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So let me ask you a question if you were asked to sum up the Bible in one word if someone came to you and said

What is the Bible in one word? This is a class of participation today, what would that word be?

I'm sorry Revelation God mr.

God said truth the hair truth. Yeah Redemption, that's a lot of one word, but all those are right

We are gonna look at one and if I think mr Goddard might have even looked in the bulletin and it actually says

God so God is what we're gonna be talking about today, and I hope you guys don't mind that we're gonna be talking about God But now let me ask you this

If God is the main theme of the Bible and as we talked about some of these others What would be the second most important word or one of the second most important words?

With regards to the importance of the Bible Jesus okay. You guys are all asleep today

Salvation I heard from somewhere over here Redemption I Have sovereignty

I have righteousness I have holiness all those would be great second words. I would hope you would assume right

One commentator though said of this second word that we're gonna look at and the first word one commentator said this

This glorious pivotal word upon which everything in life turns from death to life sin to salvation and hopelessness to eternal joy

So, let me rephrase this question maybe we can help you get an understanding I'm looking for Although all the words that you guys mentioned were correct.

I'm actually looking for one other word And you got to think of the word I'm thinking of right to be the right word in our postmodern society that we live in Other guesses this one word again this glorious pivotal word upon which everything in life

Turns from death to life sin to salvation hopelessness to eternal joy

Another author I'll give you a hint actually another author said these two words are quote at the heart of the gospel

Resurrection any others? grace Again, great words not the one

I'm thinking of but great words nonetheless Big word imputed righteousness.

Yeah, very very good. Very good I'm actually looking for something a little simpler than that.

Let me see if I have another author said this these two words And I'll give you a hint if you looked at what the title of the passages or the title of what

I'm preaching on today It's ellipsis God So I'm looking for something God and it says that this encompasses the heart of the gospel message

Let me give you a couple more hints because we do on all day long looking for this one word, right? What if I said to someone

I'm trying to see who I can pick on here. I'm looking for Okay, I won't pick anyone pick on myself someone comes up to me and says hey

Scott I really like your tie comma, but It's a little outdated, right?

I would really like to go to the evening service tonight, but I'm busy doing other things right too tired.

I thought the world was all about me. I But it's not right these are just different hints

The email said that I won a million dollars But I needed to send some money first, right

So what's the word we're looking at here? What's the second word I'm looking for the word but the word but so we have but God right, but God so today we're going to be talking about but God We got a lot of verses to look at here and we're going to be going through the text looking at but God Listen to what these words said from an author here said

These two words, but God These words are among the greatest in the Bible God could have allowed us to go into sin and live eternally

With the devil in hell, but instead he chose to save us. He gave us life.

He quickened us He raised us from the grave from sin. He took us out of the graveyard

More than that. He made us members of Christ We have to be quickened together raised together and we sit together in the heavenlies

God did this because he is rich in mercy and great in love

Mercy means that God does not give me what I deserve Grace means that he gives me what

I do not deserve and That's what the whole message around but God is if you've ever studied it

It's actually a great study these two small words as we go through this passage today really displays

God's grace his mercy and his love for his creation and mankind

In the ESV translation alone, but God the actual physical but God is used 47 instances

Both in the Old and New Testament. What's kind of interesting is it's distributed fairly equally among those two 24 times it's used in the

Old Testament in the ESV and 23 times. It's used in the New Testament This morning.

We're gonna look at a few of these not all 47, of course But we'll look at some of these we'll see how far we get it may end up being a two -part

But we'll go through and we'll take a look at these So, what does the word but mean What do you do if you want to know what a word means?

What do your parents always tell you when you say what does that word mean? Look it up. Yeah, I always hated that because I didn't know how to spell in the first place

And you had to go look it up, but that's a side note in of itself. So the word but means this The word but is a conjunction for those of you who are into your grammar, which is used to introduce a phrase or a clause

Oftentimes contrasting with what has come before or what is expected

And that actually comes from the Oxford English Dictionary the 11th edition. So it's a conjunction So now you say great

I know what it is, what's a conjunction Right. You may be asking yourself

Never thought you'd have an English grammar lesson here in most time. It'd be Hebrew or Greek in most cases but so we're talking about a conjunction now is what it is and The dictionary defines it this way a conjunction is any member of a small class of words distinguished in many languages by their function as Connectors between words phrases clauses or sentences and as but because and however

Some of you may be wondering now How can

I remember this word but and that it's a conjunction and what's a conjunction? Well, if you're my age or older Most of you may remember a song

That I'm not gonna sing for you but if you picture a train a conductor and Cars of this train with words, right?

It goes something like this Conjunction junction. What's your function?

hooking up words and phrases and clauses conjunction junction How is that function?

I got three favorite cars. He says that get most of my job done

Conjunction junction. What is their function? I got and but and or They'll get you pretty far and it's an additive it is an additive like this or that but that's sort of the opposite so we're talking about the contraction contracting nature of the word but Not this but that they talk about there's or nor and a couple others that they go through so if you're familiar with that, but is just a conjunction, so By definition and I wanted to get some of that out of the way because today what we're gonna do is we're gonna reveal

How God through the words but God? How he saves his people we'll be looking at scripture verses or where God specifically saves people

How he provides salvation for his people and how he actually applies salvation

It's not of us. It's not of anybody. It's his application of salvation in our lives so be looking at those three aspects through these multiple verses will have and We're done.

I pray that you would have a better understanding of this great God that we serve and how merciful loving and gracious He truly is

So There's a large number of but God verses that we talked about 47 in the in the ESB I believe there's 44 in the in the

NESB But we're gonna look at some of them this morning and to see how this fits into man's

Redemptive or God's plan for man in redemption So the first thing we look at is well, how does

God save how do we see in the Bible God saving people in general?

we're not talking about salvation from a From a Religious perspective.

We're talking about physical saving of people, right? So how does God do that? So we're gonna look at a few verses that God talks or shows that he saves and these are all again but God types of verses

Who wants to read for me? I'm looking we're gonna start we're gonna do this in chronological order so some things may be out of out of order from a

We're doing a biblical chronological order in essence from a timing perspective, but we're looking in Genesis 3

Genesis 3 most of you know this story, but Genesis 3 Verses 2 through 4 who'd like to read

Genesis 3 2 through 4 Bruce nice and loud for everyone if you would please Genesis 3 verses 2 through 4

Excellent those who have the John MacArthur study Bible. He should have a note in there. It says There's no reason given for this prohibition that God had given other than that it would have would have been a test for Mankind here and there was nothing magical about the tree but eating from it

Eating from it after it had been forbidden by God Would indeed give man the knowledge of evil since evil can be defined as disobeying

God Man already had the knowledge of good is what John MacArthur states here

So he talks about thou shall not eat The word that the words thou shall not eat is actually in the strongest

Hebrew form of prohibition They knew it was a severe. No.

No as some kids would be told They knew it

They knew how serious it was and yet God here. We have this this but God and Who can tell me what is the contrast?

What are we seeing here in the beginning of verse 3 of Genesis 3? What's being contrasted?

What's this but God? Yeah They could eat anything, right?

They could eat anything they wanted but of this tree of good and evil right knowledge of good and evil

God gave them everything and yet he just said this is one prohibition and God set it up.

So we're not going to argue with that But how do we see God acting here in these verses with relation to his creation, how do we see

God saving his people Bruce Yeah, yeah, it's purely protection

It's God showing protection for his people and he wants he knows what's good, right?

We sometimes will think we know what's good apart from what God tells us yet God knows better than we do.

So here God is just giving them the prohibition and wanting to save them and What is promised if they eat this fruit?

What's God saving them from? I mean, this is key. What's God saving them from?

What if they eat What Death right.

So God is saving them from death not only possible physical death But also spiritual death separation sin everything else that we talked about here

It's critical and here is that but God right so we have but God acting in this same way

Let's move on to another verse Who wants to read for me Genesis 8 Genesis 8 1 through 5?

Genesis 8 1 through 5 We'll all know this story pretty much. It's a story of Noah Right story of Noah Genesis 8 1 through 5

Excellent. All right, Genesis 8 1 through 5 again One of the stories that most of us as we're kids even can remember but the story of Noah, right?

God's plan here and saving Noah and his family right the power God had in saving that we've got the but God statement right here in verse 1 and we've got this but God is actually is contrasting the destruction brought by the

Lord and the deliverance of Noah and the Ark's occupants That we see will be

Will be assured right? So that's where this contrast is It's the evils of man the disobedient and those that were righteous

We have Noah who was him and his family that were brought on board What other parts of creation do we see in this text saved we're not talking again spiritual salvation

But what other things do we see saved here? We have known his family. I'm sorry

Animals right beasts livestock and so forth. We have animals that are actually saved at this point, too

So God's actually granted even animals to to live and we can enjoy them

It's hard to imagine that if God had only saved man and there'd be no animals no McDonald's hamburgers, no chicken nuggets

Whatever, right, but it would be very hard to imagine what? What life would be like if God had only saved man in the

Ark right be a very different world that we lived in So a quote here from one of the authors says

Where the reader is here is reminded but God remembered Noah here in verse 1 in Scripture when something is said about God remembering so they remember but God remembered.

No, it's not that he forgot him This signals a major act of redemption from the ones remembered

God's remembering of Noah explicitly begins his major design for bringing about worldwide

Redemption the record of that design stretches from Genesis 8 through Genesis 50 so we actually see this plan of redemption that continues through Genesis and We continue to see

God's blessing and again his the saving of his people could he have just destroyed everybody and not saved anybody

Yes, right, but no God planned but for God acting Mankind was saved, right?

All right, Genesis 45 let's go Genesis 45 7 through 8 who wants to read that for me

Genesis 45 7 through 8 Dan Genesis 45 7 through 8

Excellent. Thank you. Who are we talking about? Joseph right Joseph and his brothers who earlier had sold him into slavery

He became a high ruler within Egypt and so forth So, how do we see God acting and showing his saving power here in these verses this but God?

Joseph specifically says but God But God he is right It is not you who sent me here

But God so, how do we what do we see here? How do we see

God's saving power in this verse? The preservation of life right continued preservation of life and what's even more interesting?

I don't know if I have any of my notes or further down so I may repeat myself But what's even more interesting is we don't only have the

Israelites saved here The Jewish nation is let's say being saved here

But we also have the Egyptians and even many other people groups that were saved because of the Egyptians plan of saving food that came from Joseph as he was working through with these people

So it was not his brothers who sold him here. It says but God who sent him. It's unlikely that Joseph saw

In exactly in this light 22 years earlier So he was sold into slavery as a boy 22 years prior to this event and now as his brothers approach him he can look back on his life and say

Again, you meant it for evil, but God meant it for good, right? So here we also see

God's sovereignty with both the individuals and with governments as a whole God was controlling all of Egypt as Evil as Egypt was and as we see later, you know the struggles through the

Exodus and everything else God even preserved Egypt during this time So we see his sovereignty in all areas

There's a quote here it says Instead we're talking about again

Joseph Instead he shares with his brothers a beautiful interpretation of what has happened to him

He affirms that it was to save lives that God sent him ahead

So being sold into slavery and quite possibly to save lives that may refer to human lives

Excuse me and as much to Egyptian lives Not only are Jacob's relatives spared because of Joseph, but so are the

Egyptians as a people But God right but God but a saving

God what what a God we worship Genesis 48 Genesis 48 verse 21 who wants to read

Genesis 48 verse 21 right Excellent.

So again a very similar text here. Joseph is actually still talking and saying that You know, but God will be with you.

This is a time when Jacob is actually being blessed by Israel and We've got this but God will be with you and will bring you again to the land of your fathers

So, what is this land that they speak of what is this land that he is saying God will bring them into through his saving power

The promised land right the promised land. This is Canaan this is the promised land that God is saying we will or I will lead you in there and Jacob is being told

Israel is saying this to Joseph saying you will be blessed

There is a land God will you know, it doesn't happen immediately, but God still will be with you

So we do see a great man of faith who believed that even when he was dead God would still fulfill his promises to the

Jews So he was dying on his deathbed and he said God is promising this land.

He promised it earlier and We will see it come to fruition maybe not in his time as he knew

More but God Genesis 50 getting close to the end of Genesis. Actually, we're only in the first book of the

Bible Genesis 50 19 through 20 Genesis 50 19 through 20 who wants to read?

Excellent. So here again, we've got the second instance right where Joseph is saying to his brothers in essence

What you meant for? Excuse me what you meant for evil God actually meant for good

And we have one author saying here We've seen in these verses the common grace which God lavishes upon all peoples whether his children or not here again, we have to see that it's not only the

Jews or the Hebrews, but the Egyptians that are even that Egyptians and even other people groups are saved physically due to God's gracious work in Joseph's life

So we've got this again this saving God, it's an amazing thing and It's even more amazing when we know that the book of Exodus right as we approach next

We've got the book of Exodus where this group of people Again, because God saved them through the famine is actually controlling and enslaving the

Jews. It's pretty amazing Did it take God off, you know off -guard does God not know what was going to happen by saving the the

The Egyptians and the answer that is no God is sovereign over all things So we come to the close of the book of Genesis as we've looked through these and the interaction between God We have one more here in the book of Genesis and it's

Genesis 5024 5024 just a few verses down from where we were.

I would like to read 5024 5024 yes

Thank you, so this message the Again, this is the third time we kind of see this interaction between Joseph and his brothers and this but God statement

But this message is really more focused towards the Jews and the promise that's sworn by God to their forefathers

This is very focused on the Jewish nation and how God's promises will continue throughout history

So from the start of chapter 3 of Genesis to the end of chapter 50 We see an amazing work of the hand of God in protecting not only his people but mankind in general

We have this great saving God, right who wants to save people, right? So many people say why would

God send so many people to hell and yet we've got this God who? Wants to save as we see just through these pages in Genesis, right?

So, let's see where else he's worked his hand of mighty but gods Let's turn into the book of Exodus the next book in the

Bible Exodus 13 Exodus 13 17 through 19 17 through 19

Exodus 13 17 through 19 Who would like to read that?

17 through 19 Mr. Gutter Excellent.

Thank you. Mr. Gutter So what do we have here? We have a but God what what do we see contrast in here?

What did God do or how did he act? Come on?

I don't want to just give it away all the time. I Did the study what do we see?

What did the people want to do? What did they want to do? No, not that they wanted to go back.

Which way did they want to go? You want to go the easy way, right? Straight way.

They wanted to go the easy way, but God what it but God do here Do what?

Detour. Yeah, great big detour just like if you had a garment, right? It says road closed detour right

God led them another direction. Why would God do that? Why wouldn't God just go go from point A to point B? It's so easy

Why would God have led them around in a whole nother direction Yeah, they would have actually seen the battles the fights that would be happening

They got the Philistines to go in between but God wanted to actually save them and actually show them

What kind of a God he is right? Where does he ideally lead him? Where does he lead him when they're coming out of Egypt?

We all know the story I'm sorry Wilderness, but what happens before the wilderness?

They got the Red Sea right He actually pins them in between the mountains and the Red Sea over here and they got the armies coming and what can they do?

They can't fight Right, they could they would have been slaughtered. They had to trust

God. It was all about God again It was but God God wanted to show his glory.

God wanted to show his power and his might to his people Instead of taking him the easy way.

How many times do we want to go the easy way? I Like the easy way, right? I Don't like going the hard way, but God But God right verse 18 led the people around by the way of the wilderness towards the

Red Sea It was God who let it wasn't that they just packed up You know like we see in the movie where they all just went right to the

Red Sea It was that God led them to the Red Sea. That was the way to go One commentator said of this.

I like the word that you used actually he says But God led the people a circuit

Made them like a circuitous route to Canaan a circuitous route circuitous just like a computer circuits, right

So I looked up circuitous because I'd never heard the word Longer than the most direct way circuitous

Longer than the most direct way now when I think of circuits I always think of you know most direct in some ways But this is

God led them longer than the most direct way when he plugged it in the Garmin, right? It didn't just go a to B.

It actually did the roundabout in essence, so it's indirect So there were two ways out of Egypt as we saw here to Canaan to the promised land

One was the shortcut from the north of Egypt To the south of Canaan perhaps about a four or five day journey is what it stated

Four or five day journey, and the other was a much further about through the wilderness and That was the way which

God chose to lead his people so they could have gone four or five days or for their sin They could have wandered in the desert for 40 years right

So of course they wanted to choose the four or five days So what's the contrast we see here?

What's this, but God contrast that we see here again remember the word, but conjunction junction What's your function it is the contrasting that we see what is this contrast?

What is this, but God? Yes Yeah, yeah,

I mean they went the easy route right I mean this is the big issue people always talk about and I'll take a side note here Not in my notes same thing with people who are very wealthy

They don't have to usually depend on God for a lot of things right. It's the poor people It's the broken person

It's the people who don't have various needs that have to fully trust in God and yet Here we have the

Israelites that were put in a perfect position that they had to trust fully in God And it shows his again his greatness his mercy his glory and his willingness to want to save One commentator said this there are many reasons why

God led them through the way of the wilderness of the Red Sea The Egyptians were to be drowned no other way

There was no other water the other direction if they went north The scripture where they were drowned in the

Red Sea would not have occurred the Israelites were to be humbled and Proven in the wilderness as we see in Deuteronomy 8 2 and God had given to Moses God had given it to Moses for a sign

Moses wanted to be it was the sign similar to what he was showing to Pharaoh It was a sign where Moses was to obey

God again. It was to show his obedience, but God So we need to remember that his ways are not our ways oftentimes and we may not always go the easy way

We may go this circuitous route if that be the case if it's God plant God's plan for our lives

All right. Let's look at another one. Let's go a little bit further first Samuel for Samuel 23 for Samuel 23, this will definitely be a two -part but First Samuel 23 and I have to say the second parts even better Because there's a lot of but gods in the

New Testament where we talk about redemption The cross the resurrection and other areas that I would love to get to today, but we don't have the time

First Samuel 23 13 through 14 first Samuel 23 13 through 14 who would like to read that for me?

Yes But God right but God the last part of the verse that was read here

Verse 14, but God did not give him into the into his hands What's our contrast?

Where do we see God saving? What's the protection? I'm sorry

Yeah, God protected David from Saul right God kept Saul or kept

David safe Why was that important? Why would God protect

David he was what he was to be king right agree with that.

What else was important about David? King Sorry Messianic line.

Yeah, it was critical that God it wasn't that God again had to work all this out to make it happen But it was all in God's plan from the beginning of time to the end of time that David Would be part of the king and the messianic line of Jesus Christ himself, right?

so God protected David as Saul sought to kill him many times as we see in the in the text in first and second

Samuel John MacArthur study Bible says this God did not deliver him is

God's sovereignty protecting David from Saul for the fulfilling of his own divine purposes we don't even have to know what it is, but God had a divine purpose as to why

David was to be protected from Saul and Again comes down to the messianic line

One commentator said this about the text It's important that David that David live for it was he who would deliver

Israel Establish the kingdom of glory and become the father of Christ in the flesh from Romans 1 3

Satan used Saul to seek to kill David, but God was too strong that we're not saying that again

There's this battle between good and evil and one is stronger than the other it's but the commentator says but God was too strong for the enemy as Long as David sought the mind of the

Lord God gave him protection and victory Right, but God but God Excellent.

I Hope you guys are getting something here, right? We're talking about this saving God again This is all physical saving in most cases, but this is our great

God that we worship here today All right, Psalm 49. Most of you guys will know this

Psalm Psalm 49 13 through 15 Psalm 49 13 through 15

Anyone anyone want to read? No one wants to read

Yes, sir Psalm 49 13 through 15 That's fine

Excellent. So this Psalm Psalm 49 is actually if you look at the top here your psalm it prices fear in times of trouble or something

To that extent right? We've got pouring out of the heart here. But how do we see

God's saving power in this Psalm? What do we have this but God does he leave us in Sheol does he cast us away to Sheol For his people he redeems us.

Yeah, he actually receives us, right? It's not if we receive him It's not whether we receive God.

It's God receives us, right? It's him. It's sovereign his control And what does this scripture say here?

What is this text that we just read? What does it say that people apart from God are appointed for death?

Yeah death pointed for death But God right all are dying but God One commentator said this

Here's the solution of the dark saying The key to the parable the souls of the righteous will be redeemed not by themselves but by God they will be delivered from the power of the grave or Rather to Hades and while the ungodly are held under by death and the grave

They will be released and enter upon a higher life, but God So what's what's it say?

It's saving. What is God saving his people from? Death, right?

We talked about eternal death death here. It even is the power of hell and Hades right hell

Hades and death Another commentator said this as for the righteous God will redeem them from the grave

I Again the terminology contrasts with the ruin of the wicked and includes in germ form the hope of the resurrection

So it's this hope of the resurrection we see so we see the contrast here between the hope of the believer

And that of the non -believer You can either choose I mean It's not a choice

But there is hell and and damnation for the unbeliever and yet God here but God ransoms the soul from the power of Sheol and Receives them.

He's a receiving loving saving God. Okay, I think we get one more in here psalm 73 psalm 73 20 through 26 psalm 73 20 through 26

Who would like to read that one? Anybody?

Yes Mr. Bertrand 20 psalm 73 23 through 26.

Yes. Excellent. Thank you What's the contrast Between God and the man here in the writing the psalm.

What's the contrast? Yes. Yes It's all about God giving strength to those that are essentially hopeless, right?

I think the the top of the verse Is God's strength and protection forever, right?

This is what one commentator states this this is all about and Here we have another comment here.

It says this it says the psalmist wondered how the wicked Could flaunt

God's ways and thrive He wondered if the piety he had he had been

Doing was for nothing But he came to understand that God sustained him not his own will

And that grace would lead him to eternal joy That's exactly what it's all about.

It's all about look How can the wicked flourish here on earth and I'm trying to be righteous here on earth?

And again, it's I want to state he's essentially saying I'm trying to be righteous, right? But then he realizes that it's not by his power.

It's by God's power alone that he can deal with what's happening here on this earth and Know what is going to come?

Another commentator said this of Psalm 73 It's a frank confession by the writer of his being jealous of bad people who are prospering but in this case of the wicked therein explains the futility of their lives

They often prosper when alive but death ends their prosperity on the other hand

Even when the righteous people suffer here on earth for troubles and trials and tribulations There is their life is full of God's goodness, but God what a contrast but God and How long do we see

God's strength here for the believer for the believers heart in his portion? How long is that? What's it say in our text?

forever eternity eternal and I think

I think I'm out of time, so I'm gonna have to pray but If we get a second time to go through this just to let you guys know

I'm on page 9 of 19 of my notes and You know, we get into Stephen and and him his discussion about God and Then after that we get into how

God provides a means of salvation This was really just focusing on how God saves his people And how we see the remnant continue throughout history as we have the historic perspective now of the

Old Testament But when we get into God providing a means of salvation, it's great.

We talked about the incarnation again. We talked about Some of the best part is

Near the near the back here where when we talk about God's application of salvation how

God applies Salvation to his people will get into things like election perseverance and Salvation itself

God actually created salvation itself for for mankind Any questions before I pray

About but God If you've never done a study on it, it's actually a great study it may seem a little dry at times

I apologize But it really just shows that there's so much that we can see in the in the scripture

That God acts a part or opposite from how man would normally act and it is his power

It shows his otherness and yet it shows his closeness is wanting to protect his own people

And it's it's it's a great great study, so if there's no questions As Andrew said that's always a scary part.

That's when you start sweating right? Oh, there's a question. Yeah, it depends on the translation

How it's taken I? Did not get into the specific study between that and and and looked at it.

I can't answer your question right now. I I'll look at it.

I like it. That's one of the hard questions right that Just didn't come up when I was going through I Know but sometimes is difficult from the

Greek as they talked about and even from the Hebrew sometimes how the how the word is translated Itself and it oftentimes is again based on context whether it's showing a contrast or not and it may be that the are the translators didn't see as much of a contrast, so they just made it a

Continuation and and but I I don't know to answer that Perfectly, that's kind of what I would think that it would be based on so Because but I think there were three or four words that are but in Hebrew and Greek and it depends on how they're leveraged

Any other questions all right? Yeah, yes, yeah,

NIV actually has more but gods Than the ESV or the NESB.

I think there were 54 Instead of 47 and then again NESB had

I think was 44 if I remember right But gods I specifically took it from the

ESV only because that's most of what we're now using here at the church But there are plenty of but gods throughout and I started looking initially

I had over 18 ,000 references, I think to but God But he right because you can get into the he's you can get into implied

But gods you can get into all sorts of other areas, and it's it's fascinating to see what

God does And how again how he works in in his creation so other questions All right,

I won't give you time. Let's pray Lord we want to thank you we want to praise you for this time that we've now had to just kind of look into this

Study briefly Lord as we saw the first part of the three part Of how you work in salvation and Lord we thank you for the things that we have seen but for you

You we would not have a plan of salvation through Genesis as we saw but for you we would not have been saved in the days of Noah, but for you we would not have a

Savior whose line was from the Davidic line But for you

Lord We would be dead in our sins and trespasses and but for you The cross would not be necessary Death would not be necessary.

The resurrection would not be necessary and Lord, although we just looked through the physical side of things today

Lord, I would pray that those here today would want to desire to study more about you and how you work and how you act and Lord how often we could be thankful to say but God Because apart from you

Lord, we know what we would do ourselves We know the direction we would be faced or the things we would be doing and what we would face eternally separate from you

But God we love you. We praise you and we thank you now for this time that we've had and we ask that you would continue to give us