Dennis Bevans – Noah – Saving Your Family in a Dark World – Class 1 – Walked with God

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Our third speaker this morning
is our Brother Dennis Bevins

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from Austin Leander, TX.
Ecclesia.

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The theme of Brother Dennis’s
classes this week is Noah,

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Saving Your family in a Dark
World.

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This topic for today is Walked
with God, Genesis 6 verses one

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through 9.
Let us give our attention to our

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brother Dennis.
So this morning we have quite an

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interesting topic the.
Stakes are high, aren’t they?

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When you when you put it in
perspective, saving your family

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in a Dark World is something we
can all relate to.

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Positive.
And negative, it is nice to be

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back in the saddle again.
I recognize God got mad at the

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world and sent us all to.
Our room for a couple years, but

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the opportunity to come back and
reflect on that experience does

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exist.
It’s a chance for us to reflect

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not only on our individual
response, our community

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response, and where do we go
from here?

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What is this world coming to?
What is the ecclesial world?

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Coming to what can I do about
either of those things and how

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can I protect and preserve my
family while we wait for the

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return of our Lord?
Those are all profound questions

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that have crossed all of our
minds from time to time.

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And as we look to a story that’s
one of the oldest stories in

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Scripture, we’re going to see
that not only are what we

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experiencing, this is not new.
It’s not new to us, It’s not new

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to the planet.
It’s not new to our God.

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But he’s rather given us insight
to a family and ecclesial

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setting that our Lord Jesus
tells us was just like when he

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is going to return.
So that you and I can go back to

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the story in the Bible and see
that we are not alone, whatever

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it is we’re going through in a
World of Darkness with ecclesial

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challenges, this is not.
Our God’s first rodeo.

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That’s a Texas joke, and those
of those of you who didn’t get

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it, I understand.
I’m not really a Texan either,

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but I just have to wear the
badge.

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So thank you for joining me this
week.

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We’re going to look at this
story for some highly relevant

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lessons today.
And I think from a very early

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point in this class you’ll see
that it is.

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Not only possible to gain value
from this very old story, but

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it’s recommended by Jesus and
his ministry.

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Yeah, the world we live in is
forever changed.

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The ecclesial family has forever
changed.

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So I’m just going to say, they
said don’t be controversial.

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I everything I say.
Is so sorry, I just might as

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well put it on record COVID.
Now let’s talk about Zoom for

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just a minute.
Zoom is great.

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You and I can get content.
From anything in the Bible

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classes around the world every
day and some of us have really

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enjoyed that, right?
I can’t be the only one.

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OK, thank you and I are loving
this.

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This is the group participation
part.

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You guys have been had a chance
to do that, right?

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But but what Zoom cannot do is
replace contact.

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It cannot replace fellowship.
You and I have to see each other

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to serve each other.
So although there’s been some

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great advantages, especially
those that have mobility issues,

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health issues that cannot come
out to meeting, this is a huge

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upgrade from listening to a tape
or.

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ACD or whatever we do now.
It’s a much better option than

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that, but it is not a
replacement for memorial

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service.
You do the best you can with

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what you have.
When it was illegal for us to

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meet, but now there should be a
longing to come back.

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And I’m sure every ecclesia in
the world has an issue with

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members that may never come
back, that they have got

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comfortable on Zoom and it’s
become an adequate replacement

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for memorial service.
And that is scary for the

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individual, for the family and
for the ecclesia.

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We have to acknowledge that we
we’ve seen a world in chaos and

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that has created some issues in
the ecclesia as well.

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Let’s think about that.
Have you ever thought prior to

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two years ago that we would have
ecclesial discussion, some of it

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quite heated, about whether
wearing a mask was an act of

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faith or responsible,
responsible act of service?

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Every ecclesia in the world had
that conversation.

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And some of those got ugly
because they’re both right.

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The person that says if God
wants me to get COVID, I’m going

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to get COVID, Guess what?
They’re right.

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Whether they wear a mask or not,
it’s not immunity, but the

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person that says, look, I have
the information, I should use

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that information to protect my
family and be respectful to

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those around me that they’re
right too.

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That’s the beauty of ecclesial
service, isn’t it?

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Two people right opposite sides
of the coin, finding a way to

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work together and love to show
the gospel in their life.

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Did you ever expect to hear
talks or read articles in our

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community about the social
injustices this world has

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created and continues to create?
Did you ever expect that we have

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see things like the LGBT and
whatever movement become

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mainstream in the world and even
impact conversations in the

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ecclesia?
Did you ever think social media

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would light up with heated
political debate amongst

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brothers and sisters?
Those are all real examples in

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our community right now.
What’s even more astounding is

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all of this has happened before
we can see evidence from a major

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worldview issue and their impact
on the ecclesia all the way back

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in Genesis.
I want you to picture your

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family here, and I know I’m not
that skinny, but picture your

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family.
Get a picture in your mind.

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We all have family and friends
that we care about and we would

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do anything within our power to
help them find peace and hope in

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the Kingdom of God.
Do you have a picture in your

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mind now?
What could a story approximately

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4500 years ago do to help me
today?

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As we mentioned on Sunday,
everybody knows this story and

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we got little cute songs and
then going two by two and into

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the ark and all that’s cute.
So let’s have a quiz.

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How many of each animal entered
into the ark?

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7:00 and 2:00.
So cleaner and clean.

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So we’ve got something started
there.

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The detailed answer will come in
a class titled by Sevens, so if

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you need more hints than that,
this is going to be a.

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Rough week for you now.
The point today is the

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children’s story is part of the
story.

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There’s nothing wrong with us
talking about the animals coming

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in two by two, because that is
true.

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But think about it for just a
moment.

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If there’s only two cow, the
first family BBQ end of a

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species.
So it makes sense that God

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planned ahead and gave a little
bit of detail to set the stage.

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Well, there’s a little more
detail coming because our God is

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reasonable and wants us to
understand it.

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Well, there’s a few other
questions we could ask.

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I’ll do another one for a
baseline.

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What was the first fruit
mentioned in the Bible?

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Everybody’s like 17.
That’s a subliminal message,

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isn’t it?
What was the first fruit

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mentioned in the Bible?
Fig.

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Somebody said it, and maybe it
was mumbled somewhere else too.

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Fig.
The lesson?

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Is in the.
Details.

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How about the New Testament?
We use this one in our

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exhortation.
It’s why we care, because if we

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can better understand the days
of Noah, we know what to look

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like.
And expect in the days coming up

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to the the return of our Lord.
So here’s where we’re going to

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start.
In the days of Noah, Luke 1727,

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they did eat, they drank, they
married wives, they were given

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in marriage until the day Noah
entered the ark, the flood came

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and destroyed them all.
What’s wrong with that?

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Eating, drinking, getting
married.

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OK, let me let me see if we can
condemn ourselves now.

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How many of you have had
something to eat in your life?

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How many of you had something to
drink in your life?

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How many of you are married?
OK, how many of you love your

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mother?
So that last one is just to show

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you some of you won’t raise your
hands for anything.

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Now here, here’s the point.
If eating, drinking and getting

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married is bad, well, we’re all
condemned.

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What’s wrong with eating,
drinking, getting married?

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We give thanks for our meal, we
enjoy the fellowship meal

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together.
We get married.

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We get to learn the concept of
family and ecclesial life and

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our Those are all good things,
but there is a missing

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ingredient.
And that was.

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What was wrong with the world?
The missing ingredient was God.

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They were eating, they were
drinking, they were getting

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married, but it had nothing to
do with to the glory of the

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Father.
The absence of the glory of the

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Father is what put the world in
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And then we look at our day.
The world has been trying to

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take God out of this world four
years, four years by design.

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So we’ll go back just a few
years.

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You guys all remember 911,
right?

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Let’s go back a few months
before then.

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What there was a lot of talk
about taking the name of In God

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we Trust off the coinage.
OK, well, I don’t care about

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that, but we get why do we have
to take God off?

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OK, well, there’s one number.
Two, there was a court, I think

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it was Illinois, the state
Supreme Court had the 10

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commandments on the wall and
there was an uprage, an outrage

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about why we got to get them off
the wall.

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Separation of church and state,
which that was totally out of

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context nonetheless.
And in California, at that time,

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it was made illegal for a child
to say prayer in school.

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So if I’m going to school, give
thanks for our meal, I’m

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actually breaking the law.
And then couple planes hit

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buildings in New York and
Washington, DC, and the

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president declared a National
Day of Prayer, and all of a

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sudden it was OK.
Because when we’re scared, we

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turn to God.
And when we’re not, we lean on

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self.
That is our natural human

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inclination.
And it’s been that way since the

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beginning of time.
We are no different than the

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world around us, other than the
fact that we know we have an

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opportunity to try to fight that
struggle.

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So when I did this in the teens
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So one of you is going to have
to pretend you’ve not heard this

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before, What happens when a baby
is sad?

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What does it do?
And when it’s tired, what’s

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hungry?
When it’s dirty?

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Some grow out of that, some
don’t.

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But we are naturally selfish, we
naturally see what our needs are

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and we cry for help.
And so that’s I think partly why

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we have problems in this life is
our God, His in his divine

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wisdom said this population
needs challenges or they will

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leave me out.
And every time we have a

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problem, our prayer life gets
much better, does it not?

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So here’s a challenge for us to
acknowledge that if your prayer

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life is weak today, is it
because you don’t have any

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problems or you’re asking or
you’re not asking God to help

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you solve?
Them that’s the ask the little

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hand on the inside.
I’m not asking you to raise your

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hand out loud.
Hebrews 11 verse seven.

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I didn’t talk about it.
We we read this in the

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exhortation and I just want to
comment here, wouldn’t.

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All of us.
Like to have our name inserted

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here.
Knowing that Noah’s day

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represents the last days before
Jesus returns, wouldn’t you love

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to be able to read?
And Dennis, being warned of God,

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was moved with fear and prepared
an ark to save his house.

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We’d all love to insert our name
there, and that is why we are

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here.
So let’s go to Genesis, where

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Noah’s introduced.
We’re at Genesis 5, verse 28.

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Lamech lived 180 in two years
begat his son, and called his

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name.
Noah saying This same shall

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comfort us concerning our work
and toil of our hands, because

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of the ground which the Lord
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This is the.
First time his name is used.

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His name in Hebrew means Rest,
So it’s appropriate we get to

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start with a man named Rest.
And he’s named that way because,

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well, we think this guy is going
to give us comfort in toil in

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our toil because of the curse.
So the naming of Noah directly

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ties to the.
Curse and promise In the first

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couple chapters of Genesis,
we’ve got his name, the concept

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of what Noah Noah’s name ties to
what God did on the 7th day

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creation account, and we have
direct connection to the curse

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in Genesis chapter 3.
So let’s look at the curse

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first.
So he says to Adam, Because that

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was hearkened to the voice of
thy wife, and has eaten of the

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tree which I commended thee,
saying, Thou shalt not eat of

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it.
Cursed is the ground for thy

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sake, and ensar all.
Thou shalt eat of it all.

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The days of thy life So Adam’s
new role requires hard labor to

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produce food and provide his
family.

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To protect and to guide, He has
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Now, prior to the curse, we were
told in chapter 2, verse 15 that

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he was given a place in the
garden to dress it and to keep

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it.
Now let’s be honest here.

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How hard is that job?
This is before you’ve got

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challenges with cigarette butts
and Styrofoam cups.

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We, we don’t have anyone making
a mess but you.

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So here’s your job.
Keep it clean.

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Oh, there’s nothing here to mess
with yet.

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But you know, do your best.
But as a result of sin, we’re

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not punished for our sins, but
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And so by their sins, we have
Adam now having to work harder

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to do what he was commanded to
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To preserve and protect his
family, to provide for them.

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Verse 8:00 and 9:00 We get some
gifts with purchase, thorns and

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thistles that shall bring forth
unto thee, and thou shalt eat.

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The bread of the field.
In this what do I face?

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Thou shalt eat bread till thou
return to the ground.

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For out of this thou was taken.
For dust thou art, and dust thou

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shalt return.
So if not tended to, thorns and

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thistles will overtake any
garden, much like sin can

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overtake our lives.
If we don’t contend against the

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thinking of the flesh and
carefully maintain our walk,

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thistles will creep in.
So how do we?

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Maintain our life to keep the
challenges of sin outside of our

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minds.
The answer readings Study

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conversations with people of
like precious faith.

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Because when we’re focused on
doing that which is right in the

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eyes of God, we spend less time
focusing on the problems in our

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life, whether they’re of
ourselves or those around us.

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Keeping the word.
Of God, paramount in our life,

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is critical for us to overcome
the thorns and thistles that

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will inevitably bite us if we
leave them too close to our

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garden and our thinking.
Now, like sin, the result is not

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immediate but eventual.
The the wages of sin is death,

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but it’s not the instantaneous
thing one might think.

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You know the from.
Dust our to dust our shot

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return.
God could have said Adam, you

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blew up, you’re gone.
I’m going to start over with

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Bill, but he.
Doesn’t.

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Gives them an.
Opportunity because with

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everything that operates with
our Father, hope is embedded in

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the problem.
And so He does that same thing

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in Genesis.
So let’s look at the promise

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unto Adam and his wife.
Did the Lord God make coats of

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skins and he clothed them?
So they clothed.

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Themselves with fig leaves first
fruit.

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Well, that one makes a little
sense because fig is a big leaf.

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They didn’t pick up Fern and say
let’s see what we can do with

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this.
To start with, a fig.

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Leaf, which would, by the way,
be a terrible covering.

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Can you?
Fig leaf is big, but they’re

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also sticky.
Anyone ever seen a fig leaf?

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Imagine putting that on the
sensitive parts of your body and

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walking around in a garden for a
while.

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This.
Instantly would have been a bad

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idea, but notice that bad
decision our God picks up

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throughout the entire Old
Testament as a representation of

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natural Israel.
The root.

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Of the representation of natural
Israel comes from the bad

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decision.
Let’s cover ourselves with this

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terrible leaf and our God said,
you know, we’ve got to teach a

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lesson here.
Out of this tragedy must come

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hope.
And the.

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Concept of the covering of sin
requires the shedding of blood

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is embedded in the story of.
Genesis chapter 3.

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Obviously, this is not a slide
for PETA.

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The.
Primary lesson in this chapter

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of scripture is we can see the
hope of redemption through the

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blood of Jesus prophetically.
In fact, at the crucifixion,

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what materials were used to make
a mock crown for Jesus?

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Thorns and.
Thistles so the connection from

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Eden to the crucifixion is clear
as day and a bridge between

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those two.
We have Noah whose name to bring

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us back to creation.
Curse and promise.

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OK, Stage set.
Genesis 3 everywhere.

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I love it.
All right.

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Genesis 532.
We have some.

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Math.
Those of you who love math,

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today and tomorrow we’re going
to do a little math quiz.

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So, you know, if you’re excited
right now, sorry, he’s 500.

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Years old he begets Shem, Ham
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So this verse is a very
important clue that we will

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clarify a very dramatic detail
by the end of today.

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So.
Start. 500 years.

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It came to.
Pass.

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When men began to multiply on
the face of the earth, and

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daughters were born to them,
when was that?

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When did men begin to multiply
in the face of the earth?

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Yeah, chapter. 4 chapter 5
That’s right away.

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You you’ve got Chapter 4,
Chapter 5, we’ve got the

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beginning of families are
introduced.

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So what we’re reading now is a
continuation from the last

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chapter.
It’s a continuing thought.

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These.
Problems didn’t just appear out

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of nowhere 14156 years later.
Bam, everybody’s bad.

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The concept of serving self
started in the Garden of Eden

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and got better at self-service
through Genesis chapter 4.

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Genesis chapter 5 until we get
to chapter 6 and the world is so

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good at it.
God says time to wipe this out.

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So what have we got?
Up to this point, Genesis 1.

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And two, we have creation,
Genesis 3, the curse and the

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promise.
A covering of sin requires a

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shedding of blood.
Chapter 4.

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We have the object lesson for
that principle, Cain and Abel.

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And then we have the book of
death, Genesis 5.

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And he died, and he died, and he
died.

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He died.
Let’s read this verse carefully.

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When men.
Began to multiply on the face of

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the Earth.
This goes back again to Adam,

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the process leading to sin, the
judgment that was going to come

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on the planet.
Sin crept in wherever people

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were, and it happens right away.
Now the word men.

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In.
Hebrew is actually the word

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Adam, and it’s singular.
So in the Hebrew, this is

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actually what it’s saying,
although we can.

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Get there the long way around
the English language.

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Now, daughters.
Women in Scripture often are

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used to describe the state of
spirituality.

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This does not mean you know all
the boys are good and all the

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girls are bad.
That’s one way.

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I guess you could take the first
couple verses, but that’s not

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what it’s saying.
It’s giving when men begin to

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multiply.
So we’re going back to Eden

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again, and now we’re going to
talk about the spiritual state.

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Of the planet.
Specifically the Ecclesia,

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because the remnant is always
the focus of Scripture.

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How do we use?
That when we refer to the the

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ecclesia as the bride of Christ,
for example, it holds true in

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the negative.
Idolatry is referred to in

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Scripture as adultery or
harlotry, as we’ve seen after

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going going after other gods.
It’s used to describe the state

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of the Christian world at the
time of our Lord’s return.

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In Revelation, Jason actually
made reference to that verse.

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This next one we’ll use to make
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The Sons of.
God saw the daughters of men

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that they were fair, and they
took of them wives whom they

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were chose.
There is evil.

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On both sides of this gender
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So when we take a look at the
planet, they see sons of God,

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daughters of men.
Who are we talking about?

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Well.
It tells.

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Us the spirituality of the
group.

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That not all was pleasant in
paradise and quickly we begin to

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move to self-service, which is
exactly what happens when we

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take God out as the missing
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We know the.
Story of Cain and Abel so.

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It should come.
As no surprise, the world began

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to stray quickly.
After God created it.

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So.
Remember, as it was in the days

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of Noah, so will it be in our
day.

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So we look around and see
challenges in the world that are

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impacting the ecclesia.
It should not be a surprise, it

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should be an expectation, should
be something we’re prepared for

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to make sure that I individually
am not a part of the drafting

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away that is natural to the last
days.

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Because if me individually and
focusing on the things of the

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Kingdom and things of the name
and it’s changing who I am so

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that God can fill me with his
glory.

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I then can come to my family and
share and you on the same time

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as trying to get you right.
So that when we.

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Come together.
We are both sinners making

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mistakes in love, coming
together to try to do things

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God’s way.
And with that perspective, we

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have a training ground for the
Kingdom of God.

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It’s actually a very beautiful
design our God has put in play.

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But where the design falls is if
I come to the meeting to fix

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you.
Nobody can do that, so I’m

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appoint somebody else to.
Come to the meeting to fix you

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or you or anyone.
I can’t fix you.

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I have a tough enough time
trying to fix me.

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But if I make myself feel better
by trying to fix you, I am not a

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servant of God.
I am a servant of the flesh.

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And that is the breakdown of
society that we see today.

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And it will be the breakdown of
the ecclesia as we get closer to

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the return of our Lord.
Knowing that gives us a chance

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to fight it here.
So we can.

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Share it there as opposed to
fighting there.

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And I’ve become it here.
Does that make sense?

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OK, now I want us to go to the
Garden of Eden.

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And we remember Eve when she’s
tempted, she saw, she took and

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she chose.
And that is the same challenge

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in the world today.
When we see, we take and we

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decide.
We see things that might appeal

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to our flesh, the lust of our.
Flesh, the lust of our eyes, the

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pride of our life, and before
we.

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Know it.
We’ve rationalized and justified

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ourselves to a position where
we’ve left no room for the

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Father to work.
Marrying.

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Eating and drinking.
So if the.

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Daughters of men represent the
spiritual state of the world.

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Who were these sons of God?
Good question.

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Let’s go back to when men began
to multiply in Genesis chapter

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4.
And we have.

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Seth Abel’s replacement to him
was born a son.

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His name was Enos.
And then began men to fall, to

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fall upon.
That’s cute to call upon the

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name of the Lord.
Well, let’s go to.

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Romans 8 and 14 as many as are
led by the Spirit of God.

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Are the sons?
Of God.

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So we have two things at play
here if we want to be led by the

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Spirit of God and do things
God’s way.

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00:22:45,840 –> 00:22:47,120
Those two verses.
We just looked at.

440
00:22:47,560 –> 00:22:50,320
We are surrendering the path
that leads to death.

441
00:22:50,440 –> 00:22:53,560
From dust thou was to dust thou
shall return in exchange for a

442
00:22:53,560 –> 00:22:56,640
path that leads to life.
The promise and the hope that.

443
00:22:56,640 –> 00:22:59,640
Embedded within the curse.
Now keep in mind that Spirit of

444
00:22:59,640 –> 00:23:01,960
God part, because that’s going
to play a prominent role in

445
00:23:01,960 –> 00:23:04,600
Genesis 6.
In verse 3, my spirit shall not

446
00:23:04,600 –> 00:23:07,120
always drive with man.
In verse seven, I will destroy

447
00:23:07,120 –> 00:23:10,560
man whom I have created.
Verse 13, the end of all flesh

448
00:23:10,560 –> 00:23:13,360
has come.
So we’re looking at this early

449
00:23:13,360 –> 00:23:17,560
part of Genesis 6, the divine
inspection started.

450
00:23:18,520 –> 00:23:22,360
By the Spirit of God not always
striving with men, God.

451
00:23:22,360 –> 00:23:27,360
Looked he decided.
He withdrew a.

452
00:23:27,360 –> 00:23:29,720
Spirit.
Made a decision.

453
00:23:29,720 –> 00:23:32,080
To destroy creation and
terminate all flesh.

454
00:23:32,960 –> 00:23:35,440
Those are.
Very graphic words to consider,

455
00:23:35,880 –> 00:23:38,720
especially given the parent
child relationship, and I think

456
00:23:38,720 –> 00:23:41,520
that’s on purpose.
See some of what?

457
00:23:41,520 –> 00:23:43,600
We’re going to do is going to be
a little fun, some of it’s going

458
00:23:43,600 –> 00:23:45,840
to be very grave and this is one
of those moments.

459
00:23:46,960 –> 00:23:48,640
We have to put.
Ourselves in the position of the

460
00:23:48,640 –> 00:23:53,440
Father right now, looking upon
all the children he has made.

461
00:23:54,880 –> 00:23:56,600
And deciding.
They are better off dead.

462
00:23:58,480 –> 00:24:00,600
The.
Gravity of that is astounding.

463
00:24:00,600 –> 00:24:04,560
Picture your own children and
coming to the conclusion.

464
00:24:06,120 –> 00:24:07,360
That child is.
Better off dead.

465
00:24:08,840 –> 00:24:10,440
How about?
Picture your parents thinking

466
00:24:10,440 –> 00:24:13,120
that about you.
It’s very.

467
00:24:13,120 –> 00:24:16,160
Grave.
And we look at the Father taking

468
00:24:16,160 –> 00:24:20,120
stock at his creation.
That concept is very grave.

469
00:24:20,960 –> 00:24:23,080
This was.
Not a quick, snappy decision.

470
00:24:23,080 –> 00:24:24,400
You know what?
I’m tired of this stuff.

471
00:24:24,400 –> 00:24:26,320
Let’s flood it clean and start
the spin cycle.

472
00:24:26,520 –> 00:24:30,440
It’s not what our God did.
This was a painful thing for the

473
00:24:30,440 –> 00:24:33,520
Father, and we’re going to see
that through this story.

474
00:24:34,960 –> 00:24:37,040
This is the.
Inevitable result of children

475
00:24:37,040 –> 00:24:41,240
going the wrong direction.
And our God recognized it and

476
00:24:41,240 –> 00:24:42,800
let us know this is how he would
solve it.

477
00:24:44,080 –> 00:24:47,680
Anyone know what the only one of
the 10 commandments that was

478
00:24:47,680 –> 00:24:49,600
stated exclusively in the
positive was?

479
00:24:51,720 –> 00:24:53,840
Nine of them have a Thou shalt
not in them somewhere.

480
00:24:53,840 –> 00:24:56,920
One of them does not.
Anyone know #5 the number of

481
00:24:56,920 –> 00:24:59,240
grace?
Honour thy father and thy

482
00:24:59,240 –> 00:25:00,480
mother.
It’s the.

483
00:25:00,560 –> 00:25:02,280
Only.
One stated in the positive.

484
00:25:02,560 –> 00:25:06,080
In fact, the Ephesians version,
this is Ephesians 6, two and

485
00:25:06,080 –> 00:25:08,520
three, honor thy father, thy
mother, which is the first

486
00:25:08,520 –> 00:25:11,880
commandment with promise.
That it may be.

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00:25:11,880 –> 00:25:14,320
Well, with thee that thou mayest
live long on the earth.

488
00:25:14,560 –> 00:25:17,040
So that’s what’s on the queue
for us.

489
00:25:17,680 –> 00:25:19,840
It’s worth noting these
commandments were on 2 stone

490
00:25:19,840 –> 00:25:22,960
tablets.
The first one was 4 to God.

491
00:25:23,840 –> 00:25:26,920
This one.
To the family and the second one

492
00:25:26,920 –> 00:25:29,880
was 5 all about individual
behavior regarding how we treat

493
00:25:29,880 –> 00:25:33,320
each other supports the theory
that we need to put God first,

494
00:25:34,600 –> 00:25:38,160
then our family 2nd and
individual pursuits third,

495
00:25:38,960 –> 00:25:41,200
including fan of business other
obligations.

496
00:25:41,840 –> 00:25:45,000
Now the last thought on define
the divine inspection of this

497
00:25:45,000 –> 00:25:47,520
chapter, we’re going to turn to
Leviticus 14.

498
00:25:52,120 –> 00:25:54,440
When am I supposed to be done
because my timer stopped up

499
00:25:54,440 –> 00:25:57,400
here?
12 Oh yeah, we got.

500
00:25:57,400 –> 00:26:01,080
Plenty of time, all right,
Leviticus 14, sort of We’re

501
00:26:01,280 –> 00:26:03,080
going to look at verses 33
through 44.

502
00:26:03,080 –> 00:26:06,160
I’m cherry picking for sake of
time, so we.

503
00:26:06,160 –> 00:26:10,400
Have the divine inspection for a
house that was infected by

504
00:26:10,400 –> 00:26:14,400
leprosy, and it’s commonly used
to describe sin, so it’s

505
00:26:14,400 –> 00:26:18,080
relevant to our topic today.
Here we have that it was in the

506
00:26:18,080 –> 00:26:19,680
house.
You had to empty the house.

507
00:26:20,240 –> 00:26:21,640
If it was in the.
Walls of the house?

508
00:26:21,640 –> 00:26:24,680
Well you shut the house up 7
days re inspect.

509
00:26:25,280 –> 00:26:28,160
If it’s spread into the walls,
take away the stones, cast them

510
00:26:28,160 –> 00:26:30,360
out of the city.
Scrape and pour the dust outside

511
00:26:30,360 –> 00:26:32,240
of the city.
Put new stones in.

512
00:26:33,320 –> 00:26:38,760
If it reoccurs well, verse 45
breakdown the house, the stones

513
00:26:38,760 –> 00:26:40,840
of it, the timber thereof, the
mortar of the house, and you

514
00:26:40,840 –> 00:26:43,960
shall carry them forth out of
the city to an unclean place.

515
00:26:44,480 –> 00:26:47,480
Essentially what our God is
doing in Genesis chapter 6.

516
00:26:48,280 –> 00:26:50,320
Is he’s looking.
At his leprous house.

517
00:26:50,680 –> 00:26:54,320
In the days of Noah and deciding
he has to clean it out and start

518
00:26:54,320 –> 00:26:56,640
over.
We want to be.

519
00:26:56,640 –> 00:26:59,720
Part of the rebuild effort,
which is why we focus on Noah

520
00:26:59,720 –> 00:27:03,280
and the family that’s saved, not
the part that is torn down and

521
00:27:03,280 –> 00:27:05,120
cast outside the city, is
unclean.

522
00:27:05,840 –> 00:27:08,360
We’ll keep that back in our mind
as we go back to Noah.

523
00:27:10,600 –> 00:27:14,040
We have. 2 camps.
On the planet at this time and

524
00:27:14,040 –> 00:27:16,480
verse 2, we have the sons of
God, those who are trying to do

525
00:27:16,480 –> 00:27:20,920
things God’s way, and the
daughters of men, those who are

526
00:27:20,920 –> 00:27:24,160
following after the flesh.
And here.

527
00:27:24,160 –> 00:27:28,120
We have the line of E Nos and
the line of Cain.

528
00:27:29,160 –> 00:27:31,040
You can read Genesis. 4 on your
own if you want to get some fun

529
00:27:31,040 –> 00:27:34,160
with that now.
In time, these two lines start

530
00:27:34,160 –> 00:27:36,800
intermarrying.
Now let’s think about that.

531
00:27:36,800 –> 00:27:39,400
Whenever a marriage takes place,
compromise is part of the

532
00:27:39,400 –> 00:27:41,160
equation.
If it doesn’t happen that

533
00:27:41,160 –> 00:27:43,360
marriage doesn’t last,
compromise.

534
00:27:43,680 –> 00:27:47,320
Has to take.
Place He thinks this should be

535
00:27:47,320 –> 00:27:50,760
green.
She thinks this should be blue.

536
00:27:51,040 –> 00:27:53,520
So they compromise and they do
it blue, right?

537
00:27:54,560 –> 00:27:56,320
OK.
Exactly.

538
00:27:56,520 –> 00:28:00,200
So compromise is really, though
I’m joking, But reality is

539
00:28:00,200 –> 00:28:02,400
compromise is essential because
we come from different

540
00:28:02,400 –> 00:28:04,840
backgrounds and no matter how
much we love each other, we come

541
00:28:04,840 –> 00:28:07,720
with different baggage and we
come with different baggage to

542
00:28:07,720 –> 00:28:10,880
the family, the marriage unit,
some things we have to go.

543
00:28:10,880 –> 00:28:12,200
That doesn’t really matter that
much to me.

544
00:28:12,200 –> 00:28:14,160
Let’s do it your way.
Sometimes that really means a

545
00:28:14,160 –> 00:28:16,600
lot to me and we have to find a
way to do it my way.

546
00:28:16,600 –> 00:28:18,560
And sometimes it’s like neither
one of us has a way.

547
00:28:18,560 –> 00:28:21,400
Let’s make our way and we start
compromising.

548
00:28:21,400 –> 00:28:24,160
Well, compromise is not a bad
thing, but when you start

549
00:28:24,160 –> 00:28:27,520
compromising the values of God,
now you’re in trouble.

550
00:28:27,520 –> 00:28:30,560
See what color the wall is?
It doesn’t really matter who

551
00:28:30,560 –> 00:28:32,080
wins that.
That’s why she should win.

552
00:28:33,560 –> 00:28:34,800
Oh, I didn’t.
Get any laughs on that one?

553
00:28:35,320 –> 00:28:36,760
All right?
Doesn’t really.

554
00:28:36,760 –> 00:28:40,240
Matter who wins that the House
is going to still stand we start

555
00:28:40,240 –> 00:28:44,680
compromising the things of God
the promises of God the edicts

556
00:28:44,680 –> 00:28:49,680
of the father now that marriage
is on very rocky ground oh and

557
00:28:49,680 –> 00:28:53,720
then anytime you start having
marriage and compromise let’s

558
00:28:53,720 –> 00:28:56,040
make it easier and just have
some children that makes it

559
00:28:56,040 –> 00:28:58,720
easier right OK so let’s.
Keep that in mind.

560
00:28:58,720 –> 00:29:01,680
So here’s the math quiz clue.
The prior number.

561
00:29:01,680 –> 00:29:03,960
We had was 500 now in.
Verse.

562
00:29:03,960 –> 00:29:07,080
Three we have.
There’s 120 years of warning.

563
00:29:08,960 –> 00:29:10,960
Keep that thought 120 years of
warning.

564
00:29:12,320 –> 00:29:15,280
Then with before we go to the
the magic number, we say, OK,

565
00:29:15,520 –> 00:29:18,440
there were giants in the earth
in those days, and after that

566
00:29:18,440 –> 00:29:20,520
the sons of God came to the
daughters of men, bear them

567
00:29:20,520 –> 00:29:23,000
children, and became mighty men,
which were men of old, men of

568
00:29:23,000 –> 00:29:27,320
renown, or in the Hebrew men of
renown is the word shem, men of

569
00:29:27,320 –> 00:29:29,240
the name.
Whose name?

570
00:29:30,360 –> 00:29:32,680
That’s the problem.
That’s why the missing

571
00:29:32,680 –> 00:29:34,800
ingredient of the name of the
father is such a big deal.

572
00:29:35,160 –> 00:29:37,160
James Chapter.
Two, verse 7 says, Do they not

573
00:29:37,160 –> 00:29:39,800
blasphemy that worthy name by
which they are called?

574
00:29:40,400 –> 00:29:43,800
See, we are called to be part of
a name, might be born into that

575
00:29:43,800 –> 00:29:47,520
name, married into that name,
baptized to that name.

576
00:29:48,000 –> 00:29:50,160
We are called to be part of the
name of the Father.

577
00:29:51,080 –> 00:29:53,440
But if we’re building.
A name for ourselves in a city

578
00:29:53,440 –> 00:29:55,920
with our own name.
Now we’ve got Genesis chapter 4

579
00:29:55,920 –> 00:29:57,640
and Genesis chapter 10 on the
horizon.

580
00:29:58,600 –> 00:30:00,280
We’ve taken.
God out of the mix.

581
00:30:00,440 –> 00:30:01,920
The name we’re building is for
ourself.

582
00:30:02,440 –> 00:30:05,480
It’s shaky ground.
So here, when the population is

583
00:30:05,480 –> 00:30:08,560
building things for their own
name, for their own pride, for

584
00:30:08,560 –> 00:30:10,920
their own sake.
No longer is.

585
00:30:10,920 –> 00:30:14,000
God part of the equation.
Now the word giants, the Hebrew

586
00:30:14,000 –> 00:30:17,440
is the Nephilim.
The only other usage is Numbers

587
00:30:17,440 –> 00:30:21,280
13, and it’s used twice in verse
32 and verse 33.

588
00:30:21,280 –> 00:30:23,000
So we’ll look at that for a
minute.

589
00:30:24,080 –> 00:30:25,280
They brought an.
Evil Report.

590
00:30:26,440 –> 00:30:27,880
The land which?
They had searched the children,

591
00:30:27,880 –> 00:30:30,280
Israel said.
The land that we have gone is a

592
00:30:30,280 –> 00:30:31,880
land that.
Eateth up the inhabitants

593
00:30:31,880 –> 00:30:33,320
thereof.
The people that we saw are men

594
00:30:33,320 –> 00:30:36,040
of great stratter.
We saw giants and son of Anec.

595
00:30:36,240 –> 00:30:38,480
Some of the giants were in their
side as grasshoppers.

596
00:30:38,720 –> 00:30:40,920
We were there in their sights.
We had the people are.

597
00:30:40,920 –> 00:30:44,040
Really big and mighty.
Now this.

598
00:30:44,040 –> 00:30:46,600
Refers to men of war in the
promised land.

599
00:30:46,600 –> 00:30:48,880
We know the story, but it
doesn’t necessarily mean they

600
00:30:48,880 –> 00:30:50,760
were big people.
Yes, we have reference to some

601
00:30:50,760 –> 00:30:54,360
big people, but the problem is
they were mighty and strong

602
00:30:54,360 –> 00:30:57,600
warriors.
See, a giant is relative.

603
00:30:58,480 –> 00:31:02,160
I’ll give you an example.
In Japan today, I’m a giant.

604
00:31:02,640 –> 00:31:06,080
I’m 6 foot four, 270 lbs.
On an.

605
00:31:06,080 –> 00:31:08,760
NFL offensive line.
I’m puny.

606
00:31:09,440 –> 00:31:13,760
It’s all relative.
Most NBA centers are about 7

607
00:31:13,760 –> 00:31:15,520
foot tall or higher.
Again.

608
00:31:15,760 –> 00:31:18,160
Hi, how you do it?
That might be bigger than me.

609
00:31:18,160 –> 00:31:21,360
Relative is a giant, so it
doesn’t necessarily mean they

610
00:31:21,360 –> 00:31:24,400
were all 12 feet tall.
No, they were bigger and

611
00:31:24,400 –> 00:31:27,720
stronger than we are and that
made them huge in perspective.

612
00:31:28,680 –> 00:31:31,000
Andre the Giant was 7 foot four,
£500.

613
00:31:31,000 –> 00:31:33,120
In case you’re keeping score and
trying to compare me, he had me

614
00:31:33,120 –> 00:31:35,800
beat by a few pounds.
The Israelites.

615
00:31:35,800 –> 00:31:39,840
Were scared because their faith
was in their flesh, not in the.

616
00:31:39,840 –> 00:31:43,360
Father and as a result.
They missed out.

617
00:31:43,360 –> 00:31:44,960
On the Promise, at least
initially.

618
00:31:45,320 –> 00:31:48,200
Well, who wrote Genesis?
Moses.

619
00:31:48,200 –> 00:31:51,040
Another tie in.
So here in Genesis chapter 4 we

620
00:31:51,040 –> 00:31:53,560
have Moses commentary.
This happens a lot.

621
00:31:53,560 –> 00:31:56,240
In Genesis Record, where it’s
not actually the thoughts of the

622
00:31:56,240 –> 00:31:58,400
people, it’s a commentary on
Moses.

623
00:31:59,400 –> 00:32:00,800
You can see that in a number of
places.

624
00:32:00,800 –> 00:32:02,160
We’ll we’ll call out a couple in
a minute.

625
00:32:03,440 –> 00:32:05,200
So.
They were mighty warriors.

626
00:32:05,520 –> 00:32:08,720
And we see that the sons of God,
those following the way of.

627
00:32:08,720 –> 00:32:11,040
God, the line of Venus versus
the daughter of man.

628
00:32:11,040 –> 00:32:14,120
Again, singular Adam in the
Hebrew going the line of the

629
00:32:14,120 –> 00:32:17,600
flesh, the way of Cain.
We have the compromise of life

630
00:32:17,600 –> 00:32:19,160
choices in a distance from the
father.

631
00:32:19,960 –> 00:32:23,320
Now I want to pay particularly
attention to the timing.

632
00:32:23,680 –> 00:32:27,600
They get farther away from God,
closer to the world around them,

633
00:32:27,800 –> 00:32:29,480
and they decide to have
children.

634
00:32:29,960 –> 00:32:31,720
This is a.
Recipe for disaster.

635
00:32:31,880 –> 00:32:34,640
Any one of our children going
down this path, we go time out.

636
00:32:34,640 –> 00:32:36,080
This is bad.
We can see it coming.

637
00:32:36,560 –> 00:32:38,400
So much harder to see it when
it’s your thinking.

638
00:32:39,360 –> 00:32:41,720
Now the Hebrew calls the mighty
men of the name.

639
00:32:41,720 –> 00:32:44,920
What name?
Well #16 and two, I think gives

640
00:32:44,920 –> 00:32:47,960
us a little bit of a hint.
They rose up.

641
00:32:47,960 –> 00:32:51,840
Before Moses with certain
children of Israel. 250 Princess

642
00:32:51,840 –> 00:32:53,760
of the Assembly, famous in the
congregation.

643
00:32:54,040 –> 00:32:58,000
Men of the name.
Who were they and.

644
00:32:58,000 –> 00:33:00,440
What did they do?
Verse one tells us Cora, Dathan

645
00:33:00,440 –> 00:33:02,680
and Byram.
Verse 3 says they gathered

646
00:33:02,680 –> 00:33:05,400
themselves together against
Moses and Aaron, so they were

647
00:33:05,400 –> 00:33:08,120
challenging.
The authority of God and his

648
00:33:08,120 –> 00:33:10,600
appointed servants.
It was not about.

649
00:33:10,600 –> 00:33:12,840
God now it was about them being
right.

650
00:33:12,840 –> 00:33:15,800
And this can happen in any
ecclesia, just as it did in the

651
00:33:15,800 –> 00:33:18,440
ecclesia in the wilderness.
The men of their own name in

652
00:33:18,440 –> 00:33:20,600
pride are no longer the men of
God.

653
00:33:21,160 –> 00:33:23,160
Tower of Babel, Great reference
to this.

654
00:33:23,160 –> 00:33:25,480
It’s the next story after Noah,
and we’ll look at it in our

655
00:33:25,480 –> 00:33:27,800
intermission.
Let’s look at first.

656
00:33:27,800 –> 00:33:29,600
John, we’ve already said this
out loud.

657
00:33:29,600 –> 00:33:30,840
We may as well put it on the
screen.

658
00:33:31,720 –> 00:33:34,280
Obvious ties to Genesis chapter
3.

659
00:33:35,680 –> 00:33:37,400
We can.
See this all the way back into

660
00:33:37,400 –> 00:33:39,760
the Garden of Eden.
This is the.

661
00:33:39,760 –> 00:33:42,680
Key that we want to make sure we
understand for our own purposes

662
00:33:43,040 –> 00:33:47,120
if we love the cosmos.
The order of.

663
00:33:47,120 –> 00:33:50,080
Things that we see in this
world, there’s no room for the

664
00:33:50,080 –> 00:33:52,640
lover of love of the Father in
us, so we have.

665
00:33:52,640 –> 00:33:56,520
To purge the things of the.
Flesh to make room for the love

666
00:33:56,520 –> 00:33:59,240
of the Father.
The world passeth away in the

667
00:33:59,240 –> 00:34:01,960
lust thereof, but he that doeth
the will of God abideth forever.

668
00:34:02,320 –> 00:34:04,440
And now?
You’re going to find out very

669
00:34:04,440 –> 00:34:08,719
quickly, maybe right now, that
I’m a Tabernacle geek.

670
00:34:09,440 –> 00:34:11,520
So.
You might be there with me.

671
00:34:11,600 –> 00:34:15,159
I have Tabernacle Itis.
I see it everywhere in the

672
00:34:15,159 –> 00:34:16,440
Bible.
And.

673
00:34:16,440 –> 00:34:19,960
Every time I see words like
dwell or abide, I mean the

674
00:34:19,960 –> 00:34:23,040
Tabernacle ones obviously, but
dwell and abide get my attention

675
00:34:23,560 –> 00:34:28,760
because the purpose of our
Father by extension into his

676
00:34:28,760 –> 00:34:34,199
family is that we might as his
children, dwell with the Father

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00:34:34,360 –> 00:34:37,840
and the Son forever.
The concept of the Tabernacle is

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00:34:37,840 –> 00:34:42,000
set in order for you and I to
see us in the Kingdom briefly.

679
00:34:42,000 –> 00:34:45,520
I love pictures that have the
camp around the Tabernacle.

680
00:34:46,239 –> 00:34:48,760
Because our.
God could have put a Moat around

681
00:34:48,760 –> 00:34:51,639
a castle on the top of the hill
with barbed wire for people to

682
00:34:51,639 –> 00:34:53,719
look up and say, hey, there’s
where our God dwells.

683
00:34:54,360 –> 00:34:58,160
But he doesn’t.
He puts high accessibility and

684
00:34:58,160 –> 00:35:01,720
says I want to dwell in the
midst of my children.

685
00:35:01,920 –> 00:35:05,160
I want them to be encamped
around me that I might dwell

686
00:35:05,160 –> 00:35:07,680
with them.
And then he uses body part words

687
00:35:07,680 –> 00:35:11,520
to describe the decoration and
the creation of the Tabernacle

688
00:35:11,520 –> 00:35:13,080
where other Hebrew words
applied.

689
00:35:13,640 –> 00:35:16,680
I mean, you ever noticed that we
have the mouth, the lips, the

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00:35:16,680 –> 00:35:19,920
ribs, skin, all these things?
There were other Hebrew words to

691
00:35:19,920 –> 00:35:22,640
describe the building of the
Tabernacle, but in his

692
00:35:22,800 –> 00:35:26,280
inspiration he wanted us to see
ourselves in that.

693
00:35:27,800 –> 00:35:29,200
If we want to.
Be part of the will of the

694
00:35:29,200 –> 00:35:31,440
Father forever.
He wants to abide with us

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00:35:31,440 –> 00:35:33,560
forever.
And that’s the message we’ll

696
00:35:33,560 –> 00:35:35,240
we’ll do a little bit later in
the week.

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00:35:35,240 –> 00:35:37,760
We’ll play with some Tabernacle
stuff, but that least hopefully

698
00:35:37,760 –> 00:35:41,120
wets your wets your appetite.
All right.

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00:35:41,120 –> 00:35:44,360
Verse 5 God saw the wickedness
that was great in the earth, and

700
00:35:44,360 –> 00:35:47,040
that the imagination of the
thoughts of the heart were only

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00:35:47,040 –> 00:35:50,000
evil continually.
Divine.

702
00:35:50,000 –> 00:35:53,760
Inspection and commentary.
God saw, He’s inspected, and now

703
00:35:53,760 –> 00:35:55,560
he’s giving us his summary
version.

704
00:35:56,000 –> 00:36:01,040
All of this evil perpetually.
He’d seen this all along.

705
00:36:01,160 –> 00:36:03,960
Now it was time for action.
The majority?

706
00:36:03,960 –> 00:36:08,080
Of population was ignoring his
established order of things and

707
00:36:08,080 –> 00:36:12,120
preferring their own order.
What’s the epitaph to the

708
00:36:12,120 –> 00:36:16,280
judges?
Did.

709
00:36:16,280 –> 00:36:18,200
Everyone did that which was
right in their own eyes.

710
00:36:18,200 –> 00:36:20,560
Let me ask you a question.
How many of you intentionally do

711
00:36:20,560 –> 00:36:23,240
that which is wrong in your own
eyes like it’s your goal?

712
00:36:24,480 –> 00:36:25,520
So we read.
That we go.

713
00:36:25,680 –> 00:36:27,320
Everyone did that which is right
in their own eyes.

714
00:36:27,320 –> 00:36:29,760
Those silly fools.
Wait a minute.

715
00:36:30,800 –> 00:36:32,400
I think that’s what I do.
Yeah, exactly.

716
00:36:32,400 –> 00:36:35,080
That’s why it’s recorded for our
learning, so that when we see

717
00:36:35,080 –> 00:36:38,560
them, we see us.
We see us as a people if we

718
00:36:38,560 –> 00:36:41,920
don’t acknowledge the
sovereignty of our King in the

719
00:36:41,920 –> 00:36:44,880
life that we live and do what is
right in our own eyes.

720
00:36:44,880 –> 00:36:46,760
We are no different than
wandering Israel in the time

721
00:36:46,760 –> 00:36:49,480
period of the judges.
Good news for them and us is

722
00:36:49,480 –> 00:36:52,280
they could go back and go, wait
a minute, we need to redirect

723
00:36:52,480 –> 00:36:55,040
and a strong leader came up and
helped them go that direction

724
00:36:55,280 –> 00:36:57,720
and they served God all the days
of the elder of Joshua and the

725
00:36:57,720 –> 00:36:59,880
elders that overlived Joshua.
You all, you know all these

726
00:36:59,880 –> 00:37:01,320
verses.
The point is.

727
00:37:02,320 –> 00:37:04,160
They did that which.
Is right in their own eyes.

728
00:37:04,480 –> 00:37:07,880
Nothing wrong with that.
Until you take the Father out.

729
00:37:07,880 –> 00:37:11,920
Because if all I see is what the
flesh is showing me, I am living

730
00:37:11,920 –> 00:37:13,800
the life of the judges.
But.

731
00:37:13,800 –> 00:37:16,240
If I am.
Letting God’s Word penetrate my

732
00:37:16,240 –> 00:37:20,160
thinking and alter my vision.
It’s not what’s right in my eyes

733
00:37:20,160 –> 00:37:22,000
now.
It’s what is right in the eyes

734
00:37:22,000 –> 00:37:24,480
of the Father.
And what Father doesn’t want to

735
00:37:24,480 –> 00:37:28,240
see His children see the things
He sees and learn and grow from

736
00:37:28,240 –> 00:37:30,080
them?
That’s what’s.

737
00:37:30,080 –> 00:37:33,800
On the table.
Jeremiah. 19 and 9 says the

738
00:37:33,800 –> 00:37:36,720
heart is deceitful above all
things, and desperately wicked.

739
00:37:37,200 –> 00:37:41,120
Who can know it for the time
period they they felt that the

740
00:37:41,320 –> 00:37:45,280
the seed of thinking was the
heart didn’t know what the brain

741
00:37:45,280 –> 00:37:47,440
was yet.
So the.

742
00:37:47,440 –> 00:37:53,160
Thinking of mankind is deceitful
and desperately wicked.

743
00:37:53,480 –> 00:37:58,360
We are so good at self delusion.
We are so.

744
00:37:58,360 –> 00:37:59,680
Good at it.
It’s easier to pick out in

745
00:37:59,680 –> 00:38:01,240
others.
It’s a lot more fun to pick out

746
00:38:01,240 –> 00:38:02,840
in others for sure.
But we are.

747
00:38:02,840 –> 00:38:05,400
Really good at convincing
ourselves what we want to do is

748
00:38:05,400 –> 00:38:07,720
write.
Boy, that is a dangerous way to

749
00:38:07,720 –> 00:38:09,680
study your Bible.
If you go to the.

750
00:38:09,680 –> 00:38:11,520
Bible and you’re looking for
what does it say?

751
00:38:11,640 –> 00:38:14,400
And follow your study to see
what God’s teaching you.

752
00:38:14,920 –> 00:38:17,600
Sometimes you find out you’ve
been wrong for a long time.

753
00:38:17,840 –> 00:38:20,600
It’s very refreshing, actually.
It’s a little frustrating

754
00:38:20,600 –> 00:38:22,040
sometimes, but it is very
refreshing.

755
00:38:22,320 –> 00:38:24,960
But if you only go to the Bible
looking for evidence that what

756
00:38:24,960 –> 00:38:28,880
theory you have is right, you’re
in danger because you’re going

757
00:38:28,880 –> 00:38:30,360
to find something.
You’re going to latch onto it

758
00:38:30,360 –> 00:38:32,680
like it’s proof.
But you’re not letting.

759
00:38:32,680 –> 00:38:35,200
God guide your thinking.
Now you’re trying to God guide

760
00:38:35,200 –> 00:38:38,480
the thinking of God, and none of
us would intentionally do that.

761
00:38:39,400 –> 00:38:41,360
But all of us.
Are naturally inclined to do it,

762
00:38:41,360 –> 00:38:45,160
and if we’re not careful, we go
to the Bible for support and

763
00:38:45,160 –> 00:38:47,800
evidence of our thinking, not to
reveal His thinking.

764
00:38:48,040 –> 00:38:51,760
Very subtle difference, but it
is the difference between me as

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00:38:51,760 –> 00:38:55,280
a person, us as an ecclesial
community, getting closer to the

766
00:38:55,280 –> 00:38:57,400
thinking of the Father and doing
things His way.

767
00:38:58,480 –> 00:39:00,040
Or following.
After my own flesh and doing

768
00:39:00,040 –> 00:39:01,400
what I think is right in my own
eyes.

769
00:39:02,680 –> 00:39:03,880
It’s that big.
Of a deal.

770
00:39:04,480 –> 00:39:08,240
We look at our day.
We’re surrounded by news.

771
00:39:09,400 –> 00:39:12,680
Social.
Media, anything that wants to

772
00:39:12,680 –> 00:39:15,680
get our attention for the flesh,
we can have access to it.

773
00:39:15,680 –> 00:39:17,840
Most of us have them in our
pockets or on our table.

774
00:39:17,840 –> 00:39:22,040
Now I understand the power of
the phone and the connectivity

775
00:39:22,040 –> 00:39:24,680
that can get and the value it
can bring.

776
00:39:25,560 –> 00:39:28,120
And the disgrace that can
happen, we have to be.

777
00:39:28,120 –> 00:39:31,120
Careful that we don’t let the
thinking of the world penetrate

778
00:39:31,120 –> 00:39:34,520
our hearts and minds so far that
we can’t even see it when it’s

779
00:39:34,520 –> 00:39:41,760
happening.
Verse 6 It repented Yahweh that

780
00:39:41,760 –> 00:39:45,480
he made man on the earth, and it
grieved him in his heart, the

781
00:39:45,480 –> 00:39:48,760
RSV says, and the Lord was
sorry.

782
00:39:50,080 –> 00:39:53,640
He was sorry.
That he had made man this is a

783
00:39:53,640 –> 00:39:58,760
father disappointed.
His name has been disgraced and

784
00:39:58,760 –> 00:40:00,800
he looks.
At the divine inspection and

785
00:40:00,800 –> 00:40:04,880
comes to the conclusion.
I should have, I never should

786
00:40:04,880 –> 00:40:07,720
have started with these people.
What a sad.

787
00:40:07,720 –> 00:40:10,720
Thing for a father to say of his
own household.

788
00:40:11,720 –> 00:40:14,000
So why did?
God create mankind in the 1st

789
00:40:14,000 –> 00:40:15,680
place.
I mean, he gave Adam and Eve

790
00:40:15,680 –> 00:40:17,880
free will, which means he knew
they’d disappoint him so it

791
00:40:17,880 –> 00:40:20,880
wasn’t a shock when they did.
He could have created him

792
00:40:20,880 –> 00:40:24,160
without free will and spared all
of this but the thing that the

793
00:40:24,160 –> 00:40:27,200
Father wants from us.
Is the free?

794
00:40:27,200 –> 00:40:30,080
Will offering of our love.
And the willingness.

795
00:40:30,080 –> 00:40:35,080
To be part of His love forever.
And we can’t give Him that if He

796
00:40:35,080 –> 00:40:38,360
doesn’t give us the opportunity
to disappoint Him and disrespect

797
00:40:38,360 –> 00:40:42,840
Him.
Which means for the handful that

798
00:40:42,840 –> 00:40:47,880
will be in the Kingdom, the
remnant, our God is willing to

799
00:40:47,920 –> 00:40:51,800
endure the tragedy of the
millions or billions that will

800
00:40:51,800 –> 00:40:53,960
not be in the Kingdom, that have
no interest in the Father.

801
00:40:54,920 –> 00:40:57,760
That’s how precious this price
tag is to Him.

802
00:40:59,200 –> 00:41:01,560
Why did he create?
Mankind in the 1st place, what

803
00:41:01,560 –> 00:41:03,680
was His purpose?
We all know this verse.

804
00:41:03,800 –> 00:41:05,640
You’re probably saying it in
your head right now.

805
00:41:06,440 –> 00:41:09,120
Truly, as I live, all the years
shall be filled with the glory

806
00:41:09,120 –> 00:41:11,000
of God.
It’s His stated purpose.

807
00:41:11,760 –> 00:41:14,240
So the question.
Is what are we doing right now

808
00:41:14,240 –> 00:41:18,360
to represent the glory of the
Father in our life?

809
00:41:19,280 –> 00:41:22,920
What am I?
Doing right now to be part of

810
00:41:22,920 –> 00:41:27,600
that glory to in some small
measure, be a representation of

811
00:41:27,600 –> 00:41:30,960
the Father.
To all I come in contact with.

812
00:41:31,840 –> 00:41:33,160
The objective.
Was glory.

813
00:41:33,400 –> 00:41:36,000
He saw the corruption and
violence, which we’ll talk about

814
00:41:36,000 –> 00:41:38,800
tomorrow.
People following their own way

815
00:41:38,800 –> 00:41:41,040
on a broad path that leads to
destruction.

816
00:41:41,640 –> 00:41:45,280
That’s what he saw and it was
exactly opposite of what he

817
00:41:45,280 –> 00:41:50,120
wanted, so he says.
I will destroy man, whom I’ve

818
00:41:50,120 –> 00:41:52,640
created from the face of the
earth, both man and beast.

819
00:41:53,120 –> 00:41:55,720
Creeping.
Thing fowls of the air, for it

820
00:41:55,720 –> 00:41:57,280
repented me that I have made
them.

821
00:41:58,520 –> 00:42:00,960
Now the word.
Destroy the RSV has blot out.

822
00:42:01,680 –> 00:42:05,720
I will blot out man.
See the time.

823
00:42:05,720 –> 00:42:08,720
For repentance has passed.
This is the judgment of the

824
00:42:08,720 –> 00:42:10,960
Father.
It’s no longer an opportunity to

825
00:42:10,960 –> 00:42:13,480
wake up, smell the coffee and
get your life back in order.

826
00:42:13,960 –> 00:42:18,400
The time is up, and so he is.
Going to reverse the order of

827
00:42:18,400 –> 00:42:20,000
creation.
And if you go through what we

828
00:42:20,000 –> 00:42:22,280
just read, we’re going to see
it’s a reverse order of Genesis

829
00:42:22,280 –> 00:42:26,000
chapter one.
This is God’s message to Noah.

830
00:42:27,440 –> 00:42:29,640
He says I.
Will destroy man whom I’ve

831
00:42:29,640 –> 00:42:31,400
created.
Because I’m.

832
00:42:31,600 –> 00:42:34,880
Repentant that I have made them
Amos 3.

833
00:42:34,880 –> 00:42:37,320
And seven says, surely the Lord
God will do nothing, but he

834
00:42:37,320 –> 00:42:40,080
revealeth his secret to his
servants, the prophets.

835
00:42:40,080 –> 00:42:44,400
And so here our God is giving
some insight to a man and his.

836
00:42:44,400 –> 00:42:47,760
Wife of what he’s?
About to do.

837
00:42:49,160 –> 00:42:50,280
Not to.
Terrify them.

838
00:42:51,000 –> 00:42:53,280
But in every.
Tragic act of the father.

839
00:42:53,280 –> 00:42:56,800
There is hope, and this is the
hope that’s being delivered.

840
00:42:57,360 –> 00:42:59,560
We saw it.
In Hebrews 11 and 7 already.

841
00:42:59,560 –> 00:43:02,000
I want to go back to that just a
moment.

842
00:43:04,760 –> 00:43:07,360
He is.
Acknowledged in Hebrews 11 and

843
00:43:07,360 –> 00:43:10,840
seven that he was being warned
of God, of things not seen yet.

844
00:43:11,480 –> 00:43:14,360
God is giving him a warning, and
we’ll talk about that in more

845
00:43:14,360 –> 00:43:18,480
detail tomorrow, but he’s giving
him a very specific warning.

846
00:43:19,120 –> 00:43:23,840
What is Noah’s response to the
warning of the signs of the

847
00:43:23,840 –> 00:43:27,240
times in his day?
Mood with.

848
00:43:27,240 –> 00:43:29,600
Fear.
And prepared.

849
00:43:29,600 –> 00:43:32,520
A means to save his house.
And by.

850
00:43:32,520 –> 00:43:35,320
Doing that, he had to condemn
the world because that was the

851
00:43:35,320 –> 00:43:39,360
exact opposite of everything
around him in the world, in the

852
00:43:39,360 –> 00:43:42,560
ecclesia and in his family.
That’s all he.

853
00:43:42,560 –> 00:43:45,560
Had.
We have been.

854
00:43:45,560 –> 00:43:48,680
Warned that the time of the
Lord’s coming is upon us.

855
00:43:49,680 –> 00:43:51,440
What is our?
Response.

856
00:43:53,040 –> 00:43:56,320
The time is now.
We have time to repent and

857
00:43:56,320 –> 00:44:00,000
change.
How do we respond to that Is

858
00:44:00,000 –> 00:44:03,720
everything?
Put aside your plans for a

859
00:44:03,720 –> 00:44:05,560
minute.
Put aside.

860
00:44:05,560 –> 00:44:09,800
What you’re going to do when you
get home from Bible school and

861
00:44:09,800 –> 00:44:12,000
ask yourself this question
Inside not out.

862
00:44:12,040 –> 00:44:14,640
This is the inside voice.
What?

863
00:44:14,760 –> 00:44:19,640
Am I actually doing right now to
be numbered amongst the

864
00:44:19,640 –> 00:44:22,280
faithful?
Not what I’m going.

865
00:44:22,280 –> 00:44:24,880
To do not what I used to do, not
what I could have done.

866
00:44:26,040 –> 00:44:29,000
What am I?
Doing right now to be numbered

867
00:44:29,000 –> 00:44:32,080
amongst the faithful.
If you don’t like your answer,

868
00:44:32,960 –> 00:44:34,480
you’re breathing and you can
change.

869
00:44:35,120 –> 00:44:38,920
The more often we ask those
reflective questions, the closer

870
00:44:38,920 –> 00:44:40,840
we can get to the thinking of
the Father.

871
00:44:41,080 –> 00:44:45,040
Because His define inspection we
have access to.

872
00:44:45,200 –> 00:44:47,320
We can do it all the time.
We say it every week.

873
00:44:47,320 –> 00:44:50,880
Let a man examine himself,
because if we look at ourselves

874
00:44:50,880 –> 00:44:53,560
the way that God looks at us, we
can do two things.

875
00:44:54,120 –> 00:44:57,000
We can be critical of the sin
that we try to hide, but we know

876
00:44:57,000 –> 00:45:00,160
it’s there and we can see past
the Sinner.

877
00:45:00,960 –> 00:45:03,720
And look to the.
Glory of what God can do with us

878
00:45:03,960 –> 00:45:06,480
if we let him.
That’s how our God sees us.

879
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That’s why he can look past our
sin, because He knows we are the

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miserable creatures we know we
are.

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But He can see glory beyond
that, and using the lens of the

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Father to inspect their own life
gives us a chance to put those

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things in order so that when his
inspection comes, we’re.

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Ready because we’ve.
Heeded the warning and acted.

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Let’s look at the.
End of the verse.

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He’s going to.
Move man beast creeping thing

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fouls the air and repented that
he made them.

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And I want to make sure we get
this point because it’s a very

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strong point in the beginning
chapters of Genesis.

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The animals are amoral.
They are not capable of sin.

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God did not look down and say
that squirrel is nasty, He’s got

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to go.
The animals are not the problem.

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The animals have been condemned
because of their proximity to

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the sinning human population.
They are guilty by association.

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God’s not after the animals.
Here the focus is on the human

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beings on the planet.
Who had contaminated God’s glory

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by disrespecting and
disregarding the Father and.

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So when we look at this pool of
nastiness that the Father is

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looking at, in the middle of
that inspection, we have this

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verse.
But Noah found grace.

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In the eyes of the Lord.
What an.

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Epitaph, that is.
Can you imagine having that been

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said of you in these last days?
The inspection was awful.

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My children were a disgrace.
But Dennis.

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Is going to find my grace.
That gives me chills just to say

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it.
What an.

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Amazing epitaph, that is for
this man and the rest of our

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time together This week will
primarily be focused on what he

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did to find that grace.
As that’s what.

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We all want for us and our.
Families.

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These are the.
Generations of Noah.

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Noah was a just man and perfect
in his generations and Noah

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walked with God.
Here’s a first snapshot as to

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why he found grace.
He was just.

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That means he was balanced.
We all try to balance the

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character of the Father.
We we struggle with finding that

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balance.
Some of us are more loving.

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Some of us could be more
judgmental.

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Some of us are better extending
mercy.

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Some of us are better at
standing up and saying this is

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wrong.
But our Father is capable of

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both in equal parts of
demonstrating the love that’s

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required for the healing and the
justice that’s required for

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preservation.
And you and I lean one way or

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the other.
We’re constantly fighting to

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find that balance, to emulate
the character of the Father.

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So we see that Noah was a
balanced man, and he was perfect

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or upright or complete, which.
Is what it means when we read

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perfect in the in the Old
Testament, he was upright or

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complete.
So what do we have?

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We have Noah, a balanced man who
was upright and complete.

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But why?
Was he balanced and upright?

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Incomplete.
Because.

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He walked God’s way.
He walked.

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God’s way.
And that’s why it was just and

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that’s why it was perfected.
He wasn’t walking in the way of

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his own thinking.
He was surrendering his thinking

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to doing things God’s way, and
because he walked with God’s

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way, he effectively was walking
with God.

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And where was God going?
To the Kingdom Ezekiel. 14 and

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20, we focused on a little bit
in the in the exhortation.

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Just want to touch it for a
moment because we didn’t talk

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really about the efforts that
these three made and how it

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impacted their family.
And that’s what we’re going to

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close with today.
All three of these, Noah, Daniel

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and Job, saved others by their
efforts.

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Both preaching and living a life
of faith allowed them to rescue

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others in a time of trial.
Ezekiel.

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Uses them as an example to
Israel to save their households.

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So let us heed the warning.
To save our household as well by

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learning what they did to
inherit life as we see that day

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approaching.
If it seemed.

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Evil unto you to serve the Lord.
Choose you this day whom you

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will serve, whether the gods
which our fathers served, that

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were on the other side of the
flood, or the gods of the

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Amorites, and whose land you
dwell but as.

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For me in my house.
We will serve.

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The Lord.