Good morning. I know that we usually start with an introduction, uh, but I think I'm going to need an introduction to start my introduction. I just want to briefly describe to you a situation or scenario that you might not be familiar with. Um, I grew up, in a place that's very different from this place. I grew up in the projects where we would have 70 people living in one building. And we would have two buildings close together. And in the middle of that, we would have benches and grass set up. So it was a lot of people. So I want you to understand that when we're sitting on the benches, there's just a lot of people. I mean, more people than this building would even hold. And that's just one block. And so I want to tell you once about a situation where I was sitting on the bench. with a group of friends of mine that lived there. And once we had a girl from our block who always asked us for a little bite of whatever we were eating. It didn't matter if we had eaten a piece of it or not. She was not picky. We always could count on Sharon, not our Sharon, but the Sharon that we know, to ask for some. Can I have some? She was pretty, and all the boys liked her, so we never denied her requests. We were all sick and tired of her begging, but no one said anything about it, except for Jeff. He was from the South. So when he came to New York in the summer, he say, I don't like her. I'm going to teach her a lesson. I got this California Reaper pepper. Upstairs it's hotter than a habanero pepper. And one day he wrapped it up in a sandwich and took it outside. We were all sitting on the bench and Jeff pulled out his sandwich and true to Sharon's form, asked Jeff, can I have some? Jeff said, I haven't even eaten yet. And yet you want some? Yeah, she said. He told her to take a little bite. And Sharon said, OK, I'm going to just take a little bite. But Sharon was Sharon, and she always took a big bite. So she took a big bite, and her eyes got big, and she started to holler. She ran upstairs, and she didn't come back outside for the whole day. Though Jeff gave her that pepper, Sharon took it out on all of us. She eventually got herself a boyfriend, and who lived outside of our project, she never did introduce any of us to him, and she never talked to us again. That little bite changed the whole course of Sharon's relationship with all of us. And Eve's little bite changed the course of Adam and Eve's relationship with God, the animals, and each other. As a matter of fact, that little bite had universal consequences. How did this happen? Well, looking at Adam and Eve's situation as a court case will help us. We will explore, one, the examination of Adam and Eve, verses 11 to 13. Two, the sentencing of all through Adam and Eve, and the hope for all through Eve. And so now I ask you to open up your Bibles to the book of Genesis chapter three. And we'll be reading chapter 10, I'm sorry, verses 10 all the way to 19. That's Genesis three. Takes me a longer time to get there, so you should be there already. Three, verses 10 to 19. And this is God's word. Let us read. He said, I have heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked. So I hid myself. And he said, who told you you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree in which I commanded you not to eat? The man said, the woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me from the tree and I ate. Then the Lord said to the woman, what is this that you have done? And the woman said, the serpent deceived me and I ate. The Lord said to the serpent, because you have done this, cursed are you. more than all cattle, and more than every beast of the field. On your belly you will go, and thus you will eat all the days of your life. And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. You shall bruise you on the head, and you shall bruise him on the heel." The woman said, I will greatly multiply, pain in childbirth, in pain you will bring forth children, yet your desire will be for your husband and you will rule over you. Then the Adams had said, because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree which I commanded you, saying you should not eat from it, cursed is the ground because of you. In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you, and you will eat the plants of the field, but the sweat of your face you will eat bread, till you return to the ground, because from it you were taken, for you are dust, and to dust you shall return. Let us pray. Father, please give me the physical strength and spiritual energy to speak your word with faithfulness, clarity, authority, passion, and wisdom. Father, give us an ear for your truth to take to our heart what your word says, so we may obey it. And let that obedience bring glory to your name. In Jesus' name we pray, amen. According to Arthur Pink, the third chapter of Genesis is one of the most important chapters in the Word of God. What has often been said of Genesis as a whole is peculiarly true of this chapter. It is the seed plot of the Bible. And this concept of seed is what we will return to later in our time together. In Genesis 3, we find a turning point. Everything up to this point has been declared good, or very good. We read verses 10 to 19, which we just read, but these verses are in the middle of a scene already in progress. In verse seven, the eyes of both of them were open and they knew they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loin coverings. Verses eight and nine tells us that Adam and Eve were hiding in the presence of God and the Lord asked them, where are you? Verse 10 is Adam's response to God's question and this is where we begin this morning. Adam's response to the question, where are you, was, I heard you in the garden. I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid myself. Verse 10. This is a three-part answer from Adam. First, he said, I heard you in the garden. Adam had previously been walking with God in the garden in the cool of the day. But had he not heard the voice of the Lord before when he forbid him not to eat of the forbidden tree? Why was he not afraid then? Why did he not hide then? But now Adam is terrified by God's voice? Did God change his voice? Did he appear in a different place than he had before? The answer to all these questions are no. God was in the same place and used the same voice, but it was Adam's position that had changed. And this is the word for many of us today. There are times when we feel distant from the Lord. Sometimes it is nothing we've done, but other times we have drifted away from God. And it happens so subtly. It is us who have to draw near to God. So today if we feel that God is distant, then we pray. Is it something I've done or not done? Use this opportunity to draw near to God. So seek the Lord and ask him to reveal any drifting or hiding on your part. Adam, he couldn't see God because he was hiding. He only hears him. Now the question for us is, why is Adam all of a sudden hiding? The second part of Adam's answer is, I was afraid and I was naked. When Adam took and ate from the forbidden tree, he changed from enjoying fellowship with God to now hiding and being afraid of God. Since Adam is now in fear of God, he hid from the Lord. Martin Luther comments on this particular passage of scripture, and he says, although Adam's hopes to be able to cover his sin was a lie, he brings this witness against himself when he says that the reason for his flight was the voice of the Lord and his own nakedness. This is the nature of sin. Unless God immediately provides a cure and calls the sinner back, he flees endlessly from God, and by excusing his sin with lies, he heaps sin upon sin. Sin dulls our conscious. Just recently, I visited the dentist. I had to get a tooth refilled because some of my filling came out. The dentist numbed my gums and then stuck a needle in there. He started to work, but he said, put your hand up if you can feel anything, and my hand shot up. He stopped, he gave me another needle. That took all the pain away, and then my dentist was able to work without interruptions. Novocaine is a great invention. It allows the dentist to do his work without paying to the patient. But sin is like spiritual Novocaine, and this is not good. It is dangerous because when we feel the pain of our sinful actions, we will be motivated to repent. But when we are highly anesthetized, we continue in our sin and we go deeper into a pit. Lord, give me the courage to wallow or to not wallow in my sin, and the grace to confess my sin as soon as possible. When we lie to cover our sin, we only sink deeper into sin. It is like falling into a pit, and each lie is sinking deeper and deeper into the bottom of the pit. We are getting dirtier with each lie. But the Bible says if we confess our sins, he's faithful and just to forgive us of our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Does anyone here know the name Carlo Collodi? Come on, all you homeschoolers, you don't know Carlos Collodi? Oh, come on. Collodi was the author of a famous book, but the main character in the book was the more famous than Carlos Collodi. So if Carlos Collodi was one who created us, if he was God and he created us, our noses would grow every time we lie. So you know who this is, right? But it's a good thing. that we're not all walking around with long noses, because the longest nose would be the biggest liar, right? So it's good for us. But maybe then we wouldn't lie so much. Let's look at the examination of Adam and Eve, verses 11 to 13. God didn't just let Adam and Eve wallow in their sin. There was immediate engagement here, an examination. His first question, who told you you were naked? Now, in a case you may be wondering, why is God, who knows all things, asking Adam a question like this? Let me assure you that God indeed knows that Adam sinned and he is guilty of death. Martin Luther commented on this portion of scripture when he said, God questioned Adam so that by his own witness he himself may prove himself guilty of having committed sin, for he is fleeing from God something which itself is a sin. God's question to Adam is straightforward and open. This is the opposite of Adam. Adam is not telling the whole truth. Sin makes a man an evader. It leads him to take refuge in half-truths, deceit, and invasion. But God is looking for a straightforward answer from Adam, an honest acknowledgment of his transgression. God's second question in his examination was, have you eaten from the tree which I commanded you not to eat? God is trying to lead Adam down the road of restoration and forgiveness. I have sinned against God. That's what we should say when we sin against God. Not, oh, I was mistaken. Oh, no, I have sinned against God. A simple answer, a simple, honest confession is all Adam had to do. This is what God is looking for. The Bible says that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. And in that same book, it states, consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them. One of Jesus' purposes is to pray for his people. In 2 Peter, it states, the Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness, but is longsuffering to usward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. If you look closely, you can see the position of God. It is not like this. It is like this. He leans in and he longs for Adam to come out of hiding and confess his sins. But Adam refuses and continues to hide. If we think God's position is like this, we would probably be more apt to come to him. and seek forgiveness. So what is the verdict? The verdict of the serpent, Adam and Eve is, so God's examination results conclude with a guilty verdict for all involved. The serpent is guilty, Eve is guilty, and Adam is guilty. Let's look at the sentencing of all through Adam and Eve, verses 14 to 19. In our judicial system, sentencing can take up to 90 days after the guilty verdict. As a matter of fact, the longest court case in the United States was filed by Myra Clark Gaines. It lasted 57 years. Obviously there was some flaws in our judicial system because it all depends on the faithfulness of human beings. It was not like that for Adam and Eve. Their sentencing came from God and their sentencing was immediate. This is the grace, though, that is often overlooked. Sometimes when we get away with our sin the first time and the second time, we wrongfully assume we will not be punished. This often leads to a false belief that God has missed it. And parents of young children, this is something that was embedded in our mind. You let it go. You let it go. And it grows, and it grows. You gotta nip it in the bud. And in this case, God, he nipped it in the bud. But God, he sees it, and judgment is coming. But in the case of the serpent, Adam and Eve, judgment came swiftly. God addresses the serpent first, and his sentence is, because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock. On your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life. Genesis 3.14. Some of us may say, listen, if God is God, then couldn't he have stopped this temptation? Have you thought about that? He could just wipe it out. He could just stop it. But William Bridges addresses this issue in his commentary when he says, God suffers his children to be tempted, that occasionally they may be more fit to receive the fullness of Christ as Savior. A man who is not tempted may receive the fullness of Christ as the head, but unless a man be tempted, he's not fit to receive Christ as Savior. To be tempted is not the same as yielding to temptation resulting in sin. Temptation is not sin. Jesus Christ was made likened to us that he may be tempted and so become our high priest and we are tempted and receive the mercy that came of that office. We ought to stop walking around here as though we have lost the battle and we are tempted. Jesus was made like unto us that we might have communion with him and he with us. This might be a new thought for us, some of us, especially those who have a sensitive conscience. To be tempted is to be human. Everyone who's breathing is tempted, but let us pray that our day or times of temptation, we will be able to stand. We have to pray. When the disciples turned to pray, when he told the disciples to turn to pray, listen, pray, what did they do? They went to sleep. We can't go to sleep. We have to stay awake. We have to stay alert. So let's be alert and pray. And when temptation finally comes, we shall be able to stand up against it. We need to stay alert and pray. God addresses the woman next, and her sentence is twofold. He will multiply her pain during childbearing, and she will desire to rule over her husband. Verse 16, I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing, and pain you shall bring forth children. Firstly, the emphasis in Hebrew is on the word greatly or surely. Because in the Hebrew text it says, greatly I will multiply. The intensity of the experience is described with this one word in Hebrew, and it comes at the beginning, so as not to be overlooked. This will not be a little bit of pain, but great pain. Instead of multiplying your childbearing, God has promised to multiply a woman's pain. The pain will multiply her sorrow, so the joy of producing children will always be tempered with great pain. Eve will give birth in pain, and later the gathering of Adam's food, his eating, will be in pain. This is not a typical pain. In other words, the center of this pain has its core sorrow or grief in the spiritual and mental state of mind, which manifests itself in actual physical pain. And that means the cure for this pain is spiritual as well. When we have pain in our legs, we don't find some kind of relief We can find some kind of relief with icy hot or Doan's pills. Most of you, if you're younger, you don't know what Doan's pills are, but it's something that was before. When we have a shoulder or back pain, we can turn to Tylenol or physical therapy. But the kind of pain that Adam and Eve and their posterity will struggle with is not physical. Thus, it does not have a physical solution. These pains come from the consequences of sin, and there's only one cure for sin, and it is the blood of Jesus. Jesus has finished his work on the cross, is the only remedy for a sick sin world. This might be your first time hearing the true condition of mankind. It is bleak, but the finished work of the cross can be applied to your life and that painful toil can turn into eternal joy. Put your trust in Jesus this morning. Yes, it's still morning. And you too can experience that same freedom that set Paul and all the New Testament believers from all generation experience. But why this pain? Why? Because of the tree. The very word pain in Hebrew will always be a reminder of a tree because they sound similar. I'll do something I have never done in this pulpit before. I didn't like when there was a famous preacher who would use Greek words and Hebrew words and nobody knew what he was talking about. He was just impressing himself most of the time. But I want to use it this time because it sounds so similar. The tree is eighths and the pain is eighths. It's tough. Very similar. So if you're reading it in Hebrew, you say, oh, oh, this goes together. Every time the word pain is mentioned, the thought of tree will be there. And every time the word tree is mentioned, the idea of pain will be there. You can't say one word without thinking of the other. You know, like the sitcom, love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. This I tell you, brother, you can't have one without the other. Just like you can't say kickboxing without thinking of the word kick. One naturally goes with the other. In the Hebrew mind, tree and pain go together. It sounds similar, and they are forever connected. You can't have one without the other, like bread and butter, rain or shine, or body and soul. For biblical readers, tree and pain are forever connected and cannot be separated. The second part of Eve's consequence is that her desire shall be contrary to her husband, but he shall rule over her. Genesis 3, 16. Eve's desire will be to dominate her husband, but her husband will dominate her. And we will have this battle of the sexes until the first coming of Christ. The man wants to rule over the woman and the woman wants to rule over the man. But Jesus comes along and he says, you know that the rulers of the Gentiles lorded over them. and their great ones exercise authority over them, it shall not be among you. It is natural for those who are in power to lord it over those who have less power. But we are called to a supernatural life. Jesus goes on to say, but whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be your slave. Even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve. So as husbands, let us get back to the Bible. We need to excel in service instead of dominance. Application three, we need to commit to serving one another. Some of our problems will be erased immediately if we would just serve one another. So let's remember also that Adam willfully ate of the fruit, but Eve yielded to temptation. For Eve, temptation came knocking on her door, and she surrendered to it. And temptation will always knock on our door. We must be steadfast not to surrender, not to answer. We need to keep that door closed. Our declaration should be, keep on knocking, but you can't come in. Temptation comes knocking at the door of your heart. As God told Cain, sin is crouching at your door. Its desire is to have you. You must rule over it. We need to resist temptation and keep the door closed. If there was a stranger who came knocking at the door of your home, would you let him in? No, you wouldn't. There's danger there. He doesn't know you, and better still, you don't know him, so don't let him in. But if you do let him in, and you end up yielding to temptation, make sure that you make some improvements for it, for the better. What am I saying? I'm saying, well, if you do submit to temptation, it's not all loss. We want to win, even when we lose, let's win. And if temptation do arise, we must be sure to make some improvement for it, for the better, for Satan comes before a soul with the temptation, and when he comes and finds that soul committed to prayer, he confesses, I've lost much. He tempts, we pray. He tempts even greater, and we pray even more. William Bridge says, beloved, labor to improve your temptations. Go to God with your temptations. If you improve your temptations, you shall not be troubled with Satan. And let's be wise about every knock on the door. For every knock is not a knock of danger. There is a person who knocks on the door of our heart that wants to have fellowship with us, with you. He says, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come to him and eat with him and he with me. This is the Lord Jesus Christ, the King of heaven. He is wanting to have fellowship with you. If you hear his knock. Let him come in and experience eternal salvation. Lean into God and God will lean into you. He is waiting with outstretched arms. Something good is going to happen to you, happen to you this very day. Something good is gonna happen to you. Jesus Christ of Nazareth is passing your way. I resisted singing that song. Such a beautiful song. Something good is going to happen to you this very day, this very hour, something good to happen to you. Jesus of Nazareth is passing your way. This might be the moment that you can be free. This very same Jesus is right here today. Before we come to the sentencing of Adam, I would like you to notice God's grace that is often overlooked. The grace of God was extended to Adam and Eve. First of all, God said they would die. But God's grace extended toward them and they didn't die immediately. They're going to die shortly, but not immediately. Secondly, there was a curse that's pronounced on the serpent. But Adam and Eve, they only received consequences for their sin. We covered Eve's sentencing, now let's look at Adam's sentencing. The Lord put Adam in the garden to work it and to keep it, Genesis 2.15. This was his natural relationship with the ground. He was to rule over it because Adam's sin, the ground, is now curse. The curse of the ground is with respect to man. Now the order is reversed. Instead of submitting to him, it resists and eventually swallows him up. Adam will have to work the ground. Work itself is a blessing of the work of God, but the work that Adam has to do is now cursed by a strainment of humanity from the life-giving soil. And this soil is where Adam will return. From dust he came, to dust he shall return. This is a depressing thought. Without God and the hope that he brings, we are men most miserable. The only consolation we have is to eat, drink, and be merry, for at the end we will die. But we have a hope dating all the way back to Genesis. It is found in Genesis 3.15. We previously looked at the consequences of Eve, but there is a hope that is squeezed right in the middle of her consequences that applies to all humanity. And this is the last point in the hope of all through humanity. And so we took the time to do that in 25 minutes. And this is only going to take 50 minutes. And so we'll be done real soon. And when we look at Genesis 3.15, we will want to deal with some historical objections that deny seeing this as a prophecy. First of all, the major interpretation of this verse, according to a well-established Jewish scholar named Rabbi Solomon Ben Isaac, he's called Rashi for short, is that this is only referring to people and snakes. And the verse, and thou shalt bruise his heel, means the snake will have no height, nor stand erect. He will be able to bite only on the heel, but even at the spot, he will still kill him. So the snake dies, but the man also dies. There's no winner here. So this can't be a prophecy of redemption. Rashi goes on to claim that the word seed always refers to physical offspring in the Hebrew Bible. Nothing spiritual there. But when we look at Rashi's interpretation, we must take into account the whole counsel of God's word. Does the word seed always refer to something physical and natural? In Malachi 2.15, the Hebrew word for seed is used and this can't possibly refer to natural seed because God cannot naturally have godly seed. In Isaiah 57.4, the Bible says seed of falsehood. This is obviously not physical. And the verb for seed is found in Proverbs 22.8 when it refers to one who sows iniquity. Seed is not just natural. In Genesis 4.25, after the death of Abel, Eve says God has appointed to me another offspring or another seed instead of Abel. There is a seed of the serpent and there's a seed of the woman. And this struggle continues all throughout the first testament until we come to the seed of Mary. But it continues even through the book of Revelation. Yet the good news we find in Revelation 10, 12, 10, and 11, and I heard a loud voice in heaven saying, now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of Christ have come. For the accuser of our brothers have been thrown down, and they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony. This, Satan, was only thrown down, though. He was only thrown down, that's not the complete victory. This was temporary, but in Revelation 20 and 10 it says, and the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and the sulfur where the beast and the false prophet were, and they were tormented day and night forever and ever. If you have been harassed by the devil, If you have been caught in some kind of trap in your life before, then you say to that verse, amen and amen. But if you don't, you don't know what I'm talking about. You think I'm silly. So Rashi was wrong, concluding there was no winner here. Jesus is the winner man. And the loser is Satan. How strange that the tempter must listen to the curse pronounced on him by God. Satan must listen like a child is scolded by his teacher or his parent. Where now is his power and wisdom? He is silent in the presence of a righteous judge of all the earth. He must listen to God as God pronounces this judgment on him. There's only one who can overcome the tempter, only one who can cause him to be silent and listen. God has no rivals and God has no equals. This hope we have originated with the seed of Eve, first Adam, then Seth, and now the Lord Jesus Christ. The work of Christ is greater than that of Abel, Seth, and Adam, for the work of Christ is superior to that of Adam in respect to time. When we look at Adam's disobedience, it is temporary so far as the redeemed are concerned, while the effects of Jesus' victory is permanent. The effects of Christ's work is superior to Adam's. It is true that when Adam sinned, death came to Adam and through all men and women. But the power of death could be broken. This is what Christ did. Christ brought life and immortality to light through the gospel. The victory of Jesus exceeds the work of Adam because is Christ is the work of God and Adam's work is from mere man and just in case you were wondering what the work of God is Jesus answers this question in John 6 verse 29 when he says this is the work of God that you believe in him whom he sent For I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst. Are you thirsty for the life-giving drink that Jesus offers today? Are you hungry for the life-giving food that Jesus offers today? Then come, take a bite. It doesn't have to be a big bite. or full square meal, just a little bite. Just a little bite, this is the very act that sent all of humanity down a downward spiral. The first demise is found here in Genesis 3.15, and the first promise in the Bible is found here. This promise is the foundation of the Old Testament, and it expresses the only means of delivery from the apostasy from God. What a tragedy, the fall of Adam and Eve. But what a glory, the redemption of the people for God. Just a little bite was what introduced the disease. And it would be just a little bite that will present the cure. God is a good God. We are all in this mess because of the curiosity of Eve, tricked by the devil. But those who embrace the gospel will be saved through the prophecy of Eve. initiated and promised by God. Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good. Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him. Do you know the Lord Jesus Christ, our Savior? Then you can sing. We can sing together. I am on the winning side, the winning side. the winning side. I am on the winning side, the winning side all the time. Because Jesus is the winner man, the winner man, the winner man. Jesus is the winner man, the winner man all the time. Let's pray. Immortal, Invisible God, only wise. In light, inaccessible, hid from our eyes. Most blessed, most glorious, the ancient of days. Almighty, victorious, thy great name we praise. Our Heavenly Father, our wants and welfare draws to you. Oh God, attend us in every part of our arduous and trying pilgrimage. We need the same counsel, defense, comfort we found at our beginning. Trust and obey, for there's no other way to be happy in Jesus is to trust and obey. God, we praise you. In Jesus' name we pray, amen. Hearing God's word brings people to faith and it strengthens the faith we have in our God. May God's word bear fruit. Let's respond to the preaching with a word of praise. If we know this Lord, we can sing 409. I know whom I have believed. Our confidence. Let's pray. Let's praise. Let's stand. I know not why God's wondrous grace to me he hath made known. nor why unworthy he Christ in love redeemed before his own. But I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I've committed unto Him against that day. I know not how this saving faith to me he did impart, nor how believing in his word brought peace within my heart. But I know whom I have believed in and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I've committed unto Him against that day. I know not how the Spirit moves, convincing men of sin. revealing Jesus through the Word, creating faith within. But I know whom I have believed in, and am persuaded that He is able To keep that which I've committed Unto Him against that day. I know not when my Lord may come at night or noonday fair, nor if I'll walk a vale with Him or meet Him in the air. But I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I've committed unto him against that day. Now the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God, our Father, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all this day and always through Jesus Christ, the victor, our Lord and Savior. Amen. Please be seated. We'll make just a couple of announcements and then be dismissed. We've got some refreshments downstairs. We're always thankful for those who take time and labor to serve us those refreshments. Let's thank them when we get downstairs. Most of the announcements are right here on the colored sheet in your program. We do have Sunday school after the refreshment break. We're finishing our family class this week and next week will be kind of a summery day. We're looking at the name above all names. And today we're looking at Jesus, the Lamb of God. And I was taught much in preparing this lesson. We know the reference Lamb of God from the salvation factor, but its context in the book of Revelation brings great encouragement to us here and now. So I encourage you, join us for this class and learn even more of the Lord Jesus. We do have Sunday evening service downstairs, air conditioned fireside room, and we're looking at what is heaven like. So join us for that. Some hints about the schedule coming up on Labor Day weekend. There's no Sunday school or evening service. Tomorrow on Monday, there is a memorial service here in the sanctuary. And we encourage you, if you can be present at two o'clock in the afternoon, that would be an encouragement to the family. They planned it primarily for their family, but they would love to have folks from the church come and remember Dorothy with them. There are some other things of the church ministry on the schedule here as we approach September. And also I gave you a heads up because it's been in the works for a long time and it looks like Laurel and I are getting to Scotland in September. Do pray for the final details where it's like two weeks away. We're leaving for two weeks and we're so thankful. The seed of that trip was years ago on my 25th anniversary. The church gave us a little bit of money towards the trip and then COVID come and marriages and babies, it's been postponed. So now we're going to enjoy that. And we ask you to pray for those details. Thank you. And then other items. If you have questions, feel free to ask, pay attention to this. We'll try to keep the website up to date as well. Any other announcements from elders or deacons? If not, then we are dismissed.