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When Failure is Final - 4/29/26 - 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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  All right, take your Bible tonight. take
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  God's word and turn with me to the book
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  of Genesis once again and uh I just have
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  not been able to get away from these
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  verses of late and uh been praying about
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  the service tonight and I don't ever
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  want to just u just preach what I got
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  but it's what I got and it's what the
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  Lord gave me. It's what he said preach
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  and so that's what I'm going to do and
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  uh give you this thought tonight. Really
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  more of a Sunday type message but I'm
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  going to preach it best the Lord will
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  help me tonight. Genesis chapter 9. And
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  uh
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  and I want you to know tonight, church,
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  I I I really do appreciate each one of
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  you tonight. And uh I'm thankful for
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  you. And I'm thankful for your faithful
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  service, your faithfulness to this
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  church. And I tell you, if we had if
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  everybody in our church on Sunday was
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  like the crowd that's here tonight, we
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  wouldn't have no issues. Amen. And I I
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  really do. I appreciate you uh from the
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  bottom of my heart and I want you to
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  know that. Amen. And I thank the Lord
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  for you. Genesis chapter number 9. I
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  want to read verse number 20. Genesis 9
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  verse number 20 down through the end of
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  the chapter tonight and then I'll give
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  you the thought and the message and
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  we'll be done. Genesis 9:20. The Bible
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  says, "And Noah began to be a husbandman
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  and he planted a vineyard and he drank
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  of the wine and was drunken and he was
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  uncovered within his tent. And Ham the
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  father of Canaan saw the nakedness of
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  his father and told his two brethren
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  without. And Shim and Japheth took a
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  garment and laid it upon both their
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  shoulders and went backward and covered
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  the nakedness of their father. And their
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  faces were backward. And they saw not
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  their father's nakedness. And Noah awoke
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  from his wine and knew what his younger
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  son had done unto him. And he said,
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  "Cursed be Canaan, a servant of servants
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  shall he be unto his brethren." And he
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  said, "Blessed be the Lord God of
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  Sheim." and Canaan shall be his servant.
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  God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall
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  dwell in the tents of Shin, and Canaan
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  shall be his servant. And Noah lived
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  after the flood 350 years. And all the
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  days of Noah were 950
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  years, and he died. Let's go to the Lord
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  in prayer and ask him to help us
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  tonight. Father, thank you for allowing
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  us to be in the house of God. Lord, I do
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  not take this privilege that you've
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  given us lightly tonight. But I thank
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  you for it. I thank you for entrusting
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  me with the gospel, Lord, that you
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  counted me faithful. As the Apostle Paul
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  said, you put me into the ministry, and
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  I thank you for that. God, I ask you
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  would help us tonight. Clothe me in my
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  calling. Speak to me and through me
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  tonight. Get all glory to yourself. Rid
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  us of flesh tonight. And Lord, may we
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  see no man save Jesus only. You help us
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  to receive with meekness the engrafted
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  word and open our eyes that we may
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  behold wondrous things in thy law. And
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  Lord, you told us in your word, Father,
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  Lord, that in the last days, perilous
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  times would come. And so, God, I pray
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  you would remind us of that fact
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  tonight. Make us ever aware of the days
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  that we're living in. God, that we might
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  be ever aware of the fact that you could
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  come at any moment. And Lord, I pray
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  from my heart even so come quickly.
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  Lord, I ask you that you would help us
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  tonight for this time. We give you
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  thanks for what you do. and all glory be
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  unto thee because we ask it in Jesus'
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  name. Amen. And amen. Genesis chapter
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  number nine tonight we dealt with on
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  Sunday morning uh here this past weekend
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  concerning the rainbow and the thought
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  about remembering the rainbow. When I
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  look at this chapter, of course, there
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  were a lot of verses that we skipped
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  over and I just kind of been hitting the
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  highlights through this. But I want to
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  just give you a few things tonight
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  concerning this chapter by way of
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  introduction tonight and then I'll give
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  you the thought this evening. Now we
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  know tonight Noah had been blessed by
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  the Lord and I think this chapter
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  highlights that well. And number one by
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  way of introduction tonight I want you
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  to cons consider the Lord's blessing of
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  Noah in verse number one of Genesis 9.
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  The Bible literally says, "And God
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  blessed Noah and his sons and said unto
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  them, be fruitful and multiply and
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  replenish the earth." And so there was a
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  blessing that was given unto him. And
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  you say, "Preacher, why wasn't that
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  blessing given unto him?" Well, it was
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  because he was found faithful. Amen. He
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  was obedient unto the Lord and he did
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  everything that God asked him to do
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  tonight. And that is commendable for a
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  servant. Amen. That we just do what God
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  has asked us to do. Amen. We ought not
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  to expect a I guess a standing ovation
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  for it. Amen. But it is commendable. And
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  the Lord always commend his servants.
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  Amen. We serve the Lord Christ. We'll
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  receive of him the inheritance. And so I
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  think not only of the blessing of Noah,
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  how the Lord blessed him. But also think
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  about in chapter number nine, the the
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  mystery of the fact that the land here
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  in the text, the land really the whole
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  earth became Noah's here. The Lord has
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  blessed Noah, but the land, the world
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  has become Noah's here in the text. And
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  I noticed that in chapter 9:es 2, look
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  what the Bible says. The Bible says,
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  "And and the fear of you and the dread
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  of you shall be upon every beast of the
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  earth, and upon every foul of the air,
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  upon all that moveth upon the earth, and
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  upon all the fishes of the sea, and to
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  your hand are they delivered. Every
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  moving thing that liveth shall be meat
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  for you, even as the green herb have I
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  given you, all things." And then you
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  notice again in verse number 18, the
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  Bible says, "And the sons of Noah that
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  went forth of the ark were Shim, Ham,
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  and Japheth, and Ham is the father of
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  Canaan. These are the three sons of
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  Noah." Notice this phrase, "and of them
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  was the whole earth overspread." So you
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  think about the fact tonight that the
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  Lord has blessed Noah, but you
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  understand the land, the entire face of
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  the earth has become into Noah's
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  possessions. And you think about what we
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  have been given tonight as the church of
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  God. We've been given God's word. We
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  have a great possession tonight. And
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  when I think about the fact that we've
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  been blessed, we need to realize what
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  land is ours. Amen. We own We have an
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  inheritance tonight. And it is the word
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  of God. We're not waiting to get unto
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  heaven until we can live out our
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  Christian life, but we're to live it out
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  here. Amen. And our rewards are over
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  there. But what's interesting to me in
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  this text is that Noah, everything that
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  we know about Noah, how that he followed
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  God. The Bible says that he found favor
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  in the eyes of God. God said, he said,
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  "Be have I seen righteous before me in
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  this generation." Even in spite of all
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  that, what amazes me here is that
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  probably the biggest portion of Noah's
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  life is is made up of these last 10
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  verses, verses 19 down through verse
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  number 29 in this text. And you say,
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  well, what's interesting about that?
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  Well, I I I put it this way in my
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  outline here that the land has been or
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  the Lord blessed Noah and the land
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  became Noah's. You see, there's the last
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  Bible that's written about Noah in these
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  10 verses. And what I find in this is
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  this. This is a period of 350 years.
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  Verse number 28, the Bible says that
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  Noah lived after the flood. 350 years.
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  Verse 29. And all the days of Noah were
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  950 years and he died. So Noah was 600
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  years when he got off the ark here in
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  the text. And so 350 years Noah lives in
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  this text. No doubt in that 350 years
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  there were countless children that were
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  born unto Shim, Ham, and Japheth. There
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  were untold numbers of works and wonders
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  of life that had taken place upon the
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  new earth. But you understand there's
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  only 10 verses that are given to us of
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  this entire period.
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  >> Right?
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  >> Everything that goes on in these 350
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  years is given in this text. And what's
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  amazing to me here in this text is is
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  that though this is the last Bible about
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  Noah here, it's not a good text. It's
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  not an encouraging text. It's not
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  nothing that we would look at Noah and
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  say, "Man, he finished." Right? What we
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  find in this text is Noah failing.
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  You're
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  >> right.
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  >> And with the help of the Lord tonight, I
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  want to preach on this thought on when
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  failure is final.
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  when failure is final. Now, I'll be
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  honest with you tonight when I came to
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  this text in my studies. This was not
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  the direction that I was thinking of
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  going when I considered this message.
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  But you understand the last message
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  that's given to us about Noah is that
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  his failure here brought about a curse
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  upon his family. And when I think about
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  in this text, you understand we make the
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  statement, you know, failure is not
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  final with the Lord. And I would agree
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  with you if you make that statement.
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  Man, I'm thankful there's forgiveness
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  and there's restoration. Somebody say
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  amen tonight. There is forgiveness.
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  There is restoration with God. But you
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  understand there are some people and I
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  pray to God that there's nobody here
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  like that tonight. But the truth is
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  there's some people that their failure
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  will be and is final in their life. They
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  will allow it to consume them.
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  >> You're right. Now, the Bible says, "A
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  righteous man, a just man fallth seven
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  times and riseth up again." And what I
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  believe in this text is is that Noah
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  didn't stay down. But you see, because
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  of his sin, there was others who didn't
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  ever get up.
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  >> You're right.
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  >> And if I if I could say anything to you
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  tonight before I give you the message is
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  this. You just remember just because you
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  fall, you don't have to stay down. All
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  right? Thank God for that. But you also
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  ought to remember that when you do fall,
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  you risk the possibility of other people
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  falling with you. And though you rise
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  again, they may never rise again.
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  >> Failure can be and sometimes is final.
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  >> And I want you to I want to give you
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  three things tonight out of this text. I
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  was going to give you four, but I'm
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  going to skip the first one tonight just
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  for sake of time this evening. When I
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  think about this text and what all is
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  going on here, we need to highlight
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  number one tonight in the message, the
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  steps of Noah, the steps of Noah. Now,
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  tonight, we've used Noah as a type of
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  Christ up to this point. And you need to
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  realize that every type, every figure,
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  every foreshadowing of Christ in the
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  scripture, there's always a break.
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  There's never a perfect type of Christ
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  all throughout the Bible. And so, Noah
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  has been a great type of Christ. The ark
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  is a type of Christ. There's images of
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  Christ all throughout this. But you see
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  in this text, this is where Noah breaks
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  from his righteousness. This is where
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  Noah breaks from his holiness. And let
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  me remind you, when somebody begins to
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  sin, it never just starts out bad.
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  >> You're right.
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  >> It never just starts out in the worst
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  place. Uh and and we'll just be honest
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  tonight. You've never seen a man that
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  just ended up in a penitentiary with
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  nothing leading him to get there.
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  >> You're right. Amen. And so let's
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  consider the steps of Noah tonight. I
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  noticed number one tonight thinking
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  about the steps of Noah this evening. I
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  see number one the ground that's
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  mentioned here in the text. The Bible
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  said in verse 20 and Noah began to be in
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  what? A husbandman. Now you look up that
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  word husbandman in the Hebrew and it has
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  to do it's two uh Hebrew words and one
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  has to do with ground and the other one
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  is a caretaker. And so Noah was a a a a
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  a keeper of the ground, a tiller of the
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  ground. We know that was the command
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  that was given unto Adam, that he was to
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  teal the ground and to keep the land.
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  And the Bible says that Noah began to be
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  and husbandman in this text. And so
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  there is the ground that is given unto
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  him. And and you say, well preacher,
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  what's the significance of that? Well,
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  you just remember the vast expanse of
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  ground that Noah possessed here in this
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  text. The whole earth was his.
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  >> It all was his. He had it all at his
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  disposal tonight. And you think about
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  Noah, he had the opportunity to start
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  over again. Now, I'll be honest with
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  you. If you know anything about farming
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  tonight, you know that the best ground
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  is ground that's never been touched.
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  >> Right
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  >> now, ground down here, amen, it's been
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  had tobacco on it for years and years
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  and years. And there's no ground that's
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  more poor than tobacco land. Amen. It's
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  as poor as it can be. And ground that's
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  been used and used up the nutrients and
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  the minerals that's in it is really not
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  fair. But you think about this. After
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  this flood, all the ground was reached
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  >> because the sediments had been laid all
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  throughout the land. I'm not trying to
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  get bogged down here tonight, but I'm
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  just saying this was the blessing of
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  God. Noah was doing what he was designed
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  to do, keeping the ground. Let me remind
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  you tonight as a child of God, that's
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  our that's our demand tonight. We've
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  been left the word of God and we're been
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  called to drop the gospel plow. Amen.
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  And the field is the world. You could
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  take it any way you want to tonight. But
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  we've been entrusted with some ground
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  tonight. And I notice not only the
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  ground in the text, but I notice also
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  the grapes in the text. Look what your
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  Bible said. And Noah began to be in
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  husband and he planted a vineyard. So I
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  see here this vineyard is comes up in
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  the text. Now this is the first place in
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  the word of God that you find a vineyard
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  described. It has to do with those
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  berries. Of course we know that these
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  were grapes in this text due to the
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  subject of verse number 21. And these
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  grapes are given. So Noah is being
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  fruitful. Let me let me say this
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  tonight. He was in this field. He's
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  given the field of the world in in in a
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  sense here. And he was he was entrusted
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  with the entirety of land, the expanse
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  of the world. And he makes a farm out of
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  that. He's doing what he should be
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  doing. He plants a vineyard here in the
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  text. He's being fruitful and his job as
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  a husbandman. And I notice here not only
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  the ground and the grace, but I I notice
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  here in the text, consider, look what
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  the Bible says in verse number 20 and
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  21. The Bible says he planted a vineyard
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  in verse 21 and he drank of the wine.
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  And I put it this way in my outline. I I
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  I titled this point the glass.
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  You see what happened here in this text.
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  And I'm going to preach it this way
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  tonight for a reason. I'm going to give
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  you the literal tonight for us. How we
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  need to understand this. But what this
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  is for Noah, this this ground that he
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  had been given, these grapes that he was
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  planting, this farm in this field that
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  he had make, he had took of the fruit in
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  this text. And what happened was, you
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  understand the field was not sinful. The
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  farming was not sinful. The fruit was
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  not sinful. But what happened when it
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  what what where did this turn in the
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  text? It became sinful when Noah went
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  beyond the bounds of what God allowed.
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  >> You're right.
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  And we know that this matter of wine, it
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  is the fermentation process. Now, I'm
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  not going to try to preach that tonight,
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  but I want you to understand something
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  here in this text about this particular
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  period. Okay? Now, we know tonight Jesus
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  didn't turn water into alcoholic wine.
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  We know that. Okay? And uh the reason
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  why we know that is is if that was
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  possible, amen, he would been going
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  against his own word.
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  >> Right?
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  >> Amen. Woe to him. Amen. that giveth wine
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  to another. Amen. That's that's is
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  that's written on the pages of
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  scripture. Amen. Wine is a mock or stone
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  drinks is rage and whosoever is deceived
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  thereby is not wise. And so that's just
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  what the Bible teaches tonight. We could
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  argue back and forth about that tonight,
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  but the Bible says what it says. But
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  when I consider this text and I think
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  about Noah, I don't think so much the
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  sin is found in the drinking of the wine
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  as it is overindulgence. You're
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  >> right. Now you say, "Preacher, could
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  that couldn't that case be made for you
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  and I today?" Well, no, it couldn't.
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  >> Here's the reason why I say that.
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  Because when you think about what we
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  have in this day and time, the only
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  acceptable use for alcohol in the Bible
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  is for medicine.
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  >> Amen. Don't fall out with me right here.
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  Okay? The only acceptable use for that
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  in the Bible is for medicine. And so,
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  when we think about that thought
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  tonight, you understand they didn't have
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  Nyquil. You're
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  >> right. They didn't have aspirin and
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  ibuprofen and Tylenol. They didn't have
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  none of that. Okay? And so this
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  fermentation process, it was a a pain
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  reliever, but it was also a preserver.
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  You see this? These grapes would be made
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  into wine and they would be used to
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  preserve the wine. It would be used to
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  make it keep because you understand they
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  didn't have ice boxes,
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  >> right?
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  >> Didn't have a calvinator as the
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  old-timers used to say. And so it was it
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  was fermented so it could be preserved.
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  And so what I want you to get out of
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  this tonight is is Noah's sin came in
• 16:55
  when he was overindulgent
• 16:58
  in the blessing that God had given him.
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  Now, if there's ever anything we can
• 17:05
  identify tonight with, it would be this.
• 17:07
  You're
• 17:08
  >> right.
• 17:09
  >> Every one of us in our life, if we'd be
• 17:11
  real honest, we're overindulgent in some
• 17:13
  area of the flesh.
• 17:14
  >> Come on, preacher.
• 17:16
  >> We live in the most blessed society that
• 17:18
  has ever been in history. You're right.
• 17:21
  >> We have more than all of the world has
• 17:25
  >> at our fingertips today.
• 17:27
  >> History has never seen the likes of what
• 17:30
  we're seeing in this day and time. And
• 17:32
  so I want you to understand this this
• 17:34
  this problem of overindulgence is pres
• 17:37
  presence present in our day. And you
• 17:40
  say, "Well, what is it, preacher?" Well,
• 17:42
  it's the step the steps that Noah took.
• 17:44
  You see, he was blessed by God. He was
• 17:46
  given a an amount of land. You
• 17:48
  understand? There's never been another
• 17:49
  man that's had this much land instead
• 17:52
  instead of Adam. Amen. Noah had more
• 17:54
  land at his disposal than anybody else.
• 17:57
  He had more opportunity. He had nobody
• 17:59
  to hinder him. He had nothing to hold
• 18:01
  him back. He could have done whatever he
• 18:03
  wanted to do. But isn't it interesting
• 18:05
  of all the things he could have planted,
• 18:07
  you understand? He had to bring one of
• 18:10
  every seed over on that ark. You you
• 18:12
  realize that it had to be brought over
• 18:14
  and protected. AND SO OF ALL THE things
• 18:17
  Noah could have planted, what does he
• 18:18
  plant? A vineyard. Now, we could argue
• 18:22
  that tonight, but here's the truth of it
• 18:24
  tonight. Noah went and got involved in
• 18:26
  the one thing that was harmful to his
• 18:28
  life. You're
• 18:28
  >> right.
• 18:29
  >> And what does it remind us of? Well, it
• 18:31
  goes back to Adam and Eve. You put
• 18:33
  somebody in a perfect environment where
• 18:35
  there is no sin, where there is no
• 18:37
  temptation other than one tree, God
• 18:39
  says, "You better not eat of it lest you
• 18:41
  die." Amen. And in that perfect
• 18:43
  environment, in a perfect body, with a
• 18:46
  perfect mind, having daily fellowship
• 18:48
  with God, what did mankind still do?
• 18:50
  They still plunged the human race into
• 18:53
  sin. You say, "Preacher, what's the
• 18:54
  figure of this?" Well, Noah's just been
• 18:57
  brought over the ark. He just saved the
• 18:59
  entire race of humanity from
• 19:01
  destruction. If Noah hadn't made it, do
• 19:04
  you realize that the human race would
• 19:06
  have been over with?
• 19:07
  >> Right?
• 19:07
  >> HE'S WROUGHT VICTORY FOR THE ENTIRETY OF
• 19:10
  THE HUMAN RACE. He has spared the animal
• 19:12
  life. He has spared the human life. HE
• 19:14
  HAS BROUGHT THEM OVER to give them an
• 19:16
  opportunity to have new life. And what
• 19:19
  does he find himself doing? The moment
• 19:21
  he gets off the boat, he's partaken in
• 19:23
  death.
• 19:24
  >> Matthew Henry said this. Noah, who had
• 19:27
  kept sober in drunken company, is now
• 19:30
  drunken in sober company.
• 19:32
  >> You're right.
• 19:33
  >> Noah preached 120 years. and remind you
• 19:36
  of this. He lived 600 years of his life
• 19:38
  in that antid-deluvian age with all
• 19:41
  those wickedness, all those wicked
• 19:42
  people. When God looked at that
• 19:44
  generation and said the thoughts and
• 19:46
  intents of their heart was only evil
• 19:48
  continually, Noah lived in the middle of
• 19:50
  THAT ALL ALONG AND NEVER HAD ANY
• 19:53
  TROUBLE.
• 19:54
  Here's our danger.
• 19:57
  You see, tonight, we're not in danger of
• 20:00
  getting out in the world. You see, if I
• 20:02
  walked into a bar tonight or you walked
• 20:04
  into a bar tonight, we wouldn't be
• 20:05
  tempted by that,
• 20:07
  >> right?
• 20:07
  >> Cuz you know what? We'd be so disgusted
• 20:09
  by it.
• 20:11
  >> We know what that is. Some of you, that
• 20:12
  was what you used to be, and you're
• 20:14
  thankful that you aren't there now.
• 20:16
  >> But you see, it's not those things
• 20:18
  that'll destroy you. It's when you
• 20:20
  overindulge in what God has given you.
• 20:23
  >> Come on.
• 20:25
  >> Noah had been entrusted with so much.
• 20:27
  We've been entrusted in with so much.
• 20:30
  >> Amen. But there is a danger. You say,
• 20:32
  "What led to it?" Well, there was the
• 20:33
  steps. You see, he brought this fruit
• 20:36
  out and he allowed that fruit to
• 20:37
  overtake him. The overindulgence here in
• 20:41
  this text, I notice not only the steps
• 20:43
  of Noah, but I noticed the sin of Noah
• 20:45
  in this text. The Bible says in verse
• 20:47
  21, he drank of the wine and was drunken
• 20:50
  and he was uncovered within his tent.
• 20:53
  Now, let's get this thing back on the
• 20:54
  rails tonight. What we think about
• 20:56
  drinking, let's just put this out there.
• 20:58
  The first mention that you have of a
• 21:00
  vineyard, the first mention that you
• 21:02
  have of drinking, the first mention that
• 21:04
  you have of wine, what happens? Notice
• 21:07
  the verse. He drank of the wine and was
• 21:12
  drunken and he was uncovered within his
• 21:16
  tent. Three things here you need to see
• 21:18
  about his sin. Number one, the drinking
• 21:20
  was a sin.
• 21:21
  >> Right?
• 21:22
  >> Why was that? Well, I don't and and you
• 21:24
  can fall out with me here if you want
• 21:25
  to, but I don't believe that they had
• 21:28
  anything strong enough that he could
• 21:29
  have took one drink of it and been s by
• 21:32
  it. Okay?
• 21:33
  >> I believe Noah just sat there in a lazy
• 21:36
  place cuz he's built his vineyard. He's
• 21:39
  got it all planted and it looks all
• 21:40
  pretty. It's pruned and picked and he's
• 21:42
  got these berries off of it. And you
• 21:43
  know what he does? He goes and sits down
• 21:45
  in his house and he starts drinking.
• 21:48
  >> Amen.
• 21:50
  He starts drinking it basically like you
• 21:52
  if you went home and took too much
• 21:53
  medicine
• 21:56
  >> and so you know what happens to him? He
• 21:58
  drinks. Bible says he drinks until he
• 22:00
  becomes drunken. Look what your Bible
• 22:02
  say. This is simple, okay? It's just the
• 22:04
  truth. He drank of the wine and was
• 22:08
  drunken. His drinking was sinful because
• 22:10
  it was done without measure. His
• 22:12
  drunkenness was sinful because he was
• 22:14
  without measure himself. He became to a
• 22:17
  place where he was uncontrolled. Now you
• 22:20
  just just remember what this man has
• 22:22
  just piloted through.
• 22:25
  >> 40 days of the most intense rainfall,
• 22:28
  water coming up from the ground. I mean,
• 22:30
  the measure of destruction we can't even
• 22:32
  fathom. Noah has piloted the biggest
• 22:35
  boat that anybody had ever seen through
• 22:37
  all of that with all the all the animals
• 22:39
  on there of all different kinds,
• 22:41
  predators on this side and and birds and
• 22:43
  mammals and all over the place. And he
• 22:45
  kept them from not killing one another.
• 22:47
  And his wives, his wife and his three
• 22:50
  sons and their wives, he kept them all
• 22:52
  from not killing one another. Amen. Just
• 22:54
  get in here with me tonight. You know
• 22:55
  what I'm saying? NOAH HAS PILOTED THIS
• 22:57
  SHIP WITH NO PROBLEM.
• 23:00
  >> BUT WHERE DOES THIS PROBLEM come in?
• 23:03
  >> Amen.
• 23:04
  >> You're right.
• 23:05
  >> When it's personal.
• 23:06
  >> You know who you really are tonight is
• 23:08
  who you are when nobody's watching.
• 23:10
  >> You're right.
• 23:11
  >> You know who you really are is what you
• 23:13
  are. what you can't handle personally.
• 23:15
  Amen. You see, what you can't restrain
• 23:18
  personally is what will take you down.
• 23:20
  You may be able to stand against
• 23:22
  everything. YOU MAY BE ABLE TO WITHHOLD
• 23:24
  AGAINST ANY TEMPTATION, BUT WHAT YOU ARE
• 23:26
  IN PRIVATE and what you allow to
• 23:28
  overrule your mind when YOU'RE IN
• 23:29
  PRIVATE IS WHAT WILL DESTROY YOU.
• 23:32
  >> YOU'RE RIGHT.
• 23:34
  >> He was drinking. He was drunken. But
• 23:36
  here's where it gets to the point. Look
• 23:38
  what the Bible says in verse 21. He
• 23:41
  drank of the wine and was drunken. And
• 23:42
  what your Bible say? And he was
• 23:45
  uncovered
• 23:46
  within his tent. Now, the last time this
• 23:49
  happened, the people that were in this
• 23:51
  state were ashamed. You're
• 23:53
  >> right.
• 23:54
  >> And what had happened was they'd
• 23:55
  realized that they would become sinful.
• 23:58
  They had noticed something about
• 24:00
  themselves they'd never noticed before.
• 24:02
  And what had caused that? Well, they'd
• 24:04
  eaten of that what? Forbidden fruit. So,
• 24:08
  what's happened in this text? Well, it's
• 24:10
  not the forbidden fruit, but it is the
• 24:11
  forbidden drink.
• 24:12
  >> You're right.
• 24:13
  >> And so, what has this drink done? It's
• 24:16
  took him out of consciousness.
• 24:17
  >> You're right.
• 24:18
  >> Just as that forbidden fruit brought
• 24:20
  Adam and Eve into consciousness. Don't
• 24:22
  miss what I'm saying. This drink is what
• 24:25
  takes men and women out of their
• 24:27
  consciousness.
• 24:29
  >> You see, the worst thing that you can be
• 24:31
  is unaware.
• 24:33
  >> You're right.
• 24:33
  >> Of who you are, what you're doing, and
• 24:36
  where you're at. Now, we we could look
• 24:39
  at that tonight. We've got people we
• 24:41
  know are struggling with issues of the
• 24:43
  mind and their wives, their husbands are
• 24:45
  having to learn how to care for them
• 24:47
  because they're simply not aware of who
• 24:49
  they are or where they're at at all
• 24:50
  times anymore.
• 24:51
  >> You're right.
• 24:52
  >> You know how much of a struggle that is.
• 24:53
  We know how people who get drunk are.
• 24:55
  >> Yeah.
• 24:56
  >> They become unaware of themselves. They
• 24:58
  don't know their own power. They don't
• 25:00
  know their own strength. And so, what
• 25:02
  happens in this text is Noah doesn't go
• 25:04
  on a let's just re be real tonight. He
• 25:07
  doesn't go on a spree and beat his wife.
• 25:09
  He doesn't go and beat his sons. He
• 25:11
  doesn't go and do something out in
• 25:13
  public. But the Bible says he was
• 25:14
  uncovered within his tent. Now, when you
• 25:17
  look at that, there's more than just him
• 25:19
  being naked. It means that he was
• 25:21
  deliberately unclothed. You're
• 25:23
  >> right.
• 25:23
  >> Noah deliberately unclothed himself. And
• 25:27
  the epidemic that we have in this nation
• 25:29
  is this is that there was a time, and
• 25:31
  you hear me out and hear me well
• 25:33
  tonight. There was a time when it took
• 25:35
  an alcoholic beverage or some kind of
• 25:37
  seducing spirit of some sort to get
• 25:40
  people to come out of their clothes. But
• 25:41
  now people don't not have to drink
• 25:43
  nothing. Amen. Because their mind is so
• 25:45
  DECEIVED AND SO RANSACKED AND SO WRECKED
• 25:48
  THEY'LL WALK AROUND UNCLOTHED AND THAT'S
• 25:51
  DEMONIC FRIEND.
• 25:52
  >> The maniac of Gdair, the Bible says he
• 25:55
  was in the tombs cutting himself with
• 25:57
  stones and he wear no clothes. Amen.
• 26:01
  That's the problem we have in this
• 26:02
  country. It's not a modesty issue. It's
• 26:04
  a demon issue. Amen.
• 26:08
  >> Put some clothes on. Bless your heart.
• 26:10
  >> If you say you're a child of God and you
• 26:12
  walk around half naked out there, God
• 26:14
  help your sorry soul. AMEN. YOU NEED TO
• 26:16
  PUT SOME CLOTHES ON. AMEN.
• 26:20
  >> That's good preaching. Even if it is
• 26:22
  2026,
• 26:24
  he was uncovered within his tent. It was
• 26:26
  deliberately. You see the sin, his
• 26:28
  drinking brought drunkenness, and his
• 26:30
  drunkenness brought deliberation.
• 26:32
  something Noah WOULD HAVE THOUGHT ABOUT
• 26:34
  IN DISGUST BECAUSE HE WAS DRUNKEN. HE
• 26:37
  DID IT DELIBERATELY.
• 26:38
  >> YOU'RE RIGHT.
• 26:39
  >> You can look up the word uncovered. It
• 26:42
  means not that he just found himself
• 26:43
  that way, but he decidedly became that
• 26:46
  way.
• 26:46
  >> You're right.
• 26:48
  >> And you notice in this text, the sin of
• 26:50
  Noah, you see out of this first mention
• 26:52
  there leads the first event of another
• 26:55
  sin that we see on the pages of
• 26:57
  scripture.
• 26:58
  The Bible says in verse 22, "And Ham,
• 27:00
  the father of Canaan saw the nakedness
• 27:02
  of his father and told his two brethren
• 27:05
  with that," we consider the sin of Noah.
• 27:07
  But I want to give you this thirdly
• 27:08
  tonight and I'll be done. I consider not
• 27:11
  this, not only the steps and the sin,
• 27:13
  but notice the shame, the shame of Noah.
• 27:16
  You see, Noah's sin is really confined
• 27:18
  to verse number 21, but you understand
• 27:21
  out of his sin, there leads a whole
• 27:23
  plethora of other sins. And the Bible
• 27:27
  says in verse 22 that Ham, all right,
• 27:30
  Ham is his youngest son according to
• 27:32
  chapter 9 and verse number 24. He knew
• 27:34
  what his younger son had done unto him.
• 27:36
  Japheth is the oldest according to
• 27:38
  chapter 10 and verse 21. And Shim is the
• 27:41
  middle son. And so Ham the youngest son,
• 27:44
  the Bible says he ca he came in there
• 27:46
  and saw the nakedness of his father and
• 27:49
  told his two brethren without. Now, what
• 27:51
  you discover in this number one tonight,
• 27:54
  in the shame of Noah, Noah corrupted his
• 27:56
  family.
• 27:56
  >> You're right.
• 27:58
  >> You see, had Ham not been had Noah not
• 28:01
  been naked, Ham would have never seen
• 28:02
  him that way.
• 28:03
  >> You're right, preacher.
• 28:04
  >> Okay, you say, "Well, preacher, Ham was
• 28:07
  the one that was in the wrong." Let's
• 28:09
  say who caused it. That's
• 28:10
  >> right.
• 28:11
  >> Amen. Let's just be real. And let me
• 28:14
  just preach right there for just a
• 28:15
  minute this evening, okay? All these
• 28:17
  women folk that want to go to the beach
• 28:19
  and unclo themselves and then frustr and
• 28:21
  gripe about a man looking at them. The
• 28:23
  man's not the problem.
• 28:24
  >> Amen.
• 28:25
  >> If you put it on put it on display, JUST
• 28:28
  JUST EXPECT IT'S on sale. Amen. IF IT
• 28:31
  AIN'T FOR SALE, DON'T PUT IT ON DISPLAY.
• 28:34
  AMEN.
• 28:34
  >> YEAH, a man shouldn't be looking at it.
• 28:37
  But you better know, FRIEND, IF YOU PUT
• 28:38
  IT OUT THERE, IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN.
• 28:40
  YOU'RE
• 28:41
  >> RIGHT.
• 28:42
  >> AMEN. Ham was vulnerable here in this
• 28:45
  text. BUT LET ME SAY THIS. PAM'S VICE
• 28:47
  WAS HE WENT FARTHER than what he should
• 28:49
  have went. The truth is if you go
• 28:51
  farther than what you should go,
• 28:53
  somebody else will go farther than that
• 28:55
  with you.
• 28:56
  >> You're right.
• 28:57
  >> Notice the text again. He he saw the
• 29:00
  nakedness of his father and told his two
• 29:02
  brethren without. You look up that
• 29:04
  phrase the way it's written there. He
• 29:06
  told his two brethren there was no shame
• 29:08
  involved with this.
• 29:10
  >> Ham was not ashamed of it.
• 29:14
  I'm not trying to be vulgar or crude
• 29:15
  here, but you got to remember something.
• 29:17
  There's only four of these men on the
• 29:19
  earth,
• 29:20
  >> right?
• 29:21
  >> There's only four women on the earth.
• 29:23
  >> It's been over a year. And what has
• 29:26
  happened is is they've been corrupted by
• 29:28
  their own mental state.
• 29:30
  >> You put a man, you put a woman, you put
• 29:32
  a family in confinement for long enough,
• 29:34
  man, there's going to be some crazy
• 29:36
  things that happen.
• 29:37
  >> You're right.
• 29:37
  >> But let me say this. Ham's utterly
• 29:39
  depraved.
• 29:41
  Notice what your Bible says. You say,
• 29:43
  "Preacher, what is the corrupted
• 29:44
  family?" Well, look what the Bible said
• 29:45
  in verse 24. And Noah awoke from his
• 29:48
  wine and knew, notice this, what his
• 29:50
  younger son had done unto him. So, this
• 29:53
  means Noah Ham was not ashamed because
• 29:55
  Ham didn't just look.
• 30:00
  >> Ham didn't just look at Noah. But the
• 30:03
  Bible says when Noah woke up, he knew
• 30:04
  what had happened to him.
• 30:07
  >> Ham done something to him. Bible don't
• 30:09
  tell us what. And I'm thankful it don't.
• 30:11
  >> But here's what I'm saying to you. What
• 30:13
  you've discovered is is out of Noah's
• 30:14
  lack of character.
• 30:16
  >> Come on.
• 30:17
  >> The first sin of homosexuality seen on
• 30:19
  the pages of scripture.
• 30:20
  >> You're right.
• 30:22
  >> He woke up and he knew what Ham had done
• 30:26
  unto him.
• 30:28
  The Bible says in verse 24, notice it
• 30:30
  again, Noah woke from his wine and knew
• 30:32
  what his younger son had done unto him.
• 30:34
  And what did he do? NOAH'S SIN HAD
• 30:36
  CAUSED HIS ENTIRE FAMILY to fall.
• 30:40
  >> You're right.
• 30:40
  >> And it was his fault. But I noticed
• 30:42
  this. Not only he corrupted his family,
• 30:44
  but you see, his other boys had to cover
• 30:47
  him.
• 30:48
  >> Look what verse 23 says. And Shim and
• 30:50
  Japheth took a garment, laid it upon
• 30:52
  both their shoulders, and went backward
• 30:54
  and covered the nakedness of their
• 30:56
  father, and their faces were backward,
• 30:57
  and they saw not their father's
• 30:59
  nakedness.
• 31:00
  You know, isn't it sad that somebody
• 31:02
  else has to cover up your sin?
• 31:04
  >> You're right.
• 31:06
  his children had to take care of his
• 31:08
  sin. And here's what I'm seeing in this
• 31:10
  day and time is children are reaping the
• 31:12
  consequences of their mom and daddy's
• 31:14
  sin.
• 31:15
  >> You're right, my friend.
• 31:16
  >> The issues THAT MOM AND DADDY HAD IN
• 31:19
  their life, their children ARE REAPING
• 31:21
  THE CONSEQUENCES OF IT, and they're
• 31:23
  trying to cover it up and do right. Hey,
• 31:25
  don't don't look down. All right? This
• 31:27
  is the truth tonight. You need to
• 31:29
  understand something. WHEN YOU SIN, IT'S
• 31:31
  NOT JUST GOING TO AFFECT YOU. GO AHEAD,
• 31:34
  PREER.
• 31:34
  >> THERE'S SOME THAT'S GOING TO BE
• 31:36
  CORRUPTED BY IT, and there's some that's
• 31:38
  GOING TO HAVE TO COVER YOU UP.
• 31:39
  >> You're right.
• 31:41
  >> I could tell you a personal example
• 31:43
  tonight, but I know a family tonight. A
• 31:45
  daddy was an alcoholic, and because of
• 31:47
  that, he had he had a daughter that had
• 31:49
  to to to cover for him and try to love
• 31:52
  him through that while his son became a
• 31:54
  drug drug addict. Now, I never knew that
• 31:57
  that particular man. I don't think he
• 31:59
  was ever a drug addict, but I know he
• 32:01
  had a problem with alcohol. But out of
• 32:03
  that, his son became a drug addict.
• 32:04
  You're
• 32:04
  >> right.
• 32:05
  >> All the while the daughter was trying to
• 32:07
  protect his character somewhat and
• 32:08
  trying to love him through it. I'm
• 32:10
  saying THERE'S GOING TO BE THOSE THAT'LL
• 32:11
  cover you, but there's also going to be
• 32:13
  those that are corrupted by you. You're
• 32:15
  >> right.
• 32:17
  >> Noah corrupted his family. But you see
• 32:20
  his other two sons, they covered their
• 32:22
  father.
• 32:24
  But I notice this. All right.
• 32:26
  You see, the sadness of where all this
• 32:28
  comes to is what's found in verse number
• 32:32
  25
• 32:33
  or verse 24. The Bible says, "And Noah
• 32:35
  awoke from his wine and knew what his
• 32:37
  younger son had done unto him." Look
• 32:40
  what the Bible says. And he said,
• 32:42
  "Cursed be Canaan." Now, Canaan is the
• 32:46
  firstborn son of Ham. According to
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  chapter number 10,
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  the Bible says there, he is the
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  firstborn son of Ham. And so what we
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  notice here in this text is Noah
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  pronounces a curse on him. So Noah's
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  sin, all right, in the shame, what he's
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  done is he's corrupted his ch, one of
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  his sons. His other two sons had to
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  cover him, but he's cursed the future.
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  >> Yeah, you're right.
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  >> Look what the Bible says. Cursed be
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  Canaan, a servant of servants shall he
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  be unto his brethren. Now, we could
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  argue about this tonight, okay? And
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  here's what I want to give you about
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  this. All right? Well, you know, people
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  say this and you know, I I would agree
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  with you if you say this. You know, Noah
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  was prophesying of what was to come. I
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  would agree with you if you say that.
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  Okay, but let's just go back to where
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  they started at. What was the first
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  cause?
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  >> Come on.
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  >> Noah got drunk.
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  >> You're right.
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  >> Ham was weak.
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  >> All right. Noah knew that. But you
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  understand the sin would have never
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  taken place if Noah hadn't done what he
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  did.
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  >> You're right. All right. And so we can
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  you can say what you want to, but the
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  Bible says in verse 25, he cursed
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  Canaan. And and yes, it is prophetic,
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  but the curse would have never came upon
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  Cainan had Noah not committed the sin he
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  committed here in the text. Now, let me
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  give you this. All right, we consider
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  this text. There's a lot of preaching
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  that could go on about this text. Who
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  are the Canaanites? We we know about the
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  Canaanites. Those are the people that
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  Joshua ran out
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  of the land. It's the land of Canaan.
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  Amen. The Canaanite people, you know
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  what they spent their life doing?
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  >> Running.
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  >> You're right, man.
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  >> They spent their life being destroyed,
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  being murdered, being run out of their
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  land because of one man's sin.
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  >> You're right.
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  >> Now, let me give you this tonight.
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  Your sin may not just affect your
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  children.
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  >> Come on. But it may affect generations
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  upon generations upon generations. I
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  wish I had the names and the statistics
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  tonight, but there are two families that
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  was compared in history. And I I'm not
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  going to try to even dare give specifics
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  of it, but it's back three some 300
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  years. Family of a Satan man, a
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  well-known preacher, and then a family
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  of a well-known atheist.
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  And the comparison is this, about how
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  many of them died as alcoholics.
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  that atheist man, over 75% of them died
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  alcoholics,
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  some type of substance abuse,
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  early death, all types of different
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  things. And the preacher, a great
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  majority of his sons were preachers and
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  loved the Lord.
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  What I'm saying is this tonight, the way
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  you live your life is going to determine
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  >> how those coming behind you will. Right.
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  >> And when I think tonight about my family
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  in particularly, I look back through the
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  generations and me and dad's talked
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  about this before, but generations. I
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  I'm the four I'm a fourth generation
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  preacher, but we my family don't all
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  agree on everything. Grandpa's a
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  primitive Baptist. My great-grandpa is a
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  primitive Baptist. But if you look at
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  the families as a whole, when you go
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  back, what you see is alcohol
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  over and over and over again for
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  generations on top of generations on top
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  of generations. My daddy was the first
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  one. My grandpa, he didn't get save.
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  Grandpa didn't go to church. Daddy
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  didn't get saved because of grandpa.
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  Daddy got saved because of my mama's
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  mama. Told him that if you going to date
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  my daughter,
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  >> you going to have to go to church. Amen.
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  >> Amen.
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  >> And so daddy went to church 17, 18, 19,
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  he got saved. They got married. He got
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  they got married and they got saved. And
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  my daddy's a first generation Christian.
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  And he told me this. He's told me this
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  before. He probably don't remember this,
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  but he's told me this before. He said,
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  "I know there's some things I'm never
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  going to be able to do." He said, "But
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  I'm thankful there's some things you'll
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  never be able to do."
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  >> Amen.
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  >> That's right. Amen.
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  >> That's right.
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  >> Amen.
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  >> Listen to me tonight, parents. There's
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  some things that you'll never be able to
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  do because of the sin that you've been
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  in or you've been dealt with. You're
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  >> right.
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  >> But you got to remember those coming
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  behind you.
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  >> There's some things that because you've
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  decided to be different, they'll never
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  be able to do.
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  >> Amen. My wife, if my her my
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  father-in-law were here tonight, he
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  would give the testimony of how the Lord
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  saved them,
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  brought them out of darkness. Man, I'm
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  telling you, it's a miracle. But they
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  would tell you this. He would tell you
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  this here tonight, he would say, if if
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  he were standing up here, he would say
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  this. He said, "My children, both of
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  them are married to preachers and in
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  church because of nothing we've done.
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  They're in church and married to
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  preachers in spite of everything that we
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  were. We did our best to raise them, but
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  we was failures at it. But we loved the
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  Lord, tried to show them Jesus, and he
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  carried them all over the country
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  >> preaching the gospel and they're still
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  in church today and love the Lord
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  because of it.
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  >> Amen.
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  >> If I could say anything to you tonight,
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  you say, "Preacher, well, no, two of
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  Noah's sons turned out all right, but
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  three of them could have."
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  >> You're right. Amen.
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  >> Noah hadn't done what he had done. Noah
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  hadn't messed up. Maybe the story of Ham
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  would be a little different.
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  >> I'll say this, failure don't have to be
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  final.
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  >> You're right. Amen.
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  >> And I don't want to leave you on a sad
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  note, but you need to remember that it
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  it can be if you allow it to be.
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  >> Right.
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  >> Amen. Because I think the saddest thing
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  about that story is that's the last
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  thing that's told to us about Noah.
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  >> You're right.
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  >> It's the last thing that said about him.
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  Of all the good that he did, he didn't
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  finish well. Amen.
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  >> 350 years. That was the only thing God
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  could say about him
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  >> was that he had sinned. I want to say
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  this. I don't want my life to be like
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  that.
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  >> Amen.
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  >> I don't want the highlight of my past to
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  be a story of failure.
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  >> I want I want my life to show something
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  for Jesus.
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  >> You say, "Well, what what's the what's
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  the remedy for that?" Well, don't build
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  a vineyard.
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  >> I'm not talking about literally. You
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  know what I'm saying? Amen.
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  Don't don't don't be overindulging in
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  this world.
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  >> Everybody that I'm watching get booted
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  out right now. That's what's happened to
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  them.
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  >> You're right.
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  >> Gotten too wrapped up in this life.
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  >> You're right.
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  >> Gotten too wrapped up in what's right
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  here right now.
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  >> Come on.
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  >> Let go of that.
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  >> Serve God, love your spouse, and do it
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  all with heaven in mind.
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  >> Amen.
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  >> Do it all with heaven in mind. And what
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  you'll find is when you do it with
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  heaven in mind, you'll find a little
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  heaven here.
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  >> Amen.
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  >> In your life. Amen. Father, thank you
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  for this time. Thank you for this truth
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  tonight, God. May you may you help us.
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  May May we ourselves be obedient tonight
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  to make sure that failure is not final
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  in our life, Lord, because I realize
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  that's up to us. I'm thankful that you
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  offer forgiveness and you offer grace. I
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  realize that. But Lord, I know that
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  there's many people who allow a failure
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  maybe in their life or maybe in somebody
• 40:06
  else's to get them out. And Lord, they
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  never recover from it. God, I pray Lord
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  that nobody here tonight, Lord, would
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  allow a failure to be final in their
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  life. God, may we go forward and go
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  towards you. We love you. Thank you for
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  loving us. We ask it all in Jesus name.
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  Amen. God bless you.
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