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Good morning. How are you doing today? Yeah? I'm doing good. I am doing really well.

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If it's your first time joining us here at Hosanna here in our sanctuary or if

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you're joining us online for the first time, we want to say welcome to all of

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you. We're so glad you're here to worship with us here at Hosanna. I am Pastor

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Nathan and this morning we are going to be starting the story of the Great Flood

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in Genesis chapter 6, chapter 7, and chapter 8. You know, the story and the

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details of it and the truth of it, the real historical fact of this flood is

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hinted at by a lot in our world. Across the history of mankind there have been

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over 270 different nations, people, groups, and cultures that have flood stories in

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their historical accounts, their own accounts of how the world came to be.

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Which suggests that there was truly a flood in the past and that story has

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carried down through many unconnected cultures that it's not just a Bible

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story, it's not just allegorical. Some argue whether the flood we're gonna be

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reading about was a worldwide flood or a local flood. You know, people like to get

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sidetracked on so many silly debates, but there is a lot of natural phenomena in

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our world today across the entire planet that really does point to a global flood

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that the flood we're gonna be reading about was across the entire planet.

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There's things like inland saltwater seas, there's things like fossilized

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whale bones at the top of mountains, there's sedimentary and stratum

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evidence geologically, there's all kinds of stuff that that really points to a

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global flood, but we're gonna deal with some of that next time. But you know, as

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we've been studying through Genesis, we've seen that the pre-flood culture

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had gotten so bad, so evil, so wicked that God had no other recourse than to

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destroy it. We've seen how marriage was demonized, violence was idolized, sexual

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violence was so commonplace, it was the celebrated norm of this culture. You know,

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back in chapter five of, or chapter six verse five, this is how this time was

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described. Human wickedness was widespread on the earth, and every

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inclination of the human mind was nothing but evil all the time. Now we

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have to try to imagine what that's like because we're in a world today where

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there is a lot of evil. There's a lot of evil stuff happening, but we are not yet

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to the place where every inclination of the human mind was nothing but evil all

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the time. But we know the world's headed that direction, and we know it's gonna

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end up in that kind of place. We read that God was grieved at this time that

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mankind had gotten to this place. It wasn't that he had no idea, it wasn't

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that he thought he made a mistake creating mankind, it was simply the fact

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that they were this bad, that there was this much evil and wickedness, and it

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grieved his heart terribly. But because that is what mankind was choosing, he

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declared judgment on all of humanity except one man, Noah and his household.

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Now the story that is involved here is a fascinating one, and you know all the

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different elements of the flood that we can get into, like how it affected the

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planet, and how it affected the ecosystem, and what about dinosaurs, and all those

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things that people want to talk about. They've spawned many different theories

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on the Genesis flood. They've spawned many different movies, and maybe you've

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seen some of those things that are radically unbiblical and just silly.

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We're gonna deal with some of that as we move forward through the story, but we

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have to be very careful lest we miss the point of the flood narrative altogether.

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You see the story itself is a narrative bridge between this very

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mysterious, anti-deluvian, pre-flood world. It's a bridge between that and

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the more recent time that followed, which we would consider from then all the way

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up till now. But we have to understand that the flood story is not about the

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flood, even though that's one of the most shocking, dramatic stories in all of

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Scripture. We also have to understand that the main point of the flood story

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is not judgment on sin, although it describes a very awful judgment that

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came upon the world. The flood story is about the type of person that God saves

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from judgment. That's what this story is all about. That's what we'll be

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paying attention to. For the flood story is about a man who is saved out of a

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lost world because of his relationship with God. Not a sinless man, not a

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perfect man, meaning he's never done anything wrong, but one who is called

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righteous due to his faith in God. Here we learn why God saved Noah, how God

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saved Noah, and what that means for us today. But first we're gonna open in

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worship and praise God. So many of us in here have received the salvation that

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God offers us, that free salvation that has set us free from the power of sin

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and death and promised us heaven when we leave this earth, and we so look forward

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to that. But we do know that as the Bible tells us, we are called to be people, to

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go out and preach, to share, that judgment is coming. That judgment is indeed coming,

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and the only way to avoid that judgment is to believe that God is, to believe in

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what God says and to commit one's life to him. We want to praise him for

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everything that he is and everything that he's done and everything that he's

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going to do. So pray with me. Father, we thank you so much for sending your son

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Jesus to die on the cross for our sins. Lord, we know that you came as a perfect

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individual without sin, without error, absolutely completely blameless and

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spotless in every way. And yet God, somehow through our faith in what you

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did, that righteousness is imputed to us. It's not because we deserve it and it's

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not because we earned it. That is impossible, Lord. It's simply because you

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loved us and you wanted to give it to us. Lord, may we understand what that means

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not only in our salvation, but then in how we live our lives, God, that we

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wouldn't be people who live a transactional relationship with you, Lord,

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thinking that if we do this, you'll do this for us, and if we don't do that, you

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won't do that for us. But we would understand, Lord, that we are your

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children, that if we put our faith in you, you see us through the righteousness of

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Jesus Christ that is imputed to us through our belief, our faith in what he

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did and who he is. And God, we want to praise you for that. You are so worthy.

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Lord, teach us through this story today. Teach us through the story of this flood

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and who this man Noah was, God. Teach us the absolute importance of how man is

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saved that we would be able to take this message and continue to share it with

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people that don't know you yet in this world. Lord, we love you. We thank you.

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It's in Jesus' name we pray. Amen. All right, guys, we're gonna be in Genesis

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chapter 6. We're gonna be starting in verse 9 today. And as I said in the

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beginning, we're beginning the story of the great flood. But to give context to

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what I believe God is speaking through the story today, I just wanted to touch

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on something that we all know. We should know if you're a believer and a Bible

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student that scripture has a lot to say about why we are saved, how we are saved.

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And any Christian should know that our salvation is not about us. It has nothing

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to do with us. It has nothing to do with anything we do or earning it or anything

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like that. The Bible is very clear. For example, in Isaiah chapter 53 verse 6,

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this is how it describes mankind. We all went astray like sheep. We all have turned

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to our own way. And the Lord has punished him, speaking of Jesus, for the

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iniquity of us all. In the New Testament, it says this in Romans chapter 3,

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starting in verse 10. As it is written, there is no one righteous, not even one.

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There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks God. All have turned

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away. All alike have become worthless. There is no one who does what is good,

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not even one. And then back to Isaiah again in chapter 64 verse 6,

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this is what it says about our good deeds. All of us have become like something

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unclean, and all of our righteous acts are like a polluted garment. Now in the

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more traditional translations, polluted garments as filthy rags, and I won't

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describe what that actually is referring to in the Hebrew, but it's gross.

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All right. So, excuse me. Having that as our backdrop and our understanding as

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as Christians, it could be confusing when we get to verses like verse 9 in

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Genesis chapter 6, because this is what it says here. These are the family records

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of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among his contemporaries. Noah

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walked with God. And Noah fathered three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Now in a

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later study, we're going to deal with Noah's sons because they're important to

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the chapters to come, but just for a quick reference, through these three sons

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came all the peoples of the earth, right? God destroyed the whole earth except for

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Noah and his household. And so through these three came all the people. Now,

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Shem is the one that all the Semitic races came from. These are the Hebrews,

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the Jews, came from his line. Now, because they came from Shem's line, they were

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referred to in the past and sometimes still as the Shemites, because they came

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from Shem, right? Or that word is also said the Semites, and that's where we get

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the term anti-Semitic when we talk about people who are against the Jews or

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racist against the Jews. It's anti the people from Shem, right? Is literally what

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you're saying there. His other son, Ham, is where the Canaanites came from,

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Africans, Egyptians came from Ham. And then Japheth is where all the Medes and

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the Persians and Germany and Russia and the Gauls and the Greeks and the Romans

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came from. So that's just a real quick overview. We'll deal with that later

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because the point that I want to focus on in today's study starts with this

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question. How do we reconcile the Bible saying there is none righteous, no not

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one, with Noah was a righteous man? Well, the Bible contradicts itself, everybody

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go home, right? Is that how we solve that? No. But verses like this can cause

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people to stumble a little bit, especially people you're sharing your

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faith with. They like to go on to, you know, corners of the internet and find

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these places where someone goes, oh the Bible, duh duh duh. Now, the way we

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reconcile things like this and really how to answer what is it saying here when

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it says Noah was a righteous man is to start with 2 Timothy chapter 3 verse 16,

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which says this, all scripture is inspired by God. It literally means

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breathed out by God and is profitable for teaching, for rebuking, for correcting,

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for training in righteousness so that the man of God may be complete, equipped

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for every good work. All of scripture is breathed out by God. So we can't say,

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well this part of the Bible is right and this part of the Bible is wrong. You

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can't say that. Now, we know God doesn't lie, he is truth. We know the Bible is

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his word that has spoken to 40 different authors over 1,500 years on 3 different

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continents and yet it has a seamless continuity of message because God

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orchestrated it, it's his word, God is truth. Well then, what does it mean that

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Noah was a righteous man if no one is righteous? Well, that's an important

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thing to be able to answer because it has to do with the question, why did God

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save Noah? It answers the question, why did God save you and me? It answers the

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question, why does God save anybody and how does he save anybody? Well, to kind of

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give backdrop to this, I want to jump to Hebrews chapter 11 verse 7 where it

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talks about Noah according to his faith, it says this, by faith Noah after he was

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warned about what was not yet seen and motivated by godly fear built an ark to

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deliver his family. By faith he condemned the world and became an heir of the

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righteousness that comes by faith. So to sum that up, it says by faith he

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inherited the righteousness that comes by faith. Well, what is the righteousness

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that comes by faith? What does that have to do with Noah was a righteous man? Well,

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we have to understand that Noah's righteousness wasn't from him. It can't

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be of Noah's, it can't be from him. Right here in Hebrews 11 7 it says that it

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was a righteousness given to him, it came to him through his faith. This is a

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biblical doctrine called the doctrine of imputed righteousness and this is a very

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important doctrine to understand not just in salvation but then in how we go

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on to live our lives. The doctrine of imputed righteousness starts with this

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because humans are sinners by nature, right? We inherited the sin nature from

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Adam and Eve. We have zero righteousness of our own. That's what Romans 3 was

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saying, there are none righteous, no not one. And then biblically we understand

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that one day we will stand before an almighty, perfect, holy God and we'll

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literally have two destinations, two eternal destinations before us. One is

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heaven and one is hell. Now heaven is for the righteous, hell is where the

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unrighteous go. Now if we have no righteousness of our own and we're gonna

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stand before God one day, we got a problem don't we? We don't have what is

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needed to get into heaven, to get into paradise, to live in eternal perfection

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with God our Creator. And so if perfect righteousness is required to spend

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eternity in heaven and we have no righteousness of our own, nor can we do

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anything righteous enough to count, right? Our righteous deeds are like filthy rags,

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then that would mean that we need to get our righteousness from another source,

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right? And we get that through the faith in the untainted work of another, another

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who was perfect, who is without sin. And that perfect righteousness that he had,

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that he was, is imputed to us by faith, is given to us, is draped upon you in a

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sense. So that the idea is God is crediting righteousness to your account.

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You ever had someone do that? You open your bank account one day and there's

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like plus $100 and you're like, where'd that come from?

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Have you ever heard those stories of the people where the bank made a mistake and

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sent them a million dollars and they spent it all before the bank could catch

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it? The Robin Hood in me is like, yeah, go for it, right? But you know, anyways,

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sidetracking myself, God is crediting righteousness to your account. That's

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what imputed righteousness is, so that when the sin bill comes due, it's paid

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for. Somebody else paid for it. Now this side of the New Testament,

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we know that that other source is Jesus Christ. God the Son who came to

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this earth to die on the cross for all sin, the sin of all mankind. But the

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problem is, is Jesus wasn't around when Noah was here. So how does that

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reconcile? Well, we have to understand that throughout the Old Testament,

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the people of God were looking forward to a promised Messiah. You remember in

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Genesis chapter two, or no, chapter three, the fall, where when God was speaking to

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Eve and he said, hey, Eve, your offspring is going to crush the head of the

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serpent. That was a future hope. He said, I'm prophesying that through you, Eve,

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you're going to be the mother of all life, and through you, a Messiah is going

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to come, a savior. And so God's people were looking for that. But pre-flood, the

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people that were looking forward to that got smaller and smaller and smaller as

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the wickedness became more pervasive in the culture. And so this side of the

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cross, we look back to a finished work and say, someone, the Messiah already

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lived and already died for me, right? And the Bible says, you put your faith in

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that, you are saved. On Noah's side, they were putting their faith in something to

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come. And we see this idea of imputed righteousness throughout the whole Old

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Testament. It's all over the place. Righteousness was credited to Noah

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because of his faith in God's promises of the future Messiah. In Genesis 15, 6, it

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says this of Abram, Abram believed the Lord, and it was credited to him as

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righteousness. That phrase, believe the Lord, means he had faith. So was it

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because Abraham did this or did that? No. Was it because Abraham said, you know,

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the proper number of kumbayahs? No. Did he raise his hands the right way during

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worship at the right angle? None of that. He just believed God. He had faith in God

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and who he was. So it can be said of Noah that he was righteous because he

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believed God, and as he believed God and had faith in God, the perfect

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righteousness of God was imputed to him. Isn't that beautiful? I just believe you,

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God, and God goes, okay, my perfection, I'm gonna clothe you with it so

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that when I look at you, guess what I see? Perfection. Sinlessness. That's why

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it can be said Noah was righteous. We're gonna walk through this a little bit

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more. But it's not because Noah was without sin. You know, when I taught my

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previous study, somebody online commented and they were like, what?

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Because I was like, Noah was a sinner just like everybody. He goes, didn't you

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read verse 9 where it says Noah was perfect in all his ways? That's how it

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reads in another translation, and I hope they listen to this study to then

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get the explanation to that because Noah was not without sin. Noah is. Noah was,

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and Noah will ever be. But he was righteous because he believed God and

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then God gave him the righteousness because of that faith. It goes on to say

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that he was blameless among his contemporaries and that Noah walked

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with God. That word blameless is another word when we hear that we go, oh, well

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without blame. That can't be somebody that did something wrong, but in the

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Hebrew the word doesn't mean that never done anything wrong, it just simply

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means he's filled with moral integrity. He's a moral, he pursues good morals

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in his life. He's filled with it. The idea is that Noah was on the inside what

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you saw on the outside. Not sinless, but full of faith. The faith he preached was

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the faith he lived. Now there's a difference between reputation and

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character, and you know a lot of people in this world, we want to have a good

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reputation, right? That's incidentally one of the qualifications of elders and

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deacons within the church, that they have to have a good reputation among the body

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that they're going to serve. And so reputation is what others think you are

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and see you to be on the outside, right? They see how you live, they see what you

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do, and you have a reputation for being good or being bad or being trustworthy or

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being a liar. It's the you that you are in public when other people are around.

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That's reputation. Character however is who you are when nobody's looking. And

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sadly in the church today there are many people that live one way publicly and a

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completely different way privately, right? They read Colossians 3 that says,

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let no foul language proceed from your mouth, and when they're among people

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now in public, wow you'll never hear a cuss word out of their mouth. But in

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their car when the windows are up and nobody could hear them and somebody

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cuts them off, oh boy, right? I didn't even know you knew that many cuss words.

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Now we all stumble, but the person who lives this double life is living a

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divided heart. So when it says he was blameless, it means that Noah was the

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same on the inside as he was on the outside, that his reputation reflected his

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character and his character was seen in his reputation, that he wasn't a

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hypocrite. He didn't live one way publicly and a different way privately.

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And so that the faith he preached was the same as the faith he practiced. That

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was Noah. That was the life he lived. Now walking with God, when it says Noah

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walked with God, it's the same thing as Enoch and we looked at that when we

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studied Enoch, right? Genesis 5 24 says Enoch walked with God and then he was not

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there because God took him. Enoch was raptured. He didn't die. He never

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physically died. He lived a life for God and is preaching the gospel and then God

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was like, hey bro, come home. And he went. So we talked about that. When Enoch

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walked with God, that phrase was referring to the closest, most

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personal, intimate relationship you could have with God here on earth. That was the

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relationship Enoch had. It was also the relationship Noah had with God. That

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phrase walked with God means that Noah had the deepest trust and the deepest

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commitment and the most radical dependence on God for everything. And this

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was pretty remarkable considering the time he lived in because look at

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verse 11 in Genesis 6. It says, now the earth was corrupt in God's sight and the

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earth was filled with wickedness. That word wickedness in other translations is

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violence. What the word in the Hebrew is referring to is acts of aggression.

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Particularly physical acts of aggression. So we could say that in God's sight he

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saw that the earth was filled with assault and murder and running down the

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street and hitting people in the face and filming it for their TikTok. Do you

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see a correlation? It was violent. God saw how corrupt the earth was for every

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creature had corrupted its way on the earth. Then God said to Noah, I have

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decided to put an end to every creature for the earth is filled with wickedness

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because of them therefore I am going to destroy them along with the earth. A

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pretty bleak picture. Back in verse verse 5 of Genesis 6 God said human

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wickedness was widespread and we read this earlier that every inclination of

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the human mind was nothing but evil all the time. Now 2nd Peter 2 5 tells us

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that Noah was a preacher of righteousness so we know that during Noah's life during

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this time when every thought was wicked and it was corrupt that he was preaching

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righteousness. Now we don't have any record of exactly what he said in

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preaching righteousness but we can imagine it based upon what we know of

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Noah. He had faith in God. God saw him as righteous and Noah preached that

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righteousness. That means it was likely Noah was preaching hey guys judgments

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coming. God's gonna judge sin. You need to put your faith in God and trust him

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for salvation because in him and him alone is salvation. The only way you could

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get saved from the judgment is by being perfectly righteous and the only way you

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could do that is putting your faith in God and following him right. It's likely

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what he was talking about. Preaching belief and faith and trust and then we

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can imagine how it was received in the world that was described to us among

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those people. It's interesting when God keeps saying they were corrupt they were

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corrupted they were corrupt the word corrupt means lacking integrity. What did

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we just see about Noah? He was blameless among his contemporaries. That he was

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filled with moral integrity and again it says among his contemporaries. That's a

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very important part of that phrase. It's saying in contrast to this wicked evil

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world Noah was the opposite of that. Not that he was without sin as I said but he

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was the opposite of what his culture was and so as he's out there preaching this

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righteousness I don't believe he was a very popular dude. I believe he was quite

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hated. Noah wasn't very popular and nor are we today when we preach

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righteousness. The world is turning more and more violent against Christians. More

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and more outright. More and more destructive. You know I mean who thought

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we would ever live in a world where the state would take kids away from their

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parents simply because the parents won't lie to them about their pronouns. And

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yeah that's happening around our world today. Because a mom or dad will not

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refer to them with these weird obscure pronouns and go no you're a boy you were

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born a boy you're a he. That the state is stepping in and oh we're gonna remove

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your kids because you're abusing them. Our world is violent and when we preach

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righteousness the world hates that. Cockroaches scatter when the light is

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turned on and when we shine the light into the wickedness of this world we want

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to evil wants to scatter. And so we know the world today is rapidly moving

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towards more and more hostility and eventually the Bible tells us that it

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will get so bad that during the tribulation time there will be two

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witnesses preaching in Jerusalem and they will be publicly murdered in front

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of everybody's eyes probably on the internet or something and that they will

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just leave their bodies there on the sidewalk to rot and the whole world will

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celebrate their death. That's what it tells us is gonna happen in the end

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times. Pretty wicked. So when God says he's gonna put an end to mankind and

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earlier in Genesis 6 he said he was gonna wipe away mankind those two

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phrases we know that did happen. There was an end to mankind there was a

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wiping away of mankind it did happen but it also is going to happen again. That

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there is a judgment coming in this world and I believe God is referring to that

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in the last part of verse 13 because if you look at the end of verse 13 he tells

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Noah I am going to destroy them along with the earth. That word destroy there

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means to destroy completely to damage beyond repair. Was the earth completely

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destroyed in the flood? No it was not but the next time God comes back to judge

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guess what Revelation 21 tells us that he will build a new heaven and a new

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earth for the former one has passed away. So I believe there's prophecy here even

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of the coming judgment. Now verse 14 in Genesis 6 God then gives Noah the

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instructions for the ark. Make yourself an ark of gopher wood. Nobody is sure

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what gopher wood is so we're not gonna deal with that. Make rooms in the ark

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and cover it with pitch inside and outside. This is how you're to make it.

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The ark will be 450 feet long 75 feet wide and 45 feet high. You were to make

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a roof finishing the sides of the ark to within 18 inches of the roof. You were to

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put a door in the side of the ark and make it with a lower middle and upper

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decks. So God is now giving Noah the commands. Noah you believe me that a

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judgment is coming. You believe my words you believe that I'm God so I've imputed

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to you my righteousness. You're preaching that righteousness to the world but I

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also want you to build a boat. And so Noah gets these instructions and I

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believe this particular ark was like nothing ever seen before. Like I believe

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that that pre-fled the people were probably smarter and had better

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understanding of technology stuff than we have today. I really believe that not

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that they had cars and you know cell phones and tick-tock and internet and

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all that but you know when we look at things like the pyramids and even today

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engineers cannot figure out how the pyramids were built how they are still

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standing but the Egyptians did it without electricity. So anyways that's a

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whole nother Bible study. But he gets these instructions this massive

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undertaking to build this thing called the ark. Now the word ark means a chest

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or a box or interestingly enough a coffin a casket right. But as Bible

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believers we look at this and we understand that it is both a real vessel

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but it is also an allegory of death right. It's the death through judgment

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we're gonna get to that in a little bit but but he gives Noah these these very

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specific dimensions. Now I believe there were sure more instructions for Noah as

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he was building this boat but what we have here is a summary of what God gave

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him and what we have recorded here is specific dimensions that God gave him

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about these boat about this boat. Now these dimensions if we you know making

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something that big today it's huge it's a giant boat. Now we have to understand

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that the original measurements are in cubits right they weren't in feet and

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we're not sure how long a cubit was right. It's either 18 inches or 21 inches

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or somewhere in between. The reason I point that out is because here in the

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CSB it uses the 18 inch cubit and that's when it says the ark was 450 feet long

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by 75 by 45 feet high but in other translations you might see a different

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measurement because they're using the 21 inch cubit you know to do that so just

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want you to see that so if somebody goes ah see look the translations are false

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yeah but somebody did build a boat in our modern day following the

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instructions we have in Genesis obviously making some some design

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decisions because we don't have the details of those things but there's a

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thing in Kentucky called the Ark encounter. Some of you have heard of it

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they built a full-size ark there as an exhibit that you could walk through and

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stuff and they have this thing called the Creation Museum there and I'm

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thinking about like doing a church trip next year to go see this thing so we'll

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have more information that as we go but that's what they built. That is a life

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size ark that they put together based upon the instructions in the word here

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and their ark happens to be based on the 21 inch cubit so it's 510 feet by 85 feet

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by 51 feet high. What it is is one and a half times the length of a football

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field. It's half the width of a football field and up to seven stories high. To

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give you guys a reference it's from here to the sheriff's station. It's from the

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middle of this room all the way out to the boulevard and up to seven stories

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high. It was huge you see the tiny people in that picture? They're standing right

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next to it. It's just an amazing thing. Now the second pig we have here is just

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a side view of it and again you see tiny people like that's not photoshopped

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that's real. It's a gigantic vessel and so again why was God so specific to Noah?

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Why was he so explicit in his instructions? Because like I said it's

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it's I think it's safe to assume that there was more instructions that God

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gave Noah as he was doing this but it's possible that Noah had never

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built a boat before. It's possible that Noah even though I believe there

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was some advanced technology in the in the minds of people then that maybe Noah

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himself didn't understand water displacement and buoyancy and all the

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things that makes a boat float and then God was saying hey this is gonna be a

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cataclysmic flood so it's gonna have to be a certain kind of boat. Well guess

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what God invented physics so he understands water displacement and gave

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Noah the exact instructions for this boat so that it would do

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exactly what it was supposed to do. Now Genesis chapter 6 verse 17. Understand

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God says I am bringing a flood. Flood waters on the earth to destroy every

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creature under heaven with the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will

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perish but I will establish my covenant with you speaking to Noah and you will

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enter the ark with your sons your wife and your sons wives. You are also to

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bring into the ark two of all the living creatures male and female to keep them

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alive with you. Two of everything from the birds according to their kinds from

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the livestock according to their kinds or from the animals that crawl on the

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ground according to their kinds. They'll come to you so that you can keep them

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alive. Take with you every kind of food that is eaten gather it as food for you

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and for them. So God reiterates his promise of judgment here to Noah the

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floods gonna happen but he does this really interesting thing he establishes

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his covenant with Noah. Like he didn't just tell Noah hey the floods coming

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build a boat you'll be safe but it says he makes this covenant with him and

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covenant is a very important concept throughout Scripture. When you're studying

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the Scripture there's this thing called the rule of first mention. When you

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read something or a word in Scripture and you're like oh covenant what does

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that mean? Well it's good to go back to the very first time it's mentioned in

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Scripture and study the context that it's in as you start to look at that to

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find out what what is meant by that word covenant. Now the word covenant

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incidentally can also being testament. So guess what we have in our Holy Bible

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the old covenant and the new covenant. Now covenant you know in a very

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simplistic way means agreement and really a covenant with God is a

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foundation from which God can interact with mankind right it's an agreement

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between God and mankind. But in in the ancient world there was two major types

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of covenants one was called a parody covenant one was called a suzerain

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covenant I have no idea why it's called that but the parody covenant was

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basically two equals making an agreement. We covenant with each other based upon

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the terms of this thing. We might call it a contract today right but it was two

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equals like two kings or as we see in the Old Testament Abraham makes a

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covenant with Abimelech the king of Egypt. Abraham's a leader of his people

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Abimelech is a leader of the Egyptians and right so that's a parody covenant

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but a suzerain a covenant is an agreement between a superior and an

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inferior right. Like a like a king making an agreement with a with a conquered

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country a vassal state. Now and underneath those there's all kinds of

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different covenants but we don't have time to get into all that. The idea is

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that that a covenant that God makes with man is obviously a suzerain covenant

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it's a superior making the covenant with an inferior. And as you study through

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scripture you're gonna see a lot of covenants right. We had the covenant with

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Adam where God made this agreement with Adam of what's gonna happen and here we

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have the Noahic covenant and there's the Abrahamic covenant and the Davidic

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covenant and on and on and on. But all of those covenants lead up to the new

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covenant. The new covenant that Jesus established with his people with us his

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people and what's interesting about the new covenant is it's an unconditional

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covenant. There's no terms of agreement on our side you do these things then I

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will do these things. The new covenant is God saying I'm gonna do this

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accept it. And the thing he said he was gonna do is to die in our place to pay

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the price for all of our sin. And he said all you need to do is have faith that

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that applies to you. Now we're gonna deal with those as we get to them through

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Genesis in a deeper look but back to the ark in that book called the Genesis

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flood that I've referenced a couple times already written by Henry Morris

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and John Whitcomb. They you know kind of took all this stuff in the Old Testament

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and then did sciencey stuff with it to figure out what it would look like in in

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our frame of reference. And so the inside of the ark they estimate was a hundred

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thousand square feet of deck space. Those three levels that are inside the ark it

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was huge. If you think of a normal train car 522 of those is how much floor space

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was inside this ark. The point of that is when people go how'd they fit two of

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every animal in the ark that's impossible. A hundred thousand square

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feet of floor space could easily accommodate a hundred and twenty five

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thousand animals the size of a sheep. Now of course we got bigger animals like

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elephants and we got smaller animals like dogs right. So the idea is that as

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far as the space is concerned mathematically yeah you could fit a ton

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of animals in there. And then again it says that they go in there the two male

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and female of each one according to their kinds. We dealt with that in

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creation right. God didn't have to create Labrador and Poodle all he had to do is

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create dog and within dog is all the other dogs right. Dog is a kind. You guys

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understand that right. Cat this animal that animal. So you didn't have to take

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every kind of dog he just had to take dog a male and a female so that the

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species would live on. And he did that with the birds and the livestock and the

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animals that crawl on the ground right. That includes like the rat that one is

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like God what's up with that you know. He could have left that one behind but

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verse 20 he says two of all animals male and female. Another thing I want you all

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to notice here is that none of the animals were non-binary okay. The

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survival of the species required a male and a female. The two and only sexes

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that exist because that's how the species would propagate. No males cannot

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get pregnant and people are confused about that today and that's like so silly

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but that's again another Bible study as well. So but verse 20 look what it says

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there he says the two of animals are gonna come male female according to

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their kinds and then he says they will come to you so that you can keep them

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alive right. How did how did Noah get all these animals? Well they came to him and

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people go well that's just dumb that's hard to believe you know how could that

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possibly happen. Does anybody question the reality of

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birds that live in one part of the world and then at a certain time of the year

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they fly thousands of miles to another place. Does anybody go that's not real?

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No we see that and we go oh that's called a migratory instinct right. God

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built that in them. So why is it so hard to believe that that God just like

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booped GPS coordinates into all the animals and they gave them an instinct to

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go. Not impossible to believe especially because we know there's there's you know

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it already exists and so that's what happened I believe. I don't know if it's

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GPS coordinates but that's just the modern vernacular and then verse 22 we

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close the chapter with this and Noah did this he did everything that God had

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commanded him. That phrase is going to be repeated three times all the way through

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chapter 7 verse 10 and is one of the foundation elements of why God saved

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Noah. You see belief begets action. Back to Hebrews chapter 11 verse 7 it said by

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faith Noah after he was warned about what was not yet seen and motivated by

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godly fear built an ark. By faith motivated by godly fear Noah built an

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ark. Godly fear there means respect reverence. It's like the king has spoken

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there is no question of what he has spoken and he has the power to enact

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what he spoke but he believed God. Noah said look he's God and he said which I

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personally believe the interpretation that 120 years from now there's gonna

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be a flood that's gonna wipe out the whole earth and because I believe what

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God said and I believe God was gonna do what he said he was going to do well

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then I'm gonna do what God tells me to do to be spared that judgment. Belief

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begets action or to put it another way faith begets obedience right? Why do we

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or most of us perhaps stop at red lights?

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Because we have faith that if we get caught running it we will get a ticket

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right? Do you ever pull up to a red light and you go you know I don't know if

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that's true right? Faith begets action and Noah's

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faith was demonstrated by his building the ark. This is what the book of James

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talks about. If you truly believe it's gonna be evidenced in a changed life in

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a changed way of living and so Noah's faith was demonstrated by his building

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the ark and you know when you think of the world he lived in and stuff imagine

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Noah going out every day day after day hammering one more nail you saw the

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picture of how big that boat was Noah Noah built it. I imagine his sons

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probably helped with him but but I don't think many more people helped with him

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because every thought of every person was only evil all the time and it's

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possible that Noah was building this boat for up to 120 years right? People

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argue that point but I think it's irrelevant but the point is is for some

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long amount of time Noah was building this boat and and I imagine the questions

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that came to him from those around him. Hey Noah what are you doing? What are you

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building? Oh I'm building a boat. Yeah we could see that. Why? Why is it so big? You

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don't need a boat that big for your family. Oh it's because God told me that

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he's gonna judge this wicked evil world. A flood is coming to wipe out the whole

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thing and and God said this is how you're saved and so I'm gonna do it

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exactly according to his specifications and he said that all the animals are

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gonna come to me. Imagine people laughing they're like oh God speaks to you now

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huh? You know what are you smoking Noah? And they probably were like can I have

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some right? I remember Pastor Gary years ago I I hope and I'm getting the details

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of the story right. He was going through an application process I believe is to

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be a clergy member in the prison to have access to it and or some something of

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that nature and then one of the questions in the the application right

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00:43:42,600 --> 00:43:48,680
he's he's a religious leader applying to go in as a religious leader and one of

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the questions on the application was do you believe God speaks to you and he

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checked yes and they called him in for a psychological evaluation and he's like

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are you kidding me? I'm a pastor I'm a I'm a I'm a Christian

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minister and you're whoa God talks to you you weirdo you know he got in that

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was good but but the idea here is is God's promises are supposed to be the

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sustenance of his people right? They're supposed to be what we live on they're

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supposed to be we we breathe his promises they are a very life right? It

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says elsewhere in the Bible that man shall not live by bread alone but by

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every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. It's God's word that nourishes

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that makes us healthy and yeah God's word does say eat or you'll die right? In

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other words but so but it also says judgment's coming it also says the only

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way to salvation is what? Faith in Jesus Christ and and and we live on that we

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trust that we we believe what God says and then God imputes righteousness to us

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which still feels uncomfortable for me because I'm like I know me but God says

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I see perfection and I'm just like Lord help me to live worthy of that and that

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is then the living we endeavor to be obedient we endeavor to do what God

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calls us to do and when it says there that Noah did everything that God

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commanded him that's what we're seeing God I believe in you so everything after

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that I believe your word I believe what you said therefore I believe what I have

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to do in response to it now those who aren't sustained by the word of God God's

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words go unheeded they scoff they mock they ignore and that's exactly what

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happened in these times because second Peter told us that Noah preached

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righteousness and I believe he preached it year after year as he was building

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the ark but then when we get to the end of the story we find that the only

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people that went into the ark was Noah and his family that means everybody else

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that existed on the planet everybody that heard Noah's preaching of

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righteousness none of them repented because I believe that there was one

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person out there that turned from their evil and went oh my gosh Noah you're

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right God wouldn't like God would have been like boom bunk for him to give them

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a space but nobody but Noah and his family

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chapter 7 verse 1 says then the Lord said to Noah enter the ark you and all

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of your household for I've seen that you alone are righteous before me in this

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generation you are to take with you seven pairs a male and his female of all

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the clean animals and two of the animals that are not clean a male and its female

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and seven pairs male and female the birds of the sky in order to keep

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offspring alive throughout the earth seven days from now I will make it rain

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on the earth for 40 days and 40 nights and every living thing that I have made

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I will wipe off the face of the earth and here it is again Noah did everything

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that the Lord commanded him Noah was 600 years old when the flood came and the

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waters covered the earth so Noah his sons his wife's and his son's wives

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entered the ark because of the flood waters from the animals that are clean

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and from the animals that are not clean and from the birds and every creature

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that crawls on the ground two of each male and female came to Noah and entered

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the ark just as God had commanded him seven days later the flood waters came

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upon the earth so the time comes for the judgment to be enacted and God gives Noah

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final notice hey it's seven days look the boats done you know good job

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judgments coming not that Noah needed to be reminded but maybe in our weak flesh

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sometimes we're like we doubt for a second right is the end really coming

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God it's been so long you know I don't know that that's what happened with Noah

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but I know that happens with me a lot and so God has to remind me again and so

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he reminds Noah and then there's some final last-minute preparations that are

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made but you read this and you're like what's up with the seven pairs of

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animals like I thought he just said two of everything right again oh my gosh

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another contradiction let's go home no right we know later on in the story

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when the floods done that Noah's does animal some animal sacrifices to the

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Lord which was already something that was in the thing this was long before the

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law the law didn't exist the temple didn't exist Moses hadn't been born yet

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but there were sacrifices made to God to honor him right and so God knew that

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that's what was gonna happen when they get off the ark maybe he had told Noah

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to do that it doesn't record that for us but he's simply saying Noah you need to

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take these animals extra of these animals for a purpose now the law of

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Moses as I said didn't exist yet so how did Noah know that it doesn't tell us so

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we don't know it's already been established in scripture that God spoke

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to his people in this time and so we're not told how we're not told why Noah

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specifically knew what the definition of clean and unclean was except what God

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told him but we do know that God said take extras of these in order to keep

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the offspring alive that of these animals that would be sacrificed to God

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in honor of God after the event of this flood and everything he goes look take

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extra of those ones so you don't sacrifice them all and then there's no

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more in the species can't propagate pretty simple right but it's not a

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contradiction with earlier there indeed was two of everything and just extra of

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some right so but the point I want to close on here is those two additional

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references to Noah doing everything that God had commanded him see in verse 5 in

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verse 9 of chapter 7 it tells us that again and what we see is that that that

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righteousness that was imputed to Noah because of his faith in God because he

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believed God and he believed God's word is evidenced by him doing what God

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wanted him to do here's the simple lesson when we follow God's instructions

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we are saved that's it out of this demonized world this corrupt violent

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wicked culture an amazing man had risen with an amazing message now today we have

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those same simple instructions right this side of the cross the Bible tells

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us very very simply listen to Jesus do what he says that's Christianity in a

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nutshell guys it's not that hard but I know it's almost impossible right it's

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such a struggle I'm with you but listen to Jesus do what he says now we had this

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man Noah who was likely ridiculed for his faith mocked threatened none of that

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deterred him none of that swayed him why I believe that because in his mind in his

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heart God was greater to him than any threat any violence any mockery God was

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greater to him than all of that God's promises were more sure to him than any

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threat and I think threats of death even came because it told us his culture was

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was very aggressively physically violent so Noah went on built it and in Noah we

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see what it means to be righteous we also see why God saved Noah the

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righteous person is the person who rests everything on the bare word of God that

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just says if God said it I believe it and that settles it they trust it they

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depend on it they live by it they believe what it says when it says

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whoever believes in Christ whosoever would believe in him they would not

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perish but have eternal life eternal life and then they go on to live

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according to what God teaches them to do that's faith and that's faith

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evidenced the reason I think this is important for us is because it's not

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just about salvation you see so many Christians and I myself lately have

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been have been wrestling through these things where I've been walking with the

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Lord for 25 years now something like that and I've been blessed to be

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serving the Lord for most of that probably 20 years of that and in

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teaching his word and just recently God was like hey my relationship with you is

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not transactional because I was having situations where I'm like this event

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this thing in my life is not happening and I start going oh is it because I

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got sin is it because like is God punishing me is God not blessing me

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because and God spoke to me and he goes my relationship with you isn't

627
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transactional you're saved you put your faith in me you believe the sin you now

628
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commit you stumbled but you're my child forever you're saved forever you're in

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my family forever nothing will ever change that now is there discipline that

630
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comes when I directly disobey God sure is there consequences could come when I

631
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disobey God sure but God is not watching us and going okay you got two points

632
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therefore I'm gonna give you this now God blesses as he chooses to bless and

633
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doesn't bless as he chooses to not bless you're his kid if he wants to bless you

634
00:54:06,760 --> 00:54:11,160
he's gonna bless you but it's not because of the points you earned in the

635
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last week if he blesses you it's because you're his kid and he wants to bless you

636
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now God wants us to live in obedience but we can't go from this okay God you

637
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imputed your righteousness to me through faith I did nothing to earn that we

638
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can't go from that to okay well I did I read my Bible three times this week so

639
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God's gonna bless me three times this week shoot I missed my prayer time this

640
00:54:37,080 --> 00:54:43,080
morning that's why there's so much traffic right it's not that what we

641
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learned from Noah is what type of person God saves what type of person God works

642
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in what it means to be righteous now that faith in his word specifically I

643
00:54:55,120 --> 00:54:58,760
mentioned earlier the the specific dimensions of the ark and you know why

644
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is it so precise I think the lesson there for us throughout time and today

645
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is that because the way of salvation is exactly and only according to how God

646
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says it is without deviation right John 14 6 Jesus said I am the way the truth

647
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in the life no one comes to the Father except through me there is no other way

648
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to be saved than exactly how God said it to be and it's faith in Jesus Christ

649
00:55:24,040 --> 00:55:30,760
God the Son God in the flesh second member of the Trinity that we find

650
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salvation it's not in 90% of what the Bible says but then we sprinkle some

651
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other stuff we want it's not in this faith it's not in that denomination it's

652
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not in it's it's according to his word right God was very specific with Noah

653
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he didn't say hey go build a boat-shaped thing and you know do whatever you want

654
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no it was Noah this is exactly specifically how you're gonna be saved

655
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and follow my instructions to the letter and he did and he was saved now then of

656
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course we see all these parallels between the ark and Jesus you know as the

657
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ark ensured the physical safety of Noah and his family through the flood they

658
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were in the ark when we are in Christ we're carried through faith and ensured

659
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our spiritual survival as we leave this earth as the ark protected Noah and his

660
00:56:28,080 --> 00:56:31,960
family from the watery judgment and the wrath and unrighteousness when we are in

661
00:56:31,960 --> 00:56:35,720
Christ we are protected from the fiery wrath to come and the judgment to come

662
00:56:35,720 --> 00:56:40,440
as the ark had only one door through which Noah and his family could enter

663
00:56:40,440 --> 00:56:47,520
that ark John 10 9 Jesus said I am the gate or the door if anyone enters by me

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he will be saved when we're in Christ we die to ourselves right no in his family

665
00:56:54,880 --> 00:57:02,680
we're in the ark a coffin and there are many others but what type of person does

666
00:57:02,680 --> 00:57:09,080
God save the one who believes not the one who does this or does that just

667
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believes believes in his promises both in his promises of blessing and in

668
00:57:14,480 --> 00:57:18,640
judgment those that take his instruction and regardless what others say regardless

669
00:57:18,640 --> 00:57:22,960
of what the culture says regardless of any of that they set out to live

670
00:57:22,960 --> 00:57:26,360
according to his word they're gonna do business according to his word they're

671
00:57:26,360 --> 00:57:29,760
gonna do family according to his word they're gonna they're gonna everything

672
00:57:29,760 --> 00:57:38,240
is according to his word and they say God I want to do this for you because you

673
00:57:38,240 --> 00:57:43,200
love me so much we can't do it perfectly because of the sin nature we're born

674
00:57:43,200 --> 00:57:49,040
with but God doesn't ask us to do it perfectly he says lean on me and I'll do

675
00:57:49,040 --> 00:57:53,800
it through you trust in my righteousness that was on your life for salvation and

676
00:57:53,800 --> 00:57:56,720
then try and live according to that and you can't live according to that that's

677
00:57:56,720 --> 00:57:59,880
why I'm gonna send the Holy Spirit into your life to empower you to do it and

678
00:57:59,880 --> 00:58:06,920
when we're walking with God as Noah and Enoch did we find ourselves sinning less

679
00:58:06,920 --> 00:58:11,080
we're never gonna be totally free because we have this sin nature that's

680
00:58:11,080 --> 00:58:15,520
with us right that's what Paul was talking about in Romans that's why he

681
00:58:15,520 --> 00:58:21,160
said here's the secret to Christian living on the earth whichever one you

682
00:58:21,160 --> 00:58:27,560
feed your spirit or your flesh that's the one that's gonna dominate so feed

683
00:58:27,560 --> 00:58:38,400
your spirit Wow deep theology right but so often we we we stray into these just

684
00:58:38,400 --> 00:58:47,240
seasons of life where we're living contrary to what we know and just as

685
00:58:47,240 --> 00:58:55,920
fallen sinful corrupted just evil mankind goes on right everybody every

686
00:58:55,920 --> 00:59:01,560
person every every human being has this inherited nature from our forebears we

687
00:59:01,560 --> 00:59:05,920
have to understand that the life we live we have nothing righteous to offer God

688
00:59:05,920 --> 00:59:09,280
there wasn't anything righteous in our salvation there's not gonna be anything

689
00:59:09,280 --> 00:59:12,840
righteous in the rest of your life either it's his righteousness that he

690
00:59:12,840 --> 00:59:20,480
gave to you that we need to understand that we have to trust in the only and

691
00:59:20,480 --> 00:59:27,120
one solution provided by God his sacrifice on our behalf and it's not

692
00:59:27,120 --> 00:59:31,760
again because we're righteous because we're saved because his righteousness is

693
00:59:31,760 --> 00:59:36,680
imputed to us Noah was saved through the ark because he believed in God and

694
00:59:36,680 --> 00:59:41,080
believed in God's Word we are saved through Christ when we believe God and

695
00:59:41,080 --> 00:59:47,520
his word let's pray father we love you so much God we thank you for your word

696
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and we thank you for just everything you give us in your word Lord we read about

697
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this time and this man Noah Lord we see the type of person that is righteous and

698
01:00:09,280 --> 01:00:14,120
ironically it's not a righteous person it's a person who trusts in you believes

699
01:00:14,120 --> 01:00:21,120
you and then you give them righteousness we see that you saved Noah for that same

700
01:00:21,120 --> 01:00:28,040
reason that he believed you he trusted in you he had faith in your word your

701
01:00:28,040 --> 01:00:35,360
declaration and your solution and he did it he did all that you commanded him

702
01:00:35,360 --> 01:00:41,280
Lord you're asking the same thing of your people today that we live according

703
01:00:41,280 --> 01:00:47,400
to your word that that we don't have a reputation in in one place but then an

704
01:00:47,400 --> 01:00:52,560
opposite character in private but God we would be people who who our character

705
01:00:52,560 --> 01:00:59,560
reputation is the same God it's not about us being perfect it's about us

706
01:00:59,560 --> 01:01:06,960
trusting you for everything because you are our hope your word is our sustenance

707
01:01:07,480 --> 01:01:12,280
but while we're praying if there's anybody in here you you've never trusted

708
01:01:12,280 --> 01:01:18,000
God you've never put your faith in him I tell you this with all the sincere

709
01:01:18,000 --> 01:01:22,360
honesty I could possibly say that the time is coming where God is gonna judge

710
01:01:22,360 --> 01:01:28,120
the world he's gonna judge the sin of mankind and if you want to know what

711
01:01:28,120 --> 01:01:32,440
that's like read through the book of Revelation it's gonna be a horrible

712
01:01:32,440 --> 01:01:38,720
terrible time and death will come not just physically but then you'll be

713
01:01:38,720 --> 01:01:47,400
spiritually eternally separated from God in torment that is going to happen but

714
01:01:47,400 --> 01:01:51,080
God has made the way of salvation today for you that if you would trust in Jesus

715
01:01:51,080 --> 01:01:56,200
Christ if you would put your faith in him to say I know Jesus you were on this

716
01:01:56,200 --> 01:02:00,080
earth couple thousand years ago but but you're God I believe it your word says

717
01:02:00,080 --> 01:02:07,000
that I believe it and I trust in it that if you do that you will be saved from

718
01:02:07,000 --> 01:02:15,040
the judgment to come that then you will be empowered through God himself the

719
01:02:15,040 --> 01:02:19,600
Holy Spirit live in within you to to teach you to empower you how to live

720
01:02:19,600 --> 01:02:25,320
differently because he's gonna change you from what you were before that if

721
01:02:25,320 --> 01:02:29,440
you've never experienced that you've never had that and you want to know for

722
01:02:29,440 --> 01:02:33,160
sure that if you walked out of this building today and something tragic

723
01:02:33,160 --> 01:02:36,320
happened in your life was taken you would have the assurance of salvation in

724
01:02:36,320 --> 01:02:41,320
the hope of heaven if you want that today while we're praying with heads

725
01:02:41,320 --> 01:02:44,720
bowed and eyes closed I just want you to raise your hand where you're seated and

726
01:02:44,720 --> 01:02:49,880
say I need to be saved I want to receive God today if you're watching online and

727
01:02:49,880 --> 01:02:53,200
God is speaking to you and you don't know the Lord but you want to receive

728
01:02:53,200 --> 01:02:59,720
him today just let us know in chat just say I want to get saved anybody in this

729
01:02:59,720 --> 01:03:06,400
room God is speaking to you this morning that you've never known him that maybe

730
01:03:06,400 --> 01:03:12,760
you've been living this double life and God is revealing to you today hey I've

731
01:03:12,760 --> 01:03:17,520
never known you and today is the day of your salvation just raise your hand let

732
01:03:17,520 --> 01:03:21,880
me pray with you this morning because this decision is the most important

733
01:03:21,880 --> 01:03:30,200
decision you will ever make in your life all right father God we thank you Lord

734
01:03:30,200 --> 01:03:35,360
and for those that know they need to receive Christ those watching online

735
01:03:35,360 --> 01:03:44,600
just pray this prayer with me say God I believe in you I believe you exist I

736
01:03:44,600 --> 01:03:52,000
believe you are real and therefore I believe your word I believe everything

737
01:03:52,000 --> 01:03:58,520
it says about you and I believe everything it says about me although I

738
01:03:58,520 --> 01:04:09,000
may not understand most of it yet I put my faith in you save my soul God forgive

739
01:04:09,000 --> 01:04:16,360
me of my sin fill me with your spirit that I would live different and be

740
01:04:16,360 --> 01:04:23,120
different teach me how to be an example to those that I know that don't know

741
01:04:23,120 --> 01:04:31,160
you that they would be saved to help me to be a preacher of righteousness to

742
01:04:31,160 --> 01:04:38,160
warn those that are living in darkness until the judgment comes I thank you

743
01:04:38,160 --> 01:04:43,160
Lord for saving my soul I thank you for loving me so much and it's in Jesus name

744
01:04:43,160 --> 01:04:49,480
I pray amen well for the rest of us you know obviously I say this a lot but you

745
01:04:49,480 --> 01:04:55,160
know we're not at the end yet it means we've got a lot of work to do you know

746
01:04:55,160 --> 01:04:58,640
I'm so grateful that in the month of October our evangelism teams are more

747
01:04:58,640 --> 01:05:03,640
busy than it seems they are in the whole year you know one of our staff members

748
01:05:03,640 --> 01:05:08,120
used to always say and she still says it I think like October is the month of the

749
01:05:08,120 --> 01:05:12,760
devil because everything goes wrong right everything breaks everything is

750
01:05:12,760 --> 01:05:18,040
just everything's wrong right and and and I've seen it I'm just like wow like

751
01:05:18,040 --> 01:05:25,200
your life really goes haywire in October but God is greater and that's why we hit

752
01:05:25,200 --> 01:05:27,760
the pavement even harder that's why we do things like the realm of shadow

753
01:05:27,760 --> 01:05:32,760
Halloween maze that we could get the gospel into people's hands but we don't

754
01:05:32,760 --> 01:05:36,040
stop we don't only do it in October we do it all year long we do it in our

755
01:05:36,040 --> 01:05:40,560
homes in our workplaces we do it with our friends tell people about your faith

756
01:05:40,560 --> 01:05:45,480
tell people about why you're saved tell people about the God who looked at you

757
01:05:45,480 --> 01:05:50,280
and all your grossness and said because you believe in me I'm gonna give my

758
01:05:50,280 --> 01:05:55,400
righteousness to you you're coming to heaven one day and tell people about

759
01:05:55,400 --> 01:06:01,120
that because if you believe the judgment is coming truly believe it and you

760
01:06:01,120 --> 01:06:05,920
should because God said it's going to happen then our actions should follow

761
01:06:05,920 --> 01:06:11,400
that faith and as you trust God and step out in faith yeah God's gonna use you in

762
01:06:11,400 --> 01:06:16,240
amazing ways and it's just it's awesome when he does that so trust him have

763
01:06:16,240 --> 01:06:22,120
faith in him and do what he commands you to do that you'd be in that place God

764
01:06:22,120 --> 01:06:26,240
wants you to be at all times and then one day when we're all in heaven together

765
01:06:26,240 --> 01:06:35,460
it's gonna be glorious God is so good God is so worth living for God is so

766
01:06:35,460 --> 01:06:57,040
worth trusting so do it amen all right guys let's worship God as we close