Genesis chapter 7, and I want
to begin reading to you here in verse 21 and read the remainder
of that chapter. You and I have really got down
in our study in Genesis. We've been studying in the life
study in chapter 8 of Genesis. The flood had came, had washed
everyone away, just like the Lord had foretold that He was
going to do. The ark had come to rest upon this mountain of
Ariadne. And we'll see there in the last
portion, the Lord's will in our next study of Noah and his family
and the animals coming out from that ark. So, it all happened. It all happened. Just like the
Lord said it would. Just like Noah believed that
it would. And I want to read these verses
to you this morning, and not so much review what we've studied. I don't want to do that, but
I want us to remember, I'm sure as Noah came out of this ark
into a new world, he often contemplated, why me? And how the Lord got
me here in my family? And it all comes back to this
ark. And brothers and sisters in Christ, there's no doubt coming
a day, when you and I, by God's grace, land safe on heaven's
coast, as the Old Psalm says, and there we'll reflect more
than we ever have here as to how God got us there. And it
will all be because of Christ, our Ark, our Ark. But I want to read this passage
to you and just remind you of these things. And I want to begin
reading in chapter 7 and verse 21, because this emphasizes not
only the devastation, but the glory of Noah and his family
being saved. All flesh died that moved upon
the earth, both of fowl and of cattle and of beasts, and of
every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man.
all in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was
in the dry land, died. And every living substance was
destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, trees, flowers,
every living substance, man and cattle, creeping things and the
fowls of the heaven, they were destroyed from the earth. And
we're told there in the last portion of verse 23, Noah only
remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark, and
the waters prevailed upon the earth in a hundred and fifty
days. I thought how amazing this was. And as you and I even consider
this this morning, our minds drift to the New Testament. We see here in this passage that
there was only one way of salvation. Everyone else was destroyed but
those who were saved by this ark. Only Noah remained and his
family and they that were with him in this ark. No other means of salvation.
God had ordained no other means of salvation but this ark. Now I can use my imagination,
and you can too, to watch as the flood raises that ark up
off the dry land, and as men begin to run for the high mountains,
and we see men up on houses, and maybe some strong athletes
had got some boards together or some logs together. And they
were trying to ride out the storm. And maybe they did for days.
Maybe they hung on and maybe they held out. But finally, the
violence of all of it tore them loose from their floats. And
down they sank in the dark waters. The only place of safety was
this ark. No one else was saved. but those
who was in this ark." And as you and I begin to think of that,
don't our minds drift to the New Testament? And what's said
concerning the Lord Jesus Christ? That there's salvation in no
other. For there's no other name under
heaven given among men whereby we must be saved. He's the ark. What that natural art was to
Noah, that wooden art, Jesus Christ is today for all of those
who will ever be saved. There's no other name. And He
said Himself, there's no other way. For I am the way, the truth,
and the life. No man comes unto the Father
but by Me. And I love that passage in John
10 where He says, I'm the door. And I'm the only door. And by
me, if man enters in, he shall be saved." And you know, just
as it was in Noah's day, there's people today, there's people
imagining all kinds of ways to secure their salvation. They
have all these thoughts about what they must do and need to
do, all these different things that they practice. They're involved
in all sorts of works, attempting to secure their souls. But you
know something? At last, it will happen to them
just like it happened to those in the flood. They'll soon come
to see, as they're involved in the awful waters of God's judgment,
or the fires of God's judgment, that there's only one way of
salvation. And that's in the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of
God. And there's the first thing we
see here. But we have to get more precise even than that. Because our text tells us there
in verse 23, not only was the ark the only means of salvation,
but look what he said. In the last portion of verse
23, the only ones who were saved are they that were in Did you notice how the Holy Spirit
emphasized that? And as you read these passages
about the ark and Noah being saved, it emphasizes so many
times of being in the ark. Not near the ark, not upon the
ark, but in the ark. this account that nothing is
said of what Noah and his family did inside that ark. Nothing
is ever said. It seems like the Holy Spirit
just passed over all of that. You never read of anything that
Noah did in the ark until the flood was over and he opened
that window and let out that raven and that dove. We can speculate. I'm sure they had duties to perform. The animals had to be fed and
watered. Some repairs, no doubt, had to be made. I mean, if you've
got elephants in an ark, you may have some petitions tore
down. They prayed, no doubt. They probably read Enoch's prophecies. They probably sang inside the
ark. But you know, nothing is said
of what they did, how they occupied themselves. And I think the Holy
Spirit left that out on purpose that He may emphasize what was
vital, what was vital to their being saved. It wasn't what they
were doing, but it's where they were. They were inside this ark. Don't that just thrill your soul
when you think of that? Will you and I come to the New
Testament? And how often do we read this
little phrase when it pertains to salvation? In Christ. In Christ. So many times we read
that. And it must be that the Holy
Spirit is emphasizing to us that what is vital to our salvation
is not what we do or don't do. But the most vital point is this,
we must be found in the Lord Jesus Christ. We do what we do
because we're in Him. And it's so comforting. It's
so comforting. Just to read in Christ. We are chosen in Christ. We are
redeemed in Christ. We are loved in Christ. I love that passage where Paul
said, he's writing to Timothy, and he says, I endear all things
for the intellect's sake, that they might obtain that salvation
which is in Jesus Christ with eternal glory. See where salvation
is? It's in Jesus Christ. The salvation
of God is in Jesus Christ. And the most vital thing for
you and me is to be in Him. And that's all that matters in
the long run, isn't it? That's all that matters. When
we look to death, the question we must ask ourselves, the conclusion
we must come to, Am I in Christ? If I'm in Christ, I'll be saved. When we look to eternity and
we look to the judgment, what we must ask ourselves, am I in
Christ? And being in Christ is enough. They were saved in the ark. And you know, we never read in
any of these chapters here that were one thing perished that
was in this ark. We're even told that when Noah
came out of the ark that he brought with him the creeping things.
Those little spiders and the woolly worms and the thousand-legged
worms. They got down in the cracks and
crevices of that ark and hid away to keep from being stepped
on. Not a one of them was crushed. Not a one was lost. Everything,
men and fowls and beasts and creeping things, went through
that flood and landed safe on the other side in a new world
by virtue of their being in this ark. Ain't that wonderful? And
I can't help, brothers and sisters, but believe that the Holy Spirit
intended for us to see in this ark, Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ. And thirdly, there is something
else here in regard to Noah and his family being saved in this
ark. And I want to emphasize this
because the Scriptures emphasize this. The Holy Spirit has emphasized
this, and I want to emphasize this to you this morning. There
is no doubt, as we read here and as we read over in Hebrews
chapter 11 concerning Noah, Noah being warned of God as things
not seen as yet moved with fear, he entered this ark because God
had warned him what was coming. And there is no doubt When Noah
finished this ark, he knew how necessary it was for him and
his family to be inside that ark. He knew in his heart that
was the only safe place to ride out this awful storm. And yet
we're told specifically here that he never entered this ark
until God called him. Now, ain't that amazing? You
would have thought that Noah would have been so anxious, and
maybe he was, to get in that ark. But you know, we're told
specifically that he never went in until the Lord called him. Look in chapter 7 and verse 1.
Here's why I'm going to say it. And the Lord said unto Noah,
Come thou and all thy house into the ark. See there? He was standing
outside. I don't know what he was doing.
The ark was finished. The ramp was down. The door was
open. I don't know why he wasn't in
yet. But the fact is plain and the Scriptures emphasize it.
He went in only after the Lord said to him, Come thou and thy
family into the ark. Now I would say, and this is
speculation I guess, but I would say, considering this in its
context and considering the whole Bible in its context, that no
one was forbidden to come up that ramp and go into the ark. I don't think there was an angel
standing there with a sword if anybody went up that ramp and
he said, no, this is not for you. You're not welcome here. I would believe that anybody
would have been permitted, even invited, to have entered into
that ark. But the fact is, not one single
person did. Not even Noah, until the Lord
called. Now that's a fact, ain't it?
And we can't argue with facts, can we? Some may have come here
and thought about entering. I can almost see in my imagination
some people down around the ramp. And maybe some looking up into
the ark, trying to see what it was like in there. But nobody wanted to go in. Nobody
wanted to enter that place. Nobody went in that ark. And
you know there's people today who will acknowledge that If
they're ever to be saved, that Jesus Christ must save them. They believe that in their heads.
They're not involved in cults. They know in their minds anyway
that there's only one person who can save them, and that's
the Lord of glory. They will acknowledge that readily. And yet they never come to Him.
They never come to Him. And you know what the fact is?
And I hope this doesn't sound harsh, but this is just the fact. They never come to Him. And the
fact is, they never will. They never shall, unless God
draws them, unless God calls them. Now that's what the Holy
Spirit is emphasizing here. Noah knew he had to be in that
ark. But the fact is, he never came until God said, Noah, come
thou into the ark. And you know something, brothers
and sisters, and I think this is scriptural, any man may come
to the Lord Jesus Christ. I don't know if there's a scripture
that shuts out any man or woman or boy or girl. But we can find
all sorts of scripture that invite men freely to come and be saved
by Jesus Christ. Even the ungodly. The wicked
are invited to come. Seek ye the Lord while he may
be found. Call upon him while he is near.
Who is he talking about? Let the wicked forsake his way,
the unrighteous man his thought, and let him return unto the Lord,
and he will have mercy upon him. In other words, the door is wide
open, isn't it? The ramp is down. And here we
simply stand as God's ministers saying, enter in! You're free! You have His permission to come
to the Lord Jesus Christ and be saved by Him. But it takes more than just permission.
And that's the problem we face, isn't it? It's not that man is
given permission. He doesn't have a will to come.
He must be called. Even the elect must be called. Noah was one of God's elect,
but he had to be called. And even God's elect, they must
have their conscience stirred up. They must be made concerned
about this. And there's where this calling
comes in. I want to give you four things
that I saw here in this passage and four Scriptures here concerning
Noah coming to the ark. Come thou and thy family into
the ark. And the first thing we see here
is just what I've been talking about, and that is the necessity
of being called. The necessity of it. When we
talk about calling, it's not optional. This is necessary to
be called. And Noah would have perished
outside that ark if the Lord had not said to him, Noah, come
into this ark. And as you and I come to the
New Testament, one of the words and the concept that we see is
just this very thing. The necessity of God calling
men to come to Christ. Peter was preaching that great
message in Acts chapter 2. You remember it. You've all read
it. The day of Pentecost when Peter was preaching and there
was 3,000 souls. They were awakened. Peter said,
You've crucified the Lord of glory. And they were awakened
and they were fearful and they cried out, What must we do? What
shall we do? And Peter instructed them to
repent. And then he made this wonderful
statement. He said, The promise is to you. and to those who are
afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call." See
the necessity of that? God must call us to come to Christ. It's essential that He does that.
I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. And
it must be an effectual call. It must not be something now
that comes to us and makes us think, I know I need to be saved.
And then we have no more thoughts about it. We read a passage in
God's Word and we're concerned. It even makes us concerned about
we're lost and we need to be saved. But we go off and forget
about it. I'm not speaking about that cause,
but I'm speaking of a cause that will give us no rest. Our conscience
is disturbed. We know that we're not right
with God. We know we must come to Christ.
And we find no rest until we do come to Christ. That's the
call that I'm talking about. And we find that here. Look on
in chapter 7. When it was said in verse 1,
the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou. And look what's said in
verse 7. And Noah went in. That's the
call that I'm talking about. The Lord said, Come. And Noah
went. We talk about effectual calling.
We often talk about that. Effectual calling. It simply
means when God calls a sinner, he comes. That's effectual. Effectual means it has power
to produce the end desired. God calls with such power, with
such effect, that we come. Thy people shall be willing when? In the day of your power. That's
the first thing. We see that here. And the second
thing, we see something else about this. We also find it in
chapter 7 and in verse 7. Look at this passage. Here's
something else about this call. Look in verse 7. Chapter 7 and
verse 7. And Noah went in, and his sons,
and his wife, and his sons, wives with him, and to the ark. Now
look at this. Because. Because. Now that tells us there
was a reason found in Him that He went in. Why did Noah go in? We know He went in because God
called Him, yes. But there's a reason found in
Him. Why did Noah go in? Because of the waters of the
flood. Now what does that tell us? That tells us that Noah He knew
something about a flood coming. And he was afraid. And don't
Hebrews 11 tell us this? And I just quoted it to you a
minute ago that Noah being warned of God, moved with fear. Through faith, Noah being warned
of God. In other words, he believed God.
He believed God. When he said, judgment is coming,
that earth is your only place of safety, Noah said, I believe
God. And I'm scared to death if I'm
not found in that ark. I know God will destroy me, he
said, if I'm not in that ark. The rain is coming. I don't know
all he said. I don't understand how it's going
to happen. It's never rained before. But I believe God. And he said, I'm scared to death.
I've got to get in that ark. And boy, he skedaddled up that
ark because, because, The blind man came to the Lord Jesus Christ.
Remember that? And why did he come? Because
he was blind. The man with leprosy covering
his body, he came to the Lord Jesus Christ. Why did he come? Because, Lord, if you will, you
can make me clean. The woman with an issue of blood,
she came to Christ. Why? Because she had an issue
of blood. She was dying. Noah entered that
ark out of necessity. And when you and I come to the
Lord Jesus Christ, we come out of necessity. I can't help it. I've got no choice. Noah and his family entered the
ark out of necessity because... And you and I come to the Lord
Jesus Christ because... Two reasons men don't come to
the Lord Jesus, and it all has to do with unbelief. And we see
it right here in Noah coming into this ark. If you ask some
lost person why he don't come to the Lord Jesus Christ and
to God by Him to be saved, it all boils down to these two things.
And it's just a matter of unbelief. Number one, A man who will not
come to Christ just does not believe God. He don't believe in God that
He's holy. He don't believe God is just.
He don't believe God's actually going to punish his sin. Ain't
that the problem? Now, he'll tell you he believes
God, among other things. I love God a lot, he'll tell
you that. But he doesn't believe God. Noah, being warned of God,
moved with fear. Why did he come in? He was warned
of God. He trembled. He knew God was
just. He knew God was going to punish
sin in the old world because of it. And secondly, men do not
believe God concerning Jesus Christ, but He is truly an all-sufficient
Savior. He is truly a hiding place. If you were out in an awful storm
someplace, and you looked over, and you were just getting drenched,
I mean the wind was ready just to blow you away. And you looked
over, sitting there in the field was an old shaggedy house, and
the top was ready to blow off of it, and it looked like it
was ready to fall down. Would you go get in that house? Well, you'd say, I'm just as
safe out here as I am there. That thing is going to fall over
just any minute and take me with it. But if you were going down
the road and the rain was burning your face, and the wind seemed
ready to blow you away, and you looked over and there was a strong
rock house, and you thought to yourself,
no wind is going to blow this thing away. That's where I want
to be. until men see that Jesus Christ
is an all-sufficient Savior. They'll never care to be found
in Him until they believe that. You and I hear so much today.
It's been around now for a number of years, I think probably 40
or 50, 60, 70 years ago. This phrase come in, deciding
for Christ. Deciding for Christ. making a
decision for Christ. And the whole concept of that
is so wrong. And I've not been able to get
it off my mind now for a year or so. Deciding for Christ. And when we apply that to this
situation here, can't you see what's wrong with that? Can you
imagine Noah standing there at the bottom of that ramp? And it's not long until the flood
comes, and he knows it. And he's just looking around.
He'll look in the ark and then he looks around at his loved
ones and at his house and his property. And somebody comes
by and says, Noah, I've been watching you stand here and it
looked like you're in deep thought. What are you thinking about?
Well, Noah says, I've just been trying to decide if I want to
go in the ark where it's safe or if I want to take my chances
out here. Wouldn't that be utterly ridiculous? Why didn't he do
that? I can see a man doing that if
he doesn't believe God. But I cannot possibly see a man
standing here deciding whether I'm going to come to Christ or
face God without him if he truly believes God. Noah was trembling
because he believed God. It wasn't a matter of a decision. You know what the Scripture speaks
of when it speaks of a man coming to Christ? It talks about us
fleeing. Fleeing. They set up cities of
refuge in the Old Testament. And if you had killed someone
accidentally, if you and your neighbor was out chopping wood,
and as you came down with that axe, the head flew off of it
and hit your neighbor and killed him. And somebody was working
there with you, and he runs home and tells this dead man's dad
and his brother and his uncles and cousins, oh, Joe's just got
killed. Charlie has just killed him. You know what they're going to
say? Well, Charlie's a dead man. He couldn't have it. It don't
matter. It don't matter. In the heat
of the moment, they rush out and they kill old Joe. So the
Lord said this, you make in your country, you put three cities
of refuge there in the whole land of Israel and on the other
side of Jordan. Three cities of refuge. Six cities
of refuge. And when you have slain a man,
you flee to that city. And you'll be safe. And can you
imagine you slaying a man and then you look and there comes
five or six of his relatives, big strong men with swords and
spears and bows and arrows. What are you going to do? Are
you going to decide what you're going to do? You're going to
flee. You don't want him to go back
home to tell your wife. You won't go back home to pack
your suitcase. All you've got is the clothes on your body,
and you flee. And sometimes you'll look behind
you, and there they come with their swords raised, shouting.
And there's an alarm in your soul. And you don't feel safe
until you enter that gate of that refuge. And you fall down
there before that high priest. Oh, and you say, thank God I've
made it to the city of refuge. And when we come to the New Testament
in Hebrews chapter 6, When the apostle was writing Hebrews,
he said that same thing about us. He said, you have fled for
refuge, to lay hold upon the hope set before you. And that
fled carries with it the meaning of that alarm. You're making
haste and you've laid hold. That means you've seized something.
And you ain't going to let it go. And what is it? The Lord
Jesus Christ. Barnabas said, cleave to Him,
didn't he? Cleave to Him. Why did Noah enter this earth? Out of necessity. Out of necessity. Because of the flood. The third
thing, and right quickly. Boy, I smell that breakfast,
don't you? If we have many of these, we're
going to have to seal this place off better than what we've got.
If this don't work, In chapter 7, and look here in
verse 16, two more things, right quickly. Look in verse 16. Here's something else about Noah
entering the ark. And boy, this is so important
here, look at this. And they that went in, went in
male and female, of all flesh, as God had commanded him, and
look at this, and the Lord shut him in. He called him. He went in. And when he got in,
boy, that ramp was raised up and that door was slammed and
God sealed it. And nobody could open that door.
God sealed it. Now that means two things, doesn't
it? That means two things. One, it's fearful for those who
are outside. Can you imagine that? Can you
imagine someone standing there trying to decide if he's going
in or if he's staying out? And suddenly that ramp raises
and the door slams and it's sealed. And so is his fate. Nobody can get in now. Nobody
can get in now. Why? The door's shut. And this
is what's taught us in the New Testament. This is not just a
picture. This really happened. And when
we come to the New Testament, don't we find this very concept
taught? Remember about the ten virgins? Five were wise and five were
foolish. And they all went out to meet the bridegroom, but they
all slumbered and slept. And at midnight there was a cry
made, Go you out to meet the bridegroom. And the foolish virgins
had no oil. They had a profession without
Christ. And they looked at the wise and they said, give us of
your oil. We don't have any oil. All we've
got is a profession. And they said, we're sorry, but
we can't give you that. You'll have to go to them that
sell and buy for yourself. So they went to get oil. And
while they were going, the Lord came, the Bridegroom came. And
they that were ready went in. And didn't you remember what
the next word was? The door was shut. Remember that? Then they
came back. The foolish came back. The foolish
virgins began to mock and said, let us in. The Lord said, no.
No. No. I don't know you. And He tells us almost this same
thing in Luke chapter 13 when somebody was awakened to the
necessity of being saved. And He asked this question, Lord,
are there a few people that will be saved? And the Lord said,
Strive to enter in at the straight gate. For wide is the gate and
narrow is the way that leads to life, and few there be that
find it. And then He makes that same statement again. When once
the master of the house has risen up and shut the door, it will
do you no good then to stand in awe. What did this mean that
God shut him in? It was dreadful for those who
were outside. Oh, they were still living. And
the rain hadn't even come yet, but their faith was already sealed.
That's dreadful, ain't it? There could be people living
in this world, their faith is already fixed, it's already sealed. They would not enter Christ when
they had the opportunity. And now they cannot. Brother
Glenn spoke to that a few weeks ago in our Sunday school class. Remember that, Larry? He says,
if you will not believe in Christ, God will fix it where you cannot
believe. If you will not come to the Lord Jesus and to God
by Him, God will fix it where you cannot come. And that's what
we see in this door being shut. But what does it mean for Noah
and his family? Oh my! It means their salvation
was sealed too. Nobody could get in And that's
dreadful. But thank God nobody was getting
out. And that's wonderful, ain't it? That is wonderful. I don't know, I told you, just
using my imagination, I can imagine it was rough sometime in that
ark. All the violent waters and the winds and the waves standing
on its end, rolling on its side. I imagine sometimes they felt
like, we're going to hang on or we're going to be dashed to
pieces. But you know something, brothers and sisters, There was
no way that anybody was getting out of that ark. There was no
door to get out of. I mean, when you come to Christ,
it's a one-way street, ain't it? You come into Christ and
it's a one-way street. You don't have a way to get out.
Have you ever found in the Scriptures where men got out of hell? No. Paul said, you're sealed, didn't
he? The Holy Spirit has sealed you until the day of redemption. He sealed you. Oh, what a wonderful
thing. What a wonderful thing. And I
said there are many to go. Well, let me show it to you.
Look here at chapter 8. Look in chapter 8. This is something
else the Holy Spirit seems to emphasize here. In verse 14,
look at this. In the second month, the seventh
and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried? And God
spake unto Noah, saying, Go forth of the ark. Thou, and thy wife,
and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee, bring forth with thee
every living thing that is with thee, a flesh, both of fowls,
and cattle, and creeping thing, that creepeth upon the earth,
that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful
and multiply upon the earth. And Noah went forth, and so on
he goes, and brought everything out." Nothing got out of there.
When God shut the door, when He sealed it, everything that
was in there then, Landed safe in the new world. Ain't that
wonderful? Men call that whatever they want
to. You can call it security in Christ, or perseverance of
the saints, or whatever you want to call it. But it's so. It's
so. And lastly is this. And we find
it here in chapter 6. Regarding Noah and his family
being in this ark. And here's an amazing thing.
I'm not for sure if we even dwelt on this when we came here. All of this was done. Everything
that you and I have been talking about this morning, the Lord
speaking to Noah and said, coming into the ark, and him filling
the necessity, and going in out of necessity, and the Lord shutting
the door, all that was done. That really happened. But it
all happened because God had purposed it to happen. Now, ain't
that amazing? Before the art was ever made,
God had the design in His mind. Before He ever actually saved
Noah and his family, He'd already covenanted to save them, purposed
to save them. Now, look what He says in chapter
6 and verse 18. He's talking in verse 17 about,
I'm going to destroy the earth, everything on it's going to die,
but look in verse 18. Will I establish my covenant? I will establish my covenant,
and thou shalt come into the ark." Ain't that wonderful? The ark hadn't even been started
yet. He just gave Noah the instructions to build it and how to build
it. Not a drop of water had fallen from the sky. Everything was
still wonderful. God said, I will. I will. And you shall. What was it that
secured Noah and his family being in that honor? It was the will
of God, wasn't it? I will. I will. I'm going to save you, Noah.
It's my will to save you. And before I punish the world
and destroy it for its iniquity, I'm telling you this, I've already
purposed to save you and your family." Oh, that's wonderful. It's wonderful to be saved, isn't
it? Have you gone over the surprise of it yet? You not only feel
with amazement about it, but when you begin to think about
it, you're surprised. Aren't you surprised to be saved? God helped us never to get over
that. When I was growing up as a teenager, the most miserable
hour I had in my week was when I was made to sit in church and
try to worship. And now I can't get over the
Lord saving me. It's a thrill, ain't it? I'm
amazed that He saved me. And you know what makes it more
amazing? when you think not only that
He saved you, but all along He purposed to do it. That's wonderful,
isn't it? And we think now upon this of
being saved and knowing the Lord, that He heard my cry and had
mercy upon me, and we think of that. And just as every once in a while,
He'll dawn upon us. Yes, we're saved. Yes, we're
in Christ. He has really saved me. And oh,
it dawns upon us. And oh, we just rise as it were
to sit in heavenly places in Christ. We're amazed by it all.
And then we go one step farther. And we get just a little glimpse
of this, that He purposed to save us. Before he ever did anything
else, before he made the wherefore, he had me in his heart and said,
I'm going to save Bruce Crabtree. Why would you save him? Just
because I will to do it. And to write it down in there
that he was going to do it. And then when he's done it, to
let us know about it. We just get a glimpse of that now, don't
we? Wouldn't you love to live 24 hours a day? under the reality
that you're saved. Oh, there's coming a day, there's
coming a day when we're out of this little narrow prison house
that we lived in, just as no one was shut up in history, when
the Lord Jesus Christ descends from heaven with a shout. And
all the earth is burned up, and there's a new heaven and a new
earth. And we're there with Him around the throne. And this terrible
veil has been taken away. And sin has been taken away.
And we're like Him, both body and soul. And we're completely
safe from sin. And our mind is clear, and our
thoughts are clear. Oh, then throughout eternity,
we'll live in the reality. He not only saved me, but He
chose me to that end. And we'll worship. We'll worship. Aren't you glad He called you?
Aren't you glad He saved you? Aren't you glad He purposed to
save you?