to earth and actually lived among his creation as one of us. Almighty God is also the Incomparable Christ. Our fourth doctrine is that the Holy Spirit is the third person in the Godhead, or Trinity and that He is equal with God The, Father, and God the Son. He was sent by the Father after the Son Jesus returned to heaven to complete the plan of redemption by seeing to it that every person feels a call toward God's saving grace.
The fifth is the doctrine of mankind from generation, to degeneration, ending with regeneration.
Man was created to live in perfect relationship with God, to be at peace with themselves, and to live in harmony with their environment.
But man forfeited this holy and blessed position through sin.
Last week we talked about the doctrine of sin being the thing that spoils everything in mankind’s relationship with God. Sin is the thing that caused our degeneration.
Because Adam sinned, sin became universal and was passed to all people resulting in the loss of communion with God.
Romans 5:12-14 ESV Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned— for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law. Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come.
Sin resulted in a curse on mankind bringing decay, disease, disorder, and death.
The thing that we can rejoice in is that Christ actually “became a curse for us” on the cross.
Galatians 3:13 CEV But Christ rescued us from the Law's curse, when he became a curse in our place. This is because the Scriptures say that anyone who is nailed to a tree is under a curse.
Because He became that curse for us when a person repents of his or her sins, asks forgiveness and asks Jesus to come into their lives as Lord and Savior God takes that broken vessel and reshapes it.
2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
He gives people new hearts when they confess their sins and put their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Introduction
As new creatures with new hearts God calls us us out from the world. We are the called out from the world not out of the world.
That's what I want to talk about today.
John 17:14-16 ESV I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
The Greek word that is translated church in the New Testament is ek -kle'-sia, which means the “called out.” Ekklesia is the word used in out text.
Matthew 16:18 ESV And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
In other words Peter the confession that you just made that I am "the Christ, the Son of the living God." is what I will build on to call people out from the world and nothing can prevail against the called out, nothing can prevail against church. That is still true even when we see reports and statistics predicting the end for the church.
John Bunyan the author of The Pilgrim's Progress, which is a great piece of literature, had a vision while he was in jail. In his vision he saw a flame of fire before a door, and a man pouring water on the flame. But the fire could not be quenched. He could not understand, though this man was drenching the fire with water, why it continued to burn. Then, in his vision, he saw a second man, standing just behind the door, who was pouring oil on the fire!
The meaning of the vision was that there were some wanting to extinguish the enthusiasm of the church and make it conform to man’s laws but that while some were trying to put the fire out the Holy Spirit was pouring oil on the flames to make them burn even higher and hotter.
That’s the way that the writers of the New Testament wrote about the church. They point out the problems in their letters
1 Corinthians 1:11-12 ESV For it has been reported to me by Chloe's people that there is quarreling among you, my brothers. What I mean is that each one of you says, "I follow Paul," or "I follow Apollos," or "I follow Cephas," or "I follow Christ."
1 Corinthians 5:1-2 ESV It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father's wife. And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you.
Galatians 1:6-7 ESV I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ.
Paul points out problems but at no time is he pessimistic concerning the church. There is always a note of victory. Remember In our text Jesus said, “Upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.”
In Revelation there are letters from Christ to the seven churches of Asia Minor, in which he gives scathing rebukes to individual churches.
Revelation 2:1-4 ESV "To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: 'The words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks among the seven golden lampstands. "'I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false. I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up for my name's sake, and you have not grown weary. But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first.
Revelation 2:12-16 ESV "And to the angel of the church in Pergamum write: 'The words of him who has the sharp two-edged sword. "'I know where you dwell, where Satan's throne is. Yet you hold fast my name, and you did not deny my faith even in the days of Antipas my faithful witness, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells. But I have a few things against you: you have some there who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, so that they might eat food sacrificed to idols and practice sexual immorality. So also you have some who hold the teaching of the Nicolaitans. Therefore repent. If not, I will come to you soon and war against them with the sword of my mouth.
Revelation 2:18-20 ESV "And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write: 'The words of the Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire, and whose feet are like burnished bronze. "'I know your works, your love and faith and service and patient endurance, and that your latter works exceed the first. But I have this against you, that you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and is teaching and seducing my servants to practice sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols.
Revelation 3:1-3 ESV "And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: 'The words of him who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars. "'I know your works. You have the reputation of being alive, but you are dead. Wake up, and strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your works complete in the sight of my God. Remember, then, what you received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If you will not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come against you.
Revelation 3:14-16 ESV "And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: 'The words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of God's creation. "'I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot! So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth.
These letters speak prophetically about problems and weaknesses in the institutional church in every generation.
But Christ spoke of the body of believers functioning under the Lord’s headship, seeking to follow his commands. The New Testament speaks of the church both as a spiritual body—an organism composed of all believers, and as a local, earthly organization of saints. I want to look at both of those today; —first, the church as an organism, and second, the church as an organization.
As new creatures with new hearts God calls us us out from the world. We are the called out from the world not out of the world.
That's what I want to talk about today.
John 17:14-16 ESV I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
The Greek word that is translated church in the New Testament is ek -kle'-sia, which means the “called out.” Ekklesia is the word used in out text.
Matthew 16:18 ESV And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
In other words Peter the confession that you just made that I am "the Christ, the Son of the living God." is what I will build on to call people out from the world and nothing can prevail against the called out, nothing can prevail against church. That is still true even when we see reports and statistics predicting the end for the church.
John Bunyan the author of The Pilgrim's Progress, which is a great piece of literature, had a vision while he was in jail. In his vision he saw a flame of fire before a door, and a man pouring water on the flame. But the fire could not be quenched. He could not understand, though this man was drenching the fire with water, why it continued to burn. Then, in his vision, he saw a second man, standing just behind the door, who was pouring oil on the fire!
The meaning of the vision was that there were some wanting to extinguish the enthusiasm of the church and make it conform to man’s laws but that while some were trying to put the fire out the Holy Spirit was pouring oil on the flames to make them burn even higher and hotter.
That’s the way that the writers of the New Testament wrote about the church. They point out the problems in their letters
1 Corinthians 1:11-12 ESV For it has been reported to me by Chloe's people that there is quarreling among you, my brothers. What I mean is that each one of you says, "I follow Paul," or "I follow Apollos," or "I follow Cephas," or "I follow Christ."
1 Corinthians 5:1-2 ESV It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father's wife. And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you.
Galatians 1:6-7 ESV I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ.
Paul points out problems but at no time is he pessimistic concerning the church. There is always a note of victory. Remember In our text Jesus said, “Upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.”
In Revelation there are letters from Christ to the seven churches of Asia Minor, in which he gives scathing rebukes to individual churches.
Revelation 2:1-4 ESV "To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: 'The words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks among the seven golden lampstands. "'I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false. I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up for my name's sake, and you have not grown weary. But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first.
Revelation 2:12-16 ESV "And to the angel of the church in Pergamum write: 'The words of him who has the sharp two-edged sword. "'I know where you dwell, where Satan's throne is. Yet you hold fast my name, and you did not deny my faith even in the days of Antipas my faithful witness, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells. But I have a few things against you: you have some there who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, so that they might eat food sacrificed to idols and practice sexual immorality. So also you have some who hold the teaching of the Nicolaitans. Therefore repent. If not, I will come to you soon and war against them with the sword of my mouth.
Revelation 2:18-20 ESV "And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write: 'The words of the Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire, and whose feet are like burnished bronze. "'I know your works, your love and faith and service and patient endurance, and that your latter works exceed the first. But I have this against you, that you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and is teaching and seducing my servants to practice sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols.
Revelation 3:1-3 ESV "And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: 'The words of him who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars. "'I know your works. You have the reputation of being alive, but you are dead. Wake up, and strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your works complete in the sight of my God. Remember, then, what you received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If you will not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come against you.
Revelation 3:14-16 ESV "And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: 'The words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of God's creation. "'I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot! So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth.
These letters speak prophetically about problems and weaknesses in the institutional church in every generation.
But Christ spoke of the body of believers functioning under the Lord’s headship, seeking to follow his commands. The New Testament speaks of the church both as a spiritual body—an organism composed of all believers, and as a local, earthly organization of saints. I want to look at both of those today; —first, the church as an organism, and second, the church as an organization.
I. The church as an organism.
When we use the word organism in relation to the church, we are speaking of a body that possesses inner life and is not dependent on human organization.
It is the concept of the church as being the body of all believers in the Lord Jesus Christ. The inner life of this body is the life of God himself, imparted through the Holy Spirit, who lives in every believer.
How did the church begin?
How did it come into being? In studying the Scriptures, particularly the New Testament, it appears that the church passed through three phases, all of which constitute its origin.
It is customary to speak of Pentecost as being the birthday of the church, for there the group of individual believers were put together for the first time into a spiritual body by the Holy Spirit.
Acts 2:1-4 When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.
Acts 2:41 ESV So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls.
While that did happen on the Day of Pentecost both Paul and Peter indicate that the church existed in the mind of God before Pentecost.
Paul wrote:
Ephesians 1:3-6 ESV Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.
2 Timothy 1:8-9 ESV Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but share in suffering for the gospel by the power of God, who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began,
And Peter wrote;
1 Peter 1:17-21 ESV And if you call on him as Father who judges impartially according to each one's deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile, knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot. He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last times for the sake of you who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.
The election and conception of the church actually came before the election of God’s chosen people, Israel, because Israel was chosen in Abraham,
Genesis 17:7-8 ESV And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you. And I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God."
The church was chosen in Christ.
1 Peter 1:20-21 ESV He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last times for the sake of you who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.
It is God’s church; it was originated by him, and it is dependent on him for support. Paul said
1 Corinthians 3:5-9 ESV What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each. I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. He who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his wages according to his labor. For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's field, God's building.
The church is described as being a field that God cultivates and enriches so that it will produce fruit. The church exists through God, and having existed eternally in his mind, nothing can destroy it.
Second, we move from eternity into time, and we find that although the church existed eternally with God, it came into being foundationally with Jesus Christ—Jesus “founded” the church.
This phase of the church’s origin hangs on two points. First, Jesus said, “Upon this rock I will build my church.” This is the foundation of the church—Jesus himself, the God-man.
Peter declares that Christ is the cornerstone of the church.
1 Peter 2:4-9 ESV As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. For it stands in Scripture: "Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a cornerstone chosen and precious, and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame." So the honor is for you who believe, but for those who do not believe, "The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone," and "A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense." They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do. But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
The second point regarding the foundation for the church goes hand in hand with Christ’s deity—his death and resurrection.
Acts 20:28 ESV Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.
Here Paul combines both the deity and death of Christ in relation to the church. He calls it the church of God, not of man, and the mystery of the church’s existence lies in the fact that it was purchased with the blood of Jesus Christ. Jesus added power to his death when he arose from the dead, sealing the transaction forever.
Therefore, in time, Jesus founded the church, which had already existed in God’s mind from eternity past, in his deity and death and resurrection.
The last phase of the origin of the church was the historical beginning on the day of Pentecost as a united body.
Before the Holy Spirit’s coming, Jesus’s disciples existed as separate units; when the Spirit came, they were “baptized into one body.” On that same day, three thousand more souls were converted and added to the church, and the church grew extremely rapidly in that first century.
Then, in Acts 15, the church broadened to receive not only Jews but Gentiles as well.
Acts 15:12-17 ESV And all the assembly fell silent, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul as they related what signs and wonders God had done through them among the Gentiles. After they finished speaking, James replied, "Brothers, listen to me. Simeon has related how God first visited the Gentiles, to take from them a people for his name. And with this the words of the prophets agree, just as it is written, "'After this I will return, and I will rebuild the tent of David that has fallen; I will rebuild its ruins, and I will restore it, that the remnant of mankind may seek the Lord, and all the Gentiles who are called by my name, says the Lord, who makes these things
II. Now let's look at the church as an organization.
What is an organization? It is human-made. It may exist as an orderly whole; it may have different parts and functions, just like an organism, but it lacks the essential, generating life of an organism. An organization can be disbanded or altered or replaced with new parts and new programs without destroying its existence. But with an organism, when any part is removed or altered, there is a mutilation. False members may be added that may function, but even those do not make the body whole again.
Therefore churches are organizations of believers in the Lord Jesus Christ scattered throughout the earth, having specific tasks defined by the New Testament.
First, a church’s function is to promote worship. All of its other missions and responsibilities receive their impetus and effectiveness based on the true worship that exists in the church. Paul gives a threefold description of true worshipers in:
Philippians 3:3 ESV For we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh--
True worshipers are those who 1)“worship God in spirit 2) they rejoice in Christ Jesus, and 3) they have no confidence in the flesh.”
The church has other responsibilities that come with being a worshiping church.
The church has an obligation to function under Christ’s lordship. The major directive of our Lord is the universal proclamation of the good news of salvation.
Matthew 28:19-20 ESV Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age."
Conclusion
There's a hymn that all of us know that expresses the beautiful relationship that exists between Jesus Christ and his people. That hymn is:
“The Church’s One Foundation”:
The church’s one foundation is Jesus Christ her Lord;
She is His new creation, by water and the word;
From heaven He came and sought her to be His holy bride,
With His own blood He bought her, and for her life He died.
Matthew 16:16-18 ESV Simon Peter replied, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." And Jesus answered him, "Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
A traveler in a European village discovered a beautiful custom. At night he saw people going to church, each person carrying a little bronze lamp. They placed these lamps in sockets by their pews. The soft light of the lamps was the only illumination for the service. If a member was absent, there was a dark space. Today we do not carry lamps to church, but we do send forth light. When we are in the assembly with fellow believers, or when we are about our day-to-day activities, we are sending forth light. What a joy and a privilege to be part of the body of Jesus Christ by spiritual birth and to be part of an earthly church for fellowship, growth, and service to the King!
Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
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