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473 | A Faith that Endures · The Woman at the Well Ministries Podcast

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God is in control.
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She's a happy girl. Hello, friends, and welcome back to another podcast of Woman
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at the Well Ministries, where we believe that all of us have to come to Jesus
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like the woman at the well in John chapter 4.
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Our highest priority is making God real in your life.
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Whether you are listening in our app, in your favorite podcasting app,
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or on our website at watwm.org, we invite you to sit down with us as we look
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to the scriptures to learn more about God and to strengthen your daily walk with Jesus Christ.
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Living her life for Christ She's a happy girl.
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Music.
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She's a happy girl,
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We talk about faith, but do we really live it? Faith isn't a word to be thrown
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around lightly. It is a way of life to be lived out loud, up front, and on full display.
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Join Kim in this podcast of Woman at the Well Ministries as we take a deep dive
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into faith and look at those who have been living examples of a life well-lived, a life lived by faith.
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Hello, and thank you for joining us in this podcast of Woman at the Well Ministries.
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What a pleasure it is to speak to you today through the scriptures about the
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most fundamental piece of our salvation.
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The Bible tells us that it's for by grace you're saved through faith and that not of yourselves.
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It is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast.
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No man come unto the Father, but through Jesus the Son, through faith in him,
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through faith in His work on the cross of Calvary, through faith in His redemptive
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blood that washes away our sins.
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Yet we don't usually spend much time talking about faith.
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But Scripture has a lot to say about faith.
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And it's so important to our salvation that we need to be more inclined to reflect
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upon what it means to have faith,
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to look at what faith looks like in a person who is filled with faith and to ask God to give us faith.
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Because he says, if we ask, he will give it to us.
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And so today, we're going to look at faith, at what it is.
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We're going to look at Noah and how he showed it off.
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And others who give us the hope in God through their faith in Jesus Christ,
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work on Calvary, and in the love of God that he shows towards each of us.
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Faith is fundamental to salvation.
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It's as fundamental as gasoline is to a car driving down the road.
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Faith is fundamental to pleasing the Lord.
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It's as fundamental as eating food fuels our body.
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Faith is so important that in Hebrews 11, 6, he says, but without faith,
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it is impossible to please him.
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For he that cometh to God must believe that he is, that he is a rewarder of
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them to diligently seek Him.
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It's my prayer today that as we walk through this message on faith,
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that you are inspired and motivated to live a life filled with faith.
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That you take a look at Jesus Christ for who He is and you realize that every step you take with Him,
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that every task you complete for Him, that the service you give to Him is far
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more valuable than anything else you will do,
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and that when you seek Him, you will find Him, and He will surely reward you. Let's pray.
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Our kind and most gracious, dear Heavenly Father, Lord, we thank You for Your
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presence that we know that is with us right now.
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For the way that you speak to our hearts when we turn out the world,
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when we turn off our distractions and we tune into the Holy Spirit.
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Lord, we thank you for the Holy Spirit that dwells in the life of every believer.
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We thank you for its teaching, for its instructions, for its comforting,
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for its direction, and for its guidance.
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And Lord, you could have chosen to live anywhere, but you choose to live in
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the hearts and the lives of every believer.
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Lord, we thank you for the word that was made flesh so that we would have accounts,
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to lead us and guide us and direct us that would inspire us and motivate us to have more faith.
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Lord, at this moment in time, we're asking, fill us to overflowing with your presence.
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Let us enjoy the privilege of hearing you speak and give us the courage to act
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upon each thing that you bring to remembrance to all of our hearts.
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And above all else, Lord, we ask that you would increase our faith.
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That doubt would have no place in our life, that fear would not be a part of
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our story, and that joy and peace would abound forevermore.
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In Jesus' name we pray, amen.
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I ask you to get your Bibles today because we're going to do some work.
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We're going to walk through the scriptures in a way that I believe will be far
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more meaningful for you if you have the Word of God in front of you.
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We're going to begin in Hebrews chapter 11 and verse 1, because we're talking
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about faith and we're asking ourselves, do we really live it?
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Is it evident in our life? Do we live our faith out loud?
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Is it up front when we walk into a room?
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And is it always on full display?
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Because our faith will speak to others.
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Our faith will be a monument and a testimony of who we know God to be.
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It will be something that excites those around us.
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If we are consistent with our faith, if we are bold in our faith,
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and if we live our faith out loud.
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Now, Hebrews 11, verse 1, it gives us a tremendous definition of what faith is.
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If God is asking us to have faith and telling us that without it we can't please
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him, then we want to know what his definition is of faith.
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And he says this, Now, faith is the substance of things hoped for.
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Evidence of things not seen.
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And then he goes on to put an exclamation point in verse 2, and he says,
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for by it the elders obtained a good report. In other words,
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because of the faith of the elders, they pleased Almighty God.
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So you and me as servants of the Most High God, as children of the Lord,
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as family of God with Jesus Christ,
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as temples of the Holy Spirit bought by the blood of Jesus Christ,
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we should seek to please the Lord and to have a good report.
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All of us, at the end of our life, when we give account of ourselves before
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God, we want to hear him say, well done, thy good and faithful servants.
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And so in order to ensure that we are walking in the ways of the Lord,
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we need to be well prayed, well Bible read, and sure of our faith in Jesus Christ.
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And so as we begin to look at this, I want you to see something in James,
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because James really gives us a good idea exactly about what he's thinking that faith really is.
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So turn to James chapter 2, and we're going to begin reading in James chapter
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2, but I want to read first in James chapter 2 and verse 18.
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He says, let's just back up one more to 17.
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Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
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Yea, a man may say thou hast faith, and I have work.
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Show me thy faith without thy works, and I will show thee my faith by my works.
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Thou believest that there is one God, thou doest well. The devils also believe and tremble.
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But would thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead.
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That's James 2, 17 through 20. And what he's telling us is that, Yea,
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a man must say thou hast faith and I have works, but show me thy faith without
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my works, and I will show thee my faith by my works.
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James is telling you, you can talk about faith all you want,
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but without works, the world's not going to see your faith, and your faith really isn't employed.
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Now, you may want to argue that point, but let me give you an illustration.
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And perhaps it will drive my point home a little more clearly.
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God forbid, let's place ourself in a room with windows that won't open.
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And one door. And during their time in that room, there's a fire that breaks out in that room.
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Now, if you're over the age of four or five, you probably know that if you turn
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the handle on a door and push or pull, depending on how it's hung, the door will open.
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And you most likely have faith that that would happen every single time.
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Door unlocked, turn the knob, pull the door in, or push the door out.
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You have it opening to leave the space you're in and enter another space.
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So in our scenario where we are in a room together with no windows that will
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open and one door out, and a fire breaks loose,
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knowing all of that information, even having faith to have turned the doorknob
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to walk into the door into the room will do nothing for you.
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In a room on fire, if you're unwilling to get up, turn that knob.
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And in faith, believing that you'll open the door and step out to safety.
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Friends, that's what he means by works.
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We need to activate our faith, which will cause us to use it.
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In times of trouble and difficulty, we will employ our faith to know that he
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said that all things work together for the good to them that love the Lord,
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to them that are called according to his purpose in Romans 8, 28.
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That when we're feeling lonely and forgotten,
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we will remember that he said in Romans 8, 38 and 39, that his love for us will
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never die, that nothing will separate us from the love of God.
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We need to remember that he told us in Hebrews, that he would never leave us or forsake us.
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We need to remember when we need help, when we need strength,
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when we need supplies, when we need money, that he said he would supply all
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of our needs according to his riches and glory, and that he would give us the
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strength to do all things he's asked us to do in Philippians 4, 13 and 19.
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This is employing your faith when he asked you to do, you do.
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That's activating your faith. That's trusting God, as he told us to do in Proverbs
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3, 5, 6, and 7, where he says that we're to trust in the Lord with all thine hearts,
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and lean not unto thine own understanding, but in all thy ways acknowledge him,
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and he shall direct thy paths.
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Be not wise in thine own eyes, but depart from evil.
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The Lord loves you.
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And he wants you to believe in who he is.
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He wants you to believe in what he said he would do.
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He wants you to understand that he loves you enough to die on the cross of Calvary,
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to pay a sin debt he didn't owe that you couldn't pay before you were even born.
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And he has spent every waking moment of your life and while you were sleeping.
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Trying to compel you to see
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him high and lifted up to see him
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as savior to believe in the wonder working power of the blood of jesus christ
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to be soaked in the love of god beyond all measure that you would be able to
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spend eternity in a home not made with hands eternal into the heavens Jesus loves me, this I know,
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for the Bible tells me so.
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This, my friend, is what it means to live by faith.
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Our works are what demonstrate the faith we have.
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But don't take my word for it. Let's turn to Genesis chapter 6.
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You can take my word for it because it is founded in the word of God.
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But let's look at Noah, and let's turn to Genesis chapter 6,
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and let's read verses 8 and 9.
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But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.
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These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations,
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and Noah walked with God.
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Have you ever asked yourself what it meant to walk with God?
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To be hand in hand with the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords?
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He is no respecter of persons. The scripture tells us that.
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So the opportunity that he gave Noah to walk hand in hand with him and to walk
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with him, he has given every person to every one of us who've called Jesus a
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savior, have committed to him.
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And that means we have said, I am persuaded that he who has begun a good work
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in me will complete it in the end, and I'm going to stick to it.
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I'm going to hold on to his hand. I'm going to look with eyes of faith.
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I'm going to believe in the whole Almighty God and his power and his plan for me.
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And I'm going to take Jeremiah 29, 13 to heart.
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And when you seek me with your whole heart you'll find me I'm gonna take Jeremiah
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33 3 for everything it says when he says call unto me and I will answer thee
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and show thee great and mighty things which thou knowest not,
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he has loved us with an everlasting love he's paid the price he's done the penalty,
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He's took our place.
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And with open arms and nail-scarred hands, he is asking you to believe in me.
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He's asking you to follow him. He's asking you to love him enough to believe.
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Mark 9.23 says, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.
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So Noah walked with God, and you can walk with God, too. But I want you to see
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that it said he was a just man.
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That meant Noah, who didn't have the Holy Spirit dwelling in him,
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but had the Holy Spirit visiting him.
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We have the Holy Spirit 24-7 all the time, but do you listen?
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Most likely not enough.
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But Noah walked in the ways of God. Noah did what Noah was asked to do.
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In fact, let's look at Genesis 6.14.
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In Genesis 6.14, we see the obedience that Noah displayed when he was given a tremendous task.
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Here's the task. Make thee an ark of gopher wood.
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Room shalt thou make in the ark, and shall pitch it within and without with pitch.
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Verse 22 says, Thus did Noah, according to all that God commanded him,
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so did he. It was a pretty tall order.
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It talked about what he needed to do, and I would also like you to understand that in verse 17,
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he tells him he's going to bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy
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all flesh when the breadth of life from under heaven and everything that is in the earth shall die.
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And I want you to know that he explains to Noah that the water's going to come from the sky.
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And up until God does that, Noah had never seen it rain from the sky.
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All Noah had ever seen was due on the ground.
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But he's given a task to make an ark of gopher wood.
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A big ark. Like a massive ark.
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And he's told that every living fling of all flesh, two of every sort shall
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thou bring into the ark to keep them alive with thee. They should be male and female.
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Two of every sort shall come unto thee to keep them alive.
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And 22 again says this. Thus did Noah.
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According to all that God commanded him, so did he.
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What a task. We've all been asked of God to do something,
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and we all have our measure of talents and skills that are meant to be used
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for His service and His glory, to bring Him honor and others into the kingdom.
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And when God taps us on the shoulder and asks us to use them in a way that He
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intended them to be used, in a way that He had planned, it is our obligation,
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our duty, and above all, our privilege to do exactly what he's asked us to do.
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But so often we miss the blessing, we miss the mark, and we put our own logic
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in and our own reasoning, and we just simply say, I'm not going to do it.
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It's not me. He's made a mistake. No, you never say that he's made a mistake.
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But you're living it when you deny his call on your life.
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It is a privilege to be called to serve the Lord.
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And every one of his children are called for a specific purpose, to do a specific job.
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If you don't do it, don't think you will thwart God's plan.
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Somebody else will get the blessing.
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Somebody else will live in that presence next to him.
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Don't be satisfied to live below your privileges.
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In fact, perhaps someone hasn't told you lately whose you are.
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As a child of the Most High King, your father owns the cattle on a thousand
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hills and the hills thereof, and everything is under his feet.
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He created the heavens and the earth. He speaks life into existence.
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He hangs the sun and the moon.
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And the stars. He speaks to the wind, and they have bowed to his obedience.
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He tells the waves when to move and when to cease.
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He knows the number of sand particles, not just in a glass, but in the world.
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He knows your name. He called Marsa by name.
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He called Lazarus by name, and he's calling your name.
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He knows the number of hairs on your head.
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Even if you're like someone that might highlight their hair or diet,
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he and only he knows the color of it.
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He knows the dimples in your face, the scars in your heart, the pain in your
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eyes, and the life you've lived, both for him and against him.
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In good times and in bad times, he's on the waters of your troubled storm with hands stretched wide,
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begging you to come, call my name, call upon me, and I will answer thee,
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and I'll show you great and mighty things which thou dost know.
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Jesus loves me, yes I know, for the Bible tells me so.
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In chapter 7 and verse 5, it reads like this, And Noah did according unto all
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that the Lord commanded him.
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He asked very little of us. Some of us can't get to church once a week.
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God forbid we'd be asked to go twice.
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And then in a deeper, more complex idea, three times, we owe him a tenth.
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2.4 hours a day. That's what you owe him.
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Oh, tithing isn't just for money. It definitely is. But it's your energy. It's your effort.
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And you know, he says something extremely profound. He often does.
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In fact, every word of Christ is.
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But one of the most profound things that rolls in my head on a daily basis is his words.
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If you love me, you'll keep my commandments.
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And they're not grievous. In other words, they're not hard. They're not a chore.
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They're not something to dread. Let that soak in for a minute.
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The ten commandments are great and none of us can live them certainly not without
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the help of the holy spirit but my friend you shouldn't be upset about having to live them.
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Whatever sin you would like to commit there's just a devil lying to you telling
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you to be better than living in righteousness see he imputed his righteousness
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in you and as the temple of god bought with the price of his blood.
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To show forth his good works. He tells us in Matthew 5, 16, to let your light
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so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father, which is in heaven.
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This, my friend, this, my friend, is what it means to live your faith out loud.
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I want you to see that in Hebrews chapter 11, let's just turn there.
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Noah, he's in the hall of fame of faith.
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In Hebrews chapter 11 and verse 7, about to get there, he says this,
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By faith, Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet. Remember?
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Things not seen, evidence of things hoped for.
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Warned of things not seen as of yet moved with fear prepared an ark to the saving
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of his house by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith,
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by faith abraham when he was called out into a place where he should after receive
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for inheritance obeyed and went out not knowing whither where he went abraham
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went because god said go and he didn't even know where he was going.
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Noah builds an ark to prepare for something he'd never seen.
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It's time we activate our faith.
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It's time that we employ our faith.
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It's time that we love him enough so that when he asks us to do something,
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it doesn't seem so tough.
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You to look in 2 Peter 2.5. And spare not the old world, but save Noah,
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the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness,
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bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly.
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What was the reward given to Noah for believing? Remember, he tells us in Hebrews
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11.6, But without faith, it is impossible to please him. And you must believe.
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Because he says, but without faith, it is impossible to please him.
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For he that cometh to God must believe that he is.
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That is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
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What was Noah's reward for his faith? For seeking the will of God and employing
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it? The whole ungodly world faced a flood.
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But Noah, a preacher of righteousness, was saved and spared.
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I want you to also look at some characteristics of Noah.
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His faith clearly separated him from the ungodly, and it was obvious.
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My question to you, is your faith obvious?
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He says, be peculiar people, zealous of good works, set apart for the service of the Lord.
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Is that said of you? Do the people who come behind you and follow you see God high and lifted up?
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One of those people who promote yourself. Let's look at what Noah did.
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Let's look at Genesis 7 and verse 24.
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First of all, he faithfully served through the silence of God.
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In 724, it says, and the waters prevailed upon the earth 150 days.
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In 815, he says, and God spake unto Noah.
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150 days of silence, walking in faith, living in faith, keeping on, keeping on.
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So let's talk about our faith for a minute.
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Noah wasn't talking about, I build an ark.
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Noah was preaching the righteousness of God. Noah wasn't talking about his carpentry skills.
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He was talking about the faithfulness and the judgment of God.
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Noah wasn't bragging that he and his family was going to be the only ones there
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because Noah was trying to get everyone else to come on board the ark.
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Noah was trying to get everyone else to be spared because Noah was trying to
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get everyone to see God high and lifted up.
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Their only plan of redemption, the only way that they could be saved,
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the only way that they could be spared. They may have thought they were going along fine.
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They may have thought their life was good. But Noah knew differently.
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And even between the times of him speaking, during the times of silence, Noah stood the course.
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You think he didn't face some ridicule?
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Somebody didn't call you, oh man, what are you doing building an ark?
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That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
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Don't you think somebody probably said whatever the word was back in that time,
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oh, he's got dementia, he's senile?
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Do you think Noah cared what people said about him?
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Listen, there's a difference between caring about what people says about you
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and being hurt by what people say about you.
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You cannot care to the extent that you will continue to do what God says,
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But don't you ever fool yourself and don't let anyone else ever fool you into
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believing that being hurt by the words of others,
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especially other Christians and people who are walking beside of you,
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supposedly in the faith, hurt you.
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It means that you're not right. That is so wrong. That is so wrong.
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The last person you should think that would ever hurt you is the person who's naming the name of God.
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The last person that should ever ridicule you for being peculiar and zealous
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of good works should be a person who says they're of God.
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But I have two things to say to you.
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One, not everyone that claims Lord, Lord knows him.
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And two, the wounds of a friend are faithful.
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They'll happen. The ones who love you the most will hurt you the most.
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There's a reason why the very center verse of the Bible says,
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put your faith in God and not in man. this will come a time they'll hurt you.
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Perhaps deliberately or perhaps not. But he will never hurt you.
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He will correct you because he loves you.
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He'll do a course correction because he has to. But he will never degrade you.
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He'll never forsake you.
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And he will never, ever, ever not put you first.
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You are the apple of his eye. You have to know that Noah endured great,
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mocking, tribulation. Noah had to have friends. He seems like a grand guy.
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I mean, why would God call him out if he didn't? And he was preaching righteousness.
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He was a person of hope.
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Don't worry about your friends that forsake you. Don't worry about the people you love that hurt you.
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You keep on keeping on, because silence isn't forever.
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He speaks. Are you listening?
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I want you to see what he does in Genesis 8, 20.
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And Noah built an altar unto the Lord, and took of every clean beast and every
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clean fowl, and offered a burnt offering on the altar. You know why it did that?
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Because earlier in chapter 8, he sends out a dove and a raven.
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The dove comes back because he was nowhere to find rest.
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But six days later, he sends the dove out again and the dove comes back with an olive branch.
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I had two things to say. rest is coming.
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Rest is coming. Keep working. Keep keeping on.
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Even when it doesn't make any sense, he had promised he would take care of them.
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Here's Noah looking for a place to rest, looking for a place to come out.
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But here's the second thing. He didn't bring back a maple tree.
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He didn't bring back a sycamore tree he didn't bring back any of the other hundreds
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of species of trees we know of he didn't bring back a big redwood forest you
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know what he brought back,
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an olive branch jesus was crucified on an olive tree.
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Brought back the reminder of Christ.
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Just as Christ is the hope of all glory, the hope of all peace,
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the hope of all joy, the hope of our life, the hope of our light, He is our hope.
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The olive branch, the mouth of the dove of the Holy Spirit brought Jesus and
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the hope of Jesus, the resurrection of Jesus to Noah.
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Noah didn't walk with Jesus, and the Holy Spirit didn't live in Noah.
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But the Holy Spirit descended upon Noah in the form of a dove carrying the olive
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branch to tell him who Jesus was in his heart,
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to let him know that peace be still and joy abounds, because the King of kings
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and the Lord of lords has not forsaken him.
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His promises are true, and it is going to happen just as God said it would.
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Hold on in the silence and build the altar of remembrance and gratefulness when
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joy comes in the morning.
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In genesis 9 12 through 17 it's a familiar account but i'm not sure we always get it.
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God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you
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and every living creature that is with you for perpetual generations.
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I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
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And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth,
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that the bow shall be seen in the cloud, and when I will remember my covenant
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which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh.
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And the water shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
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And in 17, he says, And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant,
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which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.
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What is the reward for faith?
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That we're talking about in Hebrews 11, 6, it's here.
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And God said unto Noah, this is a token of the covenant.
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It is a covenant with Jesus Christ. And he said, let not your heart be troubled.
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If you believe in God, believe also in me.
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In my father's house are many mansions. And if it were not so, I would have told you.
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I go to prepare a place for you that where I am, he may be also.
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So this is the covenant of the blood of Jesus Christ through the faith in his son.
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Jesus loves me. This I know.
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For the Bible tells me so. We have hope in God.
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Those who have faith have hope.
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1 Peter 3.15 says, But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts and be ready always
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to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason.
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Of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear.
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When you have faith in God, when you love Him, and when you know Him, you can give an answer.
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Commandments won't cause you grief. Titus 2.13 tells us how to live when we're
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faithful, looking for that blessed hope and the glorious appearing of the great
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God and our Savior, Jesus Christ.
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I'm looking for a city where we'll never die.
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Are you looking for that city?
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Are you getting up every day and saying, heaven is my home. I'm a stranger and
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I'm a pilgrim here. My faith will end in sight.
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And one day, one glorious day, I'll see him face to face.
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Jeremiah 17, 7 says, Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord and whose hope the Lord is.
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I pray that you know him. because Jesus loves you.
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And from Genesis to Revelations, he tells you all about it.
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So for the joy of the Lord and the goodness of God, and to just imprint it deeply
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in your heart, sing with me,
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Jesus loves me.
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Jesus.
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Music.
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Loved. Jesus loves you.
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