1 00:00:01,040 --> 00:00:04,000 Welcome to the First Apostolic Church podcast. 2 00:00:04,520 --> 00:00:07,960 Our church mission is to love as God loves showing compassion 3 00:00:07,960 --> 00:00:11,440 every soul, thus winning those souls and equipping them to be 4 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:13,680 sent out to plant and to harvest. 5 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:17,000 Thank you for joining us today, and we hope that you are blessed 6 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:28,280 by today's podcast. Tonight, just a few things this 7 00:00:28,280 --> 00:00:33,040 coming weekend, Amen services on Sunday, Bishop will be 8 00:00:33,240 --> 00:00:36,280 ministering in the AM service where the Alex Mason will be 9 00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:40,160 ministering in the PM service. So you don't want to miss those 10 00:00:40,160 --> 00:00:44,400 things, Amen, that are coming up and it's going to be taking 11 00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:46,840 place. Also, just something else just 12 00:00:46,840 --> 00:00:53,920 to think about May the 7th, May the 7th will be a Mom's Night 13 00:00:54,160 --> 00:01:00,600 Out, ladies. All right, female night out, 14 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:05,840 Amen. Anyway, ladies night out on that 15 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:09,560 May the 7th that begins at 5:30 to be leaving from the church at 16 00:01:09,560 --> 00:01:13,360 5:30. And so you can be a part Amen of 17 00:01:13,360 --> 00:01:15,920 that. So just be mindful of it. 18 00:01:16,360 --> 00:01:18,560 Amen. Headed toward the month of May. 19 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:20,880 And also on May 12th, then is Mother's Day. 20 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:26,520 And as is out there on social media land, all right, it's 21 00:01:26,520 --> 00:01:29,400 going to be the first Apostolic Church Mother's Day talk show, 22 00:01:29,720 --> 00:01:31,640 Amen. So you want to come be a part of 23 00:01:31,640 --> 00:01:35,000 that. Different than what we have done 24 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:37,880 in any other year, but I think it would be proved to be 25 00:01:37,880 --> 00:01:41,560 beneficial, Amen, To those who would come and be of interest. 26 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:45,680 And so come and be a part of that as well in the month of 27 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:47,080 May. And there's other things going 28 00:01:47,080 --> 00:01:50,680 on as well that will be happening, taking place. 29 00:01:50,680 --> 00:01:53,360 But for now, I'll just leave it at that. 30 00:01:53,640 --> 00:02:06,760 Genesis chapter #7 And I'm going to, as have been my custom here 31 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:11,120 the past few weeks, I'm going to read a, a few verses and then 32 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:13,160 I'll like to be seated and I'll continue reading. 33 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:17,000 All right, if that's OK with you, or if you'd like, I'll let 34 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:21,760 you read and I'll set. Oh, it's OK Amen. 35 00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:26,560 Genesis chapter #7 and verse #1 And the Lord said unto Noah, 36 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:31,600 Come down all thy house into the ark, for thee have I seen 37 00:02:31,600 --> 00:02:33,880 righteous before me. And this generation. 38 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:37,040 And every clean beast thou shalt take to thee. 39 00:02:37,040 --> 00:02:42,400 By sevens the male and his female, and of beast that are 40 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:47,040 not cling by two, the male and his female, of fowls also of the 41 00:02:47,040 --> 00:02:49,240 air. By sevens in the male and the 42 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:54,800 female to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth for 43 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:57,640 yet seven days and I will cause it to rain upon the earth 40 44 00:02:57,640 --> 00:03:00,520 days and 40 nights. And every living substance that 45 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:03,840 I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth. 46 00:03:04,280 --> 00:03:08,280 And Noah did according to all the Lord commanded him. 47 00:03:08,840 --> 00:03:11,400 Amen. I'm going to talk to you 48 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:13,360 tonight. I forgot about my books laying 49 00:03:13,360 --> 00:03:16,480 up here. I'm going to talk to you tonight 50 00:03:16,480 --> 00:03:20,360 about I know this is quite this is this is quite a title. 51 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:28,880 Noah and the flood. Yeah, it's deep. 52 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:35,440 It gets deeper as we talk about it even also tonight, you know, 53 00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:38,280 I like to read and such, right. And so I have some books that 54 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:39,920 I've read that I'm not going to read again. 55 00:03:39,920 --> 00:03:41,720 They're not going to be a part of my library. 56 00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:44,720 And so if anybody wants a book after service, any of these. 57 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:50,840 The body dynamic all in by by Mark Patterson, the Christian 58 00:03:50,840 --> 00:03:55,320 atheist people who claim to be Christian but act like they 59 00:03:55,320 --> 00:04:00,720 don't know God multiply, which is actually can actually 60 00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:03,360 actually be used as a Bible study, although there are some 61 00:04:03,360 --> 00:04:07,480 variants concerning the godhead and baptism in here. 62 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:11,720 All right, seven practices of an effective ministry. 63 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:16,200 All right, it's in here as well. This Be Our Guest is Disney's 64 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:19,240 book on all of their guest, what they call their guest ology, 65 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:21,600 their customer service. If you've ever been to Disney, 66 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:23,840 you understand exactly what I'm talking about. 67 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:28,480 If you never have this, this what makes Disney great in all 68 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:31,280 of its parks and everything that it does and amusements. 69 00:04:31,480 --> 00:04:34,000 And then I told my leadership, I shared some stuff out of this 70 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:36,360 before my leadership, I thought my father was God. 71 00:04:36,520 --> 00:04:38,480 It's basically a bunch of short stories. 72 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:43,880 National National Public Radio collected them and created a 73 00:04:43,880 --> 00:04:45,800 book. So their individual stories that 74 00:04:45,800 --> 00:04:49,560 cover a dynamic, several different type of categories. 75 00:04:49,840 --> 00:04:52,720 If you're interested in any one of these, I'm going to charge 76 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:57,400 you $0.00, zero dollars. There's no money involved. 77 00:04:57,400 --> 00:04:59,920 You can have it. Why, Brother McGee, would you do 78 00:04:59,920 --> 00:05:02,200 that? Because I think it's important. 79 00:05:02,920 --> 00:05:04,680 Amen. To try to foster reading. 80 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:07,160 Amen. That's just me. 81 00:05:07,160 --> 00:05:10,880 OK, but try to foster reading. I want to always be learning. 82 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:13,360 Always be learning. Let's pray tonight. 83 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:16,360 Father, I come to you. I'm thankful, Lord Jesus, God, 84 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:19,040 for your presence and thankful Lord for the ability to be here 85 00:05:19,040 --> 00:05:21,040 tonight. I pray, O Lord, that you're able 86 00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:23,680 to touch each of us, our hearts and our minds afresh and anew by 87 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:27,080 the word of God. Let it stand, Lord, alive to us 88 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:30,560 and God be a light unto us. God will not fail to thank you 89 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:33,200 and praise you Lord, for what you have accomplished Lord, and 90 00:05:33,200 --> 00:05:35,200 will accomplish. Lord, yet in this place this 91 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:38,960 evening and the lovely name of Jesus Christ that we pray in the 92 00:05:38,960 --> 00:05:42,520 church, say Amen, Amen. You may be seated tonight in 93 00:05:42,520 --> 00:05:48,560 Jesus name, Amen. So this was another one of those 94 00:05:48,560 --> 00:05:51,480 weeks. I felt very adventurous and I 95 00:05:51,720 --> 00:05:54,680 had done put my mind I'd get through chapter seven and eight 96 00:05:55,040 --> 00:05:57,320 and that didn't happen. But let me continue with verse 97 00:05:57,320 --> 00:06:00,560 number six. And Noah was 600 years old when 98 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:04,280 the flood of waters was upon the earth and Noah went in. 99 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:07,120 Now let me just preface, this is going to some of the things 100 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:08,600 we're going to go through here is going to sound very 101 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:10,360 redundant. And they should because they are 102 00:06:10,520 --> 00:06:13,040 all right. And Noah was 600 years old when 103 00:06:13,040 --> 00:06:14,520 the flood of the waters was upon the earth. 104 00:06:14,760 --> 00:06:18,400 And Noah went in and his sons and his wife and his sons wives 105 00:06:18,400 --> 00:06:21,240 with him into the ark. Because of the waters of the 106 00:06:21,240 --> 00:06:24,760 flood of clean beasts and of beasts that are not clean in the 107 00:06:24,760 --> 00:06:27,440 fouls, and of everything that creepeth upon the earth. 108 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:32,000 There went into and to unto Noah into the ark the male and the 109 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:34,560 female, as God had commanded Noah. 110 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:37,640 And it came to pass after seven days that the waters of the 111 00:06:37,640 --> 00:06:40,600 flood were upon the earth in the 600th. 112 00:06:40,840 --> 00:06:44,120 This is where it starts. You know, in this gives us a 113 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:47,560 little bit more detail to, to to verse six right here in verse 11 114 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:51,600 in the 600th year of Noah's life, in the second month, the 115 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:56,360 7th day, the 17th day of the month, the same day where all 116 00:06:56,360 --> 00:06:59,080 the foundations of the deep broken up and the windows of 117 00:06:59,080 --> 00:07:02,600 heaven were open and the rings upon the earth 40 days and 40 118 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:04,240 ninths. This is where we get into a 119 00:07:04,240 --> 00:07:06,160 repeat. In the self same day Noah 120 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:10,200 entered. This entered Noah, and Shem, and 121 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:13,520 Hem, and Japheth, and the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and 122 00:07:13,520 --> 00:07:15,800 the three wives of his sons with them into the ark. 123 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:20,000 They and every Here it is still, every beast after his kind, and 124 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:22,520 all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that 125 00:07:22,520 --> 00:07:25,960 creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after 126 00:07:25,960 --> 00:07:28,160 his kind, every bird of every sort. 127 00:07:28,360 --> 00:07:36,480 And they went in unto Noah, and into the ark, two and two of all 128 00:07:36,480 --> 00:07:38,680 flesh, wherein is the breath of life. 129 00:07:38,920 --> 00:07:42,760 And they that went in, went in male and female, of all flesh, 130 00:07:42,760 --> 00:07:46,040 as God had commanded, And the Lord shut him in. 131 00:07:46,040 --> 00:07:49,160 And the flood was 40 days upon the earth, and the waters 132 00:07:49,160 --> 00:07:52,640 increase and bear of the ark, and it was lifted up above the 133 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:54,560 earth. And so there's a little bit of 134 00:07:54,560 --> 00:07:58,240 repeat going on there and just those first few verses, it seems 135 00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:02,080 that's taking place, right? It's like first, there's a lot 136 00:08:02,080 --> 00:08:04,560 of repeat if you look at it first God gives the commandment 137 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:07,760 of what should be done, and then it's carried, carried out what 138 00:08:07,760 --> 00:08:09,680 God commanded. And then it's told us again, 139 00:08:09,680 --> 00:08:11,360 there's carried out what God commanded. 140 00:08:11,640 --> 00:08:15,200 And so it's like God tells us, and then Noah does it and then 141 00:08:15,200 --> 00:08:19,360 it's written as though he does it again, or it's, it's repeated 142 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:22,240 again. And so Genesis 7 begins again 143 00:08:22,400 --> 00:08:26,280 with the Lord talking to Noah to come or inviting him, giving him 144 00:08:26,280 --> 00:08:30,080 an invitation, he and his family to come up on the ark. 145 00:08:30,280 --> 00:08:32,799 And he also then gives him some additional instructions. 146 00:08:32,799 --> 00:08:35,679 We'll look at here a little bit later, additional instructions 147 00:08:35,679 --> 00:08:39,280 about the animals that are be to be brought up on the ark and how 148 00:08:39,280 --> 00:08:42,520 many of those animals are to be brought up on the ark. 149 00:08:42,720 --> 00:08:47,160 And then the Bible tells us that after they get on the ark or 150 00:08:47,160 --> 00:08:51,880 within seven days, that the actual rain is going to begin. 151 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:55,400 And then we have again, as I said, the next section kind of 152 00:08:55,400 --> 00:09:01,680 tells us Noah, it gives us the, the, the, the, the view or the 153 00:09:01,680 --> 00:09:05,200 of Noah actually responding to God's invitation. 154 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:08,280 And he's been very obedient. He went on the ark. 155 00:09:08,280 --> 00:09:12,080 He got his wife, his sons, their daughters, everybody up on the 156 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:15,240 ark. It states that that that after 157 00:09:15,240 --> 00:09:18,040 seven days that the rain did indeed begin. 158 00:09:18,040 --> 00:09:21,560 That's spoken of there. It tells us, as I said in verse 159 00:09:21,560 --> 00:09:26,880 11, the exact month and the exact day of Noah's 600th year 160 00:09:26,880 --> 00:09:29,800 when the flood began. And it tells us that the rain 161 00:09:29,800 --> 00:09:32,000 lasted, that we all times know how long. 162 00:09:34,040 --> 00:09:39,680 Look at you guys, Bible scholars, Amen. 40 days and 40 163 00:09:39,680 --> 00:09:43,040 nights of the rain. And then it goes back into 164 00:09:43,040 --> 00:09:45,520 repeating again. It tells us exactly right over 165 00:09:45,520 --> 00:09:50,240 again about the people that went on the ark, all right, and how 166 00:09:50,240 --> 00:09:53,280 they took the animals on the ark and Noah responded. 167 00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:56,480 But then in verse 16, to shake it up just a little bit, it 168 00:09:56,480 --> 00:10:00,840 tells us explicitly that it was God who shut the door to the 169 00:10:00,840 --> 00:10:03,240 ark. But again, the 40 days is there. 170 00:10:03,240 --> 00:10:08,040 In verses 13 through 17 are mentioned again with this idea 171 00:10:08,040 --> 00:10:11,720 of increasing water. I don't know if I have time to 172 00:10:11,720 --> 00:10:17,960 read all these, but if you go to Genesis 4 and I'll do one just 173 00:10:17,960 --> 00:10:22,760 for the sake of it, so that you can see how repetitive Genesis 7 174 00:10:22,760 --> 00:10:25,920 and verse four, for yet seven days, and I will cause it to 175 00:10:25,920 --> 00:10:28,440 rain upon the earth 40 days and 40 nights in every living 176 00:10:28,440 --> 00:10:32,200 substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of 177 00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:35,320 the earth. Verse 10 And it came to pass 178 00:10:35,320 --> 00:10:37,840 after seven days that the waters of the flood were upon the 179 00:10:37,840 --> 00:10:40,960 earth. Verse 12 And the rain was upon 180 00:10:40,960 --> 00:10:45,360 the earth 40 days and 40 nights. Verse 17 and the flood was 40 181 00:10:45,360 --> 00:10:47,960 days upon the earth. And the waters increase and bear 182 00:10:47,960 --> 00:10:49,760 up the ark, and it was lifted above the earth. 183 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:54,440 So you see, you see that that that repetition that is there 184 00:10:54,440 --> 00:10:57,480 among them. You'll also see that we can even 185 00:10:57,480 --> 00:11:01,200 back up into Genesis chapter #6 for some of the repetition 186 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:05,800 whenever he talking about two times the Lord tells Moses or 187 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:07,840 gives the invitation about getting on the ark. 188 00:11:08,040 --> 00:11:10,560 One of those is found in Genesis 618. 189 00:11:10,720 --> 00:11:13,640 The other one here is found in our text in Genesis Chapter 7 190 00:11:13,640 --> 00:11:16,000 and verse #1 He tells him about it. 191 00:11:16,120 --> 00:11:20,640 We see Noah S response and doing it twice in verse seven and 192 00:11:20,640 --> 00:11:23,440 verse 13 of the chapter of our text. 193 00:11:23,560 --> 00:11:28,200 We go back to Genesis chapter #6 and you can read about God 194 00:11:28,200 --> 00:11:31,480 prescribing what animals should be brought on the ark. 195 00:11:31,640 --> 00:11:33,960 That's in Genesis 619 through 20. 196 00:11:34,160 --> 00:11:38,120 You read of that again him given the prescription in Genesis 7 197 00:11:38,120 --> 00:11:40,480 two through 3. Then you see Noah and the 198 00:11:40,480 --> 00:11:42,680 animals actually obey in it, all right? 199 00:11:42,680 --> 00:11:47,160 In Genesis 7, verses 8 through 9 and 14 through 15, the animals 200 00:11:47,160 --> 00:11:49,080 are brought on the ark. So all of that is concerning 201 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:52,560 that all of these repetitions from Genesis 6, Genesis 7 and 202 00:11:52,560 --> 00:11:55,560 and so on, so forth. And then the last part of 203 00:11:55,560 --> 00:11:57,680 Genesis 7, but we're not going to get to tonight. 204 00:11:57,880 --> 00:12:01,640 It's going to talk greatly about the waters that are increasing 205 00:12:01,640 --> 00:12:06,200 and prevailing over all the earth and how basically the nut 206 00:12:06,240 --> 00:12:09,800 the, the, the, the, the nutshell thought is this anything that 207 00:12:09,800 --> 00:12:12,960 wasn't on the ark was dead or died. 208 00:12:13,360 --> 00:12:15,240 All right. And the waters prevailed upon 209 00:12:15,960 --> 00:12:20,280 the the earth for 150 days that the scripture says now. 210 00:12:20,280 --> 00:12:22,280 So that's just kind of the layout. 211 00:12:22,280 --> 00:12:24,680 I just want to get you a little layout of the land, right. 212 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:28,160 And if you ever thought that you had Deja vu one time reading 213 00:12:28,160 --> 00:12:34,040 Genesis Chapter 7, you were all right because you had read, I 214 00:12:34,040 --> 00:12:35,120 thought I already read that before. 215 00:12:35,120 --> 00:12:40,240 It's like, you know, you did, where we talk about the flood 216 00:12:41,160 --> 00:12:45,360 and we talk about this breaking out of rain and the breaking up 217 00:12:45,360 --> 00:12:47,720 of the deep below. And we're talking about this 218 00:12:47,720 --> 00:12:51,120 lasting rain lasting for 40 days and water upon the earth for 219 00:12:51,120 --> 00:12:55,080 such a long time. All of this in some regards, in 220 00:12:55,080 --> 00:12:58,200 some regards, and we'll look at that very quickly, but in some 221 00:12:58,200 --> 00:13:02,960 regards, the flood is a deconstruction of creation. 222 00:13:04,200 --> 00:13:09,920 The flood is uncreation. We had creation there in the 223 00:13:09,920 --> 00:13:13,040 beginning, but the flood is uncreation. 224 00:13:13,440 --> 00:13:17,080 It's almost to a certain degree. And we'll look at it, undoing of 225 00:13:17,080 --> 00:13:22,480 what God had done all right by his own, by his own, you know, 226 00:13:22,720 --> 00:13:25,320 decision. But think with me here for a 227 00:13:25,320 --> 00:13:28,200 moment. Again in some regards we can't 228 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:31,480 go direct direct, but you'll see what I'm talking about whenever 229 00:13:31,480 --> 00:13:36,040 you go back to the beginning of Genesis, the 6th day of Genesis, 230 00:13:36,040 --> 00:13:40,840 what was created on the 6th day. Anybody remember man or the 231 00:13:40,840 --> 00:13:45,200 Mason says man along with man was the the beast of the field 232 00:13:45,200 --> 00:13:49,520 and the creeping things was on the 6th day that took place. 233 00:13:50,280 --> 00:13:54,440 If you start looking at the flood and go, go, you're going 234 00:13:54,440 --> 00:13:56,040 through it. You're just reading it 235 00:13:56,040 --> 00:13:59,400 literally, but it's almost a backward progression of 236 00:13:59,400 --> 00:14:02,080 creation. One of the first things that 237 00:14:02,080 --> 00:14:06,920 happened is Noah and his family. Come on the ark, The way that 238 00:14:06,920 --> 00:14:12,080 it's postured here in the scripture, along with the beast 239 00:14:12,080 --> 00:14:16,000 of the field and the creeping things are the first things that 240 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:17,920 are listed as getting on the ark. 241 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:25,280 In essence, they are removed from the earth. 242 00:14:26,080 --> 00:14:30,120 That was the last thing that came up on the earth in Creation 243 00:14:30,560 --> 00:14:32,520 day #5 Anybody remember what happened? 244 00:14:32,520 --> 00:14:36,800 Creation day #5 sea creatures, he says. 245 00:14:36,800 --> 00:14:39,320 Absolutely. And the fowl of the air, sea 246 00:14:39,320 --> 00:14:43,000 creatures in the fowl of the air came on day #5 Do you know in 247 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:46,160 our flood story who comes next on the ark in, in the 248 00:14:46,160 --> 00:14:49,240 progression here, as it's written in Scripture, it is the 249 00:14:49,240 --> 00:14:51,800 fowls of the air. Now, the sea creatures, nothing 250 00:14:51,800 --> 00:14:56,120 happened to sea creatures. It was a flood, all right. 251 00:14:56,480 --> 00:15:01,800 But the fowls of the air, that they are removed from the earth. 252 00:15:03,320 --> 00:15:05,520 In a sense, you understand what I'm saying. 253 00:15:05,960 --> 00:15:09,320 Day #4 anybody remember day #4 anybody looking at Genesis 254 00:15:09,320 --> 00:15:16,400 chapter #1 day #4 we have the lesser and greater lights, the 255 00:15:16,400 --> 00:15:20,520 luminaries. He made the stars also again, 256 00:15:20,680 --> 00:15:22,480 this, this is nothing scriptural. 257 00:15:22,480 --> 00:15:24,440 This is just me thinking along that path. 258 00:15:24,680 --> 00:15:28,080 I don't I don't know if darkness covered the area that that 259 00:15:28,080 --> 00:15:30,240 preface this rain that was coming. 260 00:15:30,440 --> 00:15:33,200 None the less that that's again, that's just some of these things 261 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:35,400 in regards. But you will see it here. 262 00:15:35,560 --> 00:15:42,640 Day #3 of creation. The dry land appeared, but as 263 00:15:42,640 --> 00:15:50,280 the rain comes, it's wet #1 and it's going to disappear. 264 00:15:52,120 --> 00:16:01,520 Deconstructed, uncreated day #2 The waters were divided from the 265 00:16:01,520 --> 00:16:06,040 waters that were above to the waters that were below. 266 00:16:06,760 --> 00:16:10,280 The Bible says concerning this rain that came that all the 267 00:16:10,280 --> 00:16:16,240 fountains of the great deep broke up and the windows of 268 00:16:16,240 --> 00:16:20,560 heaven opened. There's an intermingling of the 269 00:16:20,560 --> 00:16:28,360 waters from above and below, deconstructed, uncreated, Amen 270 00:16:28,360 --> 00:16:29,880 takes place. There's an intermingling. 271 00:16:30,040 --> 00:16:31,920 Let there be light. I don't have anything for you. 272 00:16:31,920 --> 00:16:35,560 Again, it's not perfect, all right, but we see the episodes 273 00:16:35,560 --> 00:16:39,760 of this that takes place. And so that said, the reversal 274 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:43,720 of the flood later, when we read in Genesis, eight of them coming 275 00:16:43,720 --> 00:16:47,640 off the ark and what happens as far with the water starting to 276 00:16:47,640 --> 00:16:51,600 abate, it's almost following the same line of creation from the 277 00:16:51,600 --> 00:16:54,160 beginning, which means a new creation. 278 00:16:56,440 --> 00:17:00,320 We had Adam to begin with, but now we have Noah and his family, 279 00:17:01,320 --> 00:17:04,400 the starters of a family of a new creation. 280 00:17:04,839 --> 00:17:07,839 After at that point in time, all the others have been destroyed, 281 00:17:07,839 --> 00:17:10,599 all of the other animals, all the other, but they come back 282 00:17:10,599 --> 00:17:14,880 upon the earth in succession. It is a new creation and they 283 00:17:14,880 --> 00:17:18,200 are given Noah and the beast of the field. 284 00:17:18,400 --> 00:17:21,640 All of these are given them the same command that Adam and Eve 285 00:17:21,640 --> 00:17:24,599 were given all right, whenever they were created. 286 00:17:24,599 --> 00:17:27,720 And you can find that in Genesis 817 when the words were be 287 00:17:27,720 --> 00:17:34,520 fruitful and multiply. Are there one more time. 288 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:39,840 And so I know and and and and we sometimes and I say we the 289 00:17:39,840 --> 00:17:42,680 greater society and we'll talk about some of those things 290 00:17:42,840 --> 00:17:46,840 always want to get into the scientific minutiae of Genesis. 291 00:17:47,280 --> 00:17:51,240 But the big picture is God uncreated what he had created to 292 00:17:51,240 --> 00:17:57,600 create. Again, the big picture is that 293 00:17:57,840 --> 00:18:00,840 Amen. And so everything that God 294 00:18:00,840 --> 00:18:07,760 desired for Noah and his family was towed to Noah really to an 295 00:18:07,760 --> 00:18:09,600 audience of one. We never see him necessarily 296 00:18:09,600 --> 00:18:13,960 given a collective statement to the family, but he speaks to 297 00:18:13,960 --> 00:18:19,520 Noah particularly. And from that command, Noah then 298 00:18:19,520 --> 00:18:25,240 would make the ark or Noah then would make sure that these types 299 00:18:25,240 --> 00:18:29,960 of animals and these number of those types of animals would be 300 00:18:29,960 --> 00:18:34,240 brought up on the ark according to God's invitation or according 301 00:18:34,240 --> 00:18:36,440 to God's command. Amen. 302 00:18:36,440 --> 00:18:41,800 So God's would speak to Noah and then it was his responsibility, 303 00:18:42,040 --> 00:18:45,600 and evidently he did, it was his responsibility to convey that to 304 00:18:45,600 --> 00:18:48,080 his family. God would speak to him 305 00:18:48,080 --> 00:18:51,040 concerning all the the different details and then he would convey 306 00:18:51,040 --> 00:18:54,040 that to his family. Noah did more. 307 00:18:54,040 --> 00:19:01,000 Might I say tonight, though, Noah did more than tell them his 308 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:06,240 behavior. His behavioral response showed 309 00:19:06,240 --> 00:19:11,040 them that he believed it. Huh. 310 00:19:11,760 --> 00:19:17,880 So then, more than just what he said, what he did inspired their 311 00:19:17,880 --> 00:19:21,200 faith. He's the husband of his wife. 312 00:19:21,200 --> 00:19:28,560 He's the father of his children. And it's not do as I say and not 313 00:19:28,560 --> 00:19:33,360 as I do, huh? It's not this is what the Bible 314 00:19:33,360 --> 00:19:37,440 says, wife. This is what the Bible says, 315 00:19:37,440 --> 00:19:40,080 kids. No, no, no. 316 00:19:40,320 --> 00:19:42,840 It was more than something he said to them. 317 00:19:43,080 --> 00:19:47,880 It was something he lived before them. 318 00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:50,680 He men. And I know we have this great 319 00:19:50,680 --> 00:19:54,040 ability that God can speak to any of us, but if I can just 320 00:19:54,040 --> 00:19:59,320 segue to the aspect of him being the head of his home, huh? 321 00:20:00,120 --> 00:20:03,560 That this this is more than something we tout to our family. 322 00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:07,480 It's something that we have a behavioral response to. 323 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:12,440 We're we're, we're, we're trying to paddle a boat up, up, up 324 00:20:13,080 --> 00:20:16,600 upstream. If we are telling them one thing 325 00:20:16,600 --> 00:20:20,440 but doing quite something different in our response, that 326 00:20:20,440 --> 00:20:24,600 our response seems to betray our words, that our response is 327 00:20:24,600 --> 00:20:27,240 saying, I really don't believe what that Bible says. 328 00:20:27,440 --> 00:20:29,800 I really don't believe the commandments that are written in 329 00:20:29,800 --> 00:20:31,280 there. I really don't believe the 330 00:20:31,280 --> 00:20:32,760 precepts of the doctrine are there. 331 00:20:32,760 --> 00:20:35,520 Well, why you say that? I, I've read that to you. 332 00:20:35,520 --> 00:20:37,800 Yeah, but you've not followed through on them. 333 00:20:43,130 --> 00:20:46,810 Amen. So it's his responsibility to 334 00:20:46,810 --> 00:20:49,130 convey this and. And it's evident. 335 00:20:49,130 --> 00:20:53,010 How was it every plank that he was laying on that ship was 336 00:20:53,010 --> 00:20:56,560 evidence that he believed it to be so. 337 00:20:56,720 --> 00:20:59,600 And so we, we, of course, in the process, and we don't know for a 338 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:04,080 fact, but we assume, we presume that that Noah's sons helped him 339 00:21:04,080 --> 00:21:06,360 build the ark. I mean, I guess Noah could have 340 00:21:06,360 --> 00:21:08,680 employed some other laborers of mankind. 341 00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:11,800 I don't know how how much they would have, really. 342 00:21:11,920 --> 00:21:14,720 They might have worked for him for a price and still not 343 00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:16,040 believe what they were working on. 344 00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:22,200 People do it all the time today. Yeah. 345 00:21:22,280 --> 00:21:25,880 No, never mind. But we presume that Noah and his 346 00:21:25,880 --> 00:21:27,960 family are the ones that are working upon this. 347 00:21:28,280 --> 00:21:30,080 And knowing his family, here they are. 348 00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:35,360 They survived the turbulent times of the flood in a boat 349 00:21:35,720 --> 00:21:42,160 that God designed. Noah didn't design it, God did. 350 00:21:43,080 --> 00:21:46,840 But God told him the blueprints and the specifications, and he 351 00:21:46,840 --> 00:21:53,400 did it, and then he got in it. And at the end of the story, the 352 00:21:53,400 --> 00:22:00,360 ship makes it and Noah's family makes it #1 primarily because 353 00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:02,880 they made it, just like God said to make it. 354 00:22:03,560 --> 00:22:09,000 But #2 because a father's faith went beyond mere words and acted 355 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:12,880 upon his beliefs. That's the reason why it was 356 00:22:12,880 --> 00:22:14,720 there. And so all of that kind of ties 357 00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:17,400 back to the golden verse of last week, the very last verse of 358 00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:21,200 chapter #6 when it sums it all up and says, thus didn't Noah 359 00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:26,240 according to all that God commanded him, So did he. 360 00:22:26,360 --> 00:22:30,480 And our little good boy Noah doesn't stop there in Genesis 6 361 00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:35,600 and the last verse, it continues on in chapter #7 of Noah doing 362 00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:40,720 all that God commands him. The pattern continues after Noah 363 00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:45,960 is invited or and God rather invites Noah on the ark and he 364 00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:49,160 makes those additional instructions about the clean and 365 00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:51,520 that which isn't clean and how many numbers are to be. 366 00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:56,680 The Bible says this Amen in verse number, verse #5 I believe 367 00:22:56,680 --> 00:23:02,200 it is the Bible says and know what did according unto all that 368 00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:05,800 the Lord commanded him. You read in verse number six a 369 00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:10,440 phrase in that verse that says as God commanded Noah in verse 370 00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:13,800 #16 it says as God commanded him. 371 00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:18,960 And so this, this is a a fingerprint of Noah's life doing 372 00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:24,320 what God commanded. This, this, this isn't a A1 time 373 00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:27,880 one off happening for Noah. This is a lifestyle for Noah. 374 00:23:28,120 --> 00:23:32,200 Noah does what God commands. Noah does what God asks. 375 00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:34,840 Noah obeys. He exercises his faith. 376 00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:38,440 His faith creates an obedience inside of him to follow through. 377 00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:40,800 Amen. Upon what he believes the Lord 378 00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:44,440 is doing and saying is true. And so that leaves us then in 379 00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:48,680 verse #1 God spoke to Noah then very particularly and tells him 380 00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:56,000 plainly for thee, for Noah, have I seen, have I seen your 381 00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:58,800 basically your righteousness for thee? 382 00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:02,120 Have I seen righteousness before me in this generation? 383 00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:08,360 And you know I seen it. No, God did not say Noah, I, I 384 00:24:08,360 --> 00:24:12,760 heard your righteousness. No, no. 385 00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:15,680 And say I, I, I heard your righteousness in your 386 00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:19,640 generation. No, he said I saw your 387 00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:24,080 righteousness. See the righteousness that I 388 00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:25,440 picked up on? And here we go again. 389 00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:28,440 The righteousness that I picked up on Noah isn't in what? 390 00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:33,800 In your well prepared speech. It was in your better prepared 391 00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:39,120 life, huh? There was activity that was 392 00:24:39,120 --> 00:24:42,120 involved in your life. And again, this, this 393 00:24:42,120 --> 00:24:45,240 corresponds and this goes hand in glove with things that we 394 00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:47,440 know from other New Testament scriptures that we've looked on. 395 00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:50,120 And yes, I'll hit the nail again when it lines with scripture 396 00:24:50,120 --> 00:24:54,800 when it says that faith without is uh huh. 397 00:24:55,400 --> 00:25:01,320 So therefore, our actions in response to faith are not just 398 00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:05,760 optional, huh? Our actions in response to faith 399 00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:08,880 are not optional. They're essential. 400 00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:14,040 They are what demonstrate our faith in the world. 401 00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:17,760 Amen. Now, now, Noah's faith, we know 402 00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:20,800 he had faith by Noah. He prepared to ark to the save 403 00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:23,520 in his family. Hebrews 11 tells us and we said 404 00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:27,280 last week that Noah's faith was accounted unto him for 405 00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:31,320 righteousness just as the book of Galatians talks how Abraham's 406 00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:34,960 faith was accounted unto him for righteousness. 407 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:41,440 And so the Lord saw he saw Noah's righteousness, right and 408 00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:44,480 that was accounted to him because of his faith and his 409 00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:46,200 response and obedience to that faith. 410 00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:50,160 So the Lord is saying through and what you are doing right 411 00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:53,680 that the getting to the go the Gopher and for wood, you know, 412 00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:57,360 and the fixing these things together and the pitching within 413 00:25:57,360 --> 00:26:03,240 without I see, I see I have seen your righteousness. 414 00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:06,800 Now look, the Bible says there's none righteous. 415 00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:09,440 No, not one. It says our righteousness is 416 00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:12,920 filthy rags right. We understand any righteousness 417 00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:17,760 we have is that that is totally given to us or bestowed upon us 418 00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:21,040 by God and Scripture bears that out of place. 419 00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:25,240 He said he accounted right. So it's like you have faith. 420 00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:27,320 I'm going to take that. I'm going to, I'm going to twist 421 00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:30,040 this around like, and I'm going to make that righteousness for 422 00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:31,760 you. It's not your righteousness. 423 00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:36,200 It was accounted to us by God. All right, but look at the 424 00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:38,480 benefit. One of the benefits, and this is 425 00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:41,920 recording Isaiah 54, one of the benefits of righteousness, 426 00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:46,320 Isaiah 54 and verse 14. The Scripture says in 427 00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:51,120 righteousness shalt thou be established. 428 00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:58,600 Thou shalt be far from oppression, for thou shalt not 429 00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:04,040 fear, and from terror, for it shall not come near thee. 430 00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:08,520 Look what happened. Noah's faith engendered 431 00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:13,760 righteousness, which in turn established him. 432 00:27:13,760 --> 00:27:18,280 How he built the ark, pitched it within without meant to the 433 00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:20,360 details as much as possible, got on it. 434 00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:24,520 And guess what? As a result, the rising 435 00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:27,760 floodwaters, he was riding on them. 436 00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:32,360 Bible says that the ship was even lifted up above the earth. 437 00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:37,080 All right, They, they, they were near him, but he was safe from 438 00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:41,560 the terror and the oppression of them, unlike other men, mankind 439 00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:46,160 who didn't have faith in the ark. 440 00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:49,000 But that faith that he had that was appointed to him as 441 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:53,440 righteousness established him, kept oppression and terror from 442 00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:55,720 him. And so God gets a little bit 443 00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:57,720 more detailed in verses 2:00 and 3:00. 444 00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:00,280 And you're probably feeling like we're never going to get through 445 00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:03,200 this because but listen, I'm sandwich and stuff together here 446 00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:06,640 in a bit, All right, He gets a little bit more detail of how 447 00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:09,520 many of what animals should be brought on the ark, right? 448 00:28:10,360 --> 00:28:14,360 So it was spoken of before that to the male and the female of 449 00:28:14,360 --> 00:28:17,800 every sort of living thing, it should be brought on the ark. 450 00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:21,160 But now we have this specification or further detail, 451 00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:28,880 that of the clean beast there's to be 7 pairs, and of that that 452 00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:37,800 isn't clean, the pair of fowls there is to be 7 pairs of fowl 453 00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:45,480 that must be brought as well. So if we were to throw up a good 454 00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:50,560 old childhood storybook of knowing the Ark, it it's wrong 455 00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:54,600 because there's some clean beasts that they have going in 456 00:28:54,600 --> 00:29:00,400 there that's just going in as a pair and not 7 pairs to say all 457 00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:02,880 right. And so, and there's some there's 458 00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:06,800 some vowels that are, you know, flying with it and it's mate and 459 00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:11,440 that's it. But nonetheless, here's my 460 00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:12,920 statement. Just follow me here. 461 00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:18,960 For anyone who believes that the details of God's instructions 462 00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:27,910 don't matter. Be glad that you were not 463 00:29:27,910 --> 00:29:30,670 responsible for making sure the animals got on the ark. 464 00:29:38,210 --> 00:29:42,970 Now, once we get in the book of Leviticus, maybe we'll do a 465 00:29:42,970 --> 00:29:47,610 series on Leviticus. One of these days whores fill in 466 00:29:47,610 --> 00:29:50,410 the minds of people and we'll sandwich it with the book of 467 00:29:50,410 --> 00:29:55,680 Hebrews. Once you get to the book of 468 00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:59,960 Leviticus Chapter 11, that's where God begins to codify or 469 00:29:59,960 --> 00:30:02,440 putting the law, all these different things about unclean 470 00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:05,960 and clean beasts, about hooves that are pardoned, those that 471 00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:08,760 chew the cud, trying to give all these particulars, but that 472 00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:12,840 isn't in place yet. But God spoke to Noah to take 473 00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:14,760 the clean and those that were not clean. 474 00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:19,960 Noah must have had some understanding already for God to 475 00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:25,320 speak to him in such terms. He must have known the 476 00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:27,800 difference. But here's the thing. 477 00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:32,200 Why in the world, God, do you want these extra beasts and 478 00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:35,320 foul? Why is this important? 479 00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:39,360 Well, everybody doing OK? I know of causing you to think. 480 00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:42,080 I'm sorry. I'm just so sorry. 481 00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:52,520 Since Eden, man could only eat herbs and the fruit of trees. 482 00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:55,840 We have that recorded that we've looked at before. 483 00:30:55,840 --> 00:31:01,080 Genesis 1 verses 29 and 30 tells us that those things, herbs and 484 00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:06,000 the fruit of the trees would be meat for Adam and Eve. 485 00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:13,440 So the extra animals at this time while they were on the ark 486 00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:19,480 weren't food for them because herbs and fruit of the trees was 487 00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:25,000 food at that moment in time. At least it wasn't food for them 488 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:27,560 for the present. Matter of fact, it's not until 489 00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:31,000 after the flood that the Bible tells us in Genesis 9 and verse 490 00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:35,440 #3 that now they can consume every moving thing that liveth. 491 00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:39,960 So they went from what seemed to be purely more so a vegetarian 492 00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:41,840 diet before the flood to after the flood. 493 00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:44,760 Meat is introduced. Now, some people go and say, 494 00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:46,640 well, that's the reason why they live so long to have vegetarian 495 00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:48,360 diet. So there's all you need to do is 496 00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:51,120 go back to eating lettuce and cabbage and stuff like that, and 497 00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:52,920 you'll live 900 years. Well, it's not going to happen. 498 00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:58,880 All right, go out tonight and take a fork with you and stab a 499 00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:00,280 living cow in the pasture. OK. 500 00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:06,880 Amen. But Genesis, sorry, you don't 501 00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:09,560 have any cows, do you? OK, We won't be at your house. 502 00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:19,920 Genesis 820 and Noah builded an altar. 503 00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:23,200 This this is after the flood. They've come off the ark, all of 504 00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:27,240 that. And Noah builded an altar unto 505 00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:34,880 the Lord and took of every clean beast and every clean fowl and 506 00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:38,080 offered burnt offerings on the altar. 507 00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:43,960 Now first, let's recognize we have no record that God told 508 00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:50,400 Noah to build an altar. It appears as though Noah felt 509 00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:57,200 compelled alone by himself, without any instruction, to 510 00:32:57,200 --> 00:33:04,640 build an altar and offer burnt offerings of clean beasts. 511 00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:10,040 And thou, What are you saying? I'm saying this is a scenario of 512 00:33:10,040 --> 00:33:15,120 numbers be an increase of clean beast and fowl and then they 513 00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:19,200 being sacrificed on an altar later when we have no recorded 514 00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:21,800 conversation between Noah and God about. 515 00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:26,000 This is one of the cases where Isaiah speaks that he declares 516 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:31,600 the end from the beginning, from the ancient of times, the things 517 00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:36,800 that are not yet done. Because before the first drop of 518 00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:41,800 rain fell, God saw a burnt offering laid on an altar that 519 00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:46,960 Noah would give for gratitude of having made it through what he 520 00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:52,000 just made it through. Look, we have no recorded 521 00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:57,720 conversation, but God through His instruction to Noah, 522 00:33:58,320 --> 00:34:03,160 provides for the offerings he never demanded Noah even to make 523 00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:08,280 before the flood. God told Noah, he said take 524 00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:13,120 seven of each male and female, clean animals and fowls. 525 00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:14,360 What are you doing? God? 526 00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:19,800 God knows the propensity, He knows the inclination of Noah. 527 00:34:20,120 --> 00:34:23,159 When he gets off this thing, he's going to want to worship. 528 00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:26,840 When he gets off this thing, when this is all over, he's want 529 00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:29,719 to going to want to return some thanks and gratitude. 530 00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:34,480 He said I'll make provision now for what I see he's going to 531 00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:41,000 want to do. Think if there was only one pair 532 00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:45,679 if he put them on the altar for a birth sacrifice. 533 00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:54,800 Noah just eliminated a kind Oops, sorry, there's no doves 534 00:34:54,800 --> 00:34:58,960 for the future, but God, I love you glory. 535 00:35:00,720 --> 00:35:03,800 He just eliminated a kind if it was some of the clean beasts of 536 00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:06,520 a certain sort and he didn't have the seven, but only one 537 00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:08,920 pair. He's eliminated the male or 538 00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:10,720 female. There's no reproduction with 539 00:35:10,720 --> 00:35:16,360 itself. He just eliminated a kind that 540 00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:19,520 that that's assuming that there's no reproduction or or 541 00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:21,480 any type of birth happening on the ark. 542 00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:27,680 And God was clear in the Scripture that he wanted to 543 00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:29,800 preserve of every sort and every kind. 544 00:35:30,240 --> 00:35:35,240 He was clear concerning that. So Noah, I'm going to have you. 545 00:35:35,240 --> 00:35:38,560 I'm going to instruct you to take more clean note. 546 00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:42,040 Noah didn't ask why, because this is this is the mentality of 547 00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:43,240 Noah. This is what we've learned from 548 00:35:43,240 --> 00:35:46,200 Noah thus far. God says Noah doesn't have some 549 00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:49,320 big conversation about why I need to know. 550 00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:53,320 I'm not doing it unless you tell me. 551 00:35:58,160 --> 00:36:03,120 Oh, God, that's, that's, that's, that's just the way that Noah 552 00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:05,040 operates. And so he don't even ask any 553 00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:05,680 questions. Why? 554 00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:10,040 Because at first it was like the two pair, but now, God, you've 555 00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:14,440 increased a clean beast to seven pair and you've increased foul. 556 00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:18,320 I mean, I mean, some people like brother Reese over here because 557 00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:20,120 he he admits all the time he's nosy. 558 00:36:20,120 --> 00:36:25,600 He would want to know you're not going to change this to two. 559 00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:27,640 You're not going to change this to a pair of the seven pair on 560 00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:28,760 me. You're not be telling me. 561 00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:33,680 I know how to use brooming them up and I'm not afraid to use a 562 00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:42,210 guy. But no one doesn't ask why. 563 00:36:42,730 --> 00:36:48,050 But it came full circle when he builds his altar and he's 564 00:36:48,050 --> 00:36:51,250 putting sacrifice upon there. What are you saying? 565 00:36:51,770 --> 00:36:58,080 I'm saying that Noah's meticulous obedience enriched 566 00:36:58,080 --> 00:37:03,760 his altar. What do you mean by the I'm 567 00:37:03,760 --> 00:37:08,480 saying the details do matter. There ain't no big deal. 568 00:37:10,240 --> 00:37:13,200 Talk to Earth without doves or without such and such them. 569 00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:18,040 Now I see we look at that. But let's bring this modern day 570 00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:21,760 age. Let's bring it modern. 571 00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:25,160 It don't matter. I know what the pastor preaches. 572 00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:29,080 I know what the Word says, I know what God is asking, but it 573 00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:32,480 don't that that that minute little detail matter really 574 00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:39,160 don't matter. Do you want the day whenever the 575 00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:43,760 ark is all said and done to be done and to find out then that 576 00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:52,480 it mattered? Amen. 577 00:37:54,240 --> 00:37:57,960 Glory, glory, glory. So our, our present preparations 578 00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:02,920 folks, it, it has significant impact even for some of our, our 579 00:38:02,920 --> 00:38:06,280 future spiritual aspects of our, our, our spiritual lives. 580 00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:11,880 We, we listen, there's times you might not see the reason behind 581 00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:17,880 God's particular instruction. Noah might not have, but he just 582 00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:22,280 trusted the instructor. I don't know why God you're 583 00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:24,800 increasing this, but I'm just going to trust you and I'm going 584 00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:28,320 to make sure that they are on the ark because you know best 585 00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:33,760 what we need. Amen. 586 00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:35,960 Someone say Amen. All right, I got to go. 587 00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:42,960 So this next little bit right here, this is probably going to 588 00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:46,320 be more like scrambled eggs, OK? It's not, it's not like a 589 00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:49,320 beautiful little boiled egg. It's not like a nice little egg 590 00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:51,720 that's over medium. It's scrambled, OK. 591 00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:53,640 What that means, I'm going to be jumping around a little bit. 592 00:38:54,040 --> 00:38:55,800 So it's just a little bit more like scrambled eggs. 593 00:38:56,680 --> 00:39:00,920 I'm still going to be in the flood story, OK, just in case 594 00:39:00,920 --> 00:39:02,520 anybody's really getting right there. 595 00:39:03,080 --> 00:39:04,720 But it's an egg. It's just scrambled. 596 00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:11,120 We don't know why. We don't know why they were to 597 00:39:11,120 --> 00:39:13,840 get on the Ark seven days before the rain started. 598 00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:17,320 We don't. That was the instruction given 599 00:39:17,320 --> 00:39:21,760 to them verse #4 that they would get on the Ark seven days before 600 00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:25,400 the rain started. But we do know again, they did. 601 00:39:26,120 --> 00:39:29,600 Verse 10 seems to indicate to us that they did in fact get on it. 602 00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:34,560 And if nothing else, I see this, and this is just personal, but I 603 00:39:34,560 --> 00:39:39,680 see this as a last gracious attempt of our God. 604 00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:45,040 God told him in chapter 6. You remember He said my Spirit 605 00:39:45,040 --> 00:39:47,200 will not always strive with your flesh. 606 00:39:50,680 --> 00:39:53,000 They're one against the other. Even New Testament, my spirit 607 00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:54,280 won't always strive for your flesh. 608 00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:59,920 And he gave them 120 years, 120 years. 609 00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:01,600 You can look back at it if you need to. 610 00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:04,000 It's Genesis chapter #6 and verse #3. 611 00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:08,280 Yet his day shall be 120 years. And as we looked at the 612 00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:12,000 possibility, like 120 years till D-Day, 120 years till the 613 00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:15,400 destruction of the world. If I see anything in the seven 614 00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:17,960 days that you could on the ark, and then seven days later I'll 615 00:40:17,960 --> 00:40:20,920 cause the rain to come, I almost just see another layer of grace 616 00:40:20,920 --> 00:40:23,240 on God. I told you 120 years will be 617 00:40:23,240 --> 00:40:25,440 destruction. How about 120 years? 618 00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:31,080 And let me just give just about seven more days because that 619 00:40:31,080 --> 00:40:33,840 portrays really the mentality of your God. 620 00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:39,120 If anybody, and I, I say this, I say this gingerly, but if any of 621 00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:42,160 us go to hell, it'll be because we trampled on God's grace to 622 00:40:42,160 --> 00:40:52,480 get there. So this story, scrambled egg, 623 00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:57,400 this story, we come up on this, this number 40, it's been 624 00:40:57,400 --> 00:41:00,440 enlisted in, in the years of people's ages, but this is 625 00:41:00,440 --> 00:41:04,000 really our first introduction into the, the number 40 and 626 00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:07,520 verse #4 and we've often heard of this number 40. 627 00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:09,440 Some people talked about it's the number of testing. 628 00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:12,440 It's the number of trial that we see throughout Scripture. 629 00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:15,400 However, it is also a number that prepares us for something 630 00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:17,800 else. It's a number of preparation. 631 00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:20,920 When we look at that in Scripture, for instance, we go 632 00:41:20,920 --> 00:41:24,800 to the New Testament Scripture. Jesus before he started his 633 00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:29,160 public ministry in the Gospels for that last three, 3 1/2 years 634 00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:32,680 of his life, the Bible says that he went into the wilderness. 635 00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:36,400 He was there for 40 days fasting, and he came from there 636 00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:40,960 and started his public ministry That 40 years, those or those 40 637 00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:45,640 days in the wilderness was prep for the public ministry of the 638 00:41:45,640 --> 00:41:48,440 Lord Jesus Christ. We read about the spies the 639 00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:51,480 first time that they go into the land of Canaan. 640 00:41:51,640 --> 00:41:56,240 They spy out the land for how many days, 40 days? 641 00:41:56,400 --> 00:41:59,880 And that was supposed to be for the preparation of them and the 642 00:41:59,880 --> 00:42:01,920 nation of Israel going in and possessing it. 643 00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:04,320 We know that didn't happen. There's a lack of faith, right? 644 00:42:04,640 --> 00:42:07,080 Amen. Israel, though they prepped for 645 00:42:07,080 --> 00:42:10,920 the promised land, the next generation, they were 40 not 646 00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:14,040 days, but years in the wilderness, right? 647 00:42:14,200 --> 00:42:17,600 And those of the older generation that were 20 years 648 00:42:17,600 --> 00:42:21,520 old and older had to die off in those forty years. 649 00:42:21,680 --> 00:42:25,760 So those 40 years was a preparation of getting rid of, I 650 00:42:25,760 --> 00:42:28,600 know that's bored words, but getting rid of that old 651 00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:33,440 generation so that they could enter into their promised land. 652 00:42:33,560 --> 00:42:36,400 We also read the New Testament Scripture and this happens with 653 00:42:36,480 --> 00:42:40,480 Jesus, but we also read the the the the principle of it in the 654 00:42:40,480 --> 00:42:42,160 book of Leviticus. Amen. 655 00:42:42,160 --> 00:42:46,720 That if a woman had a a male child, that she was to go 40 656 00:42:46,720 --> 00:42:49,800 days of purification before she could go before the Lord with 657 00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:52,400 dedication. That if she had a female child, 658 00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:58,080 she had to wait 80 days or twice, two sets of 40 in order 659 00:42:58,080 --> 00:43:01,640 to go before the Lord Amen after her purification and dedicate 660 00:43:01,640 --> 00:43:05,280 her child. In our story, these are 40 days 661 00:43:05,280 --> 00:43:09,200 and nights of rain that no doubt prepare and prep them and the 662 00:43:09,200 --> 00:43:13,000 earth for that matter, for a new creation. 663 00:43:13,160 --> 00:43:20,640 Someone say Amen, scrambled egg. All right, this is like essays 664 00:43:20,640 --> 00:43:25,640 right here at the end. If you ever thought, and this is 665 00:43:25,640 --> 00:43:28,480 probably not an if you ever I know you have, but I'll, I'll 666 00:43:28,480 --> 00:43:32,040 couch it in terms like if you ever, if you ever thought God 667 00:43:32,040 --> 00:43:36,560 went silent on you during your difficulty or when you've been 668 00:43:36,560 --> 00:43:40,560 waiting for something. Welcome to the Noah club. 669 00:43:41,840 --> 00:43:48,800 Welcome to the Noah club. It's a club of elite, I must 670 00:43:48,800 --> 00:43:52,800 say. But God talked to Noah according 671 00:43:52,800 --> 00:43:56,120 to what we have record. God talked to Noah before he got 672 00:43:56,120 --> 00:43:58,560 on the ark. God talked to him whenever he 673 00:43:58,560 --> 00:44:03,880 needed to get off the ark. But we have no record evidence 674 00:44:04,360 --> 00:44:08,920 that God spoke to him during the storm or while he was waiting. 675 00:44:08,920 --> 00:44:13,640 That's good. You're right. 676 00:44:13,640 --> 00:44:17,560 Welcome to the Noah club. Can you imagine? 677 00:44:20,200 --> 00:44:22,680 You got on 7 days early, mind you. 678 00:44:24,320 --> 00:44:32,760 Rain 40 days, 40 nights, 150 days of drifting, 150 days of 679 00:44:32,760 --> 00:44:37,240 the waters abating, 40 more days of the waters abating. 680 00:44:37,840 --> 00:44:40,160 Raven is sent out, it goes to and fro. 681 00:44:40,160 --> 00:44:42,800 A dove is sent out the same day comes back. 682 00:44:42,800 --> 00:44:45,480 He waits seven days and sends the dove out again. 683 00:44:46,240 --> 00:44:49,160 Dove comes back with all the branch in its mouth, waits seven 684 00:44:49,160 --> 00:44:51,440 more days and sends the dove out again. 685 00:44:52,080 --> 00:44:58,040 Then the dove goes, and then there's still more waiting until 686 00:44:58,040 --> 00:45:05,640 he finally comes off the ark. Over a year of time of being on 687 00:45:05,640 --> 00:45:11,440 the ark, stuff happening that from what we can gauge in 688 00:45:11,440 --> 00:45:13,400 Scripture had never happened before. 689 00:45:16,520 --> 00:45:19,040 Waiting. You know, God told him this is 690 00:45:19,040 --> 00:45:20,760 going to be 40 days and 40 nights. 691 00:45:20,840 --> 00:45:24,600 He did, He told him. But God, you didn't say anything 692 00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:27,480 about that 150 days of the waters prevailing after the rain 693 00:45:27,480 --> 00:45:30,520 stopped. You didn't say anything about 694 00:45:30,520 --> 00:45:32,800 the 150 days for the waters to subside. 695 00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:39,000 And I would have a few questions for God, but we have no 696 00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:42,400 conversation going on, not during the storm, not during the 697 00:45:42,400 --> 00:45:45,080 waiting. Welcome to Noah's club. 698 00:45:50,360 --> 00:45:54,320 Welcome to Noah's club. He told me when to get on. 699 00:45:54,560 --> 00:45:57,160 He tells me when to get off. It'd been nice to hear. 700 00:45:57,240 --> 00:46:02,520 I have silence in between. But remember that the absence of 701 00:46:02,520 --> 00:46:04,600 dialogue does not mean the absence of God. 702 00:46:09,640 --> 00:46:12,560 Just because God isn't speaking to you in your storm doesn't 703 00:46:12,560 --> 00:46:14,640 mean he's not there in your storm. 704 00:46:15,800 --> 00:46:18,760 Just because He's not speaking to you whenever you're waiting 705 00:46:18,760 --> 00:46:21,040 doesn't mean He's not sitting there with you as you're 706 00:46:21,040 --> 00:46:23,800 waiting. Welcome to the Noah club. 707 00:46:26,920 --> 00:46:32,080 Amen. Lastly, scrambled egg. 708 00:46:32,080 --> 00:46:39,720 We're going to go get that cow. Verse 16 states again that the 709 00:46:39,720 --> 00:46:44,000 Lord shut Noah in along with all the living things that were upon 710 00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:48,080 the ark. Again, God didn't put Noah on 711 00:46:48,080 --> 00:46:50,200 the ark. Noah dot on the ark. 712 00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:55,400 He had the invitation of God, but his feet did The Walking. 713 00:46:58,320 --> 00:47:00,160 We say all the time God is a gentleman. 714 00:47:00,160 --> 00:47:04,640 He will not force and he won't, but he will pose the invitation 715 00:47:04,640 --> 00:47:09,960 and it's up to us to accept. God didn't put Noah on the ark. 716 00:47:10,200 --> 00:47:14,480 Noah dot on the ark and by doing so he was following the 717 00:47:14,480 --> 00:47:17,360 invitation of the Lord. He was following the command of 718 00:47:17,360 --> 00:47:21,160 the Lord, but whenever he got there, God did shut him along 719 00:47:21,160 --> 00:47:22,960 with those other things up on the ark. 720 00:47:23,120 --> 00:47:26,000 They entered there willfully by their obedience. 721 00:47:26,240 --> 00:47:28,680 But God says, if you'll go there, I'll shut you in. 722 00:47:31,960 --> 00:47:36,080 What does that mean to me? Because there's something about 723 00:47:36,080 --> 00:47:39,200 God shutting you in on something that you might have some doubts 724 00:47:39,200 --> 00:47:44,560 about. God shut you in. 725 00:47:44,760 --> 00:47:47,440 There was a divine closure on the matter of the ark whenever 726 00:47:47,440 --> 00:47:53,160 God shut the door. See, when God shuts us in, he's 727 00:47:53,160 --> 00:47:56,240 effectively saying, if I could tonight, this, that's where you 728 00:47:56,240 --> 00:48:01,000 need to be. There's no need to second guess 729 00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:04,640 at Noah. There's no need to look back. 730 00:48:05,720 --> 00:48:08,720 I've shut you in. This is where you should be at. 731 00:48:09,120 --> 00:48:12,120 And so with that type of assurance from God, hopefully 732 00:48:12,120 --> 00:48:15,560 that what that will do for me is that I'll stay committed to the 733 00:48:15,560 --> 00:48:21,680 path without wavering. I have no record in Scripture or 734 00:48:21,680 --> 00:48:23,760 any of Noah's family. Whenever things were topsy 735 00:48:23,760 --> 00:48:27,040 turvy, they went up to the window of the ark and started 736 00:48:27,040 --> 00:48:29,200 hanging their body halfway up, thinking, I'm getting off this 737 00:48:29,200 --> 00:48:34,360 thing, I'm out of here. No, God shut the door. 738 00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:37,920 They trusted that that's where they needed to be. 739 00:48:39,640 --> 00:48:43,680 And eight souls went in the ark and eight souls came out of the 740 00:48:43,680 --> 00:48:46,600 ark. Stay with me tonight. 741 00:48:46,640 --> 00:48:48,760 Look at this, folks. You all should be so happy. 742 00:48:50,080 --> 00:48:54,520 It's still green. I don't know what club that is, 743 00:48:54,520 --> 00:48:56,240 but I don't know if it's Noah's club. 744 00:48:56,800 --> 00:49:04,280 Get done early. What I know, what you know from 745 00:49:04,280 --> 00:49:07,480 our Christian experience, is this, is that sometimes God is 746 00:49:07,480 --> 00:49:09,760 very explicit with his instructions, and sometimes it 747 00:49:09,760 --> 00:49:18,140 feels as though he's vague. But we must know in each whether 748 00:49:18,140 --> 00:49:24,820 explicit or vague, that we can trust his character and his past 749 00:49:24,820 --> 00:49:27,380 dealings with us. Amen. 750 00:49:28,860 --> 00:49:33,140 No, it didn't have all the answers, nor did he see the 751 00:49:33,140 --> 00:49:37,880 complete picture. He's not like us stepping out 752 00:49:37,880 --> 00:49:40,480 here and he sees Genesis 6 through Chapter 9. 753 00:49:40,920 --> 00:49:47,360 No, he doesn't see the complete picture, but he moves forward by 754 00:49:47,360 --> 00:49:52,520 faith, inch by inch, day by day, timbered by timber, pitch by 755 00:49:52,520 --> 00:49:59,560 pitch, trusting that each step, this is a God ordained step and 756 00:50:00,080 --> 00:50:01,800 it's going to preserve me. It's going to preserve my 757 00:50:01,800 --> 00:50:04,040 family. It's going to safeguard and 758 00:50:04,040 --> 00:50:06,520 continue life here on earth if we'll just listen to the voice 759 00:50:06,520 --> 00:50:09,240 of God. We bow our heads all across this 760 00:50:09,240 --> 00:50:11,560 place tonight. I just ask you a few things or 761 00:50:11,560 --> 00:50:13,720 maybe perhaps make a few statements to you tonight 762 00:50:13,920 --> 00:50:16,720 concerning Noah and the flood and what we've talked about here 763 00:50:16,720 --> 00:50:18,000 this evening. And that is this. 764 00:50:19,680 --> 00:50:22,840 I ask you tonight to be bold with God. 765 00:50:24,160 --> 00:50:29,600 Be bold and courageous with God. And ask God about areas of your 766 00:50:29,600 --> 00:50:32,960 life where you're reluctant to obey him. 767 00:50:36,360 --> 00:50:40,960 Ask God about areas of your life where you're reluctant to obey 768 00:50:40,960 --> 00:50:44,480 him, kind of like God. The two going to seven. 769 00:50:44,600 --> 00:50:49,320 Ask God about areas of your life where you're reluctant to obey 770 00:50:49,320 --> 00:50:52,840 him, maybe in part because you don't understand him. 771 00:50:53,960 --> 00:50:59,480 And ask yourself, will I trust? Will I trust even though I don't 772 00:50:59,480 --> 00:51:04,240 understand because I know him or will I just totally abandoned 773 00:51:04,240 --> 00:51:07,480 all because I don't understand what God's doing right now? 774 00:51:10,240 --> 00:51:12,840 I challenge you tonight with this concerning knowing the 775 00:51:12,840 --> 00:51:17,160 flood as what we spoken of here again tonight is this identify 776 00:51:17,160 --> 00:51:22,640 other places in your life in Christian walk where you may be 777 00:51:22,640 --> 00:51:27,080 rushing ahead or other ones where you may be holding back. 778 00:51:27,720 --> 00:51:32,440 What are you saying? Timing again, timing is 779 00:51:32,440 --> 00:51:37,720 absolutely important in these and what we talked about 780 00:51:37,720 --> 00:51:42,680 tonight, details and timing. Seven days before the rain 781 00:51:42,680 --> 00:51:45,120 comes, you want me on details and timing? 782 00:51:46,160 --> 00:51:49,000 All these things are very valid and very important. 783 00:51:49,160 --> 00:51:50,840 So ask yourself those questions tonight. 784 00:51:51,040 --> 00:51:53,040 Can we lift our hands as our heads are bowed? 785 00:51:53,040 --> 00:51:54,720 Can we just begin to talk to the Lord? 786 00:51:55,200 --> 00:51:58,040 You can go on in this last prayer that we have together 787 00:51:58,240 --> 00:52:01,680 here this evening, just to be bold with God and ask him, Lord, 788 00:52:01,680 --> 00:52:04,360 Lord, what about those areas of my life, God? 789 00:52:04,840 --> 00:52:07,200 Those areas of my life where I'm reluctant? 790 00:52:07,200 --> 00:52:10,040 Those areas of my life, God, where, where? 791 00:52:10,040 --> 00:52:13,200 Where I don't understand, but I hear the instruction, but I 792 00:52:13,200 --> 00:52:16,440 don't understand. I pray, O Lord, today, help me 793 00:52:16,440 --> 00:52:19,320 God, let my trust the Lord be resolute. 794 00:52:19,320 --> 00:52:23,320 Let let my face faith God, be founded, Lord, upon the one that 795 00:52:23,320 --> 00:52:26,920 has brought me thus far. Help me, Lord, to lean upon my 796 00:52:26,920 --> 00:52:31,080 past experiences with God. Help me to lean upon the 797 00:52:31,080 --> 00:52:33,920 characterization of that I know of my God. 798 00:52:34,080 --> 00:52:38,440 I pray Lord, help me God not to get too far ahead or lag too far 799 00:52:38,440 --> 00:52:40,880 behind. Help me God to be in step with 800 00:52:40,880 --> 00:52:44,200 your will to be in step Lord, with your purpose to be in step 801 00:52:44,200 --> 00:52:47,680 God with your plan. Lord, teach me O God, God, help 802 00:52:47,680 --> 00:52:51,080 me to have a teachable spirit. Oh Lord, help me oh God, to be 803 00:52:51,080 --> 00:52:54,400 able to endure the days when I don't hear the voice, endure the 804 00:52:54,400 --> 00:52:57,200 storms God, when there is no dialogue taking place. 805 00:52:57,200 --> 00:53:00,600 Let me not equal that to God is not present God. 806 00:53:00,800 --> 00:53:04,680 I pray, oh Lord today help us to have an ear that is always open 807 00:53:04,800 --> 00:53:08,520 Lord, and a light that is obedient Lord to the ways and 808 00:53:08,520 --> 00:53:11,400 the precepts of the Lord God, I know you have our best 809 00:53:11,400 --> 00:53:13,360 interests. I say it so many times, but you 810 00:53:13,360 --> 00:53:17,080 have our best interests in mind, God, and we want to be proven as 811 00:53:17,160 --> 00:53:20,440 faithful unto you. God, when we this thing's all 812 00:53:20,440 --> 00:53:23,960 said and done and we come to the opposite side of the shore, so 813 00:53:23,960 --> 00:53:27,280 to speak, and we come off this heart, we want Lord Jesus to be 814 00:53:27,280 --> 00:53:31,520 found to be faithful and true. In the lovely name of the Lord 815 00:53:31,520 --> 00:53:34,600 Jesus Christ that I pray Hallelujah and Amen. 816 00:53:34,600 --> 00:53:39,080 The church say Amen, God bless you tonight, Amen. 817 00:53:39,080 --> 00:53:41,840 We'll continue from there, Amen, Next week. 818 00:53:42,640 --> 00:53:45,080 Yep, books are back there on that back table. 819 00:53:45,160 --> 00:53:48,680 If you want one, take it. You don't even have to tell me 820 00:53:48,680 --> 00:53:56,780 you took it. 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