Let's take our Bibles and turn
with me to the book of Genesis chapter 6. Genesis chapter 6. We come in our study of the book
of Genesis to a passage that I would like for us to consider
very carefully. I want to just look at the first
four verses of this sixth chapter, and truly I ask the Lord's direction,
leadership, teaching. These first four verses deal
with the days before the flood. And one might say, well, you
know, if it's just history, you know, but no, it's not just history. All scripture is given by inspiration
of God and is profitable for reproof, rebuke, instruction
in righteousness. So we want to look at the first
four verses. Secondly, these four verses declare that judgment
is coming. is going to be a day when all
of us here and every man, every woman that has ever stood on
this earth is going to stand before God. And then thirdly,
that these scriptures declare that we're going to know something
about what will be the times in which the world will be found
in the day of our Lord's second coming. We're gonna know something
about that. Now, the reason I know that,
turn to Matthew chapter 24, Matthew 24. Like I said, now these four
verses are gonna tell us something of what the days were like in
the days of Noah. Matthew 24, starting in verse
36, I wanna read 36 to 44. Our Lord says, Matthew 24, 36,
but of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of
heaven, but my Father only. But as the days of Noah were,
so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be. For as in the
days that were before the flood, they were eating and drinking,
marrying, giving in marriage until the day that Noah entered
into the ark, and knew not until the flood came and took them
all away, so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be. Then shall
two be in the field, one shall be taken, the other left. Two
women shall be grinding at the mill, the one shall be taken,
the other left. Watch therefore, for you know
not what hour your Lord doth come. But know this, that if
the good man of the house had known in what watch the thief
would come, he would have watched and would not have suffered his
house to be broken up. Therefore, be ye also ready. For in such an hour as you think
not, the Son of Man cometh." So the Lord admonishes his hearers
concerning his second coming. And he said it's going to be
when you don't expect it. You're just not going to be expecting
it. Now he's coming back to judge
and the question for all men, all women should be this. Am
I ready to meet God? Now it's going to be instantaneous. It's going to be in the twinkling
of an eye. It's going to be as the apostle John in the book
of Revelation chapter 20 verse 11, I saw a great white throne
and him that sat on it from whose face the earth and the heavens
fled away and there was found no place for them. And I've told
you before when he said there was found no place for them,
that is to hide. And I saw the dead, small and
great, stand before God. Now this is going to happen.
I mean, this is not just rhetoric. It's not just black ink on white
paper. This is going to happen. He says, I saw the dead, small
and great, stand before God, and the books were opened. And
another book was opened, which is the book of life, and the
dead were judged out of those things which were written in
the books according to their works. And the sea gave up the
dead which were in it, and death and hell delivered up the dead
which were in them. And they were judged every man
according to their works. And death and hell were cast
into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And
whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast
into the lake of fire. Now I don't know a lot, but I
know this. I don't want to be judged on
the dirt that I've done, the filth that I've done. Not only what I've done, what
I've thought, what I intended, the thoughts, the imagination.
Now, if a sinner is found to be standing before God, in his
own filthy righteousness, his own works, his own will, I can
tell you according to the word of God, he's going to be cast
out. But if he's found to be written in the book of life,
and I'm going to say something about knowing something about
that, about making your calling and election sure, just a few
minutes. If a man or woman is found to
be in union with the Lord Jesus, robed in His righteousness, that
sinner is accepted only in the Beloved. He's not accepted in
himself. He's accepted for Christ's sake. So, here's what I know according
to the word of the Lord. The Lord's coming. We don't know
when, but we know that when He does come, that the conditions
as they were in the days of Noah, that's the way they're going
to be just at his second coming as it was just prior to the flood.
Now men and women of this world, now when I say that, I want to
make sure I said it just exactly like that. Men and women of this
world, They're going to be doing exactly what they're doing right
now. Those that don't know the Lord. There's going to be a lot of
them that are religious and a lot of them that are not religious.
Some of them, you know, they attend some assembly and some
of them don't. But they're, I'm talking about
unbelievers. But they're all going to be doing
just exactly what they're doing. They're going to be taken up
with worldly pursuits. They're going to be concerned
only with the things of this life and they're going to be
totally unconcerned about eternity. That's one of the things I've
noticed Chuck, I mean an unbeliever. They just don't, they just don't
care. You don't care. Now a believer
knows. You know he knows the Lord's
coming back. I'm going to stand before God
and an unbeliever absolutely disregards the warnings of God
found in His Word about leaving this world, you know, without
Christ, you tell an unbeliever. You know, if you leave this world
without the Lord, without Christ, without truly being born from
above, you have no regard for God's judgment, you have no regard
for their eternal state of being separated before Him, what they're
going to be doing, the Lord said in Matthew 24. Men and women,
they're going to be eating and drinking and marrying, giving
in marriage. Now listen, there's nothing wrong
with those things in themselves. The Lord instituted marriage.
The Lord said, He said, the Lord knows you have need of food and
drink and raiment. The Lord knows that, but there's
nothing wrong with those things in themselves. They're given
by God for the comfort of men. But the problem is when those
things consume our lives and they are the totality of the
thoughts and the desires of people and the worship of God plays
second fiddle. That's the only way I know how
to say it. You know what I mean when I say
plays second fiddle. It just ain't that important. It's just,
men act as though they have no soul to lose that there's no
judgment of God to face, there's no eternity to endure, and those
things are made to be, I'm talking about eating and drinking and
marrying and giving in marriage, I got a job, I got this, that
and the other, at the exclusion of worshiping God. This is what
I'm saying. This is why I said People of
the world, that's what I mean. There's no concern. I mean, believers
live in this world, but they're not of it. There's a different
thought, heart, you know, listen. And that attitude is just reason,
according to these scriptures, for God's condemnation. So again,
people in that day, they're going to be doing exactly what they're
doing today. And in the home, in the workplace,
even in the assemblies of true churches, where the gospel is
truly preached. There's going to be the Lord
said. There's always tares among the
wheat. There's always that. So, I mean,
this is what they're going to be doing. In scripture, according
to that, you know, it's talking about one woman's going to be
taken and another's going to be left. In that day, there's
going to be an immediate separation. In the twinkling of an eye, before
men have time to think, God's going to separate the sheep from
the goats. We talk about the judgment in all the nations. Everybody standing before God,
He'll separate them. It's like it's going to be a,
you know, it's kind of a, well, the Lord's coming, it's going
to take a while to get them all up there and get all, I mean,
you know, there's a lot of people that's been born into this world
and has lived in this world over the generations. It's going to
take a little while. In the twinkling of an eye, We could be sitting
right here in this church right now, and the next thing you know,
we're standing before God separated. We're standing there. And the
books are open. And the book is open. It's going
to be instantaneous. God will separate the wheat from
the tares, the godly from the ungodly, the sheep on his right
hand, the goats on the left. Now, all according to the scriptures
we just read, make your calling and election sure. How? How? You know, whenever you hear
a scripture like that, brethren, give diligence. Give diligence. Make your calling and election
sure. You know the next thing that
should come out of a preacher's mouth? Tell them how. Don't leave that up. Don't leave
that to something. Tell them what does the scripture
say. Let me tell you this. If I, by faith, by faith given
from above. If I am sitting here right now
and in my heart trusting the Lord Jesus Christ alone for my
salvation. Now what does that mean? That
means I am not trusting in my decision. I'm not trusting in
my profession. I don't make a profession in
order to be saved. I don't trust the Lord in order
to be saved. I trust the Lord because He saved
me. And I realize there's a big difference in those two statements. Trusting in the Lord in order
to be saved is works. trusting in the Lord because
God saved you and revealed it to you and gave you faith to
believe is grace. And that's daylight and dark,
heaven and hell. That's the difference. Making
your calling and election sure. Am I trusting the Lord Jesus
Christ only? I believe that God Almighty elected
me I believe He gave me to the Lord Jesus Christ. I believe
Christ died for me and put away my guilt in His own blood, shed
blood, and I believe the Spirit of God came to me when I wasn't
looking for Him. I was not looking for God. Never. The Lord crossed my path totally
without my help or my decision. Am I trusting the Lord Jesus
Christ? Do I come to Him right now? for mercy and compassion.
I'm not looking back when I was 17, 24, 31, or whatever. You
know, it was 2-11 on a Thursday afternoon. I don't remember. I don't remember. There was a
period of time when the Lord began to deal with me and these
things began to, you know, I've told people, I don't know when
I was conceived. I don't know when I was conceived,
but I'm standing here. Obviously I was. Today is the
day of salvation. We come to Christ today. I don't
come to Him 14, 15, 20, 30 years ago. I don't come to Him.
I come to He that cometh to me. Am I coming to Christ right now?
Do I need Him to save me right now? Do I count all of my righteousnesses
as filthy rags? I spent a lot of time preparing
this message. I've been on this message for
days and days and days, preparing this message to preach to you
for 30, 35 minutes. Concerning my salvation, that
doesn't matter a whit. I am an unprofitable servant.
What does that mean? That means I'm not adding anything
to the glory of God. He's glorious, and I'm declaring
it. My works, the Lord's called me
to do this, not for salvation, but because of it. So all of
my righteousnesses, if I thought that I was standing before God
accepted based on my ability, there's enough wanderings in
my mind and in my prayers when I'm reading or doing it, there's
enough wanderings to cast me into hell. Am I looking to the
Lord and counting all of my former deeds of righteousness as dung? That's making your calling and
election sure. You believe God. You're resting in Him. So, the
Lord has commanded us, be watchful. Be watchful, expecting the second
coming. Expect that today, right now,
this could be the last night on earth, and we all need to
be admonished to watchfulness. Be watchful. We're all prone
to be slothful. Lazy, forgetful, just, we're
all prone to that. Remember when Song of Solomon,
the Lord given this teaching concerning what we are by nature
and our laziness. Song of Solomon 5, 2 and 3, when
the Lord, verse 1, I've come into my garden, my sister, my
spouse, this is the Lord speaking to his people. I've gathered
my myrrh with my spice. I've eaten my honeycomb with
my honey. I've drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, old friends,
drink, yea, drink abundantly, oh, my beloved. And Shulamite,
the bride, says, I sleep, but my heart waketh. It's the voice
of my beloved that knocketh, saying, open to me, my sister,
my love, my dove, my undefiled, for my head is filled with you
and my locks with the drops of the night. A believer knows it's
the voice of the Lord. You that believe, you know this
is the word of God. You know that. But let me tell
you about that old man. Let me tell you about an old
man. I put off my coat. How shall I put it on? I've washed
my feet. How shall I defile them? We are
so prone to wander. Our minds go everywhere, even
while we're sitting right here. We'll just be here a few minutes,
but we're all over the place. We're all prone to it. So knowing
something of the seriousness of the day, let's consider this
passage. These four short verses. And
just for a few minutes, let's just see, what was it like? Nine generations had come forth
from Adam, and now unknown numbers are on the earth. Genesis 6 verses
1 and 2 says, and it came to pass when men began to multiply
on the face of the earth and daughters were born unto them
that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were
fair and they took them wives of all which they chose. Now,
this is the way it was. It's talking about two groups
of people here. It says that the men began to
multiply and the daughters were born to them and these men that
began to multiply and the daughters that were born to them, there
was two lines of lineage coming forth. It was going to be Cain
and Seth. Cain and Seth. Cain killed his
brother Abel. And two lines. Now what happened
is that these men began to multiply on the face of the earth and
daughters were born to them. And here's the other group. That
first one came from Cain, the cursed. And look at the first
two though. The sons of God saw the daughters
of men that they were fair. and they took them wives of all
which they chose." Now, I know that it's two lines of people
because it's talking about that men began to multiply and daughters
were born to them and that second verse speaks of the sons of God. They were from the lineage of
Seth. And the lineage of Seth, that
was the bloodline of Christ. And they took daughters of men
to be their wives. Now, all that were found on the
earth then, like I said, has come from two lineages. Cain the cursed and Seth, the
bloodline of Christ. And those that came through Seth,
they were descendants, the bloodline. And it was of them that Genesis
chapter 4 Verse 26, And to Seth, to him also there was born a
son, and he called his name Enos. Then began men to call upon the
name of the Lord. There was men and women that
began to call on God. Those that had been blessed of
God with God-given faith. And then from within that line... Now here's what I want you to
understand. They came from a line that was blessed of God. But
obviously not all of them were believers that came from that
line of Seth that was blessed of God. It says that from where
that line of Seth, the sons of God, they saw the daughters of
men, those who were found to be from among the cursed of God,
the lineage of Cain. They saw that these daughters,
that they were fair. They were fair. They were beautiful.
They were beautiful women. And these daughters, if you go
back and look in Genesis 4, for the sake of time I won't right
now, but when he came there was a man named Lamech. And he had,
his children, they were very gifted. in the things of the
world. These daughters were born and
raised according to the account that was given in Genesis chapter
4. They loved and they gave themselves to the things of nature and agriculture
and the arts and charms of music and song. And again, it's not
that these things in themselves are evil. But they're evil, these
things of the world, when they begin to lure the heart and the
focus of one's life. Now this is where it becomes
evil. Life that if it's not totally destitute of the love of God,
it's a life that's found to be compromised. Compromised, hang
on to that word. Compromised with the things of
this world. The Lord gave specific instruction,
Exodus chapter 12. Turn, hold your place in Genesis.
Turn over to Exodus 12. I'm sorry, Exodus 34. Exodus 34, Exodus 34, verse 12,
16. Exodus 34, verse 12. Take heed to thyself, lest thou
make a covenant, a contract. with the inhabitants of the land,
whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee. But ye shall destroy their altars,
break their images, cut down their groves, for thou shalt
worship no other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous,
is a jealous God. Lest thou make a covenant with
the inhabitants of the land, and they go a-whoring after their
gods to do sacrifice unto their gods, and one shall call thee
and thou eat of his sacrifice, and thou take of their daughters
unto thy sons, and their daughters go a-whoring after their gods,
and make thy sons go a-whoring after their gods." Now here's
the thing. Whenever we find the things of
this world to be that which lures and captivates That's when it
becomes the problem. The Lord gave a parable. Hold your place in Genesis. If
you want to read it, it's going to be in Luke 8. I'm just going
to read a couple of verses here. Luke 8. It was the parable of
the sower that went to sow. You know that? Remember that?
Luke chapter 8. And it said a sower went to sow
and he cast a seed. The seed was the word of God.
It fell on four different kinds of ground. fell on wayside, fell
by the wayside. Birds came and plucked it up.
And what was those? It was those that, they hear
the word of God and it just makes absolutely no impression. None,
none. They might as well have just
been sitting at a movie theater. They just saw the show. Okay,
that was okay, that wasn't bad. Some of it fell on stony ground
and sprung up quickly. And what happened is it had a
look of promise, but when the sun came out, persecution, the
Lord explained it. Persecution. Whenever it came
down to having to walk in the light that they professed to
have, when they had to walk in it and trust God, then they wilted. There was no root there. Some
of it fell on thorny ground. Now, that thorny ground is really,
in my heart, is what we're looking at right here. These sons of
God. Now, what I'm saying is they came from the line, the
lineage of Seth. They came from godly lineage.
But salvation and grace doesn't run in blood. It's not by the
blood of man. Just because my daddy or somebody
was a believer, that doesn't make me a believer. It doesn't
run in blood. They came from a good line, the
line of Seth. But these sons of God, they were
sons, they were professors. But obviously we're going to
see something. Because they're going to die in the flood. They're
going to die in the flood. I can tell you what's going to
happen. These sons of God, those professors of believers of the
gospel, like I told you Sunday, I mean, it's not that... If somebody's
sitting under free will religion, I can tell you for a fact, I
know that ain't right. That's not even... I'm talking
about people that sit under the gospel, that profess it and don't
have a heart for it. The Lord gave this illustration,
this parable. Some of it fell on thorny ground. But what happened is the thorns
choked out the seed, choked out the word. And the Lord explained
it. He said, this is what happens.
He said, it falls on thorny ground, but the cares of this world choke
it out. And there's no profit to it. It was choked, it was crowded
out. chapter 8 verse 7. He said some fell among thorns
and the thorns sprang up with it and choked it out and then
he gave in verse 14 of Luke 8, that which fell among thorns
are they which when they have heard they go forth and are choked
with cares and riches and pleasures of this life and bring forth
no fruit to perfection. That to me fits the bill of what
happened back in Genesis chapter 6. These sons of God, they came
from a good line. But they began to see these daughters
of men. They were alluring. And God had
told them, don't marry them, don't do it. And they did it. They did it. They paid. Now let me tell you
the amazing thing about this. There is nothing that an unbeliever
would do that a believer wouldn't also do, but for the grace of
God. There's nothing. There's one big difference though.
Almighty God is going to correct his children. I'll show you in
a minute. And those that are not his, he'll
leave them alone. A believer can do the same thing that an
unbeliever can do. You say, well, I just don't see
how that's possible. I just don't think that that
would be. Okay, turn to 1 Kings chapter 11. 1 Kings chapter 11. You remember Solomon? Why is
this man, you know where I'm going, don't you? Why is this
man, God gave this man wisdom, blessed him, Oh, bless this man
beyond measure. He built Solomon's Temple. You go back and read Solomon's
Temple. I am absolutely convinced. This was a man that knew God.
That knew God. 1 Kings chapter 11 verses 1-3. One of the most amazing passages
of Scripture. Show you what any man, any woman
will do except for the restraining grace of God. 1 Kings 11, 1-3,
And King Solomon loved many strange women. Foreigners is what that
means. Foreigners to the grace of God.
foreigners to the covenant of God's grace. He loved many strange
women together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites,
Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, Hittites, of the nations concerning
which the Lord said unto the children of Israel, you shall
not go into them, neither shall they come in unto you, for surely
they will turn away your heart after their gods, Solomon claimed
unto these in love, and he had 700 wives, princes, 300 concubines,
and his wives turned away his heart." So when we say that I would never
do that, oh, be very careful. Don't be so foolish. Let me tell you this. The sons
of God, back in Genesis chapter 6, took these descendants of
Cain, those that God had cursed, they made their choice based
totally upon the flesh, upon the outward appearance, not according
to the ways and dictates of Almighty God. Be careful, be careful. God had cast Cain out, cursed
him, and now the sons of God have taken those that God had
refused and married them, these sons who very likely had, as
I said before, had the name of Seth, but the heart of Cain. They laid claim to God's name
and they walked as fallen, cursed, wicked men. That's why I said
the evidence of God's grace didn't run in blood. Back in Genesis
chapter 6 verse 3 it says, My spirit shall not always strive
with man, for that he also is flesh, yet his days shall be
a hundred and twenty years." Now, this is a revelation of
God's heart, and He's speaking His mind, and He's declaring
three things in that third verse. First, He's declaring that He
is sovereign in His treatment with men. He says that His spirit, according
to His good pleasure, He who does as he will in the army of
heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth shall not always
rule, judge, contend, or dwell with man. I will not strive.
He says, my spirit shall not always strive with man. What
does that mean? My spirit shall not always strive
with man. Here's exactly what it means.
God may just leave a man alone. Just leave him alone. Leave him
to himself. Listen to Ezekiel 16, 42. So
will I make my fury toward thee to rest, and my jealousy shall
depart from thee, and I will be quiet and will be no more
angry. Now here the Lord is saying that
his anger toward Jerusalem because of their whorems, those professors,
not believers would not cease until his judgments had destroyed
them. That's what he's saying. My fury
toward thee will rest. His judgment is going to destroy
him and he's not going to stop until they're destroyed. A perfect
illustration of what the Lord was saying here was found in
the book of Esther. The Lord was talking about his
jealousy and zeal toward them would not leave or be turned
off, that he would be quiet toward them and no more angry. Now it
may appear at first that he was saying that they had some hope,
but no, listen to this scripture. Esther 7, 9 to 10, and Herbona,
one of the Chamberlains, said before the king, behold also
the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman, you remember Haman?
Haman was the one that was jealous of Mordecai. Haman, you know,
he was going to hang Mordecai because Mordecai had refuted
and wouldn't bow down to him, stuff like that. So Haman said,
I'm going to hang Mordecai. He built these gallows, 75 feet
tall. It says, this Chamberlain said
before the king, behold also the gallows fifty cubits high,
which Haman had made for Mordecai, who had spoken good for the king,
standeth in the house of Haman. This is after the king found
out what Haman really was. And this is what he said concerning
Haman and the gallows that Haman had built to hang Mordecai. He said, then the king said,
hang him. Who? Haman. their own. So they hanged Haman on the gallows
that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified. The king's wrath was pacified
when Haman was dead. This is what the Lord's saying
concerning those that won't bow. So will I make my fury toward
thee to rest, and my jealousy shall depart from thee, and I
will be quiet and no more angry. when they're cast out. So scripture
says when Jonah, remember when Jonah was cast out, then was
the sea ceased from her raging. So whenever the Lord is talking
about my spirit shall not always strive with men, first thing
he's saying is God deals with men as he wants to. Secondly,
according to God not striving toward men and Obviously, he's
talking about those that didn't possess a love and a knowledge
of Him. He said, my spirit shall not
always strive with men because he is flesh. What does that mean? That means soul, mind, body is
all flesh, it's only flesh, and it always minds the things of
flesh. Flesh and blood is not going
to inherit the Kingdom of God. All man does is make provision
for the flesh. And so the Lord is not, I'm not
going to strive with man because man is flesh. Thirdly, the just
and holy God set forth his character of being long-suffering toward
his people. Yet his days shall be a hundred
and twenty years, which was not now the average time. We looked
at some average lengths of men here in the last few chapters.
I was eight, nine hundred years old. When he said that his days
will be 120, he's not talking about the length of men. They're
ages now. He's talking about before the
flood comes. The flood will be here. So my spirit shall not
always strive with men. If God Almighty ceases to strive
with men concerning drawing them, correcting them, chastening them,
that man has no hope. If God doesn't strive with a
man at keeping, keeping grace, keeping chastisements, loving,
that man has no hope if God leaves him alone. And then verse 4,
this will be it for tonight. And there were giants in the
earth in those days. Also after that, when the sons
of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children
to them, The same became mighty men which were of old, men of
renown." Now I've tried to take a lot of time in looking at these
references. It's always important. Look at
what's written. Look it up. Find out what does
it mean? What is it really saying? I'm
truly convinced. Now, I know this, that without
a doubt, there were some giants. I mean, I read about Goliath,
and I know that there were some big men. But that's not what
this word is setting forth. When it says there were giants,
the word doesn't mean excessively big or tall, but it describes
them to be those that acted as tyrants and bullies And not that
all men were such, but certain individuals obviously that were,
they were either great in religious or social or political influencing
and authority, and they were more tyrannical, they were more
violent in their disposition, and very possibly stronger, you
know, not so much, again, in bulk and everything, but they
could have been, but they exalted themselves above men without
restraint, and they were bullies. And after the sons of God came
in, now there's two groups of people talking about it right
here. There were giants in the earth in those days, and also
After that, the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men
and they bear children and these became mighty men which were
of old men of renown. There's another group, but what
it is, it's the sons of God that came into the daughters of men
and these mighty men of old, men of renown, what does that
mean? Of reputation, fame, glory, respected by the world. And I'm
going to look at this in a spiritual way as I wrap this up. I don't
doubt for one second, just like then, just like now, and it has
been, I'm sure, in every age. It seems like more and more every
age looks at their age and says, this is it. This is the age right
here, which very well could be. But these men that are being
talked of, I want to tell you the most tyrannical, the most
violent, the biggest bullies that this world has ever seen.
False preachers. False preachers. Men of, they're
giants. And I mean, I'm not even going
to start naming them. I could start naming them and you'd recognize
their names right off the top. They're just household names,
Kevin. They're just big religious giants, you know. It's so-and-so.
It's so-and-so right here. You know, doctor, reverend so-and-so.
People call me a reverend. I think, hang on. They're just bullies. They're
bullies. They make a name for themselves. They want to be in
the paper. They're tyrants. And in this day and age, this
is a very religious age. Godless in many accounts. You can find that every once
in a while. Let me ask you this. If you were
going to go and hear the gospel, Pick you out, you know, in West
Virginia. How many places in West Virginia
do you know where you can go and hear the gospel? I'm not
saying this is all of them. I know of four. In my mind, I
know of four places. How many churches do you think
I could pass if I just started driving around Fairmont and just
took one hour and just drove around Fairmont. How many churches
do you think I'd see? I'd see a bunch of churches.
How many places could I go in the state of West Virginia and
find where I could sit down and hear the gospel of God's grace?
I could tell you where a lot of tyrants are, and a lot of
bullies, a lot of giants, men of renown, men well respected. I could tell you where that is.
But some place where I could just go and sit down and a man
would just take the scriptures and he sat down and he's prepared
a message, a message from God. God's laid a message on his heart
and he opens up the scriptures and this is what he says. One,
two, three, four, five, six. How many places do you? I can think
of four is all I can think of here. But in this day and age,
just like it was then, without a doubt, There were few. There were a few. The world was
filled. How few was there in the days of Noah? One man. There was one man. Noah found grace in the eyes
of the Lord. Lord willing, that's what we'll
look at next time. Noah. And for Noah's sake, his wife,
and his three sons and their wives and some animals for Noah's
sake. And God wiped the rest of the
world clean. How many were on the earth? I
don't know. Some say millions and millions
and millions at that time. It had been a thousand years. And men began to multiply on
the earth. And one man who was like everybody
else, his heart was desperately wicked. But one man found grace
in the eyes of the Lord. And Almighty God spared mankind
because God chose to show mercy to one man. Of course, that man's
a picture of Christ. I won't preach next week's message. I pray God bless this to our
hearts for his glory and our good. Amen. Okay, Gary.