Genesis chapter 4, verses 25 and 26. Genesis 4, 25 and 26. And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son and named him Seth. For God has appointed another seed for me, instead of Abel, whom Cain killed. And as for Seth, to him also a son was born his name, and he named him Enosh. Then men began to call on the name of the Lord. The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God stands forever. You may be seated. Let's pray as we come to this portion of scripture in the book of Genesis. Let's pray. Our Father, we do thank you. We thank you that all scripture is given by inspiration of yourself and is truly profitable for doctrine, reproof, correction, instruction, and righteousness. And so help us as we think about this text and scripture that you would edify us and strengthen us and equip us and encourage us and convict us that we might be more faithful to you. We thank you that you, throughout history culminating in Christ, were raising up a seed that would be fulfilled in Jesus Christ. And so we thank you for this passage of scripture. Teach us, help me, fill me by your spirit to explain it accurately and rightly in Jesus' name. Amen. So obviously we've been working, I've been working through Genesis 1 to 11, very foundational on a biblical worldview, on how to think about why are we here? What's the purpose of life? What's wrong with the world? How would the world be made right? All those questions, at least in seed form, are answered in Genesis. Genesis answers why we're here. Well, we were created by God to give Him honor and glory. What's our purpose? To love God and serve God all the days of our life. What's wrong with the world? The fall and the effects of the fall in Genesis chapter 3. And how will all things be made right? Well, none other than the Genesis 3.15 promise of a seed of a woman, the seed of the woman who will bruise and crush the serpent's head. All that's in Genesis. And so Genesis is very foundational for what we believe and why we believe it. And we have seen in chapter 4, we have seen Adam and Eve, even in light of the fall, they had children. At first, they were given Cain and Abel, but as we'll see in this section of Scripture, 25 and 26, Cain murdered Abel because of his sinful anger because his brother was accepted by the Lord and his brother's sacrifice while he was rejected. And then we saw the reality of what punishments God put upon Cain because of his great wickedness. And then we saw, last sermon I preached in Genesis, the ungodly line of Cain. Cain's ungodly line that descended from him. We even saw the beginning and the foundation of polygamous marriages came from Lamech, a descendant of Cain. And now we will see in these verses, God having a solution, not that Cain's murder took God by surprise, God forbid, it was part of his sovereign plan, but we see here how God answered the dilemma of a seed who would be in the promised line of the seed of the woman. And so the main point of this sermon is Adam and Eve, were given Seth instead of Abel, and men began to call on the name of Jehovah. So my first point, Adam and Eve were given Seth instead of Abel. And my second point, men began to call on the name of Jehovah. I know it's the afternoon, we had lunch not long ago. My faith is if you need to pinch yourself or stand, I will be fine with that. If you need to stand or pinch yourself or do something, stay awake. I plead with you to take advantage of the hearing of the word of God, not because it's me, but because it's the word. And so whatever it takes for you to be as attentive as possible, I encourage you to do that, even if that means standing up. So again, my first point, Adam and Eve were given Seth instead of Abel. Adam and Eve were given Seth instead of Abel. So in verse 25, it begins by saying, Adam knew his wife again. The beginning of chapter four says, now Adam knew his wife. Now it's saying Adam knew her again. Knowing his wife is a euphemism for having sexual relations. And therefore Adam knew his wife at the beginning of the chapter, we see that. And now we see at the end of the chapter, we see that. And now she, is given a son, and they name him Seth. God gives Adam and Eve, in light of Cain murdering his brother Abel, another son, and his name is Seth, which means appointed, or could be settled, or placed. And then the reason is given why God gave Adam and Eve another son. Verse 25, the end of it says, for, or because, why do they have Seth? Because God has appointed another seed for me instead of Abel, whom Cain killed. So God was kind to them in giving them another seed. So from the beginning, there's two lines. There's the seed of the serpent and there's the seed of the woman. Ultimately, there's one seed of the woman, the Lord Jesus Christ. But there are many, we could say, lowercase seeds in his line. climaxing with the Lord Jesus Christ. And so God, throughout the Old Testament, was preserving a seed and giving people seed, or children, pointing ultimately to the Greater One, the Lord Jesus Christ. It's interesting, as we read the Bible, that C becomes more specific. At the beginning, it's just the C of the woman. Very generic. From any woman, just the C of the woman. Then it gets more specific that we'll see here. He's going to be a descendant of Seth. he's going to be the seed of a woman. He's going to be a descendant of Seth. Then we see later on he's going to be from the tribe of Judah. He's going to be a descendant of Judah. Then we see as well actually Judah actually probably comes after this. I should have said seed of Abraham. He'll come from Abraham, come from Judah. Of course we see that he comes from David and so throughout the scriptures The reason why, and I can do the same thing, in my Bible reading plan right now, part of my Bible reading plan is 1 Chronicles. and I'm in the genealogies, and even me, I can kind of skim them, like skim the names, because a lot of them are hard to pronounce, too, even if I wanted to read them out loud. And so we can all do that, and I understand why we do that, but the reason why genealogies are so central in the Bible is because those genealogies are setting up until they're fulfilled in our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. And that's why two of the gospel writers spend time, Matthew and Luke, giving us a genealogy of the Lord Jesus Christ because they're trying to show that Jesus fulfills what the Old Covenant Scriptures promised. That He was the seed that was promised all the way back in Genesis 3.15. And if you look, look at Luke chapter 3 with me. As we think about Seth and him being the seed that God put in the place of Abel. Luke chapter three and verse 38. Luke three and verse 38. It says there, Luke three and verse 38, The son of Enosh, which we'll get to in a little bit because that's Seth's son. The son of Seth. The son of Adam. The son of God. For clarity there, the son of God there is actually Adam. It's actually describing Adam as a son of God. He was the first son of God. Just like Israel is called my son. There's connections there, but we see here that Seth is in the genealogy of the Lord Jesus Christ. The genealogy goes all the way back to who? To Adam. So in Jesus' genealogy, it goes Adam, Seth, Enosh. That's the order that we see. So Seth is incredibly important for this reason. Jesus, our blessed Messiah and Redeemer, is a descendant of Seth. Abel, from all we can tell and all we know, had no children, did not have descendants, was killed off. He was the seed of the woman in the lowercase s sense. He was the godly line. He was murdered. It didn't throw God's plan off. He knew that. It was part of his predetermined plan. But in light of that, God gave them another seed who would be the seed of the woman, Seth, who would be one of the descendants of our Lord Jesus Christ. And so when Luke wants to testify about the Lord Jesus Christ, he goes all the way back to Adam and includes Seth. God appointed a seed in the place of Abel because Cain killed Abel. And so God did this because God's redemption would include a man a seed, a descendant, an offspring, and therefore God was preserving and keeping his people all the way to preserve them till the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. And so we see that Adam knew his wife again, she was given a son, his name was Seth, and God appointed this seed, another seed, instead of Abel, whom Cain killed. Listen to Matthew Henry. This is what Matthew Henry says about this. Quote, this son, by a prophetic spirit, they called Seth, that is set, settled, or placed, because in his seed, mankind should continue to the end of time. and from him the Messiah should descend. While Cain, the head of the apostasy, is made a wanderer, Seth, from whom the true church was to come, is one fixed. In Christ and his church is the only true settlement." And so we see here in this section again that God raised up Seth, gave them another child because it would be through his line that the Messiah would come. And so this is a key theme throughout the scriptures, a key theme of the seed promise, because the seed promise all the way gets us to the Lord Jesus Christ. But then in verse 26, We see that, and for Seth, to him also a son was born, and he named him Enosh. So not only did Adam and Eve see their son, but they saw their grandson, because Seth had a child and his name was Enosh. I'm not going to go back to it, but if you look at Luke 3.38, It said the son of Enosh, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God. And so we see there explicitly that Enosh, with his father Seth, were in the godly line that would bring about the Lord Jesus Christ. The seed promise that God promised all the way at the beginning was being fulfilled. Let me just make this application for us Sometimes we can think, or we can be prone to think, that God is only sovereign over the good things that happen. That God is only in control if something good happens. Or we can even sometimes, and I know what we mean by this, because as Christians we want to get away from the word luck, rightly so, because we don't believe in luck if we're Christians. God's sovereign over everything. So sometimes we say that was providential, which is not wrong, but sometimes we can only use providential when something good happens. But everything is providential, even if it's bad. So we don't want to say providence is just a Christian way of saying luck, because everything is under God's sovereign providence. And everything, including the murder of Cain, did not take God by surprise. It wasn't an afterthought to God. It wasn't like, what am I going to do now? My plan is ruined. None of that. God had orchestrated from the beginning a plan that would even include the murder of Cain. So we never want to think, we don't, we never want to think if something good happens to me it's because of God, if something bad happens it must be the devil. and God has nothing to do with it. And there can be people, sadly, who stand up, something tragic happens, and they think it's good to say God had nothing at all to do with this. That's terrible speak and terrible thinking, terrible speaking and thinking, because if God didn't have anything to do with it, we could never say all things work together for good to us who love God and the call to God's purpose. If God was not sovereign over it, it was meaningless and purposeless and has no purpose in the world and it has no good plan or purpose in your life as a believer. If it was indifferent and God could do nothing about it and it took him by surprise, we could never say all things work together for good. And so this evil that happened to Cain, which was evil, or happened to Abel, which was evil by Cain, it was wrong, it was sinful, but it was still under God's sovereign plan. Let me give you a great example, another good example of this in the Old Testament, where we see both of these things being true. Joseph is a great example. Joseph says, God sent me here. He says God sent me here. He doesn't get God off the hook. He doesn't think he has to. He actually feels perfectly comfortable saying God sent me here. But later on when he's talking to his brothers, you know what he says? You meant it for evil. He doesn't let them off the hook either. He says your purposes were evil. You were doing evil. You were doing something evil against me. But He makes sure he's abundantly clear, but God was also sovereign, and what he meant was for good. You meant evil against me, but God meant it for good. Maybe someone's in here or you had an experience and something very sad or tragic or hard has happened in your life. Maybe it was against you by another person. The wonderful thing about the Bible is it acknowledges both, and therefore, what they did, God calls evil and wrong and sinful. and they will either be judged in Christ or in hell because they did evil. But at the same time, that happened because it was part of God's purpose, and he even, if a person is a Christian, had a good purpose for it happening. We might not know it till heaven. We might not know it until we die in our eternity. But we do know that because we don't see everything clearly, God's purposes cannot be thwarted. And therefore, everything for the child of God is working together for good. But let me talk to you if you're not a Christian here. If you're not a Christian, let me, this is gonna sound harsh, but it's true. Listen to me if you're not a Christian. All things work together for bad. to those who hate God and are not equal according to His purpose. Because the only people that all things work together for good are those who are Christians. If we're not in Christ, everything is working towards our condemnation and not towards our blessing and good. And the only way that we can be spared the just punishment for our sin and the bad, because we are bad by nature and we do bad things and therefore are deserving of God's justice, is if we come to Jesus Christ. We have a phrase in our culture, very popular. I find it very ironic. You'll know the phrase when I say it, most likely. Everything happens for a reason. The irony of that is many people are practical atheists, meaning they live like there is no God, but somehow they say everything happens for a reason. But I say this to you in love. If you're not in Christ, it's not happening to you for a good reason. It's happening to you because of judgment and sin and rebellion. But that's not meant to leave you hopeless. That's meant to leave you to look only to Christ, who alone can rescue you from that condition and actually give you hope in the midst of a world that's hopeless. But sadly, sometimes Christians can use promises that are for Christians and give them to non-believers. We need to be very careful about that. We can very indiscriminately say, you know, this promise that I love as a Christian, let me give you that too, but it's not true for them. Romans 8, 28, which is the verse I've been quoting a lot, all things work together for good, is not applicable to non-believers because they don't love God and they're in the call to corner's purpose. And so the only people that Romans 8, 28 should be applied to are those who are trusting in Jesus Christ. So if you're not trusting in Christ, I want that promise to be true of you. I want you to know Christ. I want you to be redeemed. I want you to be forgiven. I want you to know that everything is working together for your good and it will be if you're in Christ. And so come to Christ so that you can actually know that God has good purposes for you because he sent his son to die for you and therefore everything else he does for you is for your good if you trust in Jesus. But for Christians, let me apply it to you. If it's true, and it is, that just like this example in the Bible was not taking God by surprise, even the tragedy of murder, it was all part of his good purpose to bring about his son. Everything that happens in your life, there's a good purpose behind it if you're a Christian. So only the Christian can really say in sincerity, everything happens for a reason, but we can say it even better as Christians. Everything happens for a good reason. Everything happens for a good reason, because God is working all things together for our good. And so we can so easily fall into the trap. You can, I can, if we're not careful, thinking something bad happened, God must not be responsible. But we must never think that way. We must never think that way. Turn with me to the book of Amos. Turn with me to Amos. Another, a little bit of a hard book to find. It's one of the minor prophets. Hosea, Joel, Amos. So the third minor prophet, Hosea, Joel, Amos. Hosea, Joel, Amos. Look at verse six of Amos chapter three. So Amos three, Amos three, starting at verse six. Amos 3 and verse 6. I'm going to read down to verse 8, but this is exactly what I'm talking about. But the prophet Amos expresses it very clearly. Amos 3 and verse 6. If a trumpet is blown in a city, will not the people be afraid? If there is calamity in a city, will not the Lord have done it? Verse 7, Surely the Lord God does nothing unless he reveals his secrets to his servants, the prophets. The lion is roared, who will not fear? The Lord God has spoken, who can but prophesy? What is being said here? The answer is so obvious, it doesn't have to be answered. Or the question is so obvious, it doesn't have to be answered. If there's calamity in the city, you know who did it? The Lord. Why? Because God's sovereign. If there's calamity in the city, the Lord had done it. You know, that should have been over many places during COVID. Or if something like COVID comes again, you know what we should say? If there's calamity in the city, the Lord has done it. Everything happens because of God's sovereign purpose. If there's calamity in a city, the Lord had done it. If there's a murder that happens, the Lord has done it. If there's a tragedy that happens, the Lord has done it. Not to the place where we're saying mankind is not responsible. All we're saying is God is not absent or distant. It didn't take him by surprise. It was all part of his sovereign plan. And we have two choices. Either God has nothing to do with it, and therefore it was purposeless, meaningless, and had no reason at all. Or God did have a purpose in it, and therefore we can say he has a great plan, even if we can't see it right now. I would much rather believe God had something to do with it, and because he's good and he's wise, than think that it happened by accident. And so we see throughout the Bible that truth. that God is sovereign over all things, and nothing happens apart from his will, including, as I've been focusing on here, even the death of Abel. Even the death of Abel did not stop God's plan to bring about the sea of the woman, the Lord Jesus Christ. And so he was set, was even given a son, and his name was Enosh. And so we see God's purpose being fulfilled all the way till we get to Luke's gospel, where the one who would come from Seth and from Enosh, or from Adam, from Seth, from Enosh, is our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Because nothing can thwart God's plan. Nothing can thwart God's purposes. But now my second point. Men began to call on the name of Jehovah that's the end of verse 26 then men began to call on the name of the Lord or the name of Jehovah I Don't think we should understand that no one was worth I think well Let me just say this when it says call on the name of the Lord or on the name of Jehovah It doesn't mean only prayer Let me use a big word and then define it. It's a synecdoche, which means it's using one thing to represent the whole. If I drive out here and I say, come out and take a spin on my wheels. You would know what I mean. I don't mean let's take the wheels off the car and let's just ride on the wheels and kind of like we're almost on a little scooter or something. I mean, let's take a ride in my car. But I'm using wheels to represent the whole vehicle. Or when Jesus says, give us this day our daily bread, he's using bread to represent all our physical needs. He's not saying you can only pray for bread. That's the only literal physical bread. He's using that as a summary as our physical needs. And so calling upon the name of Jehovah is a synecdoche, is a summary of religious worship. But I don't think it's to be taken as there was no worship going on before, because Abel was worshiping God acceptably. There was worship going on before, but I think it should be understood that there was a revival or a stirring up even more so after the death of Abel and all the things connected with that, a stirring up of religious worship, a renewed vigor towards it. This is what John Gill says about it. Quote, then began men to call upon the name of the Lord. Not but that Adam and Abel and all good men had called upon the name of the Lord and prayed to him or worshiped him before this time personally and in their families, but now the families of good men being larger and more numerous, they joined together in social and public worship, or since it may be thought there were public assemblies for religious worship before this time, though it may be they had been neglected and now were revived with more zeal and vigor." End quote. So Gill is helpfully saying that religious worship didn't begin here, but he's saying that there was more of a public assembly of it, or even if that was going on, there was at least a reviving of zeal and vigor as it related to publicly worshiping God. God has always sought a people to publicly worship him. And we see throughout the Bible that not only are we to worship God privately in prayer and devotion, but we are to give ourselves with others to worshiping God together. I find it very interesting in the Lord's Prayer, Jesus does not say, pray like this and say, my father who art in heaven. Is that ever intrigued anybody else that he doesn't say my father who are in heaven? Why does he not say my father because the Lord's Prayer even though it can be prayed and what said there as an individual? He's saying it in a corporate nature. If you're alone in your bedroom, you shouldn't be saying our father when you're addressing God because it's just you and him. You would say our father when you're praying with other people, when you're worshiping with other people, because you are not just praying as an individual, you're praying with other people. And therefore, even in the Lord's prayer, we see that worship is to be collective. And it's so sad to see there are many professing believers, many of them probably sadly are not true believers, but they so do not value being in a church to worship God. When me and Stan would go out, there would be people who would profess faith or say they're Christians, but saying they weren't going to church anywhere. And that's so sad because one of the key ways we grow as Christians is not by doing it all by ourself, but by being with other people, worshiping the same God, saying our Father and confessing His name together. And so God has not made whether believers in the Old Testament or believers in the New Testament, a religion of isolation. It's never been a religion of you and God and no one else. And sadly, there are many people who think the most spiritual thing to be, or there are some people, is just me, my Bible, and the Holy Spirit. You know what happens when it's just me, my Bible, and the Holy Spirit? You know what's likely to happen? Heresy. because they're just thinking and there's no accountability, there's no counsel from others, there's no encouragement from others. Sadly, we even have people nowadays who they have a platform because of the internet, no accountability, they're not within a church and they just kind of do their own thing. But God has always desired men, and men here I think is being used in the general sense, mankind or men and women to come together to worship because we were never meant to do things alone. And therefore, we need one another. We need the church. And therefore, for all of us, we should more and more value the blessing of the fellowship that we experience in our local body. Like I said this morning, sometimes at the beginning of a new work, there can be much vigor and excitement to worship. You have people with similar convictions, and similar desires, and similar goals, and then you do it for several years, and that can begin to wane. It's similar like a marriage. If you're not actively seeking to pour in to your spouse, and the spouse pouring to you, it's very easy to just coast, and take things for granted, and not be devoted to your spouse, and loving them, and serving them, and being excited to be with them. That's very easy for a marriage, and you know what? It's very easy for a church. that we begin to lose our vigor for public worship. And may God have what happened here happen more and more here as a church. May we have a revival of vigor and encouragement to worship the true God. May we have a revival and vigor to pray together on our Wednesday night prayer meetings. May we have a revival and vigor to come together to worship God, not just once, but twice on the Lord's day. And I plead with you, I plead with you as your pastor and as your brother in Christ, I would beg of you to shape your life around Lord's Day and Wednesday prayer meeting. What I mean by that is that's set in stone and everything works around it. Something comes up, oh, I have Wednesday prayer meeting. I can't do that, I have Wednesday prayer meeting. Oh, I can't do that, we have three o'clock worship. I can't do that, we have 10 o'clock worship. And you structure your entire life around the worship of the church and the prayer meeting of the church. It's not I'll go to prayer meeting if I can fit in my schedule, it's I'll go to prayer meeting and fit everything around that. It's I'll go to afternoon worship, I'll go to morning worship, and anything else that I wanna do, I'll fit it around that. That's how we should be living in the Christian life. because the worship of God is the most important thing about life. And therefore I plea with you as your pastor, cancel everything, not worship and not prayer meeting. Set aside everything, but not these things, not these things. This is more important than being with family. This is more important than going somewhere. This is more important than traveling. This is more important than fixing that or doing that or doing the other. There's nothing more important than praying with the church and gathering for worship. Nothing in all the world. And therefore I plead with you. It's not I'll do this if I can. It's I'm doing this unless I literally can't. And hear me, because this could come off kind of strong. I'm saying this in love. I love y'all. I want the best for you. I want you to prosper. Some of this might be hitting on some of your toes and stepping on them. That's purposeful. That's purposeful because I want you to hear it. But I'm doing it because I love you. Because I want our church to prosper. And if we don't value our church worship, people who come in, why would they? If the core people don't value it, why would they? If we don't make it a priority, why would they? And so I plead with you to shape your life around the worship of God, just like they saw it so important to call upon the name of the Lord, not as individuals, but collectively. So we should value above everything else, the privilege of getting to worship God. Think about it too. This church is not perfect. This church has lots of ways that we can grow. we have not arrived, we need to grow. But there are places, that's the preface to what I'm about to say, but there are a lot of places where you might move and you can't have a place where you can worship God with a good conscience because of things they do, things they say, things they teach. And you might look and say, this might be a spot, but there's no church I could go to. My beloved brethren, we should be reminded and be thankful. Again, we can grow. I'm not saying this to say we've arrived. It's not a prideful way. It's trying to encourage you by saying, we should be thankful. You should be thankful that you have a place you can worship God with a good conscience. That you know, by God's grace, you're gonna hear the word. You're gonna be taught truth. You're gonna have fellowship with brothers and sisters that love the word. People all across the country don't have necessarily something like this. And some of you have told me you've looked where, because it was a possibility you might move, and you knew you couldn't move there because there wasn't a church. I remember the West Virginia situation. No church, really, that you could feel comfortable with. And so we can so easily, Forget the good we have thing that me and my wife have been doing we did it last Thursday. We did it again today We were doing we were saying things that we were thankful for She would say set ten I would say ten just in general then we did five and five of our marriage five and five about the church Why why do we do something like that? Because it helps us to remind remind ourselves that there are good things Because we can so easily dwell in the negative But we need to be reminded of what good we have, the blessings we have. And you know what? If you wanna be somebody to find something to be upset about, you know what? You're gonna find it. You're gonna find it. But that's why God tells us to, in everything, give thanks. In everything, give thanks. In everything, give thanks. And he makes it even stronger than that. In everything, give thanks. For this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. He, if you ever wanted to know what God's will was for your life, I know it is to give thanks. And one key way we give thanks is by coming together in the worship of God, praising and rejoicing to hear the praises of his people and the worship of his name through his word. And so may God give us just like these people, a renewed vigor for worship, a renewed vigor for the assembly of his people. So again, if you're not a believer, as I was applying it to you earlier, if you're not a believer, you can't truly worship God. You can't truly worship God if you don't know Jesus as your Savior. And therefore, the only way that you can have access to God to worship and truly and sincerely worship Him is by being in Christ, by trusting in the Lord Jesus Christ. He alone can save you, He alone can rescue you, and He alone can give you the desire to worship His name. He alone can make you acceptable before God and give you the privilege to worship. Jesus is not only the way to heaven, he's the way to worship. He's not only the way, the truth, and the life so that you die and go to heaven, he's the way, the truth, and the life so that you have access to God to worship him in this earth. And therefore, Christ is the way, the truth, and the life. And for us as the people of God, for us as Christians, may we always remember that God's purposes will never fail. in your life or mine because he's sovereign. Because he's sovereign. Cain, murdering Abel, did not thwart God's plan. And nothing in your life will ever thwart God's good purposes if you're a believer. Nothing can stop God's plans in your life. Not even you and not even the devil. Not even the devil can thwart God's plans in your life. God alone is sovereign even over the devil. and therefore nothing can thwart God's plan. And may God help us. May you seek God's face afresh this week, that if you're discouraged or weary or downtrodden, wherever you might be, may you afresh this week. Thank God for the good you have, both church-wise and in all other ways. Be a thankful person. It's hard to be discouraged and thankful at the same time. If you're dwelling and praising God for all the good, it's hard to be discontent at the same time. So praise God for the good you have and pray to him that he would give you a greater desire to shape your life around worship, that your life would be shaped not around other things, even good things, shape them around the best things, the worship of God's holy name. that you might be a person that, just like these people, was a renewed vigor for the worship of God. I want that for myself, and I want that for you. I don't want us to just drift. However long God has us, God forbid we just drift, and we become more and more indifferent, and more and more discouraged, and more and more downtrodden, and then it just falls off. The reason I'm doing this is because I don't want that to happen. I want us to press on. I don't know what the future holds, but I know what I am responsible for is encouraging you and encouraging me to not grow weary in well-doing. I do know that. I do know that. And so, brothers and sisters, let's press on, trusting that God will fulfill his promises to us and that we would have a renewed vigor to call upon his name. May he help us. And why can we call upon his name? Because we're Christians and we've been redeemed by Jesus Christ. The best thing to ever happen to us is to be saved from our sin. God has done that for us and therefore we can worship him. He's rescued us, he's redeemed us, he's forgiven us. And therefore it's only the right response. If God's done all that for us, it's only right to praise him in return. not just as individuals, but as a local church body. May God help us to be more and more, because of our redemption in Christ, zealous to worship him in spirit and truth. Amen. Our Father, we thank you for your word, and we pray you would help us. Help us to worship you in spirit and truth. Give us renewed vigor. Help us to not grow weary in well-doing. Help us to persevere. Help us to press on. Help us to continue to fight the good fight of faith. Help us. Help us. In Jesus' name, amen.