Not when we talk about the flood, we need to put the
situation in context. It's only been about 1656 years
since the creation of the universe.
That's of course approximate, but that kind of gives us an
idea of how much time that has passed by now.
It tells us in the scripture that there have been ten
Generations from Adam to Noah. And of course, you really need
to put that in perspective because many of the Patriarchs
lived to be over 900, even Noah himself was 600 at the time that
the flood Came Upon the Earth. And so there's a very, it's very
close. Close, even though it's 10
Generations. The timeframe from the creation
is very, very close. Not that it's not as far as you
as you think because of the ages that these people lived.
And so know I had a very close connection with the grandfather
of us all and that's Adam. It's possible that he knew Seth
and it's possible that he was born during the final years of
Seth. Now, when God, created the
universe, First, he created a perfect world.
He created a world that was matured full-grown when he
created man. He gave him the ability to
reproduce. He created man full-grown the
first day that he was born. How old was man?
The first day, he was created one hour after his creation.
Well, it was one hour old, but how old did he appear?
You see. Did he look like he's 30?
They look like he's 20 because he was created full-grown.
Absolutely perfect in every way now primitive man.
What does that make? You think of primitive man?
When you hear the term primitive, man?
Most of us if we haven't really thought about it.
Think of a caveman that can hardly walk and maybe some eight
white figures, but you see we're talking about primitive, man.
This is the first man. This is no man.
Adam and the Bible says that he was created by God with perfect
everything, he was perfect. Even in intelligence, his mind
was perfect, he was created with much knowledge.
Now, how much knowledge God chose to put in the Adam?
I don't know, but I'm sure he had the ability to make a fire.
The first day, he was created. He had the ability, the Bible
says to bring the animals, at least the domesticated animals,
the animals, that would be domesticated in the future.
He had the ability to bring those animals into his presence.
God caused them to come into His presence and he had the ability
to name each one and then he not only could name them but he can
remember the names that he gave. Now, some of you have told me
your name and I can't remember it 5 minutes later.
But Adam was able to name these creatures and then he was able
to remember his intelligence, his intellect was perfect and
the technology and the information that man had in the
beginning, we just don't know, it's been lost, it was lost in
the flood. So God, created a perfect world,
a sinless world, a world where there was no death, but of
course Satan came on the scene and it was not all that long.
Probably less than 100 years and Satan came on the The scene and
the Bible says that Satan deceived Eve and the man also
partook of that forbidden fruit and thus the fall into the
world's sin entered the world. Now the Bible says that evil
Communications or evil Manor, evil ways of life, corrupt, good
morals. And so we have this evil, the
sin that enters the world and it feels the World.
In fact just ten Generations at the time of Noah's life when he
first evidently heard of the flood, he must have been about
four hundred and eighty years old.
So by the time that no is 480 years old, he has no children,
he has no family and the Bible tells us that the Earth had
become very, very corrupt. In fact, it has become so
corrupt. That God decreed, he's going to
destroy it. Now, what we need to know, or
what we need to remember is that there have I've always been
there. Always will be until the end of
time. In fact, that's what the parable
of the tares teaches in Matthew Chapter 13 and teaches us that
there are, is going to be of a group of good.
There's going to be a group of evil, all the way to the end of
time. They'll never be a time when
there are both groups represented.
Now, obviously, the good are always minority as far as the
numerator as far as the numbers are concerned, but there have
always been men who were following God and men who are
following after. Themselves.
Now, it's interesting, when you read the first five chapters of
the Book of Genesis because it gives us a genealogy of the two
lines, the descendants of Adam through Seth and the descendants
of Adam through cane. But it's always been intriguing
to me because it only gives us Seven Generations from cane that
is from Adam to laymen. The genealogy ends.
Now the genealogy of Seth's decisions continues on but
there's probably a reason for that.
You see the Book of Genesis, yes, it is a book of History.
It gives us some history facts, but it was not written as a book
of History. It was written to give us what
we need to know about the scheme of redemption, to develop the
theme of The Bible, which of course, is the Redemption of
man. And so there are lots of things
that are left out. There are lots of gaps, so to
speak. Weak things that occurred or
happened that we don't need to know about it.
We don't need to understand and we don't need information about
to develop the story that God intended.
But now it's interesting because the Seventh Generation from Adam
through Seth was extremely different than the Seventh
Generation from Adam who came. Now Enoch of course never died
but limit changed. God's will you know sometimes
people have the idea that polygamy was something that was
always practiced. This is interesting.
Here we have seven generation its nearing the time of the
flood so probably at least a thousand years.
No man. As far as we know, has taken
more than one wife. Now why do you suppose that is
the case? You see the case is the reason
was because God intended relationships to be monogamous.
That's the way he started it. We don't have the detailed
information about that but that's the way God wanted it.
That's the way God intended it. You know, we talked about David,
we talk about Solomon, but when you read the words of Moses, you
find out that even the King was forbidden and taking many wives.
You see, they've, they've violated the Lord's plan when
they took more than one wife. And the point is God, under that
old system under those times of the Patriarchs and the and the
time of Moses, he tolerated or allowed some things that he
didn't necessarily approve of. But now, I want you to notice
what happens here. The Bible says they claim it
took for himself, two wives. The name of one was adah and the
name of the second was Zilla so he took for the first time of
second wife. Now, look at what happens here
you have these two Godly or these two human lines, these two
human genealogies, you have the sons of God, who followed in the
steps of Seth, you have the sons of men who followed in the steps
of Cain and you know, of course, that Kate was the one that rose
up and killed his brother. Look at what it says here and as
Genesis 4 verse 26 and as for Seth to him, also, a son was
born and he named him Enoch. Then men began to call on the
name of the Lord. And the point is they obeyed the
voice of the Lord in spite of that other line, in spite of
that other Godless line. There are men who were following
the plan of God, who were walking according to the
dictates, Takes of the almighty, but the generation of Labor,
tins with the 7. And it says that Enoch walked
with God. Now, look at this, the reason I
don't know what happens to the slides got deleted.
Looks like. The reason that God destroyed
the Earth was because this Godly line chose to marry.
The Godless Lon, it was unscriptural marriage that
caused the world to be destroyed.
If you think about that, some people say ha didn't matter who
you married, that matter if you marry somebody the church, I'm
going to tell you something. Not everybody in the church is
fit to be married. But if you go out there in the
world and selected select your spouse, you're asking for
trouble. Now, if you've already done
that, I'm not talking to you. You can't change.
What what's in the past. In fact, after you've done an
act, there's no way you can go back and undo it.
But the point is our young people need to think about this
because this is what destroyed the world think about it.
It is starting the Earth. Everything upon the Earth was
destroyed man. And Beast because of these
unscriptural, marriage has Well, dog warns man that the day is
coming when an end to all this is going to occur, God warned
humankind that there's no longer going to be Mercy or grace
extended in fact, Jude's reveals to us in verse 7, that his
grandfather that the grandfather of Noah preached about coming
judgment. The although that's not recorded
in the Book of Genesis, the scripture tells us that Hebrews
chapter 11, Noah being divinely warned, prepared, an ark now
knows that A preacher of righteousness God gave him the
message now, notice what happened here?
We have the wrong idea about how God dealt with man and how God
deals with men. He always dealt with man,
directly and indirectly. In other words, he never in any
age, dealt directly with every person, He always used a medium
to deal with the general populace.
Now we have religions today that say that you have to have a holy
spirit experience, you got to be dealt with directly to be saved,
but when you read and study the Bible from the beginning, to the
end, he never dealt directly with every individual.
In fact, he used mediums. Now, the gospel or the truth.
That was proclaimed was always proclaimed first orally.
That's exactly what Paul was saying.
In Ephesians chapter 3, when he says, I received the gospel
message that I delivered to you by Revelation.
Now he delivered delivered it to them orally.
Now, he's writing to the Ephesians who are members of the
church in the first century. The age that we know of as the
miraculous age and yet during the miraculous age, those at
Ephesus could not receive the message of God directly.
It was indirectly through a medium and that was through Paul
the man. But of course, we know that this
medium changed first, the message was revealed orally and
that's what it was all the way back to the beginning.
And then, of course, it was written down, at Paul said, in
Ephesians, that he had written down that he wrote in few words,
the message that he had received directly.
And now they of course through the written text again through
the medium of God's word received his message.
Now I want you to think about this.
This is the way it works today. This is the way it worked during
the time of the flood, this is the way it worked.
During the time of Moses, there was always a medium to the
general populace, only the Selected Few receded directly
And now Paul says, I received directly, but your medium was
me. In fact, Ephesians chapter 3
verse 5. He says that the spirit reveal
it to the apostles and the prophets.
Now, in second Corinthians are rather First Corinthians,
chapter 4. Paul says, I want you to
understand something I have begun to transfer this Authority
from myself and upon us. Now, Paul was an apostle of
policy was a prophet. He Said I've begun to transfer
this Authority from the man to the written page.
And he says I want you Caribbeans to learn not to think
above that which is written. This is in the first century you
see. It was already in the process of
changing, the oil message of changing the direct message from
the from the man to the written text.
Now it's two thousand years. Since the apostles live, it's
2,000 years since this book was finished and we no longer need
God's message directly, but even when he did give a message
directly, it was always through certain people.
So we can't. We're going to find Revelation
today other than what's written. Well, during that time, the
message was given the Noah and Noah proclaim the truth that the
end was coming. Now, it's interesting.
He began to build a boat, it really wasn't.
A boat was more like a barge, the Bible says, by whom also, he
went and preached to the spirits in prison.
Now, the spirits were in prison, when Peter wrote this, but back
Yonder, when they were alive, they were not in Hades, they
were not. In prison awaiting judgment,
they were alive, and they had a choice of repentance Jesus went
and preached to those Spirits while they were alive through.
Noah, he preached through the power of the spirit of Christ,
through the power of the Holy Spirit, he preached to them
Jesus preached to them. Through Noah knows the preacher
of righteousness, who formerly were disobedient.
When Once the dividing, long-suffering, waited in the
days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared in which a few
that is eight Souls were saved through water, God warned men,
but men must act. God never demands or or forces
us to serve. If he doesn't want robots, he
wants us to follow him because we love him.
So men must act. And what are they to do?
What are men going to do? Well, there are two lines of
people and it's pretty obvious what those two lines are going
to do. The people who have rejected,
God, the people who are following after the way of Cain,
they're going to reject God. And at the end, there are those
who are going to follow God. Now it's interesting.
I want you to take note of this, it could be that there were six
billion people that lived on the face of the Earth at this time.
Did you hear that six billion? It can be shown.
Mathematically, that this was possible because of the age and
the length of childbearing years that a man lived upon the earth
and the multiplication, it can be shown that there might have
been 6 billion people who live on the Earth.
Now, Noah preached to those people.
But listen seeing it's contagious.
See, this can take. That's why we're supposed to
discipline someone. That's why when there's a
Morality In A congregation, you can eat a lot to Gold because if
you do, it'll let in the whole world it'll affect everybody.
And you see is really an extension of God's grace that he
declared the words go in. There's a day coming when
judgments going to be here and everybody's going to die.
And actually in reality, we were to read the verse.
There were only eight Souls out of maybe six million people that
were faithful. The whole world would have been
engulfed in seein, and we would have been obliterated.
But God in his Mercy, extended extended.
That hope. Now it came to pass when men
began to multiply on the face of the Earth and daughters were
born to them. That the sons of God, saw the
daughters of men that they were beautiful and they took wives
for themselves of whom all, they chose.
So you have to, to send it's, as I said.
And the intermediary, this the Bible says, I will destroy man,
whom I have created from the face of the Earth.
It's called such great evil, that God decreed, I'm going to
destroy man, both man and Beast creeping things, and birds of
the air for, I'm sorry. Or I've grieved that I hit.
Have made them man. Went to such a point, such a
link he departed so far from God.
That God says, I'm going to call a halt to it. and we may think,
That he is going to let us get by.
We may think that it always be like it is now but I'm going to
tell you God's Own going to put up with the so long.
He's only going to allow us to continue in sin so long.
He's going to deal with us individually.
He's got a deal of deal with us as a people someday.
It's all going to stop. It's all going to end.
Listen. He says, it's over.
He says and the Lord said, my spirit shall not strive with
man, for ever or he is indeed flesh, yet his days shall be.
120 years. Now, some people try to take
that verse out of context. And applied in various ways.
For example, some people say well that was the short.
That's why after the flood their lives were shortened.
That's interesting because no himself lived to be over 900 and
his sons lived to be over 600 or 800 and Jacob who lived many
generations later lived to be nearly 200 years old. and yet it
says here, 120 years Well, the point is God's declaring that
I'm going to allow 120 more years to exist.
That's what he's saying. Now, this is this, this is
pretty intriguing to me, you know, we talked about families,
we talk about raising our families.
We talked about that sir, the terrible Society, we live in.
In the situation, we have to raise our families.
You I want you to think about this, Noah lives in a society
before his children are born, you see?
Because God makes this declaration is I already pointed
out when Noah is 480 years old and his first son was born when
he was five hundred. So before Noah's first son was
born, the imagination of man's heart was only evil continually
You know, my grandmother said a few years ago she said I'm so
thankful son, that I'm old. Because this world is so wicked.
I wouldn't want to bring anybody in this world to live.
Well, maybe she was wrong. What I want you to think about
this. The world of nose so bad.
Out of all the multitudes of people that lived on the earth,
only eight. We're faithful at the end.
What an amazing idea. What a what are they credible
fault? And before his first born, son
is chosen are born rather. God says, I'm going to destroy
the world. Well, it's children are born.
They marry and they remain faithful to God.
Now, think about this. Noah went out to save his family
and he saved his world. Now you go study the life of a
lot. Bible says he made himself a
judge in Sodom. The Bible says he said at the
gate and that's worth a judge set.
That's where Court was held. The Bible says that he vexed,
his righteous soul from day to day.
You see we we miss some of that story when we talk about law, we
talk about him. Pitching his tent, toward Sodom
and so forth. But the Bible says he was a
righteous man. God said that not the preacher
God said that. And the Bible says he wrecked,
he vexed his righteous Soul every day.
The Bible says that what tried to change society?
Their listen to this. He tried to change society by
getting involved in politics. He tried to change society by
the coming apart of society. That's what a lot of the
religious World tells us what to do.
Now, think about this lot, went out to save the world.
And he lost his family. He lost seven children,
including his in-laws, his daughters in-laws.
And his wife and really is to sort of you lost the ball.
Lot went out to save his world and he lost his family and he
lost the world. No one has to save his family.
He not only saved his family, but he saved the world.
That's a powerful powerful statement.
And all of us in this assembly to think about that.
That little girl right there is in your hands, brother.
These children mrs. Sibley.
They're in our hands, the greatest blessing the greatest
Hope we have for the future of the church is our children.
Don't let the TV raise your kids.
Don't let your life be consumed with other things.
Don't badmouth the leadership. show your children, that there's
That there's wonderful Beauty at Living the Christian Life.
Show them that God is real in your life.
So that when you grow up, he'll be real in theirs.
Be like Noah, go out to save your family, no telling what
benefit you'll be. To the lord.
Well, so much could be said, but I've got to move along.
God says, it's going to finish, but Noah found Grace in the eyes
of the Lord notice. Now Noah did not even deserve to
be saved. The difference between know and
the rest of the people is he had continued to reverence and
respect God. The Bible says that he was just
in perfect, that doesn't mean he was absolutely Justice or
absolutely just like Jesus. He was justified because he
completed at off of the animal sacrifice and recognize that
God's word was truth. He was perfect because he had
offered the blood of innocent victims to roll his sins forward
to the kind, that Jesus would come to this world because he
And obeyed the voice of God. He did not deserve salvation.
Listen, friends. There's nothing.
We can do to earn salvation. The gift of Salvation, the
origin of Salvation is free. But if we want to attain that
salvation, if we want to enjoy that salvation, we have to pay
for it. But whatever we pay is never
enough. How can being baptized pay for
the death of Jesus. How can eating Lord's Supper
from one loaf and drinking from one cup?
How can that earn salvation? That's a bunch of hogwash you
can get to things like that. It's because of God's grace.
That will be saved. Based upon a course, our
obedience is blessed will by faith.
Noah, you know, the word faith is not something better felt
than toll Faith carries with it. The idea of evidence in fact, in
the Book of Romans that is often been called The Book of Faith or
salvation by faith. Paul Begins the book in chapter
1, verse 5, with an expression. He says, Idiots of the faith in
man, interesting. Obedience of the faith.
The book of faith says that Faith always includes obedience.
He ends the book of Romans in the last chapter, about the
third verse from the end with the same expression, The
Obedience of the faith you see. Faith is not something better
felt than told. Faith is based upon evidence.
Whether it's written or whether it's oral, whether it's by
listening to preaching, whether it's my reading the Bible.
It's based upon evidence Faith does not start before the
evidence. He does not go beyond the
evidence. And the Bible says by faith, you
see, God had given him the evidence being divinely warned
of things, not yet seen he'd never seen it rain on the earth.
It probably had not rained on the earth till this day.
Till that day. He didn't understand what it
meant to rain, but God warned him that it was going to rain.
And that there was going to be a great flood.
He prepared an ark for the saving of his household by which
he condemned the world and became heir of Salvation.
Now Grace mixed with faith, followed by action, he was told
to build an ark. Now, I want to say something
here because the are it's difficult to know the exact
dimensions of the Ark. What I'm going to do tonight is
I'm going to use 18 inches. Now, of course, a spin is from
the elbow to tall man here. Now, mine's not to you inches.
I measure Terry's and Chris's. And there's is 18, inches are
measured little m's. She's asleep, but I measured
little Emma's. And hers was 12 inches.
And so that's why it's not an exact science, it depending on
who the standard was by which they measure cubed.
And the ancient Babylonians had a cubit that was maybe like
twenty four inches. So, we've got a large difference
here from 16 inches to about 24 inches.
It's possible. So, there's a big difference
here, but I'm going to use the 18 about that because that was
the most logical. Length of the of the qubit and
that'll help us understand how gigantic this box actually was.
Now if we use the smallest possible measurement of this
giant barge, it would have been four hundred and thirty seven
feet long, 73 feet wide and 44 feet tall.
Now it's interesting. You can see here this 747 In
proportion to the to the barge gives you an idea.
Now, these engines on here are big enough for a six foot man to
stand in them. That's how big that plane is.
Here's one of the largest dinosaurs and that's how big the
boat is or that the barge is in proportion to that dinosaur.
Here's an elephant in a draft and we've all seen elephants and
giraffes. And there's the proportion of
size scientifically to the size of the boat.
It's big. It's bigger than you can really
imagine. It's a gigantic, barge, it's not
designed to sail. It's designed to flow now.
No, other Bible says acted by by faith.
He was given Specific Instructions.
Now, it's interesting when you read what scientist had to say
about these instructions, they tell us that that the dimensions
of the Ark and the ratio to length, height and width are the
exact dimensions that are used in all of the large ships that
are built in modern times. Henry Moore's a hydrologic
engineer who graduate graduated from Rice University in Houston,
Texas wrote this. If it can be shown
hydrodynamically, no, this is a scientist.
It can be shown hydrodynamically that a gigantic box of such
Dimensions would be exceedingly, stable almost impossible to
capsize. It's designed to float and it's
built about the best. You could possibly build as a
man to float. In fact, he went on to say that
if it tilted as much as 90 degrees because of the design in
proportions to the length, width and height, it would probably
fall back down on its body. It wouldn't tip on over and
that's exactly what we need now. Do you think that happened by
the accident? Of course, not God designed
this. So that man could live.
Now, let's talk about the volume inside the boat.
Now. You know, somebody like Bob or
Terrier or Doyle, who was the salesman, might understand 1.4
million cubic feet. I don't know.
But I that'll be much to me. So I studied that out a little
bit more to try to figure out what that means.
Now that's the same capacity that 522 livestock is hold.
Pretty amazing. Now, one Railcar will hold 240
sheep now Even the largest mammals in infancy are about the
size of a full-grown sheep. You know, I'm going to show you
the minute that there were dinosaurs on the boat had to be
even the largest dinosaur in infancy.
Was about the size of it cheap, a large full-grown sheep.
In fact, about 75% of the dinosaurs were the size of a
chicken. We don't hear that, but that's
the truth. Dinosaurs of modern origin.
And it was it's a word that came into Vogue.
A long after the King James Bible was printed and it just
means terrible lizard. And so the word was not even
used when the Bible was translated.
Now let's look at this. So we have the capacity to hold
animals inside this boat, people food, Provisions, whatever's
needed 522 livestock cars, enough room to hold 125,000
sheep. Now, somebody says, you mean to
say that Noah had to get all the animals on the boat.
That's not possible. Let's reason this out.
Let's think about this. He was told to make an ark of
gopher wood. One window a cubit above one
door in the side are he was to pitch it inside and outside with
pitch, thus Noah did according to all that God commanded him.
So did he then? The Lord said to Noah, come into
the ark. Listen to what he says.
Now you and all your household. So because I have seen that you
are righteous before me in this generation, you shall take with
you seven. Each of every clean animal a
male, and his female to each of animals that are unclean a male.
And his female also sevens each. A bird, birds of the air male
and female to keep the species alive on the face of all the
Earth. And for, after seven, more
years, I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and
forty nights and I will destroy it from the face of the Earth,
all living things that I have made and know.
Did of cording to all that. God commanded him out.
Here comes the Roundup. Now, I have some uncle's who are
real cowboys. My uncle Donnie lived in Nevada
for a lot of years and these two rope Mountain lines, you can
believe that when we were kids, we wouldn't, they had a mountain
lion that they had rope. That one time we were there and
they called nosy because he had those bleed.
They actually would wrote mountain lions from horse.
Now, these animals won't wrote. God said you get in the boat you
and your family and these animals are going to come in.
That's amazing. You know what we don't realize
is Before the Flood, there was a different relationship between
men and animals. In fact, probably before the
flood, there were no meat eaters.
If you remember that it was after the flood that God, gave
the orders to now, start using meat for food.
Now that's the opposite of evolution, does he see?
The problem is, most everything's the opposite of
evolution. You can't put the evolution with
the Bible. There's no way it can't be done.
There's too many, that's too many discrepancies.
You know, they tell us that that when you look at that star that
often times that lie is millions of years old and they'll light,
you see is of a former star because the Stars gone when you
see the light. But in Genesis, I want it says
the light was here before the star.
Because the Bible says, on the first day of creation God
created light and it was four days later when he created the
Stars. You see the two many
discrepancies between evolution and creation of Christianity.
Evolution is a theory and it's based upon faith.
Depends on how you look at the evidence.
We're not talking about Evolution, we talked about the
Bible and the Bible says that you get in the art Noah, and
these animals are all going to come.
So, one by one, a two by two, they came marching and entering
the ark. Two of every kind, seven pairs
of the clean animals. Now, biological taxonomists,
tell us that there are 18,000 species in the world.
Now, we're talking about Bible kinds now and you need to
realize that that's much more limiting than Yuri than we often
think. For example, that you are wha
and the Great Dane came from the original dogs.
We know biological taxonomy is tell us that through breeding,
they've developed these the Chihuahua and the Great Dane,
but they both came from the same original match in the beginning.
That's more difficult to take cats.
It's more difficult to understand exactly how many cat
species. There would have been in the
beginning, but the point is, the Bible says that God told him
that there would be pairs of every Bible kind.
So they would have been one male one female.
Female dog that represented all the dogs of the future.
Scientists are supposed to know, said it was probably more like a
wolf. I don't know.
No that really matters but the point is there are currently
18,000 species on the earth down.
We know that there wouldn't be any sea creatures on the boat
because it didn't need to be. They could have survived the
flood. So they were mammals birds,
reptiles amphibians, and then of course, we need to think about
the extinct animals, so let's double it again.
So now we have 36 thousand animals that we have to On the
boat. Now again there was two of every
kind of male and female but then there were seven pairs of the
clean animals. We don't know for sure what
animals were actually the clean animals.
Now you can you can you can make some educated guesses but you
really don't know for sure how many there were.
So let's add 5000 more to the number.
So, that would be 75,000. Now we have room for 125,000,
280 full-grown sheep. Now you'll notice that there are
many small creatures who that are much smaller than a sheep
Robin's. Lizards mice, frogs a few large
animals, elephants and giraffes dinosaurs.
Now, I told you all God is going to show you that were dinosaurs
on the boat. Now job lived about four hundred
years after the flood. And God's talking to job. now,
if you have a Bible with the margin and you look at Behemoth
that's in this context, it'll tell you an elephant or Hippo
would guess what Did you ever see?
Did you ever see a tail on a hippo or elephant?
That looked like a cedar tree? In fact, many of the creation
science believe that this is the probably, the dinosaur that this
passage is talking about. But the word, behemoth is from
the Hebrew word that they need to know how to translate, that's
why they just call it behemoth. Look at what it says, look.
Now at the Behemoth, this is God, talking to job which I made
Long Beach, along with you. Now, man says dinosaurs died
before man. God says, I made the dinosaur
with you. Look at now at the Behemoth,
which I made along with you, he eats grass, like, an ox.
See, now, his strength is in his hips and his power is in his
stomach muscles. He moves his tail like a cedar.
The sinews of his thighs. Are tightly knit.
His bones are like beams of bronze, his ribs, like bars of
iron. Now it was natural for animals
to migrate. Have you noticed these animals
on this ramp are small animals? It would have been natural for
these animals to be infants. Now we need of course but they
have to replenish the Earth. And so the best the cream of the
crop, the best breeders, God would have had, would have sent
to the ark, it's natural. It's been proven by these
biological scientists that that all animals have the Ability to
migrate. And so God calls by a miracle,
all of these animals to migrate to the ark that was necessary to
keep the species alive. So the animals on this bridge,
our infants that's logical to can you imagine if you had a
full-grown dinosaur on the boat and you had to clean up his
Waist. You know, if you're driving
along an African, you're not paying attention.
You run over a pile of elephant, dung.
You probably don't have a wreck. And it opens a lot smaller than
a dinosaur. They got to be on this boat for
a year. Now, there are two things about
infants that are going to be necessary.
To Aid knowing his family, they got to take care of 75,000
animals. And if they're infants, they're
going to sleep. Now he has, he has a storehouse
of food. Probably what happens is?
He feeds the animals and it's dark and it's dead.
It's raining. What do you do when it rains,
you sleep? These animals were sleeping.
They were hibernating. It's also been shown that most
all animals have the ability to hibernate And that when that
happens their body processes, slow way down and the waste is
less. And of course they do not need
food during that time. So they had food when they went
to bed, they had some food left. When they got up and they being
infants, would have been a much simpler easier job and so,
probably all of these animals on the boat.
None of them would have been larger than a full-grown sheep
even the largest of the animals. Well, Noah had to be willing to
leave his former life. He'd never seen it rain.
And you know, God says it's going to rain.
Noah had to be willing to get inside that boat.
Can you imagine the ridicule? We get ridiculed sometimes.
Can you imagine telling people it's going to rain.
They never see, right? Would you believe it?
Doyle somebody told you it's going to rain in Bakersfield.
The first of August. Probably not.
Of course, none of us had thought a grate inlets and June
either my place where I left yesterday and really nearly an
inch for I left. I remembered ever do that.
But they didn't see ring before, and now it's going to rain.
He's going to get his family. All inside, that boat, this old,
gray-haired man. That needs to be taken somewhere
and locked up. He's got a problem.
He probably called CPS. The point is he did with the
Lord said no matter what anybody said, no matter what anybody
else did, he was willing to leave his former life.
All in his nostrils, was the breath of the spirit of Life.
All that was on the dry land died.
Nor passed through the door. Now, it's interesting.
We talked about this door, you remember, I said he was to pitch
it within and without with pitch, that is the ark was can't
pitch on the outside and on the inside.
Now, there are two different words that are used for this
word pitch. Found in Genesis chapter 6 and
verse 14. The first time it means to cover
its a verb. The second time, it means a
cover. So here you have this cover,
that covers the outside and keeps the pending Waters of
judgment away from the inside of the boat.
You have the pitch on the inside, to that continues to
seal them, they had to pass through this pitch to get inside
the boat. Now this is what's interesting.
This word pitch in Genesis chapter 6 is later used and it's
translated by these three words. And the lexicographer says that
the word means that the price of a lie, a price for ransom of
Allah to atone for them. You know what that's talking
about this time with the blood of Jesus.
In order to be saved in order to be protected, they had to get
inside the boat, when they did that, they passed through the
pitch just like, we have to pass through the blood of Jesus.
The pitch is pointing no less through the blood of Our Lord,
no left his former life, nor pass through the door, he was
warned by God, he acted by faith at all of course this alluding
to our Salvation in Christ. We hear the gospel.
We believe that God's will repent of our We acknowledge
Jesus Christ, as the Son of God, we passed through the door.
Jesus says, I am the door we have to believe and acknowledge
that he is the door. And of course, when we do that,
we passed through his blood because that would include even
baptism. Notice what it says.
Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things
but with the precious blood of Christ as of a lamb without
blemish and without spot indeed was forwarded for the foundation
of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you
know, of I saved by water so we are saved by water.
The words that we read in the beginning in an amazing.
How this represented our Salvation to this day, it is
very hour. They heard they believed they
resolved they repented, they confessed and they were
baptized, don't notice this as the eight Souls of the type,
we're not saved before. Or after the flood but while the
water supported the art. So salvation from sin has
accomplished in baptism, Not before or after they act notice
that there was no infants on the boat.
Noah's children had no children. They had no children.
He'd had the grandchildren until after the flood.
That does away with infant baptism.
All were saved the same way. Look at the unity of this.
Every person who was saved or save the same way, all were
members of the same family, was that an accident?
Think about it, all wore, the same family name, Isn't that
incredible? That's the way it is for us,
even today in the New Testament Church, we're all saved the same
way. We all are members of the same
family, and we all wear the same name.
Christian, that incredible, well, know has boat is a symbol
of Salvation. The Waters of the flood lifted,
the boat to safety and the Waters of the flood caused the
boat to float on the on this show.
Shortest sea for over a year and finally, those inside the boat
were allowed to leave and they walked out on dry, clay him.
Well, my friends, there's coming another flood but this flood is
not with water. It's going to be by fire.
Or are you ready for that day? Only those who are prepared.
Hear it now while we live. On that day will hear him say
Well done thou good and faithful servant.
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