the story of Enoch is told in just nine verses in the entire Bible those verses are found in Genesis Hebrews and Jude in fact Genesis 5 which provides for us the most information about Enoch in the entire Bible describes Enoch's life in 48 words throughout history many people have made mysterious and some of them reverent comments about Enoch and many of these perspectives perhaps have been helpful some of them have been speculative and what we do know from the Bible however is that Enoch whose name means dedicated or initiated Enoch was the seventh in line from Adam Enoch was the father of Methuselah and the great grandfather of Noah and more importantly he is the first man in the the Bible of whom it was said that he walked with God say that with me he walked with God now there is nothing about Enoch that would make us believe he was anything other than an ordinary man I I mean he was not an administrator like Moses or a Statesman like Daniel his experience is a reminder to us that the book of Hebrews 11 is not about extraordinary people who had Faith it's about ordinary people who had extraordinary faith and Enoch was just the kind of person who might live next door to you he was an ordinary person Hebrews tells us that he pleased God Genesis tells us that he walked with God and Jude tells us that he witnessed for God We Begin by Looking Back in the Bible to the fifth chapter of Genesis where the story of Enoch is recorded and here we read first of all about Enoch Walking with God Enoch lived 65 years and begot Methuselah and after he begot Methuselah Enoch walked with God 300 years and had sons and daughters so all the days of Enoch were 365 years and Enoch walked with God and he was not for God took him now the cause of his walk with God is quite interesting for it says in Genesis 5:22 after he begot Methuselah Enoch walked with God apparently he did not walk with God for the first 65 years of his life and then something happened that changed everything he had his first son something happened to him that caused him to change how many of you know children will cause you to walk with God like nothing nothing you've ever tried before and that has been the experience of many folks I've noticed as a pastor that there are two times when people are uniquely sensitive to what God wants with them the first one is when you get married oh what an awesome responsibility that is when you get married you realize I'm not just responsible for me anymore I'm responsible for me and one other person it's a very sobering thing especially for men the other time is when you have your first child after Enoch's son was born Enoch began to walk with God but there's more to it than that Enoch named his son Methuselah which means when he is dead it shall be sent that's exactly what the word means when he is dead it shall be sent when this boy's name is placed next to the information that we have about him from the book of Jude we began to see what was going on in Enoch's life here's what Jude wrote now Enoch the seventh from Adam prophesied about these men also saying behold the Lord comes with 10,000s of his Saints to execute judgment on all to convict all who are ungodly among them of their ungodly Deeds which they have committed in an ungodly way and of all the harsh things which ungodly Sinners have spoken against him apparently what happened was this when Enoch was given his first son God told Enoch to call him Methuselah and that would be a signal that when Methuselah died God would bring judgment upon the earth when he is dead it shall be sent now first of all this demonstrates the kind of environment that Enoch lived in he lived in an environment that deserved the Judgment of God the environment Before the Flood would make what's going on in our culture today seem like a Sunday school picnic it was a time of wickedness and Rebellion against God that ultimately brought the Judgment of the flood and destroyed the whole world and it shows also the grace of almighty god listen to this the man who lived the longest in the history of the world is the man Methuselah as you know he lived 969 years and the man God chose to be the bridge between his warning and his judgment was Methuselah who lived 969 years God said until Methuselah dies the Judgment won't come and then God gave Methuselah 969 years of life as if to say I want to be as gracious to you as I can be God is a god of grace and mercy and he extends his Mercy over and over again m Methuselah's life was a period of grace before the Judgment of the flood and who was the oldest man who ever lived Methuselah he lived 969 years now there's an interesting little mathematical exercise that we can do with regard to this that's quite interesting and I want to ask you to put on your thinking caps for a moment and follow me and some of it will be on the screen but some of it you'll just have to gather as we go along if we make the creation of Adam year 1 and we calculate the years that are recorded in Genesis 5 we discover that Methuselah was born in the year 687 from the creation of Adam if we add 969 to 687 the total we get is 1656 the number of the year in which Methuselah died was 1656 that includes 687 years from Adam to Methuselah 969 years of Methuselah's life now just hold that for a moment I'm sure you got all these numbers if we continue our calculation listen to this we discover that Noah was born in the year 1056 from the creation of Adam and since Noah was 600 years old when the flood came according to Genesis 7:6 it it means that the flood came in the year 1656 the exact year that Methuselah died the Bible is pretty incredible isn't it exactly as God told him God made Methuselah a Prophet by the virtue of his own name and his life that's the cause of Enoch's walk with God now notice the circumstances of his life Enoch lived in a time of great depra I know that's not a pretty word if I were to say to you uh you live in a depraved world you would say oh no Pastor we're not depraved let me tell you how early depravity starts did you know it starts real early here's a list of the depravity of man as expressed in the life of a toddler you ready for this these are their property laws if I like it it's mine if it's in my hand it's mine if I can take it from you it's mine if I had it a little while ago it's mine if it's mine you must never appear to allow it to be yours in any way if I'm doing or building something all the pieces are mine if it looks just like mine it's mine if I saw it first it's mine if you are playing with something and you put it down it automatically becomes mine if it's broken it's yours that's pretty funny isn't it except if you have toddlers it's exactly the way it is expressed in the life of children Enoch lived in a very difficult time his circumstances would make we would not believe it if we try to even compare it to the thing I've been writing books about what's going on in our culture so I'm pretty familiar with what's happening it doesn't even measure up to what's here the Bible says by faith he lived before the almighty God in a righteous and Noble way and the circumstances of his life were not used as an excuse not to walk with God let us agree today that maybe Walking with God is a challenge in our culture but our circumstances and our culture can never be allowed to be an excuse for us to just say well nobody can do it so I'm not going to do it Philippians 2 and verse 15 reminds us that children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation among whom you shine as lights in the world is our Mantra what are we we're children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation and we're to shine as lights in the world men and women we got to quit complaining about the time in which we live I hear this everywhere I go I wish I could have lived lived in the good old days whatever they were and whenever they were you're here on Earth today because God put you here and he wants you here could have put you any time any place he could have dropped you down in the Renaissance if he had wanted to but he put you here he put me here and we need to embrace our culture and say Lord God thank you for allowing me to be alive in such a time and and to help me Lord God be a Shining Light in the midst of the darkness one thing you need to recognize is one of the reasons why the word of God ESP L the New Testament is so relevant to our days is because the word of God the New Testament was written to a group of Christians who were living under the domination of the Roman Empire and under great stress and pressure and wickedness and evil and the word of God is filled with encouragement through them to us that we can be the kind of people God wants us to be no matter what's going on around us our faith does not depend on our circumstances our faith depends on Christ and that's a good lesson to take from these early experiences that we see in the life of Enoch I want to ask you to walk with me to the next step in Enoch's life and that's the choice of Enoch's walk with God it says in verse 22 after he begot Methuselah Enoch walked with God and again in verse 24 and Enoch walked with God twice in this passage we are simply told that Enoch walked with God in the crisis of his life at the birth of his son and perhaps because of a special Revelation from God Enoch determined to walk with God I don't know when it was or how it was but one day shortly after the birth of Methuselah Enoch began to recognize the need he had in his life for a closer relationship with God and one day he just made the decision he just made the choice he just said from this moment on I am going to walk with God and many have followed in his footsteps perhaps you have this whole matter of choice often gets lost in our discussion of the Christian Life we are so much of the time what we choose to be when I first started out in the ministry decisions seem to be much easier for people to make today decisions are hard because everybody wants to maintain the opportunity to keep as many options open as possible isn't that true we're a multiple choice generation and the Bible tells us we have to make a choice and here's what we learn about Enoch there was a day in his life when Enoch chose to walk with God and then notice the communion that he had with God so close was Enoch's walk with God just just imagine this now we know that the Bible says no one knows when the when Jesus is coming back except the father even Jesus doesn't know it so you understand that God is very very careful with information about what's going to happen and when it's going to happen but almighty God chose to tell Enoch that at a certain time after a certain event God was going to bring judgment to this earth he chose to share that with Enoch like Abraham Enoch was a friend of God they communicated and they had communion together now here's one that's almost off the start for me sometimes I read the Bible and I'm encouraged sometimes I'm just overwhelmed sometimes I'm just intimidated are you're intimidated by the Bible well here's one of the most intimidating things you'll ever read in the Bible it's in Genesis 5:23 so all the days of Enoch were 365 years and he walked with God for 300 years Enoch walked with God for three centuries his unbroken communion stretched out over these many years so that he could demonstrate his faith and his faithfulness his life was his walk and his walk was his life and he didn't depart from the right hand or to the left hand he just walked with God for three centuries and we wonder can we walk with God for one more week Enoch did it for three centuries go Enoch and then the second thing that we learn about Enoch apart from the fact of him walking with God was that Enoch pleased God by faith Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death and was not found because God had taken him for before he was taken he had this testimony that he pleased God uh Ron Dunn has written that the great miracle about Enoch is not that he bypassed death to get to heaven but that he pleased God that's the miracle here's a man who pleased God our goal as God's people ought to be to please God and we understand that in our human relationships don't we my great goal is to please Donna her goal is to please me we work at that we want to do that with all our hearts why would it seem so strange that the God who has created us and has provided salvation for us and meets the needs we have in our life wouldn't it be normal and natural that the god you love would be would be measured in your own heart by whether or not you were living to please him let me ask ask us all the question let me ask me this question am I doing in my life what I do to please others to please myself or do I long to please almighty God let me tell you it won't always come in Conflict but there will be times when pleasing others and pleasing God won't be on the same page the next time you're tempted to do something that seems like it's in the gray area and you don't know if you should do it or not just ask yourself this question ask God this question God I'm about to will this bring pleasure to your heart I'll tell you one thing it'll keep you out of a lot of trouble keep you on the road where you can walk with God and then in Jude verses 14 and 15 we have this whole issue of Enoch witnessing for God the Bible says that Enoch prophesied the coming judgment God used Enoch as a prophet a testifier of of things to come finally we have the most commonly known thing about Enoch and that is Enoch going to be with God we have him walking with God pleasing God witnessing for God but the thing that's quite amazing about Enoch was he just went to be with God it says in Hebrews 11:5 by faith Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death and he was not found because God had taken him he went from Walking with God on the earth to Walking with God in heaven there's a hint in verse 5 that when Enoch disappeared people went looking for him if that happened then it was a parallel to what happened when God took Elijah in a similar way through the fiery Chariot look now it says in Second Kings there are 50 strong men with your servants please let them go and search for your master lest perhaps the spirit of the Lord has taken him up cast him upon some Mountain into some Valley Valley therefore they sent 50 men and they searched for Elijah for 3 days and they couldn't find him because he didn't fall down on a mountain he went way past the mountains to be with God there was no finding Elijah and there was no finding Enoch the Bible says Enoch was walking along one day and God took him maybe he was having lunch with a friend and all of a sudden his friend looked around and Enoch was gone maybe he was with his family or his grandchildren and all of a sudden he disappeared from the living room where's Enoch he's gone he was nowhere to be found the Lord took him and of course you know where I'm going with this Enoch is the first illustration in the Bible of the Rapture just what happened to Enoch is going to happen to the people of God someday you know how I know that the Bible tells me so the Bible says in first Thessalonians this we say to you by the word of the Lord that we who are alive and M until the coming of the Lord will by no means prede those who are asleep for the Lord will descend from heaven with a shout with a voice of an archangel with the trumpet of God the dead in Christ shall rise first and we who are alive and remain watch this shall be caught up shall be taken the same concept in fact Enoch Elijah stepen the Lord Jesus all are prefiguring the Rapture of the church one of these days if you're a Christian you'll be with your friends who don't know the Lord Jesus and you will do a disappearing act from which they will never recover they will never see you again on this Earth because you will be taken and you will not be I love the phrase and he was not where is Old Enoch well he's not he's in heaven he's gone and that's the way it will be for us if we put our trust in Jesus Christ the Bible says that when you put your trust in Jesus Christ and you become a Christian that one day the Lord Jesus Christ is going to come back before the tribulation ham hammers the Earth and he's going to catch up everybody who has put their trust in him there will be an evacuation from this world like nothing that's ever happened before and the Bible says if you're not ready you will be left behind and some of you will never be able to walk with God because you haven't made your commitment to his son Jesus Christ you say what does that have to do with Walking with God it simply says in the Bible that Jesus made this statement I am the way the road the truth and the life and no one comes to the father except through me the only way you can get on the road to go to heaven is by putting your trust in Jesus Christ and many of us here in this room we've already done that but how easy it is for us in this culture to kind of move away from this whole concept of Walking with God and I want to encourage you no matter how old you are Enoch was 65 and I know we have to make concessions for how long people lived back then but my impression is that no matter how old we are or where we are in our walk with God when we come to the place when we want more than anything else to please God and to walk with God we will make the choice and God opens up his arms to us to make that choice any place along the way and social scientists are telling us that we have fewer resources to draw upon today than perhaps in any other generation in history our Western culture say some has forsaken its spiritual roots and we live in an overtly secular culture without even the pretense any longer of spiritual values many young people some that you and I know feel like their cultures no longer provide answers to the questions of meaning and Destiny we often watch the news and we hear the stories of people who are not even yet out of their teens who take their lives and we say why would anyone do that why would anyone with their whole life in front of them cut short their existence if there's anyone around them who is helping them understand the value and and the importance of life and yet for so many of them they see no hope they they see no reason for for existence and and so the hopelessness and depression takes over in their life we watch it on the news we see it in the newspaper it's evident in the ever growing internet programs and today we are living in the of a war for hope that's being waged in an age of Despair and that describes the setting of the lesson we are about to look at in Hebrews chapter 6 in a much different way but with the same intensity the Hebrews to whom the writer is addressing these words are going through a time of Despair even though they are Christians they are foundering in their faith they feel lost L as we learned last time some of them are stuck at start and they've never been able to get in gear to go forward and so they're really closer to where they've come from than where they're going they're constantly in turmoil and the turbulence of life around them because of the pressure they're feeling because of their faith and driven many of them to the very edge the writer of Hebrews is writing this letter to them to encourage them and especially esally In this passage he wants to lift up their spirits and help them understand that there's there is a way to go forward that they don't need to be stuck where they are that there's there's hope and there's encouragement and there's a promise from God and if they will get engaged with God in this journey and not try to do it on their own as often we are tempted to do they will find their way their way back to hope the writer Begins by saying some very encouraging things to them in the ninth verse he says beloved we are confident of better things concerning you yes things that accompany salvation better things than what than their inability to figure out what they're doing with their life he believes there are Christians in fact he calls them beloved beloved is found 60 times in the Bible the first nine times it refers to God's beloved Son but all the rest of the times it refers refers to Believers did you know the word beloved is not in the Bible one time in reference to those who are unsaved it's always for those who are Christians these are not professing Christians these are not almost Christians these are genuinely Born Again believers who are struggling with their maturity and so the writer says beloved we have great confidence in you that you're going to go on to better things things that pertain to Salvation and then he makes a little list of of them and that's how the chapter begins he he's persuaded first of all in this new pattern of faith that their faith will be clearly defined he says beloved we are confident of better things concerning you yes things that accompany salvation even though he has issued one of the strongest warnings in the Bible to these people in the last section that we studied he now comes back as a parent often does after they have punished a child and in encourages them to go on to better things and he says these better things begin with a clearly defined Christian Life he calls this confident of better things concerning you things pertaining to Salvation and other words he wants them to know that their life is beginning to take on shape and he wants to see it clearly defined part of that new shape in their life is a faith that is consistently demonstrated notice verse 10 for God is Not unjust to forget your work and labor of love which you have shown toward his name in that you have ministered to the Saints and you do Minister here's what he's saying he's saying I've observed you beloved I've observed you young Christians and one thing you're getting right one thing you're doing that's very evident is you really do care about each other you love one another you're showing love to one another in the Name of Christ you have a kinship a fellowship with one another that's observable how many of you know that one of the real signs that you're truly born again is you have a new Found Love for other Christians a faith that is consistently demonstrated then thirdly one that's carefully developed and we desire that each one of you verse 11 show the same diligence to the full Assurance of Hope now here's the argument of the passage the writer of Hebrews says I've noticed in you young believers that you really get into this thing of loving one another now I'd like you to take some of that same energy and put it into learning what the Bible says and growing in your faith this is not all about touchy feely religion this is about intellectual religion as well how many of you know there some people live in the touchy feely World their whole life they don't know anything much but they just they're just happy to be here you know I want to tell you something that'll work if you're not going through trouble but if you get into turbulence it's what you know that holds you strong and so the writer to the Hebrews says take some of the same diligence this same energy this same drive that you've put into ministering to one another and caring for one another's needs and redirect it some of it toward knowing what the Bible says about today and tomorrow about your future a faith that is carefully developed and then one that's consciously diligent notice verse 12 that you do not become sluggish now let me help you with the word sluggish it means lazy lazy say the word lazy now I know nobody here is lazy but it's easy to become lazy in your faith isn't it he says here that you do not become sluggish it's the same word that was used in chapter 5 when we talked about those people who were dull of hearing they had no energy in their faith they had no desire to go forward and while we are not saved by good works it is through personal discipline that we grow in our faith and sluggishness doesn't work well in the formula so he warns these readers who are struggling in their faith not to allow themselves to move into a spirit of entitlement about what they have and lose their vision for going forward faith that is consciously diligent and then here's one that's kind of a surprise faith that is critically duplicated did you know he urges these Believers to imitate those who through faith and patience inherit the promises the positive side of this promise is that they would imitate those who through faith and Patience are going now let me just break this out for us he's writing to the Hebrews and he's saying one of the things you can do to encourage your growth in Christ and to build up these things that go along with being a Christian is to look around and find some people who have figured it out and are living the Christian Life and attach yourself to them and begin to learn from them actually uses the word imitate Paul writes to the Thessalonians in 2 Thessalonians chapter 3 and verse 7 he says for you yourselves know how you ought to follow us for we are not disorderly among you in other words watch what we do 2 Thessalonians 3:9 says because we do not have authority but to make ourselves an example of how you should follow us here is Paul telling his readers if you want to know how to live the Christian Life just follow us and when it comes to people who teach you the word of God which is what I do I say this carefully and in a measured statement you have every right to expect that I live what I teach that my conduct matches up to what I tell you the scripture says now don't hold me to a perfective standard because I can't do it perfectly and I have many flaws in my life but if I stand here and preach the word of God to you and go out and live in such a way that denies what I am teaching you should get another preacher now don't get too careful with [Music] that you got to know that's the first amen I got all day so I'm going I'm going to take it and I say that with the realization that I am a flawed human being and that uh I am capable of of things that would totally undermine the ministry and I pray every day that God will keep me close to him and centered in his word because you see the Bible tells us that it's not just what we say but it's how we live that communicates the faith and so he writes to the Hebrews and he says listen I know you you're struggling but here's what you need to do find some people who are living their life in faith and they're living with endurance and attach yourselves to them and imitate them and walk with them yeah it's true that we need to keep our eyes on Jesus he's the only perfect model but the Bible says Christ is in us the hope of glory and everybody has the right to look at us as Christians and say if you're a Christian you better act like one well that's what he says in the first part of this chapter he goes to these Believers and he says listen he says beloved I am persuaded that there's a lot of great things going on in your life better things than what you've been living in your in your immaturity back here in chapters 5 and 4 I'm persuaded of better things and here the things now he's going to switch gears and help us know that this pattern of Faith which he's laid out is accompanied by a god of faithfulness he's going to help us understand that God hasn't called us to live like this in our own power he's called us to this life and he's given us a promise of his own faithfulness to us and he gives us this information by telling us a very interesting story about the man Abraham from the Old Testament he begins in verse 13 by talking about Abraham and God's relationship to Abraham and let me give you the overview before we look at each verse what he's going to do in these next verses is remind the Hebrew readers about Abraham who they knew very well he was one of their Heroes he's going to say there was a time when God came to Abraham and he made a promise to Abraham that he was going to do certain things for him and those promises were not fulfilled for a long time in fact from the moment he gave the promise to Abraham until it was ultimately fulfilled in Isaac 5 years went by Abraham was 75 when he got the promise he was 100 years old when Isaac was born and it's about what happens between the promise and the Fulfillment that's going on here it's the fact that he had a promise that God gave him a promise and what happened from the promise to the Fulfillment that's where that's where the journey is now notice the swearing of the promise in verses 13 and 14 14 for when God made a promise to Abraham because he could swear by no one greater he swore by himself saying surely blessing I will bless you and multiplying I will multiply you God has set out a plan for Israel and he's made promises to Israel and those promises were made as you know in Genesis 121:3 God said I'm going to bless you Abraham I'm going to bless those that bless you I'm going to curse those that curse you and in you all the nations of the Earth shall be blessed he promised him a land he promised him a future in Genesis chapter 22 where this passage I've just read from Hebrews finds its roots Abraham has just offered Isaac up to God as a sacrifice God as you know reached into the midst of that and rescued Isaac and then in chapter 22 of Genesis he makes another affirmation of this promise to Abraham concerning the future and I want you to understand something this morning that maybe you haven't quite understood or perhaps I haven't been as clear as I should be in teaching that God's promise to Abraham concerning his future concerning Isaac concerning the modern-day Jewish Nation God's promise to Abraham was not a conditional promise it was totally unconditional a conditional promise says if you do this I'll do this and unconditional promises says I will do this no matter what you do now when you relate this back to the book of Hebrews and you see the swearing of this promise and the significance of it and you see the sacredness of it in verses 16 and 17 where we read for men indeed swear by the greater and an oath for confirmation is for them an end of all dispute thus God determining to show more abundantly to The Heirs of Promise the immutability of his counsel confirmed it by an oath look up here's what God is saying I don't need to use an oath to speak out my truth I don't need an oath how many of you know God doesn't need to raise his hand and say I swear I mean who's he going to swear to who's above him nobody but the answer to this question is this God said I didn't need an oath but I thought maybe it would help you if I made an oath so I'm going to condescend to your human Frailty and along with my word I'm going to raise my hand and say this is true it will always be true I swear to you that I will keep my promise and then the strengthening of This Promise in verse 18 says that by two immutable things in which it is impossible for God to lie we might have strong encouragement who have fled for Refuge to lay hold of the hope that is set before us here's where this comes down to our hearts today how many of you know we have some promises from God don't we this book is filled with promises many and most of these promises are not conditioned on anything they're just God's promises for instance God said I will be with you always even until the end of the age he doesn't say and if you do this then I'm not going to be with you God says his love has been set upon us and nothing can interrupt his love God has promised to be faithful to us over and over and over in the Bible we have these promises from God just like the promise that was made to Abraham and even sometimes we don't see that promise being fulfilled in our time we don't see it on our schedule we must remember that God does not lie he has taken an oath to fulfill his word and whether you see it or not you can count on it it will happen Abraham had to wait 25 years but in due time God kept his word now when you come to the end of this chapter you see a visual and I don't know how you people are I'm kind of a visual person I like to see and when I'm getting ready to do a project or something I get somebody to come in and make a picture of it for me so I can see it when I'm going to write a new book even before I write the first word I get somebody to design the cover and I put the cover on my desk so I can look at the cover gives me hope that one day I will finish the project I I like to see things in pictures how many of you know the Bible is a book of pictures isn't it and here is a picture I will never forget I've really never saw this in this context before for but let me try to paint it for you the best I can in verses 19 and 20 we read these words this hope we have this hope what is that the promise this hope we have as an anchor of the Soul both sure and steadfast and which enters the presence behind the veil where the Forerunner has entered for us even Jesus having become high priest forever according to the order of melchisedec now you might think what is that what are those verses going to say to me but don't look away and don't go on a little mental trip right now stay with me the word hope in the New Testament is not like our word hope when I say hope I mean I say something I hope I'm going to have dinner when I get home or I hope my kids will do better in school next year or I hope I get a better job hope in our culture is is a mental attitude about something that's going to happen in the future that we don't know the outcome of but we hope it could be better than we think it might be but hope in the Bible is not like that at all hope in the Bible is not like ordinary hope in the New Testament hope there is no uncertainty whatsoever hope in the Bible is not a state of mind it is a fact upon which you can lay hold and which in turn will lay hold of you hope is what we keep in Our Minds when we Face difficulties hope is what we know to be true it is this hope that we have and the Bible says Christ is our hope and he is in us the hope of glory now with that in mind notice in these last verses our hope is likened to an anchor here we are in our turbulent lives in the sea and the storm and all the uncertainty and the Bible says if you want to maintain your stability in life make sure your anchor is connected to the Lord Jesus he's the anchor and what the writer of Hebrews wants them to understand is that when you know that for sure it enables you to stay calm in the midst of the storm do you get it you can go on in your life even while you don't know what's happening you don't understand it you can say with the old hymnwriter my anchor holds he is our anchor he is our anchor if you throw an anchor into the water and it's not where the ship is and you need to get to the Anchor You Pull the Rope and you pull yourself closer to where the anchor is here's what I want you to do help me do this let's pull on the rope that draws us closer and closer to the Anchor we have in heaven amen let's tug on that rope every day let's ask God to find a way to get even closer to him than we are now he is our anchor and he never fails I don't know what storm you're going through I don't know what turbulence you're facing in your life but I'm here to tell you today you have an anchor if you're a Christian and he is steadfast and he never changes he is going to be where he is no matter what happens down here and no matter what you do he will not change he is a faithful God and he loves you more than you can ever know foreign spee spee for foree for fore fore foree