the Bible's last blessing (revelation 22:21)

This sermon was preached at New Testament Christian Fellowship in Claremont, NC on February 26, 2023. The focus of this message is the LAST BLESSING found in the Holy Scriptures: “The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.”

The last verse of the Bible contains a last blessing, the standard closing for all of Paul’s Epistles that John and his audiences in the seven churches of Asia Minor would have known well. The words grace, Lord, Jesus, and Christ are such pregnant and powerful words that all appear in this final blessing, and each of these is worthy of our careful attention.

This concluding blessing of Revelation and, consequently, of the New Testament and the entire Bible, transcends space and time. The “you all” is as much to us in 2023 living in days of apostasy as it was to the churches of Asia Minor vexed by rising apostasy in their day at the close of the first century.