As always, it is a delight and a privilege to open the word of the Lord with you, brothers and sisters. At this time, if you would, please make your way in your Bibles to Hebrews chapter 11. Hebrews chapter 11, we're going to be looking specifically at verses five and six. Hebrews chapter 11, verses five and six. Now in our walk through Hebrews chapter 11, we have just begun to look at the list of individual Old Testament saints who were saved by faith and who persevered until the end by faith. And we are looking this morning at the second of three saints listed who lived before the flood. If you want a fun word to remember, These are called the antediluvian saints. The word is just a fancy word, which means before the flood. So why is it, though, that we are looking at these saints? We have the stories of these individuals in the Old Testament. So why is it that we need to hear them again? Well, because the author of Hebrews, and plainly, Spirit who inspired him were concerned about some of the things that were going on with the Hebrews. The writer of the Hebrews was concerned about certain trends that were making themselves known amongst the Hebrews. Some were growing spiritually lazy. Some were not gathering together on the Lord's day anymore. They were forsaking the assembling together. Some were even tempted to go back to the ceremonial system of worship under the old covenant in order to spare themselves persecution. And some were just beginning to lose heart after suffering for so long. So how better to exhort them than to remind them of their Hebrew ancestors who also were united to Christ by faith and who remained steadfast to the end by faith. It's almost as if the author is saying, Hebrews, your ancestors knew Christ in the veiled and shadowy ways of the Old Testament, the types and the shadows. You know him, Hebrews, by his name and by his work, and you have been given his spirit. You have fuller revelation and freedom from the yoke of the ceremonial law. If they, if these saints of past could endure by faith until the end, how much more so you who have seen and known Christ by faith. So we began last time by looking at Abel, the son of Adam. And before we looked at him, I mentioned that in these saints, in Hebrews chapter 11, we're going to see in different ways patterns of the character or the work of Christ being demonstrated in these individuals. We saw Abel, for instance, we saw him resembling his Savior in his offering of a costly sacrifice. And if you remember what that sacrifice was, it was a firstborn lamb. It was a precious and a costly sacrifice, typifying Christ, the Lamb of God. And then even Abel resembled the Savior when he, being a shepherd, was martyred when he was killed for righteousness sake. So for a sort of homework question, maybe for you as families or for you who wanna talk about it later, I'm gonna ask the question and leave it unanswered. In what ways do you see Enoch resembling Christ? I'm not gonna answer that for you here, because I want for that to be some fruitful discussion for you guys later. But of course, if you ask me after service, I'm happy to talk about it. Well, with that being said, let's go ahead and read verses five through six of Hebrews chapter 11. By faith, Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death. And he was not found because God had taken him. Now before he was taken, he was commended as having pleased God. And without faith, it is impossible to please him. For whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him. Well, having read this portion of God's word, let us look to him for his blessing and his help so that we can rightly understand and apply it. Oh Lord Jesus, we come to you and we remember your promise that where two or three or more are gathered in your name, there you are among them. We ask, oh Lord, won't you help us to sense your presence with us during this hour? Won't you help us hear you even as we are just singing? Won't you help us to hear you speaking through your word? Won't you please help us to taste and to see that you are good? Won't you please further enable us to die to our sins and to live unto righteousness? Please show us your glory and conform us into the image, into your image and your likeness, for it is in your name that we ask these things, amen. Well, many believers seem to agree that we are right now living in increasingly dark days. There are things on the horizon that do not seem to bode well for our future. And yet, we are not the first believers to live in dark times. After the first recorded murder in history, things did not improve. When Cain went east of Eden, he brought with him his violence. his deceitfulness, his selfishness, and it spread like a disease to all of his children, such that several generations later, there's a man named Lamech who is boasting openly of his injustice, and he's practicing polygamy. And around the same time, people witnessed the funeral of the first man. Adam. It would be hard to see the silver lining at that time as things are just getting worse and worse. Sin is spreading further and further throughout the earth. And yet, at that time, God gave his people hope. Hope in the life and in the extraordinary circumstances concerning a man named Enoch. Now Enoch himself was not the promised seed of Eve who would crush the serpent's head, but he definitely resembled that seed. And he undoubtedly helped God's people to set their hope on that coming Redeemer and what he would do. So my thesis for our message this morning is that God's grace in the life of Enoch provides hope in the darkness. God's grace in the life of Enoch provides hope in the darkness. I wanna look very simply at the faith of Enoch under heading number one, the commendation of Enoch, number two, and then lastly, the taking of Enoch. So faith, commendation, taking. And I wanna begin by looking at the faith of Enoch. And while it might sound trivial or unnecessary, I think it's actually very important for us to answer the question, what was Enoch's confession of faith? After all, it does say that by faith, he was taken up. What is it that he believed? Well, believe it or not, there are actually at least three clear answers to this question, two of which are provided in our passage. Note the link here between verses five and six. It says, now before he was taken, he was commended as having pleased God. And without faith, it is impossible to please God. For whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him. We already found two articles of this confession of faith right there. So the first thing that Enoch believed is that God is. And I'm deliberately using that wording, God is. As a matter of fact, that's what some translations leave it as rather than saying God exists. And the point being made here is not simply that God exists as though this was the opposite of not existing. What it seems like is going on here in the text is that God is the living God. In contrast to all the false gods being worshiped and chosen by others, this is the living God. He is. Some commentators have also pointed out that there might be echoes in this text of God later revealing himself to Moses in Exodus 3.14. What does he say? I am. You are what? No, I am. That is who God is. That is his name. He is. You can't further define him than that. He is the one who is and always has been and always will be. MacArthur explains further that genuine faith does not simply believe that the divine being exists. but that the God in Scripture is the only real and true God who exists. We've talked about this before, but it doesn't take faith to know that God exists. It only takes being made in His image, and per Romans 1, suppressing the knowledge of His existence. Most unbelievers will admit that they have some sort of a knowledge of God. It's just not the God of the Bible. not the Trinitarian God who offers only one path to salvation, through Christ alone. But not only did Enoch believe that God is, this further means that God is who he says he is. Borrowing the language here of the Puritan Thomas Manton, he says, God is as he has revealed himself. It's one thing to say that he exists or he is. It's another thing to say that he is specifically as he says that he is. So just very simply, I just wanna highlight a few definite things that Enoch knew and believed about God. First of all, God is eternal. He knew that God was the God who created everything. And that implies that before everything was created, guess who was there? God. So Enoch believed that God was the eternal God. He also believed that God was powerful, that God was the God who spoke everything into existence. He believed that God was good. God is the creation of all good things. In fact, he is the source of good. He is good itself. Everything that is good is a pale reflection of his goodness. So God, in his creation of good things, in his love of good, and even in his hatred of sin and evil, already revealed to Enoch, already showed and proved to Enoch that God is good. He also believed that God was merciful. What reason would he have had to believe that God was merciful already? Well, I'm sure that had he not had a personal conversation with Adam, which was possible, because their lives overlapped a little bit, Adam lived 930 years, he most likely would have known that God had forgiven Adam and Eve, and that he had clothed them, that he had sacrificed those animals in their place and clothed their nakedness. He also knew that God was patient. Because as of yet, God still had not brought about that promised judgment upon the serpent or upon his seed. And he was still forbearing the wickedness going on in the world at that time. But then lastly, he knew that God was just. He knew that judgment would eventually come because God had already made that clear in Genesis 3.15 and in one other source that we're gonna talk about in a moment. So the point is that everything that God had revealed about himself, Enoch believed. So now let's move on to the second article of Enoch's confession, moving on from God is to God rewards. God rewards, and here we're looking at more of God's character and his acts. So first of all, this builds off of the first truth that God is by emphasizing that he is not only a God who does gracious things, he is grace. As John MacArthur says, God is a promise-making, promise-keeping God. So God is not just a being that exists, he's also a being who is gracious and rewarding. Part of his nature is to give rewards to those who seek him. John Calvin said about this verse that he is not sought in vain. which reminded me of the verse, and maybe this is what Calvin was thinking of, he has not said to the seed of Jacob to seek me in vain. Anyone who comes to God is not coming to a God who is going to fail to deliver what he promises to his people. Enoch also likely knew that his descendant Abel was commended by God when he offered that pleasing sacrifice, which we talked about last time. And although curses came from Adam and Eve's disobedience, he also knew that rewards would come through that serpent-crushing seed of Eve. So God is a God who rewards. He graciously gives what sinful man could never deserve. He showers those who come to him with rewards. And ultimately, he has promised that those who seek him will find him. How many times in scripture do we see, draw near to God and he will draw near to you. So he has promised to reward seekers, not only with the benefits of knowing him, but ultimately with himself as the chief reward. That's important for us to get straight. The psalmist says in Psalm 73, whom have I in heaven but you? And on earth there is none that I desire besides you. My heart and my flesh may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. What's the point I'm trying to make here? Heaven, heaven is not heaven even if you have all of your beloved people, your treasures, your pleasures, and everything else. It is not heaven if God is not there. Even walking in the new heavens and the new earth, devoid of Christ, is not eternal life. It is knowing him, having him, Everything and everyone else in this life can be taken away from you, but not your God. He is a God who rewards, and then also he is a God who judges. He is a God who is, who rewards, and who judges. Similarly to how grace flows from him, in a sense, as his character, so does justice. Divine justice slayed animals to cover Adam and Eve's nakedness. Blood was needed to ceremonially atone for them, lest they be consumed by God's holiness. And how would the eventual promised redemption happen? Through the execution of justice. The serpent crusher redeemed us by taking the judgment that we deserve. Justice was done at the cross. And the serpent crusher will finally redeem us by executing justice on Satan and those who oppose Christ. He's gonna throw them into the lake of fire along with death itself. Justice will finally be done at that time. But it seems that Jude, excuse me, it seems that Enoch was also aware of another judgment that would happen, which we find interesting information about in the New Testament letter of Jude. I don't wanna spend too much time here, but I do want to just highlight your attention to it. You're welcome to turn there if you will. We have this information starting in verse 14 of the letter of Jude. It was also about these that Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, behold, the Lord comes with 10,000 of his holy ones to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness that they have committed in such an ungodly way and of all the harsh things that ungodly sinners have spoken against him. So Enoch was a prophet according to Jude. And while I think that Jude is applying Enoch's prophecy to the final judgment, it seems like there was also an initial fulfillment of this prophecy in the flood that was going to soon come. In other words, I believe that Enoch in his prophesying ministry, which we get a little taste of in the book of Jude, it seems that Enoch was prophesying to the people concerning the coming flood. People, I think we know this, people in the Old Testament and in the New Testament a lot of times gave names very intentionally. There's a lot of times a specific meaning behind names that are given. Enoch named his son Methuselah And the two Hebrew words which make up that name mean when he's dead, it will come, or literally his death will bring. And Methuselah did happen to die in the year of the flood. So I think that there's a good chance that Enoch was actually prophesying of the coming judgment of the flood. Well, with that being said, stepping back, we see God is, God rewards, and God judges. Why does this practically matter? How can this help us? What should we understand from this? Well, first of all, this reminds us that God's being, his character, and his acts are all related to each other. We, can do seemingly good things while having evil hearts that are far from the Lord. God does good because he is good. God shows grace because he is grace. And he executes justice because he is just. And then relatedly, this also reminds us that we cannot accept just parts of who God is and what he does, and then reject other parts. We can't take some of who God is and say, we like this, and then dismiss the others and say, well, we don't like that. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that those of you who are married probably did not say that you are going to be my husband or wife so long as you are doing what I want you to do. When you said your vows, you took all of them, you took all of her or him to yourself in a covenant. Should it not all the more be so for God? If we take parts of God's character and not the other parts, ultimately, we're even finding ourselves to be messing with the gospel. Because it's at the cross of Christ, brothers and sisters, that we see all of God's glorious attributes in perfect harmony. His justice, His mercy, His patience, His love, all of it being demonstrated powerfully at the cross of Christ. You can't dismiss parts of God. You have to take all of Him as He is. And whatever you don't understand, you ask Him, Lord, I believe, help my unbelief. Help me to better understand. Well, now let us move on from the faith of Enoch to the commendation of Enoch. The second part of verse five, it says, before Enoch was taken, he was commended as having pleased God. So God is bearing witness here. Remember, that's what it means to commend. God is giving a good report or commending him. And in this verse, it says that Enoch pleased him. So generally speaking, that's the commendation that Enoch is given. But I wanna look at some more detail because there's some other very important facts that we can find if we go to the account in Genesis chapter five. So I wanna ask the question, how did God commend him? And we're gonna go to Genesis chapter five to answer that question. So Genesis chapter five, I'll start in verse 21 and just read these few verses. When Enoch had lived 65 years, he fathered Methuselah. Enoch walked with God after he fathered Methuselah 300 years and had other sons and daughters. Thus all the days of Enoch were 365 years. Enoch walked with God and he was not, for God took him. If you can remember back to Abel, we had talked about his commendation. He received his commendation from God by God accepting his sacrifice. when Cain's was not. For Enoch, it appears that God's commendation of him is actually what's written about him right here. I believe that what we have in these verses is the commendation that's being referred to, these words that he walked with God. This is God's Word inspired by the Spirit. I think that this is probably, I'm not gonna be dogmatic, but I think that this is probably the commendation that's being referred to, that Enoch walked with God. Now, the commendation here may be just simply how God spoke of him, but we do know that this is definitely one of the ways that he commended him. If there are others, we're not aware of them. But thinking about these words, thinking about this commendation, wouldn't you love for that to be a summary of your life? It'd be wonderful enough if someone else, some other human said that of you. You know, so and so, that he or she walked with God. But to have God say that, how precious. Which brings us to another question. which is what exactly does it mean that Enoch walked with God? If you're like me, that's probably a question that you've been wondering about ever since the first time you read this particular phrase. What does it mean that Enoch walked with God? So let's endeavor with the Lord's help to answer that question. It won't surprise some of you to know that the word here for walked literally means walk. There's no additional hidden mystical meaning or anything. It actually means he walked, which kind of adds to the mystery of what in the world is going on. The word is always used for people walking with one another. But what's interesting is this is a reflexive verb. In other words, when it's talking about him walking in the Hebrew, it's a word that's identifying an action that you're doing to yourself. Let me try and illustrate that. You're not being forced to walk by someone else as sometimes parents might have to drag their children into service or to an appointment on time to get there. They're kind of walking, but they're really being forced to walk. You're not casually or confusedly walking around. This reflexive word of walking is, no, you are making yourself walk. There's intentionality to it. You have an objective and you are determined to accomplish it regardless of whatever fleshly weakness or other factors might try to hinder you. So that's kind of looking at the specific word. Let's get some more information here by looking at what Amos says in Amos chapter three, verse three. You don't have to turn there. Some of you are already familiar with this verse. It says, can two walk together unless they be agreed? So when there are parties walking together in the Bible, it generally speaking denotes that there's some agreement. There's agreement on where they're going and what they're doing as they're walking together. Little bit of further information. This word is actually used of God a couple of times in scripture. First, it is used of God walking in the garden in Genesis chapter three, which seems to indicate the level of intimacy and communion that Adam and Eve had with him prior to the fall. God walked with them. And then God makes a promise in Leviticus 26 in the context of his tabernacle being set up in Israel. He promises to walk among his people. And then in the New Testament pages, we actually have God walking with his people in the person of Jesus Christ. And then of course, I believe it's implied in Revelation 21, when we hear those beautiful words that God is going to dwell with man and he will dwell with us. So the dwelling with us, The key here to understanding what this walking of God is is God's presence going with whoever's walking with him. So we're looking at it from God's perspective. It's his special presence going with someone or being enjoyed by someone. But then let's look at how else it's used of man in the Old Testament. It's used to refer to Enoch walking with him. It's used to refer to Noah walking with him. and then also in a command that is given to Abraham. Abraham is called to walk before him. And then lastly, God threatens Israel in the same chapter, Leviticus 26, which was mentioned earlier. He threatens to not walk with Israel if they walk contrary to him. Okay, so there is a walking contrary to God, and then there is a walking with God. Why does all this matter? What's the point? For Enoch to be walking with God, first of all, it means that God had indwelt Enoch by the Holy Spirit, which shouldn't surprise us because this is how he has always saved saints. The reason they have faith is because he has given them his spirit, who's given them the gifts of repentance and faith. So Enoch is able to walk with God because God has saved him and he is dwelling with him. But then it also indicates, as we talked about before, the intentionality on the part of the human party as well. I like what Puritan Thomas Manton here said. For Enoch to be walking with God, it meant that he was walking with God both in the closet and in the shop. In other words, what he's getting at is all of life, what I'm calling here devotion and also duty. Walking with God in devotion and duty is what is implied by Enoch walking with God. Devotionally, Enoch, as we've already mentioned, he has received whatever instruction that he's gotten about God, and he's accepted it. He is learning more and more about the one who has created him and who has promised to redeem him. He has received whatever instruction he's received with humility. And, in addition to that, there is also the probability that he was also partaking of some sort of regular worship of God. In Genesis 4.26, it talks about how people had already started to call upon the name of the Lord, and while there is some disagreement about that, many commentators believe that it's a reference to prayer and sacrifices being made to God in some sort of a corporate setting. So I think it's safe to assume that Enoch was partaking of some of some sort of corporate worship at that time. So he was walking with God devotionally, he was praying to God, he was receiving whatever instruction he received, but then he was also doing his duty to God. That's sometimes the part we don't like to think about as much. He was a husband and a father. Said he had other sons and daughters. As a husband and as a father, he walked with God. He did the duties that were required of him with regards to his family. He was a shepherd of the home. In his work, whatever sort of vocation he had, he worked heartily unto the Lord. He was doing what God required of him. And then even in his prophesying, we talked about him being a prophet before. In him, in his ministry as a prophet, whatever that looked like, he was doing so faithfully. So in other words, Enoch walking with God means that he had first come to God by faith and that he was devotionally, that he was devoted to God. He was coming before God in prayer and in worship, and he was seeking to diligently obey God in all of life. I think that John Owen makes a very helpful comment here, he says, To walk with God is in all our ways, actions, and duties to have a continual regard unto God by faith in Him, dependence upon Him, and submission to Him. So this is the walking that Enoch did with God. And he did this continually until he was taken up. And he did this in the context of a wicked world. I can't imagine it would have been easy for him to prophesy against the wickedness going on. There's always probably the fear of some sort of threat of violence or persecution whenever you're telling people what they don't want to hear. And yet, he walked with God faithfully in all of life. So, the question is, do you walk with God? If you are a Christian, I don't believe it's a question of if you are walking, so much as what is the flavor of your walk with God? Or what is its consistency? What is its potency? Walking with God is not having a sinless life. That was only able to be done by one man, the Lord Jesus, and he's in heaven right now. It's also not some mystical higher life that you can attain to by doing or saying special things. Walking with God is something that is within your reach. If you are indwelt by the Holy Spirit, you can walk with God. Are you growing, brother or sister, in your knowledge of Christ? Are you believing what he says to believe? Are you doing what he says to do and setting your hope fully on him as opposed to the things in this world? What often impedes our walk is that we tend to forget our duties. We tend to lose sight of the fact that we are not able to perform our daily duties given by God in our own strength. And therefore we neglect to ask God for the help that we need. Brothers and sisters, Enoch could not have walked with God apart from recognizing his need for help and asking for help. Practically speaking, and this is something I've been trying to do recently, although I need more consistency in it, it might be a good idea to think about who you are as a Christian and whatever vocations in life, whatever callings in life that you have right now, would be a good idea to write out in scripture what God says your duties are. as a husband or as a wife, as a father, as a mother, as someone who's not married yet, look in scripture and see what are the things that God requires of you. And in the morning, pray to God and ask him to give you the strength and the help necessary to do these things. If you actually see all of what's required of you, I don't see how it can lead to anything other than desperation. It is not possible in our own strength to do what God requires of us. So may we, at least metaphorically speaking every day, put out our duties before the Lord and ask him for the strength to walk with him by doing these duties. Sometimes, He removes things that we love. And sometimes He adds things into our life that we don't love. Why does He do that? To draw us closer to Him. That we would walk more closely with Him. And He does that because as we sang earlier, He loves you and me in Christ. He loves us. Then lastly, if you're finding yourself outside of Christ, the good news to you is that you can walk with God. This walk begins when you admit what God says about your sinfulness, about your need for a savior, about your inability to save yourself, and about Christ's ability and his willingness to save you. Your walk with God begins when you place your faith and hope in Christ alone to save you and you turn from your sins. That leads us now to the last heading, which is the taking of Enoch. We've looked at the faith of Enoch, the commendation of Enoch, and now we're going to consider the taking of Enoch. Again, in Hebrews 11 verse Five, it says, by faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death. And he was not found because God had taken him. Now before he was taken, he was commended as having pleased God. So trying to understand what this taking is, let's first of all look at the certainty of this taking. It's hard to avoid noticing that this language of taken has been repeated three times in this verse alone. The author's making a point. And then in Genesis 5.24, we're further told that he was not, or as some translations put it, he was not found, meaning his physical body was not there. And then there's a reason supplied for that in Genesis 5.24 and also in Hebrews 11.5. The reason that he was not there is because God took him. And then there's one other reason supplied in Hebrews 11.5a, which is that Enoch had faith. What's the point I'm making? Whatever this taking was, it definitely happened. The author of Hebrews doesn't want you to miss that. It's very clear that whatever it was, it happened. Well, let's go on then to the meaning of the taking. What does it actually mean that he was taken? So the word that is used for the taking right here means to transfer or to put in one place from another. To transfer or put in one place from another. So where was he taken from? Earth, where he lived 365 years and walked with God. Where his body would have returned had not God taken him. Where was he taken to? Heaven. Even though he doesn't state it explicitly, it's very clear by context. He was taken by God, he was taken because of his faith in God, and he was taken, being commended, as having pleased God. I think there's sufficient clarity to say that he was definitely taken from earth to heaven. Which then leads to the more interesting question, which is, what was he taken in? His human body. Adam, Abel, and every other human who had died thus far in human history left behind their bodies because God said, to dust you shall return. Believers were immediately ushered into the presence of God in their souls, or their spirits, where they would wait for the general resurrection. But this verse says, so that he should not see death. In other words, Enoch's body was not separated from his soul, which is what physical death is. His whole person, as John Owen says, his whole person, soul and body, was taken out of one condition and placed in another. What does this mean then? Let's put all this information together. This means that as Joel Beeky said, this was a deathless translation from earth to heaven. Enoch was taken from earth to heaven to be with God. Enoch never died. Enoch is, by all indication, in heaven with a physical body. which then leads us to ask some more interesting questions and leads on to the relevance of this taking. Why is this relevant to us? Why is this important? Why perhaps did God do this? Well, first of all, and this comes from Joel Beeky as well, this provided the ancient saints with the hope of resurrection. This provided the ancient saints with the hope of resurrection. This event, what we don't know for sure, was likely a public thing. And even if it wasn't a public thing, it was definitely public that people could not find Enoch's body. And if God had done this for Enoch, Beaky says, God's people would probably see that God would eventually do this for all of his people in the future. So this, This was a reminder to them and it was a reminder to us that there will be victory over sin and death. Death does not have the final word. God is more powerful than death. And it's also a reminder to us that God is free to work outside of natural means. And again, this ought to increase our boldness in prayer. It ought to increase our faith in this God to whom we serve and to pray. If he is able to translate a man from earth to heaven in a physical body, what else can he do? Then in addition to that, this was also a picture of the bodily ascension of Christ. This was a picture of the glorious, excuse me, of the bodily ascension of Christ. But there's also a very glorious contrast between those two. Enoch did not see death. Aren't you glad that Christ did see and taste death for his people? Enoch had to be escorted to heaven. He didn't have his own power or might to summon himself up to heaven. Christ rose and ascended in his own power by his own merit. And then this also typifies the living saints going to meet Jesus at his return. 1 Thessalonians 4 tells us that we who are alive, who are left, will meet him together in the air with those who have died first. So it is conceivable, brethren, it is conceivable that some in our midst unless the Lord tarries longer, some of us could actually be raised to be with Christ in the air, in physical bodies, just like Enoch was. So we have looked at the faith of Enoch, we've looked at his commendation, we've looked at him being taken, And we have seen that God's grace in the life of Enoch brought comfort to God's people back then, and I trust it brings comfort to us as well. So I wanna leave with this concluding application. Although we do live in dark days, and things may be getting darker in the days ahead, we have a hope that we can arm ourselves with. And that is that as one pastor has said, we are sons and daughters of the resurrection. The weakness of our bodies. Many of us in this congregation have various frailties and illnesses. The weakness of your body, dear Christian, will be replaced with glorious, endless strength. You will see him and you will be like him. Your faith at that time, it will not be weak, it will not be lacking, it will be complete. At that time, you will be without sin. You will not have any sin remaining in you. You won't have a desire to sin. You won't have the ability to sin. and you will forever walk with God. Our walk with God is limited in various ways while we are on this earth. It's not gonna be limited in the new creation. One day, saint, because of your faith that God has given you, you will walk with God in a glorified body with a sinless heart. Let's pray. Oh, Heavenly Father, what are we to say or to give in response to you for what you have done for us and what you have promised in our future? Help us, Lord. Help us to set the hope of the resurrection before us, and may you help us the remainder of this day to glorify you and to continue to taste and see that you are good. We pray this in Jesus' name, amen.