1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:01,500 It's good to see everyone that's here. 2 00:00:01,500 --> 00:00:03,800 This morning, we appreciate you being here. 3 00:00:04,300 --> 00:00:08,400 We have a good crowd, visitors amongst us, and we want to 4 00:00:08,408 --> 00:00:11,300 welcome you. As our honored guests this 5 00:00:11,300 --> 00:00:18,800 morning, And Hebrews the eleventh chapter and verse 7. 6 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:25,400 The writer there says by faith, Noah being divinely warned of 7 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:29,300 Things, Not Seen moved with Godly fear. 8 00:00:30,500 --> 00:00:34,600 Prepared an ark for the saving of his household, by which he 9 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:39,500 condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness, which 10 00:00:39,500 --> 00:00:44,500 is according to Faith. On that last little phrase 11 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:46,900 righteousness. According to Faith, we are going 12 00:00:46,900 --> 00:00:48,600 to base our thoughts this morning. 13 00:00:49,500 --> 00:00:54,500 I took a lesson from Heroes of Faith that I gave a few years 14 00:00:54,500 --> 00:00:57,900 ago and kind of reworked it a little bit and change some 15 00:00:57,900 --> 00:01:02,800 things a little bit. And so this is a reconditioned 16 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:08,500 rerun I guess if you want to say So we want to know, notice this 17 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:11,800 righteousness, which is according to Faith, and without 18 00:01:11,800 --> 00:01:16,700 a doubt, the story of Noah is one of the most familiar and 19 00:01:16,700 --> 00:01:21,300 most love stories in the Bible. And children play with their 20 00:01:21,300 --> 00:01:26,800 little toys of the Ark and the Animals, two by two going into 21 00:01:26,800 --> 00:01:30,400 the ark. And and of course the floods 22 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:36,400 came And and flooded the Earth. I want to notice some of the 23 00:01:36,408 --> 00:01:40,400 facts about the ark. It was really quite an amazing 24 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:43,700 ship. If you want to say or boat as 25 00:01:43,700 --> 00:01:48,100 some others considerate Vicki and I were lucky enough about a 26 00:01:48,107 --> 00:01:55,100 year and a half ago to go to the the ark experience or I think is 27 00:01:55,100 --> 00:01:58,100 what they call it a may be wrong about that back in. 28 00:01:58,100 --> 00:02:02,200 Kentucky, some of you others here this morning have been able 29 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:05,200 to go to that as well. So some of the pictures that 30 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:10,600 you'll see this morning or of that experience and hopefully it 31 00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:15,800 kind of gives us a little better idea of what was going on in 32 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:18,600 that day and time. So, let's notice some facts 33 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:23,600 about the arc. The ark was measured by cubits. 34 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:28,500 And is in Genesis, the sixth chapter, it gives us the 35 00:02:28,500 --> 00:02:33,200 dimensions of that Arc. Now the Hebrew Cubit was about 36 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:37,800 17 and a half inches long. In the Egyptian Cubit was about 37 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:41,100 20 and a half inches long and I don't know if you've ever done 38 00:02:41,100 --> 00:02:43,400 this, but I did this this morning, I went out in the 39 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:47,300 garage and I grabbed a tape tape measure and I measured from the 40 00:02:47,300 --> 00:02:51,400 tip of my finger to the, to the end of my elbow, which is 41 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:55,100 considered a qubit and it was In inches. 42 00:02:55,100 --> 00:03:01,300 So this is what this is, just a diagram of how the Egyptians, 43 00:03:01,300 --> 00:03:04,800 and the Hebrews measured things in that day and time. 44 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:08,300 And you can see here that from the into the elbow, to the tip 45 00:03:08,300 --> 00:03:11,500 of the fingers is considered a cubit, of course, that depends 46 00:03:11,500 --> 00:03:15,300 on the size of the person that's doing the measuring well, 47 00:03:15,300 --> 00:03:18,400 apparently, the Egyptians were quite larger than the Hebrews. 48 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:20,900 The Egyptians about a 20 and a half inches. 49 00:03:20,900 --> 00:03:24,800 That's quite a bit mind. Measured 18, there was a Bigger, 50 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:29,000 they were bigger people than I was then I am but they did the 51 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:31,900 Hebrew qubit. Which possibly is what was used, 52 00:03:31,900 --> 00:03:36,300 was about 17 and a half inches. And then we see this this ruler, 53 00:03:36,300 --> 00:03:41,600 if you want to say was probably a Hebrew measuring stick in 54 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:43,700 those day and time and that's a qubit there. 55 00:03:45,500 --> 00:03:51,800 So the arc Was at least four hundred and thirty seven feet 56 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:55,900 long according to the Hebrew Cubit and as much as five 57 00:03:55,900 --> 00:04:00,700 hundred and twelve feet long. According to the Egyptian Cubit 58 00:04:00,700 --> 00:04:04,900 you can see this is the Queen Mary 2, how long it is and the 59 00:04:04,900 --> 00:04:08,200 Titanic and some of the other ships that we might be familiar. 60 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:14,600 and then Noah's Ark was Is he may be about as Max's much as 61 00:04:14,900 --> 00:04:21,000 512. And I've lost my my battery 62 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:22,800 power this morning. So I'm going to stay close to 63 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:28,900 this one here. The width of the Ark was at 64 00:04:28,900 --> 00:04:36,700 least about 73 feet and as much as eighty, four feet wide, You 65 00:04:36,700 --> 00:04:42,600 can see that I've got the little diagram here people, and you can 66 00:04:42,600 --> 00:04:44,800 see that little small thing right there. 67 00:04:45,100 --> 00:04:48,400 This is some of the picture of Vicki and I took last year and a 68 00:04:48,407 --> 00:04:50,500 half ago and that's a person standing over. 69 00:04:50,500 --> 00:04:56,600 You see, the size roughly of the size of this vessel or ship. 70 00:04:57,500 --> 00:05:00,900 It's not something that is really. 71 00:05:00,900 --> 00:05:03,500 We can even fathom in our minds till we kind of go and 72 00:05:03,500 --> 00:05:06,400 experience and see it. It gives you a little bit of 73 00:05:06,700 --> 00:05:13,700 concept of how big this this Arc was the height was at least 43 74 00:05:13,700 --> 00:05:17,600 and a half, forty three point seven, five feet high and as 75 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:22,000 much as 51. Point 25 feet high. 76 00:05:24,300 --> 00:05:31,100 The ark had a ratio of 30:2 523 and according to master 77 00:05:31,100 --> 00:05:36,300 shipbuilders, the ratio represents an advanced knowledge 78 00:05:36,300 --> 00:05:40,100 of shipbuilding and is the optimum design for stability in 79 00:05:40,100 --> 00:05:44,100 rough Seas. The ark is designed by God was 80 00:05:44,100 --> 00:05:47,700 virtually impossible to capsize. It would have to have rolled on 81 00:05:47,700 --> 00:05:53,400 its side. 90 degrees to be in any Peril of capsize. 82 00:05:53,500 --> 00:05:56,500 Size. Using the shorter Cubit for 83 00:05:56,500 --> 00:06:02,100 calculations the ark would have an internal volume of 1.5 84 00:06:02,100 --> 00:06:07,100 million cubic feet or the equivalent to 560 set, nine 85 00:06:07,700 --> 00:06:14,900 standard railroad boxcars. If the average sized animal was 86 00:06:14,900 --> 00:06:20,200 the size of a sheep, that means the, our could hold over 125,000 87 00:06:20,400 --> 00:06:24,700 sheep. And assuming the shape of the 88 00:06:24,700 --> 00:06:29,600 Ark to be rectangular, there would have been over 100,000 89 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:37,500 square feet of floor space. So it's quite an amazing ship, 90 00:06:37,500 --> 00:06:42,500 it's quite an amazing structure, it's just quite an amazing piece 91 00:06:42,600 --> 00:06:46,100 of work. We picture, Noah, and his family 92 00:06:46,100 --> 00:06:49,800 huddled in the tiny cramped space of the arc, may be 93 00:06:49,800 --> 00:06:53,700 surrounded by his other loved ones and their families, maybe 94 00:06:53,700 --> 00:06:56,000 their own little cubicles, maybe they were all together. 95 00:06:56,000 --> 00:07:03,900 We don't know all that but But God decided, how he would build 96 00:07:03,900 --> 00:07:09,100 this Ark and certainly there was there was space inside for all 97 00:07:09,100 --> 00:07:13,000 this, but the story of Noah and the Ark is more than just a 98 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:16,100 children's story. It's a true story about God's 99 00:07:16,100 --> 00:07:20,800 judgment against man and his unfaithfulness about salvation 100 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:23,700 and Damnation. And perhaps, most of all, it's a 101 00:07:23,707 --> 00:07:26,500 story about one man's faith in God. 102 00:07:27,300 --> 00:07:30,300 The Bible says that Noah was warned. 103 00:07:31,300 --> 00:07:35,500 The flood that was coming in Genesis a sixth chapter will 104 00:07:35,500 --> 00:07:39,700 start reading with verse 5 and read through verse 22, then the 105 00:07:39,700 --> 00:07:44,700 Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and 106 00:07:44,700 --> 00:07:49,200 that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only 107 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:53,400 evil continually and the Lord. And I want you, as we read 108 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:56,300 through this, I want you to think about what's going on in 109 00:07:56,300 --> 00:08:00,800 the world today. Just think about the things that 110 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:04,400 we're going on in Noah's time and how God got fed up with 111 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:06,700 that. And what's going on in our world 112 00:08:06,700 --> 00:08:11,000 today and we wonder how long the Lord is going to put up with the 113 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:13,700 world that we live in today and verse 6. 114 00:08:13,700 --> 00:08:17,300 And the Lord was sorry that he had made man on the earth and he 115 00:08:17,308 --> 00:08:21,500 was grieved in his heart. So the Lord said, I will destroy 116 00:08:21,500 --> 00:08:25,800 man, whom I have created from the face of the Earth, both man 117 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:29,000 and Beast creeping things, and birds of the air. 118 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:33,600 For I am sorry that I have made them, but Noah found Grace. 119 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:37,700 In the eyes of the Lord. This is the genealogy of Noah. 120 00:08:38,299 --> 00:08:43,100 Noah was a just man. Perfect in his Generations, Noah 121 00:08:43,100 --> 00:08:48,800 walked with God and Noah begat Three Sons, Shem, ham and 122 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:53,400 japheth The Earth also was corrupt before God. 123 00:08:53,900 --> 00:08:58,000 And the Earth was filled with violence, so God looked upon the 124 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:01,100 Earth. And indeed it was corrupt for 125 00:09:01,100 --> 00:09:06,200 All Flesh, had corrupted their ways on the earth and God said 126 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:09,800 to Noah. The end of All Flesh has come 127 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:13,900 before me for the Earth is filled with violence through 128 00:09:13,900 --> 00:09:16,500 them. And behold, I will destroy them 129 00:09:16,500 --> 00:09:20,900 with the Earth, make for yourself an ark of gopher wood, 130 00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:25,000 make rooms in the ark and cover it inside and out with pitch. 131 00:09:25,600 --> 00:09:28,700 And this is how you shall make it the length of the Ark shall 132 00:09:28,700 --> 00:09:33,100 be 300 cubits. Its width 50 cubits and its 133 00:09:33,100 --> 00:09:37,500 height Thirty cubits. You shall make a window, make a 134 00:09:37,500 --> 00:09:40,000 window. For the arc and you shall finish 135 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:44,700 it to a cubit above from two, qubit from above, and set the 136 00:09:44,700 --> 00:09:50,200 door of the Ark in its side. You shall make it low with lower 137 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:55,500 second and third decks and behold I myself am bringing 138 00:09:55,600 --> 00:09:59,900 flood waters upon the Earth to destroy from under Heaven, All 139 00:09:59,900 --> 00:10:04,000 Flesh, in which is the Breath of Life Breath of Life. 140 00:10:04,300 --> 00:10:07,100 Every everything that is on the Earth shall die. 141 00:10:08,100 --> 00:10:12,200 But I will establish my Covenant with you, and you shall go into 142 00:10:12,200 --> 00:10:14,700 the ark. You your son's, your wife and 143 00:10:14,700 --> 00:10:19,500 your sons wives with you and of every living thing of All Flesh, 144 00:10:19,500 --> 00:10:22,900 you shall bring two of every sort into the ark to keep them 145 00:10:22,900 --> 00:10:26,900 alive with you. They shall be male and female of 146 00:10:26,900 --> 00:10:31,800 the birds after their kind of animal after their kind of every 147 00:10:31,800 --> 00:10:34,800 creeping things of the earth after its kind. 148 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:37,800 Two of every kind will come to you too. 149 00:10:37,900 --> 00:10:42,900 Keep them alive and you should take for yourselves of all food 150 00:10:42,900 --> 00:10:46,700 that is eaten and You Shall Gather it to yourselves and it 151 00:10:46,700 --> 00:10:51,900 shall be food for you and for them thus Noah did according to 152 00:10:51,900 --> 00:10:55,200 all that God commanded him. So he did. 153 00:10:57,700 --> 00:11:00,200 There's several things, as we read through that, that kind of 154 00:11:00,200 --> 00:11:02,800 flash into her mind about what's going on today. 155 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:07,900 You know, the picture certainly that is painted about all the 156 00:11:07,900 --> 00:11:14,500 things that are happening around us, the the reducing of morality 157 00:11:15,200 --> 00:11:20,600 in the world and amongst us, but Noah, was warned of the coming, 158 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:25,000 Judgment of God. Noah had faith and listen to God 159 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:29,000 and did as God commanded him, no was found righteous in God's 160 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:33,900 eyes and found God's favor, Noah lived a righteous life. 161 00:11:34,600 --> 00:11:38,300 And it pleased God, Noah walked with God is what the scripture 162 00:11:38,300 --> 00:11:42,800 teaches us here and Noah acted on the Promises of what was 163 00:11:42,800 --> 00:11:49,100 coming. When we have faith, we listen to 164 00:11:49,100 --> 00:11:52,900 God. And what his warnings are in, 165 00:11:52,900 --> 00:11:56,700 Hebrews the eleventh chapter and verse 6 without faith. 166 00:11:56,700 --> 00:12:00,900 It's impossible to please God. For he who comes to God, must 167 00:12:00,900 --> 00:12:04,700 believe that he is, and that he is, a rewarder of those who 168 00:12:04,700 --> 00:12:08,500 diligently seek him. That's a warning from God. 169 00:12:09,400 --> 00:12:15,800 We need to seek Him in faith, a warning to remain faithful a 170 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:19,100 warning to not get caught up in the things of this world. 171 00:12:19,800 --> 00:12:23,800 A warning to leave sin alone, a warning to believe everything 172 00:12:23,800 --> 00:12:31,100 God commands us to do and do it without hesitation Because we 173 00:12:31,100 --> 00:12:33,800 don't want to be lost. He doesn't want us to be lost 174 00:12:33,800 --> 00:12:39,300 either but God had lost his patience with man because every 175 00:12:39,300 --> 00:12:45,500 intent of the heart. It says in Genesis 6, every 176 00:12:45,500 --> 00:12:49,100 intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil. 177 00:12:50,200 --> 00:12:54,900 Continually. We see some people today that 178 00:12:55,500 --> 00:13:00,600 just can't seem to get it right. And it seems like they just 179 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:07,200 continually live in a state of just messing things up 180 00:13:07,200 --> 00:13:10,800 throughout their life, making bad decisions, making poor 181 00:13:10,800 --> 00:13:13,500 decisions, making the wrong decisions. 182 00:13:14,800 --> 00:13:17,100 And the problem today is that a lot of people really don't 183 00:13:17,100 --> 00:13:23,400 believe God or believe in God. And that brings us to our next 184 00:13:23,400 --> 00:13:28,300 point, no moved with Godly fear and verse 7. 185 00:13:28,300 --> 00:13:33,200 This means that Noah had respect and reverence toward God for his 186 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:36,500 word and for what he had said, no has Faith enabled him to 187 00:13:36,500 --> 00:13:40,100 trust in what God Said. And would happen. 188 00:13:40,800 --> 00:13:42,200 No. Has Faith enabled him to be 189 00:13:42,200 --> 00:13:45,900 obedient to what God told him to do, even though that he might 190 00:13:45,900 --> 00:13:54,300 think it impossible, Or not. Current day, Behavior, if you 191 00:13:54,300 --> 00:13:58,300 want to say or what's going along with, you know, being part 192 00:13:58,300 --> 00:14:01,200 of the world, he was going to be different. 193 00:14:02,600 --> 00:14:06,500 No probably said well I believe what God is said is going to 194 00:14:06,500 --> 00:14:10,900 happen and I better do what God tells me to do and be prepared 195 00:14:10,900 --> 00:14:14,400 for that day. Noah's Faith had caused him to 196 00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:18,400 believe something that in knows. Mine probably was impossible to 197 00:14:18,400 --> 00:14:21,600 do to build something that big that huge. 198 00:14:21,600 --> 00:14:24,700 You saw some of the pictures that we put up on the screen 199 00:14:24,700 --> 00:14:29,500 this morning and how huge this this vessel was this ship was 200 00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:38,500 and he and others built this with the faith that one day what 201 00:14:38,500 --> 00:14:40,700 God Said would happen would happen. 202 00:14:41,500 --> 00:14:43,500 Nothing else had happened like this before. 203 00:14:43,700 --> 00:14:46,900 No, not have ever had ever taken on a project like this before, 204 00:14:47,100 --> 00:14:50,500 and it took approximately between 75 to 100 years to 205 00:14:50,500 --> 00:14:52,600 build. As according to walk, we 206 00:14:52,600 --> 00:14:58,900 understand God calls us to have faith and believe in him, even 207 00:14:58,900 --> 00:15:02,700 though we cannot see him. And believe that what God has 208 00:15:02,700 --> 00:15:07,000 promised, he will provide to us, who remain faithful, when we 209 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:10,500 have that healthy, fear, that respects. 210 00:15:10,600 --> 00:15:15,300 And References. God and His word will have the 211 00:15:15,300 --> 00:15:19,200 faith that that believes and acts upon the impossible. 212 00:15:19,800 --> 00:15:23,300 Our faith will cause us to move with Godly fear and act on what 213 00:15:23,300 --> 00:15:27,300 we believe and Obey, Romans 10 verses 20 and 21. 214 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:30,800 For since the creation of the world, his invisible attributes 215 00:15:30,800 --> 00:15:34,600 are clearly seen. Being understood by the things 216 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:38,300 that are made even his eternal power and godhead. 217 00:15:38,300 --> 00:15:41,400 So that they are without excuse. We see the world around us how 218 00:15:41,400 --> 00:15:43,600 God created and things are around us. 219 00:15:43,600 --> 00:15:48,700 This is evidence of God. Because although they knew God, 220 00:15:48,800 --> 00:15:52,200 they did not glorify him as God nor we're thankful but became 221 00:15:52,200 --> 00:15:55,500 futile in their thoughts and their fuel foolish Hearts were 222 00:15:55,500 --> 00:15:58,900 hardened darken. Sometimes we have a problem 223 00:15:58,900 --> 00:16:05,100 because we can't see We Fall Away, We stray sometimes because 224 00:16:05,100 --> 00:16:08,200 we don't see God's Wrath right in front of us. 225 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:13,400 We don't see heaven right in front of us but we have faith 226 00:16:13,400 --> 00:16:15,800 that's there because God said it is there. 227 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:23,800 So we need we continue living the Christian Life. 228 00:16:25,400 --> 00:16:29,700 It wasn't easy for no to go against the grain of the day, if 229 00:16:29,700 --> 00:16:33,100 you want to say against Society at that point in time. 230 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:37,600 Everybody else. Maybe it turned their back on 231 00:16:37,600 --> 00:16:42,200 God, Noah had warned them just like got Noah had been warned. 232 00:16:43,400 --> 00:16:46,600 But others turn their backs and to make matters worse. 233 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:49,600 It's likely that most of neighbor knows neighbors. 234 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:57,200 Thought he was completely crazy. So now let's look how the ark 235 00:16:57,200 --> 00:16:59,800 is. Symbolic of the church. 236 00:17:01,300 --> 00:17:04,300 The Ark of Noah is a great picture and symbol of the church 237 00:17:04,300 --> 00:17:09,599 provided by Christ and is our Ark of Safety First. 238 00:17:09,599 --> 00:17:14,900 Peter 3 and verses 20 and 21 who formerly were disobedient. 239 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:18,700 When Once the Divine long-suffering, waited in the 240 00:17:18,700 --> 00:17:23,700 days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared and what, which a 241 00:17:23,700 --> 00:17:27,700 few that is eight Souls were saved through water, There is 242 00:17:27,700 --> 00:17:30,600 also an antitype which now saves us. 243 00:17:31,100 --> 00:17:35,300 Baptism, not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but the 244 00:17:35,300 --> 00:17:38,000 answer of a good conscience toward God, through the 245 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:41,700 resurrection of Jesus Christ. You see. 246 00:17:41,700 --> 00:17:48,300 It's a type of the the ark and he saying is how the baptism 247 00:17:48,400 --> 00:17:53,700 saves us today. That is our Ark of Safety that 248 00:17:53,700 --> 00:17:58,700 is given to us today. There was also one family that 249 00:17:58,700 --> 00:18:05,000 was saved in the flood, every everyone except Noah and his 250 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:06,900 immediate family didn't believe Noah. 251 00:18:07,900 --> 00:18:12,500 There was only one family. And one name in the church 252 00:18:12,500 --> 00:18:17,800 Galatians 3 and 26 for you are all sons of God through faith in 253 00:18:17,800 --> 00:18:20,500 Christ, Jesus Romans 12 and verse 5. 254 00:18:20,700 --> 00:18:26,900 So we being many are one body in Christ and individually members 255 00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:31,100 of one another. We take on the family name. 256 00:18:32,800 --> 00:18:38,300 And our brothers and sisters with each other, God made a 257 00:18:38,308 --> 00:18:43,400 covenant with Noah Genesis 9 verses 11 and through 13. 258 00:18:44,100 --> 00:18:49,400 Thus thus, I establish my Covenant with you, never. 259 00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:52,200 Again, shall any flesh. Be cut off By the Waters of the 260 00:18:52,200 --> 00:18:54,500 flood. Never again, shall there be a 261 00:18:54,500 --> 00:18:58,400 flood to destroy the Earth? And God said, this is the sign 262 00:18:58,400 --> 00:19:02,000 of the Covenant, which I make between me and you. 263 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:06,600 And every living creature that is with you for Perpetual 264 00:19:06,600 --> 00:19:10,500 Generations. I set my rainbow in the cloud 265 00:19:10,600 --> 00:19:14,300 and it shall be for a sign of the Covenant between me and the 266 00:19:14,300 --> 00:19:18,700 Earth, every time you see a rainbow in the sky. 267 00:19:20,400 --> 00:19:25,200 Just remember God put that there as a reminder of his Covenant 268 00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:28,400 with us that he would never flood the Earth again. 269 00:19:31,400 --> 00:19:35,600 Gossip God also made a covenant with us Hebrews 10 and verses 16 270 00:19:35,600 --> 00:19:38,800 through 17. This is the Covenant that I will 271 00:19:38,800 --> 00:19:42,400 make with them. After those days, says the Lord, 272 00:19:42,500 --> 00:19:46,800 I will put my laws into their hearts and in their minds. 273 00:19:46,800 --> 00:19:50,900 I will write them then he adds their sins and their Lawless 274 00:19:50,900 --> 00:19:53,700 Deeds. I will remember no more. 275 00:19:54,100 --> 00:19:56,300 That's a promise. And that's a covenant God made 276 00:19:56,300 --> 00:20:00,700 with us. Did there would be a day that he 277 00:20:00,700 --> 00:20:04,700 would take away our sins and he would remember them, no more and 278 00:20:04,700 --> 00:20:08,800 God has provided the Ark of Safety for us because he loves 279 00:20:08,800 --> 00:20:11,000 us second. Peter 3 and verse 9. 280 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:14,200 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise as some count 281 00:20:14,200 --> 00:20:18,300 slackness but is long-suffering toward us not willing that any 282 00:20:18,300 --> 00:20:20,600 should perish but that all should come to repentance. 283 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:25,000 God didn't want everyone to be destroyed in the days of Noah. 284 00:20:28,100 --> 00:20:32,900 If they would listen to his warning and repent and John 3 285 00:20:32,900 --> 00:20:35,200 and verse 16 for God. So loved the world that he gave 286 00:20:35,200 --> 00:20:38,700 his only begotten, son, that whoever believes in him should 287 00:20:38,700 --> 00:20:41,300 not perish but have everlasting life. 288 00:20:43,300 --> 00:20:47,500 So, God has prepared this Ark of Safety for us because he loves 289 00:20:47,500 --> 00:20:52,000 us. There is only one door into the 290 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:57,700 ark and there is only one way into the Church of Jesus Christ. 291 00:20:57,900 --> 00:21:01,600 In Genesis 6, and verse 16. He says, in set the door of the 292 00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:05,200 Ark and its side. Symbolically listen to what 293 00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:09,800 Thomas had just said to Jesus in John 14 and verses five and six 294 00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:14,500 Lord, we do not know where you are going or how can we know the 295 00:21:14,500 --> 00:21:19,000 way Jesus said to him? I am the way. 296 00:21:20,100 --> 00:21:23,200 I am the truth. I am the life. 297 00:21:23,800 --> 00:21:29,600 No one comes to the father, but through me in other religious 298 00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:32,100 organizations in the world today, man has changed. 299 00:21:32,100 --> 00:21:35,900 What God designed to what they think is a better way. 300 00:21:35,900 --> 00:21:39,300 Or that certain things are not necessary to please God, and be 301 00:21:39,300 --> 00:21:44,500 pleasing to God. Remember faith and remaining 302 00:21:44,500 --> 00:21:48,800 Faithful is what pleases God things that are not faith. 303 00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:53,600 Displease God. You know. 304 00:21:55,100 --> 00:21:58,500 You may have heard this story. I've given the example before, 305 00:21:59,100 --> 00:22:04,500 but Roger, Staubach, who was a Dallas Cowboy quarterback? 306 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:09,100 They went to Victory to Victory of a Super Bowl in 1970. 307 00:22:09,100 --> 00:22:14,100 Once one, and he admitted that he really struggled with taking 308 00:22:14,100 --> 00:22:18,600 direction from coach Landry, coach Landry would send in every 309 00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:22,700 single play. And Roger Staubach wasn't the 310 00:22:22,700 --> 00:22:25,400 one to be able to make the decisions on which play to run, 311 00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:29,400 but he said, if you ever do that you better, make sure it works. 312 00:22:30,300 --> 00:22:33,600 And Roger, Staubach really had to come to the conclusion that 313 00:22:33,600 --> 00:22:39,100 he needed to Humble himself. If you want to say and face up 314 00:22:39,100 --> 00:22:44,800 and be obedient if you want to say to coach Landry and he said, 315 00:22:44,800 --> 00:22:48,500 once I learned to obey there was Harmony and there was 316 00:22:48,500 --> 00:22:52,100 fulfillment and there was Victory and that's the way it is 317 00:22:52,100 --> 00:22:55,700 with God when we want to do things, our way, when we want to 318 00:22:55,700 --> 00:23:00,200 change, things up to our liking. And we want to well I think 319 00:23:00,300 --> 00:23:01,400 Think it would be better this way. 320 00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:04,700 Or I really don't like that or wouldn't it be better if we did 321 00:23:04,700 --> 00:23:08,500 this? When we have clear instruction 322 00:23:08,500 --> 00:23:13,000 in the scriptures of how God wants it to be and how Jesus 323 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:16,600 designed them? And we want to change that. 324 00:23:16,700 --> 00:23:20,100 Look at the religious world today, I was watching a video 325 00:23:20,100 --> 00:23:22,300 the other day. That had some guy flying out of 326 00:23:22,300 --> 00:23:28,100 the rafters on a, like a zip line out into the audience and 327 00:23:28,100 --> 00:23:30,500 calling this a church service. It's nothing more than 328 00:23:30,500 --> 00:23:33,700 entertainment, and we don't find anything like that. 329 00:23:33,700 --> 00:23:37,800 With in the scriptures, we're not here to attain entertain, 330 00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:41,600 we're here to obey, and to worship God, this is not for our 331 00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:43,900 liking. It is for God's. 332 00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:48,200 Enjoyment. God's praise. 333 00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:53,100 God's worship. And so, we can't change the 334 00:23:53,100 --> 00:23:57,700 design of things to our liking liking. 335 00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:07,500 There was only one window in the ark, Genesis 6 and 16. 336 00:24:07,500 --> 00:24:10,500 You shall make a window for the ark and you shall finish it to a 337 00:24:10,500 --> 00:24:16,100 cubic from above, Cubit, from above the window, allowed light 338 00:24:16,100 --> 00:24:19,100 into the ark to reveal what was going on inside. 339 00:24:19,100 --> 00:24:23,300 And symbolically, there is only one truth and that is the Bible. 340 00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:27,700 Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path way, 341 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:34,200 Psalm 119 and 105. There is one only one Arc he 342 00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:40,700 says in Genesis 6 and 14, make yourself an ark of gopher wood, 343 00:24:40,900 --> 00:24:43,400 make rooms in the ark and covered inside and out with 344 00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:48,000 pitch and symbolically, they just like there is only one Arc, 345 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:50,800 there is only one Church Ephesians four verses four 346 00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:54,700 through six. There is one body and one Spirit 347 00:24:55,300 --> 00:25:00,000 just as you called in one, hope of your calling one Lord, One 348 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:04,000 Faith, one. Baptism one God and Father of 349 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:07,200 all, who is above all and through all and in you all, 350 00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:09,700 Isn't it nice? When we can always rely on 351 00:25:09,700 --> 00:25:13,900 something, being the same, something being so simple that 352 00:25:13,900 --> 00:25:16,800 we can rely on that, that we can have faith in that, that we can 353 00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:20,900 have trust in that that we can go about our day realizing that, 354 00:25:20,900 --> 00:25:25,100 we made the right decision. And not wonder about it. 355 00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:29,900 That's God's design. One body the church. 356 00:25:34,300 --> 00:25:38,300 Baptism is the only way you can get into the Ark of Safety and 357 00:25:38,300 --> 00:25:41,100 it takes Faith to go in the right door. 358 00:25:41,600 --> 00:25:46,400 X, 4, and verse 12 nor is there, salvation in any other, for 359 00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:52,400 there is no other name under Heaven, given among men whereby 360 00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:57,400 we must be saved. If God designed the church. 361 00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:03,900 And Christ put his name on it then a church or an organization 362 00:26:03,900 --> 00:26:08,300 that has another name. You can't be saved by that in 363 00:26:08,300 --> 00:26:11,300 John 10 verses 7 through 10. Then Jesus said to them. 364 00:26:11,300 --> 00:26:16,200 Again, most assuredly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. 365 00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:19,600 All who ever came before me are thieves and robbers, but the 366 00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:22,100 Sheep did not hear them. I am the door. 367 00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:26,700 If anyone enters by me, he will be saved, and I will go in and 368 00:26:26,700 --> 00:26:30,900 out and find pasture. I have come that they may have 369 00:26:30,900 --> 00:26:34,400 life and that they may have it more abundantly. 370 00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:43,300 Another illustration. In an NCAA cross country 371 00:26:43,300 --> 00:26:50,000 Championship held in Riverside. California 123 of 128 Runners 372 00:26:50,300 --> 00:26:55,900 missed a turn on the course. One competitor. 373 00:26:55,900 --> 00:27:01,900 Mike del Cabo turned the right way stain on the 10,000 meter 374 00:27:01,900 --> 00:27:05,300 course. And began waving for his fellow 375 00:27:05,300 --> 00:27:09,700 Runners to follow him but he was only able to convince for other 376 00:27:09,700 --> 00:27:13,200 Runners to go with him. When asked what his competitors 377 00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:17,600 thought. Hit about his mid-race decision. 378 00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:24,700 To not follow the crowd, no Cabo said they thought it was funny 379 00:27:24,700 --> 00:27:32,300 that I went the right way. You see there is only one way. 380 00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:36,500 To Heaven. There's only one Church. 381 00:27:36,700 --> 00:27:40,800 There's only one God. There's only one of everything 382 00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:44,600 that he we just read about and we have to make sure we get in 383 00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:47,300 the right way that we get on the right ship that we get in the 384 00:27:47,300 --> 00:27:50,800 Ark of Safety. And don't get on the wrong ship. 385 00:27:52,100 --> 00:27:54,800 There's safety in the ark. It takes Faith to realize God's 386 00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:58,000 love and care for us. Romans 8 and verses 31 and 387 00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:02,600 verses 37 through 39. What then shall we say to these 388 00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:05,300 things if God is for us? Who can be against us? 389 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:08,900 It in all these things, we are more than conquerors through 390 00:28:08,900 --> 00:28:11,900 him, who loved us for? I am persuaded that neither 391 00:28:11,900 --> 00:28:15,900 death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities nor powers nor 392 00:28:15,900 --> 00:28:19,100 things present, nor things to come nor height nor depth nor 393 00:28:19,100 --> 00:28:21,700 any other created thing shall be able. 394 00:28:21,900 --> 00:28:25,400 To separate us from the love of God which is in Christ. 395 00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:32,200 Jesus, our lord. there's safety in the ark there, safety in the 396 00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:39,100 church because God shows us shows us that he loves us. 397 00:28:40,700 --> 00:28:42,700 We must get in the ark to be saved. 398 00:28:42,900 --> 00:28:46,300 It takes Faith to get in the ark and Genesis 7 and one lord said 399 00:28:46,300 --> 00:28:48,700 to Noah scum, Noah, come into the ark. 400 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:52,400 You and all your household because I have seen that you are 401 00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:54,500 righteous before me in this generation. 402 00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:58,600 Symbolically, we must be in the church to be saved. 403 00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:01,300 John John 3 and verses 3 through 5. 404 00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:05,600 Jesus answered and said to him, most assuredly I say to you. 405 00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:10,300 Unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom. 406 00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:15,200 Them of God. Nicodemus said to him, how can a 407 00:29:15,208 --> 00:29:18,500 man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into 408 00:29:18,500 --> 00:29:22,700 his mother's womb and be born? Jesus answered most assuredly I 409 00:29:22,700 --> 00:29:27,600 say to you unless one is born of the water and of the spirit, he 410 00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:32,000 cannot enter the kingdom of God. That's kind of scary, isn't it? 411 00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:37,600 So that's how we get into the Ark of Safety. 412 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:40,400 It's faith that causes us to obey, God. 413 00:29:41,300 --> 00:29:43,200 We must remain in the ark to get. 414 00:29:44,300 --> 00:29:47,400 To our destination. Receive the rewarded takes Faith 415 00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:51,000 to stay in the ark. He know Noah had to remain 416 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:54,600 faithful for a long time and while he was building the ark 417 00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:59,000 from 75 to 100 years, whatever it was he had to remain 418 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:01,000 faithful. He had to keep on building. 419 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:07,400 You know, here I'm 68 years old. And it took longer than that for 420 00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:11,700 Noah to build the ark. And to remain faithful to what 421 00:30:11,700 --> 00:30:24,600 God had promised that he would save. decides to do this now, 422 00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:31,600 No, I had to remain faithful through all the ridicule. 423 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:37,000 Through all the jeers and and making fun of him and his family 424 00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:40,300 for building this Ark, he had to remain faithful. 425 00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:44,300 There would be tough times in our Christian Life that we have 426 00:30:44,300 --> 00:30:48,900 to remain faithful to fight the ridicule of being a Christian to 427 00:30:48,900 --> 00:30:54,300 fight all the persecution that we might be, that might be sent 428 00:30:54,300 --> 00:30:57,000 towards us. The frustration, the Temptation, 429 00:30:57,300 --> 00:31:02,600 the discouragements of life. In Revelation, 2 and 10 be 430 00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:06,000 faithful unto death and I will give you a crown of life. 431 00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:10,200 It takes courage to go the right way when everyone else seems to 432 00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:13,700 give you going the wrong way, wrong way, just like, I'm sure 433 00:31:13,700 --> 00:31:16,000 there was a little bit of doubt, in this person's mind when he 434 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:18,800 was running this race. This 10,000 meter race 435 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:20,500 wondering. Well, now, did I really make the 436 00:31:20,500 --> 00:31:23,600 right decision but he pretty pretty much made his commitment 437 00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:25,600 to that he was going to go the right way. 438 00:31:26,100 --> 00:31:29,800 Regardless of how much the other crowd went the wrong way. 439 00:31:29,900 --> 00:31:33,200 Way, it takes courage to stay in the right way. 440 00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:38,000 Sometimes You must endure the storms that are outside the arc 441 00:31:38,500 --> 00:31:41,600 and dear The Winds of Change that are around us. 442 00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:46,900 Matthew 7, verses 24 through 27. Therefore whoever hears my saint 443 00:31:46,900 --> 00:31:50,700 the same of mine and does them, I will liken him to a wise man 444 00:31:50,700 --> 00:31:53,700 who built his house upon the rock and the rain descended and 445 00:31:53,700 --> 00:31:56,900 the floods came and the winds blew and beat on that house and 446 00:31:56,900 --> 00:31:59,500 it did not fall for it was founded on the Rock. 447 00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:02,600 But everyone who hears these sayings of mine and does not do 448 00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:04,900 them will be like a foolish man who built. 449 00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:08,100 Built his house upon the sand and the rain descended and the 450 00:32:08,100 --> 00:32:11,100 floods came and the winds blew and beat on that house. 451 00:32:11,100 --> 00:32:14,300 And it fell and great was its fall. 452 00:32:14,300 --> 00:32:19,400 Also, James 10 verses, 2 through 8 and verse 12, my brother and 453 00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:21,100 count it all joy. When you fall into various 454 00:32:21,100 --> 00:32:23,700 trials, knowing that the testing of your faith. 455 00:32:23,700 --> 00:32:26,500 Produces patience, but let patience have. 456 00:32:26,500 --> 00:32:29,300 It's perfect work that you may be perfect and complete lacking 457 00:32:29,300 --> 00:32:31,900 nothing. If any of you lacks wisdom, let 458 00:32:31,900 --> 00:32:34,100 him ask of God who gives to all liberally. 459 00:32:34,100 --> 00:32:37,500 And without Reproach, and it will be given to him. 460 00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:42,000 But let him ask in faith with no doubting for, He Who doubts is 461 00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:46,300 like a wave, like a wave of the sea driven, and tossed by the 462 00:32:46,300 --> 00:32:49,200 wind for. Let not met that men suppose 463 00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:51,300 that he will receive anything from the Lord. 464 00:32:51,500 --> 00:32:55,200 He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. 465 00:32:55,700 --> 00:32:59,300 Blessed is the man who endures Temptation for, when he has been 466 00:32:59,300 --> 00:33:03,200 approved, he will receive the Crown of Life which the Lord has 467 00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:06,800 promised to those who love him. No one says it's going to be 468 00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:11,200 easy. And sometimes we're going to be, 469 00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:15,600 we're going to be faced with hard decisions in our life. 470 00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:21,200 To remain faithful or to go with the world and some of that 471 00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:25,500 sometimes that's pretty tough decisions for us to make, just 472 00:33:25,500 --> 00:33:27,600 like Noah had to make in that day and time. 473 00:33:28,900 --> 00:33:33,200 But we have to remain faithful to be able to enjoy the 474 00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:38,300 pleasures of Eternity. Outside the arc is death and 475 00:33:38,300 --> 00:33:41,300 drowning in sin. It takes Faith to stay in the 476 00:33:41,300 --> 00:33:45,300 art, Romans 6, and verse 23 for the wages of sin is death. 477 00:33:45,300 --> 00:33:49,100 But the gift of God is eternal life in Jesus Christ, Our Lord 478 00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:55,400 All that is not in the ark will be destroyed, Genesis 4 and 479 00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:58,900 verse 7 verse 4 and I will destroy from the face of the 480 00:33:58,900 --> 00:34:01,200 Earth all living things that I have made. 481 00:34:02,500 --> 00:34:05,900 Listen to what Peter says in second, Peter 2 3 and verse 13 482 00:34:05,900 --> 00:34:09,000 through 14. Knowing this first, that 483 00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:11,000 scoffers will come in the last days. 484 00:34:11,300 --> 00:34:14,699 Again, think about what's going on in our world today. 485 00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:19,400 Knowing this that scoffers will come in the last days walking 486 00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:22,800 according to their own lusts and saying, where is the promise of 487 00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:26,199 his coming for since the father's fell asleep? 488 00:34:26,300 --> 00:34:29,900 All things continue as they were from the beginning of creation. 489 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:36,400 For this, they willfully forget. That by the word of God, the 490 00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:39,300 heavens were of old and the Earth standing out of water. 491 00:34:39,500 --> 00:34:45,800 And in the Water by which the world that then existed perished 492 00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:49,900 being flooded with water, but the heavens and the Earth which 493 00:34:49,900 --> 00:34:55,900 are now preserved by the same word are reserved for fire until 494 00:34:55,900 --> 00:34:59,500 the day of judgment and Perdition of ungodly men. 495 00:35:00,900 --> 00:35:04,600 But beloved do not forget this one thing that the Lord that 496 00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:07,700 that the with the Lord one day is a thousand years and a 497 00:35:07,700 --> 00:35:11,300 thousand years as one day, the Lord is not slack concerning his 498 00:35:11,300 --> 00:35:14,800 promise as some count slackness but is long-suffering to us 499 00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:18,300 toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all 500 00:35:18,300 --> 00:35:21,600 should come to repentance. But the day of the Lord will 501 00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:25,000 come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away 502 00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:28,500 with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent 503 00:35:28,500 --> 00:35:31,800 heat both the earth and the The Works that are that are in, it 504 00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:34,100 will be burned up. Therefore, since all these 505 00:35:34,100 --> 00:35:37,400 things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to 506 00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:43,200 be in, holy conduct and godliness, looking for, and 507 00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:47,200 hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the 508 00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:49,800 heavens will be dissolved being on fire and the elements will 509 00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:52,000 melt elements will melt with fervent heat. 510 00:35:52,300 --> 00:35:54,900 Nevertheless, we according to his promise, look for the new 511 00:35:54,900 --> 00:35:58,900 heavens and the new Earth in which righteousness, dwells, 512 00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:02,800 therefore, beloved Looking forward to these things, be 513 00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:09,000 diligent that to be found by him in peace without spot and 514 00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:13,500 blameless. So just as no was warned and 515 00:36:13,500 --> 00:36:16,700 that day and time, we are warned of the coming destruction. 516 00:36:17,300 --> 00:36:21,400 So we need to be ready. Well, how can we get into the 517 00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:24,600 ark? How do we get into the ark? 518 00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:28,200 We've noticed that we need to be in the ark, but there is an arc. 519 00:36:28,300 --> 00:36:30,200 There's only one Arc to get into. 520 00:36:30,300 --> 00:36:32,300 There's only one way to get into it. 521 00:36:33,100 --> 00:36:36,800 How do you get into it? Let's notice that first we must 522 00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:39,700 hear the word of God in Romans 10 verse 17. 523 00:36:39,700 --> 00:36:43,400 So then faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. 524 00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:46,100 If we don't ever hear of God, if we don't ever hear of the Ark of 525 00:36:46,100 --> 00:36:49,600 Safety, then we won't obey the Gospel of Jesus Christ. 526 00:36:50,700 --> 00:36:53,800 So, faith comes from hearing what we need to do, just like, 527 00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:56,100 Noah was told what he needed to do. 528 00:36:56,400 --> 00:36:58,900 He heard God's word, and he acted on it. 529 00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:04,200 But we must believe God also, Mark 16 verse 16, he who 530 00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:07,400 believes and is baptized, will be saved, but he, who does not 531 00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:10,700 believe will be condemned. Also, we must repent. 532 00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:15,900 Luke 13 Verse 3, I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will 533 00:37:15,900 --> 00:37:20,000 all likewise perish. You must confess the name of 534 00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:24,200 Jesus Christ. Matthew 10 verse 32, therefore, 535 00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:28,100 whoever confesses me before men, him will I confess before. 536 00:37:28,100 --> 00:37:32,500 My father, who is in heaven, And then we must be baptized into 537 00:37:32,500 --> 00:37:37,100 Christ. Acts 2 and verse 38, then Peter 538 00:37:37,100 --> 00:37:40,800 said to them, repent. And let every one of you be 539 00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:44,500 baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins 540 00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:47,300 and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. 541 00:37:50,500 --> 00:37:53,800 That's how we get in to the Ark of Safety. 542 00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:55,500 That's how we get into the church. 543 00:37:55,500 --> 00:37:57,300 That's how we become a child of God. 544 00:37:57,500 --> 00:38:00,400 That's how we become born again. That's how we become a new 545 00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:02,500 child. That's how our sins are washed 546 00:38:02,500 --> 00:38:04,700 away. That's how we're cleansed. 547 00:38:05,500 --> 00:38:10,800 Is buying be baptized into Jesus Christ, for the remission of our 548 00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:12,900 sins. Hear the word. 549 00:38:13,300 --> 00:38:15,800 Believe it. Repent of our life. 550 00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:20,200 Maybe that means make a change of heart and mind the changes. 551 00:38:20,300 --> 00:38:24,400 The direction, our life is going to live a life that is dedicated 552 00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:28,400 to living for God. Now, and then being baptized 553 00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:31,300 into Christ, making the confession of our faith that we 554 00:38:31,300 --> 00:38:34,500 believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and then being 555 00:38:34,500 --> 00:38:37,800 baptized into Christ for the remission of our sins. 556 00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:43,100 And if we stepped out of the Ark of Safety, we confess our faults 557 00:38:43,100 --> 00:38:46,600 James 5 and verse 16 confess your trespasses. 558 00:38:46,600 --> 00:38:50,800 One to another and pray for one another that you may. be healed, 559 00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:55,200 the effective, fervent, prayer of a righteous man avails much 560 00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:01,900 It's a Wonderful story, the story of the Ark and Noah how he 561 00:39:01,900 --> 00:39:06,300 believed, what God commanded him to do for many many, many years, 562 00:39:06,500 --> 00:39:12,200 and eight Souls were saved. We're here because of Noah. 563 00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:18,500 And we want to be in heaven because of our faith. 564 00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:22,700 Believing what God has said that one of these days, the Earth 565 00:39:22,700 --> 00:39:24,500 will be destroyed in all things that are in it. 566 00:39:24,500 --> 00:39:27,600 And we don't want to be, we don't want to be here, we want 567 00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:30,400 to be in heaven, we want to be with God. 568 00:39:31,300 --> 00:39:34,500 So here, the word, believe it, repent confess and be baptized 569 00:39:34,500 --> 00:39:37,000 into Christ for the remission of your sins. 570 00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:40,900 We thank you for listening to our podcast, put on by the 571 00:39:40,900 --> 00:39:46,600 Church of Christ at 22:15 plans. 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