And you should bring with that sacrifice a good attitude. Let's hear some amens from the young ones. That's a good place for you to say amen. Abel obeyed, but Abel was the one that died. Mankind failed again. Even with a conscience, knowing good and evil, mankind still fell. You have a conscience. We saw that in the garden. And until they fell, guess what? Their state of innocence couldn't save them. Who had to step in? God. Now we're saying conscience, knowing good and evil, that can't save us. God is still going to have to step in. Now if we can have some, we're going to need some young people for this. Okay, let's see. Wilder? Wilder, I would like you to bring me the, okay, there's ketchup and mustard up here, Wilder. I would like you to bring me the ketchup, please. Bring me the ketchup. Okay, excellent. Excellent job. Excellent job. Milani, I would like you to bring me, not the fruit from the ground. I don't want you to bring me vegetables. I want you to bring me a blood, not a bloodless sacrifice, a blood sacrifice. I want you to bring me that dead chicken that's in the can over there. Bring me that dead chicken in the can. I'm pretty good. I mean, you're doing good. Everybody's doing good in one sense. Let me see. Aiden, there's a Pepsi up there and a Diet Pepsi. I want the stuff with the fake sugar in it. I want the Diet Pepsi. Can you bring me that Diet Pepsi? Because that'll allow me to eat an extra cheeseburger today. Bring me the Diet Pepsi. That one in that silver can right here. Can you grab that? Can you grab that, bud? That's it. Bring that on over to me. Thank you very much. I appreciate that. And let's see, Lily. Lily, there's a knife and there's a spoon over there. You probably shouldn't run with knives or cut your knives. So we're gonna go with the spoon. Can you please bring me the spoon? Bring me the spoon. Excellent job, okay. Now, glory to God, they did a great job. Didn't they all obey? But there is one thing about that. You didn't do it like you do it at home sometimes. So I'm gonna have to step in and help you out a little bit. You guys go over there, go over there. Now, Hannah asked me to bring something over. Bring the corn? Hmm. You know what? I'm kind of thinking that, yeah, I'm kind of thinking the chicken will be a better idea. Here's the chicken. And what do you say? Well, yeah, I mean, it goes with corn. You know, chicken and corn go together all the time. I mean, I kind of like this. We'll just go with this. Yeah, that's what we'll do. That's what we'll do. That's what we'll do. Okay. Josiah asked me to bring one of the choices over that we have here. Pepsi. Pepsi. Pepsi. Well, there are two Pepsis here. I mean, I'm thinking we'll just go with the diet Pepsi, not the regular Pepsi, because it's kind of like the same, but it really isn't, but it is. So here's the diet Pepsi. And what are you going to say? I want the real Pepsi. I didn't tell you to bring over the diet. I asked you to bring me over the real one, right? Well, I mean, all you got to do is just put your thumb over it like that. I mean, what's the difference? It's just, see, it's just the same. And then you're going to say, yeah, but I want the real sugar. So go ahead and say, I want the real sugar. I want the real sugar. I mean, there's sugar in here. I mean, just read the back of it. It's sugar, sugar. What's the big deal? So there. There you go. Here you go. OK. Wilder? Who didn't I call on? Melanie, go ahead and ask me to bring something over. The ketchup? You know, I kind of like mustard better. It really is. It's in the same container. They're probably made in the same factory. After you take a couple of bites, you won't even know. It'll just blend right in. Just think ketchup when you eat mustard. And what are you going to say? I asked for the ketchup, not the mustard. Oh, what are you so mean for? Why are you judging me? I brought you the mustard. You asked me to bring you something and I brought you the mustard. You're so legalistic. You really... I just don't get you people. I just don't get you. I do all this work, I get the mustard, I bring it over to you and now you're complaining about the ketchup. Don't you know that there are people that don't have ketchup and they'd be thankful to have mustard. And what are you going to say? That's right, you are going to say, I want the ketchup. Because it doesn't matter what excuse we bring to God, we know in our conscience what is right and what is wrong. Especially if God was speaking to you from heaven. You would know good versus evil, right from wrong, the choice that God wants you to make, he made a narrow way, and he said, hey, this is the sacrifice that I want. Cain thought he had a better way. Thank you. You guys did great. All right, take your seats. You can't, well, you can, because people do, God doesn't want us to just start making stuff up in our mind and acting like it's true. He wants us to simply obey what He said to do. And if you do that, you're going to have right fellowship with God. Which brings us to the second time that God speaks from the fall to the flood, and that's in Genesis 5. and that's to Enoch. Everybody say Enoch. Enoch pictures a few things. We're going to talk about just one tonight. Enoch pictures fellowship with the Lord. That's the picture of Enoch in Genesis 5. Let's read verses 21 in Genesis 5 to verses 24. Let's read that together. And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah. And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years, and Enoch walked with God, and he was not for God took him." Now, a few things in this passage. Number one, Enoch is walking with God. It's a picture of fellowship. And it's a beautiful picture. God saves a man to do what? Right. Restore a relationship with Him. Restore fellowship with Him. That is right. God saves to restore. Young people say that. God saves to restore. Let me hear you say it. God saves to restore. Alright, very good. Oh, the other thing here is that if anybody's in for new baby names, Methuselah's up for grabs. Just throw that out there. You know, pray about it. I haven't met anyone that named their child that. I mean, what do you call them? Methi? I mean, what's for a nickname? It wouldn't go well, I don't think, that way with Ursula. But here's an interesting phrase. Look at verse number 24. And Melanie, can you read that verse 24? Can you read it nice and loud? In Genesis 5, verse 24. Alright, right there, freeze. What does that say? And he was what? And he was what, Melanie? Not. Everybody say that. And he was not. Isn't that a strange verse in the Bible? And Enoch walked with God and he was not. Everybody say that nice and loud. And he was not. And you know what? If you walk with God, you're going to be a not. You're going to not manifest yourself. You are going to manifest more of who God wants you to be. Enoch pictures a relationship, a fellowship, a walk with God where Enoch was not. It was God who was the focus. And that's where we should be as Christians. Let's not walk as we would want. Let's get out of the way like Enoch. Excellent. Yes, sir. And we can have fellowship with our God even though we're surrounded by the mess that we're surrounded by. But as we see, As we're going to see here in a minute, wickedness is going to abound. It is abounding, but it didn't abound with Enoch. But the important thing about Enoch is he was not. So if you're saved, if you're saved, give God some praise. Say amen if you're saved. If you're saved. Guess what? You're not who you used to be. The old you is not. Now you walk with God and you're not. What you got saved out of, what you used to be, that's not who you are anymore. It's not who you are anymore. It's not who you are anymore. You're walking as not. You're not there. What people used to see, now they don't see. They see the new you. The Christ that liveth in you. That's kind of the idea. Peculiar people. So there's the idea. God spoke to Cain. Who did God speak to next? Enoch. We're talking about from the fall to the flood. God spoke to Cain. No written word. God spoke in fellowship with Enoch. There was fellowship there. There's a relationship there. And then there's one more person between the fall and the flood that the Bible tells us how God spoke. Go to Genesis 6. Genesis 6. Wilder, can you read verse 5? And then Hannah, can you read verse number 6? Dominic, can you read verse number 7? Can you help Aidan read? If Aidan can do verse number 8. Okay, who's first? And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air, for it repented me that I have made them. That's great. Good reading, Aidan. And everybody did a great job reading. When we read those verses of Scripture, you know what all that wickedness tells us? It tells us that evolution can't be true and isn't true. Because even with a conscience of knowing good and evil, man doesn't evolve into something better. Man is getting wickeder and wickeder even with a conscience. God has to step in. State of innocence. They were made that way. But God didn't exempt them from being tempted. And when they fell, God had to step in. And there was grace, by the way, right there. Because God could have wiped them out, but He didn't. He didn't. He covered them with a sacrifice that points to Christ. Same thing, now we're looking into this from the fall to the flood, this time when conscience was their guide. The fairy that flies around, Peter Pan. Peter Pan. Let your conscience be your guide. Our conscience knows good and evil, but our conscience can't save us. So we see now God is stepping in again. Watch what it says in verse 13 of Genesis 6, And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me, and the earth is filled with violence through them. And behold, I will destroy them with the earth. Make thee an ark of gopher wood. Well, I'd rather use pine, God. Rooms shalt thou make in the ark. You know, do we really need rooms, Lord? And shalt pitch it within and without the pitch. I kind of have a better way. I think maybe we'll build it this way, Lord. And this is the fashion which thou shalt make of it. The length of the ark shall be 300 cubits. Why don't we have a meeting about that, Lord? I think maybe 200 will be sufficient. The breadth of it, 50 cubits. I'm thinking 40. And the height of it, 30 cubits. I think that's a little overkill. Let's just cut that in half and go with 15. A window shall thou make to the ark, and in a cubic shall thou finish it above. And the door of the ark shall thou set in the side thereof. I was thinking in the front, it just kind of stages better. You know, when you're coming up the driveway, it just looks better. The window, why don't we just place it to the left of the door. We'll get some natural sunlight. We'll make sure it's facing south. Lord, I got this for You, Lord. That's not what's happening, is it? And behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life from under heaven, and everything that is in the earth shall die. But with thee will I establish my covenant, and thou shalt come into the ark, thou and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee. And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee. They shall be male and female, because that's the only way things stay alive and propagate. Of fowls after their kind, cattle after their kind, of creeping things of their kind, his kind too, every sort shall come unto thee to keep them alive. and take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee, and it shall be for food for thee and for them. Thus Noah did. The foolishness that I read into the verse for the sake of drawing out the truth of the fact that Noah, he did according to all that God commanded him, so he did. I mean, do you see that last verse? It's three times we're told in three different ways because man is just rebellious. We just hate authority in our heart. We hate it. So God, three times, He says, thus did Noah. That's one way He communicated it. Then He says, according to all that God commanded him. And then it says, so did he. All of it. He did it. Thus did Noah. He didn't question the Lord. What a picture. What a picture. Do you know why? Because knowing God leads to walking with God, Enoch, leads to serving God, Noah. That's the picture. And the other picture is this. Did mankind fall again? Even with a conscience? What did God do? Provide what? That's right. And it was many ways of restoration, right? It had a back door, a side door, an attic door, a cellar door. Or was there one door? Again, a narrow or broad way. Narrow. One door. Jesus said, I am the door. You come in me as the ark of salvation. I will save you from all of the wickedness. There's nothing difficult about it at all. One way. One way. But we see with a conscience knowing good and evil, man still failed. God was still there to provide a way because He always has a way of escape. Young people, God always has a way of escape. You just have to take the escape door. Can't keep our relationship with God with a conscience. So, that's that. Go back to Genesis 3 for one second, and then get in your hand Romans 12. Genesis 3 and Romans 12. Just to get a bit of a time frame here, Genesis 3. Let's read verses 5, 6, and 7 together. Genesis 3, 5 through 7. The Bible says, "...for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as God's, knowing good and evil." You see that? After the fall they knew good and evil. They had an inward working, an inward conscience that was working and guiding them. Let's read verse 6 and 7. 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 of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave it 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 we talked about that last week. But they knew good and evil after the fall. Last week we talked about that state of innocence from creation to the fall. And then we talked about how, yes, that happened during that time, but there isn't an end point for that truth of being dispensed out. Why? Because we said that even now, our state of innocence is from our birth to our willful transgression of the law, right? And then we answered the question of, are babies born and conceived in sin? They are. Are they cute little sinners? They are. But until they willfully transgress God's law, we looked at 1 Samuel and we look at Romans 5, verse 13, and we saw that yes, they are, but God's not going to do what? their sin to their account, even though they are sinners, God's not going to impute sin to their account. There's a dispensation or a covering. God's grace covers them. And we looked at David's baby as an example and we proved it in both the Old and New Testament. So I have to say that to say that now that we see from the fall to the flood this time of conscience that's ruling and guiding, does that ever stop being a thing? Or did it ever stop being a thing? No. Now where do we go for that in our Bibles to prove it biblically? Anybody got an answer? We would go to Romans 2. Let's go there. Romans 2. Romans 2. Should be Romans 2. In Romans 2, let's read v. 14-15 together. Ready? Romans 2, v. 14-15. For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves, which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another. Where is the law written? in their hearts. State of innocence, this time of conscience. There was no Mosaic Law. By the way, in the state of innocence, there was no conscience. It wasn't until after the fall that now this new truth now is introduced. Man now knows good and evil. The conscience has come into play. That is what is to govern them. Cain knew. He chose not to do. And he failed. God had to step in. Why? Because even knowing good and evil, even having a conscience written in our hearts, it can't save us. We need God's grace. So we have man has a written work inwardly. Inwardly. We'll get into contrasting this with the law when we get to the law. I want to save that material for that time. But look at John 8. Let's look at another one. John 8. Lily, can you read John 8? Verse 9. Yeah, read the whole verse. John 8-9. Perfect, perfect. That's the point here. How were they convicted? They were convicted by their own what? You mean they didn't have the law? They didn't. They didn't. The conviction came by their own what? Your conscience can convict you of what is good and what is evil. It can't save you. God has to come in. But it can convict you. That's why God gave us a conscience so that we can come under, fill in the blank, conviction. He built us, He designed us, He made us so that our conscience can come under conviction when we hear truth. We can go around the room for the next couple of hours and just have everybody testify on how they've been convicted of things. So, praise the Lord for that. So we can divide out a time between the fall and the flood. And we can say that that time frame was an age of conscience. But it isn't that simple because we can't put an end stamp on that. In other words, we can't say God only spoke to man that way from the fall to the flood. Do we see that divided out in Genesis? Yes. But we can't go on to say that that's the only time that that happens. Because it has happened since that truth has been dispensed. And it's still happening now. My conscience can't save me. My conscience can't even keep me from sinning. But I'll tell you what it can do. It can produce some fear. And at no point Did God ever recall that truth of the conscience being able to know good versus evil? And don't matter if you're saved or lost this morning, God can start dealing with you according to your conscience, saved or lost. Saved, convicted to do some things or stop doing some things you shouldn't be doing. So that's the idea. Last verse and then we're done. If you have any questions, we'll take them. Hebrews 9. Verse number 14. Hannah, can you read Hebrews 9.14? from what? Dead works. To do what? To serve the living God. That's right. Christ purged your conscience and mine from dead works. Now we are free to serve Him. And whatever renders your conscience filthy and dirty and black and vile, God's sacrifice can make you clean and if you're saved, He has made you clean. And the Jews made an offering, an external offering that could never take away sins. You want to talk about purging or purgatory? Remember we were talking about that the other week? That's a great verse to take someone that believes in purgatory. There's some purging. It was done on the cross. It was done on the cross. No more purging has to take place.