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 --> 00:00:24,200 by today's podcast. Never fail. 7 00:00:26,120 --> 00:00:27,920 Amen. You return to your seats tonight 8 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:29,840 you so desire. Amen. 9 00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:33,840 Please remember that this coming Sunday is our Mother's Day talk 10 00:00:33,840 --> 00:00:36,840 show. Amen in the AMAM only. 11 00:00:36,840 --> 00:00:40,400 There will be no evening service this coming Sunday. 12 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:43,840 We have also some students here part of the church that are 13 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:48,760 graduating on Saturday Amen as well be taking place. 14 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:54,360 Also, if you plan to help and volunteer get food to our 15 00:00:54,360 --> 00:00:58,840 firefighters within our community on the 13th, which is 16 00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:05,120 next Monday, see Sister Angie Cruz and she can help direct you 17 00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:10,400 concerning that. Also on Friday, May the 17th is 18 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:13,040 mobile food distribution that'll be taking place here at the 19 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:14,480 church. All right. 20 00:01:14,480 --> 00:01:17,200 And then kind of partnering with tri-state Food Bank. 21 00:01:17,520 --> 00:01:21,760 And so it's slated for 12:00 to 2:00, but I of course know that 22 00:01:21,760 --> 00:01:24,000 we it's can go beyond that as well. 23 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:27,000 Amen. And so just be mindful of that. 24 00:01:27,960 --> 00:01:30,280 Hallelujah. So those are just a few of the 25 00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:32,120 things that's going on. Amen. 26 00:01:32,640 --> 00:01:34,960 We're going to turn to the book of Genesis here tonight. 27 00:01:43,510 --> 00:01:52,150 Amen. Genesis chapter #8 And we're 28 00:01:52,150 --> 00:01:55,550 going to read a few verses of Scripture here tonight. 29 00:01:56,070 --> 00:02:00,550 We left off with verse #14 We'll pick back up with that here this 30 00:02:00,550 --> 00:02:05,040 evening. Genesis chapter #8 verse #14 The 31 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:08,639 Bible says in the second month, on the 7th and 20th day, or the 32 00:02:08,639 --> 00:02:12,400 27th day of the month, was the earth dried. 33 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:17,240 And God spake unto Noah, saying, Go forth of the ark, thou and 34 00:02:17,240 --> 00:02:20,240 thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons wives with thee. 35 00:02:20,920 --> 00:02:23,960 Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee 36 00:02:23,960 --> 00:02:27,360 of all flesh, both the fowl and of cattle, and of creeping thing 37 00:02:27,840 --> 00:02:30,640 that creepeth upon the earth, that they may breed abundantly 38 00:02:30,640 --> 00:02:33,280 in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth. 39 00:02:33,280 --> 00:02:37,040 And Noah went forth in his sons, and his wife, and his sons wives 40 00:02:37,040 --> 00:02:39,560 with him. Every beast, every creeping 41 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:43,120 thing, and every fowl whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after 42 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:46,400 their kinds went out, went forth out of the ark. 43 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:49,520 And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord, and took of every 44 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:52,840 clean beast and every fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the 45 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:54,640 altar. And the Lord smelled a sweet 46 00:02:54,640 --> 00:02:56,720 savour. The Lord said in his heart, I 47 00:02:56,720 --> 00:02:59,960 will not again curse the ground anymore for man's sake, for the 48 00:02:59,960 --> 00:03:02,400 imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth. 49 00:03:02,840 --> 00:03:06,600 Neither will I smite again, smite any more every living 50 00:03:06,600 --> 00:03:10,240 thing as I have done, while the earth remains of seed time and 51 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:13,880 harvest and cold and heat, summer and winter and day and 52 00:03:13,880 --> 00:03:17,680 night shall not cease. I want tonight just going to 53 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:20,360 title this Beyond the flood, All right? 54 00:03:20,360 --> 00:03:23,280 Beyond the flood, because now we're on the backside of it, 55 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:24,880 Amen. And so look at that. 56 00:03:24,880 --> 00:03:28,280 We'll delve into chapter #9 here a little bit as well, too, 57 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:30,440 beyond the flood. Glad to have Aiden with us 58 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:33,400 tonight here again with Glenna. Glad to have Isaiah with us 59 00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:38,840 tonight, Amen, as well, Amen. So beyond the flood, we'll pray. 60 00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:40,440 Father, I need your help tonight. 61 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:42,840 God, we all do. Lord, in this place. 62 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:45,680 God, the truths of your word, help him God to find Lord 63 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:48,880 placements Lord in our own individual lives and will not 64 00:03:48,880 --> 00:03:52,440 fail to thank you and praise you for in the name of Jesus Christ 65 00:03:52,440 --> 00:03:54,520 that we pray. Amen. 66 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:57,800 I want to say Amen. You may be seated. 67 00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:05,200 I'm kind of backtracking just a little bit, maybe just a little 68 00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:07,520 redundant, a little repetitive here. 69 00:04:08,040 --> 00:04:12,840 But remember, as we start here tonight, again, we, we had the 70 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:16,120 graphs and stuff up last week and the dates that we know that 71 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:18,920 were included in Scripture. And so that's the reason why I 72 00:04:18,920 --> 00:04:23,560 started with verse #14 on that second month of that 27th day is 73 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:27,400 when the Lord spoke to Noah. As we continue reading, He spoke 74 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:30,040 to Noah and them that they should come off the ark. 75 00:04:30,040 --> 00:04:32,880 And if you'll remember, we looked at this remember as far 76 00:04:32,880 --> 00:04:37,080 as records go, when God told Noah to get off the ark, that 77 00:04:37,080 --> 00:04:40,120 was the first time Noah has heard from God, according to the 78 00:04:40,120 --> 00:04:44,080 records, since he had told Noah to get on the ark. 79 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:45,680 So he told. Him to get on the ark? 80 00:04:45,840 --> 00:04:47,200 Here's nothing. For a little. 81 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:53,440 Over a year and and then he is told to get off the ark and so 82 00:04:53,440 --> 00:04:56,640 this whole concept and idea still rocks my boat. 83 00:04:56,640 --> 00:05:00,640 And yes, the pun is intended. It's still rocks my boat. 84 00:05:00,960 --> 00:05:06,040 Because no one knew what the ark would save him from. 85 00:05:06,280 --> 00:05:09,920 God told him what was going to take place as far as 40 days of 86 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:11,840 rain and night. That was kind of it in a 87 00:05:11,840 --> 00:05:14,520 nutshell, really, of what God shared with with Noah. 88 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:18,720 He didn't share all the details, but enough of that 40 days and 89 00:05:18,720 --> 00:05:21,640 40 nights. So he knew, he knew that the ark 90 00:05:21,880 --> 00:05:26,000 would save him and his family from that again, but he did not 91 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:30,080 know the length of time that they would be on the ark, nor 92 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:33,840 did he know the severity of everything that took place while 93 00:05:33,840 --> 00:05:37,200 they were on the ark. And so that really rocks my boat 94 00:05:37,200 --> 00:05:41,520 a little bit to not know those things, but yet know that 95 00:05:41,520 --> 00:05:44,480 there's 40 days, 40 nights, and all of this that God is going to 96 00:05:44,760 --> 00:05:48,000 keep me from if I'll just join on this ark. 97 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:52,400 The apostle Paul said in Second Corinthians one and verse #5 he 98 00:05:52,400 --> 00:05:59,840 says, For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our 99 00:05:59,840 --> 00:06:04,280 consolation also aboundeth by Christ. 100 00:06:04,640 --> 00:06:08,440 And what's interesting about that is this is that both the 101 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:12,280 sufferings of Christ and the consolation of Christ concern 102 00:06:12,280 --> 00:06:15,000 us. It's not one or the other one to 103 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:17,440 preclude the other, but both of these things. 104 00:06:17,440 --> 00:06:20,800 And really that's what Noah and his family faced here in the 105 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:22,920 ark. They face the consolation 106 00:06:22,920 --> 00:06:25,480 because they were on the ark. Their lives were spared. 107 00:06:25,680 --> 00:06:28,800 But there was no doubt also some suffering for the length of time 108 00:06:28,800 --> 00:06:31,400 that they were on it, some of the headache and the heartache 109 00:06:31,640 --> 00:06:34,360 of having to deal with everything that was taking 110 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:36,720 place. Just because they were on the 111 00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:43,000 ark does not mean they did not feel the UPS and the downs of 112 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:46,800 the waves. Just because they were safe on 113 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:50,440 the ark does not mean they did not experience the turmoil of 114 00:06:50,440 --> 00:06:53,600 being crammed in with other animals and all that goes with 115 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:55,400 that. And your imagination can go 116 00:06:55,560 --> 00:06:58,800 wild. So they had both the consolation 117 00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:02,520 of the Lord, but there was also some suffering, if you want to 118 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:05,200 call that as well. And with that, I think it's 119 00:07:05,200 --> 00:07:08,720 important to understand then that our obedience to God's 120 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:14,800 commands does not exempt us from the trials and challenges of 121 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:18,160 this life. You can still be on the ark and 122 00:07:18,160 --> 00:07:21,320 feel the wind. You still be on the ark and feel 123 00:07:21,440 --> 00:07:24,480 that the tossing of the to and fro of the boat. 124 00:07:24,880 --> 00:07:28,640 The apostle Paul also said in Second Corinthians chapter 4 125 00:07:29,080 --> 00:07:32,040 verses 8 through 10. These are popular verses the 126 00:07:32,040 --> 00:07:35,760 Scripture. He says we are troubled on every 127 00:07:35,760 --> 00:07:42,680 side, yet not distressed. We are perplexed, but not in 128 00:07:42,680 --> 00:07:49,840 despair, persecuted but not forsaken, cast down but not 129 00:07:49,840 --> 00:07:54,680 destroyed, always bearing about in the body the dying of the 130 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:59,560 Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest 131 00:07:59,720 --> 00:08:01,840 in our body. What are you saying? 132 00:08:01,840 --> 00:08:04,360 I'm saying sometimes we are all of that. 133 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:08,520 Sometimes we are troubled, sometimes we are perplexed, 134 00:08:08,520 --> 00:08:12,160 sometimes we are persecuted and cast down. 135 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:15,120 But if we're Noah, we're still alive. 136 00:08:17,120 --> 00:08:21,200 We're still alive. The, the ark has not capsized. 137 00:08:21,200 --> 00:08:25,040 The, the ark has not sprung a leak, so to speak. 138 00:08:25,360 --> 00:08:30,240 Yes, it may pitch and heave and toss and and and sway, but at 139 00:08:30,240 --> 00:08:34,520 least it's still afloat. And so this, this ark that we 140 00:08:34,520 --> 00:08:38,799 are on May, may at times creak and groan, but we're confident 141 00:08:38,799 --> 00:08:42,280 in God's design. And so we take consolation in 142 00:08:42,280 --> 00:08:45,240 our suffering as a result of that. 143 00:08:45,560 --> 00:08:49,480 And so this next thing, if you look at verse #16 and this may 144 00:08:49,480 --> 00:08:53,080 seem petty, OK, this may seem petty, but I believe it's 145 00:08:53,080 --> 00:08:57,200 significant. All right, God instructed Noah 146 00:08:57,720 --> 00:09:02,120 on how they were to disembark from the ark, All right? 147 00:09:02,320 --> 00:09:04,760 He told them how to get on, but he also told them how they were 148 00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:08,120 to disembark. Verse #16 this was this was his 149 00:09:08,120 --> 00:09:09,800 saying. He says, go forth. 150 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:13,080 This is his instruction. Go forth of the ark of thou. 151 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:17,760 He's speaking to Noah and thy wife and thy sons and thy sons 152 00:09:17,760 --> 00:09:22,200 wives with thee. Then in verse #18 verse #18 153 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:25,200 records how they came off the ark. 154 00:09:25,760 --> 00:09:32,680 Verse #18 says, And Noah went forth, and his sons and his wife 155 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:36,320 and his sons wives with him. Did you see it? 156 00:09:37,800 --> 00:09:43,080 Did you see it? God says I want Noah, then his 157 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:46,000 wife, then his sons, then their wives. 158 00:09:46,480 --> 00:09:53,240 They came off Noah and his sons, then his wife and their wives. 159 00:09:55,040 --> 00:10:00,120 God had instructed them in a sense to leave as couples off 160 00:10:00,120 --> 00:10:08,280 the ark, but the way that they exited was boys 1st and then the 161 00:10:08,280 --> 00:10:10,560 ladies. Just stay with me here for a 162 00:10:10,560 --> 00:10:12,680 moment. Again, you may think it's petty. 163 00:10:12,680 --> 00:10:16,280 I believe it's important. Before the flood, the 164 00:10:16,280 --> 00:10:22,760 instructions for entering the ark were given to them as they 165 00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:26,160 really did come off the ark. They were to go on Noah and his 166 00:10:26,160 --> 00:10:28,600 sons, then his wife and then his son's wife. 167 00:10:28,760 --> 00:10:31,120 That were the instructions that were given. 168 00:10:31,120 --> 00:10:33,360 Sometimes it was given very generally because we have a lot 169 00:10:33,360 --> 00:10:36,720 of the repetition in Scripture, but when they boarded the Ark. 170 00:10:37,320 --> 00:10:40,560 It was as when they came off, the ark really came off, No. 171 00:10:40,560 --> 00:10:42,560 Genesis 16 and 18. I ain't going to read every 172 00:10:42,560 --> 00:10:47,200 verse, but just snippets of it. Genesis 618 This is instruction, 173 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:50,960 thou and thy sons and thy wife and thy sons wives with thee. 174 00:10:50,960 --> 00:10:54,720 That's how they're to go on. Genesis 71 Again, this is a 175 00:10:54,720 --> 00:10:57,160 generality. Come thou all thy house into the 176 00:10:57,160 --> 00:10:59,760 ark. Genesis 7/7 When they actually 177 00:10:59,760 --> 00:11:01,240 went in, this is actually what occurred. 178 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:05,360 Noah went in and his sons and his wife and his sons wives with 179 00:11:05,360 --> 00:11:08,800 him. Genesis 713 again, how they went 180 00:11:08,800 --> 00:11:12,760 in actually entered Noah and Shem and Ham and Jacob and the 181 00:11:12,760 --> 00:11:16,520 son, the sons of Noah and Noah's wife and the three wives of his 182 00:11:16,520 --> 00:11:18,680 sons with them. All right. 183 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:24,160 But as I said in a previous lesson, and I made note that God 184 00:11:24,160 --> 00:11:27,400 prescribed this order of them going on the ark entering as 185 00:11:27,400 --> 00:11:30,160 Noah and his sons, and then wife and his sons wives. 186 00:11:30,160 --> 00:11:33,920 And I made a a mention of how the Lord was showing forth 187 00:11:33,920 --> 00:11:36,360 headship. That it's in and it's even true 188 00:11:36,360 --> 00:11:39,600 still yet today that if if the father of the patriarch of the 189 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:43,040 family will take a lead for the things of God, then it's more 190 00:11:43,040 --> 00:11:45,520 likely that his family will follow suit. 191 00:11:45,520 --> 00:11:49,520 That's that's that's founded statistical evidence even from 192 00:11:49,520 --> 00:11:51,440 today. And so that he was marking 193 00:11:51,440 --> 00:11:54,040 headship that he would go then his family would follow. 194 00:11:54,320 --> 00:11:57,560 But the purpose and this again, you might think it's petty and I 195 00:11:57,560 --> 00:12:00,000 could be totally wrong, but I'm just telling you, the purpose 196 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:01,760 for coming off the ark was different. 197 00:12:02,160 --> 00:12:05,920 Rather than God underscoring headship, he wanted to emphasize 198 00:12:05,920 --> 00:12:10,800 relationship. Man and woman, you might say, 199 00:12:11,200 --> 00:12:12,560 Brett McGee, what's the big deal? 200 00:12:12,720 --> 00:12:15,760 You, you, you've had too many pepperonis or you ate pizza late 201 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:19,680 at night. Well, think of it for a moment 202 00:12:19,680 --> 00:12:23,920 before we got here. The family since the beginning 203 00:12:23,920 --> 00:12:30,000 till now has steadily dissolved since the fall. 204 00:12:32,040 --> 00:12:36,480 The family has had a a steady dissolving and introduction and 205 00:12:36,480 --> 00:12:40,320 growing of dysfunction in it since the fall. 206 00:12:40,320 --> 00:12:43,400 We, we've highlighted this a few times already to this point of 207 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:45,320 time. Remember, let's start back at 208 00:12:45,320 --> 00:12:48,240 the beginning and that's not too far for us, at least for right 209 00:12:48,240 --> 00:12:49,240 now. Amen. 210 00:12:49,560 --> 00:12:54,160 Remember, unless, unless God spoke directly to Eve, she 211 00:12:54,160 --> 00:12:57,000 learned the information she learned about the tree of life 212 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:00,120 and the tree of knowledge and good and evil from her husband, 213 00:13:00,840 --> 00:13:02,760 unless God spoke to her directly. 214 00:13:03,320 --> 00:13:07,680 And yet with this information, she went forward and took of the 215 00:13:07,680 --> 00:13:11,720 fruit and her husband was there with her, the Bible tells us. 216 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:17,120 And he didn't say anything, didn't say anything, didn't do 217 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:19,400 anything. And in the process, when God 218 00:13:19,400 --> 00:13:22,920 came to talk to them about this whole occurrence, Adam blamed 219 00:13:22,920 --> 00:13:30,760 his wife and this woman who God made for Adam to be his help 220 00:13:30,760 --> 00:13:35,000 meet this woman that came from his side. 221 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:38,680 Even in the speaking to her, He spoke to her that she should 222 00:13:38,680 --> 00:13:42,560 have some type of affinity or desire toward him and that he 223 00:13:42,560 --> 00:13:47,680 should rule over her in the sense of being responsible for 224 00:13:47,680 --> 00:13:50,520 her. I believe coming off the ark, 225 00:13:50,520 --> 00:13:53,480 God gave specific instructions of how they come off the ark. 226 00:13:53,680 --> 00:13:58,200 Because again, God is hitting the reset button not just for 227 00:13:58,200 --> 00:14:01,440 creation. God is hitting the reset button 228 00:14:01,640 --> 00:14:05,760 for the family. He's wanting them to step off 229 00:14:05,760 --> 00:14:09,560 the ark. Man and woman, Noah and his 230 00:14:09,560 --> 00:14:15,600 wife, him and his wife, him and his wife, Jacob and his wife. 231 00:14:15,840 --> 00:14:18,840 Because before the flood, there's been this breakdown 232 00:14:18,840 --> 00:14:22,000 between the man and his wife. Amen. 233 00:14:22,160 --> 00:14:27,920 Before the flood, we have we have Lamech, according to Keynes 234 00:14:27,920 --> 00:14:30,920 line, who was practicing polygamy, he had more than one 235 00:14:30,920 --> 00:14:32,600 wife. Huh. 236 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:36,240 Before the flood. And so part of the human 237 00:14:36,240 --> 00:14:40,280 condition, part of fallen human condition, is the dysfunction of 238 00:14:40,280 --> 00:14:43,120 families. And so God coming off the ark 239 00:14:43,120 --> 00:14:47,480 with a recreation is also going to have a, a fresh start with 240 00:14:47,480 --> 00:14:51,480 the family, with the couple, the man and the woman, Amen, To 241 00:14:51,480 --> 00:14:56,000 begin again on this earth. But instead of following that 242 00:14:56,000 --> 00:15:00,240 order, the men came off and then the women came off. 243 00:15:00,600 --> 00:15:02,720 And I believe that is significant. 244 00:15:03,080 --> 00:15:05,920 Amen. That they came off like that 245 00:15:05,920 --> 00:15:11,080 rather than like God expected them or, or instructed them to 246 00:15:11,080 --> 00:15:13,800 come off. Because coming off like they did 247 00:15:14,160 --> 00:15:17,520 is almost, they're not saying it with their mouth, but the way 248 00:15:17,520 --> 00:15:19,800 that they're coming off. It's like this whole art 249 00:15:19,800 --> 00:15:28,280 scenario affected every area of my life except my family, 'cause 250 00:15:28,280 --> 00:15:31,600 God wants this journey. We talked about the the the ark 251 00:15:31,600 --> 00:15:33,080 even be a metaphor for the church. 252 00:15:33,520 --> 00:15:36,800 God wants this journey to not just revolutionize us 253 00:15:36,880 --> 00:15:40,560 individually, but collectively as family units. 254 00:15:41,720 --> 00:15:45,560 Though Noah had been pictured as and he has and we've we've we've 255 00:15:45,560 --> 00:15:48,440 prompted that looked at that, you know, he did all that the 256 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:50,000 Lord commanded. He did all that the Lord 257 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:52,840 commanded. Although he is is pictured like 258 00:15:52,840 --> 00:15:55,720 that all times in Scripture as an obedient man. 259 00:15:55,880 --> 00:16:00,960 He's not a perfect man. And that is important for every 260 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:04,160 character in Scripture because we have stuff we focus on about 261 00:16:04,160 --> 00:16:06,400 them that are grand. And there are some grand things, 262 00:16:06,520 --> 00:16:12,000 but none of them are perfect, just as none of us are perfect. 263 00:16:12,720 --> 00:16:15,440 He is an obedient man, but he's not a perfect man. 264 00:16:15,720 --> 00:16:17,560 And so God certainly listened to me. 265 00:16:17,680 --> 00:16:22,120 So he comes off there, not necessarily as prescribed, and 266 00:16:22,120 --> 00:16:26,800 then goes over and builds an altar that God didn't even ask 267 00:16:26,800 --> 00:16:33,360 him to build. And so I'm sure that God is, is 268 00:16:33,360 --> 00:16:34,560 appreciative. He's happy. 269 00:16:34,560 --> 00:16:38,040 He's like, yay, Noah, you're building the old, I didn't even 270 00:16:38,040 --> 00:16:40,880 ask you to do that. Amen. 271 00:16:41,040 --> 00:16:44,400 And he's happy about that. He's happy that Noah could walk 272 00:16:44,400 --> 00:16:46,360 with him, that Noah could walk with God. 273 00:16:46,520 --> 00:16:49,160 But if you can walk with me, why couldn't you walk with your wife 274 00:16:49,160 --> 00:16:55,120 off the 'cause I asked you to do that. 275 00:16:55,120 --> 00:16:59,880 Is everybody doing OK? The statement is this that 276 00:17:00,040 --> 00:17:03,320 burned into my heart this afternoon is sometimes we 277 00:17:03,320 --> 00:17:08,520 believe we're perfect, doing the unrequested good deeds while 278 00:17:08,520 --> 00:17:10,880 neglecting God's actual commands. 279 00:17:17,640 --> 00:17:21,640 So yes, there's things that we want to applaud him, yes, for 280 00:17:21,640 --> 00:17:25,040 that altar, but let's not forget some of these other things as 281 00:17:25,040 --> 00:17:26,800 well. And so with this, we find 282 00:17:26,800 --> 00:17:30,160 balance in the character of Noah, or any character for that 283 00:17:30,160 --> 00:17:31,640 matter. There's always good traits. 284 00:17:31,640 --> 00:17:34,600 There's negative traits. We can have takeaways from both 285 00:17:34,600 --> 00:17:36,680 of them. It's not that we ignore the good 286 00:17:36,680 --> 00:17:39,640 in the person because of the negative in the person, or vice 287 00:17:39,640 --> 00:17:41,960 versa, that we ignore the negative because of the good. 288 00:17:42,080 --> 00:17:45,840 We take the whole individual all right here in the scriptures. 289 00:17:45,960 --> 00:17:48,600 And so the Bible says that the burnt offering that Noah 290 00:17:48,600 --> 00:17:53,760 prepared produce a sweet savour unto the Lord. 291 00:17:53,760 --> 00:17:58,560 Remember, before the flood, God provided the offerings of him 292 00:17:58,560 --> 00:18:02,760 taking more of the clean animals, all right, more of the 293 00:18:03,040 --> 00:18:07,120 clean fowl upon the ark. God provided for it, although, 294 00:18:07,520 --> 00:18:10,360 although he never demanded Noah to build the ark, he was 295 00:18:10,360 --> 00:18:13,600 providing for what he knew that Noah was going to do when he 296 00:18:13,600 --> 00:18:16,480 came off the ark. And so here's Noah, think with 297 00:18:16,480 --> 00:18:18,520 me for a moment. He's gets off, He does this 298 00:18:18,520 --> 00:18:22,720 altar, He has the offering. It is in a sense, worship unto 299 00:18:22,720 --> 00:18:26,200 the Lord. And what Noah could have done 300 00:18:26,960 --> 00:18:31,840 was rationalized away sacrifice when he knew there was a 301 00:18:31,840 --> 00:18:36,200 scarcity of clean animals and he seemed the evident destruction 302 00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:38,400 that had taken place while he was on the ark. 303 00:18:40,040 --> 00:18:46,160 But Noah didn't do that. Noah prioritized worship over 304 00:18:46,160 --> 00:18:51,200 all of his logical reservations about the sacrifice. 305 00:18:52,880 --> 00:18:54,160 What's that? What's that mean? 306 00:18:54,440 --> 00:18:57,760 That means he worshipped when it didn't make sense to him. 307 00:19:02,240 --> 00:19:05,680 Yeah, yeah. We come in here sometimes and 308 00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:08,640 according today, according to circumstance, although that's 309 00:19:08,640 --> 00:19:10,960 not worship's all about because worship's about him anyway. 310 00:19:11,160 --> 00:19:14,440 But sometimes just all the other things we want to rationalize 311 00:19:14,440 --> 00:19:18,800 away why we shouldn't worship this. 312 00:19:18,920 --> 00:19:24,080 So ABC and we have the list. Noah could have done it too. 313 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:29,840 Noah could have done it too, but he he prioritized worship over 314 00:19:29,840 --> 00:19:33,160 everything else he says. I know I can rationalize this 315 00:19:33,160 --> 00:19:37,640 away and it may make good sense. It could be a good excuse, 316 00:19:37,640 --> 00:19:42,080 Sister Jen Cruz. But I know within myself what 317 00:19:42,080 --> 00:19:43,280 I'm drawn to. Do I need? 318 00:19:43,320 --> 00:19:45,160 I need to worship. In this moment. 319 00:19:46,200 --> 00:19:49,840 It's no different than Job after after having lost his family and 320 00:19:49,840 --> 00:19:52,440 animals and everything else and he learns of all of it. 321 00:19:52,440 --> 00:19:54,600 And the last servant has just come with the bad news. 322 00:19:54,760 --> 00:19:58,800 The Bible says that Job fell down and he worshiped. 323 00:19:58,800 --> 00:20:02,000 You're not experience. You are not expecting that after 324 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:03,360 you. If you've heard all of the 325 00:20:03,520 --> 00:20:06,320 mayhem that went through Job's life and family, you're 326 00:20:06,320 --> 00:20:08,720 expecting you know him, shaking fists and. 327 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:12,200 Kicking dirt and all that. No, How does, how do you do that 328 00:20:12,200 --> 00:20:15,000 job? Because I prioritize worship 329 00:20:15,160 --> 00:20:18,360 over my logical reservations for not worshipping. 330 00:20:21,080 --> 00:20:22,840 Amen. Amen. 331 00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:25,680 And so this sweet savour comes up to the Lord. 332 00:20:25,680 --> 00:20:29,080 And we know God is a spirit, but many times in Scripture it gives 333 00:20:29,080 --> 00:20:32,280 him human features like a hand or a finger or a nose. 334 00:20:32,560 --> 00:20:35,120 All right, this idea of smelling, but none the less, 335 00:20:35,120 --> 00:20:38,120 it's a sweet savour that comes Amen unto the Lord. 336 00:20:38,280 --> 00:20:41,000 And if it didn't directly come from a sacrifice, because I 337 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:43,160 don't know the last time you smelt burning flesh of an 338 00:20:43,160 --> 00:20:50,040 animal, it's usually not that sweet, but it is to God. 339 00:20:51,120 --> 00:20:53,520 Amen. Noah's actions in this moment no 340 00:20:53,520 --> 00:20:58,240 doubt are well pleasing to God. And so in this God, then upon 341 00:20:58,240 --> 00:21:01,160 seeing this and experiencing this, in this aroma, if you 342 00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:05,920 will, of sacrifice, he bowed in himself not to curse the ground 343 00:21:05,920 --> 00:21:09,920 again because he had already done that, not to curse the 344 00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:13,080 ground again because of man, because why? 345 00:21:13,200 --> 00:21:21,280 Because man is what man is. He is a fallen man, and he is 346 00:21:21,280 --> 00:21:24,120 what he is. The Bible, even at this mode. 347 00:21:24,160 --> 00:21:27,040 This is after the flood, right? Destruction of humanity. 348 00:21:27,040 --> 00:21:31,800 This is like the big reset. And yet God attest himself that 349 00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:35,680 the imaginations of man's heart are evil from his youth. 350 00:21:35,920 --> 00:21:39,520 The same story that was told before the flood is the story 351 00:21:39,520 --> 00:21:45,040 that's towed after the flood. Man is still as man is. 352 00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:48,720 So cursing, cursing the ground that man was made from or 353 00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:52,600 cursing man, if you want to look at it like that himself was not 354 00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:56,600 going to solve the dilemma. God, God already knows this. 355 00:21:56,600 --> 00:21:58,880 I hope you know God's not having like a little epiphany here 356 00:21:58,880 --> 00:22:00,320 like, oh, I guess that don't work. 357 00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:03,280 God already knew. He put it in Scripture so we 358 00:22:03,280 --> 00:22:07,320 would know it didn't work. This isn't for this isn't God 359 00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:10,880 having a moment and an idea. He's doing this for us to get it 360 00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:16,160 that destroying man because of his sin isn't the answer. 361 00:22:18,360 --> 00:22:21,840 Destroying living things because of their sin isn't the answer. 362 00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:25,080 Smite and even the living things because the creatures, they 363 00:22:25,080 --> 00:22:28,160 suffered as well, those things that man dominated that that 364 00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:29,800 that were closer attached to them. 365 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:32,880 He says, touching them, touching something that that they had 366 00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:35,920 dominion over that that will not solve it as well. 367 00:22:36,040 --> 00:22:39,040 What does that do to us then as readers here in the book of 368 00:22:39,040 --> 00:22:42,640 Genesis? Because whenever we find 369 00:22:42,640 --> 00:22:47,760 ourselves without a solution, we eagerly await a solution. 370 00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:52,640 The unsolved human dilemma, then, that's taken place here in 371 00:22:52,640 --> 00:22:54,600 the Genesis story. What does it keep us doing? 372 00:22:54,840 --> 00:22:56,880 It keeps us reading on, and for what? 373 00:22:57,040 --> 00:23:00,000 For the purpose of hopefully what we'll be anticipating and 374 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:03,960 looking for an answer to the dilemma, because despite all 375 00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:07,800 these failed attempts here in Scripture, the resolution to 376 00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:11,080 humanity's problems, if we keep reading and keep going in 377 00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:13,800 Scripture, eventually it's going to emerge. 378 00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:15,200 Eventually it's going to be there. 379 00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:17,640 Amen. And so all of the failed 380 00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:23,080 attempts set up for us, really the most unlikely yet most 381 00:23:23,080 --> 00:23:26,160 effective solution in Scripture, we're good. 382 00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:30,200 It takes us a long time from Genesis to get to it in the 383 00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:32,840 Gospels. But all along the journey from 384 00:23:32,840 --> 00:23:37,160 Genesis to the Gospels, God is going to present to us a lot of 385 00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:40,960 different solutions that don't work for man's evil continually 386 00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:43,560 in his art, that don't work for his sin. 387 00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:45,760 And he's doing that not for his own chef. 388 00:23:45,760 --> 00:23:48,640 He's doing it for us. He wants us to know the 389 00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:52,680 destruction don't work, that having the right earthly king 390 00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:58,280 don't work over and over and over again doing that which is 391 00:23:58,280 --> 00:24:01,800 right in your own eyes, not having a king don't work. 392 00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:06,120 That's the book of Judges. He's showing us as readers that 393 00:24:06,240 --> 00:24:10,440 until we get to the book of of the the Gospels to show us them 394 00:24:10,440 --> 00:24:13,080 the death and the bear on the resurrection of Jesus Christ, 395 00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:16,320 his blood that was shed, his life that was given because when 396 00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:19,240 destruction couldn't take care of man and a king, an earthly 397 00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:22,120 king couldn't take care of man and when people couldn't take of 398 00:24:22,120 --> 00:24:23,480 themselves, you know what's going to work? 399 00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:27,800 The King of kings, it's Christ Jesus, his blood, his life 400 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:31,480 that's going to work. Amen. 401 00:24:31,480 --> 00:24:34,760 Go. Break a sweat up here. 402 00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:38,040 My goodness, it's going to happen. 403 00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:41,760 The solution. God is going to manifest himself 404 00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:44,440 in flesh, as Timothy says, right? 405 00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:50,240 He's going to become the sacrifice bearing humanity, sin. 406 00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:54,800 Peter said that he bore our sin in his body, right? 407 00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:58,960 And he is going to be the sacrifice that ends all 408 00:24:58,960 --> 00:25:01,320 sacrifices. Hebrews says he entered into 409 00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:04,200 that holy place once and for all. 410 00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:10,960 The ultimate solution. But Genesis is the Bible has to 411 00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:16,160 give us all these other things that are not solutions first. 412 00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:20,320 Because if we're like humanity, we would say, well, couldn't 413 00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:23,240 there be a different route? Couldn't there be an 414 00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:25,560 alternative? Couldn't there be something 415 00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:30,240 else, maybe something easier? He has to show us all the 416 00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:34,960 failures of our mindset of what could work so that we would be 417 00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:42,880 sold on what only works. That's in essence folks, A-Z. 418 00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:49,240 That's the story of the Bible. That is the story of the Bible 419 00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:51,680 beyond the Gospels going forward. 420 00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:52,960 And when do we get to Revelation? 421 00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:55,440 You know what that shows other people that tried some of those 422 00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:57,400 other solutions and guess what? It don't work. 423 00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:04,000 Amen. And so along with bowing not to 424 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:07,120 curse the ground or to flood the earth again, then God begin to 425 00:26:07,120 --> 00:26:11,600 allude to in the very last verse of Genesis 8822, begin to allude 426 00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:14,080 to all these foundational structures of creation. 427 00:26:14,360 --> 00:26:18,360 He he kind of references time. He references the weather and 428 00:26:18,360 --> 00:26:21,080 climate again, all those things in in the creative work of 429 00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:23,800 Genesis, he he he references agriculture. 430 00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:26,880 Look at it Genesis 8/22. He says, I'll not do any of 431 00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:30,160 these things while the earth remaineth sea time and harvest 432 00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:31,920 time. There's your agriculture and 433 00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:33,960 cold and heat and summer and winter. 434 00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:37,160 There's your weather, your climate and day and night. 435 00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:39,520 All right, there's your time because the even the morning 436 00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:42,240 when such and such day shall not cease. 437 00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:48,360 Heads up hate telling me about one Genesis 822. 438 00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:52,360 You're not going to go into some just eternal thermal earth here 439 00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:58,120 and never have code because he says while it remaineth. 440 00:26:58,400 --> 00:26:59,640 This is the way it's going to be. 441 00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:02,840 I will not do if it comes to the thermal, it's where the heating 442 00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:05,920 of the elements when this world is dissolved in the end of time 443 00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:14,240 that Peter speaks of. So Genesis 9 verse #1 look, here 444 00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:16,080 we go. We're such big folks. 445 00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:21,280 We can go on another chapter and God bless Noah and his sons and 446 00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:26,880 said unto them, be fruitful, multiply and replenish the 447 00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:28,240 earth. Sounds very familiar. 448 00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:31,360 And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every 449 00:27:31,360 --> 00:27:34,640 beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all 450 00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:37,800 that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea. 451 00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:39,560 Into your hand they are delivered. 452 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:43,240 Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you, even as 453 00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:45,640 the green herb. Even as the green herb. 454 00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:51,880 Have I given you all things but flesh with life thereof, which 455 00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:54,360 is the blood thereof. Shall ye not eat? 456 00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:59,520 And surely your blood of your lives will I require at the hand 457 00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:02,880 of every beast I will require it at the hand of man, at the hand 458 00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:06,040 of every man's brother will I require the life of man who so 459 00:28:06,040 --> 00:28:08,920 sheddeth man's blood by man shall his blood be shed. 460 00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:13,600 For in the image of God made he man, and you be fruitful and 461 00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:16,920 multiply, bring forth abundantly in the earth and multiplied 462 00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:21,480 there in first verse and the said the verse very very, very 463 00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:25,600 very similar. It's almost like 2 bookends. 464 00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:28,240 It's actually a real literary device that they use in the 465 00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:31,160 scripture, but it's like 2 bookends that's containing all 466 00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:34,640 this content in between them. They're both reiterating the 467 00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:39,000 original promise to Adam and his family being fruitful, multiply, 468 00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:40,600 replenish. Amen. 469 00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:42,800 Same thing that we see happening right here. 470 00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:45,200 And no, that wasn't just a promise, just four of the 471 00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:46,880 humans. That was a promise for the 472 00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:51,400 animals as well in Genesis 8 and verse #17 it speaks that they 473 00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:55,720 should also, that they should breed and also be fruitful and 474 00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:58,400 multiply. So as it was in the beginning, 475 00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:00,600 so it is now. So again, we're seeing this, 476 00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:05,360 this duplication, right? A recreation, a reforming of 477 00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:07,560 many things. And blessing, again, is 478 00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:10,800 associated with reproduction. And that seems to be the case 479 00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:13,400 throughout Scripture in the verses that follow. 480 00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:19,000 Verse #1 There is a constant plea here of wanting to increase 481 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:22,440 human life up on the earth. But it's also followed by 482 00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:27,080 measure that we would deter from decreasing life upon the earth. 483 00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:30,280 So we want to build it up rather than take it away. 484 00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:33,080 And this is very crucial. But let's think about how 485 00:29:33,080 --> 00:29:34,800 crucial this is right in the world you're talking about. 486 00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:36,520 Be fruitful. Multiply between these two 487 00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:38,040 things. Then you're talking to me about 488 00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:39,360 increase life. Increase life. 489 00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:41,000 Don't take life, don't take life. 490 00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:43,920 How crucial is it? Well, folks, all we got is 8 491 00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:49,000 people. I mean, we're just a few good a 492 00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:52,600 few good arguments and a a stone throw from the annihilation of 493 00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:59,560 the human race, huh? We're did someone, someone Burke 494 00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:01,320 dinner and it's over, you know, type thing. 495 00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:04,320 We're just we're on a banana peel here right now. 496 00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:10,040 So we're going to talk about prospering life, you know, and 497 00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:13,760 try not, you know, eliminating any type of death that is not of 498 00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:16,760 a natural causes. All right. 499 00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:21,000 I mean, we're close here to extermination. 500 00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:27,200 Amen. So when we get to verse two, 501 00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:31,360 this, this reset of the the creative beginning is happening. 502 00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:34,800 But it's it's somewhat with A twist because now the Bible says 503 00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:38,760 that the animals fear and they dread the humans. 504 00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:40,960 They fear and they dread the humans. 505 00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:44,480 This seems to be A twist. Yes, Adam and the Eve were to 506 00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:46,360 subdue and have dominion over the animals. 507 00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:49,240 But this is this is different that there's a dread in the 508 00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:50,960 fear. We're talking about the animals 509 00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:55,160 at one time could walk before Adam as they did and he named. 510 00:30:56,560 --> 00:31:00,200 Now there is a fear and a dread, some probably more than other. 511 00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:03,760 Even as we know today, there's a little bit more skittish now in 512 00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:07,520 the animal Kingdom. So it went from Adam subduing 513 00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:11,360 and having dominion to now a fear and a dread of man. 514 00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:14,520 The message Bible speaks of it like this. 515 00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:17,440 In that verse it says, then it closes that verse out with 516 00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:21,960 you're responsible for them. You're responsible for the 517 00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:26,080 animals in the animal Kingdom. Now we still are today. 518 00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:29,560 We are stewards of living things as man. 519 00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:32,800 We are stewards of living things, but we got to keep a 520 00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:36,960 proper balance there that we don't move and shift to a place 521 00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:43,080 of ridiculousness where we've elevated just the animal Kingdom 522 00:31:43,080 --> 00:31:46,640 over the human. All right, and you understand 523 00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:49,440 what I'm talking about without saying anything else. 524 00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:52,120 But none the less we got to be without being ridiculous. 525 00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:55,520 We get further into the. Torah or the Law of God in the 526 00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:57,760 Book of Deuteronomy. If an ox. 527 00:31:58,120 --> 00:32:02,280 Gored a neighbor through all right, nothing was done about it 528 00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:07,120 or and such that there was going to come some ramifications 529 00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:10,800 because of what it did. But also scripture says that if 530 00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:14,960 an ox was treading out the corn that you weren't to muzzle the 531 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:17,320 arcs as it was treading out the corn. 532 00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:21,280 It was to be able to take some of the food of what of its labor 533 00:32:21,280 --> 00:32:24,520 of its work to muzzle it would just just just wouldn't be 534 00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:26,800 proper, wouldn't be right said so don't do that. 535 00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:30,760 It said that if a man in Exodus it said that if a man seen a 536 00:32:30,760 --> 00:32:34,480 beast of burden that was overburdened with some load on 537 00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:37,680 its back, then it was required of the man or the woman that 538 00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:42,160 seen this to lighten the load up on the back of the overburdened 539 00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:44,440 animal. So we're stewards of them. 540 00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:47,160 Not only that, whenever you read the 10 commandments and it talks 541 00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:50,720 about us keeping the Sabbath, the Sabbath wasn't just for 542 00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:54,440 humans. The Sabbath was for their 543 00:32:54,440 --> 00:33:00,120 animals as well, that they get a day of rest because we're 544 00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:02,880 stewards. And so in all this then verse #3 545 00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:07,080 people's diets changed. It wasn't keto, it wasn't 546 00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:11,960 Mediterranean. It was in addition to the herbs, 547 00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:15,040 in addition to the fruits that they had prior to the fraud back 548 00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:18,360 at the beginning of creation. In addition to that now meat, 549 00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:22,800 meat as in they became carnivorous. 550 00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:26,160 They are carnivores now there they can have meat a part of 551 00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:27,720 their diet. All right. 552 00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:30,880 But in all of this talk then about we're expanding your diet 553 00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:33,440 and now you can have these animals or you can have meat a 554 00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:35,880 part of it. The the, the the plea was this, 555 00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:41,800 that you could not eat the meat with the blood in it because 556 00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:45,840 they link the ungodly link, because the life of the flesh, 557 00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:52,440 it's in the blood. It's in the blood and blood is 558 00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:55,680 in the life. So as a result of that, they 559 00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:58,600 needed to properly drain the blood out of an animal before 560 00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:01,600 they ate it as best as possible properly. 561 00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:05,200 They didn't want to take a living animal, cut a chunk off 562 00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:09,760 and just get at it. I'm not trying to be gross, what 563 00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:13,159 I'm just saying. And so with this also with this 564 00:34:13,159 --> 00:34:17,239 idea of life being in the blood, then came also another aspect of 565 00:34:18,159 --> 00:34:20,560 and facet of the preciousness of the life of man. 566 00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:24,840 And he goes on and begins to say then how man is not even to kill 567 00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:28,679 man. He must not shed a man's blood. 568 00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:35,880 And if he did, the man who shed the blood must die. 569 00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:41,560 Again, in the years before the flood, what's happening? 570 00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:44,880 The world is becoming exceedingly violent. 571 00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:48,440 That's your Bible. It becomes exceedingly violent. 572 00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:51,880 And that word violent covers a grand scheme and spectrum of 573 00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:55,080 things. Not only that, the very thing 574 00:34:55,080 --> 00:34:59,040 that the first son of Adam and Eve or or that we know to be the 575 00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:01,960 first son of Adam, Eve Cain, what'd he do? 576 00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:09,000 Killed his brother. And then in the line, in the 577 00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:13,120 line of Cain Lamech, what's he do? 578 00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:16,480 He says I killed a man for wounding me. 579 00:35:17,240 --> 00:35:19,240 And he kind of was braggadocious about it. 580 00:35:20,560 --> 00:35:23,280 Yeah. He talked about, is that. 581 00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:24,840 Is that a bad word? I'm sorry. 582 00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:33,680 I appreciate that. I mean, I was really feeling 583 00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:38,160 good about myself today. And I'm glad there's more than 584 00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:44,240 eight people on the earth now. Amen. 585 00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:49,600 But now so these very things that they had done, now God 586 00:35:49,640 --> 00:35:52,880 blatantly prohibits. Why? 587 00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:57,440 Because man going back to Jesus one again, man is created in the 588 00:35:57,440 --> 00:36:02,160 image of God. There's no horse glinted that's 589 00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:03,240 been created in the image of God. 590 00:36:03,240 --> 00:36:07,080 I'm sorry, man is the only thing that's been created. 591 00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:10,240 Man and woman, they've been created in the image of God. 592 00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:14,120 And so in a sense, whenever he talks about all required of man, 593 00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:17,800 all required of beasts, all required of brothers, right? 594 00:36:18,240 --> 00:36:22,160 I mean, from Abraham back to Adam, we all in a sense 595 00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:26,200 literally are, are are brothers. But even in a figurative sense, 596 00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:27,760 we are brothers. Amen. 597 00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:31,880 And so man is to be reverence, God is to be reverence. 598 00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:34,720 And we reverence God by reverencing man who is made in 599 00:36:34,720 --> 00:36:37,520 the image of God. So man is to be treated with 600 00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:40,600 dignity because he's been made in the image of God. 601 00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:42,600 What does that matter? What does that mean? 602 00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:45,760 That means it doesn't matter what race the man's from. 603 00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:48,960 It does not matter what background the man's from. 604 00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:52,040 It does not matter what religion the man is from. 605 00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:56,400 No matter if he is absolutely in rebellion spiritually against 606 00:36:56,400 --> 00:37:00,520 the things of God, it does not matter what religion he is from. 607 00:37:00,720 --> 00:37:09,000 He is made in the image of God and we are to respect the life 608 00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:13,040 as a result of that. Or can't you send it like this? 609 00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:17,120 He says you disregard. Disregard for the gift of life 610 00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:19,200 is affront to the giver. Of life. 611 00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:21,400 The New Testament would say it like this. 612 00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:24,480 This is what we read. He that have done it unto the 613 00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:32,040 have done it unto me, because to kill a human was to assault God, 614 00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:38,200 because we're made in the image of God and we, we as 615 00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:44,680 individuals, as people, Murder is usurping God's right to 616 00:37:44,680 --> 00:37:50,520 decide life and death. Job said in his claim said, 617 00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:51,800 naked, I came to this room naked. 618 00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:54,960 I'll depart, right. He said all these things and he 619 00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:59,520 speaks about how God had had the dominion, if you will, of, of 620 00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:02,920 taking his life or leaving his life, how all of that was up to 621 00:38:02,920 --> 00:38:07,000 God in Job chapter #1 And so whenever we want to step in and 622 00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:12,040 take life, we're usurping God's right in, in a sense we're 623 00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:13,400 attempting. To be God. 624 00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:18,840 And so yes, that is not to say that there is not a, a system of 625 00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:22,800 human government right now that decides, for instance, capital 626 00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:26,040 punishments in certain regions and areas of our world and 627 00:38:26,040 --> 00:38:28,280 capital punishment. We could go back to 10 628 00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:31,240 Commandments, which was a series I did when probably I first came 629 00:38:31,240 --> 00:38:36,160 here as pastor, was premeditated murder in Scripture. 630 00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:38,640 There's a difference between manslaughter and murder in 631 00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:41,200 Scripture, but premeditated murder. 632 00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:43,000 And so. And you said, well, Brother 633 00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:45,000 McGee, what? Well, human government is better 634 00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:48,360 than anarchy. Again, let's go to judges where 635 00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:50,440 there was no rule. All right. 636 00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:53,200 And so what's interesting, though, about these things that 637 00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:56,000 God is saying in this moment, these are things he's talking to 638 00:38:56,000 --> 00:39:00,280 Noah and these eight souls, which, guess what, consisted of 639 00:39:00,280 --> 00:39:02,120 all of humanity at that point in time. 640 00:39:03,920 --> 00:39:09,760 So the Noah law, as many times it's referred to, is a law that 641 00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:13,000 pertains to all humanity. This is not a law that's just 642 00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:15,640 for Israel. This is not a law just for the 643 00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:18,280 church. The nation of Israel did not 644 00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:22,480 exist at this moment in time. There were eight people, and it 645 00:39:22,480 --> 00:39:27,720 applied to all of humanity. As a matter of fact, this law 646 00:39:27,720 --> 00:39:30,480 concerning the shedding of blood, if blood was shed to shed 647 00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:33,960 that person's blood, this the only law that we see repeated 648 00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:37,680 over and over again, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and 649 00:39:37,680 --> 00:39:42,040 Deuteronomy, all the first five books have this very same law. 650 00:39:42,040 --> 00:39:47,080 And again, even if a beast killed a man, as I said earlier, 651 00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:51,040 if an ox, Gord, one through the ox was to lose its life, he had 652 00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:52,720 to give. A beast had to give an account 653 00:39:52,920 --> 00:39:56,920 for shedding man's blood. What's all this do, Pastor 654 00:39:56,920 --> 00:39:58,120 McGee? I'll tell you what it does. 655 00:39:59,200 --> 00:40:03,200 So we need to pay a lot of attention and Revere the blood 656 00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:08,200 of an animal and the blood of mankind. 657 00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:11,920 What's this do? It's setting us up. 658 00:40:12,520 --> 00:40:14,640 God's Bible does this. Oh, it does it. 659 00:40:14,640 --> 00:40:19,440 Sometimes you don't realize it. It sets you up because as he's 660 00:40:19,440 --> 00:40:22,320 causing mankind to be very reverent toward the blood of an 661 00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:28,000 animal, he'll move later into like Leviticus and Deuteronomy, 662 00:40:28,640 --> 00:40:34,080 and through a sacrificial system of animals, their blood will 663 00:40:34,080 --> 00:40:42,360 atone for the sins of people. He's setting this up because as 664 00:40:42,360 --> 00:40:46,840 we get further than into the New Testament, it'll be the blood of 665 00:40:46,840 --> 00:40:54,240 the Lamb of God, Christ Jesus that will atone and make right 666 00:40:54,360 --> 00:40:59,760 for the sins of the world. So what's he doing? 667 00:41:00,160 --> 00:41:04,000 He's conditioning us. Back here as soon as we step off 668 00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:08,960 the ark in this new recreation. Of the world, the start to adopt 669 00:41:09,080 --> 00:41:10,560 A reverence for the. Blood. 670 00:41:13,040 --> 00:41:15,040 Who? A reverence for the blood of the 671 00:41:15,040 --> 00:41:17,040 animal. A reverence for the blood of 672 00:41:17,040 --> 00:41:19,080 mankind. Oh, Brother McGee, hogwash. 673 00:41:19,080 --> 00:41:20,440 He can't. Oh, yes, he is. 674 00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:23,040 That's what's taking place here in Scripture. 675 00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:25,040 Why would that be important? I'll tell you why. 676 00:41:25,120 --> 00:41:26,360 Will you bear with me? I'm really I'm. 677 00:41:26,360 --> 00:41:28,000 I'm about done. And see, we're doing really 678 00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:30,680 good. Let me just share all these are 679 00:41:30,680 --> 00:41:32,920 Scripture verses. I'll give you the reference as I 680 00:41:32,920 --> 00:41:39,120 go, because Christ would purchase His church with His 681 00:41:39,120 --> 00:41:41,400 blood. Acts 2028. 682 00:41:42,120 --> 00:41:48,080 It says in Romans 5:00 and 9:00 that we are justified by His 683 00:41:48,080 --> 00:41:52,120 blood. In First Corinthians 11/25 he 684 00:41:52,120 --> 00:41:56,600 said that the New Testament or the New Covenant was guess where 685 00:41:57,240 --> 00:42:00,880 in His blood. Ephesians one and seven says we 686 00:42:00,880 --> 00:42:04,000 have redemption through His blood. 687 00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:08,560 Colossians 114 and Hebrews 922 says not only do we have 688 00:42:08,560 --> 00:42:11,560 redemption through his blood, but we also had forgiveness of 689 00:42:11,560 --> 00:42:17,680 sins and the remission of sins. Guess what happens by his blood. 690 00:42:17,960 --> 00:42:21,960 Ephesians 213 says that the blood made those that were far 691 00:42:21,960 --> 00:42:24,400 off nigh. That happened because of the 692 00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:27,240 blood. Colossians one and 20 says peace 693 00:42:27,240 --> 00:42:31,240 comes through his blood. Amen. 694 00:42:31,240 --> 00:42:34,960 In Hebrews 922 we've been purged by His blood. 695 00:42:35,120 --> 00:42:40,600 Hebrews 1312 we are sanctified, set apart by His blood. 696 00:42:40,760 --> 00:42:45,720 First John 17 says His blood cleanses us from all sin. 697 00:42:46,080 --> 00:42:52,680 Revelation 12 and 11 says we are overcomers by the blood of Lamb 698 00:42:53,280 --> 00:42:56,960 and the word of our testimony. All the way though, back in 699 00:42:56,960 --> 00:43:01,320 Genesis chapter #9 God's depositing the reverence for His 700 00:43:01,320 --> 00:43:05,480 blood because He knew what the blood would come to mean to the 701 00:43:05,480 --> 00:43:07,680 church and humanity in the future. 702 00:43:08,120 --> 00:43:11,360 And I'm going to get them to start reverencing it now so 703 00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:14,240 they'll for sure lasso their life around it then. 704 00:43:16,080 --> 00:43:18,320 Amen. The old sacrificial system, even 705 00:43:18,320 --> 00:43:21,000 the Old Testament, you weren't going to, you had different 706 00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:23,560 types of offerings, trespass offerings, sin offerings, 707 00:43:23,560 --> 00:43:26,080 fellowship offerings, 5 different or so different 708 00:43:26,080 --> 00:43:28,160 offerings. All of these, most of these, I 709 00:43:28,160 --> 00:43:29,880 say most of these included blood. 710 00:43:30,040 --> 00:43:32,240 There were some that were just purely green offerings, but a 711 00:43:32,240 --> 00:43:35,320 lot of them included blood. And when we talk about the Day 712 00:43:35,320 --> 00:43:38,320 of Atonement, whenever the priest went in and he put blood 713 00:43:38,320 --> 00:43:41,880 upon the mercy seat so that mankind and the nation, Israel 714 00:43:41,880 --> 00:43:46,800 could be at one at one, at one with God that required blood. 715 00:43:48,360 --> 00:43:50,960 Amen. It's blood, blood, blood. 716 00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:54,280 No man even entered into the holy place, which was the place 717 00:43:54,280 --> 00:43:57,280 where the Spirit of God, Amen. They believed what no one person 718 00:43:57,280 --> 00:44:00,840 even entered there. The Bible says without blood. 719 00:44:01,840 --> 00:44:04,200 In other words, Old Testament symbolism, you didn't have 720 00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:06,120 access to His spirit without the blood. 721 00:44:07,960 --> 00:44:11,760 And whenever they caught the blood that was at the altar from 722 00:44:11,760 --> 00:44:14,920 the animal that was slain, they took that blood with them to the 723 00:44:14,920 --> 00:44:21,480 labour in the washing. There's no washing without the 724 00:44:21,480 --> 00:44:25,360 accompaniment of blood, folks. What's that mean? 725 00:44:25,360 --> 00:44:27,320 Well, it's at the altar. This is where the animal that 726 00:44:27,320 --> 00:44:30,320 died, that again, that mirrors our repentance. 727 00:44:30,320 --> 00:44:33,600 The labor mirrors our baptism, the holies of holies, where the 728 00:44:33,600 --> 00:44:36,040 presence of God is, where the blood was sprinkled on the mercy 729 00:44:36,040 --> 00:44:38,400 seat. That that that pictures are Holy 730 00:44:38,400 --> 00:44:41,320 Ghost, folks. Your repentance, baptism and 731 00:44:41,320 --> 00:44:44,520 infill in the Holy Ghost all requires blood. 732 00:44:46,040 --> 00:44:47,400 So yes, I'm going to reverence it. 733 00:44:48,840 --> 00:44:52,240 Yes, I'm going to pay kindly to it because this Bible is a 734 00:44:52,240 --> 00:44:57,560 bloody book and we are bloody people because the life is in 735 00:44:58,320 --> 00:45:01,720 the blood. Stay with me, I'll close. 736 00:45:02,640 --> 00:45:06,360 So verse #7 that other book in comes in, right? 737 00:45:06,360 --> 00:45:09,840 The other book in comes in, and again it talks about replenish, 738 00:45:09,840 --> 00:45:12,960 multiply, and do your thing abundantly here across the 739 00:45:12,960 --> 00:45:15,280 earth. Again, it comes in and it's 740 00:45:15,280 --> 00:45:20,240 promoting life, claps off this little section by promoting life 741 00:45:20,520 --> 00:45:23,720 because in the context of talking about this death and 742 00:45:23,720 --> 00:45:26,880 dying and killing and the taking of animals and the taking of 743 00:45:26,880 --> 00:45:31,160 humans, it wants the final thought in our mind again is 744 00:45:31,320 --> 00:45:35,440 choose life, not death, not shedding of those things, not 745 00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:38,880 taking of another man, not not, not not drinking or or for 746 00:45:38,880 --> 00:45:42,200 taking of an animal that has blood in no choose life. 747 00:45:42,840 --> 00:45:46,000 Choose life. And so this is life beyond 748 00:45:46,640 --> 00:45:48,840 beyond the flood. We'll get a little further in 749 00:45:48,840 --> 00:45:53,720 Genesis chapter #9 I'm, I'm, I'm like hopeful to get Genesis 9 750 00:45:53,720 --> 00:45:57,120 and maybe if I can get through 10 for a stopping place by the 751 00:45:57,160 --> 00:46:01,560 end of the, by the end of the time that I got two more, I got 752 00:46:01,560 --> 00:46:04,160 two more Wednesdays personally. I'll be gone the last Wednesday 753 00:46:04,160 --> 00:46:06,280 of the month because Zach will be here teaching, but I got two 754 00:46:06,280 --> 00:46:08,440 Wednesdays personally. So if I can get through nine and 755 00:46:08,440 --> 00:46:14,440 maybe 10, guess what? 10 is back to some genealogies 756 00:46:19,760 --> 00:46:23,000 and I knew that I would just suck the air out of every 757 00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:28,440 individual with that announcement terms us to save it 758 00:46:28,440 --> 00:46:34,080 for next year. We're going to trace your family 759 00:46:34,080 --> 00:46:37,920 tree, brother, Amen. Let's pray tonight in closing, 760 00:46:37,920 --> 00:46:41,240 Father, we're so thankful God. We're thankful Lord Jesus for 761 00:46:41,240 --> 00:46:43,520 you being mindful of us. We're thankful God, for these 762 00:46:43,520 --> 00:46:46,080 things that you have put in place, these things that you 763 00:46:46,080 --> 00:46:49,440 have conditioned us, the Lord Jesus, for and with God 764 00:46:49,440 --> 00:46:52,400 questions and other things that you left open God for. 765 00:46:52,400 --> 00:46:55,080 Our minds would constantly search and be looking for a 766 00:46:55,080 --> 00:46:58,280 solution that you would present to us, Lord boldly and 767 00:46:58,280 --> 00:47:00,080 profoundly, God that we would accept. 768 00:47:00,080 --> 00:47:03,240 Lord, I pray God, we have much history Lord, to lean upon and 769 00:47:03,240 --> 00:47:05,160 go on. But God, there's a great future 770 00:47:05,160 --> 00:47:07,920 ahead of us because the Lord of the history you left at Calvary, 771 00:47:08,120 --> 00:47:10,960 Lord, we're thankful for it and we appreciate you in the name of 772 00:47:10,960 --> 00:47:13,800 Jesus Christ that I pray Amen and Amen. 773 00:47:13,800 --> 00:47:16,960 God thereby say Amen, you're dismissed tonight. 774 00:47:17,280 --> 00:47:23,840 Amen in Jesus name. Thank you for listening. 775 00:47:24,160 --> 00:47:26,480 If you would like more information about our services 776 00:47:26,480 --> 00:47:29,760 and activities, you can find us on Facebook, Instagram and 777 00:47:29,760 --> 00:47:35,480 Twitter with the username FACMC. Again, that's FACMC. 778 00:47:35,840 --> 00:47:37,600 Thank you and have a blessed day.