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Noah and the Ark - 4/19/26 - Meadows Baptist Church - Pastor Charlie Branch · Meadows Baptist Church Podcast

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  Welcome to the podcast of Meadows
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  Baptist Church of Walnut Cove, North
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  Carolina. We're so glad you joined us
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  today. If you enjoy today's message, be
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  sure to subscribe, follow, and share
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  with your friends. Now, let's join
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  Pastor Charlie Branch with a word from
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  God.
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  Amen. Thank you for singing this
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  morning. If you have your Bible, invite
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  you to turn with me to the book of
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  Genesis. Genesis chapter number 7. And
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  uh thankful for what God has already
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  done in our midst today. And I tell you
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  this, the Bible says faith cometh by
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  hearing and hearing by the word of God.
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  And I just believe this is what the Lord
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  would have us to do this morning. And I
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  want to preach what God has put on my
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  heart. Genesis chapter number seven. I
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  want to read just a few verses to you
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  this morning and preach a thought with
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  the help of the Lord out of Genesis
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  chapter number 7. I want to invite you
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  to stand with me once again please on a
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  reverence to the reading of God's word.
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  Genesis chapter 7. It's good to have
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  brother Cliff Willis here in the service
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  with us today. Preacher, thank you for
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  being here coming by and visit us. It's
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  so good to have you and appreciate you
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  being here as well as every visitor.
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  Thank you for being here in the house of
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  God and you members. We love you and
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  appreciate each one of you. And man, I'm
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  thankful for what God's doing. And I
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  tell you this, church, don't forget what
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  you're seeing these days. Amen. And God
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  is blessing. God is moving. And uh
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  anywhere God is working, the devil's
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  working as well. And let me say this
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  this morning. Whatever if there's
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  something in your heart that might
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  hinder this service, uh these altars are
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  open this morning. You can come get that
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  thing off of you this morning. You can
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  have liberty to enjoy uh the service,
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  the spirit of God this morning. And man,
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  I'm telling you, it's rich in here. I
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  feel his presence. And I'll tell you
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  this. You say, "Preacher, we don't go
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  all feelings." And you're right. But
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  boy, I'm thankful. Uh there's enough
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  days that I don't feel it, but I'm
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  thankful when I do. Amen. And I bless
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  his name for it this morning. Genesis
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  chapter number 7 verse number Let's
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  begin reading in verse number verse
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  number 11. Genesis chapter 7. Verse
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  number 11. You Christians pray for us
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  this morning that God would help us.
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  Genesis 7 verse number 11. The Bible
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  says, "In the 600th year of Noah's life,
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  in the second month, the 17th day of the
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  month, the same day were all the
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  fountains of the great deep broken up
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  and the windows of heaven were opened.
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  And the rain was upon the earth 40 days
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  and 40 nights. in the selfs same day
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  entered Noah and Shim and Ham and
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  Japheth the sons of Noah and Noah's wife
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  and the three wives of his sons with
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  them into the ark they and every beast
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  after his kind and all the cattle after
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  their kind and every creeping thing that
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  creepeth upon the earth after his kind
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  and every foul after his kind every bird
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  of every sort. Verse 15, notice what
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  your Bible says. And they went in unto
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  Noah into the ark, two and two of all
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  flesh, wherein is the breath of life.
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  And they that went in went in male and
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  female of all flesh, as God had
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  commanded him. And notice the last
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  phrase. And the Lord, what's your Bible
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  say? Shut him in. I don't know about you
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  this morning, but I'm thankful that
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  there are some things in my life and
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  yours that are sealed. Amen. My
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  salvation is the seal. It's the earnest
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  of the Holy Ghost in my heart, knowing
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  that one of these days, God's going to
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  come back and take us home with him. And
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  until then, I'm espoused to one husband,
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  the Lord Jesus Christ. And when he comes
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  and takes me home, the spirit of God is
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  going to lead me safely over those
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  waters, and I'll be in heaven's fair
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  land. But until then, we've got a
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  journey to do, and we're on a trip.
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  Amen. And I want to preach this morning
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  out of this text on Noah and the ark.
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  Amen. You say, "Preacher, that's not a
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  flamboyant title." Well, it's a
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  scriptural title. Amen. And so, we're
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  going to preach on that for just a
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  little while. Let's pray and ask the
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  Lord to help us for just a little while.
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  Father, thank you for allowing us to be
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  in the house of God. Thank you so much,
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  God, for what you've done in our midst
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  this morning. And Lord, you just
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  reminded me again, God, that it is not
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  in vain, Lord. And I THANK YOU. I BLESS
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  your name for that, Lord, for the
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  sleepless nights and the prayers that's
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  been prayed. God, I thank you so much
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  for being so good and so blessed to us,
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  Father, in these DAYS AND SHINING YOUR
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  GRACE UPON US, LORD, making your face
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  glow upon your children. God, I ask
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  humbly, Lord, that you would help us
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  this morning, Lord. I thank you for
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  saving Miss Bella. And Lord, I'm going
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  to go ahead and thank you, Lord, for
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  saving those others that are in this
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  building this morning, lost without God.
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  And God, I pray you'd move in a mighty
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  way. Lord, help me to preach with power
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  and demonstration of the spirit this
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  morning. Remove every hindrance, God.
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  Bind the devil and the forces of hell,
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  Lord, that would hinder. You said they
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  overcame them by the blood of the lamb
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  and by the word of their testimony, and
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  they love not their lives, even under
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  the death. God, I plead the blood this
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  morning. Lord, as a dying man to dying
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  people, I pray you'd PREACH ME THIS
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  MORNING. GOD, WOULD YOU ACCOMPLISH ALL
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  YOUR WILL IN THIS service and do what
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  needs to be done? We'll thank you for it
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  because we ask it in Jesus' name. You
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  can be seated. Amen. And amen this
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  morning. Now, we've been looking here at
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  Genesis 6 over the last few weeks.
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  Several messages here that we've looked
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  at, and God dealt with my heart about
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  this portion of scripture. He woke me up
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  this morning with this on my mind. I was
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  it was on my heart yesterday, but I
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  didn't really know what direction the
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  Lord would have us to go in. But I
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  really believe this morning if there's
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  anything that I could lead off with in
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  this ser service uh sermon this morning,
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  I would say this morning that death is
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  certain.
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  >> Death is certain this morning. And the
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  reality of my life and yours is that if
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  we do not go by the way of the rapture
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  that there will come a day in our life
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  that death will come. But boy, I'm
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  thankful that while we're here, he's
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  given us life. Amen. And life more
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  abundantly to live for him. And I I want
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  to share with you some things out of
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  this text this morning. A little
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  different than what I would normally
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  preach, but it's been like that a whole
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  lot here lately. And so I'll just say
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  this. I'm thankful God don't have to
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  work like I want him to. Amen. God don't
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  have to operate the way that we think he
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  has to operate. Amen. He can preach
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  through us and to us however he wants
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  to. But I notice in this text this
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  morning, of course, this story beginning
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  in chapter number five, Noah is born
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  unto a man by the name of Lamech. And we
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  considered there in chapter number six
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  on last Sunday night the state of the
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  world at the time of Noah's presence
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  here on this earth and how that the
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  sinfulness and the shamefulness of man's
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  heart was exceeding great before the
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  Lord and God was great with an entire
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  generation of people and though they
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  were great in every way. They had great
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  strength and they had great size and
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  they had great social status. God didn't
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  care about any of that. But what he did
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  notice was that their sin was greater
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  than all of that. And let me say this to
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  you, just to repeat it again this
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  morning. God does not care how big you
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  are this morning. HE DOES NOT CARE HOW
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  GREAT YOU THINK YOU ARE IN THE FLESH.
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  But let me say this, far greater than
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  you think you are this MORNING IS THE
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  SIN PROBLEM that's in your life. Amen.
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  And when I come to this text, the Bible
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  tells us that Noah was different in
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  spite of the defilement of the world.
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  Noah was different than all those around
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  him. And I want to preach it this
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  morning on Noah and the ark and give you
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  three things this morning. I want to
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  consider first of all, I'll give you the
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  outline and then let you go back in and
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  fill in this morning. But I want to
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  consider the man this morning. I want to
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  consider the miracles and I want to
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  consider the message this morning of
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  Noah and the ark out of Genesis 6 and
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  Genesis chapter number 7. Now, we looked
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  there on last Sunday night concerning
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  the story of Noah and how the years were
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  intertwined that Methuselah, his name
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  means when he when he dies, it shall
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  come. Speaking of the judgment of God
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  and the flood upon the earth and after
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  Methuselah died, after that event had
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  taken place that his daddy Enoch had
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  prophesied of, we know that that very
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  same year, the flood came upon the
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  earth. And in that time period, in that
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  day, Noah and his family were preparing.
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  The Bible says here in the text that in
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  the midst of that sinful age, the Bible
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  says in verse number eight, "But Noah
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  found grace in the eyes of the Lord."
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  AND WHEN I THINK ABOUT the man Noah this
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  morning, the first thing that comes to
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  my mind is the favor of God that was on
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  his life. The Bible says that Noah found
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  grace in the eyes of the Lord. And you
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  say, "Preacher, what does that mean?"
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  Well, it means this. number one that God
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  was watching. You're
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  >> right.
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  >> Amen. You say, "Preacher, how is that?"
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  Well, notice Genesis chapter number
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  seven and verse number one. Look what
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  your Bible says. And the Lord said unto
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  Noah, "Come thou and all thy whole house
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  into the ark." Look what your Bible
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  says. For thee have I seen. Notice that.
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  For thee have I seen righteous before me
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  in this generation. God had noticed what
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  Noah's life consisted of. God had taken
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  notice of Noah's careful desire to be
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  righteous and be obedient to the
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  commandment of God. And because of that,
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  he received the favor of God. And let me
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  say this to you THIS MORNING. WHEN IT
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  COMES TO YOUR life and mine, I
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  understand that there is no
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  righteousness within you and I. But the
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  righteousness that Noah possessed is the
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  same righteousness that you and I
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  possess. And it only comes upon terms in
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  faith in the word of God.
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  >> Right? He believed what God told him.
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  And the Bible says as Abraham's account
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  in Genesis 15 and verse number six, he
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  believed God and it was imputed unto
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  him. It was counted unto him for
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  righteousness. And so Noah had received
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  the favor of God. In verse number eight,
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  I notice not only Noah's favor, but I've
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  already alluded to this a little bit. We
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  notice also in verse number nine, Noah's
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  faith. Look what your Bible says. These
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  are the generations of Noah. Genesis
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  6:9, Noah was a just man and perfect in
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  his generations. Notice your Bible. And
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  Noah walked with God. Now, there's only
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  two men in the entirety of the
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  antidolivian period that were described
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  this way. And it was Noah and his great
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  greatgrandfather Enoch. Amen. And they
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  were described this way. We know Enoch
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  was raptured out, but Noah here is
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  fixing to live through this period of
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  judgment. BUT I FIND NOAH'S FAITH IS
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  EXPRESSED. THE Bible says that he was a
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  just man. He was righteous before God.
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  And of course, we know that only becomes
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  upon the terms of faith. For without
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  faith, it's impossible to please him.
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  Let me remind you of this today, this
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  morning. If you've never trusted Christ,
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  there's no amount of good works you can
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  do to merit salvation. There's nothing
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  you can do to can do to attain turn
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  eternal life. Paul said this to the
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  church at Ephesus. For by grace are you
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  saved through faith, AND THAT NOT of
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  yourselves. IT IS THE GIFT OF GOD. WHAT
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  DID HE SAY? NOT OF WORKS, lest any man
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  should boast. And Noah's faith, it
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  caused an operation in his life of a
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  righteousness because faith without
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  works is dead. Somebody help me preach
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  this morning. Noah believed God. Noah
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  was faithful, he was righteous. The
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  Bible said he wasn't only righteous, but
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  he was perfect in his generations. And
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  that simply means this, that Noah was
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  consistent all throughout his life.
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  >> You're right. Noah was 500 years old
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  according to Genesis 5 when his sons
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  were born. 600 years old when the flood
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  of waters came upon the earth. And so
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  all of that time period, Noah had been
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  faithful in God. Had this to say about
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  him, inspired by the pen of the Holy
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  Ghost. He was perfect. He was spotless
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  and blameless before God in the
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  revolvings of time. And I noticed this.
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  Not only he was righteous and perfect in
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  the revolving of time, but he also
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  walked with God. He had a relationship
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  with the Lord Jesus Christ. He had
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  fellowship with God Almighty. And let me
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  remind you this this morning. The truth
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  about your life and mine is all that
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  really matters is that relationship with
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  Jesus. You see, if that's not right,
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  nothing else in your life will be right.
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  Amen. Noah walked with God. I notice his
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  favor, his faith. I notice his family in
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  verse number 10. Noah begat three sons,
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  Shim, Ham, and Japheth. Shim of course
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  being the one through which the promised
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  seed of Israel would come through. Ham
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  being the seed of the Canaanite people
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  and Japheth it would dwell in the tents
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  of his brother Shim's children. They
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  would be servants unto them. And so
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  these three boys would be the three sons
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  through which the whole human race would
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  come from after THE ARK. BUT I NOTICE
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  this in the text and this is where I
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  want to get to. All right. I notice not
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  only his favor, his faith and his
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  family, but I notice in the text the
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  framing. You say, "What do you mean?"
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  Well, notice what the Bible says in
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  verse 13. The Bible said, "God said unto
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  Noah, "The end of all flesh has come
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  before me, for the earth is filled with
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  violence through them, and behold, I
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  will destroy them with the earth."
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  Notice what your Bible said in verse 14.
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  Make thee an ark of gopher wood. room
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  shalt thou make in the ark and shalt
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  pitch it within and without with pitch.
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  And for the next several verses, God is
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  going to extru instruct this man Noah on
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  how to construct this ark. Amen. And you
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  say, "Preacher, where are you headed
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  with this this morning?" Well, I want to
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  tell you this this morning. When I look
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  at this text, I see this man Noah. Of
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  course, he is an image here of a man
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  that's going to go through the
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  tribulation period in one sense, but
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  also I see that Noah is a type of
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  Christ.
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  >> You say, "How is that?" Well, the Bible
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  says God told him to make an ark. In
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  essence, in our terms, that means Noah,
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  you got to build a boat,
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  >> right?
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  >> And the Bible, we often compare it this
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  way. We call the church what? the old
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  ship
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  >> of Zion.
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  And I want to preach on that thought for
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  a little minute this morning. Noah and
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  the ark as a type of Christ. You say,
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  "How is that?" Well, I notice his
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  framing in this text. God had designed
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  this,
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  >> right?
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  >> I so much preaching this, I ain't going
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  to be able to get it all out. But God
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  had instructed him to frame this arc.
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  And let me say this, this was a
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  spiritual work.
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  >> Right?
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  >> You say, "How is that, preacher? It was
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  physical labor that Noah was doing." You
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  understand that if Noah had not built
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  the ark, the human race would have died
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  completely.
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  >> You're right.
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  >> Amen.
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  >> There would have been no more human
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  race. And so God entrusted Noah with the
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  salvation of the human race. You're
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  >> right.
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  >> I really just dropping the hammer right
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  on the first point. Amen. I'm saying God
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  had entrusted this man Noah with the
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  salvation of the first part in this text
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  of the human race. And in this frame and
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  he follows directly the instructions of
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  God Almighty by the scriptures pinned
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  upon the pages of the word of God. You
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  can go up there north and see the the
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  the replica that they built of the ark.
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  But I really don't believe that there's
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  anybody that could do justice to what
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  this ark really was. And let me say this
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  to you today. There's been a lot of
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  people tried to build the church. Amen.
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  Outside of that Bible right there. But
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  you can have a building and you can have
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  people. But if you don't have the
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  presence and power of the HOLY GHOST OF
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  GOD, YOU'VE GOT NOTHING more than a
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  social club and a secular fellowship.
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  Amen. Hey, they can build all the arks
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  that they want to build. But they won't
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  never be an ark like Noah's. Amen. Noah
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  built the ark. The Bible says Hebrews
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  said while it was preparing, he built it
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  to THE SAVING OF HIS HOUSE. AMEN.
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  >> And Jesus said, he said, "Upon this
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  rock, I'll build my church,
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  >> and the gates of hell shall not prevail
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  against it." Amen. Notice the miracles
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  in the text. We're going to move quickly
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  this morning. I see in this text, and it
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  always amazes me, there's so many
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  miracles that take place. Now, really,
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  in a sense, these are not miracles. But
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  to us, when we consider this this
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  morning, you know, we could talk about
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  the dimensions of the ark. I mean, it's
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  longer than a football field, a
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  humongous boat this was. And I want to
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  remind you of the truth this morning
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  that it never rained from the sky.
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  >> That's right.
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  >> Rain had never fallen out of the sky.
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  The Bible says that the earth was
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  watered with the dew that came up from
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  the ground. And the ground was kept by
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  that dew which arose from the earth. And
• 16:47
  you understand Noah's building an ark.
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  And they've never seen it rain.
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  >> God is telling this generation, "Hey,
• 16:53
  I'm going to flood the earth." And Noah
• 16:55
  is preaching the whole time he's
• 16:57
  building the ark. Somewhere between 25
• 16:59
  and 75 years, Noah is building this ark.
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  And the whole time the Bible calls him a
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  preacher of righteousness. He's a
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  preacher. the whole time. Judgments are
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  coming. Judgments are coming. While he's
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  a hammering on that ark, he's a
• 17:13
  hammering on the souls of men THAT
• 17:15
  JUDGMENTS ARE COMING. AND I THINK ABOUT
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  THIS TEXT. I consider the miracles here.
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  Number one, I think about the miracle of
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  the floating of the ark.
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  >> You say, "Preacher, what is that?" Well,
• 17:25
  nobody ever built a boat like this.
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  >> And you think about this ark, what it's
• 17:31
  sitting upon. You understand there was
• 17:33
  enough water. And even science tells us
• 17:35
  today that there's still enough water in
• 17:37
  Earth's atmosphere and on the land and
• 17:40
  under the land that that it could
• 17:41
  possibly flood the entire earth again.
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  But that'll never happen. Amen. Because
• 17:46
  God said it's not going to happen. Well,
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  let me say this to you today there. This
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  boat stayed flow through seas that arose
• 17:53
  15 feet over the top of the highest
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  mountain. You understand that must have
• 17:58
  been tempestuous rain for 40 days and 40
• 18:01
  nights. this arc state of flow. But let
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  me say to you this morning, the church
• 18:06
  has weathered a whole lot more than the
• 18:07
  ark did. Amen. It weathered the dark
• 18:10
  ages and the Middle Ages, the times when
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  persecution was high and heavy. And let
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  me say this, we're still meeting here
• 18:17
  2,000 years later after the cross. THE
• 18:19
  CHURCH HAS WEATHERED THE STORMS. AMEN.
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  >> The word of God, men of God, children of
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  God have weathered the storms. The
• 18:29
  miracle of the floating of the ark, the
• 18:30
  miracle of the finding of the animals.
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  You think about this. God told Noah
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  there in chapter six, he says, "You get
• 18:37
  two of every kind." Two of every kind,
• 18:41
  Noah. And I don't know about you, but
• 18:44
  that's a lot of animals.
• 18:45
  >> Amen.
• 18:46
  >> You can look at the replica and what
• 18:48
  what they believe the size of that ark
• 18:50
  was, and you say, "Preacher, well, that
• 18:51
  may not be all that many animals." Well,
• 18:54
  let me just say this to you. I believe
• 18:56
  there was more animals before the flood
• 18:57
  than there is now. That's
• 18:58
  >> right.
• 18:59
  >> Because there's many things that's went
• 19:00
  extinct. All right, we ain't got time to
• 19:02
  preach all that. I'm headed somewhere.
• 19:04
  Stay with me. But he finds all these
• 19:07
  animals. And I'll say more about that in
• 19:10
  a minute. Let me say this. You
• 19:12
  understand that the church has found a
• 19:13
  convert in every generation,
• 19:15
  >> right?
• 19:17
  >> Every preacher in every generation. How
• 19:19
  is that, preacher? Well, I'm I'm a
• 19:20
  convert,
• 19:21
  >> right?
• 19:22
  >> And you know what? I can trace my
• 19:24
  conversion all the way back to the days
• 19:25
  of the early church.
• 19:27
  >> In every generation, there's been
• 19:28
  somebody who's gotten saved. God only
• 19:31
  knows what he'll do with your life
• 19:33
  >> because you got saved this morning.
• 19:35
  >> What I'm saying is the miracle of the
• 19:37
  finding of the animals. There's so much
• 19:38
  I could preach on this, but I got to get
• 19:40
  to the message. There's the floating of
• 19:42
  the ark, the finding of the animals.
• 19:44
  There's the food for them annually.
• 19:47
  You think about this. The Bible teaches
• 19:48
  that they were on the ark at least a
• 19:50
  year. Actually 14 months from what I
• 19:53
  believe they were on the ark for a year
• 19:55
  and 14 months. And you know what? They
• 19:57
  had enough food to supply the need the
• 19:58
  entire time.
• 19:59
  >> You're right.
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  >> Amen.
• 20:02
  >> Come on.
• 20:06
  >> We ain't run out of bread.
• 20:07
  >> You're right. Right.
• 20:10
  >> It ain't changed. This is real simple,
• 20:12
  but it's real good. Amen. It ain't cause
• 20:14
  I'm preaching either. I'm just telling
• 20:15
  you the truth. We still got the Bible.
• 20:18
  >> And there's still plenty more where that
• 20:20
  came from. Amen.
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  >> Notice this tonight. This morning, I see
• 20:24
  the message. I see the miracles all this
• 20:28
  time on the ark. So many more miracles I
• 20:29
  could speak of, but I want to give you
• 20:31
  the message this morning. Notice chapter
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  7 verse number 13.
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  The Bible says verse 12, the rain was
• 20:39
  upon the earth 40 days and 40 nights.
• 20:42
  Verse 13. In the self-same day entered
• 20:45
  Noah and Shem and Ham and Japheth, the
• 20:48
  sons of Noah, Noah's wives, Noah's wife,
• 20:51
  and the three wives of his sons with
• 20:52
  them into the ark. They and every beast
• 20:56
  after his kind, and all the cattle after
• 20:57
  their kind, and every creeping thing
• 21:00
  that creepeth upon the earth after his
• 21:01
  kind, and every foul after his kind,
• 21:04
  every bird of every sort. And they went
• 21:07
  in unto an oa into the ark, two and two
• 21:09
  of all flesh, wherein is the breath of
• 21:12
  life. And they that went in went in male
• 21:14
  and female of all flesh, as God had
• 21:16
  commanded him, and the Lord shut him in.
• 21:19
  You see, in this text, what we discover
• 21:21
  is Noah has built the ark. All right?
• 21:24
  Not only we've discovered that Noah has
• 21:26
  built the ark, but he's also born in the
• 21:28
  ark.
• 21:28
  >> You're right.
• 21:29
  >> Aren't you thankful when Jesus built the
• 21:31
  church, he didn't leave it?
• 21:32
  >> You're right. Amen.
• 21:34
  >> He said, "I'll send you another
• 21:35
  comforter
• 21:36
  >> that he may abide with you forever, even
• 21:38
  the spirit of truth. When he has come,
• 21:40
  he'll guide you into all truth.
• 21:41
  >> He'll teach you of all things whatsoever
• 21:43
  I've spoken unto you."
• 21:45
  >> He didn't only build the boat, but he
• 21:46
  boarded the boat.
• 21:48
  >> And the Bible says here in the text, and
• 21:50
  I I'm going to give you a little nugget
• 21:51
  here, and I'll give you the three
• 21:52
  points, and we'll be done. You see, the
• 21:54
  Bible, we often think, how did Moah find
• 21:56
  all those animals? Well, I submit to
• 21:58
  you, he didn't find them.
• 21:59
  >> You're right.
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  >> Notice the text. The Bible says in verse
• 22:03
  number, notice verse number seven, Noah
• 22:07
  went in his sons and his wife and his
• 22:08
  son's wives with him into the ark
• 22:10
  because of the waters of the flood. So
• 22:12
  Noah and his family are in the ark.
• 22:14
  Notice what the Bible says in verse
• 22:16
  number eight, of clean beasts, and of
• 22:18
  beasts that are not clean, of thousand,
• 22:20
  of everything that creepeth upon the
• 22:21
  earth. Notice verse nine. There went in
• 22:24
  two and two. What's that next word?
• 22:26
  Unto. There went in two and two. unto
• 22:30
  Noah into the ark, the male and the
• 22:32
  female, as God had commanded Noah. Now,
• 22:34
  we've all seen the pictures, all right?
• 22:36
  We've seen the picture depictions of
• 22:38
  this. There's a big old boat. Noah
• 22:39
  standing the door of it, and the animals
• 22:41
  are marching, one beside the other one,
• 22:43
  into the ark. You know what? I really
• 22:45
  don't believe that's that's too far from
• 22:47
  the truth. I believe God sent him in
• 22:50
  there.
• 22:51
  >> You see that man over there in that
• 22:53
  boat, you go to where he is,
• 22:56
  >> right?
• 22:57
  >> Oh my. Is anybody on board with me this
• 23:00
  morning?
• 23:01
  >> Hey friend, we didn't get into this
• 23:02
  thing ourselves.
• 23:03
  >> You're right.
• 23:04
  >> Jesus come to where we was at.
• 23:07
  >> And said, "You see that boat up there?"
• 23:09
  >> AMEN.
• 23:10
  >> HEY, JESUS IS UP THERE. THE HOLY GHOST
• 23:13
  SAID, "HEY, COME." LOOK WHAT YOUR BIBLE
• 23:14
  SAID in Genesis 7 and verse number one.
• 23:17
  The Lord said unto Noah, "Come thou."
• 23:19
  Amen. That's the MESSAGE OF THE HOLY
• 23:21
  GHOST TO THIS GENERATION. COME. AMEN.
• 23:24
  AND THE BIBLE SAYS NOAH STOOD IN THE
• 23:26
  DOOR OF THAT ARK AND TWO BY TWO EVERY
• 23:29
  ANIMAL of every kind CAME UNTO HIM IN
• 23:32
  THAT ARK. LET ME SAY THIS. EVERY SINNER
• 23:34
  THAT GOD KNEW IN THE FORNOWLEDGE BEFORE
• 23:36
  THE BEGINNING OF THIS WORLD. HE KNEW
• 23:38
  THAT THEY WOULD BE SAVED. HE'S WATCHED
• 23:40
  EVERY ONE OF THEM GO INTO THE ARK. AND
• 23:42
  THANK GOD THERE AIN'T A ONE OF THEM GOT
• 23:44
  OUT. AMEN. AND NOTICE THIS. ALL RIGHT.
• 23:46
  This ain't the best part. Amen. Notice
• 23:48
  the text. VERSE NUMBER 13. THE BIBLE
• 23:51
  says that after the rain begins to
• 23:52
  descend, that very same day entered
• 23:55
  Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons
• 23:58
  of Noah, Noah's wife, and his three
• 24:00
  wives of his sons with them into the
• 24:02
  ark. Now, in the message, I want you to
• 24:04
  note, first of all, the message of Noah
• 24:06
  and the ark is seen in the entrance.
• 24:09
  >> You say, "What do YOU MEAN, PREACHER?"
• 24:10
  WELL, THIS ARK is a type of salvation
• 24:13
  that rides upon the flood of God's
• 24:15
  judgment. And the Bible says in verse
• 24:18
  14, "They and every beast after his
• 24:20
  kind, and all the cattle after their
• 24:22
  kind, and every creeping thing that
• 24:24
  creepeth upon the earth after his kind,
• 24:26
  and every foul after his kind, every
• 24:29
  bird of every sword, and they went in,
• 24:31
  there's the word again, unto Noah into
• 24:34
  the ark." You say, "Preacher, what do
• 24:36
  you mean?" I'm saying THIS MORNING, THEY
• 24:38
  DIDN'T ALL GO in the same way.
• 24:40
  >> You're right.
• 24:41
  >> You know what? Them birds, they flew in.
• 24:44
  >> Amen. them mammals. They walked in.
• 24:47
  >> That's right.
• 24:48
  >> You know what? There was a snake on the
• 24:50
  boat.
• 24:50
  >> Right.
• 24:51
  >> So, you know what it did?
• 24:53
  >> Slithered in.
• 24:55
  >> You say, "What's the truth you're trying
• 24:56
  to tell me?" It don't matter how you get
• 24:58
  in.
• 24:59
  >> You're right.
• 25:00
  >> It just matters that you get in.
• 25:02
  >> You're right.
• 25:03
  >> Amen. Hey, it don't matter if it's 15
• 25:05
  minutes before preaching time on Sunday
• 25:07
  morning. It don't matter if it's down at
• 25:09
  McDonald's ON THE CORNER STREET AND WANT
• 25:11
  TO CO. IT DON'T MATTER IF IT'S BY A
• 25:13
  BEDSIDE SOMEWHERE. IT DON'T MATTER IF
• 25:15
  YOU SHED TEARS or if you weep and cry
• 25:18
  for months after YOU GET SAVED. IT'S NOT
• 25:20
  ABOUT HOW YOU GET IN, BUT IT'S JUST
• 25:22
  ABOUT THE FACT THAT YOU GOT IN. AREN'T
• 25:24
  YOU THANKFUL FOR THE DAY THAT JESUS
• 25:27
  SHOWED HIMSELF TO YOU? AND HE WASN'T
• 25:29
  CONCERNED ABOUT WHO YOU ARE IN THE SENSE
• 25:32
  OF HOW YOU'RE GOING TO GET IN. BUT HE
• 25:34
  SAID, "IF YOU'LL JUST COME, COME UNTO ME
• 25:36
  ALL YE THAT LABOR AND ARE HEAVY LADEN."
• 25:38
  HE SAID, "I'LL GIVE YOU REST." HE SAID,
• 25:40
  "TAKE MY YOKE UPON YOU. THAT'S THE
• 25:43
  SALVATION." HE SAID, "IT'S EASY AND MY
• 25:45
  BURDEN IS LIGHT." AMEN.
• 25:48
  >> Let me say this to you this morning. You
• 25:50
  say, "Preacher, I don't believe that."
• 25:51
  Everybody's got to be saved the same
• 25:53
  way. Well, in a sense, it comes from
• 25:54
  that truth right there.
• 25:56
  >> You're right.
• 25:56
  >> Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by
• 25:59
  what?
• 26:00
  >> So, that's true this morning. But let's
• 26:02
  let's just think about scripture for a
• 26:04
  minute.
• 26:05
  >> Think about Zakius
• 26:07
  >> and think about the Apostle Paul.
• 26:10
  Zakius was up in a tree cuz he was
• 26:13
  curious about the Lord. Jesus comes by
• 26:16
  and you know what he does? He looks up
• 26:17
  in that tree and says, "Zakius, come
• 26:19
  down." That's
• 26:19
  >> right.
• 26:20
  >> I'm going to your house today.
• 26:22
  >> So, you know what Zakius moment of
• 26:24
  salvation was?
• 26:26
  >> Climbing down out of the tree.
• 26:27
  >> Amen. Somebody asked Zakius if he were
• 26:30
  to be here with us this morning. We
• 26:31
  asked him, "How'd you get saved?" Well,
• 26:32
  he said, "Come." And I climbed DOWN.
• 26:34
  AMEN. THAT'S HOW HE GOT SAVED. BUT YOU
• 26:36
  KNOW WHAT? THE APOSTLE PAUL, if he were
• 26:38
  here this morning, he would take two
• 26:40
  hours to share his testimony, who he was
• 26:43
  with, where he was going, what he was
• 26:45
  doing. He would tell us how the light
• 26:46
  was so bright that it blinded him for
• 26:48
  three days. And he couldn't see,
• 26:50
  COULDN'T WE, DIDN'T KNOW WHAT HE WAS
• 26:52
  GOING TO DO, BUT HE HEARD A VOICE FROM
• 26:53
  HEAVEN SAYING, "SAUL, SAUL, why
• 26:55
  persecutest thou me?" And you know what
• 26:58
  Jesus did that day on the Damascus ROAD?
• 27:01
  THE VERY SAME THING HE DID FOR ZAKIUS,
• 27:03
  HE SAVED HIM BY his grace. YOU SAY,
• 27:05
  "PREACHER, I DON'T BELIEVE ZAKIUS GOT
• 27:07
  SAVED." LET ME JUST GIVE YOU THE TRUTH
• 27:09
  THIS MORNING. JESUS SAID WHEN HE WALKED
• 27:11
  UP INTO HIS HOUSE, HE SAID, "THIS DAY IS
• 27:13
  FAITH. Come to this house."
• 27:16
  >> Amen.
• 27:17
  >> That's good.
• 27:18
  >> It's not about how you get in.
• 27:20
  >> Amen.
• 27:21
  >> The entrance is not what's necessary.
• 27:24
  >> Amen.
• 27:25
  >> It's not about whether you fly in.
• 27:28
  Oh man, I wish y'all hook up with that
• 27:30
  this morning. It's not about if you fly
• 27:32
  in, man. You might come running,
• 27:34
  weeping. But you know what? That five
• 27:35
  little six-year-old kid, they probably
• 27:37
  not going to do that,
• 27:38
  >> right?
• 27:39
  >> They might not even shed a tear,
• 27:40
  >> right?
• 27:41
  >> But you know what you'll see in them?
• 27:43
  The same thing you'll see in that old
• 27:44
  drunk that gets saved. You'll see that
• 27:45
  burden lift,
• 27:46
  >> right?
• 27:47
  >> Amen.
• 27:47
  >> Off of them.
• 27:48
  >> Amen.
• 27:49
  >> I think not only about the interest, but
• 27:51
  I think about the entirety.
• 27:54
  Notice the text. Verse 15. And they,
• 27:57
  that's the animals,
• 28:00
  all of that animal life. The Bible says,
• 28:02
  "And they went in unto Noah into the
• 28:05
  ark, two and two of all flesh." Notice
• 28:07
  that of all flesh, wherein is the breath
• 28:11
  of life. You know what that tells me
• 28:13
  this morning? There wasn't one missed.
• 28:15
  >> Right.
• 28:16
  >> You're right.
• 28:17
  >> Every animal that was supposed to be in
• 28:19
  the ark
• 28:21
  >> was in the ark.
• 28:22
  >> You say, "Preacher, how does that
• 28:24
  relate?" Well, let me say this. The
• 28:25
  Bible says, "Whosoever will."
• 28:26
  >> That's right.
• 28:27
  >> But you realize not everybody's going to
• 28:29
  be saved.
• 28:30
  >> That's right.
• 28:31
  >> But God knows who will trust him.
• 28:34
  >> That's right.
• 28:35
  >> And who will reject him.
• 28:36
  >> Amen.
• 28:37
  >> And one of these days when that boat
• 28:39
  gets boarded for the last time,
• 28:43
  >> you know what? The entirety,
• 28:46
  >> every soul that would be saved will be
• 28:49
  saved. Right?
• 28:50
  >> Jesus said this, "All that the father
• 28:52
  has given to me," he said, "All the
• 28:53
  father given to me will come to me. He
• 28:55
  that cometh to me, I will in no wise
• 28:56
  cast out."
• 28:57
  >> Right?
• 28:58
  >> He said, "And them that the father has
• 28:59
  given me said, I've not lost none."
• 29:01
  >> Yeah. Amen.
• 29:02
  >> I've not lost one.
• 29:04
  >> That's right.
• 29:04
  >> He's not going to let us go. That's
• 29:06
  >> right.
• 29:06
  >> What did he say? He said, "Them that's
• 29:08
  in my father's hand, HE'S GREATER THAN
• 29:10
  ALL. AND NO MAN IS ABLE TO PLUCK THEM
• 29:13
  OUT OF MY FATHER'S HAND." AREN'T YOU
• 29:15
  THANKFUL THIS MORNING TO BE IN THE
• 29:17
  CHURCH OF THE LIVING GOD? TO BE SAVED BY
• 29:20
  GRACE. HEY FRIEND, I CAN'T GET OUT EVEN
• 29:22
  IF I WANTED TO THIS MORNING.
• 29:25
  >> But bless God, I don't want to.
• 29:27
  >> Amen.
• 29:28
  >> Thank God the entirety of the church
• 29:30
  will be delivered on this ark. But the
• 29:33
  Bible says this. We see the entrance. We
• 29:36
  see the entirety. But notice the end in
• 29:39
  verse 16. And they that went in went in
• 29:42
  male and female of all flesh as God had
• 29:45
  commanded him. Let me say this before I
• 29:48
  give you the last thought. You know
• 29:49
  what? Noah did everything that God told
• 29:50
  him to do.
• 29:51
  >> You're right.
• 29:52
  >> You know what? Jesus has done everything
• 29:54
  God told him to do.
• 29:56
  >> Jesus was obedient to the will of the
• 29:58
  father. He said, "My need is to do the
• 29:59
  will of him that sent me and to finish
• 30:02
  >> right
• 30:02
  >> his work." Yeah.
• 30:03
  >> And on Calvar's cross, what'd he say?
• 30:06
  >> It's finished. He did everything God
• 30:08
  told him to do. You know what? the day
• 30:10
  the Bible says there in the text and the
• 30:13
  Lord shut him in. You know what? When
• 30:15
  that door closed, you know what? Noah
• 30:17
  had done everything that he could do.
• 30:19
  >> That's right.
• 30:20
  >> And here's the truth to this
• 30:23
  message this morning.
• 30:26
  The message of Noah and the ark is there
• 30:28
  came a day when the door closed.
• 30:29
  >> You're right.
• 30:30
  >> Right.
• 30:32
  >> And I want to say this to you, that
• 30:33
  could be today.
• 30:34
  >> You're right.
• 30:35
  >> And you know what I've done as the
• 30:36
  messenger?
• 30:38
  I've given you one more opportunity.
• 30:40
  You're
• 30:40
  >> right.
• 30:41
  >> And I can tell you this, the Holy Ghost
• 30:43
  is giving you another opportunity.
• 30:45
  >> Right.
• 30:46
  >> But the Bible says in Genesis 6, you
• 30:48
  remember what God said? My spirit shall
• 30:50
  not always strive with man. That's
• 30:52
  >> right.
• 30:54
  >> You know what? She might have been the
• 30:55
  last soul had to get saved.
• 30:57
  >> Right. Come on.
• 30:58
  >> Before Jesus comes. You say, "Preacher,
• 30:59
  but I'm lost." Well,
• 31:01
  >> come on.
• 31:02
  >> You going to trust him?
• 31:04
  >> Amen.
• 31:05
  Right.
• 31:07
  >> You say, "Is there opportunity,
• 31:08
  preacher, are you breathing?"
• 31:10
  >> That's right.
• 31:11
  >> Yes. Go ahead.
• 31:12
  >> Do you want to be saved?
• 31:13
  >> Amen.
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  >> You can be saved this morning.
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  >> As we all stand, every head bowed and
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  every eye closed this morning,
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  Christians are praying.
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  The message of knowing the ark is this.
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  It doesn't matter how you get in. It
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  only matters that you are in.
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  And everybody that's going to get in
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  will get in. Thank you for joining our
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  service today. We'd love it if you'd
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  join us in person the next time you are
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  able at Meadows Baptist Church. Our
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  physical address is 2988 Stewart Road in
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  Walnut Cove, North Carolina. Our service
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  times are Sunday school at 10:00 a.m.,
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  Sunday morning worship at 11:00 a.m.,
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  Sunday evening worship at 6:00 p.m., and
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  Wednesday evening Bible study at 700
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  p.m. For more information, visit us at
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  meadowsbaptisturch.com.
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  Thanks again for tuning in.