11-17-2024 Sunday School

All right, everybody. We're going to go ahead and get started. It's so good to see. All we going to be slim pickings today. We got Travelers and and I guess the cool weather must have some people inside. We got some folks away on doing some different things but it for those of you or hear, thank you so much for your faithfulness for being here every week and I'm and today we will continue our study. Good work, all good works. We're going to talk about the importance of good works in the believer's. Life with that said, we'll go ahead and open with a word of prayer and and we'll jump right on into what we're talkin about today. So, I'll Brother David, would you mind opening Center where the prayer please?

Thank you for being here.

Savior.

Hey man, you take your boat and we'll go ahead and jump right on into our text offer. This morning are jumping off. Texas found in John 15 verses 4 through 5. Remember that? That 15. 16 17, is all the upper room discourse is since when Jesus is talking with his disciples, in particular, in a closed in setting an environment and he tells him, he says abide in me and I in you, this is John 15 versus 45 abide in me. And I, and you as the branch cannot bear fruit from itself unless it abides in the vine. So, neither can you unless you abide in me? I am the vine and you are the branches. He who abides in me. And I in him, he Bears much fruit. For apart from me, you can do nothing and I think that's a very good summation of this whole chapter that we're discussing here. That it is the believing one, it is the one who is in Christ, the one who is Gru grounded and rooted in faith in Christ, who has the ability to produce fruit, good for running a good friend, and we in particular talking about good fruit. So I want to quickly go over the outline for the three weeks. It's going to take us three weeks last week this week and one more week to get through this chapter really quickly review with you, what we talked about last week and then we'll jump into the two paragraphs that we're going to talk about it or two or three paragraphs. We're going to talk about today. Show the outline of Good Works. Number one, we found out that the first time we did last week and we found out that good works are obedience to God's word. Remember that? We danced to God's word and we talked about the result of good works, are the fruit of Faith. Then we found out how we're going to find out. Today that the ability to do good works comes from the Holy Spirit. Did and even the greatest obedience fall short of God's standard of righteousness, our good works. Cannot Merritt forgiveness or eternal life. God accepts our good works and then laughing at least even the good works of unbelievers are sinful and to God's word, the only good works are commanded by God in the Bible. All right. So remember when we talked and what is a good work? Then it needs to be specifically stated in Scripture. Love your neighbor as you love yourself. Is that a good work? Love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, your mind, your soul in his strength and love your neighbor as yourself. Is that a good work? Be kind to one another and greet. One another with a holy kiss right now, we don't have to do today. We don't kiss that we not middle. The middle east, and Middle Eastern. When Carrie and came in, I gave her a good shot up because she's my sister in Christ. And when I came in on Wayne Road and shook your hand, we greet one, another brother and sister, is that a good work? And how do I know it is a good word because it's to find in scripture show. All good works are commanded by God in the Bible. They do not include works at our Command that are not commanded by the Bible. Such as those done, by humans out of blinds eel. Or with an appearance of good intention. We talk about blind Zeal. Zeal is what? What does zeal mean? when you have Zeal for something, Excitement passion, enthusiasm towards something. And so, there's a lot of people in the Christian Community. There has a seal, they have a passion about now but it's a blind passion. That what happens when a blind man? Leaves? Another blind. Man. What is the Bible say about it. What happens? When the blind lead the blind, what happened to him, they both fall in the ditch, you see him? So a lot of times we do things because they feel right or is what I've always been told is right and in reality that can be a blind seal. So these good worst do, not include things that the Bible does not come in and done out of lion. Seal, or with the appearance of good attention, one of the things that immediately comes to my mind is Ash Wednesdays. Yeah, and then sew in at the end of the Catholic church, is it now even in our Southern Baptist Church is there, I know southern baptist churches that have Ash Wednesday Services now, and they have people come through that parking lot and they, they put the cross in ashes on their forehead, right? And what is it supposed to snow? Oh yeah, it's 40 days before its length as what you're doing is you're saying I'm waiting for the next 40 days. I'm going to abstain from doing something so they'll say like well I'm going to abstain from eating chocolate or I'm not going to watch. TV for 40 days are I'm not going to be on Tik-Tok or Facebook for 40 days. It's just a you make a decision to abstain from doing something and so you go to the priest at the beginning of that. And they Mark your forehead with a cross and I'll are the Indians wear a DOT on their head when they're fasting. So what is the problem? Is there anything in the world wrong with fasting? No, we actually did a message where Jesus talked about fasting, but he said when you fast, don't do it, so that and don't mark up your face and don't walk around all sad because you're missing out on something. Don't do it as a way to get public attention fast so that you can get God's attention. You see it soon as not to be done as a show and show for me. When I see that, I see people that are they, are they passionate about what they're doing, do they think that they're doing something that's good? Do they think that they're doing something that's going to get them closer to God? I think they do. But it's a blind real. Why? Because it is not according to the stay at the Lord. It is outside the boundaries. Of what is required? How do I know it's outside the boundaries? Because Jesus clearly said, when you fast, don't go mark, up your face and walk around all sad and let other people know that you're fasting. I said, wash your face and put on a smile, let the sadness be on the inside where God sees it, and don't let everybody because when they're doing that, what are they doing? And directly drawing attention to who themselves instead of God. And when it comes to Good works, are good. Works are to be directed toward to. and, Who are we to love the Lord, Our God and our neighbor. So all of our good work should be with the intentions of the benefit and of God and neighbor. Our problem is falling, human beings. Is it a lot of our good works? Or what, what am I getting out of this?

DJ. So we have to be careful about what a good work is and it is clearly defined in the Bible. What a good work is and we need to make sure that we're not do just doing something out of a blind Z. We need to have the directive from the Bible for us to do that. Okay? And so the second paragraph that we talked about in this one was a very important said that these good works are done in obedience to God's Commandments and they are the fruit. Or the evidences. Of true and Living Faith. Right, so if God is in me, he's coming out of me and the way that he comes out of me is through the good works that I produce. And so we learned last week that through our good works, we express our thankfulness to God. We learn that our good works will strengthen our insurance. Any time that you've been struggling with your face, you'll probably find that you were not doing what you were commanded to. Do your falling away from from church attendance. You had fallen away from doing something that got delayed on your hard to do. And it what happens is that we start questioning our, even our own faith. Do I really believe But when the believer is allowing the holy spirit to guide their life, in the fruits of the spirit are coming out in their life. Not only, can they be assured that God is at work in their life? But their neighbors and God can be assured, right? God knows our heart. But he Delights in our good works.

It also edifies fellow believers. I can't tell you how much is it encourages me every week to come here and get her in the morning. And she brother Wayne already here, got all the lights on and got everything straight. He always brings up my stuff for me to teach with like it. It makes me happy and joyous to know that there are other believers that care to serve. Like, I do, you know, we should push one another in that way. Not being bossy, Shay. Well, you didn't help. But just doing what we are commanded to do. And what will happen is, is that at will and if I it'll build up the other people around us.

You want a bit when we build this church, when Christ bills are shirts through our efforts, when we lift up cry for this community and he starts drawing people in there. What you're going to find is it will come like a tidal wave because word gets around and people say, hey have y'all been down there? Those people really loud to Lorelei. They really and it will happen. The body will be edified. What is it mean to ratify something? To build it up. So it is very important for us to be going about and doing Because it edifies the body of Christ. It edifies Believers, it gives us as individuals assurance and it builds up those around us very important. Then it says that it's a profession of the Gospel. And a lot of people that knew you, when you were a Christian, and now they see you and they go, what happened to that guy? I told you the other day, I sat down my somebody that I used to date and she didn't even recognize me. We had a whole conversation and didn't even realize who I was or if she did, she wasn't saying anything to me or not. Yeah, at why? Because I'm a new creation. I'm a new person now and I don't act and think and talk the way that I used to talk. And live and feel and believe and show my good works profess the gospel to others, it answers people who are against the faith. You have people argue Doctrine in theology with you all day long? But I can't argue with your kindness and your love and your patience and your peace in your goodness. There's no argument for that. The proof is in the pudding, actions speak, louder than words. And people can't, they can't deny that. They can argue with your Doctrine and what you say, what you teach. But there's no argument for living that out. And then finally and most importantly is for our good but God's glory. So our God, our good works, show the world ourselves and everything around us who God is and what he is capable of. So good works are very important, Believers are God's workmanship will go into today's lesson as we get into what we talked about today at the end of that pair of it said Believers are God's workmanship created in Christ Jesus? For good works, these good work and bear fruit. That lead to Holiness and the result of this is eternal life, result of Holiness is eternal life. When we live, holy unto God, when we have his righteousness, we have eternal life and that righteousness, and that Holiness has proved out, by the way, we act, the way we talk the way, we, we live a lot all works, do not our good works, do not save us. But they certainly are a proof that we are saved. Remember James said that to us last week as we looked in the book of J. What he say, you show me your faith without you lyrics. And I'll show you my faith by my works. Imma let my walking through the talking, not my talk and do my walking. And it's always very important for us to see that good works, are essential in the believer's life, ain't they do so many things for us, they do so many things for those around us are neighbors, and they certainly glorify God. All right with that said we'll go ahead to paragraph 3 and that's actually in your bulletin. Well I don't you didn't give you the slides that you don't have. Oh, okay. So paragraph 3, says this. And this is again, this is in your, in your bullet. And if you want to look at it there, or if you have the Sunday School manual that we use their confession, you can see it there. City off. Chapter 16, verse, paragraph 3. The Believers ability to do good. Works is not all of themselves. Now, it doesn't say not at. All of them self, does it? It says, it's not all of them self, but holy, From the spirit of Christ and that they may be enabled their into besides the gracious they have received there is necessary and actual influence of the same, Holy Spirit to work in them and to Will and to do of his good pleasure. Yet, they are not here upon to grow negligent. As if they were not bound to perform any duties, unless upon a special motion of the spirit, but they ought to be diligent and stirring up The Graces of God, that is in them. So, let's break this paragraph down and then we'll get some scriptural texts, to prove what the paragraph is is teaching us there. It says, Is there when it says there, who is there? Their in that paragraph? The believing one. That's exactly right. The believer. The Believers ability to do good. Works is not at all from themself. But rather completely from the spirit of God. So who gives me the ability to do the good work? Should I do? The holy spirit. So if the spirit dwells in me, the reason that he's well, tell me what is knows. What is your spirits a roll? What did Jesus say was going to do? He was going to going to convict. I can make the world of sin convicts, man, of his own righteousness and convince us of Christ in one who he is. And so when the spirit of God lives inside of me, he's going to come out of me in the works that that I produce and they are. They come from him. Show the natural man. The natural person around you who does not have this Holy Spirit living in them. Cannot do good works because there's always going to be who involved in what they do.

The devil and them sell, it's about them. So, there are people that will help a little late or late across the street. Why will they think they're getting some ground with God? By do is something nice there. People to give immeasurable amounts of money to Charities. Why is there climbing the stairway to heaven? They think that they're there, their bettering themselves bettering their fellow man and earn in favor with God by the things that they do. A self-driven. And believe me, if somebody came in here today that, you know, some stranger came off the street and said, hey, you know, I just won the lottery and I want 10 billion dollars and I had told the Lord that if I won I would give 10% to a local church. So I'm coming here to give you the check. You know to give us 100 million dollars. I'm certainly not going to pass that off.

But his good where I would also do this. So I was actually tell the person look what you're doing is not learning you any favor with God.

Like in unless your heart is in the right place. God now. And please with that, if you get the whole hundred percent of what you want, does it charge? Questionnaire. Some religions.

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Yeah, it was a Catholic faith. Does that with Purgatory dating? When you go to mass, you light candles for Almost in any circumstance like that, there's always going to be money involved.

I'm almost there all that money.

Yeah, there are a lot of people that have sold their self in the monkey tree like so all their worldly possessions and went and lived in a cave in the middle of the Woods. I mean, people have done that all throughout history, nunge who go and join the Catholic Church, sell all of their worldly possessions and giving all their money to the church. And then they live depended upon the church, the church feed them closing because I'm housing excetera excetera

Loved one with no, it certainly does not. But again, remember even is so even for the unbeliever or the deceive religious, zealot, Master seal for the religious sell it or the unconverted their natural. Their natural instinct is going to be. I've got to what do something.

But all of their I've got to do something is based on because I need to get to God. The believer, the true Bellini one. The difference is that he knows what Christ has done to get us to God and therefore he does because Christ has first done. He's doing out of a love and a thankfulness to Christ Jesus for what he's done. He's not trying. We're not trying to earn favor with God by attending church, or praying, or are singing. We're simply expressing our thankfulness that he got to us because without him, we would have never got to him. So the difference is that those people are trying to do Penance or trying to earn their there. They're buying their Stairway to Heaven. They're trying to get themselves through their own efforts to. and even as Believers we can, we can fall into that trap to, can we Rotten Robbies, very easy for today. It's the natural setting of The Natural. It's the it's the original setting of natural man. I'm not falling natural, man. I got to do something.

If the spirit, the Holy Spirit driving this it's not, I got to do something else, I get to do something. It's a special privilege. Not a necessity.

Okay. So he says Our good works are not for myself but they are completely from the spirit of God they enable us to do. Good works. What does it mean to enable someone?

Can make them capable of doing it. If you are an enabler, if you have a few, if your, if your grandma and you have a rebellious grandson who drinks all the time and you go out and you buy him, alcohol, you're enabling him, you're giving him the ability to do what he wants to do. You're enabling him and we all do that. We we are all enable other people because as long as there's somebody a little worse than I am, then I'm not that bad. if it is kind of a a living out of that, if I tear other people down, It fills me up. Now that might not be there to direct attention to it to tear their children down. but, Misery loves company.

Right? And that are in this earth. Distorted view of love. It's a, it's a blind Zeal, it's not the love of God because what is the love of God? Say, if a man don't work, you don't eat. Until we enable folks, when we would, we help them out a long and they're they're falling us. So he says

They need besides a great. They already have received an actual influence of the same, Holy Spirit to work in them to Will and to do his good pleasure, show the Holy Spirit Works in us to help will and do his good pleasure. We pray, your will be done. We want the action, we do, we want. The things that we say that we wanted things that we feel and do to be driven and influenced by the Holy Spirit. Not the natural man that is, if we want him to work in us to give us the ability to Will and to do, and what you'll find is, is when, when God is at work in your life, when God is the one driving you to do what you do, you'll find that, even though I'll be struggles even though there'll be turmoil, Even though it might not be the easiest thing in the world to do, there will be a quiet peace inside of you about what you're doing. It's so funny. I was sitting out at, you know, why I told you I every day when I eat lunch, I'll go sit down on the sidewalk in front of a local pub and icing because they have nice chairs and it's in the shade and then I get enjoy some weather. And yesterday there was an old guy there and he was, he was three sheets to the wind and it matter fact he was, he was so influenced by what he was doing. Then he was sitting out here with a beer in one hand and he was actually smoking reefer it out in public right on the sidewalk and he just sent it for like 30 minutes doing it, and nobody ever said anything to him. But there wasn't hardly anybody on the streets that day, but he was shot, and he was literally just he was talking out of his head. He was, he was high as a kite and he looked over me and that you can't reason with folks when they're not stay. And I didn't even try to reason with him. But I'm hit, the cook came out of the pub and he dropped a bunch of four, letter words, and their Cooks ahead and show about 20 minutes later of him sitting there and doing what he was doing. He turn around and looked at me, he said, you think what I'm doing is okay.

And you know, how I answered him. I said, I said, I said, I said for me personally, I have found it. If I have to ask, if it's okay to do something, then there's probably something wrong with.

And what I found is that what I'm allowing the spirit of God to drive me. When I, when I am allowed to spend with the spirit of God, is the one influence me to do. What I do, they're simply a piece and a comfort about what I'm doing. I'm not worried about what other people are thinking. You don't answer in. That's that that's our conscious being driven by the Holy Spirit to give us a piece about what we're doing when we're walking with the Lord, in the light of his word. What a joy, he spreads on the way. That's how that song go to trust and Obey. And sure when we're living in obedience to him, when it's the spirit of God is driving or obedient, we simply have a piece about our self. When you, when you skip, Sunday school and you're sitting there at the house, if, you know, school starts at 9:30 and then at about 9:45, you start feeling really guilty about not being there. That's the spirit of God commit you say you should have got your lazy self up and wasn't sure.

8-bit come and it could have been trying to bait me in or I think more likely in his blurred conscience, he was trying to Rationalize what he was doing? Like he wanted somebody to give him affirmation about the way that he was living his life was okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He was thinking about like a six-year-old. That that's exactly right, 6 years old, giving him a little credit, but she got hit with a bottle because 20 years ago, that would have been me sitting there. And I knew that it was a grace of God in the love of God, that brought me out of that bondage, and out of that slavery and out of that life.

I made some subtle statements and I was also talking with two young ladies and he was sitting there and he heard us. And I made sure that he was hearing what we were to add account to show you that he can take that. What he's doing is wrong. Right, that's it. And that's the whole point that I was making. When you're when the spirit of God, the holy spirit is driving you to do. Or you. Do you simply don't have a conscience. You, you don't have to ask questions about what you're doing. You just know that what you're doing is right.

Right. Because yeah, yeah. So even falling man, has a conscience. The problem is is his conscience is hardened, its calloused. It don't feel like it used to.

You see the conscious of the world around us getting harder and harder as life goes on? Like they show stuff on the TV. Now, how many I remember the first curse word you ever heard on TV and now everything is salty. The moral conscience of the world around us is hardening. They know they're doing wrong. But they just want to drag you into what they're doing and then they don't have to do, right? So the holy spirit is the one that helped us the work and the will God's good pleasure. However, we should not become that show, but if we should not become negligent, as if they were not required to perform any duties, unless they receive a special motion of the spirit rather they should be diligent in stirring up the grace of God. It didn't do no. Otherwise we're not supposed to just sit around and say, okay, I'm just going to stay here until God tells me to do something. Or, you know, I'm just a robot and the holy spirit's going to just make me do what I'm supposed to do. And what was seeing these past. The scripture that we're going to look at here in just a second. Is God, works it in. We work it out. It will say that and just say, let's look at these Pastor scripture. We're looking at all. The first one is John 15 verses 4 and 5. John 15 versus four and follow me.

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Okay, abide in me and I are you as the branch cannot bear fruit of his self and listen to buy tonight. So neither can you unless you abide in me? Imma Vine. You are the branches. He who abides me a 9 a.m. he Bears, much fruit. But for apart from me, you can do nothing. And we think about that fruit bearing. And I want you to remember the story when Jesus came, it was going into the city of Jerusalem to look and saw a fig tree and it didn't have any fruit on it. And what did he do? He curse the Fig Tree and when they came back out of the shity what happened? It did rotted away their will. To the way he said it was a symbol of national Israel. It was a symbol of the, the religion of that day. He went into the city that the temple. And what did he find a fruitless people?

They had all the trappings but no fruit. They had the branches, but the branches were not in Christ, they were in themselves and so they were dead and so that that fig tree that rotted fig tree show what happens with two to the branches. That do not produce good fruit and so that the next passage are 2nd Corinthians 3:5. 2nd Corinthians 3 5. And it says not that we are sufficient in ourselves to consider anything is coming from ourselves. But artificial tears from God. Remember when she does perverse in just a minute or well we'll see you next week where Christ Jesus, his workmanship created under good work. We are created to do good things but before that it said we are saved and it is not of ourselves less than anyone. Should what boast? So if I want to go around and brag about putting money in the offering plate, the reality is, unless God has given me the health in the ability to go out and earn that. I wouldn't had it to give he could have took my health away from me and I wouldn't have anything to offer it all. Now, once I got that paycheck last Wednesday, I cared it down here and deposit it at the bank and then I'll pay some bills with it. I did this and that but the truth is the truth of the matter is why would money was given to me and I can do with it. What? I please.

But that money came to me because God has given me the ability to go out of work and earn it. It's the same way with our Salvation, he's the one that says that she's the one that gives us our ability to do good things but it is up to us to decide what how we're going to spend those, how we're going to share those fruits with others, if you will.

So, we always need to remember that our sufficiency is not in ourselves. But our sufficiency comes from God. Abide in me and I in you, unless we're at last, we're grafted into Christ and end of the Covenant of Grace, and lettsworth grafted into Jesus. And his salvation. There's no way for us to produce fruit. Hey, Branch plug from the vine. Cannot produce fruit. Okay. Philippians 2:13 and will actually look at that and Philippians 2:12 was starting to 12 and this is Philippians, not fight Philemon right now, where I messed up last week. I won this very quick to admit when I make a mistake, or I try to be anyhow, sometimes my pride won't let me do that. So then my beloved the believing once. So then my beloved just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only but now I'm more in my absence work out. Your salvation with fear and trembling. So what are we to do? Work out our Salvation? Where does our Salvation come from?

Price. You forgot. Okay, so we work out what he worked in. The only person that can work out that salvation, who is one, who has a Salvation worked in. Because, look at the next verse for it is God. Who is at work in you?

Both to Will and to work for his good pleasure.

You show. So you see what polishing there you work it out. But remember, he worked it in. And in and out, screw this batch is it? What are sufficiency comes from God or suspicious? He comes from what he did, not what we did. Okay? So let's take that to the whole and I guess we're only going to get to one paragraph today cuz Kelly field, make a stop on time.

let us use the example of going down and I like, giving your heart to Jesus cuz we talked about that a lot of times is that something that we should do Is it a good work? Yes. Because it's too fine by the scriptures to profess your faith. But when I come down at all and give my life to Christ, I'm doing it because he gave his life. To me, I am working out what he were then. And one of the problems in the modern Evangelical movement is, it preachers will preach for people to come down and give their life to Christ? Why? So that they can have salvation so that they can earn their salvation. They turn faith into a work.

Your belief is not what saves you is. Who your belief is in that saves you? But if he really saved you, then that belief is going to be perfect in your confession and you're giving your life to Christ and our problem is natural humans. Is it? We always want to take credit for what the van is done. We want to take credit for the fruits.

There is nothing in the world. It is a beautiful profession of your faith to say that I put my trust in Jesus Christ, wonderful, beautiful. Delightful glorifying God statement, I have given my life to Jesus Christ. but if you ask most people,

Why are you going to heaven? And I'll say this because I just trusted Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior and I gave my heart to him. Is that true? In a sense, it is. But when we say that we're stepping over, what Christ has done, why am I going to heaven? Because two, thousand years ago, he poured his blood out on a cross, to purchase my salvation. He was dead buried resurrected. He sent his hoe, he and the father Sent His, Holy Spirit to come and claim me. His holy spirit, regenerate in my heart and gave me the faith to believe in him. And I called upon the name of the Lord and was safe. So you see what I did in that statement? I'm making my profession of faith. I'm still saying that I gave my life to Christ. I'm still saying that I gave my heart to Jesus.

But the preference to that is he worked into me. What is now being worked out in me? And the warning for the natural man is it? Our natural tendency is to do what? For us to take credit for what has been done.

But when we give him the credit for it, we find the insurance. when my salvation is based on what he did on that cross, That is a sure salvation. But for the one who is bypassing that reality and just basing it on what they've done. They may struggle their whole life with this or let that I really mean it. That I really mean it when I went down and all I gave my life to Jesus. I went and I raise my hand and I was trying to card. I made a profession of faith and they don't me in some water but then I really mean it. Did that did that baptism? Did God really accept that baptism like am I really shave? You see what they're doing is they're trusting in what they've done, instead of what Christ. There's a lot of people that are saved that are doing that. I'm not saying that there's not people that are not save their but the problem with that is that they're focusing on themselves instead of Christ, And when we do with that, we can't have that Assurance. It is always going to be that little nagging question in the back of my mind. So rest in what Christ has done, And profess what crisis done by what you're doing. The make sense. So again, there is nothing in the world wrong with making a profession of Faith. There is nothing wrong in the world wrong with someone who asking you. Hey, why are you going to heaven? And you say it because I gave my life to Christ.

But I would encourage you, I would exhort you, I would challenge you to think about that profession. When you tell a non-believer that you gave your life to Christ,

What are they hearing? I need to what. I need to get my life to Christ.

And the problem with that is is true, the problem with that is is that you've missed the message that Christ gave his life for Sinners Like You. YouTube Shimmer and shine. Like the focus is on what I'm doing. Instead of What rice is done?

Because God saved me and gave me a new heart. I told somebody that exact thing yesterday. Yes, innocence. And again there's nothing wrong with that, profession of faith, that is a good thing to say, But we need to make sure that we understand that. Our salvation is based on what Christ has done, not on our good works, are our good works are born at you better, believe it. That's exactly why we're studying this. But we weren't because he works. All right, or let's look at that bastard. One more time. 45 seconds. Okay, I'm watching the clock in at 12:13. Double oven. The believing one. Just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only but now much more in my absence work out your salvation with fear and trembling for it is God who is at work in you both to Will and to work for his good pleasure. And then the last batch of the Hebrews 6, 11, Hebrew, 611, tell this what. Hebrews 6 11 says, and we desire that each one of you show the same diligence till after realize the full hope of assurance. Italian. We?

Desire. That each one of you show, the same kind of diligence. Show to realize the full Assurance of what happens when we show that diligence. We are fully assured that we blowing to him and we maintained that hope until the end last person they were done. I promise, Isaiah 64 seven. Thirty seconds over. I'm sorry, Isaiah 64 7. I'm trying my hardest.

Okay, there is none who calls on your name? Who awakens himself to take. Hold of you for you have hidden your face from us and you have melted Us in the hands of our iniquities. We are so bound up in our sin. That what did Paul say? There are none righteous. No not one. There are none that seeks after God.

We're all just like Adam naked, a shame scared hiding in the bushes with the Fig leaf governess and it's God who comes to us and says Adam, where are you? And so, because he saved us, we are to work because of what he does. We are to express, what he is done in us to those around us, all right, I hope this gives you some things to think about will will pick back up and question number for next week. Father, thank you for this time. We've had together. Please go with us. Now in the service, I'll be with us as we seek to worship you in spirit and in truth as we seek to lift up your son, Jesus Christ, for all of the word, has she in Christ's name we pray. Amen.