WEBVTT 00:00:00.560 --> 00:00:01.790 I'm going to invite you to Genesis. 00:00:02.400 --> 00:00:05.490 Chapter seven and eight is where we're at together today. 00:00:05.640 --> 00:00:07.360 Genesis chapter seven and eight. 00:00:07.360 --> 00:00:13.210 And right off the top of your head, you may not know what Genesis seven and eight is, but I can almost promise you're probably familiar with the story. 00:00:13.620 --> 00:00:20.410 Today we're going to deal with the Noahic flood, and I'm going to ask you a question that's driven me nuts for most of my life, and maybe it has you. 00:00:21.160 --> 00:00:21.930 Why the flood? 00:00:22.300 --> 00:00:26.980 Like, why the flood and why even share about the flood? 00:00:26.980 --> 00:00:28.020 Like, why is this in the Bible? 00:00:28.170 --> 00:00:31.460 What is so important that I need to know about this flood happened a long time ago. 00:00:31.520 --> 00:00:33.190 How does it have any relevance with me? 00:00:33.780 --> 00:00:38.280 And when you when you think about the flood, you look at the flood, you try to discover the importance of the flood. 00:00:38.640 --> 00:00:44.500 Sometimes the tendency is, as people have taught about the flood, they have taught this story as if it's a one off story. 00:00:44.620 --> 00:00:47.760 We kind of sometimes get in the tendency of treating the Bible like that. 00:00:47.820 --> 00:00:54.840 Like it's just a series of stories to tell us something, maybe some moral thought or something to do with your life, to be a better version 00:00:54.840 --> 00:00:55.470 of you. 00:00:56.080 --> 00:00:58.860 But that's not the way the Bible is written for us. 00:00:58.860 --> 00:01:03.510 There's certainly stories, several stories I have in the Bible, but there's a grand theme to Scripture. 00:01:04.060 --> 00:01:11.120 And one of the things that helps us understand why the flood is so important is that when you pick up the Bible, the first 11 chapters of the Book of 00:01:11.120 --> 00:01:16.040 Genesis, you discover is a very fast paced description of human history. 00:01:16.280 --> 00:01:23.340 And what I mean is these first 11 chapters of Genesis, in a very conservative estimate, the first 11 chapters 00:01:23.340 --> 00:01:28.720 of Genesis span as much or almost as much time as the rest of the entire Bible. 00:01:28.980 --> 00:01:36.040 And what I mean is the rest of your Bible is beginning with Abraham In Genesis chapter 12 to 2, you have an inner testimonial 00:01:36.040 --> 00:01:37.600 period, 400 years of silence. 00:01:37.640 --> 00:01:44.720 But to the time of Jesus, you're dealing with almost as much time as what people conservatively say take place between Genesis chapter 00:01:44.720 --> 00:01:46.080 one and Genesis. 00:01:46.080 --> 00:01:53.340 Chapter 11 Conservative estimate about 1600 years are taking place in these first 11 chapters, and some even say more 00:01:53.340 --> 00:01:53.920 than that. 00:01:53.920 --> 00:02:00.740 But a minimum very conservatively, 1600 years of history have transpired here to get us really to the place that we're at. 00:02:01.120 --> 00:02:08.240 And you got to think, if you were in charge of sharing all the events, that could happen in 1600 years and you just had to pick a few, what would be the top 00:02:08.240 --> 00:02:10.050 of your radar in sharing with people? 00:02:10.300 --> 00:02:14.260 And when I think about things I could talk about, I got to just say world catastrophe flood. 00:02:14.760 --> 00:02:15.040 Probably. 00:02:15.200 --> 00:02:16.380 I'm just probably going to avoid that. 00:02:16.380 --> 00:02:18.060 Like we treat it like it's a kids story. 00:02:18.100 --> 00:02:25.500 Like everyone, let's paint the boat, put the little happy smiley animals on board, sticking their heads outside in the midst of a torrential downpour 00:02:25.500 --> 00:02:27.100 where everyone's devastated. 00:02:27.100 --> 00:02:28.450 Like that is not a kids story. 00:02:28.700 --> 00:02:34.150 That is that is why are we telling this in Sunday school like this is this is a difficult story. 00:02:34.400 --> 00:02:38.880 And why, out of all the things you could share in human history, what makes this so significant? 00:02:39.760 --> 00:02:40.420 I think why the no. 00:02:40.460 --> 00:02:43.140 Out of all the things you could say, why the no story? 00:02:43.620 --> 00:02:45.310 And then what does it have to do with you today? 00:02:45.660 --> 00:02:47.640 How does this relevant for me? 00:02:47.640 --> 00:02:48.920 Do I need to be worried about a flood? 00:02:49.020 --> 00:02:50.500 Do I need to be really building a boat? 00:02:50.500 --> 00:02:53.660 I mean, what's the what's my interest and what God is saying here? 00:02:54.360 --> 00:03:00.610 Well, if you follow along in the book of Genesis, I mean, we've discovered how the story is transpired right up until this point. 00:03:00.680 --> 00:03:07.760 You see Genesis first three chapters, God's made us with purpose and meaning and giving us intrinsic value highly 00:03:07.760 --> 00:03:14.760 significant, especially with the audience in which Genesis is written to dealing with Hebrew slaves treated like tools owned 00:03:14.760 --> 00:03:16.640 like property devalued. 00:03:16.740 --> 00:03:18.380 Their worth is only seen in what they do. 00:03:18.860 --> 00:03:25.860 God steps in and he sets them free and he communicates to them that their worth is not based on what they do, but who they are being made in the image 00:03:25.860 --> 00:03:30.460 of God, which means you're made for relationship with God to connect to Him and know Him. 00:03:30.480 --> 00:03:37.560 But what we discover very early on in Genesis, chapter three, the first parents, Adam and Eve, they reject God and walk away from 00:03:37.560 --> 00:03:37.920 Him. 00:03:38.240 --> 00:03:43.590 But it's God who pursues, pursues them in his grace and forgives them and gives the promise of a messiah. 00:03:44.120 --> 00:03:51.210 But what we find after Adam and Eve is that's the trajectory of all of humanity, that after an Adam and Eve, they have Cain and Abel, the next generation. 00:03:51.840 --> 00:03:53.460 You think, well, they've learned from their parents. 00:03:53.480 --> 00:03:55.360 They're going to get it together, but they don't. 00:03:55.440 --> 00:03:57.240 In fact, one kills the other. 00:03:57.240 --> 00:03:58.120 It's devastating. 00:03:58.120 --> 00:03:59.480 Like Cain kills Abel. 00:03:59.560 --> 00:04:01.660 And then from them, Cain's lineage. 00:04:01.660 --> 00:04:04.480 He has Lamech and Lamech, a terrible person. 00:04:04.520 --> 00:04:09.400 And to the point you get to Genesis chapter five, verse six, it tells us all of humanity is evil. 00:04:09.420 --> 00:04:12.350 Every intent of their heart is to do harm. 00:04:12.500 --> 00:04:14.760 And then you get to this noahic flood. 00:04:15.900 --> 00:04:17.310 You learn about the great storm. 00:04:18.519 --> 00:04:21.540 And really from this, we're going to learn how to handle the storm. 00:04:21.600 --> 00:04:26.280 So what I want to do this morning is in Genesis chapter seven and eight, we're going to look at the picture that's painted. 00:04:26.520 --> 00:04:30.940 We're going to take one thought from each chapter at the picture that God is painting here for. 00:04:31.020 --> 00:04:34.620 Help us help us understand how to handle this storm, what it means to our life. 00:04:34.720 --> 00:04:40.470 And then we're going to we're going to take a step back from just the picture that's painted and just ask that broad question now, an understanding of the story. 00:04:41.040 --> 00:04:42.200 What does it mean for us? 00:04:42.200 --> 00:04:45.940 Why is this flood story told and how does it relate to our lives now? 00:04:46.540 --> 00:04:53.740 So when you dive into the particulars of this beginning in Genesis, chapter seven and verse one, the first point in your notes that God is encouraging us to do 00:04:53.740 --> 00:04:58.520 is rest in the ark when it comes to the thought of the storm. 00:04:58.860 --> 00:04:59.600 It's a. 00:04:59.880 --> 00:05:04.460 A picture really of the storms of life and the ultimate storm we'll talk about in a minute. 00:05:04.780 --> 00:05:07.440 But it's an encouragement for you to rest in the ark. 00:05:07.880 --> 00:05:15.340 And if you remember Genesis chapter six, when God tells us he's going to flood the earth, it also tells us that there's a particular person 00:05:15.340 --> 00:05:17.560 who finds favor in the Lord. 00:05:18.060 --> 00:05:20.520 Genesis chapter six, verse seven and eight. 00:05:20.540 --> 00:05:25.180 It tells us he finds favor in the Lord, which is the same idea of saying he finds the grace of God. 00:05:25.880 --> 00:05:27.680 The grace of God is made known in his life. 00:05:27.680 --> 00:05:29.520 Verse 14 God says He's going to flood the world. 00:05:29.740 --> 00:05:33.380 And in verse 18 he makes this covenant with Noah and he tells Noah to build a boat. 00:05:33.800 --> 00:05:34.280 That boat. 00:05:34.280 --> 00:05:40.540 He tells him 300 cubits long and he tells her it's about 75ft wide, 450ft long, 45ft tall. 00:05:40.540 --> 00:05:46.960 That's the about the description Noah gets the truthfully, the thought of a cubit is not a very particular specific measurement. 00:05:47.860 --> 00:05:51.040 It's about from your fingertip to your elbow is the length of a cubit. 00:05:51.660 --> 00:05:54.370 But it's not a very specific, as we would say today. 00:05:54.460 --> 00:05:56.360 When we say 12in, we mean 12in. 00:05:56.400 --> 00:06:03.530 And that De Cubit is a is a general idea of a length, but it gives the thought that the boat would have been about 450ft long, 00:06:03.920 --> 00:06:06.520 75ft wide, 45ft tall. 00:06:06.520 --> 00:06:09.720 Noah is told to build this boat before the Lord. 00:06:09.840 --> 00:06:14.340 And it's not because of what Noah has done, but rather because of who God is. 00:06:14.940 --> 00:06:16.620 Noah has found the grace of God. 00:06:17.140 --> 00:06:21.060 And if you remember, Noah's lineage was a godly lineage. 00:06:21.060 --> 00:06:23.780 His grandparents, Enoch, walked with God. 00:06:23.840 --> 00:06:24.800 Methuselah. 00:06:25.160 --> 00:06:27.380 After Methuselah comes the flood. 00:06:27.820 --> 00:06:29.860 Noah's got a godly lineage. 00:06:30.460 --> 00:06:30.520 But. 00:06:30.680 --> 00:06:31.840 But up until the time of Noah. 00:06:31.840 --> 00:06:32.240 Now no. 00:06:32.280 --> 00:06:38.700 Noah turns the Lord and he finds the grace of God not based on his own merit, but God's showing his grace to him. 00:06:38.740 --> 00:06:40.730 And in Genesis seven one, it says this. 00:06:41.000 --> 00:06:46.700 Then the Lord said to Noah, Go into the ark, you and all your household. 00:06:47.260 --> 00:06:50.810 For I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation. 00:06:52.020 --> 00:06:54.930 The idea of Ark is really picture of relationship. 00:06:55.780 --> 00:07:02.720 He's saying to Noah Noah, while the rest of the world is evil and has turned away from me, you found my grace and I want you to move into relationship with me. 00:07:02.720 --> 00:07:07.500 I want you to be under the idea of my protection, my walking in intimacy with me. 00:07:07.500 --> 00:07:08.580 Dive into the ark. 00:07:08.740 --> 00:07:09.300 Walk in relationship. 00:07:09.620 --> 00:07:09.860 It's. 00:07:10.020 --> 00:07:13.420 It's really a much like a picture of the ark and the temple. 00:07:14.240 --> 00:07:16.550 You think in the ark and the temple that's being built. 00:07:16.920 --> 00:07:17.840 And Genesis. 00:07:17.840 --> 00:07:20.760 This is written to the Hebrew slaves who are being told to build a temple. 00:07:20.980 --> 00:07:22.560 And in the temple they have the ark. 00:07:23.180 --> 00:07:29.430 And remember, when God tells them to build the ark, he gives very specific measurements, just like Noah, and they construct this ark and it has furniture. 00:07:29.700 --> 00:07:31.290 And there's only two rooms in the temple. 00:07:32.440 --> 00:07:33.820 In the temple there's two rooms. 00:07:33.820 --> 00:07:35.140 There's the Holy place and the Holy of Holies. 00:07:35.180 --> 00:07:37.340 They have these furniture that they're supposed to put in these two rooms. 00:07:37.700 --> 00:07:41.420 But in the holy of holies, there's only one piece of furniture, and it's the Ark of the Covenant. 00:07:42.180 --> 00:07:45.700 And Israel knew this is where God's presence dwelt in the ark. 00:07:46.080 --> 00:07:47.870 The Ark of the Covenant is where God was made known. 00:07:48.660 --> 00:07:54.000 And if they wanted to draw close to the Lord, they would go to this temple where God's presence was made known. 00:07:54.600 --> 00:07:57.510 Now, the idea of the word ark, it just means a box or a cube. 00:07:58.000 --> 00:07:59.860 God's presence ruled from this throne. 00:07:59.860 --> 00:08:05.780 The ark was seen as a throne of God in the temple and in likeness to that, Noah is told to build a boat. 00:08:06.480 --> 00:08:07.240 And the boat is an ark. 00:08:07.260 --> 00:08:07.530 It's a cube. 00:08:08.720 --> 00:08:11.400 And in this ark is the presence of the Lord. 00:08:11.840 --> 00:08:18.640 And it was told to move into the presence of fact, much like the Temple Noah and Genesis Chapter eight, verse 21 and 22. 00:08:18.640 --> 00:08:23.670 He comes out of the ark when the flood is finished and he makes a sacrifice just like they would do in the temple. 00:08:24.420 --> 00:08:31.060 Now the Hebrew word for Ark, for the Ark of the Covenant in the temple is not the same exact Hebrew word in Genesis seven for the Ark. 00:08:31.780 --> 00:08:32.640 That's the boat. 00:08:33.460 --> 00:08:40.480 But the connection is certainly there because in Genesis chapter six, verse 14, I read this very quickly 00:08:40.480 --> 00:08:42.799 last week, but I want you to see how important this is. 00:08:43.380 --> 00:08:50.440 When Noah is told to make an ark, make yourself an ark of gopher wood, make rooms in the ark and cover it inside and out with 00:08:50.440 --> 00:08:51.040 pitch. 00:08:52.040 --> 00:08:55.940 This word for pitch is a protective covering both inside and out. 00:08:56.040 --> 00:08:58.040 It keeps Noah and his family secure in the boat. 00:08:58.040 --> 00:08:58.820 It keeps them safe. 00:08:58.820 --> 00:09:00.260 Now, there's no flood coming in. 00:09:00.260 --> 00:09:01.860 That pitch protects them. 00:09:01.980 --> 00:09:06.540 But what's interesting about this word pitch is it's the same Hebrew word for the word atonement. 00:09:08.060 --> 00:09:15.300 And so when Israel when they built the temple in the holy of holies, where the Ark of the Covenant dwelt, only one person one time a year was allowed 00:09:15.300 --> 00:09:17.700 into that room where God's presence was, and it was the high priest. 00:09:18.640 --> 00:09:22.620 And the high priest would go into that room on the Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur. 00:09:22.680 --> 00:09:25.720 It's written in Leviticus chapter 16 and 17. 00:09:25.820 --> 00:09:27.320 And he would make a sacrifice. 00:09:27.480 --> 00:09:30.270 He would throw pitch on the ark or atonement. 00:09:30.320 --> 00:09:33.180 It was to cover Israel, the sins of Israel. 00:09:33.440 --> 00:09:40.640 The sacrifice was representative of what Jesus would do for us, become the ultimate covering of our sin, that we would be secure in relationship 00:09:40.640 --> 00:09:41.340 with him. 00:09:42.180 --> 00:09:45.220 And this is exactly what God is inviting Noah to. 00:09:45.780 --> 00:09:52.980 He's saying, Take this atonement, this covering, and enter into this relationship with me that you may experience who I am to rest 00:09:52.980 --> 00:09:53.820 in the ark. 00:09:54.760 --> 00:10:00.010 The idea of resting in the ark is to be safe in the presence of the Lord and everything that. 00:10:00.180 --> 00:10:01.700 God has done for you. 00:10:02.340 --> 00:10:09.540 And the reason we need that is because God is a judge and God will judge sin in order to be good, He must judge sin. 00:10:10.120 --> 00:10:12.750 But the question is what side of the arc are you on? 00:10:13.500 --> 00:10:16.780 Are you on the outside looking for an opportunity to be rescued? 00:10:16.780 --> 00:10:22.300 Are you running away from the Lord or have you found your security in his grace that he has atoned for you? 00:10:23.120 --> 00:10:24.300 The judgment of God. 00:10:24.300 --> 00:10:26.380 It matters which side of the judgment you're on. 00:10:26.460 --> 00:10:31.500 But if you are safe in the ark, you are secure in his presence, walking in relationship with the Lord. 00:10:32.660 --> 00:10:35.960 I often compare the judgment of God to the thought of a of a hurricane. 00:10:37.240 --> 00:10:44.260 When I was in high school, I lived in Gulf Shores, Alabama, which happens to be the only place of Alabama that actually touches 00:10:44.260 --> 00:10:44.980 the ocean. 00:10:45.420 --> 00:10:52.700 If we look at the state of Alabama, there's just one little sliver comes down and touches the ocean and living in that area, that's also Hurricane Alley. 00:10:53.560 --> 00:10:58.300 And I had the I don't know if you call it an opportunity or what, but I went through some hurricanes. 00:10:59.040 --> 00:11:03.880 And I remember one particular hurricane in which my dad had purchased a Camaro. 00:11:04.520 --> 00:11:06.030 And my dad is a little bit of a daredevil. 00:11:06.820 --> 00:11:07.740 And he decides, you know what? 00:11:07.820 --> 00:11:08.860 It's really wise to do? 00:11:09.140 --> 00:11:13.720 Let's put your my teenage son and my brand new Camaro and let's run around in this hurricane. 00:11:13.740 --> 00:11:14.800 And I have no sense. 00:11:14.900 --> 00:11:17.320 So I'm like, sure, dad, let's let's do that. 00:11:17.340 --> 00:11:23.810 And we went driving around in this hurricane and we didn't decide to return home until we saw the tree fall on the local McDonald's. 00:11:23.920 --> 00:11:25.580 We're like, okay, we should probably head back. 00:11:25.620 --> 00:11:26.280 So we head back. 00:11:26.580 --> 00:11:32.740 And I remember I get inside because the hurricane is getting worse and we're like 120 mile an hour winds and it's getting bigger and bigger. 00:11:32.780 --> 00:11:36.610 The whenever a hurricane hits land, the backside of the hurricane is always worse than the front. 00:11:36.620 --> 00:11:38.640 And here we are in the growing winds. 00:11:38.640 --> 00:11:42.060 And I remember I'm listening to the radio trying to hear everything that's happening. 00:11:42.060 --> 00:11:49.220 And the craziest thing in the middle of this hurricane, I'm sitting here and all of a sudden it just goes calm and I'm listening on the radio 00:11:49.220 --> 00:11:53.090 and people are talking like very passionately about this storm. 00:11:53.320 --> 00:11:55.060 And I'm like, man, we're still in this. 00:11:55.060 --> 00:11:56.320 But all of a sudden it's just calm. 00:11:56.500 --> 00:12:00.560 I just, in a matter of seconds, went from crazy to calm and I couldn't believe it. 00:12:00.560 --> 00:12:01.600 And I'm like, what is going on? 00:12:01.600 --> 00:12:06.880 So I walk outside and I'm looking around and I'm seeing some downed trees, but look up to the sky. 00:12:06.960 --> 00:12:09.620 It's completely clear there's not even a rain cloud in sight. 00:12:09.900 --> 00:12:12.860 And as I'm looking around, I realize, man, there are birds everywhere. 00:12:13.320 --> 00:12:20.400 For those that like have bird phobia, there would be a concern that you might need to wear a rain jacket just not because of the rain, but because of how many birds there. 00:12:20.420 --> 00:12:24.620 That's how many birds are in this and well in the environment around me. 00:12:24.640 --> 00:12:31.840 But then I began to realize what's happening, that I'm actually the hurricane hasn't passed, that 00:12:31.840 --> 00:12:33.970 I'm actually standing in the middle of the eye of the hurricane. 00:12:35.200 --> 00:12:37.820 What's incredible is it's the most calming place. 00:12:38.740 --> 00:12:43.700 In fact, the birds have learned in the middle of the storm that the safest place they could go is to fly directly into the eye. 00:12:44.140 --> 00:12:47.150 And so caught in the middle of the eye of this hurricane are all these birds everywhere. 00:12:48.300 --> 00:12:50.980 And then I go back inside to endure the back half of the hurricane. 00:12:52.100 --> 00:12:55.940 But when I think about the power of God, he's a force to be reckoned with. 00:12:55.940 --> 00:12:57.820 And he's much like the eye of the hurricane. 00:12:57.820 --> 00:12:59.780 He's bringing the storm and the life of Noah. 00:12:59.780 --> 00:13:06.900 But here he represents himself in this ark, this eye, this place of solace, this place of rest, not based on what Noah does, 00:13:06.920 --> 00:13:08.320 but based on who the Lord is. 00:13:09.400 --> 00:13:13.660 And Noah finds himself atone, secure in the presence of who God is. 00:13:13.660 --> 00:13:15.240 And then verse four, it goes on. 00:13:15.240 --> 00:13:20.680 It says, For in seven days, I will send rain on the earth, 40 days and 40 nights, and we'll deal with the numbers a little later. 00:13:21.200 --> 00:13:25.780 But he says, in every living thing that I have made, I will blot out from the face of the ground. 00:13:26.180 --> 00:13:29.720 And Noah did all that the Lord had commanded him. 00:13:30.680 --> 00:13:37.720 This thought is repeated over and over in the story of Noah in verse five, verse nine, verse 15 says that as God commands him, leads him, Noah puts his 00:13:37.720 --> 00:13:39.830 faith in the Lord and he obeys. 00:13:40.640 --> 00:13:41.160 But you know what's interesting? 00:13:41.420 --> 00:13:45.260 When you see God's promising this rain, I love how God does this. 00:13:45.460 --> 00:13:48.690 He's saying, Look, here it comes in seven days, it's going to rain for 40 days. 00:13:48.840 --> 00:13:51.200 God gives him a little bit of anticipation of what to expect. 00:13:51.200 --> 00:13:55.420 He doesn't tell him every detail, but he tells him enough of what he needs to know. 00:13:55.420 --> 00:14:00.240 Noah, you got seven days, and when you're in there in seven days, just know it's going to last for 40 days. 00:14:00.240 --> 00:14:00.950 The rain is going to fall. 00:14:01.920 --> 00:14:07.420 And so Noah has this somewhat of an anticipation as he's trusting the Lord by faith, obeying his commandments. 00:14:07.460 --> 00:14:08.430 But you know what's interesting? 00:14:08.640 --> 00:14:15.860 When you study the building of this ark, God, very specific in how he tells Noah to build this ark and how it needs to accommodate the 00:14:15.860 --> 00:14:17.330 animals that are going to go in the ark. 00:14:17.680 --> 00:14:22.570 But, one thing it doesn't tell us that God ever tells Noah to put on the ark is a rudder. 00:14:24.180 --> 00:14:31.600 You think if you're ever going to get on a boat and someone tells you, we've lost our rudder, I could just tell you, drop to your knees and pray, okay, Because unless there's 00:14:31.600 --> 00:14:34.300 lots of paddles depend on how big this boat is, you're not going to get anywhere. 00:14:34.660 --> 00:14:36.060 You're lost at sea. 00:14:36.160 --> 00:14:40.980 The rudder is just the smallest portion of the ship, but so important to the direction that it's going. 00:14:41.840 --> 00:14:46.140 And what it's acknowledging in this story is that as Noah builds this boat, he's trusting in the captain. 00:14:46.140 --> 00:14:47.240 But the captain isn't him. 00:14:47.980 --> 00:14:54.170 That God is steering this ship and he's completely put his reliability on what the Lord wants to do in his ship. 00:14:54.300 --> 00:15:00.240 And He's just resting in God's presence, knowing that God is going to carry him through because God has promised He would. 00:15:01.260 --> 00:15:06.880 I've got to say, for me, any time I get in any sort of vehicle going in any direction, I don't care what it is. 00:15:07.200 --> 00:15:10.180 A boat, a plane, a car, whatever. 00:15:10.220 --> 00:15:16.360 Whoever's in charge of the direction of that ship, I want to be able to put trust in that person to know that it's secure. 00:15:16.760 --> 00:15:24.020 And, I think if I'm ever on a plane and the captain goes down and driving, I don't even know what you call that thing, the stick or the steering 00:15:24.020 --> 00:15:25.500 wheel or whatever he's got Ahold of. 00:15:25.540 --> 00:15:32.660 Like, if no one else on the plane has any experience, I'm probably going to be fighting for the captain's chair just because I don't want to put my life in any other foolish 00:15:32.660 --> 00:15:34.960 person's hands, but rather just take a risk. 00:15:35.320 --> 00:15:37.400 And so I just I got to lean in. 00:15:37.440 --> 00:15:40.800 But if you know that the person in charge can be trusted. 00:15:41.980 --> 00:15:47.740 You can rest in where he's leading you and in the idea of building the ark. 00:15:47.760 --> 00:15:54.960 This is what we're learning about the Lord, is that Noah trusts in the direction that the boat is going to go 00:15:54.960 --> 00:15:57.340 in God's hands without the rudder. 00:15:58.260 --> 00:16:05.380 And I think for us, one of those life verses that encourages us in that direction is the idea of Ephesians two eight and nine, 00:16:06.260 --> 00:16:09.360 where it tells us, as you think about trusting in the ark, that is the Lord. 00:16:09.360 --> 00:16:16.200 It says, for by grace you are saved, rescued by faith, not of yourselves. 00:16:17.080 --> 00:16:21.460 It's a gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. 00:16:22.040 --> 00:16:29.280 Lest you think this has been about you, I can promise you one thing that you're going to see at the end of this story or you're not going to see at the end of this story, is 00:16:29.280 --> 00:16:35.180 Noah is going to not going to walk off this boat having just rescued his whole family and say to his wife, aren't I awesome? 00:16:35.620 --> 00:16:37.100 Like, look how great I am. 00:16:37.100 --> 00:16:38.640 Take a selfie with the boat. 00:16:38.880 --> 00:16:45.000 Talking about his glory and goodness, but rather Noah comes out very worshipful because Noah realizes who carried him through. 00:16:46.640 --> 00:16:49.700 That it's the true captain that is in charge. 00:16:51.320 --> 00:16:55.750 You know, even when it comes for us, I don't think that when Noah puts his faith in the Lord that he's doing this blindly. 00:16:57.200 --> 00:17:01.480 He's seeing God walk with his grandfather, Enoch, who just went with the Lord. 00:17:02.120 --> 00:17:04.380 He's seeing the patience of God made known through Methusula. 00:17:05.599 --> 00:17:08.700 And now in his own life, he has the opportunity to follow after the Lord. 00:17:08.740 --> 00:17:16.740 Even for you today, when it comes to following after Christ in your own life, God doesn't ask you just to pursue him with blind ignorance, but 00:17:16.740 --> 00:17:23.800 rather God has made himself known in very particular ways as He's become flesh that you could see the validity of who Jesus is, 00:17:23.839 --> 00:17:25.500 as is communicated to you, the Word of God. 00:17:25.500 --> 00:17:28.780 If the Word of God in Christ can be trusted, you may not know every detail. 00:17:28.880 --> 00:17:29.820 Noah doesn't know every detail. 00:17:29.820 --> 00:17:30.660 It doesn't even have a rudder. 00:17:30.680 --> 00:17:31.940 But God told him enough. 00:17:32.440 --> 00:17:36.950 And seven days and for 40 days it's going to rain. 00:17:37.960 --> 00:17:45.040 And Noah has what he needs to rest in the presence of God who is atoning for his life, secure in him 00:17:45.040 --> 00:17:48.220 as he walks in relationship to the Lord. 00:17:49.760 --> 00:17:50.320 And it goes on. 00:17:50.560 --> 00:17:52.150 It says to us in verse six. 00:17:53.160 --> 00:17:56.300 Noah was 600 years old when the flood of the waters came upon the earth. 00:17:57.140 --> 00:18:04.160 And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons wives with him went into the ark to escape the waters of the flood of 00:18:04.160 --> 00:18:09.080 clean animals and of animals that are not clean, of birds, and of everything that creeps on the ground. 00:18:09.080 --> 00:18:13.940 Two and two male and female went into the ark with Noah as God had commanded Noah. 00:18:14.680 --> 00:18:17.880 And after seven days, the waters of the flood came upon the earth. 00:18:19.660 --> 00:18:23.870 You know, verse six, where it tells us no is 600 years old when these floods came. 00:18:24.840 --> 00:18:27.820 God is communicating to us, has been incredibly patient. 00:18:29.080 --> 00:18:31.360 If you remember how the story went, we talked last week. 00:18:31.360 --> 00:18:35.020 Methuselah lived to be 969 years old. 00:18:35.100 --> 00:18:37.750 The Bible shows him to be the oldest person to ever live. 00:18:37.880 --> 00:18:40.040 And somebody asks the question, why does the Bible want us to know that? 00:18:40.420 --> 00:18:42.580 And the answer is because of what Methusula represents. 00:18:42.740 --> 00:18:45.670 His name loosely translates after him comes judgment. 00:18:46.180 --> 00:18:53.500 And so God has extended the life of Methusula as an example of his patience and warning to the world that when Methusula dies, judgment is coming and 00:18:53.500 --> 00:18:54.720 Methusula dies. 00:18:54.780 --> 00:18:58.080 When in the 600 year of Noah's life, which is when the flood comes. 00:18:59.080 --> 00:19:06.140 So Noah, or excuse me, Methusula dies and the flood comes and God is being incredibly patient, even in your life 00:19:06.140 --> 00:19:08.120 and mine to be where you are today. 00:19:08.620 --> 00:19:09.720 To hear the Word of God. 00:19:10.060 --> 00:19:17.200 Tide is the patient grace of God being made known in your life to say to you, Don't take advantage of this, but learn how to rest in the ark 00:19:17.200 --> 00:19:24.260 of his presence for what God has done for you, not because of your merit to the Lord, but because of His grace made known in your 00:19:24.260 --> 00:19:24.810 life. 00:19:25.320 --> 00:19:27.640 It's amazing how patient God can be with us. 00:19:27.660 --> 00:19:34.660 It's amazing to me how patient God is with me because sometimes I get sick of myself and the Bible tells us every day his mercy is new for 00:19:34.660 --> 00:19:36.460 me, great is his faithfulness. 00:19:37.380 --> 00:19:41.750 And it's incredible that God, the way he has been patient in this passage. 00:19:41.860 --> 00:19:46.940 And the irony of this story is, as you imagine in these moments, Noah's just not building an ark. 00:19:47.020 --> 00:19:49.060 He's also proclaiming the truth of God. 00:19:49.060 --> 00:19:53.140 He's working as a prophet, warning people to turn to the Lord. 00:19:53.340 --> 00:19:54.410 And no one does. 00:19:55.220 --> 00:19:56.340 No one comes to the Lord. 00:19:56.400 --> 00:19:58.100 But you know who obeys God in this story? 00:19:58.840 --> 00:19:59.560 The animals. 00:20:00.440 --> 00:20:01.740 The animals aren't stupid enough. 00:20:01.780 --> 00:20:04.860 The animals are the ones that are like, Oh, there's a boat, let's go. 00:20:04.860 --> 00:20:05.240 Right? 00:20:05.240 --> 00:20:09.740 And the other people are just ignoring the patient grace of God to be made known. 00:20:09.760 --> 00:20:13.590 But you find, as Noah is faithful, not only is his life blessed. 00:20:15.060 --> 00:20:15.850 But so is his family. 00:20:18.220 --> 00:20:22.920 The blessing extends beyond him because of the grace of God made known in his life. 00:20:24.140 --> 00:20:31.140 As the same is true for you to see the arc that is Christ, the representation of this boat that Jesus 00:20:31.140 --> 00:20:38.160 chooses to cover you by dying for you on the cross, that you could rest in him, not based on your merit, but what he's achieved for 00:20:38.160 --> 00:20:38.600 you. 00:20:38.840 --> 00:20:42.740 And that through you not only is your life blessed, but also those around you. 00:20:43.200 --> 00:20:47.880 And in fact, in Hebrews Chapter 11, the message was isn't really a translation of the Bible. 00:20:47.900 --> 00:20:50.010 It's more a paraphrase or more like a commentary. 00:20:50.520 --> 00:20:57.420 But in Hebrews chapter 11, verse seven, it says this By faith Noah built a ship in the middle of dry land. 00:20:57.920 --> 00:21:01.960 He was warned about something he couldn't see and acted on what he was told. 00:21:02.700 --> 00:21:05.140 And the result his family was saved. 00:21:05.880 --> 00:21:11.400 His act of faith drew a sharp line between the evil of the unbelieving world and the rightness of the believing world. 00:21:11.460 --> 00:21:14.080 And as a result, Noah became intimate with God. 00:21:15.100 --> 00:21:17.120 Noah entered into relationship with God. 00:21:17.120 --> 00:21:18.940 His family has blessed through this and. 00:21:18.940 --> 00:21:21.360 But could you imagine this being Noah in this day? 00:21:21.960 --> 00:21:24.310 This was not an easy walk for him. 00:21:24.360 --> 00:21:27.520 Could you imagine having this initial conversation with his wife? 00:21:28.000 --> 00:21:29.420 Honey, God told me something. 00:21:29.960 --> 00:21:31.040 We need to own a boat. 00:21:31.280 --> 00:21:32.480 And she would be like, That's great. 00:21:32.500 --> 00:21:36.780 We could spend the weekends cruising the lake, and just enjoying life. 00:21:36.780 --> 00:21:38.470 And he said, Oh, no, no, no, not that kind of boat. 00:21:38.870 --> 00:21:45.200 We're going to build this boat in the middle of dry land and it's going to be so ginormous no one can move it. 00:21:45.360 --> 00:21:49.410 That's the kind of boat and you would think she's probably thinking he's a little crazy. 00:21:49.600 --> 00:21:52.560 The rest of his family is thinking he's crazy, but they love him. 00:21:52.560 --> 00:21:53.910 But could you imagine being his neighbor? 00:21:54.600 --> 00:22:00.240 I mean, right now you live next to this guy and all day long it's just nail after nail pounding after pounding. 00:22:00.240 --> 00:22:01.430 That would be incredibly frustrating. 00:22:02.100 --> 00:22:09.220 But not only that, if you don't believe in his cause, like how much mockery and how he would be treated as just foolish. 00:22:09.400 --> 00:22:09.760 Right. 00:22:09.880 --> 00:22:11.160 And Noah is building this boat. 00:22:11.200 --> 00:22:13.980 And your wife might say to you, well, how long do you need to build such a boat? 00:22:14.100 --> 00:22:16.480 And he says, I don't know, about 100 years or so. 00:22:16.500 --> 00:22:20.680 He's spending the next 100 years of his life laboring in and out on building this boat. 00:22:20.680 --> 00:22:21.880 He may have hired some help. 00:22:21.900 --> 00:22:22.600 Who knows? 00:22:22.740 --> 00:22:25.610 But he's building a boat in the middle of dry ground. 00:22:27.080 --> 00:22:31.940 All of the treatment he would have been receiving because of how people would have looked at him. 00:22:32.000 --> 00:22:35.400 And he's not only building the boat, but he's also telling people they need to turn to the Lord. 00:22:35.420 --> 00:22:36.640 And the people are rejecting that. 00:22:36.780 --> 00:22:42.200 And they're not just like, Oh, thank you, Noah, for sharing this, but I'm just preferring not to follow this path, Right? 00:22:42.200 --> 00:22:42.980 Noah is going to be mocked. 00:22:43.260 --> 00:22:44.050 He's going to be treated poorly. 00:22:45.500 --> 00:22:47.160 And the same could be true for you. 00:22:48.740 --> 00:22:50.380 Because of your walk with the Lord. 00:22:50.920 --> 00:22:55.100 Other people may not understand it and some might downright make fun of you because of it. 00:22:55.560 --> 00:22:56.540 They may treat you poorly. 00:22:56.700 --> 00:22:57.520 They may reject you. 00:22:57.520 --> 00:22:58.480 They may shame you. 00:23:00.400 --> 00:23:01.780 But it tells us in the story. 00:23:02.060 --> 00:23:02.860 But Noah. 00:23:03.840 --> 00:23:05.600 Was intimate with God. 00:23:07.340 --> 00:23:09.420 Noah knew the Lord. 00:23:10.540 --> 00:23:17.820 And to him that took priority to hide and the atonement to rest and the presence of God. 00:23:17.980 --> 00:23:20.880 You know, when Noah built this boat, it wasn't raining. 00:23:22.060 --> 00:23:29.240 But Noah was planning ahead because he knew something was coming and he was investing in his relationship with the Lord, knowing his identity was 00:23:29.240 --> 00:23:30.180 secure there. 00:23:30.280 --> 00:23:36.690 And when Noah went to build this boat, the ark wasn't built by or excuse me, the ark was built by amateurs. 00:23:39.060 --> 00:23:41.960 And I think it's important for us to realize when we come to the Lord, we're not here to impress God with. 00:23:42.100 --> 00:23:42.100 With. 00:23:42.100 --> 00:23:43.140 With who we are. 00:23:43.280 --> 00:23:44.650 The ark was built by amateurs. 00:23:44.780 --> 00:23:46.490 It was the Titanic that was built by professionals. 00:23:47.260 --> 00:23:48.920 You think about we. 00:23:49.320 --> 00:23:50.820 We think about coming to the Lord and how. 00:23:50.820 --> 00:23:53.100 How my life can bless my family or people around us. 00:23:53.220 --> 00:23:55.520 It's not about impressing people with who you are. 00:23:56.720 --> 00:24:01.640 But just being faithful where you are to follow after him and God takes care of the rest. 00:24:02.860 --> 00:24:05.780 And here we see the fruits of what Noah is doing. 00:24:05.840 --> 00:24:09.960 He's not listening to the critics, but rather where the Lord has called him. 00:24:10.820 --> 00:24:13.780 And it goes on from there in verse 11 and the 600 year of Noah's life. 00:24:15.880 --> 00:24:23.140 In the second month, on the seventh day of the month, on that day, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth and 00:24:23.140 --> 00:24:27.000 the windows of the heavens were opened and the rain fell upon the earth 40 days and 40 nights. 00:24:27.540 --> 00:24:33.960 They were went into the ark with Noah, two and two of all flesh in which there was the breath of life. 00:24:33.980 --> 00:24:38.280 And those that entered male and female of all flesh went in as the Lord commanded. 00:24:38.300 --> 00:24:41.840 And look at this and the Lord shut him in. 00:24:43.380 --> 00:24:44.910 And that can be a very ominous statement. 00:24:46.060 --> 00:24:47.470 Or it can be a very hopeful statement. 00:24:48.360 --> 00:24:50.180 I think it depends on which side of the boat you're on. 00:24:51.620 --> 00:24:53.720 Same thing is true with the presence of the Lord. 00:24:54.580 --> 00:24:55.680 The arc of who He is. 00:24:56.540 --> 00:24:58.000 He is a force to be reckoned with. 00:24:59.260 --> 00:25:00.300 Where do you find yourself? 00:25:01.360 --> 00:25:04.380 I mean, could you imagine these moments and tells us and the Lord, shut the door? 00:25:04.980 --> 00:25:06.180 Was it Noah shutting the door? 00:25:06.220 --> 00:25:07.860 But it was it was God shutting the door. 00:25:08.600 --> 00:25:13.780 And we know in the New Testament tells us Noah is a prophet of the Lord proclaiming the truth of God. 00:25:13.840 --> 00:25:19.960 And I can imagine right up to the last moment when Noah maybe even invited his friends to his final church service before the flood. 00:25:20.540 --> 00:25:23.240 He says, we're going to have a commissioning service for the boat. 00:25:23.300 --> 00:25:24.860 I really want you guys to come to this. 00:25:24.860 --> 00:25:26.600 You probably need to come to this. 00:25:26.640 --> 00:25:26.960 Right. 00:25:27.040 --> 00:25:28.620 And Noah is still preaching to people. 00:25:28.620 --> 00:25:32.520 Turn to the Lord God. 00:25:32.520 --> 00:25:32.520 God's going to bring his judgment. 00:25:32.520 --> 00:25:32.520 Turn to the Lord. 00:25:32.520 --> 00:25:33.280 There's still an opportunity. 00:25:33.600 --> 00:25:34.220 The ark is open. 00:25:34.220 --> 00:25:40.240 And I can imagine as God starts to close the ark, Noah just standing on the inside, just shouting out to people, Turn to the Lord. 00:25:40.240 --> 00:25:42.380 God has provided a place for you to be rescued. 00:25:42.380 --> 00:25:43.680 Do not trust in yourself. 00:25:43.700 --> 00:25:47.250 Do not run away from the opportunity that God has patiently given you in grace. 00:25:47.500 --> 00:25:51.800 And Noah was just saying over and over, just shouting through the crack of the doors that finally closes. 00:25:54.440 --> 00:25:55.880 In the Bible tells us the same thing. 00:25:57.840 --> 00:25:59.400 That there is judgment of the Lord. 00:26:00.660 --> 00:26:01.260 He must. 00:26:02.940 --> 00:26:04.100 Judge in order to be good. 00:26:04.980 --> 00:26:06.420 A just God demands it. 00:26:07.720 --> 00:26:08.600 Judgment is coming. 00:26:09.660 --> 00:26:13.700 The idea of the ark is a picture of maybe the great judgment that will come death. 00:26:15.800 --> 00:26:16.240 All of us. 00:26:17.020 --> 00:26:17.730 All of us face. 00:26:19.060 --> 00:26:21.070 The question is what will carry you through? 00:26:22.440 --> 00:26:26.890 Hebrews Chapter nine, verse 27, says it like this and justice is appointed for a man to die once. 00:26:26.980 --> 00:26:28.640 And after that comes the judgment. 00:26:30.280 --> 00:26:36.590 And we've learned from the past story in Genesis chapter five and six, people live for a very long time in those chapters. 00:26:37.740 --> 00:26:40.300 And the problem with people wasn't that they needed more time. 00:26:41.540 --> 00:26:43.600 The problem was where their heart was surrendered. 00:26:43.640 --> 00:26:44.700 The problem was within them. 00:26:45.500 --> 00:26:48.060 They chose to rebel against God rather than turn to him. 00:26:48.940 --> 00:26:50.760 And the Bible says, you get this opportunity. 00:26:51.880 --> 00:26:53.240 But after that comes the judgment. 00:26:54.880 --> 00:27:00.200 In Jesus's day in Luke chapter 17, even as a warning, he uses the life of Moses or excuse me, Noah. 00:27:00.200 --> 00:27:03.250 And he says this just as it was in the days of Noah. 00:27:03.460 --> 00:27:05.160 So will it be in the days of the Son of Man? 00:27:05.900 --> 00:27:13.240 They were eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage until the day when Noah entered the ark and the flood came and destroyed 00:27:13.240 --> 00:27:13.960 them all. 00:27:15.540 --> 00:27:22.480 They were so interested in living life for their glory as if they were gods that they failed to recognize the grace of God being made known. 00:27:23.380 --> 00:27:27.820 The beauty of His ark to walk in his presence. 00:27:28.420 --> 00:27:31.680 And people will mock you or may mock you for following after the Lord. 00:27:31.740 --> 00:27:38.970 But you see in the life of Noah, the beauty of knowing God intimately in the fruit of that and then goes on in verse 17, 00:27:39.400 --> 00:27:41.700 it says, The flood continued 40 days on the earth. 00:27:42.260 --> 00:27:47.340 The waters prevailed above the mountains, covering them 15 cubits deep, and all the flesh died. 00:27:48.000 --> 00:27:53.980 That moved on the earth, birds and livestock beasts, all swarming creatures that swarm on the earth and all mankind. 00:27:54.200 --> 00:27:57.000 And the waters prevailed on the earth 150 days. 00:27:58.540 --> 00:28:01.580 So here it is, the global catastrophe taking place. 00:28:01.640 --> 00:28:06.890 Here is the flood comes over the known world as it's described in Genesis. 00:28:07.060 --> 00:28:13.020 And, when you look at the flood account, what's interesting is the Bible isn't the only place in early civilization that has a flood account. 00:28:13.020 --> 00:28:15.520 There are several different people, groups that have flood accounts. 00:28:15.700 --> 00:28:20.100 The most popular is the Flood of Gilgamesh, which is the tablet there in the top left. 00:28:20.280 --> 00:28:22.450 There are different people, groups who have written a flood account. 00:28:22.960 --> 00:28:30.360 But in terms of the noahic flood, as to whether or not it happened, it's interesting that nothing specifically I would say or has 00:28:30.360 --> 00:28:33.020 been directly identified as relating to the Noahic flood. 00:28:33.160 --> 00:28:39.080 But on Mount Ararat in Turkey there is what looks to appear to be where the boat stopped. 00:28:39.100 --> 00:28:40.160 It's said to have stopped on. 00:28:40.160 --> 00:28:45.100 Mount Ararat looks and appears to be the remnants of the shape of a boat. 00:28:45.520 --> 00:28:50.640 And the size of that shape is roughly the size of what's described as Noah's boat. 00:28:50.700 --> 00:28:56.980 In Genesis chapter six, the Turkish government has been appealed to in order to do some excavation. 00:28:57.700 --> 00:29:04.200 But one thing that's been said to have been found in that area is a deck petrified deck planking board. 00:29:04.840 --> 00:29:06.650 And you see that there in the bottom left corner. 00:29:07.660 --> 00:29:09.100 Who knows if it's that or not. 00:29:09.180 --> 00:29:13.900 But it's just interesting that you have in that general area something that gives the symbolism of an ark. 00:29:13.960 --> 00:29:20.960 But people still ask the question, okay, when God flooded the earth, did it really cover the entire earth that it really it was all all the animals 00:29:20.960 --> 00:29:21.880 and all of humanity? 00:29:21.880 --> 00:29:25.200 Was it just all of the known world at the time, or was it really all of the world? 00:29:25.280 --> 00:29:26.910 And I got to tell you, I wasn't there. 00:29:27.460 --> 00:29:30.900 So I can specifically speak to personal eyewitness account. 00:29:31.380 --> 00:29:34.240 But there's two views people take here as to what all represents. 00:29:34.880 --> 00:29:39.700 All literally means the all of the world or some say all of just the general region. 00:29:39.820 --> 00:29:43.000 And the people that tend to say all of all of humanity was killed. 00:29:43.060 --> 00:29:50.300 But it was humanity as far as humanity has been developed, highlight areas of the Bible where all gives a general idea meaning at the end of Genesis 00:29:50.300 --> 00:29:57.460 when Joseph will look at the story later, when Joseph figures out how to help Egypt through the famine, it 00:29:57.460 --> 00:29:59.960 tells them that people come to Egypt for food. 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:02.420 They come to Joseph directly for food during the famine. 00:30:02.540 --> 00:30:04.860 And it says All of the world comes to Joseph. 00:30:05.280 --> 00:30:06.820 Now all of the world literally come to Joseph. 00:30:07.220 --> 00:30:07.920 Probably not. 00:30:07.920 --> 00:30:09.080 But it says all the world. 00:30:09.080 --> 00:30:15.140 Or in Exodus, when the plagues hit Egypt and God's people are going to be set free from slaves. 00:30:15.220 --> 00:30:16.630 The Jewish people are going to be set free from slaves. 00:30:16.840 --> 00:30:21.800 When the plagues hit, there's a plague that take out the cattle and it says all of the cattle are killed. 00:30:22.080 --> 00:30:25.530 And then two plagues later it says, and they hid some of the cattle. 00:30:25.640 --> 00:30:28.840 It's like, well, did all the cattle really die or is it just a general idea? 00:30:28.960 --> 00:30:35.370 Some argue the flood the flood maybe didn't take over the whole world, but at least the known world at the time to wipe out humanity. 00:30:35.800 --> 00:30:37.270 Others say, yes, it was a global catastrophe. 00:30:38.200 --> 00:30:41.060 I have a hard time looking at the Grand Canyon and not thinking to myself. 00:30:41.060 --> 00:30:43.760 Seems like a lot of water came through here, right? 00:30:44.220 --> 00:30:47.150 In fact, I have some friends, a pastor that lived in Bryce Canyon. 00:30:47.520 --> 00:30:49.200 He moved away a few years ago. 00:30:49.200 --> 00:30:51.600 His name is Rob Brannon, his wife, Joanne. 00:30:51.720 --> 00:30:56.080 They would often hike in the back of Bryce Canyon and they would find fossils back there. 00:30:56.180 --> 00:31:03.180 One of the interesting things they would find on occasion, they would hike up about 7000ft and embedded in the rock, they would find shark's 00:31:03.180 --> 00:31:03.400 teeth. 00:31:04.200 --> 00:31:11.480 Now, whatever your stain is of global global flood or not, you've got to account for how in the world do shark's teeth get on the top of 00:31:11.480 --> 00:31:11.580 Bryce Canyon? 00:31:11.580 --> 00:31:11.960 Right. 00:31:12.120 --> 00:31:15.490 And so they've got several shark's teeth that they have found at the top of Bryce Canyon. 00:31:15.520 --> 00:31:17.950 Here you see a picture of them, 7000ft high. 00:31:18.560 --> 00:31:26.240 But the point of the flood is to help us recognize when we think in terms of why this story exists, 00:31:26.540 --> 00:31:32.780 God is helping us see the importance of resting in the ark, resting in the presence of the Lord. 00:31:33.420 --> 00:31:36.700 And point number two in your notes and this will be quicker is look to a new creation. 00:31:37.860 --> 00:31:40.720 Look to a new creation in Genesis Chapter eight. 00:31:40.840 --> 00:31:48.080 As the story unfolds, the Bible goes back to the beginning of creation and connects God's story of Genesis eight to the beginning 00:31:48.080 --> 00:31:49.260 of how we were made. 00:31:49.360 --> 00:31:54.610 As if to say to you Every day, God gives you an opportunity of grace that God made you for relationship. 00:31:54.700 --> 00:32:01.920 In Genesis chapter one and again in the midst of man's sin, God is reminding us of that in Genesis eight, because it says in verse one, But God remembered 00:32:01.920 --> 00:32:08.170 Noah and all the beasts and all the livestock that were with him in the ark, and God made a wind blow over the earth and the waters subsided. 00:32:08.920 --> 00:32:09.180 Look. 00:32:09.180 --> 00:32:15.000 Genesis, chapter eight, Verse one is not God being like, Oh no, I got the earth covered in a flood and oh, I forgot completely about. 00:32:15.000 --> 00:32:16.580 A guy on a boat, right? 00:32:16.580 --> 00:32:17.160 He's not saying he forgot. 00:32:17.300 --> 00:32:17.500 No way. 00:32:17.520 --> 00:32:24.560 And he's coming back to know it, but rather he's saying and God now turns his attention from flooding the earth back to what he desires to 00:32:24.560 --> 00:32:25.580 do with the life of Noah. 00:32:25.620 --> 00:32:30.220 God's attention is back in what he wants to accomplish through Noah's life. 00:32:30.480 --> 00:32:37.540 And then it says in the second half of that verse, the wind blew over the earth, which is just like Genesis chapter one and verse two, it tells 00:32:37.540 --> 00:32:42.420 us the spirit of God hovered over the earth, over the chaos when God created in the beginning. 00:32:42.740 --> 00:32:46.700 It tells us in Genesis one and two that the earth was form and without void. 00:32:47.100 --> 00:32:54.180 And it's saying, look, the earth is not fulfilling its purpose, that it's just covered in water, it's covered in chaos, and out of the chaos, God 00:32:54.180 --> 00:32:56.140 brings order and the Hebrew mind. 00:32:56.140 --> 00:32:58.100 The idea of water is this place of chaos. 00:32:58.600 --> 00:33:05.700 In the beginning, when God created the earth covered in water, chaos, when Israel is being rescued from slavery out of Egypt, they come to 00:33:05.700 --> 00:33:12.710 the Dead Sea and they think they're going to die by the Egyptian army and God parts the water and out of chaos they walk into order. 00:33:12.820 --> 00:33:15.980 Out of God's creation, He takes chaos and he brings order and life. 00:33:16.520 --> 00:33:23.540 When they get to the promised Land before they cross into the promised Land God parts, the Jordan River, and through the chaos of the water comes order God's 00:33:23.540 --> 00:33:30.560 fulfillment of promise in the new Life In Genesis Chapter one, Verse two The spirit of God hovers over the waters, and the 00:33:30.560 --> 00:33:33.180 word for spirit is the same word for wind. 00:33:33.320 --> 00:33:34.820 It's ruach. 00:33:34.900 --> 00:33:42.180 And so he's saying here in Genesis chapter eight, verse one, just as at the beginning with creation, that the wind is blowing, the spirit of God has made known and out 00:33:42.180 --> 00:33:43.540 of the chaos comes order. 00:33:44.080 --> 00:33:51.480 And in verse four, and in the seventh month of the seventh day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat, which 00:33:51.480 --> 00:33:53.120 is modern day Turkey. 00:33:53.560 --> 00:33:57.040 And he's saying in this, in this passage, just like God created in seven days. 00:33:57.580 --> 00:34:04.760 So on the seventh day of the seventh month, God is bringing order out of this chaos that there would be rest just as God rested on the seventh 00:34:04.760 --> 00:34:07.260 day, that we could enjoy relationship with him. 00:34:07.260 --> 00:34:09.420 So God is bringing this boat to a rest. 00:34:09.840 --> 00:34:10.320 Verse five. 00:34:10.320 --> 00:34:16.250 And the waters continued to obey until the 10th month and the 10th month on the first day of the month on the tops of the mountains. 00:34:16.639 --> 00:34:17.409 This was seen. 00:34:17.960 --> 00:34:25.239 And it goes on and says in verse 11, And the dove came back to him in the evening and behold, in her mouth was a freshly plucked 00:34:25.239 --> 00:34:25.920 olive leaf. 00:34:26.420 --> 00:34:28.360 The idea of a dove is a symbol of peace. 00:34:28.880 --> 00:34:34.190 You think when God created in seven days that the seventh day was a place of peace and joy in the presence of the Lord. 00:34:34.739 --> 00:34:41.480 And as God brings this boat to a rest, on the seventh day of the seventh month, he brings this dove as a symbol of peace. 00:34:41.520 --> 00:34:48.540 When Jesus was baptized in Matthew chapter three, it tells us that the Spirit of God descended upon him like a dove because Jesus came to 00:34:48.540 --> 00:34:51.719 this world preaching a message of peace, of life in him. 00:34:52.260 --> 00:34:54.940 And so Noah is discovering this peace in the Lord. 00:34:55.000 --> 00:34:57.780 So Noah knew that the waters had subsided from the earth. 00:34:58.100 --> 00:35:02.380 Verse 14 and the second month of the 27th day of the month, the earth had dried out. 00:35:02.380 --> 00:35:09.520 Then God said to Noah, Go out from the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons wives with you and bring out with you every living thing 00:35:09.520 --> 00:35:16.780 that is with you of all flesh, birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may swarm on the earth and be 00:35:16.780 --> 00:35:18.860 fruitful and multiply on the earth. 00:35:18.860 --> 00:35:23.680 I can promise that when Noah and his family walked out and the creeping things walked that the wife did not walk with him. 00:35:23.710 --> 00:35:25.250 Noah did that on his own. 00:35:25.460 --> 00:35:26.740 No, he would walk with those creepy things. 00:35:27.000 --> 00:35:34.080 But the animals come out and it's painting this beautiful picture again that Noah waits for the to obey the commandment of the Lord before he steps out of 00:35:34.080 --> 00:35:35.300 the boat that the boat had stopped. 00:35:36.020 --> 00:35:38.100 But he waits for God's command, a little different than Adam and Eve. 00:35:38.100 --> 00:35:38.800 They didn't obey. 00:35:38.840 --> 00:35:40.600 But this time Noah does obey. 00:35:40.720 --> 00:35:43.470 And just like Adam and Eve led the animals in the Garden of Eden. 00:35:43.660 --> 00:35:49.070 So Noah is exiting with these animals into the new creation of what God has provided for them. 00:35:49.380 --> 00:35:54.480 And when it tells us in the story to be fruitful and multiply, it's just like Genesis chapter one, verse 22. 00:35:55.040 --> 00:35:57.010 God told the animals, be fruitful and multiply. 00:35:57.300 --> 00:36:01.180 And then in chapter nine, verse one, God tells Adam and Eve and his family be fruitful and multiply. 00:36:01.360 --> 00:36:03.080 And Genesis Chapter one, verse 28. 00:36:03.080 --> 00:36:05.480 God tells Adam and Eve be fruitful and multiply. 00:36:06.200 --> 00:36:08.780 What God is saying is God is not finished with us yet. 00:36:09.240 --> 00:36:15.880 Just as when Adam and Eve were created for relationship with God and Adam and Eve ran from God, God pursued them and continued to be gracious to them. 00:36:15.940 --> 00:36:23.280 And as you continue on in the story of Genesis, you see over and over again, man turning their back from God and God continuing to be gracious, to provide an atonement, 00:36:23.280 --> 00:36:26.340 a place of cover, to walk in new creation with the Lord. 00:36:26.640 --> 00:36:33.660 And so you read in Genesis chapter eight, Noah, in that same opportunity to walk in the presence of the Lord and enjoy a relationship 00:36:33.660 --> 00:36:34.220 with him. 00:36:35.100 --> 00:36:36.080 So here's the big question then. 00:36:37.320 --> 00:36:38.140 Why the Noahic flood? 00:36:39.440 --> 00:36:41.900 Out of 1600 years of anything that you could tell. 00:36:43.000 --> 00:36:44.950 And you think in 11 chapters of the Book of Genesis. 00:36:45.140 --> 00:36:48.900 The Noahic Flood takes Genesis chapter six to Genesis Chapter nine to tell us the story. 00:36:50.120 --> 00:36:53.230 Why so much related to the Noahic flood? 00:36:54.240 --> 00:36:58.180 Well, if you remember, as you as you study what the Lord has done and let me give you the notes here. 00:36:58.320 --> 00:37:00.080 This is your blank in your notes. 00:37:00.460 --> 00:37:02.280 We all need encourage to follow the Lord. 00:37:03.120 --> 00:37:05.700 The reason he tells us the story is we all need to encourage to follow the Lord. 00:37:05.720 --> 00:37:05.740 But. 00:37:05.840 --> 00:37:07.840 But understanding the particularities makes this important. 00:37:09.100 --> 00:37:15.370 If you remember, in order to understand the Bible, it's first important to recognize what did it mean to the people there. 00:37:15.600 --> 00:37:18.480 And then before we can relate it to us and the here and now. 00:37:19.680 --> 00:37:21.360 And this Genesis story, if you remember. 00:37:21.400 --> 00:37:22.320 Who is this written to? 00:37:23.600 --> 00:37:26.960 It's written to a group of slaves that have been set free. 00:37:27.760 --> 00:37:32.740 They have just gone through a catastrophic moment with all the plagues that have hit Egypt. 00:37:32.860 --> 00:37:38.680 They have seen a civilization fall apart, and now they've been called out by the Lord to follow him. 00:37:39.580 --> 00:37:40.570 A place of uncertainty. 00:37:40.740 --> 00:37:42.800 A place where they don't control the rudder of the ship. 00:37:43.920 --> 00:37:49.800 But they need to know about the God that's directing them, because just like this flood took place for 40 days. 00:37:49.800 --> 00:37:52.470 So they're going to wonder in the wilderness for 40 years. 00:37:53.360 --> 00:38:00.360 And this picture of the noahic flood is a reminder to God's people as they wander through the wilderness that God in his atonement and his ark, 00:38:00.500 --> 00:38:07.600 his presence is with them, that they can find solace in the presence of God and God in His faithfulness will carry us through because his mercy is 00:38:07.600 --> 00:38:08.740 new every morning. 00:38:08.740 --> 00:38:10.550 Great is his faithfulness. 00:38:11.600 --> 00:38:13.180 It was a place of encouragement for them. 00:38:14.600 --> 00:38:14.860 And God. 00:38:14.900 --> 00:38:15.720 So it is for us. 00:38:16.840 --> 00:38:20.820 That the story of the flood becomes a picture for God's people throughout all of history. 00:38:21.820 --> 00:38:28.660 That all of us are going to go through storm and in that storm, we need hope and we need encourage to continue on. 00:38:29.700 --> 00:38:36.900 And the noahic flood is a reminder to God's people that he is there with you and he will carry you through the storm because 00:38:36.900 --> 00:38:38.620 all of us one day will face death. 00:38:39.900 --> 00:38:43.120 And we need to know that when we rest, we rest in him. 00:38:43.900 --> 00:38:49.440 In fact, this is exactly the way Peter described it in First Peter chapter three and verse 20. 00:38:49.440 --> 00:38:56.980 He said it like this because they formerly did not obey when God's patience waited in the days of Noah while the Ark was being prepared, 00:38:57.540 --> 00:39:02.220 Noah preaching to them, and which a few, that is eight persons were brought safely through the water. 00:39:02.880 --> 00:39:10.000 And then related to us in verse 21 baptism which corresponds to this now saves you not as a removal of dirt from the body, 00:39:10.120 --> 00:39:14.120 but as an appeal to God for a good conscience through the resurrection of Jesus Christ. 00:39:15.060 --> 00:39:19.650 Peter draws this straight to the idea of death and needing to be resurrected to life. 00:39:19.840 --> 00:39:22.340 And your life with Jesus doesn't start the moment you actually die. 00:39:22.400 --> 00:39:24.080 Your life in Jesus starts at the moment. 00:39:24.080 --> 00:39:27.840 You surrender your life to him in death and receive what Christ has done. 00:39:27.840 --> 00:39:29.660 The Bible promises that is eternal life. 00:39:29.660 --> 00:39:30.620 That is new life. 00:39:30.620 --> 00:39:33.040 Your relationship with the Lord starts in the moment you trust in Jesus. 00:39:33.820 --> 00:39:39.200 But the illustration he's drawing here is to the idea of baptism and baptism doesn't always mean dunked under water. 00:39:39.200 --> 00:39:41.300 The word baptism literally means to be immersed. 00:39:42.100 --> 00:39:49.100 And he's saying, look, it's not the appealing to God by being removed or putting put on water for the removal of dirt, but rather coming to God for the appeal of a good 00:39:49.100 --> 00:39:55.200 conscience before him, that you would receive the forgiveness of God, that you would find newness of life a new creation. 00:39:57.100 --> 00:39:59.280 Because you have trusted in the arc. 00:40:01.360 --> 00:40:02.620 Knowing God is with you. 00:40:03.720 --> 00:40:07.740 That's the arc coming into his presence, resting in him. 00:40:08.860 --> 00:40:13.560 And no matter the storm, when you're with God, there's always a rainbow waiting on the other end. 00:40:14.100 --> 00:40:19.900 A new creation as you walk with him and with the end in mind. 00:40:19.920 --> 00:40:26.700 The story is intended to help you sail towards that destination, towards higher ground in the Lord. 00:40:27.540 --> 00:40:30.900 The idea of the Noah's Ark story is everyone's story. 00:40:30.940 --> 00:40:38.240 Ultimately, in Christ, in order to find ourselves resting in the presence of the Lord, to enjoy his presence for all of eternity, not by trusting 00:40:38.240 --> 00:40:45.320 himself and choosing to live for the flesh and all of our glory, but rather surrendering ourselves to rest before him and following him wherever he 00:40:45.320 --> 00:40:45.860 leads. 00:40:47.120 --> 00:40:47.880 Let me close with this. 00:40:47.920 --> 00:40:55.040 There was a there was a story about a lady who lived in the fifth story, an attic of an old, older, 00:40:55.260 --> 00:40:59.520 dilapidated building, and she was living in this attic. 00:40:59.520 --> 00:41:02.090 She wasn't able to leave the room because she had illness. 00:41:02.240 --> 00:41:06.950 And so she lived her the rest of her life, the rest of her days in this attic. 00:41:07.000 --> 00:41:11.400 And she was a great saint that loved the Lord deeply, was always an encouragement to be around. 00:41:11.400 --> 00:41:13.640 And so one of her friends one day decided to go visit her. 00:41:13.820 --> 00:41:17.820 But in visiting her, she also took another wealthy lady with her on that journey. 00:41:18.860 --> 00:41:22.190 And as they got to the house, they started to walk up the stairs because there was no elevator. 00:41:22.280 --> 00:41:24.320 They had to climb five flights of stairs. 00:41:24.320 --> 00:41:31.380 And as they got a couple of flights up, the wealthier lady looked at the situation she was in and she said this area is so 00:41:31.380 --> 00:41:32.580 filthy and dirty. 00:41:33.200 --> 00:41:37.000 And the woman that was with her turned her and said, it gets better, higher up. 00:41:37.780 --> 00:41:45.220 And so they continued on and they got to the fourth floor of the building and the lady still looking around, thinking, we've almost climbed to the top and this is still filthy 00:41:45.220 --> 00:41:46.860 and dirty and gross to be in. 00:41:47.080 --> 00:41:50.060 And the woman looks at her and says, I promise you, it gets better, higher up. 00:41:50.980 --> 00:41:52.870 And they get it finally to the top floor. 00:41:53.400 --> 00:41:59.660 And when they walk into that room, this great saint of the Lord, her smile just illuminating with the joy of God in her life. 00:42:00.260 --> 00:42:07.120 But this lady again starts to look around and she says to the woman, You must be miserable living in this circumstance. 00:42:07.200 --> 00:42:08.340 How do you do it? 00:42:08.540 --> 00:42:12.960 And the lady, without even batting an eye, looks back at her and says, It gets better, higher up. 00:42:14.720 --> 00:42:16.440 Guys, can I just encourage you? 00:42:17.800 --> 00:42:24.940 The Noahic flood is thatrillioneminder for those who come to the Lord, don't quit. 00:42:26.100 --> 00:42:28.060 God knows exactly where he's taking you. 00:42:28.920 --> 00:42:31.690 God knows exactly what he has for you. 00:42:32.820 --> 00:42:35.820 His call for your life is to rest in his atonement. 00:42:37.380 --> 00:42:44.180 To rest in his presence and what he's done for you to allow him to direct you to the new creation.