Address—J. Brereton
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General Meetings, Toledo, November 1976.
Address by John Braden.
Mike, we open the meeting this afternoon by training number 75 in the appendix.
No separation.
All my soul to God who speaks the words.
So close to spirit reunites with Christ thy risen Lord.
Number 75, someone was charged for sleep.
Turn first of all to the Book of Dude for a couple of verses there.
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The book of Dude and the 11Th verse.
Woe unto them, For they have gone in the way of Cain.
And then the 14th verse.
And Enoch also the 7th from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with 10 thousands of his Saints.
To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them.
Of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed.
And of all their hard features, which ungodly sinners have spoken against him?
And now, if you turn over to 1St Corinthians chapter 15 for a moment.
First Corinthians chapter 15.
And verse 45.
And so it is written. The first man, Adam, was made a living soul. The last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
And now if you'll turn over to Genesis chapter 4.
And Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bare king, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord.
And she again bare his brother Abel.
And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a killer of the ground.
And in process of time it came to pass that king brought of the fruit of the ground, and offering unto the Lord.
And Abel he also brought of the first flings of his flock, and of the fact thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel, and to his offering.
But unto Cain and to his offerings he had not respect.
And Cain was very rough, and his countenance fell.
And the Lord said unto Cain, Why art thou lost? And why is thy countenance fallen?
If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted, and if thou doest not well?
Thin lieth at the door, and unto thee shall be his desire.
And thou shalt rule over him.
And Cain talked with Abel his brother, and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that King rose up against Abel his brother, and flew him.
And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not, Am I my brother's keeper? And he said, What hast thou done? The voice of thy brother's blood, priest, unto me from the ground.
And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth, to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand?
When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength.
Fugitives and a Vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
And Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear. Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth.
And from thy faith shall I be hid, and I shall be a fugitive and a Vagabond in the earth, and it shall come to pass.
That everyone that findeth me shall claim me.
And the Lord said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth king, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the Lord set a mark upon king, lest any finding him to kill him.
And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod in the east of Eden.
And King knew his wife, and she conceived and bare enough. And he builded a city, and called the name of the city after the name of his son Enoch.
And unto Enoch was born Irad and Irad begat Nehu, GAIL and Nikhil. Jail begat Matuzzio, and Methuselah begat Lamech.
And Layla took unto him two wives. The name of the one was Ada, and the name of the other Zillah.
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And either bear Gable, who was the father of such as dwelling tension of such as have cattle.
And his brother's name was Jubal. He was the father of all such as handled the harp and organs.
And Zillah. She also bears Tubal Team. An instructor of every architecture in Brass and Iron and the sister of Tubal Kane was Naima.
And Lamech said unto his wives. Ada and Villa, hear my voice be wives of Lamech, Hearken unto my speech, for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my heart. If king shall be Avenged Sevenfold, surely truly Lamech 70 and seven fools.
And Adam knew his wife again, and she bear a son, and called his name Seth. For God said she hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain flew, and to Seth to him also there was born a son, and he called his name. Enoch then began then to call upon the name of the Lord.
This is the book of the generations of Adam in the day that God created man.
And the likeness of God made he him, male and female, created he them, and blessed them, and called their name Adam in the day when they were created.
And Adam lived in 130 years and began a son in his own likeness after his image, and called his name Seth. And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were 800 years.
And he begat sons and daughters.
And all the days that Adam lived were 930 years and he died.
And it will drop down to the 18th verse.
And Jared lived in 160 in two years, and he begat Enoch.
And Jared lived after he begat Enoch.
800 years and begat sons and daughters, and all the days of Jared were 960 in two years and he died.
And Enoch lived.
60 and five years and begat Methuselah.
And Enoch walked with God.
After he begot Methuselah 300 years.
And begat sons and daughters.
And all the days of Enochs were 360 and five years.
And Enoch walked with God, and he was not.
For God took him.
Elderly young people.
What I have before me this afternoon.
It's a food for a little while about.
The two families that God's Word set before.
We find, for instance, in the book of Dude.
That we have reference made to the way of Cain.
And we find that reference is made to the prophecy of Enoch.
Now these men were in different families.
In fact, cane, we have.
The family of unbelief.
The family that lives, that speaks after its satisfaction.
That is characterized by things that are identified with this world.
And an Enoch.
We have one who was part of the family of faith.
We find in First Corinthians chapter 15.
That two atoms are set before us.
The first atom.
And the laughs at it.
And what I would like to speak of this afternoon is to see here in these two chapters before us.
That's what springs from the first atom.
And that which springs from the last atom.
That which is identified with.
And that which is identified with Enoch.
Now we began reading in the 4th chapter.
Where Adam and Eve have been cast out of the garden.
And Eve conceives and has a son.
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This is a son that is born outside of the garden.
This is a son who is to be.
Identified with a family of unbelief.
And so we see that team.
Begins his history.
By seeking to approach God.
In a way, that's evidence that showed that he had not believed the sentence that God had passed upon the world.
To turn back to the third chapter for just a moment.
And the.
17.
And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hath eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it.
Person is the ground for thy faith.
Now we find in the part that we began with this afternoon.
At the end of the second verse tells us Cain was a killer of the ground.
And in process of time it came to pass, that king brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord.
All beloved young people, why is it if you're not saved this afternoon?
Why is it that you're not saved?
Can you truly say it's because you don't know how to be saved?
Or would you have to line up here with Cain and say it's because?
I haven't believed what God has said.
We find in this world today there are millions and millions who have heard the gospel that are not saved.
They do not believe.
Two things. One, the goodness that's in the heart of God for them.
And secondly.
How utterly lost.
The first man.
Truly is.
And so we find in the case of Cain, even though the sentence had been passed, Cursed is the ground.
10 feet to bring in his offering to God that which came from a cursor.
And it could not be accepted.
And so we find, dear young people, that the first characteristic.
Of this family that brings out of Adam through King.
Is unbelief.
Of all that God has revealed.
Unbelief of what God has said about man.
Unbelief of the goodness that is in the heart of God.
The next thing we find is.
That.
Have been provided with a coat of skin.
Eve had been provided with a coat of skin.
The very evidence introduced dear young people.
That the only way man's nakedness before God could be covered.
Was by the death of another.
But Teen apparently did not believe this either.
Abel offers.
A slain teeth.
The first flings of his flock.
But king offers the fruit of a cursed ground.
Then if you notice in the.
6th verse after God has revealed to Cain.
That his offering was not accepted.
It tells us in the sixth verse. And the Lord said unto Cain, Why art thou lost?
And why is thy countenance fallen, if thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted?
And if thou doest not well sin, or a sin offering lieth at the door.
I believe that what God was saying to change here was.
Why are you angry?
Why is your countenance fallen?
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The same way of approaches open to you as was open to your brother Abel.
And dear young people, if I can say a word again to any that is here that are not saved this afternoon.
First of all, as we have said, it springs from unbelief of what God has said about your need and about the one that meets that need.
But secondly we find that God says to your heart as he said to King.
That's the very same way.
Is open for you to come.
As has been accepted by so many here this afternoon.
Dear young people, many here can vote for the wondrous merits of the Precious Blood of Christ.
Many here can bear testimony to the wondrous grace of God.
That has ever given us to see by faith that it was by the sacrifice.
Of another God's beloved Son that we have found acceptance.
Before God, in Christ, in God's beloved Son.
But to those who are not saved this afternoon.
The same message is given to you as was given to clues. You are free to come in the same way.
Through the death of another.
You are free to come and find acceptance too.
Finished work of God, beloved Son of Calvin.
Can I again make one appeal before I leave this part if you're not saved?
Don't go away from this meeting today without first exceptions. Crime says your savior. What a tragedy, dear young people, if we could, as we will find in a few moments, the end of that course for the family of faith.
And you should still be here without Christ.
Well, as I say, we find the first characteristic of this family of Cain this way of Cain.
Is unbelief.
The second is refusal to accept.
The provision that God has made for your salvation.
The eighth verse.
And King talked with Abel his brother, and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel, his brother.
And flew him.
Now we find.
That the way of Cain is characterized by death.
Death comes in the first man, dear young people market.
The first man brought in that within its fruit.
Produce death.
It has struck my own soul.
As a parent.
I submit to you, my beloved brethren, that Eve never. Really.
Fully saw.
The significance? The results of fruit.
Of what he had done in the garden, until the day came when he saw death before her eyes, and the person of her own son, Abel.
The reason I say that?
Is that we can find ourselves as parents.
Reaching for things in this world for our children.
Only to find out the tragic results for them.
And then when it is too late.
We realize that we never should have done it.
Allowing things into our homes.
That introduced that which brings in death.
And corruption and violence.
Well, we find that when.
Has his way.
The result is death. Death for Abel.
Then when we go down a little bit, we come to the.
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11 first.
God has spoken to Cain about his brother.
And in the 11Th verse the Lord now says, and now ourselves cursed from the earth.
Which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand.
When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto be her strength a fugitive and a Vagabond shall thou be in the earth.
And Cain said unto the Lord, by punishment is greater than I can bear. Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth, and from thy face shall I be hid, and I shall be a fugitive and a Vagabond in the earth. And it shall come to pass, that everyone that findeth me shall claim it.
Young people. Does that not sound familiar?
Do we not find it even today?
There are those who reaching the consequences of sin and departure from God.
Still find it in their hearts to blame God for the consequences.
To blame God for what has come in. To blame God as he did here.
Saying my punishment is more than I can bear.
He speaks of that which was going to be.
The result of his own willful sin and departure from God, and at the same time.
Tells God that it's more than he can bear, and that it's really all God's spot fault for punishing him this way.
The next thing we find is in the 15th verse. And the Lord said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth king, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the Lord set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him. And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod on the east of Eden.
It has often been said to young people, and rightly so.
That God has withheld some man the full consequences of his fall.
He has not yet reached the full consequences of it, for instance, even though the ground is cursed.
And doesn't produce as it could.
It nevertheless produces much food.
As we can bear testimony through a few moments ago.
We find in the case of Adam, in the case of Cain, I should say that God suspended the carrying out of the full consequences of what?
Cain had gone and was doing.
And what does pain do as a result? Oh dear young people? He goes out from the presence of the Lord. And instead of owning before God that God was righteous, and speaking by God's grace to avail himself of the way of approach back to God through the death of another, we find that pain goes out from the presence of God and seek to make this world.
As attractive to him as he possibly can.
And so we find that when the senses.
The sentence of death.
Which hungover came was temporarily suspended.
The result in the life of Cain was not repentance. It was not a turning to God.
It was not a cry for mercy, but it was a determination.
To make this world as attractive as he could.
Away from the presence of God, dear young people, that's the world that I would like to talk to you about for a few moments.
You notice it says in the 19th verse Cain went out from the presence of the Lord and dwelt in the land of Nod on the east of evening.
And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived, and bare enough, and he builded a city.
And called the name of the city after the name of his son.
Enough. Here he is now, man.
The builders. He's building a city. He's lost the garden.
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But he's building a city, a city that is called by the name of his own son. If I could put it this way, dear young people, and the way it strikes my own soul, it's as if man says this is what I have done and I'm putting my stamp on it to prove that it's the fruit of my own doing. The fruit of Cain's own life was stamped upon that city.
And that's exactly the world in which we live, all beloved young people. This world what God speaks of as the world when he says love, not the world, neither the things that are in the world. It's Speaking of pained world, this world that was erected outside of the presence of God. And as I say, the first thing that it's marked by is man's name written upon it.
I was struck very much some years ago.
When Canada had a world exhibition.
And they it was held in Montreal.
And in the advertisements that were put out for that.
Exhibition.
It was called Man and His World. That's exactly what Cain did.
Man and his world, he said. This is my city. The fruit of my doing bears the name of my son.
The name of Tina.
Then we find it says, And unto Enochs was born Irad, and Irad begat Methusel, and so on, and then dropped down to the 19th verse, and Lamech took unto him to why the name of the one was Ada, and the name of the other villa?
And Ada bear Gable, He was the father of such a dwelling tent.
And as such, as have cattle.
Now I will leave it to you to do the counting.
But if you follow the names that are written here in this chapter.
You will find that the 7th.
From Adam through King was Lamech.
And we will find in a few minutes the Lord gives us the time for it. That's the 7th from Adam through Seth was Enoch.
We find here that the 7th.
From Adam through Cain. If I could use this terminology, dear young people.
What God is saying to us, I want you to see the end of the course.
That number of completeness.
The number seven, God says Look at the end of the course. Look at where that world leaves.
And what do we find?
We find corruption all indeed we do. We find Lamech has corrupted God's orders.
He has introduced that which stamps all over this world today, that which is seeking man's own will to satisfy his own carnal nature.
And so we find that Lamech has two wives.
Not one.
We find that that is which has been introduced.
To seek to make this world an attractive place, you notice, it tells us.
That Gable he was the father of such as well intention of such as have cattle.
His mother's name was Jubal. His brother's name was Jubal. He was the father of all such as handled the harp and organ.
And zealous he also bare tubal cane, an instructor of every artistifer in brass and iron.
Well, God has put here in very general terms for us what we might call the world of commerce.
The world of entertainment and the world of science.
But then you notice it says in the end of the 22nd verse, and the sister of Tubal King was Naima That has struck one's own soul. Because you know, dear young people, the meaning of the word nema is pleasant, and this was what the whole plan was for.
Cain had been outside of the presence of God, but he wanted where he was to bear his own stamp, to be the fruit of his own doings.
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And it could be a pleasant place.
And so he builds the city, and so his.
Offspring introduced into it.
These things that are so characteristic of this world, or how much man boasts of the progress that he has made.
In the world of entertainment. In the world of science and the world of industry.
Perhaps more so on this conscience than in anywhere else in the world. And yet, where is it all leaving? All dear young people notice it. Where does it all leave? Here's Lamech the 7th, the end of the course. He looks at all that he has. He looks at all that has been produced, even from his own grandchildren.
And he passes a verdict on it all, he says. And Lamech said unto his wives, Ada Angela.
Hear my voice, you wise of laymen, hearken unto my feet, for I have slain a man to my wounding.
And a young man to my heart. If king shall be Avenged Sevenfold. Truly Lamech, 70s and seven fools. That's the end of the course for this world and dear young people. The world doesn't get better, it gets worse.
We find here, in connection with Lamech, that he can pronounce his own judgment, his own sentence.
He knows what he has done. He can look back, as it were, to change and what progress has been made. No progress.
Just an increase.
In the judgment that's ahead for this world, my friend, dear young people, how solemnly to look at a chapter like this, to read this history of the family of kings, the Way of King, and to see where the world leads, what its characteristics are, and what it ended.
To be judged of God, dear young people, is this world anymore guilty now than it was?
In the day of Cain, yes, indeed, the debt has piled up.
But the way of the world has not changed. It's still a way of corruption.
It's still a world of violence. It's still a world that seeks to satisfy itself.
Outside of the presence of God, their beloved young people, that's the world.
That Satan seeks to entice your heart and mind to be taken up with.
That's the world that God takes so graphically for us in His word, and then says to your heart and my love, not the world.
Neither the things that are in the world.
If any man loved the world.
The love of the Father is not in him. We cannot be taken up with this world.
And being enjoying the love of the Father at the same time.
Now let's go on and look at the next family.
The 25th verse Adam knew his wife again, and she bare a son and called his name Seth. For God said she hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, who came flu and success to him also. They were born a son, and he called his name. Enoch then began then to call upon the name of the Lord. This is the book of the generations of Adam in the day that God created man in the likeness of God.
Made to him male and female, created to them, and blessed them, and called their name Adam in the day when they were created.
We find here, if I could put it this way, dear young people, because if God says now, I'm going to start all over again.
I want to start off and even uses the word. This is the book of the generations of Adam.
You were to go back to the second chapter and the fourth verse that says these are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created.
And the day that the Lord God made the earth in the heaven. And then we see what flowed from Adam and Eve that first Adam and now God brings before us in tight.
The last atom, the last atom we find that here is 1.
Who was the language here said in the day that God created man in the likeness of God made he him?
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Now there are young people mark what I say carefully.
The Lord Jesus as God is eternal.
As God, who had no beginning, neither beginning of days, nor end of life.
But the Lord Jesus as man was born into this world.
A babe investing his Manger. And here was one finally in this world that fully, in every way, in every aspect, in every word that he said, in every thought, in every expression, everything fully revealed the mind and heart of God. Think of the Lord Jesus being here and saying he that hath seen me.
Hath seen the Father. Who is this one? Why, it's the last Adam.
The last item, the one who not only did not fail, but could not fail.
The one who not only did not sin, but could not sin. He is God's beloved Son, and we find that it's spoken of here in the 25th verse, has appointed me another seed. Yes, this indeed was a new seed, a new seed. This was the corn of wheat that would fall into the ground and die and bring forth much food.
And you notice it tells us that when God saw before him.
That second Adam, the one that we read about the last Adam, I should say the last Adam.
When God saw before him the last Adam he saw identified with him.
A bribe 1 to share his place of headship.
And so we find in the beginning of the 5th chapter in this family of faith.
We find that the one who is set at its head is the last status and with him.
A bride so closely identified with himself that he bears his name.
And so it tells us, bless them and call their name Adam in the day when they were created. But then notice the next verse. And Adam lived in 130 years, and began a son in his own license after his image. Now, dear young people, this.
Is what characterizes the family of faith.
The corn of wheat has fallen into the ground and died.
And it has brought forth truth. What kind of fruit?
All beloved young people. What kind of fruit has been produced by this new seed? By this one? Who?
Came from God.
Why it's fruit after his own image and license.
And so we find that you and I that here today belong to Christ, if you know the Lord Jesus Christ is your savior.
Beloved young people who are now not one day but now, you are a new creation. You are a new creature in Christ Jesus. You are part of a new creation of which the Lord Jesus is the head. And that creation, that new creation, is made-up of those who have been made in the image and likeness of the head. Isn't it a precious thing to think that today?
Here this afternoon.
You have the same life and the same nature as God's beloved Son.
That's your life. That's your nature. You can pick up this precious book and read through Matthew and Mark and Luke and John and read the history, the life story of that glorious man out of heaven. And you can stay honestly on the authority of God's word. That's my life that I'm reading about. I have that same life that is seen there in God's beloved sign when Christ, who is our life, shall appear.
Then shall we also appear with him in glory?
You see the nature of God displayed in all its love and loveliness in the person of Christ. And you can say that's my nature. I have been given the same nature part cases.
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Of the divine nation. What a miracle of grace.
So it was with theft. Seth was the one who came, if I could use the type that we have here from the last Adam. And he's the one who is made in the very likeness and in the image of Adam, all beloved young people. Could God do more for you than that, to give you now in this world the same life and the same nature, and to give you the promise?
That you're going to have a body fashioned like unto his body of glory.
Now, dear young people, if we belong to Christ, that is our life and that is our nation.
How is that what's being? Is that what's manifested? Is that what the world sees?
Well, we find in the connection with Seth a most lovely thing. You'll go back to the end of the fourth chapter for a moment.
It says, and success to him also. There was born a son, and he called his name Enoch. Then men began to call upon the name of the Lord. All beloved young people. What is the fruit?
What is the fruit of the new nature? What is the fruit of this new creation?
All its hearts and minds taken up with the Lord and glory. Pain is taken up with His world.
The new nature is taken up with the Lord himself.
Men began then to call upon the name of the Lord.
Here was set the fruit.
Of the nucleation and the result is the heart occupied with the Lord Jesus Christ.
Came his heart, taken up with the fruit of his union.
And what do we find? A city named after his son, his heart taken up with this world.
And seeking to make it as attractive as possible.
The next thing I would draw your attention to, it tells us and the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth for 800 years and he begat sons and daughters. And all the days that Adam lived were 930 years and he died.
Now, dear young people, as I mentioned to you earlier, the 7th the end of the course for faith, the family of faith, the new creation, the fruit.
Of the last batter.
The end of that course?
In the place the 7th from Adam is Enoch.
And it tells us you drop down to the 21St verse and Enoch lived 60 and five years and begat Methuselah.
And Enoch walked with God.
Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah 300 years and begat sons and daughters.
Oh dear young people, what a precious privilege given to man, this one. Who is the part of that family of faith?
Never says anything about cane walking with God. He went out from the presence of the Lord and never says anything about anyone in that world, that pain world walking with God.
No, but Enoch walked with God.
Now, lest there be many misunderstandings, let me emphasize to you that the Word of God speaks of you as being in this world.
We're in this world, but we are not of this world. We're not of it.
The very language the Lord Jesus says in the 17th of John. Speaking of his own, he says these are in the world.
And I come to these.
But then he says, But they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. And dear young people, here was a man who walked in the world, but not of it. He walked with God.
And the end of that course.
What's the glory? Enoch walked with God, and he was not.
For God's support, God took it.
So it tells us.
The 24th verse. And Enoch walked with God, and he was not.
For God took him.
In the second chapter of Amos.
You will find there where God speaks to Israel, and he says that his purpose, his plan for their children, was that they should be prophets and Nazareth. And here was a man who was a prophet and a Nazareth. You remember how it tells us in Jude that Enoch the 7th from Adam prophesied, saying, behold, the Lord cometh with 10 thousands of his Saints.
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Beloved young people, here was the one, the fruit of that family of faith, the fruit of the last Adam, the one who was made in the image and the likeness of that one who came from God. Beloved young people, the end of that course, the end of that family of faith, is in the glory. That's where Enoch went, and that's where you and I are going to be. What a privilege to walk with God now.
And to be a prophet for him in the midst of Cain's world.
That has struck me so much, that here was Enoch and what was he talking about? What was he bearing testimony to why he was bearing testimony to the very ungodliness of pain world. He wasn't seeking to join up in it. He wasn't seeking to partake of it. He wasn't taken up with his entertainment. He wasn't enraptured with his scientific in season. He wasn't enthralled with the advances of commerce and how he could prosper in that world.
He prophesied.
Saying, the Lord cometh with 10 thousands of His Saints to execute judgment.
All he what he did by his walk of faith was to put the stamp on the world that is all reserved unto judgment, reserved under fire in the judgment of the great day. Beloved young people notice one other thing before we stop. It has struck one's own soul, and there may be other reasons for it. I don't limit the word of God. There may be other reasons for this, but it has struck me very much that when I read the history of the First Family.
In the 4th chapter, nothing is said about the ages of the people involved. We don't know how old Kane was, we don't know how old his son was when he had a son, and so on. Nothing's told us about that. But when you come to the fifth chapter and you find the family of Saints presented, oh, God tells us exactly how long each life was when each one in that family of faith pictured to us, was born.
I know how that is struck ones own soul to realize dear young people, that when God used a family of faith, when he used you as a child of God, he would say to your heart and mind the hairs of your head are all numbers.
I just had occasion. May sound humorous, I don't mean it that way, but I went into a Barber shop.
In Pensacola, just a few days ago.
And the man in that Barber shop was very evidently a Christian. He had texts around, but one of the texts he had up behind his barbers chair was the very hairs of your head or all numbers. Or how that struck me to think. There was one who was using his office, using his work to bear witness to the fact that for the children of God, Oh dear young people, think how, how closely you're watched over how that life, yours is valued, how the years have been measured out to you.
Measured out to you?
For you to walk with God.
For you to be a prophet.
In a world that is stamped with the March of pain.
Beloved young people, another thought has been a precious to my soul in connection with these ages.
It seems to my own soul that God would not only show us how carefully each man's life is measured, how that life that you have is precious, and the years that you have are precious to use for the One who has created you in His own image, giving you His life and His nature.
But also to give us to see.
That is one of those years that were measured out were measured out in anticipation of the time.
When Enoch would be with God.
All to my own soul. It's just as if the Lord Jesus was saying to my heart here as I read this chapter, I want you to know that every one of those years, while you're in that world and I'm speaking to have you with myself in the glory, every one of those years are measured out. I know all about them. I know all about them. I know about the years that you're passing through. But all dear young people, the end of the course is glory. The Lord Jesus is waiting, longing to have you there.
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And in the meantime, he says to your heart into mind through the words of Enoch.
Walk with God. Give God the joy. Dear young people of your company. Ask God day by day for grace and strength to walk with him.
The 16th Psalm in the first verse who was a brother amongst us years ago, we used to say that that was a good prayer for every child of God to pray every day of his life, preserve the old God. For indeed do I put my trust.
Beloved young people, the end of the course for the family of faith is with Christ and Lord. The precious privilege of the family of faith now is to walk with God and to be a prophet, a testimony in this world.
To the abysmal ungodliness of Cain's world, and where it's all going to end under the judgment of God and dear young people, can I say again?
If the safety offers holds out to you.
This world and its attraction may we be given grace from our blessed, precious Savior.
To realize that the life and the nature I now have.
This new life and this new nature I now have belong to heaven.
That the life and nature that I now have are taken up with the Lord, the Lord of glory.
That grass is stamped upon this whole thing.
About what I have in Christ, what I have in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Is for the joy and rejoicing of my soul now.
And for all eternities, all when I think of.
In his world, how can my heart be taken up with? How can I be taken up with that which is brought in death and corruption and violence? How can I allow the love of young people? How can I allow in my home?
How can I set before my children? What is going to set before then? The corruption and the violence?
And the death that characterized his world.
When God has entrusted to me as a parent.
To raise up a Nazarite and a prophet.
For himself.