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 So let's begin our worship now this evening. We're singing firstly in Psalm 98, Psalm number 98, that's on page 129.

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 Sorry, I think it's actually 98. What has the presenter got?

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 98.

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 98, okay.

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 Psalm 98, verses 1 to 4, page 129.

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 Oh, sing a new song to the Lord for wonders he has done. His right hand and his holy arm the victory have won.

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 The Lord declared his saving work and made it to be known. To all the nations of the world his righteousness is shown.

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 Psalm 98, these verses marked 1 to 4 to God's praise.

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 Oh, sing a new song to the Lord for wonders he has done. His right hand and his holy arm the victory have won.

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 The Lord declared his saving work and made it to be known.

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 To all the nations of the world his righteousness is shown.

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 His right hand and his holy arm the victory have won.

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 The Lord has won.

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 The Lord has won.

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 The Lord has won.

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 The Lord has won.

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 The Lord za'ud.

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 Can you praise you?

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 The Lord has won.

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 The Lord has won.

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 His name and Jeкуins superboy and I know.

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こちら of holy 점 or his holy name.

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 Until the Lord has been given.

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 The Lord has won.

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 His name and Jeu smolonaise on the holy 신.

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 There if God never has won.

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 The nations of the earth have seen what God has done.

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 Our God, your great deliverance, I wish my hand alone.

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 Acclaim the Lord, O all the earth, shout thou thee and rejoice.

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 Make new sin and be true, and to him lift up your voice.

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 Let's now call upon the Lord in prayer.

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 Let's join together in prayer.

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 Our gracious and eternal God, once again as we gather here in your presence, we ask that

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 you would draw near to us as we seek to draw near to you.

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 We give thanks, O Lord, for these words that we have sung, that set out how you have revealed

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 yourself to us as human beings and how the indications are throughout the world that

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 God lives.

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 And we thank you that that is especially the case through the testimony of your people.

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 We pray, O Lord, that we ourselves may continue to have that concern to make you known, and

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 to make you known to those around us who do not themselves seek after you.

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 We thank you tonight that we are able to worship you in a gathered congregation of your people.

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 And we give thanks for the many ways in which you have promised to regard the gatherings of

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 your people in such a way as would bless them and take delight in them.

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 And we do ask, O Lord, tonight that we may know this for ourselves.

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 Help us as we turn to your word to read it and to hear of its teaching.

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 And enable us, we pray, by your Holy Spirit to lay these things to heart.

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 Forbid that we should be so familiar with your word and yet not have it direct our path in this

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 world.

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 And, Lord, we ask that you would continue to bless us as a congregation as we look forward

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 in anticipation to these days to come.

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 We have already, Lord, heard of the activities that we hope to take part in and to have as part

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 of the congregation's outreach and witness.

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 And we do pray for your blessing in regard to all of these things.

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 We give thanks for the opportunity to do this.

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 And we pray that, Lord, that you would bring people to involve themselves and to offer themselves

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 as helpers in these various activities.

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 And we ask that those that we have contact with will actually come, Lord, to know of your love,

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 of your grace in the Lord Jesus Christ, and of the way in which in the gospel you bring

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 so many truths to bear upon us in our present lives.

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 We ask that you would continue, Lord, to bless the Smiths as they settle into their new location.

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 And as we anticipate Callum's induction, Lord, we pray that you would provide for this for us

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 and enable him, we pray, to settle into his ministry here in our midst.

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 We pray that you would bless the presbytery as once again we have an induction within the

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 bounds of the presbytery.

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 And we thank you for all that has come together, O Lord, to make this such a rich and exciting

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 anticipation on our part.

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 We pray that his ministry here will be greatly owned and blessed of the Holy Spirit.

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 We ask, O Lord, that you would graciously endow him with all that is necessary for him

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 to be our assistant.

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 And we ask at this time that his family too, wife and children, will be blessed as they settle

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 into a new environment, as the children adjust to a new school.

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 We ask, O Lord, that all of that will be smooth for them and that you would be pleased to grant

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 them your grace to that end.

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 We pray, too, for what we anticipate doing in the summer months.

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 We ask that you would bless our testimony as we seek to have buildings opened and explanations

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 given as to certain aspects of the testimony of our church.

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 And we pray that you would bless the provision that we make for breakfast for those, Lord,

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 who are unable to find a breakfast elsewhere on that morning.

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 We ask that you are our witness to them and all that we give out by way of leaflets or word

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 of mouth testimony will be blessed.

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 And we come to you, Lord, and ask that you would continue to prepare the way for us.

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 Remember the anticipated holiday club as well.

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 We ask that you would bless Fiona as she continues to arrange, along with those who help her, make

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 arrangements for that.

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 We pray for the children who have already indicated their intention to come.

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 And we ask, O Lord, that that will be blessed and that you'd be pleased to grant us a sign

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 of your own favor and comfort in regard to all of these matters.

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 We pray, O Lord, for those who tonight can't be with us, those of our number who are ill at this time,

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 especially those who are seriously ill.

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 We pray that you'd bless them, whether they be at home or in hospital.

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 And we ask, O Lord, that you would reach out to them, minister to them by your own spirit and

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 give them the comfort and the preparation they need.

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 And help them, Lord, we pray, as they look forward to better times.

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 We pray that you would grant blessing to them.

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 And to that end, we pray for those who mourn the passing of loved ones and have had mourning

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 in their experience, sometimes for many years.

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 And, Lord, we know that sometimes that pain, even if it be lessened, it is still very much with

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 those who grieve.

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 And we do commend them to you tonight.

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 And do ask, O Lord, that you would comfort them, that your Holy Spirit will comfort them.

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 You are the comforter, the one who draws alongside your people and who brings your own

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 great gift of grace to them.

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 And we ask that you would be pleased, Lord, to give calm and quiet hearts.

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 To those who are hurting at this time.

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 Bless, too, those who are struggling with their faith due to events in their own lives or

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 what they see in the world.

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 Gracious Lord, we commit them to you and ask that you would draw near to them, to draw them

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 to yourself.

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 We pray for those who have turned their back upon the church and ask that you would bless

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 them, O Lord, and bring them back again to the fellowship of your people, not only in

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 this congregation, but other congregations, too.

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 We realize, O Lord, that the past two years have had a devastating effect on many people.

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 And we pray that those who have been affected, especially spiritually or in their mental health,

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 will know your blessing at this time.

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 And reach out to them, we pray, also.

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 And minister grace to their hearts.

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 Remember us now, Lord, as we remain here in your presence.

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 And as we look into your word, once again, we pray that your Holy Spirit will take the

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 things of Christ and show them to us.

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 And in all of these things, Lord, accept our praise.

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 We have so much to give thanks for.

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 So many things that we receive from you by way of gifts of your grace from day to day.

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 Help us not to be neglectful, Lord, to give thanks even for the things that we have in

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 common that we take sometimes, Lord, for granted.

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 And we ask that you would continue to make us thankful and dependable upon yourself for

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 our daily lives.

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 So receive us now, we pray, and pardon our many sins.

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 For Jesus' sake.

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 Amen.

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 Once again, we're going to praise God.

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 This time we're praising God from Psalm 90.

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 Psalm 90, that's on the Scottish Psalter version, page 350.

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 We're singing from verse 11 as far as verse 14.

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 This psalm is a prayer of Moses.

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 That's in the book of Psalms.

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 That's the title that's given to it, a prayer of Moses, the man of God.

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 And throughout this prayer of Moses, he has been dealing with his thoughts.

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 He has been upon how short his own and human life is in comparison to God and how uncertain

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 life can be.

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 And yet he comes to pray here in these verses that God would be merciful and gracious to

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 us.

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 So verse 11.

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 Who knows the power of thy wrath?

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 According to thy fear, so is thy wrath.

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 Lord, teach thou us our end and mine to bear.

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 And so to count our days, that we our hearts may still apply, to learn thy wisdom and thy truth,

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 that we may live thereby.

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 Turn yet again to us, O Lord.

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 How long thus shall it be?

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 Let it repent thee now for those that servants are to thee.

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 O with thy tender mercies, Lord, us early satisfy.

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 So we rejoice shall all our days and still be glad in thee.

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 And may we think of our situation, not only in terms of our church needs and our personal

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 needs, also our national needs, as we realize how much in our ways we have departed from the

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 ways of the Lord and how we can appeal to him in prayer, even as we sing these words of

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 the psalm.

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 Turn yet again to us, O Lord.

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 How long thus shall it be?

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 So these verses 11 to 14, to God's praise.

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 Amen.

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 Amen.

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 Amen.

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 Amen.

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 Let it repent thee now for those last sermons are to thee.

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 O with thy tenderness, Jesus, Lord, how sternly satisfied.

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 So we rejoice, shall all our days, and still be had in thee.

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 Let's turn to read God's Word as we find that tonight in the book of Genesis.

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 The book of Genesis and chapter 6.

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 We're going to read from verse 9 of chapter 6 through to verse 5 of chapter 7.

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 So Genesis chapter 6, beginning at verse 5.

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 These are the generations of Noah.

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 Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation.

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 Noah walked with God, and Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

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 Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight, and the earth was filled with violence.

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 And God saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.

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 And God said to Noah, I have determined to make an end of all flesh,

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 for the earth is filled with violence through them.

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 Behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

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 Make yourself an ark of gopher wood.

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 Make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and out with pitch.

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 This is how you are to make it.

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 The length of the ark, 300 cubits.

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 Its breadth, 50 cubits.

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 And its height, 30 cubits.

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 Make a roof for the ark, and furnish it to a cubit above, and set the door of the ark in its side.

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 Make it with lower, second, and third decks.

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 For behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth,

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 to destroy all fresh in which is the breath of life under heaven.

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 Everything that is on the earth shall die.

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 But I will establish my covenant with you,

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 and you shall come into the ark, you and your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you.

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 And of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ark,

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 to keep them alive with you.

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 They shall be male and female,

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 of the birds according to their kinds, and of the animals according to their kinds.

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 Of every creeping thing of the ground, according to its kind, two of every sort,

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 shall come into you to keep them alive.

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 Also take with you every sort of food that is eaten and stored up.

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 It shall serve as food for you and for them.

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 Noah did this.

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 He did all that God commanded him.

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 Then the Lord said to Noah,

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 Go into the ark, you and all your household,

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 for I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation.

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 Take with you seven pairs of all clean animals, the male and his mate,

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 and a pair of animals that are not clean, the male and his mate,

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 and seven pairs of the birds of the heavens also,

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 male and female, to keep their offspring alive on the face of all the earth.

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 For in seven days I will send rain on the earth,

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 for forty days and forty nights,

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 and every living thing that I have made,

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 I will blot out from the face of the ground.

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 And Noah did all that the Lord had commanded him.

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 And so on may God come with His blessing to follow a reading of His Word.

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 We'll sing once again, this time in Psalm 11 on page 13.

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 And we're singing verses 3 to 7.

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 A psalm that, as you know, deals with the judgment of God

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 and the solemnities of God's judgment

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 and how the righteous will nevertheless find a place in His presence.

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 So Psalm 11 from verse 3,

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 If the foundations are destroyed and all around there is decay,

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 whatever can the righteous do surrounded by such disarray?

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 The Lord is in His holy place,

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 the Lord is on His heavenly throne,

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 His eyes observe the human race,

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 and in His sight each one is known.

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 And so on to the end of the Psalm from verse 4,

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 from verse 3,

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 if the foundations are destroyed.

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 If the foundations are destroyed,

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 and all around there is decay,

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 whatever come the righteous do,

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 surround it by such disarray.

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 The Lord is in His holy place,

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 the Lord is on His heavenly throne,

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 His eyes observe the human race,

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 and in His sight each one is known.

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 The Lord examines all the just,

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 the righteous ones in cruisant taste,

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 that all those who love wickedness

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 and violence is so detest.

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 Upon the wicked He will reign,

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 His highly gold and sulfur hot,

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 a scorching wind will beat on them,

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 such punishment will be their loss.

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 For God the Lord is righteous still,

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 In righteousness He takes delight,

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 and they alone will see His face,

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 through our in heart and life of Christ.

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 Please join with me to the New Testament,

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 to the letter to the Hebrews,

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 and chapter 11.

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 Hebrews chapter 11,

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 and tonight we're looking especially at verse 7,

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 which relates to the passage we read in Genesis.

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 Hebrews 11 at verse 7,

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 By faith Noah, being warned by God

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 concerning events as yet unseen,

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 in reverent fear,

00:23:26.980 --> 00:23:27.980
 constructed an ark

00:23:27.980 --> 00:23:29.960
 for the saving of his household.

00:23:30.039 --> 00:23:32.519
 By this he condemned the world

00:23:32.519 --> 00:23:33.619
 and became an heir

00:23:33.619 --> 00:23:37.879
 of the righteousness that comes by faith.

00:23:42.599 --> 00:23:43.960
 Well, for very good reason,

00:23:44.279 --> 00:23:46.500
 the major shipyards of the world

00:23:46.500 --> 00:23:50.480
 have always been set near to the sea

00:23:50.480 --> 00:23:53.259
 or else on the banks of a great river,

00:23:53.779 --> 00:23:55.019
 such as the River Clyde

00:23:55.019 --> 00:23:56.500
 in our own country,

00:23:56.680 --> 00:23:58.139
 which was famous at one time

00:23:58.140 --> 00:23:59.620
 for its shipbuilding

00:23:59.620 --> 00:24:01.240
 and the quality of its shipbuilding.

00:24:01.900 --> 00:24:03.140
 That's because, of course,

00:24:03.640 --> 00:24:05.800
 when a ship needs to be launched,

00:24:05.960 --> 00:24:10.120
 it requires a great deal of water

00:24:10.120 --> 00:24:10.840
 to be nearby

00:24:10.840 --> 00:24:13.259
 into which it can be launched.

00:24:14.120 --> 00:24:15.080
 But just imagine

00:24:15.080 --> 00:24:16.980
 what you would think or say

00:24:16.980 --> 00:24:18.759
 if you saw somebody

00:24:18.759 --> 00:24:20.060
 beginning to build

00:24:20.060 --> 00:24:21.740
 a large ship

00:24:21.740 --> 00:24:23.319
 out beside the hill

00:24:23.319 --> 00:24:24.059
 Moornack,

00:24:24.700 --> 00:24:25.460
 miles and miles

00:24:25.460 --> 00:24:28.200
 away from the shore

00:24:28.200 --> 00:24:29.460
 and out in the middle

00:24:29.460 --> 00:24:30.460
 of the moorland.

00:24:32.019 --> 00:24:33.500
 And imagine the media reports.

00:24:34.460 --> 00:24:35.740
 If somebody went to start

00:24:35.740 --> 00:24:36.819
 that kind of project,

00:24:37.539 --> 00:24:38.500
 you can imagine the media

00:24:38.500 --> 00:24:39.460
 taking an interest

00:24:39.460 --> 00:24:41.539
 and going to actually interview

00:24:41.539 --> 00:24:42.599
 the man who had started

00:24:42.599 --> 00:24:44.000
 what looked like

00:24:44.000 --> 00:24:45.720
 this silly project,

00:24:46.180 --> 00:24:47.120
 building a huge ship

00:24:47.120 --> 00:24:48.460
 so far from the sea.

00:24:48.460 --> 00:24:50.600
 And imagine how the media

00:24:50.600 --> 00:24:52.200
 would report that,

00:24:52.259 --> 00:24:54.360
 especially during the interview

00:24:54.360 --> 00:24:55.360
 if they asked him,

00:24:55.460 --> 00:24:56.779
 why are you doing this?

00:24:57.539 --> 00:24:58.160
 And he replied,

00:24:58.259 --> 00:24:59.740
 well, because God told me.

00:25:00.600 --> 00:25:02.019
 Just imagine what the headlines

00:25:02.019 --> 00:25:03.680
 would actually then be.

00:25:05.299 --> 00:25:06.340
 But that's what it was like

00:25:06.340 --> 00:25:06.940
 for Noah.

00:25:08.000 --> 00:25:09.420
 God told him to build

00:25:09.420 --> 00:25:11.860
 this massive ark

00:25:11.860 --> 00:25:12.600
 out of wood

00:25:12.600 --> 00:25:14.279
 that would contain

00:25:14.279 --> 00:25:15.480
 himself and his family

00:25:15.480 --> 00:25:16.819
 and all the animals

00:25:16.819 --> 00:25:18.399
 that God had commanded

00:25:18.399 --> 00:25:20.220
 him to take into the ark

00:25:20.220 --> 00:25:21.039
 to keep alive

00:25:21.039 --> 00:25:22.359
 during the flood

00:25:22.359 --> 00:25:23.619
 that God was going to bring

00:25:23.619 --> 00:25:24.779
 on the earth.

00:25:25.819 --> 00:25:26.619
 Just like the man

00:25:26.619 --> 00:25:27.460
 out at Moornack,

00:25:28.259 --> 00:25:29.379
 Noah would have been regarded

00:25:29.379 --> 00:25:30.799
 by many of his generation

00:25:30.799 --> 00:25:33.179
 as something of a crank,

00:25:34.359 --> 00:25:34.740
 something,

00:25:35.099 --> 00:25:36.899
 someone who was just

00:25:36.899 --> 00:25:38.099
 involved in doing

00:25:38.099 --> 00:25:40.339
 a work that was just bizarre.

00:25:41.119 --> 00:25:42.460
 Why would he do such a thing?

00:25:43.079 --> 00:25:44.799
 What was behind such a project?

00:25:44.799 --> 00:25:46.359
 How could he possibly

00:25:46.359 --> 00:25:48.079
 really be serious

00:25:48.079 --> 00:25:49.899
 in what he was doing?

00:25:51.180 --> 00:25:52.519
 And this is, of course,

00:25:53.119 --> 00:25:53.839
 one of the things

00:25:53.839 --> 00:25:54.799
 the Bible tells us

00:25:54.799 --> 00:25:55.339
 about Noah,

00:25:55.859 --> 00:25:57.659
 that it was by faith

00:25:57.659 --> 00:25:59.539
 that he actually built

00:25:59.539 --> 00:26:00.319
 this ark.

00:26:00.500 --> 00:26:01.059
 By faith,

00:26:01.700 --> 00:26:02.599
 Noah being warned

00:26:02.599 --> 00:26:04.119
 by God concerning events

00:26:04.119 --> 00:26:05.480
 as yet unseen

00:26:05.480 --> 00:26:07.039
 in reverent fear

00:26:07.039 --> 00:26:08.139
 constructed an ark

00:26:08.139 --> 00:26:09.299
 for the saving

00:26:09.299 --> 00:26:10.919
 of his household.

00:26:11.659 --> 00:26:12.740
 So let's ask the question,

00:26:12.859 --> 00:26:13.359
 first of all,

00:26:13.359 --> 00:26:15.259
 what induced Noah

00:26:15.259 --> 00:26:17.939
 to build this ark?

00:26:18.579 --> 00:26:19.779
 And then the second question

00:26:19.779 --> 00:26:20.979
 is what was the outcome

00:26:20.979 --> 00:26:22.599
 of his building

00:26:22.599 --> 00:26:23.699
 of the ark?

00:26:23.839 --> 00:26:24.599
 And we're told that

00:26:24.599 --> 00:26:26.319
 in the next part of the verse,

00:26:26.879 --> 00:26:27.799
 by this he condemned

00:26:27.799 --> 00:26:28.379
 the world

00:26:28.379 --> 00:26:29.759
 and became an heir

00:26:29.759 --> 00:26:30.539
 of the righteousness

00:26:30.539 --> 00:26:32.500
 that comes by faith.

00:26:32.579 --> 00:26:34.059
 So it's a two-fold outcome

00:26:34.059 --> 00:26:35.779
 because side by side

00:26:35.779 --> 00:26:36.799
 you've got salvation

00:26:36.799 --> 00:26:37.859
 for himself

00:26:37.859 --> 00:26:38.819
 and for his family

00:26:38.819 --> 00:26:40.579
 and you've also got

00:26:40.579 --> 00:26:41.179
 destruction

00:26:41.179 --> 00:26:43.279
 for the rest of life

00:26:43.279 --> 00:26:43.960
 on earth.

00:26:45.579 --> 00:26:46.740
 What induced Noah

00:26:46.740 --> 00:26:48.039
 to build the ark?

00:26:48.119 --> 00:26:49.159
 What was he thinking?

00:26:49.899 --> 00:26:50.819
 Can we get access

00:26:50.819 --> 00:26:52.220
 to his thoughts?

00:26:52.299 --> 00:26:52.879
 Can we get access

00:26:52.879 --> 00:26:53.639
 to his mind?

00:26:53.740 --> 00:26:54.319
 Yes, we can

00:26:54.319 --> 00:26:55.339
 because the Bible

00:26:55.339 --> 00:26:56.500
 actually tells us

00:26:56.500 --> 00:26:57.339
 how it was

00:26:57.339 --> 00:26:58.539
 that he came to do this.

00:26:58.960 --> 00:26:59.740
 And we're told here

00:26:59.740 --> 00:27:00.279
 in this verse

00:27:00.279 --> 00:27:01.819
 that it was first of all

00:27:01.819 --> 00:27:03.059
 because he was warned

00:27:03.059 --> 00:27:04.059
 by God

00:27:04.059 --> 00:27:05.659
 that he actually set

00:27:05.659 --> 00:27:06.379
 about doing

00:27:06.380 --> 00:27:07.960
 this great project.

00:27:08.500 --> 00:27:09.540
 He was warned

00:27:09.540 --> 00:27:11.000
 by God.

00:27:11.400 --> 00:27:12.180
 He had a warning

00:27:12.180 --> 00:27:12.940
 from God.

00:27:13.000 --> 00:27:13.500
 It wasn't just

00:27:13.500 --> 00:27:14.440
 a mere statement

00:27:14.440 --> 00:27:15.140
 from God.

00:27:15.320 --> 00:27:16.120
 We're told here

00:27:16.120 --> 00:27:16.820
 that was actually

00:27:16.820 --> 00:27:17.720
 a warning.

00:27:18.180 --> 00:27:18.660
 You might say

00:27:18.660 --> 00:27:20.060
 it was something like

00:27:20.060 --> 00:27:20.620
 what you find

00:27:20.620 --> 00:27:22.320
 ahead of tsunamis

00:27:22.320 --> 00:27:23.020
 nowadays.

00:27:23.620 --> 00:27:24.080
 The tsunami,

00:27:24.240 --> 00:27:24.500
 of course,

00:27:24.560 --> 00:27:26.700
 being massively destructive

00:27:26.700 --> 00:27:27.620
 most of the time

00:27:27.620 --> 00:27:28.720
 as we've seen,

00:27:28.880 --> 00:27:29.100
 sadly,

00:27:29.660 --> 00:27:30.640
 even during the course

00:27:30.640 --> 00:27:31.540
 of our own lifetime.

00:27:32.020 --> 00:27:33.000
 We've seen tsunamis

00:27:33.000 --> 00:27:34.080
 in places of the world

00:27:34.080 --> 00:27:35.180
 and some places

00:27:35.180 --> 00:27:35.680
 that have caused

00:27:35.680 --> 00:27:37.039
 massive loss of life

00:27:37.039 --> 00:27:37.980
 and destruction.

00:27:38.200 --> 00:27:39.080
 And there's nowadays

00:27:39.080 --> 00:27:40.039
 a warning given

00:27:40.039 --> 00:27:40.779
 in these places

00:27:40.779 --> 00:27:41.880
 that are prone

00:27:41.880 --> 00:27:42.539
 to tsunamis.

00:27:42.680 --> 00:27:43.460
 There's an alarm

00:27:43.460 --> 00:27:45.000
 throughout the cities

00:27:45.000 --> 00:27:45.620
 or towns

00:27:45.620 --> 00:27:47.820
 of an approaching tsunami.

00:27:48.000 --> 00:27:48.140
 So,

00:27:48.500 --> 00:27:49.200
 this was really

00:27:49.200 --> 00:27:50.140
 for Noah

00:27:50.140 --> 00:27:51.060
 equivalent

00:27:51.060 --> 00:27:52.920
 to advance warning

00:27:52.920 --> 00:27:54.940
 of this disaster

00:27:54.940 --> 00:27:55.600
 that was coming

00:27:55.600 --> 00:27:56.539
 on the world.

00:27:57.080 --> 00:27:57.900
 God actually

00:27:57.900 --> 00:27:59.220
 sent him a warning.

00:27:59.380 --> 00:28:00.200
 God told him

00:28:00.200 --> 00:28:01.080
 what was going

00:28:01.080 --> 00:28:01.900
 to take place

00:28:01.900 --> 00:28:03.019
 and God instructed him

00:28:03.019 --> 00:28:03.740
 how he was

00:28:03.740 --> 00:28:04.859
 to make preparation

00:28:04.859 --> 00:28:06.799
 for this solemn event.

00:28:07.799 --> 00:28:08.880
 That's what induced him

00:28:08.880 --> 00:28:12.660
 to build this ark.

00:28:13.059 --> 00:28:13.680
 And it wasn't just

00:28:13.680 --> 00:28:15.380
 a warning of any kind,

00:28:15.420 --> 00:28:16.140
 it was a warning

00:28:16.140 --> 00:28:17.559
 from God himself.

00:28:18.420 --> 00:28:19.000
 By faith,

00:28:19.140 --> 00:28:19.359
 Noah,

00:28:19.740 --> 00:28:21.660
 being warned by God,

00:28:22.680 --> 00:28:23.819
 built this ark.

00:28:24.720 --> 00:28:25.440
 He took it

00:28:25.440 --> 00:28:27.140
 at face value.

00:28:28.140 --> 00:28:29.079
 He didn't say

00:28:29.079 --> 00:28:30.140
 about it

00:28:30.140 --> 00:28:30.960
 that it was something

00:28:30.960 --> 00:28:32.019
 that he didn't really

00:28:32.019 --> 00:28:33.660
 need to be serious about

00:28:33.660 --> 00:28:34.740
 or treat seriously.

00:28:35.440 --> 00:28:36.720
 As far as he was concerned,

00:28:37.340 --> 00:28:38.920
 it was from God himself.

00:28:39.440 --> 00:28:40.460
 Not only did he have it

00:28:40.460 --> 00:28:41.920
 for his own benefit,

00:28:42.079 --> 00:28:42.799
 but we're told

00:28:42.799 --> 00:28:43.960
 in 2 Peter

00:28:43.960 --> 00:28:45.460
 about Noah

00:28:45.460 --> 00:28:46.259
 being a preacher

00:28:46.259 --> 00:28:47.579
 of righteousness.

00:28:47.799 --> 00:28:48.900
 2 Peter 2,

00:28:49.360 --> 00:28:50.180
 verse 5,

00:28:50.240 --> 00:28:50.740
 that's how

00:28:50.740 --> 00:28:52.420
 he is described

00:28:52.420 --> 00:28:53.840
 as a preacher there

00:28:53.840 --> 00:28:55.519
 of righteousness.

00:28:56.640 --> 00:28:57.380
 And as he lived

00:28:57.380 --> 00:28:58.559
 in his generation,

00:28:59.019 --> 00:28:59.700
 his preaching

00:28:59.700 --> 00:29:00.420
 of righteousness

00:29:00.420 --> 00:29:01.500
 would, of course,

00:29:01.580 --> 00:29:02.100
 take account

00:29:02.100 --> 00:29:02.640
 of the fact

00:29:02.640 --> 00:29:03.559
 that God

00:29:03.559 --> 00:29:05.019
 had actually foretold him

00:29:05.019 --> 00:29:07.059
 of this coming flood

00:29:07.059 --> 00:29:07.539
 that was going

00:29:07.539 --> 00:29:08.840
 to destroy life

00:29:08.840 --> 00:29:09.440
 on earth.

00:29:09.980 --> 00:29:10.779
 And so his preaching

00:29:10.779 --> 00:29:11.600
 of righteousness

00:29:11.600 --> 00:29:13.000
 would have been preaching

00:29:13.000 --> 00:29:14.519
 in relation to

00:29:14.519 --> 00:29:15.980
 that great disaster

00:29:15.980 --> 00:29:16.720
 that was coming,

00:29:17.160 --> 00:29:18.580
 imploring and appealing

00:29:18.580 --> 00:29:20.340
 to his contemporaries

00:29:20.340 --> 00:29:21.660
 to make preparation

00:29:21.660 --> 00:29:22.420
 for this

00:29:22.420 --> 00:29:24.580
 and to treat God's warning

00:29:24.580 --> 00:29:26.200
 with the utmost seriousness.

00:29:27.460 --> 00:29:28.319
 He believed it,

00:29:28.680 --> 00:29:29.440
 he preached it,

00:29:29.700 --> 00:29:30.759
 and that's what

00:29:30.759 --> 00:29:31.759
 we also have

00:29:31.759 --> 00:29:33.120
 because in 2 Peter,

00:29:33.200 --> 00:29:33.920
 it's interesting how

00:29:33.920 --> 00:29:35.360
 in 2 Peter,

00:29:35.400 --> 00:29:36.039
 we didn't read that,

00:29:36.120 --> 00:29:37.420
 we read the account

00:29:37.420 --> 00:29:37.880
 of Genesis,

00:29:38.080 --> 00:29:38.360
 of course,

00:29:38.480 --> 00:29:39.680
 but in 2 Peter,

00:29:39.799 --> 00:29:40.779
 chapter 3,

00:29:41.259 --> 00:29:43.019
 verses 3 to 7,

00:29:43.500 --> 00:29:44.140
 you have something

00:29:44.140 --> 00:29:45.660
 that really applies

00:29:45.660 --> 00:29:47.420
 these times of Noah,

00:29:47.500 --> 00:29:48.019
 this warning

00:29:48.019 --> 00:29:49.340
 that Noah was given

00:29:49.340 --> 00:29:51.080
 because he says

00:29:51.080 --> 00:29:53.039
 that I'm writing

00:29:53.039 --> 00:29:53.779
 this to you,

00:29:53.860 --> 00:29:54.140
 beloved,

00:29:54.700 --> 00:29:55.980
 stirring up your sincere

00:29:55.980 --> 00:29:57.059
 mind by way

00:29:57.059 --> 00:29:57.599
 of reminder

00:29:57.599 --> 00:29:58.799
 that you should

00:29:58.799 --> 00:30:00.079
 remember the predictions

00:30:00.079 --> 00:30:01.159
 of the holy prophets

00:30:01.159 --> 00:30:02.000
 and the commandments

00:30:02.000 --> 00:30:03.539
 of the Lord and Savior

00:30:03.539 --> 00:30:04.559
 through your apostles,

00:30:04.980 --> 00:30:05.740
 knowing this,

00:30:05.859 --> 00:30:06.359
 first of all,

00:30:06.399 --> 00:30:07.859
 that scoffers will come

00:30:07.859 --> 00:30:09.240
 in the last days

00:30:09.240 --> 00:30:10.339
 with scoffing,

00:30:10.659 --> 00:30:11.460
 following their own

00:30:11.460 --> 00:30:12.519
 sinful desires.

00:30:12.899 --> 00:30:13.759
 They will say,

00:30:14.119 --> 00:30:15.279
 where is the promise

00:30:15.279 --> 00:30:16.139
 of his coming?

00:30:16.779 --> 00:30:17.500
 For ever since

00:30:17.500 --> 00:30:18.679
 the fathers fell asleep,

00:30:19.099 --> 00:30:20.440
 all things are continuing

00:30:20.440 --> 00:30:21.200
 as they were

00:30:21.200 --> 00:30:22.179
 from the beginning

00:30:22.180 --> 00:30:23.180
 of creation.

00:30:23.779 --> 00:30:24.620
 And then he says this,

00:30:24.660 --> 00:30:25.820
 for they deliberately

00:30:25.820 --> 00:30:27.180
 overlook this fact

00:30:27.180 --> 00:30:28.840
 that the heavens

00:30:28.840 --> 00:30:30.080
 existed long ago

00:30:30.080 --> 00:30:31.060
 and the earth

00:30:31.060 --> 00:30:32.320
 was formed out of water

00:30:32.320 --> 00:30:33.140
 and through water

00:30:33.140 --> 00:30:35.220
 by the word of God,

00:30:35.720 --> 00:30:36.680
 and that by means

00:30:36.680 --> 00:30:37.080
 of these,

00:30:37.160 --> 00:30:38.759
 the world that then was

00:30:38.759 --> 00:30:40.400
 was deluged with water

00:30:40.400 --> 00:30:41.740
 and perished.

00:30:42.299 --> 00:30:43.940
 By the same word,

00:30:44.400 --> 00:30:45.360
 the word of God,

00:30:45.680 --> 00:30:46.600
 the heavens and earth

00:30:46.600 --> 00:30:48.019
 are now in existence,

00:30:48.660 --> 00:30:49.640
 stored up,

00:30:49.640 --> 00:30:51.100
 being kept

00:30:51.100 --> 00:30:52.860
 until the day of judgment

00:30:52.860 --> 00:30:54.300
 and the destruction

00:30:54.300 --> 00:30:55.259
 of the ungodly.

00:30:55.300 --> 00:30:56.140
 You see the parallel

00:30:56.140 --> 00:30:57.620
 that Peter is drawing

00:30:57.620 --> 00:30:58.640
 between what happened

00:30:58.640 --> 00:30:59.540
 in the days of Noah

00:30:59.540 --> 00:31:01.280
 and the warning that came

00:31:01.280 --> 00:31:02.220
 in the days of Noah

00:31:02.220 --> 00:31:03.940
 and what's now given to us

00:31:03.940 --> 00:31:04.900
 through the gospel.

00:31:05.380 --> 00:31:07.520
 This is our tsunami alert.

00:31:08.060 --> 00:31:08.720
 This is God

00:31:08.720 --> 00:31:10.100
 through the gospel saying,

00:31:10.440 --> 00:31:11.560
 as surely as it happened

00:31:11.560 --> 00:31:12.620
 in the days of Noah,

00:31:12.940 --> 00:31:13.820
 so it's going to happen

00:31:13.820 --> 00:31:15.060
 at the end of the world.

00:31:15.440 --> 00:31:16.040
 This is actually

00:31:16.040 --> 00:31:17.520
 what lies await

00:31:17.519 --> 00:31:19.799
 in the history

00:31:19.799 --> 00:31:20.920
 of mankind.

00:31:22.180 --> 00:31:22.839
 And we have

00:31:22.839 --> 00:31:23.539
 the application

00:31:23.539 --> 00:31:24.460
 of that also

00:31:24.460 --> 00:31:26.139
 in 2 Peter

00:31:26.139 --> 00:31:28.099
 because he doesn't

00:31:28.099 --> 00:31:29.099
 leave it at just

00:31:29.099 --> 00:31:30.059
 saying that

00:31:30.059 --> 00:31:31.039
 this is what is going

00:31:31.039 --> 00:31:31.559
 to happen

00:31:31.559 --> 00:31:33.740
 in chapter 3 again

00:31:33.740 --> 00:31:35.259
 and verses 11

00:31:35.259 --> 00:31:36.500
 and 14 and 15.

00:31:37.079 --> 00:31:38.180
 He then draws

00:31:38.180 --> 00:31:38.779
 the lessons

00:31:38.779 --> 00:31:39.879
 for that for us.

00:31:40.460 --> 00:31:41.180
 This is what he's saying,

00:31:41.279 --> 00:31:42.879
 since all these things

00:31:42.879 --> 00:31:44.420
 are thus to be dissolved,

00:31:44.420 --> 00:31:46.279
 what sort of people

00:31:46.279 --> 00:31:47.400
 ought you to be

00:31:47.400 --> 00:31:49.279
 in lives of holiness

00:31:49.279 --> 00:31:50.720
 and godliness,

00:31:51.360 --> 00:31:52.240
 waiting for

00:31:52.240 --> 00:31:53.180
 and hastening

00:31:53.180 --> 00:31:53.779
 the coming

00:31:53.779 --> 00:31:54.960
 of the day of God

00:31:54.960 --> 00:31:56.440
 because of which

00:31:56.440 --> 00:31:57.100
 the elements,

00:31:57.240 --> 00:31:57.600
 the heavens,

00:31:57.740 --> 00:31:58.720
 will be set on fire

00:31:58.720 --> 00:32:00.000
 and dissolved

00:32:00.000 --> 00:32:01.380
 and the heavenly bodies

00:32:01.380 --> 00:32:02.080
 will melt

00:32:02.080 --> 00:32:03.320
 as they burn.

00:32:03.480 --> 00:32:04.000
 But we,

00:32:04.160 --> 00:32:05.120
 according to his promise,

00:32:05.720 --> 00:32:06.300
 are waiting

00:32:06.300 --> 00:32:07.320
 for new heavens

00:32:07.320 --> 00:32:08.640
 and a new earth

00:32:08.640 --> 00:32:10.200
 in which righteousness

00:32:10.200 --> 00:32:11.279
 dwells.

00:32:11.759 --> 00:32:13.080
 And then he went on

00:32:13.079 --> 00:32:14.179
 to apply it further,

00:32:14.319 --> 00:32:15.000
 therefore, beloved,

00:32:15.599 --> 00:32:16.819
 since you are waiting

00:32:16.819 --> 00:32:17.500
 for these,

00:32:18.199 --> 00:32:18.779
 be diligent

00:32:18.779 --> 00:32:20.099
 to be found by him

00:32:20.099 --> 00:32:21.279
 without spot

00:32:21.279 --> 00:32:21.899
 or blemish

00:32:21.899 --> 00:32:23.119
 and at peace

00:32:23.119 --> 00:32:23.919
 and count

00:32:23.919 --> 00:32:25.399
 the patience

00:32:25.399 --> 00:32:26.559
 of the Lord.

00:32:26.679 --> 00:32:27.179
 In other words,

00:32:27.599 --> 00:32:28.779
 the way in which God

00:32:28.779 --> 00:32:30.319
 has not yet come

00:32:30.319 --> 00:32:31.159
 in his judgment

00:32:31.159 --> 00:32:33.000
 is due to the patience

00:32:33.000 --> 00:32:33.759
 of the Lord

00:32:33.759 --> 00:32:34.779
 and he says,

00:32:34.960 --> 00:32:35.279
 count

00:32:35.279 --> 00:32:36.319
 or account

00:32:36.319 --> 00:32:36.899
 the patience

00:32:36.899 --> 00:32:37.500
 of the Lord

00:32:37.500 --> 00:32:39.419
 as salvation

00:32:39.419 --> 00:32:40.879
 as our beloved

00:32:40.879 --> 00:32:41.699
 brother Paul

00:32:41.700 --> 00:32:42.960
 also wrote

00:32:42.960 --> 00:32:43.460
 to you.

00:32:45.200 --> 00:32:46.080
 What is Peter

00:32:46.080 --> 00:32:46.700
 saying there?

00:32:46.740 --> 00:32:47.200
 He's saying,

00:32:48.319 --> 00:32:49.100
 if you actually

00:32:49.100 --> 00:32:50.519
 dismiss what happened

00:32:50.519 --> 00:32:51.340
 in the days of Noah

00:32:51.340 --> 00:32:52.840
 as just myth

00:32:52.840 --> 00:32:54.240
 or just imagination

00:32:54.240 --> 00:32:55.420
 or something

00:32:55.420 --> 00:32:56.200
 that was fine

00:32:56.200 --> 00:32:57.500
 for previous generations

00:32:57.500 --> 00:32:58.640
 who didn't really

00:32:58.640 --> 00:32:59.519
 understand the world

00:32:59.519 --> 00:33:00.420
 as we know it,

00:33:01.039 --> 00:33:01.759
 then you're really

00:33:01.759 --> 00:33:02.220
 committing

00:33:02.220 --> 00:33:03.100
 a very,

00:33:03.400 --> 00:33:04.700
 very serious error

00:33:04.700 --> 00:33:06.259
 because he's saying

00:33:06.259 --> 00:33:07.000
 there's a parallel

00:33:07.000 --> 00:33:08.460
 between what happened

00:33:08.460 --> 00:33:09.000
 in the days

00:33:09.000 --> 00:33:09.799
 of Noah

00:33:09.799 --> 00:33:10.480
 and what's going

00:33:10.480 --> 00:33:10.919
 to happen

00:33:10.919 --> 00:33:12.099
 at the end

00:33:12.099 --> 00:33:13.339
 of this world.

00:33:14.299 --> 00:33:15.319
 The judgment

00:33:15.319 --> 00:33:16.379
 of God

00:33:16.379 --> 00:33:17.039
 will bring

00:33:17.039 --> 00:33:19.299
 the destruction

00:33:19.299 --> 00:33:20.539
 that's parallel

00:33:20.539 --> 00:33:22.259
 to what happened

00:33:22.259 --> 00:33:22.819
 in the days

00:33:22.819 --> 00:33:23.720
 of Noah.

00:33:24.680 --> 00:33:25.799
 We have

00:33:25.799 --> 00:33:27.759
 a tsunami warning.

00:33:29.059 --> 00:33:29.659
 The gospel

00:33:29.659 --> 00:33:30.700
 is saying to us

00:33:30.700 --> 00:33:31.839
 there is

00:33:31.839 --> 00:33:32.940
 a disaster

00:33:32.940 --> 00:33:33.440
 coming.

00:33:34.240 --> 00:33:35.079
 There is

00:33:35.079 --> 00:33:35.980
 an end coming

00:33:35.980 --> 00:33:37.159
 to the creation

00:33:37.159 --> 00:33:38.119
 as we know it.

00:33:38.119 --> 00:33:40.639
 And tonight

00:33:40.639 --> 00:33:41.359
 that warning,

00:33:42.019 --> 00:33:42.779
 that alarm

00:33:42.779 --> 00:33:43.619
 is being sounded

00:33:43.619 --> 00:33:44.299
 in the preaching

00:33:44.299 --> 00:33:45.000
 of the gospel,

00:33:45.779 --> 00:33:46.199
 in the reading

00:33:46.199 --> 00:33:47.000
 of our Bibles.

00:33:48.319 --> 00:33:48.759
 But you see,

00:33:48.819 --> 00:33:49.319
 it's not just

00:33:49.319 --> 00:33:50.439
 that he received

00:33:50.439 --> 00:33:51.619
 a warning from God,

00:33:51.819 --> 00:33:52.799
 it was actually

00:33:52.799 --> 00:33:53.979
 a warning

00:33:53.979 --> 00:33:55.399
 concerning events

00:33:55.399 --> 00:33:56.519
 yet unseen.

00:33:57.819 --> 00:33:57.979
 You see,

00:33:58.000 --> 00:33:58.579
 when a tsunami

00:33:58.579 --> 00:33:59.659
 alarm goes off,

00:34:00.539 --> 00:34:01.199
 those that are actually

00:34:01.199 --> 00:34:02.279
 in that vicinity

00:34:02.279 --> 00:34:03.519
 can't really see

00:34:03.519 --> 00:34:04.479
 anything different

00:34:04.479 --> 00:34:05.459
 to what they saw

00:34:05.459 --> 00:34:06.299
 the previous day

00:34:06.299 --> 00:34:07.339
 or the previous

00:34:07.339 --> 00:34:07.979
 few hours.

00:34:08.539 --> 00:34:09.420
 Because the tsunami

00:34:09.420 --> 00:34:10.900
 warning is based

00:34:10.900 --> 00:34:11.639
 on those who are

00:34:11.639 --> 00:34:12.539
 monitoring these

00:34:12.539 --> 00:34:13.199
 situations,

00:34:13.559 --> 00:34:14.299
 very often from

00:34:14.299 --> 00:34:14.799
 a distance,

00:34:14.900 --> 00:34:15.500
 and it may still

00:34:15.500 --> 00:34:16.500
 be very far

00:34:16.500 --> 00:34:17.179
 out at sea,

00:34:17.339 --> 00:34:18.099
 and you can't see

00:34:18.099 --> 00:34:18.699
 it with the naked

00:34:18.699 --> 00:34:19.099
 eye.

00:34:19.319 --> 00:34:20.039
 When the alarm

00:34:20.039 --> 00:34:20.759
 goes off,

00:34:20.880 --> 00:34:21.460
 you look around

00:34:21.460 --> 00:34:21.799
 you and say,

00:34:21.859 --> 00:34:21.960
 well,

00:34:22.000 --> 00:34:22.779
 what's changed?

00:34:23.159 --> 00:34:23.759
 Things are just

00:34:23.759 --> 00:34:24.519
 going on as they

00:34:24.519 --> 00:34:24.880
 were.

00:34:25.799 --> 00:34:26.279
 And this is what

00:34:26.279 --> 00:34:26.799
 the Bible is

00:34:26.799 --> 00:34:27.639
 actually telling us

00:34:27.639 --> 00:34:28.759
 about the judgment

00:34:28.759 --> 00:34:29.659
 of God as well,

00:34:29.980 --> 00:34:30.719
 building on what

00:34:30.719 --> 00:34:31.739
 happened in the

00:34:31.739 --> 00:34:32.400
 days of Noah

00:34:32.400 --> 00:34:33.219
 and Noah's

00:34:33.219 --> 00:34:34.500
 experience by faith,

00:34:34.960 --> 00:34:36.000
 being warned by

00:34:36.000 --> 00:34:37.019
 God concerning

00:34:37.019 --> 00:34:38.739
 events as yet

00:34:38.739 --> 00:34:39.579
 unseen.

00:34:40.139 --> 00:34:41.159
 Everything seems

00:34:41.159 --> 00:34:41.639
 normal.

00:34:42.260 --> 00:34:42.840
 There isn't any

00:34:42.840 --> 00:34:43.599
 sign of any

00:34:43.599 --> 00:34:44.420
 coming judgment.

00:34:45.639 --> 00:34:46.099
 But the people

00:34:46.099 --> 00:34:46.860
 of God know

00:34:46.860 --> 00:34:48.480
 that the Bible

00:34:48.480 --> 00:34:49.340
 doesn't lie,

00:34:50.219 --> 00:34:50.679
 that God

00:34:50.679 --> 00:34:51.260
 doesn't lie,

00:34:51.340 --> 00:34:52.019
 and that Bible

00:34:52.019 --> 00:34:53.400
 tonight is

00:34:53.400 --> 00:34:54.360
 our alarm.

00:34:55.699 --> 00:34:56.400
 And however much

00:34:56.400 --> 00:34:57.199
 people may not

00:34:57.199 --> 00:34:58.159
 believe that it's

00:34:58.159 --> 00:34:58.539
 coming,

00:34:59.079 --> 00:35:00.039
 that's not going

00:35:00.039 --> 00:35:00.820
 to stop it.

00:35:02.400 --> 00:35:03.219
 Not believing

00:35:03.219 --> 00:35:04.179
 the Word of God

00:35:04.179 --> 00:35:05.139
 is not going

00:35:05.139 --> 00:35:05.639
 to change

00:35:05.639 --> 00:35:06.659
 God's intentions.

00:35:07.579 --> 00:35:08.139
 It's not going

00:35:08.139 --> 00:35:08.559
 to alter

00:35:08.559 --> 00:35:09.699
 God's purpose.

00:35:11.360 --> 00:35:12.360
 And all the time

00:35:12.360 --> 00:35:12.880
 that the world

00:35:12.880 --> 00:35:13.539
 continues,

00:35:14.679 --> 00:35:16.039
 this final disaster

00:35:16.039 --> 00:35:16.679
 is gathering

00:35:16.679 --> 00:35:17.199
 pace.

00:35:18.360 --> 00:35:19.019
 Every day that

00:35:19.019 --> 00:35:19.699
 goes by

00:35:19.699 --> 00:35:21.059
 is a day nearer.

00:35:21.119 --> 00:35:21.559
 We don't know

00:35:21.559 --> 00:35:22.239
 how long it will

00:35:22.239 --> 00:35:22.480
 be.

00:35:22.579 --> 00:35:23.219
 The Bible doesn't

00:35:23.219 --> 00:35:24.219
 tell us when

00:35:24.219 --> 00:35:24.980
 the day of judgment

00:35:24.980 --> 00:35:25.500
 will come.

00:35:25.579 --> 00:35:26.239
 It doesn't tell us

00:35:26.239 --> 00:35:27.320
 how many years

00:35:27.320 --> 00:35:27.920
 we have to go

00:35:27.920 --> 00:35:28.420
 in the history

00:35:28.420 --> 00:35:29.000
 of the world

00:35:29.000 --> 00:35:29.980
 before the Lord

00:35:29.980 --> 00:35:30.680
 comes back,

00:35:30.820 --> 00:35:32.079
 before this great

00:35:32.079 --> 00:35:33.000
 disaster comes,

00:35:33.099 --> 00:35:34.019
 when the earth

00:35:34.019 --> 00:35:34.940
 and all that's in it

00:35:34.940 --> 00:35:36.280
 will be dissolved

00:35:36.280 --> 00:35:37.639
 and will disappear

00:35:37.639 --> 00:35:38.460
 and will come under

00:35:38.460 --> 00:35:39.619
 the fire of God's

00:35:39.619 --> 00:35:41.599
 judgment to be

00:35:41.599 --> 00:35:43.260
 replaced by a new

00:35:43.260 --> 00:35:44.099
 heavens and a new

00:35:44.099 --> 00:35:45.059
 earth in which

00:35:45.059 --> 00:35:46.599
 righteousness dwells.

00:35:47.380 --> 00:35:48.260
 But the Bible

00:35:48.260 --> 00:35:49.659
 is our alarm call.

00:35:50.920 --> 00:35:51.480
 It's gathering

00:35:51.480 --> 00:35:52.200
 pace meantime,

00:35:52.360 --> 00:35:53.159
 and it will burst

00:35:53.159 --> 00:35:54.059
 upon the world

00:35:54.059 --> 00:35:55.920
 as Jesus Himself

00:35:55.920 --> 00:35:57.760
 preached in His day.

00:35:58.420 --> 00:35:59.559
 with regard to

00:35:59.559 --> 00:36:00.519
 the coming

00:36:00.519 --> 00:36:01.900
 judgment of God.

00:36:02.980 --> 00:36:03.780
 So you have

00:36:03.780 --> 00:36:04.280
 the advantage

00:36:04.280 --> 00:36:04.700
 tonight,

00:36:04.760 --> 00:36:05.220
 and I have the

00:36:05.220 --> 00:36:06.639
 advantage of a

00:36:06.639 --> 00:36:06.940
 Bible.

00:36:07.780 --> 00:36:08.300
 You have the

00:36:08.300 --> 00:36:08.960
 advantage of

00:36:08.960 --> 00:36:09.980
 belonging to a

00:36:09.980 --> 00:36:10.420
 church that

00:36:10.420 --> 00:36:11.159
 believes the

00:36:11.159 --> 00:36:11.480
 Bible.

00:36:12.000 --> 00:36:12.559
 You have the

00:36:12.559 --> 00:36:13.420
 advantage of the

00:36:13.420 --> 00:36:14.139
 gospel being

00:36:14.139 --> 00:36:14.599
 preached,

00:36:15.039 --> 00:36:15.860
 where the Bible's

00:36:15.860 --> 00:36:17.280
 teaching is set out

00:36:17.280 --> 00:36:18.300
 for us as best we

00:36:18.300 --> 00:36:18.619
 can,

00:36:19.099 --> 00:36:19.680
 and seeking that

00:36:19.680 --> 00:36:21.079
 God will apply it

00:36:21.079 --> 00:36:21.860
 to our own hearts

00:36:21.860 --> 00:36:22.920
 and to yours as

00:36:22.920 --> 00:36:23.139
 well.

00:36:23.400 --> 00:36:24.139
 That Bible is

00:36:24.139 --> 00:36:25.159
 telling me tonight

00:36:25.159 --> 00:36:26.900
 what kind of person

00:36:26.900 --> 00:36:27.920
 you ought to be

00:36:27.920 --> 00:36:29.160
 knowing that this

00:36:29.160 --> 00:36:30.079
 is actually coming.

00:36:30.579 --> 00:36:31.079
 Know that you're

00:36:31.079 --> 00:36:31.619
 going to actually

00:36:31.619 --> 00:36:32.880
 face God in His

00:36:32.880 --> 00:36:33.579
 judgment whenever

00:36:33.579 --> 00:36:34.280
 it will come.

00:36:36.619 --> 00:36:37.760
 So it was

00:36:37.760 --> 00:36:39.480
 induced by having

00:36:39.480 --> 00:36:40.400
 received a warning

00:36:40.400 --> 00:36:41.079
 from God,

00:36:41.760 --> 00:36:43.119
 and it was about

00:36:43.119 --> 00:36:44.019
 things not yet

00:36:44.019 --> 00:36:44.440
 seen.

00:36:45.360 --> 00:36:45.880
 That's how it is

00:36:45.880 --> 00:36:47.200
 exactly for

00:36:47.200 --> 00:36:48.180
 ourselves tonight.

00:36:48.740 --> 00:36:49.639
 We can't see

00:36:49.639 --> 00:36:50.820
 the judgment.

00:36:51.660 --> 00:36:52.880
 Still, as far as

00:36:52.880 --> 00:36:53.400
 we're concerned,

00:36:53.539 --> 00:36:54.180
 far off.

00:36:54.179 --> 00:36:56.259
 But what God is

00:36:56.259 --> 00:36:56.719
 saying is,

00:36:56.859 --> 00:36:57.739
 it's real,

00:36:58.599 --> 00:36:59.359
 and it will

00:36:59.359 --> 00:37:00.039
 come in my

00:37:00.039 --> 00:37:00.419
 time.

00:37:01.399 --> 00:37:01.859
 And meantime,

00:37:02.059 --> 00:37:02.739
 I've left you

00:37:02.739 --> 00:37:04.119
 a window of

00:37:04.119 --> 00:37:04.739
 opportunity,

00:37:05.539 --> 00:37:06.159
 a day of

00:37:06.159 --> 00:37:06.579
 grace.

00:37:07.940 --> 00:37:08.960
 I've left it in

00:37:08.960 --> 00:37:09.699
 my patience,

00:37:09.819 --> 00:37:10.460
 God is saying,

00:37:11.539 --> 00:37:12.699
 in my concern

00:37:12.699 --> 00:37:14.179
 that sinners

00:37:14.179 --> 00:37:15.039
 will be saved

00:37:15.039 --> 00:37:16.419
 and not

00:37:16.419 --> 00:37:16.960
 destroyed.

00:37:17.980 --> 00:37:18.519
 And that

00:37:18.519 --> 00:37:19.000
 brings us,

00:37:19.339 --> 00:37:19.599
 thirdly,

00:37:19.639 --> 00:37:20.219
 to see that

00:37:20.219 --> 00:37:21.000
 what induced

00:37:21.000 --> 00:37:22.039
 him was he

00:37:22.039 --> 00:37:22.539
 received a

00:37:22.539 --> 00:37:22.839
 warning,

00:37:22.840 --> 00:37:23.460
 and he

00:37:23.460 --> 00:37:23.940
 received a

00:37:23.940 --> 00:37:24.400
 warning from

00:37:24.400 --> 00:37:25.260
 God of

00:37:25.260 --> 00:37:25.800
 things yet

00:37:25.800 --> 00:37:26.440
 not seen,

00:37:26.720 --> 00:37:27.380
 but he

00:37:27.380 --> 00:37:28.160
 acted by

00:37:28.160 --> 00:37:28.700
 faith.

00:37:28.780 --> 00:37:29.160
 Now, of course,

00:37:29.220 --> 00:37:30.019
 this great

00:37:30.019 --> 00:37:30.780
 chapter is a

00:37:30.780 --> 00:37:31.760
 chapter that

00:37:31.760 --> 00:37:32.840
 lists all

00:37:32.840 --> 00:37:33.200
 those who

00:37:33.200 --> 00:37:33.680
 lived by

00:37:33.680 --> 00:37:34.800
 faith and

00:37:34.800 --> 00:37:35.300
 all those who

00:37:35.300 --> 00:37:36.079
 did things

00:37:36.079 --> 00:37:37.680
 by faith.

00:37:38.680 --> 00:37:39.579
 He saw and

00:37:39.579 --> 00:37:40.920
 believed God's

00:37:40.920 --> 00:37:41.720
 Word and

00:37:41.720 --> 00:37:42.500
 God's warning,

00:37:43.220 --> 00:37:44.800
 and he took

00:37:44.800 --> 00:37:45.700
 specific action

00:37:45.700 --> 00:37:47.000
 in regard to

00:37:47.000 --> 00:37:47.840
 that warning.

00:37:48.000 --> 00:37:48.380
 Now, we have

00:37:48.380 --> 00:37:49.100
 a Bible, as we

00:37:49.100 --> 00:37:50.340
 said, and

00:37:50.340 --> 00:37:51.400
 in faith,

00:37:51.400 --> 00:37:52.440
 the faith of

00:37:52.440 --> 00:37:53.180
 God's people,

00:37:53.320 --> 00:37:53.780
 the faith that

00:37:53.780 --> 00:37:55.099
 we exercise as

00:37:55.099 --> 00:37:55.940
 we trust in

00:37:55.940 --> 00:37:56.940
 God, as we

00:37:56.940 --> 00:37:57.900
 use His Word,

00:37:58.639 --> 00:37:59.800
 is a faith that

00:37:59.800 --> 00:38:01.820
 responds in

00:38:01.820 --> 00:38:03.680
 a certain way to

00:38:03.680 --> 00:38:04.300
 each of the

00:38:04.300 --> 00:38:04.920
 elements of

00:38:04.920 --> 00:38:05.539
 God's Word.

00:38:06.160 --> 00:38:06.700
 And the best

00:38:06.700 --> 00:38:07.760
 definition of

00:38:07.760 --> 00:38:08.200
 that is in

00:38:08.200 --> 00:38:08.940
 Westminster

00:38:08.940 --> 00:38:09.780
 Confession of

00:38:09.780 --> 00:38:11.000
 Faith, where

00:38:11.000 --> 00:38:12.420
 you find this

00:38:12.420 --> 00:38:13.260
 actually said,

00:38:13.360 --> 00:38:14.460
 by this faith,

00:38:15.300 --> 00:38:15.780
 a Christian

00:38:15.780 --> 00:38:16.619
 believes to be

00:38:16.619 --> 00:38:17.880
 true whatever

00:38:17.880 --> 00:38:19.340
 is revealed in

00:38:19.340 --> 00:38:19.800
 the Word.

00:38:19.800 --> 00:38:21.220
 Now, that's the

00:38:21.220 --> 00:38:21.660
 first thing.

00:38:22.120 --> 00:38:22.560
 A Christian

00:38:22.560 --> 00:38:23.600
 believes to be

00:38:23.600 --> 00:38:24.780
 true whatever

00:38:24.780 --> 00:38:26.440
 is revealed in

00:38:26.440 --> 00:38:27.000
 the Word, because

00:38:27.000 --> 00:38:27.940
 it's God's Word.

00:38:28.280 --> 00:38:28.840
 It goes on to

00:38:28.840 --> 00:38:30.720
 say, for the

00:38:30.720 --> 00:38:31.640
 authority of

00:38:31.640 --> 00:38:32.300
 God Himself

00:38:32.300 --> 00:38:33.940
 speaking therein.

00:38:34.720 --> 00:38:35.539
 And this faith

00:38:35.539 --> 00:38:36.800
 acts differently

00:38:36.800 --> 00:38:38.539
 upon that which

00:38:38.539 --> 00:38:39.420
 each particular

00:38:39.420 --> 00:38:40.580
 passage thereof

00:38:40.580 --> 00:38:41.220
 contains,

00:38:42.360 --> 00:38:43.340
 yielding obedience

00:38:43.340 --> 00:38:44.380
 to the commands,

00:38:45.400 --> 00:38:46.220
 trembling at the

00:38:46.220 --> 00:38:46.940
 threatenings,

00:38:46.940 --> 00:38:48.200
 and embracing

00:38:48.200 --> 00:38:48.940
 the promises

00:38:48.940 --> 00:38:49.780
 of God for

00:38:49.780 --> 00:38:51.159
 this life and

00:38:51.159 --> 00:38:51.780
 for that which

00:38:51.780 --> 00:38:52.360
 is to come.

00:38:52.420 --> 00:38:52.900
 And what is that

00:38:52.900 --> 00:38:53.579
 saying to us?

00:38:54.139 --> 00:38:54.559
 It's saying when

00:38:54.559 --> 00:38:55.539
 we believe in

00:38:55.539 --> 00:38:56.200
 God, when we

00:38:56.200 --> 00:38:57.000
 trust in God,

00:38:57.159 --> 00:38:57.860
 when our faith

00:38:57.860 --> 00:38:58.920
 is the faith the

00:38:58.920 --> 00:38:59.880
 Bible calls upon

00:38:59.880 --> 00:39:00.679
 us to exercise,

00:39:01.659 --> 00:39:02.940
 then, in relation

00:39:02.940 --> 00:39:03.619
 to the different

00:39:03.619 --> 00:39:04.559
 aspects of God's

00:39:04.559 --> 00:39:05.340
 Word, that faith

00:39:05.340 --> 00:39:05.900
 acts.

00:39:06.639 --> 00:39:07.380
 So that when that

00:39:07.380 --> 00:39:09.000
 faith comes to

00:39:09.000 --> 00:39:10.159
 the commands of

00:39:10.159 --> 00:39:11.840
 God, it gives

00:39:11.840 --> 00:39:12.380
 obedience.

00:39:13.340 --> 00:39:14.260
 When that faith

00:39:14.260 --> 00:39:15.500
 comes to be

00:39:15.500 --> 00:39:16.440
 confronted with

00:39:16.440 --> 00:39:17.619
 the threatenings

00:39:17.619 --> 00:39:18.800
 of God, such

00:39:18.800 --> 00:39:19.239
 as in the

00:39:19.239 --> 00:39:19.960
 warnings of the

00:39:19.960 --> 00:39:20.699
 final judgment,

00:39:21.300 --> 00:39:22.079
 well, that faith

00:39:22.079 --> 00:39:23.900
 trembles at the

00:39:23.900 --> 00:39:24.619
 threatenings.

00:39:25.300 --> 00:39:25.900
 It's not a

00:39:25.900 --> 00:39:27.420
 trembling, as we'll

00:39:27.420 --> 00:39:27.940
 see with Noah,

00:39:28.000 --> 00:39:28.480
 it's not a

00:39:28.480 --> 00:39:30.079
 trembling in

00:39:30.079 --> 00:39:31.579
 anticipation of

00:39:31.579 --> 00:39:32.599
 not being saved.

00:39:33.679 --> 00:39:34.260
 It's the

00:39:34.260 --> 00:39:35.559
 trembling of

00:39:35.559 --> 00:39:36.440
 realizing that

00:39:36.440 --> 00:39:37.619
 this Word is

00:39:37.619 --> 00:39:38.940
 real and that

00:39:38.940 --> 00:39:39.719
 God is real.

00:39:40.360 --> 00:39:40.800
 And when it

00:39:40.800 --> 00:39:41.360
 comes to the

00:39:41.360 --> 00:39:42.000
 promises of

00:39:42.000 --> 00:39:43.280
 God for this

00:39:43.280 --> 00:39:43.900
 life and for

00:39:43.900 --> 00:39:44.400
 that which is

00:39:44.400 --> 00:39:44.800
 to come,

00:39:45.500 --> 00:39:46.199
 the faith of

00:39:46.199 --> 00:39:46.840
 God's people

00:39:46.840 --> 00:39:48.159
 reacts specifically

00:39:48.159 --> 00:39:49.280
 by embracing

00:39:49.280 --> 00:39:50.900
 these promises.

00:39:52.219 --> 00:39:53.219
 And you can

00:39:53.219 --> 00:39:53.860
 ask yourself,

00:39:53.920 --> 00:39:54.440
 as I need to

00:39:54.440 --> 00:39:55.079
 ask myself,

00:39:55.579 --> 00:39:56.219
 as you read

00:39:56.219 --> 00:39:56.780
 your Bible,

00:39:57.480 --> 00:39:58.380
 how do you

00:39:58.380 --> 00:39:59.039
 find your

00:39:59.039 --> 00:40:00.159
 mind, your

00:40:00.159 --> 00:40:01.320
 soul reacting

00:40:01.320 --> 00:40:02.360
 to the

00:40:02.360 --> 00:40:03.219
 different elements

00:40:03.219 --> 00:40:03.860
 of God's

00:40:03.860 --> 00:40:04.159
 truth?

00:40:05.139 --> 00:40:05.780
 What is your

00:40:05.780 --> 00:40:06.500
 response as you

00:40:06.500 --> 00:40:07.260
 come across the

00:40:07.260 --> 00:40:08.039
 commands of

00:40:08.039 --> 00:40:08.420
 God?

00:40:09.019 --> 00:40:09.739
 What is your

00:40:09.739 --> 00:40:10.579
 response as you

00:40:10.579 --> 00:40:11.599
 meet with the

00:40:11.599 --> 00:40:12.460
 threatenings of

00:40:12.460 --> 00:40:13.719
 God, with the

00:40:13.719 --> 00:40:14.500
 solemn announcements

00:40:14.500 --> 00:40:15.559
 of God's

00:40:15.559 --> 00:40:16.360
 coming judgment?

00:40:16.760 --> 00:40:17.380
 What does that

00:40:17.380 --> 00:40:18.400
 do for you in

00:40:18.400 --> 00:40:18.980
 your heart?

00:40:19.980 --> 00:40:20.320
 And when you

00:40:20.320 --> 00:40:20.980
 come across the

00:40:20.980 --> 00:40:21.659
 promises of

00:40:21.659 --> 00:40:22.920
 God, the

00:40:22.920 --> 00:40:23.519
 promises that

00:40:23.519 --> 00:40:24.159
 are addressed to

00:40:24.159 --> 00:40:24.940
 us in terms of

00:40:24.940 --> 00:40:25.880
 God's own

00:40:25.880 --> 00:40:26.860
 saving grace,

00:40:28.000 --> 00:40:28.920
 how much do we

00:40:28.920 --> 00:40:29.960
 value and

00:40:29.960 --> 00:40:30.800
 appreciate and

00:40:30.800 --> 00:40:32.079
 live by, and

00:40:32.079 --> 00:40:32.340
 as the

00:40:32.340 --> 00:40:33.079
 confession put it,

00:40:33.219 --> 00:40:34.960
 embrace these

00:40:34.960 --> 00:40:35.460
 promises?

00:40:36.539 --> 00:40:37.139
 He was

00:40:37.139 --> 00:40:38.559
 induced by

00:40:38.559 --> 00:40:38.960
 having a

00:40:38.960 --> 00:40:39.480
 warning from

00:40:39.480 --> 00:40:40.539
 God of

00:40:40.539 --> 00:40:41.099
 events as

00:40:41.099 --> 00:40:41.800
 yet unseen.

00:40:41.800 --> 00:40:43.039
 He moved

00:40:43.039 --> 00:40:43.960
 by faith,

00:40:44.539 --> 00:40:45.220
 believing what

00:40:45.220 --> 00:40:45.900
 God had said

00:40:45.900 --> 00:40:46.280
 to him,

00:40:46.740 --> 00:40:47.240
 trusting in

00:40:47.240 --> 00:40:47.760
 the Word of

00:40:47.760 --> 00:40:48.140
 God.

00:40:48.980 --> 00:40:49.440
 But then you

00:40:49.440 --> 00:40:50.080
 notice this,

00:40:50.920 --> 00:40:51.740
 in reverent

00:40:51.740 --> 00:40:53.220
 fear, he

00:40:53.220 --> 00:40:54.039
 constructed an

00:40:54.039 --> 00:40:54.280
 ark.

00:40:54.380 --> 00:40:54.880
 This is a very

00:40:54.880 --> 00:40:55.800
 detailed verse,

00:40:56.380 --> 00:40:56.920
 and all these

00:40:56.920 --> 00:40:57.720
 elements in this

00:40:57.720 --> 00:40:58.120
 verse are

00:40:58.120 --> 00:40:58.600
 important.

00:40:59.039 --> 00:40:59.539
 It's not just

00:40:59.539 --> 00:41:00.560
 saying that Noah

00:41:00.560 --> 00:41:01.920
 believed the

00:41:01.920 --> 00:41:02.780
 Word of God.

00:41:03.140 --> 00:41:03.740
 It's not just

00:41:03.740 --> 00:41:04.180
 saying that he

00:41:04.180 --> 00:41:05.160
 believed what

00:41:05.160 --> 00:41:05.660
 God was

00:41:05.660 --> 00:41:06.340
 threatening to

00:41:06.340 --> 00:41:06.760
 bring and

00:41:06.760 --> 00:41:07.320
 would bring.

00:41:08.019 --> 00:41:08.640
 It's not just

00:41:08.640 --> 00:41:09.160
 saying to us

00:41:09.159 --> 00:41:10.639
 that he did

00:41:10.639 --> 00:41:11.699
 this by faith.

00:41:12.460 --> 00:41:13.319
 He did this

00:41:13.319 --> 00:41:14.039
 by a faith

00:41:14.039 --> 00:41:14.899
 which included,

00:41:15.440 --> 00:41:16.000
 as we said,

00:41:16.279 --> 00:41:16.639
 from the

00:41:16.639 --> 00:41:17.279
 confession of

00:41:17.279 --> 00:41:17.559
 faith,

00:41:18.039 --> 00:41:19.639
 trembling at

00:41:19.639 --> 00:41:20.299
 the threatenings

00:41:20.299 --> 00:41:20.699
 of God.

00:41:20.759 --> 00:41:21.219
 It calls it

00:41:21.219 --> 00:41:22.480
 here reverent

00:41:22.480 --> 00:41:22.920
 fear.

00:41:23.659 --> 00:41:24.039
 Now you know

00:41:24.039 --> 00:41:24.759
 yourselves that

00:41:24.759 --> 00:41:25.960
 the Word of

00:41:25.960 --> 00:41:26.480
 God in many

00:41:26.480 --> 00:41:27.199
 places talks

00:41:27.199 --> 00:41:27.659
 about the

00:41:27.659 --> 00:41:28.779
 fear of God.

00:41:29.339 --> 00:41:29.699
 You go to

00:41:29.699 --> 00:41:30.139
 the book of

00:41:30.139 --> 00:41:31.219
 Proverbs and

00:41:31.219 --> 00:41:31.639
 throughout the

00:41:31.639 --> 00:41:32.319
 book of Psalms

00:41:32.319 --> 00:41:33.539
 especially, you

00:41:33.539 --> 00:41:34.639
 find the fear

00:41:34.639 --> 00:41:35.980
 of God very

00:41:35.980 --> 00:41:36.839
 often mentioned.

00:41:37.779 --> 00:41:38.259
 The fear of

00:41:38.259 --> 00:41:38.599
 God is

00:41:38.599 --> 00:41:39.599
 something that

00:41:39.599 --> 00:41:40.519
 takes place in

00:41:40.519 --> 00:41:41.239
 our hearts, in

00:41:41.239 --> 00:41:41.799
 our lives, in

00:41:41.799 --> 00:41:43.460
 our minds, and

00:41:43.460 --> 00:41:44.980
 it is to do

00:41:44.980 --> 00:41:45.920
 with how we

00:41:45.920 --> 00:41:47.000
 respond to

00:41:47.000 --> 00:41:47.960
 what God has

00:41:47.960 --> 00:41:48.559
 revealed of

00:41:48.559 --> 00:41:48.920
 Himself.

00:41:49.679 --> 00:41:50.360
 And the fear

00:41:50.360 --> 00:41:51.579
 of God is

00:41:51.579 --> 00:41:52.059
 not to do

00:41:52.059 --> 00:41:52.559
 with being

00:41:52.559 --> 00:41:53.199
 terrified.

00:41:54.159 --> 00:41:54.779
 It's not a

00:41:54.779 --> 00:41:55.839
 slavish fear.

00:41:56.500 --> 00:41:57.019
 It's not a

00:41:57.019 --> 00:41:57.679
 fear that

00:41:57.679 --> 00:41:59.440
 cringes in

00:41:59.440 --> 00:42:00.279
 response to

00:42:00.279 --> 00:42:00.940
 what God has

00:42:00.940 --> 00:42:01.319
 revealed.

00:42:01.819 --> 00:42:02.500
 It's rather

00:42:02.500 --> 00:42:04.000
 fear in the

00:42:04.000 --> 00:42:04.539
 sense of

00:42:04.539 --> 00:42:05.599
 love,

00:42:06.219 --> 00:42:06.539
 awe,

00:42:06.900 --> 00:42:07.699
 respect,

00:42:07.699 --> 00:42:08.919
 respect for

00:42:08.919 --> 00:42:09.379
 what God

00:42:09.379 --> 00:42:09.919
 has revealed

00:42:09.919 --> 00:42:10.259
 and who

00:42:10.259 --> 00:42:11.059
 God is.

00:42:12.139 --> 00:42:12.679
 And if we

00:42:12.679 --> 00:42:14.039
 are marked

00:42:14.039 --> 00:42:15.000
 by the fear

00:42:15.000 --> 00:42:15.639
 of God,

00:42:16.039 --> 00:42:16.819
 obviously that

00:42:16.819 --> 00:42:17.399
 will include

00:42:17.399 --> 00:42:18.719
 godliness in

00:42:18.719 --> 00:42:19.319
 our character

00:42:19.319 --> 00:42:20.000
 and behavior,

00:42:20.699 --> 00:42:21.759
 but it will

00:42:21.759 --> 00:42:22.460
 also mean that

00:42:22.460 --> 00:42:23.159
 everything God

00:42:23.159 --> 00:42:23.699
 has revealed,

00:42:24.159 --> 00:42:24.960
 we give utter

00:42:24.960 --> 00:42:26.019
 respect to.

00:42:26.619 --> 00:42:27.439
 We live in

00:42:27.439 --> 00:42:28.819
 awe of this

00:42:28.819 --> 00:42:29.639
 God and His

00:42:29.639 --> 00:42:30.179
 greatness.

00:42:30.179 --> 00:42:32.460
 we take on

00:42:32.460 --> 00:42:33.000
 board all

00:42:33.000 --> 00:42:33.599
 that the

00:42:33.599 --> 00:42:34.299
 Bible tells

00:42:34.299 --> 00:42:34.739
 us about

00:42:34.739 --> 00:42:35.239
 His

00:42:35.239 --> 00:42:36.039
 attributes,

00:42:36.579 --> 00:42:37.019
 whether we

00:42:37.019 --> 00:42:37.440
 think of

00:42:37.440 --> 00:42:40.599
 His power,

00:42:41.179 --> 00:42:41.859
 His grace,

00:42:42.039 --> 00:42:42.599
 His love,

00:42:42.739 --> 00:42:43.299
 His mercy,

00:42:43.779 --> 00:42:44.399
 His judgment,

00:42:44.619 --> 00:42:45.079
 His anger,

00:42:45.179 --> 00:42:45.759
 whatever else.

00:42:46.199 --> 00:42:47.159
 The fear of

00:42:47.159 --> 00:42:49.239
 God is what

00:42:49.239 --> 00:42:49.899
 takes these

00:42:49.899 --> 00:42:50.819
 seriously and

00:42:50.819 --> 00:42:52.480
 respects God

00:42:52.480 --> 00:42:53.119
 for who He

00:42:53.119 --> 00:42:53.599
 is.

00:42:54.699 --> 00:42:55.339
 And that fear

00:42:55.339 --> 00:42:55.779
 of God,

00:42:56.119 --> 00:42:56.519
 in the book

00:42:56.519 --> 00:42:57.119
 of Proverbs,

00:42:57.619 --> 00:42:57.899
 there are a

00:42:57.899 --> 00:42:58.219
 number of

00:42:58.219 --> 00:42:58.739
 verses that

00:42:58.739 --> 00:42:59.239
 tell us

00:42:59.239 --> 00:43:00.179
 the fear

00:43:00.179 --> 00:43:00.699
 of God

00:43:00.699 --> 00:43:01.159
 is the

00:43:01.159 --> 00:43:01.759
 beginning

00:43:01.759 --> 00:43:03.179
 of wisdom.

00:43:04.199 --> 00:43:04.980
 Beginning there

00:43:04.980 --> 00:43:06.179
 means the

00:43:06.179 --> 00:43:07.579
 foundational element

00:43:07.579 --> 00:43:08.219
 of wisdom.

00:43:08.859 --> 00:43:09.319
 Remember in

00:43:09.319 --> 00:43:09.879
 Psalm 90

00:43:09.879 --> 00:43:10.899
 where we

00:43:10.899 --> 00:43:11.659
 sang these

00:43:11.659 --> 00:43:12.259
 words of

00:43:12.259 --> 00:43:13.059
 the prayer

00:43:13.059 --> 00:43:13.659
 of Moses,

00:43:13.779 --> 00:43:14.219
 the man of

00:43:14.219 --> 00:43:14.559
 God,

00:43:15.019 --> 00:43:15.599
 teach us

00:43:15.599 --> 00:43:16.339
 to number

00:43:16.339 --> 00:43:17.500
 our days

00:43:17.500 --> 00:43:18.839
 so that

00:43:18.839 --> 00:43:19.179
 we may

00:43:19.179 --> 00:43:20.299
 apply our

00:43:20.299 --> 00:43:20.779
 hearts

00:43:20.779 --> 00:43:21.959
 to wisdom.

00:43:23.159 --> 00:43:23.480
 There is

00:43:23.480 --> 00:43:24.279
 Moses himself

00:43:24.279 --> 00:43:25.619
 thinking of

00:43:25.619 --> 00:43:26.859
 the awesomeness

00:43:26.859 --> 00:43:27.480
 of God,

00:43:27.480 --> 00:43:28.500
 the majesty,

00:43:28.659 --> 00:43:29.199
 the greatness

00:43:29.199 --> 00:43:29.900
 of God,

00:43:30.139 --> 00:43:30.599
 something which

00:43:30.599 --> 00:43:31.219
 our world has

00:43:31.219 --> 00:43:32.059
 so much forgotten

00:43:32.059 --> 00:43:32.840
 or doesn't

00:43:32.840 --> 00:43:33.440
 want to know

00:43:33.440 --> 00:43:33.860
 about.

00:43:35.719 --> 00:43:36.280
 But there is

00:43:36.280 --> 00:43:36.579
 Moses,

00:43:37.240 --> 00:43:37.719
 through this

00:43:37.719 --> 00:43:38.380
 great song,

00:43:38.539 --> 00:43:39.059
 teaching his

00:43:39.059 --> 00:43:39.699
 own people

00:43:39.699 --> 00:43:41.260
 and praying

00:43:41.260 --> 00:43:41.940
 to God

00:43:41.940 --> 00:43:43.360
 to help

00:43:43.360 --> 00:43:43.760
 them to

00:43:43.760 --> 00:43:44.559
 number their

00:43:44.559 --> 00:43:44.900
 days.

00:43:44.960 --> 00:43:45.219
 In other

00:43:45.219 --> 00:43:45.440
 words,

00:43:45.920 --> 00:43:46.360
 to take

00:43:46.360 --> 00:43:47.179
 account of

00:43:47.179 --> 00:43:47.840
 the brevity

00:43:47.840 --> 00:43:48.679
 of life

00:43:48.679 --> 00:43:49.800
 as against

00:43:49.800 --> 00:43:50.559
 the longevity

00:43:50.559 --> 00:43:52.079
 and eternalness

00:43:52.079 --> 00:43:52.519
 of God

00:43:52.519 --> 00:43:52.920
 himself.

00:43:53.719 --> 00:43:54.240
 And taking

00:43:54.240 --> 00:43:54.760
 account of

00:43:54.760 --> 00:43:55.300
 the brevity

00:43:55.300 --> 00:43:55.820
 of life,

00:43:55.920 --> 00:43:56.719
 Moses is saying,

00:43:56.719 --> 00:43:57.719
 is really

00:43:57.719 --> 00:43:58.239
 to turn

00:43:58.239 --> 00:43:58.699
 your heart

00:43:58.699 --> 00:43:59.299
 to wisdom,

00:43:59.659 --> 00:44:00.039
 to be

00:44:00.039 --> 00:44:00.839
 wise unto

00:44:00.839 --> 00:44:01.459
 salvation,

00:44:01.879 --> 00:44:02.439
 to treat

00:44:02.439 --> 00:44:02.839
 the things

00:44:02.839 --> 00:44:03.419
 that God

00:44:03.419 --> 00:44:04.000
 has revealed

00:44:04.000 --> 00:44:04.579
 of himself

00:44:04.579 --> 00:44:05.179
 with the

00:44:05.179 --> 00:44:06.199
 utmost seriousness.

00:44:06.919 --> 00:44:07.319
 And when he

00:44:07.319 --> 00:44:07.799
 talks about

00:44:07.799 --> 00:44:08.179
 the coming

00:44:08.179 --> 00:44:08.659
 judgment,

00:44:09.159 --> 00:44:09.579
 that has

00:44:09.579 --> 00:44:09.839
 to have

00:44:09.839 --> 00:44:10.179
 its own

00:44:10.179 --> 00:44:10.619
 place

00:44:10.619 --> 00:44:11.899
 in the

00:44:11.899 --> 00:44:12.279
 elements

00:44:12.279 --> 00:44:12.639
 that we

00:44:12.639 --> 00:44:13.159
 believe

00:44:13.159 --> 00:44:14.079
 and respond

00:44:14.079 --> 00:44:14.519
 to.

00:44:15.619 --> 00:44:15.959
 And of

00:44:15.959 --> 00:44:16.119
 course,

00:44:16.199 --> 00:44:16.559
 there is so

00:44:16.559 --> 00:44:17.219
 much gain

00:44:17.219 --> 00:44:18.259
 mentioned

00:44:18.259 --> 00:44:18.519
 in the

00:44:18.519 --> 00:44:18.859
 likes of

00:44:18.859 --> 00:44:19.339
 Psalms

00:44:19.339 --> 00:44:20.099
 and in

00:44:20.099 --> 00:44:20.319
 the book

00:44:20.319 --> 00:44:20.919
 of Proverbs

00:44:20.919 --> 00:44:22.099
 as these

00:44:22.099 --> 00:44:22.579
 two books

00:44:22.579 --> 00:44:23.500
 mention this

00:44:23.500 --> 00:44:24.039
 fear of

00:44:24.039 --> 00:44:24.440
 God so

00:44:24.440 --> 00:44:24.759
 often,

00:44:25.579 --> 00:44:26.119
 the fear

00:44:26.119 --> 00:44:26.739
 of God

00:44:26.739 --> 00:44:27.619
 and the

00:44:27.619 --> 00:44:27.980
 knowledge

00:44:27.980 --> 00:44:28.639
 of God

00:44:28.639 --> 00:44:29.739
 doesn't just

00:44:29.739 --> 00:44:30.519
 make a person

00:44:30.519 --> 00:44:32.199
 wise and

00:44:32.199 --> 00:44:32.900
 is foundational

00:44:32.900 --> 00:44:33.340
 to their

00:44:33.340 --> 00:44:33.679
 wisdom,

00:44:34.320 --> 00:44:34.860
 it brings

00:44:34.860 --> 00:44:35.440
 many other

00:44:35.440 --> 00:44:36.199
 benefits too,

00:44:36.300 --> 00:44:36.619
 of course,

00:44:37.059 --> 00:44:37.860
 because it's

00:44:37.860 --> 00:44:38.480
 attached to

00:44:38.480 --> 00:44:39.320
 God's blessing.

00:44:40.500 --> 00:44:41.019
 The fear

00:44:41.019 --> 00:44:41.539
 of God

00:44:41.539 --> 00:44:41.840
 is the

00:44:41.840 --> 00:44:42.360
 respect,

00:44:42.739 --> 00:44:43.320
 the awe

00:44:43.320 --> 00:44:44.039
 with which

00:44:44.039 --> 00:44:44.679
 we respond

00:44:44.679 --> 00:44:45.340
 to God

00:44:45.340 --> 00:44:46.119
 and God

00:44:46.119 --> 00:44:46.779
 himself has

00:44:46.779 --> 00:44:47.259
 promised

00:44:47.259 --> 00:44:48.179
 that those

00:44:48.179 --> 00:44:48.820
 who live

00:44:48.820 --> 00:44:49.559
 like that

00:44:49.559 --> 00:44:50.719
 will experience

00:44:50.719 --> 00:44:51.539
 many blessings

00:44:51.539 --> 00:44:52.400
 from his

00:44:52.400 --> 00:44:52.840
 hand.

00:44:54.239 --> 00:44:55.019
 And then

00:44:55.019 --> 00:44:55.699
 the final

00:44:55.699 --> 00:44:56.199
 thing is

00:44:56.199 --> 00:44:56.659
 in this

00:44:56.659 --> 00:44:56.980
 part of

00:44:56.980 --> 00:44:57.320
 the verse

00:44:57.320 --> 00:44:58.579
 being warned

00:44:58.579 --> 00:44:59.239
 by God

00:44:59.239 --> 00:45:00.179
 concerning

00:45:00.179 --> 00:45:00.800
 events as

00:45:00.800 --> 00:45:01.480
 yet unseen

00:45:01.480 --> 00:45:02.860
 in reverent

00:45:02.860 --> 00:45:03.300
 fear,

00:45:03.880 --> 00:45:04.659
 he constructed

00:45:04.659 --> 00:45:05.420
 an ark

00:45:05.420 --> 00:45:06.279
 for the

00:45:06.279 --> 00:45:06.659
 saving

00:45:06.659 --> 00:45:07.579
 of his

00:45:07.579 --> 00:45:08.219
 household.

00:45:09.400 --> 00:45:09.719
 Now,

00:45:09.759 --> 00:45:10.059
 that's an

00:45:10.059 --> 00:45:10.440
 important

00:45:10.440 --> 00:45:10.960
 detail

00:45:10.960 --> 00:45:13.179
 because it

00:45:13.179 --> 00:45:13.679
 leaves us

00:45:13.679 --> 00:45:14.219
 without any

00:45:14.219 --> 00:45:14.980
 excuse if we

00:45:14.980 --> 00:45:15.920
 haven't acted

00:45:15.920 --> 00:45:17.119
 upon what

00:45:17.119 --> 00:45:17.659
 God is

00:45:17.659 --> 00:45:18.460
 actually saying

00:45:18.460 --> 00:45:18.860
 to us

00:45:18.860 --> 00:45:19.619
 or has

00:45:19.619 --> 00:45:20.159
 been showing

00:45:20.159 --> 00:45:20.539
 us in

00:45:20.539 --> 00:45:21.079
 his word.

00:45:21.539 --> 00:45:22.079
 If we

00:45:22.079 --> 00:45:22.460
 haven't

00:45:22.460 --> 00:45:22.800
 actually

00:45:22.800 --> 00:45:23.699
 turned out

00:45:23.699 --> 00:45:24.159
 hearts to

00:45:24.159 --> 00:45:24.639
 wisdom because

00:45:24.639 --> 00:45:25.099
 all the way

00:45:25.099 --> 00:45:26.079
 through this

00:45:26.079 --> 00:45:26.679
 list of

00:45:26.679 --> 00:45:27.199
 people who

00:45:27.199 --> 00:45:27.699
 live by

00:45:27.699 --> 00:45:28.119
 faith,

00:45:28.480 --> 00:45:28.779
 you will

00:45:28.779 --> 00:45:29.519
 always find

00:45:29.519 --> 00:45:30.199
 something that

00:45:30.199 --> 00:45:30.960
 they did

00:45:30.960 --> 00:45:32.099
 by faith,

00:45:32.440 --> 00:45:33.119
 something that

00:45:33.119 --> 00:45:33.679
 their faith

00:45:33.679 --> 00:45:34.400
 led them

00:45:34.400 --> 00:45:35.159
 to do.

00:45:35.579 --> 00:45:36.239
 The action

00:45:36.239 --> 00:45:37.320
 of faith

00:45:37.320 --> 00:45:37.679
 was to

00:45:37.679 --> 00:45:38.420
 actually bring

00:45:38.420 --> 00:45:39.420
 them to

00:45:39.420 --> 00:45:40.000
 do something

00:45:40.000 --> 00:45:40.559
 in relation

00:45:40.559 --> 00:45:41.460
 to what

00:45:41.460 --> 00:45:42.059
 God himself

00:45:42.059 --> 00:45:42.679
 required.

00:45:43.179 --> 00:45:43.420
 And as

00:45:43.420 --> 00:45:43.719
 far as

00:45:43.719 --> 00:45:44.139
 Noah was

00:45:44.139 --> 00:45:44.639
 concerned,

00:45:44.980 --> 00:45:45.199
 in the

00:45:45.199 --> 00:45:45.579
 case of

00:45:45.579 --> 00:45:45.840
 Noah,

00:45:46.320 --> 00:45:47.119
 he constructed

00:45:47.119 --> 00:45:48.300
 an ark.

00:45:48.699 --> 00:45:49.059
 In other

00:45:49.059 --> 00:45:49.239
 words,

00:45:49.420 --> 00:45:50.360
 faith is

00:45:50.360 --> 00:45:51.700
 always tied

00:45:51.700 --> 00:45:52.440
 and attached

00:45:52.440 --> 00:45:53.599
 to something

00:45:53.599 --> 00:45:55.300
 practical in

00:45:55.300 --> 00:45:55.780
 the Christian

00:45:55.780 --> 00:45:56.280
 life.

00:45:57.099 --> 00:45:57.559
 Faith is

00:45:57.559 --> 00:45:58.960
 itself a

00:45:58.960 --> 00:45:59.519
 believing and

00:45:59.519 --> 00:46:00.300
 a trusting in

00:46:00.300 --> 00:46:01.340
 God, but it

00:46:01.340 --> 00:46:01.800
 is never

00:46:01.800 --> 00:46:03.420
 detached from

00:46:03.420 --> 00:46:04.160
 the works that

00:46:04.160 --> 00:46:05.059
 God requires

00:46:05.059 --> 00:46:05.740
 of his people.

00:46:06.420 --> 00:46:06.920
 You find that

00:46:06.920 --> 00:46:07.559
 in James,

00:46:07.880 --> 00:46:08.579
 James chapter

00:46:08.579 --> 00:46:09.800
 2 especially,

00:46:10.460 --> 00:46:11.200
 where you find

00:46:11.200 --> 00:46:12.620
 an emphasis on

00:46:12.620 --> 00:46:13.980
 faith attached

00:46:13.980 --> 00:46:14.620
 to certain

00:46:14.620 --> 00:46:15.480
 works that show

00:46:15.480 --> 00:46:16.660
 and demonstrate

00:46:16.660 --> 00:46:17.519
 faith itself

00:46:17.519 --> 00:46:18.219
 to be real

00:46:18.219 --> 00:46:20.119
 and that show

00:46:20.119 --> 00:46:20.599
 the people

00:46:20.599 --> 00:46:21.079
 of faith

00:46:21.079 --> 00:46:22.199
 to be the

00:46:22.199 --> 00:46:22.579
 kind of

00:46:22.579 --> 00:46:23.699
 people that

00:46:23.699 --> 00:46:24.519
 God himself

00:46:24.519 --> 00:46:25.619
 has brought

00:46:25.619 --> 00:46:26.059
 to know

00:46:26.059 --> 00:46:26.539
 himself.

00:46:27.980 --> 00:46:28.739
 So here is

00:46:28.739 --> 00:46:29.619
 he built

00:46:29.619 --> 00:46:30.420
 an ark,

00:46:30.500 --> 00:46:31.159
 he constructed

00:46:31.159 --> 00:46:32.139
 an ark.

00:46:32.920 --> 00:46:33.300
 Faith

00:46:33.300 --> 00:46:35.139
 always has

00:46:35.139 --> 00:46:35.659
 attendant

00:46:35.659 --> 00:46:36.980
 action or

00:46:36.980 --> 00:46:37.679
 consequent

00:46:37.679 --> 00:46:38.179
 action

00:46:38.179 --> 00:46:39.480
 wherever that

00:46:39.480 --> 00:46:40.519
 faith is.

00:46:41.920 --> 00:46:42.539
 And that's

00:46:42.539 --> 00:46:43.219
 true of every

00:46:43.219 --> 00:46:43.880
 Christian here.

00:46:44.940 --> 00:46:45.679
 Everybody here

00:46:45.679 --> 00:46:46.179
 tonight who

00:46:46.179 --> 00:46:46.759
 trusts in

00:46:46.759 --> 00:46:48.579
 God, that

00:46:48.579 --> 00:46:49.399
 faith by

00:46:49.399 --> 00:46:49.899
 which you

00:46:49.899 --> 00:46:51.279
 relate to

00:46:51.279 --> 00:46:51.719
 God and

00:46:51.719 --> 00:46:52.079
 which you

00:46:52.079 --> 00:46:52.639
 are united

00:46:52.639 --> 00:46:53.359
 to God,

00:46:53.940 --> 00:46:55.099
 that faith

00:46:55.099 --> 00:46:56.179
 in some way

00:46:56.179 --> 00:46:56.579
 or other is

00:46:56.579 --> 00:46:57.099
 put into

00:46:57.099 --> 00:46:57.779
 action in

00:46:57.779 --> 00:46:58.339
 your life.

00:46:59.480 --> 00:46:59.919
 None of us

00:46:59.919 --> 00:47:00.599
 is perfect.

00:47:01.399 --> 00:47:01.659
 There are

00:47:01.659 --> 00:47:02.039
 many things

00:47:02.039 --> 00:47:02.460
 we leave

00:47:02.460 --> 00:47:03.179
 undone that

00:47:03.179 --> 00:47:03.519
 we should

00:47:03.519 --> 00:47:03.919
 have done,

00:47:04.619 --> 00:47:05.179
 many things

00:47:05.179 --> 00:47:05.699
 we do

00:47:05.699 --> 00:47:06.379
 that we

00:47:06.379 --> 00:47:06.699
 shouldn't

00:47:06.699 --> 00:47:07.139
 have done.

00:47:07.879 --> 00:47:08.359
 We pray

00:47:08.359 --> 00:47:08.799
 God's

00:47:08.799 --> 00:47:09.239
 forgiveness

00:47:09.239 --> 00:47:10.379
 in regard

00:47:10.379 --> 00:47:10.739
 to the

00:47:10.739 --> 00:47:11.559
 imperfections

00:47:11.559 --> 00:47:11.839
 of our

00:47:11.839 --> 00:47:12.219
 lives.

00:47:12.759 --> 00:47:12.859
 And

00:47:12.859 --> 00:47:13.179
 nevertheless,

00:47:13.899 --> 00:47:14.679
 we acknowledge

00:47:14.679 --> 00:47:15.219
 the fact

00:47:15.219 --> 00:47:15.500
 and we

00:47:15.500 --> 00:47:15.940
 want to

00:47:15.940 --> 00:47:16.860
 follow through

00:47:16.860 --> 00:47:17.240
 on this,

00:47:17.320 --> 00:47:17.980
 that faith

00:47:17.980 --> 00:47:19.019
 is always

00:47:19.019 --> 00:47:19.800
 attached to

00:47:19.800 --> 00:47:20.320
 works.

00:47:20.940 --> 00:47:21.159
 There will

00:47:21.159 --> 00:47:21.639
 be something

00:47:21.639 --> 00:47:22.460
 practical in

00:47:22.460 --> 00:47:23.079
 your life

00:47:23.079 --> 00:47:23.880
 that you

00:47:23.880 --> 00:47:24.480
 do on a

00:47:24.480 --> 00:47:25.240
 regular basis

00:47:25.240 --> 00:47:26.380
 that shows

00:47:26.380 --> 00:47:26.700
 you're a

00:47:26.700 --> 00:47:27.039
 Christian,

00:47:28.200 --> 00:47:28.800
 even coming

00:47:28.800 --> 00:47:29.519
 to church,

00:47:30.639 --> 00:47:31.079
 being with

00:47:31.079 --> 00:47:31.500
 the Lord's

00:47:31.500 --> 00:47:31.960
 people in

00:47:31.960 --> 00:47:32.260
 worship,

00:47:33.579 --> 00:47:34.639
 reaching out

00:47:34.639 --> 00:47:35.039
 to people

00:47:35.039 --> 00:47:35.340
 in their

00:47:35.340 --> 00:47:35.720
 need,

00:47:36.820 --> 00:47:37.420
 praying for

00:47:37.420 --> 00:47:38.240
 people even

00:47:38.240 --> 00:47:38.659
 if they don't

00:47:38.659 --> 00:47:39.019
 see you

00:47:39.019 --> 00:47:39.619
 doing it.

00:47:40.340 --> 00:47:40.700
 But these

00:47:40.700 --> 00:47:41.000
 are the

00:47:41.000 --> 00:47:41.700
 actings of

00:47:41.700 --> 00:47:42.200
 faith,

00:47:43.220 --> 00:47:43.760
 the actings

00:47:43.760 --> 00:47:44.179
 by which

00:47:44.179 --> 00:47:45.019
 faith shows

00:47:45.019 --> 00:47:46.320
 itself to

00:47:46.320 --> 00:47:46.800
 be from

00:47:46.800 --> 00:47:47.500
 God and

00:47:47.500 --> 00:47:48.119
 attached to

00:47:48.119 --> 00:47:48.860
 the benefits

00:47:48.860 --> 00:47:49.820
 that God

00:47:49.820 --> 00:47:50.360
 brings to

00:47:50.360 --> 00:47:51.000
 you in

00:47:51.000 --> 00:47:51.559
 your life.

00:47:52.820 --> 00:47:53.280
 You remember

00:47:53.280 --> 00:47:54.840
 the account

00:47:54.840 --> 00:47:55.259
 we have in

00:47:55.259 --> 00:47:55.719
 Luke chapter

00:47:55.719 --> 00:47:57.400
 15 of

00:47:57.400 --> 00:47:58.320
 the son,

00:47:58.440 --> 00:47:59.039
 the son

00:47:59.039 --> 00:47:59.500
 that's usually

00:47:59.500 --> 00:47:59.940
 called the

00:47:59.940 --> 00:48:00.400
 prodigal

00:48:00.400 --> 00:48:00.699
 son.

00:48:01.759 --> 00:48:02.420
 You remember

00:48:02.420 --> 00:48:03.159
 how the

00:48:03.159 --> 00:48:03.860
 detail of it

00:48:03.860 --> 00:48:04.480
 includes that

00:48:04.480 --> 00:48:04.820
 he left

00:48:04.820 --> 00:48:05.119
 home,

00:48:05.880 --> 00:48:06.259
 he wanted

00:48:06.259 --> 00:48:06.800
 everything that

00:48:06.800 --> 00:48:07.259
 was going to

00:48:07.259 --> 00:48:08.119
 fall to him

00:48:08.119 --> 00:48:08.619
 after his

00:48:08.619 --> 00:48:09.280
 father's death,

00:48:09.759 --> 00:48:10.259
 couldn't wait

00:48:10.259 --> 00:48:10.619
 for that,

00:48:10.699 --> 00:48:11.159
 so he wanted

00:48:11.159 --> 00:48:11.719
 that straight

00:48:11.719 --> 00:48:12.219
 away and he

00:48:12.219 --> 00:48:12.699
 took it all,

00:48:12.820 --> 00:48:13.320
 the father gave

00:48:13.320 --> 00:48:13.700
 it to him,

00:48:14.260 --> 00:48:14.720
 off he went

00:48:14.720 --> 00:48:15.120
 with it.

00:48:16.059 --> 00:48:16.440
 And of course

00:48:16.440 --> 00:48:17.360
 you know the

00:48:17.360 --> 00:48:17.940
 account you have

00:48:17.940 --> 00:48:19.320
 there very well,

00:48:19.480 --> 00:48:20.519
 he began then to

00:48:20.519 --> 00:48:22.080
 squander all that

00:48:22.080 --> 00:48:22.760
 he had taken from

00:48:22.760 --> 00:48:24.420
 home and then it

00:48:24.420 --> 00:48:25.480
 all too soon ran

00:48:25.480 --> 00:48:25.780
 out.

00:48:26.740 --> 00:48:27.380
 And so he joined

00:48:27.380 --> 00:48:28.580
 himself to a

00:48:28.580 --> 00:48:29.280
 citizen of that

00:48:29.280 --> 00:48:31.280
 far country and

00:48:31.280 --> 00:48:31.800
 he had the most

00:48:31.800 --> 00:48:32.880
 menial task of

00:48:32.880 --> 00:48:34.380
 looking after pigs,

00:48:34.519 --> 00:48:35.059
 feeding them,

00:48:35.920 --> 00:48:36.320
 he didn't have

00:48:36.320 --> 00:48:37.360
 anything by way

00:48:37.360 --> 00:48:38.820
 of sustenance,

00:48:38.900 --> 00:48:39.680
 so sometimes he was

00:48:39.680 --> 00:48:41.039
 forced to eat the

00:48:41.039 --> 00:48:41.940
 same food that pigs

00:48:41.940 --> 00:48:42.400
 were eating.

00:48:43.320 --> 00:48:44.160
 One day he was

00:48:44.160 --> 00:48:45.740
 there in his

00:48:45.740 --> 00:48:47.460
 abject poverty

00:48:47.460 --> 00:48:49.400
 and he said,

00:48:50.620 --> 00:48:52.500
 how many servants

00:48:52.500 --> 00:48:53.640
 of my father

00:48:53.640 --> 00:48:55.500
 have bread enough

00:48:55.500 --> 00:48:56.340
 and to spare

00:48:56.340 --> 00:48:58.240
 and here I am

00:48:58.240 --> 00:48:59.039
 perishing with

00:48:59.039 --> 00:48:59.380
 hunger.

00:48:59.840 --> 00:49:01.039
 I will arise,

00:49:01.200 --> 00:49:01.960
 I'll get up from

00:49:01.960 --> 00:49:03.920
 this place and I'll

00:49:03.920 --> 00:49:04.700
 go back to my

00:49:04.700 --> 00:49:05.100
 father.

00:49:06.760 --> 00:49:07.820
 But then you see,

00:49:07.900 --> 00:49:08.180
 you read,

00:49:08.820 --> 00:49:10.039
 and he arose

00:49:10.039 --> 00:49:12.460
 and he came to

00:49:12.460 --> 00:49:13.059
 his father.

00:49:14.599 --> 00:49:15.219
 It wasn't just

00:49:15.219 --> 00:49:16.000
 something that

00:49:16.000 --> 00:49:16.699
 happened in his

00:49:16.699 --> 00:49:17.099
 mind.

00:49:17.400 --> 00:49:18.159
 It wasn't just a

00:49:18.159 --> 00:49:19.279
 resolution on its

00:49:19.279 --> 00:49:20.279
 own that he never

00:49:20.279 --> 00:49:21.079
 acted out.

00:49:21.639 --> 00:49:22.420
 It wasn't something

00:49:22.420 --> 00:49:23.500
 that he came by way

00:49:23.500 --> 00:49:24.659
 of a conviction of

00:49:24.659 --> 00:49:25.460
 something he ought

00:49:25.460 --> 00:49:26.079
 to do.

00:49:26.440 --> 00:49:27.420
 It was something he

00:49:27.420 --> 00:49:28.460
 thought upon doing

00:49:28.460 --> 00:49:29.539
 and then immediately

00:49:29.539 --> 00:49:30.559
 he said about doing

00:49:30.559 --> 00:49:30.900
 it.

00:49:31.619 --> 00:49:32.619
 And that's the same

00:49:32.619 --> 00:49:34.039
 as God is saying to

00:49:34.039 --> 00:49:34.739
 you and to me

00:49:34.739 --> 00:49:35.179
 tonight.

00:49:35.599 --> 00:49:36.500
 Don't just think

00:49:36.500 --> 00:49:37.300
 about being a

00:49:37.300 --> 00:49:37.620
 Christian.

00:49:37.920 --> 00:49:38.740
 Don't just think

00:49:38.740 --> 00:49:39.900
 about being saved.

00:49:40.440 --> 00:49:41.660
 Don't just desire it

00:49:41.660 --> 00:49:42.200
 for yourself.

00:49:42.340 --> 00:49:43.240
 Good all the desire

00:49:43.240 --> 00:49:44.019
 is if you're not

00:49:44.019 --> 00:49:45.380
 here saved tonight,

00:49:45.440 --> 00:49:46.039
 if you're not in

00:49:46.039 --> 00:49:47.160
 Christ, if you haven't

00:49:47.160 --> 00:49:48.120
 yet accepted the

00:49:48.120 --> 00:49:49.120
 Savior as your

00:49:49.120 --> 00:49:51.060
 Savior, don't just

00:49:51.060 --> 00:49:51.800
 leave it at thinking

00:49:51.800 --> 00:49:52.400
 about it.

00:49:52.580 --> 00:49:53.340
 Because this passage

00:49:53.340 --> 00:49:53.960
 is saying to us,

00:49:53.980 --> 00:49:54.760
 this verse is saying

00:49:54.760 --> 00:49:56.340
 to us, that actually

00:49:56.340 --> 00:49:58.200
 Noah by faith

00:49:58.200 --> 00:49:59.580
 constructed an ark.

00:49:59.840 --> 00:50:01.019
 Have you constructed

00:50:01.019 --> 00:50:01.740
 your ark?

00:50:02.640 --> 00:50:03.580
 Have you taken all

00:50:03.580 --> 00:50:04.220
 the thoughts,

00:50:04.680 --> 00:50:07.060
 all the concerns,

00:50:07.059 --> 00:50:07.799
 that the Bible

00:50:07.799 --> 00:50:09.079
 has itself placed

00:50:09.079 --> 00:50:09.699
 in your heart,

00:50:10.039 --> 00:50:10.980
 all the desires

00:50:10.980 --> 00:50:11.860
 that you have there,

00:50:12.119 --> 00:50:12.940
 the kind of life

00:50:12.940 --> 00:50:13.920
 that God requires

00:50:13.920 --> 00:50:14.440
 of you?

00:50:14.840 --> 00:50:15.880
 Have you taken all

00:50:15.880 --> 00:50:17.139
 of that, believing

00:50:17.139 --> 00:50:17.920
 that this is God

00:50:17.920 --> 00:50:18.699
 speaking to you

00:50:18.699 --> 00:50:19.360
 through his word,

00:50:19.739 --> 00:50:20.719
 and actually taken

00:50:20.719 --> 00:50:21.440
 that and put it

00:50:21.440 --> 00:50:22.139
 into practice?

00:50:23.639 --> 00:50:24.500
 Have you accepted

00:50:24.500 --> 00:50:24.880
 Christ?

00:50:24.960 --> 00:50:25.820
 Have you received

00:50:25.820 --> 00:50:27.139
 the Christ that's

00:50:27.139 --> 00:50:27.799
 offered in the

00:50:27.799 --> 00:50:28.139
 gospel?

00:50:28.840 --> 00:50:29.579
 Have you closed

00:50:29.579 --> 00:50:30.639
 in with Jesus

00:50:30.639 --> 00:50:32.460
 as he offers to you

00:50:32.460 --> 00:50:34.199
 the safety in advance

00:50:34.199 --> 00:50:35.279
 of this coming

00:50:35.279 --> 00:50:36.199
 disaster of the

00:50:36.199 --> 00:50:36.599
 judgment?

00:50:37.059 --> 00:50:39.000
 These are the

00:50:39.000 --> 00:50:39.860
 questions, you see,

00:50:39.940 --> 00:50:41.340
 that come practically

00:50:41.340 --> 00:50:42.460
 to mind as I put

00:50:42.460 --> 00:50:43.199
 this to myself

00:50:43.199 --> 00:50:44.199
 and in preaching

00:50:44.199 --> 00:50:44.920
 it as I put it

00:50:44.920 --> 00:50:45.420
 to you.

00:50:46.179 --> 00:50:46.860
 Because that's

00:50:46.860 --> 00:50:47.880
 really the kind

00:50:47.880 --> 00:50:49.739
 of thing that we

00:50:49.739 --> 00:50:50.759
 ought to be thinking

00:50:50.759 --> 00:50:51.480
 even now.

00:50:52.199 --> 00:50:52.880
 Where am I in

00:50:52.880 --> 00:50:53.759
 relation to this?

00:50:54.980 --> 00:50:55.779
 What have I done

00:50:55.779 --> 00:50:56.559
 with the advantage

00:50:56.559 --> 00:50:57.239
 that I've got

00:50:57.239 --> 00:50:57.860
 in the gospel?

00:50:58.920 --> 00:50:59.860
 How long will God

00:50:59.860 --> 00:51:01.079
 have to wait for me

00:51:01.079 --> 00:51:03.239
 to respond positively

00:51:03.239 --> 00:51:04.159
 and believingly

00:51:04.159 --> 00:51:04.779
 and thankfully

00:51:04.780 --> 00:51:06.040
 and gratefully

00:51:06.040 --> 00:51:06.980
 for the Savior

00:51:06.980 --> 00:51:07.980
 that's offered to me

00:51:07.980 --> 00:51:08.620
 in the gospel?

00:51:11.860 --> 00:51:12.720
 You heard the

00:51:12.720 --> 00:51:13.380
 warning sign

00:51:13.380 --> 00:51:14.519
 many times.

00:51:15.260 --> 00:51:16.360
 It's still blaring

00:51:16.360 --> 00:51:17.300
 out in our ears.

00:51:18.140 --> 00:51:19.260
 Every time we come

00:51:19.260 --> 00:51:19.920
 to the Bible,

00:51:20.500 --> 00:51:21.280
 every time we come

00:51:21.280 --> 00:51:21.840
 to the gospel,

00:51:22.060 --> 00:51:23.840
 God has lovingly

00:51:23.840 --> 00:51:24.980
 and patiently

00:51:24.980 --> 00:51:27.019
 set this for us

00:51:27.019 --> 00:51:27.780
 in our lives

00:51:27.780 --> 00:51:28.860
 so that we could

00:51:28.860 --> 00:51:30.100
 hear this warning

00:51:30.100 --> 00:51:31.680
 and respond in time.

00:51:35.700 --> 00:51:36.600
 Will this be the

00:51:36.600 --> 00:51:37.300
 last time you

00:51:37.300 --> 00:51:37.960
 heard the warning?

00:51:40.060 --> 00:51:40.780
 Don't persuade

00:51:40.780 --> 00:51:42.140
 yourself that

00:51:42.140 --> 00:51:42.720
 because you heard

00:51:42.720 --> 00:51:43.620
 it many times

00:51:43.620 --> 00:51:44.500
 that you'll hear

00:51:44.500 --> 00:51:45.480
 it again tomorrow.

00:51:47.800 --> 00:51:48.560
 And many people

00:51:48.560 --> 00:51:50.300
 in this world

00:51:50.300 --> 00:51:51.080
 today will not

00:51:51.080 --> 00:51:51.720
 be in this world

00:51:51.720 --> 00:51:52.200
 tomorrow.

00:51:53.280 --> 00:51:54.160
 They may not even

00:51:54.160 --> 00:51:54.820
 be in this world

00:51:54.820 --> 00:51:55.360
 tonight

00:51:55.360 --> 00:51:57.940
 because their

00:51:57.940 --> 00:51:58.760
 life will end

00:51:58.760 --> 00:52:00.160
 and they will

00:52:00.160 --> 00:52:00.960
 enter eternity

00:52:00.960 --> 00:52:02.640
 and they will

00:52:02.640 --> 00:52:03.200
 need to face

00:52:03.200 --> 00:52:03.920
 God and give

00:52:03.920 --> 00:52:04.539
 an account to

00:52:04.539 --> 00:52:06.200
 God of what

00:52:06.200 --> 00:52:06.660
 they have done

00:52:06.660 --> 00:52:07.539
 with his life.

00:52:08.840 --> 00:52:09.920
 Don't waste it.

00:52:10.960 --> 00:52:11.700
 Don't delay

00:52:11.700 --> 00:52:12.760
 over these matters.

00:52:13.920 --> 00:52:14.600
 Be serious

00:52:14.600 --> 00:52:15.240
 about your

00:52:15.240 --> 00:52:15.760
 relationship

00:52:15.760 --> 00:52:16.539
 with God.

00:52:17.960 --> 00:52:18.580
 And just like

00:52:18.580 --> 00:52:18.920
 Noah,

00:52:19.720 --> 00:52:20.380
 when you hear

00:52:20.380 --> 00:52:20.920
 the tsunami

00:52:20.920 --> 00:52:21.760
 warning sign,

00:52:22.539 --> 00:52:22.960
 the alarm

00:52:22.960 --> 00:52:23.680
 has gone off

00:52:23.679 --> 00:52:24.440
 as you're

00:52:24.440 --> 00:52:24.819
 hearing it

00:52:24.819 --> 00:52:25.480
 again tonight.

00:52:26.619 --> 00:52:27.539
 In reverent

00:52:27.539 --> 00:52:28.139
 fear,

00:52:29.039 --> 00:52:29.619
 taking it

00:52:29.619 --> 00:52:30.199
 seriously,

00:52:30.759 --> 00:52:31.480
 close in

00:52:31.480 --> 00:52:32.219
 with Christ,

00:52:33.199 --> 00:52:34.059
 receive the

00:52:34.059 --> 00:52:34.379
 Savior,

00:52:36.000 --> 00:52:36.480
 as he's

00:52:36.480 --> 00:52:36.879
 offered in

00:52:36.879 --> 00:52:37.359
 the gospel

00:52:37.359 --> 00:52:37.919
 before,

00:52:38.639 --> 00:52:39.239
 for you or

00:52:39.239 --> 00:52:39.599
 for me,

00:52:39.639 --> 00:52:40.159
 it'll be too

00:52:40.159 --> 00:52:40.500
 late.

00:52:42.019 --> 00:52:42.719
 So that's

00:52:42.719 --> 00:52:43.199
 what induced

00:52:43.199 --> 00:52:43.679
 Noah to

00:52:43.679 --> 00:52:44.419
 build the ark.

00:52:45.019 --> 00:52:45.279
 And more

00:52:45.279 --> 00:52:45.619
 briefly,

00:52:46.079 --> 00:52:46.559
 what was the

00:52:46.559 --> 00:52:47.559
 outcome of

00:52:47.559 --> 00:52:48.000
 his building

00:52:48.000 --> 00:52:48.419
 the ark?

00:52:48.519 --> 00:52:48.579
 Well,

00:52:48.619 --> 00:52:49.039
 we're told,

00:52:49.579 --> 00:52:50.239
 by this he

00:52:50.239 --> 00:52:51.039
 condemned the

00:52:51.039 --> 00:52:51.819
 world and

00:52:51.819 --> 00:52:52.639
 became an heir

00:52:52.639 --> 00:52:52.980
 of the

00:52:52.980 --> 00:52:53.500
 righteousness

00:52:53.500 --> 00:52:54.920
 that comes

00:52:54.920 --> 00:52:55.820
 by faith.

00:52:56.240 --> 00:52:56.500
 The two

00:52:56.500 --> 00:52:56.900
 things are

00:52:56.900 --> 00:52:57.579
 related there.

00:52:58.059 --> 00:52:58.559
 He condemned

00:52:58.559 --> 00:52:59.099
 the world

00:52:59.099 --> 00:53:00.579
 and he first

00:53:00.579 --> 00:53:01.159
 of all goes

00:53:01.159 --> 00:53:01.740
 to the saving

00:53:01.740 --> 00:53:02.079
 of his

00:53:02.079 --> 00:53:03.179
 household and

00:53:03.179 --> 00:53:04.000
 then by it

00:53:04.000 --> 00:53:04.420
 he also

00:53:04.420 --> 00:53:05.260
 condemned the

00:53:05.260 --> 00:53:05.599
 world.

00:53:06.059 --> 00:53:06.179
 Well,

00:53:06.260 --> 00:53:06.579
 faith,

00:53:07.039 --> 00:53:07.740
 our faith

00:53:07.740 --> 00:53:08.400
 in Christ

00:53:08.400 --> 00:53:09.599
 always brings

00:53:09.599 --> 00:53:10.639
 salvation into

00:53:10.639 --> 00:53:11.199
 our possession.

00:53:11.440 --> 00:53:12.340
 Not because

00:53:12.340 --> 00:53:13.219
 God rewards

00:53:13.219 --> 00:53:13.800
 us for our

00:53:13.800 --> 00:53:14.179
 faith,

00:53:14.619 --> 00:53:15.059
 but because

00:53:15.059 --> 00:53:15.840
 this is God's

00:53:15.840 --> 00:53:16.240
 method.

00:53:16.860 --> 00:53:17.500
 He invites us

00:53:17.500 --> 00:53:18.179
 to come to

00:53:18.179 --> 00:53:18.579
 Christ,

00:53:18.920 --> 00:53:19.420
 invites us

00:53:19.420 --> 00:53:19.880
 to put our

00:53:19.880 --> 00:53:20.539
 trust in him,

00:53:20.920 --> 00:53:21.260
 invites us

00:53:21.260 --> 00:53:21.920
 to receive

00:53:21.920 --> 00:53:22.700
 that salvation

00:53:22.700 --> 00:53:23.300
 that's in

00:53:23.300 --> 00:53:24.539
 him and the

00:53:24.539 --> 00:53:25.139
 promise is

00:53:25.139 --> 00:53:25.519
 that we

00:53:25.519 --> 00:53:25.880
 will be

00:53:25.880 --> 00:53:26.300
 saved.

00:53:27.220 --> 00:53:27.960
 Believe in

00:53:27.960 --> 00:53:28.260
 the Lord

00:53:28.260 --> 00:53:28.900
 Jesus Christ.

00:53:29.019 --> 00:53:29.420
 The jailer

00:53:29.420 --> 00:53:30.460
 was told by

00:53:30.460 --> 00:53:30.860
 Paul,

00:53:31.240 --> 00:53:31.639
 and you

00:53:31.639 --> 00:53:32.079
 will be

00:53:32.079 --> 00:53:32.539
 saved.

00:53:32.880 --> 00:53:33.180
 Not you

00:53:33.180 --> 00:53:33.460
 will be

00:53:33.460 --> 00:53:34.180
 saved eventually,

00:53:35.000 --> 00:53:35.579
 not you

00:53:35.579 --> 00:53:35.900
 will be

00:53:35.900 --> 00:53:36.519
 saved after

00:53:36.519 --> 00:53:37.380
 you've done

00:53:37.380 --> 00:53:37.940
 some things

00:53:37.940 --> 00:53:38.440
 to actually

00:53:38.440 --> 00:53:39.480
 earn some

00:53:39.480 --> 00:53:40.099
 more respect

00:53:40.099 --> 00:53:40.639
 from God,

00:53:40.900 --> 00:53:41.380
 something like

00:53:41.380 --> 00:53:41.619
 that.

00:53:41.880 --> 00:53:42.180
 What he's

00:53:42.180 --> 00:53:42.579
 saying is

00:53:42.579 --> 00:53:43.420
 believe in

00:53:43.420 --> 00:53:43.720
 the Lord

00:53:43.720 --> 00:53:44.360
 Jesus Christ

00:53:44.360 --> 00:53:45.139
 and you

00:53:45.139 --> 00:53:45.480
 will be

00:53:45.480 --> 00:53:45.960
 saved.

00:53:46.559 --> 00:53:46.980
 You'll be

00:53:46.980 --> 00:53:48.380
 saved as a

00:53:48.380 --> 00:53:49.300
 consequence of

00:53:49.300 --> 00:53:49.680
 that.

00:53:50.300 --> 00:53:50.960
 Even though you

00:53:50.960 --> 00:53:51.599
 haven't deserved

00:53:51.599 --> 00:53:51.880
 it,

00:53:52.240 --> 00:53:52.699
 what haven't

00:53:52.699 --> 00:53:53.220
 earned it,

00:53:53.460 --> 00:53:53.980
 this is

00:53:53.980 --> 00:53:54.679
 God's way,

00:53:55.079 --> 00:53:55.840
 God's grace.

00:53:57.159 --> 00:53:57.460
 But you

00:53:57.460 --> 00:53:58.000
 see he also

00:53:58.000 --> 00:53:59.240
 condemned the

00:53:59.240 --> 00:53:59.599
 world.

00:53:59.760 --> 00:54:00.240
 Now how could

00:54:00.240 --> 00:54:01.760
 Noah condemn

00:54:01.760 --> 00:54:02.400
 the world?

00:54:03.260 --> 00:54:03.720
 This is what

00:54:03.720 --> 00:54:04.159
 he's saying,

00:54:04.980 --> 00:54:05.900
 by this he

00:54:05.900 --> 00:54:07.400
 condemned the

00:54:07.400 --> 00:54:08.460
 world and

00:54:08.460 --> 00:54:08.880
 became an

00:54:08.880 --> 00:54:09.340
 heir of the

00:54:09.340 --> 00:54:09.780
 righteousness

00:54:09.780 --> 00:54:10.539
 that comes

00:54:10.539 --> 00:54:11.559
 by faith.

00:54:11.619 --> 00:54:11.820
 Well in

00:54:11.820 --> 00:54:12.460
 what sense

00:54:12.460 --> 00:54:13.500
 would Noah

00:54:13.500 --> 00:54:14.440
 have condemned

00:54:14.440 --> 00:54:15.019
 the world?

00:54:15.480 --> 00:54:15.960
 Well in

00:54:15.960 --> 00:54:16.539
 this sense I

00:54:16.539 --> 00:54:17.019
 think that

00:54:17.019 --> 00:54:17.820
 when the

00:54:17.820 --> 00:54:18.619
 day happened,

00:54:18.740 --> 00:54:18.980
 when the

00:54:18.980 --> 00:54:19.659
 event actually

00:54:19.659 --> 00:54:20.420
 came about,

00:54:20.960 --> 00:54:21.980
 he condemned

00:54:21.980 --> 00:54:22.539
 the world

00:54:22.539 --> 00:54:23.159
 in the sense

00:54:23.159 --> 00:54:24.559
 that he

00:54:24.559 --> 00:54:25.220
 was proved

00:54:25.220 --> 00:54:25.679
 right.

00:54:27.119 --> 00:54:28.159
 He condemned

00:54:28.159 --> 00:54:28.840
 the world for

00:54:28.840 --> 00:54:29.400
 not having

00:54:29.400 --> 00:54:30.720
 received the

00:54:30.720 --> 00:54:31.400
 message that

00:54:31.400 --> 00:54:31.940
 he preached,

00:54:32.639 --> 00:54:33.539
 for not having

00:54:33.539 --> 00:54:34.300
 listened to the

00:54:34.300 --> 00:54:35.079
 voice of God

00:54:35.079 --> 00:54:35.679
 through him.

00:54:37.139 --> 00:54:38.119
 The world

00:54:38.119 --> 00:54:39.740
 stood condemned

00:54:39.740 --> 00:54:41.320
 in relation

00:54:41.320 --> 00:54:42.079
 to Noah

00:54:42.079 --> 00:54:43.059
 and his

00:54:43.059 --> 00:54:43.559
 preaching,

00:54:44.340 --> 00:54:44.940
 Noah and

00:54:44.940 --> 00:54:46.039
 his advice

00:54:46.039 --> 00:54:46.500
 to them.

00:54:47.460 --> 00:54:48.119
 He condemned

00:54:48.119 --> 00:54:48.679
 the world in

00:54:48.679 --> 00:54:49.320
 that sense.

00:54:49.320 --> 00:54:50.300
 the world

00:54:50.300 --> 00:54:50.940
 didn't listen

00:54:50.940 --> 00:54:52.960
 and so the

00:54:52.960 --> 00:54:53.700
 world perished.

00:54:55.519 --> 00:54:56.140
 And that's

00:54:56.140 --> 00:54:56.480
 how it will

00:54:56.480 --> 00:54:58.100
 be at the

00:54:58.100 --> 00:54:58.539
 end of the

00:54:58.539 --> 00:54:59.200
 world for us

00:54:59.200 --> 00:54:59.680
 as well.

00:55:01.840 --> 00:55:02.440
 There will

00:55:02.440 --> 00:55:02.780
 be many

00:55:02.780 --> 00:55:04.400
 people as

00:55:04.400 --> 00:55:04.940
 they leave

00:55:04.940 --> 00:55:05.500
 this world

00:55:05.500 --> 00:55:05.960
 and enter

00:55:05.960 --> 00:55:06.539
 eternity

00:55:06.539 --> 00:55:08.920
 that will

00:55:08.920 --> 00:55:09.620
 be condemned

00:55:09.620 --> 00:55:11.900
 by the

00:55:11.900 --> 00:55:12.420
 faith,

00:55:13.280 --> 00:55:14.720
 the preaching,

00:55:14.719 --> 00:55:16.539
 the witness

00:55:16.539 --> 00:55:17.099
 of God's

00:55:17.099 --> 00:55:17.619
 people that

00:55:17.619 --> 00:55:18.439
 implored them

00:55:18.439 --> 00:55:20.319
 to put their

00:55:20.319 --> 00:55:20.859
 trust in

00:55:20.859 --> 00:55:21.299
 Christ.

00:55:24.099 --> 00:55:24.839
 And that's

00:55:24.839 --> 00:55:25.559
 exactly how it

00:55:25.559 --> 00:55:26.679
 was for the

00:55:26.679 --> 00:55:27.359
 day of Noah.

00:55:27.819 --> 00:55:28.239
 Remember how

00:55:28.239 --> 00:55:28.899
 Jesus himself

00:55:28.899 --> 00:55:29.480
 spoke about

00:55:29.480 --> 00:55:30.779
 something similar

00:55:30.779 --> 00:55:31.239
 to that in

00:55:31.239 --> 00:55:31.879
 Matthew chapter

00:55:31.879 --> 00:55:32.439
 12,

00:55:33.439 --> 00:55:37.500
 verse 41,

00:55:37.500 --> 00:55:39.980
 where he

00:55:39.980 --> 00:55:41.340
 talks there

00:55:41.340 --> 00:55:41.739
 about the

00:55:41.739 --> 00:55:42.519
 different signs

00:55:42.519 --> 00:55:43.219
 that have

00:55:43.219 --> 00:55:43.500
 come,

00:55:43.860 --> 00:55:44.360
 an evil and

00:55:44.360 --> 00:55:44.860
 adulterous

00:55:44.860 --> 00:55:45.460
 generation,

00:55:45.659 --> 00:55:46.099
 Pharisees,

00:55:46.679 --> 00:55:46.840
 saying,

00:55:46.920 --> 00:55:47.139
 teacher,

00:55:47.280 --> 00:55:47.719
 we wish to

00:55:47.719 --> 00:55:48.380
 see a sign

00:55:48.380 --> 00:55:48.880
 from you.

00:55:49.219 --> 00:55:49.480
 This was

00:55:49.480 --> 00:55:50.019
 their way of

00:55:50.019 --> 00:55:50.920
 getting him

00:55:50.920 --> 00:55:51.519
 as they saw

00:55:51.519 --> 00:55:52.179
 to prove

00:55:52.179 --> 00:55:52.780
 who he was

00:55:52.780 --> 00:55:53.079
 and who he

00:55:53.079 --> 00:55:53.480
 claimed to

00:55:53.480 --> 00:55:53.739
 be.

00:55:54.559 --> 00:55:55.019
 He says,

00:55:55.280 --> 00:55:56.199
 an evil and

00:55:56.199 --> 00:55:56.699
 adulterous

00:55:56.699 --> 00:55:57.639
 generation seeks

00:55:57.639 --> 00:55:58.340
 for a sign,

00:55:58.820 --> 00:55:59.719
 but no sign

00:55:59.719 --> 00:56:00.239
 will be given

00:56:00.239 --> 00:56:00.780
 to it except

00:56:00.780 --> 00:56:01.440
 the sign of

00:56:01.440 --> 00:56:01.800
 the prophet

00:56:01.800 --> 00:56:02.239
 Jonah.

00:56:03.119 --> 00:56:03.360
 And he

00:56:03.360 --> 00:56:03.760
 speaks then

00:56:03.760 --> 00:56:04.360
 about Jonah

00:56:04.360 --> 00:56:05.119
 being three

00:56:05.119 --> 00:56:05.780
 days and three

00:56:05.780 --> 00:56:06.320
 nights in the

00:56:06.320 --> 00:56:07.280
 belly of the

00:56:07.280 --> 00:56:07.600
 fish.

00:56:08.320 --> 00:56:08.820
 The men of

00:56:08.820 --> 00:56:09.780
 Nineveh will

00:56:09.780 --> 00:56:10.519
 rise up at

00:56:10.519 --> 00:56:11.059
 the judgment

00:56:11.059 --> 00:56:11.559
 with this

00:56:11.559 --> 00:56:13.019
 generation and

00:56:13.019 --> 00:56:14.019
 condemn it

00:56:14.019 --> 00:56:15.600
 because they

00:56:15.600 --> 00:56:16.960
 repented at

00:56:16.960 --> 00:56:17.380
 the preaching

00:56:17.380 --> 00:56:18.620
 of Jonah and

00:56:18.620 --> 00:56:19.100
 behold,

00:56:20.019 --> 00:56:20.820
 something greater

00:56:20.820 --> 00:56:22.120
 than Jonah is

00:56:22.120 --> 00:56:22.480
 here.

00:56:23.140 --> 00:56:23.840
 The queen of

00:56:23.840 --> 00:56:24.700
 the south will

00:56:24.700 --> 00:56:25.260
 rise up at

00:56:25.260 --> 00:56:25.700
 the judgment

00:56:25.700 --> 00:56:26.120
 with this

00:56:26.120 --> 00:56:26.760
 generation and

00:56:26.760 --> 00:56:27.800
 condemn it for

00:56:27.800 --> 00:56:28.559
 she came from

00:56:28.559 --> 00:56:29.100
 the ends of

00:56:29.100 --> 00:56:29.580
 the earth to

00:56:29.580 --> 00:56:30.360
 hear the

00:56:30.360 --> 00:56:31.100
 wisdom of

00:56:31.100 --> 00:56:32.120
 Solomon and

00:56:32.120 --> 00:56:32.519
 behold,

00:56:33.019 --> 00:56:33.620
 something greater

00:56:33.620 --> 00:56:34.180
 than Solomon

00:56:34.180 --> 00:56:34.580
 is here.

00:56:34.620 --> 00:56:34.820
 In other

00:56:34.820 --> 00:56:35.059
 words,

00:56:35.559 --> 00:56:36.080
 wherever we

00:56:36.079 --> 00:56:36.579
 have the

00:56:36.579 --> 00:56:37.679
 gospel made

00:56:37.679 --> 00:56:38.159
 known to

00:56:38.159 --> 00:56:38.480
 us and

00:56:38.480 --> 00:56:38.960
 making known

00:56:38.960 --> 00:56:39.920
 to us the

00:56:39.920 --> 00:56:40.279
 day of

00:56:40.279 --> 00:56:41.119
 opportunity and

00:56:41.119 --> 00:56:41.659
 the salvation

00:56:41.659 --> 00:56:42.159
 that's in

00:56:42.159 --> 00:56:42.579
 Christ,

00:56:43.579 --> 00:56:44.679
 when we

00:56:44.679 --> 00:56:45.299
 dismiss that,

00:56:45.440 --> 00:56:45.679
 when we

00:56:45.679 --> 00:56:46.099
 don't,

00:56:46.440 --> 00:56:46.840
 even if we

00:56:46.840 --> 00:56:47.360
 don't dismiss

00:56:47.360 --> 00:56:47.559
 it,

00:56:47.619 --> 00:56:47.819
 when we

00:56:47.819 --> 00:56:48.420
 don't respond

00:56:48.420 --> 00:56:49.380
 to it to

00:56:49.380 --> 00:56:50.019
 the extent we

00:56:50.019 --> 00:56:50.440
 should by

00:56:50.440 --> 00:56:51.299
 receiving this

00:56:51.299 --> 00:56:51.779
 Christ,

00:56:53.319 --> 00:56:53.840
 then the day

00:56:53.840 --> 00:56:54.279
 of judgment

00:56:54.279 --> 00:56:55.639
 will be a

00:56:55.639 --> 00:56:55.920
 day of

00:56:55.920 --> 00:56:57.119
 aggravated guilt

00:56:57.119 --> 00:56:57.799
 for us.

00:56:59.500 --> 00:57:00.099
 There's no way

00:57:00.099 --> 00:57:00.819
 I can describe

00:57:00.819 --> 00:57:01.440
 what that's going

00:57:01.440 --> 00:57:02.039
 to be like.

00:57:02.539 --> 00:57:03.279
 I don't really

00:57:03.279 --> 00:57:03.779
 need to.

00:57:03.780 --> 00:57:05.420
 The Bible

00:57:05.420 --> 00:57:06.400
 itself leaves

00:57:06.400 --> 00:57:07.480
 the matter

00:57:07.480 --> 00:57:08.000
 on our

00:57:08.000 --> 00:57:08.560
 conscience

00:57:08.560 --> 00:57:09.180
 today,

00:57:09.980 --> 00:57:11.480
 because this

00:57:11.480 --> 00:57:11.940
 is what it

00:57:11.940 --> 00:57:12.140
 says,

00:57:12.220 --> 00:57:12.780
 he condemned

00:57:12.780 --> 00:57:14.380
 the world,

00:57:15.060 --> 00:57:15.540
 and he

00:57:15.540 --> 00:57:16.120
 became an

00:57:16.120 --> 00:57:17.180
 heir of

00:57:17.180 --> 00:57:17.860
 the righteousness

00:57:17.860 --> 00:57:18.720
 that comes

00:57:18.720 --> 00:57:20.160
 by faith.

00:57:21.200 --> 00:57:21.600
 In other

00:57:21.600 --> 00:57:21.800
 words,

00:57:21.900 --> 00:57:22.560
 he inherited

00:57:22.560 --> 00:57:24.360
 this righteousness.

00:57:24.580 --> 00:57:24.700
 Now,

00:57:24.740 --> 00:57:25.120
 righteousness,

00:57:25.380 --> 00:57:25.900
 as you know,

00:57:26.400 --> 00:57:26.840
 is the

00:57:26.840 --> 00:57:27.580
 standard that

00:57:27.580 --> 00:57:28.440
 God requires

00:57:28.440 --> 00:57:29.440
 of a human

00:57:29.440 --> 00:57:29.980
 life.

00:57:30.860 --> 00:57:31.860
 The righteousness

00:57:31.860 --> 00:57:32.820
 that God

00:57:32.820 --> 00:57:33.639
 requires of

00:57:33.639 --> 00:57:33.920
 us,

00:57:34.420 --> 00:57:34.900
 we cannot

00:57:34.900 --> 00:57:35.460
 ourselves

00:57:35.460 --> 00:57:36.300
 create and

00:57:36.300 --> 00:57:37.059
 produce because

00:57:37.059 --> 00:57:37.400
 of our

00:57:37.400 --> 00:57:37.900
 sinfulness,

00:57:38.800 --> 00:57:39.700
 but it's that

00:57:39.700 --> 00:57:40.579
 righteousness that

00:57:40.579 --> 00:57:41.860
 God has brought

00:57:41.860 --> 00:57:42.639
 to us in

00:57:42.639 --> 00:57:43.019
 Jesus.

00:57:44.019 --> 00:57:44.740
 And through

00:57:44.740 --> 00:57:45.079
 him,

00:57:45.200 --> 00:57:45.500
 through his

00:57:45.500 --> 00:57:46.220
 death and

00:57:46.220 --> 00:57:46.720
 resurrection

00:57:46.720 --> 00:57:47.400
 especially,

00:57:48.360 --> 00:57:49.240
 that righteousness

00:57:49.240 --> 00:57:50.340
 is pronounced

00:57:50.340 --> 00:57:51.220
 in the gospel

00:57:51.220 --> 00:57:52.320
 as offered

00:57:52.320 --> 00:57:53.139
 to us by

00:57:53.139 --> 00:57:53.579
 God.

00:57:53.579 --> 00:57:53.619
 God.

00:57:55.139 --> 00:57:55.460
 And so,

00:57:55.559 --> 00:57:55.940
 when we come

00:57:55.940 --> 00:57:56.659
 to trust in

00:57:56.659 --> 00:57:57.059
 the Lord,

00:57:58.000 --> 00:57:58.819
 that righteousness

00:57:58.819 --> 00:58:00.079
 is imputed

00:58:00.079 --> 00:58:00.480
 to us.

00:58:00.559 --> 00:58:01.199
 God puts it

00:58:01.199 --> 00:58:01.940
 on our

00:58:01.940 --> 00:58:02.279
 record.

00:58:02.360 --> 00:58:02.599
 And there's

00:58:02.599 --> 00:58:02.980
 a marvelous

00:58:02.980 --> 00:58:03.380
 thing,

00:58:04.860 --> 00:58:05.559
 that God

00:58:05.559 --> 00:58:06.559
 puts on our

00:58:06.559 --> 00:58:07.000
 record,

00:58:07.099 --> 00:58:07.739
 instead of

00:58:07.739 --> 00:58:08.559
 the list of

00:58:08.559 --> 00:58:09.199
 our sins

00:58:09.199 --> 00:58:10.340
 and condemnation

00:58:10.340 --> 00:58:10.659
 at the

00:58:10.659 --> 00:58:10.960
 bottom,

00:58:12.400 --> 00:58:13.099
 he puts on

00:58:13.099 --> 00:58:13.980
 his record

00:58:13.980 --> 00:58:14.440
 of us

00:58:14.440 --> 00:58:15.759
 the

00:58:15.759 --> 00:58:16.719
 righteousness

00:58:16.719 --> 00:58:17.699
 of Christ.

00:58:18.900 --> 00:58:19.500
 And at

00:58:19.500 --> 00:58:19.920
 the bottom

00:58:19.920 --> 00:58:20.440
 of that

00:58:20.440 --> 00:58:22.739
 is his

00:58:22.739 --> 00:58:23.500
 great approval

00:58:23.500 --> 00:58:24.659
 of us

00:58:24.659 --> 00:58:25.400
 in Christ.

00:58:26.840 --> 00:58:27.420
 What a

00:58:27.420 --> 00:58:28.380
 great transfer,

00:58:29.519 --> 00:58:30.539
 free transfer

00:58:30.539 --> 00:58:31.300
 that is.

00:58:32.599 --> 00:58:33.000
 It only

00:58:33.000 --> 00:58:33.679
 requires

00:58:33.679 --> 00:58:35.260
 that you

00:58:35.260 --> 00:58:35.940
 believe and

00:58:35.940 --> 00:58:37.239
 trust in

00:58:37.239 --> 00:58:37.519
 the living

00:58:37.519 --> 00:58:37.960
 God.

00:58:39.820 --> 00:58:40.400
 That is

00:58:40.400 --> 00:58:40.840
 God's

00:58:40.840 --> 00:58:41.840
 standard.

00:58:41.980 --> 00:58:42.239
 You remember

00:58:42.239 --> 00:58:42.760
 we saw

00:58:42.760 --> 00:58:44.159
 Paul's,

00:58:44.539 --> 00:58:45.179
 not so long

00:58:45.179 --> 00:58:45.380
 ago,

00:58:45.619 --> 00:58:46.199
 going through

00:58:46.199 --> 00:58:47.159
 the letter

00:58:47.159 --> 00:58:47.460
 to the

00:58:47.460 --> 00:58:47.900
 Philippians,

00:58:48.000 --> 00:58:48.300
 you remember

00:58:48.300 --> 00:58:48.900
 how we saw

00:58:48.900 --> 00:58:50.099
 Paul describing

00:58:50.099 --> 00:58:50.760
 his experience

00:58:50.760 --> 00:58:51.159
 in chapter

00:58:51.159 --> 00:58:51.559
 three,

00:58:51.559 --> 00:58:53.659
 really giving

00:58:53.659 --> 00:58:54.320
 his testimony

00:58:54.320 --> 00:58:54.840
 in effect,

00:58:55.719 --> 00:58:56.259
 where he

00:58:56.259 --> 00:58:56.579
 says,

00:58:56.579 --> 00:58:57.440
 I count

00:58:57.440 --> 00:58:58.079
 everything as

00:58:58.079 --> 00:58:58.440
 loss,

00:58:59.000 --> 00:58:59.400
 because of

00:58:59.400 --> 00:59:00.079
 the surpassing

00:59:00.079 --> 00:59:00.539
 worth of

00:59:00.539 --> 00:59:01.179
 knowing Jesus

00:59:01.179 --> 00:59:01.840
 Christ my

00:59:01.840 --> 00:59:02.179
 Lord.

00:59:02.739 --> 00:59:03.380
 For his

00:59:03.380 --> 00:59:04.059
 sake I have

00:59:04.059 --> 00:59:04.539
 suffered the

00:59:04.539 --> 00:59:05.079
 loss of all

00:59:05.079 --> 00:59:05.400
 things,

00:59:05.860 --> 00:59:06.259
 and count

00:59:06.259 --> 00:59:06.559
 them as

00:59:06.559 --> 00:59:06.880
 rubbish,

00:59:06.980 --> 00:59:07.279
 in order

00:59:07.279 --> 00:59:07.679
 that I

00:59:07.679 --> 00:59:08.159
 may gain

00:59:08.159 --> 00:59:08.639
 Christ and

00:59:08.639 --> 00:59:09.099
 be found

00:59:09.099 --> 00:59:09.420
 in him,

00:59:09.940 --> 00:59:10.880
 not having

00:59:10.880 --> 00:59:11.559
 a righteousness

00:59:11.559 --> 00:59:12.159
 of my

00:59:12.159 --> 00:59:12.639
 own that

00:59:12.639 --> 00:59:13.199
 comes from

00:59:13.199 --> 00:59:13.719
 the law,

00:59:14.380 --> 00:59:14.940
 but that

00:59:14.940 --> 00:59:15.659
 which comes

00:59:15.659 --> 00:59:16.539
 through faith

00:59:16.539 --> 00:59:17.900
 in Christ.

00:59:17.960 --> 00:59:18.119
 The

00:59:18.119 --> 00:59:18.579
 righteousness

00:59:18.579 --> 00:59:23.559
 becomes

00:59:23.559 --> 00:59:24.079
 mine,

00:59:25.599 --> 00:59:26.079
 actually

00:59:26.079 --> 00:59:26.659
 properly

00:59:26.659 --> 00:59:27.159
 and fully

00:59:27.159 --> 00:59:27.799
 mine and

00:59:27.799 --> 00:59:28.239
 yours,

00:59:28.940 --> 00:59:30.139
 by faith

00:59:30.139 --> 00:59:30.699
 in Christ

00:59:30.699 --> 00:59:31.000
 when we

00:59:31.000 --> 00:59:32.319
 place our

00:59:32.319 --> 00:59:32.900
 trust in

00:59:32.900 --> 00:59:33.159
 him.

00:59:34.619 --> 00:59:35.059
 And that's

00:59:35.059 --> 00:59:35.460
 really what

00:59:35.460 --> 00:59:36.360
 we're told

00:59:36.360 --> 00:59:36.819
 here about

00:59:36.819 --> 00:59:37.380
 Noah as

00:59:37.380 --> 00:59:37.639
 well.

00:59:38.259 --> 00:59:38.619
 He became

00:59:38.619 --> 00:59:39.119
 an heir of

00:59:39.119 --> 00:59:39.639
 the righteousness

00:59:39.639 --> 00:59:40.219
 that comes

00:59:40.219 --> 00:59:41.000
 by faith.

00:59:42.059 --> 00:59:42.639
 God didn't

00:59:42.639 --> 00:59:42.900
 say,

00:59:43.099 --> 00:59:43.699
 I now find

00:59:43.699 --> 00:59:44.159
 you righteous

00:59:44.159 --> 00:59:44.860
 because you've

00:59:44.860 --> 00:59:45.299
 done this

00:59:45.299 --> 00:59:45.819
 great thing

00:59:45.819 --> 00:59:46.340
 in building

00:59:46.340 --> 00:59:47.019
 this ark

00:59:47.019 --> 00:59:47.780
 as I

00:59:47.780 --> 00:59:47.960
 have

00:59:47.960 --> 00:59:48.420
 commanded

00:59:48.420 --> 00:59:48.699
 you.

00:59:49.000 --> 00:59:49.340
 That's

00:59:49.340 --> 00:59:49.699
 not what

00:59:49.699 --> 00:59:50.840
 gave Noah

00:59:50.840 --> 00:59:51.619
 righteousness

00:59:51.619 --> 00:59:52.340
 at all.

00:59:53.780 --> 00:59:54.559
 Righteousness

00:59:54.559 --> 00:59:55.099
 was something

00:59:55.099 --> 00:59:56.199
 as God's

00:59:56.199 --> 00:59:56.659
 gift to

00:59:56.659 --> 00:59:56.940
 him,

00:59:58.059 --> 00:59:58.360
 and it

00:59:58.360 --> 00:59:58.820
 was through

00:59:58.820 --> 00:59:59.460
 the faith

00:59:59.460 --> 01:00:00.139
 that he

01:00:00.139 --> 01:00:01.019
 exercised,

01:00:01.519 --> 01:00:01.960
 that he

01:00:01.960 --> 01:00:02.400
 became an

01:00:02.400 --> 01:00:02.820
 heir of

01:00:02.820 --> 01:00:03.440
 the righteousness

01:00:03.440 --> 01:00:04.739
 that comes

01:00:04.739 --> 01:00:05.579
 by faith.

01:00:07.019 --> 01:00:07.300
 This

01:00:07.300 --> 01:00:07.840
 righteousness

01:00:07.840 --> 01:00:09.539
 is your

01:00:09.539 --> 01:00:10.139
 righteousness

01:00:10.139 --> 01:00:11.800
 when Jesus

01:00:11.800 --> 01:00:13.340
 is your

01:00:13.340 --> 01:00:13.679
 Savior.

01:00:14.840 --> 01:00:15.360
 So,

01:00:15.440 --> 01:00:15.940
 here tonight

01:00:15.940 --> 01:00:17.179
 we have

01:00:17.179 --> 01:00:18.320
 very much

01:00:18.320 --> 01:00:19.000
 before us

01:00:19.000 --> 01:00:20.320
 the opportunity

01:00:20.320 --> 01:00:21.599
 that God

01:00:21.599 --> 01:00:22.099
 is setting

01:00:22.099 --> 01:00:22.539
 out for

01:00:22.539 --> 01:00:23.940
 us in

01:00:23.940 --> 01:00:24.519
 the gospel

01:00:24.519 --> 01:00:25.940
 in Christ.

01:00:26.619 --> 01:00:26.900
 Remember

01:00:26.900 --> 01:00:27.480
 how Jesus,

01:00:27.840 --> 01:00:28.179
 how John

01:00:28.179 --> 01:00:28.740
 himself put

01:00:28.740 --> 01:00:29.000
 it in

01:00:29.000 --> 01:00:30.019
 regard to

01:00:30.019 --> 01:00:30.659
 Jesus.

01:00:30.920 --> 01:00:31.240
 We'll finish

01:00:31.240 --> 01:00:31.679
 with this

01:00:31.679 --> 01:00:32.519
 in the

01:00:32.519 --> 01:00:33.019
 gospel of

01:00:33.019 --> 01:00:33.280
 John.

01:00:34.340 --> 01:00:35.000
 It really

01:00:35.000 --> 01:00:35.480
 sums up

01:00:35.480 --> 01:00:35.840
 what we've

01:00:35.840 --> 01:00:36.139
 been looking

01:00:36.139 --> 01:00:36.900
 at this

01:00:36.900 --> 01:00:37.099
 evening,

01:00:37.220 --> 01:00:37.400
 John

01:00:37.400 --> 01:00:38.119
 chapter 1

01:00:38.119 --> 01:00:38.740
 verses

01:00:38.740 --> 01:00:39.639
 11 to

01:00:39.639 --> 01:00:40.179
 12.

01:00:40.880 --> 01:00:41.559
 It says

01:00:41.559 --> 01:00:42.559
 about Jesus,

01:00:42.700 --> 01:00:43.059
 he was in

01:00:43.059 --> 01:00:43.519
 the world

01:00:43.519 --> 01:00:44.460
 and the world

01:00:44.460 --> 01:00:44.900
 was made

01:00:44.900 --> 01:00:45.320
 through him,

01:00:45.320 --> 01:00:45.880
 yet the world

01:00:45.880 --> 01:00:46.300
 did not

01:00:46.300 --> 01:00:46.740
 know him.

01:00:47.519 --> 01:00:48.100
 He came

01:00:48.100 --> 01:00:48.500
 to his

01:00:48.500 --> 01:00:48.820
 own,

01:00:49.260 --> 01:00:49.620
 and his

01:00:49.620 --> 01:00:50.180
 own people

01:00:50.180 --> 01:00:50.640
 did not

01:00:50.640 --> 01:00:51.420
 receive him,

01:00:52.059 --> 01:00:52.800
 but to

01:00:52.800 --> 01:00:53.240
 all who

01:00:53.240 --> 01:00:53.900
 did receive

01:00:53.900 --> 01:00:54.160
 him,

01:00:54.680 --> 01:00:55.440
 who believed

01:00:55.440 --> 01:00:55.860
 in his

01:00:55.860 --> 01:00:56.200
 name,

01:00:56.880 --> 01:00:57.380
 he gave

01:00:57.380 --> 01:00:57.900
 the right

01:00:57.900 --> 01:00:58.539
 to become

01:00:58.539 --> 01:00:59.480
 children of

01:00:59.480 --> 01:00:59.880
 God,

01:01:00.519 --> 01:01:01.039
 who were

01:01:01.039 --> 01:01:01.660
 born not

01:01:01.660 --> 01:01:02.180
 of blood,

01:01:02.700 --> 01:01:03.160
 nor of the

01:01:03.160 --> 01:01:03.580
 will of the

01:01:03.580 --> 01:01:04.000
 flesh,

01:01:04.620 --> 01:01:05.160
 not of the

01:01:05.160 --> 01:01:05.820
 will of man,

01:01:06.340 --> 01:01:07.500
 but of

01:01:07.500 --> 01:01:08.019
 God.

01:01:09.460 --> 01:01:09.960
 So,

01:01:10.039 --> 01:01:10.280
 tonight,

01:01:10.380 --> 01:01:10.800
 let me ask

01:01:10.800 --> 01:01:11.260
 myself,

01:01:12.120 --> 01:01:12.420
 and you

01:01:12.420 --> 01:01:12.920
 must ask

01:01:12.920 --> 01:01:13.360
 yourself,

01:01:14.260 --> 01:01:15.680
 do I

01:01:15.680 --> 01:01:16.519
 really believe

01:01:16.519 --> 01:01:17.240
 in the

01:01:17.240 --> 01:01:17.519
 day of

01:01:17.519 --> 01:01:17.900
 judgment?

01:01:19.340 --> 01:01:19.960
 And if I

01:01:19.960 --> 01:01:20.500
 really believe

01:01:20.500 --> 01:01:20.740
 in the

01:01:20.740 --> 01:01:21.019
 day of

01:01:21.019 --> 01:01:21.360
 judgment,

01:01:21.360 --> 01:01:21.880
 what am I

01:01:21.880 --> 01:01:22.380
 doing in

01:01:22.380 --> 01:01:23.000
 advance of

01:01:23.000 --> 01:01:23.200
 it?

01:01:24.300 --> 01:01:24.640
 Am I

01:01:24.640 --> 01:01:25.200
 like Noah

01:01:25.200 --> 01:01:26.580
 responding to

01:01:26.580 --> 01:01:27.100
 the advance

01:01:27.100 --> 01:01:27.720
 warning that

01:01:27.720 --> 01:01:28.120
 God has

01:01:28.120 --> 01:01:28.660
 given me,

01:01:29.360 --> 01:01:29.920
 or have I

01:01:29.920 --> 01:01:30.460
 still left

01:01:30.460 --> 01:01:30.860
 that to

01:01:30.860 --> 01:01:31.460
 the side?

01:01:33.120 --> 01:01:33.539
 Remember,

01:01:33.640 --> 01:01:33.960
 you can't

01:01:33.960 --> 01:01:34.460
 afford to

01:01:34.460 --> 01:01:35.039
 do that.

01:01:35.039 --> 01:01:37.320
 God is

01:01:37.320 --> 01:01:37.920
 lovingly

01:01:37.920 --> 01:01:38.579
 providing us

01:01:38.579 --> 01:01:38.920
 with the

01:01:38.920 --> 01:01:39.519
 information.

01:01:41.480 --> 01:01:42.300
 He's not

01:01:42.300 --> 01:01:42.840
 treating us

01:01:42.840 --> 01:01:43.199
 roughly.

01:01:44.679 --> 01:01:45.159
 It's not

01:01:45.159 --> 01:01:45.679
 something in

01:01:45.679 --> 01:01:47.039
 which we

01:01:47.039 --> 01:01:47.820
 find God,

01:01:48.559 --> 01:01:49.079
 and I hope

01:01:49.079 --> 01:01:49.579
 not the

01:01:49.579 --> 01:01:50.059
 preaching of

01:01:50.059 --> 01:01:50.460
 the gospel

01:01:50.460 --> 01:01:50.920
 also.

01:01:51.699 --> 01:01:52.159
 It's not

01:01:52.159 --> 01:01:52.719
 something that

01:01:52.719 --> 01:01:53.219
 we want to

01:01:53.219 --> 01:01:54.380
 have set

01:01:54.380 --> 01:01:55.139
 before you

01:01:55.139 --> 01:01:55.940
 in any

01:01:55.940 --> 01:01:56.659
 bad spirit,

01:01:57.460 --> 01:01:58.619
 but lovingly

01:01:58.619 --> 01:01:59.639
 and tactfully,

01:02:01.159 --> 01:02:01.659
 as God

01:02:01.659 --> 01:02:02.079
 himself

01:02:02.079 --> 01:02:02.759
 mercifully

01:02:02.759 --> 01:02:04.559
 is making

01:02:04.559 --> 01:02:05.059
 his appeal

01:02:05.059 --> 01:02:05.539
 through the

01:02:05.539 --> 01:02:05.880
 gospel,

01:02:06.940 --> 01:02:07.480
 for us to

01:02:07.480 --> 01:02:08.019
 place our

01:02:08.019 --> 01:02:09.960
 trust in

01:02:09.960 --> 01:02:11.000
 Jesus Christ,

01:02:11.679 --> 01:02:12.119
 the Savior.

01:02:13.179 --> 01:02:13.699
 May God

01:02:13.699 --> 01:02:14.219
 bless these

01:02:14.219 --> 01:02:15.739
 words to

01:02:15.739 --> 01:02:16.079
 us.

01:02:17.539 --> 01:02:18.099
 Let's

01:02:18.099 --> 01:02:18.599
 conclude by

01:02:18.599 --> 01:02:19.159
 singing now

01:02:19.159 --> 01:02:19.539
 in Psalm

01:02:19.539 --> 01:02:20.299
 46.

01:02:21.639 --> 01:02:22.279
 Sing Psalm

01:02:22.279 --> 01:02:23.179
 46, that's

01:02:23.179 --> 01:02:23.519
 in the

01:02:23.519 --> 01:02:24.199
 Scottish Psalter

01:02:24.199 --> 01:02:24.539
 version,

01:02:26.420 --> 01:02:26.900
 and find

01:02:26.900 --> 01:02:27.239
 that on

01:02:27.239 --> 01:02:28.719
 page 271,

01:02:30.340 --> 01:02:30.619
 and sing

01:02:30.619 --> 01:02:31.340
 verses 8

01:02:31.340 --> 01:02:32.059
 to 11.

01:02:32.059 --> 01:02:34.619
 Come and

01:02:34.619 --> 01:02:35.799
 behold what

01:02:35.799 --> 01:02:36.579
 wondrous works

01:02:36.579 --> 01:02:37.119
 have by the

01:02:37.119 --> 01:02:37.599
 Lord been

01:02:37.599 --> 01:02:37.980
 wrought.

01:02:38.639 --> 01:02:39.659
 Come see what

01:02:39.659 --> 01:02:40.559
 desolations he

01:02:40.559 --> 01:02:41.039
 on the earth

01:02:41.039 --> 01:02:41.599
 hath wrought,

01:02:42.320 --> 01:02:42.840
 and to the

01:02:42.840 --> 01:02:43.420
 ends of all

01:02:43.420 --> 01:02:43.840
 the earth

01:02:43.840 --> 01:02:44.380
 wars into

01:02:44.380 --> 01:02:44.860
 peace he

01:02:44.860 --> 01:02:45.239
 turns.

01:02:46.000 --> 01:02:46.440
 The bow he

01:02:46.440 --> 01:02:46.739
 breaks,

01:02:46.840 --> 01:02:47.340
 the spear he

01:02:47.340 --> 01:02:47.579
 cuts,

01:02:47.679 --> 01:02:48.179
 and fire the

01:02:48.179 --> 01:02:48.960
 chariot burns.

01:02:49.099 --> 01:02:49.559
 Be still,

01:02:49.880 --> 01:02:50.699
 and know that

01:02:50.699 --> 01:02:51.539
 I am God.

01:02:52.219 --> 01:02:52.739
 Among the

01:02:52.739 --> 01:02:53.219
 heathen I

01:02:53.219 --> 01:02:53.539
 will be

01:02:53.539 --> 01:02:54.000
 exalted,

01:02:54.659 --> 01:02:55.360
 I on earth

01:02:55.360 --> 01:02:55.679
 will be

01:02:55.679 --> 01:02:56.539
 exalted high.

01:02:57.340 --> 01:02:58.079
 Our God,

01:02:58.279 --> 01:02:59.000
 who is the

01:02:59.000 --> 01:02:59.779
 Lord of hosts,

01:03:00.259 --> 01:03:01.139
 is still upon

01:03:01.139 --> 01:03:01.980
 our side.

01:03:02.799 --> 01:03:03.460
 The God of

01:03:03.460 --> 01:03:03.920
 Jacob,

01:03:04.500 --> 01:03:05.579
 our refuge,

01:03:06.299 --> 01:03:07.159
 forever will

01:03:07.159 --> 01:03:08.099
 abide.

01:03:08.219 --> 01:03:08.679
 These verses

01:03:08.679 --> 01:03:09.859
 come and

01:03:09.859 --> 01:03:10.659
 behold what

01:03:10.659 --> 01:03:11.639
 wondrous works.

01:03:11.639 --> 01:03:19.199
 come and

01:03:19.199 --> 01:03:22.539
 behold what

01:03:22.539 --> 01:03:26.420
 wondrous works

01:03:26.420 --> 01:03:29.359
 have by

01:03:29.359 --> 01:03:31.960
 the Lord

01:03:31.960 --> 01:03:34.480
 been wrought,

01:03:34.480 --> 01:03:36.799
 and see

01:03:36.800 --> 01:03:38.440
 what

01:03:38.440 --> 01:03:44.519
 desolations

01:03:44.519 --> 01:03:48.380
 beyond the

01:03:48.380 --> 01:03:49.860
 earth

01:03:49.860 --> 01:03:52.760
 hath brought,

01:03:52.760 --> 01:03:55.019
 unto

01:03:55.019 --> 01:03:57.240
 the

01:03:57.240 --> 01:03:58.800
 ends

01:03:58.800 --> 01:04:00.760
 of all

01:04:00.760 --> 01:04:03.500
 the earth

01:04:03.500 --> 01:04:05.179
 ofcićity.

01:04:05.440 --> 01:04:07.719
 By

01:04:07.719 --> 01:04:08.440
 blood not

01:04:08.440 --> 01:04:08.639
 in

01:04:08.860 --> 01:04:10.559
 peace

01:04:10.559 --> 01:04:12.019
 and

01:04:12.019 --> 01:04:13.139
 the

01:04:14.360 --> 01:04:14.900
 roaring

01:04:14.900 --> 01:04:15.880
 he

01:04:15.880 --> 01:04:16.900
 burst.

01:04:16.900 --> 01:04:16.960
 God

01:04:16.960 --> 01:04:17.800
 whelieve

01:04:17.800 --> 01:04:18.280
 the

01:04:18.280 --> 01:04:18.900
 romance

01:04:18.900 --> 01:04:19.000
 in

01:04:19.000 --> 01:04:19.699
 Christ

01:04:19.699 --> 01:04:20.840
 in

01:04:20.840 --> 01:04:23.119
 light

01:04:23.119 --> 01:04:25.619
 and

01:04:25.619 --> 01:04:27.219
 child

01:04:27.219 --> 01:04:28.480
 y

01:04:28.480 --> 01:04:29.739
 �

01:04:29.739 --> 01:04:30.159
 such

01:04:30.159 --> 01:04:31.619
 and

01:04:31.619 --> 01:04:33.400
 hath

01:04:33.400 --> 01:04:41.619
 And know that I am God

01:04:41.619 --> 01:04:49.400
 Above the even eye

01:04:49.920 --> 01:04:55.400
 Will be exalted

01:04:55.400 --> 01:04:59.400
 I on earth

01:04:59.400 --> 01:05:05.840
 Will be exalted

01:05:05.840 --> 01:05:08.360
 I

01:05:08.360 --> 01:05:14.720
 Our God who is

01:05:14.720 --> 01:05:19.519
 The Lord of hosts

01:05:19.519 --> 01:05:27.760
 Is still upon our side

01:05:27.760 --> 01:05:32.200
 The Lord of hosts

01:05:32.200 --> 01:05:38.080
 Our refuge

01:05:38.080 --> 01:05:45.200
 Forever will abide

01:05:45.199 --> 01:05:50.739
 I'll go to the door to my left here after the benediction just now.

01:05:51.679 --> 01:06:00.639
 Now may the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God the Father, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you now and evermore. Amen.

01:06:00.639 --> 01:06:02.639
 Amen.

01:06:07.119 --> 01:06:07.339
 Amen.

01:06:07.339 --> 01:06:08.059
 Amen.

01:06:08.219 --> 01:06:08.859
 Amen.

01:06:09.279 --> 01:06:10.099
 Amen.

01:06:17.599 --> 01:06:17.639
 Amen.