Right, well as I said we're coming
back to Genesis and we're looking today predominantly
at Genesis chapter 4. I've called this, you know, this
series is The Gospel in a Burning Bush, The Gospel in the Fall,
well today it's The Gospel in a Divided Family. Nearly three
and a half thousand years ago Moses knew that the height of
human experience was to see the glory of God. That was the height
of human experience. He said, in Exodus 33, 18, he
said, show me your glory That's what I need to see. You
remember Philip said to Jesus in John 14 verse 9, he said,
show us the Father and that will suffice. Look, there's nothing,
there isn't a greater experience in life to know the truth than
to know the truth of God. And Moses said, show me your
glory, show me the glorious essence of the God who is over all. And
God revealed his grace to him. God's response to Moses was,
I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious. I will have compassion
on whom I will have compassion. Sovereign grace. The human heart,
the natural human heart, hates that. The natural human heart
says it cannot possibly mean that because it's unfair. But
the Word of God, the truth of God, says, God is gracious to
whom He will be gracious. He will have compassion on whom
He will have compassion. And He said to Moses, you can't
see my face, for no one shall see me and live, but come and
stand here. in the cleft of the rock, in the break in the rock,
and we know from the New Testament that as in other places, that
rock was Christ. The rock of ages cleft for me
is Christ because it is there, hidden, hiding in Him who is
God, manifest to His people. Hiding there in Him, we know
the truth and the glory of God. He who has seen me, said Jesus
to Philip, has seen the Father. What an amazing claim. It's God's
eternal, unchanging purpose from the beginning of time is His
grace. He chose a people, His elect, a multitude that no man
can number, in Christ before the foundation of the world.
And In the Godhead, a plan had been formulated, the covenant
of grace, whereby the sin of those people whom He loved with
an everlasting love would be taken in the person of His Son,
the God-man, and He would die and his blood would be shed,
that the justice of God might be satisfied, that God might
be just and the justifier of sinners. It has always been the
case. In 2 Timothy chapter 2 and verse
9, Paul writes to Timothy, he says this, God has saved us and
called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but
according to His own purpose and grace, which was given us
in Christ Jesus before the world began. There has never been a
moment of time when the grace of God was not the basis of the
glory of God. And the creation is just that
canvas on which this redemption, this redeeming grace of God,
is painted. You know, in Revelation 13a,
the Lamb of God is slain from the foundation of the world.
In the eternal reckoning of God, His people have always been justified
in the blood of the Lamb, from before the foundation of the
world. Of course, He had to come in time. In time, in creation,
He had to come. and redeem his people from the
curse of the law, because only in that condition as a man could
he be made a curse for us. But nevertheless, in the eternal
reckoning of God who is unchangeable, it was accomplished before the
beginning of time. Now last week, we saw, we looked at aspects
of the fall, when Adam fell, when Adam, knowing what he was
doing, sinned against God. And We pointed out that redemption
is not God's reaction to the fall. You know, here he is, he's
got an experiment going on with Adam on probation in the Garden
of Eden, and there's just one thing he mustn't do. And if only
he'd kept going, if only he'd stayed righteous and not fallen
into that sin, oh, how much better it would have been. No. Redemption
is not God's reaction to the fall, the fall is the scene-setter
for redemption. Redemption is that which qualifies
His elect, who became sinners in Adam, it's that which qualifies
them for glory in Christ alone. You see, you really need to think
about this and prayerfully consider this. The fall is the scene-setter
where God displays redemption. At the fall, God strikes back
at Satan. Satan felt so triumphant because
he'd captured God's creation, he'd captured the one made in
the image of God, Adam. Eve was deceived, Adam wasn't
deceived, but Satan captured him by the most... he He put
him in checkmate. You know the game of chess, you
know, you get to the point where you just can't move. And Adam
felt, I just can't move. I've just got to, I've just got
to go ahead with this, knowing the consequences. Adam was not
deceived, and Satan felt so triumphant, he'd been checkmate by Satan. And in the process, Satan had
captured the creation of God. But God immediately in Genesis
3, strikes back at Satan by redeeming Adam and Eve, who'd just fallen,
who'd just died spiritually, the death that God said they
would die. He said you will die, and the day you eat thereof,
you shall surely die. It was a spiritual death, coming
on to physical death of the mortal body, and then on in the offspring
of Adam and Eve, those who are outside of Christ, there's the
second death in eternity. But He redeems Adam and Eve from
that curse of the law. How? He does it in Christ, in
Christ. He shows them the type of Christ. He promises that the seed would
come, the seed of the woman, the man that would come from
the woman. Eventually, down the line, in
the middle of history, as Galatians 4 verse 4 says, when the fullness
of the time was come, God sent forth His Son made of a woman,
the seed of the woman. Why? Made of a woman, made under
the law, under His own law, to fulfil it, to accomplish it,
to establish it. under the law, to redeem, to
buy back, to pay the release price of those who are under
the law. Who's that? All of us by nature, all who
by nature, His people who are sinners by nature, to redeem
them from the curse of the law. Why? That they might receive
the adoption of sons. Only qualified people receive
the adoption of sons. The qualification is in the Son
of God, in what He has done. And God clothes them He clothes
them, we read it in verse 21 of chapter 3, he clothes them
with a type of Christ, a lamb, an animal, some animal, I presume
it was a lamb, a type of Christ. He covers their nakedness, which
speaks of their sinfulness, that they had tried to cover themselves
with fig leaves that they, with their own efforts, had sown together,
but it couldn't cover their nakedness. but the blood of the sacrifice
did, and the coat of the sacrifice did, and he clothed them with
the garments of salvation, and he taught them to look only to
Christ. He taught them to anticipate
the seed of the woman coming. He taught them to approach him
only through that which pictured the seed of the woman, who would
come and die in the place of the people that God had chosen
in him before the beginning of time. So he clothed them with
the type of Christ, the skins of the animals. He taught them
to look only to Christ for life, they having just spiritually
died. Look at verse 22, And the Lord
God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us to know good
and evil, And now, lest he put forth his hand and take also
of the tree of life and eat and live forever, therefore the Lord
God sent him forth from the garden of Eden to till the ground from
whence he was taken. Before the fall, Adam, who was
made in the image of God, it says that, God made man in his
own image, in the image of God made he him. He was as God. He was as God, in that he knew
good and evil. God is all good, and to rebel
against God is only evil. And now that Adam has rebelled
against God in his flesh as a natural man, fallen in his nature, all
he knows is evil. That's all he knows. He was as
God in knowing good and evil, but now he only knows evil. He only knows evil. The heart
of man, says Jeremiah, is sinful above all things, and desperately
wicked. Who can know it? I, the Lord, try the rains, says
God. And yet this man, who knew what
it was to have fellowship with God in sinless perfection, and
now knows the desperate situation he's in, in being separated from
the fellowship of God, he must have life. How is he going to
secure life? Well, God knows. For God created. God knows the heart. God tries
the reins. God knows it. God knows the tendency
of all flesh. He knew the tendency of Adam
in his fallen human nature. Adam would remember the tree
of life. Look back at chapter 2 and verse
9. Out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that
is pleasant to the sight and good for food, the tree of life,
also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge
of good and evil. There's that tree of life, we
see it again in Revelation 22 and verse 2, the tree of life
in the midst of the paradise of God. It's the life of God,
it's a picture of the Christ of God. It's that which we must
have, which is life. He must have life. But how to
secure it? God knows what Adam will tend
to do. Adam would remember the tree
of life, and he will say to himself, if I return and eat of the tree
of life, then I will have that eternal life. I will be restored
to fellowship with God. That's what I need. If I do this
thing, in a form of legal obedience, I will acquire life. Now Galatians
chapter 3 verse 21 says, if there had been a law given which could
have given life, then righteousness would have been by the law. We
would have been made the righteousness of God by going back of our own
efforts to the tree of life. But God couldn't permit that.
He couldn't permit that. It's absolutely impossible. Because
by the works of the law, no flesh shall be justified in his sight.
By what flesh does, nothing can achieve that. He must stop Adam
trying to get back to that tree of life by his own efforts. So
verse 23 of Genesis chapter 3, Therefore the Lord God sent him
forth from the Garden of Eden. He was banished from it, to till
the ground from whence he was taken. So he drove out the man,
and he placed at the east of the Garden of Eden cherubims
and a flaming sword, which turned every way to keep the way of
the Tree of Life. Banished from Eden, barred from
following his own way to the Tree of Life. You see, to keep
the way. To keep the way. The way? Jesus
said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man comes to
the Father but by me. How do you get to the tree of
life? By Christ, and by Christ alone. He is the way, the truth,
and the life. Adam and Eve are prevented from
finding their own way to life. They're caused to depend on God
alone in Christ. There's an alternative translation
of verse 24, it's from Jameson, Fawcett and Brown and their commentary,
so let me read that verse 24 as they translate it. So he God
drove out the man, and he God dwelt at the east of the garden
of Eden, between cherubims, as a shekinah, which is a fire-sword,
to keep open the way to the tree of life. Let me read it again,
just in case you missed it. That's a good translation. You
know God is pictured on the mercy seat of the Ark of the Covenant
as dwelling between the cherubims, and it is there, between the
cherubims, that Moses was able to come and find grace in the
eyes of the Lord, that Moses was able to commune with the
Lord as a man communes with his friend face to face, That's a
good translation of that. God placed, at the east of the
Garden of Eden, this place where He was there, between the cherubims,
it's as if the mercy seat of the Ark of the Covenant was there,
and there was a Shekinah, a fire sword, the glory of God, the
Shekinah glory of God. What's the glory of God? the
grace of God. The grace of God is the glory
of God. It was there, guarding the way
to the tree of life. What's the way to the tree of
life? Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. If you
want to come to God, to the tree of life, eternal life, where
must you come? You must come to Him, believing.
You must just simply come to Him. Faith isn't a thing that
you arrive at. Faith is the gift of God that
brings you to Christ. This is where Adam and Eve, as
sinners, this place, it was a place, a place to the east of Eden.
This is where Adam and Eve, as sinners, learned to find acceptance
with God. Later on, when the law was given
to Moses, you know, they were always building altars to worship
God wherever they were. Abraham built altars, Noah built
an altar when he came out of the ark, but it became the tabernacle,
and then it was the temple in Jerusalem. But now, in the days
in which we live, what is the place, the place where we meet
with God and where We see His Shekinah glory, and He shows
us the way. He keeps the way to the tree
of life. He keeps the way of the tree
of life. Where is it? It's in His grace. It's His grace
declared in a fallen world. gospel ministry. It's the ministry
of the true gospel is where the glory of God is declared. If
that glory departs as it has departed from virtually all public
religion, I know there's not a lot of public religion going
on at the moment because of the lockdowns, but If that glory
departs, Scripture says it's Ichabod. Remember when the Philistines
stole the Ark of the Covenant and Eli died and the daughter-in-law
of Eli giving birth, she said, call this child Ichabod. Oh no,
you can't call him that. Yes, call him Ichabod, for the
glory has departed. What was the glory? The Ark of
the Covenant, because it was a picture of the gospel of Christ
and his grace. When that glory goes, when this
religion which seeks to approach God not in the way that he has
prescribed, outside of what he did to keep the way of the tree
of life, it's Ichabod, it's departed glory. But as Christ is lifted
up, in the preaching of the gospel, all of his elect are drawn. I,
if I be lifted up, will draw all men, meaning all his elect,
to himself. So Adam and Eve had children,
and it seems that they had many children. They lived a long time.
And it would be a very wide gene pool. You wonder, where did Cain
and Abel get their wives from, and how did they thus become
populated? Well, it was a very wide gene
pool. If you know anything about genetics,
you know the reason why we shouldn't marry and have children with
close relatives is because the gene pool is too narrow between
them, and it can lead to all sorts of genetical problems,
so that must be avoided. But then, the gene pool was of
course hugely rich, they'd just been created by God. And there
was intermarrying in the first generations, and it populated
the earth. And Adam and Eve, I am sure,
the implication of this scripture is that Adam and Eve taught their
children the way. They came at the regular time.
They taught them the way for sinners to come to God, at the
place of God's appointing. at the regular time of God's
appointing. Speaking of the worship of God,
a regular thing that we do. This is why we meet on a Sunday
morning. It's this same pattern. We come to this same situation
time and time again. And then the focus of the narrative
comes down to two sons, the first man born, Cain and his brother
Abel. Don't think for one moment that
that was them. We read of another one, Seth,
later on, but don't think that there was just three. There were
many, many, many. The earth became populated in
just a few hundred years, widely populated. Verse 1 of chapter 4, And Adam
knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bare Cain, and said, I have
gotten a man from the Lord. When this first man, this man-child,
this boy, was born to Eve, she remembered God's promise. that
there will be a seed of the woman. In sorrow shall you bring forth
children, he told her in verse 16. I will multiply your sorrow
and your conception. In sorrow you shall bring forth
children. Thy desire shall be to thy husband and he shall rule
over thee. When this child was born, when this boy was born,
God has promised that a man will come, the seed of the woman.
Is this, is this the Christ? Is this the Christ who will redeem
us from the sin that we have committed against God? Is this
the one? I have begotten the man from
the Lord. He promised a man and I've got a man from the Lord.
Look at this, the seed of the woman is a man. Well, they grew
up and they had their own families, no doubt. And again, don't think
that this is two young boys together. These are grown men and they're
farmers. And the Word of God is very,
very economical in places like this with its narrative. We have
no idea how much time passes between verse one and verses
two and three. We just don't know. But the fact
is the principle of the thing. They're grown men and they're
farmers and they have been taught by Adam the right way to approach
God and that the way to the tree of life and restoring that bliss
of eternal life with God is through access to the tree of life. And
that access is only, only, only through Christ, the Lamb. Lambs
were sacrificed, animals were sacrificed. This points to the
One who shall come as God. to satisfy justice, to redeem
from the curse of the law. So verse 3, here they are, these
two men, these two farmers, and it says, and in process of time,
and if you look in the margin it says that can also be translated,
at the end of days. In other words, I'm sure the
sense of this is that they had a regular set worship time at
this place to the east of Eden. There was a regular time when
they came to worship God and to sacrifice the lamb, by which
they would have peace with God, and by which they would know
that they were on the way to the tree of life. A regular set
worship time. They would come to God in the
appointed way, as Adam and Eve had taught them. and God could
only be approached by sinners here and by means of blood sacrifice. The Lamb must be slain, Hebrews
9.22. In the New Testament, the Apostle
Paul writing, without shedding of blood is no remission of sin. Sins cannot be taken away, sins
cannot be paid for, except with the shedding of blood, and the
shedding of the blood of a perfect sacrifice. Christ our Passover
is sacrificed for us. This is what was taught by Adam,
and we read that Abel believed him and Cain refused to believe
him. And is that not the division
that there is in mankind? Abel believed the gospel of God's
grace, Cain refused to believe it. Look at Cain's offering to
God. Cain brought of the fruit of
the ground an offering unto the Lord. I'm sure it was outstandingly
good. I'm sure it was produced with
tremendous effort in the field. He would have planned everything
properly, and he brought his offering to God. This is what
I am, and this is what I have to offer to you, and this is
the best I can do. Cain certainly believed in God. Why wouldn't you? We're not in
the age of the satanic delusion as it has been in the last two
or three hundred years. I know it's always been down
history, but never more so than the last two or three hundred
years, where men and women have come to the conclusion that the
natural, obvious, sensible, logical thing to do is to not believe
in God. Cain believed in God. He saw
the product that God had produced in his creation. But he refused
to believe that the only way to God was by blood sacrifice,
to redeem from the curse. The day that you eat thereof
you shall surely die. Christ has redeemed us from the
curse of the law. He refused to believe that. Don't
so many? You preach the gospel of grace,
don't so many? The nature of God demands retribution
for sin. He cannot be God and let it go
unpunished. God demands, the nature of God
demands. It's just impossible for God
to say, oh it's alright then, don't bother, go on, carry on
as you are. He cannot do that. He would cease to be God. Sin
must be punished. Sin brings the justice of God
down upon it. And the payment of the debt that
is required to the offended justice of God must be settled. You cannot
have a situation where God remains God and sin goes unpunished.
He says in Ezekiel and in other places, God has no pleasure in
the death of the wicked. Don't presume that that means
that God's rather upset about it. It means that God's justice
is not satisfied. The pleasure of God is in the
satisfaction of justice. Christ is the one in whom justice
is satisfied. This is my beloved Son, in whom
I am well pleased. He has pleasure in his Son, because
in his Son the satisfaction of justice against sin is demonstrated,
is accomplished. No. The satisfaction of God's
justice demands much more than just the death of a sinner. It's
an eternity of death that's required. Cain wanted to be accepted by
God, to be assured of eternal life, but he refused God's way
of approach. Are there not so many? Look at
the billions in religion. They want assurance of eternal
life. They want to think that they're
going to a better place, that they're going to an eternal rest.
But they won't have the way that God has set forth. They just
will not. They will not believe in the
one that He has set forth. They will not believe in the
Christ of God. Cain had little idea of sin as an outrage to
the person and character of God. He felt he should be accepted
for what he was. He brought his best offering
of his works. But works can never purchase
acceptance with God. By the works of the law, several
verses say this. By the works of the law shall
no flesh be justified. Galatians 2.16 for one, but there
are many more. By the works of the law, by the
things that you do, no flesh shall be justified in the sight
of God. Not only shall you not be justified,
you shan't be improved in holiness in the sight of God. Don't follow
that delusion of religion. There's a delusion of religion
that says that by the works of the law you can improve your
sanctification and preparedness for heaven. That is a damnable
lie. It is utterly wrong. Utterly
and completely wrong. Get rid of it. Read the scriptures. See what they say. No way does
it say that. No, by the works of the law shall
no flesh be justified. Adam had taught Cain the way,
But Cain refused to believe. And I'm sure Cain was thinking
in his heart, if God won't accept my works, then he isn't a God
that I want to trust. And is that not what so many
religious folk today say? I'm good enough for God, if he
won't accept me, if the God of the Bible will not accept me
for what I am and who I am, then I'll invent my own God along
with loads of others and we'll all get mutual comfort from the
God that we believe appears as funny signs in the sky and, you
know, when our relatives that have gone to that better place,
you know, they want to say something to us in a sticky situation that
we're in, A white feather will fall down near the ground, you
know, near to you, and you'll go, oh, that's so-and-so up in
heaven that's looking up. It's a complete delusion. It's
not the Word of God. Really, get rid of it. Any notion
of it. No. Proud, self-righteous was
Cain in his approach to God. He was like the Pharisee. Do
you remember the Pharisee praying at the temple wall? Lord, I thank
you that I'm not like other men. I'm good enough in my own right.
They think they are right. Proverbs says that. Proverbs
16, 25. There is a way that seemeth right
unto man. but the end thereof are the ways
of death." Oh yes, we think this way is right. We agree that it's
right with lots of other people, but the end thereof are the ways
of death. He'd heard the gospel of acceptance
in the seed of the woman, pictured by a slain lamb, but he refused
it. He followed his own way to death. Followed his own way. The land
of Nod, it says, which is the land of aimless wandering. Let's
think about Abel's offering to God. This is explained in Hebrews,
the epistle to the Hebrews, chapter 11 and verse 4, the faith gallery. By faith, Abel offered unto God
a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness
that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts, and by it he being
dead yet speaketh. Oh, didn't Abel do well then?
Oh, wasn't he a good boy? He did much better than Cain.
Listen, don't read it like that. He approached God seeking favor
in the way that God had prescribed. The way that God had prescribed
was by a blood sacrifice. And he saw it by faith, the sight
of the soul. By faith, by the sight of the
soul, he foresaw the seed which was Christ who would come. which
the lamb pictured. And the lamb shedding its blood,
he knew the lamb shedding its blood didn't take away his sin,
but the one who would come would take away his sin and pay the
sin debt of his elect with his life Because life is in the blood. Why the blood? Why the blood?
Why is blood so important? Because the life is in the blood.
The soul that sins, it shall die. The law's satisfaction is
in the death of a perfect victim. The only perfect victim is the
infinite victim who is God himself. But God himself cannot die. God
had to become man in order to die. God had to come in Christ. the God-man that he might die,
to pay redemption's price. And in paying it, in the nostrils
of God, in the justice of God, there is a sweet-smelling savour. You read about this in Leviticus,
you know Leviticus seems very gory about what to do with the
lambs when sacrificing them and the beasts and cutting them up
and butchering them and burning this part and that part, but
it says in Leviticus 1 verse 9 that when the lamb that has
been sacrificed is on the altar of fire, the smoke going up I
know one or two members of our family don't particularly like
roast lamb, but I think it's one of the most glorious smells,
a sweet-smelling savour. That's what it was, it was a
sweet-smelling savour. When Noah came out of the ark,
He built an altar when all was, you know, the world that then
was perished, that man in his sin had been swept away, but
for eight people. And they came out of the ark
and Noah built an altar and sacrificed of the clean animals that were
taken into the ark. And it says, God smelled a sweet
smelling savor. What's the sweet-smelling savour?
It's justice satisfied. In Ephesians chapter 5 and verse
2 speaks of Christ being offered. And Christ being offered is a
sweet-smelling savour in the nostrils of God. He said, this
is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased. And God confirmed
him, confirmed Abel, A condemned sinner, because he was just like
his father and his mother, a condemned sinner, he confirmed him righteous,
righteous in his sight. He confirmed him righteous in
his sight and accepted in Christ. That's what it says in Hebrews
4. He obtained witness that he was righteous. Why was he righteous?
God made him Christ the Lamb, the seed, who knew no sin, to
be sin for us, and bear its penalty, and satisfy justice for it. Why?
That the people he represented, his people, might be made the
righteousness of God in him. Abel was made righteous in exactly
that way, and accepted in Christ the beloved Son. So in conclusion,
there are two brothers, there are two ways, and there are two
outcomes. And I tell you, there are only
two. The whole of life divides into either one of these two
ways. Read the article. You can't straddle both ways.
Try as you might, you cannot straddle both ways. Choose you this day whom you
will serve. God makes them to differ. Who is it that makes
you to differ, asks Paul in 1 Corinthians 4.7. What have you got that you
did not receive? It's God that makes to differ.
Yet, yet, yet, each person individually is responsible for the decision
that they make. That's the way it is. I don't
understand it. I don't understand the logic,
humanly, of that. But it's the Word of God. Each
is responsible, individually, for the decision they make. Both
hear and see the same Gospel message, the same way. But the
sound of the Gospel, to either of them, well, it says in 2 Corinthians
2.16, to the one We are the saver of death unto death, that's one
way. And to the other, the saver of
life, unto life. The way of Cain, read Jude, verse
11, only one chapter, Jude, next to the last book of the Bible,
the little epistle of Jude. Verse 11, they've gone in the
way of Cain. The way of Cain is the way of
unbelief. It's the way of self-sufficiency
for eternity. It's having made, as it says
in Isaiah 28, a covenant with death, a refuge of lies, it says
there. This is the religious world all
around us. In Genesis 4, 10 to 16, we read
about Cain and his condemnation from God and the curse and the
consequences of it. And Cain went out from the presence
of the Lord and dwelt in the land of Nod, of aimless wandering. on the east of Eden. That's the
outcome of that. There is a way that seems right
unto man, but the ends thereof are the way of death. Aimless
wandering without hope and ending in death. But Abel found acceptance
in Christ. In Christ. He believed the gospel.
He was made the righteousness of God in him. Christ was made
the righteousness of God in him. He saw that the woman's seed
who should come, who was pictured in his lamb, was the door. Jesus
said, I am the door to eternal life, the way in. He saw that
He is the way, the truth, and the life. This is so clearly
stated again and again in the scriptures. We were just reading
this morning in Isaiah chapter 35, if I can just quickly find
that. Isaiah chapter 35, and I hadn't
planned this, but here it is quite clearly. in the Scriptures. One more page, there we go. In
chapter 35 and verse 8, and an highway shall be there, and a
way, and it shall be called the way of holiness. The unclean
shall not pass over it, but it shall be for those the wayfaring
men, though fools shall not err therein. That's talking about
the eyes of the blind shall be open and the ears of the deaf
unstopped. A way shall be there. That is
the way to eternal life. This is the way to the tree of
life. guarded there. It's in Christ
and Him alone. This is the dividing line between
all humanity. The essence of it is the blood
of an acceptable sacrifice which alone is Christ, and the faith
that you have to see it. That's what divides humanity.
The majority of humanity, it seems, have not the faith to
see, and the trust in the blood that redeems from the curse of
the law. The people of God do have. And they rejoice in it,
or they reject it. Abel rejoiced in it, Cain rejected
it. As this world heads ever more
clearly down the broad way to eternal destruction, because
believe me, it's not hard to get on that broad way, will you
sleepwalk along with them or will you seek the door? I am
the door, said Jesus. Will you seek the door to the
narrow way to life in Christ, who alone is the way? Amen.