My God Shall Supply All Your Need

Minister:	Rev. Ronald Van Overloop
Date:	7/21/2013 PM
Text:	Philippians 4:19
Psalters:	171, 396, 281, 7

Supply What?
1. “Need” refers to necessities for life, both physical and spiritual.
  1. God has no needs or unfulfilled wants, for He is the perfectly Self-sufficient One, who is always full.
  2. As earthly and sinful creatures we only have needs, none of which we can supply for ourselves (are always empty).
  3. What I need, while expressed in a desire, is not what I want.
2. Notice that “need” is singular and refers to man’s need being God: His favor and fellowship.
  1. Man was created to live in fellowship with God.
  2. All of man’s needs are determined by and are subservient to this one need.
  3. We need forgiveness and righteousness.
3. Paul’s needs were met by the Philippians’ love gift; but he insists that he had learned to be content without it.
God determines our need and He supplies it.
1. God knows our need (Matt. 6:32).
2. God “shall supply.”
  1. “Supply” is to make full, fill up, make to abound, complete or abundantly supplied.
  2. He meets “all” our need, i.e., the whole of it, not just a part.
3. God’s supply comes “by Christ Jesus.”
  1. Having lost all the riches we had in Adam, we only make ourselves more and more needy.
  2. Jesus is the meritorious cause why all the riches of God’s glory are given to us.
  3. Presently we have the principle of salvation, which we can never lose.
Our text rings with confidence, which has two sources.
1. First, Paul’s confidence comes from the fact that our Supplier is “my God.”
  1. Jehovah was not unknown to Paul, but was the One whom he knew, loved, and obeyed.
  2. Paul’s God is able to do exceeding abundantly.
2. Second, our confidence arises from of the abundance of God’s “riches in glory” (cf. Eph. 3:16).
  1. God’s infinite capacity of His own glory is the only source able to meet our need.
  2. This is an inexhaustible source, and it is the measure according to which our need is and shall be filled.