1 00:00:01,560 --> 00:00:09,440 To Genesis Chapter 6 will be primarily in Genesis. 2 00:00:09,440 --> 00:00:12,360 Chapter 6 this morning will be our primary text. 3 00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:18,800 We will also move briefly into Chapter 7. 4 00:00:24,560 --> 00:00:28,880 Now the ark is one of those interesting things. 5 00:00:30,520 --> 00:00:32,080 We teach our little kids about it. 6 00:00:32,119 --> 00:00:36,480 We teach them in Sunday school. We teach them all about Noah's 7 00:00:36,480 --> 00:00:40,440 ark and how the animals went on to the ark in pairs. 8 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:47,920 We even teach them, I don't know, this is crazy song the 9 00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:56,960 Lord told Noah to build and hopefully you were louder and 10 00:00:56,960 --> 00:00:58,800 staying with more gusto as little kids, right? 11 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:03,240 And so we would teach them this little song. 12 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:11,560 And then we, you might paint your kids bedroom with, with an 13 00:01:11,560 --> 00:01:14,600 arc with animals or, or children's Sunday school 14 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:17,440 classes. And, and then you get to this 15 00:01:17,440 --> 00:01:24,520 point where we just give them these little toys, right? 16 00:01:25,360 --> 00:01:30,840 You, you, we used to have one of these you, you take the top off 17 00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:35,880 and then inside we have all these cute little animals and 18 00:01:35,880 --> 00:01:40,680 it's just so wonderful and just gives you warm fuzzies and cute. 19 00:01:40,680 --> 00:01:46,240 And, and, and so our little kids, we, we distill the ark 20 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:49,800 down to this little thing, this toy. 21 00:01:51,720 --> 00:01:59,280 Well, the ark is a bit more than than just a toy. 22 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:06,640 The ark, of course, is is a symbol of hope and preservation 23 00:02:08,240 --> 00:02:15,120 for God's people, but then also at the same time, the ark serves 24 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:19,360 as a symbol of God's punishment, punishment on humanity because 25 00:02:19,360 --> 00:02:26,320 God had seen that man's every intention and thoughts were only 26 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:32,480 evil. So this morning we'll look at 27 00:02:33,120 --> 00:02:37,360 the ark in the situation leading up to it a bit. 28 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:43,480 But if you're able, would you stand as we read from Genesis 29 00:02:43,480 --> 00:02:49,560 chapter 6 beginning at verse 8, and we'll read all the way 30 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:51,120 through to the end of the chapter. 31 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:56,920 Verse 8 says, but Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord. 32 00:02:57,920 --> 00:03:00,840 Then it goes on verse 9. These are the generations of 33 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:02,480 Noah. Noah was a righteous man, 34 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:06,240 blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God, and Noah 35 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:09,520 had three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. 36 00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:12,640 Now the earth was corrupt and God's sight and the earth was 37 00:03:12,640 --> 00:03:14,880 filled with violence. And God saw the earth and 38 00:03:14,880 --> 00:03:18,440 behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on 39 00:03:18,440 --> 00:03:21,240 the earth. And God said to Noah, I have 40 00:03:21,240 --> 00:03:24,560 determined to make an end of all flesh, for the earth is filled 41 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:27,920 with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with 42 00:03:27,920 --> 00:03:30,320 the earth. Make yourself an ark of Gopher 43 00:03:30,320 --> 00:03:32,720 wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover 44 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:36,000 it inside and out with pitch. This is how you are to make it 45 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:39,240 the length of the ark, 300 cubits, its breadth 50 cubits, 46 00:03:39,480 --> 00:03:42,600 and its height of 30 cubits. Make a roof for the ark, and 47 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:45,840 finish it to a cubit above, and set the door of the ark and its 48 00:03:45,840 --> 00:03:48,800 side. Make it with a lower 2nd and 3rd 49 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:51,200 decks. For behold, I will bring a flood 50 00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:53,960 of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh, and which is 51 00:03:53,960 --> 00:03:57,320 the breath of life under heaven. Everything that is on the earth 52 00:03:57,320 --> 00:04:01,640 shall die, but I will establish my covenant with you, and you 53 00:04:01,640 --> 00:04:04,480 shall come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife, and your 54 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:07,240 sons wives with you. And of every living thing, of 55 00:04:07,240 --> 00:04:11,160 all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ark to 56 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:14,960 keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female. 57 00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:17,720 Of the birds according to their kinds, and of the animals 58 00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:20,040 according to their kinds. Of every creeping thing of the 59 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:24,000 ground according to its kind, two of every sort shall come in 60 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:28,040 to you to keep them alive. Also take with you every sort of 61 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:30,240 food that is eaten, and store it up. 62 00:04:30,840 --> 00:04:33,560 It shall serve as food for you and for them. 63 00:04:34,320 --> 00:04:38,200 Noah did this. He did all that God commanded 64 00:04:38,200 --> 00:04:40,320 him. He may be seated. 65 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:51,680 Verse 9 opens with the words these are the generations of 66 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:55,280 Noah. Now this specific phrase is a is 67 00:04:55,280 --> 00:04:59,200 a design element of Genesis. You see this phrase, or a 68 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:03,360 similar phrase, This is the book of generations, is used 69 00:05:03,360 --> 00:05:06,920 repeatedly throughout this book in order to signal to the reader 70 00:05:07,120 --> 00:05:09,360 that we're entering a new section. 71 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:13,240 Now there are ten of these sections and we call them 72 00:05:13,560 --> 00:05:17,200 tolidoth sections. Tolidoth is the Hebrew word 73 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:24,720 meaning generations. We first saw this phrase in in 74 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:28,960 chapter 2, verse 4, when chapter 2 drilled down in more detail on 75 00:05:28,960 --> 00:05:33,320 the creation narrative and the painful aftermath of sins on 76 00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:36,280 sets. Then we saw it in chapter 5, 77 00:05:36,280 --> 00:05:40,040 verse one, and it outlined Adam's genealogical lines. 78 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:45,240 Now we see it here as the Noah narrative begins. 79 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:49,960 Each time this phrase is used, it tells tells us we're entering 80 00:05:49,960 --> 00:05:54,200 a new part of the story. In this future. 81 00:05:54,200 --> 00:05:57,200 We'll see this phrase point us in the direction of the 82 00:05:57,200 --> 00:06:01,440 patriarchs and highlight some important moments along the way. 83 00:06:03,160 --> 00:06:06,440 Along the way, we'll see God's working and his promises to a 84 00:06:06,440 --> 00:06:10,040 specific family line. And and we'll trace that line 85 00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:15,280 from Adam and Noah through to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 86 00:06:15,280 --> 00:06:21,040 Of course, with this new Toledo section, we're entering the the 87 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:25,960 story of Noah and, and the text tells us three things about this 88 00:06:25,960 --> 00:06:29,960 man. It says Noah was a righteous man 89 00:06:29,960 --> 00:06:34,000 that says that he was blameless in his generation and that Noah 90 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:38,960 walked with God. Now no one we've encountered so 91 00:06:38,960 --> 00:06:42,320 far in the text has been described like this. 92 00:06:43,080 --> 00:06:48,520 Now how could Noah be described as righteous when Romans 310 in 93 00:06:48,520 --> 00:06:55,160 Romans 310 Paul quotes Psalm 14 in Romans 310 says this as it is 94 00:06:55,160 --> 00:06:58,400 written. That is, in Psalm 14, none is 95 00:06:58,400 --> 00:07:00,160 righteous. No, not one. 96 00:07:00,320 --> 00:07:02,880 No one understands, No one seeks for God. 97 00:07:03,200 --> 00:07:05,880 All have turned aside together they've become worthless. 98 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:12,080 No one does good, not even 1. Sounds pretty bleak. 99 00:07:13,520 --> 00:07:17,400 Well, when Psalm 14 and Romans 3 declare no one is righteous, 100 00:07:17,720 --> 00:07:23,160 what they mean is that no one is righteous on our own terms, by 101 00:07:23,160 --> 00:07:28,800 our own doing. Our righteousness comes to us 102 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:32,640 because of because of God. The Holy Spirit works in our 103 00:07:32,640 --> 00:07:37,640 hearts and and we respond to these promptings in faith. 104 00:07:37,640 --> 00:07:41,400 And this produces godly character in US which enables us 105 00:07:41,400 --> 00:07:45,160 to seek after God and to live righteously. 106 00:07:46,840 --> 00:07:51,960 So Noah was righteous because God extended his grace to him. 107 00:07:52,920 --> 00:07:56,880 He didn't earn God's salvation. It was a free gift to him. 108 00:07:58,320 --> 00:08:01,640 Now Noah's righteousness was confirmed by his character and 109 00:08:01,840 --> 00:08:05,480 his actions. As as it says that as he was 110 00:08:05,480 --> 00:08:10,400 obedient to God's commands. That's what righteousness is, is 111 00:08:10,640 --> 00:08:15,960 obedience to God's commands. Now perhaps this goes without 112 00:08:15,960 --> 00:08:20,760 saying, but his obedience wasn't perfect. 113 00:08:21,560 --> 00:08:24,680 We will see that in in the coming chapters. 114 00:08:25,480 --> 00:08:29,920 He didn't have absolute righteousness, but relative to 115 00:08:29,920 --> 00:08:34,480 the rest of humanity and in his time there before the flood, his 116 00:08:34,480 --> 00:08:42,280 obedience excelled theirs. Second, Peter 25 tells us God 117 00:08:42,280 --> 00:08:46,280 judged the world in the flood, but he preserved Noah, who was a 118 00:08:46,520 --> 00:08:49,000 herald of righteousness. Is what it says. 119 00:08:49,840 --> 00:08:52,800 Noah proclaimed obedience to Yahweh in the midst of his 120 00:08:53,040 --> 00:08:56,440 crooked generation, and he didn't deserve the destruction 121 00:08:56,440 --> 00:08:59,960 that was set to come on the rest of humanity. 122 00:09:02,600 --> 00:09:06,520 Noah was also blameless in his generation. 123 00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:10,880 He was blameless in his generation, and to say that is 124 00:09:10,880 --> 00:09:16,120 to say that he stood out. He didn't just blend in with 125 00:09:16,120 --> 00:09:20,120 everyone else, but he stood out from among them. 126 00:09:21,720 --> 00:09:24,880 While they were engaged in all sorts of debauchery and evil, 127 00:09:25,760 --> 00:09:29,240 Noah was living an exemplary life. 128 00:09:30,520 --> 00:09:34,640 There were no evident flaws in his life and character. 129 00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:39,800 His conduct among them was such that it was probably even 130 00:09:40,040 --> 00:09:44,840 convicting to them and no doubt would have drawn their scorn. 131 00:09:44,840 --> 00:09:52,040 And the last quality of Noah was that he walked with God. 132 00:09:52,680 --> 00:09:57,320 He walked with God, which is as I, as I said, Speaking of Enoch 133 00:09:57,720 --> 00:10:01,200 intimacy. Walking with God speaks of 134 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:04,440 intimacy. Noah is just like his great 135 00:10:04,440 --> 00:10:09,240 grandfather Enoch. They both experienced A vibrant, 136 00:10:09,240 --> 00:10:12,600 intimate relationship with Yahweh, and they're the only two 137 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:15,680 people in Scripture to receive that label. 138 00:10:15,680 --> 00:10:18,480 That description walked with God. 139 00:10:19,320 --> 00:10:22,920 Their communion, their fellowship with him was deep. 140 00:10:24,480 --> 00:10:29,000 So this, this is the character of the man Noah. 141 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:35,120 Next in verses 11 through 13 we see creation corrupted. 142 00:10:36,160 --> 00:10:40,200 Verse 11 said Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight, and the 143 00:10:40,200 --> 00:10:42,400 earth was filled with violence. And God saw the earth and 144 00:10:42,400 --> 00:10:46,640 behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on 145 00:10:46,640 --> 00:10:49,960 the earth. And so God said to Noah, I have 146 00:10:49,960 --> 00:10:53,440 determined to make an end of all flesh, for the earth is filled 147 00:10:53,440 --> 00:10:57,600 with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with 148 00:10:57,880 --> 00:11:01,600 the earth. Now, the repetition of 149 00:11:01,600 --> 00:11:06,040 corruption in these verses underscores God's appraisal of 150 00:11:06,040 --> 00:11:12,920 the human condition, and in turn, it proves the legitimacy 151 00:11:12,920 --> 00:11:18,080 of the of the punishment that is about to be meted out upon 152 00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:21,960 humanity. The violence of humanity had 153 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:27,400 gotten out of hand. What started with Cain had grown 154 00:11:27,400 --> 00:11:34,280 to become an incredible monster. Even the physical earth had been 155 00:11:34,400 --> 00:11:39,960 polluted by corruption. This began back with with Cain. 156 00:11:39,960 --> 00:11:44,000 As the blood of Abel polluted the ground. 157 00:11:44,200 --> 00:11:47,400 The ground was forever changed in that moment and and what had 158 00:11:47,400 --> 00:11:49,880 already been set in motion at the fall. 159 00:11:50,960 --> 00:11:55,360 God says no longer is the ground going to yield to you as it has 160 00:11:55,360 --> 00:12:07,000 before, but now there will be more toil, more work involved in 161 00:12:07,240 --> 00:12:15,440 getting food from the ground. Paul says in Romans 8 creation 162 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:19,200 was subjected to futility, not not willingly, but because of 163 00:12:19,480 --> 00:12:24,160 him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be 164 00:12:24,160 --> 00:12:29,240 set free from its bondage to corruption, and it would obtain 165 00:12:29,240 --> 00:12:32,000 the freedom of the glory of the children of God. 166 00:12:32,680 --> 00:12:35,120 For we know that the whole creation has been groaning 167 00:12:35,120 --> 00:12:38,840 together in the pains of childbirth until now. 168 00:12:40,160 --> 00:12:46,840 The earth, God's creation, is in bondage, waiting for the day 169 00:12:46,960 --> 00:12:51,680 when everything is made new. So the connection between the 170 00:12:51,680 --> 00:12:56,040 earth and humanity's fallenness, this connection is strong and 171 00:12:56,040 --> 00:13:01,120 it's deep and it needed to be judged. 172 00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:07,360 It's possible that that when when I say this, you might 173 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:13,520 wonder to yourself, is a flop really necessary? 174 00:13:13,640 --> 00:13:16,680 Do we really have to go down this route? 175 00:13:17,720 --> 00:13:20,360 Yes, the judgement was necessary. 176 00:13:20,440 --> 00:13:22,840 Sin is extremely pervasive and evil. 177 00:13:22,840 --> 00:13:26,880 It reflects the condition of our hearts and and each act of sin 178 00:13:27,600 --> 00:13:30,760 damages the person who commits it. 179 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:35,200 It defiles and erodes our conscience. 180 00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:42,880 Then there's the question, what? Aren't all sins the same? 181 00:13:43,560 --> 00:13:50,400 And the answer to that is an emphatic yes and no. 182 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:56,760 First of all, I'll say that sins are the same in in the sense 183 00:13:56,760 --> 00:14:01,400 that all sin violates God's commands. 184 00:14:02,120 --> 00:14:07,960 From the proverbial little white lie that everyone talks about to 185 00:14:08,480 --> 00:14:13,840 to murder. They all violate God's ways, and 186 00:14:13,840 --> 00:14:19,280 one single sin is enough to disqualify us from God's 187 00:14:19,400 --> 00:14:24,200 presence, James tells us and James 210 For whoever keeps the 188 00:14:24,200 --> 00:14:28,400 whole law that fails in one point has become guilty of it, 189 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:32,280 of all of it. So that means you can keep the 190 00:14:32,280 --> 00:14:36,360 law, you can keep the whole law. Hypothetically speaking, you 191 00:14:36,360 --> 00:14:38,680 can't do this. But if you can keep the whole 192 00:14:38,680 --> 00:14:44,840 law and only break 1 little bit of the law, just you sin one 193 00:14:44,840 --> 00:14:54,120 time, you have become a Sinner, you have violated the law, and 194 00:14:54,120 --> 00:14:57,240 you're guilty of breaking all of it. 195 00:14:59,520 --> 00:15:03,520 The sins are different though, in a couple ways. 196 00:15:04,080 --> 00:15:10,200 First of all, different sins have different consequences. 197 00:15:12,320 --> 00:15:14,320 Different sins have different consequences. 198 00:15:18,920 --> 00:15:21,520 I have to tell you, I'm doing fantastic today. 199 00:15:22,160 --> 00:15:23,840 You might be thinking, no, you're not. 200 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:27,200 Oh yes, I am. If you'd heard me yesterday 201 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:34,600 afternoon, it was bad. So different sins have different 202 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:39,560 consequences. Gossiping might get you shunned 203 00:15:39,560 --> 00:15:43,840 or or distanced from other people, or cause you to be the 204 00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:50,360 center of ridicule or conflict. But murder? 205 00:15:52,040 --> 00:15:56,040 Murder will land you in prison. Completely different 206 00:15:56,040 --> 00:15:59,440 consequences, right? We innately understand this, and 207 00:15:59,560 --> 00:16:03,000 that different sins carry different types of consequences. 208 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:08,640 Then there's another category of sin. 209 00:16:09,280 --> 00:16:15,840 These are sins against the body. It's a weird statement. 210 00:16:16,160 --> 00:16:23,600 Sins against the body. These are sins we commit and and 211 00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:27,520 which harm ourselves more than we realize because they are 212 00:16:27,840 --> 00:16:32,440 inside of our bodies. These types of sins have 213 00:16:32,680 --> 00:16:37,000 different types of consequences than do sins that are outside of 214 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:41,760 our body. Paul tells us about these sins 215 00:16:41,760 --> 00:16:47,840 in First Corinthians 6. It reads Flee from sexual 216 00:16:47,840 --> 00:16:51,040 immorality. Every other sin a person commits 217 00:16:51,040 --> 00:16:54,360 is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins 218 00:16:54,360 --> 00:16:57,880 against his own body. Or do you not know that your 219 00:16:57,880 --> 00:17:01,600 body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have 220 00:17:01,600 --> 00:17:05,160 from God? You are not your own, for you 221 00:17:05,160 --> 00:17:10,720 were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body. 222 00:17:13,040 --> 00:17:17,680 Stealing, lying, cheating, coveting something. 223 00:17:18,520 --> 00:17:21,160 These are all sins that are outside of our body. 224 00:17:22,720 --> 00:17:28,040 They still impact our hearts, but not in the same way that 225 00:17:28,280 --> 00:17:34,000 sexual immorality does. Some in Paul's day, we're having 226 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:36,720 discussions about right and wrong and whether they could do 227 00:17:36,720 --> 00:17:39,640 something that didn't break the law. 228 00:17:41,240 --> 00:17:44,880 And Paul makes the point that this is the wrong question to 229 00:17:44,920 --> 00:17:55,560 ask. The more I talk, the more I 230 00:17:55,560 --> 00:17:59,560 cough, but this is the wrong question to ask. 231 00:17:59,560 --> 00:18:01,480 We don't ask, is this permissible for me? 232 00:18:01,480 --> 00:18:05,760 Can I get away with this? No, the question, the right 233 00:18:05,760 --> 00:18:11,800 question to ask is, is this beneficial? 234 00:18:13,640 --> 00:18:18,680 If we begin at the wrong place and and we start to go down a 235 00:18:18,680 --> 00:18:21,000 path of can I get away with this? 236 00:18:22,080 --> 00:18:24,080 We might find ourselves in bondage. 237 00:18:24,080 --> 00:18:27,360 We might find ourselves stuck in addiction. 238 00:18:29,400 --> 00:18:32,880 Sexual sin is like that, and it's considered mistreatment of 239 00:18:32,880 --> 00:18:37,560 our bodies because our bodies are the Holy Spirit's temple, 240 00:18:40,040 --> 00:18:42,120 Paul said. Our bodies have been purchased 241 00:18:43,440 --> 00:18:49,320 by Christ's blood, so take care of your body. 242 00:18:52,360 --> 00:18:55,760 We were meant for union with God and these these sins against 243 00:18:55,760 --> 00:19:01,680 their own bodies for fornication for for the single person 244 00:19:01,680 --> 00:19:05,840 adultery for the married person, pornography, all those things 245 00:19:05,960 --> 00:19:09,960 yoke us to other people or or images that we're not intended 246 00:19:09,960 --> 00:19:15,600 to be yoked to. Sexual immorality corrupts and 247 00:19:15,840 --> 00:19:18,120 and and snares like no other sin. 248 00:19:18,240 --> 00:19:23,800 Proverbs 632 says he who commits adultery lacks sense. 249 00:19:24,480 --> 00:19:31,480 He who does it destroys himself. Sexual activity is reserved for 250 00:19:31,480 --> 00:19:35,200 the one man, one woman, marital union. 251 00:19:36,080 --> 00:19:42,280 Anything outside of that is in the category of sinning against 252 00:19:42,880 --> 00:19:48,480 your own body. So sin is pervasive and it 253 00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:51,120 corrupts in a way that we can't fathom. 254 00:19:52,400 --> 00:19:55,600 At the end of Romans, one after after Paula's outlined 255 00:19:55,600 --> 00:20:01,520 humanity's depraved falling and being turned over to sin and to 256 00:20:01,520 --> 00:20:06,680 their to their evil ways of living, Paul gives the final 257 00:20:06,680 --> 00:20:09,640 assessment in verse 32 of Romans 1. 258 00:20:10,800 --> 00:20:14,520 Though they knew God's righteous decree that those who practice 259 00:20:14,520 --> 00:20:19,160 such things deserve to die, they not only do them. 260 00:20:20,480 --> 00:20:27,840 But they give approval to those who practice them, people who 261 00:20:27,840 --> 00:20:31,680 are completely reprobate, encourage others to participate 262 00:20:31,680 --> 00:20:33,360 in sin. And then and then they give 263 00:20:33,360 --> 00:20:38,520 their approval to those people. They say congratulations, good 264 00:20:38,520 --> 00:20:47,800 job. I would venture to say that some 265 00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:53,200 of the moral collapse that we see in our society today is 266 00:20:53,440 --> 00:21:01,760 exactly this. People celebrating what God has 267 00:21:01,760 --> 00:21:05,480 declared evil, what God has declared wicked, what God has 268 00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:09,800 declared sin, people celebrating that. 269 00:21:14,280 --> 00:21:17,440 Now before we leave this topic of sin and corruption in Noah's 270 00:21:17,440 --> 00:21:26,920 day, it is important to say all sin can be forgiven. 271 00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:36,000 All sin can be forgiven. The only sin that can't be is 272 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:44,840 the sin of unbelief, but all other sins, if you turn to 273 00:21:44,920 --> 00:21:53,280 Jesus, can be forgiven. Ephesians 17 offers hope. 274 00:21:53,280 --> 00:21:56,440 It says in Him we have redemption through his blood, 275 00:21:56,440 --> 00:21:58,800 the forgiveness of our trespasses, that is the 276 00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:05,280 forgiveness of our sins, all because of the riches of God's 277 00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:09,440 grace. God's grace can cover over 278 00:22:09,440 --> 00:22:12,800 anything and everything that you have done. 279 00:22:14,920 --> 00:22:18,440 If by chance you've not yet done so, you can turn your life over 280 00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:23,240 to Him, surrender your will to His and say, Jesus, take my 281 00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:27,000 life, I trust you, I give you control of all of me, and 282 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:31,520 because of what Jesus has done, I receive your forgiveness. 283 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:37,240 If you express this in faith and sincere trust and God's working, 284 00:22:37,520 --> 00:22:41,400 then you can be a recipient of God's grace. 285 00:22:44,120 --> 00:22:49,200 Today, human failures around the globe are glaring. 286 00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:55,520 But as bad as it is right now, we don't have the same type of 287 00:22:55,680 --> 00:22:59,480 moral collapse that that was seen in Noah's day. 288 00:23:00,520 --> 00:23:06,160 In fact, the sin of Noah's generation was was so monstrous 289 00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:16,640 that the only proper response from heaven was the gravest of 290 00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:21,240 measures. The only proper response from 291 00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:24,960 heaven in that day was the gravest of measures. 292 00:23:28,640 --> 00:23:32,480 God had a plan for how this reboot was going to happen. 293 00:23:32,880 --> 00:23:36,520 He'd provide for Noah in a way that probably seemed outlandish 294 00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:40,160 to him. In verses 14 through 16, God 295 00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:43,800 laid out the plans for the ark because in verse 17, he told 296 00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:47,320 Noah, I'm going to bring a flood of waters upon the earth and 297 00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:53,200 destroy all flesh. The boat would be the mechanism 298 00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:57,000 for saving a remnant with which to begin again. 299 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:04,480 Now, this ark right here, you know this ark, it's fairly 300 00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:06,600 impressive. You've got your door, your 301 00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:08,400 windows. No, just kidding. 302 00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:15,160 The Ark really is an impressive thing, especially for for those 303 00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:20,640 of you who have been to the Ark Encounter in Kentucky, I've not 304 00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:27,360 been there yet. See the problem is webs like to 305 00:24:27,360 --> 00:24:32,880 go north for vacations. So like we pretty much like 306 00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:35,720 always go north. Going South is just not 307 00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:40,000 something we do for vacation. So yeah, we haven't made it 308 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:42,080 there yet. One of these days we will. 309 00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:48,800 I'm half inclined to go in March to to do that nice time of year 310 00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:50,760 to be in Kentucky. Don't want to be in Kentucky 311 00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:53,200 during the summer. It's even more humid. 312 00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:57,760 But the Ark is just absolutely incredible, especially when you 313 00:24:57,760 --> 00:25:04,000 consider that it was built some 5000 years ago without the 314 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:10,000 technology that we have today. The arc was 450 feet long. 315 00:25:10,120 --> 00:25:15,320 It was 75 feet wide and it was 45 feet in height. 316 00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:19,040 Now, to me, I think, yeah, it's kind of big. 317 00:25:19,880 --> 00:25:24,960 But everybody who goes there, they say, Oh, no, you are not 318 00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:30,200 prepared for how huge it really is. 319 00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:34,440 Because I just think, oh, it's a little bit, you know, it's a 320 00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:38,080 football in the field, football field and a half long. 321 00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:41,520 It's, it's only only 75 feet wide. 322 00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:44,560 That's that's not that wide. You know, it's only 45 feet 323 00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:45,840 high. That's not that high. 324 00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:48,920 But no, it is much bigger than we realized. 325 00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:52,160 It had three decks and, and it was large enough to accommodate 326 00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:55,720 these, these eight adults. That is Noah and his wife and 327 00:25:55,880 --> 00:26:00,040 their their sons, Shem Ham and Japheth and and their wives, as 328 00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:05,800 well as all these animals and then food and resources to last 329 00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:10,640 them the the humans and the animals for an entire year. 330 00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:15,320 The building and organization of this would have been no small 331 00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:18,560 feat. So the ark, it could have looked 332 00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:21,440 like that or, or it might have been a little bit more simple. 333 00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:24,960 It could have looked perhaps a little more square, something 334 00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:29,880 like this. We don't know exactly, by the 335 00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:40,400 way, quite a feat and building a vessel like this it it probably 336 00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:43,800 would have would have earned Noah the ridicule of his 337 00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:48,400 neighbors, especially if they didn't live near a large body of 338 00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:50,040 water. We don't know for sure. 339 00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:56,800 To the question of who built it, we don't have specifics. 340 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:00,160 We assume, obviously, well, Noah built the ark, right? 341 00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:03,800 Noah was told to build the ark. Did Noah's sons help him? 342 00:27:04,080 --> 00:27:07,080 We don't know. Is it out of the question that 343 00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:10,880 Noah maybe even hired some help, some professional people to help 344 00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:12,280 him? Hey, we don't know. 345 00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:15,840 We can guess. We can conjecture all we want, 346 00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:17,760 but we don't know. The text is silent on this. 347 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:20,600 Then there's the question of how long did it take to build the 348 00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:23,480 ark? A number of people might tell 349 00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:28,720 you it took 120 years to build the ark because God said man's 350 00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:31,880 days will be 120 years, and they said that's when Noah started 351 00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:35,320 building the ark. Some people will say it took 100 352 00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:38,440 years. Text does not say that either. 353 00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:44,120 We can only speculate, but but for my research it seems 354 00:27:44,120 --> 00:27:46,680 reasonable to arrive at the conclusion that it might have 355 00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:50,160 taken less than 75 years to build the ark. 356 00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:53,200 Immediately after instructing Noah to build the ark and 357 00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:57,160 sharing certain details about it, God says in Genesis 617 and 358 00:27:57,160 --> 00:28:02,000 18, He says, For behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon the 359 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:04,880 earth to destroy our flesh, in which is the breath of life 360 00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:07,480 under heaven. Everything is on on the earth 361 00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:11,320 shall die, but I will establish my covenant with you and you 362 00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:15,400 shall come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife and your 363 00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:19,080 sons wives with you. This seems to indicate that 364 00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:23,160 Noah's sons were already married when God told him to build the 365 00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:26,560 ark. Again, this is a little bit of 366 00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:28,920 speculation. So if we go off that math, then 367 00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:31,920 we can arrive at maybe something less than 75 years. 368 00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:34,720 We don't know exactly. It doesn't really matter. 369 00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:40,280 But anyways, as you know, it was built of Gopher wood and, and it 370 00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:45,320 was coated with pitch inside and out in order to waterproof it. 371 00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:48,640 We don't know exactly what Gopher wood is, but some have 372 00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:52,000 speculated that Gopher wood is Cypress. 373 00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:58,280 In Noah's day, most boats or vessels were were much smaller 374 00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:01,080 and they were made for an entirely different purpose. 375 00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:05,920 They were little 10 foot boats made of, made of skin or reeds 376 00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:10,440 and, and they, they were made for fishing or hunting for, for 377 00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:14,720 going along the coastline and, and through marshes and stuff 378 00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:22,280 like that along riverbanks. True sailing ships could have 379 00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:31,840 been as long as 170 feet. These true sailing ships though, 380 00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:38,000 at even 170 feet, that's only about 1/3 of the length of this 381 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:40,800 ark. And these, these sailing ships 382 00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:46,200 were first depicted in Egyptian Old Kingdom arts and, but even 383 00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:52,360 as late as the late Phoenicians between 1500 BC, they still 384 00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:57,560 navigated within land. They traveled to Crete within 385 00:29:57,560 --> 00:29:59,960 sight of land, I should say, They traveled to Crete, they 386 00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:04,720 traveled, traveled to Cyprus and various ports along along Egypt, 387 00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:07,840 the Persian Gulf and, and Asia Minor. 388 00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:15,560 But the ark, the ark is unique in that the ark doesn't have a 389 00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:22,160 rudder, and the lack of a rudder means Noah's family. 390 00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:27,680 They are entirely dependent upon God. 391 00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:32,280 They're dependent upon God to get them through the storm. 392 00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:37,920 They're dependent upon God as to where they come to rest. 393 00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:42,000 So that was God's provision for the coming storm. 394 00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:51,080 Next we see God preserves a remnant, verses 19 and 20 of 395 00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:53,560 every living thing of all flesh. She shall bring two of every 396 00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:57,280 sort into the ark to keep them alive with you they shall be 397 00:30:57,280 --> 00:31:00,080 male and female, of the birds according to their kinds, of the 398 00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:02,280 animals according to their kinds, and of every creeping 399 00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:05,640 thing to the ground according to its kind, two of every sort 400 00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:08,440 shall come into you to keep them alive. 401 00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:14,920 Now the first remnants we see, of course is the animal Kingdom. 402 00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:21,000 God instructed Noah to to build the ark to the size to be able 403 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:25,320 to replace all the lost animals from the coming flood. 404 00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:29,680 It was big enough to house land animals, to house creeping 405 00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:33,120 things, to house birds. God was proud of his initial 406 00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:35,840 creation. His remember it was his good 407 00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:43,160 creation. He didn't want to lose it, but 408 00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:49,360 that's where we find ourselves. So he has a reboot in mind here 409 00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:55,520 as things go back to the garden in a sense where he'd made just 410 00:31:55,680 --> 00:32:01,400 a couple of each animal and told them to multiply. 411 00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:07,560 Now, if I asked you how many of each animal were on the Ark, you 412 00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:15,320 would say, hold on, how many of each animal were on the Ark? 413 00:32:21,420 --> 00:32:23,460 Everybody says 2. Diane says 7. 414 00:32:25,620 --> 00:32:29,940 Why is Diane saying 7? Because she knows some things. 415 00:32:32,780 --> 00:32:35,100 Of course. We always just think that there 416 00:32:35,100 --> 00:32:37,860 are there. There's one pair of each animal, 417 00:32:37,860 --> 00:32:40,420 right? That's how we think of it. 418 00:32:40,900 --> 00:32:47,680 But you see in the next chapter, we'll see it there on the screen 419 00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:54,480 in the next chapter, verse 2, take with you 7 pairs of clean 420 00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:58,280 animals, the male and his mate and a pair of the animals that 421 00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:02,080 are not clean, the male and his mate, and seven pairs of the 422 00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:05,000 birds of the heavens, also male and female, to keep their 423 00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:07,760 offspring alive on the face of all the earth. 424 00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:13,840 So the answer to the question of how many animals he took of each 425 00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:19,280 is it depends. One pair of the unclean and then 426 00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:26,320 seven pairs of the clean. I have to admit I did not 427 00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:27,760 realize that before the other day. 428 00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:30,920 I some I don't know how many times I've read through the 429 00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:34,800 Bible and just have missed that detail. 430 00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:41,560 This is this is interesting though, if you stop to think 431 00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:48,080 about it, because first of all, the law hasn't been given yet. 432 00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:53,480 The law wasn't revealed until this moment when, when Moses is 433 00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:57,600 recording it, which is a long time later. 434 00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:02,720 The law wasn't given yet, yet until this moment. 435 00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:11,920 And secondly, you see humanity haven't been given permission to 436 00:34:12,159 --> 00:34:19,639 to have that steak yet. They were vegetarians, I believe 437 00:34:20,639 --> 00:34:25,199 some may disagree with me, but I believe they were vegetarians. 438 00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:28,920 And here in the next couple weeks you will see why, because 439 00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:33,760 God says God gives them permission to eat meat. 440 00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:41,080 So you have to wonder why the distinction between clean and 441 00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:45,600 unclean? What we can surmise that perhaps 442 00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:50,199 the distinction between clean and unclean is for sacrificial 443 00:34:50,199 --> 00:34:56,440 purposes so that they would OfferUp the correct sacrifice. 444 00:34:57,760 --> 00:35:01,560 Now God wasn't just preserving a remnants of the animal Kingdom 445 00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:07,480 that was important, but He was also preserving a remnant of 446 00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:13,200 humanity. He was preserving a remnant of 447 00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:15,000 humanity. Judgement was coming, but that 448 00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:19,360 wasn't the final word. God preserved the righteous 449 00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:23,040 remnant for the restoration of creation in the wake of his 450 00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:26,560 judgement. Humanity was about to get power 451 00:35:26,560 --> 00:35:28,680 cycled if you will. Things weren't working right 452 00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:32,440 with the first version, so Humanity 2 point O was about to 453 00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:36,040 be rolled out. In order for that to happen. 454 00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:40,120 It all goes through one man. Like like what happened back in 455 00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:44,480 the garden when there was only one man and there was one woman. 456 00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:48,800 We can all say that we are descended from that original 457 00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:54,240 pair, Adam and Eve, but we can also say that we are descended 458 00:35:54,240 --> 00:35:59,080 from the 10th generation of humans of Noah and his wife. 459 00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:05,320 So Noah is what we might call a new atom. 460 00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:12,440 He's a new atom. I would distinguish this between 461 00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:16,360 a second atom. The second atom is different. 462 00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:20,000 The second atom is something that a specific phrase we use to 463 00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:24,760 refer to Jesus. But Noah is a is a new atom. 464 00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:28,200 Everything is getting rebooted with Noah's line. 465 00:36:28,720 --> 00:36:32,240 The flood story is a dismantling of creation and then beginning a 466 00:36:32,240 --> 00:36:37,520 new creation. Like Adam, Noah was given 467 00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:39,880 authority over the earth and animals. 468 00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:44,840 Both men had three sons who were named. 469 00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:49,120 Both figures, as you'll see, have a bad experience with 470 00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:55,440 fruits and a sort of fall. Noah will also point us to the 471 00:36:55,440 --> 00:37:00,520 need for a savior. Now he serves as a as a 472 00:37:00,520 --> 00:37:03,720 genealogical bridge connecting the pre flood. 473 00:37:03,720 --> 00:37:08,720 In the post flood worlds everything funnels. 474 00:37:09,240 --> 00:37:10,840 Actually it was not much of A funnel. 475 00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:13,800 It just goes and cuts off real quick. 476 00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:18,040 Everything funnels down through through Noah and his family, and 477 00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:23,720 then the blessing is passed through on to everyone else. 478 00:37:23,720 --> 00:37:27,200 So we have Adam, and then Noah, and then Abraham and the 479 00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:33,800 patriarchs. So lest this message be entirely 480 00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:40,000 theoretical for the remaining remaining minutes, let's see 481 00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:42,960 what kind of applications we can pull here. 482 00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:57,480 The first point is to be salt, be salt, live as salt in a 483 00:37:57,480 --> 00:38:00,360 crooked world. In Matthew 5 in the Sermon on 484 00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:04,040 the Mount, Jesus told his followers, You are the salt of 485 00:38:04,040 --> 00:38:08,720 the earth, the salt flavors, and it preserves that that which is 486 00:38:08,720 --> 00:38:13,240 around it. So Noah acted as salt even in 487 00:38:13,240 --> 00:38:22,600 the midst of such depravity. Noah's testimony pointed to the 488 00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:30,200 fact that that there is a God now today, all human behavior, I 489 00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:34,520 would say even as bad as it can look, all human behavior has 490 00:38:34,520 --> 00:38:39,200 been impacted at least to some extent because of God's presence 491 00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:43,920 among people in His people by the Holy Spirit indwelling those 492 00:38:44,240 --> 00:38:48,360 who receive Jesus the Deliverer as their hope. 493 00:38:50,240 --> 00:38:54,840 So Jesus followers, we now serve to protect society from the kind 494 00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:58,800 of reprobate behavior that occasionally plagued people 495 00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:03,440 during the Old Testament times, all because we have the Holy 496 00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:10,680 Spirit's right within us. We are we are taking the temple 497 00:39:10,880 --> 00:39:13,960 everywhere that we go. God's presence is going. 498 00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:18,600 So if we live as salt, people will be able to look at our 499 00:39:18,600 --> 00:39:29,640 character and they will know who and what we stand for. 2nd Walk 500 00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:40,960 in obedience Walk in obedience verse 22 read Noah did this. 501 00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:44,960 He did all that God commanded him. 502 00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:50,080 I have to believe that at some point during the building of the 503 00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:55,040 ark, Noah had to have thought to himself, what am I doing? 504 00:39:56,280 --> 00:39:59,680 This, this arc thing seems preposterous to all these 505 00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:02,080 people. They they're ridiculing him. 506 00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:07,400 Surely he would have had his doubts. 507 00:40:10,160 --> 00:40:17,880 Yet he's still obeyed. And then I think about. 75 508 00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:25,280 years, 100 years, 120 years. That is long obedience. 509 00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:31,480 He was fully committed to the task that God had called him to. 510 00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:41,280 When God calls, respond. Don't ignore his call. 511 00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:46,040 Don't ignore what He wants you to do respond to Him. 512 00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:51,160 Be obedient and live in the power that He provides, trusting 513 00:40:51,160 --> 00:40:57,560 that He will provide and His way is right. 514 00:40:59,440 --> 00:41:02,520 So be salt. Walk in obedience. 515 00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:12,440 Lastly, live by faith. Noah had faith. 516 00:41:13,480 --> 00:41:15,440 You might think. What kind of faith could Noah 517 00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:17,640 have had? They didn't have the same 518 00:41:17,640 --> 00:41:19,720 understanding that that we have today. 519 00:41:19,720 --> 00:41:23,400 All the revelation that we have about God and how much we know 520 00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:27,040 about him, what kind of faith could he have had? 521 00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:33,920 Hebrews 11 tells us by faith. Noah, being warned by God 522 00:41:33,920 --> 00:41:39,040 concerning events as yet unseen in reverent fear, constructed an 523 00:41:39,040 --> 00:41:40,760 ark for the saving of his household. 524 00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:44,640 By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the 525 00:41:44,640 --> 00:41:48,280 righteousness that comes by faith. 526 00:41:50,600 --> 00:41:55,640 Noah had faith that that God would keep the word he'd given, 527 00:41:56,040 --> 00:41:59,000 that God was going to send a flood, that God would preserve 528 00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:01,680 Noah and his family through that flood. 529 00:42:02,240 --> 00:42:06,200 Noah had faith that someday God would make things right. 530 00:42:07,680 --> 00:42:13,120 The righteous offspring would someday defeats the serpent and 531 00:42:13,120 --> 00:42:16,040 life would return back to the Garden State that that he'd 532 00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:25,560 heard about from his dad. He had faith, so live by faith. 533 00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:34,240 God promised deliverance Noah didn't deserve through a rescue 534 00:42:34,240 --> 00:42:38,880 that he wouldn't have expected, and this deliverance from the 535 00:42:38,880 --> 00:42:42,680 waters of judgment foreshadowed the unexpected deliverance that 536 00:42:42,680 --> 00:42:46,320 God would one day offer through His Son. 537 00:42:47,960 --> 00:42:52,240 Just as God rescued Noah from his wrath via an instrument of 538 00:42:52,240 --> 00:42:58,520 wood, God rescues us, those who believe. 539 00:42:58,520 --> 00:43:05,280 He rescues us from judgments because of a wooden cross, the 540 00:43:05,280 --> 00:43:09,320 cross of Christ. Let's bow our heads and close 541 00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:18,760 our eyes this morning as we close. 542 00:43:21,840 --> 00:43:25,960 I want to remind you to give you that encouragement this morning 543 00:43:25,960 --> 00:43:29,480 as we as we prepare to close with these songs and then and 544 00:43:29,480 --> 00:43:36,080 then to leave this place. We've heard about those places 545 00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:40,880 that that have above the door. You are now entering the mission 546 00:43:40,880 --> 00:43:50,480 field and out there. We need to be salt. 547 00:43:51,480 --> 00:44:00,240 We need to live as salt, preserving those around us, 548 00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:07,240 potentially helping to sanctify them through Jesus Christ if 549 00:44:07,240 --> 00:44:17,550 they come to know Jesus Christ. And may we, of course, walk in 550 00:44:17,550 --> 00:44:23,110 obedience, living by faith, trusting Him that his ways are 551 00:44:23,110 --> 00:44:30,660 right. God, would you enable us to be 552 00:44:30,660 --> 00:44:35,900 salt, to be obedient, and would you strengthen our faith? 553 00:44:37,980 --> 00:44:39,980 It's in Jesus name we pray. Amen. 554 00:44:41,320 --> 00:44:45,360 Would you stand as we sing and close with a couple songs this 555 00:44:45,360 --> 00:54:43,280 morning? Amen. 556 00:54:43,360 --> 00:54:46,880 He's the one who has all authority, all power. 557 00:54:48,880 --> 00:54:53,600 When we talk about sin and, and, and the sins that can enslave 558 00:54:53,600 --> 00:54:56,600 you can become addicted to really, I think we're all 559 00:54:56,600 --> 00:54:59,000 addicted to sin, otherwise we would stop. 560 00:55:00,280 --> 00:55:05,240 But he is the one who has authority and power, who can 561 00:55:05,600 --> 00:55:10,080 help you break free from that, from that bondage. 562 00:55:11,560 --> 00:55:15,640 So turn to him. If you find yourself stuck in 563 00:55:15,640 --> 00:55:20,600 sin, don't run. Don't run in shame. 564 00:55:21,560 --> 00:55:28,080 Turn to Him and receive His forgiveness now to Him who is 565 00:55:28,080 --> 00:55:32,800 able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think 566 00:55:33,240 --> 00:55:35,520 according to the power at work within us. 567 00:55:35,760 --> 00:55:39,240 To Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus through all 568 00:55:39,240 --> 00:55:42,920 generations, forever and ever. Amen. 569 00:55:43,240 --> 00:55:45,040 Go and walk in that power this morning.