Dennis Bevans – Noah – Saving Your Family in a Dark World – Class 3 – By Sevens

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Our third speaker this morning
is Brother Dennis Bevins of the

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Austin Leander, TX Ecclesia.
The theme for Brother Dennis’s

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classes this week is Noah Saving
your Family in a Dark World.

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Today’s class is entitled by
Sevens Genesis 7 for the

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Dentist.
Now we promised some numerology,

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so yay, here it comes.
And before I get too far in

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here, we’re just having a
conversation.

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It’s probably worth sharing
because I, I love this thinking.

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You know, the conversation was,
you know, do you think that

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maybe Methuselah and Lamech
might have helped with the ARC

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building?
And the answer is absolutely.

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I absolutely believe there were
other people that helped in the

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building that just didn’t
survive to the end of the flood.

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Lamech and Methuselah would be
good examples of that, but

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that’s not the part that I found
so interesting.

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I loved what Jim said at the
end.

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So I’m giving you credit for it.
Has everybody else hates it,

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it’s on you.
But that’s what he said.

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You know, it’s probably a lot
like like many ecclesial efforts

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where in the beginning
everybody’s excited, but you

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know, by the time Project Arts
ready to deploy, that’s starting

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to dwindle down.
To a very small group.

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And boy, isn’t that paint a
visual for us in our meetings?

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How many things have we and our
ecclesia started and the whole

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ecclesia is behind it for like
week 1?

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And then it starts to dwindle
and a year later there’s the

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three people that thought it was
a great idea, the only three

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that care about it anymore.
I know this only happens in my

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meeting.
It never has happened in yours.

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OK, very good.
So subliminal message.

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We’re going to find the number 7
a lot today, probably more than

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you ever have before.
Unless you have done this search

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yourself, you’re going to find
it in places that seem.

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Really strange, like why did we
need to know that?

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And that’s part of what I think
it’s there for, to give us a

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focus.
Now we as a community generally

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accept some basic numerology.
Some take it farther than

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others.
There are some that will go this

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times this minus this divided
by.

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That multiplied by this and you.
I don’t do that.

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I think some of the basics are
so obvious they have to get our

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attention and this is by no
means an exhaustive class on

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numerology.
There are brethren that are

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certainly more qualified and
absolutely more interested in it

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to do it than me, so I’m not.
Trying to focus on the

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numerology.
However, when you get kicked in

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the.
Face you have to acknowledge

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where that come from and Genesis
Chapter 7 specifically and the

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story of Noah in particular is
loaded with the number 7.

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So what are the some the ones
that that get my attention

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routinely I find #5 the grace of
God.

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We referenced Matthew one in the
last class number six, the

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number of man creation day 6667
the completion generally of a

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covenant.
We’ve seen it in the days of

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creation and we’ve started
Noah’s story by mentioning

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that’s what God did on the 7th
day.

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So the number 7A completion
specifically of our covenant is

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what really, I will argue the
theme of the story of Noah is

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#8-A new beginning.
The completion plus 1/12, the

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number of Israel, 40, the number
of a generation general

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referring to judgment.
See the wandering in the the is

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in the wilderness.
We see the temptation of Jesus.

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And there are plenty others, but
those are the ones that get my

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attention.
If it’s divisible by 7:00 or

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12:00, it’s got my attention.
Those are the only ones that I

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start that I kind of extrapolate
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Those are my rules, not yours.
You can discard them.

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I’m OK with that.
I’m just letting you know why

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they’re exciting to me.
All right, so the focus on this

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class is going to be the
completion of the covenant with

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Noah.
Now we all know there’s no

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punctuation in Hebrew, and we’ve
said a number of times the way

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our God gives us emphasis is
repetition.

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And so repetition throughout
Scripture is something that gets

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our attention, and the closer it
gets, the more emphasized we see

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it.
So when a particular book has

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the something emphasized a
number of times, that’s

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highlighting how important.
It is and.

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Then when we see it in the same
story, it’s even more, and we

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get down to the same chapter,
it’s even more.

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So what we’re going to look at
is God’s giant exclamation point

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in Scripture today.
We’ll pick up at verse one Noah,

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assuming the Lord said to Noah,
come now and all thy house to

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the ark, for thee, for thee.
Have I seen righteous before me

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in this generation?
So let’s start with a population

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estimate.
I’m old, but not that old, so I

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don’t know.
I didn’t wasn’t there for the

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the last census before the
waters.

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Came but if you start putting
together the math and use some

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basic extrapolations based on
average rate of having children

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no birth control, long life
putting these together you.

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Probably easily get over a
million, perhaps in billions by

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the time we get to the flood,
so.

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Whatever number makes you think
you know it makes you happy.

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The biggest number you can
stomach, start there.

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This is not There’s 12 people
and we saved 8 of them.

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There is 1,000,000, perhaps
billions on the planet which

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makes it.
Relevant to our day that the

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ratio of those trying to serve
the things of God and follow

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God’s way is small compared.
To the rest of the population,

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we mentioned he’s righteous by
grace in chapter 6 verse 8.

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That he is righteous before God.
It’s not self.

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Righteousness.
God has seen him and accounted

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righteousness for him.
He wasn’t perfect.

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But he was seen by God as just
an upright because he was trying

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to do things God’s way.
Now, we’ve already looked at

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Hebrews 11 and seven a couple
times.

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Don’t worry, we’ll do it again.
But there’s a couple other

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places we’re going to warm up
today to set the mood.

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Here’s second Peter chapter 2
verse 5 and spared not the old

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world, but save Noah the 8th.
Person, a preacher of

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righteousness, bringing in the
flood upon the world of the

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ungodly.
So we mentioned the 8th #8 gets

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our attention and so here’s one
of the reasons why.

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If Noah and his wife are one in
marriage and they’re counted as

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one in the genealogy.
As we saw in Genesis chapter 5.

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Well why that makes Noah the 7th
and her the 8th does it not?

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We have got the completion of a
covenant and a new beginning

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just embedded in the headcount
on the ark.

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We also have a wonderful shadow
of our Lord Jesus Christ who

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truly.
Was the completion of a covenant

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and a new beginning.
So we see the condemnation of

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the world, the ungodly, and
their condemnation is there was

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no room for God in their lives,
eating, drinking, marrying and

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giving a marriage.
And this family then becomes

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highlighted in the eyes of the
Father as making time to put him

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first.
And dedicate their life to doing

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things his way.
Ezekiel 33, verse 11.

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Saying to them, as I live, saith
the Lord God, I have no pleasure

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in the death of the wicked, but
that the wicked turn from his

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way, and live Turn ye turn from
your evil ways, for why will you

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die, O?
House of Israel it is with.

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Sadness that the wicked are
slain.

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And so, you know, when listening
to to Jason’s classes that we’re

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talking about vengeance’s mind,
saith the Lord.

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I think we need to put in
perspective that there’s no joy

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in God turning his creation to
dust, that’s he wills that none

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should perish.
Now he’s acknowledged that most

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will and those are by his rules,
his design and his righteous

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acts.
But there is a sadness in the

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death of the slain.
And just as the father of a

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child, we know the child has
gone wayward, doesn’t give us

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any pleasure to see them suffer
because of their wayward

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decisions.
And we put that perspective in

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the eyes of the father.
I think it’s a very sad state

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when he looks upon the planet,
does his divine inspection and

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says.
I wish I could find more that

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tried to do it my way.
Well, this is the process.

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There’s a precious few.
Our God is given free will,

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which means He’s allowed most of
the population to turn against

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Him.
The highlight reel for that is

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the flood.
The cost is high, which makes

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the precious few that want to
understand God’s way and live it

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even that more valuable to Him.
The most popular verse in the

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Bible, actually.
Says that.

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God so loved the world He gave
His only begotten Son.

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Whosoever believeth in him
should not perish, but have

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everlasting life.
That’s why God provided a means

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of redemption.
In an effort to save his

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creation from themselves and
their thinking, He’s given us

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the option one Do it your way
and die from.

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Dust thou wast, the dust thou
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Or there is one door that gives
you access to life eternal, the

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gift of life through Jesus
Christ our Lord.

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So the two options, one door, we
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None of us is worthy.
No one on the ark was sinless.

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We can’t earn it, but we can
long for it, and we can yearn

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for it.
And we can try to do everything

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in our power to better
understand what God would have

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us to do and then do.
Everything we can to do all that

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God commanded.
That’s the story of Noah.

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One more, this is Isaiah 54 will
be Noah specific this time in

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little, in a little wrath I hid
my face from thee for a moment,

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but with everlasting kindness
will I have mercy on thee, say

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at the Lord thy Redeemer.
This is as the waters of Noah

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unto me, for as I would have.
Sworn to the waters of Noah,

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should no more go over the
earth, so have I sworn that I

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would not be wroth with thee,
nor rebuke thee.

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Verse 17.
No weapon, that is.

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Formed against thee shall
prosper, and every tongue that

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shall rise against thee in
judgment thou shalt condemn.

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This is the heritage of servants
of the Lord and their

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righteousnesses.
Of me, saith Yahweh.

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Our righteousness is really an
emulation of the righteous

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attributes of our Father as we
serve Him.

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So with that, let’s go back to
Genesis and pick up on some

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details.
Verse two of every clean beast

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thou shalt take thee by sevens.
Well, we knew that was coming.

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We’d already talked about it.
Male and female, and of beasts

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that are not clean by two the
male and his female.

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Now this is obviously.
Evidence to a law prior to the

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Law of Moses, as clean animals
are acceptable for food, many

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for sacrifice, though not all.
So it gives us evidence there

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was some way that they had to
determine clean or unclean may

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have been the same as the Law of
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We’re just not given that
detail.

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But certainly there was a law.
That established an order

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between the clean and the
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Now we already mentioned.
That this makes a lot of sense,

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especially if clean animals are
eligible for food.

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Very interesting point.
If we don’t, if we’re not

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careful, every BBQ eliminates a
species.

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So it makes sense God provided
not only for their food, but

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also for their ability to offer
them sacrifice, which, by the

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way, the first.
Act done after the flood was

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offer a sacrifice of every one
of the animals that were clean

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in the ark.
I’ll call it the seventh.

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Now an interesting point in
Hebrew that is clear.

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If we were reading this in
Hebrew, the English kind of

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skews it a bit, and that is the
male and the female.

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Those actually are the words to
describe man and his wife, the

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isha and isha.
In fact, this is the only verse

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in Scripture where these words
are used to describe animals, to

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becoming one.
It’s the only time in the Bible

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it’s used to describe animals,
not human beings.

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So the RSV calls it 7 pairs and
the Hebrew supports that to some

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degree because it actually it
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If you read it in the Hebrew
it’s and he brought them 7

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sevens.
So whether you’ve got 7

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emphasized or. 7 + 7 or 7 * 7.
You could probably make an

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argument for each and for all
we’re going to get out of that

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is the completion of the
covenant number is there.

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Doubled of thousands of the air
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male and the female to keep seed
alive upon the face of all the

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earth.
So this is.

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Preservation.
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Our God is preparing to keep and
to restore to the planet, not to

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recreate the planet, because he
very well could have done that.

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You know, our God could have
just said, you know, I did this

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in a week a few 100 years ago.
Well, actually 1656.

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But who’s keeping score?
You could have just done that

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again.
Just wipe them all clean.

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Don’t waste the time on the Ark.
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And you know we create with Adam
point 2.0.

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But that’s not what he chooses
to do.

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That’s not the character of the
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The character of the father is
always looking.

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For the remnant, in this case,
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than He or we wish it was all
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Verse 4.
Yet seven days I will cause it

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to rain upon the earth, 40 days
and 40 nights.

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And every living substance I
have made I will destroy from

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off the face of the earth.
So now we have 7 days of final

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warning.
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now we’re down to a week now.
Rain.

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We introduced yesterday.
Do you like this numerology

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stuff so far?
Am I losing anybody yet?

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The ones not nodding their head.
OK, got it.

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All right, so.
This word rain.

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Here’s another.
One we’ll play with for a little

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bit.
This word rain is only used by

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Moses in the Old Testament, and
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So we got the number of grace.
Isn’t that interesting that here

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we have the means of
destruction, but yet somehow in

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this we’ve got to see the hand
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judgment to most.
But it’s grace and mercy to

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those following his path.
Well, what are the five?

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I’ll let you check them out for
fun.

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The first one was no rain.
That’s chapter 2 verse 5.

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This is the second one, which is
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The next one is going to be in
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the reign of fire in Sodom and
Gomorrah.

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And the other two are Exodus
Chapter 9, verse 18 and verse

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23, which is hail.
I’ll call that solid rain.

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And chapter 16, verse 4, bred
from heaven.

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So how can we apply a parable or
a theme from that and?

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Here’s what I believe this is
trying to tell us.

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No rain is like our knowledge,
our life before knowledge.

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Deuteronomy 32 and two, My
doctrine shall drop as the rain.

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Different word, same concept.
Now we have the first rain, so

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we have obedience and baptism.
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Solid rain on the rock.
Here’s a quote from Job 38,

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verses 29 through 30.
Out of those who out of whose

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wombs came ice and the hoary
frost from heaven, who hath

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gendered it.
The waters are hid as with a

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stone in the face of the deep is
frozen.

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Just to prove that solid rain
thing wasn’t just me making

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stuff up.
All right, Bread from heaven.

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Of course, the body, one body
through Jesus Christ ties nicely

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to the rainbow that we’ll
discuss later in the story.

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And this verse ends with the
number 40, which is a generation

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or for judgment, which is a nice
recall back to verse one that

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says he was found righteous in
this generation.

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So these numbers are starting to
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Lots of numbers to look at.
Of course, we see the number 40

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in Scripture.
There’s a number of things that

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come to our attention.
Trials, Moses, the spies, the

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wandering Jesus, temptation,
days after resurrection, story

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of Jonah, the reign of David,
all of it, prophecy, blah, blah,

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blah.
There’s a lot of them.

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All right, so let’s go back to
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We have final days, seven final
days of warning, and he says he

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will cause it to rain for 40
days and 40 nights.

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And he of every living thing,
every living substance that I

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have made, I will destroy from
off the face of the earth.

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This word destroy is the same
word we looked at back in

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chapter 6, verse 7, which means
to blot out.

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That’s how it’s rendered in the
RSV, and the Hebrew supports

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that to blot out from the face
of the earth.

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That language puts us nicely
into Exodus 32, Exodus 32,

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picking up at verse 32.
Yet now, if thou wilt forgive

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their sin, and if not blot me, I
pray thee, out of the book in

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which thou was written, As Lord
has said to Moses, whosoever I

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sinned against me, him will I
blot out of my book.

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So we get to very personal
accountability here.

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We see this in the example of
Moses willing to lay down his

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eternal life to save the nation
of Israel.

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That’s astounding to me.
Paul says something similar as

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well.
And that’s in the face of an

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ecclesia that’s.
Arguing with you, disrespecting

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you, disagreeing with you and
turning away from their God.

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So it’s not like he had such a
perfect ecclesia, he said.

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Boy I wish I could just give up
my life so they would have their

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This is people.
That disagree with him and are

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walking away from the Kingdom.
In fact, everyone in this

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generation is dying because of
their faithlessness as they walk

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towards the Kingdom.
And that’s how he feels.

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Well, I think that story is
there for a number of reasons.

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One, to be self reflective for
us, but also to give us an

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example not just of Moses, but
also seeing Noah in this same

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light.
David says this too in David.

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David says in Psalm 51, verse
nine, hide thy face from my sins

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and blot out all mine
iniquities.

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Of course, we’ve probably got a
tune in our head and him right

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now.
Verse 5 Noah did according to

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all that the Lord had commanded
him and we talked about the

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repetition.
So this is what we read in

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chapter 6, verse 22, which is a
comparison to us.

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Again, he’s given some specific.
Instructions.

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And he’s going to follow them to
the tee.

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So Noah’s now 600 years old and
the waters of the Flutter.

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Upon the earth.
So we got the number of flesh

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here. 61 hundreds are coming
together as it starts building

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at Chapter 7, verse 7.
Now who would have thought

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Genesis Chapter 7 verse 7 would
have some sevens in it, but it

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does.
Noah went in and his sons and

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his wife and his sons wise with
him in the ark because the

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waters of the flood.
So we mentioned Japheth.

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He’s 105 and 32 Shem 98, that’s
11 and verse 10, Ham younger

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somewhat, but they’re all
married.

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All of them are married, but
we’re not given record that any

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of them has children yet.
Wouldn’t that even be more

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tragic if they did?
We’re not given that detail.

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We’re just told that all three
of them were married and that

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they and their wives were
allowed on the ark.

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So Noah and his seven family
members, they’re all invited to

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be part of the building effort
and the salvation.

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Enter in together of clean
beasts, of beasts that are not

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clean, of fowls, of everything
that creepeth on the earth.

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There went in two and two unto
the unto Noah into the ark, the

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and the male and the female, as
God had commanded them, or

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sorry, commanded Noah.
So it’s clarified now there’s

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lots of shadows here.
Birds and beasts are used to

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describe both Israel and the
Gentiles in Hosea chapter 2.

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For example, if you read Isaiah
34 and 35 together without a

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break in the middle, it’s a
worthy exercise if you want to

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tackle your own, see if you can
see how that connects to this

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story as well.
The nation’s coming to the one

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door of the ark for salvation is
a wonderful image, which we did

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discuss a little yesterday that
Jesus saying in John 14 and six,

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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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So we’ve got one access point
for salvation.

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Any other way leads to death.
There is one path that leads.

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Us to life so after these seven
days the water of the flood were

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upon the face of the earth.
So we have the final warning

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completed and as we mentioned,
the creation math, 1656 years

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from creation.
So now focusing on the life of

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Noah in the 6th, 100th year of
Noah’s life in the second month

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and the 17th day of the month,
the same day where all the

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fountains of the great deep
broken up and the windows of

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heaven were open.
And boy, anytime we get

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specific, it gets our attention,
doesn’t it?

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Now we’re going to do a little
bit more of this when we get to

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Chapter 8.
I just want to just pause on

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that for a second.
Now we’re not only getting the

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year, but the month and the day.
We have waters above.

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I’m picturing Thunder and
showers and torrential rain.

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We have waters below the
overflowing of rivers, lakes,

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seas, geysers, earthquakes,
maybe soon anatomies, I don’t

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know.
Do whatever you want with that

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one.
We have waters all around, the

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actual rainfall everywhere in
the water.

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Effectively, we are seeing a
model of baptism, which is

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what’s picked up in the New
Testament now.

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Where we all know where the Ark
landed.

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You want to say it out loud?
Where did the Ark land?

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Ararat, which means it floated
N, Isn’t that opposite the

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natural flow pattern you would
expect God is in.

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Control.
This was his work being

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performed, His righteousness
being declared, His Majesty

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over, creation being known.
He was in control.

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We’ll come back to Ararat later.
The rain was upon the earth for

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40 days and 40 nights.
So we’ve got the judgment of

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this generation, and that brings
us to our day where Jesus had

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told us.
Compare it to your day.

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As it is in the days of Noah, so
will be in the days of the

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coming of the Son of Man.
So the judgment of this

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generation we may not have seen
yet, but it’s coming.

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What are we doing as
individuals, as families, as

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ecclesias, to prepare for the
saving of our household as the

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world gets darker and the
pending judgment of the Father

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gets closer?
What are we doing to prepare

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ourselves to be part of that
covenant that.

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Is saved by his grace.
So on this day, Noah Sham Ham,

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Japheth, the sons of Noah,
Noah’s wife, the three wives of

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his sons went into the ark so.
Again, high level of repetition.

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The narrative wants to make sure
we know.

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This one went in this one went
in this one and.

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Over and over we get to count
off the 8 safety inside absolute

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misery outside Isaiah. 26 is a
nice reference for this Isaiah

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26 picking up at verse. 20 Come,
my people, enter thou into thy

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chambers, and shut thy doors
about thee.

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Hide thyself, as it were, for a
little moment, until the

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indignation be overpassed.
For behold, the Lord cometh out

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of his place to punish the
inhabitants of the earth for

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their iniquity.
The earth shall also disclose

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her blood, and shall no more
cover her slain.

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It’s an important.
Lesson So as they’re following

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the path and there is a somber
tone to this March into the ark

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they have been working on as a
family for so long, knowing

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what’s happening to the rest of
the population, including their

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extended family.
To recognize that God is there

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to comfort them that the
punishment that is happening,

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but it will be overpassed.
You know this is an important.

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Lesson we keep bringing it back
to Jesus, tying it to our.

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Day.
And it’s well and good that we

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should.
But Jesus picks up on this

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topic, specifically Matthew 10
and 37.

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He that loveth father or mother
more than me is not worthy of

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me.
He that loveth son or daughter

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more than me is not worthy of
me.

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That is not an easy concept for
anyone in this room to swallow,

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but it’s the principle that’s
being taught by the Father.

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Our natural families are
secondary to the family of the

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Father.
God wills that none should

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perish, and there’s no parent
that wants to see their child

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perish.
But we have to stay dedicated to

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the things of the Father, even
if our children.

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Parents, brothers, sisters do
not.

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We must put God first.
That’s his rightful place in our

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lives, our rightful place in our
heart.

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And if we put God first, next,
then comes our family that we

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put second.
And we do everything we can to

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help our family, but it’s got to
be in that order.

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If we lose sight and reverse
that order, we are no longer the

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children of our Father.
It’s that big of a deal.

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So then as we take this somber
tone and we look at what’s going

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on around, they’re going in the
ark.

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The animals are already there
now.

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They’ve done all the work to
prepare, and this is almost like

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getting ready for a big move.
It’s almost anticlimactic.

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You’re tired, you’re emotionally
exhausted, you’re spiritually

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drained.
And now what’s going on outside?

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Adds to the tragedy by hearing
whatever cries and pleas might

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be outside, knowing that the
judgement of God has happened

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and it is now too late.
They and every beast.

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After its kind and all the
cattle, after their kind and

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creeping thing that creepeth
upon the earth, after his kind,

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every fowl, after his kind,
every bird of every sort, they

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went in unto Noah into the ark,
two and two of all flesh,

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wherein there is the breath of
life.

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And so here we have that again,
the exception fish, chapter 6,

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verse 17, They’re fine.
There’s no cries and pleas

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amongst the fish.
They’re actually dancing and

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playing.
All right, they went.

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In male and female of all flesh
as God had commanded them and

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Yahweh shut them in.
This is a huge.

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Point we’re going to light on
this one for a minute.

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We focused on there only being
one way, and that is true and we

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well and good should.
But God closed the door.

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Is both grace, mercy and
judgment.

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The door being closed is saying
access denied to anyone who is

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now no longer in it.
But there’s a tremendous example

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of faith in the family that
built it.

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Remember, they followed God’s
rules and God told him, make

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00:26:07,920 –> 00:26:10,880
this giant box and put a hole.
In it.

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I’ll take it from there.
We have no evidence that they

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were told.
Here’s the intricate work of a

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pulley designed system we want
you to use so you can lift it.

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There’s no means to close this
door without the help of God.

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What an amazing example of
faith.

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They built a box with a hole in
it, trusted God to take it from

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there, and He did.
So on one hand, we have their

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00:26:35,960 –> 00:26:39,080
faith that God can and would
deliver as He has promised.

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And oftentimes we have this song
we teach our children.

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That God always keeps his
promises.

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This is one of the lines in the
song.

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God always keeps his promises,
so that’s good.

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But there’s also a measure of
mercy to reward their.

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Faith.
Imagine having to be the one to

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close the door while it was your
child running towards it.

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God took that out of the
equation, did he not?

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Said you do it my way, I’ll take
it from there.

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And the rest was up to God to
sort out, not up to them to go.

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00:27:14,320 –> 00:27:16,520
Well, I know we’re supposed to,
but what about that one?

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00:27:16,520 –> 00:27:20,240
I like that one on me.
Now you build the boat, you

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00:27:20,240 –> 00:27:22,400
leave the hole, give me a door.
I’ll take it from there.

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So it’s not only an example of
their faithfulness, but it’s

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also an example of the mercy of
the Father to take it from

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there.
Now the flood was 40 days upon

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the earth.
The waters increased and bear up

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00:27:38,120 –> 00:27:40,000
the ark.
It was lifted up above the

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earth.
Habakkuk 214 is a good verse for

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00:27:43,400 –> 00:27:44,520
this.
The earth shall be filled with

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the knowledge of the glory of
the Lord as the water covers the

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sea.
So at this point, everything on

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the planet now.
Knows the power of God, those

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that perished in the power of
God and those that were saved by

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00:27:56,320 –> 00:27:58,600
the power of God.
The same act, the water of

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destruction was also the water
of salvation.

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And granted the population is
quite small now, but they know

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that God is in control now.
Water for cleansing is common in

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scripture.
We, we already read Isaiah 54,

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perhaps many of us are already
thinking Ephesians 5 right now.

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So it’s a concept in Scripture
of the cleansing of, of, of

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water being used as an example
of cleansing through Scripture.

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Now the word of God was
increasing in it and that was

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00:28:30,280 –> 00:28:33,440
used a lot in the story of Acts
multiple times the word of God

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00:28:33,440 –> 00:28:35,800
increasing.
We won’t look at it, but I’ll

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give you some place you want to
play with it.

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Acts 6 and seven, Acts 12 and
24, Acts 19 and 20.

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And so here we see the Word of
God increasing and bearing up

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00:28:48,720 –> 00:28:52,120
those that it’s going to save.
It’s a nice reference for us to

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00:28:52,120 –> 00:28:54,880
think of.
So we had then have this arc

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being lifted up a reference to
the wood as a means for

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00:28:58,840 –> 00:29:02,680
salvation and represent a
representative of a Redeemer

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with only one door and the way,
the truth and the life which

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gives us a picture of Jesus in
fact.

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But when we look at chapter 8 we
we see Jesus in the ark.

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Not literally, but the echoes of
Jesus in the ark are

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00:29:16,600 –> 00:29:20,880
overwhelming in the 8th chapter.
As we start seeing this means of

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salvation being borne up to
redeem the family.

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Let’s look at numbers. 21
Numbers 21, and we’ll read verse

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8:00 and 9:00.
The Lord said unto the Moses,

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Make the a fiery serpent, and
set it upon a pole, and it

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00:29:43,720 –> 00:29:45,800
should come to pass that
everyone that is bitten when you

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00:29:45,800 –> 00:29:49,520
look upon it shall live.
Moses made a serpent of brass,

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00:29:49,520 –> 00:29:51,200
put it on a pole.
It came to pass if the.

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00:29:51,200 –> 00:29:53,000
Serpent had been bitten by any
man.

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Sorry if the serpent had bitten
any man when he beheld the

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Serpent of brass, he lived.
Now granted this would be a

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separate topic for another day,
but I want.

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To use the imagery while we’re
here.

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So as we look at this being
borne up, the ark being borne up

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to save, we then tie the lifting
up the serpent representing

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00:30:15,080 –> 00:30:17,960
flesh, going back to the Garden
of Eden, as does the metal

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brass.
So we’ve got the imagery there

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00:30:19,400 –> 00:30:21,840
together.
And the only way they could

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escape death in this instance
and its sinful condemnation was

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to look on the man whom they had
pierced.

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That’s effectively what they
were being taught by this

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00:30:33,880 –> 00:30:35,760
serpent, brazen serpent on a
pole.

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In fact, Jesus says this much.
We’ll again go back to one of

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the most popular verses in the
Bible.

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We’ll just scoot forward to and
read John 3 verse 14.

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As Moses was lifted up this say,
as Moses lifted up the serpent

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00:30:50,960 –> 00:30:54,960
in the wilderness, Even so must
the Son of Man be lifted up.

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We know the next couple verses.
We know the concept.

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The same phrase comes in John
chapter 8, verse 28, so it’s

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repeated.
For us, and so we get this

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00:31:04,120 –> 00:31:07,480
example of the means of
salvation, another echo pointing

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towards, specifically towards
the crucifixion, and we will do

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that.
Tomorrow, not tomorrow.

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We’re taking it aside tomorrow.
In two days we’ll do that

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specifically towards the
crucifixion.

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The imagery is there for you and
I to connect the dots because as

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much as it is about their
family, it’s recorded for hours

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00:31:27,120 –> 00:31:29,200
and that’s why the imagery is
there.

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00:31:29,680 –> 00:31:34,520
It’s recorded so that we would
see these shadows and look to

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him who was pierced that we
might have.

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Hope, and have that hope
together.

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The waters prevailed.
They increased greatly upon the

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earth, and the ark went upon the
face of the waters.

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00:31:47,000 –> 00:31:50,120
The waters prevailed exceedingly
upon the earth, and all the high

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00:31:50,120 –> 00:31:52,840
heels that were under the whole
heaven were covered.

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So we’ve got water, the word of
God versus the earth and all its

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sin.
Water wins.

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00:31:58,360 –> 00:32:00,200
That’s really all.
That’s all that’s intending to

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00:32:00,200 –> 00:32:02,080
say.
God is flooding.

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Out the sins of the planet, much
like when he intends us to flood

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00:32:06,640 –> 00:32:09,080
out the sins of our life with
his word, gives us an

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00:32:09,080 –> 00:32:13,160
opportunity to take in his
thoughts so that we can overflow

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00:32:13,160 –> 00:32:14,080
our.
Thoughts.

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00:32:14,400 –> 00:32:16,680
And what’s left is the purity of
his doctrine.

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00:32:17,760 –> 00:32:21,640
The best way to overcome flesh
and the lust thereof is to flood

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00:32:21,640 –> 00:32:24,600
it with the Word of God.
And this is one of those lessons

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00:32:24,600 –> 00:32:27,200
that I think strikes very hard
to our community today.

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00:32:27,200 –> 00:32:31,280
And I want to make sure we
adequately put the emphasis on

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00:32:31,280 –> 00:32:34,920
this because it’s an individual
thing recognized in the communal

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00:32:34,920 –> 00:32:37,320
thing.
Historically, we’ve been

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00:32:37,320 –> 00:32:40,680
considered a community of
readers and studiers of the Word

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00:32:40,680 –> 00:32:43,040
of God.
It’s been one of the strengths

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00:32:43,040 –> 00:32:45,960
of our community that has
allowed us to keep our nose and.

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00:32:45,960 –> 00:32:49,400
Scripture and let God dictate to
us what is right and what is

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00:32:49,400 –> 00:32:52,720
wrong, while the churches around
us are looking for a happy

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00:32:52,720 –> 00:32:55,680
feeling that determines what’s
right and wrong and use a verse

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00:32:55,680 –> 00:33:01,120
here and there to back it up.
Sadly, this trend inevitably

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00:33:01,120 –> 00:33:05,160
affects the ecclesia and it’s
happening right now.

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00:33:05,960 –> 00:33:08,720
This is.
Not confession time, so take

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00:33:08,720 –> 00:33:13,440
this one in, but you ever been
to a Bible class where the most

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00:33:13,440 –> 00:33:16,760
common phrase in the in the
question and answer part of the

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00:33:16,760 –> 00:33:22,560
class was I think or I feel?
Should make a shudder because of

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00:33:22,560 –> 00:33:24,800
what we think and what we feel
is important.

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00:33:24,800 –> 00:33:27,680
We have given our God no room to
navigate the class.

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00:33:28,240 –> 00:33:31,000
See if we have a chapter and
verse we should use it.

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00:33:31,320 –> 00:33:33,840
If we have an opinion, it’s OK
to have it and it’s OK to share

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00:33:33,840 –> 00:33:35,360
it.
We just have to make sure that

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00:33:35,360 –> 00:33:38,320
opinion never gets elevated to
the point of law.

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00:33:38,440 –> 00:33:41,520
And the only way that happens
it’s if we start reading and

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00:33:41,520 –> 00:33:43,760
studying.
If we stop reading and studying.

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00:33:43,920 –> 00:33:46,800
Because as long as I’m reading
the Word of God, I’m allowing

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00:33:46,800 –> 00:33:48,760
the Word of God to impact my
thinking.

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00:33:48,960 –> 00:33:51,200
And what impacts my thinking
impacts what I say and what I

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00:33:51,200 –> 00:33:55,480
do.
But if I’ve read it before, I’m

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00:33:55,480 –> 00:33:58,320
familiar with that story.
I don’t get anything out of the

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00:33:58,320 –> 00:34:00,840
Bible class.
I’m not really a particular fan

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00:34:00,840 –> 00:34:03,960
of that speaker.
Boy, haven’t I read this chapter

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00:34:03,960 –> 00:34:06,360
about 57 times?
Maybe I’ll just skip through it

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00:34:06,360 –> 00:34:08,520
a little bit.
I don’t do the readings like I

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00:34:08,520 –> 00:34:12,199
used to because I pretty much
have the Bible memorized now.

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00:34:12,199 –> 00:34:15,920
I’m not saying any of us use
these exact words but now take

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00:34:15,920 –> 00:34:20,159
them out of your conscious
thought and ask does it impact

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00:34:20,159 –> 00:34:25,080
my unconscious thought?
How many ecclesias have more

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00:34:25,920 –> 00:34:28,320
Bible?
Classes than they did 10 years

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00:34:28,320 –> 00:34:31,199
ago.
Very few.

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00:34:32,080 –> 00:34:36,679
Most ecclesias have less.
Now we go, oh, Zoom has given us

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00:34:36,679 –> 00:34:38,239
access.
OK, great, that’s fine.

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That’s fine and dandy.
But for an opportunity to serve,

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00:34:42,040 –> 00:34:44,880
unless you’re the speaker on
Zoom, you don’t have that.

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You get the content, but you
don’t have the contact.

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00:34:49,880 –> 00:34:52,000
What’s happening to our
community?

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00:34:53,560 –> 00:34:57,160
Are we getting closer to each
other through the Word of God,

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00:34:57,840 –> 00:35:02,160
or rather farther away,
connected by the Word of God to

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00:35:02,160 –> 00:35:04,760
a degree.
And the farther away we get, the

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00:35:04,760 –> 00:35:07,080
more dangerous this is.
Now, here’s why I’m going there.

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Because what if what we did
yesterday still impresses us?

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00:35:12,040 –> 00:35:14,520
We are not growing, and if we
want to be part of the family of

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00:35:14,520 –> 00:35:15,960
God, we have to continue to
grow.

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00:35:16,280 –> 00:35:20,640
Therefore, reading and coming
together to talk about what we

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00:35:20,640 –> 00:35:24,240
read is a vital piece to our
walk to the Kingdom.

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00:35:25,080 –> 00:35:29,600
The magic of the Bible companion
is not because Robert Roberts

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00:35:29,600 –> 00:35:32,360
wrote it and he was a kid.
That’s not the magic.

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I don’t even care what Bible
reading calendar you use.

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If you keep your nose in the
Word, you’re helpful to getting

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God’s Word in your life.
But one of the.

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Beauties of using the Bible
companion.

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Is if all of us are reading the
same thing in Scripture and I

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00:35:47,000 –> 00:35:49,000
don’t know, for some unknown
reason, like a Bible school,

650
00:35:49,000 –> 00:35:50,800
there’s a couple hundred of us
in a room together.

651
00:35:51,240 –> 00:35:54,720
Do we not have something to talk
about now at the Bible school?

652
00:35:54,720 –> 00:35:56,760
Well, we got three different
classes we could talk about.

653
00:35:56,760 –> 00:35:57,640
OK.
I’ll give you that.

654
00:35:58,440 –> 00:36:01,560
How many of our conversations
will we come towards the hall or

655
00:36:01,560 –> 00:36:04,240
about the readings from
yesterday versus the sports

656
00:36:04,240 –> 00:36:09,600
scores from yesterday or what we
read in the readings last night

657
00:36:10,000 –> 00:36:12,440
versus a new recipe we heard
about?

658
00:36:12,520 –> 00:36:14,680
Now, I’m not condemning sports
and recipes.

659
00:36:15,200 –> 00:36:16,720
I’m just trying to put it in
perspective.

660
00:36:18,320 –> 00:36:21,720
For us to be people of the Word
doesn’t mean we used to do that.

661
00:36:21,880 –> 00:36:25,440
It means we’re actively reading
and trying to understand what we

662
00:36:25,440 –> 00:36:27,920
read and study and dig so that
we can let God talk to.

663
00:36:27,920 –> 00:36:32,000
US.
In every relationship, any

664
00:36:32,000 –> 00:36:35,360
relationship with any value at
all requires two way

665
00:36:35,360 –> 00:36:38,640
communication.
The husband and wife that don’t

666
00:36:38,640 –> 00:36:40,640
talk to each other?
It’s not usually going to make

667
00:36:40,640 –> 00:36:43,280
it.
Parents, children, two way

668
00:36:43,280 –> 00:36:46,920
conversation, even your best
friend, if you have a best

669
00:36:46,920 –> 00:36:49,360
friend and they do all the
talking, you’re looking for a

670
00:36:49,360 –> 00:36:53,080
new best friend, aren’t you?
So think about that for a

671
00:36:53,080 –> 00:36:56,800
second.
If we pray, we pray at every

672
00:36:56,800 –> 00:36:58,080
meal.
We pray in the morning, we pray

673
00:36:58,080 –> 00:37:00,120
that we do a lot of praying, but
we’re not taking the time to

674
00:37:00,120 –> 00:37:03,520
read.
We are in effect talking to our

675
00:37:03,520 –> 00:37:07,520
God and not listening back.
Ever done the Bible readings and

676
00:37:07,520 –> 00:37:11,200
felt like boy?
That’s exactly what I was

677
00:37:11,200 –> 00:37:14,120
praying about.
I needed that chapter you ever

678
00:37:14,120 –> 00:37:16,280
had that you showed up.
There was an exhortation.

679
00:37:16,280 –> 00:37:18,960
It felt like these order was
talking exactly to you.

680
00:37:19,800 –> 00:37:21,880
It’s not because they can read
your mind.

681
00:37:22,080 –> 00:37:25,720
Good thing.
And it’s not because God altered

682
00:37:25,720 –> 00:37:28,560
the word yesterday because he
knew you needed that.

683
00:37:29,480 –> 00:37:32,280
But rather, the depth of
Scripture is so vast, if we’re

684
00:37:32,280 –> 00:37:34,560
constantly reading it, there’s
more for us to get.

685
00:37:34,720 –> 00:37:38,160
And if we are praying that God
help us, that help is probably

686
00:37:38,160 –> 00:37:39,920
right in front of us.
And we might have read it 50

687
00:37:39,920 –> 00:37:42,280
times, but 51 is the one that
got us.

688
00:37:42,880 –> 00:37:47,600
In fact, the con, the class we
did yesterday with the kids,

689
00:37:47,600 –> 00:37:50,240
which we’re going to do
tomorrow, is all based on a

690
00:37:50,240 –> 00:37:52,680
story I’d read probably 50
times.

691
00:37:54,200 –> 00:37:56,760
But after doing a study
somewhere else in the Bible, the

692
00:37:56,760 –> 00:37:58,800
next time, I went through the
readings and got to this one.

693
00:37:58,880 –> 00:38:02,480
How did I never know that?
That happens to me every year,

694
00:38:02,880 –> 00:38:06,320
and it happens to all of us if
we continue to read and ask

695
00:38:06,320 –> 00:38:08,080
questions.
So I want to make sure that we

696
00:38:08,080 –> 00:38:12,360
take that part very seriously.
That’s how we overflow the flesh

697
00:38:12,360 –> 00:38:15,280
in our lives as we flood it with
the Word of God, and we come

698
00:38:15,280 –> 00:38:17,800
together as brothers and sisters
to talk about what we’re

699
00:38:17,800 –> 00:38:19,600
learning.
Because you’re going to pick up

700
00:38:19,600 –> 00:38:22,560
things I don’t, and I’m going to
pick up things you don’t.

701
00:38:22,800 –> 00:38:25,440
But as long as we’re talking, I
might learn something from you.

702
00:38:25,440 –> 00:38:26,720
You might learn something from
me.

703
00:38:26,920 –> 00:38:29,600
We get to grow together as a
family and the Word of God is

704
00:38:29,600 –> 00:38:33,600
what brought us together.
Now with this note, we want to

705
00:38:33,600 –> 00:38:36,920
make sure we know water was not
the problem, it was the

706
00:38:36,920 –> 00:38:40,040
salvation.
The corruption of the flesh was

707
00:38:40,040 –> 00:38:42,960
the problem.
The water was the solution.

708
00:38:44,560 –> 00:38:51,720
Let’s go back to Peter first
Peter 3 verse 20 and 21 which

709
00:38:51,720 –> 00:38:55,840
sometime were disobedient when
once the long-suffering of God

710
00:38:55,840 –> 00:38:58,960
waited in the days of Noah while
the ark was a preparing.

711
00:38:59,280 –> 00:39:00,920
I like that while the ark was a
preparing.

712
00:39:01,960 –> 00:39:06,160
Wherein a few that is 8.
Souls were saved by water, the

713
00:39:06,160 –> 00:39:10,080
like figure where unto even
baptism doth now save us, not

714
00:39:10,080 –> 00:39:13,320
the putting off of the filth of
the flesh, but the answer of a

715
00:39:13,320 –> 00:39:16,840
good conscience towards God by
the resurrection of Jesus

716
00:39:16,840 –> 00:39:20,480
Christ.
So here we stand at the flood.

717
00:39:21,760 –> 00:39:26,280
Time was up.
God’s patience was gone, and we

718
00:39:26,280 –> 00:39:29,640
apply that to our day.
There will be a day, and boy, we

719
00:39:29,640 –> 00:39:31,280
would love for it to be right
now.

720
00:39:31,280 –> 00:39:34,320
We would love to be at Bible
school when Christ returns

721
00:39:35,240 –> 00:39:37,560
because the other places we
could be and the other things we

722
00:39:37,560 –> 00:39:41,000
could be doing are probably not
at the same level of spiritual

723
00:39:41,000 –> 00:39:44,120
upliftedness than what we have.
And we’re together at a Bible

724
00:39:44,120 –> 00:39:48,920
camp separate from the world.
There will be a day when Christ

725
00:39:48,920 –> 00:39:54,120
returns and time is up and the
opportunity for judgment takes

726
00:39:54,120 –> 00:39:58,280
place.
Getting ready today so that we

727
00:39:58,280 –> 00:40:01,600
can be prepared to be part of
that glorious tomorrow where we

728
00:40:01,600 –> 00:40:03,680
are saved by the water of the
Word.

729
00:40:04,200 –> 00:40:07,960
And the refreshing one way door
of the Lord our Jesus Christ

730
00:40:08,400 –> 00:40:12,520
bringing us to the concept of
tabernacling with Him as His

731
00:40:12,520 –> 00:40:16,200
family forever.
We get this concept in baptism

732
00:40:16,200 –> 00:40:19,920
as well as we see in verse 21,
this figure of baptism.

733
00:40:20,240 –> 00:40:23,200
And we think of our own optimism
at baptism that turns into

734
00:40:23,200 –> 00:40:26,000
pessimism later.
That is natural.

735
00:40:26,880 –> 00:40:31,360
Every time we go to a baptism,
do we not think back to our own?

736
00:40:32,120 –> 00:40:35,040
Just one of the beauties of
having a baptism.

737
00:40:35,040 –> 00:40:39,720
It’s not just the refreshing
waters going over the Sinner

738
00:40:39,720 –> 00:40:42,200
that’s declared God is righteous
and I’m following His command.

739
00:40:42,360 –> 00:40:45,760
Oh, that’s awesome, especially
for that guy or gal.

740
00:40:47,240 –> 00:40:51,240
But the real benefit to the
meeting is everyone there who’s

741
00:40:51,240 –> 00:40:54,320
thinking back.
To the time when they made that

742
00:40:54,320 –> 00:40:57,720
decision and to offer an
opportunity to rekindle that

743
00:40:57,720 –> 00:41:00,480
thought so that we can be
prepared as we see the day

744
00:41:00,480 –> 00:41:06,400
approaching 15 cubits above.
Excuse me, upward.

745
00:41:06,400 –> 00:41:08,560
Did the waters prevail?
And the mountains were covered,

746
00:41:08,880 –> 00:41:12,200
so this tells us roughly 22 feet
over the highest visible

747
00:41:12,200 –> 00:41:15,480
mountain.
Which is fine, and I’ll take a

748
00:41:15,480 –> 00:41:17,160
quick diversion we touched
yesterday.

749
00:41:17,160 –> 00:41:19,440
But I won’t spend too much time
here really because I don’t

750
00:41:19,440 –> 00:41:21,280
care.
But I feel like I have to touch

751
00:41:21,280 –> 00:41:23,560
it.
And this is one of the verses

752
00:41:23,560 –> 00:41:26,360
used to say that the entire
world was flooded.

753
00:41:27,120 –> 00:41:28,320
And it very well could have
been.

754
00:41:28,320 –> 00:41:30,240
I’m OK with that.
God can do whatever he wants.

755
00:41:30,240 –> 00:41:33,080
He’s in control.
So we don’t deny the power of

756
00:41:33,080 –> 00:41:34,160
God.
Could have fled the whole

757
00:41:34,160 –> 00:41:37,080
planet, no problem.
Could he have done it regionally

758
00:41:37,080 –> 00:41:39,760
and just killed all the people?
He could have, and it would be

759
00:41:39,760 –> 00:41:43,400
righteous.
Now, the reason I bring that up

760
00:41:43,400 –> 00:41:46,600
is we’re given just enough so
that we can understand the

761
00:41:46,600 –> 00:41:50,040
majesty of the Father.
There are an awful lot more

762
00:41:50,040 –> 00:41:54,120
details to this story that could
be written, but our God and His

763
00:41:54,120 –> 00:41:57,280
wisdom gave us enough to see His
righteousness and get the

764
00:41:57,280 –> 00:42:00,240
lessons.
So here is where it becomes

765
00:42:00,240 –> 00:42:02,000
important.
Whether we think it’s a

766
00:42:02,000 –> 00:42:04,160
worldwide flood or whether we
think it’s a regional flood

767
00:42:04,160 –> 00:42:06,400
really doesn’t matter as long as
we all declare God right.

768
00:42:06,560 –> 00:42:09,120
Where we get ourselves into
trouble is thinking it.

769
00:42:09,120 –> 00:42:11,520
Had to be one way for God to be
right.

770
00:42:11,920 –> 00:42:14,440
Because it didn’t.
There’s evidence for both.

771
00:42:14,680 –> 00:42:16,720
Pick the evidence you like,
knock yourself out.

772
00:42:16,720 –> 00:42:18,480
I can give you biblical evidence
for both.

773
00:42:18,960 –> 00:42:20,640
Knock yourself out.
I can give you scientific

774
00:42:20,640 –> 00:42:22,560
evidence for both.
Give you scientific evidence

775
00:42:22,560 –> 00:42:25,400
that tries to argue both.
Here’s the part that I love and

776
00:42:25,400 –> 00:42:31,360
I don’t care because true Bible
study and true science will

777
00:42:31,520 –> 00:42:36,160
always match when it doesn’t
match either.

778
00:42:36,800 –> 00:42:39,360
The science is flawed.
Good example of that.

779
00:42:39,360 –> 00:42:42,760
Jupiter got demoted all right.
Science is still changing.

780
00:42:42,760 –> 00:42:44,120
New evidence came in, we changed
our mind.

781
00:42:44,280 –> 00:42:46,960
I wish they would do that with
evolution, but nonetheless.

782
00:42:47,960 –> 00:42:52,000
Science is wrong, eventually
follow scientific method they’ll

783
00:42:52,000 –> 00:42:53,880
get right or the Bible student
is wrong.

784
00:42:54,480 –> 00:42:56,960
And my favorite example of that
we’re actually going to talk

785
00:42:56,960 –> 00:43:01,080
about tomorrow night.
It’s the age of the earth making

786
00:43:01,080 –> 00:43:03,480
an argument that the earth is
6000 years old.

787
00:43:03,480 –> 00:43:05,360
We’re wasting our time making
the argument.

788
00:43:06,400 –> 00:43:10,640
The Bible does not say that.
Could it be only 6000 years old?

789
00:43:11,360 –> 00:43:12,920
Yes.
If that’s how God wanted to do

790
00:43:12,920 –> 00:43:14,640
it, He could have started
everything over and said new

791
00:43:14,640 –> 00:43:16,320
planet, new solar system, I’m on
this one.

792
00:43:16,320 –> 00:43:18,520
Now could he have done that in
His divine majesty?

793
00:43:19,280 –> 00:43:21,960
Yes.
Could he instead have reused

794
00:43:21,960 –> 00:43:24,040
something that had been there
for billions of years, started

795
00:43:24,040 –> 00:43:26,080
with a clean slate, and said I’m
starting over, let’s do it

796
00:43:26,080 –> 00:43:27,880
again.
Yes.

797
00:43:28,040 –> 00:43:31,760
In fact, Genesis chapter 1
suggests that’s exactly what

798
00:43:31,760 –> 00:43:34,920
happened.
Now if science says the earth is

799
00:43:34,920 –> 00:43:37,480
4 or 6 billion years old and the
sun is 10 billion years old, do

800
00:43:37,480 –> 00:43:39,920
I care?
No, I’m not that old.

801
00:43:40,800 –> 00:43:45,520
God has given me a book that
covers approximately 4100 years

802
00:43:45,520 –> 00:43:48,960
of history and maybe 2 or 3000
years of prophecy.

803
00:43:49,160 –> 00:43:51,200
Anyone ever argue this book is
too small?

804
00:43:51,200 –> 00:43:55,760
He should have kept going.
We have plenty to be part of the

805
00:43:55,760 –> 00:43:58,480
Kingdom of God.
And what God did and where He

806
00:43:58,480 –> 00:44:00,000
did it and how He did it, why he
did it.

807
00:44:00,480 –> 00:44:02,840
You just give us a headache if
we tried to figure out how many

808
00:44:02,840 –> 00:44:05,360
universes there are right now
where God is calling out a

809
00:44:05,360 –> 00:44:07,200
people for His name.
Could it be another billion?

810
00:44:07,560 –> 00:44:08,920
Make your head hurt.
Think about that.

811
00:44:09,400 –> 00:44:12,120
Here’s the point.
Our God’s in control and He’s

812
00:44:12,120 –> 00:44:16,080
not new at this.
He’s doing what is right for us

813
00:44:16,240 –> 00:44:18,520
and who knows what other.
Creations that are out there

814
00:44:18,520 –> 00:44:21,040
right now.
So don’t make God so small that

815
00:44:21,040 –> 00:44:24,120
he fits into a box.
We understand it’s OK to have an

816
00:44:24,120 –> 00:44:25,520
opinion.
I have one.

817
00:44:25,840 –> 00:44:28,840
You may like it, you may not,
and it doesn’t matter as long as

818
00:44:28,840 –> 00:44:31,400
we don’t say God had to do it
this way because this is the

819
00:44:31,400 –> 00:44:33,360
only way that makes sense.
Oh, to you.

820
00:44:34,720 –> 00:44:37,040
But to God, there’s an awful lot
more options than the ones our

821
00:44:37,040 –> 00:44:41,760
tiny brains can come up with.
Now the key point for this as it

822
00:44:41,760 –> 00:44:45,960
relates to the flood is for
God’s word to be accurate, all

823
00:44:45,960 –> 00:44:48,760
the humans had to die.
The animals, they’re amoral.

824
00:44:48,760 –> 00:44:51,320
Animals don’t sin.
Animals behave on instinct.

825
00:44:51,640 –> 00:44:54,720
They died because of their
proximity to mankind.

826
00:44:55,640 –> 00:44:59,400
So we let that be the part we
have to all agree on.

827
00:44:59,400 –> 00:45:01,200
God is right, all the humans
died.

828
00:45:01,640 –> 00:45:04,080
This is.
The end of the story Opinions.

829
00:45:04,160 –> 00:45:05,560
Have fun.
They’re fun to discuss.

830
00:45:05,560 –> 00:45:07,760
Just don’t get locked in.
When you get locked in.

831
00:45:08,160 –> 00:45:11,400
You’re now wrong because God is
not limited by the thinking of

832
00:45:11,400 –> 00:45:16,680
our thoughts.
Verse 21 All flesh died that

833
00:45:16,680 –> 00:45:18,920
moved upon the earth, both
fallen of cattle of beast, a

834
00:45:18,920 –> 00:45:20,600
very creeping thing that
creepeth upon the earth.

835
00:45:20,960 –> 00:45:25,000
And every man, all in whose
nostrils was the breath of life,

836
00:45:25,200 –> 00:45:29,080
that was on dry lands.
So now again we have this

837
00:45:29,320 –> 00:45:31,160
comment.
Excluding the fish.

838
00:45:31,440 –> 00:45:33,480
Sometimes it’s there, sometimes
it’s not.

839
00:45:33,480 –> 00:45:36,880
The emphasis, not the fish.
God did not flood the world

840
00:45:36,880 –> 00:45:40,160
because of the evil squirrels.
Man was the target.

841
00:45:40,200 –> 00:45:42,560
That’s the kneefesh.
We’re talking about animals.

842
00:45:42,560 –> 00:45:45,520
Yes, they died, but the focus
was on.

843
00:45:45,520 –> 00:45:49,760
Mankind.
Every living substance was

844
00:45:49,760 –> 00:45:53,640
destroyed, which was upon the
face of the ground, both man and

845
00:45:53,640 –> 00:45:55,520
cattle keeping things, the fowls
of heaven.

846
00:45:55,720 –> 00:45:57,800
They were destroyed from the
earth and Noah only remained

847
00:45:57,800 –> 00:45:59,440
alive and they that were with
him in the ark.

848
00:46:00,120 –> 00:46:03,560
Repeat, repeat, repeat.
This is chapter 6, verse 7.

849
00:46:03,560 –> 00:46:07,440
Chapter 7, verse 4.
Repeat, repeat, repeat.

850
00:46:08,520 –> 00:46:14,240
The waters pervade upon the
earth 150 days, so we’ve got 5

851
00:46:14,240 –> 00:46:16,200
lunar months, the number of
grace.

852
00:46:16,840 –> 00:46:19,760
In chapter 8 we get to see the
shadows of Christ in the ark,

853
00:46:19,840 –> 00:46:22,360
including a few more astounding
sevens.

854
00:46:22,920 –> 00:46:25,200
And in Chapter 9 we’ll get to
see the end of the story.

855
00:46:25,400 –> 00:46:28,840
It’s not quite very flattering
for sure, but to that day where

856
00:46:28,840 –> 00:46:32,640
we can look at a as a family and
we can see beyond the sins of

857
00:46:32,640 –> 00:46:35,040
our present.
Toward the opportunity of our

858
00:46:35,040 –> 00:46:37,840
future, that we might be one
with the Father.

859
00:46:38,240 –> 00:46:42,800
Tabernacling with the sun.
And to that end we say, Even so,

860
00:46:42,960 –> 00:46:44,240
come Lord Jesus.