1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,620 Good morning. How are you all doing today? Great. I always like to start our 2 00:00:07,620 --> 00:00:12,180 services by welcoming anybody that is here for the first time in our sanctuary 3 00:00:12,180 --> 00:00:16,320 or if you're joining us first time online, welcome. We're so glad you're here. 4 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:24,340 I am Pastor Nathan and today we are here to participate and celebrate with our 5 00:00:24,340 --> 00:00:29,740 brothers and sisters who are getting baptized. We are so excited for them and 6 00:00:29,740 --> 00:00:34,760 this decision they're making to publicly proclaim what they have already decided 7 00:00:34,760 --> 00:00:38,800 to do in their heart. You see, we understand that baptism is the public 8 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:43,360 profession that you have given your life to Jesus Christ, that you have died to 9 00:00:43,360 --> 00:00:47,800 yourself, that you have been resurrected to new life through the power of Jesus 10 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:51,440 and that's what this represents going into and coming up out of the water. And 11 00:00:51,440 --> 00:00:54,720 so for those of you getting baptized today, we are blessed and honored to be 12 00:00:54,720 --> 00:00:58,840 here to celebrate this with you. But we're also going to continue our study 13 00:00:58,840 --> 00:01:03,640 through the flood story of Genesis and so we'll be getting into that as well. 14 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:10,720 But we know or we should know that God, Almighty God, being outside of time is in 15 00:01:10,720 --> 00:01:17,040 control of and orchestrates everything. Every event, every possibility, every 16 00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:21,440 calendared thing, it's all in His control. You know, some people describe it like a 17 00:01:21,440 --> 00:01:27,640 big tapestry of events that God knows every connection with. And so even though 18 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:31,360 we know God controls everything and we acknowledge that He is aware, there are 19 00:01:31,360 --> 00:01:37,520 special moments that take place that really kind of stand out as especially 20 00:01:37,520 --> 00:01:42,920 God orchestrated or just very unusually obviously God orchestrated. And today is 21 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:47,040 one of those days because we are at the point in our study of Genesis where we're 22 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:50,640 going to be looking at the actual flood itself. That's what we're looking at 23 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:55,040 today. And that happened to fall on the calendar on the same day we're 24 00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:59,360 celebrating baptism. And the reason that is really special to me is because this 25 00:01:59,360 --> 00:02:04,920 is what 1 Peter chapter 3 verses 18 through 22 says, for Christ also 26 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:10,040 suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, that He 27 00:02:10,040 --> 00:02:14,720 might bring you to God. He was put to death in the flesh but made alive by the 28 00:02:14,720 --> 00:02:19,360 Spirit, in which He also went and made proclamation to the spirits in prison 29 00:02:19,360 --> 00:02:23,880 who in the past were disobedient when God patiently waited in the days of Noah 30 00:02:23,880 --> 00:02:28,840 while the ark was being prepared. In it, speaking of the ark, a few, that is eight 31 00:02:28,840 --> 00:02:35,160 people, were saved through water. Baptism which corresponds to this now saves you, 32 00:02:35,160 --> 00:02:40,040 not as the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a good conscience 33 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:44,240 towards God through the resurrection of Jesus Christ who has gone into heaven 34 00:02:44,240 --> 00:02:48,960 and is at the right hand of God with angels, authorities, and powers subject to 35 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:55,200 Him. Baptism corresponds to the waters of the flood. And I just think it's 36 00:02:55,200 --> 00:02:57,960 beautiful that that's where God has us landed today as we're celebrating 37 00:02:57,960 --> 00:03:03,280 baptism. And so the question you might have is, well how does baptism correspond 38 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:06,920 to the flood? Guess what? That's what we're gonna be looking at today. And 39 00:03:06,920 --> 00:03:11,280 we're gonna be looking at what that teaches us about baptism and what it 40 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:14,800 means. We're also gonna be looking at a little bit of some of the evidence and 41 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:21,480 answering the question, did the flood really happen? Is it just a story? Is it 42 00:03:21,480 --> 00:03:26,040 a story that Moses stole from another source to include in the Bible? How do we 43 00:03:26,040 --> 00:03:30,600 know? Is there any evidence in our world today that points to the fact that a 44 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:33,200 flood happened? And then we're also gonna be dealing with some of the stuff where 45 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:37,780 was it a global flood? Was it a local flood? And all that good stuff. But the 46 00:03:37,780 --> 00:03:42,720 overarching importance of it is to understand what the flood teaches us 47 00:03:42,720 --> 00:03:47,640 about baptism, the importance of it, and the just beautiful, beautiful 48 00:03:47,640 --> 00:03:51,480 representation of what baptism is. But first we're gonna celebrate God and 49 00:03:51,480 --> 00:03:57,480 praise him because he is amazing. He is the one who saves our souls. You know 50 00:03:57,480 --> 00:04:01,840 when we put our faith on in him, in his work on the cross, the Bible says that we 51 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:06,080 are a brand new creation. That the judgment that we stood in front of 52 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:10,840 because of our sin has been wiped away, washed away, done away with, that we 53 00:04:10,840 --> 00:04:14,600 would live a new life in the glory of Jesus Christ. And that is absolutely 54 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:20,240 worth celebrating. Amen? Let's pray. Father, we love you so much. We're so 55 00:04:20,240 --> 00:04:26,200 thankful, God, for everything in your Word. Lord, you speak to us in this 56 00:04:26,200 --> 00:04:32,560 Bible we have, God, that you held together just through centuries. Lord, to 57 00:04:32,560 --> 00:04:40,720 give us the message of who you are, what you want, what you want from us, and what 58 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:44,600 you did for us, Lord. God, we're so grateful. Lord, as we've been studying 59 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:48,560 through Genesis, the beginning of all things, God, and we've come to this point 60 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:54,920 of the flood, Lord, where you destroyed the entire world because of sin and 61 00:04:54,920 --> 00:05:00,680 people choosing to live in sin and deny you. God, we still see the hope that you 62 00:05:00,680 --> 00:05:06,040 saved Noah and his family. And Lord, as your Word tells us that baptism 63 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:09,120 corresponds to the waters of the flood, God, I pray today we would be 64 00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:14,680 encouraged, we would be equipped. God, we would have the knowledge necessary, Lord, 65 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:18,040 to have these conversations with people who dispute these things, Lord, to 66 00:05:18,040 --> 00:05:22,360 encourage them and to share with them the truth of what your Word teaches. That, 67 00:05:22,360 --> 00:05:26,440 God, we would be ready to share what baptism is with new believers, God, that 68 00:05:26,440 --> 00:05:31,080 they would then take that step to be baptized publicly. But, God, we would all 69 00:05:31,080 --> 00:05:35,880 be encouraged ourselves in our own relationship with you that, God, because 70 00:05:35,880 --> 00:05:41,000 we are in Christ, we have been saved from judgment. And for that, God, we are 71 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:45,280 eternally grateful. We love you and we thank you. It's in Jesus' name we pray. 72 00:05:45,280 --> 00:05:55,040 Amen. You guys ever heard of typology? Typology is a word that means a special 73 00:05:55,040 --> 00:05:59,800 kind of symbolism. You know, when we hear the word symbolism, most of us would 74 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:04,760 understand that symbolism is something that represents something else, right? 75 00:06:04,760 --> 00:06:12,440 Well, type, a type or typology in the Bible means that something in Scripture, 76 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:17,520 a person or a thing in the Old Testament, is prophetically foreshadowing a person 77 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:20,920 or thing in the New Testament. That's what we mean when you hear the word 78 00:06:20,920 --> 00:06:26,360 typology or biblical typology. You guys might have heard people say something in 79 00:06:26,360 --> 00:06:30,960 a study about the Old Testament like, oh, that's a type of Christ. And when you 80 00:06:30,960 --> 00:06:35,200 hear that phrase, what the teacher means there is that there is something in the 81 00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:40,720 Old Testament that is prophetically foreshadowing something about Jesus. It's 82 00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:46,680 a type of Christ. Now, sometimes in Scripture we'll see these types stick 83 00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:52,840 out very obviously as like for like. For example, in Matthew chapter 12 verse 40, 84 00:06:52,840 --> 00:06:57,440 it says, for as Jonah was in the belly of the huge fish three days and three nights, 85 00:06:57,440 --> 00:07:01,640 so the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights. 86 00:07:01,640 --> 00:07:05,880 So what we would say there is that Jonah being in the belly of the fish was a type 87 00:07:05,880 --> 00:07:11,640 of Christ being in the grave, right? Sometimes these types are like opposite. 88 00:07:11,640 --> 00:07:19,960 For example, 1 Corinthians 15 22, for just as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all 89 00:07:19,960 --> 00:07:24,760 will be made alive. So there's an opposite, death and life. And then 1 Corinthians 90 00:07:24,760 --> 00:07:30,600 15 45 goes on to say, so it is written, the first man Adam became a living being, 91 00:07:30,600 --> 00:07:37,000 the last Adam, speaking of Jesus, became a life-giving spirit. You know, Scripture 92 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:44,560 identifies multiple Old Testament events, places, things as types in the New 93 00:07:44,560 --> 00:07:49,160 Testament. But when we refer to something as a type in the Old Testament, 94 00:07:49,160 --> 00:07:53,280 that doesn't automatically mean that it wasn't a real historical event or a real 95 00:07:53,280 --> 00:07:58,000 historical person or anything like that. It doesn't automatically mean it's just 96 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:01,600 purely allegorical to something real in the New Testament. And so in the Old 97 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:06,560 Testament we have the tabernacle is called a type, right? Revelation tells us 98 00:08:06,560 --> 00:08:10,520 that it was a picture. The tabernacle was a picture of the throne room of God. 99 00:08:10,520 --> 00:08:14,800 The sacrificial system in the Old Testament was a type. It was meant to be 100 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:19,240 teaching about the necessity of blood being shed for sin and how that sacrifice 101 00:08:19,240 --> 00:08:25,000 would then be on behalf of someone else. The Passover is a type where the New 102 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:29,920 Testament literally tells us that Jesus Christ is our Passover. But we know that 103 00:08:29,920 --> 00:08:33,640 the sacrificial system, the tabernacle and Passover are real things that 104 00:08:33,640 --> 00:08:37,560 happened in the Old Testament and some of those still happen today. Now if you're 105 00:08:37,560 --> 00:08:40,760 interested in really digging into this stuff, study the book of Hebrews because 106 00:08:40,760 --> 00:08:47,280 that book is just full of types all over the place. But this idea of types includes 107 00:08:47,280 --> 00:08:52,840 the flood of Noah. The flood of Noah is a type and as we read in the intro, Peter 108 00:08:52,840 --> 00:08:58,720 was inspired by the Holy Spirit to write, baptism corresponds to this, meaning the 109 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:02,360 waters of the flood. And so that's what we're going to be talking about today. 110 00:09:02,360 --> 00:09:06,840 If you have your Bible or your apps open, go to Genesis chapter 7 verse 11. And I'm 111 00:09:06,840 --> 00:09:09,840 going to read the entire story here and then we're going to kind of bounce through 112 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:14,640 it today to see what the Bible teaches us in the flood and what it teaches us 113 00:09:14,640 --> 00:09:20,200 about the type of baptism that it is for us today. So it says, in the 600th year of 114 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:25,960 Noah's life, in the second month, on the 17th day of the month, on that day, all 115 00:09:25,960 --> 00:09:30,520 the sources of the vast watery depths burst open. The floodgates of the sky were 116 00:09:30,520 --> 00:09:35,640 opened and the rain fell on the earth 40 days and 40 nights. On the same day, Noah 117 00:09:35,640 --> 00:09:39,920 along with his sons Shem, Ham and Japheth entered the ark along with Noah's wife 118 00:09:39,920 --> 00:09:43,760 and his three sons' wives. They entered it with all the wildlife according to 119 00:09:43,760 --> 00:09:47,800 their kinds, all livestock according to their kinds, all the creatures that crawl 120 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:52,200 on the earth according to their kinds, every flying creature, all the birds and 121 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:57,560 every winged creature according to their kinds. Two of every creature that has the 122 00:09:57,560 --> 00:10:01,320 breath of life in it came to Noah and entered the ark. Those that entered, male 123 00:10:01,320 --> 00:10:05,640 and female, of every creature entered just as God had commanded him. Then the 124 00:10:05,640 --> 00:10:11,040 Lord shut him in. The flood continued for 40 days on the earth. The water 125 00:10:11,040 --> 00:10:15,640 increased and lifted up the ark so that it rose above the earth. The water 126 00:10:15,640 --> 00:10:19,280 surged and increased greatly on the earth and the ark floated on the surface 127 00:10:19,280 --> 00:10:23,440 of the water. Then the water surged even higher on the earth and all the mountains 128 00:10:23,440 --> 00:10:27,240 under the whole sky were covered. The mountains were covered as the water 129 00:10:27,240 --> 00:10:33,000 surged above them more than 20 feet. Every creature perished. Those that crawl 130 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:38,560 on the earth, birds, livestock, wildlife and those that swarm on the earth as 131 00:10:38,560 --> 00:10:42,920 well as mankind. Everything with the breath of the spirit of life in its 132 00:10:42,920 --> 00:10:47,800 nostrils, everything on dry land died. He wiped out every living thing that was on 133 00:10:47,800 --> 00:10:51,360 the face of the earth from mankind to livestock to creatures that crawl to the 134 00:10:51,360 --> 00:10:57,360 birds of the sky and they were wiped off the earth. Only Noah was left and those 135 00:10:57,360 --> 00:11:02,880 that were with him in the ark and the water surged on the earth for 150 days. 136 00:11:02,880 --> 00:11:08,360 Now you'll notice through those scriptures that there is repetition. God 137 00:11:08,360 --> 00:11:12,280 seems to repeat over and over so that we don't miss the point that it was all 138 00:11:12,280 --> 00:11:17,360 creatures that crawl, all livestock, all birds, and he says it numerous times. 139 00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:24,760 These came to Noah in two by two and then these died and he repeats it again. 140 00:11:24,760 --> 00:11:30,640 They died and he repeats it again. They died so that we don't miss the point 141 00:11:30,640 --> 00:11:37,160 that the entire earth was wiped out, that all life on dry land was wiped out. Now 142 00:11:37,160 --> 00:11:41,960 some might go, well what about the fish? Well the fish didn't come into the ark. 143 00:11:41,960 --> 00:11:46,520 God didn't say build an aquarium in there to take two of every fish. So yeah 144 00:11:46,520 --> 00:11:51,600 it's fish probably survived. Many of them I believe died but we have fish life 145 00:11:51,600 --> 00:11:54,560 today and so there were some that lived because guess what? They don't breathe 146 00:11:54,560 --> 00:11:59,280 air. They breathe water and so that's why it tells us that. But we see these 147 00:11:59,280 --> 00:12:02,480 things and we see these details and I believe those details are there because 148 00:12:02,480 --> 00:12:08,120 in literary terms when you have detail like this it's usually representative 149 00:12:08,120 --> 00:12:13,160 of historical accuracy. It's representative of I'm telling you about 150 00:12:13,160 --> 00:12:17,800 a historical event that really happened. Right? He opens up with this idea that on 151 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:25,120 the 600th year in the second month on the 17th day of the month. Now of course 152 00:12:25,120 --> 00:12:29,880 over the years calendars have changed but when Moses wrote this you could 153 00:12:29,880 --> 00:12:33,680 quite literally count back to the day the flood happened. And some people have 154 00:12:33,680 --> 00:12:38,000 done mathematics today to go what day did that happen based upon you know the 155 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:41,360 Jewish calendar and all that and of course there's a lot of speculation 156 00:12:41,360 --> 00:12:46,640 there but it's awfully specific to be just an allegory. It's awfully specific 157 00:12:46,640 --> 00:12:51,280 and it doesn't say that anything was like anything else. It just tells us very 158 00:12:51,280 --> 00:12:54,640 directly that the flood happened and that is the big question a lot of people 159 00:12:54,640 --> 00:12:57,880 have in the world. Did the flood really happen? Right? When we're reading 160 00:12:57,880 --> 00:13:02,680 scripture sometimes we read these really fantastic stories and there is 161 00:13:02,680 --> 00:13:05,800 a thought that can run through our minds. Did it really happen? Did it really 162 00:13:05,800 --> 00:13:10,360 happen like that? And to answer those types of questions we have to start as 163 00:13:10,360 --> 00:13:16,720 believers with how we understand scripture. What I mean by that is how do 164 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:22,360 we approach scripture? When we read it what should be our methodology in 165 00:13:22,360 --> 00:13:27,600 discovering what it means? Well I believe that this is the best way to read 166 00:13:27,600 --> 00:13:32,400 scripture is that we should read it from a literal grammatical and historical 167 00:13:32,400 --> 00:13:37,000 context. What that means is when you read scripture anything from Genesis to 168 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:42,080 Revelation you start with the assumption that what you're reading is literal. You 169 00:13:42,080 --> 00:13:47,280 start with that. You approach the word straightforward just just reading it 170 00:13:47,280 --> 00:13:51,760 with the plain common understanding of what is there. The idea is that it means 171 00:13:51,760 --> 00:13:58,480 what it says. That's the best way to start with scripture. Now you do this in 172 00:13:58,480 --> 00:14:02,560 every instance everything you read in scripture unless there is a very clear 173 00:14:02,560 --> 00:14:06,760 representation that it should be taken figuratively and those are usually very 174 00:14:06,760 --> 00:14:11,280 clear in scripture. Sometimes in scripture you will see the words for and 175 00:14:11,280 --> 00:14:18,680 so right? For as Jonah was in the belly of the whale three days so Jesus will be 176 00:14:18,680 --> 00:14:23,560 da-da-da-da. That tells you that this event is being used allegorically of 177 00:14:23,560 --> 00:14:28,000 this event. Now it doesn't inherently say this didn't happen but you'll also see 178 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:32,280 the word like. We saw that a lot in the book of Revelation right? John is seeing 179 00:14:32,280 --> 00:14:35,840 something that he can't really describe and he goes so it's it's it's like a 180 00:14:35,840 --> 00:14:41,280 armored grasshopper with you know and he's just trying to describe it and 181 00:14:41,280 --> 00:14:44,240 you'll see that it's like something else. Obviously that tells us that something 182 00:14:44,240 --> 00:14:49,440 is allegorical but otherwise you read scripture literally. You just read it for 183 00:14:49,440 --> 00:14:53,680 what it says and start with it means what it says. Then when you read scripture 184 00:14:53,680 --> 00:14:57,000 you also look at things from a grammatical point of view. What I mean by 185 00:14:57,000 --> 00:15:00,680 that is that when you're reading scripture you start with the assumption 186 00:15:00,680 --> 00:15:03,520 that grammar functions in a sentence like it does in every other piece of 187 00:15:03,520 --> 00:15:09,560 communication right? The the the nouns correspond to the verbs and the subjects 188 00:15:09,560 --> 00:15:15,120 correspond to the you know it just it reads like it reads. Sometimes people want 189 00:15:15,120 --> 00:15:19,880 to over spiritualize things and and and and go well it must mean this you know 190 00:15:19,880 --> 00:15:23,280 like if you read that sentence in normal English in another book you wouldn't be 191 00:15:23,280 --> 00:15:27,080 coming up with these weird conclusions right? So there's a grammatical point of 192 00:15:27,080 --> 00:15:32,320 view and then we read it historically meaning that what we're reading is not a 193 00:15:32,320 --> 00:15:37,680 myth it's not a legend it's not a fanciful tale that we start with its 194 00:15:37,680 --> 00:15:42,960 historical fact unless it's very clearly otherwise noted in scripture right? And 195 00:15:42,960 --> 00:15:49,280 so when you ask the question did the flood really happen it's all gonna be 196 00:15:49,280 --> 00:15:54,240 on how we read the scripture here and how we understand it. Now some people 197 00:15:54,240 --> 00:15:58,680 will read this story and they go there's no way that the flood could have happened 198 00:15:58,680 --> 00:16:04,600 there's there's no way it means exactly what it says and they'll say things like 199 00:16:04,600 --> 00:16:10,360 oh the flood was just stolen from the Epic of Gilgamesh and that's a ancient 200 00:16:10,360 --> 00:16:14,840 document that we do have we have discovered and guess what in the Epic of 201 00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:20,680 Gilgamesh there is a very similar flood story to what we have in the Bible. Now 202 00:16:20,680 --> 00:16:25,120 they'll go well since they're similar the Bible must have stole theirs from 203 00:16:25,120 --> 00:16:30,240 that source and I'm like well if the Bible stole theirs from that source did 204 00:16:30,240 --> 00:16:34,160 all of the other 280 peoples and tribes and they have their own flood stories 205 00:16:34,160 --> 00:16:39,320 they also steal it from the Epic of Gilgamesh but nobody gets into that type 206 00:16:39,320 --> 00:16:44,840 of stuff they only attack the Bible with that. Now I disagree with that for a lot 207 00:16:44,840 --> 00:16:48,000 of reasons and we're gonna walk through some of those today but one of the other 208 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:53,320 big objections to this flood story is that we understand that is a global 209 00:16:53,320 --> 00:16:56,760 flood that the whole planet was flooded but people dispute that they're like 210 00:16:56,760 --> 00:17:00,480 that's not possible there's no way it could be a global flood it was just a 211 00:17:00,480 --> 00:17:06,560 local flood like it was just written from Noah's point of view of the 212 00:17:06,560 --> 00:17:11,440 time right when Noah said the whole world well that's just what he knew and 213 00:17:11,440 --> 00:17:14,880 so they go it's just the Mesopotamian Valley but it didn't affect anything 214 00:17:14,880 --> 00:17:19,400 else and again I disagree with some of those points that I'll point out now the 215 00:17:19,400 --> 00:17:22,400 main reason I disagree with those is when we read this literally 216 00:17:22,400 --> 00:17:28,080 grammatically and historically it uses extensive universal language over and 217 00:17:28,080 --> 00:17:33,640 over again for example back in Genesis chapter 6 verse 17 when God was telling 218 00:17:33,640 --> 00:17:37,240 Noah what he was gonna do he goes understand that I am bringing a flood 219 00:17:37,240 --> 00:17:42,760 flood waters on the earth to destroy every creature under heaven with the 220 00:17:42,760 --> 00:17:46,480 breath of life in it now that phrase with the breath of life in it means 221 00:17:46,480 --> 00:17:50,080 creatures that breathe air right and we read that later that he talks about the 222 00:17:50,080 --> 00:17:54,360 creatures on dry land so he goes every creature under heaven the breath of life 223 00:17:54,360 --> 00:18:00,680 in it everything on earth will perish now you might go well what about the 224 00:18:00,680 --> 00:18:05,840 fish they're on earth too right well the word that's translated earth there is 225 00:18:05,840 --> 00:18:12,080 meaning ground or the dry land and then we read that later in Genesis 7 verses 226 00:18:12,080 --> 00:18:17,480 21 through 23 every creature perished those that crawl on the earth birds 227 00:18:17,480 --> 00:18:22,120 livestock wildlife and those that swarm on the earth as well as all of mankind 228 00:18:22,120 --> 00:18:26,240 everything with the breath of the spirit of life in its nostrils everything on 229 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:31,360 dry land died he wiped out every living thing that was on the face of the earth 230 00:18:31,360 --> 00:18:35,880 from mankind to livestock to creatures that crawl to the birds of the sky and 231 00:18:35,880 --> 00:18:40,920 they were wiped off the earth only Noah was left and those that were with him in 232 00:18:40,920 --> 00:18:45,920 the ark now when you just read that plainly and you read a sentence like 233 00:18:45,920 --> 00:18:51,040 only Noah was left and those with him in the ark grammatically you would go that 234 00:18:51,040 --> 00:18:56,480 means only Noah was left and those that were with him in the heart right you 235 00:18:56,480 --> 00:19:00,520 just read it that way and it tells tells us over and over it uses this universal 236 00:19:00,520 --> 00:19:05,520 language every creature right it uses this phrase every living thing on the 237 00:19:05,520 --> 00:19:10,200 face of the earth and face of the earth is another way to say on the dry land so 238 00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:14,120 it uses this language over and over now as a Christian when you read this and 239 00:19:14,120 --> 00:19:17,040 you're going okay I'm gonna read it literally grammatically and historically 240 00:19:17,040 --> 00:19:25,120 you have to say this either happened universally or God is lying because we 241 00:19:25,120 --> 00:19:31,520 believe this is his word and so let's look at the story again verse 11 it 242 00:19:31,520 --> 00:19:35,480 opened up there to give us a very specific time frame in the 600th year of 243 00:19:35,480 --> 00:19:40,640 Noah's life in the second month on the 17th day of the month on that day all 244 00:19:40,640 --> 00:19:46,120 the sources of the vast watery depths burst open the floodgates of the sky 245 00:19:46,120 --> 00:19:51,360 were opened and the rain fell on the earth 40 days and 40 nights and then at 246 00:19:51,360 --> 00:19:54,760 the end of this section of verse 24 it tells us that the water surged on the 247 00:19:54,760 --> 00:20:01,320 earth for 150 days so there was water that came from two places it rained for 248 00:20:01,320 --> 00:20:04,720 40 days and 40 nights the water was surging we're gonna talk about that 249 00:20:04,720 --> 00:20:08,760 later on the earth for 150 days and then as a story goes on we know that the 250 00:20:08,760 --> 00:20:13,240 floodwaters receded and Noah ended up back on the dry land at the top of Mount 251 00:20:13,240 --> 00:20:17,920 Ararat now when we read these things and we take it literally we take it 252 00:20:17,920 --> 00:20:21,720 grammatically we take it historically we go okay it tells us here that all the 253 00:20:21,720 --> 00:20:25,440 sources of the vast watery depths burst open and the floodgates of the sky 254 00:20:25,440 --> 00:20:31,560 opened so that means water came from two places the sky and the ground now the 255 00:20:31,560 --> 00:20:36,320 reason I'm pointing that up is because some people will argue things like well 256 00:20:36,320 --> 00:20:40,720 it couldn't have been the sky because the sky cannot produce that much water 257 00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:47,120 to flood the entire planet 20 feet above the tallest mountain and they'll have 258 00:20:47,120 --> 00:20:51,640 different theories that that go to to stand against that one of them is the 259 00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:55,400 canopy theory regarding the floodgates of the sky I've mentioned this back in 260 00:20:55,400 --> 00:21:00,160 chapter 1 of Genesis if you remember in Genesis chapter 1 verses 6 through 8 on 261 00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:05,120 the second day of creation it tells us that we find the earth completely covered 262 00:21:05,120 --> 00:21:10,340 in water and then it says then God said let there be an expanse between the 263 00:21:10,340 --> 00:21:15,360 waters separating water from water so God made the expanse and separated the 264 00:21:15,360 --> 00:21:20,880 water under the expanse from the water above the expanse and it was so God 265 00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:27,360 called the expanse sky evening came and then morning the second day and so there 266 00:21:27,360 --> 00:21:32,160 there are some that that postulate that when the waters above from the waters 267 00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:35,560 below were separated what happened is the waters above created what was called 268 00:21:35,560 --> 00:21:42,440 a canopy it's called the canopy theory that there was a mist or an ice shell 269 00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:46,080 around the planet and and they say that this shell around the planet created 270 00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:51,360 perfect ideal temperatures around the earth the temperature was uniform around 271 00:21:51,360 --> 00:21:55,780 the earth and so it was a very temperate place for life to grow and plants and it 272 00:21:55,780 --> 00:22:00,040 was all you know super awesome right but then the canopy theory says when it says 273 00:22:00,040 --> 00:22:04,080 here that the floodgates of the sky opened what they're referring to is that 274 00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:09,440 that shell that missed or that ice became rain and fell to the earth and 275 00:22:09,440 --> 00:22:13,800 that's where it rained some people point to that because this is the first time 276 00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:18,840 rain is mentioned that up into this point it had never rained and that would 277 00:22:18,840 --> 00:22:23,400 possibly explain some of the people you know speculatively going Noah why are 278 00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:30,760 you building the boat God told me it's gonna rain what's that right you know 279 00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:35,600 that's speculation but the idea was is that this water came down from this 280 00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:40,160 canopy now some people will dispute that because modern scientists will do their 281 00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:43,920 math and all their sciencey stuff and they'll go there's not a possibility 282 00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:47,400 that enough water came from the sky to cover the planet above the highest 283 00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:51,400 mountains and they'll go so it's not possible that there was this mist it's 284 00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:55,640 not possible that all that happened or they'll say things like well that much 285 00:22:55,640 --> 00:23:00,080 mist becoming rain and falling to the ground well that creates this thing 286 00:23:00,080 --> 00:23:05,120 called an exothermic reaction right when steam becomes water it releases heat and 287 00:23:05,120 --> 00:23:10,160 so the scientists go if all the entire globe suddenly mist became water there 288 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:12,760 would have been so much heat generated it would have cooked the earth like a 289 00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:19,880 microwave or they go if it was an ice shell up there and that became liquid it 290 00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:24,680 would create an endothermic reaction when ice becomes water it releases cold 291 00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:30,120 and so they go if all of that happened it would have froze the earth now I 292 00:23:30,120 --> 00:23:34,840 find that one interesting because we do know scientifically that there was ice 293 00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:40,000 ages upon the planet at least one ice age that that is proven we have evidence 294 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:43,800 of that very clearly and a lot of theologians think yeah after the flood 295 00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:47,960 when the floodwaters receded that's when everything changed upon the planet 296 00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:51,800 that's when the ice caps formed that's when the first ice age happened it's all 297 00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:56,840 speculation but it's interesting to consider and then some people go well it 298 00:23:56,840 --> 00:24:05,160 just can't rain that long well in 1939 on Manuawili Ranch in 299 00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:12,680 Hawaii it rained for 331 consecutive days so you know yeah there's that the 300 00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:15,880 biggest thing when people go that there's no possibility that the water 301 00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:21,000 came from the sky to fill over the mountains I go you're right because it 302 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:26,600 says the water came from the sky and the ground it came from both places now when 303 00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:30,520 it says all of the sources of the vast watery depths burst open that means 304 00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:34,520 water came up from the ground in some way there's a few different theories that 305 00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:38,560 that are postulated for what this means and stuff but one of them which is 306 00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:42,720 interesting is called the hydro plate theory and I just wanted to share that 307 00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:46,960 with you because it has some interesting details the theory postulates that 308 00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:51,200 before the flood there was one big supercontinent right the pangea idea 309 00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:56,840 that has been floated by science and and below the surface of the earth there was 310 00:24:56,840 --> 00:25:03,560 these big watery caverns right there was this water underneath the earth and it 311 00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:06,880 was talking about that when God separated the waters and they go so there 312 00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:10,240 was all this water underneath the earth and what happened is when it describes 313 00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:16,560 the vast watery depths burst open that word burst means a violent explosion 314 00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:21,320 so that this water through God's hand or whatever pushed up through the crust and 315 00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:26,080 exploded into the atmosphere and all this vast watery depth started to fill 316 00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:30,240 the earth as the rain came down on top of it now it's an interesting thing to 317 00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:34,640 think about because when you look at all of the evidence that we know today for 318 00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:38,640 things like continental drift right and the tectonic plates drifting around and 319 00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:42,080 crashing into each other and plates going under another one and making 320 00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:46,000 mountain ranges and all this stuff that we know is there it's evidence of some 321 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:51,400 cataclysmic event happening upon the earth it's very interesting to postulate 322 00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:55,000 a theory that as this water burst up out of the vast watery depths it forced 323 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:58,840 plates apart forced him to bump into other plates and mountain ranges were 324 00:25:58,840 --> 00:26:04,540 created and all kinds of interesting stuff one of the things that science 325 00:26:04,540 --> 00:26:09,360 can't really fully understand right now is the mid Atlantic Ridge if you guys 326 00:26:09,360 --> 00:26:14,520 look at a map you'll see right down the Atlantic Ocean in the middle there's 327 00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:18,840 this trench that's like the deepest place on earth and it's where two 328 00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:23,120 continental plates have gone above and under each other but it's incredibly deep 329 00:26:23,120 --> 00:26:27,360 and they're going well how is that made and it follows the curve of all the 330 00:26:27,360 --> 00:26:31,320 continents down on the map so anyways sciencey stuff is that boring you I'm 331 00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:36,520 sorry but very interesting evidence that that modern science tries to say well 332 00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:42,000 well this happened and it was over millions of years and and all that but 333 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:48,680 some of the changes indicate a rapid cataclysmic effect that did something 334 00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:53,280 upon the earth now there's other theories out there and and the reason 335 00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:57,960 these theories exist is because we see evidence in the world today that 336 00:26:57,960 --> 00:27:04,480 something happened now if a global flood did indeed happen in the time frame that 337 00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:09,080 scripture says it happened right 40 days of rain 150 days of the water just being 338 00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:13,360 around the globe and then it all kind of receded after a while if that all 339 00:27:13,360 --> 00:27:17,920 happened in the span of a year which is what the Bible talks about you would 340 00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:22,760 think there should be evidence of this rapid change of things right well guess 341 00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:29,560 what there is there's fossils of sea life that were found at the top of Mount 342 00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:36,600 Everest how do fish bones get to the top of Mount Everest well duh it was 343 00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:41,840 underwater one time and then people go well no Mount Everest is is too tall 344 00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:45,160 there's no way there's no there's no amount of water could have done that 345 00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:49,800 well we're assuming the earth today or the earth then looks exactly like the 346 00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:54,560 earth today right you got to stop making assumptions on some of this stuff but 347 00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:59,960 when we look into places like Mount Everest we look in places like the Swiss 348 00:27:59,960 --> 00:28:05,680 Alps Scotts Valley and Santa Cruz we find intact whale bones we find intact 349 00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:12,000 skeletons of these big sea creatures called ichthyosaurs ichthyosaurs right 350 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:15,520 anyways and they're at the tops of mountains and people can't explain how 351 00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:19,600 they got there and and what science does say is like well one day or one day in 352 00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:25,680 the past those continents were underwater and we go duh right it's right here in 353 00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:29,560 the flood account so anyways other evidences that we find in the world 354 00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:34,880 today are these massive fossil graveyards right what a fossil graveyard is is 355 00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:40,440 where all these skeletons and bones and in evidence of creatures both sea 356 00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:45,440 creatures and land creatures are all deposited in the same place and these 357 00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:50,440 places where they're deposited is right in the middle of land masses and there's 358 00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:54,520 no way to explain how all these all these creatures got deposited in the 359 00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:59,320 same place unless well maybe everything was underwater and as the waters were 360 00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:04,960 draining it all coalesced in one area how many of you have ever drained your 361 00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:08,280 sink when there's like food particles still in it and eventually it starts to 362 00:29:08,280 --> 00:29:12,240 swirl and then it all collects in the middle right there where the water 363 00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:15,880 drains down it's just a picture of that and we see those all over the planet 364 00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:20,520 today and they're not just in the Mesopotamian Valley they're in America 365 00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:25,200 they're in Siberia they're in other places as well the other thing we have 366 00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:30,320 evidence of is fossils that are preserved with incredible detail right 367 00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:35,800 like you have fossils that will show the detail of fish scales and fish limbs you 368 00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:43,720 have fossils that show all this really specific stuff squid that are buried and 369 00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:48,720 they still have evidence of ink in their sacks and their petrified squids you 370 00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:55,840 have fossils of animals giving birth mid-birth and they're fossilized well if 371 00:29:55,840 --> 00:30:00,040 fossils were created over millions and millions and millions of years that's a 372 00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:05,480 long labor isn't it that's just really incredible but we have evidence of that 373 00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:10,680 type of stuff and then you got stuff like the geological strata right this is 374 00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:13,960 a lot of like interesting science stuff if you're interested in it boring if 375 00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:18,040 you're not but you know scientists look at the rocks and they go oh we could see 376 00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:21,480 all these layers of rocks and they were deposited over millions and millions and 377 00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:26,280 millions of years and yet if they were deposited over millions of years there 378 00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:30,040 should be certain evidence of erosion and stuff on each layer because you know 379 00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:35,520 wind and water but we find all over the planet these evidences of rock strata 380 00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:40,320 where they're perfectly smooth and the only way that happens is one layer was 381 00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:44,120 rapidly laid upon another layer I don't know maybe like as a flood was draining 382 00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:48,480 across the planet so anyways there's a whole lot of other stuff we don't have 383 00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:54,960 time to get to but when we look at the cataclysmic effects of water and then we 384 00:30:54,960 --> 00:31:00,160 apply it to a global flood theory we see things line up we see things explain how 385 00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:05,760 fossils can be buried mid-birth like that and fossilized we see how fossils 386 00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:09,200 can be at the top of mountains and for sea life and we see all this stuff that 387 00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:15,120 that points to a global flood but the bigger thing is it says that the water 388 00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:20,240 surged right we looked at that multiple times it says the water increased and 389 00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:23,720 lifted up the arc so that it rose above the earth the water surged and increased 390 00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:27,120 greatly on the earth and the arc floated on the surface of the water then the 391 00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:30,760 water surged even higher on the earth and all the high mountains were under 392 00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:34,440 the whole under the whole sky were covered and the mountains recovered as 393 00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:38,920 the water surged above them more than 20 feet how many of you have ever been like 394 00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:42,920 surfing or bodyboarding and you wiped out right on the shoreline that ever 395 00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:48,680 happened is it like a gentle experience no you are tossed around like a like a 396 00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:54,800 rag and a washing machine right that's the idea of surged tumble violent 397 00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:58,360 forces and the water around the whole planet as it was coming up out of the 398 00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:02,440 ground and raining from the top was surging it was violently churning around 399 00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:07,640 the whole planet and the evidence we see of this great geological upheaval fits 400 00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:13,920 the idea of this churning water that it was a devastating effect on the entire 401 00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:18,120 planet now in verse 21 it then tells us every creature also perished and 402 00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:23,440 everything with the breath of life including all of mankind died and that's 403 00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:28,720 that universal language again that something happened universally across 404 00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:32,400 the entire planet that changed everything and so when we read this 405 00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:39,120 literally grammatically and historically did the flood happen yeah it happened it 406 00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:43,440 happened was it local or global I believe very clearly points to a global 407 00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:49,560 flood on top of that in the New Testament Jesus spoke of the days of Noah and the 408 00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:56,280 flood as a real historical event it was a catastrophic a universal a total 409 00:32:56,280 --> 00:33:01,240 destruction of the world of its time it killed everything that God said it 410 00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:07,280 killed except for in verse 13 Noah along with his sons Shem ham and J Beth and 411 00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:13,240 their wives and the two of every creature that entered the ark with them 412 00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:17,920 now we understand that as we look at this we go this really happened this 413 00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:23,240 really changed the planet this really changed the ecology of the planet it's 414 00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:28,800 everything changed in this flood everything perished all of humanity 415 00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:34,400 perished all the creatures perished except Noah and you go why would God do 416 00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:40,360 that because it says the earth was corrupt filled with wickedness and every 417 00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:45,680 inclination of the human mind was nothing but evil all the time for us 418 00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:53,920 today do you think God takes sin seriously yeah now if you're saved you're 419 00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:58,560 saved please don't misunderstand me on that but sometimes as saved people we 420 00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:04,600 deal with sin as if it's like it's not that big of a deal yeah you know Jesus 421 00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:10,200 just died for it but I don't really have to stop doing that I don't really have 422 00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:13,680 to get help I don't really have to be accountable accountable to people to 423 00:34:13,680 --> 00:34:16,840 to help me stop the sin it's not that big of a deal and then you read a story 424 00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:24,760 like this and you go God wiped out the entire planet for sin because of sin he 425 00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:33,640 takes it very seriously now so we understand the flood is both a real event 426 00:34:33,640 --> 00:34:39,640 but it's also a type it's also an Old Testament event that was prophetic of 427 00:34:39,640 --> 00:34:44,400 something in the New Testament and so Peter is the one that tells us about 428 00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:50,800 this again in first Peter chapter 3 he says God paid patiently waited in the 429 00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:55,000 days of Noah while the ark was being prepared and in it that is a few that 430 00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:59,840 is eight people were saved through water baptism which corresponds to this what 431 00:34:59,840 --> 00:35:05,080 Noah and his family being saved saved from the judgment of God through being 432 00:35:05,080 --> 00:35:09,080 in the ark he says baptism which corresponds to this now saves you and 433 00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:13,720 then he clarifies not as the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a 434 00:35:13,720 --> 00:35:19,840 good conscience towards God through the resurrection of Jesus Christ so the 435 00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:26,160 flood itself represents baptism there's a correspondence between the two it's not 436 00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:30,360 an exact identical but but there's elements about the flood that correspond 437 00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:35,480 to what baptism is we understand that the word baptism simply means to be 438 00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:39,480 immersed in something right that's all baptism means it's not inherently a 439 00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:45,520 spiritual word it just means to be immersed we understand that the flood 440 00:35:45,520 --> 00:35:49,440 destroyed the whole world it was God's judgment on sin and we understand that 441 00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:53,840 that was a type of a judgment to come that in Revelation we know that one day 442 00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:58,560 God is gonna wipe out the earth again in this time where the earth was immersed 443 00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:02,960 into the flood waters of judgment it tells us in the future the earth is 444 00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:07,000 gonna be immersed into the fires of God's wrath right we understand that but 445 00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:12,880 it also applies to this baptism idea as the world of snows time was immersed 446 00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:18,120 into the waters of judgment when we get baptized and go under the water what we 447 00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:22,920 are representing is something very important is that we're recognizing 448 00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:27,840 that the sin in our lives the sin we have committed the sin that Jesus died 449 00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:33,320 for the sin that Jesus went into the grave to die for when we go into the 450 00:36:33,320 --> 00:36:40,160 waters it's like us acknowledging that we deserve to die for our sin that this 451 00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:46,040 is like the flood waters of judgment and you go under those flood waters but just 452 00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:51,760 as Noah believed God and because he believed God he built an ark which was 453 00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:58,880 God's specific instructions this is how you will be saved that ark which was a 454 00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:04,560 means of salvation by which Noah and his family were in during the flood the 455 00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:11,760 Bible tells us that when we are in Christ by putting our faith in him by 456 00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:15,880 believing God's word when he says this is the only way to be saved from the 457 00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:20,040 wrath of God against sin by giving your life to Jesus by being in Christ 458 00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:28,360 through faith we come up out of the water we acknowledge the weight of our 459 00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:32,600 sin and as Jesus rose from the dead we then come out of the water also 460 00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:36,280 acknowledging that we have been risen from the dead that we have been 461 00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:42,280 forgiven that the penalty of sin death the power of sin to hold us in the grave 462 00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:48,000 is broken forever because we believe in Jesus Christ it's that idea that Noah 463 00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:52,120 was declared righteous by God as we looked at in our last study due to his 464 00:37:52,120 --> 00:37:59,120 faith in God in God's Word because he believed what God said he had faith that 465 00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:02,560 faith led to salvation from judgment through following God's instructions 466 00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:09,520 exactly and so as the world was immersed into the flood Noah by being in Christ 467 00:38:09,520 --> 00:38:16,640 floated above the flood safe and what God told him he would be saved in and if 468 00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:20,080 anybody was alive at that time to see Noah in the ark floating on the thing 469 00:38:20,080 --> 00:38:24,600 they would see tangible evidence they would see a public proclamation of Noah's 470 00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:30,520 faith Noah said I believe God a floods coming I'm building a boat and then they 471 00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:33,360 saw the boat floating on the flood waters they go well well that's the 472 00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:38,080 that's the testimony that Noah believed and when we enter these waters in 473 00:38:38,080 --> 00:38:41,120 baptism and come up out of the waters of baptism we're making that public 474 00:38:41,120 --> 00:38:46,720 profession hey guys see this this faith that I say I have in God this faith in 475 00:38:46,720 --> 00:38:51,040 God's Word this trust I have that if I trust Jesus Christ I too will be saved 476 00:38:51,040 --> 00:38:57,200 from the from the fiery wrath to come boop-boop this is a picture of it and I 477 00:38:57,200 --> 00:39:03,400 want to proclaim that to everybody in my church that's the idea behind baptism so 478 00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:10,560 when Peter says baptism corresponds to this by going under the water it's a 479 00:39:10,560 --> 00:39:15,960 declaration that you understand that you have died to yourself it's an 480 00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:19,680 acknowledgement that the that you understand the penalty of sin is death 481 00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:26,160 that your sin deserves judgment but it's you identifying with the fact that Jesus 482 00:39:26,160 --> 00:39:31,320 went into the grave he went into the depth of judgment for you he did that 483 00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:36,040 in your place and because you've put your faith in your trust and your 484 00:39:36,040 --> 00:39:41,640 everything in Christ for forgiveness you being in Christ like Noah and his 485 00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:46,800 family were in the ark are raised above the waters of judgment that you are 486 00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:50,840 saved forevermore and when you come up out of those baptism waters it's that 487 00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:56,840 public profession that God has saved my life he has changed me forever so as 488 00:39:56,840 --> 00:40:00,440 Peter says here I want to make a last important point that it's not the water 489 00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:05,320 he says it's not as the removal of dirt from the body what he's saying there is 490 00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:08,760 it's not the physical act of being dunked in the water and having actual 491 00:40:08,760 --> 00:40:15,640 dirt washed off of you he says baptism represents your pledge the pledge of 492 00:40:15,640 --> 00:40:21,240 your good conscience towards God meaning this isn't what saves you this 493 00:40:21,240 --> 00:40:25,520 represents the decision you've already made to be saved by trusting in Jesus 494 00:40:25,520 --> 00:40:31,760 Christ that you believe he is real that you believe Jesus died and rose again to 495 00:40:31,760 --> 00:40:35,800 pay the price and suffer the judgment for your sin that you believe through 496 00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:39,800 your faith in him that he rose from the dead rose from the grave defeating the 497 00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:43,520 power of sin and death forever just as Noah was lifted up above the flood 498 00:40:43,520 --> 00:40:49,440 waters by the ark you too who are getting baptized today symbolized by 499 00:40:49,440 --> 00:40:54,320 your coming up out of the water are proclaiming that through the power of 500 00:40:54,320 --> 00:40:59,320 Christ you too have defeated the grave you too have defeated the power of sin 501 00:40:59,320 --> 00:41:02,080 and death you have won the battle against Satan you have been born again 502 00:41:02,080 --> 00:41:07,440 resurrected to new life second Corinthians chapter 5 verse 17 says 503 00:41:07,440 --> 00:41:12,600 therefore if anyone is in Christ he is a new creation the old is passed away and 504 00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:19,680 see the new has come because Noah was in the ark he was saved the old creation 505 00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:25,080 being destroyed and when he landed he was in the new creation and it was 506 00:41:25,080 --> 00:41:29,920 because he was in Christ the symbolism of that is for us too that when we lay 507 00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:34,920 down our life to Jesus when we are now in Christ the old life has passed away 508 00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:40,000 the judgment upon that was laid on Christ in your place and you now come 509 00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:44,120 out the other side a brand new person with the Spirit of God living within you 510 00:41:44,120 --> 00:41:49,800 empowering you to be obedient to God it's a beautiful thing and so in a moment 511 00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:53,080 I'm gonna invite you all to come forward or those of you that are getting 512 00:41:53,080 --> 00:41:56,800 baptized to come forward and I want to give you some quick instructions for 513 00:41:56,800 --> 00:42:00,240 that but before we do that I want to remind the rest of us here that we are 514 00:42:00,240 --> 00:42:05,640 the public that gets to see observe this public profession our brothers and 515 00:42:05,640 --> 00:42:10,200 sisters are making this is a holy moment this is one of the two sacraments that 516 00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:14,880 we as a church observe communion and baptism this is the moment where we get 517 00:42:14,880 --> 00:42:20,000 to celebrate with those who want to tell their church Jesus has changed my life 518 00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:23,920 and so if the worship team will come up now and get ready I want to tell you 519 00:42:23,920 --> 00:42:27,760 that are getting baptized today when I ask you to come forward you guys are 520 00:42:27,760 --> 00:42:31,640 gonna come forward and follow out the side of the room right here and you're 521 00:42:31,640 --> 00:42:35,420 gonna go into the back where we have changing booths okay private changing 522 00:42:35,420 --> 00:42:39,160 booths if you brought your clothes to change into you can go back there and 523 00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:43,360 change we have staff back there that'll watch your stuff so don't worry about 524 00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:46,840 your stuff disappearing or anything like that and once you're done change and I 525 00:42:46,840 --> 00:42:49,560 want you to come back out and line up right here on the wall where the white 526 00:42:49,560 --> 00:42:54,120 it where the white wall is myself and pastor Rick we will be inside the 527 00:42:54,120 --> 00:42:59,080 baptismal we'll invite you guys in one at a time where we will perform the 528 00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:03,080 ceremony of baptism and let you make this public profession before your 529 00:43:03,080 --> 00:43:06,880 church here we will do that one at a time until we get through everybody and 530 00:43:06,880 --> 00:43:12,200 then we'll be done now it is 1106 and so I encourage the body here if you have to 531 00:43:12,200 --> 00:43:16,480 go at some point feel free to leave but if you can stay and be a part of this 532 00:43:16,480 --> 00:43:20,960 celebration with them I highly encourage you to do so now for those of you that 533 00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:24,640 are sitting here in the front in the front side of the church we are gonna 534 00:43:24,640 --> 00:43:28,040 be live streaming this because there are friends and family that aren't here that 535 00:43:28,040 --> 00:43:31,080 want to see their loved ones get baptized so I'm gonna ask if you're on 536 00:43:31,080 --> 00:43:35,120 the front half of the church to not stand up during worship okay we're gonna 537 00:43:35,120 --> 00:43:39,080 be worshiping through the whole thing but stay seated but if you do want to 538 00:43:39,080 --> 00:43:43,520 stand up and celebrate either come all the way forward or reset re-seat 539 00:43:43,520 --> 00:43:49,000 yourself behind the camera if you guys are in the back go crazy okay 540 00:43:51,880 --> 00:43:57,960 God's power to change people's lives is like nothing else if you've experienced 541 00:43:57,960 --> 00:44:02,480 it you know it if you've been saved for a long time and your faith has kind of 542 00:44:02,480 --> 00:44:09,320 become I'm saved let God minister to you as you observe these baptisms and 543 00:44:09,320 --> 00:44:12,440 celebrate with those getting baptized what your life is all about now because 544 00:44:12,440 --> 00:44:18,920 of Jesus so if you're getting baptized today I want you to stand up right now 545 00:44:18,920 --> 00:44:22,760 don't be ashamed and come forward and just come right down the side here next 546 00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:34,600 up back praise God we actually had more people come in today to get baptized 547 00:44:34,600 --> 00:44:39,360 and we had signed up what a cool problem to have right we're so blessed for all 548 00:44:39,360 --> 00:44:43,780 of you and for the rest of us the worship team is gonna be leading us in 549 00:44:43,780 --> 00:44:47,760 worship throughout the entire baptism time I just encourage you to praise God 550 00:44:47,760 --> 00:44:52,880 worship him and just be blessed as your new brothers and sisters proclaim what 551 00:44:52,880 --> 00:44:56,960 God has done in their lives let's pray father we love you so much and we thank 552 00:44:56,960 --> 00:45:01,840 you God Lord we're so blessed for what this day represents God that the 553 00:45:01,840 --> 00:45:07,640 floodwaters of judgment have been really taken upon you Lord you took all of that 554 00:45:07,640 --> 00:45:13,720 upon yourself that through our faith in you not through any of our actions not 555 00:45:13,720 --> 00:45:17,200 because we're good people not through anything other than we believe in you 556 00:45:17,200 --> 00:45:23,160 God that you have placed us in Christ that we have risen above the waters of 557 00:45:23,160 --> 00:45:27,920 of judgment God and we are saved to live a new life in a new place and ultimately 558 00:45:27,920 --> 00:45:32,920 in a new paradise with you we're so grateful God we worship you now as we 559 00:45:32,920 --> 00:45:36,440 participate and observe these baptisms Lord and we're so grateful for what you're 560 00:45:36,440 --> 00:45:40,880 doing in the lives of our brothers and sisters we thank you we love you it's in 561 00:45:40,880 --> 00:45:47,560 Jesus name we pray amen