WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.020 Let's do the scripture reading first. Can I invite you to stand for the word of the Lord? 00:00:06.640 --> 00:00:13.460 So we're covering Genesis 8 and 9 today, but for our reading will be in Genesis 9, starting in verse 8. 00:00:13.460 --> 00:00:23.660 ! So starting from Genesis 9, verse 8, it reads, 00:00:23.660 --> 00:00:26.359 Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him, 00:00:26.359 --> 00:00:39.320 Behold, I establish my covenant with you and your offspring after you, and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the livestock, and every beast of the earth with you, as many as came out of the ark, it is for every beast of the earth. 00:00:39.719 --> 00:00:47.899 I establish my covenant with you that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth. 00:00:48.239 --> 00:00:55.120 And God said, This is the sign of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you for all future generations. 00:00:55.119 --> 00:01:00.159 I set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. 00:01:00.820 --> 00:01:08.340 When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is seen in the clouds, I will remember my covenant that is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh. 00:01:08.719 --> 00:01:11.879 And the water shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. 00:01:12.500 --> 00:01:20.019 When the bow is in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth. 00:01:20.019 --> 00:01:26.079 God said to Noah, This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth. 00:01:26.420 --> 00:01:27.560 This is the word of the Lord. 00:01:29.879 --> 00:01:30.739 Thank you, Alex. 00:01:30.739 --> 00:01:46.239 We've been going through Genesis, and it reminds me that we live in a broken, a dark world. 00:01:47.340 --> 00:01:52.159 My two news sources that I go to the most is the BBC and the SEMP. 00:01:52.419 --> 00:01:56.840 And every day I look and I have a glance across the whole screen and say, Well, how is everything today? 00:01:57.159 --> 00:01:58.760 And it rarely is completely good, right? 00:01:58.820 --> 00:02:00.780 In fact, most of the time it's mostly bad. 00:02:01.579 --> 00:02:03.939 And then it makes me think, Well, what hope do we have? 00:02:04.400 --> 00:02:07.180 What hope do we have as we live and exist in this fallen world? 00:02:07.460 --> 00:02:08.840 And why does it just keep repeating? 00:02:09.120 --> 00:02:11.140 Why is it just the same stuff over and over again? 00:02:11.480 --> 00:02:14.000 And it's been helpful for me to go on this journey. 00:02:14.159 --> 00:02:16.259 Genesis is hard, what we just said here. 00:02:16.259 --> 00:02:20.860 But you go right back to the beginning, you'll see a lot of the reasons why we are where we're at. 00:02:21.120 --> 00:02:24.640 And actually, if you're like me, I've found myself in Genesis a lot as well. 00:02:24.639 --> 00:02:30.839 If I could take us all the way back to the beginning, Genesis chapter 1, you see the Spirit of God just hovering above the waters. 00:02:31.199 --> 00:02:34.279 And then he starts to speak creation into existence, right? 00:02:34.479 --> 00:02:42.879 He creates the waters divide, the dry land starts to appear, the vegetation starts to come out, and then animals swarm creation. 00:02:43.379 --> 00:02:47.179 And then, of course, the finale, the climax, man and himself. 00:02:47.180 --> 00:02:52.700 Everything else was good, but the creation of man and woman ended up being very, very good. 00:02:52.939 --> 00:02:55.500 Because God said, I want to make man in our image. 00:02:56.640 --> 00:03:01.460 And then this man is going to have dominion over creation, have dominion over the animals. 00:03:02.540 --> 00:03:04.700 And then from there, they're going to be fruitful, and they're going to multiply. 00:03:05.659 --> 00:03:11.319 Of course, last week, we went into Noah, and all it took was 10 generations, 5, 6 chapters, 00:03:11.319 --> 00:03:16.459 and suddenly we're now in a place where the whole land is completely corrupt. 00:03:17.180 --> 00:03:18.099 Where did that come from? 00:03:18.139 --> 00:03:21.259 Of course, it came from Genesis chapter 3, where it came from the mistrust of God. 00:03:21.359 --> 00:03:23.159 Did God really say that? 00:03:23.560 --> 00:03:24.299 There was doubt. 00:03:24.599 --> 00:03:25.359 There was deception. 00:03:25.879 --> 00:03:28.400 And then the fruit leads to Genesis 4, leads to murder. 00:03:29.000 --> 00:03:31.199 And then from murder, it leads to polygamy. 00:03:31.199 --> 00:03:34.699 And from there, it just leads to generations just continuing to multiply. 00:03:35.780 --> 00:03:37.879 And we're in a pretty bad place as mankind. 00:03:37.879 --> 00:03:41.259 But then, there was one. 00:03:41.819 --> 00:03:45.319 There was one guy, one family, that found favor in the eyes of God. 00:03:45.379 --> 00:03:49.039 And last week, I said, hey, don't look at that in the sense of this was a perfect man, 00:03:49.280 --> 00:03:50.599 so therefore, that's why he got saved. 00:03:50.620 --> 00:03:51.699 That's not what the scripture means. 00:03:51.900 --> 00:03:54.240 The scripture means is he was blameless. 00:03:54.460 --> 00:03:55.979 He was pursuing holiness. 00:03:56.840 --> 00:03:58.060 He was righteous. 00:03:58.740 --> 00:03:59.740 But he wasn't perfect. 00:03:59.740 --> 00:04:03.359 And today, we find out that Noah wasn't really perfect. 00:04:04.439 --> 00:04:05.939 But that wasn't the point. 00:04:05.939 --> 00:04:08.460 The point was that he found favor. 00:04:08.539 --> 00:04:09.359 He found grace. 00:04:10.120 --> 00:04:13.319 And by God's grace, he obeys, completely obeys. 00:04:13.479 --> 00:04:19.699 And I went into talking about, when was the last time we got an instruction from God to go do something that was completely crazy, 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:24.439 that would put our career in jeopardy, that would make our friendship circles or laugh at us, 00:04:24.680 --> 00:04:26.879 and you'd commit to it for 100 years? 00:04:27.920 --> 00:04:30.959 When was the last time we had the courage to do anything like that? 00:04:31.019 --> 00:04:34.659 Yet Noah, without any word at all, we actually don't hear him speak until later here, 00:04:34.660 --> 00:04:36.340 he just does it. 00:04:37.020 --> 00:04:39.120 And Noah obeyed all that God commanded. 00:04:39.280 --> 00:04:42.060 And in chapter 7, it said this in verse 16. 00:04:42.460 --> 00:04:43.620 He finally builds the ark. 00:04:43.740 --> 00:04:47.000 Remember, his granddad Methuselah, his dad Lamech, they were hanging around. 00:04:47.080 --> 00:04:49.160 They were still with them, cheering him on. 00:04:49.720 --> 00:04:52.660 Of course, Lamech, his dad dies five years before the flood comes. 00:04:52.760 --> 00:04:56.600 But Methuselah, Methuselah, his name was, when he dies, it shall be sent. 00:04:56.600 --> 00:04:58.600 So he lives all the way to 969. 00:04:59.360 --> 00:05:01.360 God's kind of showing us how patient he is. 00:05:01.620 --> 00:05:04.379 But the year he dies is the year the flood comes. 00:05:04.520 --> 00:05:09.160 And Noah now is without his dad, without his granddad, just his three kids and their wives. 00:05:09.460 --> 00:05:11.320 And so the eight of them get on the ark. 00:05:11.400 --> 00:05:14.360 They get on the ark after 100 years of building it. 00:05:14.360 --> 00:05:16.699 And then it doesn't rain for seven days. 00:05:16.759 --> 00:05:19.699 And I felt as though those were the seven longest days of his existence. 00:05:20.439 --> 00:05:24.660 People just laughing at him, wondering, why are you still on the ark? 00:05:24.740 --> 00:05:27.160 But then lo and behold, it starts raining. 00:05:28.280 --> 00:05:29.319 It starts raining. 00:05:30.259 --> 00:05:31.680 People, no doubt, start screaming. 00:05:32.400 --> 00:05:33.280 They start drowning. 00:05:33.900 --> 00:05:35.920 They run onto all the animals. 00:05:36.040 --> 00:05:36.939 They run onto the ark. 00:05:37.420 --> 00:05:39.460 And then the Lord shuts him in. 00:05:40.439 --> 00:05:44.039 And then I said, if any of us is feeling as though we're the ones trying to cling on to God, 00:05:44.099 --> 00:05:45.539 if we're the ones trying to save ourselves, 00:05:45.859 --> 00:05:48.159 we're the ones trying to shut the door of judgment, 00:05:49.219 --> 00:05:50.620 we have to remember it is not us. 00:05:50.759 --> 00:05:52.479 It is salvation belongs to the Lord. 00:05:52.579 --> 00:05:53.899 Only the Lord has the strength. 00:05:54.319 --> 00:05:56.299 Whatever door he shuts, no one can open. 00:05:56.359 --> 00:05:57.839 Whatever door he opens, no one can shut. 00:05:57.879 --> 00:05:59.079 That's what it says in Revelation, right? 00:05:59.079 --> 00:06:02.479 And so what we see here is the Lord shuts him in and saves Noah. 00:06:02.819 --> 00:06:08.000 And then, but God, chapter eight now, Genesis chapter eight, but God remembered. 00:06:08.000 --> 00:06:14.560 You see, this flood was judgment, but it was also salvation through judgment. 00:06:15.519 --> 00:06:17.339 God creates in Genesis one. 00:06:17.959 --> 00:06:19.759 And then actually he sees it go wrong. 00:06:19.819 --> 00:06:21.379 So then he actually decreates. 00:06:21.860 --> 00:06:26.019 So when the flood comes, they actually, the ground opens and the waters come out. 00:06:26.060 --> 00:06:28.319 And he basically says, we're going to press reset. 00:06:28.620 --> 00:06:30.459 So he creates and then he decreates. 00:06:30.540 --> 00:06:36.319 And now what we see in chapter eight and chapter nine is he recreates and he starts again. 00:06:36.319 --> 00:06:38.639 And there are some parallels that I'm going to talk about. 00:06:38.699 --> 00:06:40.339 And there are also some differences. 00:06:41.199 --> 00:06:43.959 Genesis chapter one, verse two, the spirit of God hovers above the water. 00:06:44.279 --> 00:06:48.139 Genesis chapter eight, verse one, and God made a wind, 00:06:48.519 --> 00:06:52.040 ruach is the word, blow over the earth and the water subsided. 00:06:52.180 --> 00:06:57.620 So the spirit of God blows over the world and the water starts to subside. 00:06:57.779 --> 00:06:59.219 And then from there, what happens? 00:06:59.279 --> 00:07:00.420 The mountain tops appear. 00:07:00.659 --> 00:07:01.579 And then what happens? 00:07:01.659 --> 00:07:02.600 The water recedes. 00:07:02.600 --> 00:07:03.640 And then what happens? 00:07:04.220 --> 00:07:05.640 Vegetation comes up. 00:07:05.860 --> 00:07:06.160 Why? 00:07:06.520 --> 00:07:07.240 The olive leaf. 00:07:07.400 --> 00:07:08.360 The olive leaf comes. 00:07:08.840 --> 00:07:11.700 And you see God starting this whole process again. 00:07:11.939 --> 00:07:15.160 But just before we move into all the excitement about moving into a new home, 00:07:16.260 --> 00:07:21.420 Noah is about to become the richest and really kind of the one who owns the most real estate in the whole of the world. 00:07:22.340 --> 00:07:26.700 But before that, I want to take a little pause and go, can you imagine how Noah was feeling? 00:07:26.699 --> 00:07:35.360 First of all, it says it rained for 40 days, but he actually, him and his family ended up staying on the boat for a year. 00:07:36.759 --> 00:07:41.319 Remember, all Noah heard from God was it's going to rain for 40 days. 00:07:42.000 --> 00:07:44.719 God did not say that it was going to be flooding for another 150. 00:07:45.379 --> 00:07:51.219 God did not say that he was then going to have to wait until a year passes before they can get off the boat. 00:07:51.220 --> 00:07:53.720 Can you imagine being Noah and his family? 00:07:54.820 --> 00:07:56.740 They're probably asking Noah, hey, what's happening? 00:07:57.080 --> 00:07:57.780 The rain's gone. 00:07:57.920 --> 00:07:58.640 Now we're alone. 00:07:59.320 --> 00:08:00.400 When can we get off? 00:08:00.600 --> 00:08:01.420 And Noah said, I don't know. 00:08:01.560 --> 00:08:02.600 He only said 40 days. 00:08:03.060 --> 00:08:04.660 But now it's 150 days. 00:08:05.220 --> 00:08:05.940 I don't know. 00:08:06.060 --> 00:08:07.140 He only said 40 days. 00:08:08.800 --> 00:08:09.340 Can you imagine? 00:08:10.260 --> 00:08:13.620 Maybe I'm reading too much into this, but I don't think it's that far-fetched. 00:08:15.060 --> 00:08:17.440 Can you imagine the PTSD that probably Noah is going through? 00:08:17.439 --> 00:08:22.980 Everything that has happened up until now, all the people, all the faces that he knew, 00:08:23.079 --> 00:08:26.980 all the faces that were ridiculing him, everything that he was doing, everything that he ever knows, 00:08:27.240 --> 00:08:30.600 he looks out now and he sees a vast expanse and he sees nothing. 00:08:32.820 --> 00:08:37.419 PTSD, depression, loneliness for sure. 00:08:38.460 --> 00:08:45.419 Imagine staying on one boat for a whole year with your family, with the family that you love. 00:08:45.419 --> 00:08:51.279 But one whole year on a dark and dingy boat without Wi-Fi. 00:08:54.159 --> 00:08:57.299 Sometimes when we say God rescues us, we think it's going to be great. 00:08:57.379 --> 00:08:58.659 It's going to be so comfortable. 00:08:58.759 --> 00:08:59.379 It's going to be luxury. 00:08:59.519 --> 00:09:00.319 I'm going to be healthy. 00:09:00.719 --> 00:09:02.339 I'm going to feel so good about myself. 00:09:02.459 --> 00:09:04.839 And yet salvation rarely actually looks like that. 00:09:05.479 --> 00:09:11.559 Sometimes it looks like being trapped on a dark and dingy boat for a year without truly knowing what is going to happen next. 00:09:11.559 --> 00:09:17.619 What we hear and what we see from this story is that there is a lesson about waiting. 00:09:18.299 --> 00:09:19.259 Chapter 8, verse 1. 00:09:19.319 --> 00:09:22.759 So I'm going to fly through the two chapters, so please do bear with me and follow along if you can. 00:09:23.179 --> 00:09:24.839 But God remembered Noah. 00:09:25.099 --> 00:09:29.459 Now, just again here, this isn't, oh, God was preoccupied with other things. 00:09:29.979 --> 00:09:31.839 Too busy watching the Game 7 NBA Finals. 00:09:32.299 --> 00:09:34.000 And so then he decided, oh, oh, whoa, whoa. 00:09:34.000 --> 00:09:38.320 I forgot about the guy that I left on the boat for a year. 00:09:38.419 --> 00:09:39.320 That is not what it means here. 00:09:39.620 --> 00:09:45.899 What it means here is actually God is now starting to move and act decisively and fulfilling the promise that he gave Noah. 00:09:46.000 --> 00:09:47.120 That's what it's saying here, okay? 00:09:47.259 --> 00:09:50.500 So it's not a forgetful God suddenly remembering, oh, my goodness, I need to go save this guy. 00:09:50.820 --> 00:09:53.000 No, it's, okay, it is now time. 00:09:53.700 --> 00:09:55.360 So there's this waiting that happens. 00:09:55.460 --> 00:09:56.559 But again, it's not comfortable. 00:09:57.919 --> 00:10:00.940 How many of us feel truly comfortable in this world right now? 00:10:00.940 --> 00:10:04.220 Living a life that is completely filled with blessing and health and wealth? 00:10:05.080 --> 00:10:05.400 Rarely. 00:10:06.640 --> 00:10:07.900 Let me stop that right now. 00:10:07.960 --> 00:10:13.300 If you're new to the faith and you think at the moment that the reason why I should pursue God is because he's going to give me good things, he's going to keep me healthy, 00:10:13.940 --> 00:10:15.660 then I'm going to stop you right here and right now. 00:10:15.800 --> 00:10:19.520 You look at the scriptures, you look at the Bible, you look at Jesus, that is not the story. 00:10:20.140 --> 00:10:21.420 That is the prosperity gospel. 00:10:22.060 --> 00:10:25.400 What we see here is salvation comes, but there is a lot of waiting. 00:10:26.120 --> 00:10:27.240 There is a lot of darkness. 00:10:27.680 --> 00:10:28.500 There is a lot of pain. 00:10:28.740 --> 00:10:29.740 There is a lot of uncertainty. 00:10:29.740 --> 00:10:33.580 We sit back here and go, wow, a year was a long time, but at least it was over. 00:10:34.060 --> 00:10:36.360 Can you imagine being on day 200 on the boat? 00:10:37.600 --> 00:10:37.899 Okay. 00:10:38.799 --> 00:10:42.680 The flood's starting to subside, but we're still just on the boat. 00:10:43.539 --> 00:10:44.279 Noah, is this it? 00:10:44.840 --> 00:10:47.259 We were saved, but is this all it's going to be? 00:10:48.460 --> 00:10:49.460 Maybe you've been waiting. 00:10:49.799 --> 00:10:51.019 Maybe you've been waiting for something. 00:10:51.360 --> 00:10:54.500 Maybe you are, we're all waiting for something, right? 00:10:54.500 --> 00:10:56.740 It's from the moment we start studying. 00:10:56.740 --> 00:11:01.440 We wait till the day that we can graduate so that we can then go and get a job. 00:11:02.399 --> 00:11:03.320 And then we can get a job. 00:11:03.419 --> 00:11:06.940 So then we're waiting for someone to share the financial resources that we now have. 00:11:07.000 --> 00:11:09.019 And so we're waiting for a relationship. 00:11:09.159 --> 00:11:09.960 We're waiting for a spouse. 00:11:10.019 --> 00:11:11.799 And once we're waiting for a spouse, then we're waiting to get married. 00:11:11.840 --> 00:11:13.539 And once we wait to get married, then we're waiting to have kids. 00:11:13.539 --> 00:11:19.039 And then once we're waiting there, then we wait for the kids to graduate so that they can get a job and so they can get married and so they can have kids. 00:11:19.219 --> 00:11:20.439 We're just constantly waiting. 00:11:20.620 --> 00:11:22.159 We are all waiting for something. 00:11:22.439 --> 00:11:23.360 But there's a message here. 00:11:23.500 --> 00:11:27.919 The message here that there is something actually special about the waiting. 00:11:28.059 --> 00:11:30.159 There's something precious about the waiting. 00:11:30.879 --> 00:11:32.839 There's something precious about the suffering. 00:11:33.779 --> 00:11:40.059 Romans talks about the suffering that leads to endurance, that leads to character, that leads to hope. 00:11:40.059 --> 00:11:42.579 I don't know about you. 00:11:42.619 --> 00:11:43.739 I'm a very impatient person. 00:11:43.839 --> 00:11:45.679 I like to buy things as quick as I possibly can. 00:11:45.939 --> 00:11:51.099 These last few years, I've been buying from Amazon, which takes forever because it's shipping from other parts of the world. 00:11:51.519 --> 00:11:53.199 And then, of course, Taobao got English. 00:11:53.679 --> 00:11:55.319 And then suddenly things got a little bit faster. 00:11:56.199 --> 00:12:00.519 But still, if I could, I would just go out and buy it straight away because I have that in me. 00:12:00.579 --> 00:12:01.359 I'm just impatient. 00:12:01.519 --> 00:12:02.719 I hate waiting. 00:12:04.379 --> 00:12:08.679 But there's something about the waiting that really molds who we are. 00:12:08.679 --> 00:12:13.000 Imagine if we gave our next generation everything that they could ever want immediately. 00:12:14.219 --> 00:12:16.219 There's something about the waiting that is the most precious. 00:12:16.319 --> 00:12:22.639 When you're waiting for that career to change, when you're waiting for that relationship to come, when you're waiting for that family to start, 00:12:23.639 --> 00:12:25.620 what we see here in Scripture is God says, wait. 00:12:26.219 --> 00:12:29.399 There is something precious about the waiting. 00:12:30.979 --> 00:12:34.179 Because when we wait, we humble ourselves and go, it's actually not in our control. 00:12:35.099 --> 00:12:37.159 So often things are not in our control. 00:12:37.159 --> 00:12:39.819 We think they're in our control, but they are not in our control. 00:12:41.519 --> 00:12:42.779 And so Noah here waits. 00:12:43.459 --> 00:12:44.219 And he waits. 00:12:44.579 --> 00:12:46.899 Remember, God says, I want to reign for 40 days. 00:12:47.759 --> 00:12:49.059 He doesn't say anything else. 00:12:50.000 --> 00:12:52.299 So in this whole year, God doesn't talk to Noah. 00:12:52.379 --> 00:12:55.240 It's not as though they're having a weekly debrief meeting going, hey, everyone. 00:12:55.319 --> 00:12:56.240 Hey, Noah, how's it going? 00:12:56.620 --> 00:12:57.339 How's your family? 00:12:57.980 --> 00:12:59.480 How's the rooming situation? 00:13:00.399 --> 00:13:00.759 Nothing. 00:13:00.759 --> 00:13:00.860 Nothing. 00:13:02.100 --> 00:13:04.339 Some of us have been waiting for God and he's not saying anything. 00:13:04.340 --> 00:13:05.840 And it's painful. 00:13:07.360 --> 00:13:14.040 I hope you find comfort in Noah that actually Noah also got through the same thing and he learned something from it. 00:13:14.100 --> 00:13:16.759 But just because we're waiting, it doesn't mean we don't do anything. 00:13:17.060 --> 00:13:18.680 So Noah does actually do something here. 00:13:18.820 --> 00:13:19.980 And it's actually quite interesting. 00:13:20.100 --> 00:13:20.600 Let's have a read. 00:13:20.879 --> 00:13:21.680 Acts chapter 8. 00:13:21.679 --> 00:13:25.120 So whilst we're waiting, there is an element of resourcefulness that happens. 00:13:25.199 --> 00:13:29.899 At the end of the 40 days, Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made and sent forth a raven. 00:13:30.059 --> 00:13:32.299 It went to and fro until the waters were dried up from the earth. 00:13:32.559 --> 00:13:36.159 Then he sent forth a dove from him to see if the waters had subsided from the face of the ground. 00:13:36.399 --> 00:13:41.000 But the dove found no place to set her foot and she returned to him to the ark, for the waters were still on the face of the whole earth. 00:13:41.039 --> 00:13:43.439 So he put out his hand and took her and brought her into the ark with him. 00:13:43.679 --> 00:13:45.039 He waited another seven days. 00:13:45.039 --> 00:13:52.159 And again, he sent forth the dove out of the ark and the dove came back to him in the evening and behold, in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. 00:13:52.259 --> 00:13:57.039 Olive trees would not grow on high ground, which means the flood has now subsided back to lower ground. 00:13:57.319 --> 00:13:58.819 Vegetation was starting to come out. 00:13:59.079 --> 00:14:00.480 Creation was being recreated. 00:14:01.000 --> 00:14:03.240 So Noah knew that the waters subsided from the earth. 00:14:05.939 --> 00:14:08.000 At that moment, if that was me. 00:14:09.620 --> 00:14:12.759 So Noah, or brackets, so James knew that the waters subsided from the earth. 00:14:12.759 --> 00:14:18.539 He packs his bags, opens the door and runs out with his family because it's time to start their new life. 00:14:19.899 --> 00:14:21.019 That is not what scripture says. 00:14:21.100 --> 00:14:27.279 Scripture says, then he waited another seven days and sent forth the dove and she did not return to him anymore. 00:14:28.059 --> 00:14:29.039 And then he waits. 00:14:29.460 --> 00:14:30.179 And then he waits. 00:14:30.519 --> 00:14:32.439 There's something about the resourcefulness that I do like. 00:14:32.519 --> 00:14:38.679 First of all, he sends a raven, which is actually this large bird that actually preys on the dead. 00:14:38.679 --> 00:14:50.159 And so he sends out this large aggressive bird and he goes and he looks basically to see if there is anything that the scavenger can find to show him that actually creation has begun and it is safe to go off the boat. 00:14:50.539 --> 00:14:52.299 But the raven does something really interesting. 00:14:52.419 --> 00:14:53.359 The raven doesn't come back. 00:14:54.959 --> 00:14:56.000 Then the dove goes out. 00:14:56.259 --> 00:14:57.379 The dove this time does come back. 00:14:57.419 --> 00:14:58.299 What does the dove represent? 00:14:58.359 --> 00:14:59.239 It represents peace. 00:14:59.379 --> 00:15:00.339 It represents rest. 00:15:00.659 --> 00:15:02.059 I think there's a parable right here. 00:15:02.059 --> 00:15:10.099 I think some of us are ravens who are going out, scouring the land, looking to see, desperate to find food for ourselves and refusing to go back home to rest. 00:15:10.959 --> 00:15:12.779 And all we're doing is preying on dead things. 00:15:13.679 --> 00:15:18.419 I think some of us here might actually even be those ravens that are just desperate to find our own way. 00:15:19.599 --> 00:15:21.299 And the ravens just stays out. 00:15:22.599 --> 00:15:23.619 But then there's the dove. 00:15:24.299 --> 00:15:28.279 The dove goes out and doesn't see a home that's worth settling and so comes back. 00:15:30.699 --> 00:15:31.439 Which one are you? 00:15:32.059 --> 00:15:36.559 Which one are you as you wait for whatever it is that you're waiting for? 00:15:36.679 --> 00:15:42.059 And I'm here saying it's okay to desire and yearn for those things that you're yearning for. 00:15:42.219 --> 00:15:43.159 Waiting for those things. 00:15:43.239 --> 00:15:44.239 It is completely okay. 00:15:45.139 --> 00:15:51.459 But the whole point of the waiting, lovingly, respectfully, is that actually you would point to God. 00:15:51.779 --> 00:15:52.779 You would be pointed to God. 00:15:52.839 --> 00:15:53.859 You would trust in God. 00:15:54.259 --> 00:15:56.379 Because there is always something to wait for. 00:15:57.419 --> 00:16:01.219 It's a good time for us to search our hearts and go, actually, why is it that I want this thing? 00:16:01.220 --> 00:16:04.620 And often it's just to satisfy and fulfill our own fleshly desires. 00:16:05.279 --> 00:16:10.000 But when we wait, we start to ask God, actually, can you mold my heart? 00:16:10.060 --> 00:16:13.220 Maybe there's something here that actually, maybe I want this just for my own glory. 00:16:13.320 --> 00:16:14.500 Maybe I just want this for my own good. 00:16:14.540 --> 00:16:16.420 Maybe I want this just because everyone else is wanting this. 00:16:16.720 --> 00:16:19.540 There is something purposeful about the waiting. 00:16:19.779 --> 00:16:21.399 Let's not be that scavenger. 00:16:21.480 --> 00:16:24.860 Let's not be that raven that just goes out and says, I'm not going to go home until I find this. 00:16:24.860 --> 00:16:26.320 And I'm desperate for this. 00:16:26.340 --> 00:16:28.600 I'm just going to keep scavenging on dead things. 00:16:29.740 --> 00:16:33.259 Can we be the dove that goes, actually, it's not here, so I'm going to return home. 00:16:34.220 --> 00:16:35.340 God's timing is perfect. 00:16:36.539 --> 00:16:37.460 You may be waiting. 00:16:37.720 --> 00:16:38.519 You may be frustrated. 00:16:39.220 --> 00:16:40.700 But God's timing is perfect. 00:16:40.779 --> 00:16:41.940 I think that is a word for someone. 00:16:42.080 --> 00:16:43.659 In fact, that is a word often for all of us. 00:16:43.899 --> 00:16:44.899 God's timing is perfect. 00:16:45.019 --> 00:16:46.080 You can be resourceful. 00:16:46.639 --> 00:16:48.200 You can go and test the waters. 00:16:48.800 --> 00:16:49.539 But trust him. 00:16:49.539 --> 00:16:53.179 And even when you think it's about time, wait on him. 00:16:53.419 --> 00:16:54.699 He will be the one that says it. 00:16:54.740 --> 00:16:58.939 Because what happens here is finally, finally, God actually speaks to him. 00:16:59.399 --> 00:17:03.199 In verse 13, in the 601st year, in the first month, the first day of the month, 00:17:03.439 --> 00:17:06.500 and the waters were dried off from the earth, and Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, 00:17:06.579 --> 00:17:07.960 and behold, the face of the ground was dry. 00:17:08.279 --> 00:17:10.519 In the second month, again, he's still waiting. 00:17:10.519 --> 00:17:14.500 And finally, in verse 15, then God said to Noah, go out from the ark, 00:17:14.559 --> 00:17:16.259 you and your wife and your sons and your sons' wives, 00:17:16.599 --> 00:17:19.200 bring with you every living thing that is with you, all of flesh. 00:17:19.200 --> 00:17:20.779 Can you see God recreating here? 00:17:21.519 --> 00:17:24.140 So he uses his spirit to blow the waters away. 00:17:24.420 --> 00:17:30.200 Then vegetation starts, land appears, and then the animals, the creation, swarms into creation again. 00:17:30.259 --> 00:17:31.100 They go off the boat. 00:17:31.400 --> 00:17:32.600 Everything is starting again. 00:17:32.960 --> 00:17:34.460 It is so exciting. 00:17:34.779 --> 00:17:37.539 What is the first thing that you would do if you got off the boat? 00:17:38.640 --> 00:17:41.140 Can you imagine one year floating? 00:17:42.220 --> 00:17:42.819 Just floating. 00:17:42.920 --> 00:17:43.900 Who gets seasick here? 00:17:45.980 --> 00:17:47.580 Floating for one year. 00:17:47.579 --> 00:17:51.939 And finally, you get and touch dry land. 00:17:54.659 --> 00:17:58.379 Again, if it's Noah, if I'm Noah, I'm running out. 00:17:58.500 --> 00:18:00.960 I'm doing all kinds of races on the ground. 00:18:01.099 --> 00:18:02.599 Look, guys, no floating. 00:18:02.879 --> 00:18:03.539 It's really fun. 00:18:03.720 --> 00:18:04.359 Let's start building. 00:18:04.480 --> 00:18:05.259 Let's get to work. 00:18:05.339 --> 00:18:06.980 Let's start building civilization again. 00:18:07.259 --> 00:18:07.480 No. 00:18:07.579 --> 00:18:08.559 What does Noah do first? 00:18:08.740 --> 00:18:09.720 First, he waits on God. 00:18:09.819 --> 00:18:13.359 The moment he gets off the boat, the second thing he does is he worships God. 00:18:13.359 --> 00:18:15.099 You can see here, verse 20. 00:18:15.219 --> 00:18:19.179 And then Noah built an altar to the Lord and took some of every clean animal and some of 00:18:19.179 --> 00:18:21.519 every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 00:18:24.099 --> 00:18:27.439 Straight away, he gets off the boat and then he builds his altar and he worships. 00:18:27.699 --> 00:18:28.819 Know what he worships it with. 00:18:28.939 --> 00:18:30.819 He worships it with clean animals. 00:18:31.359 --> 00:18:32.659 Those are the animals they could have eaten. 00:18:32.660 --> 00:18:38.779 Listen, can you imagine getting off the boat, not seeing anything and just going, okay, guys, 00:18:38.860 --> 00:18:43.680 we have to be careful with how we use our food because we actually don't know what this world 00:18:43.680 --> 00:18:44.380 is going to be like. 00:18:45.200 --> 00:18:48.620 So actually, his family might have looked at him and, why are you sacrificing those perfectly 00:18:48.620 --> 00:18:49.259 good animals? 00:18:50.140 --> 00:18:52.920 Because something else has happened here that's different to the first time around. 00:18:53.240 --> 00:18:54.259 Now they can eat meat. 00:18:54.380 --> 00:18:54.980 Praise the Lord. 00:18:55.160 --> 00:18:58.880 They can eat meat now because in Genesis 1, it was only vegetation. 00:18:58.880 --> 00:19:06.120 But now, God says to him, later, I'm going to find it in a minute, you can start eating 00:19:06.120 --> 00:19:07.020 things that move around. 00:19:07.440 --> 00:19:09.580 So that means this is where the steak was introduced. 00:19:11.180 --> 00:19:14.420 This was where pork belly, crispy pork belly was introduced. 00:19:14.860 --> 00:19:15.600 And it is good. 00:19:15.700 --> 00:19:18.700 And God says, this is how I am glorified, that you can eat these things. 00:19:18.900 --> 00:19:19.900 But there's one disclaimer. 00:19:20.180 --> 00:19:23.040 You can eat all the animals, but you cannot drink the blood. 00:19:23.160 --> 00:19:24.900 You cannot drink animal blood. 00:19:25.000 --> 00:19:25.160 Why? 00:19:25.400 --> 00:19:28.180 Because blood represents life and only God can give life. 00:19:28.880 --> 00:19:30.920 That's why blood is off the table. 00:19:31.060 --> 00:19:32.880 But now you can eat all the different creatures there. 00:19:33.180 --> 00:19:34.480 But he doesn't do any of that. 00:19:34.560 --> 00:19:36.500 He uses the animals and he worships. 00:19:37.280 --> 00:19:38.680 Can you see what's happening here? 00:19:40.000 --> 00:19:44.540 Genesis 4, when Cain and Abel gave their worship, Cain did not give his best. 00:19:46.200 --> 00:19:49.760 Cain gave his leftovers and said, God, here's my worship to you. 00:19:51.100 --> 00:19:53.560 Noah is here saying, I'm going to worship you, God. 00:19:53.620 --> 00:19:54.680 You're the reason I got on the boat. 00:19:54.760 --> 00:19:55.660 You're the reason I built the boat. 00:19:55.740 --> 00:19:56.840 You're the reason I survived the flood. 00:19:57.080 --> 00:19:58.260 You're the reason I'm getting off the flood. 00:19:58.259 --> 00:20:01.160 And actually, I'm just going to say, my future is in your hands. 00:20:01.200 --> 00:20:02.980 So I'm going to give you these animals because who knows? 00:20:03.900 --> 00:20:05.279 It's not those animals that are going to say me. 00:20:05.379 --> 00:20:05.799 It's you, God. 00:20:05.859 --> 00:20:07.519 So I'm going to use these and I'm going to worship you. 00:20:07.579 --> 00:20:09.140 I'm going to give you the best of my worship. 00:20:09.240 --> 00:20:12.160 How many of us give God the best of our worship? 00:20:14.779 --> 00:20:19.200 Saying, God, if I don't give you this, then I'm not going to get through the day. 00:20:19.900 --> 00:20:22.900 For Hong Kongers, what's the thing that we can use to worship God the most? 00:20:23.039 --> 00:20:23.259 Time. 00:20:25.200 --> 00:20:25.519 Time. 00:20:25.519 --> 00:20:25.599 Time. 00:20:26.619 --> 00:20:27.400 Yes, you've got money. 00:20:27.519 --> 00:20:27.720 Great. 00:20:27.879 --> 00:20:28.240 Use it. 00:20:28.480 --> 00:20:29.160 Give it to the poor. 00:20:29.559 --> 00:20:32.119 Give it to charities that are doing great work. 00:20:32.440 --> 00:20:32.779 But you've got to. 00:20:32.920 --> 00:20:35.639 But I tell you what, please, can you just start with giving God time? 00:20:36.180 --> 00:20:38.900 And you might say, well, James, I really do want to give God time. 00:20:39.119 --> 00:20:41.119 But did you know how busy I am? 00:20:41.119 --> 00:20:45.199 And I'm saying it's because you're busy. 00:20:45.899 --> 00:20:47.159 Give God your time first. 00:20:48.899 --> 00:20:50.279 And maybe it's just five minutes in the day. 00:20:50.599 --> 00:20:51.379 Maybe that's your worship. 00:20:51.459 --> 00:20:54.359 Maybe the moment you get off your bed is just like Noah getting out of the ark. 00:20:54.459 --> 00:20:56.079 And the first thing that you do is build an altar. 00:20:56.339 --> 00:20:59.399 You see in the Old Testament, they keep building altars. 00:20:59.439 --> 00:21:00.459 They keep worshiping him. 00:21:00.639 --> 00:21:01.699 It goes into Abraham. 00:21:01.839 --> 00:21:02.479 It goes into Jacob. 00:21:02.619 --> 00:21:05.059 It goes into Isaac, Gideon, Moses. 00:21:05.339 --> 00:21:06.719 Everyone is building these altars. 00:21:06.839 --> 00:21:07.059 Why? 00:21:07.319 --> 00:21:10.639 Because it's the moment where you stop and you sing the goodness of God. 00:21:12.220 --> 00:21:16.679 Because when you sing and when you worship, you're actually filled with gratitude. 00:21:18.980 --> 00:21:22.639 When you stop worshiping, when we don't give God our time to worship, 00:21:22.779 --> 00:21:24.139 that's when we start to get anxious. 00:21:24.440 --> 00:21:26.039 That's when we start to get ungrateful. 00:21:26.279 --> 00:21:28.559 That's when we start to think that actually everything that we have, 00:21:28.859 --> 00:21:31.940 everything that we want will come from us. 00:21:33.220 --> 00:21:36.919 It's only in worship when we can see that actually we have no good thing 00:21:36.920 --> 00:21:37.600 apart from him. 00:21:38.880 --> 00:21:41.560 We're going to worship God and that is all that matters. 00:21:42.740 --> 00:21:43.980 Where are you placing your worship? 00:21:44.120 --> 00:21:45.140 Where are you placing your time? 00:21:45.360 --> 00:21:48.620 What is the first thing that you do when you get off the proverbial ark? 00:21:49.860 --> 00:21:50.600 Is it worship? 00:21:50.960 --> 00:21:53.279 Is it offering God your best? 00:21:53.500 --> 00:21:55.420 So we see Noah waiting on God. 00:21:55.620 --> 00:21:58.060 We see Noah then worshiping God. 00:21:58.180 --> 00:22:01.400 And then you see the mercy of God coming into play. 00:22:01.400 --> 00:22:04.220 Okay, we're going to go to, we're going to read that again. 00:22:05.900 --> 00:22:07.280 Genesis chapter 8, verse 20. 00:22:07.279 --> 00:22:10.759 Then Noah built an altar to the Lord, took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird 00:22:10.759 --> 00:22:12.139 and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 00:22:12.680 --> 00:22:15.680 And when the Lord smelt the pleasing aroma, the Lord said in his heart, 00:22:16.059 --> 00:22:18.279 I will never again curse the ground because of man. 00:22:18.480 --> 00:22:21.139 For the intention of man's heart is evil from his youth. 00:22:21.680 --> 00:22:25.779 Neither will I ever strike again, again strike down every living creature as I have done. 00:22:25.859 --> 00:22:30.480 While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, 00:22:30.920 --> 00:22:33.039 shall not cease. 00:22:33.039 --> 00:22:37.779 This is really interesting. 00:22:39.059 --> 00:22:41.960 God creates, he then sees it descend. 00:22:42.940 --> 00:22:51.119 And so then he resets and then he recreates in full knowledge that man is still evil. 00:22:52.139 --> 00:22:58.799 Everything was wiped out from the face of the earth apart from Noah and his family and sin. 00:22:59.799 --> 00:23:01.399 Sin gets onto the ark. 00:23:01.400 --> 00:23:07.000 God here makes a promise and he says, I'm never going to kill everyone again. 00:23:07.620 --> 00:23:09.400 I'm never going to wipe out creation again. 00:23:10.519 --> 00:23:12.440 And actually Noah, his worship to me is pleasing. 00:23:14.080 --> 00:23:16.940 But this is a huge but. 00:23:17.540 --> 00:23:24.519 But I also know that Noah is just as capable of the sin as his previous ancestors were. 00:23:24.519 --> 00:23:29.039 But still, and we're going to talk about that a little bit later. 00:23:29.279 --> 00:23:32.779 It tells me one thing that the human heart is fundamentally broken. 00:23:33.480 --> 00:23:35.920 Last week I talked about the term total depravity. 00:23:36.480 --> 00:23:40.019 It's something that we have, regardless of where you are on the theological spectrum, 00:23:40.440 --> 00:23:42.680 total depravity is something that you must understand. 00:23:42.799 --> 00:23:43.400 And what is that? 00:23:43.599 --> 00:23:47.420 That is actually you and I are incapable of pure goodness. 00:23:47.420 --> 00:23:49.960 That is the Christian message. 00:23:50.039 --> 00:23:51.420 That's why it's actually a little bit offensive. 00:23:51.680 --> 00:23:54.480 Especially when you talk to people outside who don't believe what we believe. 00:23:54.660 --> 00:23:55.759 And they say, well, I'm a good person. 00:23:56.380 --> 00:23:57.580 I've actually been doing okay. 00:23:57.880 --> 00:24:01.880 Honestly, if a supernatural being told me to do something crazy like building up, 00:24:01.920 --> 00:24:06.019 maybe I will do it because I'm just out of the goodness of my heart that I will obey this higher power. 00:24:06.860 --> 00:24:08.560 What we're saying here is that that does not happen. 00:24:08.640 --> 00:24:10.779 We do not have goodness in our hearts. 00:24:10.860 --> 00:24:12.600 That is what it means to be a sinner. 00:24:12.599 --> 00:24:15.000 You are not a good person that sins every now and again. 00:24:15.399 --> 00:24:20.240 You are someone, you are a sinner, which is why you sin in deep need of a savior. 00:24:21.259 --> 00:24:22.240 And God knows that. 00:24:23.179 --> 00:24:26.159 God chooses to use a different plan and we'll talk about that later, 00:24:26.419 --> 00:24:31.839 but he still very much acknowledges that inside Noah's heart, there is still sin. 00:24:31.980 --> 00:24:34.779 John Calvin says, the human heart is an idle factory. 00:24:35.079 --> 00:24:36.779 We just can't help ourselves. 00:24:38.259 --> 00:24:39.419 You know, I'm doing well today. 00:24:39.500 --> 00:24:40.139 I'm worshiping today. 00:24:40.139 --> 00:24:42.299 Monday, that factory is up and running again. 00:24:42.839 --> 00:24:43.599 What do I need? 00:24:43.659 --> 00:24:44.259 I need approval. 00:24:44.459 --> 00:24:45.519 I need likes on IG. 00:24:45.679 --> 00:24:47.079 I need grades to be better. 00:24:47.219 --> 00:24:48.659 I need more money in my bank account. 00:24:48.759 --> 00:24:50.579 I need people to accept me. 00:24:50.799 --> 00:24:52.379 I need people to invite me to things. 00:24:52.619 --> 00:24:53.919 I just need all these things. 00:24:54.000 --> 00:24:54.279 What are these? 00:24:54.339 --> 00:24:55.059 These are all idols. 00:24:55.179 --> 00:24:59.299 These are things that your mind wanders to, that my mind wanders to. 00:25:00.579 --> 00:25:05.319 The first step to being saved is simply recognizing that, man, if left to my own device, 00:25:05.980 --> 00:25:07.579 my heart will keep creating idols. 00:25:08.419 --> 00:25:10.980 I stump out one, something else will pop up. 00:25:10.980 --> 00:25:12.259 I delete this app. 00:25:12.480 --> 00:25:13.539 This other app will pop up. 00:25:14.640 --> 00:25:15.880 It is just constant. 00:25:17.059 --> 00:25:18.059 And you see that here. 00:25:18.720 --> 00:25:19.980 Something else that's interesting. 00:25:20.200 --> 00:25:21.240 We're into chapter nine now. 00:25:21.240 --> 00:25:26.019 And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth. 00:25:26.400 --> 00:25:27.319 Can you see the parallels? 00:25:28.180 --> 00:25:28.779 Who is Noah? 00:25:30.359 --> 00:25:38.960 Noah is the second Adam who walks into creation, who walks into a pure garden, and he gets to start over again. 00:25:38.960 --> 00:25:42.799 And he hears the same mandate that Adam heard all those years ago. 00:25:43.519 --> 00:25:47.360 Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. 00:25:47.579 --> 00:25:48.259 It's interesting. 00:25:48.380 --> 00:25:50.360 If you look at Adam and Noah, you see those parallels. 00:25:50.660 --> 00:25:53.559 He's the man in charge of a garden. 00:25:53.559 --> 00:25:55.619 He also has three sons. 00:25:56.419 --> 00:25:57.720 And he's given the same mandate. 00:25:58.279 --> 00:26:01.279 Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. 00:26:01.419 --> 00:26:03.419 He's also still made in the image of God. 00:26:03.519 --> 00:26:06.599 And you see here, actually God talks a little bit about this. 00:26:07.000 --> 00:26:07.139 Okay. 00:26:07.220 --> 00:26:08.119 So we're going to carry on. 00:26:08.839 --> 00:26:09.799 Chapter nine, verse two. 00:26:09.899 --> 00:26:14.460 The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and upon every bird of the heavens, 00:26:14.559 --> 00:26:17.700 upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea. 00:26:18.720 --> 00:26:18.960 Sorry. 00:26:18.960 --> 00:26:21.500 There's some details here that I just find really interesting. 00:26:22.120 --> 00:26:27.980 When God created creation at the beginning, it was man and then creation and the animals. 00:26:28.519 --> 00:26:31.360 So actually the animals would trust man. 00:26:32.680 --> 00:26:35.360 If you ask me, what's something that you wish you could do? 00:26:35.440 --> 00:26:37.740 What's one superpower that you wish you could have, James? 00:26:37.980 --> 00:26:38.720 You know what I would say? 00:26:38.779 --> 00:26:40.700 The first thing that comes to mind, without giving it too much thought, 00:26:41.019 --> 00:26:45.500 I wish I could talk to lions and hang out with lions. 00:26:47.000 --> 00:26:48.259 Wouldn't that just be the best? 00:26:48.259 --> 00:26:50.519 Just to have a lion as your best friend. 00:26:51.160 --> 00:26:51.379 No? 00:26:51.480 --> 00:26:52.819 No one shares that same dream with me? 00:26:53.680 --> 00:26:54.579 I would just, right? 00:26:54.900 --> 00:27:00.720 It would be so cool to be able to not be afraid of this fierce, strong beast or a silverback gorilla. 00:27:00.839 --> 00:27:05.440 Honestly, if you took me to a zoo and I saw these gorillas, they are just, oh, just, I could sit and watch them forever. 00:27:06.579 --> 00:27:09.960 I would love to be that Chinese Mr. Doolittle, Dr. Doolittle, 00:27:10.579 --> 00:27:12.940 that actually can talk to animals and not be afraid of them. 00:27:13.319 --> 00:27:15.460 I think that's originally how it was supposed to be. 00:27:15.460 --> 00:27:21.340 I think Adam hung out with animals, big beasts, and was not afraid. 00:27:22.880 --> 00:27:25.059 That was the original created order. 00:27:25.819 --> 00:27:27.840 But you see, things reverse, right? 00:27:28.140 --> 00:27:31.840 Man was supposed to lead the woman, and then they were supposed to take charge of creation. 00:27:32.059 --> 00:27:32.640 But what happens? 00:27:32.819 --> 00:27:35.579 The woman listens to the serpent, and then the man listens to the woman. 00:27:35.940 --> 00:27:36.740 Completely reversed. 00:27:36.920 --> 00:27:38.860 And then we wonder why creation has turned upside down. 00:27:38.859 --> 00:27:45.979 And so what happens here is, because of that original sin, what we see here is now animals are now afraid of man. 00:27:46.659 --> 00:27:48.259 And what happens when animals are afraid? 00:27:49.179 --> 00:27:49.879 They attack. 00:27:51.019 --> 00:27:54.919 And so man, in some ways, has lost his dominion over animals. 00:27:55.459 --> 00:27:58.219 You see, creation itself, we were supposed to look after this world. 00:27:58.220 --> 00:28:04.079 And yet now we see all these natural disasters that if you keep just tracing it, you can root it back to us, 00:28:04.200 --> 00:28:09.100 and you can see the world crying out in pain because of what we're doing to it. 00:28:09.640 --> 00:28:12.059 We did not care for creation. 00:28:12.220 --> 00:28:14.920 We did not care for animals the way that we should have. 00:28:16.279 --> 00:28:17.140 9 verse 3, 00:28:17.220 --> 00:28:19.279 Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. 00:28:19.579 --> 00:28:22.160 That is a huge, huge blessing to us. 00:28:22.160 --> 00:28:26.300 Maybe it's just because of the lack of resources at that time. 00:28:27.060 --> 00:28:29.580 The flood had taken everything out, and so it was time to eat. 00:28:29.900 --> 00:28:31.240 Either way, I'm giving thanks for that. 00:28:32.180 --> 00:28:35.120 But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood. 00:28:35.200 --> 00:28:37.240 For your life blood, I will require reckoning. 00:28:37.320 --> 00:28:39.140 From every beast, I will require it, and from man. 00:28:39.440 --> 00:28:41.660 From his fellow man, I will require reckoning for the life of man. 00:28:41.940 --> 00:28:44.620 Whoever sheds the blood of man by man shall his blood be shed, 00:28:44.700 --> 00:28:46.060 for God made man in his own image. 00:28:46.360 --> 00:28:48.720 Again, parallel, Adam and Noah. 00:28:49.019 --> 00:28:50.519 Adam was made in the image of God. 00:28:50.519 --> 00:28:53.940 And you see Noah here again, still, even with the sin, 00:28:54.079 --> 00:28:55.359 still made in the image of God. 00:28:55.619 --> 00:28:57.980 Me and you, we still are made in the image of God, 00:28:58.200 --> 00:29:00.279 despite the sin that is in us. 00:29:03.579 --> 00:29:05.079 What else is there that's really interesting? 00:29:06.400 --> 00:29:09.379 He then says, he talks about the word covenant again. 00:29:09.799 --> 00:29:13.119 Noah is the first person he talks to about the covenant. 00:29:13.440 --> 00:29:15.099 Remember, this is after a year of not speaking. 00:29:15.460 --> 00:29:17.839 So this would have become very welcome for Noah to hear this. 00:29:18.180 --> 00:29:19.920 Chapter 9 verse, 00:29:19.920 --> 00:29:21.340 this is where Alex read for us earlier. 00:29:22.340 --> 00:29:22.680 Verse 8, 00:29:22.759 --> 00:29:24.340 Then God said to Noah and to his sons, 00:29:24.560 --> 00:29:27.019 With him, behold, I establish my covenant with you, 00:29:27.080 --> 00:29:28.220 and your offspring after you, 00:29:28.480 --> 00:29:29.980 and with every living creature that is with you, 00:29:30.180 --> 00:29:32.580 the birds, the livestock, and every beast of the earth is with you. 00:29:32.779 --> 00:29:35.000 As many as came out of the ark, it is for every beast of the earth. 00:29:35.160 --> 00:29:37.680 I will establish my covenant with you. 00:29:37.800 --> 00:29:40.240 Let me talk to you a little bit about what a covenant is. 00:29:40.940 --> 00:29:42.880 Sometimes when we think covenant right now, 00:29:43.000 --> 00:29:44.039 we think contract. 00:29:44.039 --> 00:29:46.659 We think, I do this for you, 00:29:47.079 --> 00:29:48.099 and therefore you did this for me. 00:29:49.220 --> 00:29:50.420 You turn up here, 00:29:50.879 --> 00:29:52.119 and then I will do this for you. 00:29:53.139 --> 00:29:54.180 You scratch my back, 00:29:54.259 --> 00:29:55.079 and I will scratch yours. 00:29:55.460 --> 00:29:56.440 That's what a contract is. 00:29:57.299 --> 00:29:58.259 This is not a contract. 00:29:58.259 --> 00:30:02.359 This isn't about obedience anymore. 00:30:03.059 --> 00:30:05.759 Something that's interesting is sin got onto the ark with Noah, 00:30:05.960 --> 00:30:07.220 and then God realizes, 00:30:08.000 --> 00:30:11.039 obedience isn't the thing that's going to actually save mankind, 00:30:11.039 --> 00:30:15.039 because deep down in the heart of man is evil, is sin. 00:30:15.559 --> 00:30:16.819 Obedience isn't going to be the way. 00:30:16.879 --> 00:30:18.019 It's going to be through a covenant. 00:30:18.160 --> 00:30:18.900 What does a covenant mean? 00:30:19.119 --> 00:30:19.819 A covenant isn't, 00:30:19.960 --> 00:30:21.200 if you obey this law, 00:30:21.940 --> 00:30:22.879 I will then bless you, 00:30:22.880 --> 00:30:25.720 which I think some of us actually still believe, 00:30:26.340 --> 00:30:27.600 that if I come to church, 00:30:27.920 --> 00:30:29.160 if I'm a nice person, 00:30:29.560 --> 00:30:31.260 if I give my tithes, 00:30:31.760 --> 00:30:34.420 if I read the Bible for three minutes a day, 00:30:35.460 --> 00:30:36.320 God will bless me. 00:30:37.180 --> 00:30:37.800 And you might say, 00:30:37.860 --> 00:30:38.740 well, that sounds stupid. 00:30:39.220 --> 00:30:40.500 Of course I don't believe that. 00:30:41.000 --> 00:30:42.980 But the moment something bad happens to you, 00:30:43.900 --> 00:30:44.420 suddenly you're like, 00:30:44.420 --> 00:30:44.980 God, why? 00:30:45.980 --> 00:30:47.700 Why did you let this happen to me? 00:30:48.700 --> 00:30:50.620 Haven't you seen that I've been such a good person? 00:30:50.619 --> 00:30:52.399 And God will say, 00:30:52.500 --> 00:30:55.139 hey, I didn't enter into a contract with you. 00:30:56.159 --> 00:30:57.359 I entered into a covenant, 00:30:57.459 --> 00:30:58.039 which is this. 00:30:58.599 --> 00:30:59.379 I am yours. 00:31:00.219 --> 00:31:01.959 And you are mine. 00:31:03.659 --> 00:31:05.679 It's an identity thing. 00:31:08.119 --> 00:31:10.279 God ties himself to humanity. 00:31:11.179 --> 00:31:12.159 Just stop there for a second. 00:31:12.259 --> 00:31:14.119 If you're struggling to understand the grace of God 00:31:14.119 --> 00:31:15.019 and what God's trying to do, 00:31:15.259 --> 00:31:18.619 when you look at someone and you see sin, 00:31:19.179 --> 00:31:20.519 and yet you still say, 00:31:20.619 --> 00:31:22.299 I'm going to bind myself to you. 00:31:22.959 --> 00:31:23.719 There could be, 00:31:23.799 --> 00:31:24.139 in fact, 00:31:24.199 --> 00:31:26.219 there will be a moment that you betray me, 00:31:26.919 --> 00:31:28.779 but I'm still going to bind myself to you. 00:31:29.399 --> 00:31:31.879 A covenant is what he's saying here. 00:31:32.199 --> 00:31:33.299 Just out of interest, 00:31:33.539 --> 00:31:34.439 again, another point. 00:31:34.879 --> 00:31:36.699 That speech that he gives in chapter nine, 00:31:37.039 --> 00:31:38.159 look how many times he says that. 00:31:38.279 --> 00:31:39.959 I establish my covenant with you. 00:31:41.319 --> 00:31:42.219 It is me that does it. 00:31:42.359 --> 00:31:43.019 This is the sign of the covenant 00:31:43.019 --> 00:31:44.559 that I make between you and me. 00:31:45.059 --> 00:31:46.419 I have set my bow in the cloud. 00:31:46.420 --> 00:31:47.980 I bring clouds over the earth. 00:31:48.100 --> 00:31:49.340 I will remember my covenant. 00:31:50.519 --> 00:31:52.180 Everything is God's to do. 00:31:54.039 --> 00:31:55.960 We are so helpless in our sin 00:31:55.960 --> 00:31:57.900 that God needs to come and save us. 00:31:58.140 --> 00:32:00.140 We're not going to work our way there anymore. 00:32:00.400 --> 00:32:01.380 Some of us still think 00:32:01.380 --> 00:32:02.500 we're trying to work up this ladder, 00:32:02.779 --> 00:32:03.740 trying to get to God. 00:32:04.100 --> 00:32:04.519 God's saying, 00:32:04.519 --> 00:32:05.339 you will never, 00:32:05.460 --> 00:32:05.639 ever, 00:32:05.740 --> 00:32:05.960 ever, 00:32:06.039 --> 00:32:07.259 ever be able to climb this ladder. 00:32:07.619 --> 00:32:09.779 Only I can come down and get you. 00:32:11.440 --> 00:32:11.799 Again, 00:32:12.119 --> 00:32:13.220 it's the total depravity 00:32:13.220 --> 00:32:14.240 that stops us 00:32:14.240 --> 00:32:16.539 from actually understanding the gospel. 00:32:17.660 --> 00:32:19.220 It's a covenant that he has with us. 00:32:19.279 --> 00:32:19.599 He's saying, 00:32:19.720 --> 00:32:20.420 I will never leave you 00:32:20.420 --> 00:32:21.139 nor forsake you. 00:32:21.160 --> 00:32:21.299 Why? 00:32:21.400 --> 00:32:22.099 Because you are mine 00:32:22.099 --> 00:32:22.759 and I am yours. 00:32:23.379 --> 00:32:24.519 And I am now living in you. 00:32:24.559 --> 00:32:25.740 There's nothing that you can do 00:32:25.740 --> 00:32:26.779 that is going to cause me 00:32:26.779 --> 00:32:28.279 to change how I feel about you, 00:32:28.579 --> 00:32:29.240 is what he's saying. 00:32:30.059 --> 00:32:31.920 I'll give my life for you, 00:32:33.019 --> 00:32:33.940 is what he's saying. 00:32:35.099 --> 00:32:35.619 But sadly, 00:32:35.980 --> 00:32:36.579 what you see, 00:32:37.039 --> 00:32:38.519 you see Noah waiting on God. 00:32:38.700 --> 00:32:39.879 You see him worshipping God. 00:32:40.299 --> 00:32:42.700 You see God being merciful to him. 00:32:43.720 --> 00:32:44.579 But then sadly, 00:32:44.720 --> 00:32:46.660 you see the depravity of man on show. 00:32:46.879 --> 00:32:48.240 I have a lot of sympathy here 00:32:48.240 --> 00:32:49.079 for this final part. 00:32:49.859 --> 00:32:51.160 Noah's done so well so far. 00:32:52.139 --> 00:32:52.980 He doesn't say much, 00:32:53.700 --> 00:32:54.680 but he walked with God. 00:32:55.139 --> 00:32:55.819 He was righteous 00:32:55.819 --> 00:32:56.619 and he was blameless. 00:32:57.180 --> 00:32:58.400 He was willing to be laughed at 00:32:58.400 --> 00:32:59.299 for a hundred years, 00:32:59.639 --> 00:33:00.440 give up his career, 00:33:00.639 --> 00:33:01.480 pour lots of money 00:33:01.480 --> 00:33:02.480 into this stupid ark, 00:33:02.480 --> 00:33:04.579 waiting for this rain to come. 00:33:04.880 --> 00:33:05.720 He gets on the ark 00:33:05.720 --> 00:33:06.599 and he still waits. 00:33:07.240 --> 00:33:08.160 It finally rains, 00:33:08.220 --> 00:33:08.660 it floods, 00:33:08.880 --> 00:33:09.920 and then God said 40 days, 00:33:09.980 --> 00:33:10.920 but it's been one year now 00:33:10.920 --> 00:33:11.759 and he's still waiting. 00:33:12.339 --> 00:33:13.759 And then it gets off finally, 00:33:13.900 --> 00:33:14.380 only, 00:33:14.640 --> 00:33:15.940 only when God says so. 00:33:16.099 --> 00:33:16.779 He gets off 00:33:16.779 --> 00:33:17.819 and the first thing that he does 00:33:17.819 --> 00:33:18.960 isn't build his own house, 00:33:19.140 --> 00:33:19.880 he builds an altar. 00:33:20.240 --> 00:33:21.900 He's done so well so far. 00:33:22.160 --> 00:33:23.339 But scripture isn't here 00:33:23.339 --> 00:33:23.940 telling us 00:33:23.940 --> 00:33:25.380 and showing us the story of Noah 00:33:25.380 --> 00:33:25.940 to show us, 00:33:26.000 --> 00:33:26.120 hey, 00:33:26.299 --> 00:33:26.960 all of us, 00:33:26.960 --> 00:33:27.799 be like Noah. 00:33:28.039 --> 00:33:29.000 If you be like Noah, 00:33:29.180 --> 00:33:29.799 you will be saved. 00:33:29.860 --> 00:33:30.720 That's not what this story 00:33:30.720 --> 00:33:31.279 is here for. 00:33:31.519 --> 00:33:32.420 And this final bit 00:33:32.420 --> 00:33:35.340 almost hammers home that point 00:33:35.340 --> 00:33:36.120 and I feel bad 00:33:36.120 --> 00:33:37.299 and I feel sad for Noah 00:33:37.299 --> 00:33:38.500 because I do think, 00:33:38.720 --> 00:33:39.940 my guess is that he has PTSD, 00:33:40.319 --> 00:33:41.360 my guess is that he's depressed, 00:33:41.720 --> 00:33:43.660 my guess is he's closing his eyes 00:33:43.660 --> 00:33:44.000 at night 00:33:44.000 --> 00:33:45.299 and he's just remembering the past. 00:33:45.600 --> 00:33:46.539 My guess is that it's just been 00:33:46.539 --> 00:33:47.180 such a lonely, 00:33:47.559 --> 00:33:48.920 hard time in his life 00:33:48.920 --> 00:33:50.180 and yet he goes, 00:33:50.539 --> 00:33:51.400 he's assigned a garden, 00:33:51.539 --> 00:33:52.819 he starts to work the garden 00:33:52.819 --> 00:33:53.940 and he discovers, 00:33:54.460 --> 00:33:54.900 actually, 00:33:55.420 --> 00:33:55.720 wine. 00:33:55.720 --> 00:33:56.660 He discovers wine 00:33:56.660 --> 00:33:57.700 and so chapter nine, 00:33:57.960 --> 00:33:58.559 we'll see this, 00:33:58.880 --> 00:34:00.079 verse 20, 00:34:00.200 --> 00:34:01.980 Noah began to be a man of the soil. 00:34:02.079 --> 00:34:02.740 So he's a gardener, 00:34:02.779 --> 00:34:03.299 he's working, 00:34:03.640 --> 00:34:05.100 he's working the land 00:34:05.100 --> 00:34:06.200 and he planted a vineyard. 00:34:06.539 --> 00:34:07.420 He drank of the wine 00:34:07.420 --> 00:34:08.139 and became drunk 00:34:08.139 --> 00:34:09.539 and lay uncovered in his tent. 00:34:11.980 --> 00:34:13.099 This is where sometimes 00:34:13.099 --> 00:34:13.740 scripture just gets 00:34:13.740 --> 00:34:14.519 a little bit confusing. 00:34:15.500 --> 00:34:16.360 This is where 00:34:16.360 --> 00:34:17.480 that kid's book 00:34:17.480 --> 00:34:18.860 about Noah, 00:34:19.220 --> 00:34:20.900 the animals went in two by two, 00:34:21.019 --> 00:34:21.840 hurrah, hurrah, 00:34:21.920 --> 00:34:22.400 remember that? 00:34:23.380 --> 00:34:24.980 This isn't how that book finishes. 00:34:25.719 --> 00:34:27.039 And then he got drunk 00:34:27.039 --> 00:34:27.980 and got naked 00:34:27.980 --> 00:34:29.899 and that was that. 00:34:32.939 --> 00:34:34.779 You don't see this part 00:34:34.779 --> 00:34:37.439 because it's confusing. 00:34:38.639 --> 00:34:39.299 And honestly, 00:34:39.399 --> 00:34:39.819 this is where 00:34:39.819 --> 00:34:40.719 I'm asking you 00:34:40.719 --> 00:34:41.739 just to lean in with me 00:34:41.739 --> 00:34:42.779 because the word of God 00:34:42.779 --> 00:34:43.519 is something that we cannot 00:34:43.519 --> 00:34:44.799 fully, fully appreciate 00:34:44.799 --> 00:34:45.480 and understand. 00:34:46.079 --> 00:34:46.879 And ask God, 00:34:47.059 --> 00:34:48.079 what is it that you're trying 00:34:48.079 --> 00:34:48.919 to show us here 00:34:48.919 --> 00:34:49.839 other than, 00:34:50.719 --> 00:34:51.139 oh boy, 00:34:51.739 --> 00:34:52.619 Noah's not perfect 00:34:52.619 --> 00:34:53.819 and he did so much. 00:34:53.819 --> 00:34:55.079 What hope do I have? 00:34:55.339 --> 00:34:56.519 I think that's the point. 00:34:57.000 --> 00:34:57.699 Follow me here. 00:34:58.420 --> 00:35:00.500 He's left in a garden 00:35:00.500 --> 00:35:02.199 just like Adam 00:35:02.199 --> 00:35:06.000 and then he ends up naked 00:35:06.000 --> 00:35:07.599 and ashamed 00:35:07.599 --> 00:35:09.119 just like Adam. 00:35:11.559 --> 00:35:12.900 Noah truly was 00:35:12.900 --> 00:35:13.920 the second Adam. 00:35:15.059 --> 00:35:18.059 He falls into the same trap 00:35:18.059 --> 00:35:19.420 immediately. 00:35:21.079 --> 00:35:22.599 The depravity of man 00:35:22.599 --> 00:35:23.599 is here to show 00:35:23.599 --> 00:35:24.340 not just that. 00:35:24.559 --> 00:35:25.480 He has three boys. 00:35:26.699 --> 00:35:27.519 One of his boys 00:35:27.519 --> 00:35:28.360 sees him, 00:35:28.759 --> 00:35:28.980 Ham, 00:35:29.960 --> 00:35:31.199 he sees the nakedness 00:35:31.199 --> 00:35:31.759 of the father 00:35:31.759 --> 00:35:33.199 and told his two brothers 00:35:33.199 --> 00:35:33.679 outside. 00:35:36.059 --> 00:35:37.000 All we can see 00:35:37.000 --> 00:35:37.840 and read into this 00:35:37.840 --> 00:35:39.199 is one of the boys 00:35:39.199 --> 00:35:40.039 goes and sees 00:35:40.039 --> 00:35:40.880 that dad is drunk, 00:35:41.099 --> 00:35:41.400 naked, 00:35:41.699 --> 00:35:42.480 and ashamed now. 00:35:42.860 --> 00:35:43.920 And he goes outside 00:35:43.920 --> 00:35:44.420 and he starts 00:35:44.420 --> 00:35:45.019 to tell his brothers 00:35:45.019 --> 00:35:45.900 and he tells other people. 00:35:46.159 --> 00:35:46.699 And it's not 00:35:46.699 --> 00:35:47.880 with an honoring, 00:35:48.460 --> 00:35:49.400 respectful kind of heart. 00:35:50.099 --> 00:35:50.920 The likelihood is, 00:35:51.000 --> 00:35:51.440 and you'll see 00:35:51.440 --> 00:35:52.360 the consequence later 00:35:52.360 --> 00:35:53.360 which leads me 00:35:53.360 --> 00:35:54.659 to this conclusion, 00:35:55.320 --> 00:35:56.119 he's laughing at dad. 00:35:58.139 --> 00:35:58.860 At which point, 00:35:58.940 --> 00:35:59.480 I must stop. 00:36:00.980 --> 00:36:01.820 If you're someone 00:36:01.820 --> 00:36:03.039 who looks at your parents 00:36:03.039 --> 00:36:04.300 and is like, 00:36:04.400 --> 00:36:05.280 why are they so stupid? 00:36:06.099 --> 00:36:06.740 Why don't they, 00:36:07.159 --> 00:36:08.280 why weren't they 00:36:08.280 --> 00:36:08.659 just smarter? 00:36:08.940 --> 00:36:10.059 Can they just not 00:36:10.059 --> 00:36:10.619 get with it 00:36:10.619 --> 00:36:11.320 and understand 00:36:11.320 --> 00:36:12.219 what we're going through here? 00:36:12.480 --> 00:36:15.000 Can you, 00:36:15.260 --> 00:36:16.579 I can only imagine 00:36:16.579 --> 00:36:17.119 the pressure 00:36:17.119 --> 00:36:18.240 that Noah was on 00:36:18.240 --> 00:36:19.940 from his wife 00:36:19.940 --> 00:36:20.699 and from his sons 00:36:20.699 --> 00:36:21.980 and from his son's wives. 00:36:23.280 --> 00:36:24.579 So let's use this 00:36:24.579 --> 00:36:25.320 as just a tiny, 00:36:25.400 --> 00:36:26.079 tiny example of just, 00:36:26.179 --> 00:36:26.599 let's continue 00:36:26.599 --> 00:36:27.420 to honor our parents. 00:36:27.840 --> 00:36:28.400 We don't know, 00:36:28.460 --> 00:36:28.960 we don't remember 00:36:28.960 --> 00:36:29.639 what they went through. 00:36:29.800 --> 00:36:30.500 We weren't there 00:36:30.500 --> 00:36:31.159 when it happened. 00:36:32.639 --> 00:36:33.639 Them being our parents 00:36:33.639 --> 00:36:34.639 is their first time 00:36:34.639 --> 00:36:35.380 being parents often. 00:36:35.860 --> 00:36:36.539 They're trying to figure 00:36:36.539 --> 00:36:37.119 it out as well. 00:36:38.059 --> 00:36:38.760 And I think that's why 00:36:38.760 --> 00:36:40.019 later the commandment is 00:36:40.019 --> 00:36:41.139 honor your father and mother. 00:36:41.139 --> 00:36:42.559 Honor your father 00:36:42.559 --> 00:36:43.619 and just how serious 00:36:43.619 --> 00:36:44.339 that is. 00:36:44.799 --> 00:36:45.819 As I was reading through 00:36:45.819 --> 00:36:46.920 this passage this week 00:36:46.920 --> 00:36:47.879 and I was studying it, 00:36:47.980 --> 00:36:48.759 it compelled me, 00:36:48.839 --> 00:36:50.019 it drove me to call my mother 00:36:50.019 --> 00:36:52.139 just to honor her 00:36:52.139 --> 00:36:53.900 for the journey 00:36:53.900 --> 00:36:54.559 that she was on. 00:36:56.559 --> 00:36:57.420 The consequences 00:36:57.420 --> 00:36:58.059 if we do not 00:36:58.059 --> 00:36:58.460 are dire. 00:36:59.299 --> 00:37:00.440 So Ham goes, 00:37:00.539 --> 00:37:00.659 hey, 00:37:00.739 --> 00:37:01.259 check this out. 00:37:01.319 --> 00:37:01.799 Dad's drunk 00:37:01.799 --> 00:37:02.299 and he's naked. 00:37:02.559 --> 00:37:02.799 Come on, 00:37:02.819 --> 00:37:03.579 let's laugh at him together. 00:37:03.920 --> 00:37:04.920 And then the other brothers, 00:37:05.679 --> 00:37:06.239 their reaction 00:37:06.239 --> 00:37:07.259 is completely different. 00:37:07.260 --> 00:37:09.000 What do they do? 00:37:09.620 --> 00:37:10.240 Verse 23, 00:37:10.340 --> 00:37:11.180 then Shem and Japheth 00:37:11.180 --> 00:37:11.780 took a garment, 00:37:11.940 --> 00:37:12.960 laid it on both their shoulders 00:37:12.960 --> 00:37:13.900 and walked backward 00:37:13.900 --> 00:37:14.980 and covered the nakedness 00:37:14.980 --> 00:37:15.540 of their father. 00:37:15.900 --> 00:37:17.060 They realized the gravity 00:37:17.060 --> 00:37:17.840 of the situation 00:37:17.840 --> 00:37:18.900 and they wouldn't even look 00:37:18.900 --> 00:37:19.740 at their father. 00:37:21.340 --> 00:37:22.180 They didn't dare to 00:37:22.180 --> 00:37:23.660 out of respect, 00:37:24.160 --> 00:37:24.760 out of honor. 00:37:26.360 --> 00:37:27.600 And so they cover him up 00:37:27.600 --> 00:37:30.060 just like God covers up 00:37:30.060 --> 00:37:30.500 Adam and Eve. 00:37:31.380 --> 00:37:32.500 So they themselves 00:37:32.500 --> 00:37:33.800 find him again 00:37:33.800 --> 00:37:34.480 in a garden, 00:37:34.639 --> 00:37:35.440 naked and ashamed 00:37:35.440 --> 00:37:36.639 and yet he has also 00:37:36.639 --> 00:37:37.900 covered up the parallels. 00:37:38.019 --> 00:37:38.639 It just keeps going. 00:37:38.760 --> 00:37:39.119 You see this 00:37:39.119 --> 00:37:40.599 Genesis chapter 1 to 10 00:37:40.599 --> 00:37:41.780 and I promise next week 00:37:41.780 --> 00:37:42.860 we won't need to recap again. 00:37:44.039 --> 00:37:45.139 It's just this circle. 00:37:45.900 --> 00:37:47.260 It's just this circle of sin. 00:37:47.340 --> 00:37:48.519 It's just this cycle of sin 00:37:48.519 --> 00:37:49.380 that happens. 00:37:50.619 --> 00:37:52.179 And so Noah wakes up. 00:37:52.539 --> 00:37:53.599 He realizes what happens 00:37:53.599 --> 00:37:54.260 and he comes out 00:37:54.260 --> 00:37:54.739 with a curse, 00:37:54.920 --> 00:37:56.179 much like Genesis chapter 3 00:37:56.179 --> 00:37:57.260 when there is also a curse. 00:37:57.880 --> 00:37:59.119 And this time he curses Canaan. 00:37:59.280 --> 00:38:00.059 He goes straight, 00:38:00.059 --> 00:38:00.619 not to Ham, 00:38:00.779 --> 00:38:01.539 but to Ham's son, 00:38:02.259 --> 00:38:02.779 to his grandson. 00:38:03.880 --> 00:38:04.940 And he curses Canaan. 00:38:06.099 --> 00:38:06.779 You can see this, 00:38:06.880 --> 00:38:08.059 well, this is pretty harsh. 00:38:08.420 --> 00:38:09.679 Again, the gravity, 00:38:09.880 --> 00:38:10.320 the importance 00:38:10.320 --> 00:38:11.079 of honoring parents. 00:38:11.340 --> 00:38:12.199 But then what you see here 00:38:12.199 --> 00:38:12.500 is actually, 00:38:12.559 --> 00:38:13.360 I think actually Noah 00:38:13.360 --> 00:38:14.400 is now prophesying 00:38:14.400 --> 00:38:15.019 into the future 00:38:15.019 --> 00:38:15.519 because what will 00:38:15.519 --> 00:38:16.400 the Canaanites become? 00:38:17.739 --> 00:38:19.119 The Canaanites will become 00:38:19.119 --> 00:38:20.239 the people, 00:38:21.039 --> 00:38:21.539 the fight against 00:38:21.539 --> 00:38:22.159 the people of God. 00:38:23.779 --> 00:38:24.239 Do you remember 00:38:24.239 --> 00:38:25.380 those two groups of people 00:38:25.380 --> 00:38:26.460 we saw in the curse, 00:38:26.639 --> 00:38:27.500 in the original curse 00:38:27.500 --> 00:38:28.500 in Genesis chapter 3 00:38:28.500 --> 00:38:29.239 where there will be 00:38:29.239 --> 00:38:29.699 one group 00:38:29.699 --> 00:38:30.399 that fears God 00:38:30.399 --> 00:38:31.119 and one group 00:38:31.119 --> 00:38:31.859 that does not? 00:38:32.179 --> 00:38:33.379 We see the same thing 00:38:33.379 --> 00:38:34.239 happening again here. 00:38:36.279 --> 00:38:37.419 And so he curses 00:38:37.419 --> 00:38:38.239 Canaan 00:38:38.239 --> 00:38:39.259 and his offspring 00:38:39.259 --> 00:38:40.659 and then he enlarges 00:38:40.659 --> 00:38:41.139 the tents 00:38:41.139 --> 00:38:41.739 of Shem 00:38:41.739 --> 00:38:42.679 and Japheth. 00:38:44.419 --> 00:38:45.539 What a crazy, 00:38:46.099 --> 00:38:46.759 crazy story. 00:38:47.179 --> 00:38:48.199 And we sit here 00:38:48.199 --> 00:38:49.179 and we stop 00:38:49.179 --> 00:38:49.579 and we go, 00:38:49.799 --> 00:38:51.179 what was that all about? 00:38:52.779 --> 00:38:53.799 There was Enoch 00:38:53.799 --> 00:38:54.619 who walked with God, 00:38:54.719 --> 00:38:55.139 but then he, 00:38:55.719 --> 00:38:56.139 middle age, 00:38:56.179 --> 00:38:56.619 he stopped 00:38:56.619 --> 00:38:57.299 and then got taken 00:38:57.299 --> 00:38:58.079 away into heaven. 00:38:58.460 --> 00:38:59.019 The descendants 00:38:59.019 --> 00:38:59.900 kept going down, 00:39:00.059 --> 00:39:01.039 sin kept multiplying, 00:39:01.440 --> 00:39:02.099 but then Noah 00:39:02.099 --> 00:39:03.339 finally broke the chain, 00:39:03.519 --> 00:39:04.199 he gave rest 00:39:04.199 --> 00:39:04.679 and relief, 00:39:04.880 --> 00:39:05.859 and then he screws up 00:39:05.859 --> 00:39:06.699 at the very end as well. 00:39:09.079 --> 00:39:10.460 The reason for the story 00:39:10.460 --> 00:39:10.759 of Noah, 00:39:11.759 --> 00:39:12.839 the reason why God 00:39:12.839 --> 00:39:13.380 is showing us 00:39:13.380 --> 00:39:15.279 even this sad end here 00:39:15.279 --> 00:39:16.480 is that, 00:39:16.839 --> 00:39:17.019 yes, 00:39:17.079 --> 00:39:18.099 there was a second Adam 00:39:18.099 --> 00:39:19.239 of sorts in Noah, 00:39:19.239 --> 00:39:20.759 where if you keep going 00:39:20.759 --> 00:39:21.719 into the New Testament, 00:39:21.859 --> 00:39:22.939 into 1 Corinthians 15, 00:39:23.039 --> 00:39:23.419 you will read, 00:39:23.519 --> 00:39:23.819 actually, 00:39:24.199 --> 00:39:25.019 Noah wasn't truly 00:39:25.019 --> 00:39:25.619 the second Adam, 00:39:25.719 --> 00:39:26.739 there was another Adam 00:39:26.739 --> 00:39:27.219 that comes. 00:39:27.479 --> 00:39:28.279 Let's just call him 00:39:28.279 --> 00:39:29.599 the last Adam. 00:39:31.039 --> 00:39:31.759 Where the previous 00:39:31.759 --> 00:39:32.719 two Adams failed 00:39:32.719 --> 00:39:33.339 in the garden, 00:39:33.639 --> 00:39:34.919 there was a last Adam 00:39:34.919 --> 00:39:35.939 that does not fail, 00:39:36.079 --> 00:39:37.299 that he chooses to trust 00:39:37.299 --> 00:39:38.159 and he chooses 00:39:38.159 --> 00:39:39.219 to obey. 00:39:40.239 --> 00:39:40.639 In fact, 00:39:40.679 --> 00:39:41.839 he was fully clothed 00:39:41.839 --> 00:39:43.339 and yet he does not 00:39:43.339 --> 00:39:44.139 count himself 00:39:44.139 --> 00:39:45.000 equal with God 00:39:45.000 --> 00:39:46.419 in his robes 00:39:46.419 --> 00:39:47.319 and he takes them off 00:39:47.319 --> 00:39:48.319 and he becomes naked 00:39:48.320 --> 00:39:48.940 and ashamed 00:39:48.940 --> 00:39:51.420 on our behalf. 00:39:52.340 --> 00:39:53.280 This last Adam 00:39:53.280 --> 00:39:55.120 comes to save. 00:39:56.740 --> 00:39:57.760 And so what we see here 00:39:57.760 --> 00:39:59.240 is the salvation of God. 00:39:59.360 --> 00:39:59.960 This is the sign 00:39:59.960 --> 00:40:00.480 of the covenant 00:40:00.480 --> 00:40:01.240 that I make 00:40:01.240 --> 00:40:02.080 between me and you 00:40:02.080 --> 00:40:02.860 and every living creature 00:40:02.860 --> 00:40:03.460 that is with you 00:40:03.460 --> 00:40:04.880 for all future generations. 00:40:05.080 --> 00:40:06.059 I have set my bow 00:40:06.059 --> 00:40:06.980 in the cloud 00:40:06.980 --> 00:40:08.000 and it shall be a sign 00:40:08.000 --> 00:40:08.600 of the covenant 00:40:08.600 --> 00:40:10.880 between me and you. 00:40:11.000 --> 00:40:11.280 Remember, 00:40:11.440 --> 00:40:12.420 salvation comes from God. 00:40:12.539 --> 00:40:14.500 Only he shuts us in. 00:40:16.280 --> 00:40:17.940 Gabe and Jojo 00:40:17.940 --> 00:40:18.920 and a whole group 00:40:18.920 --> 00:40:19.760 of you went to Tolunas. 00:40:19.780 --> 00:40:20.539 Who went to Tolunas 00:40:20.539 --> 00:40:21.039 this last week? 00:40:21.940 --> 00:40:22.599 And you're all still 00:40:22.599 --> 00:40:23.099 here at church. 00:40:23.159 --> 00:40:23.599 Well done. 00:40:24.220 --> 00:40:24.780 Well done. 00:40:24.920 --> 00:40:25.200 Tired? 00:40:27.240 --> 00:40:27.559 We, 00:40:27.920 --> 00:40:28.420 as part of the fellowship, 00:40:28.500 --> 00:40:29.099 we got to pray 00:40:29.099 --> 00:40:30.480 with Gabe and Jojo 00:40:30.480 --> 00:40:30.860 and Ellen 00:40:30.860 --> 00:40:31.860 every day, 00:40:31.920 --> 00:40:32.380 every morning. 00:40:32.880 --> 00:40:33.800 And it was really fun 00:40:33.800 --> 00:40:34.119 just to, 00:40:34.159 --> 00:40:34.579 well actually, 00:40:34.760 --> 00:40:35.440 it was a little bit fun 00:40:35.440 --> 00:40:36.139 but also a little bit 00:40:36.139 --> 00:40:37.039 jealousy invoking 00:40:37.039 --> 00:40:38.820 as they got to show us 00:40:38.820 --> 00:40:39.200 the pictures 00:40:39.200 --> 00:40:39.880 of where they were. 00:40:40.320 --> 00:40:41.360 On the final full day 00:40:41.360 --> 00:40:42.400 they had lots of activities 00:40:42.400 --> 00:40:43.039 that were planned 00:40:43.039 --> 00:40:44.079 but they said, 00:40:44.079 --> 00:40:44.599 hey, 00:40:44.679 --> 00:40:45.179 we might not be able 00:40:45.179 --> 00:40:45.719 to make the call 00:40:45.719 --> 00:40:46.440 because we have to make 00:40:46.440 --> 00:40:47.400 contingency plans. 00:40:47.500 --> 00:40:47.659 Why? 00:40:47.880 --> 00:40:49.079 Because there's a storm outside 00:40:49.079 --> 00:40:50.980 and so we can't 00:40:50.980 --> 00:40:51.759 actually join the call. 00:40:52.079 --> 00:40:52.360 Thankfully, 00:40:52.480 --> 00:40:53.300 they actually still did 00:40:53.300 --> 00:40:54.699 but they had to change everything 00:40:54.699 --> 00:40:55.820 but let's, 00:40:55.940 --> 00:40:56.639 so we prayed for them. 00:40:57.699 --> 00:40:57.980 God, 00:40:58.059 --> 00:40:59.500 the one who controls weather. 00:40:59.820 --> 00:41:00.579 Have we all prayed that 00:41:00.579 --> 00:41:01.099 at some point? 00:41:01.340 --> 00:41:02.099 Especially when we've had 00:41:02.099 --> 00:41:02.659 a special day 00:41:02.659 --> 00:41:03.579 that we've got special things 00:41:03.579 --> 00:41:04.239 planned and we've got, 00:41:04.719 --> 00:41:05.519 heard you can control 00:41:05.519 --> 00:41:06.219 wind and waves. 00:41:06.300 --> 00:41:07.039 Can you control the weather 00:41:07.039 --> 00:41:07.960 so it can be a nice day? 00:41:08.279 --> 00:41:08.980 Not too humid. 00:41:09.119 --> 00:41:10.179 About 60% humidity 00:41:10.179 --> 00:41:10.919 would be great. 00:41:11.440 --> 00:41:12.419 With the light breeze, 00:41:12.599 --> 00:41:13.519 sunshine, blue skies. 00:41:13.879 --> 00:41:14.359 Thank you, Lord, 00:41:14.399 --> 00:41:14.879 very much. 00:41:15.000 --> 00:41:15.259 Okay, bye. 00:41:16.719 --> 00:41:17.559 And so we prayed for them 00:41:17.559 --> 00:41:18.059 just kind of a, 00:41:18.159 --> 00:41:18.259 well, 00:41:19.579 --> 00:41:20.219 pray that you'll have 00:41:20.219 --> 00:41:20.599 a good day. 00:41:20.679 --> 00:41:21.500 It's kind of sucky 00:41:21.500 --> 00:41:22.599 to have a storm 00:41:22.599 --> 00:41:23.299 on the final day. 00:41:23.639 --> 00:41:24.159 And then we've got 00:41:24.159 --> 00:41:24.980 a picture at the end. 00:41:25.299 --> 00:41:26.139 Gabe, you can show us 00:41:26.139 --> 00:41:27.339 for us. 00:41:28.319 --> 00:41:29.399 This is a real picture, 00:41:29.480 --> 00:41:29.619 right? 00:41:30.000 --> 00:41:30.960 This isn't an AI 00:41:30.960 --> 00:41:32.799 created, filtered picture. 00:41:32.799 --> 00:41:34.500 They all saw it. 00:41:36.639 --> 00:41:37.339 And when you were 00:41:37.339 --> 00:41:38.079 taking a group picture 00:41:38.079 --> 00:41:38.699 at the end, 00:41:38.699 --> 00:41:41.980 this was the picture 00:41:41.980 --> 00:41:43.219 that they showed. 00:41:43.299 --> 00:41:43.500 It's like, 00:41:43.679 --> 00:41:44.239 praise God. 00:41:45.299 --> 00:41:46.679 We got to finish the day 00:41:46.679 --> 00:41:48.319 looking at that. 00:41:50.599 --> 00:41:51.679 Doesn't that warm your heart? 00:41:51.739 --> 00:41:52.339 Doesn't that bring you 00:41:52.339 --> 00:41:52.919 to your knees 00:41:52.919 --> 00:41:53.639 when you realize 00:41:53.639 --> 00:41:54.739 how small you truly are, 00:41:54.819 --> 00:41:55.859 how powerless you are, 00:41:55.899 --> 00:41:56.939 that you can't control 00:41:56.939 --> 00:41:57.839 anything, 00:41:57.839 --> 00:41:58.699 but there is one 00:41:58.699 --> 00:41:59.500 who can control. 00:41:59.919 --> 00:42:01.099 This would have been 00:42:01.099 --> 00:42:02.059 a similar rainbow, 00:42:03.239 --> 00:42:04.259 maybe similar view 00:42:04.259 --> 00:42:04.899 to what Noah 00:42:04.899 --> 00:42:05.519 would have seen. 00:42:05.519 --> 00:42:08.739 when he looks. 00:42:09.639 --> 00:42:10.000 Remember, 00:42:10.719 --> 00:42:11.519 40 days of raining 00:42:11.519 --> 00:42:12.079 and then flood. 00:42:12.159 --> 00:42:13.219 It's probably dark and gray. 00:42:13.340 --> 00:42:14.599 It's probably like the UK. 00:42:15.239 --> 00:42:15.400 Okay? 00:42:17.539 --> 00:42:18.340 He's probably getting 00:42:18.340 --> 00:42:19.340 seasonal depression as well 00:42:19.340 --> 00:42:20.079 because there's no sunshine. 00:42:21.239 --> 00:42:22.480 And then he sees this. 00:42:23.440 --> 00:42:24.659 And then God speaks to him 00:42:24.659 --> 00:42:24.860 and says, 00:42:25.000 --> 00:42:25.960 I will establish 00:42:25.960 --> 00:42:26.860 a covenant with you. 00:42:27.219 --> 00:42:27.400 Noah, 00:42:27.400 --> 00:42:28.340 I'm going to make a promise 00:42:28.340 --> 00:42:29.559 to you and your family. 00:42:31.559 --> 00:42:32.380 I am yours. 00:42:32.980 --> 00:42:33.599 You are mine. 00:42:34.000 --> 00:42:35.179 I'm good for my promise. 00:42:35.579 --> 00:42:36.279 You have nothing 00:42:36.279 --> 00:42:37.579 to fear. 00:42:38.519 --> 00:42:39.299 What a beautiful, 00:42:39.460 --> 00:42:39.960 now there probably 00:42:39.960 --> 00:42:41.299 were rainbows before this, 00:42:41.719 --> 00:42:42.839 but now he applies 00:42:42.839 --> 00:42:44.079 the meaning behind this 00:42:44.079 --> 00:42:45.139 so that every time, 00:42:45.559 --> 00:42:46.860 every time 00:42:46.860 --> 00:42:48.619 he sees a rainbow, 00:42:49.380 --> 00:42:50.219 Noah will remember 00:42:50.219 --> 00:42:51.679 that God made a promise 00:42:51.679 --> 00:42:52.119 to him 00:42:52.119 --> 00:42:53.339 that he will look after 00:42:53.339 --> 00:42:55.079 him and his family. 00:42:55.579 --> 00:42:56.199 Now those of you 00:42:56.199 --> 00:42:56.900 who are scientists 00:42:56.900 --> 00:42:57.799 will know that a rainbow 00:42:57.799 --> 00:42:59.299 isn't just a semicircle. 00:42:59.420 --> 00:43:00.759 It's a full circle. 00:43:01.440 --> 00:43:01.960 It's just that from 00:43:01.960 --> 00:43:02.519 where we're standing, 00:43:02.519 --> 00:43:03.599 we can't actually see 00:43:03.599 --> 00:43:04.900 the full circle. 00:43:05.440 --> 00:43:05.880 But actually, 00:43:05.940 --> 00:43:06.659 if you look at scripture, 00:43:06.940 --> 00:43:08.099 the word there isn't, 00:43:08.380 --> 00:43:08.539 hey, 00:43:08.679 --> 00:43:09.500 look into the sky, 00:43:09.579 --> 00:43:10.019 you're going to see 00:43:10.019 --> 00:43:10.860 this colorful, 00:43:11.039 --> 00:43:11.759 colorful rainbow. 00:43:12.599 --> 00:43:13.360 And it's going to be 00:43:13.360 --> 00:43:14.679 so pretty and beautiful 00:43:14.679 --> 00:43:15.639 just to remind you 00:43:15.639 --> 00:43:16.659 of how pretty and beautiful 00:43:16.659 --> 00:43:17.519 that I think you are. 00:43:17.699 --> 00:43:18.460 That is not what 00:43:18.460 --> 00:43:19.800 the word rainbow there means. 00:43:20.079 --> 00:43:21.400 The rainbow word there 00:43:21.400 --> 00:43:21.960 in scripture 00:43:21.960 --> 00:43:23.759 actually means battle bow. 00:43:26.860 --> 00:43:27.699 Can you imagine 00:43:27.699 --> 00:43:30.259 God puts this rainbow 00:43:30.260 --> 00:43:30.820 in the sky, 00:43:30.880 --> 00:43:32.220 this bow in the sky 00:43:32.220 --> 00:43:33.100 and he says, 00:43:33.220 --> 00:43:33.380 Noah, 00:43:33.580 --> 00:43:34.820 I've made a promise 00:43:34.820 --> 00:43:35.880 to you and your family. 00:43:36.040 --> 00:43:37.820 I will never wipe out 00:43:37.820 --> 00:43:39.040 the earth again. 00:43:41.540 --> 00:43:43.420 That bow that you see 00:43:43.420 --> 00:43:44.800 is now pointing 00:43:44.800 --> 00:43:45.760 in a different direction. 00:43:46.680 --> 00:43:47.840 It is not pointing 00:43:47.840 --> 00:43:48.860 downwards anymore. 00:43:49.340 --> 00:43:50.360 That arrow of justice 00:43:50.360 --> 00:43:51.720 is never going to come down 00:43:51.720 --> 00:43:53.520 on you guys ever again. 00:43:53.680 --> 00:43:54.580 That is my commitment 00:43:54.580 --> 00:43:55.760 and that is my promise 00:43:55.760 --> 00:43:56.300 to you. 00:43:56.300 --> 00:43:57.780 That bow is now pointing 00:43:57.780 --> 00:43:59.200 in a different direction. 00:44:00.440 --> 00:44:01.660 You don't have to live 00:44:01.660 --> 00:44:02.220 afraid, 00:44:02.380 --> 00:44:02.940 wondering whether 00:44:02.940 --> 00:44:04.580 one cruel act, 00:44:04.860 --> 00:44:05.900 one evil thought, 00:44:06.260 --> 00:44:07.760 one dodgy thing you say 00:44:07.760 --> 00:44:08.540 is going to cause 00:44:08.540 --> 00:44:09.480 judgment on you. 00:44:09.660 --> 00:44:10.800 That does not happen. 00:44:10.920 --> 00:44:11.080 Why? 00:44:11.200 --> 00:44:11.940 Because there's a rainbow 00:44:11.940 --> 00:44:13.040 and the rainbow is pointing 00:44:13.040 --> 00:44:13.840 in a different direction. 00:44:14.220 --> 00:44:15.500 The rainbow is pointing 00:44:15.500 --> 00:44:16.780 now towards the sky. 00:44:16.900 --> 00:44:18.240 Why is God so confident 00:44:18.240 --> 00:44:18.720 in saying, 00:44:18.840 --> 00:44:20.120 I'm making a promise to you 00:44:20.120 --> 00:44:20.660 that I'll never have 00:44:20.660 --> 00:44:21.240 to do this again? 00:44:21.660 --> 00:44:22.840 Because he has a new plan. 00:44:23.340 --> 00:44:24.420 Because he has a new Noah. 00:44:24.920 --> 00:44:25.640 He has a true 00:44:25.640 --> 00:44:26.840 and a better Noah. 00:44:26.840 --> 00:44:27.720 And this time, 00:44:28.000 --> 00:44:29.160 this one who's going to come, 00:44:29.420 --> 00:44:30.460 this one who's going to succeed 00:44:30.460 --> 00:44:31.079 in the garden 00:44:31.079 --> 00:44:32.180 will actually take 00:44:32.180 --> 00:44:33.220 that arrow for us. 00:44:33.260 --> 00:44:34.200 This arrow is no longer 00:44:34.200 --> 00:44:35.120 pointing at creation. 00:44:35.320 --> 00:44:36.039 It is now pointing 00:44:36.039 --> 00:44:36.680 at the sky. 00:44:36.840 --> 00:44:37.440 It is pointing 00:44:37.440 --> 00:44:38.539 at God's very own son. 00:44:39.900 --> 00:44:41.920 That is why he's so confident 00:44:41.920 --> 00:44:43.140 in saying there will not 00:44:43.140 --> 00:44:44.420 be any floods anymore. 00:44:45.519 --> 00:44:46.480 He's saying next time 00:44:46.480 --> 00:44:47.039 this happens 00:44:47.039 --> 00:44:48.600 and it breaks my heart 00:44:48.600 --> 00:44:49.360 because it will happen. 00:44:50.620 --> 00:44:51.600 But this time, 00:44:52.280 --> 00:44:54.140 justice will be upon my son. 00:44:54.139 --> 00:44:57.379 justice will be upon 00:44:57.379 --> 00:44:59.339 Jesus himself. 00:45:01.920 --> 00:45:02.900 There's a lot of us 00:45:02.900 --> 00:45:03.519 who've been going through 00:45:03.519 --> 00:45:04.219 the book of Romans 00:45:04.219 --> 00:45:05.359 and Romans chapter 8, 00:45:05.440 --> 00:45:07.099 which has just been a beast 00:45:07.099 --> 00:45:08.139 these last few days. 00:45:08.859 --> 00:45:10.759 You see in verse 18 00:45:10.759 --> 00:45:11.259 where it says, 00:45:11.519 --> 00:45:12.199 actually the sufferings 00:45:12.199 --> 00:45:12.900 that we're going through 00:45:12.900 --> 00:45:13.460 right now, 00:45:14.940 --> 00:45:17.079 creation is groaning. 00:45:17.619 --> 00:45:19.199 We have subjected ourselves 00:45:19.199 --> 00:45:20.500 to this futility 00:45:20.500 --> 00:45:21.179 willingly. 00:45:21.179 --> 00:45:21.659 Why? 00:45:21.960 --> 00:45:22.899 Trace it all the way 00:45:22.899 --> 00:45:23.460 back to the fruit. 00:45:24.279 --> 00:45:25.659 We made that choice ourselves. 00:45:26.079 --> 00:45:27.159 And just before we blame Eve, 00:45:27.239 --> 00:45:28.159 just before we blame Adam, 00:45:28.259 --> 00:45:29.339 just before we blame Cain, 00:45:29.599 --> 00:45:31.480 just before we blame Noah, 00:45:32.019 --> 00:45:33.500 we must look at ourselves 00:45:33.500 --> 00:45:33.819 and go, 00:45:33.940 --> 00:45:34.859 have I not made 00:45:34.859 --> 00:45:36.099 those decisions as well? 00:45:37.259 --> 00:45:38.399 Have I not chosen 00:45:38.399 --> 00:45:39.119 to eat of the fruit? 00:45:39.179 --> 00:45:39.960 Have I not chosen 00:45:39.960 --> 00:45:40.699 to trust myself? 00:45:40.940 --> 00:45:41.799 Have I not chosen 00:45:41.799 --> 00:45:42.819 to not worship God 00:45:42.819 --> 00:45:43.739 and decide to create 00:45:43.739 --> 00:45:45.319 my own altars for myself? 00:45:46.000 --> 00:45:47.179 Yes, I have. 00:45:47.639 --> 00:45:48.960 Guilty as charged. 00:45:49.119 --> 00:45:49.899 But now you look 00:45:49.900 --> 00:45:50.360 at the rainbow 00:45:50.360 --> 00:45:51.099 and you see 00:45:51.099 --> 00:45:52.260 there is a new deal. 00:45:52.340 --> 00:45:53.079 It's not a contract. 00:45:53.500 --> 00:45:53.900 God says, 00:45:53.980 --> 00:45:54.720 obedience isn't going 00:45:54.720 --> 00:45:55.119 to cut it. 00:45:55.240 --> 00:45:56.059 Just because I get you 00:45:56.059 --> 00:45:56.579 to build an ark, 00:45:56.680 --> 00:45:57.079 that's not going 00:45:57.079 --> 00:45:57.480 to save you. 00:45:57.559 --> 00:45:58.160 The only thing 00:45:58.160 --> 00:45:58.900 that's going to save you 00:45:58.900 --> 00:45:59.760 is you putting 00:45:59.760 --> 00:46:00.960 your trust in me. 00:46:03.820 --> 00:46:04.720 Justice is now 00:46:04.720 --> 00:46:06.160 going to be upon my son. 00:46:07.019 --> 00:46:07.700 The wrath of God 00:46:07.700 --> 00:46:08.539 will now be satisfied 00:46:08.539 --> 00:46:09.180 on the cross 00:46:09.180 --> 00:46:09.820 where the wrath 00:46:09.820 --> 00:46:10.920 and the love of God 00:46:10.920 --> 00:46:12.200 are met together. 00:46:14.139 --> 00:46:14.960 That's the only way 00:46:14.960 --> 00:46:15.639 we can be saved. 00:46:16.360 --> 00:46:16.820 God says something 00:46:16.820 --> 00:46:17.200 even more. 00:46:17.539 --> 00:46:18.300 I can't trust you 00:46:18.300 --> 00:46:19.000 to build an ark anymore. 00:46:19.000 --> 00:46:21.300 You're not trusting 00:46:21.300 --> 00:46:21.780 enough of me. 00:46:21.860 --> 00:46:22.440 You're not obedient 00:46:22.440 --> 00:46:22.960 enough of me. 00:46:23.820 --> 00:46:24.199 You're just not 00:46:24.199 --> 00:46:24.539 going to be able 00:46:24.539 --> 00:46:24.800 to do it. 00:46:24.820 --> 00:46:25.079 You're not going 00:46:25.079 --> 00:46:25.519 to be able 00:46:25.519 --> 00:46:26.219 to work your way 00:46:26.219 --> 00:46:26.519 up to me. 00:46:26.579 --> 00:46:27.699 You see in the Old Testament 00:46:27.699 --> 00:46:29.440 all these Levitical laws 00:46:29.440 --> 00:46:29.860 that come. 00:46:30.920 --> 00:46:31.760 It's God trying 00:46:31.760 --> 00:46:32.739 to help them 00:46:32.739 --> 00:46:33.739 understand what it 00:46:33.739 --> 00:46:34.400 means to be holy, 00:46:34.480 --> 00:46:34.920 what it means 00:46:34.920 --> 00:46:35.619 to be set apart. 00:46:36.579 --> 00:46:37.480 And yet even he knows 00:46:37.480 --> 00:46:38.559 it's not going 00:46:38.559 --> 00:46:39.320 to work. 00:46:40.780 --> 00:46:41.880 Beginning of Romans 8. 00:46:42.320 --> 00:46:42.519 It says, 00:46:42.739 --> 00:46:43.300 therefore there is now 00:46:43.300 --> 00:46:44.079 no condemnation 00:46:44.079 --> 00:46:45.179 for those in Christ Jesus 00:46:45.179 --> 00:46:46.480 for God has done 00:46:46.480 --> 00:46:47.000 what the law 00:46:47.000 --> 00:46:48.099 weakened by the flesh 00:46:48.099 --> 00:46:48.880 could not do. 00:46:49.480 --> 00:46:49.699 Why? 00:46:49.779 --> 00:46:50.339 You give us all 00:46:50.339 --> 00:46:51.179 the laws in the world. 00:46:51.900 --> 00:46:53.039 We'll try for the first 00:46:53.039 --> 00:46:53.779 few days and then 00:46:53.779 --> 00:46:54.339 we will fail. 00:46:56.719 --> 00:46:57.579 That's why it's weakened 00:46:57.579 --> 00:46:58.119 by the flesh. 00:46:58.239 --> 00:46:58.759 But now, 00:46:59.259 --> 00:47:00.400 by sending his own son, 00:47:01.900 --> 00:47:03.119 by sending his own son, 00:47:03.259 --> 00:47:04.239 we can build the ark 00:47:04.239 --> 00:47:04.839 to get rescued. 00:47:05.039 --> 00:47:06.139 Now what does Jesus do? 00:47:06.360 --> 00:47:07.199 Jesus comes down 00:47:07.199 --> 00:47:07.880 and Jesus gets 00:47:07.880 --> 00:47:08.539 into our boat. 00:47:08.599 --> 00:47:09.279 And what do you see 00:47:09.279 --> 00:47:10.400 when he is in a storm? 00:47:10.559 --> 00:47:11.259 He stands up 00:47:11.259 --> 00:47:11.579 and he says, 00:47:11.659 --> 00:47:11.940 peace, 00:47:12.099 --> 00:47:12.679 be still. 00:47:13.000 --> 00:47:13.619 And the wind 00:47:13.619 --> 00:47:14.139 and the waves 00:47:14.139 --> 00:47:15.179 obey him. 00:47:15.519 --> 00:47:16.500 This was the only way 00:47:16.500 --> 00:47:17.019 to be saved. 00:47:17.359 --> 00:47:18.539 It wasn't even about Noah. 00:47:19.639 --> 00:47:20.659 It was about Jesus. 00:47:22.139 --> 00:47:22.299 Whew. 00:47:24.339 --> 00:47:25.099 And suddenly, 00:47:25.299 --> 00:47:26.339 what you see here 00:47:26.339 --> 00:47:28.000 is that there is 00:47:28.000 --> 00:47:28.639 no more need 00:47:28.639 --> 00:47:29.359 for a boat. 00:47:31.199 --> 00:47:31.920 We just need 00:47:31.920 --> 00:47:32.420 to get in 00:47:32.420 --> 00:47:33.299 with Jesus. 00:47:35.599 --> 00:47:36.420 And that's it 00:47:36.420 --> 00:47:37.980 from Genesis 1 to 10. 00:47:37.980 --> 00:47:40.400 the creation, 00:47:41.099 --> 00:47:41.900 the decreation, 00:47:42.360 --> 00:47:43.179 the recreation, 00:47:44.079 --> 00:47:45.039 the cycle of sin 00:47:45.039 --> 00:47:45.860 that wraps around 00:47:45.860 --> 00:47:46.840 all of it. 00:47:47.280 --> 00:47:47.960 It will be broken 00:47:47.960 --> 00:47:48.980 by one 00:47:48.980 --> 00:47:50.300 simple, 00:47:50.760 --> 00:47:51.480 greatest 00:47:51.480 --> 00:47:52.260 love of act. 00:47:52.500 --> 00:47:53.000 Act of love, 00:47:53.039 --> 00:47:53.199 sorry. 00:47:54.079 --> 00:47:55.159 When Jesus himself 00:47:55.159 --> 00:47:56.179 took on that arrow, 00:47:56.539 --> 00:47:57.119 when that bow 00:47:57.119 --> 00:47:58.039 shot into the sky. 00:48:01.320 --> 00:48:02.199 And by that, 00:48:02.440 --> 00:48:03.039 we are saved. 00:48:04.699 --> 00:48:05.500 What does that do 00:48:05.500 --> 00:48:05.860 for you? 00:48:08.740 --> 00:48:09.260 I'll tell you 00:48:09.260 --> 00:48:09.860 what it does for me. 00:48:11.199 --> 00:48:11.900 When I look 00:48:11.900 --> 00:48:12.440 at the news 00:48:12.440 --> 00:48:14.179 and I see 00:48:14.179 --> 00:48:14.780 the wars 00:48:14.780 --> 00:48:15.699 that keep happening, 00:48:16.900 --> 00:48:19.320 when I see 00:48:19.320 --> 00:48:19.860 all the hate 00:48:19.860 --> 00:48:20.320 that's happening, 00:48:20.539 --> 00:48:20.900 when I see 00:48:20.900 --> 00:48:21.659 all the sickness 00:48:21.659 --> 00:48:22.400 that's happening, 00:48:22.480 --> 00:48:23.179 all the accidents 00:48:23.179 --> 00:48:23.679 that happen, 00:48:24.980 --> 00:48:26.900 my heart breaks 00:48:26.900 --> 00:48:29.019 because God 00:48:29.019 --> 00:48:29.500 allows me 00:48:29.500 --> 00:48:30.059 to have a glimpse 00:48:30.059 --> 00:48:30.880 into the wickedness 00:48:30.880 --> 00:48:31.199 of man, 00:48:31.300 --> 00:48:31.840 the corruption 00:48:31.840 --> 00:48:32.539 of the earth, 00:48:32.599 --> 00:48:33.240 the violence 00:48:33.240 --> 00:48:34.519 that we are causing 00:48:34.519 --> 00:48:35.240 on one another. 00:48:35.239 --> 00:48:38.259 But then I stop 00:48:38.259 --> 00:48:38.819 and I look 00:48:38.819 --> 00:48:39.319 and I see 00:48:39.319 --> 00:48:40.459 there is hope. 00:48:41.959 --> 00:48:43.319 If he just left us there, 00:48:43.799 --> 00:48:44.599 that wouldn't be enough. 00:48:44.739 --> 00:48:45.199 Thank God 00:48:45.199 --> 00:48:45.799 that he shared 00:48:45.799 --> 00:48:46.299 with us 00:48:46.299 --> 00:48:47.659 the final bit of Noah 00:48:47.659 --> 00:48:48.859 because we would have thought 00:48:48.859 --> 00:48:50.000 that we had to all be Noah. 00:48:50.919 --> 00:48:52.019 But that's not the case. 00:48:53.039 --> 00:48:54.139 We're supposed to be Jesus. 00:48:54.699 --> 00:48:55.579 So we can look 00:48:55.579 --> 00:48:56.339 at the storm 00:48:56.339 --> 00:48:58.979 and by God's grace, 00:48:59.119 --> 00:48:59.519 sometimes 00:48:59.519 --> 00:49:00.699 we can see a rainbow. 00:49:01.099 --> 00:49:02.099 Final thing about a rainbow 00:49:02.099 --> 00:49:02.659 and final thing 00:49:02.659 --> 00:49:03.139 from this sermon. 00:49:04.059 --> 00:49:04.639 Some of us 00:49:04.639 --> 00:49:05.539 are looking for rainbows 00:49:05.539 --> 00:49:07.500 all the time. 00:49:08.400 --> 00:49:09.159 But the rainbows 00:49:09.159 --> 00:49:09.639 only come 00:49:09.639 --> 00:49:10.960 when there is a storm. 00:49:12.299 --> 00:49:12.980 The rainbows 00:49:12.980 --> 00:49:13.460 only come 00:49:13.460 --> 00:49:13.940 on the backdrop 00:49:13.940 --> 00:49:14.460 of the storm. 00:49:14.519 --> 00:49:15.259 So if you are stuck 00:49:15.259 --> 00:49:15.759 in the storm 00:49:15.759 --> 00:49:16.219 right now, 00:49:17.319 --> 00:49:19.819 then count yourself lucky. 00:49:20.199 --> 00:49:20.699 Count your blessing. 00:49:20.819 --> 00:49:21.279 There's a chance 00:49:21.279 --> 00:49:21.880 that you can see 00:49:21.880 --> 00:49:22.279 a rainbow. 00:49:24.400 --> 00:49:25.059 But sometimes 00:49:25.059 --> 00:49:25.659 we want to have 00:49:25.659 --> 00:49:26.039 the rainbow 00:49:26.039 --> 00:49:26.880 without the storm 00:49:26.880 --> 00:49:28.299 and that doesn't 00:49:28.299 --> 00:49:29.119 seem possible either. 00:49:29.699 --> 00:49:30.059 Scientifically, 00:49:30.339 --> 00:49:31.440 that doesn't seem 00:49:31.440 --> 00:49:31.860 possible. 00:49:32.099 --> 00:49:34.360 we're living 00:49:34.360 --> 00:49:35.360 in a world 00:49:35.360 --> 00:49:36.019 that is currently 00:49:36.019 --> 00:49:36.880 in the already 00:49:36.880 --> 00:49:37.619 and not yet. 00:49:38.799 --> 00:49:39.980 God is still working. 00:49:40.719 --> 00:49:41.779 He is still patient. 00:49:42.380 --> 00:49:43.299 He's waiting, 00:49:43.420 --> 00:49:44.400 waiting for hearts 00:49:44.400 --> 00:49:45.079 to turn back to Him. 00:49:45.119 --> 00:49:45.779 You look and you see, 00:49:45.839 --> 00:49:46.659 God just pull the plug. 00:49:46.719 --> 00:49:47.380 It's time to finish. 00:49:47.659 --> 00:49:48.599 And then He'll tell you, 00:49:48.739 --> 00:49:49.239 Methuselah, 00:49:49.500 --> 00:49:50.920 I let Methuselah 00:49:50.920 --> 00:49:52.460 live to 969. 00:49:52.519 --> 00:49:53.759 That's how patient I am. 00:49:55.119 --> 00:49:55.960 And I will continue 00:49:55.960 --> 00:49:56.679 to be patient 00:49:56.679 --> 00:49:58.880 because a thousand years 00:49:58.880 --> 00:49:59.920 is like a day to me. 00:50:00.700 --> 00:50:01.760 And He loves and cares 00:50:01.760 --> 00:50:02.599 for each of us so much. 00:50:02.659 --> 00:50:03.320 He loves and cares 00:50:03.320 --> 00:50:04.460 for each of our loved ones 00:50:04.460 --> 00:50:04.920 so much. 00:50:05.019 --> 00:50:06.599 Those who we can think of 00:50:06.599 --> 00:50:07.180 in our family, 00:50:07.260 --> 00:50:08.059 in our friendship circles, 00:50:08.139 --> 00:50:09.119 who do not know Him yet, 00:50:09.220 --> 00:50:10.780 who have not trusted Him yet, 00:50:10.840 --> 00:50:11.500 who are refusing 00:50:11.500 --> 00:50:12.440 to get onto the ark. 00:50:13.260 --> 00:50:13.539 They're saying, 00:50:13.599 --> 00:50:14.059 the ark's done. 00:50:15.360 --> 00:50:16.240 The altars are done. 00:50:16.340 --> 00:50:16.840 There's no altars 00:50:16.840 --> 00:50:17.420 in the New Testament. 00:50:17.559 --> 00:50:17.760 Why? 00:50:18.240 --> 00:50:19.519 Because now God just dwells 00:50:19.519 --> 00:50:20.960 in us, 00:50:21.059 --> 00:50:21.579 each of us. 00:50:21.840 --> 00:50:23.260 We are His dwelling place. 00:50:23.260 --> 00:50:26.140 We are the ones 00:50:26.140 --> 00:50:26.780 who worship Him 00:50:26.780 --> 00:50:27.240 and that's all 00:50:27.240 --> 00:50:27.900 because of Jesus. 00:50:29.220 --> 00:50:31.060 Would you put your trust 00:50:31.060 --> 00:50:31.560 in Jesus? 00:50:31.680 --> 00:50:32.980 Would you wait on Him? 00:50:34.360 --> 00:50:35.040 By all means, 00:50:35.120 --> 00:50:35.860 be resourceful, 00:50:36.360 --> 00:50:37.120 but don't move 00:50:37.120 --> 00:50:38.040 until He says so. 00:50:41.680 --> 00:50:42.320 Next week, 00:50:42.400 --> 00:50:43.240 Gabe's going to lead us 00:50:43.240 --> 00:50:45.560 and we see a new chapter 00:50:45.560 --> 00:50:47.300 in mankind. 00:50:48.180 --> 00:50:48.840 We're finished 00:50:48.840 --> 00:50:49.640 from Adam to Noah 00:50:49.639 --> 00:50:50.440 and then we start 00:50:50.440 --> 00:50:51.879 into soon 00:50:51.879 --> 00:50:52.759 the story of Abraham. 00:50:54.420 --> 00:50:55.319 So I encourage you 00:50:55.319 --> 00:50:55.799 this week, 00:50:55.900 --> 00:50:56.679 just mull over 00:50:56.679 --> 00:50:57.719 this creation story again 00:50:57.719 --> 00:50:58.839 from Genesis 1 to 10 00:50:58.839 --> 00:51:01.139 and ask God, 00:51:01.219 --> 00:51:01.839 what is it that you're 00:51:01.839 --> 00:51:02.440 trying to show me? 00:51:04.039 --> 00:51:04.920 What is it that you're 00:51:04.920 --> 00:51:05.759 trying to remind me? 00:51:06.639 --> 00:51:07.159 And I pray, 00:51:07.239 --> 00:51:07.879 the final thought 00:51:07.879 --> 00:51:08.400 that you will have 00:51:08.400 --> 00:51:09.500 and this is my final thought, 00:51:09.559 --> 00:51:09.900 I promise, 00:51:10.639 --> 00:51:12.759 is that God promised you 00:51:12.759 --> 00:51:15.879 that He will make 00:51:15.879 --> 00:51:16.420 all things new 00:51:16.420 --> 00:51:18.219 and He will make you new 00:51:18.219 --> 00:51:20.279 and that is the hope. 00:51:21.119 --> 00:51:21.899 That is the hope 00:51:21.899 --> 00:51:22.480 that saves you. 00:51:23.319 --> 00:51:23.859 Let's pray. 00:51:30.179 --> 00:51:31.319 We spend a moment now, 00:51:31.399 --> 00:51:31.500 Lord, 00:51:31.519 --> 00:51:32.379 and we just wait on You. 00:51:42.259 --> 00:51:43.559 Sometimes the boat 00:51:43.559 --> 00:51:45.079 is dark and wet 00:51:45.079 --> 00:51:47.519 and dingy and cold. 00:51:49.079 --> 00:51:50.459 We know we've been saved 00:51:50.459 --> 00:51:51.019 but it doesn't really 00:51:51.019 --> 00:51:51.639 feel like it. 00:51:53.980 --> 00:51:54.879 But we are adamant. 00:51:55.279 --> 00:51:56.099 We do not get off 00:51:56.099 --> 00:51:57.159 until You say so. 00:51:59.139 --> 00:52:00.119 We wait on You 00:52:00.119 --> 00:52:02.559 because You made a promise 00:52:02.559 --> 00:52:03.059 to us. 00:52:08.399 --> 00:52:09.179 At any moment, 00:52:09.259 --> 00:52:10.059 any chance we get, 00:52:11.619 --> 00:52:15.279 we worship You. 00:52:15.280 --> 00:52:16.800 we build an altar, 00:52:17.680 --> 00:52:18.880 a sacrifice of praise. 00:52:19.300 --> 00:52:20.400 We give You our best. 00:52:23.160 --> 00:52:24.320 Forgive us when we do not. 00:52:29.100 --> 00:52:29.580 And Lord, 00:52:29.600 --> 00:52:30.580 we thank You for Your mercy 00:52:30.580 --> 00:52:33.540 that even though You know 00:52:33.540 --> 00:52:34.920 that sin got onto the ark, 00:52:35.940 --> 00:52:37.240 that in this room 00:52:37.240 --> 00:52:38.420 of worshippers, 00:52:38.780 --> 00:52:39.640 sin remains. 00:52:39.639 --> 00:52:39.739 grace. 00:52:43.379 --> 00:52:44.379 But just as it says 00:52:44.379 --> 00:52:44.980 in Romans 7, 00:52:45.059 --> 00:52:46.199 there are still things 00:52:46.199 --> 00:52:46.960 to this day, 00:52:47.019 --> 00:52:47.639 this morning, 00:52:48.639 --> 00:52:49.579 that we sat here 00:52:49.579 --> 00:52:50.500 and know we shouldn't do 00:52:50.500 --> 00:52:51.440 and yet we still do. 00:52:54.379 --> 00:52:55.779 What wretched people we are. 00:52:55.780 --> 00:52:58.840 how can we be saved? 00:53:00.300 --> 00:53:01.300 Thanks be to God, 00:53:02.220 --> 00:53:03.180 to Jesus. 00:53:07.280 --> 00:53:08.400 Thank You for being 00:53:08.400 --> 00:53:10.280 the true knower 00:53:10.280 --> 00:53:10.960 who gives relief. 00:53:14.300 --> 00:53:15.120 Thank You for being 00:53:15.120 --> 00:53:16.120 greater than Moses 00:53:16.120 --> 00:53:18.140 in delivering us. 00:53:18.139 --> 00:53:27.199 Thank You that You took on 00:53:27.199 --> 00:53:29.099 the wrath of God 00:53:29.099 --> 00:53:33.039 to show us 00:53:33.039 --> 00:53:33.639 the love of God. 00:53:38.460 --> 00:53:39.679 Thank You that You took on 00:53:39.679 --> 00:53:42.500 the flood of judgment 00:53:42.500 --> 00:53:43.119 for us 00:53:43.119 --> 00:53:45.699 so that we would 00:53:45.699 --> 00:53:46.440 be lifted up 00:53:46.440 --> 00:53:49.440 to be seated 00:53:49.440 --> 00:53:50.119 at Your right hand 00:53:50.119 --> 00:53:50.760 as co-heirs. 00:53:55.340 --> 00:53:56.220 What's so amazing 00:53:56.220 --> 00:53:56.820 about grace 00:53:56.820 --> 00:53:58.740 is that we did 00:53:58.740 --> 00:53:59.700 nothing to deserve it. 00:54:01.900 --> 00:54:02.720 And while we were 00:54:02.720 --> 00:54:03.200 still sinners, 00:54:03.320 --> 00:54:03.840 You loved us 00:54:03.840 --> 00:54:05.139 and You saved us. 00:54:08.159 --> 00:54:09.019 We thank You, Lord. 00:54:16.440 --> 00:54:24.700 It's a joy to gather 00:54:24.700 --> 00:54:25.820 with you all today 00:54:25.820 --> 00:54:27.240 and see everyone 00:54:27.240 --> 00:54:29.619 not sure what you took away 00:54:29.619 --> 00:54:30.340 from the sermon, 00:54:30.519 --> 00:54:31.420 but I'm just reminded 00:54:31.420 --> 00:54:32.139 that salvation 00:54:32.139 --> 00:54:33.119 belongs to the Lord, 00:54:33.179 --> 00:54:34.159 that He shuts His people 00:54:34.159 --> 00:54:34.800 in that ark, 00:54:35.460 --> 00:54:37.220 that He sets a covenant 00:54:37.220 --> 00:54:37.780 of grace 00:54:37.780 --> 00:54:39.059 for us 00:54:39.059 --> 00:54:39.780 in Christ. 00:54:40.280 --> 00:54:40.900 Noah points 00:54:40.900 --> 00:54:41.840 to the perfect one. 00:54:42.720 --> 00:54:43.679 Salvation belongs 00:54:43.679 --> 00:54:44.240 to the Lord. 00:54:44.440 --> 00:54:45.240 Would we walk by faith? 00:54:45.300 --> 00:54:45.800 Would we wait? 00:54:45.800 --> 00:54:47.539 And trust on Him 00:54:47.539 --> 00:54:49.420 as we still encounter 00:54:49.420 --> 00:54:50.539 the sin within us, 00:54:50.640 --> 00:54:51.580 around us? 00:54:51.680 --> 00:54:52.300 We look forward 00:54:52.300 --> 00:54:52.980 to that day 00:54:52.980 --> 00:54:53.880 when it will all 00:54:53.880 --> 00:54:57.000 pass away. 00:54:57.400 --> 00:54:57.960 The new heavens 00:54:57.960 --> 00:54:58.480 and the new earth 00:54:58.480 --> 00:54:58.860 will come. 00:54:58.960 --> 00:54:59.560 This is our hope. 00:54:59.960 --> 00:55:00.200 Church, 00:55:00.280 --> 00:55:01.500 this is what we hold on to 00:55:01.500 --> 00:55:02.400 and this is what we want 00:55:02.400 --> 00:55:04.220 to hold out to the world. 00:55:04.420 --> 00:55:05.140 So, bless you all. 00:55:05.299 --> 00:55:05.299 00:55:05.299 --> 00:55:05.299 00:55:05.299 --> 00:55:05.299 00:55:05.299 --> 00:55:05.299 00:55:05.299 --> 00:55:05.299 00:55:05.299 --> 00:55:05.299 00:55:05.299 --> 00:55:05.299 00:55:05.299 --> 00:55:05.299 00:55:05.299 --> 00:55:05.299 00:55:05.299 --> 00:55:05.299 00:55:05.299 --> 00:55:05.299 00:55:05.299 --> 00:55:05.299 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