Class 2 from this series was used in GCT Episode 398.<\/p>\n
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\nAustin Leander, TX Ecclesia.
\nThe theme for Brother Dennis’s <\/p>\n
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\nclasses this week is Noah Saving
\nyour Family in a Dark World. <\/p>\n
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\nToday’s class is entitled by
\nSevens Genesis 7 for the <\/p>\n
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\nDentist.
\nNow we promised some numerology,<\/p>\n
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\nso yay, here it comes.
\nAnd before I get too far in <\/p>\n
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\nhere, we’re just having a
\nconversation. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s probably worth sharing
\nbecause I, I love this thinking.<\/p>\n
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\nYou know, the conversation was,
\nyou know, do you think that <\/p>\n
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\nmaybe Methuselah and Lamech
\nmight have helped with the ARC <\/p>\n
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\nbuilding?
\nAnd the answer is absolutely. <\/p>\n
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\nI absolutely believe there were
\nother people that helped in the <\/p>\n
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\nbuilding that just didn’t
\nsurvive to the end of the flood.<\/p>\n
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\nLamech and Methuselah would be
\ngood examples of that, but <\/p>\n
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\nthat’s not the part that I found
\nso interesting. <\/p>\n
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\nI loved what Jim said at the
\nend. <\/p>\n
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\nSo I’m giving you credit for it.
\nHas everybody else hates it, <\/p>\n
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\nit’s on you.
\nBut that’s what he said. <\/p>\n
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\nYou know, it’s probably a lot
\nlike like many ecclesial efforts<\/p>\n
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\nwhere in the beginning
\neverybody’s excited, but you <\/p>\n
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\nknow, by the time Project Arts
\nready to deploy, that’s starting<\/p>\n
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\nto dwindle down.
\nTo a very small group. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd boy, isn’t that paint a
\nvisual for us in our meetings? <\/p>\n
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\nHow many things have we and our
\necclesia started and the whole <\/p>\n
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\necclesia is behind it for like
\nweek 1? <\/p>\n
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\nAnd then it starts to dwindle
\nand a year later there’s the <\/p>\n
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\nthree people that thought it was
\na great idea, the only three <\/p>\n
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\nthat care about it anymore.
\nI know this only happens in my <\/p>\n
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\nmeeting.
\nIt never has happened in yours. <\/p>\n
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\nOK, very good.
\nSo subliminal message. <\/p>\n
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\nWe’re going to find the number 7
\na lot today, probably more than <\/p>\n
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\nyou ever have before.
\nUnless you have done this search<\/p>\n
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\nyourself, you’re going to find
\nit in places that seem. <\/p>\n
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\nReally strange, like why did we
\nneed to know that? <\/p>\n
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\nAnd that’s part of what I think
\nit’s there for, to give us a <\/p>\n
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\nfocus.
\nNow we as a community generally <\/p>\n
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\naccept some basic numerology.
\nSome take it farther than <\/p>\n
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\nothers.
\nThere are some that will go this<\/p>\n
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\ntimes this minus this divided
\nby. <\/p>\n
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\nThat multiplied by this and you.
\nI don’t do that. <\/p>\n
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\nI think some of the basics are
\nso obvious they have to get our <\/p>\n
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\nattention and this is by no
\nmeans an exhaustive class on <\/p>\n
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\nnumerology.
\nThere are brethren that are <\/p>\n
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\ncertainly more qualified and
\nabsolutely more interested in it<\/p>\n
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\nto do it than me, so I’m not.
\nTrying to focus on the <\/p>\n
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\nnumerology.
\nHowever, when you get kicked in <\/p>\n
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\nthe.
\nFace you have to acknowledge <\/p>\n
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\nwhere that come from and Genesis
\nChapter 7 specifically and the <\/p>\n
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\nstory of Noah in particular is
\nloaded with the number 7. <\/p>\n
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\nSo what are the some the ones
\nthat that get my attention <\/p>\n
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\nroutinely I find #5 the grace of
\nGod. <\/p>\n
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\nWe referenced Matthew one in the
\nlast class number six, the <\/p>\n
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\nnumber of man creation day 6667
\nthe completion generally of a <\/p>\n
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\ncovenant.
\nWe’ve seen it in the days of <\/p>\n
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\ncreation and we’ve started
\nNoah’s story by mentioning <\/p>\n
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\nthat’s what God did on the 7th
\nday. <\/p>\n
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\nSo the number 7A completion
\nspecifically of our covenant is <\/p>\n
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\nwhat really, I will argue the
\ntheme of the story of Noah is <\/p>\n
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\n#8-A new beginning.
\nThe completion plus 1\/12, the <\/p>\n
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\nnumber of Israel, 40, the number
\nof a generation general <\/p>\n
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\nreferring to judgment.
\nSee the wandering in the the is <\/p>\n
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\nin the wilderness.
\nWe see the temptation of Jesus. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd there are plenty others, but
\nthose are the ones that get my <\/p>\n
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\nattention.
\nIf it’s divisible by 7:00 or <\/p>\n
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\n12:00, it’s got my attention.
\nThose are the only ones that I <\/p>\n
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\nstart that I kind of extrapolate
\nout. <\/p>\n
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\nYou can discard them. <\/p>\n
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\nI’m just letting you know why <\/p>\n
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\nAll right, so the focus on this <\/p>\n
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\ncompletion of the covenant with <\/p>\n
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\nNoah.
\nNow we all know there’s no <\/p>\n
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\npunctuation in Hebrew, and we’ve
\nsaid a number of times the way <\/p>\n
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\nour God gives us emphasis is
\nrepetition. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so repetition throughout
\nScripture is something that gets<\/p>\n
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\nour attention, and the closer it
\ngets, the more emphasized we see<\/p>\n
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\nSo when a particular book has <\/p>\n
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\nnumber of times, that’s <\/p>\n
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\nIt is and. <\/p>\n
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\nThen when we see it in the same
\nstory, it’s even more, and we <\/p>\n
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\nit’s even more. <\/p>\n
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\nSo what we’re going to look at
\nis God’s giant exclamation point<\/p>\n
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\nin Scripture today.
\nWe’ll pick up at verse one Noah,<\/p>\n
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\nassuming the Lord said to Noah,
\ncome now and all thy house to <\/p>\n
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\nHave I seen righteous before me <\/p>\n
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\nSo let’s start with a population<\/p>\n
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\nI’m old, but not that old, so I <\/p>\n
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\ndon’t know.
\nI didn’t wasn’t there for the <\/p>\n
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\nwaters. <\/p>\n
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\nCame but if you start putting
\ntogether the math and use some <\/p>\n
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\nbasic extrapolations based on
\naverage rate of having children <\/p>\n
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\nputting these together you. <\/p>\n
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\nProbably easily get over a
\nmillion, perhaps in billions by <\/p>\n
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\nso. <\/p>\n
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\nWhatever number makes you think
\nyou know it makes you happy. <\/p>\n
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\nstomach, start there. <\/p>\n
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\nThis is not There’s 12 people
\nand we saved 8 of them. <\/p>\n
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\nmakes it.
\nRelevant to our day that the <\/p>\n
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\nthe things of God and follow <\/p>\n
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\nTo the rest of the population, <\/p>\n
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\ngrace in chapter 6 verse 8. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s not self. <\/p>\n
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\nGod has seen him and accounted <\/p>\n
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\nrighteousness for him.
\nHe wasn’t perfect. <\/p>\n
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\nBut he was seen by God as just
\nan upright because he was trying<\/p>\n
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\nto do things God’s way.
\nNow, we’ve already looked at <\/p>\n
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\nHebrews 11 and seven a couple
\ntimes. <\/p>\n
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\nDon’t worry, we’ll do it again.
\nBut there’s a couple other <\/p>\n
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\nplaces we’re going to warm up
\ntoday to set the mood. <\/p>\n
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\nHere’s second Peter chapter 2
\nverse 5 and spared not the old <\/p>\n
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\nworld, but save Noah the 8th.
\nPerson, a preacher of <\/p>\n
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\nrighteousness, bringing in the
\nflood upon the world of the <\/p>\n
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\nSo we mentioned the 8th #8 gets <\/p>\n
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\nof the reasons why. <\/p>\n
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\nmarriage and they’re counted as <\/p>\n
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\none in the genealogy.
\nAs we saw in Genesis chapter 5. <\/p>\n
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\nWell why that makes Noah the 7th
\nand her the 8th does it not? <\/p>\n
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\ncovenant and a new beginning <\/p>\n
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\non the ark. <\/p>\n
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\nWe also have a wonderful shadow
\nof our Lord Jesus Christ who <\/p>\n
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\nWas the completion of a covenant<\/p>\n
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\nSo we see the condemnation of <\/p>\n
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\ntheir condemnation is there was <\/p>\n
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\neating, drinking, marrying and <\/p>\n
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\ngiving a marriage.
\nAnd this family then becomes <\/p>\n
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\nFather as making time to put him<\/p>\n
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\nAnd dedicate their life to doing<\/p>\n
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\nEzekiel 33, verse 11. <\/p>\n
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\nSaying to them, as I live, saith
\nthe Lord God, I have no pleasure<\/p>\n
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\nthat the wicked turn from his <\/p>\n
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\nway, and live Turn ye turn from
\nyour evil ways, for why will you<\/p>\n
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\ndie, O?
\nHouse of Israel it is with. <\/p>\n
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\nSadness that the wicked are
\nslain. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so, you know, when listening
\nto to Jason’s classes that we’re<\/p>\n
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\ntalking about vengeance’s mind,
\nsaith the Lord. <\/p>\n
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\nI think we need to put in
\nperspective that there’s no joy <\/p>\n
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\nin God turning his creation to
\ndust, that’s he wills that none <\/p>\n
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\nshould perish.
\nNow he’s acknowledged that most <\/p>\n
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\nwill and those are by his rules,
\nhis design and his righteous <\/p>\n
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\nacts.
\nBut there is a sadness in the <\/p>\n
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\ndeath of the slain.
\nAnd just as the father of a <\/p>\n
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\nchild, we know the child has
\ngone wayward, doesn’t give us <\/p>\n
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\nany pleasure to see them suffer
\nbecause of their wayward <\/p>\n
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\ndecisions.
\nAnd we put that perspective in <\/p>\n
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\nthe eyes of the father.
\nI think it’s a very sad state <\/p>\n
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\nwhen he looks upon the planet,
\ndoes his divine inspection and <\/p>\n
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\nsays.
\nI wish I could find more that <\/p>\n
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\ntried to do it my way.
\nWell, this is the process. <\/p>\n
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\nThere’s a precious few.
\nOur God is given free will, <\/p>\n
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\nthe population to turn against <\/p>\n
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\nHim.
\nThe highlight reel for that is <\/p>\n
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\nthe flood.
\nThe cost is high, which makes <\/p>\n
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\nthe precious few that want to
\nunderstand God’s way and live it<\/p>\n
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\neven that more valuable to Him.
\nThe most popular verse in the <\/p>\n
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\nBible, actually.
\nSays that. <\/p>\n
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\nGod so loved the world He gave
\nHis only begotten Son. <\/p>\n
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\nWhosoever believeth in him
\nshould not perish, but have <\/p>\n
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\neverlasting life.
\nThat’s why God provided a means <\/p>\n
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\nof redemption.
\nIn an effort to save his <\/p>\n
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\ncreation from themselves and
\ntheir thinking, He’s given us <\/p>\n
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\nthe option one Do it your way
\nand die from. <\/p>\n
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\nDust thou wast, the dust thou
\nshalt return in Genesis terms. <\/p>\n
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\nOr there is one door that gives
\nyou access to life eternal, the <\/p>\n
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\ngift of life through Jesus
\nChrist our Lord. <\/p>\n
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\nSo the two options, one door, we
\ncan’t earn it. <\/p>\n
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\nNone of us is worthy.
\nNo one on the ark was sinless. <\/p>\n
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\nWe can’t earn it, but we can
\nlong for it, and we can yearn <\/p>\n
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\nfor it.
\nAnd we can try to do everything <\/p>\n
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\nin our power to better
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\nus to do and then do.
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\nGod commanded.
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\nOne more, this is Isaiah 54 will
\nbe Noah specific this time in <\/p>\n
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\nlittle, in a little wrath I hid
\nmy face from thee for a moment, <\/p>\n
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\nbut with everlasting kindness
\nwill I have mercy on thee, say <\/p>\n
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\nat the Lord thy Redeemer.
\nThis is as the waters of Noah <\/p>\n
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\nunto me, for as I would have.
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\nshould no more go over the
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\nwould not be wroth with thee,
\nnor rebuke thee. <\/p>\n
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\nVerse 17.
\nNo weapon, that is. <\/p>\n
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\nFormed against thee shall
\nprosper, and every tongue that <\/p>\n
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\nshall rise against thee in
\njudgment thou shalt condemn. <\/p>\n
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\nThis is the heritage of servants
\nof the Lord and their <\/p>\n
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\nrighteousnesses.
\nOf me, saith Yahweh. <\/p>\n
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\nOur righteousness is really an
\nemulation of the righteous <\/p>\n
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\nattributes of our Father as we
\nserve Him. <\/p>\n
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\nSo with that, let’s go back to
\nGenesis and pick up on some <\/p>\n
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\ndetails.
\nVerse two of every clean beast <\/p>\n
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\nthou shalt take thee by sevens.
\nWell, we knew that was coming. <\/p>\n
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\nWe’d already talked about it.
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\nthat are not clean by two the
\nmale and his female. <\/p>\n
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\nNow this is obviously.
\nEvidence to a law prior to the <\/p>\n
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\nLaw of Moses, as clean animals
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\nSo it gives us evidence there <\/p>\n
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\nwas some way that they had to
\ndetermine clean or unclean may <\/p>\n
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\nhave been the same as the Law of
\nMoses. <\/p>\n
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\nWe’re just not given that
\ndetail. <\/p>\n
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\nBut certainly there was a law.
\nThat established an order <\/p>\n
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\nbetween the clean and the
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\nNow we already mentioned.
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\ncareful, every BBQ eliminates a
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\nSo it makes sense God provided
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\nalso for their ability to offer
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\nAct done after the flood was <\/p>\n
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\noffer a sacrifice of every one
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\nNow an interesting point in
\nHebrew that is clear. <\/p>\n
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\nIf we were reading this in
\nHebrew, the English kind of <\/p>\n
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\nskews it a bit, and that is the
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\nThose actually are the words to
\ndescribe man and his wife, the <\/p>\n
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\nisha and isha.
\nIn fact, this is the only verse <\/p>\n
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\nin Scripture where these words
\nare used to describe animals, to<\/p>\n
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\nbecoming one.
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\nit’s used to describe animals,
\nnot human beings. <\/p>\n
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\nSo the RSV calls it 7 pairs and
\nthe Hebrew supports that to some<\/p>\n
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\ndegree because it actually it
\nmeans it’s doubled. <\/p>\n
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\nIf you read it in the Hebrew
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\nemphasized or. 7 + 7 or 7 * 7.
\nYou could probably make an <\/p>\n
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\nargument for each and for all
\nwe’re going to get out of that <\/p>\n
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\nis the completion of the
\ncovenant number is there. <\/p>\n
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\nDoubled of thousands of the air
\nby sevens, that’s 77 again the <\/p>\n
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\nmale and the female to keep seed
\nalive upon the face of all the <\/p>\n
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\nearth.
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\nPreservation.
\nThis is not recreation. <\/p>\n
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\nto restore to the planet, not to<\/p>\n
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\nrecreate the planet, because he
\nvery well could have done that. <\/p>\n
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\nin a week a few 100 years ago.
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\nYou could have just done that <\/p>\n
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\nJust wipe them all clean. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd you know we create with Adam
\npoint 2.0. <\/p>\n
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\nBut that’s not what he chooses
\nto do. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s not the character of the
\nfather. <\/p>\n
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\nThe character of the father is
\nalways looking. <\/p>\n
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\nFor the remnant, in this case,
\nthe remnant was just smaller <\/p>\n
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\nthan He or we wish it was all
\nright. <\/p>\n
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\nVerse 4.
\nYet seven days I will cause it <\/p>\n
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\nto rain upon the earth, 40 days
\nand 40 nights. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd every living substance I
\nhave made I will destroy from <\/p>\n
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\noff the face of the earth.
\nSo now we have 7 days of final <\/p>\n
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\nwarning.
\nSo we’ve gone from 120 years and<\/p>\n
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\nnow we’re down to a week now.
\nRain. <\/p>\n
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\nWe introduced yesterday.
\nDo you like this numerology <\/p>\n
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\nstuff so far?
\nAm I losing anybody yet? <\/p>\n
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\nThe ones not nodding their head.
\nOK, got it. <\/p>\n
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\nAll right, so.
\nThis word rain. <\/p>\n
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\nHere’s another.
\nOne we’ll play with for a little<\/p>\n
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\nbit.
\nThis word rain is only used by <\/p>\n
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\nMoses in the Old Testament, and
\nit’s only used five times. <\/p>\n
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\nSo we got the number of grace.
\nIsn’t that interesting that here<\/p>\n
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\nwe have the means of
\ndestruction, but yet somehow in <\/p>\n
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\nthis we’ve got to see the hand
\nof God is at work and it’s <\/p>\n
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\njudgment to most.
\nBut it’s grace and mercy to <\/p>\n
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\nthose following his path.
\nWell, what are the five? <\/p>\n
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\nI’ll let you check them out for
\nfun. <\/p>\n
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\nThe first one was no rain.
\nThat’s chapter 2 verse 5. <\/p>\n
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\nThis is the second one, which is
\nthe first major cleansing. <\/p>\n
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\nThe next one is going to be in
\nchapter 19, verse 24, which is <\/p>\n
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\nthe reign of fire in Sodom and
\nGomorrah. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd the other two are Exodus
\nChapter 9, verse 18 and verse <\/p>\n
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\n23, which is hail.
\nI’ll call that solid rain. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd chapter 16, verse 4, bred
\nfrom heaven. <\/p>\n
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\nSo how can we apply a parable or
\na theme from that and? <\/p>\n
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\nHere’s what I believe this is
\ntrying to tell us. <\/p>\n
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\nNo rain is like our knowledge,
\nour life before knowledge. <\/p>\n
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\nDeuteronomy 32 and two, My
\ndoctrine shall drop as the rain.<\/p>\n
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\nDifferent word, same concept.
\nNow we have the first rain, so <\/p>\n
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\nwe have obedience and baptism.
\nWe have fire, rain or judgment. <\/p>\n
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\nSolid rain on the rock.
\nHere’s a quote from Job 38, <\/p>\n
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\nverses 29 through 30.
\nOut of those who out of whose <\/p>\n
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\nwombs came ice and the hoary
\nfrost from heaven, who hath <\/p>\n
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\ngendered it.
\nThe waters are hid as with a <\/p>\n
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\nstone in the face of the deep is
\nfrozen. <\/p>\n
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\nJust to prove that solid rain
\nthing wasn’t just me making <\/p>\n
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\nstuff up.
\nAll right, Bread from heaven. <\/p>\n
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\nOf course, the body, one body
\nthrough Jesus Christ ties nicely<\/p>\n
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\nto the rainbow that we’ll
\ndiscuss later in the story. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd this verse ends with the
\nnumber 40, which is a generation<\/p>\n
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\nor for judgment, which is a nice
\nrecall back to verse one that <\/p>\n
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\nsays he was found righteous in
\nthis generation. <\/p>\n
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\nSo these numbers are starting to
\ncome together to a focal point. <\/p>\n
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\nLots of numbers to look at.
\nOf course, we see the number 40 <\/p>\n
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\nin Scripture.
\nThere’s a number of things that <\/p>\n
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\ncome to our attention.
\nTrials, Moses, the spies, the <\/p>\n
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\nwandering Jesus, temptation,
\ndays after resurrection, story <\/p>\n
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\nof Jonah, the reign of David,
\nall of it, prophecy, blah, blah,<\/p>\n
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\nblah.
\nThere’s a lot of them. <\/p>\n
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\nAll right, so let’s go back to
\nverse 4. <\/p>\n
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\nWe have final days, seven final
\ndays of warning, and he says he <\/p>\n
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\nwill cause it to rain for 40
\ndays and 40 nights. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd he of every living thing,
\nevery living substance that I <\/p>\n
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\nhave made, I will destroy from
\noff the face of the earth. <\/p>\n
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\nThis word destroy is the same
\nword we looked at back in <\/p>\n
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\nchapter 6, verse 7, which means
\nto blot out. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s how it’s rendered in the
\nRSV, and the Hebrew supports <\/p>\n
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\nthat to blot out from the face
\nof the earth. <\/p>\n
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\nThat language puts us nicely
\ninto Exodus 32, Exodus 32, <\/p>\n
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\npicking up at verse 32.
\nYet now, if thou wilt forgive <\/p>\n
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\ntheir sin, and if not blot me, I
\npray thee, out of the book in <\/p>\n
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\nwhich thou was written, As Lord
\nhas said to Moses, whosoever I <\/p>\n
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\nsinned against me, him will I
\nblot out of my book. <\/p>\n
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\nSo we get to very personal
\naccountability here. <\/p>\n
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\nWe see this in the example of
\nMoses willing to lay down his <\/p>\n
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\neternal life to save the nation
\nof Israel. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s astounding to me.
\nPaul says something similar as <\/p>\n
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\nwell.
\nAnd that’s in the face of an <\/p>\n
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\necclesia that’s.
\nArguing with you, disrespecting <\/p>\n
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\nyou, disagreeing with you and
\nturning away from their God. <\/p>\n
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\nSo it’s not like he had such a
\nperfect ecclesia, he said. <\/p>\n
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\nBoy I wish I could just give up
\nmy life so they would have their<\/p>\n
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\nThis is people.
\nThat disagree with him and are <\/p>\n
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\nwalking away from the Kingdom.
\nIn fact, everyone in this <\/p>\n
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\ngeneration is dying because of
\ntheir faithlessness as they walk<\/p>\n
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\ntowards the Kingdom.
\nAnd that’s how he feels. <\/p>\n
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\nWell, I think that story is
\nthere for a number of reasons. <\/p>\n
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\nOne, to be self reflective for
\nus, but also to give us an <\/p>\n
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\nexample not just of Moses, but
\nalso seeing Noah in this same <\/p>\n
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\nlight.
\nDavid says this too in David. <\/p>\n
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\nDavid says in Psalm 51, verse
\nnine, hide thy face from my sins<\/p>\n
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\nand blot out all mine
\niniquities. <\/p>\n
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\nOf course, we’ve probably got a
\ntune in our head and him right <\/p>\n
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\nnow.
\nVerse 5 Noah did according to <\/p>\n
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\nall that the Lord had commanded
\nhim and we talked about the <\/p>\n
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\nrepetition.
\nSo this is what we read in <\/p>\n
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\nchapter 6, verse 22, which is a
\ncomparison to us. <\/p>\n
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\nAgain, he’s given some specific.
\nInstructions. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd he’s going to follow them to
\nthe tee. <\/p>\n
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\nSo Noah’s now 600 years old and
\nthe waters of the Flutter. <\/p>\n
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\nUpon the earth.
\nSo we got the number of flesh <\/p>\n
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\nhere. 61 hundreds are coming
\ntogether as it starts building <\/p>\n
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\nat Chapter 7, verse 7.
\nNow who would have thought <\/p>\n
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\nGenesis Chapter 7 verse 7 would
\nhave some sevens in it, but it <\/p>\n
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\ndoes.
\nNoah went in and his sons and <\/p>\n
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\n00:18:02,000 –> 00:18:04,240
\nhis wife and his sons wise with
\nhim in the ark because the <\/p>\n
338
\n00:18:04,240 –> 00:18:06,440
\nwaters of the flood.
\nSo we mentioned Japheth. <\/p>\n
339
\n00:18:06,440 –> 00:18:11,080
\nHe’s 105 and 32 Shem 98, that’s
\n11 and verse 10, Ham younger <\/p>\n
340
\n00:18:11,080 –> 00:18:12,840
\nsomewhat, but they’re all
\nmarried. <\/p>\n
341
\n00:18:13,640 –> 00:18:16,520
\nAll of them are married, but
\nwe’re not given record that any <\/p>\n
342
\n00:18:16,520 –> 00:18:19,400
\nof them has children yet.
\nWouldn’t that even be more <\/p>\n
343
\n00:18:19,400 –> 00:18:23,080
\ntragic if they did?
\nWe’re not given that detail. <\/p>\n
344
\n00:18:23,080 –> 00:18:25,280
\nWe’re just told that all three
\nof them were married and that <\/p>\n
345
\n00:18:25,280 –> 00:18:26,920
\nthey and their wives were
\nallowed on the ark. <\/p>\n
346
\n00:18:27,440 –> 00:18:32,760
\nSo Noah and his seven family
\nmembers, they’re all invited to <\/p>\n
347
\n00:18:32,760 –> 00:18:35,400
\nbe part of the building effort
\nand the salvation. <\/p>\n
348
\n00:18:36,000 –> 00:18:40,440
\nEnter in together of clean
\nbeasts, of beasts that are not <\/p>\n
349
\n00:18:40,440 –> 00:18:42,560
\nclean, of fowls, of everything
\nthat creepeth on the earth. <\/p>\n
350
\n00:18:42,800 –> 00:18:46,400
\nThere went in two and two unto
\nthe unto Noah into the ark, the <\/p>\n
351
\n00:18:46,680 –> 00:18:49,720
\nand the male and the female, as
\nGod had commanded them, or <\/p>\n
352
\n00:18:49,760 –> 00:18:52,440
\nsorry, commanded Noah.
\nSo it’s clarified now there’s <\/p>\n
353
\n00:18:52,440 –> 00:18:56,640
\nlots of shadows here.
\nBirds and beasts are used to <\/p>\n
354
\n00:18:56,640 –> 00:18:59,720
\ndescribe both Israel and the
\nGentiles in Hosea chapter 2. <\/p>\n
355
\n00:18:59,720 –> 00:19:04,080
\nFor example, if you read Isaiah
\n34 and 35 together without a <\/p>\n
356
\n00:19:04,080 –> 00:19:06,680
\nbreak in the middle, it’s a
\nworthy exercise if you want to <\/p>\n
357
\n00:19:06,680 –> 00:19:08,840
\ntackle your own, see if you can
\nsee how that connects to this <\/p>\n
358
\n00:19:08,840 –> 00:19:12,720
\nstory as well.
\nThe nation’s coming to the one <\/p>\n
359
\n00:19:12,720 –> 00:19:16,240
\ndoor of the ark for salvation is
\na wonderful image, which we did <\/p>\n
360
\n00:19:16,240 –> 00:19:20,320
\ndiscuss a little yesterday that
\nJesus saying in John 14 and six,<\/p>\n
361
\n00:19:20,640 –> 00:19:22,000
\nI am the way, the truth and the
\nlife. <\/p>\n
362
\n00:19:22,000 –> 00:19:23,920
\nNo man cometh to the Father, but
\nby me. <\/p>\n
363
\n00:19:23,920 –> 00:19:26,600
\nSo we’ve got one access point
\nfor salvation. <\/p>\n
364
\n00:19:26,920 –> 00:19:32,920
\nAny other way leads to death.
\nThere is one path that leads. <\/p>\n
365
\n00:19:32,920 –> 00:19:38,440
\nUs to life so after these seven
\ndays the water of the flood were<\/p>\n
366
\n00:19:39,080 –> 00:19:41,120
\nupon the face of the earth.
\nSo we have the final warning <\/p>\n
367
\n00:19:41,120 –> 00:19:45,880
\ncompleted and as we mentioned,
\nthe creation math, 1656 years <\/p>\n
368
\n00:19:45,880 –> 00:19:49,920
\nfrom creation.
\nSo now focusing on the life of <\/p>\n
369
\n00:19:50,200 –> 00:19:54,240
\nNoah in the 6th, 100th year of
\nNoah’s life in the second month <\/p>\n
370
\n00:19:54,240 –> 00:19:56,520
\nand the 17th day of the month,
\nthe same day where all the <\/p>\n
371
\n00:19:56,520 –> 00:19:59,280
\nfountains of the great deep
\nbroken up and the windows of <\/p>\n
372
\n00:19:59,280 –> 00:20:01,880
\nheaven were open.
\nAnd boy, anytime we get <\/p>\n
373
\n00:20:02,080 –> 00:20:04,280
\nspecific, it gets our attention,
\ndoesn’t it? <\/p>\n
374
\n00:20:05,520 –> 00:20:07,680
\nNow we’re going to do a little
\nbit more of this when we get to <\/p>\n
375
\n00:20:07,680 –> 00:20:11,320
\nChapter 8.
\nI just want to just pause on <\/p>\n
376
\n00:20:11,320 –> 00:20:13,240
\nthat for a second.
\nNow we’re not only getting the <\/p>\n
377
\n00:20:13,240 –> 00:20:17,600
\nyear, but the month and the day.
\nWe have waters above. <\/p>\n
378
\n00:20:18,240 –> 00:20:21,280
\nI’m picturing Thunder and
\nshowers and torrential rain. <\/p>\n
379
\n00:20:21,960 –> 00:20:24,680
\nWe have waters below the
\noverflowing of rivers, lakes, <\/p>\n
380
\n00:20:24,680 –> 00:20:27,360
\nseas, geysers, earthquakes,
\nmaybe soon anatomies, I don’t <\/p>\n
381
\n00:20:27,360 –> 00:20:28,440
\nknow.
\nDo whatever you want with that <\/p>\n
382
\n00:20:28,440 –> 00:20:30,840
\none.
\nWe have waters all around, the <\/p>\n
383
\n00:20:30,840 –> 00:20:33,040
\nactual rainfall everywhere in
\nthe water. <\/p>\n
384
\n00:20:33,560 –> 00:20:36,240
\nEffectively, we are seeing a
\nmodel of baptism, which is <\/p>\n
385
\n00:20:36,240 –> 00:20:39,160
\nwhat’s picked up in the New
\nTestament now. <\/p>\n
386
\n00:20:40,200 –> 00:20:42,520
\nWhere we all know where the Ark
\nlanded. <\/p>\n
387
\n00:20:42,880 –> 00:20:44,880
\nYou want to say it out loud?
\nWhere did the Ark land? <\/p>\n
388
\n00:20:45,560 –> 00:20:50,520
\nArarat, which means it floated
\nN, Isn’t that opposite the <\/p>\n
389
\n00:20:50,520 –> 00:20:55,240
\nnatural flow pattern you would
\nexpect God is in. <\/p>\n
390
\n00:20:55,400 –> 00:20:58,800
\nControl.
\nThis was his work being <\/p>\n
391
\n00:20:58,800 –> 00:21:03,280
\nperformed, His righteousness
\nbeing declared, His Majesty <\/p>\n
392
\n00:21:03,280 –> 00:21:07,440
\nover, creation being known.
\nHe was in control. <\/p>\n
393
\n00:21:08,360 –> 00:21:12,400
\nWe’ll come back to Ararat later.
\nThe rain was upon the earth for <\/p>\n
394
\n00:21:12,400 –> 00:21:14,720
\n40 days and 40 nights.
\nSo we’ve got the judgment of <\/p>\n
395
\n00:21:14,720 –> 00:21:17,800
\nthis generation, and that brings
\nus to our day where Jesus had <\/p>\n
396
\n00:21:17,800 –> 00:21:19,320
\ntold us.
\nCompare it to your day. <\/p>\n
397
\n00:21:19,320 –> 00:21:21,760
\nAs it is in the days of Noah, so
\nwill be in the days of the <\/p>\n
398
\n00:21:21,760 –> 00:21:24,400
\ncoming of the Son of Man.
\nSo the judgment of this <\/p>\n
399
\n00:21:24,400 –> 00:21:28,480
\ngeneration we may not have seen
\nyet, but it’s coming. <\/p>\n
400
\n00:21:29,080 –> 00:21:32,000
\nWhat are we doing as
\nindividuals, as families, as <\/p>\n
401
\n00:21:32,000 –> 00:21:36,320
\necclesias, to prepare for the
\nsaving of our household as the <\/p>\n
402
\n00:21:36,320 –> 00:21:40,280
\nworld gets darker and the
\npending judgment of the Father <\/p>\n
403
\n00:21:40,280 –> 00:21:43,440
\ngets closer?
\nWhat are we doing to prepare <\/p>\n
404
\n00:21:43,440 –> 00:21:45,360
\nourselves to be part of that
\ncovenant that. <\/p>\n
405
\n00:21:45,360 –> 00:21:52,440
\nIs saved by his grace.
\nSo on this day, Noah Sham Ham, <\/p>\n
406
\n00:21:52,440 –> 00:21:54,840
\nJapheth, the sons of Noah,
\nNoah’s wife, the three wives of <\/p>\n
407
\n00:21:54,840 –> 00:21:59,280
\nhis sons went into the ark so.
\nAgain, high level of repetition.<\/p>\n
408
\n00:22:00,880 –> 00:22:02,760
\nThe narrative wants to make sure
\nwe know. <\/p>\n
409
\n00:22:03,720 –> 00:22:05,560
\nThis one went in this one went
\nin this one and. <\/p>\n
410
\n00:22:05,560 –> 00:22:12,400
\nOver and over we get to count
\noff the 8 safety inside absolute<\/p>\n
411
\n00:22:12,400 –> 00:22:17,800
\nmisery outside Isaiah. 26 is a
\nnice reference for this Isaiah <\/p>\n
412
\n00:22:17,800 –> 00:22:22,560
\n26 picking up at verse. 20 Come,
\nmy people, enter thou into thy <\/p>\n
413
\n00:22:22,560 –> 00:22:24,640
\nchambers, and shut thy doors
\nabout thee. <\/p>\n
414
\n00:22:24,800 –> 00:22:27,400
\nHide thyself, as it were, for a
\nlittle moment, until the <\/p>\n
415
\n00:22:27,400 –> 00:22:31,240
\nindignation be overpassed.
\nFor behold, the Lord cometh out <\/p>\n
416
\n00:22:31,240 –> 00:22:33,480
\nof his place to punish the
\ninhabitants of the earth for <\/p>\n
417
\n00:22:33,480 –> 00:22:36,560
\ntheir iniquity.
\nThe earth shall also disclose <\/p>\n
418
\n00:22:36,560 –> 00:22:38,720
\nher blood, and shall no more
\ncover her slain. <\/p>\n
419
\n00:22:40,240 –> 00:22:42,800
\nIt’s an important.
\nLesson So as they’re following <\/p>\n
420
\n00:22:42,800 –> 00:22:47,120
\nthe path and there is a somber
\ntone to this March into the ark <\/p>\n
421
\n00:22:47,120 –> 00:22:50,760
\nthey have been working on as a
\nfamily for so long, knowing <\/p>\n
422
\n00:22:50,960 –> 00:22:55,240
\nwhat’s happening to the rest of
\nthe population, including their <\/p>\n
423
\n00:22:55,240 –> 00:22:59,760
\nextended family.
\nTo recognize that God is there <\/p>\n
424
\n00:22:59,760 –> 00:23:03,160
\nto comfort them that the
\npunishment that is happening, <\/p>\n
425
\n00:23:03,640 –> 00:23:07,040
\nbut it will be overpassed.
\nYou know this is an important. <\/p>\n
426
\n00:23:07,040 –> 00:23:09,600
\nLesson we keep bringing it back
\nto Jesus, tying it to our. <\/p>\n
427
\n00:23:09,600 –> 00:23:10,840
\nDay.
\nAnd it’s well and good that we <\/p>\n
428
\n00:23:10,840 –> 00:23:13,120
\nshould.
\nBut Jesus picks up on this <\/p>\n
429
\n00:23:13,120 –> 00:23:17,960
\ntopic, specifically Matthew 10
\nand 37. <\/p>\n
430
\n00:23:19,040 –> 00:23:22,320
\nHe that loveth father or mother
\nmore than me is not worthy of <\/p>\n
431
\n00:23:22,320 –> 00:23:24,840
\nme.
\nHe that loveth son or daughter <\/p>\n
432
\n00:23:24,840 –> 00:23:27,480
\nmore than me is not worthy of
\nme. <\/p>\n
433
\n00:23:29,320 –> 00:23:33,320
\nThat is not an easy concept for
\nanyone in this room to swallow, <\/p>\n
434
\n00:23:35,280 –> 00:23:37,920
\nbut it’s the principle that’s
\nbeing taught by the Father. <\/p>\n
435
\n00:23:38,560 –> 00:23:45,520
\nOur natural families are
\nsecondary to the family of the <\/p>\n
436
\n00:23:45,520 –> 00:23:48,440
\nFather.
\nGod wills that none should <\/p>\n
437
\n00:23:48,440 –> 00:23:50,920
\nperish, and there’s no parent
\nthat wants to see their child <\/p>\n
438
\n00:23:50,920 –> 00:23:54,040
\nperish.
\nBut we have to stay dedicated to<\/p>\n
439
\n00:23:54,040 –> 00:23:57,160
\nthe things of the Father, even
\nif our children. <\/p>\n
440
\n00:23:57,760 –> 00:24:01,200
\nParents, brothers, sisters do
\nnot. <\/p>\n
441
\n00:24:03,080 –> 00:24:06,400
\nWe must put God first.
\nThat’s his rightful place in our<\/p>\n
442
\n00:24:06,400 –> 00:24:08,600
\nlives, our rightful place in our
\nheart. <\/p>\n
443
\n00:24:08,960 –> 00:24:12,640
\nAnd if we put God first, next,
\nthen comes our family that we <\/p>\n
444
\n00:24:12,640 –> 00:24:14,400
\nput second.
\nAnd we do everything we can to <\/p>\n
445
\n00:24:14,400 –> 00:24:18,280
\nhelp our family, but it’s got to
\nbe in that order. <\/p>\n
446
\n00:24:18,280 –> 00:24:22,320
\nIf we lose sight and reverse
\nthat order, we are no longer the<\/p>\n
447
\n00:24:22,320 –> 00:24:24,960
\nchildren of our Father.
\nIt’s that big of a deal. <\/p>\n
448
\n00:24:25,760 –> 00:24:28,440
\nSo then as we take this somber
\ntone and we look at what’s going<\/p>\n
449
\n00:24:28,440 –> 00:24:29,920
\non around, they’re going in the
\nark. <\/p>\n
450
\n00:24:29,920 –> 00:24:31,440
\nThe animals are already there
\nnow. <\/p>\n
451
\n00:24:31,640 –> 00:24:34,000
\nThey’ve done all the work to
\nprepare, and this is almost like<\/p>\n
452
\n00:24:34,000 –> 00:24:37,680
\ngetting ready for a big move.
\nIt’s almost anticlimactic. <\/p>\n
453
\n00:24:37,680 –> 00:24:41,920
\nYou’re tired, you’re emotionally
\nexhausted, you’re spiritually <\/p>\n
454
\n00:24:41,920 –> 00:24:45,320
\ndrained.
\nAnd now what’s going on outside?<\/p>\n
455
\n00:24:45,920 –> 00:24:49,800
\nAdds to the tragedy by hearing
\nwhatever cries and pleas might <\/p>\n
456
\n00:24:49,800 –> 00:24:52,920
\nbe outside, knowing that the
\njudgement of God has happened <\/p>\n
457
\n00:24:52,920 –> 00:24:58,760
\nand it is now too late.
\nThey and every beast. <\/p>\n
458
\n00:24:58,760 –> 00:25:01,080
\nAfter its kind and all the
\ncattle, after their kind and <\/p>\n
459
\n00:25:01,080 –> 00:25:03,400
\ncreeping thing that creepeth
\nupon the earth, after his kind, <\/p>\n
460
\n00:25:03,640 –> 00:25:06,360
\nevery fowl, after his kind,
\nevery bird of every sort, they <\/p>\n
461
\n00:25:06,360 –> 00:25:09,160
\nwent in unto Noah into the ark,
\ntwo and two of all flesh, <\/p>\n
462
\n00:25:09,160 –> 00:25:11,040
\nwherein there is the breath of
\nlife. <\/p>\n
463
\n00:25:11,040 –> 00:25:14,640
\nAnd so here we have that again,
\nthe exception fish, chapter 6, <\/p>\n
464
\n00:25:14,640 –> 00:25:17,600
\nverse 17, They’re fine.
\nThere’s no cries and pleas <\/p>\n
465
\n00:25:17,600 –> 00:25:19,960
\namongst the fish.
\nThey’re actually dancing and <\/p>\n
466
\n00:25:19,960 –> 00:25:24,200
\nplaying.
\nAll right, they went. <\/p>\n
467
\n00:25:24,200 –> 00:25:30,720
\nIn male and female of all flesh
\nas God had commanded them and <\/p>\n
468
\n00:25:30,720 –> 00:25:36,080
\nYahweh shut them in.
\nThis is a huge. <\/p>\n
469
\n00:25:36,080 –> 00:25:38,200
\nPoint we’re going to light on
\nthis one for a minute. <\/p>\n
470
\n00:25:38,440 –> 00:25:41,560
\nWe focused on there only being
\none way, and that is true and we<\/p>\n
471
\n00:25:41,560 –> 00:25:45,480
\nwell and good should.
\nBut God closed the door. <\/p>\n
472
\n00:25:46,240 –> 00:25:51,720
\nIs both grace, mercy and
\njudgment. <\/p>\n
473
\n00:25:53,520 –> 00:25:57,800
\nThe door being closed is saying
\naccess denied to anyone who is <\/p>\n
474
\n00:25:57,800 –> 00:26:02,520
\nnow no longer in it.
\nBut there’s a tremendous example<\/p>\n
475
\n00:26:02,520 –> 00:26:04,040
\nof faith in the family that
\nbuilt it. <\/p>\n
476
\n00:26:04,480 –> 00:26:07,920
\nRemember, they followed God’s
\nrules and God told him, make <\/p>\n
477
\n00:26:07,920 –> 00:26:10,880
\nthis giant box and put a hole.
\nIn it. <\/p>\n
478
\n00:26:12,400 –> 00:26:15,560
\nI’ll take it from there.
\nWe have no evidence that they <\/p>\n
479
\n00:26:15,560 –> 00:26:18,080
\nwere told.
\nHere’s the intricate work of a <\/p>\n
480
\n00:26:18,120 –> 00:26:20,840
\npulley designed system we want
\nyou to use so you can lift it. <\/p>\n
481
\n00:26:21,840 –> 00:26:25,240
\nThere’s no means to close this
\ndoor without the help of God. <\/p>\n
482
\n00:26:25,440 –> 00:26:27,720
\nWhat an amazing example of
\nfaith. <\/p>\n
483
\n00:26:28,600 –> 00:26:32,240
\nThey built a box with a hole in
\nit, trusted God to take it from <\/p>\n
484
\n00:26:32,240 –> 00:26:35,960
\nthere, and He did.
\nSo on one hand, we have their <\/p>\n
485
\n00:26:35,960 –> 00:26:39,080
\nfaith that God can and would
\ndeliver as He has promised. <\/p>\n
486
\n00:26:39,320 –> 00:26:42,400
\nAnd oftentimes we have this song
\nwe teach our children. <\/p>\n
487
\n00:26:42,640 –> 00:26:44,160
\nThat God always keeps his
\npromises. <\/p>\n
488
\n00:26:44,160 –> 00:26:45,760
\nThis is one of the lines in the
\nsong. <\/p>\n
489
\n00:26:45,760 –> 00:26:49,240
\nGod always keeps his promises,
\nso that’s good. <\/p>\n
490
\n00:26:50,480 –> 00:26:55,440
\nBut there’s also a measure of
\nmercy to reward their. <\/p>\n
491
\n00:26:55,440 –> 00:26:59,240
\nFaith.
\nImagine having to be the one to <\/p>\n
492
\n00:26:59,240 –> 00:27:02,800
\nclose the door while it was your
\nchild running towards it. <\/p>\n
493
\n00:27:04,320 –> 00:27:06,400
\nGod took that out of the
\nequation, did he not? <\/p>\n
494
\n00:27:07,400 –> 00:27:09,800
\nSaid you do it my way, I’ll take
\nit from there. <\/p>\n
495
\n00:27:10,320 –> 00:27:14,160
\nAnd the rest was up to God to
\nsort out, not up to them to go. <\/p>\n
496
\n00:27:14,320 –> 00:27:16,520
\nWell, I know we’re supposed to,
\nbut what about that one? <\/p>\n
497
\n00:27:16,520 –> 00:27:20,240
\nI like that one on me.
\nNow you build the boat, you <\/p>\n
498
\n00:27:20,240 –> 00:27:22,400
\nleave the hole, give me a door.
\nI’ll take it from there. <\/p>\n
499
\n00:27:22,560 –> 00:27:25,880
\nSo it’s not only an example of
\ntheir faithfulness, but it’s <\/p>\n
500
\n00:27:25,880 –> 00:27:29,040
\nalso an example of the mercy of
\nthe Father to take it from <\/p>\n
501
\n00:27:29,040 –> 00:27:34,840
\nthere.
\nNow the flood was 40 days upon <\/p>\n
502
\n00:27:34,840 –> 00:27:38,120
\nthe earth.
\nThe waters increased and bear up<\/p>\n
503
\n00:27:38,120 –> 00:27:40,000
\nthe ark.
\nIt was lifted up above the <\/p>\n
504
\n00:27:40,000 –> 00:27:43,400
\nearth.
\nHabakkuk 214 is a good verse for<\/p>\n
505
\n00:27:43,400 –> 00:27:44,520
\nthis.
\nThe earth shall be filled with <\/p>\n
506
\n00:27:44,520 –> 00:27:46,560
\nthe knowledge of the glory of
\nthe Lord as the water covers the<\/p>\n
507
\n00:27:46,560 –> 00:27:49,480
\nsea.
\nSo at this point, everything on <\/p>\n
508
\n00:27:49,480 –> 00:27:54,000
\nthe planet now.
\nKnows the power of God, those <\/p>\n
509
\n00:27:54,000 –> 00:27:56,320
\nthat perished in the power of
\nGod and those that were saved by<\/p>\n
510
\n00:27:56,320 –> 00:27:58,600
\nthe power of God.
\nThe same act, the water of <\/p>\n
511
\n00:27:58,600 –> 00:28:00,680
\ndestruction was also the water
\nof salvation. <\/p>\n
512
\n00:28:02,160 –> 00:28:05,840
\nAnd granted the population is
\nquite small now, but they know <\/p>\n
513
\n00:28:05,880 –> 00:28:09,720
\nthat God is in control now.
\nWater for cleansing is common in<\/p>\n
514
\n00:28:09,720 –> 00:28:12,360
\nscripture.
\nWe, we already read Isaiah 54, <\/p>\n
515
\n00:28:13,600 –> 00:28:17,000
\nperhaps many of us are already
\nthinking Ephesians 5 right now. <\/p>\n
516
\n00:28:17,600 –> 00:28:21,000
\nSo it’s a concept in Scripture
\nof the cleansing of, of, of <\/p>\n
517
\n00:28:22,120 –> 00:28:25,400
\nwater being used as an example
\nof cleansing through Scripture. <\/p>\n
518
\n00:28:26,400 –> 00:28:30,280
\nNow the word of God was
\nincreasing in it and that was <\/p>\n
519
\n00:28:30,280 –> 00:28:33,440
\nused a lot in the story of Acts
\nmultiple times the word of God <\/p>\n
520
\n00:28:33,440 –> 00:28:35,800
\nincreasing.
\nWe won’t look at it, but I’ll <\/p>\n
521
\n00:28:35,800 –> 00:28:37,200
\ngive you some place you want to
\nplay with it. <\/p>\n
522
\n00:28:37,560 –> 00:28:42,480
\nActs 6 and seven, Acts 12 and
\n24, Acts 19 and 20. <\/p>\n
523
\n00:28:43,880 –> 00:28:48,720
\nAnd so here we see the Word of
\nGod increasing and bearing up <\/p>\n
524
\n00:28:48,720 –> 00:28:52,120
\nthose that it’s going to save.
\nIt’s a nice reference for us to <\/p>\n
525
\n00:28:52,120 –> 00:28:54,880
\nthink of.
\nSo we had then have this arc <\/p>\n
526
\n00:28:54,880 –> 00:28:58,840
\nbeing lifted up a reference to
\nthe wood as a means for <\/p>\n
527
\n00:28:58,840 –> 00:29:02,680
\nsalvation and represent a
\nrepresentative of a Redeemer <\/p>\n
528
\n00:29:03,000 –> 00:29:05,600
\nwith only one door and the way,
\nthe truth and the life which <\/p>\n
529
\n00:29:05,600 –> 00:29:08,320
\ngives us a picture of Jesus in
\nfact. <\/p>\n
530
\n00:29:08,840 –> 00:29:12,280
\nBut when we look at chapter 8 we
\nwe see Jesus in the ark. <\/p>\n
531
\n00:29:12,280 –> 00:29:16,480
\nNot literally, but the echoes of
\nJesus in the ark are <\/p>\n
532
\n00:29:16,600 –> 00:29:20,880
\noverwhelming in the 8th chapter.
\nAs we start seeing this means of<\/p>\n
533
\n00:29:20,880 –> 00:29:24,400
\nsalvation being borne up to
\nredeem the family. <\/p>\n
534
\n00:29:25,120 –> 00:29:35,040
\nLet’s look at numbers. 21
\nNumbers 21, and we’ll read verse<\/p>\n
535
\n00:29:35,040 –> 00:29:40,320
\n8:00 and 9:00.
\nThe Lord said unto the Moses, <\/p>\n
536
\n00:29:40,320 –> 00:29:43,720
\nMake the a fiery serpent, and
\nset it upon a pole, and it <\/p>\n
537
\n00:29:43,720 –> 00:29:45,800
\nshould come to pass that
\neveryone that is bitten when you<\/p>\n
538
\n00:29:45,800 –> 00:29:49,520
\nlook upon it shall live.
\nMoses made a serpent of brass, <\/p>\n
539
\n00:29:49,520 –> 00:29:51,200
\nput it on a pole.
\nIt came to pass if the. <\/p>\n
540
\n00:29:51,200 –> 00:29:53,000
\nSerpent had been bitten by any
\nman. <\/p>\n
541
\n00:29:53,080 –> 00:29:56,120
\nSorry if the serpent had bitten
\nany man when he beheld the <\/p>\n
542
\n00:29:56,120 –> 00:29:59,560
\nSerpent of brass, he lived.
\nNow granted this would be a <\/p>\n
543
\n00:29:59,560 –> 00:30:02,200
\nseparate topic for another day,
\nbut I want. <\/p>\n
544
\n00:30:02,200 –> 00:30:04,160
\nTo use the imagery while we’re
\nhere. <\/p>\n
545
\n00:30:05,360 –> 00:30:08,760
\nSo as we look at this being
\nborne up, the ark being borne up<\/p>\n
546
\n00:30:08,760 –> 00:30:15,080
\nto save, we then tie the lifting
\nup the serpent representing <\/p>\n
547
\n00:30:15,080 –> 00:30:17,960
\nflesh, going back to the Garden
\nof Eden, as does the metal <\/p>\n
548
\n00:30:17,960 –> 00:30:19,400
\nbrass.
\nSo we’ve got the imagery there <\/p>\n
549
\n00:30:19,400 –> 00:30:21,840
\ntogether.
\nAnd the only way they could <\/p>\n
550
\n00:30:21,840 –> 00:30:28,000
\nescape death in this instance
\nand its sinful condemnation was <\/p>\n
551
\n00:30:28,000 –> 00:30:30,360
\nto look on the man whom they had
\npierced. <\/p>\n
552
\n00:30:30,960 –> 00:30:33,880
\nThat’s effectively what they
\nwere being taught by this <\/p>\n
553
\n00:30:33,880 –> 00:30:35,760
\nserpent, brazen serpent on a
\npole. <\/p>\n
554
\n00:30:35,960 –> 00:30:39,920
\nIn fact, Jesus says this much.
\nWe’ll again go back to one of <\/p>\n
555
\n00:30:39,920 –> 00:30:41,520
\nthe most popular verses in the
\nBible. <\/p>\n
556
\n00:30:41,520 –> 00:30:45,240
\nWe’ll just scoot forward to and
\nread John 3 verse 14. <\/p>\n
557
\n00:30:46,440 –> 00:30:50,960
\nAs Moses was lifted up this say,
\nas Moses lifted up the serpent <\/p>\n
558
\n00:30:50,960 –> 00:30:54,960
\nin the wilderness, Even so must
\nthe Son of Man be lifted up. <\/p>\n
559
\n00:30:56,160 –> 00:30:59,560
\nWe know the next couple verses.
\nWe know the concept. <\/p>\n
560
\n00:30:59,560 –> 00:31:02,400
\nThe same phrase comes in John
\nchapter 8, verse 28, so it’s <\/p>\n
561
\n00:31:02,400 –> 00:31:04,120
\nrepeated.
\nFor us, and so we get this <\/p>\n
562
\n00:31:04,120 –> 00:31:07,480
\nexample of the means of
\nsalvation, another echo pointing<\/p>\n
563
\n00:31:07,480 –> 00:31:11,520
\ntowards, specifically towards
\nthe crucifixion, and we will do <\/p>\n
564
\n00:31:11,520 –> 00:31:13,160
\nthat.
\nTomorrow, not tomorrow. <\/p>\n
565
\n00:31:13,160 –> 00:31:15,200
\nWe’re taking it aside tomorrow.
\nIn two days we’ll do that <\/p>\n
566
\n00:31:15,200 –> 00:31:17,720
\nspecifically towards the
\ncrucifixion. <\/p>\n
567
\n00:31:18,040 –> 00:31:22,080
\nThe imagery is there for you and
\nI to connect the dots because as<\/p>\n
568
\n00:31:22,080 –> 00:31:27,120
\nmuch as it is about their
\nfamily, it’s recorded for hours <\/p>\n
569
\n00:31:27,120 –> 00:31:29,200
\nand that’s why the imagery is
\nthere. <\/p>\n
570
\n00:31:29,680 –> 00:31:34,520
\nIt’s recorded so that we would
\nsee these shadows and look to <\/p>\n
571
\n00:31:34,520 –> 00:31:36,960
\nhim who was pierced that we
\nmight have. <\/p>\n
572
\n00:31:36,960 –> 00:31:39,360
\nHope, and have that hope
\ntogether. <\/p>\n
573
\n00:31:41,280 –> 00:31:44,000
\nThe waters prevailed.
\nThey increased greatly upon the <\/p>\n
574
\n00:31:44,000 –> 00:31:46,360
\nearth, and the ark went upon the
\nface of the waters. <\/p>\n
575
\n00:31:47,000 –> 00:31:50,120
\nThe waters prevailed exceedingly
\nupon the earth, and all the high<\/p>\n
576
\n00:31:50,120 –> 00:31:52,840
\nheels that were under the whole
\nheaven were covered. <\/p>\n
577
\n00:31:53,640 –> 00:31:56,560
\nSo we’ve got water, the word of
\nGod versus the earth and all its<\/p>\n
578
\n00:31:56,560 –> 00:31:58,320
\nsin.
\nWater wins. <\/p>\n
579
\n00:31:58,360 –> 00:32:00,200
\nThat’s really all.
\nThat’s all that’s intending to <\/p>\n
580
\n00:32:00,200 –> 00:32:02,080
\nsay.
\nGod is flooding. <\/p>\n
581
\n00:32:02,080 –> 00:32:06,640
\nOut the sins of the planet, much
\nlike when he intends us to flood<\/p>\n
582
\n00:32:06,640 –> 00:32:09,080
\nout the sins of our life with
\nhis word, gives us an <\/p>\n
583
\n00:32:09,080 –> 00:32:13,160
\nopportunity to take in his
\nthoughts so that we can overflow<\/p>\n
584
\n00:32:13,160 –> 00:32:14,080
\nour.
\nThoughts. <\/p>\n
585
\n00:32:14,400 –> 00:32:16,680
\nAnd what’s left is the purity of
\nhis doctrine. <\/p>\n
586
\n00:32:17,760 –> 00:32:21,640
\nThe best way to overcome flesh
\nand the lust thereof is to flood<\/p>\n
587
\n00:32:21,640 –> 00:32:24,600
\nit with the Word of God.
\nAnd this is one of those lessons<\/p>\n
588
\n00:32:24,600 –> 00:32:27,200
\nthat I think strikes very hard
\nto our community today. <\/p>\n
589
\n00:32:27,200 –> 00:32:31,280
\nAnd I want to make sure we
\nadequately put the emphasis on <\/p>\n
590
\n00:32:31,280 –> 00:32:34,920
\nthis because it’s an individual
\nthing recognized in the communal<\/p>\n
591
\n00:32:34,920 –> 00:32:37,320
\nthing.
\nHistorically, we’ve been <\/p>\n
592
\n00:32:37,320 –> 00:32:40,680
\nconsidered a community of
\nreaders and studiers of the Word<\/p>\n
593
\n00:32:40,680 –> 00:32:43,040
\nof God.
\nIt’s been one of the strengths <\/p>\n
594
\n00:32:43,040 –> 00:32:45,960
\nof our community that has
\nallowed us to keep our nose and.<\/p>\n
595
\n00:32:45,960 –> 00:32:49,400
\nScripture and let God dictate to
\nus what is right and what is <\/p>\n
596
\n00:32:49,400 –> 00:32:52,720
\nwrong, while the churches around
\nus are looking for a happy <\/p>\n
597
\n00:32:52,720 –> 00:32:55,680
\nfeeling that determines what’s
\nright and wrong and use a verse <\/p>\n
598
\n00:32:55,680 –> 00:33:01,120
\nhere and there to back it up.
\nSadly, this trend inevitably <\/p>\n
599
\n00:33:01,120 –> 00:33:05,160
\naffects the ecclesia and it’s
\nhappening right now. <\/p>\n
600
\n00:33:05,960 –> 00:33:08,720
\nThis is.
\nNot confession time, so take <\/p>\n
601
\n00:33:08,720 –> 00:33:13,440
\nthis one in, but you ever been
\nto a Bible class where the most <\/p>\n
602
\n00:33:13,440 –> 00:33:16,760
\ncommon phrase in the in the
\nquestion and answer part of the <\/p>\n
603
\n00:33:16,760 –> 00:33:22,560
\nclass was I think or I feel?
\nShould make a shudder because of<\/p>\n
604
\n00:33:22,560 –> 00:33:24,800
\nwhat we think and what we feel
\nis important. <\/p>\n
605
\n00:33:24,800 –> 00:33:27,680
\nWe have given our God no room to
\nnavigate the class. <\/p>\n
606
\n00:33:28,240 –> 00:33:31,000
\nSee if we have a chapter and
\nverse we should use it. <\/p>\n
607
\n00:33:31,320 –> 00:33:33,840
\nIf we have an opinion, it’s OK
\nto have it and it’s OK to share <\/p>\n
608
\n00:33:33,840 –> 00:33:35,360
\nit.
\nWe just have to make sure that <\/p>\n
609
\n00:33:35,360 –> 00:33:38,320
\nopinion never gets elevated to
\nthe point of law. <\/p>\n
610
\n00:33:38,440 –> 00:33:41,520
\nAnd the only way that happens
\nit’s if we start reading and <\/p>\n
611
\n00:33:41,520 –> 00:33:43,760
\nstudying.
\nIf we stop reading and studying.<\/p>\n
612
\n00:33:43,920 –> 00:33:46,800
\nBecause as long as I’m reading
\nthe Word of God, I’m allowing <\/p>\n
613
\n00:33:46,800 –> 00:33:48,760
\nthe Word of God to impact my
\nthinking. <\/p>\n
614
\n00:33:48,960 –> 00:33:51,200
\nAnd what impacts my thinking
\nimpacts what I say and what I <\/p>\n
615
\n00:33:51,200 –> 00:33:55,480
\ndo.
\nBut if I’ve read it before, I’m <\/p>\n
616
\n00:33:55,480 –> 00:33:58,320
\nfamiliar with that story.
\nI don’t get anything out of the <\/p>\n
617
\n00:33:58,320 –> 00:34:00,840
\nBible class.
\nI’m not really a particular fan <\/p>\n
618
\n00:34:00,840 –> 00:34:03,960
\nof that speaker.
\nBoy, haven’t I read this chapter<\/p>\n
619
\n00:34:03,960 –> 00:34:06,360
\nabout 57 times?
\nMaybe I’ll just skip through it <\/p>\n
620
\n00:34:06,360 –> 00:34:08,520
\na little bit.
\nI don’t do the readings like I <\/p>\n
621
\n00:34:08,520 –> 00:34:12,199
\nused to because I pretty much
\nhave the Bible memorized now. <\/p>\n
622
\n00:34:12,199 –> 00:34:15,920
\nI’m not saying any of us use
\nthese exact words but now take <\/p>\n
623
\n00:34:15,920 –> 00:34:20,159
\nthem out of your conscious
\nthought and ask does it impact <\/p>\n
624
\n00:34:20,159 –> 00:34:25,080
\nmy unconscious thought?
\nHow many ecclesias have more <\/p>\n
625
\n00:34:25,920 –> 00:34:28,320
\nBible?
\nClasses than they did 10 years <\/p>\n
626
\n00:34:28,320 –> 00:34:31,199
\nago.
\nVery few. <\/p>\n
627
\n00:34:32,080 –> 00:34:36,679
\nMost ecclesias have less.
\nNow we go, oh, Zoom has given us<\/p>\n
628
\n00:34:36,679 –> 00:34:38,239
\naccess.
\nOK, great, that’s fine. <\/p>\n
629
\n00:34:38,239 –> 00:34:42,040
\nThat’s fine and dandy.
\nBut for an opportunity to serve,<\/p>\n
630
\n00:34:42,040 –> 00:34:44,880
\nunless you’re the speaker on
\nZoom, you don’t have that. <\/p>\n
631
\n00:34:45,840 –> 00:34:48,320
\nYou get the content, but you
\ndon’t have the contact. <\/p>\n
632
\n00:34:49,880 –> 00:34:52,000
\nWhat’s happening to our
\ncommunity? <\/p>\n
633
\n00:34:53,560 –> 00:34:57,160
\nAre we getting closer to each
\nother through the Word of God, <\/p>\n
634
\n00:34:57,840 –> 00:35:02,160
\nor rather farther away,
\nconnected by the Word of God to <\/p>\n
635
\n00:35:02,160 –> 00:35:04,760
\na degree.
\nAnd the farther away we get, the<\/p>\n
636
\n00:35:04,760 –> 00:35:07,080
\nmore dangerous this is.
\nNow, here’s why I’m going there.<\/p>\n
637
\n00:35:08,560 –> 00:35:12,040
\nBecause what if what we did
\nyesterday still impresses us? <\/p>\n
638
\n00:35:12,040 –> 00:35:14,520
\nWe are not growing, and if we
\nwant to be part of the family of<\/p>\n
639
\n00:35:14,520 –> 00:35:15,960
\nGod, we have to continue to
\ngrow. <\/p>\n
640
\n00:35:16,280 –> 00:35:20,640
\nTherefore, reading and coming
\ntogether to talk about what we <\/p>\n
641
\n00:35:20,640 –> 00:35:24,240
\nread is a vital piece to our
\nwalk to the Kingdom. <\/p>\n
642
\n00:35:25,080 –> 00:35:29,600
\nThe magic of the Bible companion
\nis not because Robert Roberts <\/p>\n
643
\n00:35:29,600 –> 00:35:32,360
\nwrote it and he was a kid.
\nThat’s not the magic. <\/p>\n
644
\n00:35:32,720 –> 00:35:36,440
\nI don’t even care what Bible
\nreading calendar you use. <\/p>\n
645
\n00:35:36,600 –> 00:35:39,520
\nIf you keep your nose in the
\nWord, you’re helpful to getting <\/p>\n
646
\n00:35:39,520 –> 00:35:41,840
\nGod’s Word in your life.
\nBut one of the. <\/p>\n
647
\n00:35:41,840 –> 00:35:43,880
\nBeauties of using the Bible
\ncompanion. <\/p>\n
648
\n00:35:44,040 –> 00:35:47,000
\nIs if all of us are reading the
\nsame thing in Scripture and I <\/p>\n
649
\n00:35:47,000 –> 00:35:49,000
\ndon’t know, for some unknown
\nreason, like a Bible school, <\/p>\n
650
\n00:35:49,000 –> 00:35:50,800
\nthere’s a couple hundred of us
\nin a room together. <\/p>\n
651
\n00:35:51,240 –> 00:35:54,720
\nDo we not have something to talk
\nabout now at the Bible school? <\/p>\n
652
\n00:35:54,720 –> 00:35:56,760
\nWell, we got three different
\nclasses we could talk about. <\/p>\n
653
\n00:35:56,760 –> 00:35:57,640
\nOK.
\nI’ll give you that. <\/p>\n
654
\n00:35:58,440 –> 00:36:01,560
\nHow many of our conversations
\nwill we come towards the hall or<\/p>\n
655
\n00:36:01,560 –> 00:36:04,240
\nabout the readings from
\nyesterday versus the sports <\/p>\n
656
\n00:36:04,240 –> 00:36:09,600
\nscores from yesterday or what we
\nread in the readings last night <\/p>\n
657
\n00:36:10,000 –> 00:36:12,440
\nversus a new recipe we heard
\nabout? <\/p>\n
658
\n00:36:12,520 –> 00:36:14,680
\nNow, I’m not condemning sports
\nand recipes. <\/p>\n
659
\n00:36:15,200 –> 00:36:16,720
\nI’m just trying to put it in
\nperspective. <\/p>\n
660
\n00:36:18,320 –> 00:36:21,720
\nFor us to be people of the Word
\ndoesn’t mean we used to do that.<\/p>\n
661
\n00:36:21,880 –> 00:36:25,440
\nIt means we’re actively reading
\nand trying to understand what we<\/p>\n
662
\n00:36:25,440 –> 00:36:27,920
\nread and study and dig so that
\nwe can let God talk to. <\/p>\n
663
\n00:36:27,920 –> 00:36:32,000
\nUS.
\nIn every relationship, any <\/p>\n
664
\n00:36:32,000 –> 00:36:35,360
\nrelationship with any value at
\nall requires two way <\/p>\n
665
\n00:36:35,360 –> 00:36:38,640
\ncommunication.
\nThe husband and wife that don’t <\/p>\n
666
\n00:36:38,640 –> 00:36:40,640
\ntalk to each other?
\nIt’s not usually going to make <\/p>\n
667
\n00:36:40,640 –> 00:36:43,280
\nit.
\nParents, children, two way <\/p>\n
668
\n00:36:43,280 –> 00:36:46,920
\nconversation, even your best
\nfriend, if you have a best <\/p>\n
669
\n00:36:46,920 –> 00:36:49,360
\nfriend and they do all the
\ntalking, you’re looking for a <\/p>\n
670
\n00:36:49,360 –> 00:36:53,080
\nnew best friend, aren’t you?
\nSo think about that for a <\/p>\n
671
\n00:36:53,080 –> 00:36:56,800
\nsecond.
\nIf we pray, we pray at every <\/p>\n
672
\n00:36:56,800 –> 00:36:58,080
\nmeal.
\nWe pray in the morning, we pray <\/p>\n
673
\n00:36:58,080 –> 00:37:00,120
\nthat we do a lot of praying, but
\nwe’re not taking the time to <\/p>\n
674
\n00:37:00,120 –> 00:37:03,520
\nread.
\nWe are in effect talking to our <\/p>\n
675
\n00:37:03,520 –> 00:37:07,520
\nGod and not listening back.
\nEver done the Bible readings and<\/p>\n
676
\n00:37:07,520 –> 00:37:11,200
\nfelt like boy?
\nThat’s exactly what I was <\/p>\n
677
\n00:37:11,200 –> 00:37:14,120
\npraying about.
\nI needed that chapter you ever <\/p>\n
678
\n00:37:14,120 –> 00:37:16,280
\nhad that you showed up.
\nThere was an exhortation. <\/p>\n
679
\n00:37:16,280 –> 00:37:18,960
\nIt felt like these order was
\ntalking exactly to you. <\/p>\n
680
\n00:37:19,800 –> 00:37:21,880
\nIt’s not because they can read
\nyour mind. <\/p>\n
681
\n00:37:22,080 –> 00:37:25,720
\nGood thing.
\nAnd it’s not because God altered<\/p>\n
682
\n00:37:25,720 –> 00:37:28,560
\nthe word yesterday because he
\nknew you needed that. <\/p>\n
683
\n00:37:29,480 –> 00:37:32,280
\nBut rather, the depth of
\nScripture is so vast, if we’re <\/p>\n
684
\n00:37:32,280 –> 00:37:34,560
\nconstantly reading it, there’s
\nmore for us to get. <\/p>\n
685
\n00:37:34,720 –> 00:37:38,160
\nAnd if we are praying that God
\nhelp us, that help is probably <\/p>\n
686
\n00:37:38,160 –> 00:37:39,920
\nright in front of us.
\nAnd we might have read it 50 <\/p>\n
687
\n00:37:39,920 –> 00:37:42,280
\ntimes, but 51 is the one that
\ngot us. <\/p>\n
688
\n00:37:42,880 –> 00:37:47,600
\nIn fact, the con, the class we
\ndid yesterday with the kids, <\/p>\n
689
\n00:37:47,600 –> 00:37:50,240
\nwhich we’re going to do
\ntomorrow, is all based on a <\/p>\n
690
\n00:37:50,240 –> 00:37:52,680
\nstory I’d read probably 50
\ntimes. <\/p>\n
691
\n00:37:54,200 –> 00:37:56,760
\nBut after doing a study
\nsomewhere else in the Bible, the<\/p>\n
692
\n00:37:56,760 –> 00:37:58,800
\nnext time, I went through the
\nreadings and got to this one. <\/p>\n
693
\n00:37:58,880 –> 00:38:02,480
\nHow did I never know that?
\nThat happens to me every year, <\/p>\n
694
\n00:38:02,880 –> 00:38:06,320
\nand it happens to all of us if
\nwe continue to read and ask <\/p>\n
695
\n00:38:06,320 –> 00:38:08,080
\nquestions.
\nSo I want to make sure that we <\/p>\n
696
\n00:38:08,080 –> 00:38:12,360
\ntake that part very seriously.
\nThat’s how we overflow the flesh<\/p>\n
697
\n00:38:12,360 –> 00:38:15,280
\nin our lives as we flood it with
\nthe Word of God, and we come <\/p>\n
698
\n00:38:15,280 –> 00:38:17,800
\ntogether as brothers and sisters
\nto talk about what we’re <\/p>\n
699
\n00:38:17,800 –> 00:38:19,600
\nlearning.
\nBecause you’re going to pick up <\/p>\n
700
\n00:38:19,600 –> 00:38:22,560
\nthings I don’t, and I’m going to
\npick up things you don’t. <\/p>\n
701
\n00:38:22,800 –> 00:38:25,440
\nBut as long as we’re talking, I
\nmight learn something from you. <\/p>\n
702
\n00:38:25,440 –> 00:38:26,720
\nYou might learn something from
\nme. <\/p>\n
703
\n00:38:26,920 –> 00:38:29,600
\nWe get to grow together as a
\nfamily and the Word of God is <\/p>\n
704
\n00:38:29,600 –> 00:38:33,600
\nwhat brought us together.
\nNow with this note, we want to <\/p>\n
705
\n00:38:33,600 –> 00:38:36,920
\nmake sure we know water was not
\nthe problem, it was the <\/p>\n
706
\n00:38:36,920 –> 00:38:40,040
\nsalvation.
\nThe corruption of the flesh was <\/p>\n
707
\n00:38:40,040 –> 00:38:42,960
\nthe problem.
\nThe water was the solution. <\/p>\n
708
\n00:38:44,560 –> 00:38:51,720
\nLet’s go back to Peter first
\nPeter 3 verse 20 and 21 which <\/p>\n
709
\n00:38:51,720 –> 00:38:55,840
\nsometime were disobedient when
\nonce the long-suffering of God <\/p>\n
710
\n00:38:55,840 –> 00:38:58,960
\nwaited in the days of Noah while
\nthe ark was a preparing. <\/p>\n
711
\n00:38:59,280 –> 00:39:00,920
\nI like that while the ark was a
\npreparing. <\/p>\n
712
\n00:39:01,960 –> 00:39:06,160
\nWherein a few that is 8.
\nSouls were saved by water, the <\/p>\n
713
\n00:39:06,160 –> 00:39:10,080
\nlike figure where unto even
\nbaptism doth now save us, not <\/p>\n
714
\n00:39:10,080 –> 00:39:13,320
\nthe putting off of the filth of
\nthe flesh, but the answer of a <\/p>\n
715
\n00:39:13,320 –> 00:39:16,840
\ngood conscience towards God by
\nthe resurrection of Jesus <\/p>\n
716
\n00:39:16,840 –> 00:39:20,480
\nChrist.
\nSo here we stand at the flood. <\/p>\n
717
\n00:39:21,760 –> 00:39:26,280
\nTime was up.
\nGod’s patience was gone, and we <\/p>\n
718
\n00:39:26,280 –> 00:39:29,640
\napply that to our day.
\nThere will be a day, and boy, we<\/p>\n
719
\n00:39:29,640 –> 00:39:31,280
\nwould love for it to be right
\nnow. <\/p>\n
720
\n00:39:31,280 –> 00:39:34,320
\nWe would love to be at Bible
\nschool when Christ returns <\/p>\n
721
\n00:39:35,240 –> 00:39:37,560
\nbecause the other places we
\ncould be and the other things we<\/p>\n
722
\n00:39:37,560 –> 00:39:41,000
\ncould be doing are probably not
\nat the same level of spiritual <\/p>\n
723
\n00:39:41,000 –> 00:39:44,120
\nupliftedness than what we have.
\nAnd we’re together at a Bible <\/p>\n
724
\n00:39:44,120 –> 00:39:48,920
\ncamp separate from the world.
\nThere will be a day when Christ <\/p>\n
725
\n00:39:48,920 –> 00:39:54,120
\nreturns and time is up and the
\nopportunity for judgment takes <\/p>\n
726
\n00:39:54,120 –> 00:39:58,280
\nplace.
\nGetting ready today so that we <\/p>\n
727
\n00:39:58,280 –> 00:40:01,600
\ncan be prepared to be part of
\nthat glorious tomorrow where we <\/p>\n
728
\n00:40:01,600 –> 00:40:03,680
\nare saved by the water of the
\nWord. <\/p>\n
729
\n00:40:04,200 –> 00:40:07,960
\nAnd the refreshing one way door
\nof the Lord our Jesus Christ <\/p>\n
730
\n00:40:08,400 –> 00:40:12,520
\nbringing us to the concept of
\ntabernacling with Him as His <\/p>\n
731
\n00:40:12,520 –> 00:40:16,200
\nfamily forever.
\nWe get this concept in baptism <\/p>\n
732
\n00:40:16,200 –> 00:40:19,920
\nas well as we see in verse 21,
\nthis figure of baptism. <\/p>\n
733
\n00:40:20,240 –> 00:40:23,200
\nAnd we think of our own optimism
\nat baptism that turns into <\/p>\n
734
\n00:40:23,200 –> 00:40:26,000
\npessimism later.
\nThat is natural. <\/p>\n
735
\n00:40:26,880 –> 00:40:31,360
\nEvery time we go to a baptism,
\ndo we not think back to our own?<\/p>\n
736
\n00:40:32,120 –> 00:40:35,040
\nJust one of the beauties of
\nhaving a baptism. <\/p>\n
737
\n00:40:35,040 –> 00:40:39,720
\nIt’s not just the refreshing
\nwaters going over the Sinner <\/p>\n
738
\n00:40:39,720 –> 00:40:42,200
\nthat’s declared God is righteous
\nand I’m following His command. <\/p>\n
739
\n00:40:42,360 –> 00:40:45,760
\nOh, that’s awesome, especially
\nfor that guy or gal. <\/p>\n
740
\n00:40:47,240 –> 00:40:51,240
\nBut the real benefit to the
\nmeeting is everyone there who’s <\/p>\n
741
\n00:40:51,240 –> 00:40:54,320
\nthinking back.
\nTo the time when they made that <\/p>\n
742
\n00:40:54,320 –> 00:40:57,720
\ndecision and to offer an
\nopportunity to rekindle that <\/p>\n
743
\n00:40:57,720 –> 00:41:00,480
\nthought so that we can be
\nprepared as we see the day <\/p>\n
744
\n00:41:00,480 –> 00:41:06,400
\napproaching 15 cubits above.
\nExcuse me, upward. <\/p>\n
745
\n00:41:06,400 –> 00:41:08,560
\nDid the waters prevail?
\nAnd the mountains were covered, <\/p>\n
746
\n00:41:08,880 –> 00:41:12,200
\nso this tells us roughly 22 feet
\nover the highest visible <\/p>\n
747
\n00:41:12,200 –> 00:41:15,480
\nmountain.
\nWhich is fine, and I’ll take a <\/p>\n
748
\n00:41:15,480 –> 00:41:17,160
\nquick diversion we touched
\nyesterday. <\/p>\n
749
\n00:41:17,160 –> 00:41:19,440
\nBut I won’t spend too much time
\nhere really because I don’t <\/p>\n
750
\n00:41:19,440 –> 00:41:21,280
\ncare.
\nBut I feel like I have to touch <\/p>\n
751
\n00:41:21,280 –> 00:41:23,560
\nit.
\nAnd this is one of the verses <\/p>\n
752
\n00:41:23,560 –> 00:41:26,360
\nused to say that the entire
\nworld was flooded. <\/p>\n
753
\n00:41:27,120 –> 00:41:28,320
\nAnd it very well could have
\nbeen. <\/p>\n
754
\n00:41:28,320 –> 00:41:30,240
\nI’m OK with that.
\nGod can do whatever he wants. <\/p>\n
755
\n00:41:30,240 –> 00:41:33,080
\nHe’s in control.
\nSo we don’t deny the power of <\/p>\n
756
\n00:41:33,080 –> 00:41:34,160
\nGod.
\nCould have fled the whole <\/p>\n
757
\n00:41:34,160 –> 00:41:37,080
\nplanet, no problem.
\nCould he have done it regionally<\/p>\n
758
\n00:41:37,080 –> 00:41:39,760
\nand just killed all the people?
\nHe could have, and it would be <\/p>\n
759
\n00:41:39,760 –> 00:41:43,400
\nrighteous.
\nNow, the reason I bring that up <\/p>\n
760
\n00:41:43,400 –> 00:41:46,600
\nis we’re given just enough so
\nthat we can understand the <\/p>\n
761
\n00:41:46,600 –> 00:41:50,040
\nmajesty of the Father.
\nThere are an awful lot more <\/p>\n
762
\n00:41:50,040 –> 00:41:54,120
\ndetails to this story that could
\nbe written, but our God and His <\/p>\n
763
\n00:41:54,120 –> 00:41:57,280
\nwisdom gave us enough to see His
\nrighteousness and get the <\/p>\n
764
\n00:41:57,280 –> 00:42:00,240
\nlessons.
\nSo here is where it becomes <\/p>\n
765
\n00:42:00,240 –> 00:42:02,000
\nimportant.
\nWhether we think it’s a <\/p>\n
766
\n00:42:02,000 –> 00:42:04,160
\nworldwide flood or whether we
\nthink it’s a regional flood <\/p>\n
767
\n00:42:04,160 –> 00:42:06,400
\nreally doesn’t matter as long as
\nwe all declare God right. <\/p>\n
768
\n00:42:06,560 –> 00:42:09,120
\nWhere we get ourselves into
\ntrouble is thinking it. <\/p>\n
769
\n00:42:09,120 –> 00:42:11,520
\nHad to be one way for God to be
\nright. <\/p>\n
770
\n00:42:11,920 –> 00:42:14,440
\nBecause it didn’t.
\nThere’s evidence for both. <\/p>\n
771
\n00:42:14,680 –> 00:42:16,720
\nPick the evidence you like,
\nknock yourself out. <\/p>\n
772
\n00:42:16,720 –> 00:42:18,480
\nI can give you biblical evidence
\nfor both. <\/p>\n
773
\n00:42:18,960 –> 00:42:20,640
\nKnock yourself out.
\nI can give you scientific <\/p>\n
774
\n00:42:20,640 –> 00:42:22,560
\nevidence for both.
\nGive you scientific evidence <\/p>\n
775
\n00:42:22,560 –> 00:42:25,400
\nthat tries to argue both.
\nHere’s the part that I love and <\/p>\n
776
\n00:42:25,400 –> 00:42:31,360
\nI don’t care because true Bible
\nstudy and true science will <\/p>\n
777
\n00:42:31,520 –> 00:42:36,160
\nalways match when it doesn’t
\nmatch either. <\/p>\n
778
\n00:42:36,800 –> 00:42:39,360
\nThe science is flawed.
\nGood example of that. <\/p>\n
779
\n00:42:39,360 –> 00:42:42,760
\nJupiter got demoted all right.
\nScience is still changing. <\/p>\n
780
\n00:42:42,760 –> 00:42:44,120
\nNew evidence came in, we changed
\nour mind. <\/p>\n
781
\n00:42:44,280 –> 00:42:46,960
\nI wish they would do that with
\nevolution, but nonetheless. <\/p>\n
782
\n00:42:47,960 –> 00:42:52,000
\nScience is wrong, eventually
\nfollow scientific method they’ll<\/p>\n
783
\n00:42:52,000 –> 00:42:53,880
\nget right or the Bible student
\nis wrong. <\/p>\n
784
\n00:42:54,480 –> 00:42:56,960
\nAnd my favorite example of that
\nwe’re actually going to talk <\/p>\n
785
\n00:42:56,960 –> 00:43:01,080
\nabout tomorrow night.
\nIt’s the age of the earth making<\/p>\n
786
\n00:43:01,080 –> 00:43:03,480
\nan argument that the earth is
\n6000 years old. <\/p>\n
787
\n00:43:03,480 –> 00:43:05,360
\nWe’re wasting our time making
\nthe argument. <\/p>\n
788
\n00:43:06,400 –> 00:43:10,640
\nThe Bible does not say that.
\nCould it be only 6000 years old?<\/p>\n
789
\n00:43:11,360 –> 00:43:12,920
\nYes.
\nIf that’s how God wanted to do <\/p>\n
790
\n00:43:12,920 –> 00:43:14,640
\nit, He could have started
\neverything over and said new <\/p>\n
791
\n00:43:14,640 –> 00:43:16,320
\nplanet, new solar system, I’m on
\nthis one. <\/p>\n
792
\n00:43:16,320 –> 00:43:18,520
\nNow could he have done that in
\nHis divine majesty? <\/p>\n
793
\n00:43:19,280 –> 00:43:21,960
\nYes.
\nCould he instead have reused <\/p>\n
794
\n00:43:21,960 –> 00:43:24,040
\nsomething that had been there
\nfor billions of years, started <\/p>\n
795
\n00:43:24,040 –> 00:43:26,080
\nwith a clean slate, and said I’m
\nstarting over, let’s do it <\/p>\n
796
\n00:43:26,080 –> 00:43:27,880
\nagain.
\nYes. <\/p>\n
797
\n00:43:28,040 –> 00:43:31,760
\nIn fact, Genesis chapter 1
\nsuggests that’s exactly what <\/p>\n
798
\n00:43:31,760 –> 00:43:34,920
\nhappened.
\nNow if science says the earth is<\/p>\n
799
\n00:43:34,920 –> 00:43:37,480
\n4 or 6 billion years old and the
\nsun is 10 billion years old, do <\/p>\n
800
\n00:43:37,480 –> 00:43:39,920
\nI care?
\nNo, I’m not that old. <\/p>\n
801
\n00:43:40,800 –> 00:43:45,520
\nGod has given me a book that
\ncovers approximately 4100 years <\/p>\n
802
\n00:43:45,520 –> 00:43:48,960
\nof history and maybe 2 or 3000
\nyears of prophecy. <\/p>\n
803
\n00:43:49,160 –> 00:43:51,200
\nAnyone ever argue this book is
\ntoo small? <\/p>\n
804
\n00:43:51,200 –> 00:43:55,760
\nHe should have kept going.
\nWe have plenty to be part of the<\/p>\n
805
\n00:43:55,760 –> 00:43:58,480
\nKingdom of God.
\nAnd what God did and where He <\/p>\n
806
\n00:43:58,480 –> 00:44:00,000
\ndid it and how He did it, why he
\ndid it. <\/p>\n
807
\n00:44:00,480 –> 00:44:02,840
\nYou just give us a headache if
\nwe tried to figure out how many <\/p>\n
808
\n00:44:02,840 –> 00:44:05,360
\nuniverses there are right now
\nwhere God is calling out a <\/p>\n
809
\n00:44:05,360 –> 00:44:07,200
\npeople for His name.
\nCould it be another billion? <\/p>\n
810
\n00:44:07,560 –> 00:44:08,920
\nMake your head hurt.
\nThink about that. <\/p>\n
811
\n00:44:09,400 –> 00:44:12,120
\nHere’s the point.
\nOur God’s in control and He’s <\/p>\n
812
\n00:44:12,120 –> 00:44:16,080
\nnot new at this.
\nHe’s doing what is right for us <\/p>\n
813
\n00:44:16,240 –> 00:44:18,520
\nand who knows what other.
\nCreations that are out there <\/p>\n
814
\n00:44:18,520 –> 00:44:21,040
\nright now.
\nSo don’t make God so small that <\/p>\n
815
\n00:44:21,040 –> 00:44:24,120
\nhe fits into a box.
\nWe understand it’s OK to have an<\/p>\n
816
\n00:44:24,120 –> 00:44:25,520
\nopinion.
\nI have one. <\/p>\n
817
\n00:44:25,840 –> 00:44:28,840
\nYou may like it, you may not,
\nand it doesn’t matter as long as<\/p>\n
818
\n00:44:28,840 –> 00:44:31,400
\nwe don’t say God had to do it
\nthis way because this is the <\/p>\n
819
\n00:44:31,400 –> 00:44:33,360
\nonly way that makes sense.
\nOh, to you. <\/p>\n
820
\n00:44:34,720 –> 00:44:37,040
\nBut to God, there’s an awful lot
\nmore options than the ones our <\/p>\n
821
\n00:44:37,040 –> 00:44:41,760
\ntiny brains can come up with.
\nNow the key point for this as it<\/p>\n
822
\n00:44:41,760 –> 00:44:45,960
\nrelates to the flood is for
\nGod’s word to be accurate, all <\/p>\n
823
\n00:44:45,960 –> 00:44:48,760
\nthe humans had to die.
\nThe animals, they’re amoral. <\/p>\n
824
\n00:44:48,760 –> 00:44:51,320
\nAnimals don’t sin.
\nAnimals behave on instinct. <\/p>\n
825
\n00:44:51,640 –> 00:44:54,720
\nThey died because of their
\nproximity to mankind. <\/p>\n
826
\n00:44:55,640 –> 00:44:59,400
\nSo we let that be the part we
\nhave to all agree on. <\/p>\n
827
\n00:44:59,400 –> 00:45:01,200
\nGod is right, all the humans
\ndied. <\/p>\n
828
\n00:45:01,640 –> 00:45:04,080
\nThis is.
\nThe end of the story Opinions. <\/p>\n
829
\n00:45:04,160 –> 00:45:05,560
\nHave fun.
\nThey’re fun to discuss. <\/p>\n
830
\n00:45:05,560 –> 00:45:07,760
\nJust don’t get locked in.
\nWhen you get locked in. <\/p>\n
831
\n00:45:08,160 –> 00:45:11,400
\nYou’re now wrong because God is
\nnot limited by the thinking of <\/p>\n
832
\n00:45:11,400 –> 00:45:16,680
\nour thoughts.
\nVerse 21 All flesh died that <\/p>\n
833
\n00:45:16,680 –> 00:45:18,920
\nmoved upon the earth, both
\nfallen of cattle of beast, a <\/p>\n
834
\n00:45:18,920 –> 00:45:20,600
\nvery creeping thing that
\ncreepeth upon the earth. <\/p>\n
835
\n00:45:20,960 –> 00:45:25,000
\nAnd every man, all in whose
\nnostrils was the breath of life,<\/p>\n
836
\n00:45:25,200 –> 00:45:29,080
\nthat was on dry lands.
\nSo now again we have this <\/p>\n
837
\n00:45:29,320 –> 00:45:31,160
\ncomment.
\nExcluding the fish. <\/p>\n
838
\n00:45:31,440 –> 00:45:33,480
\nSometimes it’s there, sometimes
\nit’s not. <\/p>\n
839
\n00:45:33,480 –> 00:45:36,880
\nThe emphasis, not the fish.
\nGod did not flood the world <\/p>\n
840
\n00:45:36,880 –> 00:45:40,160
\nbecause of the evil squirrels.
\nMan was the target. <\/p>\n
841
\n00:45:40,200 –> 00:45:42,560
\nThat’s the kneefesh.
\nWe’re talking about animals. <\/p>\n
842
\n00:45:42,560 –> 00:45:45,520
\nYes, they died, but the focus
\nwas on. <\/p>\n
843
\n00:45:45,520 –> 00:45:49,760
\nMankind.
\nEvery living substance was <\/p>\n
844
\n00:45:49,760 –> 00:45:53,640
\ndestroyed, which was upon the
\nface of the ground, both man and<\/p>\n
845
\n00:45:53,640 –> 00:45:55,520
\ncattle keeping things, the fowls
\nof heaven. <\/p>\n
846
\n00:45:55,720 –> 00:45:57,800
\nThey were destroyed from the
\nearth and Noah only remained <\/p>\n
847
\n00:45:57,800 –> 00:45:59,440
\nalive and they that were with
\nhim in the ark. <\/p>\n
848
\n00:46:00,120 –> 00:46:03,560
\nRepeat, repeat, repeat.
\nThis is chapter 6, verse 7. <\/p>\n
849
\n00:46:03,560 –> 00:46:07,440
\nChapter 7, verse 4.
\nRepeat, repeat, repeat. <\/p>\n
850
\n00:46:08,520 –> 00:46:14,240
\nThe waters pervade upon the
\nearth 150 days, so we’ve got 5 <\/p>\n
851
\n00:46:14,240 –> 00:46:16,200
\nlunar months, the number of
\ngrace. <\/p>\n
852
\n00:46:16,840 –> 00:46:19,760
\nIn chapter 8 we get to see the
\nshadows of Christ in the ark, <\/p>\n
853
\n00:46:19,840 –> 00:46:22,360
\nincluding a few more astounding
\nsevens. <\/p>\n
854
\n00:46:22,920 –> 00:46:25,200
\nAnd in Chapter 9 we’ll get to
\nsee the end of the story. <\/p>\n
855
\n00:46:25,400 –> 00:46:28,840
\nIt’s not quite very flattering
\nfor sure, but to that day where <\/p>\n
856
\n00:46:28,840 –> 00:46:32,640
\nwe can look at a as a family and
\nwe can see beyond the sins of <\/p>\n
857
\n00:46:32,640 –> 00:46:35,040
\nour present.
\nToward the opportunity of our <\/p>\n
858
\n00:46:35,040 –> 00:46:37,840
\nfuture, that we might be one
\nwith the Father. <\/p>\n
859
\n00:46:38,240 –> 00:46:42,800
\nTabernacling with the sun.
\nAnd to that end we say, Even so,<\/p>\n
860
\n00:46:42,960 –> 00:46:44,240
\ncome Lord Jesus.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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