It's been very good to be here.

And I hope I can come back someday.

It was really a remarkable experience to get to know you.

I feel like we're just starting, and it comes to an end.

Well, we started with our theme, and I want to make sure I highlight it again and relate the things I close with to it.

The God who strengthens his people.

And my aim has been to magnify this God who is so full and so complete and so self-sufficient

that he is always the source of strength and never the receiver of strength,

ever without exception.

He is always benefactor and never beneficiary of any power or being outside himself.

He is always giver, helper, supplier, enabler. of any power or being outside himself.

He is always giver, helper, supplier, enabler, never needy, never deficient, never wanting.

He is magnified, therefore, by our receiving from him strength, not by our giving strength or help to him.

And I sum this up by saying, he is most glorified or magnified in us by our being most satisfied in him, in his strength, in his promises.

And therefore, for God's sake, you must make it your lifetime goal to be satisfied.

To be indifferent to your own satisfaction in God is to be indifferent to what is righteous and to promote sin.

If God is most glorified in you for his strength, when you are most satisfied in him for that strength,

then not to pursue your satisfaction in that strength is sin.

Therefore, the pursuit of your own joy is not an option in the Christian life.

It's a duty.

It's at the essence of what sanctification is.

Now, as I was pondering last night, just a fresh way to say that in a real practical way for your

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