1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,640 So I rode my bicycle for a year in 2010 from Canada to Columbia. 2 00:00:05,640 --> 00:00:10,920 And as part of that journey, I discovered that basically a billion people in the world 3 00:00:10,920 --> 00:00:13,200 didn't have access to clean drinking water. 4 00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:17,960 So I began this journey and did some higher level education and 5 00:00:17,960 --> 00:00:21,280 then on a series of trips with my friends in the last six years. 6 00:00:21,280 --> 00:00:26,080 That's all led us to this spot now we've become very interested in 7 00:00:26,080 --> 00:00:30,520 small scale decentralized desalinization projects. 8 00:00:30,520 --> 00:00:31,440 It's really the future. 9 00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:31,940 I want to. 10 00:00:31,940 --> 00:00:41,120 Music 11 00:00:41,120 --> 00:00:46,160 All systems that turn ocean water into drinking water for small, 12 00:00:46,160 --> 00:00:49,360 marginalized rural communities all around the world. 13 00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:54,960 There's 108 countries that have direct ocean access like behind me here in California. 14 00:00:54,960 --> 00:00:57,320 Now this water is given away for free and 15 00:00:57,320 --> 00:01:01,960 the savings that cost people can go to help them with their lives in the future. 16 00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:07,480 Now we do this while starting easy to go to beach churches revolving mostly around 17 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:11,760 reading the Bible together, having food together, spending time together. 18 00:01:11,760 --> 00:01:15,840 We'd love for you to be involved as we continue to grow. 19 00:01:15,840 --> 00:01:19,680 Please email me at ryan.oceanwatergmail.com. 20 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:23,200 I'd like to send you a little book that I wrote. 21 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:28,400 It documents the time of a one year bicycle ride that I went on from Canada to Columbia. 22 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:31,000 It's how I learned about a global water problem. 23 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:35,080 It's a very fun read and it documents our beginnings here at Ocean Water. 24 00:01:35,080 --> 00:01:39,720 I'd like to get that to you as a free gift for watching today's beach talk. 25 00:01:39,720 --> 00:01:44,520 Now in the next 12 months, we're gonna go to El Salvador, Indonesia and Bangladesh. 26 00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:47,540 We'd love for you to be on one of those trips. 27 00:01:47,540 --> 00:01:50,280 Now when I teach, I'm pretty straightforward. 28 00:01:50,280 --> 00:01:57,040 This is my approach because it's very important that you understand every word of God in the 29 00:01:57,040 --> 00:01:58,040 word of God. 30 00:01:58,040 --> 00:02:04,680 Now I love to laugh and catch waves, go on motorcycle rides, go camping, go get on airplanes, 31 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:06,640 go around the world, grab coffee. 32 00:02:06,640 --> 00:02:07,640 That's all really fun. 33 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:15,320 But when I teach the Bible, I accept the responsibility to make sure that you learn the most important 34 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:16,720 book in the world. 35 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:21,200 So every time you watch a beach talk, I want you to come ready to learn and ready to grow 36 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:25,200 because it's my job as your pastor to help you grow. 37 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:26,960 Because our objective is simple. 38 00:02:26,960 --> 00:02:32,120 It's disciples making disciples who plant churches then plant churches. 39 00:02:32,120 --> 00:02:36,800 Now today we're gonna look at Genesis 7 from our daily reading plan. 40 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:39,480 Like you to read it together with us. 41 00:02:39,480 --> 00:02:45,680 And each of these beach talks goes along with a chapter that we cover as we read together. 42 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:47,440 So today is Genesis 7. 43 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:51,280 Now God actually destroys the world with the flood. 44 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:57,040 Now the final preparations of Noah for the flood, God invites Noah into the ark. 45 00:02:57,040 --> 00:03:02,000 Then the Lord said to Noah, come into the ark, you and all your household, because I 46 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:06,800 have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation. 47 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:07,800 Now come into the ark. 48 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:13,440 The idea was that God was in the ark and he would be with Noah in the ark. 49 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:17,800 So he called Noah to come into the ark with him. 50 00:03:17,800 --> 00:03:24,800 Notice that the Lord didn't say to Noah, come into the ark, but come, plainly implying that 51 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:30,200 God himself was in the ark waiting for him to receive Noah and his family into the big 52 00:03:30,200 --> 00:03:37,640 ship that was to be their place of refuge while all the other people in the world drowned. 53 00:03:37,640 --> 00:03:40,040 Now I've seen that you are righteous. 54 00:03:40,040 --> 00:03:46,800 Noah spent the years before the flood in active obedience to God. 55 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:53,080 He not only believed God would send the flood, but he obeyed God that told him to do in preparation 56 00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:54,080 for it. 57 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:57,400 Now verses 2 through 9, Noah gathers all of his animals and his family. 58 00:03:57,400 --> 00:04:01,920 He says that you shall take one of every clean animal, the male and the female, two of the 59 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:07,080 animals that are unclean, a male and his female, and seven for each of the birds of the air, 60 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:11,920 male and female, to keep the species alive on the face of the earth. 61 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:18,240 After seven more days I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights. 62 00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:25,080 I will destroy from the face of the earth all living things that I have made. 63 00:04:25,080 --> 00:04:28,280 And Noah did according to all that God had commanded him. 64 00:04:28,280 --> 00:04:32,900 Noah was a hundred years old when the flood waters were on the earth. 65 00:04:32,900 --> 00:04:36,960 So Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives went into the ark because of the 66 00:04:36,960 --> 00:04:43,920 waters of the flood of clean animals, of animals that are unclean, of birds, and everything 67 00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:45,080 that creeps in the earth. 68 00:04:45,080 --> 00:04:51,400 Two by two they went into the ark to Noah, male and female, as God had commanded Noah 69 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:52,400 to do. 70 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:58,480 He says you shall take with you some wonder how the animals came to Noah or how Noah gathered 71 00:04:58,480 --> 00:04:59,480 them in. 72 00:04:59,480 --> 00:05:04,520 Genesis 620 says that God sent the animals to come to Noah by migration. 73 00:05:04,520 --> 00:05:09,920 In some animals God has created migratory instinct which can operate in an amazing manner. 74 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:17,160 Now he had no difficulty for him to miraculously put these urge to migrate into these animals 75 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:21,600 and that they knew that it was the time to come, just like birds know when to fly north 76 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:22,600 and south. 77 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:30,120 The largest, most complete gathering of animals that had ever been accomplished were gathered 78 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:31,240 into this ark. 79 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:35,680 Two by two they went into the ark to Noah. 80 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:40,560 God's never had a problem getting the animals to do what he wants. 81 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:43,640 Only man is more stupid than the animals. 82 00:05:43,640 --> 00:05:50,000 The ox knows its owner and the donkey its master's crib, but Israel does not know their 83 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:51,720 place as they have one dream. 84 00:05:51,720 --> 00:05:56,280 Now verses 10-12, God brings the waters upon the earth and it came to pass after seven 85 00:05:56,280 --> 00:06:01,600 days that the waters of the flood were on the earth and the 600 year of Noah's life 86 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:07,200 in the second month, the 70th day of the month, on the day of the mountains and the great 87 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:13,400 deep were broken up and the windows of the heaven were opened and the rain was on the 88 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:17,000 earth 40 days and 40 nights. 89 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:21,960 After seven days that the waters of the flood were on the earth, Noah the animals and his 90 00:06:21,960 --> 00:06:26,000 family had to wait in the ark seven days for the rain to come. 91 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:29,380 They had never seen rain up until this time. 92 00:06:29,380 --> 00:06:37,000 This was a real test of faith to wait a week after more than 100 years of preparation. 93 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:40,880 God always prepares us for what he wants us to do. 94 00:06:40,880 --> 00:06:45,160 Now the windows of heaven were opened, this was the heavens containing the great waters 95 00:06:45,160 --> 00:06:51,400 that were above the firmament, Genesis 1-7, they opened up, boy did it open up ever, it 96 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:54,400 rained for 40 days and 40 nights. 97 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:58,920 Now the fountains of the great deep that were broken up, the waters came up from under the 98 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:04,480 earth also, so no doubt accompanied by a great geological catastrophe. 99 00:07:04,480 --> 00:07:11,320 40 days and 40 nights to the number 40 becomes associated with testing and purification, 100 00:07:11,320 --> 00:07:15,840 especially before entering into something new and significant. 101 00:07:15,840 --> 00:07:19,480 We'll learn more about this later as we go chapter by chapter through the Bible. 102 00:07:19,480 --> 00:07:24,240 Moses went through this in Exodus and Deuteronomy, the spies went through this before they went 103 00:07:24,240 --> 00:07:26,480 into the land of Canaan in Numbers. 104 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:30,040 Israel's time in the wilderness is talked about in Numbers. 105 00:07:30,040 --> 00:07:36,520 Elijah's miraculous journey to Sinai in 1 Kings, Jesus's temptation in the wilderness 106 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:39,840 in Mark 1, all 40 days. 107 00:07:39,840 --> 00:07:45,480 All entered the ark in verses 13-16, on the very same day Noah and his Noah's sons, Shem, 108 00:07:45,480 --> 00:07:50,280 Ham, and Japheth, and Noah's wife and the three wives and their sons with them entered 109 00:07:50,280 --> 00:07:56,240 the ark, they and every beast after them, all cattle of all their kind and every creeping 110 00:07:56,240 --> 00:08:01,280 thing that creeps along the earth, and every bird of its kind and every bird of its sort, 111 00:08:01,280 --> 00:08:08,480 and they went into the ark to Noah, two by two, all of the flesh which was under heaven. 112 00:08:08,480 --> 00:08:14,200 And so they entered male and female, for all flesh went in as God had commanded them to 113 00:08:14,200 --> 00:08:19,440 do, and then the Lord shut them in, went in as God commanded him. 114 00:08:19,440 --> 00:08:24,040 This is a summary statement that describes how everything was fulfilled exactly as the 115 00:08:24,040 --> 00:08:25,880 Lord had spoken. 116 00:08:25,880 --> 00:08:30,520 All things were ready for the flood God would bring upon the earth. 117 00:08:30,520 --> 00:08:36,640 And the Lord shut him in, Noah did not have to shut the door on anyone's salvation, God 118 00:08:36,640 --> 00:08:39,920 did. 119 00:08:39,920 --> 00:08:47,320 The same pattern is never our job to disqualify people from coming to Jesus or into the church. 120 00:08:47,320 --> 00:08:49,240 God brings people in. 121 00:08:49,240 --> 00:08:53,680 God kept the door open until the last possible minute, but there came a time when the door 122 00:08:53,680 --> 00:08:54,680 had to be shut. 123 00:08:54,680 --> 00:08:59,200 Now the door is open, it is open, but when it's shut, it's shut. 124 00:08:59,200 --> 00:09:05,880 Jesus is the one who opens and no one shuts, and shuts when no one opens in Revelations 125 00:09:05,880 --> 00:09:06,880 3.7. 126 00:09:06,880 --> 00:09:11,120 Now the ark was salvation for Noah, but condemnation for the world. 127 00:09:11,120 --> 00:09:14,600 There were no second chances for those who left out. 128 00:09:14,600 --> 00:09:21,040 Yet when 120 years were over and God's Spirit would no longer strive with man, there stood 129 00:09:21,040 --> 00:09:27,700 the great ark with the vast door open and still Noah continued to preach and to declare 130 00:09:27,700 --> 00:09:32,960 that this would pass and that they could come into the ark and be preserved from destruction. 131 00:09:32,960 --> 00:09:39,000 Now outside that door death would reign universally, but all would be at peace that were in the 132 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:40,000 door. 133 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:45,880 Now Noah and the ark during the flood, verses 17-23, the flood described, the flood was 134 00:09:45,880 --> 00:09:50,280 on the earth forty days, the waters increased and lifted up the ark and it rose high above 135 00:09:50,280 --> 00:09:51,280 the earth. 136 00:09:51,280 --> 00:09:56,360 The waters prevailed and greatly increased on the earth and the ark moved about on the 137 00:09:56,360 --> 00:10:02,880 surface of the waters and the waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth and on the high hills 138 00:10:02,880 --> 00:10:04,840 under the whole heaven were covered. 139 00:10:04,840 --> 00:10:10,080 The waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward and the mountains were covered and all the 140 00:10:10,080 --> 00:10:14,280 flesh that moved on the earth, the birds and the cattle and the beasts and every creeping 141 00:10:14,280 --> 00:10:19,840 thing that creeps on the earth and everything and all those whose nostrils was the breath 142 00:10:19,840 --> 00:10:24,280 of the spirit of life, all that was on the dry land died. 143 00:10:24,280 --> 00:10:29,280 So he destroyed all living things that were the face of the ground, both man and cattle, 144 00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:33,640 the creeping thing and the birds of the earth, they were destroyed from the earth. 145 00:10:33,640 --> 00:10:39,080 Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark remained alive. 146 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:42,720 Now the waters prevailed and greatly increased on the earth. 147 00:10:42,720 --> 00:10:48,840 The description of the flood in this passage is so complete and specific that it's impossible 148 00:10:48,840 --> 00:10:55,240 to reconcile a local flood with the biblical record despite the claims of some, this is 149 00:10:55,240 --> 00:10:57,760 the description of a global flood. 150 00:10:57,760 --> 00:11:01,600 If this were not a global flood then the ark itself would be unnecessary. 151 00:11:01,600 --> 00:11:08,120 If this were only a local flood then God's promise to never again bring such a flood 152 00:11:08,120 --> 00:11:09,120 is false. 153 00:11:09,120 --> 00:11:14,560 If this were only a local flood the Bible is wrong when it traces all of humanity back 154 00:11:14,560 --> 00:11:22,040 to Noah's sons and other passages that speak of a universal flood such as Psalms 104 in 155 00:11:22,040 --> 00:11:25,160 2 Peter chapter 3. 156 00:11:25,160 --> 00:11:29,320 Only hundreds of people groups have their own accounts and legends of the flood. 157 00:11:29,320 --> 00:11:34,080 One of the most remarkable is the Babylonian account which is similar to the Genesis account. 158 00:11:34,080 --> 00:11:40,240 In many ways it's clearly drawn from since all mankind came from Noah's sons, all mankind 159 00:11:40,240 --> 00:11:43,560 remembers the flood. 160 00:11:43,560 --> 00:11:48,720 Specifically cites the legends of the Samo Kubu tribe from New Guinea and the Athaphaean 161 00:11:48,720 --> 00:11:53,960 Indians of America and the Papago Indians of Arizona and the Brazilian tribes, Peruvian 162 00:11:53,960 --> 00:12:01,360 tribes, Hawaiian Islanders, Chinese and Egyptians, Australians, Druids and Lithuanians. 163 00:12:01,360 --> 00:12:06,760 All of these cultures have records of a flood. 164 00:12:06,760 --> 00:12:09,640 It is common. 165 00:12:09,640 --> 00:12:15,240 Eighty-eight percent described a favored family, seventy percent attributed survival to a boat, 166 00:12:15,240 --> 00:12:21,320 ninety-five percent say the sole cause was a catastrophic flood, sixty-six percent say 167 00:12:21,320 --> 00:12:27,000 that the disaster is due to man's wickedness, sixty-seven percent record that animals are 168 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:33,880 also saved, fifty-seven percent describe that the survivors ended up on a mountain. 169 00:12:33,880 --> 00:12:40,120 Many of the accounts also specifically mention birds being sent out and a rainbow and eight 170 00:12:40,120 --> 00:12:44,480 persons being saved and the mountains recovered. 171 00:12:44,480 --> 00:12:49,600 This took a lot of water but there's plenty of water on the earth today to do this. 172 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:54,800 But because of topography of the earth the water is collected into oceans. 173 00:12:54,800 --> 00:13:01,160 If the earth were a perfect sphere the oceans would cover the land to a depth of two and 174 00:13:01,160 --> 00:13:03,000 a half to three miles. 175 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:09,720 Before the cataclysmic flood the earth may have been much nearer to a perfect sphere. 176 00:13:09,720 --> 00:13:14,840 Now it says that Moses had meant to prescribe just a partial rain upon only a small part 177 00:13:14,840 --> 00:13:15,840 of the earth. 178 00:13:15,840 --> 00:13:21,120 He used very misleading language but if he meant to teach that that was the universal 179 00:13:21,120 --> 00:13:27,560 flood he used the very word which might have been expected that he would use. 180 00:13:27,560 --> 00:13:31,460 In all those whose nostrils was the breath of life of the spirit all that was on the 181 00:13:31,460 --> 00:13:34,840 dry land died. 182 00:13:34,840 --> 00:13:40,000 Now in the Scopes Monkey Trial in 1925 Clarence Darrow humiliated William Jennings Bryan by 183 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:42,960 asking him if he believed every word in the Bible. 184 00:13:42,960 --> 00:13:47,800 When Bryan said he did Darrow asked him how the fish drowned in the flood. 185 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:52,640 Bryan didn't know the answer gave a long and confused speech and died the next day. 186 00:13:52,640 --> 00:13:57,600 If only he would have known the Bible better he would have known it says this about the 187 00:13:57,600 --> 00:13:59,440 breath of the spirit of life. 188 00:13:59,440 --> 00:14:05,280 The fish did not die in the flood only animals with the breath of life in them died. 189 00:14:05,280 --> 00:14:08,600 The animals on dry land. 190 00:14:08,600 --> 00:14:10,200 There's the answer. 191 00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:15,280 Bryan did this just as he said virtually all of Noah's contemporaries did not believe that 192 00:14:15,280 --> 00:14:17,520 God would do just that. 193 00:14:17,520 --> 00:14:23,320 Though it took 120 years God demonstrated that he keeps his promises and is totally 194 00:14:23,320 --> 00:14:25,000 faithful. 195 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:30,080 Verse 24 the flood lasted 150 days without seceding and the waters prevailed on the earth 196 00:14:30,080 --> 00:14:32,120 150 days. 197 00:14:32,120 --> 00:14:38,720 150 days some suggest that God put some or many of these animals into a period of hibernation 198 00:14:38,720 --> 00:14:44,720 for this period meaning that less food space supervision would be needed. 199 00:14:44,720 --> 00:14:49,400 Now God provides many animals today with an amazing instinct for hibernation. 200 00:14:49,400 --> 00:14:54,960 It would be no difficulty for him to miraculously impart an instinct for these particular animals 201 00:14:54,960 --> 00:14:56,720 just like they do in the North Pole. 202 00:14:56,720 --> 00:15:02,520 Now 150 days safe in the air God sustained Noah and his family through this time of catastrophe 203 00:15:02,520 --> 00:15:08,040 and judgment shut in and sheltered from the storm and flood they were safe. 204 00:15:08,040 --> 00:15:13,440 And Noah underwent burial to all the old things that he might come out into a new world and 205 00:15:13,440 --> 00:15:19,400 even so we might die in Christ that we may live with him. 206 00:15:19,400 --> 00:15:24,880 Now this concludes our time today looking at the chapter in the book of Genesis. 207 00:15:24,880 --> 00:15:28,760 Now I'd like you to pray with me just like we do at the end of every beach talk. 208 00:15:28,760 --> 00:15:30,260 Would you pray with me now? 209 00:15:30,260 --> 00:15:34,280 Just say God would you help me to be like Noah? 210 00:15:34,280 --> 00:15:36,160 Would you help me to be righteous? 211 00:15:36,160 --> 00:15:37,900 Would you help me to be faithful? 212 00:15:37,900 --> 00:15:45,960 Would you help me to follow you even when I am ridiculed and criticized? 213 00:15:45,960 --> 00:15:51,880 Forgive me and help me to follow you today in Jesus name. 214 00:15:51,880 --> 00:15:52,880 Amen. 215 00:15:52,880 --> 00:16:00,280 At the close of every beach talk we know as we grow that part of our worship is the giving 216 00:16:00,280 --> 00:16:03,200 of the resources that God has blessed us with. 217 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:08,760 In every part of your life I want you to pray that the Holy Spirit will guide you and that 218 00:16:08,760 --> 00:16:11,720 you'll be obedient to what he's putting on your heart. 219 00:16:11,720 --> 00:16:16,880 Would you pray right now, God what do you want me to give as part of my worship? 220 00:16:16,880 --> 00:16:20,640 And then go do it at Oceanwater.com. 221 00:16:20,640 --> 00:16:21,920 Thank you so much. 222 00:16:21,920 --> 00:16:22,920 Please pray for me. 223 00:16:22,920 --> 00:16:26,160 I need your prayers in teaching God's word every day. 224 00:16:26,160 --> 00:16:32,720 Thank you so much and I hope you have a beautiful day. 225 00:16:32,720 --> 00:16:33,720 Thank you for your time. 226 00:16:33,720 --> 00:16:35,800 We would love to partner with you. 227 00:16:35,800 --> 00:16:36,800 Water is a global problem. 228 00:16:36,800 --> 00:16:40,560 It's going to take as many partners as we can to help solve this problem. 229 00:16:40,560 --> 00:16:41,560 We'd love for you to partner with us. 230 00:16:41,560 --> 00:16:46,560 You can go to our website at Oceanwater.com. 231 00:16:46,560 --> 00:16:49,560 That's O-C-N-W-T-R.com. 232 00:16:49,560 --> 00:16:50,560 We'd love that. 233 00:16:50,560 --> 00:17:15,140 God bless you all.