In Genesis 8, we'll be looking
at the rainbow this morning. Whenever anybody sees a rainbow,
young or old, men or women, they all get excited when you see
it. I've been in other nations. I've been in third world countries.
Horrible things going around. Things that man just thinks are
terrible. A cloud goes over and you see a rainbow hung in the
sky. And even in those heathen nations, it's like, oh, look
at that. You see that rainbow? That's
something, isn't it? It gets giddied on the inside.
To the science-minded, they see a rainbow, and it's the refraction
and the internal reflection of light through water droplets.
That's what they see. To most of the world, it's just
a natural occurrence. That's something that happens.
To the religious people, to the Pharisees, to the theologians,
the rainbow is a promise that God will not flood the earth
again. And that's true. That's what it is, but oh, it's
much more than that. It's much more than that. As
we've been going through Genesis, first we saw Christ the light.
That's Him. And we saw Christ the firmament.
He's the covering, that's what the word means, an atonement.
He's the Lord our righteousness. He's our firmament. We saw the
tree of life in the midst of that garden. That's Him. There's
that bride of Adam. Adam was put to sleep and out
of His side a rib was taken. His bride was made from that.
We are brought out of Christ's wounded side. Our life, our holiness is from
His wounded side, Christ our second Adam. He's the woman seed,
the promised God-man that will crush the head of the serpent.
He's the lamb slain that covered the nakedness of Adam and Eve. He's that lamb slain that Abel
brought as his offering. Not the works of his hands, not
something that came out of this cursed earth. He brought Christ. That's what he brought. We've
been looking at the Ark as a picture of Christ. God punishes sin. He will by no means clear the
guilty. He is holy. He's just. And all those outside
of the ark, they perished. They died. All those inside the
ark, they never felt a drop of water. That ark bore all the
shame. It bore all the guilt. It carried
it. It carried them. That's what Isaiah said. Surely
He hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows. Christ was
that ark. Who's that hour that Isaiah was
talking about? Those that have found grace in
the eyes of the Lord, just as Noah did. Those commanded by
the Word of God, the power of God, and He enables them to enter
that ark. Come to Him. entered in by the
straight way and he puts them in there and he seals them in
that ark. Those outside of the oracle parish.
There's some anthropologists, those are people that study cultures
and things. So a couple of them are working
on their PhD. They've got to come up with something new and
write a book about it. And so they researched how many people
were on the earth before the great flood. And the results
were a big range, but they estimated anywhere between 750 million
people and 4 billion on this earth whenever the flood came.
There was a remnant. Eight people sealed in that ark,
pitched in that ark. That's the blood of Christ we
saw. A remnant was saved by His blood. That rainbow here, it's
a token. It's a picture of God's covenant
of grace in Christ. Christ is all and in all. He
said, Moses wrote a me. Paul wrote to Colossians and
said, in whom, in him, are hid all the treasures of wisdom and
knowledge. If we're going to have any true
wisdom, It's going to be in Christ. If we're going to have any knowledge,
if we're going to have any understanding, true understanding and knowledge,
it's going to be in Him. That's where it's in. You who
believe, we see and we're amazed by these pictures of Christ throughout
the Old Testament and these parables that we see and these miracles
that He performed. To see Him in those, we're amazed by them.
But we need to have more than just our minds exercised. There
are times when we see something that we've never seen before.
I never knew that. And boy, it's exciting, isn't
it? We see those pictures and shadows of Christ. You can't
hug a picture. You can't hug a shadow. We need
to be blessed in our hearts by this. That's my prayer for each
of us today. Not just a dry, cold, dead fact that you can
take through logical deduction, take a systematic theology and
get you a checklist and say, yes, well this must mean that
this is Christ and this must mean the cloud's sin, yes, okay,
and this is accurate. I want you to see a person. I don't want it to be cold, I
don't want it to be dead, I don't want it to be dry. I want you
to see Him. I want to see Him. See Him one
more time. Noah was in the ark for right
at a year. And all the provision he needed
was in that ark. And the Lord told Noah to come
out of the ark. He said, come on. And when Noah
came out, he built an altar and he worshipped God. We'll probably
come back and look at this next week. He didn't seek food. We've got to find someplace to
plant some crops. He didn't seek water. Are there any whales around
here? This water that's in these little
puddles ain't good enough to drink. He didn't seek shelter. He worshipped
God. It says in Genesis 8, verse 20. Genesis 8, verse 20. And Noah
built an altar unto the Lord. Who did he build it to? Unto
the Lord. And took of every clean beast and of every clean fowl
and offered burnt offerings on the altar. Clean sacrifices. They were without spot or blemish.
There's no guile in their mouth. All picturing Christ. All the
turtle doves, all the bullets, all the lambs throughout Scripture.
Clean, clean animals that picture Him. In these tops, it took many. Noah took a male of each of all
the clean animals. In the person, the man Christ
Jesus, it was once. These sacrifices happened over
and over, but with Him it was one time. They had many things
to offer to burn. He offered Himself. We read in
Hebrews 7, it was speaking of those high priests that throughout
time offer these sacrifices over and over, to offer up sacrifice
first for His own sins and then for the people's. For this He,
for this Christ, did once when He offered up Himself. There in verse 21 it says, and
the Lord smelled a sweet savor. The margin says a savor of rest. What's a savor of rest? A finished
work. When are you going to rest when
you quit working? If you still got some work to
do, it ain't no time to be resting. He smelled a sweet savor of rest.
And the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground
anymore for man's sake. Turn over to 2 Corinthians chapter
2. What's this sweet savor? Now we saw before, 2 Corinthians
2, we saw before that Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord,
and then a little bit later the Lord told Noah about it. We saw
the thoughts of the Lord. And here the Lord said in his
heart. He didn't speak this out loud to Noah. He gave it to his
prophet Moses to record. But he's about to tell him how
he's going to show him this. But we'll see here, what was
this sweet smelling savor? 2 Corinthians 2, verse 14. Now thanks be unto
God, which always causes us to triumph in Christ, and maketh
manifest the savor of His knowledge by us in every place. That's
what His servants do. They tell the savor of Christ. For we are unto God a sweet savor
of Christ. in them that are saved and in
them that perish." This sweet smell of Christ, it goes to those
that are saved. And I ain't the only ones that
smell it. It's Christ in you. This gospel of Him, of who He
is, of His sacrifice. Saved people smell that. And
those that perish smell the exact same smell. But it's different,
isn't it? To the one, we are a savor of death unto death.
That ain't nothing but some man dying, and I'm dead, I'm glad
I'm dead, and I don't want to hear about it. Leave me alone.
And to the other, a savor of life unto life. Boy, that's the
only way I'm going to have life. He gave me life, and He is my
life. That one that's accepted to God,
that sweet-smelling savor. Back in our text from Genesis
8, I find that I've talked to several people and they say,
I just don't want to know nothing about God. I just don't want to hear
it. I don't believe it. I don't like it. I don't want
nothing to do with Him. And I say, you know what? I'd show Him if
I was you. I'm a real sarcastic person and I'm honoring. I ought
not to be. I said, if I was you, I'd quit eating meat because
God provides for all the animals. And one time I told a man that,
he's like, well, let me think about that. And he's kind of
mulling it over his head. I said, you know what? I quit
eating vegetables, too. The Lord gave the sun and the
rain and grew in vegetables. Why get at it? You're breathing
His air. I quit breathing His air. If you don't like Him, you
don't want nothing to do with it. A man walks around here breathing
His air, eating His food, letting His sunlight hit on him, walking
on His earth, and don't want nothing to do with Him. And such
were some of you. Such was I. That's how we're
born into this earth. Here in verse 21 it says, And
the Lord smelled a sweet savor, Christ. And the Lord said in
his heart, I will not again curse the ground anymore for man's
sake. The curse is removed because
the sacrifice is accepted. We were under a curse of sin,
weren't we? That's how we were born. But Christ was made a curse
for us. He was made sin for us, for His
people. And He was accepted and He's
seated on His throne above. And we're accepted in the Beloved,
in Him. At the end of verse 21 it says,
That word is though. It's not because, it's though.
Though the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth,
neither will I again smite any more everything living as I have
done. It doesn't say not was evil. Every
man was evil. It says every man is evil. As
a fellow told my pastor when I was a young man, he said, I
used to be a rounder. I was a drunkie and I was a ruffian. I used to be a rounder. And he
said, oh no, you still are. You still are. That old man's
still in you because you're still standing. You're still breathing,
ain't you? No, in his family, they were
sinners. There's no difference. They still had that old nature.
And even though they were in that ark, even though they found
grace in the eyes of the Lord, they were still in this body
of death. And their sins were forgiven by Christ just like
all of God's children. Ain't nothing different. And
it says in verse 22, while the earth remaineth, Seed time and
harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and
night shall not cease, as long as he's pleased to keep this
earth spinning." Why is it here? Why are we here? God has a people
to call out, don't He? There's an elect remnant He must
call, and He will not lose one. Old Brother Pink had a good article
in the Bulletin today. He ain't going to lose one. That
blood will not go to glory in that day of judgment and find
a defeated Savior. It's impossible. But also, what
does the Scripture say for the perfecting of the saints? I want
to talk to the saints this morning. For your edification to mature
you, to comfort you. That's what we're in business
of, isn't it? The Lord's Word, that's what He said. After the
Lord destroyed the earth, He had no awe for this sacrifice,
and the Lord was pleased with it. It was accepted, and He said
in His heart, I will not destroy the earth with water again. He's
going to destroy it. We read that in 2 Peter 3. He's
going to come like a thief in the night. There's going to be
a great noise, and the elements are going to burn. We can remember
that easy, can't we? Elements. Everything's made out
of elements. Periodic table. And the earth will burn. It's
made of elements. We can understand that, can't we? And the works
that are therein shall be burned up. Boy, if we could get a hold
of that. Look at all the good things I've
done. It's going to be burned. What man's done is going to be
burned. That ought to make a person look for the mercy and the grace
of God and not work, shouldn't it? That's what's coming. Let's
look at this token of the covenant. All this here took place at the
end of chapter 8. That's the Lord speaking in his
heart. Moses had this revealed to him, and this is what the
Lord said in his heart, and now he's going to tell Noah and his
family. Turn over to chapter 9, verse 8. Genesis 9, verse 8. And God spake
unto Noah and to his sons with him, saying, I behold, Establish my covenant with you
and with your seed after you." Those that say they made a deal
with God have made no deal. Every covenant that the Lord
has made throughout scripture, He says, I will establish. Behold,
I, I make Verse 10, he sends it. Verse 10 says, And with every
living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle,
and of every beast of the earth with you, for all that go out
of the ark to every beast of the earth, and I will establish
my covenant with you, neither shall all flesh be cut off any
more by the waters of the flood. Neither shall there be any more
be a flood to destroy earth. And God said this is the token
of the covenant which I make between me and you. and every
living creature that is with you for perpetual generations. I do set my bow in the cloud,
and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the
earth. And it shall come to pass when
I bring a cloud over the earth that the bow shall be seen in
the cloud, and I will remember my covenant. which is between
me and you, and every living creature of all flesh. And the
waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh, and the
bow shall be in the cloud. And I will look upon it, that
I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every
living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth. And God
said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant which I have
established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth."
The bow of the covenant. A token is what the Lord said.
I give you a token. A token is a sign. It's a beacon. It's a monument. Mankind throughout
has taken the Lord's signs, His beacons, His tokens, and have
butchered them. This is a token to the saving
grace of God to undeserving sinners. The mercy He has in Christ the
Ark. The salvation He's given and
man takes and butchers it. How wicked is man? How wicked
is that old man that's born Adam? Is it kind of bad? They make
a lot of God's creation, don't they? make a mockery of it, say
all kinds of horrible things. The three ladies, isn't it? Lady
Luck, Misfortune, and Mother Nature, what they talk of. They
make lie to God's creation, make lie to the flood of judgment,
saying it didn't happen, it did happen, it happened this way,
and laughing about it, because they're on this side of it. They
make lie to marriage in our day. To and fro, come and go, no biggie. You don't have to love nobody
like Christ loves the church, do what you want. Don't like
it? Hang it up. They make light of Christ our
Ark. These piggy banks and children's toys and wallpapers and playgrounds,
outside playgrounds. That's a picture of Christ. That's
what that is. I'll be like King Josiah, go
through a terrible wind playground. First thing it runs through me.
They never found a piece of the Ark or man would have worshipped
it. So what'd man do? We made a replica in Ohio. You
can go see it. You can go see a big old boat.
It might be historically accurate, but they ain't got nothing to
tell them about Christ in it. You might see some animals, man's
creations out there, crossbreeding and everything else. You ain't
gonna hear nothing about Christ in it. We went through John 3. We saw Hezekiah took that serpent
made of brass. People were worshiping that serpent
made of brass. They didn't worship the God that
gave it. They didn't worship the Christ that it pictured.
It had no venom in it. It took our venom from us and
gave us life. They worshiped that piece of brass. The king
has a kai come down and he ground it to powder. He destroyed it.
He called it neheshton, a worthless piece of brass. Why? Why did
he call that? Because it says in 2 Kings 18.5, he trusted in
the Lord God of Israel. Well, what about the Lord told
us about that piece of brass? That was a token. It was a picture.
Let it go. Worship the Lord. Man makes light
of the rainbow. Picture of Christ, isn't it?
What's that a picture of in our day? It's what the picture a
hundred years ago. Them old-timey deadfellows can't
tell you this. Can't tell you young people this.
A picture of the rainbow in our days, a picture of sodomy, homosexuality,
gay pride. That's what it is. That's a mockery. That's a mockery. This is consistent, isn't it? Apart from the Lord revealing
Christ and giving a new heart, we take all the things of God
and butcher it. It's not recorded, but I'm sure
this happened. Because they ain't no different than us, are they?
It's easy to look down our big long noses at people and say,
oh, you get your nose so high in the air, if it rained, you'd
drown. Sinners ain't no different. Believers
ain't no different. These people, here in this time,
Noah wasn't no different. He didn't know any better. He
had to be taught. It's sitting recorded, but I'm sure it happened. Noah,
Shem, and Jaseth, they're no different believers in our day,
are they? They're sinners saved by grace just like everybody
else. And I bet they were walking in a field one day. They'd been
given saving faith to look to Christ alone. They understood
what that ark meant. They were walking in a field
one day out there with Noah, and they saw some dark clouds rolling
in, and the rain started falling. They done lived through this
once, ain't they? And they had unbelief. They probably said,
Daddy, you think God's gonna destroy us again? And Noah said,
look boys, you see that big, black, dark cloud? There's a
bow next to it. A rainbow. God promised us. He gave us His word. We have this token that we will
not be destroyed. What's been destroyed can't be
destroyed again. God promised. God said when He sees the bow,
He will not destroy us. What's that mean? When He sees
the bow, I will pass over you. When He sees the bow, I'll pass
over you. What do you think that bow represents? We read in Exodus
12, For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, I will
smite all the firstborn of the land of Egypt, both of man and
beast, and against all the gods of Egypt, I will execute judgment.
I am the Lord, and the blood shall be to you for a token.
It's just a picture. a token upon the houses where
you are and when I see the blood I will pass over you and the
plague shall not be upon you to destroy you when I smite the
land of Egypt. The blood was a picture of Christ's
blood. There in Exodus 12. This bow
is a picture of Christ our sacrifice. Christ our substitute. God promised
to Israel it was in the blood of Christ, wasn't it? When he
saw the blood, he will see the travail of his soul and be satisfied.
God promises to all that see that rainbow, Christ the rainbow.
When he sees Christ's blood, his effectual atonement for sin,
his blood sacrifice, his propitiation, his person, his finished work,
he'll be satisfied and he'll pass over you. Noah stood out
there with Shem and Japheth and he preached to them out in the
field one day. They didn't have no other preacher. He was their
preacher. All of God's promises to the
sinner are in Christ. It says in 2 Corinthians 1, for
the promises of God are in him, yea, and in him, amen. We looked at that the other night,
didn't we? Are in him, barely. All the promises
in Christ are truly steadfast, amen, trustworthy. The Lord said
so. We're just saying His oath, His
covenant, His blood support me in the whelming flood when all
around my soul gives way. He then, When I clean give up
on myself, when I'm brought to nothing, He then is all my hope
and stay. Christ is that rainbow. Turn
over to Hebrews chapter 6. We're all sons of Adam born into
this earth. We're all sinners. And the imagination
of our natural hearts is only evil continually. And we must
be brought to admit that. We must see that, that darkness,
that dark cloud hanging over us. And by God's grace, we've
been brought to Christ. We see that we're crucified in
Christ. We see that we died in Him. We're
buried in Him. And we're alive right now. In
Him. Because of God. Unto God. We live unto Him. Serve
the living God by Christ. But we still sin. Anybody tells
you they don't or they don't as much as doing it right in
front of your eyes. We still have unbelief. Is God
going to kill you? You have unbelief. If you don't,
you're lying. You didn't have unbelief before
you had belief. Now you have unbelief. Is God going to kill
you? Is He going to destroy us again?
No, He won't. Why not? Because of something
we did? Because of our sakes? No, for Christ's sake. For His
name's sake, He won't do it. For His honor, His glory. He
smells that sweet-smelling savor of Christ, and He's satisfied
in His heart. Our sins are ever before us.
The Lord's people's sins are ever before the Lord's people.
But something else is ever before the Lord. It's the blood of Christ. And when He sees that, He remembers
His covenant. Man ain't got no part in this,
does he? There has to be a cloud to see a rainbow. That dark black
drop makes us remember there's a just and holy God we offended.
We have to see what we ought. So the Holy Spirit has to come
and convict us of. It's not something we read in
the book, it's something that happens in the heart. We're convicted of sin, that
dark cloud of sin. And we must be convicted of sin,
of our own darkness, and it will loom over us. Just like a cloud. David wrote in Psalm 38, For
mine iniquities are gone over my head. Just like a cloud. And a heavy burden, they are
too heavy for me. My sins ever before me, he said. It takes
a dark cloud. And Satan would have us look
into that dark cloud of sin and guilt forever. You sit and get
down there and get good and sad, and you just dwell on that. You
roll around in it. You stay right there. Don't you
look up. That's where he'd have us. But look, there's a bow. It's like Noah told them boys.
You see that sin, you sit down, you feel so beat, you had your
heart ripped out of you. God promised something. You didn't. It ain't in you. Look up. Look
to Him exalted. Look to that bow in the sky.
Here in Hebrews 6 verse 17, it says, Wherein God, willing more
abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise, that's His children,
those put in Christ in that covenant of grace before time, the immutability
of His counsel, confirmed it by an oath that by two immutable
things in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have
a strong consolation. who have fled for refuge to lay
a hold upon the hope set before us." What's our hope? Christ
is our hope. We've run to Him our refuge.
Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast,
verily. Amen. And which entereth into
that within the veil, whether the forerunner is for us entered,
even Jesus, made an high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.
What's a Hebrew writer getting at? Whenever we run to Christ,
we run to our refuge, there's an anchor in our soul. We're
grounded. We're anchored. And we know that
He is sure and steadfast. And He's entered within that
veil. He tore the veil in two, from top to bottom. And He's
the way. He's the entrance into that holiest
of holies. And He's entered in there, and
He's the high priest forever. He's our prophet, our priest,
and our king forever. That's our hope. That's our steadfastness.
Why? He said it in an oath. It's His
covenant. He made it. And we can hang our
hat on it. It's sure you can take it to the bank. That rainbow
was proof of the acceptable sacrifice. We have boldness to enter into
the holiest of holies because of it. That's a token we have
in our day. They're in a tavern. Now, you
can go to that fake ark up there and you ain't gonna learn nothing.
We don't have an ark. We don't have a brazen serpent
we can look at. We don't have a tabernacle. We don't have priest garments.
We can go in and look at the colors and stuff. The Lord gave us a rainbow. What
providence? It's been raining for days and
today's sunny. I told the children on the way here, I said, first
one, if y'all see a rainbow and tell me and I get to see it,
I'll give you $20. And every eye was looking out the windows
the whole way down here. What God's providence He has. And
that rainbow, we'll go back to school for a little bit. You
know the colors of the rainbow? A color spectrum. You can learn
it by Roy G. Biv. Can't you? Red, orange,
yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. We learned that in
grade school. There's seven colors. Completion. Completion. There's a completed work in that
color. And you go outside and you look up at a rainbow. You
ain't gonna Google it. Wait till it rains. Wait till some sadness
comes. Wait till some sins are over
the top of your head. In the backdrop of that cloud, you're
going to see a rainbow. And what's the top color? Red. Blood. He said, when I see the
blood, I'll pass over you. That's the first thing the Lord
sees. That's where He is. He's looking down on us. When we look up,
what do we see? Violet. I ain't good at colors.
Purple. Is that alright? Royalty. We see Christ our King, our Lord
and our God. That's who He is to us, because
of what He did. Coming out here being made flesh
for us, living for His people, in their place, in their room
instead. It's complete. Seven colors, made up of three
primary colors, perfection. Yellow, red, and blue. Yellow,
He was made a man. All the fullness of the Godhead
in the bodily. He died, and He's sitting on His throne now in
royalty. The King of Kings, Lord of Lords. And that bow, it goes
upward, doesn't it? It's not aimed at us. It's not
aimed at His people. There's no string on it. The
bow's not set. And there's no arrows in it to
shoot at His people. Those that's under the blood.
Those that's under Him. There's no sting in it. No arrow
to those that believe in Christ. It's not facing us. It says in
Revelation 4-2, and immediately I was in the Spirit, this is
John speaking, and behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat
on the throne. Who's that? People say, well,
that's God. You ain't going to see Him. No man's seen the Father
but the Son. And they're one, ain't they?
That's Christ sitting on that throne. And He that sat looked
upon like a jasper in a sardine stone, and there was a rainbow
round about the throne and sat like unto an emerald. What's
going to be everything he sees? His work, his finished work.
When he looks upon his people, beyond his throne, there in the
presence of the Lord, what's he going to see? His finished
work, his accomplishment. In Revelation 10 it says, I saw
another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed in a cloud,
and a rainbow was upon his head. What's in his mind? I'll send
these notes out here later. I'll send them to you. Everybody wants to. Let's turn
to Ezekiel 1. Ezekiel 1, verse 28. As the appearance of the rainbow
that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so, after this manner,
was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance
of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. And when I saw it,
I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake. You can walk outside, you can
look up at a rainbow, and you can say, God ain't gonna flood
the earth no more. And you can say a whole lot of truths about
that rainbow. There's seven colors, seven means completion, three
primary colors, that's perfection. But if you don't look at that
rainbow, God doesn't give you eyes to see Christ and Him crucified. You ain't gonna fall down on
your face, and you ain't gonna hear His voice. I pray we can. We can't hug a rainbow. You can
drive as fast as you can drive. You can fly an airplane at 700
miles an hour towards that rainbow and you ain't going to catch
it. Why? It's a token. It's a picture. Whenever we see it, we bow to
Him. When you see a dark cloud coming, when you see the darkness,
the blackness of your sin, and that's all that you are, and
you just can't get out of bed in the morning because you're
so depressed because you know what you deserve. And you see that rain of judgment
starting to come out of it and you think that's for you. Remember,
it's the Lord showing you that. Someone's convicted of sin, not
if they feel bad about some things or they say, well, yes, I haven't
kept the law. A child could tell you that. If you've been convicted
of sin, God convicted you of sin. He said, Nahum 1.3, the
Lord is slow to anger and great in power and will not acquit
the guilty. The Lord hath his way in the
whirlwind and the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his
feet. If you see that cloud of sin coming, he's kicked it up
at you. It's his doing. It's him moving
on you. Whenever you hear the thunder
from heaven, many say whenever the Lord spoke, this is my son
in whom I am well pleased, oh it just thundered. No it didn't,
God spoke. when you hear His voice. Or you
hear thunder. It ain't too common here, is
it? We don't hear thunder too often. But whenever you hear
thunder, go read Job 37.5. God thundereth marvelously with
His voice. I see my sin. He spoke to me
because He's given me life to see my sin. Give me ears to hear
His voice. Great things doeth He which we
cannot comprehend. I don't see how that happened,
but He did it. And when you see that bow, hung in the sky on
that black backdrop of sin, dark clouds. You remember God's covenant
with His Son. That's who it was with. The Lamb
slain before the foundation of the earth and those in Him. And
in your heart, worship Him. You ain't got to get on your
knees. You're going to make a show before me and put your face down
in the dirt right then and say, God's accepted me in Christ.
How do I know? He promised. He gave His word. He swore by His name. He could
swear by no other. It's all in Him. And just because
you don't see a rainbow, and them clouds come, it's rained
for days, hasn't it? We didn't see one coming down
here. Nobody got $20 in that van coming down here. Just because
you don't see it don't mean it ain't there. God said when He
sees it, when He sees it. Well, I don't think I can see
it today. It don't matter. He saw it. He sees Christ. Shouldn't a believer see Him
all the time? What if the Lord takes your mind from you? What
if you have Alzheimer's or the Lord afflicts you with some bacteria
and eats your brains up? You can't do nothing about it.
You forget who you are. You forget who your children are. He said, when I
see the blood, when I see the rainbow. That's our hope. It
ain't what I do. It ain't what I think. It ain't
what I believe. It ain't how many times I go to church and I got 1,700
pastors, I said. No, it's what God sees. What
He sees is truth. He sees things as they are. He's
imputed to us for righteousness. It's counted. It's there already
because you hath eternal life. Isn't that something? Amen.