Good morning, everyone. We're privileged to be back here this morning to share the Word of God with us. The hymns could not possibly have been more appropriate for our passage this morning, the answer to our dilemma, the answer to our great need, Christ Jesus our Lord. Let's turn to Genesis chapter 3. by the help of the Lord, attempt to preach on some of the fallout from the fall, some of the awful effects of the fall upon us all, and the solution to that through the Lord Jesus Christ. We're gonna read through verse 10, beginning in verse one of chapter three. Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden, but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it. Neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. And the servant said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die, for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took up the fruit of thereof, did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat. And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day. And Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. And the Lord God called unto Adam and said unto him, Where art thou? And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked and I hid myself. And it goes on, the Lord endeavoring to bring a confession from Adam and the Lord's passing judgment upon him, Eve and the serpent. So we want to speak this morning a little bit about the gravity of the fall, the solemnity of the sober and awful effects of the fall. You know, years back, I think it was 01, our bakery burned down, but there was a few things that we salvaged out of it after the fire. We saved our bennehood out, scrubbed it down, hung it back up in our new bakery. We got a mixing bowl out and cleaned it up. There's a few things we could salvage from our burned down bakery. But the fall of man is not that way. His fall was complete. His fall was total. His fall was absolute. From the top of his head to the sole of his foot, we are contaminated. and completely fallen. Our mind is enemy toward God through wicked works. We're hostile to our God. Enemies toward God. Our mind, our will, our emotions, our bodies, our soul, our spirits, every faculty of our being, every part of us was touched and depraved by the fall of man. You know, in America, we have different commemorations of tragic events and awful events that have happened in the history of our country, whether it be D-Day, when we stormed the beaches of Normandy and lost so many men in the Second World War, or whether it was just a few years ago when the terrorist attack on 9-11, the Twin Towers, And we have commemorations of these terrible events throughout history. The Jewish people every year have a moment of silence in commemoration of the Holocaust, where the vehicle stopped in the streets, everybody stands still in commemoration of the massacre, the genocide of their people. My brother-in-law lives out in California. And the Armenian people, not Arminianism, but the Armenian people have a pretty large settlement around in there. And their nation suffered somewhat of a genocide years back. And every year, you'll see their vehicles going around pictures of AR-15s on the back of them and flying the Armenian flags and endeavoring to maintain a consciousness of the awful happening upon their nation. And so it is as we have commemorations of these awful events of history. So this morning I would like to take us back to the most monumental and most awful event, second and only, by something else I'll mention in a minute, but the most tragic event that has happened in all the history of mankind, and this is the fall of humanity. And when we read this story, it is not to be a disconnected story from us, Because the story we've just read is not about just Adam, because he is the federal head of the human race. His story is our story, because we all descended from him. And by one man, sin entered into the world, and death by sin. And so death passed upon all men for that all. have sinned, and Adam all died." So this horrible event here mentioned, if David wept and wrote a song of lament and sorrow over Saul and Jonathan's death, so it would not be inappropriate for our hearts to be moved and our eyes to be wet with tears over the happening that has come upon us, that has come upon humanity, that we have been duped, that we have been caused to err from our Creator. What was said of Ephraim in the book of Hosea 13 verse 9, Can equally be said of Adam, it says, O Israel, or what's said of Israel, O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself. Could be equally said of Adam, O Adam, you have destroyed yourself. You've ruined yourself. You have undone yourself. O Adam, O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself, but the verse doesn't stop there. It says, but in me, is thine help." As I said, this event is seconded only by a future event some 4,000 years later, which is the height of all sin, the pinnacle of all transgression. The worst of all stories is when the creation drug their creator to the hill of Calvary and crucified him to silence the voice of truth and righteousness. That, to me, is the worst of all injustices and acts of unrighteousness. Now, we know that both stories, both the fall of man Death of Christ, we know that it was in the decrees of God and it was foreordained and God allowed it, He decreed it, He permitted it. But that does not extenuate or lessen in any degree the culpability and the guilt and the shame that men have on their plate. So this morning I want to talk a little bit about the fall here. Adam is so fallen that his salvation is out of the realm of human possibility. He is so fallen that salvation is impossible with men. Man was made upright and he is turned aside to his crooked ways. Ecclesiastes, I think it says, he hath made, talking about God, he hath made everything beautiful in his house. God made men beautiful. He made men righteous. He made them perfect. He made them circumspect. He made them flawless. But they have turned aside unto their own ways. Man was innocent. He is now guilty. He came without blemish from His Creator's hand, but He is now full of wounds and bruises and putrefying sores. He was created altogether good. Now He, under the microscope of the omniscient, has no good thing dwelling in Him. Man was pure. He has become abominable and filthy. The crown of righteousness has fallen from his head and he is a slave to iniquity. He was created in the image of God. Now he embodies the likeness of the devil. Woe unto man who has fallen. He who fellowshiped with his maker in undisturbed union is God's enemy in his mind because of his wicked works. He who was God's son by creation is now an alien on a cursed planet without hope, without God in the world. You see, and not only is man's condition bad, but his attitude toward his condition is even worse. His condition is really bad. It's awful. It's horrible. It should make us shrink with terror that the condition of man is so bad, but his attitude toward his condition is even worse because the main focus of our message is out of chapter, verse 7, when they realize naked condition, when they realize their guilty condition, when their eyes are opened in a spiritual sense, when it comes in on them, the reality of what they have done to themselves, the implications of their sin, when the thrill of the temptation and the sin has kind of subsided and they realize where they're at, rather than turning to the only one that could possibly help them, they begin to harvest the leaves and try to stitch them together to, in some way, try to help their situation. And that, to me, almost makes their situation worse, because not only is their situation irreparable in and of themselves, their attitude toward their situation is one of self-help, one of I got this, one of I'm going to do this. You might say, why talk about so visible a topic in the fall? One of my kids asked me what I was going to preach about this morning. And I told him. And he said, well, that's discouraging. And it is discouraging. You might say, why not preach something like 1 Timothy 1.15 about the faithful saving, worthy of all acceptance, worthy of all acceptation that Christ Jesus came to save sinners, or John 3.16, or some other happy passage. Why not preach on that? Well, unless we see the dark, dismal, despairing, filthy, undone, naked condition of humanity, we will never appreciate properly the amazing grace of almighty God who left heaven's glory and came down to our dirty, filthy, dark world and took our place on Calvary's cross. Amen. We'll never appreciate what the good news is until we have an accurate understanding, some appreciation, some understanding of the depth and solemnity of the fall of man. Unless we craft to some extent, the fallenness of man, and we in him, we will never appreciate the amazing grace of our second Adam from above, who came to reinstate us in God's love. Unless we appreciate the depth of our lostness, we will not be able to benefit from lost. If we can, by God's grace, agree with God, agree with Him about our condition in Adam, our condition in the first Adam, If we, by God's grace, can agree with Him about our condition in the first Adam, He will save our deformed, depraved, dead souls by the second last Adam from above. You see, men were created to have complete and utter dependence on and reliance on God. Men were created to be at union and at fellowship with God, unbroken, close fellowship with God. Men were intended to get everything they needed from the hand of God. When Adam needed food, the Lord made a garden full of trees good for food, fruit trees, peach trees, plum trees, pear trees, all good trees, nut trees, palm trees, a garden full of good food. God provided that. Jehovah Jireh, he provided that for man. When man needs water, the Lord prepares a river running out of Eden, a river to drink from. When man needs a job, the Lord makes him the caretaker of the garden and the magistrate of the world. When Adam needs a wife, the Lord prepares one exactly suitable for him. Everything Adam needed, he had. And everything he had came from the bountiful hand of his Creator. Man was made to be in harmonious dependence on his Maker. But as we see, he has fallen to a state of hostile independence of his Maker. He was created to be in harmonious dependence on God. He has fallen to a state of utter destruction and hostile independence from God. We see this out of verse 7. When he realizes the state he's in, when he realizes his sinful condition, when he realizes lostness, to some extent, he realizes it. They begin to sow fig leaves together. They begin to resort to their own efforts resort to their own ingenuity, resort to their own craftsmanship, resort to their own strength, resort to their own initiative, their own ability, their own wisdom to remedy or to help their situation. And that's what we see everywhere around us. that when men realize their condition or see their need, they fulfill what the Bible says about humanity, there is none that seeketh after God. Rather than running to the Lord about his condition, he tries to turn inward and to help himself in his situation. That's what Psalm 14 tells us, Psalm 53 tells us, and Romans 3 reiterates that there is none that seeketh after God. Wouldn't it make sense to go to the Creator? Wouldn't that be the reasonable thing to do, for Adam to go to the One who made him, who has supplied everything he's needed so far, who has given him life and breath and all things? Wouldn't it make sense for him to go to God with his need? But rather than do that, if as they were, begin writing their own first self-help book, how they can better themselves, how they can improve their situation. I googled a list of self-help books, and the list was long. I didn't bother trying to count them, but there was a lot of books written about men recommending how we can improve our situation. Now, I'm not saying that there is no benefit in working hard. God's told us to work hard. I'm not saying there's no benefit in making your bed in the morning. I'm not saying there's no benefit in being industrious. I'm not saying there's no benefit in not being slothful. I'm not saying that at all. But when it comes to our standing between us and God, when it comes to our trying to improve our state before God, when it comes to trying to rectify the result of our sin, there's nothing you and I can do. There's no other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved than the name of Jesus Christ. Man in his best state is altogether vanity. You can help yourself all you want to, and you can get to your very best state. You can improve yourself to the pinnacle of what you can attain to. And in God's book, it's all together vanity. You hadn't done nothing to improve yourself before holy God. And so Adam and Eve, they realized there's condition, and they began to try to help themselves. One of the self-help books was How to Win Friends and Influence People, The Power of Positive Thinking, Awaken the Giant Within, You Can Heal Your Life was one of the titles of it. I'm like, oh really? Oh really? The fall created in all men an aversion to the only real source of health and salvation. That's the worst aspect of the fall. That's one of the worst aspects of the Fall, that not only it sunk us to total depravity, it created in us an aversion to and repulsion from our only source of health and salvation. You see, the effects of the Fall and all the false religions, man's attempt to do something about their situation. Do something. Count rosary beads. Say Hail Marys. Drag out your cloth three times a day and pray toward Mecca. Do something about your situation. That's the effects of the fall. Get real quiet and focus on your inner self. Say something over and over again a hundred times. Do something about your situation. That's the effects of the fall. Proverbs 14, 12 says that there's a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. And that's what men do. Do something that seems right, whether it helps or not, whether it gets you where you need to be or not, do something. That's what men do. That's what Adam and Eve did. They see that they're undone. They see that they're guilty. They see that their innocence has departed from them. They see that they're exposed to the judgment of God. So start stitching something together. Start doing something about your situation, whether it's fruitful, whether it's helpful or not. And as we read on down, when he stands before God, he says, I'm naked. His people, he didn't do any good. His big legs didn't improve the situation at all. He's still naked. And so it is with humanity. You can do whatever you want to do in and of yourself, but unless it has Jesus Christ in the equation, unless it has repentance and faith in the equation, you have done nothing to help yourself before a holy God. You see, the Fall made man automatically learn to the creature rather than to the Creator. It made men's knee-jerk automatic reaction to refer whether to himself or some other creature for his help. The Fall created in men this idolatry of turning to self turning to his own wisdom, turning to some other creature, rather than to his only source of health. You see how in Hosea 5.13 it says, When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to King Jareb, Yet could He not heal you, nor cure you of your wound? You see, when Adam and Eve saw their naked, undone condition, they began to try to help themselves. And when Ephraim sees his sickness, Judah sees his wound, they run to the king of Assyria looking for help. And you can read about that in Isaiah 30, 31, somewhere in there. Brother Delano preached on it here a few months back about the Israelites. I think they're threatened by Assyria, was it? They're threatened by the king of Assyria. And rather than returning to the Lord in repentance and trust, rather than turning to the Lord in repentance and faith, want to flee to Egypt. They want to get on swift horses and ride down to Egypt to help. And the Lord said, it's going to be your shame. It's going to be your confusion. It's not going to profit you one iota. Your dependence on the creature, your dependence on this neighbor nation will not help you at all. when men realize their situation. Rather than turning to the God who smites, rather than turning to the God whom they have offended, they turn to themselves to help extenuate and to help improve their situation. It says here, and the Lord sent a word unto Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel, and all the people shall know, even Ephraim, and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in their pride and stoutness of heart, The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones. The sycamores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars. So you see, the Israelites saw their need, they saw their the chastisement of God upon them, rather than turning to the God, turning to God who could help, they turn to their own ingenuity and own ability and their own strength. Here's another verse, Ephraim. Whereas Edom saith, we are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, they shall build, but I will throw down. And they shall call them the border of wickedness, and the people against the Lord have indignation forever." So Edom sees his impoverished condition, and he says, we're going to build it back up again. And so it is with Adam and Eve. They see their lostness to some extent. They see their guilt to some extent. They realize their sinful state to some extent. and they turn to themselves to try to improve themselves. As I said earlier, it exposes the depth of their fallen state to turn to themselves for help rather than turning to God. You see, it's like them sewing their fig leaves together, them trying to help themselves It's kind of like trying to put a Band-Aid on a gaping, gushing wound. It's kind of like taking an aspirin to help a brain tumor. It's just absolutely futile attempt at improving their situation. Now how do we get saved? How are we saved from this fallen state? How are we rescued? How are we delivered? from this fallen condition. Well, you see, in Adam all die. So we gotta be some other place. And there's only one other place that salvation is available. We gotta be somewhere else. We gotta be in someone else. In Adam all die. Where do we have to be? In Christ shall all be made alive. We gotta get out of Adam, and we must be in Christ. We must be immersed into Christ. We must be baptized into Christ by the Spirit, by water, by repentance and faith. We must be in Christ. in order to be saved. You see, in Adam, we're like in the city of destruction in Pilgrim Progress that would be burned with fire. That's our condition in Adam. We must flee to the wicked gate. We must flee to the door of Christ Jesus and get into him in order to be rescued and to be delivered from the wrath to come. You see, in the fall, Adam and Eve begin looking to themselves, turning to themselves for their own help. The Lord calls in Isaiah, I think it's 45, 17, look unto me and be ye saved. All the ends of the earth. For I am God and there is none else. I am God and there is none like me. The Lord wants us to turn our eyes out of ourselves off the creature to the Creator, Redeemer God. Turn our eyes, look unto me, he calls us, and be ye saved. Oh, the ends of the earth. We must be in this new Adam. We must be in this last Adam. We must be in Christ, who bore our nakedness on Calvary's cross, that we might be clothed in the righteousness of Jesus Christ. That great exchange in 2 Corinthians 5, that He was made sin. He was stripped. He was made the sin bearer. He was made sin for us who knew no sin. That we might be made the righteousness of God in Him. Are there any lost people here today? Any lost children here today that don't know the Lord Jesus Christ? I'm telling you, you must swap places with Him by faith and repentance. You must, by faith in Christ, repentance of sin, swap places with Jesus Christ where He bears your sins and you are clothed with His righteousness. where He takes your guilt and you receive His righteousness and innocence and purity. He was made sin that we might be made righteous. I want to read a few verses out of Romans chapter 5. Here's the last Adam. Here's the second Adam who came to restore what he didn't take away. who came to bind up what sin had broken. Romans 5, 12. Wherefore, as by one man, that's the man we've been preaching about. Whereby, as one man, sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sin. We've got to get out of that man. We've got to get out of the first Adam. Let's turn to verse 17. Here's the remedy, the solution to salvation. For as by one man's offense death reigned by one, much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in light by one Jesus Christ. As by the offense of one, judgment came upon all men to condemnation, even so by the righteousness of one, the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life. For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. Moreover, the law of injured, that the offense might abound, but where sin abounded, Grace did much more abound that as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ, our Lord. The second, Adam from above, who has come to reinstate us in God's love. I was reading one of Spurgeon's sermons a while back, and he made the comment, Something like, you might not like the fact that you fell in hell. You might prefer that you had your own shot at it. You might prefer that you had your own ability to stand the test and the probation. You might want to stand on your own feet rather than falling in the first man. He said, well, the angels that sinned, they all stood on their own footing. and the ones that sinned were lost eternally. But men, because they fell in their representative federal head Adam, there is the availability, the possibility that they can be restored by the second Adam. Now I hadn't thought about that just too much, but it sounded good. And you theologians can hash it out whether it's, whether a whole water or not, but that sounded good to me. And I'd prefer to be, because if it was up to me, I don't think I would have done any better than the first Adam. And I would rather fall in him and be raised in Christ than to be lost like the demons in hell. How are we to be saved from the fall? How are we to be rescued from the fall? Jesus says several times in the gospel, except you be converted and become as little children, you cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven. You see, Adam, he's become his own god. He's become his own king. He's become his own assistant, his own master. That's all got to turn around. That's all got to be rectified. That's all got to change. Adam has become independent of his maker. Adam has become his own provider. That's got to do with one thing that Jesus said. Accept you be converted and become dependent on God again. Dependent on Christ again. Totally dependent on Him. where you come to God as a poor sinner and nothing at all, but you know that Jesus Christ is your all in all, that you are dependent completely upon Him. Nothing in my hands I bring simply to thy cross I claim. If we are to be saved, we must be converted, changed, turned around, radically changed. I read this simple prayer out of Psalm 41, verse four, and I love it because it's so simple. And if there is a prayer that a sinner should pray with a broken and contrite heart, this is a very good prayer. David says, I said, this is what David said, I said, Lord, be merciful unto me. Heal my soul, for I have sinned against thee. You have repentance in that prayer. You have faith in that prayer. You have him owning his guilt in that prayer, and you have the object of his only salvation. Lord, be merciful unto me. Heal my soul, for I have sinned against Thee. As we read Adam's story, we're reading our story. We read about Adam's guilt, him running from God, him going away from his only source of help, him not seeking after God. We're reading our story. Psalm 14, Psalm 53, Isaiah 59, and then Paul adds it all together in Romans 3, where there's none that doeth good, no, not one. And he takes men apart piece by piece and examines it under the scrutiny of the inspiration of God. There's none that does good, no, not one. And we need to cry out to the Lord, heal my soul. For I have sinned, not just against mama, not just against daddy, not just against some other person. I have sinned against the judge of all the earth. And I need a mediator. I need a savior. I need someone to take my place. Heal my soul, for I have sinned against thee. I'd like to read the verse of this psalm. It says, Come ye sinners poor and wretched, weak and wounded, sick and sore. Jesus ready stands to save you, full of pity, joined with power. Come ye needy, come and welcome. God's free bounty glorify. True belief and true repentance. Every grace that brings you night. Come ye weary, heavy laden. bruised and broken by the fall, if you tarry till you're better, you will never come at all. Lo, the incarnate God ascended, pleased the merit of his blood. Venture on him, venture wholly, let no other trust in truth. Don't be like the first Adam and try to begin to help yourself, begin to improve your condition, begin to patch yourself up. The Psalm says, if you tarry till you're better, you will never become at all. Christ Jesus came to call sinners to repentance. I'd like to look, lastly, on the effects of this fall and condition on even Christians. You see, all of us haven't been restored completely yet. None of us have been restored completely yet. You see, the fall of man still has impact on Christians. You all know that. It's kind of a no-brainer if you read the Bible. The fall still haunts us. Paul would say, he'd cry out, who shall deliver me? Who shall deliver us from the body of this death? The fallen condition still trails us around the effects of the fall. Even though we have believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, he has saved us. But there's a lot more saving that needs to be done. There's a lot more sanctification that needs to take place. There's a lot more things in our life that need to be conformed to the image of God's Son. There's a lot more His likeness that we need, that we don't have yet. And so we see in the example of our Lord Jesus how the Christian is to live their life. And we see that the Christian is to live their life in entire loving confidence in and dependence on God. You see, the fall brought this independence to us. It brought this self-sufficient inclination to us. And we as Christians must learn more and more to lean on God and not to ourselves. As the proverb says, The famous verse, Proverbs 3, verse 5 and 6, I think it is, trust in who? Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not to thine own understanding. In all thine ways acknowledge Him, and He will direct thy steps. You see, the impact of the fall is to still the initial response to trust ourselves. lean to what we know, turn to what we can do about our situation. The proverb says, no, don't do that. I think it's Psalm 37 that says, trust also in him and he will bring it to pass. It says, wait on the Lord and keep his way. We don't have to take matters into our own hands and do something, whether it helps or not. do something whether it's beneficial or not. We see from the example of our Lord Jesus the way the Christian life is supposed to work. And it's the way that Adam, the first Adam, was supposed to live. Entire dependence on and drawing from God. Christ lived that way perfectly. I know he is in a category all by himself. I know that we are not Jesus Christ, but he has set us in. Our father, which is in heaven. Read these, you don't need to turn, but John 5, 19, Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing but what He seeth the Father do. For what things soever He doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. John 8, 28. Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of Man, then shall ye know that I am He, and that I do nothing of myself, but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things. And in John 14, it says a similar thing. John 14, 10, Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself, but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. Now, I know that we're not the Lord Jesus, but this is teaching us to live our lives in complete dependence on, submission to, reliance on our Father, which art in heaven. That's what our Lord's Prayer teaches us, does it not? The Lord's Prayer teaches us to depend on God for the advancement of His Kingdom, the accomplishment of His will, the provision of our daily needs, the forgiveness of sins. The Lord's Prayer teaches us to go to God for everything that we have need of and to be dependent on and reliant on our Father's provision and wisdom and direction. You see, we're living in dangerous times, the Bible tells us. In the last days perilous times shall come. And we see those dangerous times all around us. It's not hard to convince us that we are living in dangerous times. And more and more, as the people of God, we need to draw closer and closer to our Father in Heaven and not to act out of ourselves in our own wisdom, in our own strength. to do anything. We want to have God's Word and Spirit behind us in everything that we put our hands to. We don't need to be swept up in a cause, swept up in a movement, swept up in something to do something. We need to do everything that we do in dependence on and directed by the Lord. I know this is hard at sometimes, it's hard sometimes to discern in life matters which way to go, how to handle our affairs. I know it takes prayer, it takes faith in the Lord and sometimes we just have to make the best decision with what knowledge and understanding we have, trusting the Lord that he leadeth me whether I really sense direct leading or not. I know there's times where His leading is less obvious than others. But as we are close to the Lord in prayer and the Word, we won't err. We won't err too much. We won't err. We won't go wrong. We trust in Him. Isaiah tells us about the man that's walking in darkness that has no light. He's talking about the servant of the Lord. He's talking about a child of God. He says, if you're walking in darkness and you don't have any light, what should you do? He says, let him trust in the name of the Lord and stay upon his God. And then the verse following talks about trying to kindle your own fire, trying to create your own light, trying to help your own situation in your own help. And it says, this shall you have of my hand, you shall lie down in sorrow. We want to, even in dark, sorrowful, hard times, not to run from our source of help and strength and grace, but to run to Him. And even if we have to say like Job, though he slay me, yet will I trust in him. Paul tells us, be careful for nothing but in everything by prayer and supplication. With thanksgiving let your request be made known unto God. Paul says, Don't do anything in your own wisdom. in your own ingenuity, in your own strength, trying to do it yourself, I got this, I can do this. Don't, Paul said, don't live like that. He said, in everything by prayer. Dependence on God, reliance on God, not trying to help your own situation, not trying to improve your own situation in and of yourself, but turning to God, turning to the fountain and source for everything. You read through the Psalms, and you might say of the Psalmist, like in Psalm 51, it says, He only is my rock and salvation. Psalm 62 says, Wait thou only upon God, for my expectation is from Him. He only is my rock and my salvation. He is my defense. You might say to the psalmist, don't you have help anywhere else? He said, well, I've gone to other places a thousand times and they're all broken cisterns that can hold no water. And I found this one well of living water and it's always full and it always has everything that I need pertaining to life and godliness and I'm not gonna go anywhere else anymore because Jesus Christ, God, is all I need. As I said, all that I need, He will always be. All that I need through eternity, all that I need is in Him. Jesus is all I need. Now, closing this up, I'd like to read a few words of songs that kind of Go along with the heartbeat of every Christian that realize the effects of the fall upon them, that realize to some extent their great need of God, their great need of Christ because of the fall. Some songs that should resonate with us. One would be familiar to most of us is, I Need Thee Every Hour, Most Gracious Lord. I need Thee every hour, stay Thou nearby. Temptation lose their power when Thou art nigh. I need Thee, oh, I need Thee. Every hour I need Thee. Oh, bless me now, my Savior, I come to Thee. I need Thee every hour in joy and pain. Come quickly and abide or life is vain. I need Thee every hour. Every hour I need Thee. Oh, bless me now, my Savior. I come to Thee. There's another song. The title of it is I Need Jesus. I'm going to read a few of the verses to you. The Lord has made you conscious of your need. You're blessed. If the Lord has made you mindful of your need of Him, you're a blessed person. Song says, I need Jesus. My need I now confess, no other friend like Him in times of deep distress. I need Jesus, the need I gladly own, though some may bear their load alone, yet I, I need Jesus. I need a friend like him. No friend to God when paths of life are dim. I need Jesus when foes my soul assail. Alone I know I can but fail. So I need Jesus. I need Jesus. I need him to the end. No one like him. He is the sinner's friend. I need Jesus. No other friend will do. So constant, kind, so strong and true. Yes, I need Jesus. I need Jesus. As chorus goes, I need Jesus. I need Jesus every day. Need him in the sunshine hour. Need him when the storm clouds lower every day along my way. Yes, I need Jesus. And one last song, more contemporary. It says, I thought I could do it all on my own. I thought I could make it all alone. I thought of myself as a mighty big man, but I can't even walk without you holding my hand. Lord, I can't even walk without you holding my hand. May the Lord give us the grace to turn to him every day and not lean into our own understanding, depending on ourselves, feeling like we got to do something even if it's wrong, feeling like we got to take matters into our own hands, depending on and being pliable clay in the potter's hand and trusting in him for everything that we need. May God bless you.