Good evening. Open with me to
Proverbs chapter 8. Proverbs chapter 8. Paul in writing to the Corinthians
says, We preach Christ crucified unto the Jews a stumbling block
and unto the Greeks foolishness, but unto them which are called,
both Jews and Greeks, Christ, the power of God, and the wisdom
of God. Proverbs chapter 8 beginning
in verse 12, wisdom is given voice here. I, wisdom, dwell
with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions. The fear of the Lord is to hate
evil, pride and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the forward
mouth do I hate. Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom,
I am understanding. I have strength. By me kings
reign, and princes decree justice. By me princes rule, and nobles,
even all the judges of the earth. I love them that love me, and
those that seek me early shall find me. Riches and honor are
with me, yea, durable riches and righteousness. My fruit is
better than gold, yea, than fine gold. and my revenue than choice
silver. I lead in the way of righteousness,
in the midst of the paths of judgment, that I may cause those
that love me to inherit substance, and I will fill their treasures.
The Lord possessed me in the beginning of His way, before
His works of old. I was set up from everlasting
From the beginning, or ever, the earth was. When there were
no depths, I was brought forth. When there were no fountains
abounding with water, before the mountains were settled, before
the hills, was I brought forth. He had not made the earth, nor
the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world. When
He prepared the heavens, I was there. When He set a compass
upon the face of the depth, when He established the clouds above,
when He strengthened the fountains of the deep, when He gave to
the sea His decree that the waters should not pass His commandment,
when He appointed the foundations of the earth, Then I was by him,
as one brought up with him, and I was daily his delight, rejoicing
always before him, rejoicing in the habitable part of the
earth, and my delights are with the sons of men. Now therefore
hearken unto me, O ye children, for blessed are they that keep
my ways. Hear instruction, and be wise,
and refuse it not. Blessed is the man that heareth
me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the post of my doors. For whoso findeth me, findeth
life, and shall obtain favor of the Lord. But he that sinneth
against me wrongeth his own soul. All they that hate me love death."
Let's go to the Lord in prayer. Our Lord and our God, Lord, how
thankful we are that before the earth was, Christ was with you. Before Adam sinned, Christ was
there in your midst, daily your delight. For Lord, without him,
we are lost, undone. But Lord, because of your wisdom,
because of your power, because of your Christ, we can come to
you this evening saying, our Father. And Lord, we come with
thanksgiving in our hearts. So thankful, Lord, that salvation
is of you and nothing of our own. Thankful, Lord, that you've
seen fit to have mercy upon some here. Lord, we pray that you'll
continue to be merciful to us. We have sinned, come short of
the glory of God, but we look not to ourselves, but we look
to Christ, who alone is our righteousness. Pray you'll lift him up in our
midst this evening. Lord, send your spirit anoint
Donny. giving liberty and unction and power to speak in the Holy
Ghost. And Lord, don't just anoint him,
but anoint us. Those that hear, Lord, open our
ears, open our eyes that we might see Christ. Feed us tonight. with that bread of heaven. Lord,
again, we ask that you'll forgive us of our sins, have mercy upon
us, and save those that are lost and are missed. Have mercy upon
this nation, Lord. The kings of it are in your hands.
You guide them. You direct them. But Lord, we
don't look to them. We look to you. And if it be
your will, Lord, send revival and start in this place. Father,
be merciful to us. For it's in Christ's name we
pray. Amen. Book of Genesis. And what Genesis means, the meaning
of Genesis is right in the very first words in Genesis 1. What Genesis means is in the
very first words in Genesis 1. In the beginning. In the beginning.
That's what Genesis means. It means born. It means coming
into the being of something. The beginning. And here we have
in the beginning, God. Everything had a beginning, but
God. Everything's been brought into existence, but God. And
everything we read in the scriptures, and everything that we can see,
touch, taste, or handle, has been brought into existence.
The creation, the heavens, and the earth. And God says that
he's going to take all them away and make a new one. But in the
beginning, I want to, I told you I was going to try to start
on the book of Genesis and give you just a little introduction
this evening. And in the beginning, God, that's where we have to
start with, God. Everything's been created and
everything's brought into existence except Him, except Him. Genesis
has been called the seed plot of the Bible. And what that means
is, is that in germ form we find it all in the book of Genesis.
And as that seed is planted here, and we see that seed here, we
saw it's the plants. We watch these blessed truths
and doctrines begin to grow as we go through the scriptures
till we get to the New Testament. And then they're full grown.
The doctrines are there before us all to see, but it starts
out right here in seed. And then as it unfolds and grows,
as we begin to look through the whole Old Testament until we
get to the New Testament. In Genesis, we find almost all
the great doctrines of the scripture in their first mention. The first
mention. There's always a law of first
mention. Whatever a word means in its first mention in Genesis,
it'll mean that the rest of the way of the Bible. The law of
first mention. Remember that. Wherever you find
something mentioned first here, that's what it's going to mean
the rest of the time. It may be an enlargement of it,
but that's what it's going to mean. In Genesis, we find God
revealed, God's revealed, God just declares Himself to be. And one thing about the Gospel,
if the Bible begins with God and the Gospel begins with God,
it's the Gospel of God concerning His Son Jesus Christ our Lord,
then it's imperative that men and women know God, but they
can't know Him UNLESS HE REVEALS HIMSELF TO THEM. BUT HE JUST
DECLARES HIMSELF TO BE. HE DOESN'T PROVE HIS EXISTENCE.
HE DOESN'T TRY TO CONVINCE MAN THAT HE IS. IF A MAN DON'T WANT
TO BELIEVE HIM, BUT BLESS HIS HOLY NAME, THERE ARE LOTS OF
PEOPLE WHO SAID I DON'T BELIEVE HIM AND GOD BROKE IN ON THEM
AND NOW THEY ARE BELIEVERS, FIRM BELIEVERS. AND IN GENESIS HE'S
REVEALED AS THE CREATOR as the covenant God. He entered into
covenant with Abraham, entered into covenant with Noah, entered
into covenant with Adam. And so we see this covenant God. And then in Genesis, He's God
Almighty. He's the Almighty God, which
we would call sovereign. And I was years and years ago,
I was preaching out in North Carolina in a Bible college out
there, Bible Institute. And a fella told me, you know,
I told him, I said, you believe in the sovereignty of God? And
I said, yeah, I do. And he said, you know, back in
those days, they was talking about Calvinism, Arminianism,
and I didn't know what either one of them meant. That's how
green I was. But he told me, he said, whatever you do, don't
mention God's sovereignty here. He said, just use the word Almighty,
because it's going to mean the same thing. But it don't. Almighty means He's all-powerful,
El Shaddai, double-breasted God, all-sufficient for His people.
And then this talks about Him being the Most High Possessor
of heaven and earth. And here in Genesis, we have
the first mention of the Blessed Trinity. Look down in verse 26
of chapter 1. We have the first mention of
the Trinity. And people say, well, the Bible
don't talk about a Trinity. Yes, it does. Several places
it does. He read about the Godhead tonight
out of Proverbs 8. But look what he said here. And
God said, let us make man in our image after our likeness.
Now, who's he talking to? God is one. So, who's he talking
to? He said, who's he talking to?
Let us. He's talking to the Holy Spirit.
He's talking to his Son. We are all and the Trinity's
involved in all of our salvation. The Trinity's involved in everything
that happens in this world. And then we look at man, but
man is brought onto the scene the first time in Genesis, especially
in Genesis chapter two, when God created Adam and brought
him out of the dust of the earth and breathed in his nostrils
the breath of life. And first we see him created
by God. God called him, made him out
of the dust of the earth, breathed into his nostrils and he became
an animated being. He became a man. And then after
being tempted, after being deceived, by the Satan after being deceived
by the serpent, then we see him fall, plunge into sin as he disobeys
God's commandment and he plunges not only himself but all of his
posterity, everyone who come from his loins into the awfulest
state that a human being can be in in the sight of God and
that's to be without God. And God drove him from the garden
and God Here's the first, and here's also the first thing you
see about Adam. After he fell, the first mention
you find of God actually finding a sinner, seeking out the sinner,
clothing the sinner, and saving that sinner was we did it with
Adam. He said, Adam, where are you?
And he didn't ask Adam because he didn't know where he was.
He wanted Adam to know where he was. And then God clothed
him with the skins of animals. He said blood had to be shed
for him to be clothed. And so God shed the blood, God
covered him, and that's the Lord Jesus Christ that done those
things. And it's the person who did it, and God himself covered
his nakedness, and then sent him, when he put him out of the
garden, he said, a flaming sword, a flaming sword. Now what that
flaming sword meant was not to keep him from going back in,
it was to show him that the way of paradise was barred by the
justice and judgment of God until God Himself opened up a new way
for us to come into His presence. And then we first, we find grace
mentioned also the first time this way. Noah found grace in
the eyes of the Lord. The word grace is mentioned the
first time in Genesis 6, 8. Noah found grace in the eyes
of the Lord. He was no different than anybody
else in those days. Grace is one that made the difference.
And then we have mention of a man walking with God. Walking with
God. Enoch walked with God. And we
find a person the first time it's mentioned that a man's made
a friend of God. When God made Abraham his friend. And there in Genesis 3, we see
how subtle Satan is, how subtle the devil is. The serpent, he
said in verse 1, the serpent was more subtle, more guile,
more crafty than any beast of the field. And you know all he
s called that old serpent, he s called the dragon, he s called
the devil, he s called Satan. And here we see Him coming and
deceiving our mother Eve, and He did it. by using God's Word,
like He did our Lord Jesus Christ when He tempted Him on the mount.
He used God's Word against the Lord Jesus Christ, but He didn't
use it rightly, and He put doubt on it, and our Lord Jesus answered
Him with the Scriptures. And this is where she didn't
understand. Satan come along, and he beguiled
our mother Eve, and I tell you what, and he used the Word of
God to do it. He cast doubt on the Word of
God, cause in question the word of God. He cast cast and denied
his very truth. And we find this when when we
first find him in Genesis, every time you find him after Genesis,
you find him always operating in the spiritual realm. He's
not out here in the honky tonks. He's operating in the spiritual
realm. Next time you find him, he's in he's talking with God
over Job. And then you see him tempting
our Lord Jesus Christ. And so every place you find him,
he's operating in a spiritual realm. He carries a Bible. He don't tell what the truth
of it is. He wears a three-piece suit, and he don't care how he
looks. He's an angel of light. And so
you see here, and then there's another thing that we find in
Genesis. We first meet the truth of sovereign
election, God's sovereign electing grace. First of you know, Enoch,
Abel over Cain, but when you first meet sovereign election,
God singles out Abraham out of all the people on earth, He singles
out Abraham, and He makes a promise that it entered into covenant
with Abraham. And He says, I am going to make you the father
of many nations. And He calls him to be the father
of the chosen nation, Israel. And God bypasses Ishmael and
calls Isaac. and then out of Isaac's two children,
Jacob, beloved, and Esau, he hated. And so, you find God's
sovereign election starting out in Genesis. And also in Genesis,
the truth, the truth of salvation is set forth typically, typically. And like I've already said, our
fallen parents were sought out by God Himself, clothed with
skins by God, but in order for them to be clothed, death had
to occur, blood had to be shed, the innocent had to be put in
place of the guilty before they could ever be clothed. And the
first mention, here's another first mention of something that
it's all been this way all the way through the scripture. is
the blessed truth of justification by faith, and that the first
time justification by faith and righteousness charged to a sinner's
account was in Genesis 15 when God said that Abraham believed
God, and God counted it unto him for righteousness. It didn't
say Abraham obeyed God, though he did. It didn't say, or he
loved God, or he served God, though he did all those things.
But it said, Abraham believed God, and God counted that unto
him for righteousness, because he had not one of his own. And
so God, that's the first time we find justification by faith.
Abraham believed God. God says, you're justified. I
declare you righteous. And that's what it means. It
means that God just says that I clear the record. And that's
exactly how He justifies us. He's just and justifier of them
who do what? Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. And then we have another thing
we see in Genesis. Starts out in Genesis, the believer's
security. The believer's security. God's
people are secure in Christ. you remember that God looked
on the face of the earth and all men's mind was only imagination
was only evil continually continually they never had a good thought
evil continually and God said Abraham to Noah build you an
ark and that ark was in building for 120 years and God said a
flood's going to come judgment's going to fall on the earth And
God justly destroys all the guilty inhabitants of the earth. But
in that ark, Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. And
God was in that ark, and He told Noah, Come in thou into the ark. And when he got in the ark, God
shut the door. And that ark bore all the judgment
of God, bore all the wrath of God. Noah and his family were
secure inside that ark the judgment fell but it didn't fall on them
it fell on the ark and we are safe in the Lord Jesus Christ
you know what it there's no way in the world that we that truly
believe in Christ could ever perish it'd be impossible God
would abdicate his throne if one for whom Christ died ended
up not being secure and taken to glory God would have to get
off His throne and say, I'm sorry that I let one get by that is
not really saved. That's not going to happen. And
because we're in Christ and we're shut in in Christ, we're hid
with God in Christ, then the judgments already fell on Him. Bless His name. And God shut
Him in. I just want you to notice that.
God shut Him in. when God shuts you in well he
says you're in Christ's hand and in God's hand and you can't
be shut in better than that and then here's another truth we
find that in Genesis the truth of the believer's separation
from the world and the separation that as he walks with God in
Genesis 6 9 look what it says here here's Noah and he says
that these are the generations And Enoch is clearly seen, too.
It says, And Enoch walked with God. But here it says, These
are the generations of Noah. Noah was a just man, and perfect
in his generations, and Noah walked with God. And over in
Genesis 5 24, And Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for
God took him. And this is the truth of believer
s separation clearly seen. Now, you think it was any different
in those days? This is the day Enoch walked
with God whenever man's mind was evil on continually. Noah
walked with God like this too. And beloved, this tells us that
men can walk with God no matter what's going on in the world,
how wicked the world is, how sinful the world is. How did
they walk with God? They walked the same way anybody
walks with God, by faith. These men walked by faith. They
had families, but they raised a family. They had to work, but
they worked. But in all their working and
all their doing, they walked And the scriptures tells us that
we walk as we received the Lord Jesus Christ, so walk, walk,
walk in Him. And I tell you, the days were
evil, but He lived apart from the world knowing and eating
both because they walk with God. Let the world do what it's going
to do. Let the world be, it's not going to change. The world
ain't never going to change. It never has changed, never will.
It'll always, it'll always be wicked. It'll always be sinful. But we walk with God. We walk
with Him by faith. We walk with Him from His Word. We walk with Him as He tells
us to walk. And we're perfect in the sight
of God. It says Noah was a perfect man.
Now where did he get his perfection from? God didn't look at him
and say, now he's perfect because he walked with me. He didn't
say he's perfect because he separated himself from the world. There's
only one place in the world that you can find perfection. And
so Noah, and it talks about Noah being perfect, and the only perfection
he could have is the same perfection we have in Christ. It's impossible
for a man to have perfection in himself. God didn't look down
and say, boy, there's a perfect man. I believe I'll give him
some grace. There's a perfect man because he's walking with
me. I'm going to do something for him. No, no, because God
did do something for him, that's why he walked with God. He found
grace in the eyes of the Lord, and that's when he walked with
God. That's when he is perfect. And Abraham, we see Abraham was
called to go out. Go out from where? Go out from
his father's house? Where did he live? He lived in
the area of the Chaldees, and the area of the Chaldees is where
Baghdad is right now on the Euphrates River over there. And that's
where he was, that's where he was born, that's where he was
raised. And it was an idolatrous, God-hating, Christ-rejecting,
it was, he was an idolater and God called him to go out. he
had to separate himself from his family separate himself from
his brothers and his sisters and he was he separated himself
from idolaters and and did and and went out not even knowing
where he was going and then we see Lot who went out with Abraham
and we see Lot he deliberately goes down to Sodom and Lot set
before us as a fearful fearful example of the awful consequences
of being unequally yoked with unbelievers. He was unequally
yoked with unbelievers and it was because of where he chose
to live and the people he was around, God himself had to go
in there and get him by the hand, the angels did, and drag him
out. And that's the consequences of a believer being unequally
yoked with unbelievers. And then in Genesis, we also
find this, the value of prayer. In Genesis 20, you don't have
to look there, but you remember Abimelech. This was always a
puzzlement to me years ago. And I see this and it would make
me think about the fall when it said Abimelech, God was going
to kill him. God was going to kill him and
God spared him. He took Abraham, Sarah's wife,
and God woke him up in the morning, and he said, you know, I'm going
to kill you. And he said, I didn't know. And so Abraham prayed for
him, and Abimelech's life was spared. He said, because you
sinned against me, Abimelech was spared because Abraham prayed
for him. And you know, the same thing
happened in Job. Job's three comforters, they
comforted him and comforted him. They're miserable comforters.
They got to the end of the way. And God blessed Job twice as
much as he had ever blessed him before. And then he says, he
told those three men, he says, now Job's going to have to pray
for you or else you hit trouble. And Job had to pray for those
fellas that they thought that they was comforting him for God
to let them go their way. And then here's another blessed,
blessed thing. Back over here in Genesis 5,
I believe it's verse 24 again. verse 24 here we see the translation
of a saint is typically seen in what this look what it says
and Enoch walked with God and he was not one day he was not
there one day he got up and he went out to do something and
God and the scripture says for God took him that's what it did
the moment and a twinkle of an eye God took him just like that
he was and then he was not and that's what he says this is this
this is the translation of when we we're going to be changed
into me and God's going to take us and we'll be going just like
that and that's what happened to him he was going and he was
not God just took him where'd he take him to he took him to
be with him of course and oh my He didn't go through death
and that shows all the people that will not pass through death
are going to be a multitude of peoples not going to pass through
death. And God took him. God took him. And we've already
been translated into the kingdom of God's dear son from the kingdom
of darkness. And if we translate us from the
kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of His dear Son, imagine
what it's going to be like when He translates us from the kingdom
of His dear Son and translates these bodies and takes us to
be with Him. And I tell you, He didn't go
in the body that God gave Him on this earth. He went in that
new body that God gave Him as minute He took Him. That's the
first mention of that, see, and then we find it mentioned in
the New Testament several places. And then we have the incarnation
in Genesis, the beginning of the incarnation of our Lord Jesus
Christ is first mentioned here in Genesis 3.15. Here's the first
mention of our Lord Jesus Christ and His incarnation. He'll be
supernaturally begotten. He was to be the son of man,
yet have no human father. Look what he said here in verse
15. And I'm put enmity between thee and the woman. and between
thy seed and her seed. Now, women don't have seed. Satan
has seed. And he said, between the woman
and thy seed and her seed. It shall bruise thy head, and
thou shalt bruise his heel. That's the first mention of our
Lord Jesus Christ being made of a woman. as the first mention
of the Incarnation of Christ. This supernaturally born, the
seed of a woman. And when the fullness of time
was come, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman. He had
no human father. God was His Father as far as
His nature was concerned. He is begotten of the Holy Ghost
in that woman's womb. And then we see the death and
resurrection of our Savior. typically set before us here
in Genesis. You remember in Genesis 22 when
God told Abraham said take your son and he and he stressed it
take your son your only son your only son take him up on the mount
that I'll show you and you take him up there and and and you
offer him ISAAC WAS PUT ON THE ALTAR, BUT THE SCRIPTURE SAID
HE RECEIVED HIM IN A FIGURE AS ONE RAISED BACK FROM THE DEAD,
BECAUSE GOD HIMSELF HAD MADE THE PROMISE TO ABRAHAM THAT IN
HIS SEED, AND GOD SET THAT FORTH TO SHOW US THAT THE LORD JESUS
CHRIST, GOD'S ONLY SON, the Son of His love, as that ram was
caught and put in Isaac's stead, that our Lord Jesus Christ was
going to be put in our stead instead of us having to be put
on the altar ourselves. And oh, I tell you what, so we
see the death, we the set death of our Lord Jesus Christ and
His resurrection. Isaac come back down, and you
know, here's what Abraham told him when he went up on that mountain.
He said, I'm the ladder going yonder to worship, and we'll
be back. He said, we're coming back. He
knowed that whatever God did up there, that son was coming
back off that mountain with him because God promised that in
his seed in Isaac, and then in Jacob, and then in Genesis, we
also learn this, We learn of our Savior's suffering and his
exaltation. We see his sufferings in Joseph.
When Joseph was hated and despised by his brethren, when Joseph
was sold into slavery, sold for money, for silver, thrown in
a pit, getting ready to put him in a pit. And then they come
along and they sold him as a slave into Egypt. And then as he's
cast into prison and he's suffering there and nobody remembers him.
And then when he interprets dreams, Pharaoh brings him up out of
prison and makes him over everything in Egypt, over all the corn,
over all the people, over all everything that there was in
Egypt. He said you've got the power and ain't that the way
it was with our Lord Jesus Christ hated and despised? I mean it's
we see the sufferings of our Savior and then the exaltation. If anybody got any bread in Egypt
Went to Joseph. And Joseph is, and I believe
Mr. Pink said that Joseph is a type
of our Lord Jesus Christ in 72 different ways. 72 different ways. And you know
what Jacob said? Look over here, talking about
our Lord Jesus Christ in Genesis 49, 10. Look what it says over
here about him. Talking about our Lord's exaltation. Genesis
49 and 10. Look what it says about our Savior.
And Joseph, he's a type of our Lord Jesus Christ. And Jacob
said this about him, talking about Judah, the tribe of Judah
from where our Savior came. He says, the scepter shall not
depart from Judah. That means the scepter of the
king. That's his kingdom, it's the
kingly tribe. The scepter, all the kings of
Israel came out of Judah. The scepter shall not depart
from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet. until Shiloh
come, and under him," under Shiloh, under Christ, "'shall the gathering
of the people be.'" Everybody going to gather around him. And all the gathering of the
people will be under him. Also in Genesis, we see this,
we see the priesthood of our Lord Jesus Christ, set forth
typically, not the Levitical priesthood. Aaron was the first
priest, then Eliezer his son, and we see the priesthood of
our Lord Jesus Christ, not after the priesthood of Aaron, but
after the order of Mechizedek. And it says Mechizedek had no
beginning of days, no ending of days, no father, no mother,
and he is the priest of the Most High God. And God says, thou
art a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. And Abraham,
when he came back from the slaughter of the kings and he worshiped
there, he paid tithes to Melchizedek, paid tithes to him. And in Genesis,
we also see this, the awful, awful judgment of God on the
wicked and those who refuse to see him, refuse to bow to him,
refuse to believe him. When Cain slew Abel, Cain says
that my punishment is greater than I can bear, greater than
I can bear. And then God sent a flood, sent
a flood upon the world, the scripture said upon the world of the ungodly
and few that is eight souls were saved and that's exactly what's
going to happen as it was in the days of Noah and as it was
in the days of Lot That's the way it's going to be when God
comes again. It ain't going to be a flood this time. But everyone
who doesn't believe God, doesn't trust Christ, doesn't believe
His Word, when God comes again, it's going to be fire this time.
It's going to be awful. But He sent a flood upon the
world and destroyed everything on the earth, every soul, everything
that existed except what was on that ark. And then He sent
fire that because of the wickedness of Sodom and Gomorrah and the
cities of the plain, He sent fire and brimstone, fire from
heaven itself and brimstone fell on Sodom and Gomorrah and the
cities of the plain. And that's what's going to destroy
this earth this next time. And Lot's wife, God told her,
said, don't you look back. Don't even look back. And that's
what it says in Hebrews. It says, they looking for a country
whose city and makers in God, if they had been mindful of the
place where they'd come from, they might've had opportunity
to return, but they didn't look back. And our Lord said, putting
your hands to the plow and looking back, you're not fit for the
kingdom of God. He says, now you get out of here,
you get out of Lot, Sodom, because I'm fixing to destroy this place.
And Lot's children, Lot's daughters and Lot's daughters-in-law, oh,
they was destroyed in that place. And he says, don't look back
now. She started out of there and she started thinking about,
boy, that's where my heart's at. That's where my family's
at. That's where all the balls are at. That's where all the
cells are at. That's where everything that's
anybody is at. And she looked back and she turned
into a pillar of salt. A pillar of salt. And that's
just the beginning. These are just a few of the things
of God's record. This is God's record. This is
God's record. I was looking at some things
about Genesis this week. And look, I'm reading a whole
lot of stuff about it, and I don't know how many times I've seen
people talking about who wrote it, who wrote it, who wrote it,
who wrote it. I'll tell you who wrote it, God wrote it. They
was debating over Moses wrote it or somebody else wrote it,
this or that. Who cares? It's God said it. God wrote it. I don't care if Moses got out
a pen and wrote it down. God wrote this book. And they
were just arguing over who wrote it, Moses or somebody else, whether
the first 11 chapters are true or not. All I want to know is
what it says, and God teach me what it says. I want to know
what it says. This, the beginning of God's
record for us starts in Genesis, the beginning. And He who knows
the end from the beginning starts us off in the beginning, God.
And may our Lord and our great and glorious God and our sovereign
Savior and our blessed Redeemer and the Holy Spirit bless these
truths to our hearts and our minds and enable us to submit
to His Word and His will. O Lord, thank You for blessing
us and giving us grace. Thank You that we found grace
in the eyes of the Lord, not just Noah, A multitude that no
man can number. Many sons you take into glory.
There's already an innumerable company of just men made perfect.
Already there. Enoch's there. Abel's there.
And Lord, we thank you that we found grace in your eyes and
that one day soon we'll go to be with you. That you'll take
us and we won't be anymore. We won't be anymore. You'll take
us. And Father, we pray for your
great and glorious and gracious blessings upon this congregation. Ask for strength and grace and
power and wisdom to be given to us all. Oh give us that understanding
that comes from above. That wisdom that descends from
above. God granted to us for Christ's
sake. Amen. Amen.