Chapter 1, and this is where I'm going to
end up at, and I'll read you a couple of other verses, and
this is where I'm going to end up at. But in Genesis 5, 24,
you got that. Look at Genesis 5, 24. We're
going to talk about walking with God.
Genesis 5.24. And it says there in the twenty-fourth
verse of Chapter 5, and Enoch, shall I call him Enoch, Enoch
walked with God, and he was not, for God took him. Down in verse
9 of Chapter 6, These are the generations of
Noah. Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations. And
Noah walked with God. Now there it talks about two
men walking with God. And those fellows didn't live
in days of comfort and ease that we do. And when it talks about
walking with God, it's not talking about just taking a stroll through
a garden. He's talking about fellowship
and communion, an intimate relationship with God. And that's what he's
talking about. Now look here in verse 3 of 1
John chapter 1. That's what he's talking about.
And this is what John's talking about here in 1 John 1 verse
3. That which we have seen and heard
declare we unto you that ye also may have fellowship with us.
And truly, our fellowship is with the Father and with His
Son, Jesus Christ. John here is talking about walking
with God. When he talks about fellowship,
communion with God, that's what he's talking about. And he's
talking about the same kind of walk that Enoch had and Noah
had. And look what it says in verse
6 down here. Now, there are some who say they
walk with God, but they don't. And here's what we go on to say,
and John says this, he says, if we say, and then he says we
know. But he says, if we say that we have fellowship with
him, then we walk with God. Walk with God, commune with God,
and walk at the same time in darkness, we lie and do not the
truth. You see, there are some who say they walk with God, but
they don't. And then walking, in verse 7, look what he says,
but if we walk in the light, as He is in the light. And our
Lord Jesus Christ said this, said, He that follows Me shall
not walk in the darkness. I'm the light of the world. He
that follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but he shall have
the light of life. And if we walk in the light,
as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another.
And the blood of Jesus Christ, His Son, cleanses us from all
sin. Now, and when He talks about
walking in the light, And that fellowship one with another,
that doesn't mean our fellowship one with another. It means our
fellowship with Christ, our fellowship with the Father, our fellowship
with God, walking in the light as He is in the light. We have
fellowship with Him. If you don't walk in that light,
and you don't see that light and walk in that light, then
you can't walk with God. You're not walking with God.
Now, there's lots and lots of people who have a religious profession.
and talk about walking with God and getting nearer to God. But
when John's talking about walking with God and fellowshiping with
God, and Enoch talked about walking with God, when the scripture
says Enoch walked with God, and Noah walked with God, they wasn't
walking hand in hand with God. They wasn't out for a stroll
with God. That means that they had fellowship with Him, communion
with Him. They knew Him. They walked in
the light with Him, walked as He walked, walked as God taught
them to walk according to His Word. Now, when he talks about
walking with God, he's not talking about being doctrinally straight,
though a man should be and ought to be. A man can be doctrinally
orthodox, believe in the virgin birth and all the things that
people talk about, and never, ever take a step with God. That's
what our Lord said about the Pharisees. He says, you know,
you speak outwardly, but within you're full of bravening wolves.
And it was what was in them that didn't. He didn't rebuke their
studies. He said, you search the Scriptures. That's not your
problem. Your problem is you don't know me. You don't have
fellowship with me. You don't know me. I come among
you, and I'm the light of the world, and you stay in your darkness.
And when we're talking about walking with God, we're not talking
about whether we're a Baptist or a Calvinist, we're talking
about knowing Christ. Walking with the Lord Jesus Christ.
And you know, there's a verse over in, I think it's Isaiah
28 and verse 15 that says, We have made a covenant with hell,
and we've made an agreement with death. Now, this is not what
he's talking about here. You know, there's people who,
you know, a believer has a good hope. He has a confident hope.
He has a confident expectation. And he's not one of them fellows
you know that has this presumption, this confidence about a contentment
to being in eternity. And that's what he says, you've
met our agreement with hell and our covenant with death. You
know, I don't have nothing to worry about. I got saved. I joined the church. So and so
baptized me. So I've got it all fixed up for
eternity. I've done signed the card. I've
made up my mind. I've made up my decision. I'm
resolved. I've been saved and now I'm going
to heaven and nothing can stop that. And oh, beloved, and to
have this contentment for eternity. But oh, and here we're not talking
about that. We're not talking about presumption.
We're talking about a personal, present, everyday walk with God. And there's people, if Enoch
walked with God, why can't I walk with God? If Noah walked with
God, why can't I walk with God? If John walked with God, why
can't I walk with God? You think we're any different?
Got the same day? Got the same nature? Elijah was
a man of like passions. And I tell you what, in those
who walk in the darkness, he says, you know, the Word of God
offers no hope for the man who just says, I walk with God. Doesn't
offer any hope. If we say what he said in verse
six, if we have fellowship with him and walk in darkness. What
darkness? The darkness of tradition and
custom and ceremony and indifference. And just indifference. The scripture
says we lie. But there is a people that walk
with God. And He says in verse 7, But if
we walk in the light as He is in the light. What is this light?
What is this light? I don't see no big light. People
talk about, you know, they get ready to die and they get brought
back and they see this big light. I know one woman that I've known
for years and she was sitting in her car in front of the courthouse
up here in town. She knows she is saved because a great big
light come down and engulfed her. And one of my neighbors is done
going out into eternity. He told me that two or three
times. He says, oh, I had that heart attack, and I was in the
hospital, and this great big light coming to me and just overwhelmed
me, and I just had such peace. Now, that's not the light he's
talking about here. The light he's talking about
here is the light of his revealed will in this blessed Word. That's
what he's talking about. The Scriptures. The Scriptures. Look right back up there in verse
3. That's when he says, That which we have seen, that which
we have heard, declare we unto you. We're using God. We're telling you some words.
We're telling you what we've seen with our own eyes, and with
our own hands. And that's what we declare unto
you. And we do that that you may have fellowship with us,
and truly our fellowship with the Father and the Son. And now
look at verse 4. And these things rightly unto
you. That's the reason God gave us
His Word. This is the life He's talking about. And these things
rightly unto you, that your joy may be full. Look over at John
5.13 just a moment. That's why, you know, John...
Well, you turn over there, I'll quote a verse to you. John said,
if all the things that Christ has done, if they were all written
down... I suppose that all the books
in the world couldn't contain them, but these are written.
that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, and that believing
you have life through his name. The scriptures are written that
prove that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and that believing
you may have life through his name. Now look what he said here
in verse 13, talking about the light is the light of his revealed
word. These things have I written unto you. What do you write unto
us, John, that believe on the name of the Son of God? I wrote
these things to you that believe on the name of the Son of God,
that you may know, not wonder about it, not ponder about
it, not hope about it, but that you may know that you have eternal
life, that you may believe. You have believed, that you may
believe on the name of the Son of God. This is how we have fellowship
with God. This is how we walk by God, by
walking in the light of His revealed Word. There's no way in the world
a man can walk with God apart from His Word. It can't be done.
It can't be done. You walk with God, we walk with
God in the light of His Word, in the light of His glory, in
the light of His grace, in the light of His mercy. And if we
don't walk in the light of His blessed Word, we don't walk at
all. You know when He talks about
walk in the light as He is in the light? That means that the
things that God makes known about himself, that's the things we
believe. That's the way we want to walk.
That's the way we want to believe. That's the direction we want
to go in. And we want to walk with God in the same circles
that God walks in. And this is sad. This is really
sad. But this is the way most folks are. You know how many
people now have canceled their Sunday night services? because
of a lack of indifference or preachers not willing to study
enough to get two messages together on the Lord's day. Now, it would be awful to me to get up on Sunday and just
come and have a service at 10 to 11 or 10, 9 to 12 or whatever. That's not the way you walk with
God two or three hours a day on Sunday. I mean, this is you
walking with God and fellowship in God and communion with God.
Every single day. Not just on Sunday morning. And
then you go to the house and you forget about it until the
next Sunday. That's not the way it's done. You either walk with
Him every day or you don't walk with Him at all. And I tell you,
let's look at this thing again. And I tell you what, in a minute
I'll say this. I'm going to get where I'm going
in a minute. Just believe me, I will. The Bible. Now listen, this blessed
Word of God. Walking in the light is in the
light. Walking with God. fellowshiping with God, communion
with God. Now, how in the world can I walk
with God and you walk with God? The Scriptures, the Bible, God's
blessed Word offers no hope of walking with God unless we're
reconciled to God by His Son. You can't walk with, how can
two walk together except they be agreed? And you cannot walk
with God until you're reconciled to God by His Son. And that's
what he says here in verse 7. Now watch this. But if we walk
in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship one
with another. Now listen to this. And the blood
of Jesus Christ, His Son, cleanses us from all sin. That's the first step, and that's
the way you walk with God. Look at this blessing. You know,
the Scriptures has much to say about the blood of Christ. To
be without Christ is to be without God, but to be in Christ, redeemed
by His blood, walking in the light as Christ is, is to be
walking with God, in whom we have redemption through His blood,
even the forgiveness of sins. Now look at this blessing. And
this is how we walk with God. We walk in the light. as He is
in the light. The blood of Jesus Christ, His
Son, cleanses us from all sin. How can I walk with God? It's
fine to talk about Enoch walking with God, Noah walking with God,
Abraham walking with God, but you and me walking with God?
How can it be? I'm a son of Adam. Well, they
were too. My father was a fallen son of
Adam, so was these fellows. But we walk with God the same
way they did, cleansed by the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. Washed in His blood, sanctified
by His blood. Look over in 1 Corinthians 1.30
with me. I ain't quoted this verse in
forever. And I tell you, let's just look
at it together. 1 Corinthians 1.30. You know,
I can walk with God, and you can walk with God, being reconciled
to God by the death of His blessed son. That's how you walk with
God. It's not some pie-in-the-sky, pies thing. You know, being a
saintly person, being a better liver than somebody else, being
more dedicated to somebody else, more committed to somebody else,
more devoted to somebody else. It just means, beloved, that
Christ's blood cleanses us from all sin. And when we're reconciled
to God, you're in the light of God and you can walk with God.
We have fellowship with God because of Christ. His blood cleanses
us from all sin. Verse 30. But of Him are ye in
Christ Jesus. Of who? Of God. And then God
made Christ unto us wisdom to know God, to know Christ, to
know the Scripture, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption. And why is it that way? That
according as it is written, he that glorieth, let him glory
in the Lord alone. Now, people, beloved, they say,
I'm saved, but I ain't no saint. What they're saying by that is,
I'm justified. I'm justified, but I don't care
about anything else about how I live in this world. You can't
be justified without being sanctified. Justification and sanctification
go together. Now, what I mean by that, if
you say, Christ's blood is between me and I'm justified and I have
the righteousness of God, if you have the righteousness of
God, imputed to you, and charged in your account, and God counts
you righteous, then He also changes your nature and sets you apart
from the world, sets you apart from the gospel, sets you apart
from this world, sets you apart from your own nature, and beloved,
you're a different person, and you've not only been justified,
but you've also been sanctified, made holy, and declared to be
holy, and let me tell you this, I've told you this many times,
but holiness is a state of being. You cannot
never be more holy at one time than you can another. Our Lord
said, I'll sanctify them through thy truth, thy word is truth.
Now, sanctification has to do with God setting us apart. setting
us apart to Himself. Now, here I am. I'm in the light.
I'm going to set you apart to walk in this light that I'm in.
I'm going to set you apart so that you can believe My Word
and understand My Word and search My Word. I'm going to set you
apart, and I'm going to wash you in the blood of My blessed
Son, and you're going to love Me and walk with Me and fellowship
with Me and commune with Me and desire Me above everything else
in this world. That's what I'm going to do for
you. Now, I can prove that from the Scriptures. Want me to do
it? Look over at 1 Corinthians 6 with me. This is what I'm talking about. You
know, people want to believe they have a profession of religion
that guarantees them heaven, but has nothing to do with what
their character is or their conduct. But look what he said here in
1 Corinthians 6 and verse 11. Talked about being thieves and
drunkards, revilers, extortioners, and not inheriting the kings
of God. And he says, such were some of
you. That's what we were. There was time that that's the
way we'd be if us were that way. But now watch what it says. But
you are washed. Washed for what? The blood of
Christ cleanses us from all sin. Washed in the blood. And you're
sanctified. But you're justified in the name
of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. You're
washed in the blood, justified by the righteousness of Christ,
and sanctified by the Spirit of God. All by the Lord Jesus
Christ. And that's how we walk with God.
That's how we walk with Him. We've been washed, justified,
and sanctified. Now back over here in our text,
I want you to see this now. Talking about walking with God.
People make this Oh, you see these folks getting on television,
and these evangelists, and oh my, talking about walking with
God, and oh, how dedicated they are, and how committed they are,
and how deep they are, and oh my, you know, you'd think that
them and God was on first-name basis. They had to get all this
starry-eyed business and go on and on, but walking with God,
is something that every child of God can do and does do. Now, do you call on God? Do you
fellowship with God? Do you commune with God? Now,
let me tell you three things about sin in these verses. First
of all, down in verse eight, there's the fact of sin. Talking
about the blood of Christ. Walking with God, the blood of
Christ cleanses us from sin. All sin. And watch what he says.
He says three things about sin. Verse 8, the fact of it. If we
say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves of truth, not innocence. Now, sin's a fact. If we say
we don't have it, we're a fool, we're deceiving ourselves, and
there ain't no truth in us, no way, shape, form, or fashion.
And then there's not only the fact of sin, but there's the
guilt of sin. He says if we confess our sins, Now, the only person
who's going to confess their sins is people who know they
got their sins and feel the guilt of their sins. If we confess
our sins, who are we going to confess them to? I'm not going
to confess them to you. There ain't nothing you can do
about it. Do you know anybody can do anything
about your sin that's in this flesh? Don't care how many robes
he's got, how many hats he wears. If we confess our sins, he is
faithful and just to cleanse us from our sins. And then look
what else, beloved, the punishment of sins. If we say we have not
sinned, we make him a liar and he's worse not in us. And beloved,
sin must be punished. So then if I have the fact of
sin, I have the guilt of sin, and we've all sinned and come
short of the glory of God. And there's punishment for sin,
so how then can I be free from my sin? The only way I can be
free from it is for someone else to take my sin, take my guilt,
take my punishment. That's what Christ did. Ain't
that what it says? The blood of Jesus Christ cleanses
us from all sin? Huh? Somebody's got to take my
sin. Somebody's got to take the fact
of my sin. It's a fact I'm a sinner. It's
a fact you're a sinner. Somebody's got to take that fact.
That's fact of fact. There's no getting around it. And then the guilt of it. Who's
going to take the guilt of it? And then who's going to take
the punishment of it? Well, our Lord Jesus Christ did every bit
of that. Huh? And that's how you and I
walk with God. The blood cleanses us from all
sin. All sin. Now, oh, that's what
a blessing that is. Now, look what else it says about
it. Look at the extent of this blessing. In verse 7, the last
part, the blood of Jesus Christ, His Son, cleanses us from all
sin. When it says cleanses us, that
means it's cleaning all the time. You could have said it had cleaned
us from all sin. But it cleanses us, continually
cleaning us. It's going on all the time. That's
what that means. It has cleansed us. It does cleanse
us, and it shall cleanse us from all sin. Now, this shows us how
complete, how perfect our redemption is in the Lord Jesus Christ.
If He just cleansed some of our sins, we'd have no hope, have
no hope at all. If He only cleansed our past
sins, we'd still have no hope. But it's said here, He cleansed
us from all sin and cleanses us from all sin. When we talk
about Hebrews 10, we have a new and living way. Into the holiest of all by the
blood of Jesus Christ. What that means there is that
He's a lamb freshly slain as far as God's concerned in His
sight. That blood's always there answering for us. Christ always
there answering for faith. Now, I tell you, beloved, He
cleansed us from all our sins. All of it. Look in Psalm 103
with me. I know a lot of you, you know, you never even thought
about walking with God. You never, it never entered your
mind to do that. You just knew you trusted Him.
You knew you knew Him. Knew you had some fellowship
with Him, knew you needed Him. Knew you knew Him. And you'd talk with Him. Sometimes
you'd talk with Him, just as you'd talk with a friend, talk
intimately with Him. Let your heart be unburdened
to Him. Let your mind be unburdened to Him. Talk to Him about things
that you wouldn't talk about. You just talk to Him. And just
like you're talking with somebody you're intimate with and had
fellowship with. intimacy with, and that's what
he's talking about when you're walking with God. You're walking
with someone who knows you, who understands you, that sees you
as you are, and takes you as you are, and takes all that there
is about you, and every single day of 24 hours a day, He is
there, and you know that, and you have great comfort with that,
and you walk with Him in light of that. Psalm 103 and verse
3. Oh, bless the Lord, oh my soul,
and forget not all thy benefits. Now listen to this, talking about
the blood cleanses us of all of our sin, not just our past,
not just some of them, who forgive us all thine iniquities. How many all's you reckon we
got? But how many they are, he forgave
them all. And that's what he says, the
blood of Christ cleanses us all away. And I'll tell you what,
how in the world then He cleansed us from all of our sin. And that's
how we walk with God. Because we have no sin. We're
pure in His sight. We're whole in His sight. We're
righteous in His sight. We're sanctified in His sight.
That's what you read tonight in the 71st Psalm. I will declare
thy righteousness and thine alone. Now you can't declare God's righteousness
unless you're in the light. You can't walk in that righteousness
unless you're in the light. You can't walk in God unless
you have that righteousness. And then look at the, not only
the extent it cleanses us, it's cleaning all the time. Look what
else it says. Oh, the call to, oh, the blessing.
The blood of Christ cleanses us from all sin. Then it cleanses
us, going on all the time. That's how we walk with God.
We don't have any sin. Then look what else it says, who it is,
the cause of this blessing. The blood of Jesus Christ, his
son. That's the cause of this blessing.
That's the cause of this fellowship. That's the cause of this communion.
That's the cause of this walking with God. Do you know the scriptures
tell us very clearly, look in Hebrews, back over to your left,
show you a couple of things in Hebrews about the blood of Christ.
That's why it says, "...in whom we have redemption through his
blood, even the forgiveness of sins." We were far off, but now, by
the blood of Christ, we're made nigh. But look what he said here
in Hebrews 9.12. I'm talking about Christ going
into the holy place for us. It says the high priest went
behind the veil once a year in the Day of Atonement with the
blood of the offering, the blood of the sacrifice, and put it
on the mercy seat. Look what it says here, neither
by the blood of goats and calves. Christ didn't enter into the
presence of God by the blood of goats and calves, but by His
own blood. He entered once into the holy
place. They went in there and got redemption
from one year to the next. Sins were just put away from
one year to the next, to the next day of atonement, a year
later. And every time they brought a
sacrifice, it just reminded them that they were sinners. But when
Christ went into glory itself and took His blood in there,
When he come back out of there, he didn't come out for redemption
for one year. Didn't come out for redemption
for just a few days. Didn't come out for redemption.
Beloved, he come out of there with eternal redemption. Redemption
that'll last as long as he himself did. And oh, listen to this,
if the blood of bulls and goats And the ashes of a heifer sprinkling
put not only unclean, sanctifies to the purifying of the flesh,
and makes people stand holy in God's sight by the purifying
of the flesh. How much more shall the blood
of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit
offered Himself to God without spot and without blemish." Let
me tell you something. Let's look at the blood of Christ
in three ways. We as believers need to consider the blood of
Christ in three ways. First of all, shed. We must consider
it shed. I mean, it was shed 2,000 years
ago on Calvary. When you read Isaiah 53, you
read all that, it's in the past tense. He was wounded. He was smitten. He was afflicted. Everything's in the past tense.
But yet, our Lord Jesus Christ actually never shed his blood
2,000 years ago on Calvary's tree. But God considered that
blood shed for the foundation of the world, so we consider
it shed. The blood of Christ cleanses us from all sin. It
was poured out. And then not only was it poured
out, but it's been depleted for us. Somebody's got to plead that
blood for us. And our Lord Jesus Christ went
into the very presence of God, and there presented His blood
on the mercy seat, paid the full price of our redemption, the
full ransom for sinners. And, beloved, when He did that,
that blood even now bleeds for us in the presence of God. And
then consider the blood sprinkled. It said up there in Hebrews 12,
24, that almost all things under the law were sprinkled with blood.
And beloved, the Holy Spirit, and we read it there just a minute
ago, I never finished that verse, but it says there that He offered
himself without spot or blemish to God to perch your conscience
for dead works to serve the living God. Peter says that to the obedience
of the sprinkling of blood. When the blood of Christ is sprinkled
on us, that means, beloved, we're identified with the death of
Christ. The blood of Christ is applied to us. And that's why
God said, when I see the blood, I'll pass over you. The blood's
been applied. And how in the world That's how
we have fellowship with God. That's how we commune with God.
How does the blood of Christ have this kind of power? How
does it do it? Where did it get this kind of
power? Well, first of all, it comes from the will and purpose
of God. It pleased the Father that in Christ should all fullness
dwell. The fullness of the God had dwelt
in Him. It pleased God that in Him He
should have all preeminence. And I'll tell you another reason
why it has this great power to cleanse us from all sin, to cause
us to have this fellowship and communion with God, because of
the dignity and deity of His person. You see, the reason His
blood can cleanse so many of so much sin is because of who
He is. It says there, Jesus Christ is
Son. If the person satisfied, be an
infinite person, then his satisfaction is an infinite satisfaction.
Is that not right? You know why hell is eternal? It's because sinners can never
satisfy infinite justice. And sin against God, the debt
of sin, is infinite. Sin, the debt of sin, can you
think that you can pay for one sin? And people, when they start
trying to pay for it, they just add to the debt that much more.
You think the government, the debt that our government is going
to crush us one of these days, I tell you, you start trying
to pay for any of your sins, and all you do, every time you
try to pay for one, you just add more and more to it. And
after a while, you have this great huge debt, and you couldn't
pay the first one. And that's why hell will always
be an eternal hell, because flesh and man can never satisfy justice,
so hell must be eternal, because God is eternal, and sin is against
an eternal, infinite God, and death is infinite. Oh, my. But Christ, being infinite,
can satisfy and pay off an infinite debt.
Because there's no limit to His love, no limit to His holiness,
no limit to His power, no limit to His grace, no limit to the
efficacy of our Lord Jesus Christ's precious blood. And then look
what it says here. Who in the world is this blessing
for? Who is this blessing for? In
verse 7. If we walk in the light, the
light of His revealed Word, His mercy, His grace, walk in His
dear Son, walk in His gospel, as He's in that light, we're
in special company. What do you mean special company?
We have fellowship with God, communion with God. And the blood
of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin. Cleanses us from all
sin. It doesn't say that if you walk
in darkness, and then you come to Christ, He'll cleanse you
from your sin. Then you can walk with God. You've
got to be brought to the light. And it's the blood of Jesus Christ
that cleanses us. Let me close over here in John
13. Look at this one. This is what
I'm talking about. Don't try to make yourself clean. Don't try to cleanse yourself
by good works, churchgoing, Bible reading, prayer, any of those
things, because it won't work. It will not work. Verse 6, our Lord Jesus Christ
here, going to wash the disciples'
feet. Then cometh he to Simon Peter. And Peter saith unto him,
Lord, dost thou wash my feet? You going to wash my feet? What
he's actually saying is, is that I'm not dirty. I'm not dirty. Our Lord answered and said unto
him, What I do, thou knowest not now, but thou shalt know
hereafter. Peter said unto him, God shall never wash my feet. What would make Peter say such
a thing? The reason most folks say, you
know, I don't need Christ, I don't need the blessing. He felt so
good about himself. He had a false humility here. I don't need you to wash my feet.
I don't need, you know, you're too holy and I'm too sinful.
I don't know what, but anyway, he says, you're never going to
wash my feet. There's going to be one or two reasons. Either
he thought he was, that Christ was too holy and that he shouldn't
wash his feet or else his feet wasn't dirty, one or the other. And then look what our Lord said
here. If I don't wash you, Simon Peter, you'll have no part with
me. And if the blood of Jesus Christ, his son, cleanses us
from all, if he don't cleanse us from all sin, you'll never
walk with God. Can't have fellowship with God.
Can't have communion with God. And that's what he's saying.
Simon Peter saith unto him, I certainly want to have a part with you.
I want to walk with you. I want to have fellowship with
you. I want to walk in the light, and if that's the light I've
got to walk in, start washing, and don't just start at the feet.
Get my hands, my head, get me all over." That's what happened. He went from that darkness to
light just in the snap of a finger. Oh, and our Lord said unto him,
he that is washed, neither must save the washer's feet. But he
says, he said, he's clean everywhere. He says, you know, when I cleanse
you, you're clean everywhere. You're clean everywhere. And
beloved, that's how you walk with God. You think about that. You rejoice in that. You find
comfort in that. You don't have to be some kind
of a special, strong, spiritual being, some great Christian,
some devoted person, some consecrated person. I mean, look at Eni.
300 years. He walked with God 300 years,
raised a family and worked. Had to work outside, sleep in
an old... I don't know what kind of houses
they had in those days. And then Noah, after he'd come
out of that flood, here he walked with God. He had
a family to raise. He had work to do. He had a living
to make. He had, oh, he had his hand,
and people say, oh, man, we have our handful. And then people
talk about doing these, what do they call them, multitasking. Those fellas wasn't worried about
multitasking. They were. They got up every
day and they went about their lives doing what they did. And
they got up in the morning with God on their mind. With God on
their mind. And God on their mind went to
bed with God on their mind. They needed God. They wanted
God. They desired God. And that's how they walked with
God. Because they walked in the light as God gave it to them. And that's why, beloved, if the
Scripture says, but man, God's not in all of his thoughts, he's
not walking with God. But there's not a soul in this
building, and I'm telling you this just as well as I know it
myself, and I'll quit, that if you know Christ, and you're walking
in the light of his revealed Word, walking in the Gospel,
walking in Christ and Christ in you, you're walking with God. Your fellowship is with God.
You're communion with God. And with Jesus Christ, God's
blessed Son. When you get up in the morning
and have your coffee, you're walking with God.