1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:11,640 Thank you for listening to this message from Life House Church. 2 00:00:11,640 --> 00:00:15,000 All right, all right. 3 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:16,800 Good morning. 4 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:19,760 Listen, turn to somebody give them a high five. 5 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:22,800 Tell them it is good to see you in God's house this morning. 6 00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:25,440 It's good to have each one of you here. 7 00:00:25,440 --> 00:00:28,160 So many good things happening right now. 8 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:30,280 Tangier team, come on. 9 00:00:30,280 --> 00:00:33,840 If you're if you went on the Tangier mission trip, raise your hand right now because somebody 10 00:00:33,840 --> 00:00:35,400 needs to talk to you after gathering. 11 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:38,880 They had a great week of ministry all week long. 12 00:00:38,880 --> 00:00:39,880 They're back. 13 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:44,680 If you want to stop and chat with one of them, you'll hear so much more and more in the future. 14 00:00:44,680 --> 00:00:45,680 It's good to have them. 15 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:46,760 It's good to have the East Shore family here. 16 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:48,760 If you're from East Shore, raise your hand. 17 00:00:48,760 --> 00:00:50,440 Yeah, come on. 18 00:00:50,440 --> 00:00:53,160 He shores in the house merging up with us. 19 00:00:53,160 --> 00:00:54,960 So lots of exciting things. 20 00:00:54,960 --> 00:00:56,680 Church man, it's everything right? 21 00:00:56,680 --> 00:00:59,880 You can get shoe boxes, there's crazy stuff going on. 22 00:00:59,880 --> 00:01:02,120 And I also want to encourage you. 23 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:05,760 We live in a great nation where you actually have a voice. 24 00:01:05,760 --> 00:01:08,400 And this week you should go out and vote. 25 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:09,400 All right. 26 00:01:09,400 --> 00:01:10,600 You have that opportunity. 27 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:11,860 You have that freedom. 28 00:01:11,860 --> 00:01:14,680 How many know you can't sit around and complain if you don't go out there and do something 29 00:01:14,680 --> 00:01:15,860 about it, right? 30 00:01:15,860 --> 00:01:17,340 So take that opportunity. 31 00:01:17,340 --> 00:01:18,400 Take that freedom. 32 00:01:18,400 --> 00:01:19,680 Go out and vote. 33 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:21,380 Pray over the candidates. 34 00:01:21,380 --> 00:01:25,680 Let God direct you in that and go out, go out, go out. 35 00:01:25,680 --> 00:01:28,440 So good to have you in God's house. 36 00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:29,840 Amazing things happening. 37 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:31,000 God's on the throne. 38 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:33,200 He's still how many know he's still in control. 39 00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:34,200 Amen. 40 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:35,200 Amen. 41 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:36,200 No matter what's going on in Washington, D.C. 42 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:37,200 He's in control. 43 00:01:37,200 --> 00:01:38,200 Good to have you. 44 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:42,800 Well, this morning, I'm going to read you a little something just to start this message 45 00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:48,360 off and it says, it's this Martin Lindstrom, a former market research expert and author 46 00:01:48,360 --> 00:01:54,260 of Brandwashed, not brainwashed, Brandwashed argues that advertisers know something that 47 00:01:54,260 --> 00:01:57,280 human beings have in common with birds and termites. 48 00:01:57,280 --> 00:02:00,480 How many know how many you didn't know you had something common birds and termites, did 49 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:01,480 you? 50 00:02:01,480 --> 00:02:02,480 All right. 51 00:02:02,480 --> 00:02:06,120 Without even thinking about it, we're often controlled by peer pressure. 52 00:02:06,120 --> 00:02:09,760 For instance, Lindstrom notes how many bird species rise from a field. 53 00:02:09,760 --> 00:02:13,420 We see this all over the place around here in complete synchrony, right? 54 00:02:13,420 --> 00:02:15,560 As though they're doing a choreographed dance. 55 00:02:15,560 --> 00:02:20,700 And scientists will say that birds are acting as if they shared one collective brain. 56 00:02:20,700 --> 00:02:24,080 Termites also act like one enormous termite brain. 57 00:02:24,080 --> 00:02:28,000 In other words, Lindstrom writes, only by observing and mimicking the behavior of its 58 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:31,380 neighbors can a termite figure out what it's doing. 59 00:02:31,380 --> 00:02:37,720 And Lindstrom observes that as consumers and human beings act much in the same way, just 60 00:02:37,720 --> 00:02:42,680 like those birds and those termites, we too are wired with collective consciousness in 61 00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:48,840 that we size up what's going on around us and we begin to modify our actions and behaviors. 62 00:02:48,840 --> 00:02:52,440 And there's actually a university, Leeds University did a study on this. 63 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:57,320 And what they did is they got a big open area and they got between 100 and 200 people and 64 00:02:57,320 --> 00:03:00,120 they put him in the room and they just had him walk around. 65 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:01,400 They weren't allowed to talk. 66 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:04,560 They were just supposed to go in and wander around the room. 67 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:08,920 What everybody in the room didn't know is they took about 5% of those people and instructed 68 00:03:08,920 --> 00:03:10,400 them where to walk. 69 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:15,840 And what they found out was if people started walking in a pattern, only 5% of them, the 70 00:03:15,840 --> 00:03:17,600 rest began to follow. 71 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:21,440 They tried this multiple times with different groups and up to about 200 people. 72 00:03:21,440 --> 00:03:25,280 They just began to follow peer pressure is a real thing. 73 00:03:25,280 --> 00:03:26,280 Amen. 74 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:27,560 It is. 75 00:03:27,560 --> 00:03:34,280 If we're not consciously paying attention to what's happening around us, we will subconsciously 76 00:03:34,280 --> 00:03:37,700 begin to follow the minority that is among us. 77 00:03:37,700 --> 00:03:40,920 We will give into what I call the squeeze. 78 00:03:40,920 --> 00:03:41,920 Say the squeeze. 79 00:03:41,920 --> 00:03:42,920 All right. 80 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:43,920 It's the squeeze. 81 00:03:43,920 --> 00:03:45,960 It's peer pressure without even noticing. 82 00:03:45,960 --> 00:03:51,520 If we don't filter what's happening around us through God's truth, right through the 83 00:03:51,520 --> 00:03:57,280 strainer of truth, God's truth, we'll start to slip into the squeeze and experts are blaming 84 00:03:57,280 --> 00:04:02,560 this in multiple areas or they've pinned us down in multiple areas of our lives. 85 00:04:02,560 --> 00:04:05,560 One of the things that's been taking place in society, and I don't know if you're aware 86 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:11,760 of this, but depression and anxiety have risen tremendously in the last five to 10 years 87 00:04:11,760 --> 00:04:13,660 in youth and adults. 88 00:04:13,660 --> 00:04:18,040 And what they have found out it is due to peer pressure in social media. 89 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:20,280 Screen time is linked to all this. 90 00:04:20,280 --> 00:04:25,720 Teenagers spend about eight hours and 39 minutes per day, man, okay, on screens compared to 91 00:04:25,720 --> 00:04:29,920 junior hires at 5.5 hours for preteens. 92 00:04:29,920 --> 00:04:33,760 And before you cross your arms and say cop an attitude, all you adults and say those 93 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:35,560 doggone teenagers, right? 94 00:04:35,560 --> 00:04:37,860 Well, adults, you are much better. 95 00:04:37,860 --> 00:04:41,620 Four hours and 37 minutes, right, of screen time. 96 00:04:41,620 --> 00:04:42,620 That translates. 97 00:04:42,620 --> 00:04:43,620 Get this. 98 00:04:43,620 --> 00:04:48,760 You spend one day per week, six days per month, 70 days per year and 12 years of your life 99 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:50,760 over a lifespan. 100 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:52,440 Wow, right? 101 00:04:52,440 --> 00:04:55,160 Much of it in the squeeze. 102 00:04:55,160 --> 00:04:56,160 The squeeze is real. 103 00:04:56,160 --> 00:04:57,160 The squeeze is real. 104 00:04:57,160 --> 00:04:59,100 Turn to somebody tell them the squeeze is real. 105 00:04:59,100 --> 00:05:00,100 It's real. 106 00:05:00,100 --> 00:05:01,500 It's real. 107 00:05:01,500 --> 00:05:08,540 We should never feel so spiritual to believe that we would never cave into peer pressure 108 00:05:08,540 --> 00:05:12,720 that somehow we're immune to the squeeze. 109 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:19,120 We should never that we would never ever give into compromise in the squeeze. 110 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:24,340 Let me remind you of a guy in the Bible named Peter, right? 111 00:05:24,340 --> 00:05:27,520 One of Jesus personal disciples, one of the apostles. 112 00:05:27,520 --> 00:05:33,120 And when the squeeze happened, when Jesus was on trial, when he came before the court, 113 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:36,880 when they arrested him, took him from the garden and they brought him into trial and 114 00:05:36,880 --> 00:05:42,200 there were hordes of people around and these people wanted to crucify him and there was 115 00:05:42,200 --> 00:05:44,160 all this taking place. 116 00:05:44,160 --> 00:05:48,480 Peter himself, the guy who metaphorically beat his hand on his chest and said, Jesus, 117 00:05:48,480 --> 00:05:50,440 I will never deny you ever. 118 00:05:50,440 --> 00:05:52,960 I'll go to the death with you. 119 00:05:52,960 --> 00:05:57,600 He denies Christ three times in the squeeze, once by a little girl, right? 120 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:03,120 Who questions him and the word of God says that he went away and he wept bitterly because 121 00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:05,960 he caved in the squeeze. 122 00:06:05,960 --> 00:06:09,200 The question is not, is it possible to buckle in the squeeze? 123 00:06:09,200 --> 00:06:10,660 Because it is possible, right? 124 00:06:10,660 --> 00:06:17,360 The question is why do we buckle sometimes in a squeeze and at other times we stand strong, 125 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:18,360 right? 126 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:20,800 Why is it one way one time and one way the next? 127 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:25,180 And the question that we need to ask ourselves, and I began to try to answer that in my own 128 00:06:25,180 --> 00:06:28,880 head and in my own heart, you know, is it just that we're weak in some areas of our 129 00:06:28,880 --> 00:06:29,880 life? 130 00:06:29,880 --> 00:06:32,640 Do we just have moments maybe of bravery, right? 131 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:38,040 A spurt of courage comes up in us and we stand in the middle of the squeeze. 132 00:06:38,040 --> 00:06:39,840 Is it situational ethics? 133 00:06:39,840 --> 00:06:41,840 Does it matter, you know, the situation? 134 00:06:41,840 --> 00:06:43,680 Does it depend on the situation? 135 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:49,960 Is it because we had a well thought out plan beforehand that we stand in the squeeze? 136 00:06:49,960 --> 00:06:52,960 Maybe you're a person who avoids the squeeze on a regular basis, right? 137 00:06:52,960 --> 00:06:57,920 You keep yourself out of that kind of situation and when it does come, you don't know, it's 138 00:06:57,920 --> 00:07:00,040 overwhelming and you buckle, right? 139 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:01,040 Is it a personality thing? 140 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:02,800 Is it an influence thing? 141 00:07:02,800 --> 00:07:04,800 Is it the right people, right place and right time? 142 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:06,440 Is it a lack of willpower, right? 143 00:07:06,440 --> 00:07:09,280 Or determination or grit that's inside of us? 144 00:07:09,280 --> 00:07:13,960 What is it that causes me to stand one minute and cave the next? 145 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:14,960 What is it? 146 00:07:14,960 --> 00:07:20,040 Well, you know, while the host of things that I mentioned could be contributing factors, 147 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:25,840 I believe that the right practice of the right things will keep you strong in the squeeze. 148 00:07:25,840 --> 00:07:28,600 And look into the right role model. 149 00:07:28,600 --> 00:07:31,720 We'll help you find out what you need in the squeeze. 150 00:07:31,720 --> 00:07:36,560 If you got your Bibles this morning, I want you to turn to Genesis chapter six. 151 00:07:36,560 --> 00:07:40,720 Genesis chapter six, we're going to go talk about a man named Noah. 152 00:07:40,720 --> 00:07:44,920 And while you're turning, I'm going to pray over the reading of God's word, not because 153 00:07:44,920 --> 00:07:47,840 his word needs blessed, right, but because our hearing does. 154 00:07:47,840 --> 00:07:48,840 Amen. 155 00:07:48,840 --> 00:07:49,840 It's true. 156 00:07:49,840 --> 00:07:52,040 Father, we thank you for this day for your blessings. 157 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:56,040 God I ask right now that you would just come in, Lord, speak into our hearts, our minds, 158 00:07:56,040 --> 00:07:57,040 help us to hear your word. 159 00:07:57,040 --> 00:08:01,360 God, let it penetrate into our spirits and Lord, that we might know and hear you and 160 00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:03,960 God, that we might stand strong in the squeeze. 161 00:08:03,960 --> 00:08:08,920 Lord, when the peer pressure is on, when the pressure comes, God, that we might stand before 162 00:08:08,920 --> 00:08:11,480 you godly and righteous and speak your word. 163 00:08:11,480 --> 00:08:13,000 And Lord, we just give you praise and glory. 164 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:14,480 And everybody say together. 165 00:08:14,480 --> 00:08:15,480 Amen. 166 00:08:15,480 --> 00:08:16,480 Amen. 167 00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:19,400 Genesis chapter six, verse five is where I'm going to begin. 168 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:24,200 It says, the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every 169 00:08:24,200 --> 00:08:28,960 intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 170 00:08:28,960 --> 00:08:33,320 And the Lord was sorry that he had made man on the earth and he was grieved in his heart. 171 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:37,320 So the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, 172 00:08:37,320 --> 00:08:42,200 both man and beast creeping things and birds of the air from sorry that I have made them. 173 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:45,760 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. 174 00:08:45,760 --> 00:08:47,660 This is the genealogy of Noah. 175 00:08:47,660 --> 00:08:50,640 Noah was a just man, a perfect man in his generation. 176 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:56,080 Noah walked with God and Noah begot three sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth. 177 00:08:56,080 --> 00:08:59,640 The earth was also corrupt before God and the earth was filled with violence. 178 00:08:59,640 --> 00:09:02,500 So God looked upon the earth and indeed it was corrupt. 179 00:09:02,500 --> 00:09:05,280 For all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth. 180 00:09:05,280 --> 00:09:08,960 And God said to Noah, the end of all flesh has come before me. 181 00:09:08,960 --> 00:09:10,760 For the earth is filled with violence. 182 00:09:10,760 --> 00:09:14,040 Through them and behold, I will destroy them with the earth. 183 00:09:14,040 --> 00:09:18,760 Make yourself an ark of gopher wood, make rooms in the ark and covered inside and out 184 00:09:18,760 --> 00:09:19,760 with pitch. 185 00:09:19,760 --> 00:09:21,880 And this is how you shall make it. 186 00:09:21,880 --> 00:09:23,560 God begins to instruct them. 187 00:09:23,560 --> 00:09:28,960 Now just to give you a little bit of context here of what's happening timeline wise is 188 00:09:28,960 --> 00:09:35,280 from the time of Adam to the time of Noah was 1056 years, one millennium. 189 00:09:35,280 --> 00:09:40,640 So in one millennium when God had created man, Adam and Eve in the garden from that 190 00:09:40,640 --> 00:09:45,640 time when God literally walked with man and Adam fell and then Eve fell or Eve fell and 191 00:09:45,640 --> 00:09:55,400 then Adam fell from that time till then 1056 years later, there was complete complete debauchery 192 00:09:55,400 --> 00:09:56,920 on the earth. 193 00:09:56,920 --> 00:09:58,200 Violence filled the earth. 194 00:09:58,200 --> 00:10:00,000 People no longer followed God. 195 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:01,920 They turned from God. 196 00:10:01,920 --> 00:10:03,880 Rebellion had rose up in their hearts. 197 00:10:03,880 --> 00:10:05,560 They were heathenistic. 198 00:10:05,560 --> 00:10:10,920 Sin ravaged mankind in a thousand years to the point of having debased minds. 199 00:10:10,920 --> 00:10:14,360 They didn't even they didn't even know right from wrong. 200 00:10:14,360 --> 00:10:18,080 And God was sorry that he created mankind. 201 00:10:18,080 --> 00:10:20,040 He was sorry that he created mankind. 202 00:10:20,040 --> 00:10:23,680 Now I don't know if you've ever started something and it turned into such a mess. 203 00:10:23,680 --> 00:10:27,440 It got so corrupted that you just wanted to trash it, right? 204 00:10:27,440 --> 00:10:28,440 You just want to forget about it. 205 00:10:28,440 --> 00:10:29,440 You just want to walk away from it. 206 00:10:29,440 --> 00:10:31,560 I don't know if that's ever happened to you. 207 00:10:31,560 --> 00:10:33,880 I thought of a little simple example of this. 208 00:10:33,880 --> 00:10:36,560 I don't know if you've ever been to the beach on vacation somewhere. 209 00:10:36,560 --> 00:10:39,840 We like to go to the beach and you get up in the morning and you're going to head down 210 00:10:39,840 --> 00:10:44,680 to the shoreline and get your spot so you can play in the sand and play in the waves. 211 00:10:44,680 --> 00:10:45,680 Right. 212 00:10:45,680 --> 00:10:49,480 And how many know if you got to go to the shoreline, you got to take a snack with you. 213 00:10:49,480 --> 00:10:50,480 Anybody with me? 214 00:10:50,480 --> 00:10:51,480 All right. 215 00:10:51,480 --> 00:10:52,480 You cannot go to the beach without a snack pack. 216 00:10:52,480 --> 00:10:53,480 At least we don't. 217 00:10:53,480 --> 00:10:54,480 All right. 218 00:10:54,480 --> 00:10:58,840 So, you know, you and you got to get your snack pack ready and you get, you know, you 219 00:10:58,840 --> 00:11:01,680 get the bread out and you get the peanut butter out. 220 00:11:01,680 --> 00:11:04,200 Actually get the Jif out because it's the only real peanut butter. 221 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:06,360 You get you get the peanut butter out. 222 00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:07,680 You smother one side. 223 00:11:07,680 --> 00:11:08,840 You smother the other. 224 00:11:08,840 --> 00:11:13,120 You find your favorite jelly, your favorite jam, you know, with that strawberry grape, 225 00:11:13,120 --> 00:11:14,280 whatever it is. 226 00:11:14,280 --> 00:11:15,980 And you smear that in between. 227 00:11:15,980 --> 00:11:17,160 You put that sandwich together. 228 00:11:17,160 --> 00:11:18,200 You put it in a sandwich bag. 229 00:11:18,200 --> 00:11:19,360 You put it in your little pack. 230 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:20,360 Right. 231 00:11:20,360 --> 00:11:23,760 Then you zip that thing up or close that thing up and you head to the beach. 232 00:11:23,760 --> 00:11:24,760 And about noon. 233 00:11:24,760 --> 00:11:25,760 Right. 234 00:11:25,760 --> 00:11:28,600 Well, about lunchtime, 10 a.m. for me. 235 00:11:28,600 --> 00:11:29,600 All right. 236 00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:31,760 About lunchtime, you get hungry. 237 00:11:31,760 --> 00:11:36,440 So you pull that sandwich out and you take you're just about to take that first bite 238 00:11:36,440 --> 00:11:40,840 of that glorious sandwich that you built earlier that morning and it slips out of your hand 239 00:11:40,840 --> 00:11:43,160 and falls in the sand. 240 00:11:43,160 --> 00:11:44,780 Yeah. 241 00:11:44,780 --> 00:11:46,200 It's corrupted. 242 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:47,400 Right. 243 00:11:47,400 --> 00:11:49,100 You can pull that thing back out. 244 00:11:49,100 --> 00:11:51,440 You can try to rip the edges off and bite in the middle. 245 00:11:51,440 --> 00:11:53,920 You're going to get sand in your mouth. 246 00:11:53,920 --> 00:11:57,360 And the whole thing just ends up a mess and you throw it away. 247 00:11:57,360 --> 00:11:58,360 Right. 248 00:11:58,360 --> 00:11:59,360 It got corrupted. 249 00:11:59,360 --> 00:12:03,240 It felt that was God with mankind. 250 00:12:03,240 --> 00:12:09,040 He put us in the garden and sin came into the world and mankind dropped themselves into 251 00:12:09,040 --> 00:12:10,880 the sand of sin. 252 00:12:10,880 --> 00:12:13,080 And it was all corrupt. 253 00:12:13,080 --> 00:12:17,160 And God sitting on the throne looking down saying, why did I even go there? 254 00:12:17,160 --> 00:12:19,160 Why did I even start all this? 255 00:12:19,160 --> 00:12:20,160 Right. 256 00:12:20,160 --> 00:12:21,160 I'm just going to start over. 257 00:12:21,160 --> 00:12:23,360 I'm going to wash this clean. 258 00:12:23,360 --> 00:12:24,360 The earth with a flood. 259 00:12:24,360 --> 00:12:25,360 Right. 260 00:12:25,360 --> 00:12:26,360 I'm just going to start over. 261 00:12:26,360 --> 00:12:28,160 I'm going to restart. 262 00:12:28,160 --> 00:12:30,520 And he said, I'm going to restart this with one righteous man. 263 00:12:30,520 --> 00:12:34,920 There was one guy on the face of the planet that was following God. 264 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:35,920 One. 265 00:12:35,920 --> 00:12:37,080 Say one. 266 00:12:37,080 --> 00:12:38,960 Just one on the planet. 267 00:12:38,960 --> 00:12:40,520 Noah, who did not. 268 00:12:40,520 --> 00:12:42,520 He didn't succumb to the expectation. 269 00:12:42,520 --> 00:12:44,400 He didn't succumb to the culture. 270 00:12:44,400 --> 00:12:47,600 He didn't succumb to the violence or the influence of sin. 271 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:55,040 He resisted to squeeze, not figuratively, literally on the earth at that time. 272 00:12:55,040 --> 00:12:56,600 Everybody else was doing it. 273 00:12:56,600 --> 00:12:59,620 Everybody else was saying everybody else was into violence. 274 00:12:59,620 --> 00:13:01,660 But Noah resisted to squeeze. 275 00:13:01,660 --> 00:13:03,040 This is a guy we can learn from. 276 00:13:03,040 --> 00:13:04,040 Amen. 277 00:13:04,040 --> 00:13:05,840 As a guy we can hear from. 278 00:13:05,840 --> 00:13:11,280 And verse eight, verse nine, I think kind of give us the keys to how Noah resisted to 279 00:13:11,280 --> 00:13:12,280 squeeze. 280 00:13:12,280 --> 00:13:14,080 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. 281 00:13:14,080 --> 00:13:16,000 This is the genealogy of Noah. 282 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:18,320 Now, listen how it describes Noah. 283 00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:23,600 Noah was a just man, perfect in his generation, and Noah walked with God. 284 00:13:23,600 --> 00:13:26,200 Three things, three qualities you hear about Noah. 285 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:27,480 He was a just man. 286 00:13:27,480 --> 00:13:30,040 He was perfect in his generation and Noah walked with God. 287 00:13:30,040 --> 00:13:33,280 Now, I want to talk about being perfect in his generation first. 288 00:13:33,280 --> 00:13:38,320 Now, when I first read this, right, these three qualities of being perfect in his generation, 289 00:13:38,320 --> 00:13:40,120 I'm thinking, oh, no. 290 00:13:40,120 --> 00:13:41,200 All right. 291 00:13:41,200 --> 00:13:43,200 I got to be perfect in my generation. 292 00:13:43,200 --> 00:13:46,160 I blew that one right out of the gate. 293 00:13:46,160 --> 00:13:47,160 All right. 294 00:13:47,160 --> 00:13:48,160 Gone. 295 00:13:48,160 --> 00:13:52,840 If I got to be perfect in my generation, past perfect up to about 110 years ago, haven't 296 00:13:52,840 --> 00:13:53,840 been there since. 297 00:13:53,840 --> 00:13:54,840 Right. 298 00:13:54,840 --> 00:13:57,640 I'm like, what am I going to do with this? 299 00:13:57,640 --> 00:13:59,640 He was perfect in his generation. 300 00:13:59,640 --> 00:14:01,360 How do I follow that? 301 00:14:01,360 --> 00:14:03,400 And then I started thinking about this whole situation. 302 00:14:03,400 --> 00:14:07,840 I started thinking back to my childhood and I've got two sisters, I got two siblings, 303 00:14:07,840 --> 00:14:09,320 and I got two sisters. 304 00:14:09,320 --> 00:14:13,800 And do you know how you look perfect in your family amongst your siblings? 305 00:14:13,800 --> 00:14:16,680 You just wait till your siblings are in a good old fight. 306 00:14:16,680 --> 00:14:18,240 Okay. 307 00:14:18,240 --> 00:14:21,200 And whatever they're doing, they're arguing, fighting, carrying on one another. 308 00:14:21,200 --> 00:14:23,400 Do you know what you do? 309 00:14:23,400 --> 00:14:24,400 Absolutely nothing. 310 00:14:24,400 --> 00:14:25,400 Okay. 311 00:14:25,400 --> 00:14:29,200 You just stand there with a big old smile on your face, you know, and your siblings 312 00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:30,240 are fighting there. 313 00:14:30,240 --> 00:14:32,200 They're arguing, they're duking it out. 314 00:14:32,200 --> 00:14:35,760 And you just go up to your parents and say, Mom and Dad, you look a little stressed today. 315 00:14:35,760 --> 00:14:37,840 Can I get you an iced tea? 316 00:14:37,840 --> 00:14:41,200 Golden children is hard, you know, and let's just sit down here for a minute. 317 00:14:41,200 --> 00:14:42,200 Let me get you. 318 00:14:42,200 --> 00:14:44,280 How many know you look pretty perfect at that moment, right? 319 00:14:44,280 --> 00:14:47,400 You look like the golden, the other two are going at it and you're just the golden child, 320 00:14:47,400 --> 00:14:48,400 right? 321 00:14:48,400 --> 00:14:49,400 Why can't you be like your brother? 322 00:14:49,400 --> 00:14:50,400 Right? 323 00:14:50,400 --> 00:14:51,400 Come on. 324 00:14:51,400 --> 00:14:54,160 They didn't hear that that much, but all right. 325 00:14:54,160 --> 00:14:58,360 But if your whole generation is violent and corrupt and losing their minds in sin, just 326 00:14:58,360 --> 00:14:59,360 don't be violent. 327 00:14:59,360 --> 00:15:00,360 Don't be corrupt, right? 328 00:15:00,360 --> 00:15:03,840 And don't lose your mind in sin and you're kind of golden. 329 00:15:03,840 --> 00:15:06,800 And I started thinking about that and I'm thinking, that's probably not right. 330 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:07,800 Okay. 331 00:15:07,800 --> 00:15:10,560 That's probably not what God's word was really saying about Noah. 332 00:15:10,560 --> 00:15:13,520 He wasn't saying Noah, you're the lesser of two evils, right? 333 00:15:13,520 --> 00:15:14,520 We got all this over here. 334 00:15:14,520 --> 00:15:17,980 You just said that's not what God was saying because listen, God's sovereign. 335 00:15:17,980 --> 00:15:18,980 God could have said, you know what? 336 00:15:18,980 --> 00:15:19,980 I'm going to start all over. 337 00:15:19,980 --> 00:15:20,980 I'm going to send a meteor. 338 00:15:20,980 --> 00:15:23,700 I'm going to blow this earth up and I can. 339 00:15:23,700 --> 00:15:25,260 He created the first one in seven days. 340 00:15:25,260 --> 00:15:28,260 He doesn't have any problem taking another week and doing another one. 341 00:15:28,260 --> 00:15:30,000 He could have spoken into existence. 342 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:31,000 He could have. 343 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:32,000 He could start all over. 344 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:36,360 We become perfect in our generation when the corrupt culture that we live in is not the 345 00:15:36,360 --> 00:15:39,280 culture I allow to influence me. 346 00:15:39,280 --> 00:15:43,720 We get perfect in our generation when the one influencing me is not necessarily the 347 00:15:43,720 --> 00:15:46,560 one that's standing in front of me. 348 00:15:46,560 --> 00:15:49,080 We get perfect in my generation, right? 349 00:15:49,080 --> 00:15:54,880 When my goal is to fit into Jesus culture and not this culture that's around me. 350 00:15:54,880 --> 00:16:00,680 When my head, my heart and my soul is fixed on something other than this, what's around 351 00:16:00,680 --> 00:16:01,680 me. 352 00:16:01,680 --> 00:16:06,600 I don't know if you understand this or not, but you can be in one environment physically 353 00:16:06,600 --> 00:16:10,920 and you can be in a completely different environment in your mind, in your head, in your heart 354 00:16:10,920 --> 00:16:11,920 and your soul. 355 00:16:11,920 --> 00:16:13,080 You really can. 356 00:16:13,080 --> 00:16:22,160 I'm always amazed when I hear the story of POWs, prisoners of war, people who have survived 357 00:16:22,160 --> 00:16:25,160 as prisoners of war. 358 00:16:25,160 --> 00:16:32,080 Their environments are, you know, they are taken captive and they are tortured and they 359 00:16:32,080 --> 00:16:38,640 are treated cruelly and a lot of times starved and they're pumped for information. 360 00:16:38,640 --> 00:16:43,640 In the torture, they're trying to find out about the country or their unit in the military 361 00:16:43,640 --> 00:16:44,960 or whatever they're looking for. 362 00:16:44,960 --> 00:16:49,680 Their enemies trying to squeeze information out of them, literally being tortured. 363 00:16:49,680 --> 00:16:55,880 And somehow some of these POWs in the middle of that kind of environment and not just days 364 00:16:55,880 --> 00:17:03,480 or minutes or weeks, sometimes years and somehow in their minds, right, they train themselves 365 00:17:03,480 --> 00:17:06,040 to think of other things in their mind. 366 00:17:06,040 --> 00:17:08,000 There's somewhere else in their mind. 367 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:10,360 Now they're not oblivious to what's going on around them. 368 00:17:10,360 --> 00:17:13,000 If you read about this, you study this at all. 369 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:18,040 Matter of fact, the prisoners that don't make it are the ones who try to just forget everything 370 00:17:18,040 --> 00:17:20,920 and they're not aware of what's happening around them. 371 00:17:20,920 --> 00:17:25,440 But the prisoners that make it, they're extremely aware of what's happening on the external, 372 00:17:25,440 --> 00:17:28,160 but they're in a completely different place in their mind. 373 00:17:28,160 --> 00:17:32,320 They train their minds and their hearts to be somewhere else than the environment that 374 00:17:32,320 --> 00:17:33,320 they're in. 375 00:17:33,320 --> 00:17:34,320 They're focused. 376 00:17:34,320 --> 00:17:38,800 They're aware of what's going on around them, dreadfully aware of what's going on around 377 00:17:38,800 --> 00:17:41,320 them, but they're in another place. 378 00:17:41,320 --> 00:17:45,760 If we're going to live perfect in our generation, we have to be careful to observe the world 379 00:17:45,760 --> 00:17:51,120 around us, understand the reality of what's happening outside of your own little world, 380 00:17:51,120 --> 00:17:53,200 right, outside of what's going on in your head. 381 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:57,060 But you got to be in a different kingdom in your mind, right? 382 00:17:57,060 --> 00:18:00,040 We got to live like foreigners in a land that I'm born in. 383 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:03,200 I want you to get a hold of this. 384 00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:08,920 You got to live like a foreigner in a land that you're born of. 385 00:18:08,920 --> 00:18:15,720 If you see yourself as a foreigner, if you function like a foreigner, if you see yourself 386 00:18:15,720 --> 00:18:18,520 as having dual citizenship, right? 387 00:18:18,520 --> 00:18:22,120 My home country is not here. 388 00:18:22,120 --> 00:18:23,540 It is not here. 389 00:18:23,540 --> 00:18:25,120 It's with God. 390 00:18:25,120 --> 00:18:27,120 This is not my home country. 391 00:18:27,120 --> 00:18:28,720 This is, I was born here. 392 00:18:28,720 --> 00:18:29,960 I've been raised here. 393 00:18:29,960 --> 00:18:35,120 Matter of fact, I've been born and raised in Pennsylvania, but this is not my home country. 394 00:18:35,120 --> 00:18:37,840 My home country is a place called heaven. 395 00:18:37,840 --> 00:18:42,840 My home country is a place where one day I will walk with God for all of eternity, for 396 00:18:42,840 --> 00:18:44,440 all of time. 397 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:46,920 I just got located here for a while. 398 00:18:46,920 --> 00:18:52,160 He put me here for, you know, 50, 60, 70, 80, whatever, how many years God gives me. 399 00:18:52,160 --> 00:18:57,800 And when you start thinking that way, it starts to change how you react in the squeeze, right? 400 00:18:57,800 --> 00:19:03,000 I react differently in the squeeze when I start to see myself, not necessarily a citizen 401 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:06,400 of this place and this time in this culture. 402 00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:08,680 I belong somewhere else. 403 00:19:08,680 --> 00:19:12,320 It's kind of like, it's kind of like if you travel to a different country, if you're American 404 00:19:12,320 --> 00:19:17,440 and you go to a different country, right, you behave like an American when you get there 405 00:19:17,440 --> 00:19:19,240 because you are American. 406 00:19:19,240 --> 00:19:20,800 That's how you behave when you get there. 407 00:19:20,800 --> 00:19:22,600 And you don't have to try to. 408 00:19:22,600 --> 00:19:23,600 You just are. 409 00:19:23,600 --> 00:19:24,600 Right. 410 00:19:24,600 --> 00:19:25,600 And everybody around you knows it. 411 00:19:25,600 --> 00:19:30,400 You know, I've been to just a couple of places, but they know I'm American when I get there. 412 00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:31,400 I act like it, right. 413 00:19:31,400 --> 00:19:32,400 I look like it. 414 00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:33,400 I sound like it. 415 00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:34,400 I talk like it. 416 00:19:34,400 --> 00:19:35,400 I smell like it. 417 00:19:35,400 --> 00:19:36,400 Whatever you want to go. 418 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:37,400 Right. 419 00:19:37,400 --> 00:19:38,400 And that's what it is. 420 00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:42,240 If you want to make it in the squeeze and in the world and the culture that you live 421 00:19:42,240 --> 00:19:45,600 in, you got to see yourself as a foreigner in this land. 422 00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:47,840 I was born here, but I don't belong here. 423 00:19:47,840 --> 00:19:48,840 Right. 424 00:19:48,840 --> 00:19:51,040 You got to resist in your head and your heart and your soul. 425 00:19:51,040 --> 00:19:56,360 You got to identify in the Jesus culture and not the culture that's around you. 426 00:19:56,360 --> 00:19:59,560 It changes who I am in the squeeze. 427 00:19:59,560 --> 00:20:00,560 It changes me. 428 00:20:00,560 --> 00:20:01,560 It really does. 429 00:20:01,560 --> 00:20:04,520 The word of God also said that Noah was a just man. 430 00:20:04,520 --> 00:20:05,520 Right. 431 00:20:05,520 --> 00:20:09,080 Okay, let's just see what just means in this context of scripture. 432 00:20:09,080 --> 00:20:11,640 And I looked it up and it means lawful and righteous. 433 00:20:11,640 --> 00:20:13,520 It means he was lawful, righteous. 434 00:20:13,520 --> 00:20:14,960 And I thought, well, that's awesome. 435 00:20:14,960 --> 00:20:15,960 Right. 436 00:20:15,960 --> 00:20:16,960 That's very biblical. 437 00:20:16,960 --> 00:20:17,960 Follow God's law. 438 00:20:17,960 --> 00:20:18,960 We should follow God's law. 439 00:20:18,960 --> 00:20:20,320 We should follow God's commands. 440 00:20:20,320 --> 00:20:21,880 God has commands in his word. 441 00:20:21,880 --> 00:20:26,880 But then I bumped into a bit of a problem as I thought about, no, I thought, wait a minute, 442 00:20:26,880 --> 00:20:28,360 there was no Bible then. 443 00:20:28,360 --> 00:20:29,360 Right. 444 00:20:29,360 --> 00:20:33,840 I got a little bit of a problem because the written word wasn't actually all put together 445 00:20:33,840 --> 00:20:34,840 then. 446 00:20:34,840 --> 00:20:40,040 And Genesis, Genesis chapter one through three, right, is all about Adam and Eve and Adam 447 00:20:40,040 --> 00:20:42,360 and Eve in the garden and Adam and Eve falling into sin. 448 00:20:42,360 --> 00:20:45,940 And if you go to Genesis chapter four, it's the story of Cain and Abel and how the first 449 00:20:45,940 --> 00:20:50,040 murder took place between the two brothers and Cain murdering Abel. 450 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:55,520 And if you go to chapter five, it's the genealogy of the time of Adam up until the time of Noah. 451 00:20:55,520 --> 00:20:56,880 So there was no commandments. 452 00:20:56,880 --> 00:20:58,560 There was no written law. 453 00:20:58,560 --> 00:21:00,120 You know, the Bible like we have. 454 00:21:00,120 --> 00:21:01,120 Right. 455 00:21:01,120 --> 00:21:04,400 So how did Noah know if he was righteous or not? 456 00:21:04,400 --> 00:21:05,400 How did he know? 457 00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:07,640 How did he know if he was being just? 458 00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:08,640 Right. 459 00:21:08,640 --> 00:21:10,920 Or even what just might have meant? 460 00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:14,800 If no one ever told you the speed limit was 55 mile an hour, how would you know if you 461 00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:15,800 were actually speeding? 462 00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:16,800 Right. 463 00:21:16,800 --> 00:21:17,800 Come on, we got some policemen in the house. 464 00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:19,280 You should have said amen right there. 465 00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:20,280 Right. 466 00:21:20,280 --> 00:21:21,280 It's true. 467 00:21:21,280 --> 00:21:22,960 How would you know? 468 00:21:22,960 --> 00:21:27,160 All Noah knew about God was what was passed down from history. 469 00:21:27,160 --> 00:21:28,160 Right. 470 00:21:28,160 --> 00:21:32,960 He knew that Adam disobeyed and ate from a tree and rebelled against God. 471 00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:36,960 He knew that if you went against what God said, then that was rebellion and that was 472 00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:38,720 sin and that separated you from God. 473 00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:43,480 He also knew murder was wrong because Cain and Abel in that whole account, God condemns 474 00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:45,760 murder in that time. 475 00:21:45,760 --> 00:21:48,860 And Cain, right, condemns his actions during that time. 476 00:21:48,860 --> 00:21:53,600 So you know, he knows don't eat, don't, you know, don't eat the fruit or don't rebel against 477 00:21:53,600 --> 00:21:54,920 what God says. 478 00:21:54,920 --> 00:21:55,920 Don't murder. 479 00:21:55,920 --> 00:21:59,320 So how did he know what was right and wrong and just in his generation? 480 00:21:59,320 --> 00:22:01,200 What God's expectation was? 481 00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:04,240 How did he live completely just in his generation? 482 00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:05,320 You ready for it? 483 00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:06,600 You ready for it? 484 00:22:06,600 --> 00:22:08,600 Some things can't be learned from a book. 485 00:22:08,600 --> 00:22:09,600 Amen. 486 00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:14,840 I know some people come out, not even the Bible, some people are going to go like, let 487 00:22:14,840 --> 00:22:15,840 me explain. 488 00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:16,840 Let me explain. 489 00:22:16,840 --> 00:22:17,880 All right. 490 00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:20,920 Some things are learned in relationship. 491 00:22:20,920 --> 00:22:22,480 Some things are learned in relationship. 492 00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:27,980 God gave us the written word of God to lead you into relationship with God. 493 00:22:27,980 --> 00:22:34,180 You have a Bible, so it leads you to the relationship with the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. 494 00:22:34,180 --> 00:22:35,660 So you know his heart. 495 00:22:35,660 --> 00:22:39,320 So you know what he believes and the way you should live. 496 00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:40,320 All those things. 497 00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:43,480 But there's some things that are learned out of relationship. 498 00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:48,240 I learned how to be a man from my dad because I spent time with my dad. 499 00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:49,580 That was not in a book. 500 00:22:49,580 --> 00:22:53,720 My dad did not hand me a book one day and say, this is how you learn how to be a man. 501 00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:54,720 So I'm all right. 502 00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:55,720 He didn't do that. 503 00:22:55,720 --> 00:22:56,720 I spent time with him. 504 00:22:56,720 --> 00:23:01,000 I learned how to treat people by walking with my parents and watching how my parents treated 505 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:02,000 people. 506 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:05,200 I learned how to serve walking alongside of my parents. 507 00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:09,040 I learned about good work ethic and working hard from my parents. 508 00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:11,960 I learned these things in a relationship context. 509 00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:15,000 It was caught, not as much taught. 510 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:17,920 If you meet my dad, my dad is not like me. 511 00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:18,920 All right. 512 00:23:18,920 --> 00:23:21,100 I am the noisy one of the bunch. 513 00:23:21,100 --> 00:23:25,320 My dad barely says three words when you're around him. 514 00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:30,520 But that man taught me more than I'll probably ever be able to put in a couple of books. 515 00:23:30,520 --> 00:23:37,920 But what I caught walking with him, I learned what it was to not cut corners and have integrity 516 00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:39,920 when nobody is looking. 517 00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:40,920 All right. 518 00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:42,840 That's how he did things. 519 00:23:42,840 --> 00:23:48,240 Some things have to be caught in a relationship and not just taught out of the book. 520 00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:53,480 We miss big if we're not catching it with Christ, if we're not in relationship, you 521 00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:58,720 know, and we're not reading God's or we're not reading who God is. 522 00:23:58,720 --> 00:24:03,840 Some of what you get, some of what will get you through the squeeze in life and the peer 523 00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:08,700 pressure and when things come up against you, it's going to come out of your relationship 524 00:24:08,700 --> 00:24:12,160 and not just what you read in the Bible. 525 00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:15,080 Some of it's going to it all goes together, right? 526 00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:19,600 It's God's revelation is what God speaks to you through his word or out of his word or 527 00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:21,000 even into your spirit. 528 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:25,840 And God's revelation never violates his written word and his written word, word, vice versa. 529 00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:26,840 Right? 530 00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:28,320 Noah was in relationship. 531 00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:32,560 He caught how he was supposed to be living because he walked with God. 532 00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:35,920 They call that they got a word for that, by the way, it's called conviction. 533 00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:37,560 All right. 534 00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:38,940 God's law will convict us. 535 00:24:38,940 --> 00:24:43,000 That is the written word of God and God's spirit will convict us. 536 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:47,760 It is the revelation that God gives you in your spirit. 537 00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:49,440 Both will convict you. 538 00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:52,120 They call it conviction. 539 00:24:52,120 --> 00:24:53,720 You got to catch. 540 00:24:53,720 --> 00:24:55,240 It's not just taught. 541 00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:56,320 It's caught. 542 00:24:56,320 --> 00:24:58,180 It's in relationship. 543 00:24:58,180 --> 00:24:59,680 You'll make it through the squeeze. 544 00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:01,360 You'll make it through the peer pressure. 545 00:25:01,360 --> 00:25:05,240 You'll know what is just and right by hearing God's word. 546 00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:06,240 Right? 547 00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:07,240 That's the God's law. 548 00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:11,180 It will help you and guide you, but it will also be God's spirit. 549 00:25:11,180 --> 00:25:15,520 You will miss some things if you are not in relationship and you're not hearing God's 550 00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:16,520 spirit. 551 00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:19,920 I can't tell you how many times the Lord has prompted me. 552 00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:23,560 Something simple, something easy, something not sinful, right? 553 00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:26,160 Comes up in front of you and it's just normals can be. 554 00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:31,040 But how many know sometimes it's the unsinful thing that can lead you to the sinful thing. 555 00:25:31,040 --> 00:25:34,600 And the Holy Spirit convicts you and says, that might be OK for somebody else, but that 556 00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:36,360 is not for you. 557 00:25:36,360 --> 00:25:38,040 And you need to walk away from that. 558 00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:39,400 You need to go this way. 559 00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:40,400 Right? 560 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:41,940 And you don't want to get caught in a squeeze. 561 00:25:41,940 --> 00:25:44,120 You don't want to get yourself in that situation. 562 00:25:44,120 --> 00:25:45,680 And God moves you a different way. 563 00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:46,680 It's true. 564 00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:47,680 It's true. 565 00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:50,680 And you'll miss that if you're not in relationship. 566 00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:52,280 You'll miss that. 567 00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:53,560 It's the spirit of God. 568 00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:55,240 One last thing I want to give you. 569 00:25:55,240 --> 00:25:56,240 He walked with God. 570 00:25:56,240 --> 00:25:57,240 He walked with God. 571 00:25:57,240 --> 00:25:59,280 I'm going to ask the worship team to come. 572 00:25:59,280 --> 00:26:01,040 I'm going to preach this to them while they're walking. 573 00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:02,040 All right? 574 00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:03,040 I figured it was appropriate. 575 00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:04,040 Right? 576 00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:05,040 He walked with God. 577 00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:06,040 Come on, walk like you're walking with God. 578 00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:07,040 So you come up. 579 00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:08,040 All right? 580 00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:09,520 I'm going to ask the worship team to do that. 581 00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:14,480 Up until the time of Noah, you know, in his long genealogy of thousands of years, there's 582 00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:19,720 only a few people mentioned in the Word of God that it's that that God says they walked 583 00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:21,560 with God up until the time of Noah. 584 00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:22,880 One was Adam and Eve. 585 00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:26,600 So Adam and Eve, the Word of God says that when Adam and Eve were in the garden, this 586 00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:32,080 is before they sin, in the cool of the day, when the evening would come, the Lord himself 587 00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:35,400 would come down and physically walk with them in the garden. 588 00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:36,600 How cool would that be? 589 00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:37,600 Right? 590 00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:41,240 You go out for an evening walk and God just strolls along with you. 591 00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:42,240 That's what it says. 592 00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:43,240 He walked with them. 593 00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:47,000 A few generations later in Genesis, chapter five, you get to verse 22, it talks about 594 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:48,000 Enoch. 595 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:51,480 And Enoch, the Word of God says Enoch walked with God. 596 00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:53,000 He literally walked with God. 597 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:57,360 And matter of fact, Enoch walked so close to God, he was in such tight relationship with 598 00:26:57,360 --> 00:26:59,520 God that he didn't even die. 599 00:26:59,520 --> 00:27:00,520 God just took him one day. 600 00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:02,880 The Word of God says he just took him. 601 00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:03,880 God liked Enoch so much. 602 00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:05,560 Like, why don't you just come with me? 603 00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:06,560 All right? 604 00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:08,200 We're walking together and he just took him. 605 00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:09,320 He just took him. 606 00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:12,320 The third guy is mentioned is Noah. 607 00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:14,920 He walked with God. 608 00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:15,920 That term walk is halak. 609 00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:16,920 Okay? 610 00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:18,920 It's like you got a hairball stuck in your throat. 611 00:27:18,920 --> 00:27:19,920 Halak. 612 00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:20,920 Go ahead and say it. 613 00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:21,920 Halak. 614 00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:22,920 Halak. 615 00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:23,920 Okay? 616 00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:24,920 He walked with God. 617 00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:29,360 And halak means more than just a, it means more than just strolling along. 618 00:27:29,360 --> 00:27:32,020 It means more than just going out for a walk down the road. 619 00:27:32,020 --> 00:27:34,560 It means that you're almost joined at the hip. 620 00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:37,480 Halak means that you're glued together relationally. 621 00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:40,640 It means that you're walking together in sync. 622 00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:44,160 I don't know if you've ever seen an old couple who've been married for 50, 60 years. 623 00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:47,600 They kind of, they just live, they live together so long, they just kind of do the same thing, 624 00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:48,600 right? 625 00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:49,600 It's kind of like they just flow. 626 00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:50,600 They walk the same. 627 00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:51,600 They talk the same. 628 00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:52,600 They do the same things. 629 00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:54,600 It's just, it's just that kind of thing, right? 630 00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:55,600 It's walking. 631 00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:56,720 It's where you step, I'll step. 632 00:27:56,720 --> 00:27:58,320 It's where you go, I'll go. 633 00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:00,040 It's how you think, I will think. 634 00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:03,320 And it's caught in that relationship. 635 00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:09,240 My grandma, when I was young on my dad's side, my dad used to go do something over there 636 00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:12,660 or he'd go over to visit or he'd go over to do some work over at my grandparents. 637 00:28:12,660 --> 00:28:15,840 And when I was little, like a lot of these little ones running around here, I used to 638 00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:17,440 follow my dad all over the place. 639 00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:19,800 And my grandmother called me his shadow. 640 00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:24,040 I'd get to her house and she'd go, oh, you brought your shadow with you today. 641 00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:26,360 You know, and I was his shadow. 642 00:28:26,360 --> 00:28:28,360 That's what it is. 643 00:28:28,360 --> 00:28:30,880 You want to overcome and to squeeze. 644 00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:36,880 You want to stand firm when the pressure's on and the world's pushing in on you. 645 00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:40,120 You got to live like a foreigner in the land that you were born in. 646 00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:44,080 You got to know that your citizenship is in heaven and it is not here. 647 00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:48,040 That you live for a different kingdom and it's not this kingdom. 648 00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:49,040 Amen. 649 00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:52,880 You got to stand in a different way and then you got to walk with God. 650 00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:56,480 It's got to be caught, taught and caught. 651 00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:57,480 You got to have halak. 652 00:28:57,480 --> 00:28:58,480 Okay. 653 00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:00,480 I don't know if I'm saying that right or not, but I like it. 654 00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:01,480 Halak. 655 00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:02,480 All right. 656 00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:10,280 I'm going to ask you to stand this morning. 657 00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:15,520 My parents unwittingly used to create this culture in my life. 658 00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:18,320 I don't even think they really knew they were doing it. 659 00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:23,720 But this idea of a different citizenship and being part of a different place, I don't think 660 00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:25,080 my mom and dad realized it. 661 00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:29,760 But you know, when I was doing something wrong, of course, my mom was pretty good at speech 662 00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:30,760 in me. 663 00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:32,720 She taught me a lot of speech about it and she talked to me about it. 664 00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:34,280 Tell me what I was doing wrong. 665 00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:37,320 But they used to ask some strategic questions along the way. 666 00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:38,880 And I heard this more times than not. 667 00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:43,880 They'd sit me down and they'd say, Kip, what do you think God thinks about that? 668 00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:45,760 I'm like, do you got to bring God into this? 669 00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:50,560 You know, seriously, you know, and then make me answer like, what do you think God thinks 670 00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:51,560 about this? 671 00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:55,040 And I'd have to answer them because I went to church, right? 672 00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:56,040 They took me to church. 673 00:29:56,040 --> 00:29:57,040 I went to Sunday school. 674 00:29:57,040 --> 00:29:58,040 I knew what God's word said. 675 00:29:58,040 --> 00:29:59,040 I knew what God expected. 676 00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:03,440 I was like, oh, you know, and they began to pour into me, you know, and then they say 677 00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:06,840 those old statements like, you know, Jesus sees everything, right? 678 00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:09,240 You know, he sees you. 679 00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:15,800 And I started somehow realizing I wasn't necessarily part of this world that that was part of I 680 00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:16,800 had dual citizenship. 681 00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:19,640 There was someone else watching over me. 682 00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:22,160 There was somebody else who was walking with me. 683 00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:27,600 There's a and through that time, those simple questions that I got asked, I started realizing 684 00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:31,720 it isn't just about here and now that God sees me all the time. 685 00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:33,560 He walks with me all the time. 686 00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:35,040 He's there all the time. 687 00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:39,920 And one day I'll be with him all the time when this life is over. 688 00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:41,400 Amen. 689 00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:43,800 You want to stand in the pressure. 690 00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:45,280 You're not from here. 691 00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:50,740 If you know Jesus is Lord and Savior, you're not from here. 692 00:30:50,740 --> 00:30:56,200 You have a whole different future and destiny that God's laid out for you. 693 00:30:56,200 --> 00:30:59,240 You're a foreigner in the place that you were born in. 694 00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:01,200 You really are. 695 00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:04,560 And all you need to do is walk with God. 696 00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:08,160 All you need to do is walk with him. 697 00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:10,080 You're going to catch some things. 698 00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:12,720 You're going to hear some things. 699 00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:13,720 They'll get you through. 700 00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:28,240 Thank you for tuning in to this message from Life House Church. 701 00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:32,000 We pray that you were impacted powerfully by this message. 702 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:36,720 If you have been personally affected by our ministry and you would like to partner with 703 00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:45,440 us as we love God, love people every day, visit our website at www.lifehousecog.com.