Genesis chapter number 4 and chapter number 5 this morning. Genesis chapter number 4 and chapter number 5. After righteous Abel was killed by his unrighteous and unrepentant brother Cain, we saw how the complaining, bellyaching, and full of self-pity Cain moved to dwell in the land of Nod. course means wondering. We saw he began family with his wife. We talked about where he got his wife last week because a lot of folks get hung up on stupid questions. They don't like the answers to them and they'll reject the faith if they don't get the answers that they're expecting. Well, just because you didn't get the answer that you expected, understand that it is the answer that scripture gives and we need to accept God's word. So Cain moves. Cain begins his family. So what becomes of a society built on rebellion? Because that's what Cain was living in, rebellion. He was living in rebellion against the Lord God, and he was angrily defiant of the Lord's laws and his sacrifices. What happens with a society that is that way? Well, we're beginning to see in our own land. People turn their heart away from God, turn their heart away from God's Word. It's good for our society, not one little bit. If you wonder why wickedness is on the rise, and why we see the things that we see in our day, it's because our society that we're living in now is built on rebellion against the Lord God, His laws, and of course His Son, Jesus Christ, who is the sacrifice. Now we're not given the number of years that each lived, and I'm not going to take the time to read through Cain's genealogy this morning. A bunch of words I would butcher there anyway, the names, but we'll mention a couple here. We're given a line of Cain's descendants. And we're not given the number of years that they each lived like we are in chapter number 5 with the righteous line of Seth. But Cain's descendants are given to us now to Lamech and his sons. And Lamech was the seventh from Adam in Cain's line, and Enoch was the seventh from Adam in Seth's line. So it's possible that Lamech and Enoch were contemporaries. Can't be dogmatic about that, but it's possible. Just want you to understand that. But what we do know about Lamech is that he altered the plan of God. and was the first mentioned who married two women. His family produced musical instruments, his family produced implements to make life more enjoyable, but in spite of what might have seemed to be an advancing and prosperous and good life, evil was also advancing in his day. That can be seen in the fact that Lamech felt like he deserved greater leniency than Cain in any vengeance that might come against him because of a man that he had killed in self-defense. We'll get to verse 23 and 24. We'll read this. It says, And Lamech said unto his wives, Ada and Zillah, Hear my voice, ye wives of Lamech. Hearken unto my speech, for I have slain a man to my wounding and a young man to my hurt. In other words, a self-defense killing there. If Cain be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold. And so we see that he thought he deserved more than Cain and any vengeance that the family might seek against him. But in strong contrast with the godless line of Cain was the righteous line of Seth, first mentioned here in verse 25 and 26 of chapter 4. So Zanadab knew his wife again, and she bare a son and called his name Seth. For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew. And to Seth, to him also there was born a son, and he called his name Enos. Then began men to call upon the name of the Lord. So we have the beginning of Seth's righteous line, and the line from Seth, it was a line of faith. Eve saw Seth as a provision from God according to her statement of faith. She saw that God had given her this seed. So Cain became associated with wandering. And Seth, of course, means appointed, put, set, settled, or placed. He had a settled life. Amen? While Cain, as the head of apostasy, is made a wanderer, Seth, from whom the promised seed would come. Remember the seed back in Genesis 3.15 that God promised? Well, God was going to send it through the godly line. And so now we move to chapter number five, and in my scripture I have written at the top of chapter number five, death chapter. Death chapter. That's because one of the most prevalent phrases in this chapter is, and he died. You'll read it over and over, and he died, and he died. Not only is the righteous line of Seth listed from Adam to Noah and his son Shem, but there are some lessons that we can learn from this chapter and that phrase, and he died. Number one, God's word is true. God had told Adam, the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die. In other words, death was going to be reality. It was surely going to come to pass. Now even though it was hundreds of years later before Adam lost his physical life, we know that he died spiritually immediately and he had need of God doing something to reconcile him. God's word is true. Number two, our sin affects our children. We can't get away from that. Romans 5, 12, Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon all men. Generational, amen. It's going to pass to your children, it's going to pass to your grandchildren, You need God to do something for you, and you need God to do something for them, and praise the Lord, he sent Jesus Christ, even though our sin affects our children. And there, the third thing, death passes to all men because of sin. The wages of sin is death, but praise God, the gift of God's eternal life through Jesus Christ, our Lord. We see the reality of Hebrews 9.27 here, and as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this, the judgment. Now some might rightly ask the question, well what about what happened to Enoch? When you read this chapter, the death chapter, you notice that one man does not die. In fact, we read in Hebrews 11 verse number 5 that talks about this area of scripture. It says that Enoch was translated that he should not see death. What about, what about Enoch? What about Elijah? Remember the story of Elijah, how he was called up into heaven in a whirlwind? Yeah? I've had a few dreams when we lived in Indiana. You've got whirlwinds up there quite a bit. You have them around here too, but I had a couple of dreams of being caught up in a whirlwind. It was just a dream is all mine was, but Elijah was more than a dream. He got caught up by a whirlwind into heaven. Now, that's in 2 Kings 2.11. Now some think that Enoch and Elijah, because they didn't die, They quite possibly might be the two witnesses in Revelation chapter 11. I'm not going to turn over there and read that. But if you're interested, you can read Revelation 11 verses 3 through 13. There are two witnesses that are there who they preach for three and a half years and nobody can touch them. Then all of a sudden their lives are taken. And then they're caught back up into heaven. So, anyway, is it Enoch and Elijah? We're not told. But what about the saints that are alive at the rapture? You know, if a supporting enemy wants to die, what about us? And I hope to be one of those, amen? I know you probably do, too. You want to be caught up in the clouds with the Lord, to meet the Lord in the air. Let's take a look for a minute at 1 Corinthians chapter number 15. Hold your place there. We'll be back to Genesis 5 here in just a little bit. But in 1 Corinthians chapter number 15, of course, Paul is writing to the church at Corinth about the matter of the resurrection. And with regard to the resurrection, he talks about the resurrection of the saints when the Lord comes back. The saints that are, especially saints that are alive at the rapture, look at 1 Corinthians 15. In verse number 50, he says there, Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. Behold, I show you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed in a moment in the twinkling of an eye. at the last trump, for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed, talking about those that are alive, amen, for this corruptible must put on incorruption, this mortal must put on immortality, So when this corruptible shall I put on incorruption, and this mortal shall I put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. And we say amen to that, don't we? But when it talks about being changed, it means talking about being made different. You can't go into heaven like you are. I can't go into heaven like I am. We know that death is a separation. Physical death is a separation of the soul and spirit from the body. When a loved one dies, we talk about it, they're really alive somewhere. We hope that they're alive with the Lord, amen. We hope and pray that that be the case, but what they did with Jesus while they were alive, that determines that. But physical death, they're separated from us, right? You don't get to interact with your loved one anymore. Physical death is a separation of the soul and spirit from the body. Spiritual death is a separation of the soul and spirit from God. Now, the rapture could be said to be a form of death in the sense that we will be separated from this body of death And given a new body. It's going to be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. We just read that. It's not going to be like it is. That which is corruptible, and this is definitely corruptible, it's going to put on incorruption. And this is definitely mortal. You live long enough, you're going to die. Well, we're going to put on immortality. We're not going to die in that body. And so we'll be also separated from this world and be at home with the Lord. So when you talk about death being separation, it is a type of death, even though we won't have the pain of death, amen? But let's go back to our passage. I just wanted to mention Enoch and Elijah and the saints at the rapture with regard to this matter of It's appointed and the man wants to die, okay? Because in reality, the scripture is true and that is a type of death, of being separated from this life. But we see in Genesis 5, and I'm not going to read all of the genealogy here. I want to focus in on verse number 21, down through verse number Number 24. Look at verse 21. Enoch lived sixty and five years and begat Methuselah. And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years and begat sons and daughters. And all the days of Enoch were three hundred, sixty, and five. He had a short life compared to others that are in here when you read this. Enoch walked with God and he was not for God took him. So Enoch is one of two people mentioned in the book of Genesis who walked with God. The other one we will see a little bit later when we just begin talking about Noah and the flood. Noah walked with God as well in Genesis chapter number 6 and verse number 9. However, I want you to note that it does not say that Enoch walked with God until after his first son Methuselah was born. Up to that point, he was not walking with God. But after Methuselah was born, he walked with God, began walking with God. In Hebrew language, the name Methuselah literally means this. When he is dead, it shall be sent. When he is dead, it shall be sent. What will be sent? Well, why did he not walk with God? I think the message he got when he was supposed to name Methuselah this, I think God apparently told him that when Methuselah died, the world was going to be judged and destroyed by a terrible flood of waters that God would sin. And Methuselah lived right up to the point just before that took place. Is that why Methuselah lived longer than any man in the history of the world? He lived 969 years. That's a long time. I mean, you just think about 969 years ago and what was going on in the world then. That's a long time. But God was not willing that any should perish and was giving sinful mankind as much time for repentance as possible. But listen, it wasn't happening. People were not repenting. People were not getting right with God. People were getting more wicked as the days went by. 1 Timothy 2.4 says that God would have all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. Look at 2 Peter chapter number 3 with me. 2 Peter chapter number 3. 2 Peter 3 talks about the days that we live in, the days where there's a lot of scoffers. 2 Peter 3, look at verse number 1. And Peter says, the second epistle, beloved, I write unto you in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance. It's a good thing to have our minds stirred up, isn't it? It's a good thing to be reminded, and I'm reminding you this morning. about some things. He says, verse 2, that ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and the commandment of us as the apostles of the Lord and Savior, Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days, that's the days that we're living in, in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, where is the promise of his coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. We live in a day of scoffers. And we live in a day of folks questioning, well, you know, you Bible thumpers, you think that the Lord Jesus is going to come back and rapture you out of here. Well, where is he at? And some people are falling away from clinging on to that truth. They're saying, well, maybe we got it wrong. Maybe the Lord's not going to come back and take us out before the tribulation period. Maybe the tribulation period's already on us. They look at all the stuff that's going on in the world and they talk about the tribulation that we see. Well, that's not the tribulation period that we see. I believe the Lord's giving us a taste just a taste of what it's going to be like after we're out of here, on this earth. And the scoffers are going to walk, and the scoffers are going to talk. They're going to walk after their own lust, they're going to question the Word of God, but we stand by God's Word. Look at verse 5. For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old and the earth standing out of the water and in the water. They deny the fact of creation. They deny the flood that we'll be seeing in a couple of weeks when we study Noah's life. It says in verse number six, whereby the world that then was being overflowed with water perished. They deny all that. 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. But beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness, but is longsuffering to usward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance, and we'll leave off reading there. We know that the Lord is long-suffering. Thank God. Aren't you glad God's long-suffering? I'm glad because I didn't receive the Lord the first time I heard the gospel. Did you? Some may have, but I didn't. I'm thankful for the long-suffering of God. Enoch was the first recorded preacher, and he preached on the coming judgment. In fact, we read about that in the little book of Jude, right before the book of Revelation. Jude 14 and 15 says, And Enoch, also the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, talking about apostates, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousand of his saints to execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. We say, is the Lord really going to judge folks? He is. He is. And we say, even so come Lord Jesus. So what does the Bible say? What does it mean when it says that Enoch walked with God? Walking with God is the biblical expression for having a living, active faith shown by having fellowship with and obedience to God that results in divine favor or grace. Hebrews 11.5 says that Enoch pleased God. And in the next verse, Hebrews 11.6 tells us that without faith, it's impossible to please Him. You can't please God without faith. So how does one walk with God? We ask the question, what are the essentials of walking with God? Number one, faith. is essential in walking with God. Again, Hebrews 11, 6, without faith it's impossible to please God. Faith, simply speaking, is taking God at His word. We must believe what God says about us and our sin, amen? You know, some people don't believe that they're sinners. Some people believe they're okay just the way they are. We're all sinners, and our sin is against God. Until somebody sees themselves as a sinner, see their sin as being against God, they're not going to get saved. They're not going to come to the Lord. Another thing, we must believe what God says about judgment. Our sin deserves judgment, and God will judge sin. I'm glad that my sin was judged in the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. And if you don't have the Lord Jesus Christ bearing the judgment of your sin, you will bear the judgment of your sin. We must believe what God says about the Savior. God loves us and sent His Son into the world to take the judgment of our sins. Praise God for that. And we must believe what God says about godly living. You know, after God saves us, did you know that He expects us to live for Him? We're going to see more about this in just a minute when we get further on in the message. But faith is essential in walking with God. Obedience is essential in walking with God. James 1.22 says, But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. And then in James 2 verse number 26 says, For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. Listen. Without obedience, it's not real faith. It's just a mental assent to some facts. That's all you've got. You don't really have faith. Well, I believe that Jesus lived a long time ago, and I believe that He was killed, and I believe that He arose from the grave. If you believe it in your heart, it'll make a difference in your walk. It just would. Believing it in your head's not gonna get you anywhere. Faith without obedience is not true faith. Another thing we see here is fellowship is essential in walking with God. And this is where I wanna plant here for the rest of the message, if I might. Fellowship with God involves God talking to man. I'm glad that God has given us his word. That's how he speaks to us. through His Word and through the Holy Spirit that He's given to indwell the hearts of those that are saved. Understand, and I want you to grab a hold of this concept, the Spirit will never leave you contrary to the Word of God. See, the Holy Spirit is the one that is the author of the book. And if you're saying, well, the Spirit told me to do, I know the Bible says that, but the Spirit told me to do this and so, uh-uh. Spirit's not going to be contrary to himself. Fellowship with God involves God talking to man, and God does that through His Word and His Holy Spirit indwelling the believer. Fellowship with God requires time. If you're going to have God speaking to your heart, you know you've got to spend time in the Word of God. You do. You have to spend time under the preaching of God's Word. That's why you're here this morning. I hope to have God speak to your heart through the message that He gives the man of God that stands behind the pulpit. Fellowship with God requires time. Fellowship with God requires attention. requires attention. Not only just being here, but you've got to pay attention to what's being said. And you've got to give attention to what's being said. And you've got to be affected by it. Amen? That's giving attention. Fellowship with God requires an open heart. Are you open to what God wants to give you in your life? Fellowship with God involves God talking to man. Second thing here, fellowship with God involves talking to God. God talks to us through His Word. How do we talk to Him? Through prayer. We talk to Him through prayer. Prayer requires time. We're not going to turn this morning to these passages, but let me encourage you. I've given you the address there. Daniel, in Daniel chapter 6, verse 10 and 11, if you remember the story of how Daniel's associates were trying to get to him, and the only thing they could find to get Daniel with was with regard to his God. And he was one that was faithful to pray. And he prayed three times a day. Yeah, he did. And he was open about it. He didn't have a problem with folks seeing him praying. David, in Psalm 55 verse 17, said this. He said, Evening and morning and at noon will I pray and cry aloud, and he shall hear my voice. Prayer requires time. Prayer requires reverence and humility. I do want you to turn here. Just flip back, if you're there in 2 Peter, flip back a few pages until you get to the book of James, chapter number 4. James, chapter number 4. And I want to pay attention to verses 6 through 10 here. James 4, verse 6. It's talking about God here, but He, God, giveth more grace. Wherefore He saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto, what? The humble. Submit yourselves, therefore, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners. Purify your hearts, ye double-minded. Be afflicted, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up. Prayer requires reverence, humility with God. You can see also in the book of Daniel, Daniel chapter 9, I'm not going to turn there, but a great prayer prayed by Daniel in his day, and prayed according to what he saw in the book of Jeremiah. He was reading the book of Jeremiah and he came to a realization of he was standing on the verge of some prophecy being fulfilled in his day. God's people were fixing to be out from under the 70 years of hardship there at the hands of the Babylonians. God gave him that revelation from reading the book of Jeremiah. Prayer requires reverence and humility, and you see him there not demanding God, but you see him humbly seeking God. Don't ever think that you can go to God and demand something. That's the wrong attitude. We go to God and we seek God's hand and we seek God's face. We seek His will in our lives. Prayer requires purity. You're there in James 4. Look at what it talks about, our motives. James 4, verse number 1. From which come wars and fighting among you? Come they not hence even of your lusts that war in your members? Ye lust and have not, ye kill and desire to have and cannot obtain. Ye fight and war, yet ye have not because ye ask not. Notice verse 3. He ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lust." That means wrong motive. You're not really seeking God's hand, you're seeking what you deem as being best for you. Prayer requires purity. Isaiah 59 verse 1 and 2 says, Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, neither His ear heavy, that it cannot hear. But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid His face from you, that He will not hear. Prayer requires purity. Fellowship with God involves God talking to man, involves talking to God in prayer. Fellowship with God brings forth a walk with God. Okay, and this is where I want to focus for the end of the message here, as we draw this to a close. Fellowship with God brings forth a walk with God. A walk in fellowship with someone means you have to be walking in the same direction with them. That's pretty simple, isn't it? My wife and I walked together yesterday. We were out at the thing they were having down at the city, the festival that they had. Well, in order to keep from losing one another, we made sure that we were walking together. Got a lot of folks out there. And a walk in fellowship means you have to walk in the same direction with that person and walk really in lockstep with them. What do I mean by lockstep? We've all seen military marching, right? And they're all alike in their marching. 2, 3, 4, and you know, some of the foreign armies look a little strange in the way they march compared to the way we march, but they're all in lockstep, aren't they? They just are. To be in lockstep is to be in perfect conformity or unison. How does the Bible describe one's walk with God? Well, Amos 3 and verse 3 says, Can two walk together except they be agreed? Can two walk together so that they would agree? You've got to walk in agreement with God. When you are walking with God, you're going to walk in what the scripture says we need to be walking in. And I've given you several things here. Number one, walking in newness of life. Listen to Romans six, verse four. Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death, that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. So when you're saved, you're to walk in the newness that you are. God made you a new, a new creature in Christ Jesus, and you're walking that newness of life. We're walking good works. Ephesians 2 verse 10. We love Ephesians 2 verse 8 and 9. For by grace are ye saved through faith, and not out of yourselves. It is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast. But it doesn't stop there. Next verse says, for we are his workmanship, God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. You got God's grace in your life? Praise God. Don't stop there. God wants you walking in the good works that He has ordained before that you walk in. We're to walk in the Spirit. Galatians chapter number 5, walk in the Spirit and you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh is what it tells us there and it tells us the difference between walking in the things of the flesh, the works of the flesh and what they bring forth in our life and it's not a good list when you take a look at it. But it compares that with walking in the Spirit and what the fruit of the Spirit brings forth in our life. Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance, those things. Amen? We're to walk in the Spirit. Look at Ephesians 5. Ephesians 5 talks about walking in love here. Different things involved in walking with God. Walking in newness of life, walking in good works, walking in the Spirit, walking in love. Look at verse number 1, Ephesians 5 verse 1. Be therefore followers of God as dear children. That word followers is talking about being an imitator. You see what God's doing, you imitate what He's doing. It says there in verse 2, "...and walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given Himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savor." But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you as becometh saints, neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient, but rather giving of thanks. For this you know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Let no man deceive you with vain words, for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. Be not ye therefore partakers with them. God has a right to tell us how to walk. We're to walk in love. We're not to walk in darkness. Look at verse 8. For you were sometimes darkness, but now are you light in the Lord. Walk as children of light. Verse number 11 says, Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. I'll leave you to read the rest of the verses there, verses 1 through 16. Part of that walk in love. We're to walk worthy of the Lord. A few pages over to your right, you'll find the little book of Colossians. Look at Colossians in chapter number 1. in verse number 10, where Paul prays ten things. He had five things, or five desires, we could say, that God has for His church. And he prayed for those things. He prayed that in verse number 10, chapter 1, verse 10, that ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing. God wants us to walk a worthy walk. being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God. Look at chapter 2, verse number 6. Chapter 2, verse number 6. As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in Him. How did we receive Christ Jesus? By grace through faith. How are we to walk? By grace through faith. Amen. And it goes on to tell us, rooted and built up in Him, established in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. Look at chapter number four, chapter number four, verse number five. Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming at the time. We're walking in wisdom. That's a worthy walk, walking worthy of the Lord. Look at the next book, 1 Thessalonians. You're right there. Look at 1 Thessalonians chapter number two. Look at verse number 11 and 12. Number two, verse 11 and 12, and you know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you as the father doth his children, that ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you into his kingdom and glory. Walk worthy of the Lord. Amen. Look at chapter 4, verse number 1. For the more then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus Christ, that as you have received of us how you ought to walk and to please God, so you would abound more and more, walking worthy of the Lord. And then we're to walk in the light. Walk in the light. And we know that the Apostle John talked about this in 1 John 1, verse number 6. He says, If we say we have fellowship with Him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not the truth. But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another. And the blood of Jesus Christ, His Son, cleanses us from all sin. We say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. And then 1 John 2 and verse number 6 says, He that saith he abideth in him, ought himself also so to walk even as he walked. So let me ask this morning, how is your walk? Are you walking with God? It takes faith. Amen? It takes obedience. It takes fellowship. God speaking to you through his word, according to his spirit, and you speaking to God through prayer, and those things, when you got faith and obedience and fellowship, it brings forth a walk with God, walking in that newness of life, walking in good works, in the spirit, in the love, worthy of the Lord, and walking in the light. Let's make sure, believers, that we're walking with God, as Enoch walked with God. Amen. He's a picture of the rapture, him being called away. We're called to walk with God, and the Lord's going to come back, take us home. We'll be with Him. Amen. Let's pray. Father, I don't know the hearts of anybody here today, but I do know that You do. And Lord, if there's one here today that does not have that faith, that haven't come to a saving faith that makes a change in their life. Help them to find that saving faith this morning such that they become born again and walk in that newness of life that You have given. Lord, we just pray that those of us that are saved already, Lord, we see the importance of walking with You. If we're not walking as close to You as we should be, Lord, help us to draw nigh to You. Because we read a while ago in the book of James, if we draw nigh to You, You'll draw nigh to us. A lot of the reason why folks are not as close to the Lord as they ought to be is because they're not drawing near to the Lord. Help us that are saved, Lord, to draw near to You. so that you will draw near to us in our walk. Help us to walk in lockstep with you, we pray. Have your will in this invitation, we pray. Amen.