Alright, let's go to Genesis
chapter 3. We see now the Lord's creation of
the heaven and the earth and how that He formed and wrought
all the creatures including man. The scriptures now bring us to
the fall of Adam. And the fall of Adam is the fall
of man. It's the fall of you and me. If you've ever wondered why there
are endless wars and destruction. Why there is so much crime and
hatred and injustice and misunderstandings and differences. Why there's
so many, we're so plagued with various illnesses and sicknesses,
some mental, some physical. And we're just troubled and sick
and dying and dead. Why are there so many religions,
so many ways that man goes in darkness? Why is there all this
death and misery and sorrow? Well, this chapter tells us why. It tells us why. The fall of Adam is our fall
in Adam. When the Apostle Paul wrote that
verse in Romans 5 verse 12, wherefore? As by one man sin entered into
the world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon all
men, for that all have sinned. Paul was referring to the fall
of Adam. He was writing about what is
contained here and revealed and given to us by our Lord in this
chapter here of scripture. Now the natural man in religion
may acknowledge the fall. Men acknowledge the fall of man. But when we would turn men to the
flesh, and when we would speak of salvation and what we do as
something we do to earn God's favor, to get ourselves saved,
to be born again, to make a decision for the Lord. When we speak of
salvation in that way, we're betraying the fact that we don't
understand the Fall. We don't know what we're talking
about. We have no understanding of the Gospel. and the death
of Adam and our death in Adam and our partaking of the rebellion
and the enmity that we have against God, we have no understanding
of just how wicked and evil we are by nature,
how corrupt and deceitful and deceived we are and how Willing
we listen to the voice of the serpent we we If we can speak
of what we must do for the Lord, then we don't have an understanding
of this fall and for this cause men have said and it's a it's
a It's a true statement and a good way to remember it wrong on the
fall wrong on it all if you don't know the fall you are going to
hear the gospel, understand the gospel, and preach the gospel
to others, wrong. All wrong. Full of sin and darkness
and death. It doesn't lead to life. It may
sound good and sound religious, but it's nothing but death and
can do man no good. It's another gospel. It's another gospel. Now, The
Lord makes us, he brings us here, he makes us to know our sin,
not because we can correct it. I've heard men say, whether I've
read it in print or heard someone say that, well, he gave us the
law because we can keep it. He wouldn't have given the law
if you couldn't keep it. Lie. That's not true. And the
scriptures tell us exactly why God gave the law to man. It's to show us our sin. It's to make us see what the
scriptures see, which is that we are all sinners. And it goes right on back here
to the fall. But God has a gracious purpose
in it. It's not just to humble us and
humiliate us. It's not just to put our face
in the dust, though that's where He brings every one of us, in
mercy, in grace. It's for our good. It's for our
good. It's because God has a purpose
to be gracious to His child in Christ. Do you know that the
scriptures teach that before the fall, God made provision
for your salvation? God was gracious to you before
we ever fell in Adam. That's why the scriptures in
Revelation 13.8 call Christ the Lamb slain from the foundation
of the world. He was already purposed and determined
and agreed to be our Redeemer. to be the salvation of His people,
to make right everything we ruined in Adam in this fall by our works,
by our wickedness. And all whom the Father would
save We're told that He gave them to Christ. He put them,
gave them, put them into the care of Christ, the scripture
saying, according as He hath chosen us in Him before the foundation
of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before
Him in love. meaning Christ reconciled and
redeemed all his people and restored everything we lost everything
we ruined and destroyed by our sin and works Christ made right
and makes right and shall do that which is right and beautiful
and glorious and you that are his shall see with your eyes
you shall be raised from the dead and behold the works The
redemption, the love, the power, the glory of your Savior. The
Fall The Stark here were introduced to the serpent in Genesis 3.1. Now the serpent was more subtle
than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he
said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said. Ye shall not eat of
every tree of the garden. Now first of all this title of
the serpent is carried throughout all of scripture. It's found
in the beginning here in Genesis 3 and it carries all the way
into Revelation. One of the verses in Revelation
12 9 says and the great dragon was cast out that old serpent. called the devil and Satan, which
deceiveth the whole world. He's a deceiver, a liar, a murderer,
deceives the whole world. Today in popular culture, for
whatever the reason is, today more than ever there seems to
be this attempt to present the evil one in some positive light. That's all I want to say about
it. In some positive light. Don't believe it. Don't give
ear to it. Don't entertain it. He is a liar
and a deceiver. And he deceiveth the whole world
and he purposes to destroy all who will give him an ear. Our Lord tells us he was a murderer. from the beginning, right here. He was a murderer from the beginning.
What he did was to destroy Adam and Eve. It was to destroy Adam
and all in Adam. He murdered them, he deceived
them, got them to eat that fruit which God said you shall surely
die. That's why he did it, to murder
them. to murder them. He was a murderer
from the beginning and abode not in the truth, because there
is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh
of his own, for he is a liar and the father of it." There's
nothing positive, nothing, no light, nothing good in this one. He is evil and a liar and a murderer. And he said unto the woman, yea,
hath God said, ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden,
he knew this was false. He was there. He was there when
the creatures were created. He was there when the Lord told
Adam not to eat of this what he could eat and of these trees.
He was there. But he engaged the woman feigning
this ignorance, pretending to not know what God had said and
desiring to be taught by Eve. And I would imagine this would
have set Eve at ease. I mean, here she is talking with
a creature that has no business speaking. It has no voice, that
we understand it. It's a lie. And so this sets
her at ease and maybe gave her some confidence because she thought,
I know this. I know the answer to this. Adam
told me. I know the answer to this. And
so in Genesis 3, 2, and 3, the woman said unto the serpent,
We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden, but of the
fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God
hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it,
lest ye die. Now is that what the Lord said?
The way she said it back to the serpent, is that what the Lord
said? Look back in Genesis 2, look at Genesis 2 verse 16 and
17. And the Lord God commanded the
man saying, of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely
eat. You see freely, you may freely
eat of every tree of the garden. And when Eve said it, it's kind
of subdued, it's downplayed. We may eat of the fruit of the
trees of the garden, we can eat of them. God also said in verse
17, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt
not eat of it. For in the day that thou eatest
thereof, thou shalt surely die. But he said, neither shall ye
touch it. And the danger there is if you're
walking under the tree and it bumps your head and you don't
die, you then question, huh, maybe it isn't what the Lord
said it is. Maybe it is OK to eat it. I touched it and I didn't
die. So the Lord didn't say, don't even touch it, because
then you There's a slip, there's a crack there. And then the other
thing she said is, lest ye die. And that word lest means peradventure,
maybe. You might die, you might die. That's not what the Lord said.
He said, you shall surely die. You shall surely die. Now verse four, and the serpent
said unto the woman, ye shall not surely die. Maybe at this
time, we don't know where Adam was. We know at some point he
appears there, but I would imagine if Adam was there, he would have
done the speaking. But here the serpent is with
the woman, and perhaps at this point, he produces that fruit. I'm touching it. He shall not
surely die. And he brings it forth, and maybe
they're moving toward that tree, toward the midst of the garden.
And here the serpent calls God a liar. Just outright says he's
the liar. And he makes him out to be the
deceitful one. He's hiding something from you
guys. He's keeping something back for
himself. He's not as giving as you think
he is. For God doth know, verse 5, that
in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and
ye shall be as God's, knowing good and evil. Now, the implication
here is you do what you do because your nature is good. That's all
you know. And all you can do is your nature. You have no choice in the matter.
But if you eat this fruit, now you'll know the difference between
good and evil, and you can choose to do good. With your free will,
you can choose to do the good like God does. You won't do that
evil. You don't have to worry about
that, because you'll know good and evil, and you'll do what
is good. But the reality is it was a lie.
They died spiritually. And their nature was defiled,
corrupt, dead, spiritually dead, so that they cannot do that which
is good. All they can do is that which
is their nature to do. And we see it as we go through
this, we begin to see what that death looks like. And what they
do right away, automatically, as part of their dead, corrupt,
nature. But before we get there, verse
six, and when the woman saw that the tree was good for food and
that it was pleasant to the eyes and a tree to be desired to make
one wise, she took the fruit, took the fruit thereof and did
eat. And we see our own We see that
in us. We see that in us. John writes
of it in this way, for all that is in the world, the lust of
the flesh. This is good for me. I want this.
This would be good for me to have. The lust of the eyes. This
will look good to others. I'll appear as one beautiful
in their sight, and worthy of their praise, and the pride of
life." And he says, it's not of the Father, but it is of the
world. 1 John 2, 16, it's of the world. And so she ate, and we don't
read of anything happening yet, nothing seems to happen. And
she gave also unto her husband. So at some point Adam is there
and she gives to Adam and he did eat. Now once Adam ate, that's
when the death occurs because God is showing us that he deals
with us all in one of two men. Either in Adam the first, where
we come in our works I know the difference between good and evil,
Lord, and I'll do what I think is right, and that's how you'll
receive me. That's coming in Adam, in the
works of the flesh, and you shall receive that which is just. You're just due for your works,
which is eternal death. Or he receives us in Christ,
the last Adam, the last Adam. And that's coming to the Lord
with no hope or confidence in self and in your works. Lord,
don't look at my works. Don't even look at my good works
because they're filthy rags. Lord, all my hope is the Lord
Jesus Christ and his righteousness whom you sent graciously Not
because of anything good in me, but because you are good, and
gracious, and kind, and gentle, and you sent him, and he laid
down his life for me, and loved me, and did all this for me.
Lord, receive me in him. And that's how the Lord's people,
Lord Jesus Christ, that's how his people come, in him, trusting
his righteousness. It's that simple. we trust him
we believe that he is perfect and righteous and that's how
we come and that's how we ask Lord receive me there I don't
want to be received in my dead works in the first Adam so once
Adam ate we read in verse 7 and the eyes of them both were opened
and they knew that they were naked. Now the last verse of
chapter two, just before we get here, says that they were both
naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed. That's
because they had nothing to hide. But now the corruption of sin
spread through their minds immediately, and they died, and they knew,
I'm naked, I'm ashamed, I'm all exposed. I've got no covering
for my nakedness and so the very first thing they did was they
sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons. They
immediately set to working by their own flesh, their own wisdom,
to make a covering to hide what they had done before the Lord. They tried to hide it from the
Lord. They tried to cover their nakedness. And they heard the
voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of
the day, a gentle calm period of the day. The cool of the day and Adam
and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God
amongst the trees of the garden. Now the voice of the Lord is
none other than the word of God, the Lord Jesus Christ. And they feared God, not in the
humble sense in which you reverence the Lord, you love the Lord.
You know He's all salvation. He's everything to me. That's
a good fear. That's a love. That's a love
that honors Him, respects Him, and willingly looks to Him for
all things. But they had that fear of God,
which is a slavish fear. And they thought, he's come to
get me. He's going to punish me. Let
me hide myself from his presence. They sought a refuge from the
presence of God. And so we see the workings of
death that came immediately. It wasn't gradual. It wasn't
over time. The enmity that's in us is the
exact enmity that was in them and we inherited that same thing.
That same corruption and death and slavish fear and bitter adherence
to it is what we are by nature. when we come to God in the flesh.
That's all that we are. And so they became self-righteous
in their deeds and God was immediately their enemy, one whom they feared
would destroy them and punish them. And so they hide themselves
where? In darkness, under the shadow
of the trees of the garden. They ran for cover out of the
sight of God. But right here in verse nine,
we actually see The grace of God. We begin to see the experience
of grace for every child of God. God came when he came. And we
see right from the very, very, very beginning, without man and
woman doing anything, while they were yet sinners, running the
other way from the Lord, we see the grace of God immediately. Immediately. Look at verse nine.
And the Lord God called unto Adam. And he said, Adam, where
art thou? He called unto Adam. That's exactly how we are brought. In grace and kindness, the Lord
comes and calls you his child. Where are you? Come. And he draws
you. He calls you to himself. I'm hiding out in the shadows. I'm hiding out in darkness. I'm
running from the Lord. And he comes and calls. you his
child come to me he brings you he draws you to himself in grace
if God had not called Adam Adam would never have come he didn't
turn around until the Lord called him and then he came and that's
how it is not one of us There's none that seeketh after God. That's what the scripture said.
There's none that seeketh after God. None of us is good. None
of us repented. None of us sought him first.
God sought you, his child, first. That's grace. So God called unto
Adam. Otherwise, Adam would just have
gone his own way, doing his own thing, and that would have been
that. That would have been the end of it. We see here what the scriptures
say in John 3, verse 20 and 21. Everyone that doeth evil hateth
the light. What Adam and Eve did was evil,
and they hated the light, the presence of God. Neither cometh
to the light, lest his deed should be reproved. That's why Adam
ran. He did not want to be brought
to account. So he ran for darkness, the cover
of darkness. But he that doeth truth, in whom
the Lord works, gives life, and is gracious to, and draws you
to himself, they cometh to the light, that his deeds may be
made manifest that they are wrought in God. God does it. God brings forth life and the
fruit of the Spirit in his children. That there's life there. There's
life. He does that. So God now charges
each one with their sin and he pronounces their judgment. Let's
look at verses 10 through 19. Adam and Eve, they come before
God and Adam said, I heard thy voice in the garden. I was afraid
because I was naked and I hid myself. That's where we are by
nature. I'm naked, I'm made to know my
sin, and I'm afraid. And John 6, when they saw Christ
walking on the water, coming toward them, and they were afraid.
And that's how we are by nature, until he reveals his grace and
love in us. And God said, who told thee thou
wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree whereof
I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? And it's not that God
doesn't know. The Lord knows exactly what happened. He purposed it. He's doing all
things well. He's revealing it. to his child
what they've done. He's making them to know, I'm
the sinner. I'm the sinner. And the man said,
the woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the
tree and I did eat. There it is. Adam has turned
victim. It's her fault. And it's your
fault for giving her to me. You did this. And the Lord Said
unto the woman, I just love the wisdom of the Lord. He just goes
right on down the line, and then he'll work his way right back
up the line there. He goes right on down to the woman. What is
this that thou hast done? And the woman said, the serpent
beguiled me, and I did eat. She's a fast learner. She saw
what Adam did and said, sounds good. The serpent deceived me. He beguiled me, and I did eat.
He gave me this fruit, and I ate because of him. And the Lord
said unto the serpent, notice that he does not question. There's
nothing to ask. He knows he's evil. He's already
judged. He's already condemned. And so
he doesn't ask the serpent anything. He says to the serpent, because
thou hast done this. You know, if God doesn't give
any ear to him, we ought not either. May God help us to not
hear the voice of the serpent, by his grace may we not listen. Because thou hast done this,
thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the
field, upon thy belly shalt thou go, and thus shalt thou eat all
the days of thy life. Now here is the preaching of the gospel. We know verses one and two because
God told Adam and Adam told his sons, his children. That's why
we know what happened and God revealed that to Moses. And I
believe Adam knew the gospel in that sense because when we
looked at it, we saw Christ, we saw the gospel. But now for
the first time, Adam and Eve are hearing the Lord declare
the gospel when they're vitally interested
in it. Now they are experiencing that
Gospel. It's like Job who said, I've
heard of thee with the hearing of the ear, but now mine eye
seeth thee and I abhor myself and repent in dust and ashes. Now this is coming alive. Now they have an interest, they're
the sinner, and now this gospel is precious. And so they're hearing
what the Lord says about the destruction of the serpent. He
says, and I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between
thy seed and her seed. It shall bruise thy head, and
thou shalt bruise his heel. The Lord makes it clear. When
Christ came in the flesh, he was not born of the seed of Adam,
which is corrupt. The seed of Adam is corrupt,
it's defiled. He's born by the overshadowing,
with the seed of woman, that's where his flesh is from, but
the corruption is passed through the man's seed. And so the Holy
Spirit overshadowed. We're all sinners, men and women
alike, because we're all born of Adam's seed. But Christ is
not born of Adam's seed. The Holy Spirit overshadowed
Mary and conceived in her womb that holy thing, the Lord Jesus
Christ, the blessed, blessed Redeemer. And He's going to destroy
the devil and destroy his works, the works of the devil and what
he did. And He's going to reconcile and
redeem Every sin, every fault, every destruction that Adam did
in partaking of that fruit and eating that fruit in rebellion
against God, Christ redeemed the whole of it. And let me just
say before we go on, we don't say like Adam and Eve said, the
devil made me do it. No, you did it. I did it. I'm the sinner. I am the sinner. I am responsible for my sin. And thanks be to God that Christ
came and took up that which I owed and the curse I was under and
bore my curse and paid my debt and died my death Willingly as
the Lamb of God to put away my sin and the sin of you my brethren
and the sin of all his children whom he draws to himself and
reveals himself to washing them in his blood and Comforting them
and blessing them in this gospel by his grace and mercy so He
says my son is going to crush your head your bruises healed
and It'll be a painful, sorrowful death which he bears himself
for his people, but he will destroy you and make all things new again. And unto the woman he said, I
will greatly multiply thy sorrow. Now he's working his way back
up. I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception. In
sorrow thou shalt bring forth children, and thy desire shall
be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. And the most
likely interpretation of that is that the woman, One is that
she will be ruled by her husband and the other is that the woman
will seek to rule over her husband. We see those where the woman's
telling the husband what to do and what he did wrong and things
like that. Her desire is to rule over him but the Lord says he
will rule over you and now because of sin and corruption in his
flesh We see this battle and arguing and we see corruptions
in it, men not loving their wives as they are instructed to love
them, and wives not honoring their husbands as they are instructed,
and there's fighting in the flesh in this sin, in this sin. But
we see how the Lord blesses husbands and wives in him. And unto Adam
he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and
hast eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou
shalt not eat of it, curse it as the ground for thy sake. In
sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life. Thorns
also, and thistles shall it bring forth to thee, and thou shalt
eat the herb of the field. In the sweat of thy face shalt
thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground, for out of it
wast thou taken. For dust thou art, and unto dust
shalt thou return. And so we see there a picture
of what this flesh is. It's corrupt. Just like the dust
that we till brings forth weeds, thorns and thistles. I actually
have in my finger still, I was doing a little cleanup in the
garden before the nice weather comes and I saw a plant and I
just picked it up and pulled it out and escaped any injury. But when I picked it back up
again, I had one of the thorns, one of those things I pulled
up happened to be those things that grow thorns in them. And
I pulled out the thorn, but it got stuck. A reminder of the
curse of this flesh. And like the dust of the ground
puts up thorns and thistles, that's what the Lord tells us. That's all we produce by this
flesh, thorns and thistles and bramble bushes, cursed things
that doesn't bring forth grapes, or figs on cursive things. We don't bring forth good works. The spirit brings forth fruit
that is profitable to our brethren. And so he goes on. This chapter, well,
they that are in the flesh cannot please God. That's what he's
saying there. And it'll be a toil and a labor.
that we might know our sin by the grace of God. He makes us,
he brings us under the law or to show us in the scriptures
that we're all sinners, that we would hear the promise by
faith of the Lord Jesus Christ, that we would hope in him and
know him and come to the Lord in him, not in our fig leaf religion
and running from the Lord, playing games. Now this chapter closes
with a few more details and a picture of the gospel. It says in verse
20 Adam called his wife's name Eve because she was the mother
of all living. Adam and Eve all come forth from
Adam's corrupt seed by the flesh and unto Adam We read, unto Adam
also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins
and clothed them. Here is the gospel. Adam and Eve, there was no death.
If you notice, everything that Adam ate was grains and fruits,
right, vegetables. What he grew of the ground. There
was no meat eaten at the time. Later on, after the fall, I mean,
after the flood, the Lord says, You may eat. And he tells Peter,
rise, Peter, kill and eat. You can eat. It was animals in
there, all manner of beasts and animals. We eat meat now. We
may eat meat. Nothing wrong with that at all.
But back then, all Adam ate was grains and fruits and vegetables. And so here the Lord comes and
slays before their eyes. No line. It even says that the
lions, that their nature was not to eat meat until after the
fall. That's when they began to eat
meat. So they see the Lord slay an animal for each of them, for
their sin. I think it was a lamb. I would
imagine it was a sheep. But whatever, whichever animal
it was, it was good and right. And they saw the Lord slay a
beast for each one of them. And the horror of that. I remember
I had a chicken. I didn't want a rooster, and
I didn't want a rooster yet. So I slayed that rooster and
watched the blood fall out of its neck. You know, it's violent. It's bloody. It's gory. And they saw that for the first
time, the horror. This is what my sin did? Require
the death of that animal? And the Lord took the skins.
He prepared the skins before them. And then the Lord clothed
them with those skins. You see one in that, the Lord
did everything. He didn't instruct Adam. He didn't tell Adam how to do
it. Now you do this. Now take this here. None of that. The Lord did the whole thing.
He didn't even hand them the clothes and say, now put these
on. No, no. He clothed Adam. That's what
it says there. The Lord God made coats of skins
and clothed them. He put them on them. And that's
exactly what the Lord does through the Lord Jesus Christ. He came,
the Lamb of God, and was slain for our sins, you that are his. For your sins, he was put to
death, and the coat of his righteousness is put upon you by the Lord,
putting that righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ on you. and your nakedness is now covered.
You have no shame. You stand before God, accepted
and received by Him. Verse 22-24 And the Lord God
said, Behold, the man is become as one of us to know good and
evil, and now lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the
tree of life, and eat, and live forever. Therefore the Lord God
sent him forth from the garden of Eden to till the ground from
whence he was taken. So he drove out the man and he
placed at the east of the garden of Eden cherubims and a flaming
sword which turned every way to keep the way of the tree of
life. So the Lord did this so that Adam in his death could
not reach forth his own hand and take the tree of life, that
fruit, and live forever in that fallen, dead, spiritually dead
state and live forever. So he sent him out that God would
be gracious to whom he would be gracious in the Lord Jesus
Christ who would come and redeem all that was lost and save his
people and bring them to himself so that as Eve was the wife of
the first Adam and she was bone of his bones and flesh of his
flesh The Lord sent Adam away that he would be gracious as
he promised there in the garden when he spoke of Christ who would
come and he would restore and provide life. He is the life
of his people and now we are delivered from that death and
darkness and sorrow and ruin and are made alive in the Lord
Jesus Christ and we're bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh
We, the Church, are the Bride of Christ. And so that's why
the Lord did that. And so God declares to us our
fallen Adam here, making us to see what sinners we are, that
the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them
that believe. It's all beautiful. It's all
the grace of God. And I thank him for it. I thank
him for it, and I know you do too. All right, let's pray. Our gracious Lord, we thank you
for how clear and direct you are to make us to know our sin,
to know our folly, to know our faults. Lord you are blessed
and perfect in all your ways and Lord you do that which is
right and Lord we see in this the glory of your son whom you
purposed to to send and to to obtain our eternal redemption
by himself for our good and to make us your bride bone of your
bones, and flesh of your flesh, eternally, forever, in truth,
in spirit, in righteousness. Lord, we thank you. We thank
you for this gospel. We pray that you would bless
this gospel to our hearts, to the hearts and minds of your
people, that you would comfort us and settle us in this most
holy truth of our Savior. And we would look to him for
all things being delivered from death. Lord, let us give no ear
to the devil, no ear to the enemy, and hear only you, Lord. It's in Christ's name we pray
and give thanks. Amen. Our closing hymn, if you would
stand, our closing hymn would be 56. I am his and he is mine,
56. Yeah. With everlasting love, Led by
grace that love to know, Spirit breathing from above, Thou hast
taught me it is so. O this full and perfect peace,
O this transport all divine, In a love which cannot cease,
I am His and He is mine. In a love which cannot cease,
I am His and He is mine. Heaven above is softer blue,
Earth around is sweeter green. Something lives in every hue
Priceless eyes have never seen Birds with flatter songs or flow
Flowers with deeper beauty shine Since I know, as now I know I
am His and He is mine. Since I know, as now I know,
I am His and He is mine. Things at once were wild alarms,
cannot now disturb my rest. Closed in everlasting arms, Ill
onon the loving breast, O to life forever here, Doubt and
care and self-resign While he whispers in my ear, I am his
and he is mine. While he whispers in my ear,
I am his and he is mine. He is forever only his, who the
Lord and me shall part. Ah, with what a rest of bliss
Christ can fill the loving heart. Heaven and earth may fade and
flee, curse for light in gloom decline. But while God and I
shall be, I am His and He is mine. But while God and I shall
be, I am His and He is mine. Thank you.