Romans chapter five, and if you want to follow along, we are going to center on 12, but I thought I would read, at least for tonight, the passage there, starting at verse 12. It is a monumental passage when it comes to theology. Verse 12, wherefore, as by one man, Romans 5, 12, sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned. For until the law, sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law. Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come. But not as the offense, so also is the free gift. For if through the offense of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace which is by one man Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many. and not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift. For the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offenses unto justification. For if 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 life by one, Jesus Christ. Therefore, 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 under justification of life. For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one many shall be made righteous. I'm telling you, I want to know who that second one is. Do you see that? Can you not see the beauty of all that? Moreover, the law entered that offense might abound, but where sin abounded, grace did much more abound, that as sin hath reigned unto death, even so grace might reign through righteousness unto eternal life. By Jesus Christ our Lord. That is a wonderfully passage, and we're just gonna stick on verse 12, and we're gonna be in there more than one week. Let's pray. I wanna pray to you, bless the reading of your word to our hearts. Lord, it is a wonderful letter written by the consummate human author, we might say, Apostle Paul. Thank you, the Holy Spirit superintended, not only wrote it, but he also has preserved it, I believe, for us today. We can have utmost confidence that we have God's word to mankind for us even, in the year 2025. And so thank you for divine preservation of your word. Not one jot or one tittle will be lost and to all be fulfilled. And so Lord, we just thank you for that. May help me tonight, a difficult things to think about, think through a little bit deeper than usual. Help me to be clear in Jesus name I pray, amen. So up until now, Paul has revealed in the first part of Romans how God's provision for people's acts of sins, the sins they are committing. Now he's gonna move more toward providing the sin nature, starting in verse 12. Paul will show what God has provided for the sin nature. And here the word sin is used in the singular for what man is. And so that's what we're gonna see starting in verse 12. By nature, man is a sinner. The difference between chapter 1, 18 through chapter 5, verse 11 deals with God's provision for what people do, aka committing sins, while 5, 12 to 21 details God's provision for what people are, their old sin nature, if you would. This concept is one of the major differences between Judaism and the New Testament faith. Modern Judaism says one is a sinner because he or she commits sins. New Testament says that one commits sin because we are a sinner, that's what we are. We have that old nature passed on, imputed to us, if you would, from Adam. And so now we have that, for it says in our text, wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sin. It's very clear. One of the pillar verses, if you would, for back over to Genesis chapter one. So we have, if you're taking down notes, We have Ps again tonight. The first is the person, and there's one man, wherefore as by one man, wherefore, therefore, what is it therefore? Well, it talks about on account of, or because of, or through, it connects the preceding passage with this verse. So wherefore, in light of the earlier passages, wherefore. Now, assuming that justification and reconciliation are true. And what is justification? It's declaring one is righteous. I should have brought my board up here. Declaring one is righteous. And what is reconciliation? Well, that's the restoration of a relationship to a harmonious state after a dispute. It is the bringing of accord out of discord between two parties. Christian reconciliation is the work whereby God, through Christ, by which he restores mankind to a favorable relationship. So I love justification. I love reconciliation. If you've not received Christ as a savior, you're not reconciled yet to God, but he wants to be. So, repeating again, assuming that both justification and reconciliation are true, and they are, Paul pointed to what we may learn accordingly in the fact that they're true. Now let's go forward. Verse 11, let's review just verse 11 for a moment. And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we now have received the atonement We want to add atonement for sin, if you want to add it in there somewhere, at least in our thinking, the atonement. That's the only place, by the way, in all the New Testament that word is used, I believe. I looked it up. I think that's the only, that exact word in English. So Adam is really the federal head or representation of the human race. God gave him power of attorney, in a way. power of attorney in a way to represent us in the Garden of Eden. I think it behooves us then to see, was Adam a real person? Wherefore, as by one man. Now, there are the liberal theologians and there are those who discount the Bible and say, well, Adam was simply just a representative of something, but he wasn't a real person. I would beg to differ with that, beg to differ. I like what Dr. Morris says. There is no warrant or reason in the New Testament for the heretical, now heretical means outside of orthodoxy or teaching, for the heretical notion that Adam is simply a generic term representing the human race. He says he was one man. I say he was one real man. He was a real man. In fact, he was the first man. In 1 Corinthians 15.45, and so it is written, the first man, Adam, was made a living soul. The historical, grammatical, literal interpretation is so important. It didn't say Adam was made a living souls. Adam was made a living soul, singular. So he's one person. The last Adam has been made a quickening spirit. Now I like that last Adam, and I thought, well, second Adam, second Adam. That's Charles Wesley. Hark the herald angels sing, second Adam from above. Now I believe it's true, but the Bible calls him the last Adam. And I think this is the only time it's actually called the last Adam. We call it the second Adam. But we understand what we lost in the real Adam, the human Adam. we gain back in the Christ, the Lamb of God, the second Adam. And so that's what makes this, I'm telling you, if Adam's not real, this whole passage is synced into dismal quagmire. As by one, we lost, as by the other, we get back. As by one's disobedience, by one's obedience, we have restoration. I'm telling you, he's a real man. And I'm telling you, if you don't want to believe that, you stand before God and then tell him about it. The Bible says that. He wants us to know and to believe. So he's the federal head. So I like I put a little notes there. The last Adam was made a quickening spirit. So I'm ah, he was there Adam was there to quote Ken Ham Adam was there At that last part. And by the way, there's article I gave you I need to get it back because it's supposed to be on the bulletin board with Ken Ham So other news I get one was back with newspapers. Anyway, there's an article about Ken Ham and Friday's newspaper. I The federal head is found in the commentaries describing Adam as our federal head, a legal representation. The rest of mankind originated from Adam. So he's the federal headship. Doesn't consider Eve. It considers Adam as the federal head. And so that is keeping with God's mindset in the marriage. They're equal, but the husband is responsible. He's the head of the home, et cetera. And so that is all just right in keeping with God's lining out what is best for humankind, et cetera. Now, as a representative of all humans, Adam's act of sin was considered by God to be the act of all people, and his penalty of death was judicially made a penalty for everybody. So when Adam sinned, we are born with a sinful nature. We are inclined to sin. We find in the Adam, we got that from Adam. Adam entered, sin entered into the world. So that's the title. When sin entered into the world, when Adam sinned, sin came into the world. I believe sin came into the universe. And so we have it broad and expanded. Why would you say that? Well, in Romans 8, verse 22, it says here, for we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. So that's why in 2 Peter chapter 3, 10 and 13, there's gonna be a new heavens and a new earth because the whole thing needs to have that curse wiped out because, again, this was actually George Handel, far as the curse is found, far as the curse is found, far as, far as the curse is found, he's gonna, Change all of that and we're going to have a new heavens and new earth without sin. Won't that be a wonderful thing? So he does not speak of sins plural, but as sins singular. I trust you've got your thinking cap on today. I trust you do. So I've been listening and preparing and getting wound up. So if I get wound up tonight, it's because I've been working on this for a bit. Notice it's inherent propensity of unrighteousness, of fault and word and deed. I inherited that from Adam. The sinful nature, we are separated from God. So when we are born, we're not in that perfect relationship. So we're going to cross the bridge tonight of children, are they safe in Christ until the point of Calvary? We'll talk about that in a few moments. This whole series, I'm going to take proactive stance. We are afraid in our churches to preach, I'm afraid to preach on Reformed theology because I'm afraid someone will start reading on about it and then they're getting caught up in that. And Reformed theology has split churches, to be honest with you. And so I want you to understand we cannot agree with it and still be theologians and people of the book. There's this mindset, and some, not everybody, but a lot of the mindset is if you're really smart and you're really a theologian, then you become reformed or Calvinistic. And you're thinking, I'm telling you, we don't have to be that. And I want you, so when you start hearing these things, or your children or your grandchildren start saying, well, I've been starting, and someone's been teaching me these things, I want you graciously. Well, we don't have to follow that. There is a biblical response to that. There is, and so I want you and me together to understand, and not just simply what hearsay happens, you and I need to understand how we can give a reasonable defense of what we believe. And so that's part of all the next few weeks that we will, I'm trying to give you some, I don't wanna say admonition, Because lots of times there's a lot of drive-by shootings in the theological world, and they don't really know what they're talking about, and yet they just heard somebody said something about something, and so they get on. And the bullets are going everywhere. You don't really know. So before you do all that, put some background. I mean, 10 years Dr. Allen spent putting this book together. The extent of atonement, it is a magnificent tome on how much did Christ die for everyone? Or was there a limit on who he died? Did he die for only those people who would one day be saved? Is it limited atonement? Or is it unlimited atonement? Did you know that limited atonement was not even taught In any circles until about 1587, Beza, who followed Calvin, do you know that even John Calvin believed in unlimited atonement? Unlimited. Unlimited. Jonathan Edwards, unlimited atonement. So what that unlimited atonement means, I'm jumping ahead of my outline here, but unlimited means that God died for everyone, for God so loved the world that he gave. And I like what he says, he starts off with, unlimited atonement is a doctrine in search of a text. So we shall go, we'll cover that in a few moments. So we find that we, and so verse 12, I've got too much in my mind. Verse 12, wherefore, as by one man sin entered the world, and death by sin. Now, I'm gonna label that death as physical death, it is, but also we can almost put spiritual death in there too. I'm not trying to get the theologically crossways with you. We know it's physical death, yes. That's why it's so important for you to understand that this agrees with creationism in Genesis 1 and 2. There were no existing pre-Adamite hominid people who lived and died and lived and died for millions of years, a couple of million years, and finally God started with Adam all over again. And there he is. No, he's the very first one. The very first. For see, death happened as a result of Adam's sin. So there was no death prior to Adam's sin. That's what the Bible says. But people sometimes just don't want to, well, science. And there was that article, well, we know that evolution is just one of the most proven facts in all. No, it's not. It's still a theory. So Adam was a real person created by God. So it was Eve. Again, the entire argument we just read earlier on becomes irrelevant if Adam is not a real person. Lots of times when a theological difference from us, or even us sometimes, we have to be very careful. We can make a theological statement that on the surface seems innocuous and not that important, but if you follow that all the way through to its concluding end where we've just gotten off, That's why we have to stick with what the Bible says. Is it theological? Is it biblical? We've got to come down on the side of biblical every time. You can't come down, there's theological, sometimes logic, we just, why does God love you? It defies logic that God would love you so much as the God of the universe that he would die. It's wow, but I believe it. It's something beyond the grace of God that he would save us. He wants a relationship with you. My cats only want a relationship with me if I've got treats, or they want something to eat, or basically, or the cat pen's too dirty, or something like that. He wants that relationship with me all the time. He wants it. And there's no busy signals. I tell you what, there's busy signals on my end sometimes, sadly. It's always, we can come boldly into the throne of grace. So it begins all the way back in Genesis 3, verse 6. It's not a fairy tale or a myth. And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and the tree desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof and did eat, and also gave unto her husband with her, and he did eat, and boom! That was it. The sin has started. There's been disobedience. Now, I would ask you this question. Did sin start on the earth? Is that the very first sin ever? And I said, nope, good answer. Started in heaven. Satan sins first, and then he's cast out, and now he's gonna come, and he can't get God, he can't, because God's infinitely, by the way, God's infinitely greater than Satan. It's not like we've got this side here, and this side here, and there's gonna be a royal rumble, and they're gonna get together, and we just don't know. No, we know who wins. It's clear. Now I have to say, he's won some battles, Satan has, I think in our own country, regarding, I think, abortion. People have become so anesthetized to abortion that they're just, it's not, it is a big deal. It is a big deal. Let's not ever cave into that it's okay. It's not. The killing of our own children is never. Evolution. Even Christians have caved so much on the evolutionary stance. Well, we can believe in progressive creationism, or we can believe in all the other terms. You can if you want, but that's not what the Bible says. Back to my topic. So God makes it clear, abundantly clear. It fits right in. Does not Genesis fit right in with Romans 5, 12? Wherefore, as by one man, sin entered into the world, and death by sin. Why wasn't it Eve? Why was it, where by one woman? because Adam was the federal head. It all makes sense if you just let God be God. And we can't understand it all, but I'm telling you, isn't it amazing when you read the Bible, how the more you learn, how it just all fits together like a Swiss watch? And wow, yes, I see it now. Yes, yes, that's right. Wow, who could have done that? 40 different men writing, And it all fits together, it is God. God's book. So we find then that the entire universe, I believe, is groaning and moaning because of the curse. So the truth really shuts the mouth of the liberals who would deny the literal truth of Genesis, saying that Adam is a generic term for human race. No, God says, as by one man, sin entered into the world. I'm telling you, every time you doubt God's word, you're starting down a bad path. Again, the argument becomes irrelevant if Adam is not a real person. So I, again, I'm going to take a little bit of a proactive stance and teach you that we can, is it okay to believe that a child is safe in Christ until the age of accountability? Is that an okay belief? And I have said that, I have believed that all my life. I still believe it, but now I want to show you how I believe we can believe it. So that's tonight and probably next week, looking right now. So there's this book, an excellent book, if you want to really think, it's called The Spiritual Condition of Infants, A Biblical Historical Survey and Systematic Proposal. Adam Harwood, who wrote recently a, told systematic theology in one book. He says, there's widespread agreement, from this book, in Christian circles that every person is sinful because of people's relationship to Adam. And I would agree, we have a sin nature. But there are two views of how Adam's sinful actions are computed or passed on to us. The two, if you want jotting down, there is the immediate and the mediate. Immediate and mediate of imputation. So both views teach that people are sinful and guilty before God. I tell you, we're sinners. The Bible is clear, for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. But are you going to stand before God or the unbelievers stand before God and be accountable and held accountable for Adam's sin, his actual sins, all the way back in the Garden of Eden? Or are we accountable for what the sins that we have done? That is called inherited guilt or inherited consequences. So that's the immediate is called the inherited guilt. Now, there's a parallel between Adam and Christ, and both views would agree on that, that through his obedience, the condemnation that resulted from Adam's disobedience, Christ reversed that. The difference comes, really, in considering precisely whether a person becomes or is always guilty of sin, and thus under the condemnation of sin and death. So we, as we are born, Are we already, even in the womb, starting at creation, are we already saddled with Adam's sin so that no matter what happens, if I die in the womb, I'm going to Christ's eternity because I'm saddled with Adam's sin? Or are we over here where we find that I have been sin nature? But when I understand it for the very first time, then I am accountable because I'm going to be held accountable for my sin. When you got saved, did you say, Lord, please forgive me for all the sins that Adam did because I'm as guilty as those two, and please forgive me for my sin? No. Lord, please forgive me for my sin. You're going to be held accountable. And by the way, there's going to be plenty enough, even as Christians, how we could have done more, as Mr. Womack said earlier. There'll be a lot of things. I think the pile of what I could have done and what I did is going to be causing a lot of grief for us until God wipes that away, takes care of that. So that's the question. And I think if you'll just hang in there, I know it's a little deeper tonight, if you'll just hang in there, you'll get to where we're going always. So belief number one, the immediate, that the person is saddled with the sins of Adam. And even from the moment of conception in the womb, just outside the womb, as a toddler, if they would pass in that instance, they would go to hell. Now that is, I think, a very, very discouraging and non-biblical mindset. Over here we have it when the person is, yes, we have the propensity to sin. I have the sin nature. And the very first time I believe that, you know what, you need to be saved. And Christ died for you. I understand that, but I still want to do it. Then you're, and you understand it clearly, you're accountable then for that. That's the other side. So the first side, the immediate imputation, immediate imputation, also known as inherited guilt or the Augustinian view, Augustine, Augustine, Augustine, fourth century theologian, had a lot of difficulties, but he was a lot of the fountainhead of earlier reform theology. John Calvin followed a lot of what he said, and so that's why he's referred to a lot. He's held in high esteem, but he has some issues, as you well know. Of course, all of us have issues, but he had certainly some issues, but that's the idea. According to this immediate imputation, where does that come from? It comes from our verse, the last phrase, for that all have sinned. So for him, it means that all people are guilty because all people sinned in Adam. So the view of inherited guilt teaches that all people were either present in or represented by Adam when he sinned in the garden. Therefore, Adam is to blame for the sin and the guilt of all humanity. So this side over here, the immediate says, okay, we were in, without being too graphic, in Adam's loins. So when Adam sinned, we were all in there with him. And so we're going to inherit that guilt of Adam. That's the immediate. Another good book responds to this real briefly. This is called The Faith of God's Elect. It says, we learned in Romans 5-12 that Adam's first sin brought death to all men and that all have inherited his fallen sinful nature. But Augustine misread the passage to mean that each and every person had sinned in Adam and so were born guilty of Adam's original sin and was personally answerable for it The purpose of baptism then was to wash away the original sin. Now do you see, we're starting to click for you. Why do they believe, the Reformed theologians, often in paedo-baptism? Well, if you believe that Adam's sin were given to the children from the moment of conception, the moment of birth, then we got to have them washed away. So we're gonna baptize them to get Adam's sin washed away from the child. So going on, same book, if a baby died unbaptized, Augustine believed it would be charged with Adam's original sin and would perish eternally. Such is the unchallengeable sovereignty of God, Augustinian style. So you wonder why then maybe part of it certainly was, especially earlier on, why they baptized their children. Because if you're inheriting all the guilt of Adam's sin, we got to have that washed away. I believe over here the Bible's clearly baptism is believer's baptism. Why do we stress that so much? Why be baptized if you haven't received Christ as personal Savior? Does baptism save you? Does baptism wash away your sin? No, no, no, no. But it is an important outward testimony of your following Christ. The second view, known as immediate imputation, we might call this inherited sinful nature or inherited consequences or inherited moral responsibility. This view affirms that everyone is sinful because of Adam, but it denies that we are accountable for Adam's sin. Instead, we are guilty and fall under condemnation only when God judges our own sinful thoughts and attitudes and actions. Whose sins will you be accountable for? They are yours. I'm not accountable for Gary, and Gary's sure happy he's not accountable for mine. We're going to be accountable for our own. That's clear. For all has sinned and come short of the glory of God, and for the wages of sin is death. It's death for me, it's your sin, you are guilty and so I am to confess my sin. If we confess our sins, he is faith, right? Not our sins and Adam's sin that we've also gotten tagged with. Baptists who have rejected inherited guilt or the immediate idea that we somehow are labeled or saddled with all of Adam's sin. Now again, please don't think, that I'm saying we're not guilty, we are sinful. And we need a savior. The Bible's abundantly clear, we've all sinned and come short of the glory of God and the wages of sin is death. And we're sinners, we're born sinful. But I wanna be able to tell someone who's lost a child that I believe they're safe in Christ. If I have signed on for this over here, that we're saddled with all of Adam's sin, and unless it somehow goes through some baptism or something, let's talk today, by the way. There are Calvinists, and by the way, Calvinism and Reformed theology are not synonymous. That is taught by some, that if your child dies, they weren't one of the elect. By the way, we're going to talk about election, but it's not the Calvinistic election. By the way, election's great in Scripture. We are predestined to become like Christ! That's so wonderful. You've been chosen by God. And it's always about believers, always in the Old Testament's corporate. We're chosen by God and we're one day going to be like him. Woohoo! Praise the Lord. We should rejoice in that. But no one's ever elected to perdition and damnation. For all have sinned, but the wages of sin is death. Yes, but God so loved the world. Even John Calvin said that word world means the whole world. It was after his time, his follower Theodore Beza, he started the limited tulip. Tulip was not even started until the 1920s. So we need to understand there's a lot of people, even who are reformed or Calvinistic, who believe in unlimited atonement, that God, Christ died for all. I'm telling you, there's no clear teaching of limited atonement. There's like 12 to 18, 12 clear teachings that Christ died for the world, and he is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. clear. Edgar Mullins. I'm only on page 5. I'm not getting to page 13 tonight, I don't think. Edgar Mullins said, who was 1860 to 1928, a man is guilty when he does wrong. Men are not condemned, therefore, for hereditary or original sin. They are condemned only for their own sins. Walter Connor, 1877 to 1952. Again, a Baptist reasons that the sin implies willful disobedience to God, which requires the knowledge of moral truth. Sin is universal, inevitable, and hereditary due to the relationship with Adam. There are seeds of evil tendency in the child's nature, which will eventually result in the child committing an act of transgression upon reaching an age of moral responsibility. That is what I have believed all along, but now we can see there's actually, I think, a Bible response for that. David said, he can't come back, his child with Bathsheba, the first one, but I will go to him. I will go to him. We are going to be judged for our own sins. And when that child who reaches, I personally believe there are some mentally struggling people who can never ever, even as adults, I believe God will take care of them as well. It's that moral response that when you know, when you know, then you're held accountable. Goes on and says, before this time, the child does not have personal guilt because he or she has not developed personal responsibility, namely, the powers of self-consciousness and self-determination. Stanley Grins, 1950 to 2005, said, somewhere in childhood, we move from a stage in which our actions are not deemed morally accountable to the responsibility of acting as moral agents. In short, we cross a point which some refer to as the age of accountability. and the Baptist faith and message, article 3, 2000 edition, explain that Adam's posterity inherit a natural environment inclined towards sin. Therefore, as soon as they are capable of moral actions, they become transgressors and are under condemnation. Brad Chad Brand in Accountability, Age of, says, Age at which Christ holds children accountable for their sins. When persons come to this point, they face the inevitability of divine judgment if they fail to repent and believe the gospel. Again, back to the Baptist faith and message, it affirmed an inherited human inclination to commit sinful actions, but did not affirm inherited guilt. It is reasonable to infer that the Baptist faith and message that infants and young children have not yet reached an age or stage of moral accountability before God." Why all of this? Why spend so much time on that? Because I want us to understand you can believe that children are safe in Christ, until they reach that point of time that they knowingly say no to God. And I don't really, I struggle with even the idea that children are having this inherited guilt and they're responsible for Adam's sin, even in the womb, even as toddlers. And they, if they're not part of the chosen, are going to go to a Christless eternity. The Bible does not teach that. It doesn't. That's a logical conclusion to a theological mindset of glasses put on. How can I figure out how that fits into my scheme of theology rather than what does the Bible say? I'm going to be held accountable for me and you for you. Just hardly got started there, but anyway. Aren't you glad we can, maybe you're not in the circles, but when I say I'm not of that, it's like, oh, well, you're not really, you haven't studied the Bible. Oh, you really don't know the Bible well, or you can't read the original, which I would love to be able to read Greek and Hebrew. If you can't read the, well, then you just don't know. You just don't know what we're teaching, and you just don't know, and you're not in the know until, listen, you can be in the know. There are some pastors who didn't go past 8th grade that serve for decades winning people to the Lord and building churches with an 8th grade education. And the Spirit who teaches the Word of God. The guy I've been listening to says, you do not become reformed in your theology by reading the Bible. You have to be taught. I've listened to their teaching, and a lot of it, I still can't understand it. Where are they coming from? The Bible's not like, the Bible's like, man, God so loved the world. He loves me. I'm a sinner. I need to be saved. So let's rejoice. So I know it's a little deeper, but hang in there. And I just think we've shied away from it. In our circles, we've shied away from teaching what the Bible says. And I'm not going to do it in a angry or brothers and sisters in Christ who differ with us, but there's still brothers and sisters in Christ. I'm just telling you, some of the things believed and taught, if they follow them all the way to the end, I think personally cause a disrespect to God himself. Let's pray. We'll stop at that. We'll pray together. Lord, we're just thankful that you still have the world, but you gave your son Christ to die that we might have life. Lord, I'm thankful that I can believe in the bottom of my heart that you are watching over children. Lord, you set one in the midst and talked about of such as the kingdom of heaven and how that they are that you love children. And Lord, I cannot believe that you're going to consign some children to a crisis eternity without them ever having a chance to say yes or no to the gospel in that sense, as we're children, adults, yes. but children as you go and those who are mentally impaired well lord that's we we don't have to decide all that tonight we can't go through all the issues tonight but lord you are a loving god and just and true are thy ways thou king of saints so to help us to be students of the book maybe not any labels per se but just biblicists who study your book may we be faithful and then share it this week with someone in jesus name i pray amen