preaching long sermons, I'll
say what I've got to say and let this big fellow have the
floor. And so he preached about 20 minutes and I sat down. We got a little bite to eat.
I got up and I thought, well, I ought to say something. I've
never been known for preaching short sermons and Scott said,
well, you better have something going for you, fella. I hope I've got something going
for me tonight. Turn with me, if you will, to 1 John Chapter
3. 1 John Chapter 3. The title of my message tonight
is And or But, and you'll see why in just a few minutes. And
or But. John's purpose in writing this
epistle is clearly and emphatically stated in chapter 5 and verse
13. These things have I written unto
you that believe on the name of the Son of God, that ye may
know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the
name of the Son of God. These five chapters of this very
short but precious and instructive epistle were written under divine
inspiration by the direction of God the Holy Spirit, that
you who believe on the Son of God may know that you have eternal
life." Now, this is repeated throughout the epistle, so there
can't be any mistaking it. Listen to this, chapter 2, verse
3, "...hereby we do know that we know him." Verse 5, last part
of the verse, "...hereby we know that we are in him." Verse 21,
"...because you know the truth." Chapter 3, verse 5, You know
that he was manifested to take away our sins. You know that
in him is no sin. Look at verse 14. We know that
we pass from death unto life. Verse 19. Hereby we know that
we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.
Verse 24. Hereby we know that he abideth
in us. Look at chapter 4, verse 13.
Hereby know we that we dwell in him. Chapter 5, verse 2. By
this we know that we love the children of God. Verse 19. And
we know that we are of God. Verse 20. We know that the Son
of God has come. Now, I might be mistaken, but
it seems to me that John's intention is that we know. That we know. That we know. That we know we
have eternal life. John's intention in writing this
is that we who believe on the Son of God may live on this earth
in the confident assurance that God is ours and we're His. But nobody seems to have told
the preachers. I've been studying this book
for Forty-five years, and I don't read trash. Every now and then
a fellow says, you ought to read what this fellow said. Why should
I read the garbage when I can read good stuff? I only read
good stuff. I don't read the garbage. But
even the good commentaries that I've read these past forty-five
years on this epistle of 1 John, most of the sermons, most of
the commentaries I've heard or read myself on this book of 1
John, seem to be written with the deciding purpose of causing
God's people to be in suspicion of themselves. It's as though men really believe
we can't have assurance. We can't really have peace with
God. Now, I recognize that God's people
in this world, all of us, at one time or another, struggle
and struggle greatly with this matter of assurance before God.
I'm aware of that. I'm aware of that. We tend to
look within ourselves, hoping to find something in ourselves
that will give us peace with God. We are so inclined toward
works religion by nature that we constantly look to ourselves
for something. We quit looking to ourselves
to give us righteousness before God. We quit looking to ourselves
for sanctification and justification. We know that we're saved by God's
free grace and all those things. But when it comes to this matter
of assurance, we've still got some trouble. We've still got
some trouble. And many of God's people struggle. Brother Don, how can I know that
I'm God's? How can I know that I'm one of
God's elect? How can I know that my faith
is real. How can I know that my faith
in Jesus Christ is genuine? Now, hear me and hear me well. No, hear God and hear him well. Examine yourselves, whether you
be in the faith. But Bruce, that's the point of
examination, whether you be in the faith. Not examine yourselves
to see how good you are. He doesn't say examine yourselves
to see if you pray like you ought to. He doesn't say examine yourselves
to see if you live like you ought to. He says examine yourselves,
prove yourselves, whether you be in the faith. Prove and know yourselves how
that Jesus Christ is in you, except you be reprobate. That's
the issue. Do you or do you not believe
on the Son of God? Do you believe on the Son of
God? That's the one issue. That's
the one question. Can you settle that? Can you
honestly settle that here and now? Do you believe on the son
of God? Which you examine yourself. Bless God, I do. There's not
much I can say with certainty. I do believe on the Son of God.
I have no hope before God but Jesus Christ. No righteousness
but His obedience. No merit but His blood. No acceptance
but in His Son. I do believe on the Son of God. God help my unbelief. I don't
believe Him like I ought to. I don't believe Him like I want
to. My faith in Him wavers, embarrass,
my faith in Him fluctuates, there's no question about that. I believe Him because He sweetly,
graciously forces me to believe Him. Trouble comes, difficulties
come, or imaginary troubles come, and I began to anticipate something
that might come down the road that never does come. I start
pacing the floor and wringing my hands. That's my first response
always. I wish it were. That's my first
response always. Figure out how things can be
worked out. How can I fix this? How can I
control this? Until at last he shuts me up
to himself and forces me to believe him. And then you find rest unto
your soul. Do you believe on the Son of
God? All right. Let's look here at
what the Scriptures teach us concerning this matter of our
faith in Christ and our assurance before Him. Oh, how sweet it
is to be able confidently to sing, blessed assurance, Jesus
is mine. Oh, what a foretaste of glory
divine. Christ is mine and I'm His, and
that's the way it is. The hymn writer said, when I
can read my title clear to mansions in the skies, I'll bid farewell
to every fear and wipe my weeping eyes. All right, let's begin
at verse 18. 1 John 3, verse 18. In these last verses of this
epistle, John gives us five tokens of grace, five things that are
found in the hearts and lives of every child of God, five things
every believer experiences, five things by which God Almighty
demonstrates our faith in Christ to those around us by things
which are themselves tokens of God's grace in us. Here's the
first one. Where there is faith in Christ,
there is true and active love for the brethren. My little children,
let us not love in word, neither in tongue, but in deed and in
truth." He just told us about how we know the love of God.
Verse 16, Hereby proceed with the love of God, because he laid
down his life for us. There is the great display of
God's love for us. He laid down his life for us.
And John's conclusion is, we ought also to lay down our lives
for the brethren. And then he says, If a man says, I love my
brother, and he sees his brother have need, and he doesn't supply
his need when he's perfectly able to do so, how dreadeth the
love of God in him? And he goes on and says, my little
children, let us not love in word. Let us not love in word. Don't say, I love you. Don't
say, I love you. Now, it's all right to say that.
It's all right to say, I've been married for, let me get it right,
43 years. Is that right? 43 years. She never gets tired of hearing
me say I love you, except when I don't act like it. Fine to say it, fine to say
it, but better to do it. Better to do it. Not love in
word only, but in deed and in truth. The Lord Jesus didn't
say I love you, he showed it. He laid down his life for you. It's how God's people live in
this world. They love one another. They love
one another. We love our brethren. Now listen. Because they're brethren. Not because they're lovable.
Because they're brethren. This is a true story. Some of
you will remember Brother Bill Carver. We were preaching together
years ago down in Tennessee. for the Larry Simpson with Pastor,
and asked Bill to pray after the morning service. And bless
his heart, Bill was just real honest. He prayed just like he
talked. He stood up and he said, Lord,
thank you. A lot of things. He said, thank
you for teaching us to love each other. I thank you for teaching
me to love Brother Don Fortner. You know he's not an easy man
to love. That's a true story. He really
did. And everybody said, Amen! Well, that's fact. We don't love
one another because we're lovable. That lady there loves me because
I'm me. I don't understand that, but
she does. She loves me because of who I am. But we love the
brethren because they're brethren. Each esteeming other better than
themselves. How can that be? Our brethren
are one with Christ. And being one with Christ, they're
perfect in Christ. And we love the brethren because
they are our brethren. And this love of the brethren
is something that goes hand in hand with faith. Faith worketh
by love. Faith worketh by love. Every
true believer loves his brother. And this love, John Gill said,
is laborious and operative grace. And therefore we read of the
work and labor of love. It shows itself by the saints
serving one another. Believers love one another. They don't just talk about it,
they do. That is to say they live for the benefit of one another. They live to help one another. They live to bless one another's
lives. They live to make your life better. not their own life, your life,
the lives of their brethren better. Love shows itself by gift. You give to those you love, someone's
in need, and you have abundance, you supply the need. Whoso hath
this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth
up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of
God in him. Someone once said, giving is
love's best language. It's love's best language. Sometimes
you show your love to a brother or sister with a visit. You just
go visit the sick, the bereaved, the widowed, the fatherless,
the afflicted. Just go visit them, sit down
and help them cry. That's all. You love your brethren.
Don't talk about it. You take care of them. Sometimes
love's expressed by a word in season. You pick up the phone
and call him, drop him a note. I recall years ago I wrote to
a friend of mine who went to school with a missionary in Italy
and I made a practice of writing fairly regularly and I got a
note back from him. I had no idea what I said. He
wrote back, he said, I can't tell you what that letter meant
to me. It was just what I needed the
day it arrived. You show your love for someone
by the simplest of things, just showing that you care, just demonstrating
that you care. Sometimes you offer a helping
hand. Sometimes it's a faithful witness.
But if I truly love my brother, if I truly love my sister, that
love manifests by that which I do for them, by my attitude
toward them, by the way I embrace them and care for them. All who
truly know God love one another. There's no question about that.
There's no question about that. Now, look at verse 19. Here's
the second thing John shows us. Where there's true faith, there
is a clear, uncondemning conscience before God. And hereby, hereby
we know that we are of the truth. and shall assure our hearts before
him." Uh-oh. Hmm. And hereby, we know we're
of the truth. That looks like John is referring
back to our love for the brethren. He says, now, if I love Marvin
like I ought to, if I really love him, and I take care of
him when he's in need, and I visit him, Call them and I show them
I love it. If I really do that, damn, now
that proves I'm a child of God. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Our love for our brethren is
a token of God's grace in the lives of God's people. It always
accompanies faith. But you don't look at your faith
as a reason to give you hope before God. If you do, one of
two things is so. You will live in constant despair
or you look at yourself in self-righteousness because your love for your brother
ain't much. That's just fact, isn't it? What
you got to compare it to? Hereby perceive we the love of
God because he laid down his life for us. Now, would you like
to talk to me about your love for me? You want to show me your confidence
by how you love your brother? Or even how you love your own
wife or son or daughter? Oh, no. The word and here is
very commonly translated another word. The Greek word that's translated
and can be translated many, many ways. And this is often the case
with translations. The way you translate a word
is determined not by the word itself, but by the way the word
is used in the context in which it's found. Now, I'll give you
a little tip. Word studies are the worst way
on this earth to study this book. You know, that word means this,
and you go look it up, trace it up through the book. No, you
determine what the word means by the context in which it's
used. This word is often translated, but. Now, that makes all the
difference in the world. That makes all the difference
in the world. Watch this. John says in verse 18, My little children,
let us not love in word only, neither in tongue, but in deed
and in truth. But, but, but, hereby we know
that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before
him. For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart,
and knoweth all things. Beloved, if our heart condemn
us not, then have we confidence toward God. Though our hearts
do condemn us, as they surely do, as they surely do, still trust in Christ in the
teeth of all our sin, the sin that's known to us. the corruption
that's in us, still trust in Christ, we have confidence toward
God. You see, our confidence toward
God is not based upon our goodness, but his grace. Our confidence
toward God is not to be found in ourselves, but in our Redeemer. Our confidence toward God is
not based upon something we do, or feel, or experience. Our confidence
toward God is altogether outside ourselves in Christ the Substitute. Hebrews chapter 6. Turn back
there a minute. Hebrews chapter 6. Look at this. The Apostle
is talking about the anchor of our souls, our Lord Jesus Christ,
the oath and promise of God in Christ. He says in verse 19,
which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, most sure and steadfast."
Now, I'm not a mariner. I'm not a seaman. I don't know
anything about that stuff. I'm a little bit too big to have
been a sailor. I don't know anything about that stuff. But I do know
what an anchor is. I've been on a few boats. And
I know when the anchor's useful. As long as it's laying in the
belly of the boat, it doesn't do a thing. The purpose of the
anchor is to hold the boat steady, and the way it holds the boat
steady is you cast it out of the boat, and it sinks into the
deep and holds the boat in place. Most people look for an anchor
for their souls, hope in themselves. They turn their eyes inward and
look for confidence. Do I pray enough? Do I love enough?
Do I give enough? Do I read enough? Do I learn
such enough? Am I self-denying enough? All those things. We
keep looking in here for something. Our anchor is in glory, and that's
how the boat is held steady all through this troubled sea. You
understand that? Our anchor is outside ourselves.
Our anchor is Jesus Christ the Lord, his obedience, his death,
his righteousness. In the light of our Lord's love
for us, our love to the brethren at best sinks low in the dust
in our esteem. You ask me, do I love my brethren?
I do. I do. I don't talk much about
my love for my brethren or my love for my Redeemer because
my love for Him and my love for you is not worth talking about. No. How can I speak of my love
in the same breath with His love? How can I call the two things
the same thing? Oh, no. When we contemplate the
love of Christ, that passive knowledge, our love sinks in
the dust. John's words here are not to
be taken, however, as a warning. Rather, they're to be taken as
a comfort. His purpose in writing is that
we may know, that we may know that we have eternal life. If
our heart condemn us, he says, God's greater than our heart.
He's not saying that, but if you've got a guilty conscience,
you've got a guilty heart, you feel bad about yourself, God's
going to get you. God knows everything. That's
not what he's saying. He's saying if your heart condemns
you, everything's still all right. God's greater than our heart.
Everything's still all right. God's greater than our heart.
He knows all things. If our heart condemns us, what
a blessed relief to our souls it is, under the reproach of
our own hearts, to look away from self to Christ. You see,
there is more in Christ to uphold and bless and justify than there
is in my sin to condemn and damn and destroy. That life which
God's given me in Christ, that eternal life which God gives
in Christ, Even sin cannot destroy. Do you understand that? I give
unto them eternal life and they shall never perish under no circumstances
for any reason. Oh, you don't dare tell people
that. That would make folks go wild
with the licentiousness. No, not so. We're talking about
grace now to many women who know the grace of God and grace constrains
us, as the love of Christ constrains us, to seek the honor of our
God in all things. There is more in Christ to uphold
and bless and justify than there is in sin to destroy. It is not
our strength of faith that gives us assurance. It is not our love
for the brethren that gives us assurance, but rather it is the
full, finished accomplishment of Jesus Christ as our Redeemer.
look out of self to him and trust in him our consciences condemn
us not. God's greater than all things,
greater than our heart, and he knows all things. He knows his
thoughts of love and peace toward us. He knows the covenant he
made with his son on our behalf. He knows the merit of his son's
blood. the virtue of His Son's righteousness.
He knows His acceptance of us from everlasting in His Son.
He's greater than our heart, and He knows all things. Therefore,
we can, in the face of our many sins, cry out to God, Who is
He that condemneth? It is God that justifieth. Who
shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is Christ
that died. And if we have a clear uncondemning
conscience before God, a conscience that no longer accuses us, then
have we confidence toward God. This is the thing we desire,
confidence toward God, a conscience that's clear, a good conscience,
a pure conscience. What is that? What is a good
conscience, a pure conscience? A sincere conscience. What is
that? That's a conscience that's quiet. That's a conscience that's got
nothing to say. That's a conscience that doesn't disturb. That's
a conscience that finds agreement with God. Do you know what it
is to have a guilty conscience? Do you know what it is to have
a screaming, tormenting, damning, Terrified conscience? You know
what it is to stand before God with a sense of guilt in your
soul, and you're terrified at the Word God, let alone His presence. And then God comes and reveals
Christ in you, sprinkles your conscience with His blood, and
your conscience says what God says. Enough. That's enough! God cannot and
will not demand more than he found in his Son. That's enough. A pure conscience is a conscience
pure before God without guilt because Christ is enough. Understand that? Understand that?
We have a conscience that gives us confidence before God. The Spirit of God comes that
calls your sons. He sheds abroad the love of God
in your hearts. And this is the response. Crying,
Abba Father. We used to be terrified at the
thought of God. We used to be horrified at the
prospect of meeting God. The thought of dying was more
than we could take. And now, we lift our eyes to
heaven. Imagine this now. Imagine this. Here you and I, Darryl, with
all our corruption and guilt and sin, we lift our eyes to
heaven and say, My Father. My Father. How come? Because
God sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your heart, giving
you faith in His Son. And we look away from self to
Christ Jesus the Lord. When John Gill lay on his deathbed,
He wrote a letter to his nephew, expressing what I'm trying to
say to you tonight. John Gill wrote 10,000 folio pages of theology
and commentaries. You know what a folio page is?
It's just about half the size of this pulpit top right here.
He wrote it with a feather pen. As Spurgeon said, you wonder
when the man slept. He spent his life devoted in
the service of Christ. He's the only man, the only single
man, who ever wrote a commentary on every verse in the Holy Scriptures. The only one. And they're good.
His commentary is outstanding. I don't say that to brag on John
Gill. I'm saying that to make clear what I'm talking about
here. This is what Gill said to his nephew the day or two
before he died. I depend wholly and alone upon
the free sovereign, eternal, unchangeable love of God, the
firm and everlasting covenant of grace, and my interest in
the persons of the sacred Trinity for my whole salvation, and not
upon any righteousness of my own, nor anything in me or done
by me under the influences of the Holy Spirit, not upon any
services of mine which I have been assisted to perform for
the good of the Church do I depend." but upon my interest in the persons
of the Trinity, the free grace of God, and the blessings of
grace streaming to me through the blood and righteousness of
Christ as the ground of my hope. These are no new things to me,
but what I have been long acquainted with, what I can live by and
die by. I apprehend that I may not be
long here, but this you may tell any of my friends." And just
before he died, He said to one standing in the room, I have
nothing to make me uneasy. I have nothing to make me uneasy. We know. We know that we are
of the truth. We know that we are born of God
and hereby we assure our hearts before God. When a man has a
good conscience, he has confidence toward God as his father. Confidence
toward Christ as his savior. Confident that he is able to
do and will do all that he promised to do. Confident that he is able
to save to the uttermost all who come to God by him. Confident
that his blood atones for all my sins. His righteousness is
all my righteousness, my holiness, my sanctification with God. Confident
in him. I'm confident, Bruce Crabtree,
Christ is enough. I'm confident He's enough. God
Almighty has accepted Him, and He accepts me in Him. Now here's
the third thing. Look at our text again. Where
there is true faith in the heart, where there's life in the soul,
there is freedom in prayer before God. And what it says here? For if our heart condemn us not,
God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. Beloved,
if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward
God, and verse 22, whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because
we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing
in his sight." We have confident prayer before
God. Prayer. I have to acknowledge,
and I acknowledge it, I don't know much about prayer. I don't
pretend to. I wish I knew more. I wish I
could tell you more. But this I know, prayer is breathing out
to God what God has breathed in to us. Prayer is not a blank
check that God gives so you fill in the amount and I'll give you
whatever you want. That's not it. That's not it. That doesn't
mean if you're sick and you pray, God will make you better. That
doesn't mean if your son's wayward and you pray for him, God will
make you better. That's not what it means. What is it then? David said after God spoke to
him about his family and his house and his kingdom enduring
forever, David said, because you said this, Therefore thy
servant found it in his heart to pray this prayer unto thee."
Prayer is found in the heart, inspired in the heart by God
the Holy Spirit. So that when we pray, we pray
because God put a prayer in our hearts. Now we go through the
exercises and we pray. I pray with my wife every day,
and every day confess the corruption of the prayer. I lead our congregation in prayer
several times a week, and confess the sin of the prayer. I pray
at my desk, driving down the road, I pray. But most of the
time, I'm just telling God what I want, most of the time. Most of the time, I'm just acknowledging
my sin and telling God, I believe Him, but I don't have to believe
Him. And then sometimes, God puts
prayer in the heart. And you know when you pray. You
know it. And you ask, not just saying
according to your will, you pray according to God's will. And
you know you've prayed according to God's will. And praying according
to God's will, you have what you want. But Brother Don, I
don't understand. Turn over to Matthew chapter
6. Let me see if I can help you. Matthew chapter 6. What is it
that you want from God? I mean really. What do you want
from God? What do you want God to do? What
do you want God to perform? What do you want God to give?
The disciples asked the Lord to teach us to pray like John
the Baptist taught his disciples to pray. He said, all right,
this is how you pray. Look at verse 9. After this manner,
therefore, pray ye, our Father which art in heaven, hallowed
be thy name. He's not saying repeat these words. No. You can repeat the words until
the cows come home and not mean a thing. He's saying pray after
this manner. This is what you seek. Father,
number one, sanctify your name. Either I'm telling you the truth
or I'm lying to you. There's no in-between ground.
What I want more than anything in this world is God's glory. I really do. I subject everything
else to that gladly. My personal desires, my will
for my family, my will for myself, my will for his church. Father,
hallowed be your name. Thy kingdom come. Thy kingdom
come. God, save your people. Build
up your church. Thy will be done in earth as
it is in heaven. God, do what you purposed to
do. Oh, how happy I'll be if you
do what you purposed to do. Well, you know He's going to
do that. I know it. That's what I'm going to pray like I do. Do what you purposed
and give me what I need. Give us this day our daily bread,
and forgive my sin. Forgive us our debts as we forgive
our debtors, and keep me from temptation. But deliver us from evil, for
Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever.
Amen. Now, we know whatsoever we ask,
we have fulfilled. I'm fully confident. I'm going
to have everything I want from God. I'm going to have everything
I want from God, His glory, the salvation of His elect, His will,
all that I need, complete forgiveness of sins. Ah, ask what you will
in His name, and it's yours, He tells us. Where there's true
faith in Christ, there is this submission. to Christ and this
freedom in prayer. And we know we have what we want
because, look at this, we keep his commandments and
do those things that are pleasing in his sight. Oh, now, Brother
Don, you're getting back to works. Well, let's see. Look at verse
23. And this is his commandment, that we should believe on the
name of his Son, Jesus Christ. and love one another as he gave
his commandment. To believe on the son of God
is to do his commandments. I'm not just saying it's as though
you did his commandments. To believe on the son of God
is to do everything God requires you to do. Turn to John chapter
8. I think it's John chapter 8,
verse 29. Why don't you look at it? No, that's not right. John chapter
6, I'm sorry. John chapter 6. The Jews said to him in verse
28, What shall we do that we may work the works of God? And
Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God,
that ye believe on him whom he hath sent." By faith in Christ,
we fulfill the law. We offer to God all that God
requires, perfect righteousness and perfect obedience. That righteousness
being summed up, that obedience being summed up in love for the
brethren. Loving God and loving one another.
And we offer to God complete satisfaction for all our sin
in the sacrifice of His Son. Doing what He commands. We believe
on His Son. Offering God not a substitute
for righteousness, not a substitute for satisfaction, but doing His
commandments. And His commandments are that
you believe on His Son and love one another as He gave His commandment.
And yet he speaks of this as his singular commandment. His
singular commandment so that believing him puts us in such
union with Christ that we love one another. Let's go back here
to 1 John again. 1 John chapter 5. Let's turn
over a page here. Whosoever believeth that
Jesus is the Christ is born of God. And everyone that loveth
him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him. By this we know that we love
the children of God. When we love God, they keep His
commandments. How can you be sure? How can
you be sure that you love God and love His people? I believe
His Son. I believe on the Lord Jesus.
That's the whole of assurance and the whole of acceptance with
God, faith in Jesus Christ. Not the quality of our faith,
not the measure of our faith, not the strength of our faith,
but the object of our faith. I believe on the Son of God,
and this is our assurance. By this we assure our hearts
before Him. And one more thing, wherever
there is true faith in Christ, there is genuine faith in Christ,
There's the indwelling of God's Spirit. And he that keepeth his
commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we
know that he abideth in us by the Spirit which he hath given
us. He comes and gives us his Spirit. In the new birth, God the Holy
Spirit takes up residence in him. Christ formed in you, made
new creatures in Christ Jesus, and he dwells in us forever,
so that the temple of God is darned forth. The temple of God
at Barbastonica, he dwells in us, and we're one with him. One with God, Father, Son, and
Holy Spirit. in Jesus Christ our Lord and
we know it by faith in him. Enoch was a godly man. Do you
remember Enoch? Do you remember Enoch? Enoch
was a godly man. He was such a good man that before
he was translated, you remember, he was walking with God and just
walked into glory. Bypassed the grave. Walked right
into heaven. But before he was translated,
he had this testimony that he pleased God. Oh, my. Everybody around Enoch,
they said, oh, Brother Enoch, been living next door to him
for 100 years. Man, he's a good man. He gives 16 ounces to the
pound. He pays 100 pennies to the dollar. He's a good man. He's a good
man. Never knew him doing anything wrong in his life. He's a good
man. That's not what he's talking about. Enoch had testimony, not
from men, that he pleased God, and not from himself that he
pleased God. He had testimony from God that
he pleased God, right here. What was that testimony? And
without faith, it's impossible to please God. Believe on the
Son of God. and life everlasting is yours
now and forever. Oh God help you to believe his
son. Amen.