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DWDP - Gen 7:1 Righteousness by Faith · More Than Medicine

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  SPEAKER_01: Welcome to More Than Medic, where Jesus is more than enough for the ills that plague our culture and our country.
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  SPEAKER_01: Hosted by author and physician, Dr.
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  SPEAKER_01: Robert Jackson.
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  SPEAKER_02: Papa, can you tell me a story?
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  SPEAKER_02: Do you really want me to tell you a story?
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  SPEAKER_02: Well, you go get your brother and your sisters, and I will tell you a story.
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  SPEAKER_02: Welcome to Devotion from Dr.
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  SPEAKER_02: Papa.
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  SPEAKER_02: Gather round, grab your Bibles, and let us look into the written word which reveals to us the living word, who is our Lord Jesus Christ.
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  SPEAKER_02: Today we're at Genesis chapter seven and verse one.
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  SPEAKER_02: Then the Lord said to Noah, Enter the Ark, you and all your household, for you alone I have seen to be righteous before me in this time.
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  SPEAKER_02: Well, when Noah was five hundred years old, God spoke to him with instructions for the ark and warning about the impending flood.
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  SPEAKER_02: In obedience, Noah and his sons began constructing the ark.
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  SPEAKER_02: There's no mention of any further correspondence from God for a hundred and twenty years until Noah is six hundred and twenty years old.
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  SPEAKER_02: Noah has preached righteousness for a hundred and twenty more years.
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  SPEAKER_02: He has called a wicked, corrupt and violent generation to repent without any converts except for his three sons.
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  SPEAKER_02: And he had constructed a monstrous eyesore in his backyard.
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  SPEAKER_02: And the entire homeowners association and all their members complained bitterly.
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  SPEAKER_02: Then on top of that, Noah had chickens and goats in his backyard that really set the entire neighborhood off.
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  SPEAKER_02: When the elephants and the giraffes showed up, well they called the mayor and animal control.
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  SPEAKER_02: But by then thousands of animals were coming in a long train.
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  SPEAKER_02: And on top of that dark clouds were forming, which the folks had never seen before, and on top of that there was lightning.
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  SPEAKER_02: Lightning?
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  SPEAKER_02: Who had ever seen lightning?
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  SPEAKER_02: The people were now terrified and they were holding a county council meeting about the changes in the weather patterns.
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  SPEAKER_02: Forget about Noah, he's bat crazy.
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  SPEAKER_02: But then after a century of silence, God speaks to Noah once again.
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  SPEAKER_02: In faith and obedience, Noah had prepared an ark, as Hebrews eleven says, to the saving of his household.
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  SPEAKER_02: And then in verse seven and verse one, let me read it to you again, chapter seven and verse one.
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  SPEAKER_02: Then the Lord said to Noah, Enter the Ark, you and all your household.
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  SPEAKER_02: Now the King James Version says, Come into the ark, you and all your household, for you alone I have seen to be righteous before me in this time.
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  SPEAKER_02: This is one of seven recorded instances where the Bible tells us that God spoke to Noah.
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  SPEAKER_02: Each of the instances it was to bring fellowship with Noah and a blessing on him and his family.
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  SPEAKER_02: Three different times the Bible tells us that Noah did all that God commanded him to do.
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  SPEAKER_02: Spiritually Noah was a giant in the earth in his day, and very few have been like him since then.
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  SPEAKER_02: Like Enoch, the Bible tells us that Noah walked with God and was obedient to God in faith.
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  SPEAKER_02: Then we come to verse one of chapter seven, where God tells Noah it's time.
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  SPEAKER_02: Time for him and his family to enter the ark.
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  SPEAKER_02: As I mentioned, the King James Version says, Come thou and all thy family into the ark.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's interesting that God didn't say go into the ark, he said come.
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  SPEAKER_02: Just like Jesus says to you and me, Come all ye who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's an invitation to come into the ark.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's an invitation to come into a relationship with the Heavenly Father, an invitation to come into a relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  SPEAKER_02: There was no compulsion, it was an invitation.
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  SPEAKER_02: We use we see the end result of faith and obedience to God's commands being rewarded in Noah's life as God credits his faith to his spiritual account as righteousness.
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  SPEAKER_02: The verse tells us plainly that God says to him, For you alone I have found to be righteous before me in this time or in this generation.
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  SPEAKER_02: Does it mean that Noah was sinless?
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  SPEAKER_02: Well of course not.
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  SPEAKER_02: Was Abraham sinless?
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  SPEAKER_02: We know Abraham was not, yet God credited Abraham's faith to him as righteousness.
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  SPEAKER_02: In fact, Job was a man of faith.
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  SPEAKER_02: God said to Satan, have you considered my servant Job a man who is blameless and askews evil?
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  SPEAKER_02: Now was Job sinless?
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  SPEAKER_02: No, of course not.
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  SPEAKER_02: But later Job said to his friends, Though God slay me, yet will I trust him?
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  SPEAKER_02: You see, that kind of faith is credited to his account as blamelessness.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's account is credited to his account as righteousness.
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  SPEAKER_02: Noah was righteous in the sight of God.
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  SPEAKER_02: Why?
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  SPEAKER_02: Because he was sinless?
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  SPEAKER_02: No.
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  SPEAKER_02: Because he was a man of deep faith and his faith translated into what?
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  SPEAKER_02: Obedience.
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  SPEAKER_02: You will remember from last week we talked about the hymn trust and obey, for there's no other way to be happy in Jesus but to trust and obey.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's imperative for your and my faith to manifest itself in obedience.
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  SPEAKER_02: But it goes farther than that.
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  SPEAKER_02: Noah's faith and the righteousness credited to his account saved both himself and his household.
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  SPEAKER_02: This is God's gracious provision and his promise to the heads, to the leaders, to the head of the house.
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  SPEAKER_02: You remember in Acts chapter six and verse thirty one, the Bible says believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you shall be saved and your house.
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  SPEAKER_02: Multiple times in the book of Acts, when the head of the house believed in Jesus Christ, the entire household followed suit.
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  SPEAKER_02: When Peter shared the gospel with Cornelius, the Roman centurion, he believed and his entire household was saved.
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  SPEAKER_02: Lydia and her entire household believed and was baptized.
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  SPEAKER_02: The Philippian jailer believed, and his entire household was saved.
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  SPEAKER_02: This is the grace and provision of God on display.
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  SPEAKER_02: But here is the mystery.
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  SPEAKER_02: Pay close attention.
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  SPEAKER_02: Here's the mystery.
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  SPEAKER_02: The mystery of God.
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  SPEAKER_02: You see, God said to Noah and his family, come into the Ark, not go into the Ark, but come.
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  SPEAKER_02: He issued an invitation.
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  SPEAKER_02: Each member of Noah's household had to personally choose to enter the Ark.
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  SPEAKER_02: No one was compelled to enter the Ark.
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  SPEAKER_02: They had to individually exercise saving faith.
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  SPEAKER_02: No doubt, having lived six hundred plus years, Noah was a man of abundant financial resources.
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  SPEAKER_02: He had to be to finance the building of the Ark.
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  SPEAKER_02: His sons had probably accumulated significant possessions in a hundred and twenty years.
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  SPEAKER_02: Entering the Ark and believing that a worldwide catastrophic flood was coming, they must have realized that they were leaving behind all of their earthly possessions.
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  SPEAKER_02: They all had to renounce the world to follow God and believe his prediction and his provision.
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  SPEAKER_02: But here's the mystery.
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  SPEAKER_02: The balance between man's free will and God's sovereign election, God's sovereign choosing, that's the mystery.
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  SPEAKER_02: Obviously God chose Noah and his sons, but at the same time they all had to choose to obey.
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  SPEAKER_02: They had to choose to build the ark, and they had to choose finally to enter into the dark confines of the ark, along with thousands of animals.
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  SPEAKER_02: Can you imagine the sounds and the smells in that ark?
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  SPEAKER_02: How creepy is that?
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  SPEAKER_02: The dividing line between man's freedom of choice and God's electing grace is beyond the comprehension of our finite and fallible minds.
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  SPEAKER_02: Theologians have debated this dividing line for centuries.
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  SPEAKER_02: The truth is that man's free will and God's sovereign choosing run parallel to one another throughout the pages of Scripture, like the rails of a train track that eventually merge together in the far distance.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's a matter of perspective.
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  SPEAKER_02: Close up they seem to be two separate and distinct concepts, but far away, when I get to heaven, I'm sure God will explain to me how the two are really one.
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  SPEAKER_02: But for now, to my little pea brain, it's a mystery.
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  SPEAKER_02: You see, God promised to save Noah's family a hundred twenty years prior in chapter six and verse eighteen, when he initially gave instructions for building the Ark, long before they volunteered to enter the Ark a century later in chapter seven and verse seven.
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  SPEAKER_02: But when the time arrived, they each had to choose.
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  SPEAKER_02: Now here's where the mystery of faith affects you and me.
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  SPEAKER_02: The Bible plainly teaches that you and I were chosen in him before the foundation of the world.
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  SPEAKER_02: That's in Ephesians chapter one and verse four.
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  SPEAKER_02: God chose you and me in Christ before the foundation of the world.
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  SPEAKER_02: And yet Paul exhorted the Philippian jailer to call upon the name of the Lord, and you shall be saved, indicating that he personally had to choose.
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  SPEAKER_02: He had to make a choice.
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  SPEAKER_02: This was the same choice that you and I had to make when we decided to follow Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_02: So which is it?
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  SPEAKER_02: Did God choose me or did I choose to follow him?
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  SPEAKER_02: The answer is yes.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yes, both are true.
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  SPEAKER_02: But how can that be?
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  SPEAKER_02: It is true in the same way that Jesus is both fully God and fully man.
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  SPEAKER_02: It is true in the same way that God is one and yet God is three.
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  SPEAKER_02: He is three and one.
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  SPEAKER_02: It is true in the same way that the Bible is God's word and yet written by men, in fact forty different men.
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  SPEAKER_02: Still it's the word of God.
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  SPEAKER_02: There are spiritual concepts, doctrinal concepts that are way beyond our finite understanding, that are plainly taught in Holy Scripture.
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  SPEAKER_02: We have to accept the plain teaching of God's Word and trust that He will explain to us on the other side.
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  SPEAKER_02: I've seen grown men, Christian men disputing over these concepts until they are red in the face and hot under the collar.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's a useless dispute.
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  SPEAKER_02: Because when we get to heaven we will all find that we were wrong about some part of our theology that we were sure fire about.
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  SPEAKER_02: Be thankful that God chose you and that he allowed you to choose him.
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  SPEAKER_02: More than anything, be thankful for grace.
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  SPEAKER_02: Grace grace God's grace Grace that is greater than all our sin.
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  SPEAKER_02: Above everything, brothers and sisters, be thankful for grace, the grace of God that is greater than all of our sin.
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  SPEAKER_02: Well, you're listening to devotions with Dr.
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  SPEAKER_02: Papa.
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  SPEAKER_02: And until next week, I hope you'll remember that Jesus loves you and your doctor loves you.
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  SPEAKER_02: And I know that we're coming up on the Christmas season, and I know that you're busy, and there's a lot of hubbub in your life.
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  SPEAKER_02: But I want to encourage you to take time during this season to bend your knee, bow your head, humble your heart, and worship the true King.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for listening to this edition of More Than Medicine.
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