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Episode 229 - Time To Come In · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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  Speaker 1: All that is within me, bless his holy name. We
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  Speaker 1: are grateful, as always, and glad that the Lord has
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  Speaker 1: enabled us and kept us, saved us, and called us
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  Speaker 1: to this great and holy calling. We are partakers of
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  Speaker 1: this great salvation, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord,
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  Speaker 1: and we take it not for granted. For our God
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  Speaker 1: is great, and he is greatly to be praised. This
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  Speaker 1: is a great salvation. This is a great hope. It
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  Speaker 1: is the only hope of mankind, the blood of Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 1: his atoning death, by which we are redeemed from all iniquity,
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  Speaker 1: declared righteous before a holy God, and in this great
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  Speaker 1: hope we stand, amen, rejoicing in the God of our salvation.
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  Speaker 1: We welcome you once again to this, another edition of
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  Speaker 1: End Time Revival Ministries USA podcast. I am your host,
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  Speaker 1: Pastor Al Zachary, and today we are In the state
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  Speaker 1: of Kentucky, we are on a special assignment, so to speak.
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  Speaker 1: We are privileged to have had this opportunity on today,
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  Speaker 1: just a couple of hours ago, to have experienced the
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  Speaker 1: replica of the ark that was built by the man Noah.
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  Speaker 1: in the scriptures and many of you may have heard
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  Speaker 1: about this monumental achievement that came together through the vision
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  Speaker 1: of those who believe the word of God, believe the
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  Speaker 1: scriptures and God has a way of doing what may
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  Speaker 1: seem to be impossible but yes we are here in
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  Speaker 1: the state of Kentucky And again, a busload of believers. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: We are thankful to the Lord for allowing us this
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to come to visit the replica, life-sized, dimensioned exactly
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  Speaker 1: as it was, amen, recorded in the scriptures. 500, I believe,
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  Speaker 1: in 10 feet long and it's a massive, massive undertaking
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  Speaker 1: and we are again just glad to be here and
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  Speaker 1: it of course brought my mind to the scriptures certainly
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  Speaker 1: and as we have been in this podcast focusing on
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  Speaker 1: the words of Jesus, he made mention of this man
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  Speaker 1: Noah in the New Testament scriptures and we're going to
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  Speaker 1: go there in just a few moments to hear the
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  Speaker 1: words of Jesus, but our focus today is a warning
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  Speaker 1: in essence as it was in the days of Noah.
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  Speaker 1: It is time to come in if you are outside
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  Speaker 1: of the ark of safety. It is time to come in.
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  Speaker 1: In just a few moments we're going to read first
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  Speaker 1: of all from the book of Genesis the account that
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  Speaker 1: is recorded there before the judgment came upon the earth,
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  Speaker 1: and then we will hear the words of Jesus also
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  Speaker 1: that he, amen, recorded, has been rather recorded for us
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  Speaker 1: in the Gospel of Matthew. So before we begin, as always,
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  Speaker 1: we take just a moment as we invoke the presence
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord. Father, again, we thank you for another day.
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  Speaker 1: We thank you for bringing us safely to this destination
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  Speaker 1: to see, amen, this great spectacle of this great wonder
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  Speaker 1: to see that your word is true and we believe
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  Speaker 1: your report and we stand on your promises. And Lord,
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  Speaker 1: we pray that someone somewhere will have a listening ear,
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  Speaker 1: a repentant heart and be encouraged to stand strong in
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  Speaker 1: the faith and believe your report for you are God
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  Speaker 1: and God alone and there is none beside thee. We
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  Speaker 1: bless your name, give you praise, glory, honor in all
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  Speaker 1: things through Jesus Christ, our Lord. We give thanks. Amen
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  Speaker 1: and amen. And by the way, as always, we are
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  Speaker 1: grateful to the Lord for each and every one of
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  Speaker 1: you who pray for and or support the work of
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  Speaker 1: this ministry through your prayers, through your giving. And certainly
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  Speaker 1: those of you who subscribe, brother, to this podcast, we
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  Speaker 1: are grateful to the Lord for you as well. And
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  Speaker 1: we pray that if you have not already become a subscriber,
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  Speaker 1: that you will do so. And then, of course, please,
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  Speaker 1: by all means, share it with someone else. Amen. All right.
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  Speaker 1: Time to come in Genesis chapter six, verses one through eight.
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  Speaker 1: I came to pass when men began to multiply on
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  Speaker 1: the face of the earth and daughters were born to them,
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  Speaker 1: that the sons of God saw the daughters of men,
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  Speaker 1: that they were beautiful and they took wives for themselves
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  Speaker 1: of all whom they chose. And the Lord said, my
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  Speaker 1: spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is
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  Speaker 1: indeed flesh, yet his days shall be 120 years. There
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  Speaker 1: were giants on the earth in those days, and also afterward,
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  Speaker 1: when the sons of God came in to the daughters
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  Speaker 1: of men, and they bore children to them. Those were
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  Speaker 1: the mighty men who were of old, men of renown,
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  Speaker 1: Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was
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  Speaker 1: great in the earth, and that every intent of the
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  Speaker 1: thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the
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  Speaker 1: Lord was sorry that he had made man on the earth,
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  Speaker 1: and he was grieved in his heart. So the Lord said,
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  Speaker 1: I will destroy man whom I have created from the
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  Speaker 1: face of the earth, both man and beast. Amen. Creeping
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  Speaker 1: things and birds of the air for I am sorry
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  Speaker 1: that I have made them. Oh, but this is the
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  Speaker 1: verse I love. Verse number 8. But Noah found grace
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  Speaker 1: in the eyes of the Lord. Now this trip that
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  Speaker 1: we undertook, it took some time of course we had
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  Speaker 1: to make preparations and all of that of course we
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  Speaker 1: didn't just fly by night decide to do this we
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  Speaker 1: certainly had heard the testimony of others who had been
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  Speaker 1: to visit and we were excited about it and as
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  Speaker 1: a matter of fact I'd heard about this many years
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  Speaker 1: ago I believe it's been about 10 years in existence
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  Speaker 1: and always wanted to come to see it for myself
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  Speaker 1: and In other words, we heard the news. We heard
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  Speaker 1: the news. We heard of this, amen, achievement. We set
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  Speaker 1: business aside. Many planned to take days off of work.
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  Speaker 1: We had, by the way, young and old, or elderly rather,
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  Speaker 1: people on this particular trip. We had people who needed help.
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  Speaker 1: special access. There were many, by the way, we saw
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  Speaker 1: in other parties who had to rent motorized wheelchairs, if
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  Speaker 1: you will, for lack of a cart to get around
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  Speaker 1: because it is quite a bit of walking. But nevertheless,
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  Speaker 1: people set business aside. We even had young children in
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  Speaker 1: our group, as young as 13 months old. Amen. So
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  Speaker 1: we had young people and old as well. And so
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  Speaker 1: we all made definitive plans to be here. We arranged
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  Speaker 1: transportation by chartering a bus. We reserved rooms for our lodging.
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  Speaker 1: being here for a couple of days. We scheduled the
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  Speaker 1: times when we would do certain things by coming up
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  Speaker 1: with an itinerary. And then we also, of course, secured
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  Speaker 1: tickets to get inside of this, amen, wonderful achievement of
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  Speaker 1: an ark, amen, the replica of the ark. And we
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  Speaker 1: are here, by the way, because we are Believe God.
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  Speaker 1: We believe the word. We are here because we believe Genesis,
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  Speaker 1: the account that I read, amen, where God would go
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  Speaker 1: on to give Noah the instructions for building the ark.
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  Speaker 1: But I want you to turn your attention and please
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  Speaker 1: never forget the fact that Jesus validated the reality of
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  Speaker 1: the Noah story. account that is written in the book
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  Speaker 1: of Genesis. It was Jesus who spoke of Noah. It
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  Speaker 1: was Jesus who spoke of Lot. It was Jesus who
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  Speaker 1: spoke of Sodom and Gomorrah. It was Jesus in other words,
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  Speaker 1: who validated the fact that there were judgments prior. And
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  Speaker 1: it is Jesus who has told us, and by the way,
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  Speaker 1: spoken of the forthcoming judgment of hell more than anyone
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  Speaker 1: else in the scriptures. And so, amen, we want to.
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  Speaker 1: never forget the words of Jesus in our day amen
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  Speaker 1: where the same kind of unbelief amen certainly that cost
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  Speaker 1: the lives of those who did not adhere to the
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  Speaker 1: message that Noah preached coming into the ark to be
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  Speaker 1: saved by the way of course the ark that Noah
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  Speaker 1: built was a prefiguring a foreshadowing of the ark that
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  Speaker 1: is the safety for man today. Amen. It is not church.
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  Speaker 1: It is not, amen, a building. I mean, it is
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  Speaker 1: the Lord Jesus Christ himself. And so, again, we want
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  Speaker 1: to hear what Jesus himself also had to say concerning Noah.
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  Speaker 1: Matthew's Gospel, chapter 24, verse 36. But, Of that day,
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  Speaker 1: now what day is Jesus talking about? He's talking about
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  Speaker 1: the forthcoming day of the Lord, the judgment that is
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  Speaker 1: coming upon this world. Of that day and hour, no
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  Speaker 1: one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but my
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  Speaker 1: Father only. But listen to what he says in verse 37.
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  Speaker 1: But as the days of Noah were, so also will
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  Speaker 1: be the coming of the Son of Man. For as
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  Speaker 1: in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking,
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  Speaker 1: marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah
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  Speaker 1: entered the ark and did not know until the flood came.
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  Speaker 1: Now we did not read all of the Genesis account
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  Speaker 1: concerning Noah and the judgment that was coming, but the
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  Speaker 1: Bible tells us very clearly in the New Testament also.
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  Speaker 1: There are other references to Noah, how Noah was a
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  Speaker 1: preacher of righteousness. And he preached, by the way, and
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  Speaker 1: prepared for 120 years. 120 years, ladies and gentlemen, that
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  Speaker 1: people had the opportunity to see, to hear, to know,
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  Speaker 1: to plan, and to make their way into the one door,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, it was only one door, one entrance
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  Speaker 1: into the ark. There were no lifeboats. There were no
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  Speaker 1: ropes to be thrown over the side for those who
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  Speaker 1: had not come in. There were no second opportunities. One way,
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  Speaker 1: 120 years, come into the ark of safety and be saved. Now, again,
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  Speaker 1: We made all kinds of plans to get here. We
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  Speaker 1: paid for a bus. We paid for a hotel. We
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  Speaker 1: paid for our tickets. We set aside time away from
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  Speaker 1: our business. We put those things aside to come to
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  Speaker 1: this arc that is not even the arc of safety.
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  Speaker 1: This is something that we didn't have to do. This
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  Speaker 1: is something that does not add to our salvation in
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  Speaker 1: any way. But we went through effort to do this. Now,
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  Speaker 1: you don't need to purchase any tickets because you can't
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  Speaker 1: buy this salvation. And by the way, the ark of salvation,
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  Speaker 1: as I've said a little bit earlier, is not in
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  Speaker 1: a ship. The ark of salvation is not in a place.
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  Speaker 1: It's not in a building. It's not in the church.
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  Speaker 1: It's not the church. The ark of salvation is not
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  Speaker 1: of this world. It's not made by man. The ark
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  Speaker 1: of salvation is not by good religion, not by works
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  Speaker 1: of righteousness. The ark of salvation is Jesus. By His life.
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  Speaker 1: By His blood. By His great sacrifice. In Him. In Him.
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  Speaker 1: Through Him. By Him. Through His death. Without the shedding
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  Speaker 1: of blood. His precious blood. There is no remission of sin.
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  Speaker 1: There is no life. Salvation is by Him. Neither is
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  Speaker 1: there salvation in any other. There is none other name
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  Speaker 1: given among men whereby We must be saved. The ark
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  Speaker 1: of salvation is by, through, in Jesus alone. For those
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  Speaker 1: who are yet in this day. Jesus said now, it
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  Speaker 1: was Jesus who said, as it was in the days
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  Speaker 1: of Noah, so will it also be. People are going
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  Speaker 1: to be going about their own business, doing their own things.
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  Speaker 1: Not planning, not preparing, not looking for, not in expectation.
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  Speaker 1: And you know why? Unbelief. The people in Noah's day
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  Speaker 1: did not believe the message. They did not believe Noah.
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  Speaker 1: They did not believe God. They did not believe what
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  Speaker 1: God had spoken. They did not believe that God had
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  Speaker 1: spoken to Noah at all. They had no fear of God.
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  Speaker 1: They had no expectation that this was going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: As Noah preached this same message for 120 years. It
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  Speaker 1: is going to rain. Now we preach the gospel today.
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  Speaker 1: We preach about Jesus. And we preach. And as Paul said,
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  Speaker 1: knowing the terror of the Lord, we persuade him and
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  Speaker 1: we preach. the forthcoming judgment that is coming upon this earth,
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  Speaker 1: that is coming upon this world. And it is time,
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  Speaker 1: for those of you who are outside of the ark
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  Speaker 1: of safety, it is time to come in. This judgment,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, will not be a universal flood as
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  Speaker 1: it was with Noah in that day. This forthcoming judgment,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, has been not been precisely foretold as
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  Speaker 1: to when it would take place as it was with
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  Speaker 1: Noah with the flood that came up on the earth.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord told him in advance. He told Noah in
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  Speaker 1: advance 120 years. We don't know the day. As Jesus said,
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  Speaker 1: we don't know the hour when the judgment, when the
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  Speaker 1: day of the Lord will come. But it is a promise.
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  Speaker 1: And Peter reiterated it. Because we had scoffers, of course,
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  Speaker 1: in the days of Noah. There are scoffers today who say,
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  Speaker 1: where is the promise of his coming? Since the fathers
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  Speaker 1: fell asleep, all things continue as they were. Since the foundation,
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  Speaker 1: since the creation. Where is the promise of his coming?
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  Speaker 1: But Peter said and reiterated just as Jesus had promised
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  Speaker 1: over and again that the day of the Lord will
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  Speaker 1: come and it will not be water. This time it
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  Speaker 1: will be fire. And it will come suddenly on a
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  Speaker 1: world that will not be in expectation of the day
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord. But today is the day. Now is
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  Speaker 1: the time. The day that you hear His voice. Please,
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  Speaker 1: do not harden your heart. It is time to come
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  Speaker 1: in one way, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one church,
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  Speaker 1: one Savior, one mediator, one hope of salvation, one God
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  Speaker 1: who saves all who come to Jesus in repentance. Father,
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  Speaker 1: we thank you for your word. We thank you for
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  Speaker 1: your promises. We thank you for this great salvation. We
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  Speaker 1: thank you for bringing us safely into the ark. And
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  Speaker 1: we look now to you, Lord, as the author and
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  Speaker 1: the finisher of our faith, knowing you who have begun
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  Speaker 1: a good work in us. You will perform it until
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  Speaker 1: the day of Jesus Christ. We bless your name and
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  Speaker 1: give you glory and honor. in all things. Amen.