Dennis Bevans – Noah – Saving Your Family in a Dark World – Class 6 – The Token of the Covenant

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The theme for brother Dennis’s
classes this week is Noah saving

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your family in a Dark World, and
today’s class is entitled The

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Token of the covenant, Genesis
Chapter 9.

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Well, my dear brothers and
sisters, we do come to the

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conclusion of our thoughts
together on Noah specifically,

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but as we come to the end of the
camp, there’s always a

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bittersweetness that takes
place.

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We’ve enjoyed a lot of time
around God’s Word.

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We’ve had some wonderful
conversations around food, which

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is one of my favorite things.
And now we’re all worried about

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packing and getting out in time.
So as we we put our final

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thoughts on the.
Story of Noah for the week.

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I didn’t want to take the
opportunity to say thank you.

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Thank you for the invitation,
thank you for the hospitality.

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For those of you we’ve known
before and not got a chance to

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see again, that’s awesome.
We met a lot of new people at

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this school and it’s it’s
wonderful to see the truth alive

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throughout this continent.
So thank you very much for that.

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Now we’re going to pick up on
the 9th chapter and the story

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will close, at least the Genesis
record will close on the story

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of Noah and.
It’s got some pretty neat things

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in here, and it ends with a not
so flattering story.

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But it’s God’s design to put it
this way.

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Some have thought, including
myself, but it would kind of

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have been nice if Chapter 9
could just be cut in half and

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end in glory.
But our God sees fit to see more

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than the glory, but to also see
in the redeeming work of Noah,

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we also can see that in this
same family, in the same small

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remnant, saved sin creeps in and
error happens.

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And it allows us to see beyond
the errors that we might make.

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So that when we look at Noah, we
don’t think of one really bad

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story.
And that’s all we think of.

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We think of the glory of the
Father.

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And we note that in that story,
there is not everything is

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perfect, much like our own
lives.

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All right Chapter 9, verse one,
God bless Noah and his sons and

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said unto them, be fruitful and
multiply and replenish the

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earth, which is a repeat of
Genesis chapter one verse 22.

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And 28 it was similar to Adam
and Eve.

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The major difference is the
omission of subdue and add

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dominion.
Which We had a memorable program

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together Thursday night.
Perhaps you remember that piece

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on the 7000 year plan and not
just the tire fire.

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I was at the end all right.
The fear of you and the dread of

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you shall be upon every beast of
the earth, and upon every fowl

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of the air, upon all that moveth
on the earth, and all the fish

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of the.
Sea into your hand are they

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delivered?
So we compare the animals that

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are brought to Adam to be named
as they were brought.

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By God to the ark to be
preserved.

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And all this happened without
fear.

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We we don’t have an image of
Adam going.

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I don’t know if I want to name
this guy.

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He’s a little too close there,
Mr. Lyon.

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There’s No Fear in this
activity.

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They’re doing what God has told
and God has provided.

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And so we have the same zoo, if
you will, coming to the to the

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ark.
There’s No Fear involved in that

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at all.
But there’s a very important

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lesson going to be given to this
family as they start to leave

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the ark because the rules had
changed due to sin.

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The rules had changed, the
covering of sin required the

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shedding of blood, as we recall
from our first class.

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So the identic state of the
world that we will see

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historically back in Eden we
look forward to in the Kingdom

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age.
But as a result.

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Of sin, there is a difference.
Let’s look at Isaiah 11, Isaiah

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11, verses 6 through 9.
The wolf, or perhaps we should

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say dog, building on what Jason
just said, shall dwell with the

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lamb.
The leopard shall lie down with

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the kid, the calf, and the young
lion, the fatling together, and

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a child shall lead them.
The cow and the bear shall feed

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their young ones.
They shall lie down together,

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and the lion shall eat straw
like the ox.

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The suckling child should play
in the hole of the Aspen.

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The weaning child or the wean
child shall put his hand in the

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cockatrice den.
They shall not hurt nor destroy

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in all my holy mountain, for the
earth shall be full of the

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knowledge of the Lord, as the
waters cover the sea.

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We know that phrase at the end.
Interesting.

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Choice of words giving the
connection to the creation

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account and also the flood
account, both being designed by

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the tameness of the animals.
So we long for this day when the

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the animal Kingdom is able to be
able to be friendly, if you

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will, and tame because the
missing ingredient that has

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defiled the planet, sin, has
been eradicated.

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And so in this arc then we have
for just a moment, just a year,

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we have a repeat of an identic
state for just a while, an

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opportunity to see, Can you
imagine if that doesn’t happen,

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what a mess the ark would have
been?

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So God was in control.
How?

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We don’t know.
We discussed a little bit of for

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that matter, but perhaps by now
they’ve gotten used to it and

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the rules are going to change
when the ark opens up.

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So at verse 3 of Genesis 9,
every moving thing that liveth

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shall be meat for you, even as
the green herb have I given you

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all things.
So that’s another contrast to

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Genesis chapter one.
This one we’ll look at Genesis

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chapter 1, verses 29 and 30.
God said, behold, I have given

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you every herb bearing seed
which is upon the face of the

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earth, and every tree in which
the fruit is the fruit of a tree

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yielding seed to you.
Shall that be for meat?

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And to the beast of the earth
and the fowl.

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Of the air to everything that
creepeth on the earth, wherein

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there is life.
I have given every green herb

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for me.
And it was so.

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So the creation account in
Genesis chapter 1 ends with a

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planet.
Full of vegetarians.

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Good thing for me this has
changed.

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But that’s where we start in
Genesis chapter 1.

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Then we go to Genesis Chapter 9.
And now we see every moving

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thing that liveth shall be meat
for you.

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So the dietary restrictions have
changed.

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Now we saw the introduction of
sacrifice in Chapter 3.

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It was emphasized with an object
lesson in Chapter 4.

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And we get to Chapter 6 and we
are noting all the clean and

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unclean animals, which tells us
that there was some type of

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recorded law, one that they had
some way of knowing what was

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clean and what was not.
But it also tells us that they

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ate.
Animals before the flood too.

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So it wasn’t thou shalt be a
vegetarian.

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It was provided for your food
for your food, all the the herbs

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of the field.
But obviously.

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Meat was eaten before the flood,
however.

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That may have been an allowance,
maybe not as a command.

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Genesis 9 reads more like a
command.

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I’ll leave that alone for now,
but being a mediator, I’m glad

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this verse exists.
However, we’ll have to do

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something.
I will have to get over in the

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Kingdom.
It’ll go back to the created

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state.
So we’ve got to prepare myself

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for this.
I’m going to wait till the very

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end to do it.
Isaiah 11 verse 7 is another

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nice reference.
Verse we won’t look at that one,

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but it’s another place if you’d
like to look all right.

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Verse 4 But the flesh with the
life thereof, which is in the

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blood thereof, you shall not
eat.

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And so here’s that word nefesh
again.

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That’s the.
Word life, literally a breathing

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creature.
And I’m sure most of us know the

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context from rested scripture,
but for the sake of those that

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are just learning some of these
things, I know there’s a few of

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you here.
I thought it might be worth a

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few minutes.
Just to talk about that for just

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a moment, just a couple slides
to make this point.

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So the word nephesh, that’s the
word that’s translated soul.

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Mostly in the Old Testament it
really means creature and some

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of the times.
It did get translated that way.

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Genesis 1 and 24 is an example
of that, where God had to let

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the earth bring forth every
living.

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Creature, that’s the word nefesh
again after its kind, that same

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word used is used in verse 20,
verse 21, verse 30.

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So it’s used and applied to
animals because it means.

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Life or a creature and it’s
translated both ways.

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The next time the Word appears
is Genesis 2 and seven, where

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the Lord God formed man out of
the dust of the ground, breathed

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into his nostrils the breath of
life, and man became a nephesh,

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a living creature, or as it says
in the King James, a living

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soul.
So here we have Adam becoming a

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breathing creature, just as the
animals were on day five, and

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the ones created before him on
day six were breathing creatures

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too.
In fact, the next usage is verse

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19, where the creatures as it’s
translated are called to Adam to

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be named.
So it’s the same storyline we’ve

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been talking about.
So all the living creatures the

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nephesh came to talk to, to be
named by Adam.

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So what we have then in Genesis
chapter 2 verse 7 is an equation

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of life.
We have the body of dust plus

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the breath of life equals the
Nephesh, the living creature.

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Without the breath of life we
have a dead creature which turns

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to dust.
From dust thou W to dust thou

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shalt return.
Good reference verses Ezekiel 18

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and verse 20 says the soul that
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It shall die because the soul is
the creature itself.

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The Son shall not bear the
iniquity of the Father, neither

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the Father bear the iniquity of
the Son.

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So the righteousness of the
righteous shall be upon him, and

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the wickedness of the wicked
shall be it upon him.

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It ties right to John 3 and 16,
where we have two choices.

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This is from our second class
Everlasting.

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Life or perish?
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from dust thou W to dust thou
shalt return one more.

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And then we’ll head back to the
Noah story.

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This one’s Leviticus 17 and a
law that’s based on our Genesis

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record this morning.
Leviticus 17, verse 14.

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For it is the life of all flesh,
The blood of it is the life

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thereof.
Now the word life, all three of

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them in this verse is the word
nephesh.

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So it is the life of all flesh.
The blood of it is the life

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thereof.
Therefore I said unto the

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children of Israel, you shall
eat the blood of no manner of

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flesh.
For the life of all flesh is the

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blood thereof.
Whosoever eateth it shall be cut

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off.
And we’re going to see that as

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part of what we’re going to talk
about here in the next few a

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couple verses.
Life is the blood thereof.

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The nephesh is the blood
thereof.

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If our blood is.
Moving and distributing the

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breath of life to all of our
organs.

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By definition, we are a living
creature when we are no longer.

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Able to distribute oxygen
through the rest of our body.

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We are a dead creature or a dead
soul.

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So that’s just if you want a
few.

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Verses to string together the
biblical record.

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That’s how we look at this word,
this word, nephesh or creature

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or living being.
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To a clean animal, when they
die, they are eligible for food.

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But there’s a catch.
Genesis 9 verse 4 But flesh with

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the life nephesh thereof,
becoming the foundation for what

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we just read in Leviticus, the
life thereof, which is the blood

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thereof, shall you not eat?
The life is the blood.

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So the moving blood, oxygenated
blood, is representative of the

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living creature.
So it is against the command of

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God to eat living creatures?
Well, that’s nice.

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I don’t want to eat a living
creature anyway, so I’m not.

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Tempted to violate this law and
nonetheless the purpose of the

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blood is to sustain the life.
It’s not to torture animals that

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were given the opportunity to
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The clean animal is there for a
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it is not the case.
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will I require at the hand of
every beast, I will require it

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at the hand of man.
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brother will I require the life
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So the.
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that he didn’t hate violence.
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away the world with water and
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violence and corruption that had
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So this is just a quick reminder
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Here’s what’s going to happen to
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ark.
And so we’ve talked about the

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animals.
You guys have been in the well

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here, Jason’s made multiple
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few days in a car.
Imagine hanging out with your

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family for a year.
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agitation at some point on this
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happen as we go out.
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change with the animals.
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by man shall his blood be shed.
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man, so now he.
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murder, which is a quite a jump.
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punishment for murder as a
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age.
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that Zechariah 13 and 3.
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world we live in today.
This is in many places.

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This is not a very politically
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I made this slide in Texas, so
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But not everywhere in the
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thought of as acceptable, but
the foundation of which comes

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from Scripture.
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you assuming you’re not going to
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So now we’re going to focus on
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might murder be you fruitful
multiply and bring forth

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abundantly in the earth and
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So repetition we have the Hebrew
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replenish the earth is what they
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I behold, I establish my
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after you, with every living
creature that is with you, a

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fowl of cattle of every beast of
the earth, with you from all

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that go out of the ark to every
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So just in case you thought some
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Stuff was done.
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done.
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them pounded in this next couple
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The word covenant, of course,
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because the completion of a
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looking at.
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mentioned 7 times after the
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All flesh.
Excuse me, Nephesh is mentioned

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7 times after the flood in verse
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It’s mentioned lives in five.
So life four and five lives

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five.
Creature 10121516 So again we

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got the number 7 building all
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after the flood.
All chapter 8 verse 17 Chapter

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9, verse 411151617.
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is going to be driven home.
That’s the theme of this.

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Story so it’s summarized as
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all.
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of his son again a tied to John
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So again, we see these things
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the the constant reminder and
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crescendo here at the end of the
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that we keep that in the front
of our mind that our God has

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made a covenant with his people
and our God always keeps his

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promises.
I will establish my covenant

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with you.
Neither shall all flesh be cut

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off anymore by the waters of a
flood.

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Neither shall be any more of
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Habakkuk 2 verse 14 or even the
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We just let we just read, of
course, building on that concept

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for us today.
So God said this is the token of

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the.
Covenant which I make between me

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and you and every living
creature that is with you for

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perpetual generations in South.
Now we get to hit the.

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Brakes a little.
So we’ve we’ve kind of.

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Had a lot of information.
It’s practical, it’s simple,

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it’s a repetitive as it goes
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Now we’re introducing something
new, a token.

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This word is used.
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that’s used regarding
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verse 11 and also the Passover
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So this concept of the token as
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That we associate with the
concept of the cutting off of

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flesh to be dedicated to God or
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Preparing us for an example of
the lamb and the preparing of a

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nation for deliverance through
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Those tokens that will apply
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That route starts here in the
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Chapter 9.
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nationally represents the
cutting off of flesh that we

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would be dedicated to God
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And collectively, of course,
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baptism.
Obviously those topics will be

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separate studies for another
day, but the fact that they’re

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connected here is the point
we’re trying to make.

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We’re going to find the building
blocks of.

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Everything in the law, and I
firmly believe this, everything

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you see in the law, there is a
root you can find in Genesis.

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That’s being it’s being built
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Here’s the root for the
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Now in verse 16 we have it noted
as it would be for everlasting,

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which we see at the end of
chapter 12, verse 12.

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This perpetual generations from
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to a on and here in the Hebrew
now we have from a generation to

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generation perpetually, which
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So the specific token that’s
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It shall be for a token of a
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earth.
And this is not necessarily the

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first rainbow because we can
make a rainbow happen every time

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we get light and water done the
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But now it’s going to take on a
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it’s the first time it’s going
to be representative of a token

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now.
A rainbow itself is only.

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Visible between sun and water.
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the sun, pure light, which we
would they would call white

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light from the sun hits water
particles and it reflects into

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seven colors and then returns
back to this white light as it

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exits.
That’s why it doesn’t hit the

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water and then everything in
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It comes back at the end.
So it gives us some interesting

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characteristics, the first one
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in this rainbow.
Seven.

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Of course it is.
It stays with the.

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Theme Now there’s a number of
concepts that can be drawn to

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this.
One, the doctrine of the truth

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as it comes from God, described
as rain in Deuteronomy 32,

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shines upon the flesh.
And if it has been through the

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waters of life, it can flow
through them as united and pure

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and come back out into the
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Which is an exhortation for us
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It also gives us this concept.
Of one body, many colors, so

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diversity.
The purpose includes men and

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women.
Because without the cloud, we

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have no witnesses.
There’s no rainbow.

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So on our own, you and I
individually cannot return the

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Word of God back-to-back to Him
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But united as a group, we can.
And that’s why the ecclesial

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setting is such a big deal.
That’s why we have to make sure

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we take the opportunity to bring
in the Word of God through all

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of our varying gifts and find
ways to work together as a

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family now that we may not be
part of that family for

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eternity.
That’s really what this is all

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about.
It gives us a chance to take in

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the information from the Father.
And let it work within us that

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we might take that and give him
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So in Matthew 25, we have the
separation of the sheep and the

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goats.
A story we all know.

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The part I want to focus on is
is not so in case you’re not

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thinking of what where we’re
getting is I was hungry, you

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gave me meat, thirsty.
You gave me drinks.

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So can imprison you visit on me.
The part that is really amazing

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is that both camps ask the same
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You ever noticed that?
See when those that are deemed

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righteous are told I was hungry,
I was sick and I was in prison

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and you took care of me, They
they didn’t say.

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Of course we did Jesus.
I’ve been checking the box all

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along.
I heard someone was sick.

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Check.
Did that one for Jesus?

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Because if that’s how we’re
operating the ecclesia, we’re

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not considered righteous.
Their response was really when?

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When did we do that?
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you’ve taken care of my family,
if you’ve done it unto these my

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brethren, you’ve done it unto
me, which tells us to be

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considered righteous.
We’ve got to serve each other,

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not because.
Well, I’ve got to serve you

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because it’s a point for Jesus.
We’re not.

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It’s a scorecard.
It’s we’re learning to serve

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each other because if we don’t
want to work together now, why

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would we want to do it for
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So they take this opportunity to
learn each other, serve each

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other, work together, and it can
bring glory to the Father as we

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emulate the work of the Son.
OK, well, the second camp says

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the same thing when And that’s
if Jesus, if I knew you were

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hungry, I would have made you a
sandwich too.

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But if you’ve not done it to my
family, you’ve not done it to

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me.
It’s all about the motive for us

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serving.
It’s all about us choosing to

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work together to the glory of
the Father to bring about a

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measure of his glory.
Now that we can be have that

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glory innumerable in the Kingdom
part of tablet tabernacling with

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the Father through the Son for
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The rainbow becomes a token that
teaches that.

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And every time we see one, it
should remind us of of of such.

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Now, it’s interesting because
the rainbow has been adopted

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for, you know, is it still Pride
Month?

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No, that was last month.
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Yeah, it’s over.
But you know what’s interesting

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about that?
How many colours in the Pride

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Rainbow 6?
I wonder if that’s on purpose or

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if that’s just.
Amazing, astounding, and not

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whatever I’d said it again. 6
The number of man.

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You mean doing what we think is
right in our own eyes, Sure, but

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in perfection it’s got 7.
Which is the completion of a

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covenant between God and man.
OK, so.

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Why do we have this covenant?
Well, if if we follow the

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premise that Genesis chapter 2
verse 4 was not a weather

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report, and in fact, the first
time rain actually happened on

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the planet was the flood, it
becomes very important that we

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have an identifier that says I’m
not going to do this again.

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Because imagine they get off the
flood, they start building their

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first house, they see clouds
coming.

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Uh oh, we weren’t told to build
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That’s a problem.
He wants them to understand this

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is normal.
I am not going to do it again.

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Rain, don’t worry about it.
It’s part of the cleansing of

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the land heretofore, but it
makes it a token so that they

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would recognize the covenant
that the Father was making and

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he would honor it.
It should come to pass when I

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bring a cloud over the earth,
and the bow shall be seen in

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the.
Cloud, I will remember my

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covenant, which is between me
and you and every living

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creature of all flesh and the
water shall no more become a

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flood to destroy all flesh.
So we mentioned God always.

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Pete keeps his promises from
chapter 8, verse one.

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And if you want the cloud of
witnesses verse Hebrews 12 and

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00:24:03,520 –> 00:24:06,640
one is nice, but the part that I
want to focus on for just a

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00:24:06,640 –> 00:24:10,920
moment, I will remember my
covenant.

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So the rainbow is not something
only we see as a token of this

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00:24:15,520 –> 00:24:18,920
covenant, but our God sees
rainbows too.

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It’s important as we look at
that in the conjunction of the

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return of our Lord Jesus Christ,
the signs of the times that we

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00:24:28,800 –> 00:24:32,800
see that get us excited about,
OK, this, that may not be a good

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00:24:32,800 –> 00:24:36,200
thing, but boy, it matches up
what’s in prophecy and gets me

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00:24:36,200 –> 00:24:38,400
more excited as I see the day
approaching.

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00:24:40,160 –> 00:24:41,680
But our God sees those things
too.

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00:24:41,760 –> 00:24:44,200
And so as we start looking at
things through the lens of the

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Father’s thinking, as He shares
that to us, it gives us a chance

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to take His thinking and bring
it back to Him.

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00:24:51,960 –> 00:24:54,360
The bow in the cloud.
I will look upon it.

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00:24:54,360 –> 00:24:57,560
I may remember the everlasting
covenant between God and every

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00:24:57,560 –> 00:25:00,400
living creature of all flesh
that is on the on the earth.

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So not only does he see it.
But he looks for it.

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Interestingly enough, this
phrase everlasting covenant that

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happens 14 times in the Old
Testament.

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Sure, it’s just a coincidence.
Now, It only happens once in the

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New Testament.
This one’s worth looking at.

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00:25:20,160 –> 00:25:24,000
Hebrews chapter 13 picking up at
verse 20.

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Now the God of peace that
brought again from the dead our

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00:25:28,640 –> 00:25:32,440
Lord Jesus, that great shepherd
of the sheep, through the blood

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00:25:32,440 –> 00:25:36,160
of the everlasting covenant,
make you perfect in every good

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00:25:36,160 –> 00:25:39,760
work to do His will, working in
you that which is well pleasing

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00:25:39,760 –> 00:25:43,400
in His sight through Jesus
Christ, to whom be glory forever

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and ever.
Amen.

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Effectively rounding out this
book with an exhortation for all

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us, to all of us to be like Noah
in the last days.

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God says to Noah, This is the
token of the covenant I have

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00:25:58,000 –> 00:25:59,680
established.
Between me and all flesh that is

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on the earth.
Repeat it again.

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Hebrew exclamation point.
And so now we segue to the the

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the not so flattering part of
the story.

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And I think the example for
weakness and failure in contrast

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to the glory just gives us a
chance to see.

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The mistakes we make.
None of us wants to be known for

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00:26:17,800 –> 00:26:19,600
the worst mistake we’ve ever
done in our life.

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00:26:20,440 –> 00:26:22,720
Our God sees everything.
Sometimes our mistakes are

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00:26:22,720 –> 00:26:24,760
public and we get to share them
with everyone else.

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00:26:24,760 –> 00:26:26,680
Sometimes it’s just between US
and the Father.

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But at the end of the day, our
God.

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Sees those things and is able to
overcome them to give us an

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opportunity for glory.
So as we looked at when we

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looked at the Matthew 1
genealogy, it’s not what we’ve

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00:26:37,960 –> 00:26:40,960
done or where we’ve been that
really matters.

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00:26:41,400 –> 00:26:43,240
It’s what we’re doing now and
where we’re going.

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00:26:44,360 –> 00:26:47,920
Learn from the sins of the past
and move forward towards glory.

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00:26:48,200 –> 00:26:51,880
So as much as I wish this had
been earlier in the story so we

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weren’t ending on it, that’s not
the way God designed it.

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00:26:54,440 –> 00:26:56,640
He gave.
It to us at the end to marinate

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00:26:56,640 –> 00:27:01,200
on the sons of Noah that went
forth from the ark were Shem,

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00:27:01,440 –> 00:27:04,120
Hem, Japheth, and Hem is the
father of Canaan these.

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00:27:04,360 –> 00:27:06,360
Are the three sons?
Of Noah and of them was the

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00:27:06,360 –> 00:27:11,000
whole earth overspread so
there’s just a a side note

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00:27:11,000 –> 00:27:13,640
another meanwhile back at the
ranch commentary.

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00:27:14,200 –> 00:27:18,720
This is Moses commentary when it
says him as the father of

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00:27:18,720 –> 00:27:22,680
Canaan.
So he didn’t know that yet, but

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00:27:22,680 –> 00:27:24,200
Moses did when he writes the
story.

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00:27:24,200 –> 00:27:26,960
And we’ll see Moses commentary
throughout Genesis in a number

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of places, like for example.
Describing the rivers in Eden

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00:27:32,080 –> 00:27:35,920
well, telling the people what
used to be there, because by the

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00:27:35,920 –> 00:27:37,880
time you were reading.
It some of those rivers didn’t

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00:27:37,880 –> 00:27:40,440
exist comment on the first
marriage.

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00:27:40,440 –> 00:27:44,480
Therefore shall man leave his
father and woman leave her home

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00:27:44,480 –> 00:27:49,120
and they till be 1 flesh.
That was Moses commentary.

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00:27:49,360 –> 00:27:52,520
It also we were referred to 1:00
earlier, might have even been

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00:27:52,520 –> 00:27:55,400
yesterday we were talking about
Sodom and Gomorrah where that

508
00:27:55,400 –> 00:27:58,560
section which says lot viewed
the plain of Sodom that it was

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00:27:58,560 –> 00:28:02,720
fair and then it was as the
Garden of Eden well watered and.

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00:28:02,880 –> 00:28:06,560
That’s Moses commentary.
That’s not what Lot said, That’s

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what Moses said.
And that’s important because the

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00:28:09,000 –> 00:28:12,920
first people to read it after
Moses wrote it would go Lot

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00:28:12,920 –> 00:28:15,600
thought that was fair.
Why on earth would he?

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00:28:15,640 –> 00:28:18,040
Because by then it’d been
destroyed and it was a mess.

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00:28:19,000 –> 00:28:22,000
But back when Lot saw it, it was
like the garden of God.

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00:28:22,400 –> 00:28:25,200
So we see that from time to
time, especially in the Genesis

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00:28:25,200 –> 00:28:27,440
record.
And so this is one of those

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00:28:27,440 –> 00:28:31,160
things giving us a connection.
The region This region was

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00:28:31,160 –> 00:28:33,440
promised to Abraham and his
seed.

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00:28:33,760 –> 00:28:36,480
It was sought for by Moses.
But not achieved in his life.

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00:28:36,480 –> 00:28:39,600
So that also, I think, gives us
a little bit more of when Moses

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00:28:39,600 –> 00:28:41,840
is looking through this lens,
he’s adding some of those

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00:28:41,840 –> 00:28:45,080
details to connect to his
readers, including us.

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00:28:47,440 –> 00:28:50,080
Noah began to be a.
Husbandman and planted a

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00:28:50,080 –> 00:28:52,360
vineyard.
So I’m going to start this

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00:28:52,360 –> 00:28:55,760
section by saying, and this is
probably a good take away.

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00:28:56,840 –> 00:29:01,600
Nothing good ever happens when
one is drunk and naked, so I’m

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00:29:01,600 –> 00:29:03,800
just making that easy for us to
understand.

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00:29:03,800 –> 00:29:07,360
That’s one for us to grow on.
No story ends well when it

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00:29:07,360 –> 00:29:08,920
starts.
With they were drunk and naked.

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Husbandman in the Hebrew is
literally 2 words.

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00:29:12,680 –> 00:29:17,160
It means a man of the ground.
Where did your mind just go?

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00:29:18,760 –> 00:29:27,360
The man of the ground, Cain and
Adam, Adam’s name, the ties, the

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00:29:27,360 –> 00:29:30,200
creation.
The word for ground here in

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00:29:30,200 –> 00:29:34,120
Hebrew is Adama certainly ties
us directly to.

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00:29:34,120 –> 00:29:38,440
Cain chapter 4 and even the
introductory comments in the

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00:29:38,440 –> 00:29:41,080
story of Noah are furry.
First class, which seems like a

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00:29:41,080 –> 00:29:43,160
million years ago, it was only a
few days.

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00:29:43,800 –> 00:29:47,120
Chapter 5, verse 29 and called
his name Noah saying this same

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00:29:47,120 –> 00:29:51,240
shall comfort us concerning the
work and toil of our hands,

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00:29:51,240 –> 00:29:56,320
because of the ground the Lord
hath cursed, so we’re going back

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00:29:56,320 –> 00:30:00,040
to the roots.
But he starts to be a man of the

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00:30:00,040 –> 00:30:01,960
ground, and he plants a
vineyard.

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00:30:01,960 –> 00:30:03,800
Now the vineyard is an
interesting connection in

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00:30:03,800 –> 00:30:09,320
Scripture because the vineyard
itself always, always, always.

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00:30:09,320 –> 00:30:13,280
Refers to an inheritance always.
Every time you see the word

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00:30:13,280 –> 00:30:15,680
vineyard, look for evidence of
the inheritance.

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00:30:16,040 –> 00:30:18,840
And part of it was because how
they were able to garnish it

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00:30:18,840 –> 00:30:22,520
when they were to go through and
and decide to plant a vineyard,

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00:30:22,840 –> 00:30:25,000
they would pull the rocks out
and some of those.

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00:30:25,000 –> 00:30:28,400
Big ones would become the vats
that were used to stomp on the

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00:30:28,400 –> 00:30:31,480
grapes and make the wine.
That’s that’s still even in, in

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00:30:32,000 –> 00:30:34,480
in today’s day in the Middle
East, some of these things still

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00:30:34,480 –> 00:30:37,120
happen.
But it was associated with the

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00:30:37,280 –> 00:30:39,840
inheritance because it took time
to cultivate.

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00:30:39,840 –> 00:30:43,480
As we as we can see, under the
law, it was years before it

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00:30:43,480 –> 00:30:45,520
brought forth fruit.
They were supposed to not even

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00:30:45,520 –> 00:30:48,160
use them until later even.
After it was productive, they

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00:30:48,160 –> 00:30:52,080
had to give away some of it.
So it takes time to cultivate,

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00:30:52,720 –> 00:30:58,480
but it is something that has to
be drawn to the land you ever

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00:30:58,800 –> 00:31:01,520
consider in the context?
Of the story of Samson where

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00:31:01,520 –> 00:31:07,160
there was a lion.
In the vineyard, what’s the

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00:31:07,160 –> 00:31:09,240
enemy doing in the inheritance
of God?

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00:31:10,200 –> 00:31:14,080
Problem solved.
So in any case, whenever you see

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00:31:14,080 –> 00:31:15,920
the vineyard, look for evidence
of the inheritance.

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00:31:15,920 –> 00:31:21,360
So here we’re seeing Moses.
Moses, Noah has has continued

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00:31:21,360 –> 00:31:23,240
through the flood.
Everything that God has told him

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00:31:23,240 –> 00:31:26,440
to do, he has done.
He’s now been given what should

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00:31:26,440 –> 00:31:29,720
be peace and tranquility on the
other side and inheritance of

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00:31:29,720 –> 00:31:31,840
the Father.
Well, let’s have some fun.

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00:31:31,840 –> 00:31:38,160
With that one Exodus 23 verses
10 and 11, six years shalt thou

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00:31:38,160 –> 00:31:40,960
sow the land and gather in the
fruits thereof.

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00:31:41,160 –> 00:31:44,920
But in the 7th year, oh, what a
coincidence, Thou shalt let it

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00:31:44,920 –> 00:31:48,520
rest and lie and lie still.
That the poor of thy people may

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00:31:48,520 –> 00:31:51,240
eat, and they may leave it in
the beasts of the field like.

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00:31:51,520 –> 00:31:55,800
In like manner shall they be
dealt with for the vineyard and

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00:31:55,800 –> 00:31:59,440
the olive yard the next.
Verse actually ties it directly

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00:31:59,440 –> 00:32:02,480
to the Sabbath.
So we have the vineyard

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00:32:02,600 –> 00:32:06,520
perfected, Israel and the olive
your spiritual.

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00:32:06,520 –> 00:32:12,000
Israel being grafted in so we
don’t know how many years after

581
00:32:12,000 –> 00:32:13,760
the they left the ark this
happened.

582
00:32:13,800 –> 00:32:16,080
We’ve got to suggest it was
likely at least seven.

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00:32:16,360 –> 00:32:19,840
It could have happened anytime
in the next 350 years of Noah’s

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00:32:19,840 –> 00:32:23,080
life.
As we suggested a couple days

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00:32:23,080 –> 00:32:24,600
ago we went through the Tower of
Babel.

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00:32:26,800 –> 00:32:30,040
So we drank wine and was drunken
and uncovered in his tent.

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00:32:30,040 –> 00:32:32,640
And you probably agree that’s
the best clip art given the word

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00:32:32,640 –> 00:32:38,120
options I had.
Proverbs 23 verses 31 and 32

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00:32:38,120 –> 00:32:41,760
says look not upon the wine when
it is read, when it giveth its

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00:32:41,760 –> 00:32:44,800
color in the cup, when it moveth
itself a right.

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00:32:45,480 –> 00:32:49,480
At last it bite it like a
serpent and stingeth like an

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00:32:49,480 –> 00:32:52,600
adder.
Easy tied to Genesis 3 proverb.

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00:32:52,600 –> 00:32:56,080
That’s Proverbs 23 if you want
to note it So let’s go to

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00:32:56,080 –> 00:32:58,960
Genesis 3.
The eyes of them both were

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00:32:58,960 –> 00:33:01,840
opened and they.
Knew they were naked so this

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00:33:01,840 –> 00:33:05,520
whole story has its roots in
genesis chapter 3 and they sewed

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00:33:05,520 –> 00:33:08,840
themselves together fig leaves
and made themselves aprons the.

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00:33:09,080 –> 00:33:11,320
Representative of national
Israel.

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00:33:11,320 –> 00:33:16,840
So we’ve got the natural Israel,
spiritual and perfected now all

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00:33:16,840 –> 00:33:19,480
on the table for us.
So there’s something at work

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00:33:19,480 –> 00:33:20,960
here.
There is a work.

602
00:33:20,960 –> 00:33:23,040
The covering of sin requires a
shedding of blood.

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00:33:23,040 –> 00:33:25,440
So now we’re going back to the
natural state.

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00:33:25,880 –> 00:33:29,520
In the garden, which of course
we know that didn’t end well.

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00:33:31,640 –> 00:33:36,080
Ham the father of Canaan saw the
nakedness of his father and told

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00:33:36,080 –> 00:33:40,280
his to brethren without Now this
word saw is the same word used

607
00:33:40,280 –> 00:33:45,400
in chapter 6 a couple places to
connect here in verse two saw

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00:33:45,400 –> 00:33:48,640
the daughters of men that they
were fair obvious reference to

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00:33:48,640 –> 00:33:52,240
attraction.
Verse five saw the wickedness of

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00:33:52,240 –> 00:33:56,760
man was great obvious reference
to the result of lust from verse

611
00:33:56,760 –> 00:34:00,760
2 verse 10 God looked upon the
earth and behold it was corrupt

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00:34:00,760 –> 00:34:04,120
with noted wickedness and
violence in the next verse.

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00:34:04,400 –> 00:34:06,720
So the word in Hebrew, as you
recall, means to.

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00:34:06,720 –> 00:34:09,760
See.
To look at, to inspect, to

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00:34:09,760 –> 00:34:13,440
perceive, to consider.
This is not a Nash, just a quick

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00:34:14,120 –> 00:34:16,280
casual glance word that we have
here.

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00:34:16,639 –> 00:34:20,159
Now the context gives us
indications as to whether it was

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00:34:20,159 –> 00:34:23,840
a perception or an inspection.
That leaves a little bit of a

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00:34:23,840 –> 00:34:25,760
Gray area for us to look at if
we want.

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00:34:26,719 –> 00:34:30,159
Interestingly enough, we have
connected the story of Noah to

621
00:34:30,159 –> 00:34:34,800
Habakkuk 2 today a couple times.
I want to do it again and read

622
00:34:34,800 –> 00:34:36,719
the verses.
Immediately after the ones we

623
00:34:36,719 –> 00:34:39,719
just looked at that were an
obvious reference to the flood.

624
00:34:40,280 –> 00:34:44,719
Habakkuk 2, verses 14 and 15.
So the earth shall be filled

625
00:34:44,719 –> 00:34:46,679
with the knowledge of the glory
of the Lord, as the waters cover

626
00:34:46,679 –> 00:34:49,120
the sea.
Woe unto them that giveth his

627
00:34:49,120 –> 00:34:52,159
neighbor drink, and putteth thy
bottle to him, and makest him

628
00:34:52,159 –> 00:34:54,639
drunken, that they may look on
their nakedness.

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00:34:55,800 –> 00:34:58,680
And now we easily are able to
connect to this section to the

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00:34:58,680 –> 00:35:01,400
flood.
If you want to read verse 16 on

631
00:35:01,400 –> 00:35:04,360
your own, go ahead.
It’s even more graphic, so brace

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00:35:04,360 –> 00:35:06,840
yourself for it.
Keeping it in context of the

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00:35:06,840 –> 00:35:09,760
story, we’re looking at brothers
and sisters.

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00:35:09,760 –> 00:35:12,720
I believe the Genesis record is
being very discreet with regard

635
00:35:12,720 –> 00:35:15,960
to Noah, but the connection
diverses like this and the

636
00:35:15,960 –> 00:35:19,400
events in Sodom and Gomorrah
suggest something far more vile

637
00:35:19,400 –> 00:35:22,200
than the King James look.
So let’s continue.

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00:35:22,200 –> 00:35:26,960
In verse 9, Sham and Ham took a
garment, laid it both on their

639
00:35:26,960 –> 00:35:29,440
shoulders and went backward and
covered the nakedness of their

640
00:35:29,440 –> 00:35:31,480
father.
And their faces were backward.

641
00:35:31,480 –> 00:35:35,240
They saw not their father’s
nakedness, so this is them

642
00:35:35,240 –> 00:35:38,320
showing respect to the
vulnerability of their father.

643
00:35:38,600 –> 00:35:43,120
Now when it says they saw him
not, this does not mean they

644
00:35:43,120 –> 00:35:45,720
didn’t realize he was naked or
there’s no reason to walk in

645
00:35:45,720 –> 00:35:47,520
backwards and cover him out of
respect.

646
00:35:48,760 –> 00:35:54,760
But they didn’t inspect it.
They respected his his obvious

647
00:35:54,760 –> 00:35:58,200
vulnerable position.
They noticed it, but they did

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00:35:58,200 –> 00:36:03,560
not inspect.
Verse 24 and five, we have Noah

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00:36:03,560 –> 00:36:06,560
waking up from his wine, and
knew what his younger son had

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00:36:06,560 –> 00:36:10,240
done unto him, and said, Cursed
be Canaan, a servant of servant

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shall he be unto his brethren.
The word no is the intimate

652
00:36:13,560 –> 00:36:15,960
knowledge word.
It’s the same.

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00:36:15,960 –> 00:36:18,000
Word.
The word done is the same word

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00:36:18,000 –> 00:36:21,800
translated made in Genesis 31,
chapter one, verse 31.

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00:36:22,120 –> 00:36:24,160
I don’t think there’s any need
for further graphics here.

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00:36:24,160 –> 00:36:27,680
I think my point is being made.
At a minimum, we have

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00:36:27,680 –> 00:36:30,640
disrespect.
Likely we have a vile

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00:36:30,640 –> 00:36:34,000
abomination.
Which if that’s the case, verse

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00:36:34,000 –> 00:36:35,960
25, the punishment fits the
crime.

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00:36:37,000 –> 00:36:39,400
That seems like a high
punishment for a passing glance

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00:36:39,400 –> 00:36:43,040
and I didn’t cover him up, but
the punishment would fit its

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00:36:43,040 –> 00:36:46,360
crime if it’s far more.
Now let’s continue.

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00:36:48,360 –> 00:36:52,640
So he says as a result of this,
blessed be the Lord God of Shem,

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and Canaan shall be his servant.
God shall enlarge Japheth, and

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00:36:55,760 –> 00:36:58,400
he shall dwell in the tents of
Shem, and Canaan shall be his

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00:36:58,400 –> 00:37:01,680
servant.
Now we get back to Shem, the

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00:37:01,680 –> 00:37:06,680
focus on the name.
Now verse 27, the record closes

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00:37:06,680 –> 00:37:10,880
on Noah by reminding us of his
righteousness in spite of this

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00:37:10,880 –> 00:37:13,640
noted mistake.
And so I want to close with that

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00:37:13,640 –> 00:37:16,680
as well because when we we leave
off here, we go to the next

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00:37:16,680 –> 00:37:20,520
couple verses and we have Noah
lived after the flood 3. 150

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00:37:20,520 –> 00:37:23,960
years.
All the days of Noah were 950

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00:37:23,960 –> 00:37:27,680
years and he died.
So I don’t have an answer as to

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00:37:27,680 –> 00:37:30,560
why that story is put at the
very end, but I acknowledge

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00:37:30,560 –> 00:37:31,960
that.
Our God put it there for our

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00:37:31,960 –> 00:37:35,000
edification and for our
learning, perhaps for a warning

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00:37:35,000 –> 00:37:36,840
of what can happen to the
righteous if they are not

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00:37:36,840 –> 00:37:40,600
careful.
So we have 950 years, which

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00:37:40,600 –> 00:37:44,240
makes it a pretty long number.
And actually this is the close

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00:37:44,240 –> 00:37:46,560
of Genesis chapter 5.
It ends the same way.

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00:37:46,560 –> 00:37:48,080
And he died and he died.
And he died.

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00:37:48,080 –> 00:37:51,920
And here Noah, after living 950
years, and he died.

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00:37:53,120 –> 00:37:55,160
It’s important that we
recognize.

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00:37:55,600 –> 00:37:59,200
Though we have recorded a
terrible decision and subsequent

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00:37:59,200 –> 00:38:02,280
story in the life of Noah, it
does not define him in

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00:38:02,280 –> 00:38:05,320
Scripture.
In fact, most of us, when we

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00:38:05,320 –> 00:38:07,720
think of Noah, we don’t even
remember that except for when

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00:38:07,720 –> 00:38:09,920
we’re doing the readings and we
go, Oh yeah, there’s that again

689
00:38:09,920 –> 00:38:13,320
when we think of the name Noah,
when I say the name Noah, that’s

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00:38:13,320 –> 00:38:16,920
not what goes to our mind.
What we focus on is the saving

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00:38:16,920 –> 00:38:19,080
of the household, the working
together to do the things of

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00:38:19,080 –> 00:38:22,240
God, and the epitaph of
everything that God told him he

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00:38:22,240 –> 00:38:24,960
did.
All of us have made bad

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00:38:24,960 –> 00:38:27,440
decisions.
We all know what it’s like to

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00:38:27,440 –> 00:38:30,200
pay the price for making a poor
choice.

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00:38:30,920 –> 00:38:34,480
Sometimes the choices of ours,
sometimes it’s about a poor

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00:38:34,480 –> 00:38:36,960
choice of others.
But we all understand what

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00:38:36,960 –> 00:38:40,200
that’s like.
We look at his family as an

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00:38:40,200 –> 00:38:43,440
example, and we remember that
they were spared.

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00:38:43,680 –> 00:38:49,120
Despite the sinful nature and
the consequences of sin, None of

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00:38:49,120 –> 00:38:51,320
us wants to be remembered for
our worst mistake.

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00:38:51,920 –> 00:38:55,920
All of us is quite thankful, I’m
sure, that the worst thing we’ve

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00:38:55,920 –> 00:38:59,600
done in life isn’t written as a
recording for future generations

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00:38:59,920 –> 00:39:01,720
so they can learn from the
mistake we made.

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00:39:03,040 –> 00:39:05,840
We all would love to have the
giant eraser that goes.

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00:39:06,800 –> 00:39:10,280
That just didn’t really happen.
And I’m sure if no, if Noah was

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00:39:10,280 –> 00:39:12,040
offered one, this is where he
might use it.

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00:39:12,800 –> 00:39:14,960
But that same thing applies
throughout Scripture.

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00:39:15,240 –> 00:39:17,440
You know, in the teens we’ve
been talking about Paul and

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00:39:17,440 –> 00:39:20,840
Timothy, and we just closed with
the last words of Paul, which

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00:39:20,840 –> 00:39:25,040
were quoting Stephen, who was
paraphrasing Jesus.

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00:39:25,840 –> 00:39:29,880
If given the opportunity, I’m
pretty sure Paul would say I’d

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00:39:29,880 –> 00:39:33,200
kind of like to take that giant
eraser out and the part where

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00:39:33,200 –> 00:39:35,800
I’m holding the robes so they
can throw rocks harder at him.

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00:39:36,040 –> 00:39:37,480
Think I’d like to take that
back.

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00:39:38,840 –> 00:39:44,720
Well, that mistake is recorded
not only for our learning, but

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00:39:44,720 –> 00:39:47,560
also it was on the mind of Paul
his entire life.

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00:39:47,560 –> 00:39:52,320
He got to the end, and who was
he thinking about the last thing

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00:39:52,320 –> 00:39:55,560
he writes before he dies in?
Scripture, well, there’s a few

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00:39:55,560 –> 00:39:57,880
say goodbye to this person and
that person after that, but

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00:39:57,880 –> 00:39:59,680
that’s the last thing of
substance, he says.

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I pray that they lay not the sin
to their charge.

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I would love.
To see that, wouldn’t it be

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00:40:07,920 –> 00:40:11,400
awesome for our next waking
moment to come together and see

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00:40:11,400 –> 00:40:16,120
Paul?
And Stephen, because I can

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00:40:16,120 –> 00:40:19,400
imagine how this looks and
putting myself in Paul’s shoes

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00:40:19,400 –> 00:40:25,200
for a minute, I imagine he’s
running to Stephen covered in

728
00:40:25,200 –> 00:40:30,200
his own tears, gives him a big
hug, like, I’m so sorry, thank

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00:40:30,200 –> 00:40:32,120
you.
And you can almost picture

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00:40:32,120 –> 00:40:35,840
Stephen going, OK, wait a
minute.

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Of all the people that might
have heard that speech I gave,

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00:40:39,760 –> 00:40:42,240
perhaps the last one on the
planet I thought would be

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sitting on one of these Thrones
behind me was you.

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And the look on his face.
Wouldn’t that be precious for us

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00:40:49,840 –> 00:40:53,240
to see that at the Judgement
seat?

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00:40:53,800 –> 00:40:56,720
There’s a number of them.
Somebody else brought up David

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00:40:56,720 –> 00:40:58,640
and Uriah.
There I think it was Bob.

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00:40:58,720 –> 00:41:01,320
Bob Kling said that one.
Dave and Uriah might have a few

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00:41:01,320 –> 00:41:05,840
things to talk about.
The one I like to lean on is

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00:41:05,840 –> 00:41:08,520
Leah.
And we talked a little bit about

741
00:41:08,520 –> 00:41:12,200
Leah a couple nights ago, but
imagine what she gets to see

742
00:41:12,200 –> 00:41:16,760
when she wakes up.
Leah, who had to barter with her

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00:41:16,760 –> 00:41:22,280
sister to sleep with her
husband, died and Jacob chose to

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00:41:22,280 –> 00:41:25,720
put her in Machpelah, which
means he’s been sleeping next to

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00:41:25,720 –> 00:41:30,960
her for 4500 years.
She doesn’t know that when she

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00:41:30,960 –> 00:41:35,800
wakes up first thing, she’s
going to see Jacob.

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00:41:37,120 –> 00:41:39,520
Now my husband loves me.
In fact, the record of the

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00:41:39,520 –> 00:41:42,760
burial of Leah is the only proof
we have in Scripture that Jacob

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00:41:42,840 –> 00:41:47,360
ever got that.
See, when we see Abraham and

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00:41:47,360 –> 00:41:50,480
Sarah and we see Isaac and
Rebecca, we’re not too

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00:41:50,480 –> 00:41:51,880
surprised.
They’re happy to see each other.

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00:41:51,880 –> 00:41:54,000
They got busted for flirting in
their 80s.

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00:41:55,080 –> 00:41:59,720
Leah thought she was heated.
That’s a Hebrew idiom for less

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00:41:59,720 –> 00:42:03,000
preferred.
See, things like that is what

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00:42:03,000 –> 00:42:06,320
make this exciting, because we
long for a day when we can see

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00:42:06,320 –> 00:42:09,800
people in these circumstances.
Or how about having a

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00:42:09,800 –> 00:42:13,160
conversation with Noah, or maybe
even finding out Mrs. Noah’s

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00:42:13,160 –> 00:42:18,600
real name and seeing them and
sharing stories of what they

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00:42:18,600 –> 00:42:22,800
gained and what they lost and
how they were able to to fight

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00:42:22,800 –> 00:42:25,400
through the things of the flesh
and find out how similar

761
00:42:25,400 –> 00:42:28,720
whatever they went through.
Sounds so much like our own

762
00:42:28,720 –> 00:42:31,080
story.
Can you imagine them being

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00:42:31,080 –> 00:42:34,000
asked, asking us about So what
was it like when the flood came

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00:42:34,000 –> 00:42:37,560
in your day?
That’s part of what makes this

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00:42:37,560 –> 00:42:40,640
exciting.
We look at this family as an

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00:42:40,640 –> 00:42:42,680
example.
We want to make sure we take

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00:42:42,680 –> 00:42:46,120
that example.
Now, we mentioned this story at

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00:42:46,120 –> 00:42:48,680
the end of Chapter 9 is the end
on the Genesis matter, but it is

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00:42:48,680 –> 00:42:50,400
not the end of the matter in
Scripture.

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00:42:51,080 –> 00:42:54,000
It’s the only place this error
is recorded because it’s not on

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00:42:54,000 –> 00:42:55,680
the highlight reel, but it’s a
note.

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00:42:56,240 –> 00:42:59,440
The life of Noah is biblically
remembered for good.

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00:43:01,200 –> 00:43:03,160
It’s used as an example of
glory.

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00:43:03,800 –> 00:43:06,240
It’s used multiple times and
scriptures to that end.

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00:43:06,240 –> 00:43:08,840
And we have looked at those.
Despite our sinful

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00:43:08,840 –> 00:43:12,160
circumstances, we too can be
accounted as righteous and

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00:43:12,320 –> 00:43:16,240
adopted into the family of God.
So I’d like to go back to

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00:43:16,240 –> 00:43:19,320
Hebrews 11 and start at a verse
we have looked at a number of

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00:43:19,320 –> 00:43:22,680
times as we bring this concept.
To a close.

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00:43:24,200 –> 00:43:28,640
By faith, Noah, being warned of
God, of things not seen as yet,

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00:43:28,640 –> 00:43:32,600
moved with fear, prepared an ark
to the saving of his house, by

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00:43:32,600 –> 00:43:35,160
the which he condemned the world
and became the heir of the

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00:43:35,200 –> 00:43:41,080
righteousness which is by faith.
Noah was not a perfect man, but

784
00:43:41,080 –> 00:43:44,040
he was perfected by the
challenges he overcame.

785
00:43:45,360 –> 00:43:50,000
We’ve compared him to Job and
Daniel as the top examples of

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00:43:50,000 –> 00:43:52,440
righteousness by inspired
Ezekiel.

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00:43:53,480 –> 00:43:57,720
We have him cited favorably by
Jesus for his preaching as and

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00:43:57,720 –> 00:44:01,640
his example.
We look toward the end of the

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00:44:01,640 –> 00:44:06,280
biblical record when he is cited
as saving his house, which is a

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00:44:06,280 –> 00:44:09,840
reminder to all of us that we
indeed are all works in

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00:44:09,840 –> 00:44:14,640
progress.
These all died in faith,

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00:44:15,240 –> 00:44:17,640
including Noah.
Not having received the

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00:44:17,640 –> 00:44:20,520
promises, but having seen them
afar off, we’re persuaded of

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00:44:20,520 –> 00:44:24,400
them and embrace them and
confess that they were strangers

795
00:44:24,400 –> 00:44:27,840
and pilgrims in the earth.
They were not of this world.

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00:44:28,280 –> 00:44:30,400
Lust the flesh, lust the eyes,
pride of life.

797
00:44:30,400 –> 00:44:31,760
They had to.
Deal with it.

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00:44:32,040 –> 00:44:34,040
But it wasn’t the driving force
in their life.

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00:44:34,920 –> 00:44:39,760
They saw past that towards the
Kingdom of our Father.

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00:44:41,120 –> 00:44:45,880
And the record concludes at the
end of Chapter 11, that these

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00:44:45,880 –> 00:44:49,640
all, having obtained a good
report through faith, receive

802
00:44:49,640 –> 00:44:53,480
not the promise, God having
provided some better thing for

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00:44:53,480 –> 00:44:57,280
us, that they without us should
not be made perfect.

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00:44:58,360 –> 00:45:02,000
Let us all be like Noah and obey
the voice of God.

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00:45:02,640 –> 00:45:05,640
Continue to read and study His
words, so we can apply it in our

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00:45:05,640 –> 00:45:08,680
lives.
Do this unto the saving of our

807
00:45:08,680 –> 00:45:12,600
families, that we might be
redeemed by the blood of Jesus

808
00:45:13,600 –> 00:45:17,960
and found worthy of a place in
the Kingdom of our Father, where

809
00:45:17,960 –> 00:45:24,400
we might be perfected with Noah,
God having provided some better

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00:45:24,400 –> 00:45:29,720
thing for us.
That we, they without us, should

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00:45:29,720 –> 00:45:34,400
not be made perfect.
Even so, come Lord Jesus.