If you would, let's open our
Bibles again to Genesis chapter 3. I titled the message this morning,
Where Are You? I told you a few weeks ago I
wanted to start a series of messages on questions that are asked in
the Bible. And this morning I want to look
at this question that God asked Adam after Adam fell. In Genesis
3 verse 9, And the Lord God called unto Adam and said unto him,
where art thou? Now these are the very first
words God ever spoke to a sinner. Where are you? I want to take
this question that the Lord asked Adam, and I want it to apply
to us this morning. Where are you? Where am I? Now you know the Lord didn't
ask this question, Adam, where are you? Because he needed information.
The Lord already knew what Adam had done. He knew where Adam
was trying to hide. You know, the Lord knew what
Adam would do before Adam did, didn't he? The Lord knew what
Adam would do from before the foundation of the world. And
the same thing's true of you and me. The Lord knew what we
would do before we ever did it. The Lord knew what we would be
before we ever became fallen in sin like we are. Wherever
we're at, whatever we're doing, the Lord knows. The Lord knows,
nothing's hid from you. So the Lord wasn't asking this
question to find out Adam's location. He was asking this question for
Adam's benefit, for our benefit. He was asking this question to
force a confession from Adam so that Adam would see where
he is now. The Lord asked this question
for our sake so that we could see where are we and why are
we where we are? Why are we the way that we are?
So where was Adam? Adam was fallen into sin, wasn't
he? God didn't create Adam in sin. He created Adam perfect and upright. Adam was innocent. He had a righteousness
and innocence, but he could lose it. We never had an innocence
that we could lose. We were made guilty in Adam.
Adam had an innocence, but he could lose it by his disobedience.
And things couldn't have been better for Adam, could they?
God created Adam innocent, upright, put him in a perfect garden.
He even made a helpmate for Adam, a wife to be with him. Adam had
everything a body could ever want in his perfect garden with
plenty of good food to eat, with his wife, his helpmate. Everything
was perfect for Adam. He was in a perfect environment.
And there was just one rule. Adam, don't eat the fruit of
the tree in the midst of the garden, the tree of the knowledge
of good and evil. Don't eat that fruit. The Lord told Adam, now
the day that you eat thereof, thou shalt surely die. Dying,
thou shalt die. That's the literal translation
of what God said. Adam, the day you eat that fruit,
you'll immediately die spiritually and you'll begin dying physically.
Now you think about that. Just one rule, just one law. The law of God now takes up pages
and pages and pages and pages of scripture, doesn't it? Adam
just had one, just one. Don't eat the fruit of that tree.
But you know, as long as that tree, the tree of the knowledge
of good and evil stood, it stood as a symbol of God's authority
over Adam. Every time Adam walked past that
tree, he was reminded of God's authority over him, wasn't he?
It stood as a symbol of God's authority. And when Adam took
that fruit and ate it, He did it with his eyes wide open. He
was not deceived. Eve was deceived. Adam was not
deceived. He ate that fruit, knowing exactly
what he was doing. He took that fruit because he
wanted to be God. Adam wanted to be the one to
make the rules. He wanted to get rid of this symbol of God's
authority over him. He wanted to be an equal with
God. He took that fruit and ate it on purpose, knowing exactly
what he was doing. And everything that happened
to Adam after that is all a result of Adam's sin. Every bit of it. Adam is where he is because of
sin. You and I are where we are because
of a nature of sin. We're all born with Adam's sinful
nature. So Lord ask Adam, where are you?
I see five places where Adam is because of his sin. And by
nature, the way you and I are born into this world, we're in
these same five places. I don't want us to think about
we're just talking about Adam here. We're talking about ourselves.
So number one, we're in the same place Adam is. Where's Adam?
Adam is spiritually dead. Just exactly like God told him
what happened. The day you eat thereof, you shall surely die.
Adam died. I mean, instantly he died. How
do I know that? How do I know Adam is now spiritually
dead? When God created Adam, Adam was brilliant. I mean, he's
not this ignorant caveman that, you know, just accidentally discovering
fire in the wheel. He's not some ignorant caveman.
Adam was brilliant. God made all the animals, and
then he made Adam, and he brought all the animals to Adam, and
Adam named them, all of them. Adam named them all. And Adam
had dominion over everything in God's creation. He had dominion
over all the animals, all the fish, all the birds, all the
plants. He had dominion over everything.
Adam in the garden had to be the most brilliant man to ever
live, other than, of course, our Lord. He had to be the most
brilliant man to ever live, because sin hadn't destroyed his mind
yet. I mean, you think of this brilliant man. Now where is he? He's not smart at all, is he? I would say Adam is just stupid. My great niece has told me that's
a bad word. Our great niece was with us when
she went and told her mommy, Uncle Frank said the S word.
I said, I did not. And she said, yes, you said they're
stupid. So maybe that's a politically incorrect thing to say. Adam's
not smart at all. Whatever term you want to put
to it, Adam is not smart at all. His understanding has become
darkened. Look at Ephesians chapter four
and the same thing's true. You and me, Ephesians chapter
four, first 17. This I say, therefore, and testify
in the Lord that you henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk
in the vanity of their mind, having the understanding darkened,
being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance
that's in them because of the blindness of their heart. Our
understanding is darkened, isn't it? So we cannot understand.
Our understanding is darkened because our heart is dead. That's
Adam here, isn't it? His understanding is darkened.
Adam's mind just doesn't work right anymore. I mean, you think
about what Adam's doing. He thinks he can win a game of
hide and seek with God. He thinks he can hide in the
bush and God won't see him. His mind's dead. And on top of that,
here's another reason I know Adam's mind is not working right.
Rather than begging for mercy, and now would be a mighty good
time to beg God for mercy, wouldn't it? Rather than beg for mercy,
instead, Adam tries to blame his sin on God. Look at verse
12 back in our text. And the man said, the woman whom
thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree and I did
eat. You know what he's saying? Lord,
I wouldn't have sinned if you hadn't gave me this woman. And
his mind's not working right. He's trying to blame his sin
on a holy God. It just doesn't make sense, does
it? But that's where Adam is. He's spiritually dead. And when
you are and I are born into this world, we're born in the exact
same spot, dead in sin. Our understanding is darkened,
so we don't know who God is. We don't know how sinful we are.
Until God ever teaches us any better, we think we're pretty
good. We think we're pretty good because we're comparing ourselves
with each other instead of with God. We don't know the gospel. We certainly don't love the gospel.
And we're just like our father Adam, we refuse to beg for mercy. We keep trying to do better and
do better and do better, hoping that'll be good enough for God.
We think if we just do our best, you know, even though it's not
perfect, we'll admit we're not perfect, but, you know, I'm pretty
good and God will just accept me if I do the best that I can
and, you know, if I'm sincere. Even though God's word says it
has to be perfect to be accepted, we still think, you know, what
we want to think. We still think God will accept
me just, you know, If I do as well as I can, we think that
because our mind is darkened. Our understanding is darkened.
And we're like our Father Adam in this way, too. We try to blame
our sin on God. That's right. How often have
you heard somebody say that they got just a little bit of understanding
of something to be dangerous. They say, well, God's sovereign.
He could have stopped me if He wanted to. That's blaming our
sin on God, isn't it? Just like our Father Adam. And
I tell you, man's dead nature will never change. Never. Until God puts an end to this
creation, man's dead nature will never change. It'll always be
dead. We read in Revelation 6, verse
16, that when the Lord returns, he returns to judge the earth.
In righteousness, he returns to gather his people to himself,
cast the unbelievers into hell. The unbelievers will say to the
rocks and mountains, fall on us. and hide us from the face
of him that sitteth on the throne. They're still gonna be trying
to hide from God, just like our father, Adam, and it won't work
for them in the end any better than it did for Adam in the beginning,
will it? There's no escaping judgment for our sin. God's word
plainly tells us who and what we are. He plainly, in his word,
tells us who the savior of sinners is. But we're dead, so he won't
go to us. And we continue on in our self-righteousness,
just thinking everything will be okay, even though God's word
says it won't be. That's where Adam is, he's dead.
Second, where's Adam? Adam is ashamed because he's
naked. Verse 10, he says, I heard thy
voice in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked and
I hid myself. As soon as Adam ate that fruit,
God told him not to eat, Adam and Eve both knew they were naked.
And nothing happened when Eve ate the fruit, did it? No, because
she was in her head, Adam, just like you and I were. But when
Adam ate the fruit, the whole race, his whole race, everybody
that would ever come from him was plunged into sin and death. Adam ate that fruit, he lost
his innocence, and he knew he was naked, and he was ashamed.
Now what changed? Adam and Eve hadn't worn clothes
since God created them. I don't know how long it was,
but for however long it's been since God created them, they
never wore clothes and never were ashamed before. Now they're
ashamed. Just the two of them. Just Adam
and Eve. Their husband and wife, they're
ashamed of their nakedness. You know why? Because they're
spiritually naked. They're ashamed of their physical
nakedness because they're spiritually naked. They're not innocent anymore. And they're ashamed. They're
ashamed to appear before God naked, without an innocence,
without a covering. And they tried to cover themselves.
They sewed fig leaves together to try to make themselves aprons
out of fig leaves, and it didn't work. It didn't take away their
shame, did it? It might have covered their body,
but it didn't take away their shame. You know how I know they're
still ashamed? Their fig leaf apron didn't work?
They're hiding in the bushes. The fig leaf aprons weren't enough
to cover their nakedness, to take away their shame. A scripture
tells us those fig leaves are pictures. They're pictures of
our works of righteousness that we do, our good works that we
do to try to cover ourselves, to try to cover our nakedness
and make us appear righteous before God. And our works of
righteousness, our good deeds, all of our attempts at keeping
God's law will not cover our nakedness, will not take away
our shame any better than Adam and Eve's fig leaf aprons did.
It won't take away our shame and our nakedness. If we appear
before God in our own works, our own works of righteousness
will be damned because God cannot accept that filthy rag of righteousness
that is polluted with sin. That's where Adam is. He's ashamed
because he's naked. Thirdly, where's Adam? Adam is
full of fear. Adam's hiding because he's afraid
of God. He said, God, I was afraid of you. Now what changed? See, Adam had to be the one to
change, didn't he? God hadn't changed. Adam had
never been afraid of God before. He walked with God in the cool
of the evening before. You think of Adam walking and
talking with God. My soul. Without fear. They talked as friends. He was
not afraid. Now Adam's afraid. You know why? Sin makes us afraid. Sin fills
us with fear. And we should be. We should be.
God's angry because of sin. God's angry with the wicked every
day because God's holy. He can't even look on sin. And
aren't we such fearful creatures? I mean, nothing's changed from
Adam to today, has it? Roughly 6,000 years, nothing's
changed. We're such fearful creatures,
just afraid of everything. And the biggest thing we're all
afraid of By nature, everybody's afraid of dying. We do everything
we can do to make ourselves live longer. Because we're afraid. We're afraid. We're afraid of
meeting God in judgment because of our sin. And I tell you what,
we got all that fear. Here's why we're where we're
at, so full of fear. We got it from our father, Adam.
All right, here's the fourth thing. Where's Adam? Adam is
guilty. Now Adam can't deny his guilt,
can he? Can't deny his guilt. So like I read earlier, he tried
to blame his guilt on God. And then he tries to blame it
on Eve. Somebody's got to be at fault here besides me. That's
the way he's saying it. Sound like anybody else you know?
We're just like him, aren't we? Just like our father. Adam suddenly
knew that awful feeling of a guilty conscience. His conscience was
bothering him because he's guilty. And doesn't the guilt of sin,
doesn't that make us miserable? Guilty. And we know it, just
that guilty conscience makes us full of fear. I tell you,
there's good reason. There's good reason for the guilty
to fear. God said, I will by no means clear the guilty. You and I are so guilty. Adam
broke every rule God gave him, didn't he? Every law. You and
I are so guilty, we're guilty of breaking every commandment
of God. God gave the law to Moses, and like I said earlier, God's
law fills pages and pages and pages of scripture, doesn't it?
Not one of them have we kept, not one. We're so guilty, we're
guilty of breaking every commandment. Can you imagine us, in our nature,
appearing before God's throne of justice, just like they bring
a criminal Before the judge and a judge says what's the charges
they say well, he's guilty of breaking and entering He's guilty
of resisting arrest, you know, okay. Well, is there two crimes?
Oh The reading of the big what we're charged of would go on
forever wouldn't guilty of breaking every law of God Now am I taking
that too far? This is what James said James
2 verse 10 Whosoever shall keep the whole law Yet offended one
point guilty of all. We're guilty of breaking all
of the law of God. If we kept all the law of God
and had one sinful thought, we're guilty of it all. God won't accept
the best we can do, will he? No, so we have a guilty conscience.
The best we can do makes us guilty. Gives us a guilty conscience,
torturing us just like it did Adam. Then here's the fifth thing.
Where's Adam? Adam is hateful. Now Adam acts hateful toward
Eve. Scripture doesn't really say,
but I don't think I'm stretching things too much to say Adam had
to be awestruck the first time he saw Eve. Wouldn't you reckon?
God put him to sleep, took out his rib, and almighty God fashioned
with his fingers a woman. She beautiful. I mean, she had
to be stunning. And Adam had been lonely. Remember,
he saw the animals, how they all had male and female. He didn't. Oh, he had to be so
happy. He wasn't lonely anymore. He
had Eve and his help meat, his bone of his bone and flesh of
his flesh. Oh, how he had to love her. How he had to be so
thankful to have her. He wasn't alone anymore. And
just as soon as he ate that fruit, how quickly was Adam willing
to throw his wife under the bus, trying to save his own skin. And notice this. He doesn't even
say, Lord, Eve made me do it. He said that woman that you made,
she made me do it. Hateful, hateful. Oh, Adam hates
his wife and he hates God. He has to hate God. He's blaming
God for sin. He's refusing to beg for mercy.
Now, doesn't that description of Adam Fit us to a T. All five
of those places. That fits us to a T. We're exactly
like our Father Adam. You know, I can tell you and
every gospel preacher you know can tell you, until we're all
blue in the face, come to Christ. Trust Christ. Come to Him, beg
Him for forgiveness. Come to Him, beg Him for mercy.
And you won't do it. None of us will do it. Until
the Spirit draws us to Christ, will it? And I can tell you the
reason sinners don't come to Christ begging for mercy. Want
me to tell you? Because we're just like our father,
Adam, and we hate God. That's why. We hate God. We hate
God's Christ. We hate God's way of salvation
that's by faith alone without any of our works. We hate it.
Now, people are very religious. I mean, I'll grant you, men don't
hate the God, the idol that they've made up out of their own mind,
but they hate the God of the Bible. I know that sounds harsh,
but that's true. It's true. You don't run away
from somebody you love. You run to them. You run away
from somebody you hate. Now that is the true, but sad
account of our nature. That's where we are by nature. That's what we are by nature.
That's why we are the way that we are, because of Adam's sin. Now I want to take this question
and apply it to you. You take it and apply it to you,
I'll take it and apply it to me. Where are you? God says, where are you? Well,
by nature, we have to say we're right next to Adam, don't we?
I don't think anybody here could deny that. We're right next to
Adam. Well, here's the good news. The
Lord God has provided a remedy for Adam's seed. The Lord Jesus
Christ, he promised, look at verse 15. I'll put enmity between
thee and the woman, between thy seed and her seed, the seed of
woman. It shall bruise thy head and
thou shalt bruise his heel. God promised the remedy for Adam's
sin, didn't he? The Lord Jesus Christ, the seed
of woman, who would come as a seed of woman, not as a seed of man,
to partake in Adam's sin, to have Adam's sinful nature. He's
the seed of woman, the son of God. And He's coming, the Lord
Jesus Christ is coming. He's coming to undo everything
Adam did to his people. See, in Christ, God's people
are in five completely different places. God's translated us from
there and put us somewhere else, put us in Christ. So by nature,
number one, we're all spiritually dead, just like Adam, aren't
we? But in Christ, we're made alive. Look at John chapter 11. John chapter 11. Paul said in 1 Corinthians 15
verse 22, for as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall
all be made alive. Everyone who's in Christ, they
have eternal life. They're not dead. They have eternal
life. How can I have eternal life?
How do those who are in Christ, how do they have eternal life?
Our Lord tells us in John chapter 11, it's by faith, by faith in
Christ. John 11 verse 25. This is when our Lord is talking
to Martha at the tomb of her brother Lazarus. And Jesus said
unto her, I am the resurrection and the life. He that believeth,
faith, he that believeth in me, though he were dead, though he
were dead in Adam, yet shall he live. And whosoever liveth
and believeth in me shall never die. Do you believe that? Anyone
who believes in the Lord Jesus Christ shall never die, shall
never die the second death. They can never be condemned.
We have life simply by believing on Christ. Now, what is it to
believe on Christ? I mean, I bet if you had Nickelberry
time, you heard some preacher say, believe on Christ, you talk
about believing on Christ, you could retire, couldn't you? But
what is it? What is it to believe on Christ?
Well, believing on Christ is to trust Him. To trust Him. To trust that He is all it takes
to save my sinful soul. It's trusting Christ. It's trusting
His obedience. His obedience to law makes me
righteous. His obedience is my obedience. It's trusting His blood. that
He shed as a sacrifice for sin to put away my sin. I don't have
to do anything to help put away my sin. The blood of Christ did
it. I trust Him. I trust that He's enough. That's
believing Christ. And if I trust that Christ is
enough, you know what? I don't feel compelled to add
any of my works to it. Oh, I'll work. I'll work. I'll work to help you. But not in order to put away
my sin. Not in order to make God more happy with me. but out
of love and thanksgiving. But I don't feel any need to
add something to Christ. I trust He's enough to save me. That's believing in Christ. Now,
you're tired of being dead and Adam? Do you need spiritual life? Are you dead and know it? Then
come to Christ. Life's in Him. Ask Him to give
you the faith to believe. All right, number two, by nature,
we're ashamed, aren't we? We're shamed because we're naked.
But in Christ, we're clothed. Clothed with the very righteousness
of Christ. Back in our text, in verse 21,
the Lord made them coats of skin for both Adam and Eve. Well,
that's a picture of Christ's righteousness. I bet that animal
was a lamb. May not have been, but whatever
it was, that animal had to die to give up its skin to clothe
Adam and Eve. That's a picture of Christ our
righteousness. He had to die that He might make His people
righteous. Now if you're tired of being ashamed, are you tired
of the shame of your guilt, the shame of your nakedness before
God? I'll tell you what to do. Come to Christ believing Him.
That He is all it takes to take away your guilt. I can show you
that in Romans chapter 10. If Christ took your sin away,
If your sin's gone, your guilt's gone too, isn't it? The only
reason we're guilty is because of sin. The only reason we're
ashamed is because of sin. Well, if Christ took your sin away,
there's no more guilt and no more shame. Come believing Christ. Believing he's all it takes.
Romans 10 verse 11. For the scripture said, whosoever
believeth on him shall not be ashamed. Now why won't anybody
who trusts in Christ be ashamed? Because there's nothing to be
ashamed of. There's nothing to be ashamed of. He took your sin
away. He's clothed you with his righteousness. Let me tell you just a little
something here about being clothed in the righteousness of Christ.
That's the way scripture talks about it. We talk about being
clothed in his righteousness. You're not ashamed if you're
clothed in the righteousness of Christ, because if you're
clothed in his righteousness, you're not naked, right? But when we
talk about the robe of Christ's righteousness, that doesn't mean
that we have a robe that covers our sin, and the sin's still
there. If that were true, somebody could
pull the robe off, couldn't they? And we'd still be ashamed, we'd
still be naked. Wearing the righteousness of
Christ, wearing the righteous robe of Christ's righteousness
means this. As Brother Scott Richardson used to say, it's
not pasted on righteousness. It's being made righteous through
and through so that there is no sin in us. That all there
is is righteousness. And where there's no sin, there's
no shame. Now, are you tired of being naked
before God? Well, I tell you what, come to
Christ, believe in Him, and you'll be covered in His righteousness.
Your shame will be taken away. Here's the third thing. By nature,
we're full of fear. Oh, my. Aren't we full of fear
about it? Fearful about everything. But
in Christ, we have no reason to fear. You're the thing that
fills the hearts of the sons of Adam with fear. It's the judgment,
isn't it? We know we're guilty. We know
we are. God has to find us guilty. We have to be condemned because
we have no righteousness. Look back here at page Romans
chapter eight. Verse one. There is therefore now no condemnation
to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh,
but after the spirit. See, nobody who trusts in Christ
can ever be condemned. Can't be. Can't be. Because Christ,
our substitute, was already condemned for us. He's been condemned for
our sin, and God's not going to punish two people for the
same sin. Christ has made his people not guilty. Not guilty. And I'll tell you
this, innocent people do not fear coming before the judge.
Not at all. That's why the Lord tells his
people, fear not. This is straight from the lips
of our Savior, fear not, for I'm with thee. Fear not. He's taken away every reason
for fear. Now are you tired of being afraid of everything? Tired
of being so jumpy and afraid of everything? I tell you what,
come to Christ. Come to Christ believing Him.
There's no fear in Him. Then fourthly, by nature we're
guilty, aren't we? But in Christ, we're not guilty. Innocent and righteous. Look
at 1 John chapter 1. 1 John 1, verse 8. If we say we have no sin, no
sin nature, we deceive ourselves and the truth's not in us. If
we confess our sins, he's faithful and just to forgive us our sins
and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Now, our father Adam tried to
deny his guilt, didn't he? He tried to blame it on everybody.
Somebody else got to be blamed for this, you know, but me. And what happened to Adam? He
was thrust out of the garden. But the Lord says, if we confess
our sin, if we confess our guilt, He'll forgive us. And you know
how God forgives the sin of His people? When God forgives the
sin of His people, He's right to do it. God forgives the sin
of His people because the Lord Jesus Christ was punished in
our place. All the shame, all the sin, he bore all the punishment
that the sin of his people deserves and took it away forever. So
when his blood is applied to our hearts, we have a clear conscience. You know why in Christ you have
a clear conscience? There's no sin to feel guilty about. There's
no guilt in him. Now, do you not want to be guilty
before the judge of all the earth? Are you tired of appearing guilty
before God? Well, I tell you what, come to
Christ. Come to Christ, believing Him. There's no guilt in Him. And then the fifth thing is this,
by nature, we're hateful. We're hateful. I don't know,
there's been any time in the history of man that man's hateful
nature has been more evident. Man's always been just as hateful,
but now you can let a billion people know how hateful you are,
you know, with the click of a button, can't you? But in Christ, we're
loved. And we love. Romans 5, verse
5 says that the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by
the Holy Ghost, which is given to us. Oh, we're hateful by nature,
but God the Holy Ghost comes to His people and sheds abroad
the love of God in our heart. You see, Christ came to redeem
everybody that God loves. Now, God loves His people. He
chose out of people because He loves them. God doesn't love
everybody, does He? He loves His people. And the Holy Spirit
comes to those people. Christ came to die for the people
that God loves. And the Holy Spirit comes to
those people and gives them a new nature. And now they love God. God loves them and they love
God. And I tell you this, if the love of God is shed abroad
in our hearts, we're going to be loving people. I wish that
would be perfect. I wish that would show through
better, but it'll show through. If the love of God is shed abroad
in our hearts, we're gonna be loving people. Now you wanna be not so hateful
anymore. You wanna not be afraid that God hates you. I tell you
what, come to Christ. All of the love of God is found
in the son. Come to Christ. God's love is
in him. Now, I'll give you this in closing.
I want each of us to take this message, I want each of us to
apply it to our own hearts. Where are you? Where are you? Are you in Christ or are you
in Adam? That's only two choices. You're
in Christ or you're in Adam. Now, if you're in Christ and
you trust him, you know it. And if you don't trust Christ,
you know that too. Well, if you're in Christ, I'll tell you what,
be thankful. Be thankful in worshiping. That's
God's doing, not yours, isn't it? He's gonna put you in Christ.
And if you're in Adam, you know it. You know it. Well, let me
tell you one more time to come to Christ. If you're in Adam
and you know it, you're guilty, you're ashamed, you're full of
fear, hateful, come to Christ. Come to Him begging for mercy.
Come to Him begging for forgiveness. Come and beg Him. Lord, give
me faith to trust You. Give me faith to trust You. I
can't make myself trust You, but Lord, give me faith to trust
You. And you know what you'll find? You'll find that Christ is everything
you need. Alright. I hope that will be
a blessing to you. Let's bow together. Our Father, how we
thank You. for your word. How we thank you
that in your mercy and your grace and your wisdom, you provided
a remedy for our sin. How we thank you that you sent
your son to undo for your people everything that Adam did to them.
And Father, I pray you take your word as it's been preached and
you show us your glory in it, that you'd reveal your redemptive
glory to the hearts of each one here this morning. Enable us
to leave here believing on the Lord Jesus Christ. To not be
in Adam anymore, but to be found in the Lord Jesus Christ. Not
having our own righteousness, which is of the law, but that
which is the righteousness of faith. Cause us to leave here
believing in, resting in Christ our Savior. In his precious name,
for his sake we pray, amen. All right, Sean.