ROMANS 16:25 – 27. GREAT IS THE GOSPEL OF OUR GLORIOUS GOD.
25NOW TO HIM WHO IS ABLE TO ESTABLISH YOU BY MY GOSPEL AND THE PROCLAMATION OF JESUS CHRIST, ACCORDING TO THE REVELATION OF THE MYSTERY HIDDEN FOR LONG AGES PAST, 26BUT NOW REVEALED AND MADE KNOWN THROUGH THE PROPHETIC WRITINGS BY THE COMMAND OF THE ETERNAL GOD, SO THAT ALL NATIONS MIGHT BELIEVE AND OBEY HIM— 27TO THE ONLY WISE GOD BE GLORY FOREVER THROUGH JESUS CHRIST! AMEN.
HAVE EVER BEEN TO LISTEN TO AN ORCHESTRA PLAY A SYMPHONY– HAS IT EVER TAKEN YOUR BREATH AWAY? WERE YOU MOVED, AS YOU LISTENED TO THE MUSIC? THE MUSIC CAN BECOME ALL CONSUMING, AS IT MOVES ALONG SO POWERFULLY, AS IT COMES TO THE GRAND FINALE THE CLOSING CHORDS OF THE ORCHESTRA RESONATE IN THE HEARERS EARS, LEAVING A LASTING EFFECT EVEN AFTER THE CONCERT THE PIECE RESONATES IN YOUR EARS.
THE WHOLE LETTER TO THE ROMANS IS LIKE A GRAND ORCHESTRAL SYMPHONY, WITH MANY PARTS BUT ALL COMING TOGETHER IN A UNISOM INTO A THEOLOGICAL SYMPHONY OF GODS SALVATION PLAN, WHICH CANNOT FAIL TO SIMPLY TAKE OUR BREATH AWAY.
V 25 -27 DOXOLOGY: DEFINITION: AN EXPRESSION OF PRAISE TO GOD, ESPECIALLY A SHORT HYMN SUNG AS PART OF A CHRISTIAN WORSHIP SERVICE.
HERE IS WHERE IT ENDS, NOT WITH A INSIGNIFICANT WHIMPER, BUT WITH A LOUD CRESCENDO OF POWER, WISDOM AND PRAISE TO OUR GOD FOR HIS GLORIOUS GOSPEL WHICH HAS RESONATED DOWN THROUGH THE CENTURIES IN THE HEARTS AND MINDS OF GODS PEOPLE. LET’S UNPACK TOGETHER THIS DOXOLOGICAL MASTERPIECE
1. THE POWER OF GOD TO (ESTABLISH) HIS CHURCH. V25
WHO IS IT THAT IS ABLE TO ESTABLISH YOU IN THE FAITH? WHO IS IT THAT ESTABLISHES THE CHURCH? IS IT THE VATICAN AND THE POPE AS THE HEAD OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH? IS IT THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY AS THE HEAD OF THE PROTESTANT CHURCH? IS IT THE QUEEN AS THE DEFENDER OF THE FAITH? IS IT CHURCH LEADERS WHO ESTABLISH AND ITS MEMBERS WHO ESTABLISH THE TRUE CHURCH?
NOPE ITS HIM WHO IS ABLE (GOD) HE IS THE ONLY ONE WHO IS ABLE TO ESTABLISH YOU HE IS THE ONLY ONE ABLE TO ESTABLISH THE TRUE CHURCH OF GOD – THE POPE AND OTHERS CAN ESTABLISH CHURCHES AND BUILD DENOMINATIONS BUT ONLY GOD CAN ESTABLISH YOU AND ME INTO THE TRUE CHURCH – NOBODY ELSE.
THAT’S WHY PAUL IS FILLED WITH PRAISE TO GOD V27 TO THE ONLY WISE GOD BE GLORY FOREVER THROUGH JESUS CHRIST. AMEN! CHRISTIANS MEET ALSO WEEK AFTER WEEK WITH PRAISE TO GOD BECAUSE HE IS THE ONE ALONE WHOM IS ABLE TO ESTABLISH HIS TRUE CHURCH.
ESTABLISH – OR TO STRENGTHEN V25 - (ROM1:11) IN CONTEXT HERE PAUL IS SAYING GOD IS ABLE TO KEEP THEM THROUGH ALL THEIR TRIALS THROUGH THE BARRAGE OF FALSE TEACHING THEY ARE FACING GOD IS ABLE TO ESTABLISH THEM THROUGH IT ALL HE IS ABLE TO STRENGTHEN THEM .
• AS SAMUEL JOHN STONE WROTE THE HYMN THE CHURCHES ONE FOUNDATION, THOUGH WITH A SCORNFUL WONDER, MEN SEE HER SORE OPPRESSED, BY SCHISMS RENT ASUNDER BY HERESIES DISTRESSED: ALTHOUGH SUCH TRUTHS OF SCHISMS HERESIES ARE EXPERIENCED IN THE CHURCH AND CONVEYED BY SAMUEL JOHN STONE HE KNEW ALSO THAT OUR GOD IS ABLE TO ESTABLISH YOU, HIS TRUE CHURCH. YET SAINTS THEIR WATCH ARE KEEPING, THEIR CRY GOES UP: HOW LONG? AND SOON THE NIGHT OF WEEPING SHALL BE THE MORN OF SONG.
SO IT’S GOD WHO IS ABLE TO KEEP US IN THE TRUTH. BUT HOW DOES GOD ESTABLISH HIS CHURCH? HOW DOES HE STRENGTHEN HIS PEOPLE? HOW IS THAT WORKED OUT PRACTICALLY?
A) GOD ESTABLISHES HIS CHURCH THROUGH GOSPEL MINISTERS. V25 BY MY GOSPEL PAUL WROTE EARLIER IN ROM 1:16 I AM NOT ASHAMED OF THE GOSPEL BECAUSE IT IS THE POWER OF GOD FOR THE SALVATION OF EVERYONE WHO BELIEVES.
WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT PAULS GOSPEL, WAS GODS GOSPEL (DOCUMENTARIES TODAY WOULD DISTORT THIS TRUTH PAUL DISTORTED CHRISTIANITY) BUT IT WAS ON THE ROAD TO DAMASCUS SAUL WAS A MAN WITH MANS GOSPEL BUT HE WAS COMPREHENDED BY THE RISEN CHRIST AND GIVEN THE GOSPEL OF GOD THE GOOD NEWS OF JESUS CHRIST AND BECAME GODS CHOSEN GOSPEL MINISTER. ROM 10:14-15
THE CALLING: SADLY TO MANY MINISTERS TODAY ARE PEOPLE WHO HAVE CHOSEN TO BECOME MINISTERS BUT HAVE NEVER EXPERIENCED THE CALL OF GOD, GODS CHOOSING HIS SETTING APART OF THEM TO BECOME TRUE MINISTERS OF GODS GOSPEL WHICH BECOMES THEIR GOSPEL. ROM 1:1 PAUL A SERVANT OF CHRIST JESUS, CALLED TO BE AN APOSTLE AND SET APART FOR THE GOSPEL OF GOD.
IT IS THROUGH GOSPEL MINISTERS WHO ARE BORN AGAIN CALLED AND SET APART BY GOD AND SENT WHO GOD USES TO ESTABLISH HIS CHURCHES. PAUL WRITES 1THES 3:2 SENT TIMOTHY, OUR BROTHER, AND MINISTER OF GOD, AND OUR FELLOW LABOURER IN THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST, TO ESTABLISH YOU, AND TO COMFORT YOU CONCERNING YOUR FAITH.
B) GOD ESTABLISHES HIS CHURCH THROUGH THE GOSPEL MESSAGE V25 THE PROCLAMATION OF JESUS CHRIST
IF I WAS TO ASK YOU THE QUESTION WHAT IS THE GOSPEL? WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? ITS A VERY IMPORTANT QUESTION, BECAUSE YOU CAN GO TO A VARIETY OF CHURCHES UP AND DOWN OUR NATION AND YOU WOULD HAVE A VARIETY OF ANSWERS. IS THE GOSPEL SIMPLY SOCIAL JUSTICE – IS IT ENVIRONMENTAL TO CARE FOR THE PLANET – IS IT SIMPLY TO EMBRACE ALL SPIRITUALITY - IS IT SIMPLY BOILED DOWN TO LOVING ONE ANOTHER AND GOD? WHAT IS IT? IT’S AN IMPORTANT QUESTION BECAUSE THE CURRENT WORLD POPULATION OF 6.76 BILLION PEOPLES LIVES DEPEND UPON IT.
TRAIN WRECK STORY
SOME YEARS AGO A FEARFUL RAILROAD WRECK TOOK A DREADFUL TOLL OF LIFE AND LIMB IN AN EASTERN STATE. A TRAIN, LOADED WITH YOUNG PEOPLE RETURNING FROM SCHOOL, WAS STALLED ON A SUBURBAN TRACK BECAUSE OF WHAT IS KNOWN AS A “HOT-BOX.” ANOTHER LIMITED TRAIN WAS SOON DUE, BUT A FLAGMAN WAS SENT BACK TO WARN THE ENGINEER IN ORDER TO AVERT A REAR-END COLLISION. THINKING ALL WAS WELL, THE CROWD LAUGHED AND CHATTED WHILE THE TRAIN-HANDS WORKED ON IN FANCIED SECURITY. SUDDENLY THE WHISTLE OF THE OTHER TRAIN WAS HEARD AND ON CAME THE HEAVY TRAIN AND CRASHED INTO THE LOCAL TRAIN, WITH HORRIBLE EFFECT.
THE ENGINEER OF THE LIMITED SAVED HIS OWN LIFE BY JUMPING, AND SOME DAYS AFTERWARDS WAS HAILED INTO COURT TO ACCOUNT FOR HIS PART IN THE CALAMITY. AND NOW A CURIOUS DISCREPANCY IN TESTIMONY OCCURRED. HE WAS ASKED, “DID YOU NOT SEE THE FLAGMAN WARNING YOU TO STOP?” HE REPLIED, “I SAW HIM, BUT HE WAVED A YELLOW FLAG, AND I TOOK IT FOR GRANTED ALL WAS WELL, AND SO WENT ON, THROUGH SLOWING DOWN.”.THE FLAGMAN WAS CALLED, “WHAT FLAG DID YOU WAVE? “A RED FLAG, BUT HE WENT BY ME LIKE A SHOT.”.“ARE YOU SURE IT WAS RED?”.“ABSOLUTELY. ”BOTH INSISTED ON THE CORRECTNESS OF THEIR TESTIMONY, AND IT WAS DEMONSTRATED THAT NEITHER WAS COLOUR-BLIND.
FINALLY THE MAN WAS ASKED TO PRODUCE THE FLAG ITSELF AS EVIDENCE. AFTER SOME DELAY HE WAS ABLE TO DO SO, AND THEN THE MYSTERY WAS EXPLAINED. IT HAD BEEN RED, BUT IT HAD BEEN EXPOSED TO THE WEATHER SO LONG THAT ALL THE RED WAS BLEACHED OUT, AND IT WAS BUT A DIRTY YELLOW!
THE LIVES ETERNALLY WRECKED BY THE YELLOW GOSPELS OF THE DAY—THE BLOODLESS THEORIES OF UNREGENERATE MEN AND WOMEN THAT SEND THEIR HEARERS TO THEIR DOOM INSTEAD OF STOPPING THEM ON THEIR DOWNWARD ROAD! SOURCE BIBLE ORG. ILLUSTRATIONS OF BIBLE TRUTH BY H. A. IRONSIDE, MOODY PRESS, 1945, PP. 62-63
A CHRISTIAN FRIEND OF MY SISTER ASKED ME LAST MONTH THIS VERY QUESTION. AFTER BEING FED UP OF HEARING SO MANY LIBERAL CHRISTIAN IDEAS OF WHAT THE GOSPEL IS – HE ASKED ME TO SEND HIM A DEFINITION AND THIS IS WHAT I WROTE,
THE FIRST WORDS THAT CAME FROM THE LIPS OF JESUS MARK 1:14-15 AFTER JOHN WAS PUT IN PRISON JESUS CAME TO GALILEE, PROCLAIMING THE GOOD NEWS OF GOD. “THE TIME HAS COME”, HE SAID. “THE KINGDOM OF GOD HAS COME NEAR. REPENT AND BELIEVE THE GOOD NEWS!”
“THERE IS NO GREATER MESSAGE TO BE HEARD THAN THAT WHICH WE CALL THE GOSPEL. BUT AS IMPORTANT AS THAT IS, IT IS OFTEN GIVEN TO MASSIVE DISTORTIONS OR OVER SIMPLIFICATIONS. PEOPLE THINK THEY’RE PREACHING THE GOSPEL TO YOU WHEN THEY TELL YOU, ‘YOU CAN HAVE A PURPOSE TO YOUR LIFE’, OR THAT ‘YOU CAN HAVE MEANING TO YOUR LIFE’, OR THAT ‘YOU CAN HAVE A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS.’ ALL OF THOSE THINGS ARE TRUE, AND THEY’RE ALL IMPORTANT, BUT THEY DON’T GET TO THE HEART OF THE GOSPEL.
THE GOSPEL IS CALLED THE ‘GOOD NEWS’ BECAUSE IT ADDRESSES THE MOST SERIOUS PROBLEM THAT YOU AND I HAVE AS HUMAN BEINGS, AND THAT PROBLEM IS SIMPLY THIS: GOD IS HOLY AND HE IS JUST, AND I’M NOT IN FACT WE ARE ALL SINNERS (GENESIS 3, ROM 3:23). AND AT THE END OF MY LIFE, I’M GOING TO STAND BEFORE A JUST AND HOLY GOD AND I’LL BE JUDGED. AND I’LL BE JUDGED EITHER ON THE BASIS OF MY OWN RIGHTEOUSNESS – OR LACK OF IT – OR THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF ANOTHER.
THE GOOD NEWS OF THE GOSPEL IS THAT JESUS LIVED A LIFE OF PERFECT RIGHTEOUSNESS, OF PERFECT OBEDIENCE TO GOD, NOT FOR HIS OWN WELL BEING BUT FOR HIS PEOPLE. HE HAS DONE FOR ME WHAT I COULDN’T POSSIBLY DO FOR MYSELF. BUT NOT ONLY HAS HE LIVED THAT LIFE OF PERFECT OBEDIENCE, HE OFFERED HIMSELF AS A PERFECT SACRIFICE TO SATISFY THE JUSTICE AND THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD (ROM 3:21 -26).
THE GREAT MISCONCEPTION IN OUR DAY IS THIS: THAT GOD ISN’T CONCERNED TO PROTECT HIS OWN INTEGRITY. HE’S A KIND OF WISHY-WASHY DEITY, WHO JUST WAVES A WAND OF FORGIVENESS OVER EVERYBODY. NO. FOR GOD TO FORGIVE YOU IS A VERY COSTLY MATTER. IT COST THE SACRIFICE OF HIS OWN SON. SO VALUABLE WAS THAT SACRIFICE THAT GOD PRONOUNCED IT VALUABLE BY RAISING HIM FROM THE DEAD – SO THAT CHRIST DIED FOR US, HE WAS RAISED FOR OUR JUSTIFICATION (ROM 4:25). SO THE GOSPEL IS SOMETHING OBJECTIVE. IT IS THE MESSAGE OF WHO JESUS IS AND WHAT HE DID.
BUT IT ALSO HAS A SUBJECTIVE DIMENSION. HOW THE BENEFITS OF JESUS ARE SUBJECTIVELY APPROPRIATED TO US? HOW DO I GET IT? THE BIBLE MAKES IT CLEAR THAT WE ARE JUSTIFIED NOT BY OUR WORKS, NOT BY OUR EFFORTS, NOT BY OUR DEEDS, BUT BY FAITH – AND BY FAITH ALONE. THIS IS EXERCISED WHEN WE REPENT IN REGARD TO SIN AND BELIEVE THE GOOD NEWS OF CHRIST’S ATONING DEATH AND JUSTIFYING RESURRECTION. FAITH IS NOT MANUFACTURED BY ONESELF BUT IS A GIFT FROM GOD (EPH 2:8). COMPLETE TRUST IN CHRIST ALONE FOR SALVATION. YOU DO THAT, YOU’RE DECLARED JUST BY GOD, YOU’RE ADOPTED INTO HIS FAMILY, YOU’RE FORGIVEN OF ALL OF YOUR SINS, AND YOU HAVE BEGUN A NEW LIFE WITH CHRIST AS YOUR SAVIOUR AND LORD.
IN A NUTSHELL IS V25 THE PROCLAMATION OF JESUS CHRIST THIS WAS THE APOSTOLIC MESSAGE OF THE APOSTLES AND IT IS BY THIS GOSPEL MESSAGE THAT GODS CHURCH IS ESTABLISHED. AND THERE IS NO OTHER GOSPEL.
1COR 15: 1NOW, BROTHERS, I WANT TO REMIND YOU OF THE GOSPEL I PREACHED TO YOU, WHICH YOU RECEIVED AND ON WHICH YOU HAVE TAKEN YOUR STAND. 2BY THIS GOSPEL YOU ARE SAVED, IF YOU HOLD FIRMLY TO THE WORD I PREACHED TO YOU. OTHERWISE, YOU HAVE BELIEVED IN VAIN. 3FOR WHAT I RECEIVED I PASSED ON TO YOU AS OF FIRST IMPORTANCE[A]: THAT CHRIST DIED FOR OUR SINS ACCORDING TO THE SCRIPTURES, 4THAT HE WAS BURIED, THAT HE WAS RAISED ON THE THIRD DAY ACCORDING TO THE SCRIPTURES.
THIS IS THE MESSAGE THAT MUST BE PROCLAIMED FROM OUR PULPITS THE PROCLAMATION OF JESUS CHRIST AND HIM CRUCIFIED AND RAISED FROM THE DEAD ON THE THIRD DAY CALLING MEN AND WOMEN AND BOYS AND GIRLS TO REPENT AND BELIEVE.
c) GOD ESTABLISHES HIS CHURCH THROUGH THE REVEALED TRUTH V25 -26.
GODS CHURCH IS BEING ESTABLISHED THROUGH THE REVEALED TRUTH THE WORD OF GOD. GODS CHURCH IS ONLY BUILT THROUGH THE WORD OF GOD. YET HERE HE TALKS ABOUT THIS MYSTERY THAT HAS BEEN HIDDEN BUT NOW REVEALED: THIS IS SPEAKING OF GODS PLAN WHICH WAS PREVIOUSLY HIDDEN , BUT NOW IN THE OPEN FOR ALL TO BELIEVE AND OBEY V26 SO THAT ALL NATIONS MIGHT BELIEVE AND OBEY HIM.
SO GOD HAS COMMANDED THAT BOTH JEW AND GENTILE WOULD FORM ONE PART OF GODS CHURCH AND BE CALLED TO OBEY THE WORD OF GOD BY BELIEVING IN HIS SON JESUS CHRIST.
WHAT IS REVEALED HERE PARTICULARLY TO THE JEWS IS THAT THEIR GOD IS NO LONGER JUST THE GOD OF THE JEWS BUT HE IS THE GOD OF ALL PEOPLE GROUPS. WE SEE GLIMPSES OF THIS HIDDEN PLAN IN THE OT GENESIS 12:3: AND ALL PEOPLES ON EARTH WILL BE BLESSED THROUGH YOU ISAIAH 49:6 REF (CHRIST) I WILL ALSO MAKE YOU A LIGHT TO THE GENTILES, THAT YOU MAY BRING MY SALVATION TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH.
REMEMBER HOW PATRIOTIC JONAH FELT ABOUT GOING TO NINEVEH – HE WANTED NOTHING TO DO WITH THESE PAGANS TO HIM GOD WAS THE GOD OF THE JEWS ONLY – THEN CONSIDER THE PHARISEES WHO MADE MUCH OF CIRCUMCISION AND CREATED THEIR OWN LAWS ONE OF WHICH TO MAKE IT ILLEGAL TO EAT WITH GENTILES - THE GENTILES WERE CONSIDERED DEGRADED PAGAN WORSHIPPERS, IMMORAL AND CORRUPT SINNERS. YET GOD ESTABLISHES HIS CHURCH WITH SUCH PEOPLE.
THROUGH THIS REVEALED TRUTH A DIVERSE CHURCH EXPLODED 1ST CENTURY (ROME, CORINTH ATHENS EPHESUS THESSALONICA AND OTHERS WHERE JEW AND GENTILE WORSHIPPED TOGETHER.) THIS MYSTERY HAD LONG BEEN HIDDEN BUT NOW REVEALED.
SO WHEN WE CONSIDER THE CHURCH TODAY GOD ESTABLISHES IT ACCORDING TO HIS REVEALED TRUTH WHICH SHOWS ITS MADE UP OF A DIVERSE GROUP OF PEOPLE GAL 3: 28-29 AND A DIVERSE GROUP OF SINFUL BACKGROUNDS 1COR 6:9 - 11 .
THE CHURCH TODAY IS NO DIFFERENT, WHAT COUNTS AMONGST OUR DIVERSITY IS THE ONE COMMON THREAD WE SHARE WE HAVE BEEN WASHED, SANCTIFIED AND JUSTIFIED IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AND BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD. THE FUTURE PICTURE: REV 7:9 A MULTITUDE FROM EVERY NATION AND TRIBE PEOPLE AND LANGUAGE.
C) GOD ESTABLISHES HIS CHURCH THROUGH FAITH AND OBEDIENCE
WHAT CONSTITUTES ANYBODY BELONGING TO THIS DIVERSE CHURCH THAT GOD IS ESTABLISHING?
WHAT IS IT THAT CAN MAKE ANYONE PERSON A CHRISTIAN , YOU MAY WELL BELONG TO A CHURCH - BE A REGULAR ATTENDEE - YOU MAY WELL BE EVEN A MEMBER OF A CHURCH - CHRISTENED – CONFIRMED OR BAPTISED EVEN. BUT NONE OF THESE THINGS IN AND OF THEMSELVES ESTABLISH YOU AS BELONGING TO GODS ETERNAL CHURCH. THEY MAY WELL SAY SOMETHING ON THE OUTSIDE TO OTHERS BUT NOT TO GOD.... WHAT ESTABLISHES A PERSON IS FAITH, WHICH IS DEMONSTRATED BY OBEDIENCE TO GODS WORD.
YOU MIGHT BE ASKING HOW I CAN RECEIVE FAITH. HOW CAN I BELONG TO GODS CHURCH? HELP ME UNDERSTAND IT, HELP ME TAKE IT IN, WILL HE SAVE ME?
THE QUESTION YOU NEED TO ASK YOURSELF IS ARE YOU READY TO TRUST HIM?
ONE NIGHT A HOUSE CAUGHT FIRE AND A YOUNG BOY WAS FORCED TO FLEE TO THE ROOF. THE FATHER STOOD ON THE GROUND BELOW WITH OUTSTRETCHED ARMS, CALLING TO HIS SON, “JUMP! I’LL CATCH YOU.” HE KNEW THE BOY HAD TO JUMP TO SAVE HIS LIFE. ALL THE BOY COULD SEE, HOWEVER, WAS FLAME, SMOKE, AND BLACKNESS. AS CAN BE IMAGINED, HE WAS AFRAID TO LEAVE THE ROOF. HIS FATHER KEPT YELLING: “JUMP! I WILL CATCH YOU.” BUT THE BOY PROTESTED, “DADDY, I CAN’T SEE YOU.” THE FATHER REPLIED, “BUT I CAN SEE YOU AND THAT’S ALL THAT MATTERS.” SOURCE UNKNOWN
FAITH IS A COMPLETE TRUST IN THE PERSON AND WORK OF JESUS CHRIST AS YOUR SAVIOUR AND LORD.
WHEN YOU UNDERSTAND THAT HE SAVES YOU – AND YOU HAVE TO SIMPLY TRUST HIM TO BE SAVED AND WHEN YOU TAKE THAT STEP OF FAITH HE WILL CATCH YOU EVEN THOUGH YOU DON’T FULLY UNDERSTAND OR SEE.
YOU NEED TO ASK FOR GODS FORGIVENESS WHICH IS AVAILABLE TO YOU THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD, YOU NEED TO REPENT OF YOUR SIN AND TRUST IN JESUS AS YOU SAVIOUR AND LORD, AND THEN YOU MUST GO ON TAKING UP YOUR CROSS AND FOLLOWING HIM IN OBEDIENCE THIS IS HOW GOD ESTABLISHES HIS CHURCH THROUGH FAITH AND OBEDIENCE.
THIS IS GODS POWER AND WISDOM OF HIS GLORIOUS GOSPEL WHICH IS ABLE TO ESTABLISH HIS CHURCH AND THE GATES OF HELL SHALL NOT PREVAIL AGAINST IT!
PAUL ENDS WITH PRAISE AND SO SHOULD WE! V27 TO THE ONLY WISE GOD BE GLORY FOREVER THROUGH JESUS CHRIST! AMEN
CLOSING HYMN: GREAT IS THE GOSPEL OF OUR GLORIOUS GOD.
