I've carried a great joy to be
here with you. I appreciate your dear pastor
invited me. I'd rather have been invited
just to come to the worship, but I'm thankful that he invited
me to preach. I'm going to be looking this
evening in Genesis chapter 6, if you'd like to turn over there
with me. In Genesis chapter 6, I want
to begin reading here in verse 5. Most of you will recognize
the text and the context. This was just before the flood,
and the cause of the flood we're told here in verse 5. And God
saw the wickedness of man. that it was great in the earth,
and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was
only evil continually. And it repented the Lord that
he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from
the face of the earth, both man and beast and the creeping thing
and the fowls of the earth. for it repenteth me that I have
made them. But Noah found grace in the eyes
of the Lord. These are the generations of
Noah. Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and
Noah walked with God. And Noah begat three sons, Shem,
Ham, and Jephthah. The earth also was corrupt before
God, and the earth was filled with violence. And God looked
upon the earth and behold, It was corrupt, for all flesh had
corrupted his way upon the earth. And God said unto Noah, The end
of all flesh is come before me, for the earth is filled with
violence through them. And behold, I will destroy them
with the earth. Make thee an ark of gopher wood. Room shall thou make in the ark,
and shall pitch it within and without with pitch. And this
is the fashion of it. The length of the ark shall be
three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height
of it thirty cubits. And a window shalt thou make
to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above, and the
door of the ark shalt set in the side thereof. With lower,
second, and third store shalt thou make it. And behold, even
I, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy
all flesh. wherein is the breath of life
from under heaven. And every thing that is in the
earth shall die. But with thee will I establish
my covenant, and thou shalt come unto the ark, thou and thy sons
and thy wife and thy sons' wives with thee. And of every living
thing, of all flesh, two of every sort, shalt thou bring unto the
ark, to keep them alive with thee. They shall be male and
female. I will destroy the earth, make
thee an ark. That was the thought upon my
heart this evening. I can't imagine what this world
may have been like at this time. Even though sin had entered,
it must have still been a wonderful place. I have no idea, really,
if summer or winter had entered, cold or Even though the earth
was cursed, it still had to be a beautiful place, a lovely place. Man, though sin had entered his
body, he still was very, very strong, lived to be over 900
years old. Only one thing could possibly
corrupt this earth, and that it did, sin. Always does, always
has. In Genesis chapter 8 and 21,
don't turn there, but you'll remember this very well, just
after the Lord had sent this flood and destroyed the earth,
we find out something very strange, very, very strange, that all
but eight people had been destroyed. Only eight souls survived this
flood. And when Noah and his three sons and their wives and
Noah's wives stepped outside the ark, God made this statement.
He said, My judgment has not changed man at all. He said,
Hear before the flood that every imagination of man's heart was
on evil continually. And after the flood came and
the world had been taken away by it, he made the very same
statement. The imagination of man's heart
is only evil continually. It takes more than God's judgment
to put away sin. It takes the blood of Christ. Man hasn't changed. The flood
never changed him. And time hasn't changed him.
We now are what we were after the flood. Noah and his family
were after the flood what they were before the flood. We are
yet sinners. And this earth today is not being
spared because men are steadily growing better. This earth is being spared today
because God has a purpose. Let me show you a couple of Scriptures
before I get to my text. Look over in 2 Peter, Genesis
7, 6. Look in 2 Peter 3. Peter's been speaking here of
this very thing, the flood that came and took the world away.
And he says here in verse 4 of 2 Peter 3 Concerning the promise of our
Lord's coming, there would be some in the last day that would
deny it. In verse 4, saying, where's the promise of His coming?
Since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were
from the beginning of the creation. This they willingly are ignorant
of. By the word of God, the heavens
were of old. He farmed them by His word. The
earth standing out of the water and in the water, whereby the
world that then was being overflowed with water had perished. But
the heavens and the earth which are now by the same word are
kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment
and perdition of ungodly men. The Beloved be not ignorant of
this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand
years, and a thousand years is one day. The Lord is not slack
concerning His promise. He is coming. Some men count
slackness, but He's long-suffering to usward. All we like sheep
have gone astray, but God's laid on Him the iniquity of us. He's long-suffering to us. He's
long-suffering to His elect. Why? For this cause. Not willing that any of us should
perish, but that all of us should come to repentance. But the day of the Lord will
come as a thief in the night, and the witch of the heavens
shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall
melt with firming heat, and the earth also, and the works that
are therein shall be burned up. Seeing then that we look for
these things, seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved,
what manner of person ought ye to be in all holy conversation
in godliness? Looking forward hasten into the
coming of the day of God wherein the heavens being on shall be
dissolved, and the elements shall melt with ferment heat. Nevertheless
we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new
earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. Wherefore, beloved, seeing that
we look for such things, be diligent, that we may be found of him in
peace, without spot and blemish. And look at this, an account
that the long-suffering of our Lord is salvation. To who? God's not destroyed this
earth because He said, man, it's getting better. I'm going to
wait a while. He may perfect itself. No, God
is long-suffering now, even in this day. Why? He's saving His
elect. Salvation. One more scripture
before I go to my text. Look in Ephesians. Look in Ephesians chapter 4.
when the Lord Jesus descended back to heaven, thereupon the
right hand of the Father. He gave gifts to men, in verse
11, Ephesians 4. He gave some apostles, some prophets,
some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers for the perfecting
of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying
of the body of Christ, till we all come. and to the unity of
the faith till we all come to faith in Christ. Not all of them
has come to faith in Christ yet. I have other sheep. I must bring
them. I haven't brought them yet, but
I will bring them. I'll bring them to faith and
of the knowledge, the saving knowledge, the excellent knowledge
of the Son of God. God has a purpose. And that's
why this world is still standing. It's not gotten any better. Now
let's go to my text. Genesis chapter 6, if you would.
Genesis chapter 6. God saw the wickedness of man,
and he hasn't changed. Now some deny this, and I'm not
surprised by it. The truth concerning the sinfulness
of man cannot be known by man. It can only be known as he's
taught of God, the Spirit of God. Now somebody will say, Bruce,
if man was this bad, if the thoughts of his heart were only evil continually,
if this is what man is in and of himself, in his awful, unregenerated
condition, He would know this. If man is as bad as you preachers
are telling us that he is, in his heart it couldn't be hid.
He'd have to acknowledge it. But brothers and sisters, that
it is as bad as the Scripture says it is, there's no doubt.
The Lord Jesus said, out of the heart, and that's the man's problem. Out of the heart, proceed thus.
idolatrous and adulterous and fornication and thefts, lying,
false witness. These things come from within
the man and they defile a man. He who knows the heart says the
heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked.
But that he does not know it and does not confess it is also
true. And you know why, don't you?
And I know why. Because his own heart has deceived
him. He cannot know his heart because it's deceitful above
all things and desperately wicked. My first point this evening here
at my text is this, and the title of what I've got to say this
evening I guess could be summed up in this. I will destroy building
an ark. I will destroy building an ark. And my first point is this, God
saw the wickedness of man. That's what you see there in
verse 5. Men are apt to think because they can see no sin in
themselves that God sees no sin in them. Men live without fear
of their sins because they imagine that God can see no clearer than
they can. Listen, an unregenerate man is
blind, so he dreams that God is blind also. But God is a discerning
God. He has eyes. He sees what man
cannot see. He sees sin in men where men
cannot see it in themselves. And God sees it where nobody
sees it. He sees it in the imagination. That is where it's conceived.
God sees sin when it takes its first breath. He sees sin where
it's born in the heart, before it's manifested through the hands
or the eyes. God saw the wickedness of man. He knows who it's against. Whether it's against heaven or
earth or both. God is able to discern the thoughts
and intents of the heart. And He's able to set forth that
sin like none of us can imagine. The eyes of the Lord are in every
place, beholding the evil and the good. God can see sin. God saw the wickedness of man. Secondly, from my text, I want
to say this. When God sees sin, when He sees
sin, when He sees sin, He sees it for what it is. He puts a
proper name upon sin. We see it as errors. We see it
as slips and mistakes. Ain't that what you said? I have
fell short. I have fell real short. But God
sees it worse than that. When God sees sin, He puts a
name upon it that suits its nature in the light of His holiness.
And He calls it wickedness. He calls it evil. He calls it
abomination. And he says this about it. When
I see it, he says, I mark it with a pen of iron and with a
point of a diamond. God can never justify sin. He
never has justified the first sin and never will justify sin.
He sees sin for what it is, in its true nature, in the light
of His holiness. He cannot justify sin. When He
looks upon it, He discerns it and addresses it as it is. God
saw the wickedness of man. Notice something else here in
this verse 5. It teaches us this. God sees
sin as to its degree. God saw the wickedness of man,
that it was great in the earth. That it was great in its degree. Other places He said that their
iniquities were not yet full. When you and I read the Scriptures,
we see there are sins worse than others. All sin is sin. I know that. And all sin deserves
eternal punishment. I realize that. That's what the
Scripture teaches. But there are some sins that
God will tolerate for a while. While there are other sins upon
which He suddenly and without any remedy brings judgment. He saw their sins that they were
great. Cain approached unto the Lord without a blood sacrifice.
And the Lord did not destroy him. The Lord warned him. The Lord reproved him. You come
as your brother did and you'll be accepted. You do well and
you'll be accepted. But he hardened his heart and he slew his brother. And
then the Lord spoke to him and said, now you're cursed. Was
he not cursed before? Sure he was, but not like he
is now. Now I will tolerate you no further. Now you're cut off without any
hope of remedy. God saw the wickedness of man
that it was great. So great, He said, I'll not tolerate
it anymore. I imagine, brothers and sisters,
when Achan took that Babylonish garment and took a few wedges
that there were greater sins than that? What was that? There was the abundance of garments
and wedges. And He just took a few and hid
them. But it was the circumstances under which He took those garments
and stole those wedges. They were cursed and the Lord
had already warned them. And the Lord said, I'll tolerate
it no longer. In other words, I have discerned
your sin to be great in my eyes. And nobody but God discerns that.
He discerns sin as to its degree. We see men who have lived 75
and 80 and 90 years old, living in their wickedness, but God
tolerates them. And we see other young men 15
and 18 and 20 years old cut off in their youth. Why is that? God discerns sin. And He says,
when we will not tolerate it anymore. Fearful thing, isn't
it? Fourthly is this. Let's learn
this. We learn here how the sin of
man affects the heart of God. In verse 6, he says this, "...it
repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth." And everybody
knows what that means, so I'm not going to try to explain that.
But the last portion said, "...it grieved him at his heart." Who
is he talking about? He's talking about a world of
ungodly, lost, unregenerate people. And yet, "...it grieved him at
his heart." You talk to lost people sometimes
and they get this in their thoughts that, well, it doesn't matter
what I do. I'm lost anyway. Someday I'm
going to seek the Lord. At least that's what their heart
tells them. But until I do, it makes no difference
what I do. I can live in sin all I want.
It makes no difference. But here we're told that it does. You say it makes no difference,
but what does God think? When God looks upon your sin,
what does He say? His heart is grieved over that
sin. If the sins of God's children,
what they do, sometimes bring extreme measures
from their Father in heaven, to take a child, or to hide his
face, or to weaken their bodies, or to cause them to sleep. If
sometimes their action causes Him to deal in extreme measures
with them, how much more, how much more Does he take heed and
look upon and discern the sins of the ungodly? The Lord loveth righteousness,
and he hateth, he abhorreth iniquity. It grieves him at his heart. God judges the righteous, and
He's angry with the wicked every day. If He turn not, He will
whit His sword. He hath bent His bow." God said, I've looked upon the
sin, and it's wickedness in my sight. It's evil in my sight. And He had only two options available
to Him. One, He said, I'm going to destroy.
I'm going to destroy, or I'm going to be gracious and
safe. Ain't no other options, is there? Either God must destroy by His
justice, or He must save by His grace. I know men hope for another
Because men think they're not bad enough to go to hell, but
they're not good enough to go to heaven, so they dream that
there's someplace in between. But there's not. God tells us
in His Word that He has no other options. I will destroy or I
will save. First of all, let's look at the
destruction. Here's one of the most fearful
things in verse 7. Look at this. Here's what the
Lord said. I will destroy man whom I have
created from the face of the earth." What a most fearful,
fearful word. Here's the Creator speaking of
the creature, and He has words of threatening. I will destroy
him whom I have created, the Almighty Creator that hung the
stars in the heavens, made the heavens by the word of His power.
made the earth and upholds it. Put the breath in man that walks
in this earth. Here's the mighty Creator. And
what's He doing? He's threatening His creature. I will destroy man whom I have
created. I've made him. He's mine. I own him. I brought him from his mother's
belly. I gave breath in his lungs, a beat to his heart. I've upheld
him as he's lived in my world. He's mine. I'm his creator."
And now what does he say? I will destroy him whom I have
created. What a dreadful word. I extended
life to him. I'll extend life to him no longer. He that made them will not have
mercy on them. And he that farmed them will
show them no favor." I will destroy him. I will. I will. Can anybody thwart that will?
Who can deliver out of God's hands when He said, I will? I'll
shut him up in hell, and who's going to open him? I'll whip
my glittering sword in my hand, shall take hold on judgment,
and who is that man or angel that can deliver out of my hands? I am the Creator. I will destroy
my creature, and I'll repay those to their face that hate me."
To their face. Sometimes when we as parents
used to correct our children, We used to make them look at
us. They didn't want to turn away
while we sought to rebuke them and reprove them. But we made
them look at us. We'd get them under the chin.
You look. You look at me. You look at me in the eye. And
why did we do that? Why did we do that? We wanted
to make certain they knew why we were doing what we were doing.
You have done wrong. You have rebelled. And now I
am correcting you." And the Lord said this. He said,
I kept silent when you did thus and thus. And you did this sin
and you did that sin. And I kept silent. I didn't say anything. And because
I kept silent, you thought I was just like you. But He said, I
will reprove you. and I'll set your sins in order
right before your eyes. I'll make you to know why I'm
dealing with you. I'll make you to know what I'm
going to do with you. I'm going to destroy you and
I'm going to make you know why I'm destroying you. How dreadful! I will destroy
man whom I have created, not his home, not his family, not
his health, but the man himself. I will destroy man. And consider
secondly what he said about him, I will destroy man from the face
of the earth. Earth is our natural habitat.
It's our home. I don't mean any irreverence
when I say this, but it's really our mother, isn't it? Mother
Earth. Out of the dust was you taken,
and to dust you shall return. Earth supports us. It feeds us. We breathe Earth's air. God made
the earth for man, and He made man for this earth. It's natural
to man. Man is at home on this earth. If God, by His justice, takes
man from the face of this earth, his home, his light, his comfort,
his living, what's to happen to it? Where's God going to put him? And the thought's dreadful to
contemplate. Don't fear that one who kills
your body. There's nothing else He can do.
But I'll forewarn you whom yet to fear. Fear the Creator. Fear your Creator. He has power
to cast into hell. He has power to take you from
this earth, your home, where you're comfortable, this earth
that upholds you and feeds you. He has power to take you from
the face of this earth and to cast you into eternal torment. Hell is called a bottomless pit.
I don't know if it's literally a bottomless pit. It's called
outer darkness, and I don't know if it's really outer darkness.
I don't know if it's that as you and I know it. It's called
a fire that shall not be quenched. And I think the reason the Lord
Jesus describes it like this is to let us know hell was not
made for humanity. It's not natural to humanity. It was made to punish sin. And there won't be anything there
to uphold a man. He'll be always fallen. There
won't be nothing there to ease him. He'll always be restless.
There won't be any life there. And notice this. I will destroy
man whom I have created, both man and beast, man and the creeping
thing, man and the fowls of the earth." And makes no distinction
between man and the beast. Oh, what a dreadful thing that
God would look upon a man's sin and say, I'm not going to show
him any more consideration, any more sympathy. than you would
a mad dog, a worm, or a spider that you could easily crush under
your feet. One of the things that amazes
me when I read how easily the Lord Jesus Christ can speak of
a man's destruction, it breaks my heart sometimes to read such
things as this. This is coming from the mouth
of the Son of God, meek and lowly in heart, Him that can be touched
with the feelings of our infirmities. Here's what He says on the Day
of Judgment to His angels, "...bring hither My enemies, that would
not but I should reign over them, and slay them before Me." Don't
slay them until you get them here. Don't slay them behind
my back. Bring Him here before my eyes,
before my feet, before my throne, where I can watch you. I want
to see them be slaughtered." Can you imagine that from the
Son of God? We read of the wrath of God, and it's fearful. But
to read of the wrath of the Lamb is both fearful and heartbreaking. Friend, how come you in here
are having not on a wedding garment? bind him hand and foot, and take
him away, and cast him, cast him, as a man would a filthy
rag, cast him into outer darkness." Verse 8, God has two options. Destroy man or save him. But how is he going to save him?
How is God going to save him? Verse 8 tells us, Noah found
grace in the eyes of the Lord. Aren't you finally glad I got
off of that first part? Did I worry you out? Don't it
break your heart to have to sit and listen to that? What if I
just quit now? Our hearts would break without
hope. Our eyes would well up with tears if we could not hear
of free grace. Because we know that God is the
God of justice, and He must destroy man because of his sin. But God
is the God of grace, and He must save. Somebody said He could
have damned us all. No, no, no. No, He could not
have. He could not have. Where's grace?
Where's mercy? Where's love? That's His chief
glory. He's going to save, but how is
He going to save? By grace. This is the first time
this Word is mentioned in all the Word of God. First time you
see it's mentioned right here. We see it. We see salvation back
there in the garden. When our first parents had sinned
and God slew those animals and said, here's your covering. You're
naked. But I provided you. There it
is. There's salvation in it. I provided you a covering. And
we see salvation applied because the Lord Himself clothed them
with those garments. They didn't do it. He did it.
And we see salvation continued because Abel got a hold of it.
And Seth got a hold of it. and it continued in that holy
seed. And then we see salvation completed
in Enoch because he was changed and he was glorified. What a
salvation! But he never had put a name on
it before. Never had a name. What is it that brings salvation,
that provides it and applies it and continues it and finishes
it? What name, Lord, are you going
to put on such a salvation? Well, He says, you're grace.
We're going to call it grace. And He begins here by calling
it grace, and He never quits all the way through the Bible.
He calls it grace. Ain't this a sweet word? Ain't
this a sweet way to introduce grace? Oh, what a sweet way to
introduce grace. My daughter-in-law, she quit
coming to church. Bless her heart. She told me one day, she said,
every time I come down there, I just leave feeling like a dog.
Lee felt like a dog. That's where grace begins. That's
where we begin, where I begin this evening. A just God, ready
to punish sin. God saw the wickedness of man. Well then, how sweet is this
word. But Noah found grace. Every imagination of the thoughts
of the heart was only evil continually, but Noah found grace. I will
destroy man, but Noah found grace." What a sweet introduction for
one of the sweetest words in all the Word of God. This is
the first time you read of it here. Let me tell you the first
three or four or five times you read of it in the New Testament.
The first time is in Luke 2.40. We're speaking of the Lord Jesus
even as a child. It said this, "...the child grew,
and waxed strong in spirit, and was filled with wisdom, and the
grace of God was upon him." Did He need grace? He did it for
our representative. Grace wasn't upon Jesus Christ
as a private person. But Jesus Christ is not a private
person. He's a public person. He's a
representative. So God put all of this grace
upon Him for us. Listen to the second time this
is mentioned in John 1.14. The Word was made flesh and dwelt
among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory of the only begotten
of the Father, full of grace. He was in our humanity, but he
had a heart bigger than this universe. And it was full of
grace. Full of grace. And listen to
the next verse. I told you he is a representative.
Listen to the next verse. And of his fullness have all
we received, and grace for great. And listen to the next verse.
Here's the fourth place it's mentioned. The law was given
by Moses. To prove our guilt. To curse
us. To say, I'm going to cast you
out. I'm going to damn you if I can. The law was given by Moses,
but grace came by Jesus Christ. Grace to save us. The fourth place this is mentioned
is in Acts 4, verse 33. Great grace was upon them. Great grace was upon Him. Now
great grace is upon them. Now those who don't know how
to interpret Scripture, they come here to Genesis chapter
6, and they say, Noah found grace because he was a just man and
perfect in his generation, and he walked with God. But wait
just a minute. What went first? Was it the sin of man? that we
just read about first? Wickedness, evil, and justice
followed with her threatenings, I will destroy. Then what came? Only grace came then. When there
was no goodness to be found. when there was no merit anywhere
in all of this world. Then, and not until then, did
Noah find grace. Grace cannot act where there
is merit in man. Grace will not do what a man
can do for himself. Grace cannot save a man who can
save himself. By grace are you saved through
faith, and that not of yourselves. It's the gift of God, not of
works, lest any man should boast. Let me read you a scripture.
If you'll hold that there and turn quickly over to Isaiah chapter
57. Isaiah chapter 57. Here's grace. Look at this. In verse 17. Verse 16, he says this, Isaiah
57, 16. I will not contend forever, neither
will I be always wroth, for the Spirit shall fail before me and
the souls which I have made. For the iniquity of His covetousness
was I wroth, I smote Him, I hid me and was wroth, and he went
on forwardly in the way of his heart, and I have seen his ways,
and I'll destroy him." Was that what he said? That's what he should have done.
But he said, I've seen his ways, and I will heal him. I will heal
him and restore comfort to him and to his mourners. Ain't that grace? in whom we
have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins according
to, according to the riches. Not according to the greatness
of our merit. Not according to the strictness
of our religion. Not according to our good character
and our fine conduct. Not according to the power of
our free will. but according to the riches of
His grace." Back over to my text, one more
thing, and I'll close with this. Verse 8 says, "...the Lord gave
Noah grace." He found grace in the eyes of the Lord. And in verse 14 through verse
20, we're told now how grace is going to save him. How was
grace to get him through these waters of judgment and bring
him out to a new world, safe and sound? Well, he begins here
in verse 14, and he tells Noah to make him an ark, and he gives
the dimensions of it, 540 foot, possibly the length of it and
the 90 foot the width of it and 50 or 55 foot the height of it. make it out of gopher wood, pitch
it inside and without, and he gave this pattern. And if you
want to know what all that means, you can consult with Brother
Arthur Pink. Man, there's nobody that I know of can type something
like that, man. Somebody said the other day he
could type a blade of grass, and he probably could. So if
you want to know what this means, you'll have to go to him. But
what this means to me is this. God knows what it's going to
take to save a man. And He's not going to leave it
to chance. He's not going to leave it to Noah's imagination
or his ability. He's going to design it Himself. That's what that means to me.
And God alone knows the greatness of our sins. And He knows what it's going
to take to save us from it. Therefore, He sent us a great
one, a Savior. He is only begotten Son. You see that ark in the midst
of those waters? The wind whipping, the waves
beating against it. It stands on one end and then
on another. Sometimes it seems as though
those giant waves are going to cover it up. that those inside
are safe. They may not always realize it.
In their own apprehensions, they may be filled with doubts and
fears, but they are safe. As far as we know, a drop of
water never touched them. The ark shielded them from these
awful waves and dark waters of God's judgment. They were safe. And that ark landed on Mount
Ariac. It came to rest, and they got
out in a new world. That's the way God saved them.
What does that mean to you and I? We've already heard it, haven't
we? The Lord Jesus in our humanity. He came, a man of sorrows acquainted
with grief. As much man, as Brother Scott
used to say, as if he's not God. as much God as if He's not man.
And upon the cross of Calvary, our sins were put in Him, and
we were put in Him. And the ways of God's wrath and
billows went over His head and made Him groan. Will it crush
Him? Will He survive this? Will He
die never to come up again? Finally, He says, And what happens? There is no more judgment upon
sin. It's all been poured out. There is no more sin. There is
no more sin. But I feel it. I feel it too. But God don't see it. I've often
said this. There was a time in my life when
I thought, I don't see any sin in me. But God saw it. And now
I can't see anything but sin. And he sees none. Why? It's gone. Behold the Lamb of
God that taketh away at a great price to Himself, at a great
cost to Himself. He took sin away. He tasted death
for us. And now there's no sin. It's
gone. There's no judgment. It's already
been accomplished. And someday, by grace, we'll
land in Mount Heaven. The top will finally be taken
off of our ark that we're stuck in here. And oh, the Son of God
will shine into our souls as He never shined before. And we'll
step out on Heaven's coast free. Praise God, free at last. A new
world. God bless you.