398: Dennis Bevens – All That God Commanded Him

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This week we’re listening to a
class given by brother Dennis

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Bevins from his series on Noah
entitled All That God Commanded

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Him, given at the 2022
Mid-Atlantic Christadelphian

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Bible School.
The account of Noah, and more

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specifically the flood, is such
a one where it gets more

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relatable and more sobering as
the day draws near to our Lord’s

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return.
To see the exponential

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wickedness and complete
replacement of the Creator is

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exactly what we were warned the
last days would look like, and

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it makes the decision to repent
and get in the ark all the more

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real as we see the flood coming.
This specific class has a good

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reminder pertaining to that.
Brother Dennis emphasizes that

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Noah was perfectly obedient in
the constructing of the ark,

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even to the type of wood that
was used.

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It reminds us that there is in
fact a difference between faith

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and presumption.
Presumption is doing whatever

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you think is right any way you
want to do it and believing that

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God will support it no matter
what.

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Faith is doing what Noah did and
saying this is a tough thing you

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ask of me, God, and I know it’s
not going to be pleasant.

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In fact, very often it’s not.
But I trust that you know best

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and I will do what you ask even
when we don’t see eye to eye.

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It should be mentioned real
quickly that all of these

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video of the speaker and the

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slides on the Mid-Atlantic Coast
Christadelphian YouTube channel

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and there will be a link in the
description for those with that.

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Here is brother Dennis Bevins.
All that God commanded him.

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I get to open with a confession.
I mean, Jason started this so

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it’s his fault, but I have a
much more recent infraction to

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confess.
Yesterday I said we would.

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Solve the math dilemma by the
end of the day.

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And those of you that were
waiting for some magical

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information to happen during the
day, sorry if that would if this

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was a study weekend, you would
have got it by the end of the

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day, but it’s not, which means
you get it the next day.

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So we’re going to open with the
math solution.

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So those of you that have really
had trouble since I said that,

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I’m hoping to earn the relief
right now.

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We’ll pick up where we left off,
and we left off with Noah

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finding grace in the eyes of the
Lord.

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We see he was given a warning of
120 years, what was going to

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happen, and that he had three
kids mentioned by name at age

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500.
So that’s the little math

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lesson.
We’re going to talk about right

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now, verse 10, Noah begat three
sons, Shem, Hem, and Japheth.

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So let’s add a few details to
this.

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Shem his name means name or
renown.

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We we saw that in verse 4.
So Shem, the name hem means.

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Hot or desert and Japheth is
open or expanded.

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Chapter 10 verse 21 tells us he
was the oldest of the three.

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So the oldest of these three is
Japheth, and that Chapter 11,

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verse 10 tells us Shem was two
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98 when the flood happened.
So our note from chapter 5,

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verse 32, because he’s 500 years
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So let’s put some math to work
in Chapter 7, verse 6, which

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we’ll talk about more tomorrow.
He’s 600 years old when the

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flood happens, so we’ll talk
more about that tomorrow.

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But today we’re going to focus
on the math.

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How many years of warning?
120?

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What is 600 -, 100 and 24180?
How old were was the oldest of

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the three children when they got
on the Ark?

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100.
So Japheth is 100.

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Shem is 98, Hem is somewhere
thereafter.

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So they’ve got 120 years of
warning, which means 20 years

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after they were told by God
we’re going to destroy this

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planet.
They looked at each other with

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loving eyes and said, honey, the
world’s a mess.

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The ecclesia is gone.
God’s going to wipe it all

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clean.
Let’s.

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Make some children, shall we?
Now I want you to put that in

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perspective.
This is the last days, and the

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thought of raising children in a
violent, godless place was what

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was happening in their life.
This is a very dramatic detail

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in the story we’re going to look
at.

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So we’re going to have some fun,
but there’s a very serious

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undertone at the beginning of
this class, and that is if they

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had children after they were
told that, and she’s not noted

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as Baron, is it possible they
had other children before the

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three that went on the ark?
I will argue it’s not only

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possible, it is likely.
Now, have you ever wondered why

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Missus Noah’s not mentioned in
this story?

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Ever wondered why is she not
mentioned?

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She deserves to be mentioned.
Well, the root of that goes back

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to Genesis chapter 5.
In Genesis chapter 5, the 1st 2

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verses of the book of death,
because this one ends with and

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he died and he died and he died
and he died so.

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Everybody in here dies the book
of the generation of Adam, which

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makes sense as in Adam all men
die.

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So we’ve got a good warm up.
The day that God created man in

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the likeness of God made he him
male and female created he them,

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He blessed them and called their
name Adam in the day they were

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created.
The first genealogy in Scripture

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makes this point for us, and
we’re going to carry it

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throughout the rest of the
Bible.

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In the naming of the husband, we
have the naming of the union, as

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these two have become one
calling their name.

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Adam tells us when we read about
Noah, it is not Noah the loan

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shark.
It’s Noah and his wife embedded

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together in the story.
We’re going to talk more about

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their story and how it relates
to genealogies at the end of

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this class when we get to
Matthew 1.

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So we’ll hold that thought for a
minute.

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But this faithful couple who’d
been married for a few 100.

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Years decided to have children
when they had no doubt that God

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was going to destroy the planet
they were having these children

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on.
Now, how many people were saved

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on the Ark 8, the oldest of
which would have been 100?

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Well, let’s look at how.
Long it took people to have

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children in Genesis chapter 5,
Adam’s 130, before we have the

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name, before we have Seth.
We know we had other children

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before then, Cain and Abel at
least, but these guys all got

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married.
Girls had to be somewhere.

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So we know they had other
children.

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But the one mentioned in the
genealogy was it 130.

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Then we have Seth, who’s 105
when he has Enos, who at 90 has

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Canaan 70, Mahalil 65, Jared
162.

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So he’s the one that was a slow
starter, Enoch at 65.

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Now we’re going the right way
again, Methuselah 187, who’s

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trying to top Jared.
And then we have Lamech, who’s

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182.
So let’s put that in

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perspective.
They all had sons and daughters.

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In fact, we know Seth had at
least two other older brothers.

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So if Noah’s 500, that makes him
almost three times as long as it

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took Lamech or Methuselah to
have the named child in the

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genealogy, and almost 8 times as
long as it took Enoch

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translation.
Noah and Missus Noah likely had

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other children, possibly
grandchildren, great

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grandchildren, great great
grandchildren for sure.

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They had aunts, uncles,
brothers, sisters, lots of

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cousins.
So when we talk about them

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saving their family in the
darkness of the world, this is

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where it gets very somber for
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Not only do they know what it
takes.

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To rescue their children from
the world.

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But they intimately know what
it’s like to lose them to the

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world.
If you have ever felt alone,

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when you look at your children
and your grandchildren, think,

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how could the world suck this
precious life away from me and

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take it away from the Father?
And we long for them to see the

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things of God and come back as a
parent should.

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And we feel alone in that
aspect.

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And we don’t have to go any
farther than Noah and Missus

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Noah to know it is absolutely
understood how you feel because

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you are not alone.
It’s been this way for thousands

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of years.
Imagine hearing the taunts of

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their own children, friends,
family, neighbors.

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While preaching repentance and
then for a moment imagine their

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cries for help as they drown in
the waters of judgement.

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It becomes a very different
topic when we look at we don’t

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tell our children this in the
Sunday school songs, which is

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probably a good thing, but from
an adult perspective, what they

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were asked to do the hard.
Part was not building a boat,

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the hard part was walking away
from the family that had no

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interest in the things of God.
We are not alone in our

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struggle.
The scripture is loaded with

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examples to show us that others
have gone through what we are

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that we can be related to in
scripture and there are a lot of

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them that are quite easy to see,
but I would argue none may be

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as.
Profound as this one now our

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topic by its very tone takes on
a somber tone itself, just by

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its nature.
But there is a a good piece to

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this too.
The struggle before the glory or

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a New Testament turns the cross
before the crown.

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So we get to see the glory,
which is where we want to focus.

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But before that glory there is
tragedy.

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OK, so chapter 6, verse 11, the
earth was corrupt before God and

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was filled with violence.
So again, this is the world we

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want to have live in, we want to
have children in.

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It’s corrupt, it’s violent,
there’s zero ecclesia.

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Let’s make some children.
I love that thought.

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So the word corrupt is the same
word that’s going to be

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translated destroy in verse 13
and verse 17 in this chapter.

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So the earth now has been
destroyed before God.

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This means in Hebrew spoil or
ruin.

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So really, literally, the earth
is spoiled now.

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This is not soil contamination.
This is the flesh running wild

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as the planet and its
inhabitants have chosen to

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follow.
The less of the flesh, the less

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of the eyes and the pride of
life rather than the way of God.

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It’s an immoral population that
God has inspected and judged.

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This is not an environmental
study.

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God looked upon the earth.
Behold, it was corrupt and all

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flesh had corrupted his way upon
the earth.

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And there is the point, his way
going God’s way.

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Here is the path that leads to
life.

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And we’re told Noah walked God’s
way.

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But then they’ve chosen their
own way, a way that was better,

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a way that might have matched
what they would term as modern

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sensibility.
It it fit in better with the

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thinking of the age, but it was
not God’s direct path and

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therefore it LED to death.
Surrender and control are very

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difficult things for human
nature, and this is not just for

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us.
Our Lord Jesus struggled with

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this too.
In his prayer in Gethsemane.

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He was praying that God give him
the strength to endure.

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Something he didn’t want to go
through.

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Father.
If there’s any, I’ll paraphrase.

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If there’s any other way to make
this happen, I’d like that route

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because I know what this one is,
shameful, painful.

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But if there’s no other way,
I’ll do it your way.

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Even Jesus had that struggle.
So for us to not recognize it’s

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a problem for us, we have to be
careful because we want to have

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control.
We want to control the dictate

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the terms of our life.
That is not how our God works.

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He’s given us an opportunity to
be part of His glory, but His

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glory is going to happen with or
without all of us.

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Doing things God’s way gives us
an access to that glory.

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Surrendering what we think is
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right is hard for our nature.
It’s so much easier to convince

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ourselves we’re right and God’s
on our side.

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You probably don’t have any
trouble doing that.

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I don’t.
We got to hit the pause.

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Button and say wait a minute, is
this Dennis’s way?

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Or is this God’s way?
Well, they had corrupted their

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way and this goes back to
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He drove out the man placed in
the east of the Garden of Eden

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Caribbean, and a flaming sword
turned every way to keep the way

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to the tree of life.
Access was denied when they

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followed the flesh.
Access invited, if they followed

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God’s way.
This comes up again in

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Revelation verse 11, Chapter 11,
verse 18.

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The nations were angry.
Thy wrath has come, the time of

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the dead, that they should be
judged.

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That’s nice that thou should US
give reward into thy servants,

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the prophets, and to the Saints
and them that fear the name.

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Thy name small and great, And
should US destroy them that

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destroy the earth, and we
compare it to our day, What’s

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destroying the earth now?
It’s not pollutants.

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It’s not.
Was it light pollution?

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Food.
It’s not water pollution.

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It’s not trash.
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today is the human beings on it
that have lost an interest in

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doing things God’s way.
They’ve left God out as the

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missing ingredient and as a
result have corrupted the land.

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Now this verse is popularly used
to talk about.

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Taking care of the planet in an
environmental manner.

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And it’s totally out of context.
I’m not saying it’s a bad thing

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to save the planet.
Recycle stuff.

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That’s not bad.
I’m not saying it’s a bad thing.

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That is not what the Bible is
saying.

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Oh, sorry, I looked thirsty.
I have a little one here though,

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though.
I love you, honey.

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Thank you.
I can’t not do it.

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She brought it to me.
All right, So not bad idea to

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take care of the planet.
Fine, I’m nothing, nothing wrong

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with that.
But the most dangerous

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environmental contaminant on the
earth today is a population

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pleasing itself.
Now bringing it to our day,

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let’s add a few things like
let’s give them isolation and

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let’s only funnel news that
matches what they think because

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that’s what your phone does.
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You notice that all the stuff
you get on your phone is got

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already got a filter, so you’re
only getting information that

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matches what you would like to
see.

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So you’re isolated in your own
thinking, supporting your own

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thinking, and you’re wondering
whose path am I on?

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The path of my thinking or the
path of God’s thinking?

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Because if we’re not
intentionally trying to override

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that, we are following the
thinking of our own flesh and

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getting all the support we need
to do it.

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Every news article, every
advertisement.

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You ever noticed that?
It’s not really a mystery to

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most of you.
Maybe I’m slow, but you’re on

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your phone.
You might be looking something

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up.
Maybe you’re shopping for shoes,

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I don’t know.
But then, amazingly, you get a

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random e-mail from somebody that
talks about a shoe sale, and

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then you start checking a sports
score and by the way, there’s a

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shoe.
Sale going.

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Does that happen to everybody?
It’s not magic, it’s by design.

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The world is trying to penetrate
your thoughts, to steer you the

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direction of self pleasure.
And it’s going to work.

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It works more than we wish it
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The only way to avoid it is to
recognize it and to combat it.

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Now let’s keep that in mind as
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In verse 13, God says to Noah
the end of all flesh has come,

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for the earth is filled with
violence bit through them and.

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Behold, I will destroy them with
the earth.

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And this is an important piece
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There’s always a focus on the
remnant.

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There is always, always, always
a note of mercy in the tragedy

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of God’s judgement.
He displayed patience in

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allowing the oldest person that
had ever lived to die a month

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before the flood.
So that’s Noah’s grandfather,

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Methuselah.
And Noah’s father, Lamech, who

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died five years earlier.
They died of natural causes

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before the flood.
Began so the preservation of the

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grandfather and the father, so
he didn’t have to witness the

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loss of their life in the flood.
Or perhaps there’d be a few more

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rooms in it to preserve them.
Our God has thought this out.

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There’s more math if you want it
in Genesis chapter 5, but the

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time has come.
The warning of God had been

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ignored.
The message of Noah’s preaching

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had been endured long enough.
Verse 37 and now here and we

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recall Jesus warning us to put
it to our day.

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Now we looked at this verse
already, but I want to focus on

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the last one.
So eating, drinking, marrying,

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giving and mirrors, we tied that
nicely to today and the day of

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Noah.
But it says they knew not until

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the flood came and took them all
away.

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So shall the coming the Son of
Man be.

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And so we’ve made the
connection.

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But the part I want to focus on
is that they knew not.

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That is the intimate knowledge
word in Greek.

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It’s not that they’d never heard
the message before.

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Oh, they’d casually heard it,
probably to ad nauseam.

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Oh, yeah, I know the flood’s
coming.

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The waters are falling from the
sky.

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OK, here comes Noah.
We’re going to hear more about

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the water.
I’m saying it’s not that they

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didn’t hear the message if they
had disregarded it.

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They didn’t intimately
understand what God was trying

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to do to get them to change for
their own good because they were

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not interested in God’s order
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And therefore had no need for
salvation.

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They were too busy satisfying
themselves by eating, drinking

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and marrying to be distracted by
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And that’s what Jesus says.
Watch out, because that’s what

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it’s going to be like when I
come back.

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And so we look today and can we
see that in the world, in the

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meeting, in our families?
And when we see that note of

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tragedy, there’s a reminder to.
Us that there is hope in that,

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that the redemption of the
remnants is drawing not.

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So he says make an ark of Gopher
wood rooms, Thou shalt make of

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the ark, pitch it within and
without, with pitch.

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And this is an interesting
detail.

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Why are we told what kind of
wood to use and to use pitch on

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the inside and outside?
I mean, God didn’t say we got to

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rescue somebody on this planet.
Let’s pick the guy who knows how

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to build a boat.
That’s not what happened.

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He was picked because he was
following God’s path.

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But he’s a guy who lives in a
desert.

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This is not a Yacht Club that
he’s raised in.

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He lives in a region where
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But this is not like, hey, let’s
go on a leisure cruise together.

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They’re not boat builders by
trade.

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So Moses, Noah is told, here’s
how you do it.

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Now, the good news is everything
that God told Noah he did, well,

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good thing.
What if he decided to know I’m

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not?
Interested in this Gopher wood

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stuff.
Maybe I’ll use balsa.

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Probably a bad idea so it’s good
that God said Noah this is what

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you need to do is OK, we’ll do
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The only other use of this in
Hebrew is actually.

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Exodus chapter 2, where we’re
talking about Moses.

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So the word was on my page.
It didn’t just come out of

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nowhere.
Talking about Moses and his ark.

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So the connection between the
salvation of Israel and the

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salvation of the family of Noah
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And then we have the use of
wood, which of course now is

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being used to save the family, a
type of salvation which we can

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connect right to the cross of
Jesus, which we will when we get

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to chapter 8.
The word rooms in the Hebrew

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really means nests.
So it was intended to be comfort

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to the animals by God.
So he’s been given direction.

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On how to take.
Care of the animals.

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Now we just looked at this in
the last class so I I won’t read

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it again, but just note there
are abundant ties to the Lord

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Jesus as we start looking at
the.

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Ark.
And the calling of the animals

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to the ark, and the preparations
of the ark, the ark itself, the

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water around the the ark, you’re
going to go on and on to see.

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Even some of the animals called
out by name are direct

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references to the work of our
Lord.

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And by the time we get to
Chapter 8, hopefully I will have

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that statement proved.
So they’re told to put a

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covering, which is what the word
pitch really is, completely

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within and without, which ties
us directly to immersion in

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baptism with waters all around,
a protective covering on the

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wood.
So the covering of.

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Sin requires the shedding of
blood, so we’ve got the covering

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that’s been provided by God in
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The symbolism of what’s being
brought to this family is

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astounding.
Now this is the fashion which

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you will make it.
The length of it shall be 100

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cubits, the breadth of it 50
cubits, the height of it 30

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cubits.
So we’ve got specific detail,

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wood type, nest pitch
dimensions.

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They’re following the
instructions of God, which is an

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exhortation to us.
If we are constantly reading and

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studying the word of God, we get
the opportunity to get what He

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wants us to do.
Do we then take what He wants us

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to do and try to make our life
match it?

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Because the natural inclination
of all of us is to take what we

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read in His Word and try to see
if we can make our life fit it.

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There’s a difference trying to
justify what I want to do with

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the support of Scripture versus
letting God tell me what I

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should do and changing my life
as necessary to make that so.

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So the approximate dimensions
then Well it gives us since we

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like feet here 450 feet, 75 feet
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So that’s.
Approximate dimensions using

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about 18 inches for a cubit.
This is a more modern ish

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version of that if you will.
Basically, you’re looking at a

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giant wooden box about the size
of a football field if you add

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the track.
Around it, maybe the first row

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or so of the stands.
So put in your mind this picture

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giant wooden box about the size
of a high school football field

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in the desert.
He wouldn’t have looked crazy at

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all, I’m sure.
No, it’s funny because there was

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a phrase said about this ship
that should have been haunting

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to anyone who walked on it.
Remember what that phrase was?

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Yeah, unsinkable.
In fact, the actual quote is

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even God himself couldn’t sink
this ship.

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Boy, you asked for it.
You almost said.

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All right, God, let’s see what
you got.

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That’s a bad decision.
As we know, but so.

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Explain that one.
How do the best engineers that

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humans on the planet have to
offer with 4000 years of boat

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building experience come up with
something that can’t make it

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pass?
A chunk of ice and God and a

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couple people in a desert with
some wood can make something

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that saves the earth.
It’s not about us, it’s about

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our God.
Our God’s in control.

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The ark would never have worked
if it was up to Noah and his

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family to figure out how and
what but to follow the plan of

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God.
That we can do.

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And if we follow the plan of
God, we can be saved.

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The message rings true to today.
Now he’s told, Put a window in

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the Ark, a cubit, and in a cubit
thou shalt finish it above the

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door of the Ark.
Thou shalt set on the side,

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lower, second, third stories.
Thou shalt make it.

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The RSV says it this way.
Make a roof for the ark and

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finish it to a cubit above so
the word window is a different.

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One than we’ll see in chapter 8,
verse six in a couple days.

434
00:25:59,600 –> 00:26:02,800
This particular word is used 24
times in the Old Testament.

435
00:26:02,800 –> 00:26:05,560
I told you before, I get excited
about things divisible by 7:00

436
00:26:05,560 –> 00:26:09,840
and 12:00. 24 times in the Old
Testament, this is the only one

437
00:26:09,840 –> 00:26:13,760
translated window.
The other 23 are all translated

438
00:26:13,760 –> 00:26:17,120
noon or noonday.
So what we have here is not what

439
00:26:17,120 –> 00:26:20,280
you and I would call a window,
but what we have is an opening

440
00:26:20,320 –> 00:26:22,840
across the upper layer of the
arc for ventilation.

441
00:26:23,120 –> 00:26:27,520
That makes sense.
You have a floating zoo.

442
00:26:29,200 –> 00:26:31,960
Think about this for a minute.
Animals don’t always smell

443
00:26:31,960 –> 00:26:34,760
great, let alone when they’ve
been hanging out together for a

444
00:26:34,760 –> 00:26:37,920
year or so and he’s providing
food and you know what happens

445
00:26:37,920 –> 00:26:40,680
after they eat?
So God thought of everything.

446
00:26:41,200 –> 00:26:46,400
He had a plan and he had
orchestrated it to the T Now as

447
00:26:46,400 –> 00:26:51,440
we look at this, we get to see
the example of God knowing where

448
00:26:51,440 –> 00:26:53,720
this is going and us trusting
our God.

449
00:26:54,000 –> 00:26:58,120
And we’re going to talk about
that in detail later.

450
00:26:58,560 –> 00:27:01,960
I want to touch it right now.
This is one artist’s rendition.

451
00:27:01,960 –> 00:27:04,960
The reason I like it is because
it’s the shape of a box, not the

452
00:27:04,960 –> 00:27:08,680
Pretty Little, you know, boat
with like 7 animals on the top

453
00:27:08,840 –> 00:27:10,240
which would not quite work and
the.

454
00:27:10,360 –> 00:27:13,360
We see the giraffe and we wave.
It’s not the one that’s going to

455
00:27:13,360 –> 00:27:17,280
fit a giant floating box of
three stories and roof on a

456
00:27:17,280 –> 00:27:19,120
window line on top for
ventilation.

457
00:27:19,280 –> 00:27:22,840
Is effectively what we have.
But here’s the part that’s just

458
00:27:22,880 –> 00:27:26,960
remarkable to me.
He’s told to build a door.

459
00:27:27,920 –> 00:27:31,800
There’s only one way in.
There’s only one way in, and

460
00:27:31,800 –> 00:27:34,640
that way is God’s way.
You make a hole in the side of

461
00:27:34,640 –> 00:27:36,440
this giant boat that I’m going
to make float.

462
00:27:37,960 –> 00:27:41,520
I’ll take care of the rest.
I want you to notice for just

463
00:27:41,520 –> 00:27:44,800
one second, there’s no education
here for him to build a pulley

464
00:27:44,800 –> 00:27:47,560
system to close this door.
And I want you to for a moment

465
00:27:47,560 –> 00:27:51,360
think when the rain starts
coming, God’s going to close

466
00:27:51,360 –> 00:27:54,720
this door.
There’s a faith that God will

467
00:27:55,680 –> 00:27:58,560
because that faith that God will
close the door.

468
00:27:58,560 –> 00:28:00,840
If he doesn’t, then that boat is
just becomes your grave.

469
00:28:01,640 –> 00:28:05,840
But there’s also a mercy,
because if God’s closing the

470
00:28:05,840 –> 00:28:08,440
door.
You’re not the one doing it.

471
00:28:09,640 –> 00:28:11,960
For those that might be running,
going wait, we should have paid

472
00:28:11,960 –> 00:28:14,000
more attention before.
Now I’m not.

473
00:28:14,000 –> 00:28:16,520
Trying to suggest that Noah and
his family lived in the suburbs

474
00:28:16,520 –> 00:28:20,640
and there were 800 homes around
them, but the odds of them

475
00:28:20,640 –> 00:28:23,640
having family in close proximity
are quite.

476
00:28:23,640 –> 00:28:28,480
High, Let’s look at John 14 so
we can tie Jesus to the door as

477
00:28:28,480 –> 00:28:31,360
well.
I am the way, the truth and the

478
00:28:31,360 –> 00:28:33,920
life.
No man cometh to the Father, but

479
00:28:33,920 –> 00:28:37,800
by me.
Two specific instructions let

480
00:28:37,800 –> 00:28:40,440
light in.
And there’s only one door.

481
00:28:41,240 –> 00:28:42,760
And that lesson lies to us
today.

482
00:28:42,760 –> 00:28:44,440
So let’s keep going back to
Genesis.

483
00:28:44,960 –> 00:28:47,640
Behold, I even I do bring a
flood of waters upon the earth

484
00:28:47,640 –> 00:28:50,240
to destroy all flesh, wherein
there is breath of life from

485
00:28:50,240 –> 00:28:53,160
under the heaven, and everything
that in the earth shall die.

486
00:28:53,360 –> 00:28:56,680
So water from the sky is what
he’s being told is going to

487
00:28:56,680 –> 00:28:58,400
happen.
And you and I go, hey, it’s

488
00:28:58,400 –> 00:29:01,280
supposed to rain today, but is
anybody here really?

489
00:29:01,280 –> 00:29:02,800
Nervous that we’re all going to
die today.

490
00:29:04,240 –> 00:29:06,720
I mean, it might mess up the
afternoon plans, I recognize

491
00:29:06,720 –> 00:29:08,440
that.
But at the end of the day, we’re

492
00:29:08,440 –> 00:29:09,480
not in peril.
We’re.

493
00:29:10,120 –> 00:29:13,240
Water’s coming.
We don’t have that fear because

494
00:29:13,240 –> 00:29:17,120
water from the sky is normal to
us, but it was not normal to

495
00:29:17,120 –> 00:29:19,280
them.
Not yet.

496
00:29:19,840 –> 00:29:24,960
Rain was new, and that changes
the dimension to the story.

497
00:29:24,960 –> 00:29:30,280
Go back to Genesis chapter 2.
In Genesis chapter 2 we have

498
00:29:32,960 –> 00:29:35,600
every plant of the field.
Verse 5 before it was in the

499
00:29:35,640 –> 00:29:38,600
earth, every herb in the field.
Before it grew, the Lord God had

500
00:29:38,600 –> 00:29:41,680
not caused it to rain upon the
earth, and there was not a man

501
00:29:41,680 –> 00:29:44,320
to till the ground, but there
went out a midst from the earth,

502
00:29:44,960 –> 00:29:46,920
and the and watered the whole
face of the ground.

503
00:29:47,240 –> 00:29:50,080
Does anyone read that and think
that’s God’s way of telling us a

504
00:29:50,080 –> 00:29:53,200
weather report on some unknown
day in the Genesis creation

505
00:29:53,200 –> 00:29:55,080
account?
The.

506
00:29:55,080 –> 00:29:59,800
Reason that verse is there is to
add emphasis to the story of

507
00:29:59,800 –> 00:30:05,000
Noah at this point.
The ground was being taken care

508
00:30:05,000 –> 00:30:07,360
of by a midst provided by our
Heavenly Father.

509
00:30:08,040 –> 00:30:11,280
It was not being taken care of
by water falling from the sky.

510
00:30:11,560 –> 00:30:16,720
The first actual occurrence of
rain on the planet is actually

511
00:30:16,720 –> 00:30:19,600
the story of the flood, and that
changes this dynamic a lot.

512
00:30:19,720 –> 00:30:23,160
See, that’s why when the rainbow
is given as a token, it’s so

513
00:30:23,160 –> 00:30:25,520
when it rains again, you’re
like, we didn’t know what to do.

514
00:30:25,520 –> 00:30:26,920
We didn’t have another boat
ready.

515
00:30:27,280 –> 00:30:29,520
No, it’s going to be normal
after this.

516
00:30:29,840 –> 00:30:32,280
And suddenly, if you start
thinking about just going with

517
00:30:32,280 –> 00:30:33,520
the scientist.
For a minute.

518
00:30:33,520 –> 00:30:37,640
Here, the age of everybody gets
a lot smaller too, doesn’t it?

519
00:30:38,640 –> 00:30:41,880
Oh, you mean the cloud cover is
coming and going and not a

520
00:30:41,880 –> 00:30:44,480
constant protection of the
radiation from the sun?

521
00:30:44,600 –> 00:30:45,840
That couldn’t have anything to
do with it?

522
00:30:45,840 –> 00:30:49,400
I’m sure it’s coincidence, but
the point here is that now we’re

523
00:30:49,400 –> 00:30:51,560
being told water is going to
come from the sky.

524
00:30:51,560 –> 00:30:53,920
And when it does, you’ve got to
be ready.

525
00:30:54,120 –> 00:30:57,280
And in fact, if you want to
reinforce that Hebrews 11 verse

526
00:30:57,280 –> 00:30:59,360
7, which we’ve already looked at
half a dozen times, don’t worry,

527
00:30:59,360 –> 00:31:02,560
we’ll do it 5 or 6 more.
It says he’s warned of God, of

528
00:31:02,560 –> 00:31:10,560
something not seen as yet.
He is about to be told this is

529
00:31:10,560 –> 00:31:15,120
new, Get ready.
So to put this in perspective, I

530
00:31:15,120 –> 00:31:19,920
want you and I to just a moment
think of what would happen if an

531
00:31:19,920 –> 00:31:22,040
Angel came and talked to you
tonight.

532
00:31:22,520 –> 00:31:24,440
I’m not suggesting this Will.
I just want you to imagine it

533
00:31:24,440 –> 00:31:29,360
and play along and said, OK, you
guys are hanging out in

534
00:31:29,360 –> 00:31:33,360
Pennsylvania.
There’s a giant volcano you’re

535
00:31:33,360 –> 00:31:36,000
not aware of.
It’s about a mile outside of

536
00:31:36,000 –> 00:31:39,040
Shippensburg.
What we’d like you to do.

537
00:31:40,040 –> 00:31:43,960
Is build a giant bomb shelter
concrete and steel.

538
00:31:44,880 –> 00:31:46,640
We’ll give you a couple weeks to
do it because there’s more than

539
00:31:46,640 –> 00:31:50,400
8 of you and.
You need to tell everyone why

540
00:31:50,400 –> 00:31:52,720
you’re building it so that you
can be preserved, because when

541
00:31:52,720 –> 00:31:55,720
the lava flows, it’s going to
kill everything that’s not in

542
00:31:55,720 –> 00:31:57,600
your bomb shelter.
I’ll give you the directions.

543
00:31:57,600 –> 00:31:58,920
I’m not going to set you up for
failure.

544
00:31:59,840 –> 00:32:02,000
And then, by the way, just
explain to everybody why you’re

545
00:32:02,000 –> 00:32:05,000
doing this.
Would you not look and feel

546
00:32:05,000 –> 00:32:07,920
crazy?
You.

547
00:32:07,920 –> 00:32:09,520
If you wouldn’t, then you’re
much better than me.

548
00:32:09,600 –> 00:32:11,480
I’d feel like a nut and you
would look like 1.

549
00:32:11,480 –> 00:32:13,280
By the way, even if you didn’t
feel it, you’d look nuts.

550
00:32:13,440 –> 00:32:16,120
Hey, the volcano in Pennsylvania
is going to erupt.

551
00:32:17,520 –> 00:32:19,080
Oh yeah, we’re all nervous now,
aren’t we?

552
00:32:19,520 –> 00:32:21,640
We need, we need to go.
Let’s move the Bible school.

553
00:32:21,640 –> 00:32:23,400
No, we’re not worried.
We’re not afraid.

554
00:32:23,800 –> 00:32:26,400
But that would be new.
And if you were told something

555
00:32:26,400 –> 00:32:28,440
that was new and you had
exclusive information and

556
00:32:28,440 –> 00:32:30,760
everybody else didn’t know, they
would just think you were.

557
00:32:30,760 –> 00:32:33,400
Crazy.
And now you can understand how

558
00:32:33,400 –> 00:32:36,320
Noah and Misses Noah would have
felt when they said, well, we

559
00:32:36,320 –> 00:32:37,640
need a couple extra ship
builders.

560
00:32:37,640 –> 00:32:40,200
We can’t can’t get anybody else
on this planet to help us.

561
00:32:40,520 –> 00:32:46,680
Let’s make a few Behold, I even
I do bring a flood of waters to

562
00:32:46,680 –> 00:32:50,200
destroy all flesh, wherein there
is the breath of life from under

563
00:32:50,200 –> 00:32:52,640
the heaven, and everything that
is in the earth shall die so

564
00:32:52,640 –> 00:32:54,040
the.
Special note at the end of this

565
00:32:54,040 –> 00:32:57,480
verse, everything that is in the
earth shall die is letting us

566
00:32:57,480 –> 00:32:59,520
know the fish are excluded from
this.

567
00:32:59,640 –> 00:33:00,840
And that’s where we have to be
careful.

568
00:33:00,840 –> 00:33:02,800
Let the Bible tell us what it’s
saying.

569
00:33:02,920 –> 00:33:06,280
Let’s not try to pin God into a
corner so small that we can

570
00:33:06,280 –> 00:33:08,640
explain it.
So He’s given us the detail.

571
00:33:08,640 –> 00:33:12,040
The focus is not the animals.
So the fish, they’re going to be

572
00:33:12,040 –> 00:33:13,760
fine.
Their little apartment’s going

573
00:33:13,760 –> 00:33:18,400
to turn into a mansion.
Lots more water to work with.

574
00:33:19,200 –> 00:33:23,720
So it’s an interesting thought
that the only time this word in

575
00:33:23,720 –> 00:33:25,720
the Hebrew translated flood is
used.

576
00:33:25,720 –> 00:33:30,920
Outside of Genesis 6 through 11
is actually Psalm 29 verse 10.

577
00:33:31,760 –> 00:33:34,560
The Lord sitteth upon the flood.
Yeah, the Lord Sitteth King.

578
00:33:34,560 –> 00:33:37,400
Forever the Lord will give
strength unto His people, and

579
00:33:37,400 –> 00:33:39,280
the Lord will bless His people
with peace.

580
00:33:40,160 –> 00:33:44,120
So the blessing of peace comes
to those that choose God’s way.

581
00:33:44,560 –> 00:33:48,200
It’s a grand and direct contrast
to the way of the flesh and the

582
00:33:48,200 –> 00:33:50,680
turmoil and destruction that
comes when we choose our own

583
00:33:50,680 –> 00:33:54,000
way.
With thee I will establish my

584
00:33:54,000 –> 00:33:55,840
covenant.
Thou shalt come into the ark,

585
00:33:55,840 –> 00:33:58,160
thou and thy sons, and thy wife
and thy sons wives with thee.

586
00:33:58,160 –> 00:33:59,560
So the.
First time the word covenant is

587
00:33:59,560 –> 00:34:03,760
used is right here.
Remember numbers 14 and 21?

588
00:34:03,760 –> 00:34:05,520
God’s purpose is to fill the
earth with His glory.

589
00:34:05,520 –> 00:34:09,440
This is the reset button He is
hitting right now, but his goal

590
00:34:09,440 –> 00:34:11,920
did not change.
He is still going to fill the

591
00:34:11,920 –> 00:34:15,280
earth of His glory, and he’s
invited this small ecclesia to

592
00:34:15,280 –> 00:34:18,840
be a part of the rebuild effort.
There’ll be more numerology in

593
00:34:18,840 –> 00:34:21,040
the next class, maybe so much
that you won’t want to hear it

594
00:34:21,040 –> 00:34:22,960
by the end of the next class,
but we’re going to hold the

595
00:34:22,960 –> 00:34:25,000
number 7, which, by the way, the
next, the next.

596
00:34:25,000 –> 00:34:28,040
Class Genesis Chapter 7 is
called Sevens, so brace

597
00:34:28,040 –> 00:34:31,960
yourself.
Just like Christ, Noah had to

598
00:34:31,960 –> 00:34:34,480
save himself in order to save
others.

599
00:34:35,239 –> 00:34:39,920
Jesus had to lay down his life
to give you and I hope if he had

600
00:34:39,920 –> 00:34:42,920
decided at Gethsemane, I’m out.
That’s not for me.

601
00:34:43,000 –> 00:34:46,080
He could not be the.
Offering for our sin, so he had

602
00:34:46,080 –> 00:34:48,199
to save.
Himself before he could save

603
00:34:48,199 –> 00:34:49,800
others.
There’s a representative example

604
00:34:49,800 –> 00:34:51,440
for this.
How many of you came in on an

605
00:34:51,440 –> 00:34:55,000
airplane to get to this school?
So there’s a few of us.

606
00:34:55,080 –> 00:34:57,280
And you remember the
announcement that says, you

607
00:34:57,280 –> 00:35:00,240
know, if you’re travelling with
children and the masks fall

608
00:35:00,240 –> 00:35:04,160
down, put the mask on yourself
before you put it on your child.

609
00:35:04,640 –> 00:35:07,160
And if you’re traveling with two
children, pick the one you like

610
00:35:07,160 –> 00:35:09,680
the most.
You remember that one OK.

611
00:35:09,800 –> 00:35:15,040
So the the point is, if our
natural inclination is no air, I

612
00:35:15,040 –> 00:35:17,720
need to get air to my kid.
But if you have no air, you

613
00:35:17,720 –> 00:35:20,400
can’t help your kid get your
air.

614
00:35:20,680 –> 00:35:23,560
Help your kid get their air.
That’s a better plan than they

615
00:35:23,560 –> 00:35:25,080
get air and then they watch you
suffocate.

616
00:35:25,120 –> 00:35:29,800
So it makes sense.
So the concept, save yourself

617
00:35:30,360 –> 00:35:32,360
before you save others.
That’s not selfish.

618
00:35:33,040 –> 00:35:34,760
That’s the same concet of
ecclesial life.

619
00:35:34,760 –> 00:35:38,000
If all I’m trying to do is fix
you and take no regard for

620
00:35:38,000 –> 00:35:42,000
fixing me, I’m not helping you.
I’m not helping anyone.

621
00:35:42,560 –> 00:35:47,160
But if I can focus on fixing my
life and then help hopefully be

622
00:35:47,160 –> 00:35:49,840
an example in your life.
Now we’re working together and

623
00:35:49,840 –> 00:35:53,080
that’s the ecclesial family.
So a focus has to 1st put in

624
00:35:53,080 –> 00:35:55,160
order the things of God in my
life and then.

625
00:35:55,160 –> 00:35:58,840
Export it the key ingredients
for all of us to save our family

626
00:35:58,840 –> 00:36:01,480
in The Dark World.
Is to personally dedicate our

627
00:36:01,480 –> 00:36:06,400
lives to the service of and
surrender to our Almighty Father

628
00:36:06,680 –> 00:36:09,840
in such a way that our even our
closest contacts see.

629
00:36:10,320 –> 00:36:14,000
Us as a blessing, and we think
of this word murmuring.

630
00:36:14,880 –> 00:36:17,640
Murmuring is something that’s
very easy for human beings to

631
00:36:17,640 –> 00:36:18,960
do.
We’re all designed with it.

632
00:36:18,960 –> 00:36:22,080
In fact, in the wilderness,
ecclesia, in the wilderness,

633
00:36:22,080 –> 00:36:25,200
there are two words used
interchangeably to describe

634
00:36:26,000 –> 00:36:27,840
murmuring.
In fact, it’s all translated.

635
00:36:27,840 –> 00:36:29,040
Murmuring.
But there are two different

636
00:36:29,040 –> 00:36:30,840
words.
One of them, well, that means

637
00:36:30,840 –> 00:36:32,280
murmuring or complaining.
That’s easy.

638
00:36:33,040 –> 00:36:36,720
The other one.
Up all night.

639
00:36:39,080 –> 00:36:41,920
So the ecclesia was up all night
complaining about who?

640
00:36:42,560 –> 00:36:46,280
God and his provisions.
The ecclesial leadership, the

641
00:36:46,280 –> 00:36:48,560
lack of provisions.
Let.

642
00:36:49,520 –> 00:36:50,600
Me think about this for a
second.

643
00:36:50,600 –> 00:36:53,520
It’s not really going the way it
used to be better my way.

644
00:36:53,520 –> 00:36:56,280
We used to have a better option.
And I’m sure none of that has

645
00:36:56,360 –> 00:36:58,200
ever happened at your dinner
table, has it?

646
00:36:58,280 –> 00:37:01,120
If we ever had a conversation
around the dinner table and we

647
00:37:01,120 –> 00:37:04,520
start talking about what brother
or sister so and so said or did

648
00:37:05,240 –> 00:37:08,920
or you know what the the person
in the ecclesia who said

649
00:37:08,920 –> 00:37:10,560
something that hurt your
feelings or did something and

650
00:37:10,560 –> 00:37:14,400
you can’t believe it.
Now, if you’re going to have

651
00:37:14,400 –> 00:37:16,960
these conversations at home in
front of your children, is it a

652
00:37:16,960 –> 00:37:18,320
surprise?
Our children grow up and go.

653
00:37:18,320 –> 00:37:19,840
I don’t know that I really want
to be a part of that mess.

654
00:37:19,840 –> 00:37:23,440
They don’t even like each other.
That’s the lesson of the

655
00:37:23,440 –> 00:37:28,080
ecclesia in the wilderness.
So here who knows the mistakes

656
00:37:28,080 –> 00:37:30,120
that Noah and misses Noah made
with their.

657
00:37:30,120 –> 00:37:34,000
Other possible children, but not
with these.

658
00:37:34,400 –> 00:37:36,880
They had an opportunity to focus
on getting it right.

659
00:37:38,880 –> 00:37:40,680
It’s kind of sombre when you
think of it that way, doesn’t

660
00:37:40,680 –> 00:37:43,520
it?
Of every living thing, of all

661
00:37:43,520 –> 00:37:46,360
flesh, 2 Of every sort thou
shalt bring into the ark, and

662
00:37:46,360 –> 00:37:49,840
keep them alive with thee they
shall be male and female.

663
00:37:49,840 –> 00:37:52,280
And I love this picture because
you got more than two sheep.

664
00:37:52,320 –> 00:37:56,880
At the bottom.
Verse 20 of fowls after their

665
00:37:56,880 –> 00:37:59,720
kind, cattle after their kind,
creeping thing after their kind.

666
00:37:59,720 –> 00:38:01,240
Every source will come and keep
them alive.

667
00:38:01,560 –> 00:38:07,000
This is an important detail.
Noah is to receive, not collect.

668
00:38:08,000 –> 00:38:11,160
See, it’s not up to you or I to
decide who deserves to be called

669
00:38:11,160 –> 00:38:14,600
out of the waters.
Our God does the calling.

670
00:38:15,320 –> 00:38:18,760
But we have to be ready and
prepared to receive.

671
00:38:18,760 –> 00:38:22,320
Them through the one light in
God’s door.

672
00:38:23,360 –> 00:38:27,200
That’s the message, God.
Isn’t sending Noah to go out.

673
00:38:27,200 –> 00:38:29,680
Hey, I’ve got a checklist of
species you need to find.

674
00:38:29,680 –> 00:38:31,040
Some of these you probably never
even see.

675
00:38:31,600 –> 00:38:33,160
Don’t worry about that.
You get it ready.

676
00:38:34,160 –> 00:38:36,880
I’ll do the harvest.
I will glean.

677
00:38:36,880 –> 00:38:39,920
From the population, of course,
we can’t help but see the

678
00:38:39,920 –> 00:38:43,240
calling of the Gentiles out of
the sea of darkness to be drawn

679
00:38:43,240 –> 00:38:45,040
to the saving wood in the
covering of God.

680
00:38:46,400 –> 00:38:47,960
Notice there’s no mention of sea
life.

681
00:38:47,960 –> 00:38:51,480
We have the cattle creeping
things, but there’s no aquarium

682
00:38:51,480 –> 00:38:52,760
on the ark.
It’s unnecessary.

683
00:38:52,760 –> 00:38:55,720
God’s got that covered.
This is actually another

684
00:38:55,720 –> 00:38:58,800
reference to John.
John 6 verse 44.

685
00:38:58,800 –> 00:39:03,520
No man can come to me except the
Father which hath sent me.

686
00:39:03,520 –> 00:39:07,480
Draw him and I will raise him up
in the last day.

687
00:39:07,600 –> 00:39:09,920
Direct reference to the work of
the of Noah in the flood.

688
00:39:10,880 –> 00:39:12,800
You mean lift him up off the
earth?

689
00:39:12,800 –> 00:39:15,040
Sounds kind of like what happens
in the next chapter when they

690
00:39:15,040 –> 00:39:18,400
are elevated by water and
preserved to convert the world

691
00:39:18,400 –> 00:39:20,000
to righteousness.
I I’m sure that’s all

692
00:39:20,000 –> 00:39:22,480
coincidental.
Verse 21.

693
00:39:24,360 –> 00:39:27,760
And take thou unto thee, all the
food that is eaten, thou shalt

694
00:39:27,760 –> 00:39:29,760
gather it to thee.
It shall be food for thee and

695
00:39:29,760 –> 00:39:31,840
for them.
So now he’s told to go prepare.

696
00:39:31,920 –> 00:39:34,960
Not just for your meal, for the
next, you know, year or so.

697
00:39:35,760 –> 00:39:37,320
We got some animals we’re going
to have to take care of.

698
00:39:37,320 –> 00:39:39,800
God brings the animals.
Noah gets the food.

699
00:39:39,800 –> 00:39:42,560
Is that not a nice picture of
Jesus feeding the nations

700
00:39:42,560 –> 00:39:45,800
brought to him by God?
The two miracles of the feeding

701
00:39:46,040 –> 00:39:49,160
4005 thousand.
Oh, it’s amazing how all these

702
00:39:49,160 –> 00:39:52,920
things come together, The early
parts of Genesis impacting so

703
00:39:52,920 –> 00:39:56,080
much of the work of our Lord.
Now here’s some food for

704
00:39:56,080 –> 00:39:59,720
thought, pun intended.
Either all of the animals are

705
00:39:59,720 –> 00:40:03,080
going to be vegetarian.
Temporarily, like an identic

706
00:40:03,080 –> 00:40:05,960
state, because I I’m having
trouble picturing, you know, the

707
00:40:05,960 –> 00:40:07,520
lion and the lamb hanging out
together.

708
00:40:08,640 –> 00:40:10,520
Not at least that.
Unless of course God is in

709
00:40:10,520 –> 00:40:13,560
control and has made them all
happy vegetarians, which that

710
00:40:13,680 –> 00:40:18,200
phrase sounds strange to me.
Or all the carnivores are just

711
00:40:18,200 –> 00:40:20,840
going to hibernate for a while,
which is also possible.

712
00:40:21,080 –> 00:40:23,840
And here’s the point.
We’re not told how God did it,

713
00:40:24,600 –> 00:40:28,120
We’re just told that He did.
Now I gave you two options that

714
00:40:28,120 –> 00:40:30,520
would work.
Could there be more?

715
00:40:31,080 –> 00:40:32,840
There probably is.
There’s probably one I’ve never

716
00:40:32,840 –> 00:40:33,880
even thought of.
God’s a Dennis.

717
00:40:33,880 –> 00:40:35,120
Don’t worry about this, I got
it.

718
00:40:36,000 –> 00:40:39,000
See, without God in control,
this is impossible.

719
00:40:40,000 –> 00:40:42,120
But with God in.
Control nothing’s impossible.

720
00:40:42,440 –> 00:40:46,720
The critical point was the
object lesson that when we turn

721
00:40:46,720 –> 00:40:51,800
over our life to God and trust
His wisdom, we stop leaning on

722
00:40:51,800 –> 00:40:54,240
our own thinking.
Like so many other things in

723
00:40:54,240 –> 00:40:57,240
life, we need to focus on what
the Bible says and not try to

724
00:40:57,240 –> 00:40:58,800
fill in the space with what it
does not.

725
00:40:58,920 –> 00:41:01,400
So since you guys like
controversial things, here’s a

726
00:41:01,400 –> 00:41:04,080
good one.
It is perfectly fine to have an

727
00:41:04,080 –> 00:41:05,200
opinion.
Just don’t be.

728
00:41:05,320 –> 00:41:08,280
Just don’t be so bold as to
think your opinion is the only

729
00:41:08,280 –> 00:41:11,280
one reasonable that fits with a
thus say at the Lord.

730
00:41:11,280 –> 00:41:13,360
If you have a thus say at the
Lord, use it.

731
00:41:13,440 –> 00:41:15,080
Your opinion doesn’t matter.
Neither does mine.

732
00:41:15,080 –> 00:41:17,720
God’s opinion wins.
But if we’re not told,

733
00:41:18,680 –> 00:41:20,920
rationalizing your mind to make
sense, fair enough.

734
00:41:20,920 –> 00:41:23,760
But don’t make it God’s word
when it’s not.

735
00:41:23,960 –> 00:41:28,400
And this is a great example of
that, that we’ll talk a little

736
00:41:28,400 –> 00:41:31,080
bit more in Chapter 7.
But whether the flood was

737
00:41:31,080 –> 00:41:35,880
worldwide or whether the flood
was regional, here’s the great

738
00:41:35,880 –> 00:41:39,760
part.
It doesn’t matter if all the

739
00:41:39,760 –> 00:41:41,520
humans on the planet died.
God is right.

740
00:41:42,480 –> 00:41:44,680
So could he have flooded the
entire planet, which science

741
00:41:44,680 –> 00:41:47,280
says is impossible?
Sure, God can trump science.

742
00:41:47,840 –> 00:41:51,280
Could he have chosen just to
flood the Middle East where all

743
00:41:51,280 –> 00:41:53,080
the humans were?
And maybe that explains why

744
00:41:53,080 –> 00:41:56,080
there’s diversity as a species
around the planet could have

745
00:41:56,080 –> 00:41:57,920
done that too.
There’s a lot of things God

746
00:41:57,920 –> 00:41:59,520
could have done.
The animals weren’t the problem.

747
00:42:00,480 –> 00:42:03,320
So we don’t have to argue with
the science that suggests one,

748
00:42:03,320 –> 00:42:05,600
because you can make an argument
for both scientifically, by the

749
00:42:05,600 –> 00:42:08,360
way, Now, neither one of them is
great, but they both exist.

750
00:42:09,160 –> 00:42:11,240
But as long as I don’t put God
in a corner, I can understand.

751
00:42:11,240 –> 00:42:14,120
I can say, hey, all the humans
died, God wins, and now it

752
00:42:14,120 –> 00:42:16,600
doesn’t matter because in the
Kingdom age, there’s probably an

753
00:42:16,600 –> 00:42:18,520
answer to that.
I have no doubt that God’s going

754
00:42:18,520 –> 00:42:19,640
to say, hey, Dennis, here’s what
I did.

755
00:42:20,200 –> 00:42:22,680
Oh, that’s kind of cool.
But I never said God couldn’t do

756
00:42:22,680 –> 00:42:24,680
this or God couldn’t do that.
God could do anything.

757
00:42:24,960 –> 00:42:27,520
So let’s not pin him in a corner
so small we can understand it.

758
00:42:28,040 –> 00:42:31,960
We’ll get a very profound
example of that tomorrow and so

759
00:42:31,960 –> 00:42:35,320
here’s our title verse thus did
know according to all, not most,

760
00:42:35,320 –> 00:42:38,520
not some, not a few of the good
things that he found all that

761
00:42:38,520 –> 00:42:40,360
God commanded him.
So he did.

762
00:42:40,800 –> 00:42:43,160
And so that’s the closing
statement from warning to

763
00:42:43,160 –> 00:42:45,080
preparation.
God gives him a warning.

764
00:42:45,640 –> 00:42:49,400
He gives him instructions and
they follow all that God had

765
00:42:49,400 –> 00:42:52,040
commanded and therein lies the
instruction to us.

766
00:42:52,520 –> 00:42:54,480
We have a thus say at the Lord
debate is over.

767
00:42:54,480 –> 00:42:56,840
That’s what we do without a thus
say at the Lord.

768
00:42:56,840 –> 00:42:58,240
We work together to do what we
think is.

769
00:42:58,240 –> 00:43:02,120
Decent in an order.
Now we mentioned earlier in this

770
00:43:02,120 –> 00:43:04,320
class we would close with some
genealogy because I saw

771
00:43:04,320 –> 00:43:06,560
everybody get excited when I
said Genesis chapter 5.

772
00:43:07,440 –> 00:43:09,760
So we’re going to conclude our
thoughts this morning in Matthew

773
00:43:09,760 –> 00:43:14,560
chapter 1.
Matthew chapter one.

774
00:43:14,760 –> 00:43:18,120
The first verse says the.
Book of the generation of Jesus

775
00:43:18,120 –> 00:43:20,720
Christ, the son of David, the
son of Abraham.

776
00:43:21,480 –> 00:43:25,080
This is the opening verse of the
New Testament, so there’s some

777
00:43:25,080 –> 00:43:27,000
details that I think are highly
relevant.

778
00:43:27,000 –> 00:43:29,240
Remember, we keep talking about
the influence of the early parts

779
00:43:29,240 –> 00:43:31,240
of Genesis.
Let’s make sure we see them

780
00:43:31,240 –> 00:43:36,840
here.
This phrase, the generations,

781
00:43:36,960 –> 00:43:43,440
appears 14 times in the Bible.
Another one of our sevens for

782
00:43:43,440 –> 00:43:48,360
our class tomorrow, but.
Only twice in the Bible do we

783
00:43:48,360 –> 00:43:51,960
have a book of the generations.
Only two of them are noted as a

784
00:43:51,960 –> 00:43:57,440
book, the book of the
generations of Jesus Christ and

785
00:43:57,440 –> 00:44:01,400
Genesis chapter 5, the book of
the generation of Adam, the book

786
00:44:01,400 –> 00:44:06,920
of death, the book of life.
We already quoted this, but it’s

787
00:44:06,920 –> 00:44:09,320
probably worth reading.
First Corinthians 1522.

788
00:44:09,320 –> 00:44:12,160
As in Adam all die, so in Christ
shall all be made alive.

789
00:44:12,160 –> 00:44:17,640
And that section ends with
things being put in subjection

790
00:44:17,640 –> 00:44:20,560
to the Son.
That he would be subject to the

791
00:44:20,560 –> 00:44:23,280
Father, that God may be all and
in all.

792
00:44:24,160 –> 00:44:28,680
Or another way to say that that
we might Tabernacle with the

793
00:44:28,680 –> 00:44:31,760
Father through the Son for
eternity.

794
00:44:32,760 –> 00:44:35,680
It ties directly to the subdue
and add dominion.

795
00:44:35,680 –> 00:44:37,920
I have dominion part.
I’m getting off topic, but we’ll

796
00:44:37,920 –> 00:44:40,120
circle back there in a couple
evenings.

797
00:44:41,120 –> 00:44:47,320
Now, the Matthew 1 genealogy
details a line of Jesus in 42

798
00:44:47,320 –> 00:44:51,040
generations, which is 14 * 3 if
you’re keeping score.

799
00:44:51,760 –> 00:44:57,560
Now can we all agree that every
time a baby is born, a woman’s

800
00:44:57,560 –> 00:44:59,840
involved?
Anyone arguing my premise?

801
00:45:01,960 –> 00:45:04,680
OK, so we’re at least.
Some of you are arguing.

802
00:45:04,680 –> 00:45:08,840
I’m a little nervous but no OK.
All right, so we got 42 babies

803
00:45:08,840 –> 00:45:10,440
born.
That means at least 42 women

804
00:45:10,440 –> 00:45:13,480
here are now involved.
And we mentioned in genealogies

805
00:45:13,480 –> 00:45:16,120
that the name of the woman is
embedded in the name of the

806
00:45:16,120 –> 00:45:19,240
husband, calling their name
Adam.

807
00:45:20,680 –> 00:45:26,440
So why then are 5 the number of
grace women?

808
00:45:27,080 –> 00:45:31,320
Called out by name in Matthew 1.
Why?

809
00:45:31,320 –> 00:45:34,760
That makes their name redundant.
If their name is embedded in the

810
00:45:34,760 –> 00:45:38,560
name of their husband, why then
we have five of them mentioned

811
00:45:38,560 –> 00:45:44,360
twice called out by.
Name the number of grace.

812
00:45:45,560 –> 00:45:48,560
Now, the clue to the Bible
student is anytime you have a

813
00:45:48,560 –> 00:45:51,760
seemingly insignificant detail,
that is your clue that there’s

814
00:45:51,760 –> 00:45:53,480
something significant there.
Get out your shovel.

815
00:45:53,560 –> 00:45:57,200
There’s something cool to find.
And so we find a seemingly

816
00:45:57,200 –> 00:46:02,360
insignificant detail and we say.
Hmm, well let’s look at those 5.

817
00:46:02,360 –> 00:46:05,760
Because see, if I was riding a
genealogy of Jesus, I might

818
00:46:05,760 –> 00:46:10,240
throw people like Sarah Model
marriage, maybe Eve.

819
00:46:10,240 –> 00:46:13,160
That’s where it all started,
Leah, one of my personal

820
00:46:13,160 –> 00:46:15,120
favorites.
There’s a number we could go

821
00:46:15,120 –> 00:46:16,880
and.
Hey, that’s a great 1, Dennis.

822
00:46:16,880 –> 00:46:20,080
Good job.
But that’s not who God picks

823
00:46:20,480 –> 00:46:23,760
under inspiration.
We have 5 women, all of which

824
00:46:23,760 –> 00:46:26,840
come from an obscure background.
Let’s look at them.

825
00:46:27,520 –> 00:46:32,480
Matthew chapter one, verse 3.
Judas begat Pheres and Zara of

826
00:46:32,480 –> 00:46:36,880
Tamar.
So Tamar, she played the harlot,

827
00:46:38,160 –> 00:46:41,000
but she became a mother in
Israel and she was declared

828
00:46:41,000 –> 00:46:42,440
righteous.
In the process.

829
00:46:43,120 –> 00:46:46,480
Then we get to verse 5.
Solomon begat Boaz of Rahab, and

830
00:46:46,480 –> 00:46:49,280
Boaz begat Obed of Ruth.
So Rahab?

831
00:46:50,000 –> 00:46:51,600
Oh, you mean the harlot of
Jericho?

832
00:46:51,600 –> 00:46:53,440
How do you like that?
Every time we say Rahab, we

833
00:46:53,440 –> 00:46:56,480
almost give it her last name.
Rahab the Harlot of Jericho

834
00:46:57,440 –> 00:47:02,240
Rahab was the harlot of Jericho,
but she became.

835
00:47:02,640 –> 00:47:06,320
Why a mother in Israel and she
raised a pillar in the truth for

836
00:47:06,320 –> 00:47:09,200
one of two pillars in the temple
are named after her son Boaz.

837
00:47:10,600 –> 00:47:14,680
Then we have Ruth she who left
that was born after the flesh

838
00:47:14,680 –> 00:47:17,480
because that’s what Moab means
born after the flesh to be

839
00:47:17,480 –> 00:47:21,320
united with the House of bread
and praise delivering probably

840
00:47:21,320 –> 00:47:24,320
the most beautiful recorded
confession of faith in

841
00:47:24,320 –> 00:47:27,240
Scripture.
She then becomes united to a.

842
00:47:27,240 –> 00:47:31,840
Pillar in the temple and why she
becomes a.

843
00:47:32,520 –> 00:47:37,280
Mother in Israel do you see a
trend here you get to verse 6

844
00:47:37,440 –> 00:47:40,720
David the king begat Solomon of
he of her that had been the wife

845
00:47:40,720 –> 00:47:44,400
of Uriah Bathsheba by name
which.

846
00:47:44,480 –> 00:47:46,920
We won’t divert the class into
why is Uriah mentioned here?

847
00:47:46,920 –> 00:47:49,320
I think there’s a really cool
answer to that, but I digress.

848
00:47:49,840 –> 00:47:56,080
Focus on Bathsheba, who was.
Taken in adultery but became the

849
00:47:56,080 –> 00:47:59,720
mother of a king.
She raised the wisest man that

850
00:47:59,720 –> 00:48:01,840
ever lived, save our Lord Jesus
Christ.

851
00:48:02,280 –> 00:48:06,120
And in her husband David and her
son Solomon, we have wonderful

852
00:48:06,120 –> 00:48:09,360
types of Jesus Christ, the
beloved and peaceable.

853
00:48:10,480 –> 00:48:14,600
Oh, and how about the last?
One Joseph brought up the story

854
00:48:14,600 –> 00:48:19,120
last night.
Jacob begat Joseph, the husband

855
00:48:19,120 –> 00:48:21,200
of Mary, of whom was born Jesus,
which is called Christ.

856
00:48:21,480 –> 00:48:26,400
And you and I read that, and we
easily accept the virgin birth.

857
00:48:26,400 –> 00:48:28,040
We don’t challenge it.
We’re not questioning it.

858
00:48:28,400 –> 00:48:30,520
We accept it.
It’s part of what we understand.

859
00:48:31,600 –> 00:48:34,800
But if you pause for just a
moment and behind this wall,

860
00:48:34,800 –> 00:48:39,440
you’ve got about 10:00-ish
women, 1416 range.

861
00:48:39,840 –> 00:48:42,560
And imagine if one of them came
over, interrupted this class and

862
00:48:42,560 –> 00:48:45,400
said, Mom, dad, I didn’t do
anything wrong, but I’m

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pregnant, God did.
It.

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And we’re all oh, that’s
probably exactly what happened.

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We can.
No, we would think she’s an

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apparent fornicator, which is
exactly what everyone else would

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have thought when Mary was
somewhere between 12 and 16 is

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now with child.
She’s engaged too.

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Oh, that even makes it more
heinous.

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But yet she was handpicked by
God as an early teenager to

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raise His son to perfection.
The clear message in this

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00:49:21,520 –> 00:49:24,280
genealogy?
It is not where you have come

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00:49:24,280 –> 00:49:26,960
from.
It is not who you are.

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It is not what you have done,
it’s not your background, your

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genealogy, your heritage, none
of that actually matters.

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It is where you are going that
matters.

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Each one of these has an obscure
background, but they were all

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united in glory leading to our
Lord.

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So let us look to the great
architect of our faith and be

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like those before us to turn to
our God as our only hope and

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God.
And we’ll close with our last

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quote.
Psalm 110.

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Make a joyful noise unto the
Lord.

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All ye lands serve the Lord with
gladness.

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Come before His presence with
singing.

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Know ye that the Lord He is God.
It is heedoth made us, and not

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we ourselves.
We are His people, and the sheep

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of His pasture.
Enter into His gates with

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Thanksgiving, and into His
courts with praise.

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Be thankful unto Him and bless
His name, for the Lord is good.

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His mercy is everlasting, and
His truth endureth to all

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generations.
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