Good morning everyone. Let's
begin our second worship service by standing and singing 17. Come
Thou Fount, 17. Number 17, Come Thou Fount. So... From the fount of every blessing,
Tune my heart to sing thy grace. Streams of mercy never ceasing,
Call for songs of loudest praise. Teach me some melodious sonnet,
Sung by flaming tongues above, Praise the mount, I'm fixed upon
it, Mount of thy redeeming love. Here I raise mine Ebenezer, hither
by thy help I'm come, and I hope by thy good pleasure safely to
arrive at home. Jesus sought me when a stranger,
wandering from the fold of God, He to rescue me from danger Interposed
His precious blood. Grace, how great a debtor daily
I'm constrained to be. Let Thy goodness, like a fetter,
bind my wandering heart to Thee. Prone to wander, Lord, I feel
it, prone to leave the God I love. Here's my heart, oh, take and
seal it, seal it for thy courts above. Thank you. All right, I'm gonna read Psalm
87. Psalm 87. His foundation is in the holy
mountains. The Lord loveth. the gates of
Zion, more than all the dwellings of Jacob. Glorious things are
spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah. I will make mention of
Rahab and Babylon to them that know me. Behold Philistia and
Tyre with Ethiopia. This man was born there. And
of Zion, it shall be said, this and that man was born in her.
and the highest himself shall establish her. The Lord shall
count when he writeth up the people that this man was born
there. Selah. As well the singers, as
the players on instruments shall be there, all my springs are
in thee. Let's go to the Lord in prayer.
Our gracious Lord, we thank you, Father, We thank You for Your
grace and mercy. We thank You, Lord, for the blessing
of the new birth which You give to Your people, in giving us
life from the dead, in delivering us from darkness and death and
things that cannot save, that You would bring us in grace and
in mercy in the precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. that
You would fill us with Your Spirit, fill us with Your hope, fill
us with Your love. Truly, Lord, all our springs
are in Thee. All the flowing of Thy blessings
are from Thee and because of Thee. And Lord, we thank You
for this. We thank You for this grace. We thank You for the Lord
Jesus Christ. Father, we thank you for this
gathering, that you are pleased to gather your people, to call
them out of darkness, and to assemble a people together, to
knit their hearts together in love and in care for one another. Lord, how you teach us as sheep,
living among sheep. Lord, how you teach us patience
in it, love for one another, care for one another, rejoicing
in one another, sorrow for one another's sorrows. Lord, we thank
you for all these things because through them you do teach us
and instruct us in your word and reveal to us what you mean
in your word through these things and how we see and understand
that our Lord and Savior was touched with the feeling of our
infirmities and that we ought to come to you regularly, consistently,
Lord, casting all our cares before you because as you tell us in
your word, truly you do care for us. And Lord, we thank you
how in your power you lay these things to our hearts, our minds
with understanding. to know our God, to see the glory
and power of our God, to believe Him, to walk in faith. Lord,
all our rejoicing, all our glory is truly in You, Lord. Thank
You for this blessing. And Lord, we lift up now our
brethren to You. Lord, we thank You that we can
come to You with our cares, however small they may be, We pray for
Brother Scott. Lord, we're so thankful that
you've brought him through the infection that he had, that you've
removed it from his body. That you are healing his mind
and giving him strength and courage each day. Lord, you know that
he is bored and feels alone very often, but he is thankful. You've given him a thankful heart.
You've given him an open heart that seeks to understand you,
to trust you, to believe you. And we pray that you would indeed
bless him more and more, comfort him more and more in the grace
of our God who does all things well and all things according
to purpose as it pleases you. And Lord, we ask that you would
continue to strengthen him and deliver him from there quickly,
able to walk able to get about, able to pivot and do the things
that he needs to do. Lord, help him. We pray for Brother
Ron. Lord, he's had that treatment
for the cancer, but Lord, truly the healing comes from your hand
and the deliverances of you, Lord, and we pray that you would
bless him. We pray that you would strengthen him. We pray, Lord,
for all the unspoken things, the cares, the mental, discomforts
and challenges and difficulties that we have, the stresses that
we have in life, both physical, spiritual, mental. Lord, that
you would help us, keep us walking in agreement with our God, walking
by faith in the Spirit of God, believing you, testifying of
your grace, bearing witness of what you have done for us in
grace and mercy in the face of Jesus Christ and for his sake.
And it's for His name, in His name we pray, Lord, for His sake
we pray these things and ask them in the name of our Lord
and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. As you remain sitting, let's
sing hymn number 352, Jesus lover of my soul. Jesus, lover of my soul, let
me to thy bosom fly. While the nearer waters roll,
while the tempest still is high, hide me, O my Savior, hide. Till the storm of life is past,
Safe into the haven guide, O receive my soul at last. Other refuge have I none, Hangs
my helpless soul on thee. Leave, ah, leave me not alone,
still support and comfort me. All my trust on thee is stained,
all my help from thee I bring. Cover my defenseless head with
the shadow of Thy wing. Thou, O Christ, art all I want,
more than all in Thee I find. Raise the fallen, cheer the faint,
heal the sick, and lead the blind. Just and holy is Thy name. I am all unrighteousness. False and full of sin I am, Thou
art full of truth and grace. Plenteous grace with Thee is
found, Grace to cover all my sin. Let the healing streams
abound, make and keep me pure within. Thou of life the fountain art,
freely let me take of thee. Ring thou up within my heart,
rise to all eternity. Thank you. A little surprise
there at the end. Morning. Let's turn to Genesis chapter
6. Genesis 6. There's two truths being set
forth in this chapter that come forth loud and clear. First,
that man is utterly corrupt and dead in sin. He's utterly corrupt. He is ruined. His nature is ruined
in sin. And the other is that God is
wondrously gracious. God is wondrously gracious to
his people. This chapter six here is where
our Lord declares that he's going to destroy every living creature
in whom is breath. Every creature not in the ocean. And he's doing this because,
he tells us, he makes it very clear to us that it is because
of the total depravity of man. It's because of the sin and depravity
of man. But, he will be gracious to Noah. He will be gracious to Noah and
to Noah's seed. Now let's begin with reading
the first four verses of Genesis 6. Genesis 6 verses 1 through
4. 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. And the Lord said, My spirit
shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh,
yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. There were
giants in the earth in those days. And 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." So first, let me address this question. Who are the sons of God? Who are the sons of God? I remember
hearing a message a couple years back, I think it was, where a
man was making the case that the sons of God here are angels. These are fallen angels. And he would take verses from
Job chapter 1, verse 6, for example, where we read that there was
a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before
the Lord, and Satan came also among them. And so he just automatically
inferred that, well, if Satan was there, this must be angels
that are being spoken of. And that may be. That may be. I'm not contesting that necessarily. But it could also just as well
be a day in which his people brought their gifts before the
Lord in the way that Abel and Cain brought their offering to
the Lord and that Satan appeared there with them. Either one could
be possible. It's kind of providential that
we had the last message we had that had some some vagary. I
personally don't really, I'm not moved, even if it was fallen
angels, I don't think it was, but even if it was, I'm not moved
by it, honestly. It doesn't rattle me or affect
me in the least, because I see exactly what the Lord is teaching
us here, in this chapter. He's showing us just how ruinous,
how depraved man is, how corrupt man is, and we'll talk about
that a bit. And what this man did is ultimately
he had to go outside of the scriptures. He had to go to extra-biblical
writings in order to bring his most poignant arguments to prove
that this was angels. And others today will argue that
the purpose in it is that, well, that's what corrupted or ruined
our DNA. It just destroyed the image of
God. and when this happened, and so
that's why God destroyed man. But let me just bring this point
out, that man all by himself, Adam all by his self, corrupted
and ruined the image of God by his own sin. I shouldn't even
laugh there, but he destroyed the image of God. He ruined the
image of God by his own rebellion and sin against the true and
living God there in the garden, and we in him. We died spiritually
when Adam ate of that fruit, that forbidden fruit. which God
told him not to do. So that when Seth was born, and
we saw this last week, the humility of Adam, when Seth was born,
it was then confessed that Adam begat a son in his own blood. likeness, and after his image,
Genesis 5.3. It wasn't in God's image, it
was in the image of fallen man, man who is dead spiritually,
man who does not pass on the blessing of God through his seed,
but passes on the corruption of man through his seed, whereby
we need to be born again by the Lord Jesus Christ, born of the
incorruptible seed of Christ. So then, who are the sons of
God? Well, look back at Genesis 4.26. Genesis 4.26. 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. And so the sons of God are those
who call upon the name of the Lord. And we saw last week when
looking at Enoch, the faith of Enoch, was that the scriptures
tie the birth of his child to his worshiping God there in Genesis
5, 21 through 24. And then we see with Seth, when
Enos was born, that's when men began to call on the name of
the Lord. And we saw that the scriptures are showing us we
must be born again. We must be. We see the mystery
of God, that we must have a new birth, that the old is passed
away. Behold, all things are become
new in Christ. And so by this life which our
God gives us, that's where and how we walk with God, like Enoch. That's how we walk, as Amos 3.3
said, we walk in agreement. Can two walk together except
they be agreed? And it's our God's glory and
power which causes us to agree with God even against ourselves,
that God is true, and I by nature am but a liar. I, by nature,
am nothing. I have nothing to boast in or
glory in. My salvation, my hope, rests entirely upon the promise
of God and His Son, Jesus Christ. And so, these men of faith are
the sons of God. I believe that's what it's teaching,
that these men of faith are the sons of God. And we're told in
verse 2, they took them wives of all which they chose. Now when I see that they took
them wives of all which they chose I'm reminded of what our
Lord said that that we in in the resurrection are like the
angels of heaven who neither marry nor are given in marriage. And so I have to wonder why would
fallen angels take wives? Why not just do the deed. Why take wives for yourself if
that's what it's speaking of? And to me that seems to indicate
more that it's speaking of men who took wives for themselves.
Men take wives. Fallen angels wouldn't take wives.
Why do they need to partake in that ordinance which God said? Why would they do that? And we're
told in verse 1, it came to pass when men began to multiply on
the face of the earth. And what happens when men multiplies?
Well, the sin in them multiplies. Proverbs 29.16 says that when
the wicked are multiplied, transgression increaseth. And we see that.
Back then, information and perversion would spread, I would think,
more slowly, in a sense, with trading and traveling and things
like that. Whereas now, with the internet,
it travels instantly. What wicked thought enters one
heart over here in this part of the world, hits the other
part of the world instantly. It's just increasing and increasing
and increasing greatly. And so these men born of Seth,
they were segregated for a time apart from the sons and daughters
of Cain. the families that were born to
Seth, they worshiped the Lord. They sought the Lord. They would
worship the Lord the way Abel worshiped the Lord. They would
come in the blood of an animal. They would come in the blood
of a lamb, just as Adam would have instructed his sons back
then. And so these sons of God, they
saw the daughters of men. They saw the daughters of Cain,
that they were fair. Hey, there's some pretty girls
over there. And they saw them and began to mix and mingle as
it was increasing. They would eventually push up
against one another and come near to one another and trade
with one another. And they took them wives of all which they
chose. They began to look at these fair
maidens and say, she's pretty. I think I'll make her my wife.
Wait a minute. She's pretty too. I think I'll
make her my wife also. And so they were taking wives
of all which they chose, meaning many wives, not just one wife. They were, they were multiplying
their wives and that's not what God had purpose when he created
Eve, He took one wife, and he brought Eve to Adam, and she
became his wife. She was his helpmeet, and that's
how God purposed it, that the two should be one flesh. One
flesh. And so, now these sons of God
were also becoming partakers greatly of, they were sinners
before, but they were partaking in the sins of Cain and his people. And so the point here is, what
the Lord is emphasizing, regardless of what you think these sons
of God are, what the Lord is emphasizing to us here is that
The Lord has concluded we are all sinners. We're all sinners. We have done sin greatly against
our God. And He's showing us that you
can divide the worst of men and put them over here, and you can
take the best of men and put them over here, and yet all men
are sinners. We all come forth of that corrupt
seed of Adam, and that corruption has It's passed through the seed
of man. It's passed through the seed
of the Father, and that's how we're all sinners. That's why
we're all sinners. We're all born dead in trespasses
and sins. The scriptures teach us that
there's none righteous, no, not one. The scriptures teach us
that we've all gone out of the way. We've all gone out of the
way. We are together become unprofitable.
There's none that doeth good, no, not one. we all fell in sin. And so Seth and his sons showed
themselves to be just as defiled and ruined and corrupt in their
nature as the sons and daughters of Cain. And so this our Lord
teaches us through his scriptures that every one of us is sin full
by nature. We are sin full. We have a corrupt
nature. We cannot boast. Just because
you, my daughters, were born to believing parents, you have
nothing to boast in because you're our children. That you have anything
up, any standing higher than another with God just because
you come from your mom and your dad who believe. You need to
be born again, just like every child of God must be born again,
be given a new heart and a new nature. And so we see here now
in verse three and four, again, let's read these again. And the
Lord said, my spirit shall not always strive with man, for that
he also is flesh, yet his days shall be in 120 years. First
of all, you see how he's focused on man. And that's another thing
that shows us that the sons of God were faithful men. They were
followers of the Lord and they sinned too. Because his whole
focus isn't on what the demons are doing, he's focused on what
man is doing. That's what he's showing us,
that's the emphasis here, is I won't strive always with man,
his days shall be in 120 years. And what he means there is in
120 years, I'm bringing a flood to destroy the whole earth. That's
what he means by the 120 years there. And it says, there were
giants in the earth in those days. And 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 it is possible that there
were some men there that were tall in stature, like Goliath,
that had great height. something like 10 feet tall.
Goliath was a very, very large man and he had two or three other
brothers like him in his day. So it's possible there were very
tall men like Goliath, but there's an emphasis here on the description
of these mighty men, these men of renown. And I believe that,
I take that to mean, one, they were great in their sin, but
they were, they were industrious men. They were very skillful. men. They were inventors and
artisans and people who had great understanding and harnessing
some of the things that we're blind to here in the earth. Some
of the power and the ability and maybe free energy or whatever
that could be harnessed like Tesla did. Maybe they knew how
to do all that and build structures to do things and create things
and certainly whatever Cain learned And anything that Seth learned,
those families married together and they brought those understandings
together and became industrious, mighty people, titans of industry,
if you will. And so, they were great people. You know, every once in a while
in archaeology, they uncover some tool, some advanced tool,
in a layer that they say is too old for man to have been around,
and yet they uncover this tool. And I always think that's probably
something that predates the flood that God washed and smashed and
then covered over with the sediment from the flood and just buried
it there in a layer. They find some interesting things
sometimes. No way, that man wasn't even
around then, so we don't know why it's there. It probably was
pre-flood. Pre-flood invention or something
like that. But here's the point. Here's
the thrust of what it's saying here. The scripture. Galatians
3.22 The scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise
by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. The Lord is teaching us Don't
think too highly of yourselves. You're not all that great. There
was a people, a whole civilization before the flood that were mighty
men, men of renown, people that advanced and figured things out
and did great and wonderful things. And yet the Lord destroyed every
one of them with a flood. And they perhaps were more advanced,
or as advanced, or maybe a little less. But they were mighty men.
They were great people in terms of what they could do and think
of and invent. But the Lord destroyed every
one of them. How much more ought we be mindful
that as the Lord destroyed them with the flood, so he has promised
he's going to destroy us with fire. And that day is coming.
We ought to be humble. We ought to seek the Lord and
know, Lord, how might me, a sinner, be justified with you? Lord, show me thy salvation. Teach me thy grace. Show me what
you do to save your people, because I, in my nature, am undone. I'm a wretched, vile man. Who
shall deliver me from the body of this death? And so the Lord
shows us this, that we would see our need of Christ. That we would hear the word of
promise of our God fulfilled completely, entirely, in and
by the Lord Jesus Christ. we came ultimately through Noah,
right? And Noah was obviously one of
the sons of God, one of those godly men and those families
that taught, that worshiped the Lord and he taught his sons,
but we're born of that same seed and yet they were corrupt. They were dead in trespasses
and sins until the Lord gave them life to believe Him. And we'll see that as we go.
Now this is the understanding because look at verse 5. Look
at verse 5 and this is emphasized to us. This is I've been told
one of the most critical verses in all the scripture, verse five,
and God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth. Again, the emphasis is on man,
man, man. You, me, our nature is sinful. The wickedness of man was great
in the earth and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart
was only evil continually. We don't, from conception to
execution, right? From the thought that comes into
our little brains to the deed, the working out of it, is only
evil continually. Is only evil continually, right?
And if you don't believe me, I think that's why the Lord put
that scripture in, which says, even the plowing of the wicked
is sin. something good that we would
call good. That man's industrious. He's
working to feed his family and provide for his family. Without
faith, it's impossible to please God. It's impossible to please
Him. And so we see that very that
very truth of it. And so we think of this, and
our Lord even says, they didn't see it. Every day for them was
just like the last day. Every single day until the day
it wasn't, when the Lord closed Noah and his family in the ark
and shut the door. 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 and giving in marriage until the day that Noah entered
the ark. And so they didn't have any idea
how great their sin was until they were drowning in the wrath
and punishment of Almighty God. And so what the Lord teaches
us here is that the only way we're going to know and understand
the grace of God is when we see and know and understand our sin. as God sees it as God sees our
sin that no it's not just a little thing it's a great thing it's
an offensive thing because our whole nature is an offense against
the true and living God God saw that the wickedness of man was
great in the earth and what God sees is how things really are
you know for for you and me, for pot sherds striving against
the pot sherds of the earth, broken pieces of pottery. That's how we're compared. For
us, I remember learning that someone told me once that perception
is reality. If you work with people and they
don't like you for some reason, It's that they perceive there's
something about you that they don't like. And if you don't
agree with that perception, well, what are you doing to give them
that perception? What are you doing there? And
if you don't want them to have that perception, fix it. Adjust
it so that they don't have that perception of you, because perception
is reality. But when it comes to God, that's
maybe true of us, but when it comes to the Lord, reality is
how he sees it. And that's why he conforms us
to his son, to see what he sees, to hear what he says, to believe
the word that he speaks to us. Because he says that every imagination
of the thoughts of man's heart is only evil continually. Sin isn't what I do. Sin is what
I am by nature. By nature. And this old man of
flesh, I'm not a sinner because I do sin. I'm a sinner because
I'm a sinner by nature. It's what I am. And that's why
this nature, in my nature, I'm not going to save myself by my
works. I need the salvation, the grace,
and the power of another to do for me. And so, nothing about
man today has changed from what he was before the flood. That's why the Lord's promised
to come again and to make all things new. to destroy the whole
earth, this time with fire. And we so easily forget that
God destroyed it once in a flood, even though there's tons of evidence
that shows a catastrophic flood in our past. And men are willfully
ignorant of it and just bury it no pun intended, bury it out
of sight and try to keep it out of sight because they don't want
to think about it. And yet it's plain. And the Lord
says, and I'm going to do it again, but this time by fire. And so the scriptures tell us
what God sees, what the God of all the earth sees. It's not
that he's perceiving it. He sees it. He sees the heart.
We're laid open before him who sees all things. And he does
it so that we would hear what he tells us of the promise of
the faith of Jesus Christ. That we would hear his words.
Because only then do we have a right understanding, right?
If we have a right understanding of sin, then by the grace of
God we'll have a right understanding of grace. And we'll know just
how gracious our God is to me. how unworthy I am. And I won't
hear that word grace and still imagine somehow that it has something
to do with what I've done, but see it for what it really is.
It's really all of His free grace, free grace, unmerited, unearned
favor and grace and mercy of God for Christ's sake, not for
mine. Our Lord said it this way, blessed
are your eyes for they see and your ears for they hear. You that believe on the Lord
Jesus Christ, you see as God sees. You hear what God is saying
in a blessed way, in a blessed way, because you know I'm the
sinner. He's the grace, the gracious
one. So evil So our sin, we see the destructive
nature of our sin, and we're told in verse six and seven that
it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and
it grieved him at his heart. And the Lord said, I will destroy
man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man
and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air, for
it repenteth me that I have made them. Now I believe what the
Lord is saying here, He's using this language so that we understand
it. He's speaking in this manner
for the hardness of our own hearts, so that we would know and understand
that our God is grieved at his heart. Even the scriptures say
that the Holy Spirit, grieve not the Holy Spirit. But it words
in this way because he's showing us just how sinful our sin is,
just how egregious our sin is. And so you that believe God this
day, remember that there is not a just man. on the earth that
doeth good and sinneth not." There's not a just man. It's
not your goodness. It's not your works. It's not
how you've changed and fixed things and made things right
by your works. But rather it's according to
the kindness of God, who before the foundation of the world,
before you did any good or evil purpose to save you, chose you
and gave you to Christ. the lamb slain before the foundation
of the world who was purposed to redeem his people from their
fall from their death and give them life and that's what we
see in verse 8 but Noah But Noah found grace in the eyes of the
Lord. And this is what I was hinting
at before, that men read that, that Noah found grace in the
eyes of the Lord, that Noah must have done something to set himself
apart above the rest. He must have kept himself more
pure. Maybe he didn't marry one of Cain's daughters. Maybe he
married someone from the right family lineage. And he did his
best to keep himself pure. And that's why God was gracious
to him. But that's not what the scriptures
are teaching. Noah found grace. He received
grace by God being gracious to him freely. Apart from any work
that Noah did, he gave Noah grace. He showed Noah grace. And so the Lord was merciful
to him. And that's how it is for us.
If you're saved, if you are delivered from death, if you're born again,
if you walk with God, if you believe Him, it's because God
has been completely, entirely gracious to you. That means,
yes, I'm a sinner saved by the grace of God. Not because I'm
a good guy. Not because I'm so special or
so good and so pleasing to God in my works. Not at all. If I
please God, it's for Christ's sake. It's Christ in me. It's
the savor, the sweet savor of his son that makes me acceptable
to God. And in Christ, I am righteous.
In Christ, by the faith which he's given me, I believe him
and confess, Lord, you're right. You're just. You're perfect in
all your ways. Thank you for saving me, a sinner. And that's what he works in the
heart of all his people. And so our righteousness is by
the blood of Christ. It's not our works. Now let's
see this in one passage of scripture over in Romans three. We'll come
back right at the end of verse nine, but just go to Romans three. where we see it's not our works,
nor is it our works plus a little bit of Christ, or our works plus
a lot of Christ. It's not our works that save
us, it's the grace of God in Christ. It's Christ alone. Romans 3, and let's look at verse
21 through 23 first. But now the righteousness of
God without the law is manifested. It's revealed. It's made known.
The cover's pulled off so we see it being witnessed by the
law and the prophets, even the righteousness of God, which is
by faith of Jesus Christ, the faithfulness of Christ unto all
and upon all them that believe. For there's no difference. For
all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. That includes
no. Noah sinned and came short of
the glory of God, but God was gracious to him. And so, look
now at verse 24 through 26, being justified freely by his grace,
apart from works, but by his grace through the redemption
that is in Christ Jesus, whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation
through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for
the remission of sins that are past through the forbearance
of God, to declare, I say at this time, his righteousness,
that he might be just and the justifier of him which believeth
in Jesus. And so we're justified by Christ. And that justification is manifested
in us by the faith which our God gives us. Because God has
been propitiated by the sacrifice of Christ. Meaning the anger
and wrath that I earned, the debt I built up, and should have
had poured out on me, was poured out on Christ, was turned from
me and put upon the Son of God, the Lamb of God, as the mediator
of God's people, as their substitute to bear their punishment, their
curse for their sin, to give us life and deliverance in Himself. And so now with that understanding,
let's go back and close with verse 9. In Genesis 6 verse 9,
These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a just man and
perfect in his generations, right, for Christ's sake. And Noah walked
with God. And those are the same words
that were used with Enoch. Enoch walked with God, meaning
he was born again just like Enoch. He was born of the Spirit of
God. He believed God, was a faithful man walking in faith by the Spirit
of God, trusting and believing Him, for Christ's sake, by the
grace of God. Amen. All right, let's close. Let's
close in prayer and then Brother Joe will come and close us in. You know what, Brother Joe, why
don't you come and close us in to him and then you close us in
prayer too. Thank you, brother. Let's close our service by singing
224, I Know Whom I Have Believed, 224. I'm almost positive I have all the
verses for this one. I know not why God's wondrous
grace to me he hath made known, Nor why unworthy Christ in love
redeem me for his own. But I know whom I have believed,
And am persuaded that He is able To keep that which I've committed
Unto Him against that day. I know not how this saving faith
To me He did impart, Nor how believing in His Word Brought
peace within my heart. But I know whom I have believed
in And am persuaded that He is able To keep that which I've
committed Unto Him against that day. They know not how the Spirit
moves, Convincing men of sin, Revealing Jesus through the Word,
Creating faith in Him. But I know whom I have believed,
And am persuaded that He is able To keep that which I've committed
Unto Him against that day. I know not what of good or ill
May be reserved for me, Of weary ways or golden days before His
face I see. But I know whom I have believed
and am persuaded That He is able to keep that which I've committed
Unto Him against that day. I know not when my Lord may come
at night or noonday fair, Nor if I walk the vale with Him,
nor meet Him in the air. Let's pray. Our Heavenly Father, we thank
you for allowing us to assemble today again to hear the unsearchable riches
of our Lord Jesus Christ. What a great blessing, Lord.
And now will you remember us, Lord, as we depart here. Keep
us safe as we travel and live our lives. And Lord, also that
we may be remembered that you are sitting on your throne in
complete control, especially in these days when there is so
much controversy and troubles and We can easily become worried
and fret. But Father, we have that hope
in our hearts that you are in control of all things. And again,
we remember brother Scott. Oh Lord, bring him home safely
again. Give him all that he needs for
strength and his health. Remember sister Johnny. Lord,
give her strength and health and comfort. Remember us all
together. Lord, you know perfectly what
each and every one of us needs. bring us back again in due time. Continue, Lord, to remember our
pastor, Lord, continue to give him strength and all that he
needs to prepare these messages that we may be continued to be
fed out of your word for Jesus' sake alone. Amen.