So once again, the context was not shared for those listening on the audio. So if you want context, listen to the past 10 or so messages we've done. So first of all, the part two there on your outline is the creation institutions. Number one there is responsible labor. Responsible labor, a divine institution by God for labor. In fact, this may hopefully not come as a surprise, but it may come as a surprise that work is not a part of the fall. Work is not a part of the fall. Toilsome labor is, right? The unfun aspects of work is a result of the fall. But work is a part of creation. Yeah? I just want to ask a question. You've got Adam 130 in gray and then 800 in black. What does that mean? So that's showing at what point he had Seth. So yeah, so at 130 years old, he had Seth. Seth at 105 had Enos. And so that gray portion will tell you how many years from creation we are, which is fascinating. Again, that's why I've emphasized in past lessons, that's why I love genealogies. Genealogies can give us a tremendous amount of detail, especially with the age of the Earth. Now, there could be some discrepancy that I brought up before with some of the manuscripts were changed. And I think there are arguments as to those who changed them had reason to change them because it dealt with, for example, Daniel 9 prophecy, the 70 weeks of Daniel. Those who changed the the dates in the manuscripts had reason to because they had a big problem with Daniel 9 Because to the exact day of that prophecy Jesus Christ shows up in Jerusalem on the triumphal entry So anyways, that's besides the point but put point being relatively speaking Our earth is young right I'd say Not much over 6,000 Now uh... again that's a topic for another day but uh... that's as we take god at his word and we look at the evidence in the plane normal literal sense that's the conclusion we should come to is that Those dates are given for a reason. God is telling us essentially how old. Now, there might be some, I guess, pun intended, gray area there as far as we don't know how long Adam and Eve were in the garden before the fall. I don't think it was too much. But again, we're not told explicitly, right? We don't have a year, month, and day number listed there. So responsible labor, if you turn back to Genesis chapter 1, this is right after creation. Genesis chapter 1, or it's during creation. And verse 26, this is on the sixth day, says, then God said, let us make man in our image according to our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. And if you jump down to chapter two, verse 15, where it's providing more detail of that day, It says in verse 15, then the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it. So we see that labor was a part of creation and you'll notice this is before chapter three, right? And so labor was a part of creation. And this is a conversations I've had with my father-in-law where we've talked about, there's something I think ingrained within us and passages like this show that, We being made in the image of God get pleasure from building, from creating, from developing, from tending. Now, the areas where we might not take pleasure in that is when the curse of the fall is pushing against us, right? There's something about seeing, like if you've ever gardened or farmed anything, there's something joyful about seeing life happen. Or if you've dealt with animals, life happening. There's unpleasurable sides of those things, right? And that's a part of toilsome labor. But nonetheless, the labor itself is not a result of the fall. And so the phrase responsible, we're going to get to when we look at, I think it's more fully developed after the flood in Genesis 9 about the specifics of responsible labor. But the responsible aspect means that we are going to be judged based on what we do in this life. This is a biblical teaching and I've talked about that There's various judgments in scripture, but there's there's essentially two that we can Categorize that all people will fall into one of these two judgments There's the beam of seat of Christ and that is where only believers will be there And I've mentioned and emphasized before that at the beam of seat of Christ the judgment seat of Christ It's not being at the great white throne isn't about salvation either Salvation is not being determined at these judgments. It's your Deeds done in the body that is being determined now for the believers at the but judgment seat of Christ the beam of seat we will be judged based on essentially what we did in our Christian life as believers and We will be rewarded for faithfulness and we could potentially lose rewards for unfaithfulness question Wasn't there two separate judgments one for believers and one for non-believers? Right, so Bema Seat is for believers. Then there's the Great White Throne Judgment, and that is for unbelievers. Now, most Christianity kind of sees the Great White Throne Judgment as the great judgment that we all will be there. If you have trusted in Jesus Christ, you will not be there, I promise you. But those who have rejected Christ will be there, and again, it's not to determine whether they're saved or not. It's to determine the deeds done in the body so that they might receive uh... they're just reward exactly and that's what we see is god is a god of justice and so those individuals standing there are essentially saying i believe i am righteous enough based on my good works or my deeds uh... to make it in heaven's cup so god says okay let's let's judge you on that basis how did you do and ultimately they're going to be shown to have fallen short of perfection and that's why we need christ And so we'll touch on that, but that gets into responsible labor. And again, that's why I think understanding these divine institutions have ramifications for our understanding of the rest of scripture. There's other interrelated passages that shed more light on these concepts. Yes. So you're saying that whatever we do is part of, of responsible labor, like, you know, like it says in scripture, even if you give a person a cup of water, you're doing it in my name. Is that part of the responsible labor? No. I think that's a part of this umbrella. That's a separate judgment. That's going to be a judgment for those during the tribulation because the Bema Seat would have already happened. Okay. But then there's those during the tribulation that Christ is going to judge based on how they treated Israel. So I'm getting mixed up in But it's still, I think, under that same category. And it's a theme that you see throughout scripture is that we all must stand before God and give an account. And that's why we need to be mindful of how we live, right? That's why we as Christians, even though we are saved by faith alone in Christ alone, there's still responsibilities that we have, right? It's not just, okay, you've got your get out of hell free card, now go do what you want. There's going to be Christians that do that, and they're going to be saved. But they're going to, as Paul says in 1 Corinthians, be saved as through fire. I've heard it said they're gonna smell like smoke in the kingdom. But they're still saved, right? And there's tons of examples we could talk about another time of examples of believers. And in fact, we talked about it several weeks ago, right? Pastor Dave dealing with Noah and the challenge issued to us was end well. Cause Noah, you know, granted that was after the flood and I think he would have had opportunity to continue walking with the Lord, but it was a testimony of a major failure in his life. And there were failures in the New Testament where, for example, Demas, Paul said, has forsaken me and has loved this present world. I think he was saved, but he, no longer wanted to follow Christ. He wanted to do what he wanted to do, wanted to be comfortable. But anyways, that's another topic for another day. Number two is marriage, divine institution, marriage. And we see this in Genesis two, starting in verse 21. I'm gonna kind of speed up here because these are elaborated in the second section. But we see verse 21, and the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam and he slept and took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh in its place. Then the rib which the Lord God had taken from man, he made into a woman and he brought her to the man. And Adam said, this is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called woman because she was taken out of man. Therefore, a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife and they shall become one flesh. And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed." So we see marriage here is a divine institution. It's something that man did not create, God created. And that's why what we see in our world is a big issue, right? Man does not determine the parameters or the guidelines for what is marriage. God already has. And when this was brought up, even to Jesus, he doesn't point to, well, you know, culturally this was, This is marriage, this is how we define marriage. He points back to creation as his argument. When he's answering the Pharisees, he says, have you not heard from the beginning, God made them male and female, and he's quoting this passage. Number three there is family, family. And this is related to Genesis 128, be fruitful and multiply, implying, you know, Procreation having a family, but I think it's also fits under Genesis 2 verse 24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife and they shall become one flesh so they they form a new unit and they're gonna have kids and their kids are under that unit until they're of age and that man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife and so on and so forth. But we see marriage and family are divinely instituted by God. So now to go into part number three, the new world institutions, the three that we just mentioned are relisted, but then there's two more that are added. And so touching on some of the things that we didn't cover, responsible labor, if you turn over to Ecclesiastes for a moment, This is one of my favorite books. And I do mean that. It's a little bit melancholy, but it's got a beautiful overall message. Let's see. 12, Ecclesiastes 12. Now, just to kind of summarize the book of Ecclesiastes leading up to this point, everything is futile. It's a chasing after the wind. And he makes arguments such as you can spend your entire life building, growing your empire just to die and leave it to someone that didn't work for it. And so he's highlighting and emphasizing the hopelessness in our temporary circumstances in this life. But there is life ahead is what the illusion is. So Ecclesiastes chapter 12, I love how he finishes the book in verse nine. He says, and moreover, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge. Yes, he pondered and sought out and set in order many proverbs. The preacher sought to find acceptable words, and what was written was upright words of truth. The words of the wise are like goads, and the words of scholars are like well-driven nails given by one shepherd. And further, my son, be admonished by these, of making many books there is no end, and much study is worrisome to the flesh. Amen, right? For those who have gone to school. But notice verse 13, let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter. In other words, I am going to summarize the entire book in this. What is the purpose of life? Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is man's all. Four, God will bring every work into judgment, including every secret thing, whether good or evil. And so again, this is an elaboration on that umbrella of responsible labor. We are responsible before our creator based on how we behave. And in our study in Romans, we've been talking about what extent man goes to in order to avoid that, right? We suppress the truth in unrighteousness. And the reason is, as Pastor Dave often mentions, we have a God in whom we have to do, right? But the atheistic mind doesn't want to think about that. That's why there's arguments against the flood. That's why there's arguments against creationism. Because if there's a God that created, and there's a God that judged in the flood, and there's a God that judged in Sodom and Gomorrah, and there's a God, if there's a God, what am I doing? You see? And so we have a responsibility before our creator. We can't just live autonomously. And I think that's a part of the fall. Satan tempted Adam and Eve to eat the fruit. And in doing so, they were now knowing good and evil. And he says that you will be like God. Were they like God? In some senses, yes, but they were not creator. And so they acted like God and we do that to this day, right? We determine what is right, what is wrong. We determined what I am going to do. We have our agendas and it all goes against what God is doing and has revealed in his word. So responsible labor. Number two, we see it reaffirmed in Genesis nine, one through seven. Again, he tells Noah, be fruitful and multiply. Now we come to the family. So I wanna spend probably the most time on family and national diversity because we spend a lot of time on human government when we dealt with the Tower of Babel, because we showed in that passage, we see right after the flood, God institutes human government, right? With the capital punishment. And what we talked about is that that was a restrainer of evil. God implemented that to restrain evil. But what we see in the Tower of Babel is that there are limitations to human government, right? It's not a perfect restrainer. If there was a perfect restrainer, no other restrainer would be needed, right? We just promote and uplift that restrainer of evil. If human government is a perfect restrainer of evil, We need to elevate human government. And not to get too far down the rabbit trail, but that's why communism doesn't work, right? In theory, fantastic, right? Maybe. But in practice, it doesn't work. Why? Because man has fallen. And it's a imperfect way of thinking. restrainer of evil. And so getting into the family, we see this in Genesis 9, but turn to Psalm 78, if you would. Psalm number 78. And I wanna read just verses one through eight. Psalm 78, verse one. Give ear, O my people, to my law, incline your ears to the words of my mouth. I will open my mouth in a parable, I will utter dark sayings of old, which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generations to come the praises of the Lord, and his strength and his wonderful works that he has done. For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers that they should make them known to their children, that the generation to come might know them, the children who would be born, that they may arise and declare them to their children, that they may set their hope in God and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments and may not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that did not set its heart aright and whose spirit was not faithful to God. So I wanted to single this passage out because I think it really well summarizes what is taking place in the family dynamic, how God intended the family to function. There's a ton of passages we could go to to compare this concept. But I've heard it said, and I think well said, that the family is the first education center. It's the first political environment a kid will ever see. Of course, it's a dictatorship, right? First academia, first political, first maybe a little bit military there with siblings, right? Your relatedness to others. But it's the first learning, and I would argue the primary learning environment. And this is the argument I make. We deal in a world with we have public education made available and we have homeschooling. My wife was homeschooled. I was public schooled. Don't let that be a deciding factor on which one you think is better because if you do, then you'll for sure vote homeschool. But that being said, what I advise people is whether you public school or homeschool, you are the parent and you should be as involved either way. We've known homeschool families that just sit their kids in front of a computer screen and that's the extent of their homeschooling environment. That's not homeschooling, it's just kind of Less public schooling. But I've also had, you know, my pastor, their kids were homeschooled and they kind of viewed it as a missionary endeavor. And I think there's some truth to that. Because they were so involved with the raising of their children and discipling their children, when their kids went to school, they were a positive light. Now, you may, as a parent, look at some of your kids and say, I think that they would be more impressionable by their peers than a light. And so, you know, that's a decision you have to make. But what I'm saying is that God designed the family to be the primary means of education for your children. Primary means of education for your children. And I think there's, what's that? That ain't true today. Yeah. And it's unfortunate because I think that's arguably what we see. And it's multifaceted. I think we live in a day and age where it's unfortunate, but most families require dual income, right? And so mom and dad's not home. They have to work in order to survive. And so again, you can get down maybe a conspiracy rabbit trail. But we're going to cover at the end, if there's time, Satan's strategy against these divine institutions. I think that one of the biggest targets that God has instituted in creation is the family. And if God can destroy the family, or if Satan can destroy the family, that's an effective hit against civilization. And experts point this out. We just had a situation with the shooting in Texas. It's not the first one, won't be the last one. Pray it is the last one, right? Why did it happen? Some say guns. Some say his mental illness. One of the most common denominators of crime taking place usually has to do with either a mom or dad being absent in the home. There's a lot more to it than just that, but that's a common denominator. And so Satan attacks the family. Why? Because the family is the structured environment in which we grow and we understand God, or should, right? That's how God designed it. And the world system would much rather you say, here, give us your kids. We'll take care of them. You don't worry about it. And here we are. So the family is the first education center. And that's one of the primary reasons why I gave this chart to you, is notice the overlap. And so they would have practiced these things, right? Adam would have told his children, his grandchildren, his great-grandchildren about the works of the Lord. especially creation, right? How did Moses, who wrote the book of Genesis, come to understand all of these things? Did God just kind of send down a jump drive and upload everything? He could, right, certainly. But I think there's aspects that came through, through oral tradition. I think there was a lot of research and study on the part of Moses, similar to Luke. And then through the process of inspiration, God ensured the accuracy of the things that Moses wrote down. But I think it's essentially, these things were already understood. as factual. Now, we also know there were some twistings that started to develop in society, and it's interesting to compare all of the creation myths, all of the flood myths that are out there, and there's a lot of similarities, right? Now, that doesn't mean that the biblical account is just one of many. It just means that they all had a common source, and I think well-documented, the Bible testimony stands against all of them. And so you see this overlap. And one that I wanted to point out in particular is Noah. Noah lived into the life of Enosh, the grandson of Adam. And he lived almost up to the point of Abraham. So within one man, you almost have someone that spanned all of those generations. There's three generations or three parts to that. And so that span of generations would have maintained the integrity of these accounts through oral tradition. And then I think, of course, God moved Moses to write down with accuracy what took place. But I think those things would have been preserved up until Moses. Now, jumping down, we talked about human government. This is discussed in Genesis 9, 5 through 6, again with the institution of capital punishment. And then you see, compared with Romans 13, and let's actually turn there for a moment. We are down, okay, so number one, responsible labor, number two is marriage, number three is family, number four is human government, human government. And Romans 13 talks about this, starting in verse one. Paul says, let every soul be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except from God. And the authorities that exist are appointed by God. Therefore, whoever resists the authority resists the ordinance of God. and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves. For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Do you want to be unafraid of the authority? Do what is good, and you will have praise from the same. For he is God's minister to you for good. But if you do evil, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain, for he is God's minister and avenger to execute wrath on him who practices evil. Therefore, you must be subject not only because of the wrath, but also for conscience sake. Verse six, for because of this, you also pay taxes. Everyone's favorite verse. For they are God's ministers attending continually to this very thing. And that's certainly true, right? They are God's ministers attending continually to this very thing. They're very careful to do that. Verse seven, render therefore to all their due, taxes to whom taxes are due, customs to whom customs, fear to whom fear, honor to whom honor. Now, I'm kind of taking this passage, when you're studying submission to governing authorities, you really need to compare all scripture touching on it. Because obviously, there's things that we are not to submit to, right? If they said, you need to stop teaching that, say, no, thank you, as kindly as you can. And so there are limitations to that, right? And so now, number five, dealing with national diversity. This is one that I wanted to emphasize most this morning. National diversity. And I think this is an appropriate topic to cover on Memorial Day because, you know, we are increasingly getting into an age where being proud of your nation is looked upon as bad or frowned upon. And I don't think that's biblical. And so to touch on that, we see in Genesis 11, we looked at this last week, where did nations come from? Tower of Babel. And so we see who caused the dispersion at Babel. God. So this is a divine institution. God instituted nations. And we talked about it last week for the purpose, I believe, again, as a restrainer of evil. Because as long as there are diversified nations and they're not all united, they can't do what they were already trying to do at the Tower of Babel, right? As long as there are divided nations, you can't get a guy like Hitler to try to take over the world. Right? Because there are going to be those who resist them. What happens if everyone starts to become one again and they wanna take over the world? Who's gonna stand in their way? No one but God. And that's what we see, right? In the tribulation. We see just that. And so I wanna turn, compare Deuteronomy 32. This is an interesting part of the national diversity. Genesis 30 or excuse me, Deuteronomy 32 Deuteronomy 32 and look at verse 8 Well, let's Let's start in verse 7. Remember the days of old. Consider the years of many generations. Ask your father and he will show you. Your elders and they will tell you. When the Most High divided their inheritance to the nations. When he separated the sons of Adam. Now, this is New King James Version. I think it should be literally the sons of man. Because Adam means man, right? So it's not talking about when he separated the sons of Adam, but the sons of man. So I think this would be referring to when he separated them and that was at Babel. He set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the children of Israel. Now I wanna pause there. What does that mean? According to the number of the children of Israel. He divided the nations according to the number of the children of Israel. How many names are listed in Genesis 10 and 11 the table of nations any guesses It's a good guess 70 70 now how how would that fit with the according to the number of the children of Israel? Turn to Exodus chapter 1 So in Genesis 11, there's 70 people that become nations essentially. And if you turn to Genesis, or excuse me, Exodus chapter one, Exodus chapter one and verse five, all those who were descendants of Jacob were 70 persons for Joseph was in Egypt already. and Joseph died, all his brothers and all that generation. So 70. So again, going back to Deuteronomy 32, I want you to catch the significance of what is being revealed here. when the Most High divided their inheritance to the nations, when He separated the sons of man, He set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the children of Israel. Now notice verse nine, for the Lord's portion is His people. Jacob is the place of His inheritance. So in other words, there's an even split here. God says, here's my 70, this is my people. My inheritance. The other 70 is the nation's. That's the national inheritance. What's significant about this relative to Deuteronomy? Is it before or after the Tower of Babel? After. And right here, it's telling us that God did it according to the sons of Israel. So was the Tower of Babel before or after Israel? Before. And so this is a wonderful passage where we see the omniscience of God. We see the omniscience of God. We also see the sovereignty of God. Yeah. Also, Ishmael had 12 sons. It wasn't until Jacob that you have 12 sons. Yeah. And so what we see here, I think, is a subtle, reminder for the Israelites who are about to enter the land to recognize who the God of history is. And who is the God of history? Yahweh, the creator. Because the one who divided the inheritance of the nations did the same thing when he brought the 70 into Israel. And I think the point of emphasis there is that God is showing that he is the creator, the sovereign of the universe. If you also compare this with Acts chapter 17. Acts 17 and verse 26. And he has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their pre-appointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings. Verse 27, so that they should seek the Lord in the hope that they might grope for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. So again, this passage again speaks to the purpose of national diversity. And that is that each of them would turn to him and find him. Because if there is a division amongst the nations, if they're all united, they're gonna be united against God, right? We saw that at the Tower of Babel. But if they're not united, if they're diversified, God can step in if a nation is influencing the other nations in a bad way. Has God ever done that? Sodom and Gomorrah. the land of Canaan. And it's important to understand this because that's what makes sense of the land of Canaan. Enemies of Christianity or enemies of the Bible, enemies of God, point to the things that took place in the conquest of the land and say, how could you worship a God that does that? Well, if they would have read what God did in the flood, they would understand that God deals with sin, does he not? Was there sin going on in Canaan? Terrible sin. Irreversible sin. And sin that would have infiltrated the rest of human civilization. And so God dealt with it the same way that he did with Sodom and Gomorrah. Now we're in a unique period of time where God has been very long-suffering. He's been very patient. And the reason we're told is 2 Peter 3, 9, he's patient desiring that none shall perish. But there's going to be a time when he's no longer patient. He comes down. and he ends the nations. Now I wanna spend the last few minutes going through, just summarizing Satan's attack with responsible labor. You see Genesis three, verse five is listed there, where they became like God, knowing good from evil. At that point, man started to live according to his will rather than God's will. Genesis 6, 5, the mention of everyone, the exceedingly wicked environment of the pre-flood world. Again, they were going away from what God had created them to do. This is under Satan's attack? Yeah, Satan's attack, responsible labor, Genesis 3, 5, Genesis 6, 5. I have Judges 17, 6, where it says everyone did what was right in their own eyes. Again, showing that we as man often live without the understanding that we will stand before God in judgment. Judges 17.6, and then you could also include the last verse, 21.25. 17.6, 21.25. What about marriage? We have Genesis 6, right? The issue of marriage there. We won't go into details, but if you're of the persuasion that interprets the angels, or the demons rather, intermarrying with man, that would be a satanic strategy to go against the institution of marriage, right? What about Romans 1? We just studied that several weeks ago in our Romans course. How did that go against God's divine institution of marriage? Yep, they gave up what was natural in exchange for what is unnatural, against nature. Family is pretty self-explanatory. We discussed that, right? Satan's attacking the family vehemently. Human government, Genesis 11, Tower of Babel. We see that, right? I also have included Daniel 7, 23 through 25, talking about the world empires. And this is talking about the future world empire, the one world government that's gonna be headed by the man of lawlessness, aka the Antichrist. It was Daniel 11? Daniel 7, 23 through 25. And then dealing with national diversity, Satan's attacks against that, I have evolution there. Why is evolution important to that? Well, one of the things that's always perplexed me is how Darwin is held up and worshiped by the same people that say racism is bad. Now, racism is bad, right? But Darwin talked about, in fact, the subtitle of his book talks about the superior races. And yet he's held up as the authority on the origins of man. And so evolution is an attack on God's institution of national diversity. What about woke culture? This is kind of getting into some woke culture. I don't know if you've heard of that. It's this mindset of social justices and all these reforms and it's kind of endless. But basically what it hinges on is racial division. It promotes, and out of one side of their mouth, they're talking about racial unity, but it's just as racist as whatever group you want to think of. And so I have a question down here. Which race is God's favorite race? The human race. The human race. Thank you for getting that answer right. The human race, there is no other race, right? There might be an angelic race, but there's one human race. Drag race. That might be confused with something else. That's not what I meant. So a few questions. Are there any divine institutions that you think should be added and why? Well, I don't know about adding it, but as far under national diversity is, I think you have to put in there how it's being eugenics is still very alive and very well in this world. Yep. And that is, there is a ton of it going. Yep, absolutely. Yeah. You don't call Jews a race? I view them as a people. They're a tribe under the human race, but they're, they're not a different, yeah, they're not a different race in my estimation. They are chosen and so there's distinctions that the Jews have that Gentiles or the nations don't have, but I don't view them as a separate race. But we base race, so much of race is based on skin color. Yeah. The concept of race in the world today. You've been talking and we've been I mean, everywhere you see nations in the Old Testament, it's royal. That's talking about a people group. And so when you divided the people at Babel, they were divided into groups based on language, and then the other thing that occurred as a result of that division now these people begin to have similar features and so on and so forth. And then we jump from that to say, well, that's a separate race. No, it's not. Yeah. I'm glad you mentioned that because they call it the genetic bottleneck that happens at the flood. And one of the interesting things to ponder is there could be human traits that existed in the pre-flood world that didn't carry over because of that bottleneck. And it's just fascinating to think about you know, maybe some of those things like some of the common things we may think of is like widow's peak or the ear, you know, different traits that we have and I think there's many more. But the last point of application I wanted to give is do these, how should judgment affect how we live? Should it affect it or should it not? It should, right? We all will stand before God and give an account over the things we've done in the body. We praise the Lord for His grace, right? Because if we've trusted in His Son alone for salvation, we have eternal life. But we still are responsible to our Creator to live, and that's why we seek to follow Him. I want to interject one other thing in that, what you just said there. That's rewards. Yes. You go through the New Testament. We're told reward, reward, reward.