Dennis Bevans – Noah – Saving Your Family in a Dark World – Class 2 – All that God Commanded Him

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This is the Mid-Atlantic
Christadelphian Bible School for

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2022.
Our third class will commence.

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Our third speaker this morning
is Brother Dennis Bevans from

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the Austin Leander Ecclesia in
Texas.

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The theme for Brother Dennis’s
class this week is Noah Saving

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Your Family in a Dark World.
Today’s class is entitled All

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That God Commanded Him.
Genesis chapter 6 verse 10 to

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22.
I get to open with a confession.

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I mean, Jason started this so
it’s his fault, but I have a

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much more recent infraction to
confess.

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Yesterday I said we would solve
the math dilemma by the end of

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the day.
And those of you that were

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waiting for some magical
information to happen during the

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day, sorry if that would, if
this was a study weekend, you

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would have got it by the end of
the day, but it’s not, which

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means you get it the next day.
So we’re going to open with the

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math solution.
So those of you that have really

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had trouble since I said that,
I’m hoping to earn the relief

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right now.
We’ll pick up where we left off.

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And we left off with Noah
finding grace in the eyes of the

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Lord.
We see he was given a warning of

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120 years.
What was going to happen?

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And that he had three kids
mentioned by name at age 500.

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So that’s the little math lesson
we’re going to talk about right

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now.
Verse 10, Noah begat three sons,

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Shem, Ham and Japheth.
So let’s add a few details to

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this.
Shem, his name means name or

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renown.
We saw that in verse 4.

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So Shem, the name Hem means hot
or desert, and Japheth is open

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or expanded.
Chapter 10 verse 21 tells us he

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was the oldest of the three.
So the oldest of these three is

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Japheth.
And that Chapter 11 verse 10

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tells us Shem was two years
younger, which makes him 98 when

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the flood happened.
So our note from chapter 5 verse

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32, because he’s 500 years old.
So let’s put some math to work

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in Chapter 7, verse 6, which
we’ll talk about more tomorrow.

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He’s 600 years old when the
flood happens, so we’ll talk

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more about that tomorrow.
But today we’re going to focus

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on the math.
How many years of warning?

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120.
What is 600 -, 120, 480 How old

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were was the oldest of the three
children when they got on the

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ark?
100 So Japheth is 100, Shem is

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98, Hem is somewhere thereafter.
So they’ve got 120 years of

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warning, which means 20 years
after they were told by God

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we’re going to destroy this
planet.

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They looked at each other with
loving eyes and said, honey, the

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world’s a mess.
The ecclesia is gone.

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God’s going to wipe it all
clean.

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Let’s make some children, shall
we?

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Now I want you to put that in
perspective.

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This is the last days and the
thought of raising children in a

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violent, godless place was what
was happening in their life.

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This is a very dramatic detail
in the story we’re going to look

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at.
So we’re going to have some fun.

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But there’s a very serious
undertone at the beginning of

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this class, and that is, if they
had children after they were

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told that, and she’s not noted
as barren, is it possible they

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had other children before the
three that went on the arc?

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I will argue it’s not only
possible, it is likely.

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Now have you ever wondered why
Missus Noah’s not mentioned in

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this story?
Ever wondered why is she not

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mentioned?
She deserves to be mentioned.

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Well, the root of that goes back
to Genesis chapter 5.

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In Genesis chapter 5, the 1st 2
verses of the book of Death,

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because this one ends with and
he died and he died and he died

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and he died.
So everybody in here dies the

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book of the generation of Adam,
which makes sense as an Adam,

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all men die.
So we’ve got a good warm up.

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The day that God created man in
the likeness of God made he him

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male and female created he them,
he blessed them and called their

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name Adam in the day they were
created.

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The first genealogy in Scripture
makes this point for us and

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we’re going to carry it
throughout the rest of the

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Bible.
In the naming of the husband, we

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have the naming of the union as
these two have become one

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calling their name.
Adam tells us when we read about

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Noah, it is not Noah the loan
shark, it’s Noah and his wife

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

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their story and how it relates
to genealogy is 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 years

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

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going to destroy the planet they
were having these children on.

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Now, how many people were saved
on the Ark?

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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 children in

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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
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But these guys all got married.
Girls had to be somewhere.

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So we know they had other
children, but the one mentioned

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in the genealogy was at 130.
Then we have Seth, who’s 105

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when he has E Nos 90, has Kanan,
70, Mahalil 65, Jared 162.

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So he’s the one that was the
slow starter.

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Enoch at 65.
Now we’re going the right way

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again.
Methuselah, 187, he’s trying to

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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
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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 Mrs. 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
us.

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Not only do they know what it
takes to rescue their children

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from the world, but they
intimately know what it’s like

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to lose them to the 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 misses

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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 while

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preaching repentance.
And then for a moment imagine

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their cries for help as they
drown in the waters of judgment.

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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.

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

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they were asked to do.
The hard part was not building a

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boat.
The hard part was walking away

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from the family that had no
interest in the things of God.

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We are not alone in our
struggle.

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The scripture is loaded with
examples to show us that others

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have gone through what we are
that we can be related to in

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scripture.
And there are a lot of them that

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

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profound as this one.
Now our topic by its very tone

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takes on a somber tone itself
just by its nature.

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But there is a a good piece to
this too.

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The struggle before the glory or
a New Testament turns the cross

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before the crown.
So we get to see the glory,

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which is where we want to focus.
But before that glory, there is

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tragedy.
OK, so chapter 6, verse 11, the

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earth was corrupt before God and
was filled with violence.

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So again, this is the world we
want to have live it, we want to

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have children in.
It’s corrupt, it’s violent,

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there’s zero ecclesia.
Let’s make some children.

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I love that thought.
So the word corrupt is the same

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word that’s going to be
translated destroy in verse 13

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and verse 17 in this chapter.
So the earth now has been

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destroyed before God.
This means in Hebrew spoil or

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ruin.
So really literally the earth is

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spoiled now.
This is not soil contamination.

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This is the flesh running wild
as the planet and its

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inhabitants have chosen to
follow.

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The less of the flesh, the less
of the eyes and the pride of

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life rather than the way of God.
It’s an immoral population that

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God has inspected and judged.
This is not an environmental

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study.
God looked upon the earth.

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Behold, it was corrupt and all
flesh had corrupted his way upon

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the earth.
And there is the point his way

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going God’s way.
Here is the path that leads to

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life.
And we’re told Noah walked God’s

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way.
But then they’ve chosen their

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own way, a way that was better,
a way that might have matched

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what they would term is modern
sensibility.

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It it fit in better with the
thinking of the age, but it was

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not God’s direct path and
therefore it LED to death.

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Surrender and control are very
difficult things for human

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nature.
And this is not just for us.

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Our Lord Jesus struggled with
this too in his prayer in

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Gethsemane.
He was praying that God give him

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the strength to endure 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, but if

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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’s 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 doing things

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

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Surrendering what we think is
right to do what God thinks 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 button

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and say, wait a minute, is this
Dennis’s way or is this God’s

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way?
Well, they had corrupted their

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way and this goes back to
Genesis chapter 3.

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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 God’s

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way.
This comes up again in

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Revelation verse 11 a 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, judged.

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

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

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name small and great, and should
US destroy them that destroy the

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earth, and we compare it to our
day.

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What’s 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.
What’s destroying the earth

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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 is 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 taking care

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of the planet in an
environmental manner, and it’s

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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.
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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,

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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.
By the way, you notice that all

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the stuff you get on your phone
has got already got a filter, so

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you’re only getting information
that matches what you would like

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to see.
So you’re isolated in your own

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thinking, supporting your own
thinking, and you’re wondering

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whose path am I on?
The path of my thinking or the

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path of God’s thinking?
Because if we’re not

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intentionally trying to override
that, we are following the

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thinking of our own flesh and
getting all the support we need

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to do it.
Every news article, every

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advertisement.
You ever noticed that?

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It’s not really a mystery to
most of you.

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Maybe I’m slow, but you’re on
your phone.

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You might be looking something
up.

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Maybe you’re shopping for shoes,
I don’t know.

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But then amazingly, you get a
random e-mail from somebody that

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talks about a shoe sale and then
you start checking a sports

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score and by the way, there’s a
shoe sale going.

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Does that happen to everybody?
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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
did.

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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
we put this in our day.

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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 put through them and

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behold, I will destroy them with
the earth.

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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 and the tragedy

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of God’s judgment.
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 died five years

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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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given in mirrors.
We tied that nicely to today and

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the day of 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 of the Son
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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 stayed.

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It’s not that they didn’t hear
the message if they had

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disregarded it, they didn’t
intimately understand what God

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was trying to do to get them to
change for their own good

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because they were not interested
in God’s order for their lives

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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
the promises of Almighty God.

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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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the redemption of the remnants
is drawing.

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Not so, he says.
Make an ark of Gopher wood

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rooms.
Thou shalt make of the ark.

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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
there’s water around it.

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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 ice, Noah is told, here
is 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?

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I’m not interested in this
Gopher wood stuff.

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Maybe I’ll use balsa.
Probably a bad idea.

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So it’s good that God said Noah,
this is what you need to do is

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OK, we’ll do that.
And so the word ark, the only

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other use of this in Hebrew is
actually Exodus chapter 2 where

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we’re talking about Moses.
So the word was on my page.

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It didn’t just come out of
nowhere talking about Moses and

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his ark.
So the connection between the

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salvation of Israel and the
salvation of the family of Noah

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is made for us in Scripture.
And then we have the use of

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wood, which of course now is
being used to save the family, a

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type of salvation which we can
connect right to the cross of

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Jesus, which we will when we get
to chapter 8.

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The word rooms in the Hebrew
really means nests.

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So it was intended to be comfort
to the animals by God.

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So he’s been given direction 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
ark and the calling of the

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animals to the ark and the
preparations of the ark, the ark

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

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on to see even some of the
animals called out by name are

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direct 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 and

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baptism with waters all around,
a protective covering on the

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wood.
So the covering of sin requires

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the shedding of blood.
So we’ve got the covering that’s

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been provided by God in order
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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.

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Well, it gives us, since we like
feet here, 450 feet, 75 feet by

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45 feet high.
So that’s approximate dimensions

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using about 18 inches for a
cubit.

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This is a more modern ish
version of that if you will.

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Basically you’re looking at a
giant wooden box about the size

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of a football field.
If you add the track around it,

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maybe the first row or so of the
stands.

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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.
This 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, all right, God,

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let’s see what you got.
That’s a bad decision, as we

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know, but so 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 what he’s told, put a window

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

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the door of the ark.
Thou set in the side, lower,

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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

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different one than we’ll see in
chapter 8, verse six in a couple

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days.
This particular word is used 24

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times in the Old Testament.
I told you before, I get excited

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about things divisible by 7 and
12/24 times in the Old

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Testament.
This is the only one translated

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window.
The other 23 are all translated

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noon or noonday.
So what we have here is not what

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you and I would call a window,
but what we have is an opening

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across the upper layer of the
arc for ventilation.

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That makes sense.
You have a floating zoo.

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Think about this for a minute.
Animals don’t always smell

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great, let alone when they’ve
been hanging out together for a

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year or so and he’s providing
food and you know what happens

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after they eat.
So God thought of everything.

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He had a plan and he had
orchestrated it to the tee.

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Now, as we look at this, we get
to see the example of God

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knowing where this is going and
us trusting our God.

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And we’re going to talk about
that in detail later.

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I want to touch it right now.
This is one artist’s rendition.

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The reason I like it is because
it’s the shape of a box, not the

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Pretty Little, you know, boat
with like 7 animals on the top,

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which would not quite work.
And we see the giraffe and we

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wave.
It’s not the one that’s going to

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fit.
A giant floating box of three

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stories and roof on a window
line on top for ventilation is

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effectively what we have.
But here’s the part that’s just

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remarkable to me.
He’s told to build the door.

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There’s only one way in.
There’s only one way in.

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And that way is God’s way.
You make a hole in the side of

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this giant boat that I’m going
to make float.

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I’ll take care of the rest.
I want you to notice for just

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one second, there’s no education
here for him to build a pulley

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system to close this door.
And I want you to, for a moment,

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think when the rain starts
coming, God’s going to close

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00:26:01,520 –> 00:26:04,880
this door.
There’s a faith that God will

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because that faith that God will
close the door.

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If he doesn’t, then that boat is
just becomes your grave.

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But there’s also a mercy because
if God’s closing the door,

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you’re not the one doing it.
For those that might be running,

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00:26:20,920 –> 00:26:23,960
going, wait, we should have paid
more attention before now.

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I’m not trying to suggest that
Noah and his family lived in the

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suburbs and there were 800 homes
around them, but the odds of

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them having family in close
proximity are quite high.

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Let’s look at John 14 so we can
tie Jesus to the door as well.

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I am the way, the truth and the
life.

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No man cometh to the Father, but
by me.

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Two specific instructions let
light in, and there’s only one

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door.
And that lesson lies to us

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00:26:52,600 –> 00:26:54,000
today.
So let’s keep going back to

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Genesis.
Behold, I even I do bring a

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flood of waters upon the earth
to destroy all flesh, wherein

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there is breath of life from
under the heaven and everything

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00:27:01,560 –> 00:27:05,840
that in the earth shall die.
So water from the sky is what

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00:27:05,840 –> 00:27:07,160
he’s being told is going to
happen.

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And you and I go, hey, it’s
supposed to rain today, but is

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00:27:10,160 –> 00:27:12,960
anybody here really nervous that
we’re all going to die today?

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I mean, it might mess up the
afternoon plans.

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I recognize that.
But at the end of the day, we’re

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not in peril.
Water’s coming.

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We don’t have that fear because
water from the sky is normal to

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us.
But it was not normal to them,

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Not yet.
Rain was new.

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And that changes the dimension
to the story.

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Go back to Genesis chapter 2.
In Genesis chapter 2 we have

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every plant of the field, verse
5 before it was in the earth,

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every herb in the field before
it grew the Lord God had not

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caused it to rain upon the earth
and there was not a man to till

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the ground, but there went out a
midst from the earth and the and

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watered the whole face of the
ground.

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Does anyone read that and think
that’s God’s way of telling us a

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weather report on some unknown
day in the Genesis creation

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account?
The.

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00:28:05,280 –> 00:28:09,960
Reason that verse is there is to
add emphasis to the story of

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Noah.
At this point, the ground was

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being taken care of by a midst
provided by our heavenly Father.

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It was not being taken care of
by water falling from the sky.

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The first actual occurrence of
rain on the planet is actually

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the story of the flood, and that
changes this dynamic a lot.

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See, that’s why when the rainbow
was given as a token, it’s so

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when it rains again, you’re
like, oh, we didn’t know what to

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00:28:35,480 –> 00:28:36,680
do.
We didn’t have another boat

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00:28:36,680 –> 00:28:38,880
ready.
Oh, it’s going to be normal

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00:28:38,880 –> 00:28:41,360
after this.
And suddenly, if you start

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00:28:41,360 –> 00:28:43,680
thinking about just going with
the scientists for a minute

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00:28:43,680 –> 00:28:47,760
here, the age of everybody gets
a lot smaller too, doesn’t it?

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00:28:48,800 –> 00:28:52,000
Oh, you mean the cloud cover is
coming and going and not a

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00:28:52,000 –> 00:28:54,640
constant protection of the
radiation from the sun?

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That couldn’t have anything to
do with it.

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00:28:56,000 –> 00:28:59,520
I’m sure it’s coincidence, but
the point here is that now we’re

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being told water is going to
come from the sky.

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And when it does, you’ve got to
be ready.

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00:29:04,240 –> 00:29:07,440
And in fact, if you want to
reinforce that Hebrews 11 verse

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00:29:07,440 –> 00:29:09,520
7, which we’ve already looked at
half a dozen times, don’t worry,

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00:29:09,520 –> 00:29:12,720
we’ll do it 5 or 6 more.
It says he’s warned of God, of

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00:29:12,720 –> 00:29:20,720
something not seen as yet.
He is about to be told this is

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00:29:20,720 –> 00:29:25,280
new, Get ready.
So to put this in perspective, I

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00:29:25,280 –> 00:29:30,080
want you and I to just a moment
think of what would happen if an

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00:29:30,080 –> 00:29:32,200
Angel came and talked to you
tonight.

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00:29:32,720 –> 00:29:34,720
I’m not suggesting this, Will.
I just want you to imagine and

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00:29:34,720 –> 00:29:39,560
play along and said, OK, you
guys are hanging out in

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00:29:39,560 –> 00:29:43,520
Pennsylvania.
There’s a giant volcano you’re

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00:29:43,520 –> 00:29:46,160
not aware of.
It’s about a mile outside of

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00:29:46,160 –> 00:29:50,400
Shippensburg.
What we’d like you to do is

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00:29:50,400 –> 00:29:54,120
build a giant bomb shelter,
concrete and steel.

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00:29:55,080 –> 00:29:56,800
We’ll give you a couple weeks to
do it because there’s more than

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00:29:56,800 –> 00:30:01,240
8 of you and you need to tell
everyone why you’re building it

506
00:30:01,240 –> 00:30:03,960
so that you can be preserved
because when the lava flows,

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00:30:03,960 –> 00:30:06,680
it’s going to kill everything
that’s not in your bomb shelter.

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00:30:06,800 –> 00:30:08,600
I’ll give you the directions.
I’m not going to set you up for

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00:30:08,600 –> 00:30:10,960
failure.
And then, by the way, just

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00:30:10,960 –> 00:30:12,800
explain to everybody why you’re
doing this.

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00:30:13,840 –> 00:30:15,600
Would you not look and feel
crazy?

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00:30:17,840 –> 00:30:19,680
You, if you wouldn’t, then
you’re much better than me.

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00:30:19,760 –> 00:30:21,640
I’d feel like a nut.
And you would look like 1.

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00:30:21,640 –> 00:30:23,440
By the way, even if you didn’t
feel it, you’d look nuts.

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00:30:23,600 –> 00:30:26,280
Hey, the volcano in Pennsylvania
is going to erupt.

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00:30:27,720 –> 00:30:29,040
Oh, yeah.
We’re all nervous now, aren’t

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00:30:29,040 –> 00:30:30,920
we?
We need we need to go.

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00:30:30,920 –> 00:30:32,840
Let’s move the Bible school.
No, we’re not worried.

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00:30:32,840 –> 00:30:35,160
We’re not afraid.
But that would be new.

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00:30:35,560 –> 00:30:37,520
And if you were told something
that was new and you had

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00:30:37,520 –> 00:30:40,120
exclusive information and
everybody else didn’t know, they

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00:30:40,120 –> 00:30:43,600
would just think you were crazy.
And now you can understand how

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00:30:43,600 –> 00:30:46,480
no one misses Noah would have
felt when they said, well, we

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00:30:46,520 –> 00:30:47,800
need a couple extra
shipbuilders.

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00:30:47,800 –> 00:30:50,360
We can’t can’t get anybody else
on this planet to help us.

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00:30:50,680 –> 00:30:56,840
Let’s make a few, behold, I even
I do bring a flood of waters to

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00:30:56,840 –> 00:31:00,360
destroy all flesh, wherein there
is the breath of life from under

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00:31:00,360 –> 00:31:02,280
the heaven, and everything that
is in the earth shall die.

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00:31:02,600 –> 00:31:05,120
So the special note at the end
of this verse, everything that

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00:31:05,120 –> 00:31:08,600
is in the earth shall die, is
letting us know the fish are

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00:31:08,600 –> 00:31:10,640
excluded from this.
And that’s where we have to be

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00:31:10,640 –> 00:31:12,440
careful.
Let the Bible tell us what it’s

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00:31:12,440 –> 00:31:15,080
saying.
Let’s not try to pin God into a

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00:31:15,080 –> 00:31:17,000
corner so small that we can
explain it.

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00:31:17,680 –> 00:31:20,240
So he’s given us the detail.
The focus is not the animals.

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00:31:20,960 –> 00:31:22,680
So the fish, they’re going to be
fine.

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00:31:22,760 –> 00:31:27,280
Their little apartments going to
turn into a mansion, Lots more

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00:31:27,280 –> 00:31:31,320
water to work with.
So it’s an interesting thought

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00:31:32,160 –> 00:31:35,600
that the only time this word in
the Hebrew translated flood is

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00:31:35,600 –> 00:31:39,520
used outside of Genesis 6
through 11 is actually Psalm 29,

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verse 10.
The Lord sitteth upon the flood.

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00:31:43,400 –> 00:31:45,400
Yeah, the Lord sitteth king
forever.

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00:31:45,720 –> 00:31:48,040
The Lord will give strength unto
His people, and the Lord will

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00:31:48,040 –> 00:31:51,840
bless His people with peace.
So the blessing of peace comes

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00:31:52,760 –> 00:31:57,160
to those that choose God’s way.
It’s a grand and direct contrast

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00:31:57,360 –> 00:31:59,320
to the way of the flesh and the
turmoil and destruction that

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00:31:59,320 –> 00:32:01,120
comes when we choose our own
way.

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00:32:02,880 –> 00:32:04,720
With Thee I will establish my
covenant.

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00:32:04,920 –> 00:32:07,200
Thou shalt come into the ark,
thou and thy sons, and thy wife,

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00:32:07,200 –> 00:32:09,240
and thy sons wives with thee.
So the first time the word

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00:32:09,240 –> 00:32:13,920
covenant is used is right here.
Remember Numbers 14 and 21.

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00:32:13,920 –> 00:32:15,720
God’s purpose is to fill the
earth with His glory.

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00:32:15,720 –> 00:32:19,560
This is the reset button He is
hitting right now, but his goal

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00:32:19,560 –> 00:32:22,080
did not change.
He is still going to fill the

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00:32:22,080 –> 00:32:25,400
earth of His glory, and he’s
invited this small ecclesia to

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00:32:25,400 –> 00:32:29,000
be a part of the rebuild effort.
There’ll be more numerology in

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00:32:29,000 –> 00:32:31,200
the next class, maybe so much
that you won’t want to hear it

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00:32:31,200 –> 00:32:33,120
by the end of the next class.
But we’re going to hold the

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00:32:33,120 –> 00:32:36,480
number 7, which by the way, next
the next class, Genesis Chapter

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00:32:36,480 –> 00:32:38,760
7 is called Sevens, so brace
yourself.

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00:32:39,600 –> 00:32:44,160
Just like Christ, Noah had to
save himself in order to save

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00:32:44,160 –> 00:32:47,600
others.
Jesus had to lay down his life

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00:32:47,600 –> 00:32:52,240
to give you and I hope if he had
decided at Gethsemane, I’m out,

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00:32:52,240 –> 00:32:54,760
that’s not for me.
He could not be the offering for

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00:32:54,760 –> 00:32:57,840
our sin.
So he had to save himself before

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00:32:57,840 –> 00:32:59,960
he could save others.
There’s a representative example

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00:32:59,960 –> 00:33:01,640
for this.
How many of you came in on an

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00:33:01,640 –> 00:33:05,160
airplane to get to the school?
So there’s a few of us.

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00:33:05,360 –> 00:33:07,760
You remember the announcement
that says, you know, if you’re

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00:33:07,760 –> 00:33:12,160
travelling with children and the
masks fall down, put the mask on

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00:33:12,160 –> 00:33:14,320
yourself before you put it on
your child.

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00:33:14,840 –> 00:33:17,360
And if you’re traveling with two
children, pick the one you like

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00:33:17,360 –> 00:33:18,800
the most.
You remember that one?

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00:33:19,480 –> 00:33:25,240
OK, so the point is, if our
natural inclination is no air, I

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00:33:25,240 –> 00:33:27,880
need to get air to my kid.
But if you have no air, you

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00:33:27,880 –> 00:33:30,560
can’t help your kid get your
air.

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00:33:30,880 –> 00:33:33,720
Help your kid get their air.
That’s a better plan than they

578
00:33:33,720 –> 00:33:34,720
get air.
And then they watch you

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00:33:34,720 –> 00:33:36,560
suffocate.
So it makes sense.

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00:33:36,800 –> 00:33:41,360
So the concept, save yourself
before you save others.

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00:33:41,360 –> 00:33:44,280
That’s not selfish.
That’s the same concept of

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00:33:44,280 –> 00:33:46,440
ecclesial life.
If all I’m trying to do is fix

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00:33:46,440 –> 00:33:50,480
you and take no regard for
fixing me, I’m not helping you.

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00:33:51,000 –> 00:33:54,880
I’m not helping anyone.
But if I can focus on fixing my

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00:33:54,880 –> 00:33:59,040
life and then help hopefully be
an example in your life, now

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00:33:59,040 –> 00:34:01,120
we’re working together and
that’s the ecclesial family.

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00:34:01,240 –> 00:34:04,640
So a focus has to 1st put in
order the things of God in my

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00:34:04,640 –> 00:34:07,040
life and then export it for all
of us.

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00:34:07,040 –> 00:34:10,400
To save our family in The Dark
World is to personally dedicate

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00:34:10,400 –> 00:34:15,480
our lives to the service of and
surrender to our Almighty Father

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00:34:15,760 –> 00:34:19,639
in such a way that I.
Even our closest contacts see us

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00:34:19,639 –> 00:34:23,080
as a blessing and we think of.
This word murmuring.

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00:34:23,920 –> 00:34:26,719
Murmuring is something that’s
very easy for human beings to

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00:34:26,719 –> 00:34:28,040
do.
We’re all designed with it.

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00:34:28,040 –> 00:34:31,159
In fact, in the wilderness,
ecclesia in the wilderness,

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00:34:31,159 –> 00:34:34,280
there are two words used
interchangeably to describe

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00:34:34,880 –> 00:34:36,920
murmuring.
In fact, it’s all translated

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00:34:36,920 –> 00:34:38,080
murmuring.
But there are two different

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00:34:38,080 –> 00:34:39,920
words.
One of them, well, that means

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00:34:39,920 –> 00:34:41,360
murmuring or complaining.
That’s easy.

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00:34:42,120 –> 00:34:49,800
The other one, up all night.
So the ecclesia was up all night

602
00:34:49,800 –> 00:34:53,400
complaining about who?
God and his provisions, the

603
00:34:53,400 –> 00:34:57,600
ecclesial leadership, the lack
of provisions let.

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00:34:58,640 –> 00:34:59,800
Me.
Think about this for a second.

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00:35:00,120 –> 00:35:02,600
It’s not really going the way it
used to be, better my way.

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00:35:02,600 –> 00:35:05,400
We used to have a better option.
And I’m sure none of that has

607
00:35:05,480 –> 00:35:07,280
ever happened at your dinner
table, has it?

608
00:35:07,400 –> 00:35:10,200
If we ever had a conversation
around the dinner table and we

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00:35:10,200 –> 00:35:13,600
start talking about what brother
or sister so and so said or did

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00:35:14,360 –> 00:35:18,000
or you know what the the person
in the ecclesia who said

611
00:35:18,000 –> 00:35:19,760
something that hurt your
feelings or did something, you

612
00:35:19,760 –> 00:35:23,440
can’t believe it.
Now if you’re going to have

613
00:35:23,440 –> 00:35:25,120
these.
Conversations at home in front

614
00:35:25,120 –> 00:35:26,560
of your children.
Is it a surprise?

615
00:35:26,560 –> 00:35:28,200
Our children grow up and go, I
don’t know that I really want to

616
00:35:28,200 –> 00:35:29,960
be a part of that mess.
They don’t even like each other.

617
00:35:31,160 –> 00:35:33,920
That’s the lesson of the
ecclesia in the wilderness.

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00:35:34,640 –> 00:35:38,680
So here, who knows the mistakes
that Noah and misses Noah made

619
00:35:38,680 –> 00:35:43,040
with their other possible
children, but not with these.

620
00:35:43,480 –> 00:35:45,920
They had an opportunity to focus
on getting it right.

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It’s kind of somber when you
think.

622
00:35:48,960 –> 00:35:51,840
Of it that way, doesn’t it?
Of every.

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00:35:51,840 –> 00:35:54,120
Living thing of all.
Flesh 2 of every sort thou shalt

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00:35:54,120 –> 00:35:57,400
bring into the ark, and keep
them alive with thee they shall

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00:35:57,400 –> 00:36:00,000
be male and female.
And I love this picture because

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00:36:00,000 –> 00:36:02,120
you got more than two sheep at
the bottom.

627
00:36:03,480 –> 00:36:07,560
Verse 20 of fowls after their
kind, cattle after their kind,

628
00:36:07,560 –> 00:36:09,840
creeping thing after their kind.
Every source will come and keep

629
00:36:09,840 –> 00:36:11,880
them alive.
This is an important detail.

630
00:36:11,880 –> 00:36:18,680
Noah is to receive, not collect.
See, it’s not up to you or I to

631
00:36:18,680 –> 00:36:21,120
decide who deserves to be called
out of the waters.

632
00:36:22,480 –> 00:36:26,640
Our God does the calling.
But we have to be ready and

633
00:36:26,640 –> 00:36:31,400
prepared to receive them through
the one light and God’s door.

634
00:36:32,440 –> 00:36:36,280
That’s the message God isn’t
sending Noah to go out.

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00:36:36,280 –> 00:36:38,760
Hey, I’ve got a checklist of
species you need to find.

636
00:36:38,760 –> 00:36:40,080
Some of these you probably never
even see.

637
00:36:40,680 –> 00:36:42,240
Don’t worry about that.
You get it ready.

638
00:36:43,240 –> 00:36:46,240
I’ll do the harvest.
I will glean from the

639
00:36:46,240 –> 00:36:48,920
population.
Of course, we can’t help but see

640
00:36:48,920 –> 00:36:52,000
the calling of the Gentiles out
of the sea of darkness to be

641
00:36:52,000 –> 00:36:54,120
drawn to the saving wood in the
covering of God.

642
00:36:55,480 –> 00:36:57,040
Notice there’s.
No mention of sea life.

643
00:36:57,040 –> 00:37:00,560
We have the cattle creeping
things, but there’s no aquarium

644
00:37:00,560 –> 00:37:01,840
on the ark.
It’s unnecessary.

645
00:37:01,840 –> 00:37:04,800
God’s got that covered.
This is actually another

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reference to John.
John 6 verse 44.

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No man can come to me except the
Father which hath sent me.

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Draw him and I will raise him up
in the last day.

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00:37:16,680 –> 00:37:19,000
Direct reference to the work of
the of Noah in the flood.

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00:37:19,960 –> 00:37:21,880
You mean lift him up off the
earth?

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00:37:21,880 –> 00:37:24,240
Sounds kind of like what happens
in the next chapter when they’re

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00:37:24,240 –> 00:37:27,560
elevated by water and preserved
to convert the world to

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00:37:27,560 –> 00:37:29,080
righteousness.
I’m sure that’s all

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00:37:29,080 –> 00:37:31,560
coincidental.
Verse 21.

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00:37:33,440 –> 00:37:36,840
And take thou unto thee all the.
Food that is eaten, thou shalt

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00:37:36,840 –> 00:37:38,840
gather it to thee.
It shall be food for thee and

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00:37:38,840 –> 00:37:40,920
for them.
So now he’s told to go prepare,

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00:37:41,000 –> 00:37:44,000
not just for your meal for the
next, you know, year or so.

659
00:37:44,880 –> 00:37:46,400
We got some animals we’re going
to have to take care of.

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00:37:46,400 –> 00:37:48,920
God brings the animals.
Noah gets the food.

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00:37:48,920 –> 00:37:51,640
Is that not a nice picture of
Jesus feeding the nations

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00:37:51,640 –> 00:37:54,880
brought to him by God?
The two miracles of the feeding

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00:37:55,160 –> 00:37:58,280
4005 thousand.
Oh, it’s amazing how all these

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00:37:58,280 –> 00:38:02,000
things come together, the early
parts of Genesis impacting so

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00:38:02,000 –> 00:38:05,200
much of the work of our Lord.
Now here’s some food for

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00:38:05,200 –> 00:38:08,800
thought, pun intended.
Either all of the animals are

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00:38:08,800 –> 00:38:12,160
going to be vegetarian
temporarily, like an identic

668
00:38:12,160 –> 00:38:15,040
state, because I’m having
trouble picturing, you know, the

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00:38:15,040 –> 00:38:16,560
lion and the lamb hanging out
together.

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00:38:17,720 –> 00:38:19,600
Not at least that.
Unless of course, God is in

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00:38:19,600 –> 00:38:22,640
control and has made them all
happy vegetarians, which that

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00:38:22,760 –> 00:38:27,280
phrase sounds strange to me.
Or all the carnivores are just

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00:38:27,280 –> 00:38:29,920
going to hibernate for a while,
which is also possible.

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00:38:30,160 –> 00:38:32,920
And here’s the point.
We’re not told how God did it,

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00:38:33,680 –> 00:38:37,200
We’re just told that He did.
Now, I gave you two options that

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00:38:37,200 –> 00:38:39,600
would work.
Could there be more?

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00:38:40,160 –> 00:38:41,920
There probably is.
There’s probably one I’ve never

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00:38:41,920 –> 00:38:42,960
even thought of.
God’s a Dennis.

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00:38:42,960 –> 00:38:44,160
Don’t worry about this, I got
it.

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00:38:45,080 –> 00:38:48,040
See, without God in control,
this is impossible.

681
00:38:49,080 –> 00:38:51,160
But with God in control,
nothing’s impossible.

682
00:38:51,520 –> 00:38:55,800
The critical point was the
object lesson that when we turn

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00:38:55,800 –> 00:39:00,800
over our life to God and trust
His wisdom, we stopped leaning

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00:39:00,800 –> 00:39:03,280
on our own thinking.
Like so many other things in

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00:39:03,280 –> 00:39:06,320
life, we need to focus on what
the Bible says and not try to

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00:39:06,320 –> 00:39:07,840
fill in the space with what it
does not.

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00:39:08,000 –> 00:39:10,480
So since you guys like
controversial things, here’s a

688
00:39:10,480 –> 00:39:13,120
good one.
It is perfectly fine to have an

689
00:39:13,120 –> 00:39:14,280
opinion.
Just don’t be.

690
00:39:14,400 –> 00:39:17,320
Just don’t be so bold as to
think your opinion is the only

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00:39:17,320 –> 00:39:20,320
one reasonable that fits with a
thus say at the Lord.

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00:39:20,320 –> 00:39:22,400
If you have a thus say at the
Lord, use it.

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00:39:22,520 –> 00:39:24,120
Your opinion doesn’t matter,
neither does mine.

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00:39:24,120 –> 00:39:26,760
God’s opinion wins.
But if we’re not told,

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00:39:27,760 –> 00:39:29,960
rationalizing your mind to make
sense, fair enough.

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00:39:29,960 –> 00:39:32,840
But don’t make it God’s word
when it’s not.

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00:39:33,040 –> 00:39:37,480
And this is a great example of
that, that we’ll talk a little

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00:39:37,480 –> 00:39:40,160
bit more in Chapter 7.
But whether the flood was

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00:39:40,160 –> 00:39:44,960
worldwide or whether the flood
was regional, here’s the great

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00:39:44,960 –> 00:39:48,760
part.
It doesn’t matter if all.

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00:39:48,760 –> 00:39:50,600
The humans on the planet died.
God is right.

702
00:39:51,600 –> 00:39:53,760
So could he have flooded the
entire planet, which science

703
00:39:53,760 –> 00:39:56,360
says is impossible?
Sure, God can trump science.

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00:39:56,920 –> 00:40:00,360
Could he have chosen just to
flood the Middle East, where all

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00:40:00,360 –> 00:40:02,160
the humans were?
And maybe that explains why

706
00:40:02,160 –> 00:40:04,440
there’s diversity as a species
around the planet.

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00:40:05,000 –> 00:40:07,040
Could have done that too.
There’s a lot of things God

708
00:40:07,040 –> 00:40:08,600
could have done.
The animals weren’t the problem.

709
00:40:09,600 –> 00:40:12,400
So we don’t have to argue with
the science that suggests one,

710
00:40:12,400 –> 00:40:14,680
because you can make an argument
for both scientifically, by the

711
00:40:14,680 –> 00:40:17,440
way, now, neither one of them is
great, but they both exist.

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00:40:18,280 –> 00:40:20,360
But as long as I don’t put God
in a corner, I can understand.

713
00:40:20,360 –> 00:40:21,480
I can say, hey, all the humans
died.

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00:40:21,480 –> 00:40:24,640
God wins, and now it doesn’t
matter because in the Kingdom

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00:40:24,640 –> 00:40:26,400
age, there’s probably an answer
to that.

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00:40:26,440 –> 00:40:28,480
I have no doubt that God’s going
to say, hey, Dennis, here’s what

717
00:40:28,480 –> 00:40:30,080
I did.
Oh, that’s kind of cool.

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00:40:30,480 –> 00:40:32,840
But I never said God couldn’t do
this or God couldn’t do that.

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00:40:32,840 –> 00:40:35,680
God could do anything, so let’s
not pin him in a corner so small

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00:40:35,680 –> 00:40:38,160
we can understand it.
We’ll get a very profound

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00:40:38,160 –> 00:40:41,960
example of that tomorrow.
And so here’s our title verse

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00:40:41,960 –> 00:40:45,280
thus didn’t know according to
all, not most, not some, not a

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00:40:45,280 –> 00:40:48,360
few of the good things that he
found all that God commanded

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00:40:48,360 –> 00:40:49,440
him.
So he did.

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00:40:49,880 –> 00:40:52,240
And so that’s the closing
statement from warning to

726
00:40:52,240 –> 00:40:54,880
preparation.
God gives him a warning, He

727
00:40:54,880 –> 00:40:58,480
gives him instructions and they
follow all that God had

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00:40:58,480 –> 00:41:00,640
commanded.
And therein lies the instruction

729
00:41:00,640 –> 00:41:02,880
to us.
We have a Thus saith the Lord.

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00:41:02,880 –> 00:41:05,360
Debate is over.
That’s what we do without a Thus

731
00:41:05,360 –> 00:41:07,000
saith the Lord.
We work together to do what we

732
00:41:07,000 –> 00:41:11,200
think is decent in an order.
Now we mentioned earlier in this

733
00:41:11,200 –> 00:41:13,400
class we would close with some
genealogy because I saw

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00:41:13,400 –> 00:41:15,640
everybody get excited when I
said Genesis chapter 5.

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00:41:16,520 –> 00:41:18,840
So we’re going to conclude our
thoughts this morning in Matthew

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00:41:18,840 –> 00:41:23,640
Chapter 1.
Matthew, Chapter 1.

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00:41:23,840 –> 00:41:27,640
The first verse says the book of
the generation of Jesus Christ,

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00:41:27,640 –> 00:41:29,760
the son of David, the son of
Abraham.

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00:41:30,560 –> 00:41:32,800
This is the opening verse of the
New Testament.

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00:41:33,440 –> 00:41:36,080
So there’s some details that I
think are highly relevant.

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00:41:36,080 –> 00:41:38,320
Remember, we keep talking about
the influence of the early parts

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00:41:38,320 –> 00:41:40,320
of Genesis.
Let’s make sure we see them

743
00:41:40,320 –> 00:41:45,920
here.
This phrase, the generations,

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00:41:46,040 –> 00:41:51,640
appears 14 times in the Bible.
Another.

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00:41:51,640 –> 00:41:53,280
One of our sevens for our class.
Tomorrow.

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00:41:53,760 –> 00:41:59,120
But only twice in the Bible do
we have a book of the

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00:41:59,120 –> 00:42:01,040
generations.
Only two of them are noted as a

748
00:42:01,040 –> 00:42:03,040
book.
The.

749
00:42:03,040 –> 00:42:06,800
Book of the Generations.
Of Jesus Christ in Genesis

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00:42:06,800 –> 00:42:10,560
chapter 5, the book of the
generation of Adam, the book of

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00:42:10,560 –> 00:42:16,000
death, the book of life.
We already quoted this, but it’s

752
00:42:16,000 –> 00:42:18,360
probably worth reading.
First Corinthians 1522.

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00:42:18,360 –> 00:42:21,240
As an Adam all die, so in Christ
shall all be made alive.

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00:42:21,240 –> 00:42:26,720
And that section ends with
things being put in subjection

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00:42:26,720 –> 00:42:31,280
to the Son, that he would be
subject to the Father, that God

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00:42:31,280 –> 00:42:35,640
may be all and in all, or
another way to say that that we

757
00:42:35,640 –> 00:42:40,800
might Tabernacle with the Father
through the Son for eternity.

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00:42:41,840 –> 00:42:44,760
It ties directly to the subdue
and add dominion.

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00:42:44,760 –> 00:42:47,000
I have dominion part.
I’m getting off topic, but we’ll

760
00:42:47,000 –> 00:42:49,200
circle back there in a couple
evenings.

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00:42:50,200 –> 00:42:56,400
Now the Matthew 1 genealogy
details a line of Jesus in 42

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00:42:56,400 –> 00:43:00,080
generations, which is 14 * 3 if
you’re keeping score.

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00:43:00,840 –> 00:43:04,120
Now can we all?
Agree that.

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00:43:04,120 –> 00:43:07,200
Every time a baby is born, a
woman’s involved.

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00:43:07,240 –> 00:43:12,120
Anyone arguing my premise?
OK, so we’re at least.

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00:43:12,960 –> 00:43:14,960
Some of you are arguing.
I’m a little nervous, but no.

767
00:43:14,960 –> 00:43:16,360
OK.
All right.

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00:43:16,560 –> 00:43:19,560
So if we got 42 babies born,
that means at least 42 women

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00:43:19,560 –> 00:43:22,560
here are now involved.
And we mentioned in genealogies

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00:43:22,560 –> 00:43:25,160
that the name of the woman is
embedded in the name of the

771
00:43:25,160 –> 00:43:33,080
husband calling their name Adam.
So why then are 5.

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00:43:33,160 –> 00:43:39,080
The number of Grace women called
out by name in Matthew 1?

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00:43:40,160 –> 00:43:42,080
Why that makes their name
redundant?

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00:43:42,440 –> 00:43:46,000
If their name is embedded in the
name of their husband, why then

775
00:43:46,000 –> 00:43:52,640
we have five of them mentioned
twice, called out by name the

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00:43:52,640 –> 00:43:55,080
number of grace.
Now the.

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00:43:55,080 –> 00:43:58,320
Clue to the Bible student.
Is anytime you have a seemingly

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00:43:58,320 –> 00:44:01,160
insignificant detail, that is
your clue that there’s something

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00:44:01,160 –> 00:44:02,560
significant there.
Get out your shovel.

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00:44:02,680 –> 00:44:06,320
There’s something cool to find.
And so we find a seemingly

781
00:44:06,320 –> 00:44:10,840
insignificant detail and we say,
hmm, well, let’s look at.

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00:44:10,840 –> 00:44:13,840
Those 5 because see if.
I was writing a genealogy of

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00:44:13,840 –> 00:44:16,400
Jesus.
I might throw people like Sarah.

784
00:44:16,880 –> 00:44:20,440
Model marriage, maybe Eve.
That’s where it all started,

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00:44:21,080 –> 00:44:22,640
Leah, one of my personal
favorites.

786
00:44:22,640 –> 00:44:25,960
There’s a number we could go and
hey, that’s a great 1, Dennis,

787
00:44:25,960 –> 00:44:29,160
good job.
But that’s not who God picks

788
00:44:29,560 –> 00:44:32,840
under inspiration.
We have 5 women, all of which

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00:44:32,840 –> 00:44:35,880
come from an obscure background.
Let’s look at them.

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00:44:36,600 –> 00:44:41,560
Matthew chapter one, verse 3.
Judas begat Phares and Zerah of

791
00:44:41,560 –> 00:44:45,960
Tamar.
So Tamar, she played the harlot,

792
00:44:47,240 –> 00:44:50,040
but she became a mother in
Israel and she was declared

793
00:44:50,040 –> 00:44:53,280
righteous in the process.
Then we get to verse 5.

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00:44:53,280 –> 00:44:57,080
Solomon begat Boaz of Rahab and
Boaz begat Obed of Ruth.

795
00:44:57,320 –> 00:45:00,680
So Rahab, Oh, you mean the
harlot of Jericho?

796
00:45:00,680 –> 00:45:02,520
How you like that?
Every time we say Rahab, we

797
00:45:02,520 –> 00:45:05,560
almost give it her last name,
Rahab, the harlot of Jericho.

798
00:45:06,520 –> 00:45:13,040
Rahab was the harlot of Jericho,
but she became why a mother in

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00:45:13,040 –> 00:45:15,800
Israel and she raised a pillar
in the truth for one of two

800
00:45:15,800 –> 00:45:18,280
pillars in the temple are named
after her son Boaz.

801
00:45:19,680 –> 00:45:23,760
Then we have Ruth she who left
that was born after the flesh

802
00:45:23,760 –> 00:45:26,560
because that’s what Moab means,
born after the flesh to be

803
00:45:26,560 –> 00:45:30,360
united with the House of bread
and praise, delivering probably

804
00:45:30,360 –> 00:45:33,400
the most beautiful recorded
confession of faith in

805
00:45:33,400 –> 00:45:36,320
Scripture.
She then becomes united to a

806
00:45:36,320 –> 00:45:42,720
pillar in the temple and why she
becomes a mother in Israel.

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00:45:42,720 –> 00:45:45,560
Do you see a trend here?
You get to.

808
00:45:45,560 –> 00:45:46,920
Verse 6.
David.

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00:45:46,920 –> 00:45:49,880
The king begat Solomon of he of
her that had been the wife of

810
00:45:49,880 –> 00:45:54,920
Uriah Bathsheba by name, which
we won’t divert the class into.

811
00:45:54,920 –> 00:45:56,960
Why is Uriah mentioned here?
I think there’s a really cool

812
00:45:56,960 –> 00:46:01,960
answer to that, but I digress.
Focus on Bathsheba who was taken

813
00:46:01,960 –> 00:46:06,280
in adultery but became the
mother of a king.

814
00:46:06,840 –> 00:46:10,440
She raised the wisest man that
ever lived, save our Lord Jesus

815
00:46:10,440 –> 00:46:13,120
Christ.
And in her husband David and her

816
00:46:13,120 –> 00:46:16,760
son Solomon, we have wonderful
types of Jesus Christ, the

817
00:46:16,760 –> 00:46:20,800
beloved and peaceable.
Oh, and how about the last one?

818
00:46:22,560 –> 00:46:24,240
Joseph brought up the story last
night.

819
00:46:26,000 –> 00:46:29,440
Jacob begot Joseph, the husband
of Mary, of whom was born Jesus,

820
00:46:29,440 –> 00:46:32,800
which is called Christ.
And you and I read that.

821
00:46:32,800 –> 00:46:35,480
And we easily accept the virgin
birth.

822
00:46:35,480 –> 00:46:37,120
We don’t challenge it.
We’re not questioning it.

823
00:46:37,480 –> 00:46:39,600
We accept it.
It’s part of what we understand.

824
00:46:40,680 –> 00:46:43,880
But if you pause for just a
moment and behind this wall,

825
00:46:43,880 –> 00:46:48,480
you’ve got about 10:00-ish
women, 1416 range.

826
00:46:48,920 –> 00:46:51,640
And imagine if one of them came
over, interrupted this class and

827
00:46:51,640 –> 00:46:54,480
said, mom, dad, I didn’t do
anything wrong, but I’m

828
00:46:54,480 –> 00:46:55,800
pregnant.
God did it.

829
00:46:57,520 –> 00:46:58,040
And.
We’re all.

830
00:46:58,040 –> 00:47:00,160
Oh, that’s probably.
Exactly what happened, We can

831
00:47:00,160 –> 00:47:02,400
say no.
We would think she’s an apparent

832
00:47:02,400 –> 00:47:05,600
fornicator, which is exactly
what everyone else would have

833
00:47:05,600 –> 00:47:11,400
thought when Mary was somewhere
between 12 and 16 is now with

834
00:47:11,400 –> 00:47:16,200
child she’s engaged to.
Oh, that even makes it more

835
00:47:16,200 –> 00:47:21,000
heinous.
But yet she.

836
00:47:21,000 –> 00:47:27,000
Was handpicked by God as an
early teenager to raise his Son

837
00:47:27,160 –> 00:47:29,960
to perfection.
The clear.

838
00:47:29,960 –> 00:47:33,400
Message in this genealogy.
It is not where you have come

839
00:47:33,400 –> 00:47:37,120
from.
It is not who you are, It is not

840
00:47:37,120 –> 00:47:40,960
what you have done, it’s not
your background, your genealogy,

841
00:47:40,960 –> 00:47:44,080
your heritage, none of that
actually matters.

842
00:47:44,400 –> 00:47:47,400
It is where you are going that
matters.

843
00:47:47,880 –> 00:47:52,520
Each one of these has an obscure
background, but they were all

844
00:47:52,520 –> 00:47:54,880
united in glory leading to our
Lord.

845
00:47:55,720 –> 00:47:59,480
So let us look to the great
architect of our faith and be

846
00:47:59,480 –> 00:48:03,040
like those before us.
To turn to our God is our only

847
00:48:03,040 –> 00:48:06,200
hope and God.
And we’ll close with our last

848
00:48:06,200 –> 00:48:08,920
quote.
Psalm 110.

849
00:48:10,480 –> 00:48:12,600
Make a joyful noise unto the
Lord.

850
00:48:12,600 –> 00:48:15,680
All ye lands, serve the Lord
with gladness.

851
00:48:16,000 –> 00:48:18,000
Come before His presence with
singing.

852
00:48:18,480 –> 00:48:20,480
Know ye that the Lord, He is
God.

853
00:48:20,600 –> 00:48:23,160
It is He that made us, and not
we ourselves.

854
00:48:23,800 –> 00:48:26,520
We are His people, and the sheep
of His pasture.

855
00:48:27,840 –> 00:48:30,200
Enter into His gates with
Thanksgiving, and into His

856
00:48:30,200 –> 00:48:32,880
courts with praise.
Be thankful unto Him and bless

857
00:48:32,880 –> 00:48:37,360
His name, for the Lord is good,
His mercy is.

858
00:48:37,360 –> 00:48:40,760
Everlasting.
And His truth endureth to all

859
00:48:40,760 –> 00:48:41,680
generations.