Paul never failed of this promise. Every epistle that he wrote concludes with a

salutation that contains the word "grace be with you". This salutation is found at the

close of Hebrews, but is not found at the close of the epistles of either James, Peter, Jude

or John.

Inspiration does not make a man like Paul write meaningless platitudes. Those words

"the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you" are characteristic of the apostle and his

own personal desires. He can wish nothing better to either a church, a minister or a

fellow believer, and so on this note:

"Grace be with you. Amen,"

the apostle of grace lays down both his pen, his sword and his life, to await that day when

grace shall give place to glory, and he and we shall be for ever with the Lord.