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Genesis chapter 8 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Genesis chapter 8, let us pray Jesus Christ, just that name,
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  the name that is above all names, or we worship you today
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  in spirit and truth. We come to you today asking for
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  a touch. Lord, touch us today.
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  Heal us today. God, I pray supernatural zeal
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  upon this house. Blow a fresh wind in this house.
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  God, rekindle the fire. Let us return back to our first
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  love. Father, we just want more of
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  you. Father, we want to hear your
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  voice. We want to feel your presence.
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  God, here we are. Send us.
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  We're listening. God, speak to us, give us your
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  heart, give us your mind, give us your motives, give us your
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  emotions. Help us, Lord, to know that you
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  are near and you're fighting our battles.
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  We need not fear and we need not look for another.
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  That you are the way, You're the truth and the life.
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  God, We come under the yoke of Jesus Lord.
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  Give us the burden of Jesus. Lord, I pray that you'll give us
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  eyes to see the world all around us the way that you do.
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  Give us a heart for this world, God.
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  Let us not grow lazy and despondent.
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  Help us not to live and defeat God, but help us to be
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  victorious, Lord, as you are victorious on that cross, when
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  you snatch the keys of death and hell.
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  And God, we will not be cowards, we will not shrink back.
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  We do not love our life so much as to shrink from death.
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  Father, we overcome by the blood of the lamb.
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  We overcome by the words of our testimony.
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  Lord, help us to be faithful in the harvest.
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  Help us to be faithful in the office.
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  Help us to be faithful in the cafeteria.
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  Help us to be faithful in the way.
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  Help us to be faithful, God, with every single platform that
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  you have given us, God, help us to speak the name of Jesus.
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  There's something about that name.
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  It's the only name that has the power to save.
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  So God, we call upon the name of Jesus today.
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  We believe that you resurrected him from the grave and you have
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  him seated at the hand, right hand of you.
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  God Almighty, Yahweh Hashem, we love you, give us your thoughts,
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  give us your mind, teach us your ways.
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  I decrease as you increase. I get out of the way.
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  It's all about you. It's not about me.
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  Jesus Christ, holy and precious and powerful name, I pray men.
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  Well, let's start in verse one. And God remembered Noah and
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  every living thing and all the cattle that was with him in the
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  ark. And God made a wind to pass over
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  the earth and the waters swagged.
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  So you need to know here that God remembered Noah and he
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  decided that it was time. He had already made it rain, and
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  the waters burst up out of the ground for 40 days and 40
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  nights. And then Noah was floating
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  around for five months above the mountain tops and above the
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  earth. And then you can see here that
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  he's going to come to a resting place.
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  But the total time that he spends in the ark is a full
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  calendar year. And God finally says, OK, it's
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  time he remembered him. And it was not that he ever
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  forgot about him, but he was rekindling his promise and his
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  covenant that he made with them to the fountains of the deep.
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  And the windows of heaven were stopped in the rain from heaven
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  was restrained three. And the waters returned from off
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  the earth continually. And after the end of the 150
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  days the waters were abated. So this is whenever dry land
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  finally appeared. After this 150 days, you see
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  that the ark landed on dry land four.
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  And the ark rested in the seventh month and on the 17th
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  day of the month upon the mount 10s of air at.
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  So we can still look today at the maps and see where the arc
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  landed. There is a definite outline for
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  the measurements of where this ark SAT here at the border of
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  all the nations. And this is how you can know
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  that the Bible is trustworthy and true is because where the
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  imprint of the ark sits today, it is at the crossroads of so
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  many civilizations. And God is so good at what He
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  does. And that is why we trust every
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  single word and syllable. And when he says it landed on
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  the Mount of Ararat, that's exactly where it landed.
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  And there are many stories of people, even as early as the
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  early 1900s saying that they had been there and visited it.
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  Five And the waters decrease continuously until the 10th
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  month and then the 10th month on the first day of the month,
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  where the tops of the mountains seem.
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  So finally we see that land is creeping and peeping up through
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  the tops of the waters as the water starts to drain. 26 And it
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  came to pass at the end of the 40 days that Noah opened the
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  window of the ark which he had made.
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  So he was able to open and close this vent hole at the top of the
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  ark. 7 And he sent forth a Raven, which went forth to and
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  fro until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
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  So the Raven never came back. Perhaps the Raven, when it left
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  it landed on the carcasses of the floating bodies and fed off
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  of them. This scavenger unclean bird A
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  and he sent forth the dove from him to see if the waters were
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  abated from off the face of the ground.
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  So here we could see this clean bird going out trying to find a
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  resting place. 9 But the dove found no rest for the sole of
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  her foot, and she returned to him in the ark, for the waters
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  were on the face of the whole earth.
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  Then he put forth his hand and took her, and pulled her in unto
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  him in the ark. So as the dove, this clean bird
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  went out, it tried to find some kind of resting place, could not
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  find anywhere to rest, so it returned back.
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  What an amazing thought. We see that the Ravens out there
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  feeding on the dead carcasses, and then you can see here that
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  this clean dove comes back to him.
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  And we know that this is synonymous with creation.
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  The story where the waters were over the face and we saw that
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  the Holy Spirit was hovering over the waters.
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  And then here you can see it again.
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  God's doing a new thing. And we see the symbolism of the
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  waters covering the earth. We see the dove floating over
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  the waters. What an amazing thought. 10 And
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  he stayed yet another seven days, and again he sent forth
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  the dove out of the ark. 11 And the dove came in to him in the
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  evening, and lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off.
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  So Noah knew that the waters were abated from off of the
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  earth. This dove goes out and finds
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  this olive leaf and brings the olive leaf back to Noah.
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  This is peace on earth, friends. This is a symbol of God putting
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  the peace back on the earth. 12 And he stayed yet another seven
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  days and sent forth the dove, which returned not again to him
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  anymore. So the dove went out and finally
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  found a resting place. And that is a picture of the
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  Holy Spirit going out and searching and looking for a
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  resting place, friends. And we invite him in, and we
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  become the temple of God. 13 And it came to pass in the 600th 1st
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  year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the
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  waters were dried up from off the earth, and Noah removed the
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  covering of the ark and looked and beheld the face of the
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  ground was dry. So finally, after being landed
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  on Ararat and he's in there for a full calendar year, finally,
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  it's time. It's time to come out of that.
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  And it seems as if Noah had lost no animals through death inside
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  of that ark. He sent the Raven out, He sent
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  the dove out. But by and large, here he is
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  with all of the animals intact. 14 And in the second month, and
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  on the 7th and 20th day of the month, the earth was dry. 15 And
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  God spoke to Noah saying, Go forth of the ark, you, your
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  wife, your sons, your son's wives with you.
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  So God's saying, go be fruitful and multiply and repopulate
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  planet Earth. 17 bring forth with you every living thing that
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  is with you of all flesh, both fowl, cattle, the creeping thing
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  that creeps on the earth, and that they may breed abundantly
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  in the earth and be fruitful and multiply upon the earth.
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  These are the same instructions that he gave Adam and Eve, and
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  now he's giving it to Noah and his three sons and their wives,
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  and he's telling them to repopulate.
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  And we can trace our lineage. We can trace our genealogy and
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  ancestors back to these four men.
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  What an amazing thought. 18 Noah went forth, and his sons, and
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  his wife and his son's wives with them. 19 Every beast, every
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  creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creeps upon the
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  earth after their kinds went forth out of the ark.
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  Can you imagine the celebration? Can you imagine the joy that it
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  must have been to be able to get out of this box that you've been
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  living in for a whole year? Where it's raining down for 40
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  days and 40 nights non-stop. You're floating above all of the
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  habitable land for 150 days. You come finally to a halt on
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  the top of a mountain at the crossroads of all civilization,
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  and you're in it, friends, for another seven months until you
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  can finally come out. What a joyous moment this must
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  have been. Let's see how they celebrate. 20
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  And Noah built an altar to the Lord and took of every clean
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  beast and every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the
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  altar. This is why you can see that
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  Noah was saved because he walked with God.
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  He was not even instructed to do this.
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  This came out of his heart. And this was a costly gift unto
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  God, a pleasing aroma unto God, because there was only 7 of each
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  of these. And he took every one of them
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  and sacrificed them, every kind, one of every kind friends.
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  And he sacrificed them unto God. Let's see how God thought about
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  it. 21 And the Lord smelled a sweet savour.
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  And the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the
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  ground anymore for man's sake, for the imagination of man's
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  heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I again strike any
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  more everything living as I have done.
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  So what an amazing thought, that God's making a covenant with not
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  only mankind, but with the earth and with the animals.
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  And he knows that we are evil. He knows that we are bent upon
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  destruction. He knows that our thoughts are
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  reprobate and we desperately need Jesus Christ to make us a
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  new creation. And He promised that he will
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  never flood the earth again. But we know that the second
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  destruction is by fire. We'll end on 22 while the earth
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  remains seat time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and
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  winter, day and night shall not cease.
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  So this is a promise from God. This is whenever we see seasons
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  come in cold and heat. This is whenever we see
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  everything get changed. No longer do we have the 900
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  lifespan. We only have 120 years.
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  And you see here that it's no longer a tropical environment.
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  We see that even the dinosaurs are gone.
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  And we see here that what we know of as animals and what we
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  know of as life is established at this moment.
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  What an amazing thought. What an amazing book.
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  What an amazing God we serve. I hope you've been blessed by
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  this amazing chapter in God's Word.
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  I know, I sure have. I'm praying for every single one
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  of you. I love you, God loves you.
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  Stay in the word, Stay rooted and grounded in His word.
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  He's so worthy. We'll see you back here
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  tomorrow. God bless you.