Till We Meet Again

“The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.” Revelation 22:21.

The grace of that wondrous person who is God and man in one person and whom we call Lord, is now solemnly invoked upon you. Read the text again and pause a while in the middle to enjoy, “The grace of our Lord.” Whatever familiarity we have with Him, we call Him Master and Lord, and He says, “You do well, for so I am.” Let us never forget that! The grace that comes from His majesty, the grace that comes from His headship, the grace that comes from His divinely human supremacy over His Church, which is His body—this is the grace which we desire for you all! Read the next word, “the grace of our Lord Jesus”—may that be with you—that is to say, the grace of our Savior, for that is the meaning of the word, Jesus. All His saving grace; all that which redeems from guilt, from sin, from trouble—all that which saves us with an everlasting salvation—may that be yours to the fullest! Then comes the other word, “the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.”

May He, as the anointed one, visit you. May the grace of His anointing be with you! May the holy anointing which was poured upon the head come down upon you, as the sacred nard dropped from Aaron’s beard and perfumed all his robes! May you have that anointing from the Holy One which shall make you know all things! I am tempted to linger over each one of these words, but I may not, for time would forbid. Yet must we tarry on that word, “our.” “May the grace of our Lord.” Catch at that sweet word! It may not, perhaps, be genuine in this case, for it is not in the Sinaitic manuscript, but whether it is so in this particular instance or not, it is in the Word of God and stands forever true. Jesus is our Lord—our Lord Jesus Christ—both yours and ours. May the fullness of His grace be with you and with us!

Till We Meet Again, Sermon 1628 - Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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