1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:10,320 future. 2 00:00:10,320 --> 00:00:12,000 Welcome to Ocean Water. 3 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:16,800 We hope you feel refreshed by the Living Water of Jesus Christ as we help people receive 4 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:20,720 drinking water from the ocean for free. 5 00:00:20,720 --> 00:00:24,920 Thanks for joining us for this weekend's message and if you enjoy it, please share 6 00:00:24,920 --> 00:00:30,360 it with a friend. 7 00:00:30,360 --> 00:00:36,600 Drinking water for small, marginalized rural communities in the 108 countries of the world 8 00:00:36,600 --> 00:00:40,680 that have direct ocean access like behind me here in California where I live. 9 00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:46,320 Now this water is given away for free, the annual savings goes back into the community 10 00:00:46,320 --> 00:00:47,320 to help people. 11 00:00:47,320 --> 00:00:53,920 So, we do all of this while starting easy beach churches that revolve mostly around 12 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:57,640 reading the Bible together, eating food together, spending a lot of time together. 13 00:00:57,640 --> 00:00:59,520 And we'd love for you to be involved. 14 00:00:59,520 --> 00:01:05,480 I'd like you to email me at ryan.oceanwater at gmail because I'd like to send you a free 15 00:01:05,480 --> 00:01:07,880 copy of a little book that I wrote called Ride for Water. 16 00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:13,880 It's a story of the time I rode my bicycle for a year from Canada to Columbia and that 17 00:01:13,880 --> 00:01:16,040 bicycle ride became Ocean Water. 18 00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:21,400 I'd like to send you to this as a gift for watching today's Beach Talk and I'd love 19 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:22,400 for you to have that. 20 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:23,400 It's really fun reading. 21 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:28,880 Now in the next 12 months we'll go to Salvador, Indonesia and Bangladesh. 22 00:01:28,880 --> 00:01:32,160 Now we want you to be on one of those trips. 23 00:01:32,160 --> 00:01:34,720 You can find out more information on our website. 24 00:01:34,720 --> 00:01:36,880 Now when I teach I'm pretty straightforward. 25 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:42,640 Now this is my approach because it's very important that you understand every word of 26 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:45,040 God in the word of God. 27 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:52,040 I love to laugh and hang out, catch waves, go on trips, ride my motorcycle and hang out 28 00:01:52,040 --> 00:01:54,720 and get coffee with people as much as anybody else. 29 00:01:54,720 --> 00:02:01,520 But when I teach the Bible I accept the responsibility to teach it well and because this is the most 30 00:02:01,520 --> 00:02:04,280 important book in the world. 31 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:08,300 So I want you to come every time you watch a Beach Talk ready to learn because it's my 32 00:02:08,300 --> 00:02:11,160 job as a pastor to help you grow. 33 00:02:11,160 --> 00:02:12,840 Because our objective is simple. 34 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:17,540 It's disciples making disciples who plant churches that plant churches. 35 00:02:17,540 --> 00:02:21,200 Now today we're looking at Genesis chapter 6. 36 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:25,280 This is about man's wickedness and a flood that God sent. 37 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:31,120 Now the wickedness in the days of Noah was unsurpassed and 1 and 2 it says that there 38 00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:34,520 was intermarriage between the sons of God and the daughters of man. 39 00:02:34,520 --> 00:02:39,160 Now it came to pass when men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were 40 00:02:39,160 --> 00:02:46,000 born to them that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were beautiful 41 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:50,400 and they took wives for themselves all of whom they chose. 42 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:55,720 Now when men began to multiply on the face of the earth during these days of rapid population 43 00:02:55,720 --> 00:03:02,280 expansion especially because of long life spans in the pre-flood world there was a problem 44 00:03:02,280 --> 00:03:06,160 with ungodly intermarriage just like there is today. 45 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:07,360 Some things haven't changed. 46 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:10,800 Now the sons of God saw the daughters of men. 47 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:15,780 Many have believed that the sons of God were those from the lines of Seth and the daughters 48 00:03:15,780 --> 00:03:18,200 of men were those from Cain. 49 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:24,200 And this describes an intermarriage between the godly and the ungodly something God specifically 50 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:28,360 told them not to do in Deuteronomy and again in 1 Corinthians. 51 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:30,560 But this approach leaves many unanswered questions. 52 00:03:30,560 --> 00:03:35,800 Why did this make God angry enough to wipe out almost all of the earth's population? 53 00:03:35,800 --> 00:03:39,520 Why was something unusual about the offspring of these unions? 54 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:44,440 The idea that these were believers marrying unbelievers doesn't seem to fit the record 55 00:03:44,440 --> 00:03:45,440 of the text. 56 00:03:45,440 --> 00:03:46,760 So what's going on here? 57 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:49,160 Well the sons of God saw the daughters of men. 58 00:03:49,160 --> 00:03:55,280 It's more accurate to see the sons of God as either demons, angels in rebellion against 59 00:03:55,280 --> 00:04:02,200 God or uniquely demon possessed men and the daughters of men as human women. 60 00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:07,640 Now the phrase the sons of God clearly refers to angelic creatures when it is used the other 61 00:04:07,640 --> 00:04:09,080 three times in the Old Testament. 62 00:04:09,080 --> 00:04:12,080 This exact word in Job three different times. 63 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:17,560 The translators of the early text of the Bible clearly thought that the sons of God referred 64 00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:21,920 to angelic beings and not people that descended from set. 65 00:04:21,920 --> 00:04:27,200 Jude six tells us that the angels did not keep their proper domain but they left their 66 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:28,640 habitation. 67 00:04:28,640 --> 00:04:34,280 Jude seven tells us that they sin in a similar manner to these having given themselves over 68 00:04:34,280 --> 00:04:37,360 to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh. 69 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:44,120 Now here in Genesis six as Sodom and Gomorrah there are unnatural sexual union. 70 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:49,560 Now it's useless to speculate on the nature of all this whether it was brought about by 71 00:04:49,560 --> 00:04:56,680 something like demon possession or angelic beings that had power to permanently assume 72 00:04:56,680 --> 00:04:58,040 the form of men. 73 00:04:58,040 --> 00:05:03,800 It's not revealed but we should understand that the occult is filled with associations 74 00:05:03,800 --> 00:05:09,440 with the demonic and there are those today who actively pursue such associations. 75 00:05:09,440 --> 00:05:10,640 Those are to be avoided. 76 00:05:10,640 --> 00:05:15,280 Jude six makes it clear that what God did with these wicked angels they're reserved 77 00:05:15,280 --> 00:05:19,440 in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment on the great day for they're not 78 00:05:19,440 --> 00:05:21,240 keeping their proper place. 79 00:05:21,240 --> 00:05:24,000 Their sinful pursuit of freedom has put them in bondage. 80 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:28,640 Now first Peter three tells us that Jesus went into the disobedient spirits in their 81 00:05:28,640 --> 00:05:32,800 prison and proclaimed his victory on the crossover. 82 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:37,920 Now an objection offered to this understanding is found in Matthew 22 where Jesus said angels 83 00:05:37,920 --> 00:05:44,120 neither marry or are given in marriage but Jesus never said angels were sexless and he 84 00:05:44,120 --> 00:05:48,960 also was speaking about faithful angelic beings that angels were the son of God not rebellious 85 00:05:48,960 --> 00:05:49,960 ones. 86 00:05:49,960 --> 00:05:54,680 Now from the book of first Enoch which is not inspired by scripture but may still contain 87 00:05:54,680 --> 00:06:00,420 some accurate accounts it says that it came to pass that the children of men had multiplied 88 00:06:00,420 --> 00:06:05,960 that in those days they were born into them beautiful daughters and the angels and the 89 00:06:05,960 --> 00:06:12,020 children of God saw heaven and lusted after them and said come let us choose among wives 90 00:06:12,020 --> 00:06:14,960 from the children of men and angels. 91 00:06:14,960 --> 00:06:22,000 So they took themselves wives and each chose one for himself and they began to go into 92 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:27,840 them and have a relationship with them and they taught them charms and enchantments. 93 00:06:27,840 --> 00:06:34,540 They became pregnant they bore sons and they bore daughters and much godlessness arose 94 00:06:34,540 --> 00:06:38,240 out of these unions that shouldn't have happened. 95 00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:41,960 It says that they took for themselves wives of whom they chose. 96 00:06:41,960 --> 00:06:47,640 Now we can deduce why did why did Satan send his angels to intermarry either directly with 97 00:06:47,640 --> 00:06:48,640 human women. 98 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:52,720 Satan tried to pollute the genetic pool of mankind. 99 00:06:52,720 --> 00:06:57,440 Satan tries to corrupt everything in the world. 100 00:06:57,440 --> 00:06:59,320 Remember that. 101 00:06:59,320 --> 00:07:05,960 It says the Savior could not be born of a demon possessed mother so if Satan could be 102 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:12,040 succeed in infecting the entire race the deliverer could not be born. 103 00:07:12,040 --> 00:07:13,720 And Satan almost succeeded. 104 00:07:13,720 --> 00:07:18,600 The race was so polluted that God found it necessary to start again with Noah and his 105 00:07:18,600 --> 00:07:24,440 sons and to imprison the demons that did this so they could never do it again. 106 00:07:24,440 --> 00:07:28,680 Now verse three and four God's response to this great wickedness and the Lord said my 107 00:07:28,680 --> 00:07:36,040 spirit shall not strive with man forever for he is indeed flesh and his days will be numbered 108 00:07:36,040 --> 00:07:38,240 a hundred and twenty years. 109 00:07:38,240 --> 00:07:43,480 Now there were giants on the earth in these days and afterwards the sons of God came to 110 00:07:43,480 --> 00:07:45,960 the daughters of men and they bore children to them. 111 00:07:45,960 --> 00:07:50,640 They were the mighty men who were of old men of renown. 112 00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:53,640 My spirit shall not strive with man forever. 113 00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:59,160 God did not allow the human race to stay in this rebellious place forever. 114 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:03,240 This means there's a point of no return in our rejection of God. 115 00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:04,980 God will not woo us forever. 116 00:08:04,980 --> 00:08:08,400 There is a point where he will say no more. 117 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:14,840 Now all the more reason for us to say that today is the day we will respond to Jesus 118 00:08:14,840 --> 00:08:17,080 instead of waiting for another day. 119 00:08:17,080 --> 00:08:23,040 Now we have no promise God will draw us some other day except for today. 120 00:08:23,040 --> 00:08:25,800 So he says your days are going to be a hundred and twenty years. 121 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:33,120 Now this is not the outside lifespan of man but the time left after the after the flood. 122 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:36,000 The flood happened a hundred and twenty years after this announcement. 123 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:37,640 Now giants arose in those days. 124 00:08:37,640 --> 00:08:42,360 This refers to the unnatural offspring of the union between the sons of God and the 125 00:08:42,360 --> 00:08:47,840 daughters of men though there were people of unusual size on the earth both before and 126 00:08:47,840 --> 00:08:50,700 after the flood and also afterward. 127 00:08:50,700 --> 00:08:55,480 These ones before the flood were unique because of the demonic element of their parentage. 128 00:08:55,480 --> 00:08:57,880 They were the mighty men of old men of renown. 129 00:08:57,880 --> 00:09:03,440 Now verse five through eight the great wickedness of man in Noah's day it says then the Lord 130 00:09:03,440 --> 00:09:08,560 saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth and that he and that every intent 131 00:09:08,560 --> 00:09:14,400 of his thoughts of his heart were only evil and continually and the Lord was sorry that 132 00:09:14,400 --> 00:09:17,980 he had made man on the earth and he was grieved in his heart. 133 00:09:17,980 --> 00:09:23,380 So the Lord said I will destroy man with whom I have created from the face of the earth 134 00:09:23,380 --> 00:09:29,520 both men and beasts creeping thing and birds of the air for I am sorry that I have made 135 00:09:29,520 --> 00:09:35,440 them but Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. 136 00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:40,240 You see every intent of thoughts on their heart were only evil. 137 00:09:40,240 --> 00:09:41,240 This says a lot. 138 00:09:41,240 --> 00:09:46,880 It means that there was no aspect of man's nature that wasn't totally corrupted. 139 00:09:46,880 --> 00:09:54,040 A more emphatic statement of the wickedness of the human heart is hardly conceivable. 140 00:09:54,040 --> 00:10:00,480 Jesus said as the days of Noah were so also will the coming of the Son of Man be in Matthew 141 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:01,480 24. 142 00:10:01,480 --> 00:10:06,040 In other words the conditions of the world before the coming of Jesus will be like the 143 00:10:06,040 --> 00:10:11,280 conditions of the world before the flood like they are right now in 2020. 144 00:10:11,280 --> 00:10:18,520 There will be an exploding population there was sexual perversion demonic activity constant 145 00:10:18,520 --> 00:10:25,520 evil in the heart of man widespread corruption and violence. 146 00:10:25,520 --> 00:10:29,560 Now the Lord was sorry that he made man he was grieved in his heart. 147 00:10:29,560 --> 00:10:33,120 God's sorrow of man and the grief in his heart are striking. 148 00:10:33,120 --> 00:10:39,280 This does not mean that creation was out of control nor does it mean that God hoped for 149 00:10:39,280 --> 00:10:43,600 something better but was unable to achieve it. 150 00:10:43,600 --> 00:10:47,960 God knew all along that these were how things would turn out but our text clearly tells 151 00:10:47,960 --> 00:10:53,140 us that as God sees his plan for the ages unfold it affects him. 152 00:10:53,140 --> 00:10:57,780 God is not unfeeling in the face of human sin and rebellion. 153 00:10:57,780 --> 00:10:58,780 God has feelings. 154 00:10:58,780 --> 00:11:02,480 Now Noah found grace in the eyes of God. 155 00:11:02,480 --> 00:11:07,480 While God commanded all the earth to be cleansed of this pollution he found one man with whom 156 00:11:07,480 --> 00:11:13,520 to begin again and his name was Noah who found grace in the sight of God. 157 00:11:13,520 --> 00:11:17,300 Now not of a certain grace but we can all find it just like Noah did. 158 00:11:17,300 --> 00:11:24,800 It was true then and it's true today but where sin abounded grace abounded much more. 159 00:11:24,800 --> 00:11:27,360 Romans 5 20. 160 00:11:27,360 --> 00:11:30,600 God calls Noah to build the ark in verses 9 and 10. 161 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:33,960 Noah and his sons this is the genealogy of Noah. 162 00:11:33,960 --> 00:11:37,360 Noah was a just man perfect in his generations. 163 00:11:37,360 --> 00:11:42,120 Noah walked with God and Noah begat three sons Shem, Ham and Japheth. 164 00:11:42,120 --> 00:11:45,560 Noah was a just man perfect in his generations. 165 00:11:45,560 --> 00:11:51,760 This description of Noah unique to him not only refers to the religious life of Noah 166 00:11:51,760 --> 00:11:57,800 but also to the fact that he was yet uncorrupted by Satan's attempt to sow something like a 167 00:11:57,800 --> 00:12:01,400 virus among the genetic pool of mankind. 168 00:12:01,400 --> 00:12:09,000 He could translate perfect in his generation as Noah was pure in his genetic profile. 169 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:11,440 Now did Noah live a perfect life? 170 00:12:11,440 --> 00:12:14,400 Absolutely not. 171 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:16,840 Noah's character was righteous though. 172 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:19,040 Did he have flaws? 173 00:12:19,040 --> 00:12:20,040 Of course. 174 00:12:20,040 --> 00:12:25,880 At this time there was one great sad flaw of which God was talking about. 175 00:12:25,880 --> 00:12:31,280 God regarded Noah as righteous. 176 00:12:31,280 --> 00:12:35,920 Charles Spurgeon pointed out that we can know Noah had the righteousness of his faith because 177 00:12:35,920 --> 00:12:43,160 as soon as the floodwaters had dried up and he left the ark he offered sacrifices. 178 00:12:43,160 --> 00:12:44,160 Genesis 8 20. 179 00:12:44,160 --> 00:12:47,320 Now Noah had three sons Shem, Ham and Japheth. 180 00:12:47,320 --> 00:12:50,680 Noah's three sons figure into his account in a significant way. 181 00:12:50,680 --> 00:12:54,960 God will use them as the foundation for the rest of the human race. 182 00:12:54,960 --> 00:13:00,960 In verses 11 to 13 the corruption of the earth and the grace of God the earth also was corrupt 183 00:13:00,960 --> 00:13:03,960 before God and the earth was filled with violence. 184 00:13:03,960 --> 00:13:09,640 So God looked upon the earth and indeed it was corrupt for all flesh had corrupted their 185 00:13:09,640 --> 00:13:10,640 way on the earth. 186 00:13:10,640 --> 00:13:15,400 And then God said to Noah the end of all flesh has come before me for the earth is filled 187 00:13:15,400 --> 00:13:21,080 with violence through them and behold I will destroy them with the earth. 188 00:13:21,080 --> 00:13:26,520 The earth also was corrupt and the earth was filled with violence because of the corruption 189 00:13:26,520 --> 00:13:30,640 and violence on the earth and the extent of the corruption. 190 00:13:30,640 --> 00:13:35,560 God told Noah that he would judge the wicked along with the earth. 191 00:13:35,560 --> 00:13:41,120 He said I will destroy them with the earth but wonder if this is too harsh a judgment 192 00:13:41,120 --> 00:13:44,360 or if it shows God to be cruel and a monster. 193 00:13:44,360 --> 00:13:49,280 However since the fall of Genesis 3 every human being has a death sentence. 194 00:13:49,280 --> 00:13:56,160 We all live and then we die and our lives are completely in God's hands. 195 00:13:56,160 --> 00:14:01,160 Now on what grounds would God be told that he can bring death to millions of people at 196 00:14:01,160 --> 00:14:07,800 the end of a normal lifespan but that he may not do it in any other way. 197 00:14:07,800 --> 00:14:14,180 You see in addition it points to a deep and serious problem in the world at that time. 198 00:14:14,180 --> 00:14:19,600 Going far beyond the problem of believers marrying those who don't believe. 199 00:14:19,600 --> 00:14:21,280 A way bigger problem. 200 00:14:21,280 --> 00:14:26,480 It says in God said to Noah God told all of this to Noah without the intention of saving 201 00:14:26,480 --> 00:14:28,080 Noah and his family. 202 00:14:28,080 --> 00:14:32,560 In the midst of such corruption and judgment there is also grace. 203 00:14:32,560 --> 00:14:37,360 Instead of wiping out the entire human race God preserved a remnant. 204 00:14:37,360 --> 00:14:40,800 Now verses 14 through 16 God tells Noah to build an ark. 205 00:14:40,800 --> 00:14:46,480 He says make yourself an ark of gopher wood make rooms in the ark and cover it inside 206 00:14:46,480 --> 00:14:50,040 and outside with pitch and this is how you shall make it. 207 00:14:50,040 --> 00:14:56,360 Now the length of the ark shall be 300 cubits it's 50 cubits wide it's height is 30 cubits. 208 00:14:56,360 --> 00:15:00,320 You should make a window for the ark and you shall finish it to a cubit from above and 209 00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:03,320 set the door of the ark on its side. 210 00:15:03,320 --> 00:15:07,680 You shall make it with a lower and a second and a third deck. 211 00:15:07,680 --> 00:15:10,000 Now it says make yourself. 212 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:13,080 This means this was Noah's project. 213 00:15:13,080 --> 00:15:17,680 He was not to simply contract it out to someone else. 214 00:15:17,680 --> 00:15:19,320 This is how you shall make it. 215 00:15:19,320 --> 00:15:27,920 The ark was as long as a 30 story building is high about 450 feet or 150 meters and it 216 00:15:27,920 --> 00:15:32,760 was about 75 feet wide 45 feet high. 217 00:15:32,760 --> 00:15:37,000 That's what's described as really a boat but a well ventilated barge meant not only to 218 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:42,560 float but also to sail anywhere after after an ark is is a chest not a ship. 219 00:15:42,560 --> 00:15:45,880 This refers to the shoebox shape of a vessel. 220 00:15:45,880 --> 00:15:50,880 Now the ark roughly the shape of a shoebox was plenty large enough about the size of 221 00:15:50,880 --> 00:15:57,720 the Titanic and had a wide opening all the way around the top. 222 00:15:57,720 --> 00:16:02,280 Now it was not until 1858 that a boat bigger than the ark was built. 223 00:16:02,280 --> 00:16:09,880 The ark was certainly big enough to do the job if the ark carried two of every family 224 00:16:09,880 --> 00:16:16,640 of animals there were around 700 pairs of animals but the ark carried two of every species 225 00:16:16,640 --> 00:16:20,320 of animals there were around 35,000 pairs of animals. 226 00:16:20,320 --> 00:16:24,440 Now the average size of a land animal is smaller than a sheep. 227 00:16:24,440 --> 00:16:33,280 The ark would carry about 136,500 sheep living plenty of room for food and plenty of room 228 00:16:33,280 --> 00:16:34,400 for people. 229 00:16:34,400 --> 00:16:36,720 He says you shall not you shall make it. 230 00:16:36,720 --> 00:16:39,960 God had not yet told Noah why he must build an ark. 231 00:16:39,960 --> 00:16:44,980 At this point all Noah knew was that God will judge the earth and he was supposed to build 232 00:16:44,980 --> 00:16:46,360 a big barge. 233 00:16:46,360 --> 00:16:51,600 Since it had not rained yet on the earth it's reasonable to suppose that Noah did not know 234 00:16:51,600 --> 00:16:55,480 what God meant yet just like he does with us. 235 00:16:55,480 --> 00:16:58,560 He says you shall make it and Noah did make it. 236 00:16:58,560 --> 00:17:03,480 Now beyond the Bible there's rich historical evidence for the reality of Noah's ark. 237 00:17:03,480 --> 00:17:09,880 In 275 BC, Berosus a Babylonian historian wrote, but of this ship that grounded in Armenia 238 00:17:09,880 --> 00:17:14,920 some part still remains in the mountains but some get pitched from the ship by scraping 239 00:17:14,920 --> 00:17:15,920 it off. 240 00:17:15,920 --> 00:17:22,440 Around 8075, Josephus said the locals collected relics from the ark and showed them off to 241 00:17:22,440 --> 00:17:23,800 this very day. 242 00:17:23,800 --> 00:17:28,480 He also said that all the ancient historians who knew of wrote about this ark. 243 00:17:28,480 --> 00:17:35,640 In 8180, Theophilus of Antioch wrote, the remains of the ark are to this day to be seen 244 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:37,160 in the mountains. 245 00:17:37,160 --> 00:17:42,680 Now an elderly Armenian man in America said that as a boy he visited the ark with his 246 00:17:42,680 --> 00:17:46,680 father and three atheistic scientists in 1856. 247 00:17:46,680 --> 00:17:52,600 Their goal was to disprove the ark's existence but they found it and became so enraged they 248 00:17:52,600 --> 00:17:56,800 tried to destroy it but could not because it was too big and it had petrified. 249 00:17:56,800 --> 00:18:02,000 In 1918 one of the atheistic scientists and Englishmen admitted on his deathbed, the whole 250 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:05,000 story was true. 251 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:11,480 In 1876 a distinguished British statesman and author, Viscount James Bryce climbed Ararat 252 00:18:11,480 --> 00:18:16,800 and reported finding a four foot long piece of hand tooled timber at an altitude of more 253 00:18:16,800 --> 00:18:19,640 than 13,000 feet. 254 00:18:19,640 --> 00:18:23,760 Six Turkish soldiers claimed to see the ark in 1916. 255 00:18:23,760 --> 00:18:29,000 Now in the elderly part of this century, a Russian advisor named Vladimir Rokovitsky 256 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:33,840 claimed that the discovery of Novusarok he was stationed in southern Russia near the 257 00:18:33,840 --> 00:18:40,080 Turkish border in Mount Ararat as he tested a plane and his co-pilot flew over Ararat 258 00:18:40,080 --> 00:18:45,840 and discovered on the edge of a glacier what he described as the boat the size of a battleship. 259 00:18:45,840 --> 00:18:50,840 He said it was partially submerged in a lake and he could see there was an opening for 260 00:18:50,840 --> 00:18:55,120 a door nearly 20 feet square but the door was missing. 261 00:18:55,120 --> 00:19:00,920 Rokovitsky told his commanding officer and an expedition was dispatched to find the ark 262 00:19:00,920 --> 00:19:01,920 and photograph it. 263 00:19:01,920 --> 00:19:07,040 The report was forwarded to the Tsar who was soon overthrown and the photos of the report 264 00:19:07,040 --> 00:19:08,600 perished. 265 00:19:08,600 --> 00:19:15,600 In 1936 a young British archaeologist named Hardwick Knight hiked Ararat and discovered 266 00:19:15,600 --> 00:19:21,720 an interlocking hand tooled timber at the height of 14,000 feet and during World War 267 00:19:21,720 --> 00:19:26,480 II there were pilots who saw and photographed something they believed was the ark on Mount 268 00:19:26,480 --> 00:19:28,280 Ararat. 269 00:19:28,280 --> 00:19:32,400 There have been many more recent attempts to find and document the ark but they have 270 00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:38,000 been hindered by politics and surrounded by controversy. 271 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:39,760 Cover it inside and outside with pitch. 272 00:19:39,760 --> 00:19:42,600 Now the pitch worked to waterproof the wood. 273 00:19:42,600 --> 00:19:47,440 God told Noah to cover it with pitch inside and outside which makes it possible that the 274 00:19:47,440 --> 00:19:49,880 ark was preserved for a very long time. 275 00:19:49,880 --> 00:19:54,520 It is possible God still had a purpose for the ark to use it to remind the world of a 276 00:19:54,520 --> 00:19:58,200 past judgment shortly before a future judgment. 277 00:19:58,200 --> 00:20:02,240 Like a rainbow it was a memorial. 278 00:20:02,240 --> 00:20:07,500 Second Peter relates the future judgment to the judgment of the flood saying that unbelievers 279 00:20:07,500 --> 00:20:12,600 willfully forget the world that then existed perished being flooded with water. 280 00:20:12,600 --> 00:20:18,320 Perhaps before Jesus returns God will make it even more necessary for people to willfully 281 00:20:18,320 --> 00:20:20,360 forget these things. 282 00:20:20,360 --> 00:20:24,960 Now because of this mention of pitch, a petroleum product, in what most people think is the 283 00:20:24,960 --> 00:20:31,920 Middle East it is said that John D. Rockefeller looked for and found oil in that region based 284 00:20:31,920 --> 00:20:34,440 on this verse. 285 00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:42,240 Verse 17-21 Why the ark must be built and what Noah must do and behold myself I am bringing 286 00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:46,920 flood waters on the earth to destroy from under heaven all flesh in which is the breath 287 00:20:46,920 --> 00:20:48,200 of life. 288 00:20:48,200 --> 00:20:53,560 Everything that is on the earth shall die but I will establish my covenant with you 289 00:20:53,560 --> 00:20:57,780 and you shall go into the ark you and your sons, your wife and your sons, your wives 290 00:20:57,780 --> 00:21:02,640 with you and every living thing of all flesh you shall bring two of every sort into the 291 00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:04,840 ark to keep them alive with you. 292 00:21:04,840 --> 00:21:11,040 They shall be male and female of the birds after their kind and animals after their kind 293 00:21:11,040 --> 00:21:17,240 and every creeping thing of the earth after its kind two of every kind will come to you 294 00:21:17,240 --> 00:21:22,320 and keep them alive and you shall take for yourself all the food that is eaten and you 295 00:21:22,320 --> 00:21:27,920 shall gather it for yourself and it should be food for you and for every and for them. 296 00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:33,360 Now everything on the earth shall die we can only wonder what Noah felt when he heard this 297 00:21:33,360 --> 00:21:37,240 remarkable announcement from God. 298 00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:42,240 God called Noah to an essential role in the greatest judgment and greatest salvation the 299 00:21:42,240 --> 00:21:44,360 world had seen. 300 00:21:44,360 --> 00:21:49,400 He says but I will establish my covenant with you and you shall go into the ark. 301 00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:54,200 Now despite the dramatic judgment coming God will make a covenant with Noah just like he 302 00:21:54,200 --> 00:22:01,080 does with us and his family and be saved God will use Noah to save a remnant of each animal 303 00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:06,040 so the earth can be populated with people and animals after the flood. 304 00:22:06,040 --> 00:22:10,600 He says take for yourself all the food that is eaten and you shall gather it for yourself. 305 00:22:10,600 --> 00:22:16,120 God also commanded Noah to take all the food he could there must be a lot of food for Noah 306 00:22:16,120 --> 00:22:19,200 and the animals. 307 00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:25,680 Now verse 22 talks about Noah's obedience thus Noah did according to all that God had 308 00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:28,440 commanded him and he did it. 309 00:22:28,440 --> 00:22:33,520 Thus Noah did when given this staggering job to do Noah did it. 310 00:22:33,520 --> 00:22:39,000 We didn't hear him complain we didn't hear him rebelling he simply did it. 311 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:45,400 The words did cover an awful lot of material in years yet Noah did not shrink from what 312 00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:48,440 God told him to do. 313 00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:53,400 Now according to all that God commanded him so he did the Bible presents Noah as a great 314 00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:54,640 hero of God. 315 00:22:54,640 --> 00:22:57,280 He was an outstanding example of righteousness. 316 00:22:57,280 --> 00:23:03,760 In Ezekiel 14 14 a preacher of righteousness in 2nd Peter 2 5 Noah condemned the world 317 00:23:03,760 --> 00:23:08,600 by offering salvation and the whole world rejected it. 318 00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:15,000 Now Noah was a preacher of righteousness in 2nd Peter 2 yet in his 120 year ministry it 319 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:19,280 seems that nobody listened. 320 00:23:19,280 --> 00:23:25,160 The work of building the ark was laborious costly tedious dangerous seemingly foolish 321 00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:31,400 ridiculous he was mocked ridiculed made a movie about it with Steve Carell. 322 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:38,440 Noah was without a doubt a joke in the song of drunk people. 323 00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:45,200 So it's not strange that this is mentioned and that Noah is thought of as a hero. 324 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:49,200 Now this concludes our time today looking at Genesis chapter 6. 325 00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:53,960 I'd like to invite you to pray with me right now that God's word will speak to you. 326 00:23:53,960 --> 00:23:58,000 Would you pray with me just say God thank you for allowing your word to speak to me. 327 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:00,400 I want to hear what you have to say to me. 328 00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:02,600 I want to open up my heart to you today. 329 00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:04,160 I want to follow you today. 330 00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:11,360 I ask for you to transform my mind so that I can think and act and be a different person. 331 00:24:11,360 --> 00:24:16,840 Please forgive me today and fill my heart with your love and your presence in Jesus 332 00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:17,840 name. 333 00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:25,240 You know I want to thank you so much for responding to the generous amount of love that God shows 334 00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:32,680 us by being generous through your worship back to everything we have in our life comes 335 00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:35,400 from God in every part of your life. 336 00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:41,720 I want you to learn how to say Holy Spirit what do you want me to do and then be obedient 337 00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:43,600 to whatever God puts on your heart. 338 00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:47,600 I'd like you to apply this to the financial part of your life. 339 00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:52,240 Just say hey God whatever you want me to do today I will do it and respond to what he 340 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:53,240 says. 341 00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:56,160 You can go do that at Oceanwater.com. 342 00:24:56,160 --> 00:24:58,920 Have a beautiful day. 343 00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:03,600 If you'd like more information about Oceanwater Church, how to join us on an upcoming trip, 344 00:25:03,600 --> 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