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#10114 - Saved To Be Sent - Genesis 8 · Calvary Church with Ed Taylor Podcast

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Welcome to the study of God's word with pastor and author.
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Ed, Taylor recorded live from Calvary Chapel in Aurora,
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And now, here's Pastor Ed to take us into our study.
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Amen. Amen.
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Would you take your Bibles and open them to Chapter 8.
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Genesis chapter 8 again welcome everyone.
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Listening on abounding Grace, listening live.
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I live broadcast here on Grace FM or watching on whatever
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livestream, you're like in the room with us.
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So we're glad that you're here were jumping into Genesis 8
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where we left off and I've entitled, our Bible study saved
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to be sent saved to be sent. And you remember, back in In
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Genesis, chapter 6, in verse 8, we learned that Noah.
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And actually there's that that word, but but Noah with
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everything going on around him, all that's happening in the
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world. All the sin, all the debauchery,
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Noah found Grace, in the eyes of the Lord.
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And he's been our Focus for the last few studies in the midst of
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a crooked and a corrupt generation.
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There was a man who walked with God.
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There was a And who found Grace? He found Grace from God.
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He wasn't perfect and he wasn't completely obedient.
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He wasn't completely loyal, but he was as much as a man could
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be, he really loved God, the Society of Noah.
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Remember what, what what he lived in is what Jesus said.
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The last days would look like, if you're taking notes, you can
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jot it down in Matthew 24 and verse 38.
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Jesus says very plainly for as in the days before.
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The flood, they were eating and drinking and marrying and giving
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in marriage until the day that Noah entered the Ark and they
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didn't know until the flood came and took them all away.
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So also, will the coming of the son of man?
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Be, we've learned that the time of Noah was a time of intense
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demonic activity, sexual immorality, violence perversity.
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A total disregard for the things of God.
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So much. So, with all of the spare time
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that people have They would make up things their imaginations.
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We're always thinking about Sin and making up new ways to sin.
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And the Bible says, the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was
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great in the earth. And that every intent of the
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thoughts of his heart was only evil continually and can you
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imagine what the days of Noah would have been like with social
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media? With the internet with the
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technology we have today, can you just imagine what that would
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be like, you know, you don't need to imagine you're living
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it. The days of Noah accelerated,
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the days of Noah, exasperatingly.
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Send multiplying traveling around instantaneously.
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And as we drop into chapter 8, the flood has come judgment
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arrived, Noah and his family enters the barge or the large
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boat that they built together, and we learn that for safety
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sake. Noah and his family were only
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safe in the ark. Nowhere else was safety found.
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In obedience Noah was saved as he entered the Ark, which we
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learn as a picture of Jesus Christ today, you are only safe
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in Christ. The only place of safety on the
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Earth, the only place of Salvation.
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The only source of Truth for us. Safety is found only in Jesus
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and I wonder how many gather together just to have a safe
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refuge for a few minutes, to have your minds focused back on
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the Lord, just just a safe Refuge just to take Of what true
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safety is, where your minds are focused on the Lord?
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I know so many times it is a safe place to be in the war.
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I just feel so comforted and encouraged.
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As my mind is fixed on the Lord just reminded of his goodness
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and his greatness. And his love for me notice now
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in verse 1 of chapter 8, Then God remembered Noah, and every
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living thing. And all the animals that were
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with him in the ark, and the God made a wind to pass over the
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earth and the waters, subsided, The Fountains of the deep, and
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the windows of Heaven were also stopped in the Rain from heaven,
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was restrained, in the waters receded, continually from the
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Earth. And at the end of the 150 days,
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the waters decreased interesting in verse 1, is it, it says God
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remembered Noah. Now we read that in the English
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language. Almost almost almost always.
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We would associate that as if God forgot about Noah, but the
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English doesn't really capture the Hebrew language here.
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The emphasis isn't like God saying, oh no, what happened?
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Where did they go? I'm forgot where Noah was.
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And what's happening on the earth?
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It's not like you. Got Noah, but rather it speaks
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of a constant reminding not only that the phrase here in the
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Hebrew is a Hebrew figure of speech, or a Hebrew idiom.
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And the idea behind this idiom is that whenever God is
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remembering whenever it's mentioned that he remembers,
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it's the beginning of a new fresh set of action on God's
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part for the person that's addressed.
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So now, God is going to begin to work.
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After all of the Judgment came the flood water start to recede,
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God is going to begin to. To work again with Noah and I
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like the idea and the truth, even just in the English
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language that God, remembered Noah that Noah came to God's
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mind that he cared for Noah that he cared for his family that he
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thought about him, that he remembered him.
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I mean, think about Noah's condition in the family of the
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long hours and the long weeks and months The time that they
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were in the art. The time that they now are
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dealing with more weeks than months, The Silence from heaven
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was probably difficult to explain.
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He was given an instruction, they followed the instruction
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and then he waited, does that sound familiar?
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Where it feels as if God's silent on the matter where you
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did. You even begin to doubt that I
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hear them correctly. I heard what he said and I
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obeyed that step and then there's silence.
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And one of the reasons why if there is a season of Silence
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where God has you waiting for a new word, a new Fresh word,
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won't one of the things that we so quick.
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See, God remembers Noah. But I'll tell you what we
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quickly forget that our relationship with God Is by
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faith. And if God gave us everything we
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wanted when we wanted, where would be the faith?
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Where would be the faith? God allows circumstances and
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situations to draw out of us a response.
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And we either respond with faith or faithlessness.
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Now, the good news is this, you go ahead and I probably respond
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more with faithlessness than anything.
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Well, the good news is this, the Bible says that, even, if we are
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faithless, he remains faithful. He can't deny himself.
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And so, even in our faithlessness God is faithful to
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us. God didn't forget, Noah Noah was
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always on his mind and his family and see.
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He caused a wind to pass. It says, in verse 1, he caused a
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wind to pass over the earth and the waters subsided.
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The Hebrew word here is ruach. It's a word to describe
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breathing. The moving of Life went off in
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as a symbol used in the scriptures of the Holy Spirit.
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The world is covered with water and the wind is moving over the
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waters and water. So often as a picture of of the
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word or for the Hebrew mindset, water is a sign of life.
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A necessity in life and I was reminded just taking us into
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seeing our King Jesus in John 6:63.
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It says, it is the spirit who gives life, the flesh profits,
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nothing the words that I speak to you.
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They are spirit and they are life.
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The words that I speak to you tonight, God isn't in parting to
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us. Life through his spiritual word,
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giving us Fresh Life in area. We didn't even know we needed a
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fresh infusion of his Virtual life.
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And it also reminded me as you remember in the beginning, where
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was the spirit? But hovering, and now is a new
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Second Chance through Noah, and his family.
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Where is the spirit across the waters bringing about and
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preparing for what God has up ahead.
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Even as the Holy Spirit leads us and goes before us to prepare
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what he has for us. So they're in the arc for about
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a hundred and ninety days. Give or take and the water start
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to recede. And you notice in verse 5 it
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says the waters decreased continually until the tenth
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month and in the tenth month on the first day of the month, the
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tops of the mountains were seen and actually come back to verse
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4. It says then the ark rested on
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the seventh month and the seventeenth day of the month,
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upon the Mountains of Ararat, the resting of the Ark was for
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the Salvation of all mankind. When you hear it, when you read
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of this verse the ark rested, I want you to remember that.
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God kept his word, he saved these eight Souls so it wasn't
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just merely a command or some fanciful illustration from the
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scriptures to be safe. The only place of safety was in
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The Arc this resting of the arc proves God's word.
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He kept it, they are alive. They were saved in the arc.
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And the Bible says here that the amount that the ark rested in
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the Mountains of Ararat as one commentator put it and I quote
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Mount Ararat is about 16,000 feet in altitude when they
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exited. They would have been have to
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leave it and find lower ground. They wouldn't be able to use it
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to build houses and such. And remember he says it's also
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covered with pitch inside and out and that's why this
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commentary says, I believe that God will use the ark as a last
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days. Witness, Believe like many today
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that it's still there on Mount Ararat just as it spoke of
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judgment in the days of Noah. So too.
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Will it speak of the coming judgment in the modern days of
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Noah is an amazing even to consider.
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If it's still there it's going to be quite the testimony of the
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faithfulness of God as we learned last time.
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How so many people today, probably pop top five.
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Things in the Bible that are attacked a worldwide.
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Flood is one of them. The minimize it.
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All those are just a little small flood in a small part.
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No, it was a worldwide flood, and there's a need inside.
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You can jot it down if you want to look at it later and study it
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for yourself, but there's a neat Truth for those that study these
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things. On the day that the ark rested.
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It was the 17th, the day of the seventh month and it's no
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coincidence that Jesus himself was crucified on the 14th day of
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the seventh month and he rose from the dead.
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Three days later on the 17th day having passed through the waters
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of judgment, Jesus, stood and Resurrection upon the Earth.
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And thus, according to Hebrews chapter 4 verse 8, true real
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rest is only found in Christ. Unbelievable.
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The goodness and faithfulness of God pick up now in verse 6.
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So it came to pass at the end of 40 days that Noah opened the
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window of the Ark, which he had made.
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And he sent out a raven, which kept going to and fro until the
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waters had dried up from the earth.
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He also sent out from himself a dove to see if the water had
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receded from the face of the ground, but the dove Found no
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resting place for the sole of her foot and she returned to the
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ark to him for the waters were on the face of the whole earth.
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So he put out his hand and took her and Drew her into the ark to
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himself. Verse 10.
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And he waited yet another seven days and again he sent the dove
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out from the ark then the Dove came to him in the evening and
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behold a freshly plucked. All of leaf was in her mouth.
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And no one knew that the waters had receded from the earth and
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he waited Another seven days sent out the dove which did not
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return again to him anymore. So the Raven is sent out, I
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mean, really, if you it came to pass I like that.
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All the storms all the trials. No opens up the up the window
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and what does he see? It was probably a very
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discouraging site. It was probably not as clean as
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we read it in the scriptures. So probably very sad and solemn
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moment as the waters recede soggy desolate deserted.
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The consequence of many deaths. And he is ready to step into the
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newness of life and he sends out these birds a raven and a dove.
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Now, the Raven remember is an unclean animal and the dove
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would be a clean animal. The Raven.
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He finds a home in the judge and condemned world, but the dove
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does not and so symbolically the Raven here can represent the
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devil and the dove would represent the spirit.
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And the Raven takes off, doesn't come back, but the dove can't
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find a place and returns. the Bible says that, if you love
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this world, you don't have the love of God in you.
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That's a challenging verse because we immediately we can
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become all defensive and say I don't love this world, I love
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God. And I would believe you.
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If you said that I wouldn't argue, I would believe you.
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But as as followers of Christ, we have to pause and really have
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God search our hearts because I could say to you and I hope you
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believe me. I don't love this world, I long
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for the world to come. I love God.
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But just like, when Joshua, another type of Jesus went into
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the promised land, they're always pockets of resistance.
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In the promised land, there was Victory.
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Defeat Victory. Defeat Paul would describe it as
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the battle between the spirit and the Flesh.
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And while I can say to you with great confidence, both those of
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you that I get to look in the eye and then considering
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everyone listening or watching and right now, I can say with
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great confidence that I love God and I do not love this world.
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At the same time, I know there are pockets of resistance,
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because there are just parts of this world that I do, like, at
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times. Like, the Dodgers.
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For example, who doesn't like the Dodgers, And there's just a
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great joy that you could have and watching a baseball game and
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yet you can get caught up in it. All and baseball can become an
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idol to you. It's going to be something very
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nice and enjoyable and entertaining, but it can become
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an idol to you. You can have a hobby that you
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like, I like to read, I read a lot but even reading could
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become an idol or the technology of the day and idle or spending
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countless hours. I don't even say spending
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wasting countless hours navigating through the catacombs
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of social media, idolatrous, and feeding, you just the garbage of
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this world. Do you not think that's going to
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affect you? You don't want to live like the
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Raven and find a place of Safety and Security and this in a
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judged world. This is a judged world.
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It is living under the wrath of God by the grace of God, even as
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I speak. And that's one illustration
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here. Another one, I'd like to point
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out here when it comes to the Raven and the dove is that it
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speaks to us today of how God cares for clean animals.
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And the Animals. We have the Dove and the Raven
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together and to me symbolically that shows us that God not only
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cares for his family. You and me, that follow him, he
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loves you, he loves you, supremely, gave His only
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begotten son on behalf of, he loves you, he is for you, not
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against you. Those of you that love him and
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worship Him have a relationship with him.
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But you know that God loves those that are in Rebellion with
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him too. The clean and the unclean.
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We might have this snap judgment like David did it times judge
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them, take care my enemies and God says, I am taking care of my
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enemy in your enemies and my timing, but I love them.
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Even if at this moment you don't love them very much.
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The clean and the unclean. Those that are in Rebellion
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against him. And yet at the same time, we
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learn from God, that there is a line of Crossing that is a line
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of no return. If you are living a life in
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Rebellion to God, today, there is a line you can cross of no
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return. It's often referred to as the
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unforgivable sin. Or in a more technical biblical
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sense. It's referred to as the
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blasphemy of the holy spirit. Let me read to you lately, we
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haven't turned over to Matthew with me.
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Matthew chapter 12 want to spend a moment on, although, God does
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love the rebel. And God does Love The Sinner and
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God did send Jesus for the rebel.
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Don't get comfortable in your sin.
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Don't think you've got it. Made you hear stories of last
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minute. Conversions on a deathbed.
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Last moment. Repentance.
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You hear stories like that and it's true.
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God will receive the repentant even before their last breath?
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Yes. Yes, he will.
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He will hear the prayer of repentance and he will forgive a
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person. Even though the last moment, You
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know, there's a couple problems with that if you're going to
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wait for your last moment. Number one is, you don't know
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when your last moment is you weren't going to be able to plan
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that, but at the same time you are tempting.
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The Lord your God, by continuing to live in sin and think he's
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okay with it. He's not okay with it.
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Never mistake the love and the grace of God is approval.
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He doesn't approve of your sin, your sin and mine nailed Jesus
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to the Cross. He doesn't approve of it.
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You go away. You know I haven't been judged
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for it yet here. I am he's allowing me to say
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this and do this and post this and he I know, it doesn't he
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here? He is.
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God, must have proven no, no, no, God gave us a principal to
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describe that and it's simply this because your sin is not
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immediately, judged your heart gets more set and continuing to
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sin. And it gets more set because you
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think you got away with it, you think all this is okay.
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No big deal, I'll never get caught but the Bible also says
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that your sin will find you out. It can't be hidden forever.
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It will be revealed if not here on the Judgment seat of God at
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the great white Throne judgment. Every unbeliever will stand
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before God and give account for their lives and their resistance
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to the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and we don't want that for you.
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And so what is this unforgivable sin read with me.
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Matthew chapter 12 in verse 31. Therefore, I say to you every
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sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men But the blasphemy
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against the spirit will not be forgiven.
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Men, anyone who speaks a word against the son of man, it will
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be forgiven, him, whatever, speaks against the Holy Spirit.
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It will not be forgiven him either in this age or in the age
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to come. And the question is, what is the
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best move of the Holy Spirit? What is this unforgivable sin?
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As many people along, the ways of the annals of Christianity
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have come up with all kinds of suggestions things.
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In our modern day, some have called divorced, the
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unforgivable sin, some have called A bad word or sing, a
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cuss word, or put any particular cuss word, the blasphemy of the
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Holy Spirit unforgivable sin or or a bad thought, or or evil
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wickedness, some have said it's the sin of homosexuality or
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lesbianism or any of the other types of sexual sins adultery.
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And I'm here to say that none of those sins are the unforgivable
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sin, not even blasphemy. Not even blasphemy.
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And for me, I'm very grateful that blasphemy is forgivable
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because before I was born again, I was a very Blasphemous man
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toward God. Very you, go ahead while we
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don't base salvation on your experience.
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Amen. Do you remember what Paul the
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Apostle said? As he was describing his life
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inspired by the Holy Spirit, he used this phrase although I was
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a blasphemer I did so in ignorance.
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And when you think of the blasphemy of the holy spirit,
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this unforgivable sin. First, I want you to understand
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that this is not a sin of speech.
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But of the heart. Now I know that Jesus is using
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the word speak so that the way this sin is manifested will be
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outward. But remember, also Jesus taught
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us that out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.
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So this is not so much just some, you know, you're driving
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on I-25 and you say some really bad thing and you think oh my
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goodness. I've just sent against old.
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I'm blaspheme the holy spirit because a guy cut me off.
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I might as well just go for it and live a life of sin now.
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Thank you for cutting me off and ruining my whole eternal life.
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Now we do chuckle at that but there are some Among Us, I have
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a very sensitive Spirit, very sensitive conscience and it
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plagues them It plagues them maybe your plague today because
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of your past and you're sitting here right now thinking you are
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Unforgivable. Unforgivable.
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First of all, the sin is not of the speech, it's of the heart,
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it's not just words spoken. It is reflection of the hardness
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of someone's heart and secondly, this sin is not a sin that
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merely minimizes Jesus Christ. Because you can speak against
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Jesus, and it's a distinction between just saying something
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against Jesus and then something distinctly against the Holy
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Spirit. Now, remember the spirit of God
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has a sing one of the singular role among unbelievers today,
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and that is to draw you to the father to convict you of sin.
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The holy spirit is moving on the Earth today among unbelievers,
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among the protesters among the angry.
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Among the poster. All of those that are in red.
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Billion against God. As I speak, the holy spirit is
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at work in their lives, to bring them to a place of repentance
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and conviction of sin. The idea of the Baptist or the
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blasphemy of the holy spirit, is a rejection of the spirits work,
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a rejection of his work, his wooing of a person, his
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testimony of Jesus, Bringing your attention back to him while
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Jesus was on Earth. He was 100% man, as well as 100%
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God. The scent of speaking against
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him in humanity could be forgiven.
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But as the spirit of God bore witness to his deity, specially
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of Jesus, at Pentecost, the rejection of the spirits
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witnessed now is final Can this sin be committed today?
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Yes. Yes, the blasphemy of the Holy
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Spirit can be a sin committed today.
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What is it in summary? It is the total complete
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rejection of Jesus and his offer of Salvation in your life that
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is Unforgivable. There is no remedy.
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There is no appropriation of the blood of Jesus Christ to the
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unrepentant. You will never enjoy the
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relationship with Jesus Christ in an unrepentant State.
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All manner of sin will be forgiven.
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Adultery murder. Blasphemy divorce stealing.
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Homosexuality lesbianism transgenderism.
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Fevery, you name the sun, all manner of sin will be forgiven,
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but the rejection of forgiveness cannot be overcome.
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It cannot be overcome. I see with the Raven and the
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dove here, God's heart for the saved and the Lost.
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It's a reflection of the Heart of Jesus that he wants to see in
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his church. It's easy to love the lovely.
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And it's easy to love those that love you.
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The real challenge of surrender and faith is to yield to the
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Agape of God. In those that he is allowed to
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still be alive today, the heart of God is he's not willing that
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any should perish. He's not willing that any should
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perish. That's his heart.
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Many will perish. Even as we see with Noah, many
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will perish, but that's not his heart.
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He's in remember, we learn in Peter second, Peter 3:9.
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The Lord is not slack concerning his promise as some count
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slackness but is long-suffering toward us not willing that any
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should perish but that all should come to repentance.
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Remember that when you think of the Raven?
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There's a lot to be Set on these birds but just think that clean
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and the unclean the saved in the unsaved, the lovely and the
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unlovely and you think, you know, which one of us are much,
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like, if I say okay in this room there are lovely and unlovely
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who's going to pick the unloved on the unlovely one?
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Now we all think we're the lovely one.
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But even so any loveliness in our lives is because of the
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grace of God. If and I you see anything lovely
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in the person next to you, you just turn around.
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Say, the person next to you are lovely.
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Like what just say, say it out loud, just tell somebody that
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they're lovely, you are so lovely.
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What you're commenting on is the presence of Jesus in their life,
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the loveliness. I mean, because think, you know,
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some of you weren't so lovely this morning, where you, you
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weren't so lovely at work when he got mad and yet, what does
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God do? He washes and cleanses us so
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that we might emanate. We might Express, we might be
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the aroma of life to so many You look at your life and you go
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man, I stink so bad and the Lord looks at you and Christ and
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says, oh no, you smell so good. You were in the right place.
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You have made the right decision to surrender your life to Jesus
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to my son to receive the Forgiveness of your sin.
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So in verse 12 and you come back to Genesis with me, he find, he
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waited another seven days and sounded of which did not return
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again to him anymore. The dove found a resting-place
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speaking to Noah now It's time to exit the ark.
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It's time. It's time to get out verse 13.
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Now And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year in
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the first month, the first day of the month that the waters
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were dried up from the earth and Noah removed the covering of the
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Ark and looked indeed. The surface of the ground was
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dry. And in the second month on the
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27th day of the month, the Earth was dry.
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Then Mark these words. Then God spoke to Noah saying,
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go out of the Ark. You and your wife, your sons,
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and your sons wives, with you, bring out with you.
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Every living thing of all the flesh.
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That's with you birds and cattle every creeping thing that creeps
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on the earth so that they may have bound on the earth and be
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fruitful and multiply, so Noah went out.
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And his sons and his wife, and his sons wives with him, every
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animal every creeping thing, every bird and whatever creeps
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on the Earth. According to their families went
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out of the Ark. So about 371 days later, the
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Earth is finally dry your saved. Now, go be fruitful and
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repopulate the earth. Now, go back with me in verse 1
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of chapter 7. I want to compare two passages
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with you to instructions. By Jesus, a lot of what we're
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studying in the book of Acts. You know, as God is really
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stirring us up as a church and and preparing us, and prepping
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us, and encouraging us and challenging us and inviting us.
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It isn't new to the book of Acts.
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Remember, the Bible is one unit with one author.
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The premier character of The Bible isn't Abraham, is an Isaac
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isn't Noah, it's Jesus Messiah. The seed that we were told that
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will come in and bring about the salvation of mankind, so
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everything is pointing to him looking to him.
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So what we're learning in the book of Acts is really a
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repetition of things that have been said before.
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So notice with me in chapter 7 verse 1, we have the instruction
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of God to Noah. Then the Lord said to Noah, come
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into the ark, come into the ark. You and all your household
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because I've seen that you're righteous before me.
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In this generation and we emphasize in our Study last
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time, that significance of invitation invitation church,
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one of the greatest powerful tools.
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You have in ministering to others is inviting people.
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Inviting come and see, come in here come and read this book.
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Come take this invitation after invitation after invitation, and
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we looked at throughout the scriptures, the significance of
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the invitations of God, because there are those two, they would
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say all the altar calls, not for today.
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Well, it's right. Right in line.
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With the invitation with the heart of God.
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God is an inviting God. Isn't that great?
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Aren't you? Great happy.
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Invited you in a relationship with his son, Jesus Christ, he's
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an inviting God. And here, in chapter 7, verse 1,
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there's the invitation. But now, in 8:16, the invitation
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now is followed by go. Come and then go go out of the
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RT, says you and your wife come into the ark for the appropriate
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for the specified time. But now it's time for you to go
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want you to Mark those. And if they happen to be on the
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same page in your Bible, it's good to Circle.
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Both of them, write a little arrow, between the two, they
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were invited to come in, that was the only place of safety but
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now that that place of safety Has positioned them in a
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different season of life, it was time for them to go out and go
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forward. I see this as a spiritual
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pattern for the believer for the New Covenant believer.
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Again you don't need to turn there but in Matthew 11:28.
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What does Jesus say? Come to me, all you who are
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weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest is not such an
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encouragement, come to me. You tired, heavy labor, ready to
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give up. Come to me.
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But then later in Matthew 28, what does Jesus say?
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Go, therefore and make disciples, it's exactly what God
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told. Noah, come they come in.
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Go out. Jesus says, you come to me and I
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gonna send you out again another pattern throughout the
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scriptures. Come and seek the Lord.
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And then go share his love, come and worship the king.
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But then, go and work among the world.
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Come in and study the word of God.
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But then go out and exercise your faith.
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It to me. It has a rhythm about it.
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Don't you feel the rhythm come? Go breathing.
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Breathing in, and then breathing out.
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And just like breathing, we have different Cadence's and timing
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and sometimes it's very exacerbated, sometimes it's
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struggling. Calm, go, calm, go.
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The rhythm of Our Lives. It speaks to the significance
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and not being isolated out by ourselves.
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I think of how many still haven't returned to Fellowship
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here. There or any any of churches.
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Just, they're just out there. They're not breathing anymore.
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There are two Rhythm. It's affecting every part of
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their lives. So as well, you know, I'll just
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catch five minutes on YouTube. No, it's not going to work or,
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you know, I think about God when I'm out golfing, that's not
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going to work. You need to seek first.
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The kingdom, of God, the rhythm of seeking first is calm and go
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come and go. One of the things that I That we
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teach our pastors and leaders. Here is the significance of
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learning how to invite yourself into.
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Someone's life is not, everyone will over.
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Ask you to come Not everyone will say I need you here, they
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might be embarrassed. They might not want you to know
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about what's going on in their life or some confess some sin,
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or they may not even know they can invite you.
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And so you want to learn to build the kind of trust in
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someone's life where you can gently invite yourself over.
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Invite yourself into their lives.
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Let's go. Grab a cup of coffee.
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You know, some of you are waiting.
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Well, you know, when somebody invites me for a cup of coffee,
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maybe I'll go, but maybe the Lord is telling you tonight that
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it's you, that God wants you to invite.
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It's a rhythm. He wants you to create where
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you're reaching out to people. I think of how many in a larger
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church over the years even as we've grown over the years,
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where how many are go? Yo, you're such an unfriendly
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Church, nobody talks to me, nobody talks to me, nobody talks
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to you. Who'd, you talk to, I'm not
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talking to anybody, and so they talk to me, so then that's on
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this side. Now, this guy over here is gone.
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Hey, nobody talks to me. And they're talking about this
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one, the never talk to him and they don't and I'm not pointing
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at you a particular, but if my finger hits you, you know, you
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should probably pray about it, you know.
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So, but I mean, you think if you were to step into someone's
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life, you'll have more people to minister to than you've ever had
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in your whole life. One of the tools, you have is an
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invitation invite someone invite someone into your life, invite
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someone into your home, invite someone down.
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You don't even have to go somewhere.
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Go invite someone hits. Just go downstairs and 15
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minutes as talk about what God is doing in your life.
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Another another tool in your toolbox that will be gratefully
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helpful view to connect is just this simple question, is there.
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What is there in your life that I can pray for you?
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How can I pray for you? What?
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What is it that you and I can just take to God on your behalf.
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Another great tool you can have is, hey, here's my email address
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if you ever need anything you ever need prayer unique.
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Just here. Here's my email address.
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Just email me. I'd love to.
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And then, of course, the response, the rhythm is the
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invitation and then the follow-up, the invitation, then
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the follow-up. For those of you that few
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isolated feel like you have no Ministry, you feel like nobody
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knows you. You feel like it is I can say it
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could be a very valid feeling, but you don't have to feel that
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way. Well, but Ed, I'm just so I'm
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just so nervous and shy. And, and okay, well, then start
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praying that the Lord will give you another nervous, shy person
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to reach out to and then Guys can just have at it, you know
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how are you? I don't want to say I don't want
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to say honestly like it's okay to be shy.
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There's other shy people, pray that God will lead you to one.
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Why? Because that's the rhythm of
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God. That's the New Covenant Rhythm.
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That's the old Covenant Rhythm come in to go out.
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And learn that perhaps you see something on someone's face and
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it doesn't even have to be somewhere.
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You just kind of invite yourself into their life, are you okay?
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Are you all right? Well what are you asking that
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for? Because Like you just look
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tired, you look sad. How can I help you?
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Are you? Alright, and even if you get the
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response to I don't need any that's okay.
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God connected you take the Rhythm, take them to the Lord,
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come and go come and go. That's the work of God on the
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Earth today. and just think of the power of the Church of Jesus
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Christ, if we would live with that rhythm, If that would be, I
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mean really that's the rhythm of Our Lives responding to the
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leading of the Holy Spirit and then and and rehearing it
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responding it and stepping into people's lives.
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Unbelievable. The potential of the church in
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these last days, there is no one in the world right now.
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Speaking, the truth of God except for his church, no one.
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And if you're silent, then the voice of God on the earth is
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silent. It's, it's so beautiful, what an
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open to her, but had they don't listen all, they're so loud.
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Yeah, that's fine. That's fine.
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Because even in the darkest of rooms, the smallest of light,
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Brightens up. Darkness is dispelled.
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We're just the ones that plant and water, but God gives the
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increase. And, you know, we're moving into
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a time in our culture where logic and reason is no longer a
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valid expression of conversation.
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That's why you even get more frustrated because the things
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you're hearing, even with the latest decision with Roe v--
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Wade, the things that you're hearing or some of the most
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illogical nonsensical responses to validate the murder of Babies
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in the room in the womb, and if you get caught in the Trap, you
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will be doubly frustrated. So let me, let me give you a
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night. First of all, first of all, you
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should know the biblical answers to the concerns in this world.
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You should know the biblical answers, you don't need to
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defend them. You just need to know them.
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You need to know the value of the sanctity of life.
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You need to know in Psalm 139 that Burr.
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That life begins at conception. You need to know the basics.
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You don't need to convince God. God does the convincing.
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You just need to be able to share the truth and one of the
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tactics and techniques that I use on my own life to help
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minimize my frustration. Is that when I'm having a
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difficult conversation with someone, I imagine it.
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My mind, a table in between us. And in my conversation, I'm
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taking the facts and I'm just putting them on the table.
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Just going to lay them out, I'm not going out them, I'm not
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getting caught up in it. I'm not hopefully I mean I'm not
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perfect at this but this is one of the tools I use in my mind.
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So I don't get caught up in all the emotion and all the rhetoric
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and oh I don't know. And that's such a good argument.
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You're so right? I'm so wrong.
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I shouldn't have believed the Bible for 30 years.
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I I put this, I put a table out and I just remember that I can't
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convince, I'm just going to put it there.
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I'm going to put it there. I'm going to put it there and I
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hope in there. Of Hearts, the holy spirit will
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say, would you pick that one up and go home with it?
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That was interesting, not not the ideal where I stumped them,
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hahaha. But rather let the Holy Spirit
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influence. And I know they're not going to
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participate, you know it's like well this Play-Doh game.
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Let's put it that they're not going to participate but that's
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on them. I'm not going to try to force
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anything. I'm not in if they're if I sense
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that there's a like they're just getting you know out of control.
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I'm just going to back off put my stuff on the table and just
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back off. I remember recently in someone,
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we were in a dialogue and I can see that she was getting very,
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very, very angry. And and I very gently said, I
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thought you wanted to talk about this.
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Do you not want to talk? I don't want to talk about it
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ever again. Okay, that was my answer.
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I the Lord use me to the capacity could use me.
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And now, I'm praying for the next one.
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Somebody's going to be watering Some of the plant another seed.
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Listen, the conversion of the world is not on our shoulders,
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but to display the love of God is our privilege.
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It is our privilege to be messengers of the Agape of God.
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It is our privilege to, to from that place of abiding in Christ
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to go into the world. And to be used by him.
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The Rhythm breathing in come and go come and go even today is
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part of the Rhythm, you've come to a gathering and now you're
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going to go Well, we're almost out of time, actually.
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We are verse 20. Noah built an altar to the Lord.
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If you like to write in your Bibles.
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Just write the first thing he does when he gets out.
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Is he worships? He worships relationship of
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worship again. Begins on the earth on the
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ground and he took of every clean.
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Animal of every clean bird offered burnt offerings on the
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Altar and the Lord smelled. A soothing Aroma and the Lord
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said in his heart, I will never again, curse the ground for
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man's sake. Although the imagination of
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man's heart is evil from his youth, nor will I, again destroy
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every living thing. I as I have done while the Earth
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remains seedtime, Time and harvest, cold and heat, winter
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and summer. And the day and night shall not
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cease, and I love know his attitude.
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Here he comes and he worships he's not going to play, he's not
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going to build, he's not going to rest like build a house for
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himself. First thing he does is worship
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and I know sometimes we use the word worship and we it has a
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very narrow definition as if it was only the music before a
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Bible study. And that's only a portion of it
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when you and I worship, we present ourselves to him and
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bear all before him. Some of you pray today in
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worship, some of you repented today in worship, some of you
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gave in worship some of you your tongue, if you will and walk and
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surrendered and submit it to the spirit in worship.
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And of course, some of us sang In Worship.
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Some of you made a decision to follow Christ and worship.
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Just Surrender an area of your life while you're listening to
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Bible study or worshipping while you're praying, you're
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worshipping in worship, we find ourselves in the very presence
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of God. Receiving and being reminded of
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the very Promises of God resting in his protection and, you know,
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Jesus Delights in our worship. He notices not only our lips,
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but our heart and he just loves it when his children worship
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really good. Okay, so here I haven't line in
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my note, I wrote it on purpose, one more thing.
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If we have time, it's right there.
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I've got to do this. So I'm going to make time
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because this is really amazing and that is remember Noah made
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it to the hall of faith. Remember when we studied
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Hebrews, he made it to the hall of faith.
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I want you to consider the elements of faith that he
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demonstrates, and I'll just give him to you very quickly.
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In verse 6, Noah in faith, waited patiently for 40 days.
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After seeing the mountain tops before sending the Raven out to
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search for dry. Land in verse 8, Noah in faith
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patiently, waited, seven more days before sending a dove out
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to search for dry land in verse 10.
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No. And fade patiently, waited
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another seven more days before sending out the dove again verse
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12. Noah in faith patiently, waited,
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seven more days before sending The Devout again verse 13, Noah
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in faith. Patiently waited, Twenty nine
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more days before removing the covering of the Ark.
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And then finally, in verse 14, Noah and Faith patiently
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patiently, waited another fifty seven, more days until the Earth
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was completely dry. No has great faith and patience
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and God is unquestionable. He lived a life trusting and
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patiently waiting for God and it just spoke to me.
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Again, I wanted to develop this but I'm not going to maybe you
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can develop it in your prayer time.
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But we ask the question. How did God how did Noah find
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Grace in the eyes of the Lord? I think a part of the answer.
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Is he learned how to patiently? Wait on the Lord.
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That patiently waiting is actually a place of finding the
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grace of God, the psalmist understood it in Psalm 27 verse
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14. Wait on the Lord be of good
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courage and he shall strengthen your heart.
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Wait I say on the Lord. So father we want to learn to
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wait to be the men and women. You desire us to be.
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We pray for your Holy Spirit to take what we've Learn and study
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tonight and give us great application for our lives.
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And we thank you for the example of Noah.
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Who points us to a far greater example in his life to our
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Savior, Jesus, and we're grateful for you Lord.
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Even as we are faithless, you remain faithful, build and
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encourage and strengthen our faith.
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In Jesus name. Amen.
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