H.P. Mansfield – Before the Deluge – Class 6 – A Doomed World

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This is Idlewild 1982, the
second period class day number

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six, Our speaker, his brother HP
Mansfield.

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His general title is Before the
Deluge and today’s topic, A

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Doomed World.
Brother Purse.

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My dear brethren and sisters in
Christ Jesus, in our talk

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yesterday we introduced the 6th
chapter of Genesis, which

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records the world before the
flood.

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We saw that there was a world
problem and there was an

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ecclesial problem, and it was
really the ecclesial problem

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that projected the judgement
that fell upon that world.

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If it was only a matter of the
world, God could have dealt with

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that and left the world as it
was and the ecclesia developing

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therein.
But once the ecclesia had

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drifted, as it had in the case
of Noah’s day, then of course

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judgement alone waited that
will.

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The world of that state was in
an evil state, as we pointed out

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yesterday.
It was not so much an idolatrous

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state as a godless state, a
blasphemous state, when every

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principle of righteousness was
set aside, and self itself was

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worshipped.
So we have it in verse 4 of that

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chapter, the 6th chapter.
There were giants of the earth

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in those days, and also after,
when the sons of God came in

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unto the daughters of men, and
they bear children to them.

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There were giants in the earth,
and that seems by the words of

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that verse, as though those
giants of the earth attracted

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the the sons of God.
Those giants of the earth were

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not so much giants in stature as
giants in crime and in power.

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They were giants of in industry
and in commerce and in politics.

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And the word that has translated
giants, the word nephilim,

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really means that they were
fallen ones.

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They were men like Nimrod, who
came afterward a giant in the

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earth as far as his influence
was concerned, but desperately

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wicked as far as his
relationships with Almighty God.

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And these were not only giants,
but they were mighty men of

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renown.
And the term there, the Hebrew

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term there can imply that they
were military men skewed in war,

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but they were skewed in war like
Enos.

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They were morally depraved.
And this was the world that was

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developing at that time.
They are, we are told in that

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4th, 1st mighty men, which were
evolved men of renown, so that

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here we are.
They were men of renown, or as

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the word of the Hebrew means,
men of name.

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They’re going to establish their
name of the earth and they’re

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going to call their possessions
after their name because they

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want that name to remain forever
and they think they’re building

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for perpetuity.
They’re going to establish their

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power and their might or their
business, and that’s going to

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last over for for generation
after generation.

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That’s what we’re told in the
49th Psalm.

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That’s what we see in the Earth
today, and the world is building

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up its resources in such a way
that the world imagines that

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those resources will never fail.
They feel that the future looms

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before them in the interminable
distance, and so they’re

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building up their material
possessions, they’re building up

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their material technology, and
they imagine that these things

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are going to last forever.
And that’s their philosophy at

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this time.
They are mediable now.

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They set themselves high above
their fellows.

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They care not for God or man.
And so we read in verse 5 that

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God saw that the wickedness of
man was great in the earth.

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And the Hebrew word that’s
translated wickedness, there is

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a Hebrew word that signifies to
break in pieces.

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They broke in pieces the
established order.

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They destroyed every law of
restraint they got not going to

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be held in by anything.
They harm themselves and their

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others by so doing.
And that very word suggests all

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that, that it is a a breaking in
pieces of an established order.

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It is a matter of destroying
every law of restraint and of

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harming others and themselves in
so doing.

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Look at your world about you
today.

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Isn’t that the picture that
presents itself today has every

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standard and set aside and men
are pleasing themselves.

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Isn’t it?
Now that we see every nor of

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restraint removed, the men
imagine that pleasure is

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obtained in in getting what they
want, What I want, what I

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believe, what I’m gonna do.
That’s the philosophy of today,

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and that’s why the world is such
a happy place.

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So happy that violence is
increasing on every side, so

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happy that there’s no amity even
it between the employer and the

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employee.
And men are miserable and

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unhappy no matter what they’ve
got.

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They imagine that happiness is
immaterial possessions.

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Never did they make a greater
mistake than that, because

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happiness is not fairly material
possessions.

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It’s fairly those things that we
give ourselves to when we make

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principle of sacrifice.
And you know, when you come to

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reason about for yourself, the
greatest source of pleasure is

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in self sacrifice.
You find that even in your own

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life, you take it this way.
When you’re a little child and

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you want to pay some love to
your parents, you save up your

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pennies, since I suppose we call
them now.

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You save those up until you buy
something for them because you

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want to show your love to them.
And you know there’s a sense of

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excitement and pleasure as you
gather this money together and

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you buy what you choose for
them.

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You know that I’ve seen that in
the faces of my children when

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they were little children back
home.

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And they would save up their
pennies, they would work that

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they might buy something for me,
a tie.

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And they come on my birthday or
something like that.

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And here’s the tie, a hideous
looking thing, but the little

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face, you know, bright with
expectancy, and you’ve got to

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put the thing on and go around
with it.

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And that Kitty is getting
greater joy than me because I

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think it’s a frightful tie.
And you see, and that happiness

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is with the one that’s
sacrificing.

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I think it was Shakespeare that
said it is more blessed to give

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than to receive.
And life is like that.

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You get a joy out of giving
things.

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God teaches us that.
And there’s a joy out of

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sacrifice.
There’s a joy out of self denial

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who help someone else.
And there’s a sense of

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satisfaction when this is done
and someone has helped and aided

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because you have gone out of
your way to do that for them.

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But these people in the world at
large, they don’t see it like

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that.
The philosophy of the world at

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large is you’re not happy until
you’ve got everything you want.

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And you find that philosophy
ingrained in every sense of

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philosophy today.
Open your newspapers.

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What have you got?
I got the London, not the

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London, the Los Angeles Times to
see the news.

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It’s confined in a little space
like this, but the rest of it is

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advertisements and so forth.
And it’s amazing.

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You see, you see a great big
refrigerator full of food and

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the doors open.
Everyone’s gritting like monkeys

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looking at the food and the
influence of the and the, the

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implication of the advertisement
is, look, your life’s not happy

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unless you’ve got that size of
refrigerator.

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Look at the tiny 1 you got now.
Or someone’s got a great big

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motor car.
You know, the fathers they’re

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driving, the kids are all
looking out in the back and

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really like anything.
And everyone’s like this till

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they get home and see the
mortgage.

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And you see, they think that
life is happy.

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They’re living in a fantasy.
They’re living in a fantasy.

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And those advertisements are
encouraging that fantasy.

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That’s not the reality at all.
Not at all.

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You’re not leaving unless you
got the latest in motor cars,

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the latest in refrigerators, the
latest in carpets.

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You know, on one occasion I
already got a letter from a

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sister directed to Mr.
Mansfield.

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It was directed to my son, who’s
the recorder of the meeting.

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But I happen to get it because,
of course, my officers wear his

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art.
It’s too.

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I opened that letter and it
wasn’t written to me.

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It was written to him, but it
was a letter of resignation from

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the meeting, and it was a letter
to the arranging brethren.

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Well, I did something awfully
unconstitutional.

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I put the letter in my pocket
and with my sister, wife, we

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went and visited this sister and
we wanted to know what was the

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matter.
And she was not coming to the

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meetings and so forth and so on.
And as we unfolded the unhappy

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story, what really was the
matter?

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What really was the matter when
you come to work here, they’re

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all out, was that she couldn’t
afford to live without going to

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work on these nights when
there’s a study class or even on

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the Sunday and so forth because
she wanted this and she wanted

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that.
And I sat there and I listened

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to her in amazement.
And I said to her, and if you

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understand what you’re telling
me, I said I’m wearing out your

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carpet.
I’ve been treading on it and

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I’ve worn it out to a certain
extent.

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And you are spending time to get
that carpet there and you’re

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giving away eternal life for
this darn carpet that’s wearing

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out anyway.
And I don’t think much of the

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colour.
And you’ll get into that eternal

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life for that.
And we talked this way.

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And fortunately, on that
occasion anyway, she came back.

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But you see, that was really
what it was.

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They’ve got their priorities
wrong.

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Their priorities were wrong.
As it was in the days of Noah,

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so shall it be at the coming of
the Son of Man.

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They ate, they drank, they
married, they gave lives in

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marriage, they bought, they
sold, and the flood came upon

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them.
Everything legitimate, all the

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legitimate things of life
occupying their mind.

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They’re busy around this.
The businesses there, the house

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is there, the families there.
We’re busy about this.

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We haven’t got time for that.
We cannot do the daily readings,

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the study classes a little bit
awkward tonight and the memorial

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meetings are set aside and for
legitimate things are things of

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eternal life are set aside.
And that’s the challenge,

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brothers and sisters to the
brotherhood today to put your

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priorities right and see that
those priorities are carried

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out.
Now here you have a state of

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things where you have wickedness
in the earth.

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It was an age of affluence.
It was an age of indifference to

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the requirements of God.
It was an age of gross

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wickedness.
It was an age of blatant

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permissiveness.
And God says that in verse 5,

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not only that he saw that the
wickedness of man was great on

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the earth, but that every
imagination of the thoughts of

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his heart was only evil
continually revolving around the

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minds of men and women
everywhere, including

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unfortunately, the sons of God.
Revolving around their minds was

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their material advantages and
the things that they could do

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and the things that are going to
get for their pleasure.

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And they forget the things of
God.

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They forget that there is even a
God.

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They mail the words of God.
Perhaps they attend the

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meetings, perhaps, but they are
not really moved by that.

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And we read that it repented
Yahweh, that He made man upon

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the earth.
The word means it grieves him.

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So he’s going to change his
purpose or introduce some change

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in the purpose.
And the word repent, as it’s

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used in the Bible in its
original form, means to change

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your mind or purpose.
For example, on the day of

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Pentecost, when Peter was
preaking, the people were

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pricked in their heart.
They were sad and sorry for what

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they had done.
And they said, Madam, brethren,

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what shall we do?
They were already sorry, you

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see.
And Peter says, repent and be

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baptized.
And that word repent means to

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turn around and change your way
of life.

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It means a change of mind.
So you see here God is going to

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change His purpose in order to
handle the situation that

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occurs.
And notice this lovely

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expression in that verse because
we read and it grieved Him at

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his heart.
This is God.

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It grieved Him at his heart.
You see, we don’t make God real,

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almighty Gods in heaven,
untouched by the feelings that

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afflict us.
So we think that God has

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feelings.
He is a God of love.

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He is a God of anger because you
can’t have one without the

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other.
He is a God that is exercises

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His feelings.
He was with his Son when his Son

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died upon the cross that
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He has invited us to call him
father because he understand.

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We understand that term.
We know what a father is.

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We know the hearts of a father
towards a children.

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We know how the hearts of the
children are towards a father, a

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parent, and those expressions
are here that we might be drawn

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closer to God.
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you turn over to the 63rd
chapter of Isaiah and you read

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concerning the people of Israel
in the wilderness.

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We read this concerning Almighty
God in verse 9.

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In all their afflictions He was
afflicted, and the Angel of his

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presence saved them in his
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In his pity he redeemed them and
bear them, and carried them all

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the days of old.
Never thought of that about God.

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In all their afflictions he was
afflicted.

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He felt for them.
He saw them hungry in the

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wilderness.
He saw them wanting water.

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He’s afflicted by that the same
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when he can see a child acting
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But he knows it’s best for that
child to be disciplined.

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He knows for the good of that
child it is better that he

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allows him to go on that course,
until finally that child learns

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that lesson.
But the heart of the my father

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is afflicted by it.
I am a parent.

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I am confident that parents feel
it more bitterly and more deeply

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than their children.
And as you look over your

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children and you see them
suffering in a certain way, you

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would do a foolish thing.
You would stop them suffering

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and you would prevent that
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Not Almighty God in His wisdom,
but let us understand and let

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Israel understand.
He wasn’t indifferent.

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He’s not indifferent.
He understands in all their

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afflictions he was afflicted.
And as far as the Lord Jesus

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Christ is concerned, we are told
by Paul in Hebrews that we have

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northern high priest that cannot
be in touch with the feelings of

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our infirmities, our
infirmities, our very

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weaknesses.
He was touched in all points

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like that and therefore we can
with every confidence go unto

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the Father through the Lord
Jesus Christ in prayer,

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recognizing that he understands
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We are his sons and we’re going
to see that at the moment in in

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the in the 6th chapter of
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So that you see it, it grieved
him at his heart, particularly

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as he saw the attitude of the
sons of God and as he looked

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down upon that world, the world
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And see it again described in
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The earth was corrupt for all
flesh had corrupted his way upon

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the earth.
So His way is not in men’s

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thoughts.
The earth was filled with

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violence.
We read in verse 13.

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So here is the world given over
the wickedness, an absolutely

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corrupt world.
A world that is full of violence

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and darkness is there.
And as Almighty God is looking

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down upon that world, He sees
nothing but evil and wickedness

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and darkness.
The repudiation of His way.

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He’s created man for a specific
purpose.

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The sole reason God created man
was that man should reflect to

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His glory.
But it is a whole given over to

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the worship of self and flesh,
and the eyes of Almighty God

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looks down upon that darkened
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And as it looks down upon that
darkened globe, he says Noah and

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look in verse 8.
But but Noah found grace in the

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eyes of Yahweh.
He found grace.

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The word means favour.
He found the favour of God.

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Last night I was sitting in the
back row and you couldn’t see

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very well up here.
But you know this.

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I have sat in the audiences when
there have been young people’s

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items and I’ve seen those young
people there.

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I’ve seen quite a lot of young
people on the platform, little

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toddlers on the platform too.
And you know, sometimes back in

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Woodville, there we might have
30 or so on the platform

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performing, but I only see one
my grandson or grandchild.

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The eyes of parents single out
upon their own child upon the

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platform, don’t they?
And it doesn’t matter what the

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items like, as long as your
child has done something good

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upon that platform, your eye
turns that much.

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See the Father in the heavens,
countless millions upon the

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earth.
But Noah, Noah, there’s his true

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Son, and his eyes take hold of
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Noah found grace in the eyes of
Yahweh, and the eyes of Yahweh

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centered down upon him as the
eyes of God will centered down

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upon us if we stand as His sons
and daughters.

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And understand, merely because
we call ourselves

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Christadelphians does not
necessarily constitute us a

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brother or relative of Christ.
Not at all.

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Remember this, that in the 22nd
chapter of Genesis, Abraham was

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told to take his only son whom
he loved and offer him as an

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offering.
Abraham had more than one son,

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but the Angel never made a
mistake when he said to Abraham,

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Take your only son.
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several that might have called
themselves sons of Abraham,

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there was only one son that was
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Because a son of anything in the
Hebrew form means one filled

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with that.
A son of God is 1 filled with

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God.
A son of Belial is 1 filled with

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with worthlessness.
A son of the devil is 1 Filled

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with one’s own flesh.
So you see here was a true son

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of God of the eyes of of of God
found is centred upon Noah and

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he found grace in the eyes of
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You know that word grace is a
wonderful word to to trace

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through the Bible, and it is.
And it is matched by another

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word in the, in the Hebrew that
translators find very, very

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difficult to translate.
And very often it’s translated

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mercy, but mercy is not the word
at all.

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It’s really better grace.
And you’ll find that word used

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in Psalm 86 and verse 2.
Preserve my soul, for I am holy.

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Now this is similar to the word
cassade, holy, but it doesn’t

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mean holy and it doesn’t mean
mercy.

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It means one for whom another
one has a special relationship.

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Now see it in the margin.
The margin gives an alternate

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rendition.
One whom they’ll favourist.

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I am one who male favourist whom
God is selected for that favour.

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Now Noah was such a man as that
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And as far as Almighty God was
concerned, Noah found grace in

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the eyes of Yahweh.
We are told that Noah was a just

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man and perfect in his
generation.

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And the word perfect there means
mature.

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He was grown up, he was a mature
man.

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He was a mature in this regard,
that he worshipped God rightly.

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You know in the 12th chapter of
Ecclesiastes that Moses sums up

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the whole matter.
And what is the whole matter?

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Fear God.
And, and I should know this off

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by hat.
What is it?

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Fear God and keep His
commandments.

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Fair God and keep his
commandments.

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For this is the whole man, not
the whole duty of man.

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It reads that way, but the word
duty is not in the original.

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Fair God and keep his
commandments.

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That’s a whole man.
These are not whole men outside.

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They’re like little children.
The whole man is a mature man

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who worships God and keeps his
commandments because he knows

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that the right thing to do.
He knows that’s an investment

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for the future.
He’s acting maturely.

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He’s not like a child.
He’s acting maturely.

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This is Noah.
He was a perfect man.

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He was mature.
He’d grown up.

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He was a just man of perfect in
his generations, and he walked

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with God.
And we saw what that meant when

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we considered Enoch yesterday.
He walked with God because God

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was a reality to him.
And in that age of corruptness

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and wickedness and violence,
there was one family anyway

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standing aside from it all
giving him themselves over to

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the things of God, walking with
God and the eyes of God centered

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upon that man.
Just to show you how that that

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happens, let’s just have a look
at the the Samuel, the first of

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Samuel chapter 2.
Just an interesting feature here

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because in the first of Samuel
chapter 2, you read about the

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sons of Eli.
You read that they were sons of

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a loyal, sons of a loyal.
They knew not Yahweh we read,

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and yet they knew all about it
and they could distort about it,

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but they didn’t know him in the
true sense of the word, in that

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that knowledge didn’t react upon
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But there’s a very interesting
thing emerges in this chapter,

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which is the first of Samuel
chapter 2.

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And just see what emerges.
Look in verse 11, the child

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Samuel did minister unto Yahweh
before Eli the priest.

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Now the sons of Eli were sons of
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See how they put together.
There is the child ministering

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unto God.
But these priests, the son of

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Eliah again, verse 17.
The sin of the young man was

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great before Yahweh.
Verse 18.

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That Samuel ministered before
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Verse 25.
They hearken not unto the voice

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of their father.
Verse 26.

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And the child Samuel grew on.
It was in favour with both God

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and man.
And in that first of Samuel

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chapter 2, the action of the
sons of Levi are contrasted with

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the action of Samuel.
In every case you see God was

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looking down and He was singling
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So it was in this 6th chapter of
Genesis as his eyes take in in

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Noah and Noah finds grace in his
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And so now the the the Noah
begat three sons, Shameham and

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Japheth.
And the time of the

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long-suffering of God had almost
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Remember that Peter says in the
first of Peter chapter 3, the

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long-suffering of God waited in
the days of Noah.

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And I’ll remind you what I said
before, that the word waited

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there signifies to wait with arm
outstretched to help.

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And God’s arm is outstretched to
help.

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He’s going to leave it for a
certain period of time before he

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just disciplines that age.
Noah is preaching, and therefore

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perhaps some will harken to the
preaching of Noah.

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And therefore God holds off the
threatened judgement.

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The long-suffering of God waits
with almonds outstretched to

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help as it does at this present
moment of time, as it does at

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this present moment of time.
Peter again being witness.

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And now in this particular
chapter we have the developing

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crisis in three stages, and
these three stages are indicated

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by a declaration or a revelation
that comes from God, a threefold

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revelation.
First of all, in verse three,

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there he spake and said, My
Spirit shall not always strive

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with man, for that He is also
flesh, yet his day shall be 120

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years.
So at that point of time the

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declaration came that he will
not always strive with man.

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He’ll give him 120 years to
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That is declaration #1 there’s a
time limit set now and then we

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have the second declaration in
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I will destroy man whom I have
created from the face of the

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earth.
Man has deteriorated.

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Now the second declaration says
I will destroy.

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Then again in verse 13 we read
and God said the end of all

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flesh is come.
Now you see there are three

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declarations in that chapter.
The first of which says that

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there is a set time.
The second which says that set

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time is revealed.
No, no reformation I will

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destroy.
And the third declaration says

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that time is calm, that time has
come.

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You know, I believe that we’ve
heard two of those declarations

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in modern times.
I believe that we are witnessing

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this taking place at the present
moment.

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The first of them indicated that
there was a set time and that

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we’re at the time of the end.
The second declaration shows

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that the time of destruction is
coming.

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And the third one is the time of
the end is here.

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The end of all flesh has come.
Now come with me to the 21st

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chapter of Ezekiel.
Not the 20th, 37th.

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I’m sorry, the 37th chapter of
Ezekiel and see how that there

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are three a threefold prophecy
here relating to the purpose of

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Almighty God.
And this threefold prophecy, I

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believe, answers to the
threefold declaration that you

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have in the 37 in the 6th
chapter of Genesis.

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The purpose of Almighty God and
this threefold prophecy, I

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believe answers to the threefold
declaration that you have in the

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37 in the 6th chapter of
Genesis, in Ezekiel chapter 37,

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verse 21.
Behold, I will take the children

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of Israel from among the
nations, whether they be gone,

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and will gather them on every
side and bring them into their

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own land.
When did that begin to come to

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pass out of World War One?
Of course, out of World War One,

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the Delphi Declaration opened
the way for the Jewish people to

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return and the Jewish people
began to return and the brethren

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00:27:16,640 –> 00:27:21,480
recognized that as a great sign.
In Psalm 102 we read that the

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set time is favorite is come.
We read that when the Lord shall

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build up Zion, He shall appear
in His glory.

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So that when those gates of
Palestine swung open in 19117

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and the Jewish people began to
return to the land, it was

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obvious to those that understood
the word of God that there was

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the set time had almost come
that will reach the time of the

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end, no doubt about that.
And that was the beginning of

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something that was going to
culminate in the establishment

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of the Kingdom of God.
And it was a terminal.

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It was a beginning of an epoch
of time that would culminate in

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the establishment of the Kingdom
of God.

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And to my mind that answers to
the first declaration of God,

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when God said that there would
be a set time before that

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judgement, a time of waiting
which would give opportunity to

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others to repent.
Now the prophet goes on to say

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in verse 22, And I will make
them one nation in the land upon

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the mountains of Israel.
So in 19148 the Jewish state

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came into existence.
It is said that the only good

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thing that came out of World War
One was the Palestine as a home

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for the Jews.
The only good thing that came

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out of World War 2 was the
establishment of the State of

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Israel.
But not only that, but in World

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War One, we not only had that
the doors of Palestine opening

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that the Jews might return, but
we had in Russia the communist

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regime established therein.
And in World War Two, we not

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only had the Jewish state come
into existence, but they dropped

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the atom bomb, didn’t they, and
demonstrated that the

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destruction of humanity was in
the power of men to accomplish.

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And the next the second
declaration of God in in in in

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Genesis 6 was I will destroy all
flesh.

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And now we read in this passage
of Ezekiel.

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And one king shall be king of to
them all. 1/3 development.

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The nation becomes a monarchy.
So first of all Ezekiel sees 3

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developments.
He sees development #1 the doors

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open to receive Palestine.
Development #2 the nation

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established.
Development #3 he sees the

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monarchy re established, World
War One and the doors of

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Palestine swig open.
World War 2 and the Jewish state

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comes into existence.
World War Three and Christ in

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the earth.
And that’s what you’ve got in

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Genesis chapter 6.
First declaration, time is

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limited.
Second declaration, destruction

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00:30:06,880 –> 00:30:10,720
looms.
Third declaration, the end of

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all time is calm.
Now we go back to Genesis

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00:30:15,320 –> 00:30:19,840
chapter 6 and we read in verse
12 that God looked upon the

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earth and behold it was corrupt,
for all flesh had corrupted his

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way.
And he says in verse 13 I will

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destroy them.
In the Hebrew the word for

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corrupt and the word for destroy
is the same.

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So you can, if you like, state
in verse 12, God looked upon the

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earth and behold, it was
destroyed, for all flesh were

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destroying his way upon the
earth.

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Those words are cited.
Those words are floated in

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Revelation Chapter 11 and verse
18.

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In Revelation Chapter 11 and
verse 18, those very words are

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quoted by the by the Lord Jesus
Christ in the Apocalypse.

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In this statement the nations
were angry, and the wrath has

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come at the time of the dead,
that they should be judged.

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And that thou should US give
reward unto those servants, the

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prophets, and to the Saints, and
them that fear thy name small

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00:31:15,920 –> 00:31:20,880
and great, And should US destroy
them which destroy the earth, or

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00:31:20,880 –> 00:31:23,560
if you follow the margin,
corrupt them that would corrupt

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the earth.
And those words are cited from

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Genesis chapter 6 of the Epoch
of time, just before the flood.

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Have we reached an age in Jewish
history and Jewish history?

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00:31:35,560 –> 00:31:39,160
We have reached an age in world
history when man is in his power

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to destroy this earth, when man
is busily corrupting this earth.

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And here we have a book here,
brother and sisters, that 2000

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00:31:46,160 –> 00:31:49,920
years ago said that at the time
of Jesus Christ coming, man will

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have it in his power to destroy
the earth or corrupt the earth.

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And that book’s true, but as it
was in the days of Noah, so

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shall it be at the coming of the
Son of Man.

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Those words are true, and man is
in that stage where that

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00:32:06,800 –> 00:32:11,720
declaration will soon be heard.
The end of the flesh has come

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00:32:12,960 –> 00:32:17,200
and pray God, it may be very
soon the end of all flesh has

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00:32:17,200 –> 00:32:19,960
come.
So we go to the declaration of

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third Paul to the Hebrews in
Hebrews Chapter 11, and we

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listen to what is stated in
regard to to Noah at that

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00:32:28,400 –> 00:32:30,920
particular time.
And here’s the witness of Noah

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as these things are developing.
And this must be our witness as

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well by faith, Noah, my faith,
brethren and sisters, by his

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00:32:41,680 –> 00:32:45,640
confident anticipation of things
hoped for, his full persuasion

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of things not seen.
Because that man Noah, his eyes

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00:32:49,560 –> 00:32:53,000
were centred not upon the
present, but on the realities of

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00:32:53,000 –> 00:32:56,240
the future.
Because he can see clearly what

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00:32:56,240 –> 00:33:00,640
is going to take place, and he
can see that the great objective

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00:33:00,640 –> 00:33:03,320
in life must be the
establishment of the Kingdom of

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00:33:03,320 –> 00:33:06,160
God.
Being warned of God, of things

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00:33:06,160 –> 00:33:12,000
not seen as yet as we are.
Move with fear, move with fear,

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00:33:12,000 –> 00:33:16,440
reverence for Almighty God
prepared an ark to the saving of

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00:33:16,440 –> 00:33:18,520
his house.
That’s what he did.

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He prepared that ark for the
saving of his house.

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As far as he was concerned, he
saw that it was absolutely

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00:33:24,960 –> 00:33:28,160
essential, as far as he and his
house were concerned that they

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should be saved.
You could see there was no

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future in the life about him.
So he built that ark to the

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00:33:33,680 –> 00:33:40,520
saving of his house, by which he
condemned the world that was

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00:33:40,520 –> 00:33:45,240
part of his ministry.
He condemned the world like

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00:33:45,240 –> 00:33:49,280
Enoch did before him.
The Lord cometh with 10,000 of

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00:33:49,280 –> 00:33:53,120
His Saints to execute vengeance
upon them that know not him, and

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00:33:53,160 –> 00:33:55,800
to punish them for all their
ungodly deeds of their own.

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00:33:55,800 –> 00:33:58,920
Godly speeches.
The Lord’s coming with 10,000 of

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00:33:58,920 –> 00:34:01,160
His Saints, He’s going to deal
with this world.

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That’s the message that they set
forth at that particular time.

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And Noah condemned the world
whilst he built that ark for the

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00:34:08,239 –> 00:34:10,960
saving of his house.
And he become the heir of the

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00:34:10,960 –> 00:34:14,880
righteousness which is by faith,
the heir of the righteousness

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which is by faith.
And see Noah there by those

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00:34:18,560 –> 00:34:22,400
means, by the means of his
preaching, by the means of his

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00:34:22,440 –> 00:34:27,000
action, by building up that ark
for himself and his family, he

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was able to save himself at that
particular time.

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He condemned the world, but he
saved himself and he saved his

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00:34:33,639 –> 00:34:39,360
family at that time.
And so as far as the the Noah’s

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00:34:39,360 –> 00:34:42,520
wit Lewis was concerned, it was
by faith.

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I had hoped to have completed
these studies yesterday and just

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00:34:49,400 –> 00:34:52,679
run through this chapter on
faith and to see the men and

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women of the past, how they
reacted under faith, under the

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00:34:55,679 –> 00:34:59,280
circumstances of their life.
But time of course, has caught

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up with me, but I’d like to
direct your attention to one man

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00:35:03,120 –> 00:35:07,480
because of course it’s so
relevant to our own associations

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00:35:07,480 –> 00:35:11,040
with the things of God.
And that is this man Moses.

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You see in verse 24, by faith,
Moses, when he was come to

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years, refused to be called the
son of Pharaoh’s daughter.

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He refused it by faith.
He did that.

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He could have become the next
Pharaoh, but he refused it

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because he knew that the will of
God was not that he would serve

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00:35:31,200 –> 00:35:34,800
the world about him.
You know, some of us might have

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reasoned if we were Moses, we
may have reasoned that as

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00:35:38,680 –> 00:35:43,920
Pharaoh we will be able to help
our own countrymen, our own

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00:35:43,920 –> 00:35:48,000
Jewish associations, associates,
not Moses.

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00:35:48,040 –> 00:35:51,720
He realized that God required of
him a certainty and he refused.

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00:35:52,000 –> 00:35:54,480
He refused.
And the very word refused

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00:35:54,480 –> 00:35:56,920
implies an argument.
There was an argument there.

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00:35:57,080 –> 00:36:00,080
Moses was told that he had been
brought up for that very purpose

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00:36:00,360 –> 00:36:02,080
here.
Pharaoh’s daughter said, I save

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00:36:02,080 –> 00:36:04,240
you out of that water.
I’ve educated you to be a

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00:36:04,240 –> 00:36:05,920
Prince.
I don’t want you to go out and

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00:36:05,920 –> 00:36:10,480
not on my house.
You’re being brought up to this

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00:36:10,480 –> 00:36:13,120
point in time for that purpose.
He refused.

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00:36:13,240 –> 00:36:16,520
He’d have nothing to do with it.
He chose it rather to suffer

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00:36:16,520 –> 00:36:19,680
affliction with the people of
God than to enjoy the pleasures

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00:36:19,680 –> 00:36:22,920
of sin for a season.
He esteemed the reproach of

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00:36:22,920 –> 00:36:25,280
Christ by the riches and the
treasures of Egypt.

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00:36:25,600 –> 00:36:27,080
Ever seen the treasures of
Egypt?

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00:36:27,400 –> 00:36:30,080
I have.
I’ve seen the gold glittering

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00:36:30,080 –> 00:36:31,720
there.
I know what those treasures of

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00:36:31,720 –> 00:36:34,240
Egypt mean.
There’s nothing like it in all,

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00:36:34,440 –> 00:36:36,600
all the world.
I’ve seen the treasures of

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00:36:36,600 –> 00:36:39,400
Philip and Messerman.
Not a patch upon the treasures

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00:36:39,400 –> 00:36:42,760
of To take Amen, and to take
Amen was a lesser, fairer.

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00:36:43,120 –> 00:36:45,720
This man could have had all the
treasures of the earth.

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00:36:45,720 –> 00:36:50,120
Could Moses, but he chose to
suffer approach of Christ and he

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00:36:50,120 –> 00:36:53,240
saw that as greater riches.
Understand.

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00:36:54,320 –> 00:36:56,600
Understand that he knew what he
was doing.

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00:36:56,840 –> 00:36:59,680
He was a Jew, and a Jew knows a
good bargain.

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00:37:00,240 –> 00:37:02,840
And you see, there were the
riches of the world, there was

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00:37:02,840 –> 00:37:04,960
the future.
He put them on the scales, on

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00:37:04,960 –> 00:37:08,280
the balance to see which one
went down heaviest the riches of

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00:37:08,280 –> 00:37:10,760
the world there, and he’s hoped
for the future there.

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And that went down because he
had a vision of it by faith.

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He did that and see, it says
that he had respect under the

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00:37:18,160 –> 00:37:24,120
recompense of the reward.
He was in the full.

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He knew what he was doing.
He had respect for the

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00:37:27,880 –> 00:37:31,760
recompense of the reward.
He’d studied deeply the pledges

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of God’s Word.
He’d got his mind immersed in

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00:37:34,480 –> 00:37:37,880
these things, and those things
now stood him in good stead.

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00:37:38,040 –> 00:37:41,600
He knew what he was talking
about and he knew what the

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00:37:41,600 –> 00:37:45,200
future would reveal, and he
plundered that and he sought for

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00:37:45,200 –> 00:37:51,240
what it was, real and tangible,
an investment for the future and

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00:37:51,240 –> 00:37:57,360
just a little time of suffering,
reproach, in this case, 120

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00:37:57,360 –> 00:38:01,920
years.
But eternity is before Moses,

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00:38:02,120 –> 00:38:06,560
and eternity can be before us.
Brethren and sisters, I’ll give

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you a few references because
time is not where it allowed me

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00:38:10,200 –> 00:38:12,000
to do it.
Where the flood is referred to

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00:38:12,000 –> 00:38:15,160
outside of Genesis and outside
of the New Testament.

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00:38:15,160 –> 00:38:18,200
Oh, not outside of the New
Testament, but you have the

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00:38:18,200 –> 00:38:23,640
warning of the flood in the
words of Job 22, verses 15 to

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00:38:23,640 –> 00:38:25,880
23.
And they’re well worth

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00:38:25,880 –> 00:38:28,680
considering.
The warning of the flood in Job

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00:38:28,680 –> 00:38:35,680
chapter 22 and verse 15 onwards.
Because there you have that

639
00:38:35,680 –> 00:38:37,960
warning.
Hast thou might the old way,

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00:38:37,960 –> 00:38:41,600
which wicked men have trodden,
which were cut down out of time,

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00:38:41,600 –> 00:38:44,280
whose foundations were over
threat, flown with a flood.

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00:38:44,720 –> 00:38:47,000
So Job and his friends discuss
these things.

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00:38:47,480 –> 00:38:51,640
Psalm 29 verses 10 and 11.
He will sit enthrone.

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00:38:51,680 –> 00:38:57,120
God sat enthroned at the flood.
We are told there in Isaiah 54

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00:38:57,120 –> 00:39:01,320
verses 8 and 10, there is the
consolation drawn from it.

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And in the first Peter 3 and the
second of Peter three, there is

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00:39:06,440 –> 00:39:11,520
of course the exhortation.
And we will just look again at

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00:39:11,520 –> 00:39:15,520
that exhortation of second of
Peter chapter 3, because Peter

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00:39:15,520 –> 00:39:19,880
there says this.
Seeing them that all these

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00:39:19,880 –> 00:39:23,440
things shall be dissolved, what
manner of persons ought ye to be

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00:39:23,440 –> 00:39:26,880
in all holy conversation and
godliness, Looking for and

652
00:39:26,880 –> 00:39:29,640
earnestly desiring the coming of
the day of God?

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00:39:30,640 –> 00:39:34,000
Looking for and earnestly
desiring the coming of the day

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00:39:34,000 –> 00:39:36,960
of God.
And in the meantime account that

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00:39:36,960 –> 00:39:39,160
the long-suffering of God is
salvation.

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It’s our opportunity.
That’s what he means, our

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opportunity to make Our Calling
an election.

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Short time is short.
Let’s use it objectively.

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Let us see that we can put into
practice the principles of

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Almighty God.
And if we do that, then we can

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look with equanimity and with
hope to this developing world of

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wickedness, knowing that the
strong, infallible hands of

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Jesus Christ shall soon take
hold in the name of God.

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It’s been a great pleasure,
brethren and sisters, to be with

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you at this Bible school.
Indeed it has.

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It’s been lovely to renew
fellowships with those that

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we’ve met before and also to
extend our fellowship with those

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we have not met previously.
Both Sister Doris and myself.

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I’d like to thank you very much
for your hospitality, your

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kindness, and your fellowship in
the things of God.

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We leave unfortunately today
because we’ve got to be at the

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Manitoulin School tomorrow and
then the following Sunday at the

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Midwest School and the following
Sunday after that at the Silver

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Star School.
And then we take plane to New

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Zealand for the New Zealand
School.

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And then when that ends, of
course the Australian still

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still school commences, which
are supposed to be at, but I’ve

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told them I don’t think I’ll be
able to get to the Australian

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school.
It’s been a great pleasure for

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us to be with you here.
We would leave with you a final

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excitation that it’s to the
extent that we immerse our minds

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and the things of God, the Word
of God, we will make Our Calling

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and election.
Sure.

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That’s what Noah did.
He built the ark whilst he

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condemned the world by his very
action.

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If we can help you at all in
that regard, we would be very

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happy to do so.
If you would like to study these

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subjects a little more deeply
and prepare to mark up your

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Bible with them, I would be
quite happy to send you study

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00:41:30,160 –> 00:41:33,200
notes on each of the verses
right up to the 6th chapter of

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Genesis.
I haven’t got study notes on

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them, so I’d have to prepare
these for you.

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I’ll be very happy to do that if
you want that done, but I

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wouldn’t want to do it just for
you to take those study notes

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and put them in the shell.
If you are prepared to make up

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your Bible on these things and
study them for yourself, then I

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would be very happy to play that
part in forwarding these notes

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00:41:54,760 –> 00:41:58,680
to you and also to give you some
suggestions if you want them on

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00:41:58,680 –> 00:42:02,960
such a thing as Bible marking.
But may Yahweh be with you and

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may be with us in our traveling
since we depart this place.

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May the Lord Jesus Christ soon
return, and may it be our great

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00:42:10,440 –> 00:42:13,720
privilege and joy to be
associated together in the

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00:42:13,720 –> 00:42:17,600
ecclesia of God in the age to
cut when we will see eye to eye

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00:42:17,600 –> 00:42:21,880
with every with each other.
No longer will there be any

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00:42:21,880 –> 00:42:25,440
misunderstanding or anything of
that nature clothed upon within

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00:42:25,440 –> 00:42:29,560
mortality associated with the
Lord Jesus Christ and able to

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00:42:29,600 –> 00:42:35,360
meet with with Noah and with
Enoch and with these other men,

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and to inquire of them, what
were things like in your day?

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00:42:40,480 –> 00:42:43,400
And they might say to us, well,
you lived in days comparable to

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00:42:43,400 –> 00:42:45,800
ours, what were things like in
your day?

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And we may be able to speak
together of the association of

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one another around the Word of
God and rejoice in that day,

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because it’s been fruitful even
unto light eternal.

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May God bless you, and may He
bless us to that it.

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And may this time soon come when
Barbour stores are rendered

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unnecessary in the presence of
the greatest school of all time,

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00:43:07,600 –> 00:43:10,520
presided over by the Lord Jesus
Christ.