Just wonderful. All right, go
back to Genesis 6 with me. Genesis 6. This story of Noah
and the ark is a true story. It actually happened. We know that. Number one, because
Scripture says so. But most of mankind rejects this
story like they reject all of God's Word. They reject God.
They don't believe there's a God. They reject the story of Adam
and Eve. They say that's just a Jewish fable, just an allegory. Noah's Ark, they reject that.
And Simon Peter said they would in 2 Peter 3. He said men would
come, scoffers would come. And they would mock, where's
the promise of His coming? All this talk about Jesus Christ
coming. He said everything continues as it once did. Yes, because
God said it would. In chapter 8 of Genesis. Summer and winter and so forth.
Springtime and Arctic. But Peter said they are willingly ignorant
that the world was made, was covered with water and God made
the land to appear and God created earth. They willingly, that is
they willfully reject any and all clear evidences. The heavens
declare His glory, the firmament show it anywhere. They are without
excuse. His eternal power and God, He
creates. Clearly saying, but not if you are blind. But God
hath blinded their minds. They reject the Creator, and
it goes on to say, and they reject the flood. Why? Because all this is a clear declaration
of our sovereign God in whose hands our breath is and all our
way. Our sovereign judge and ruler. God who is holy and just
and righteous. That's a denial of the fall of
man. They don't believe there was a fall. They don't believe
Adam and Eve existed. They don't believe there's anything
such as man's depravity. They don't believe that. You
do, don't you? You not only see it in God's Word, but you know
it and you feel it. He's shown you by experience the gospel. He said Noah's ark is rejected. Rejected. As in the days of Noah,
our Lord said. Our Lord spoke of Noah's ark,
didn't he? He said, my coming will be as in the days of Noah.
How many people on that ark? Eight. His disciples one time
asked him, Lord, are there few that be saved? He said, when
the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth? It's
going to be so rare. It's going to be so hard to find. How blessed we are. Oh, how blessed
we are. As I said, we're already in the
ark. If you believe Christ, you're
already in the ark. And these are like those seven
days that Noah and his family were in the ark and God waited.
Seven days. And these last of the last days
are like those seven days. We're in the ark right now, sitting.
What are we doing? Waiting. On our Lord to come and the fire
to fall. Lord Jesus Christ plainly said,
as in the days of Noah, and people call him a liar. They reject
God's Word. They're calling Jesus Christ
a liar. And this is more urgent now than ever before. As time
goes on, as you see the day approaching, and exhort one another. And as
I said, I want this to be more than just an interesting story,
a fascinating story, though it is, it really is. God's wisdom
in designing this ark and how it's wonderful, but I want Him
to speak to our hearts and show us urgency, the necessity of
being found in Christ. I want this to be our one goal
for us and our children. I want us to want for our children
not the things of this world, but to be found in Christ. Genesis 6 is a clear description
of the times. You read it with me. Clear description
of the times of Noah, and it's a description of right now, isn't
it? It said that there was an apostasy, is what it was. The
sons of God, Seth, and Canaan, and Mahaliel, and Jared, and
these men, these generations. It says these sons of God came
into the daughters of men, unbelievers, and they began to mingle, and
they took many wives, and so there was a general apostasy.
And Paul says that there will be a falling away in the end
with Christ's coming. Falling away. Clear description of the time.
Sons of God that mingled believers with unbelievers, and the Lord
said, I'm not going to strive with man much longer. God is
so good. His Holy Spirit, He takes the
things of Christ, He takes the Word, convinces of sin, of righteousness
and judgment. Where do you hear that in religion?
You don't. Sin, righteousness, judgment. You hear it in every gospel church. Every grace church. Every grace
church is meeting tonight. Their preacher is a preacher
of righteousness. That's what Paul, Hebrews said
of Noah. Peter said that. He's a preacher
of righteousness. Noah being, and I'm getting ahead
of myself. With the Holy Spirit. God is
so good. The gospel is still going out.
The door is still open. The door is open. You know anybody can come in
that wants to? Anybody can come to Christ that wants to. What's
the problem? They don't want to. Christ said
you will not come. Have you come to Christ? Have
you? Why? You found grace in the eyes of
the Lord. Oh, look at verse 4, the giants
in the earth. Isn't this a description of our
day? Giants, big strong men, beautiful women, rich and famous. God saw, verse 5, the wickedness
of man. God looks on the heart. Every imagination of the thought
of man, evil continually, from the minute he wakes up to the
minute he goes to sleep, all he thinks about is sin. It was
evil. Blessed the flesh, blessed the
eyes and the pride. That's all he thinks about. Children
of wrath, even as others. And it repented the Lord. He
made man. As said, God doesn't repent.
God knew what he was going to do. Known unto God are all his
works from the beginning of the world. He knew this. He purposed
this ark before the world began. But he's speaking in a language
that we can understand. And the Lord said, I will destroy
man, verse 7, whom I have created. Who's going to destroy man? A
nuclear bomb? No. You know, I really don't
believe there's literal fire going to fall. It says that Christ
is going to destroy them with the brightness of His coming.
You know that? He's a consuming fire. No man
can approach Him and dwell into it. We can. He made us to differ. Recovery. But when Christ comes, he's going
to be sure. Verse 8, But Noah, but Noah found
grace. Looking down at verse 11, I'll
get back to Noah in just a minute. Said the Lord, said the earth
was corrupt before God. The earth was filled with violence.
Have you ever known a more violent day than the one we live in?
Blood sports are just... Men and women just love it. Blood. Sight of blood. Bloody
men. All flesh had corrupted His way. God's way? What is it? It's His
Word. It's His will. It's His truth. It's His law. It's God's way. It's holiness. It's righteousness.
It's uprightness. Man's way of sin and corruption.
And it says violent. Violent. Hatred. Wrath. Malice. That's what Romans said. Oh my. But Noah found grace in the eyes
of the Lord. Was Noah a sinner? Yes he was. But Noah found grace. God was gracious to Noah. You know what? How you find grace. You know how Noah found grace
the same way you found grace? He heard the gospel of God's
grace. That's right. Pleased God by the foolishness
of preaching. Well, who did he hear it from? Well, Seth told
it to Enos, Enos told it to Canaan, Canaan told it to Mahaliel, Mahaliel
told it to Jared, Jared told it to Enoch, Enoch told it to
Methuselah, Methuselah told it to Lamech, Lamech told it to
Noah. What did he tell them? What did
Adam and Eve tell? What did Adam tell Seth, his
son? He told him that God created all things. There was a garden,
and there was a fall, and Adam said, we sinned against God,
and God told us the day we do, we will die. We died. We lost
all knowledge of God. But God, God came to us. Came to us, the voice of God,
the Lord Christ. He didn't know his name was Jesus.
The Lord came walking to us and exposed our sins and convicted
us of our sin and righteousness and judgment. But He said, somebody's
coming. The woman's seed is coming. A
virgin-born child is coming. The Son of the Most High God
is coming as a substitute. And He showed us right there.
Yes, Adam told Seth this, and Seth told Canaan, and Canaan
told Mahaliel, and Mahaliel told Jared, and Jared told... Yes!
Past time preachers, they all preach the same thing. Yes, Adam
told Seth and Lamech told Noah. You know that Lamech knew Adam? Enoch knew Adam. They lived at
the same time. Yes, they discussed what they
talk about, what the sons of God talk about, what we talk
about. God, the holy sovereign creator, man, corrupt, vile,
sinner, in need of grace and mercy, in need of a substitute,
Christ, the woman's seed, the covering, that lamb covering
the blood shed for remission of their sin. Noah found grace. He heard the gospel of God's
grace. Just like you. And after that, it says he was
a just man. Doesn't it? It's not before,
it's after he found grace. He's a sinner whom God did foreknow. And whom God did foreknow, he
did predestinate. And whom God did predestinate,
he called Noah. And whom he called, he He's justified. He's a just man. He's perfect.
He's complete in Christ. And he walks with God. When God, I like to think that
the Lord Jesus Christ Himself was right there showing Noah
the blueprints on this ark. Maybe hammering nails with it.
Who knows? He was a carpenter. Noah found grace. Noah represents
every sinner saved by God's grace. Noah was warned, Hebrews 11 verse
7 says, Noah being warned of God. God warns His people, unlike
this false gospel. Nobody is being warned about
anything. God loves you so much. Boy, that's a mockery. The ark is a mockery of that,
isn't it? Somebody said, can you imagine
a bumper sticker on the outside of that ark? Smile, God loves
you. Somebody else said there was one. It was on the inside.
Everybody on the inside. God loved them or they wouldn't
have been there. Noah was warned of God. He moved
with what? What did he move with? Fear. Paul said in the last day, he
said, no fear of God for that. There is in God's people. They
all fear God. They all fear God. And it says,
he prepared an ark to the saving of his house, and by that ark
he did what? Condemned the world. Noah, when he was in that ark,
By going into that ark, by God bringing him into that ark, he
was crucified to the world and the world to him. And the world
walked by, oh seven days, he was sitting in that ark and laughed
and scoffed and no one looked at you. You're a fool. Yes, for
Christ's sake. But no. God showed me His wisdom. God showed me His power. God
showed me His holiness. God showed me His truth. And
I'm in here because God brought me in here. And you need to come
in here. You're the fool if you don't
come in here. You're the fool. And Noah went on to say, Noah
became an heir of righteousness. An heir. You don't do anything
to be an heir. Somebody dies for you to be an
heir, and it's up to them to leave it to you. Okay? So Noah is a picture of every
child of God, every true child of God. And whom he justified,
he did what? Glorified. Noah one day walked
out of that ark into a new world. Noah's name means rest and comfort.
We don't rest and have any comfort in any man, but we do the God-man. So who does Noah really represent? He represents every man saved
by grace, every woman. He represents the God-man who
saves us by His grace. Our rest, our comfort is Christ,
and our Savior, like Noah, is Christ. One whom God chose to build the
ark. A body has to prepare. He is
the ark. We'll get to that in a minute.
To save his people. To call his people. To gather
his people. Noah gathered all of them. And bring them unto himself.
To bring them to God. Bring them into a new world.
He fed them. He taught them. He brought them.
Like Noah. Look at verse 18 of chapter 6.
Look at it. It says, With thee will I establish
my covenant. With thee will I establish my
covenant. Our Lord Jesus Christ is the
mediator of a better covenant than that. Assurative and everlasting
covenant. He's the mediator. In verse 18
it says, Thou shalt come into the ark, thou and thy sons and
thy wife and thy son's wife with thee. Our Lord Jesus Christ said,
all that the Father giveth me shall come unto them. He said,
other sheep I have which are not of this fold, them also must
I bring. Who brought these animals into
the ark? Who brought his family into the ark? No idea. Everybody
that was in that ark was there because Noah brought them. Didn't
Christ say that? No man can come unto me. Except
the Father which hath sent me draweth them." How does he draw?
Chords of a man. Chords of men. Look at verse 21. It says, Now
take thou unto thee of all the food that is eaten. Verse 20. I don't want to leave this out.
It says, the fowls of their kind, the cattle after their kind,
every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every
sort shall come unto thee. See that? All of these creatures,
all of these creatures are going to come to no one. Where do all
of God's people come? They come to one place. They
come to Christ. Christ stood that one day and
said, Come unto me, all ye that labor in heaven. Come unto who?
We don't come to church, do we? We don't come necessarily to
see each other, although we enjoy each other. But truly, our fellowship
is with the Father and with His Son. We come to Christ, don't
we? Why do we want to go to heaven?
Because Christ is there. He's our husband, he said. So,
they all came to Noah. And it says, In Hebrews 10, it
became him, Hebrews 2, it became him in bringing many sons unto
glory. And he did. Look at verse 21. Thou shalt take unto thee all
the food that is eaten, and gather it to thee. It shall be food
for thee and for them. Our God feeds every creature
on the face of this earth. You know that? Just like Noah.
It says in Psalm 104, They all wait upon thee, that thou mayest
give them their meat in due season. Every single creature, the fowl
of the air, the fish in the sea, the animals on the earth, and
mankind, every single man, woman, boy, and girl, God Almighty feeds
them. And Jesus Christ is the one,
because He is judge of all the earth. He's the one. Like Joseph
of old, everybody receives from Him. So he's the feeder and he's
the food. He's the feeder and he's the
food. Our Lord said, my body is meat
and day, my blood is drink and day. So he's the feeder and he's
the food, like Noah. He prepared it all, he brought
it all, and he fed all of it. Noah is Christ, and the ark is
Christ. Look at that. Look at chapter
6. Look at verse 14. Here's the description of the
ark. This is a picture of our Lord Jesus Christ. He said, Make
thee an ark of gopher wood. This is similar to Shittim wood,
that the ark of the covenant was made of. Okay, this was wood
that was, it was wood. It was a tree that was cut down.
You know that wood, you do know that, don't you? That wood is
a tree that's cut down. Well, our Lord was a man, flesh
and blood like that. He's a tree of life. And he's
cut down to become the Ark of the Covenant, to become the Ark
of Noah. But this wood was impervious
to decay. It was impervious to rot. It
was incorruptible. And our Lord Jesus Christ is
man, but he's without sin, incorruptible, like unleavened bread, incorruptible. He said, make thee an ark of
gopher wood. And God made a ark, made Christ
our ark, incorruptible, sinless man of a virgin. Rooms shalt thou make it. I love
the marginal notes in our Bible, don't you? Nests. Rooms is good
though, isn't it? Didn't our Lord say, I go to
prepare a place for you? If I go, I'll come again and
receive you. And I said, rooms? He said, go out in the highways
and the hedges and gather them, compel them to come in. And they
came in and said, they're here. And he said, there's still room. There's still room. Go out there
and get them. Make rooms in the ark and pitch it. Pitch it within and
without, with pitch. With pitch. What is pitch? Well,
it's like myrrh. It's the sap out of an evergreen
tree. It's the blood of a tree that's
wounded. That's what pitch is, which is
a beautiful picture. Myrrh is a healing balm, and
the balm of Gilead, and this pitch is the blood of the Lord
Jesus Christ, which makes atonement for ourselves. Pitch means atonement. It means covering. And he said,
you cover the inside and the outside. Outside, because God
sees the blood, He'll pass over you. Well, you know what? I want to see it. Don't you? I want to believe that that blood
was shed for me. Don't you? But all over these scriptures,
inside this book, you'll see this blood that Christ came into
the world to save sinners. How? Blood. Blood. Inside and out. Oh, inside the
heart and mind of every believer is all Christ. You ask every
believer, every true believer, you ask them, their hope of eternal
life. How will they escape the wrath
of God? Every single believer will give you one word. Christ.
The blood. Yes, they will. Christ is our
every single person in that ark knew why they were there and
what their salvation was in that ark. And so is everyone that's
really in Christ. They know. They know. He brought
them. He bought them. And He taught
them. He keeps them. Look at verse 15. The Lord gives
the dimensions of it. It says the length of the ark
will be 300 cubits, the breadth of it 50 cubits, the height of
it 30 cubits. Well, Paul said that we need
to know something much more wonderful than this. We need to know the
breadth, the length, the depth, and the height of the love of
Christ. that passes knowledge. There's no measuring that. Immeasurable. Brother Donnie's article, wasn't
that something? Matchless love of Christ. Immeasurable, unsearchable
riches of Christ. The article is 450 feet long,
75 feet wide, and 50 feet tall. There you have it. But it's rotted
and it's gone. Don't go see that one in Kentucky.
That's an idol. You hear it? We have an ark. We have an ark. It's much greater,
much more wonderful. Besides, they don't know what
the ark looked like. They don't know what Jesus Christ
looked like. They put all these pictures up there. Don't do it.
Don't do it, people. It's a lot more fascinating and
glorious to look at the ark that is Christ in God's Word than
to go see a wooden boat. If you put that ship in the water,
it would sink. Guarantee it. A window, verse 16. Who wrote
this book? One window. That's a big ship. One window, came the command. One window, and put it on the
top floor. One source of light in that whole
ship. Didn't Christ say, I am the light
of the world? If Noah and his family wanted
to see what was going on outside, they had to go to that one window,
didn't they? If they wanted any light, they
had to go to that window. He's the light that lighteth
every man that comes into the world. That's John 1. Meaning,
if anybody has any light, it's in light of Jesus Christ. Or
else you don't have a clue. You're in darkness even as others. And when to walk in the light
is to walk in the light of the knowledge of the glory of God
in the face of Christ. And you see everything clearly,
don't you? As clear as we can while we're on this earth. We
see through a glass dimly, but we do see. We do have light. What would Noah and his family
see if they walked up and looked out that window after about 20
or 30 days went by? What would they see? A world
perishing. If you're on the outside, didn't
you love, I had to read that, that verse 18, chapter 7, verse
17, chapter 7. When that flood covered the whole
world, when it was covered and destroyed, you saw there was
one thing, only one thing to be seen above it all. What was
it? The Ark. And when this is all
said and done, Christ, that duck, that stone of stumbling, that
rock of a fence, there He stands. Ark. Well, the Lord said in verse,
look at verse, we already looked at that, verse 15. A window,
verse 16, and a door, the door, one door. You still with me?
You want me to quit? I know we've heard this before,
but there's some things you haven't seen before. Some things I haven't
seen. The door of the ark was in the side there on the lower
part. Why is that? So a snail could
come in. But it was big enough to where
a giraffe could walk through. Door, you know, you've seen boats
that lower that door and a ramp to go up in there. It was heavy
enough for an elephant to walk around. Meaning anybody, big,
little, high and wide, low, could come through that door and it
was open. Come one, come all. He'd take
you in. Christ is the door. He said,
I am the door. Come unto me. Come. But you can't come to God
any other way. And it's just one door. Just
one way. And it's by Christ. Look at verse 16. Three stories. Three stories. It was three levels,
Craig. Three stories, but one ship.
These three are one ship. There are three that bear record.
Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. These three are one.
Christ is the only, He's the fullness of the Godhead, but
He's the one we will see. He's the one we found Him. The
Ark, oh my. So, Christ is the Ark. One window, one door. Who was
in the Ark? Who was in the Ark? Chapter 6,
verse 18. It says, verse 18, yeah, chapter 6. With thee will
I establish my covenant, bring thy sons and thy wife and thy
son's wife." Who was in there? Noah's wife, Noah's sons, Noah's
family. Who is in Christ? Who will be
in Christ? God's elect, God's children,
Christ's bride, his wife. Noah's not going to leave without
her. Chapter 7, verse 1 says, the
Lord said, Come thou and all thy house into the ark. Look,
do you see that? Come thou. The Lord said, Come
thou. Where was the Lord? He said, Come thou. Are you with
me? Come thou into the ark. So where
was he, John? He's in the ark. God was in Christ,
reconciling the world unto himself. So who was it calling us through
Christ? God Himself. Come. Come to the
ark. Come to the ark. Come thou and
all thy house into the ark for thee have I seen righteous before
me in this generation. God is well pleased for Jesus
Christ's righteousness. Well pleased. Verse 22 of the
previous chapter said, Thus did Noah, according to all that God
commanded him, so did he. And our Lord Jesus Christ did.
So did He. Who was in that ark? All of His
people. Look at verse 2. Of every clean
beast, chapter 7, verse 2, every clean beast shalt thou take thee
by sevenths, male and female. Of the unclean, two, male and
female. Now this was the goodness of
God. And the wisdom of God. You don't see herds of lions
do you? Tigers? Herds of man-eating animals? Aren't you glad? There was only
two on that ark. But there was seven clean. Seven clean, right? There are
herds of cattle, in God's goodness. How's all these people going
to eat? Have you seen pictures of some of these herds of animals? They're everywhere. God is so good. He's so good. But here's the reason for there's
seven of them. Seven clean, alright? One of
them is going to die. Look at chapter 8. Look at chapter
8. After it was over, verse 20,
are you with me? Chapter 8, verse 20, Noah built
an altar under the Lord and took of every clean beast. Every clean
thing. Six lived, one died. And it was a sweet savor unto
God. You know why we live? Because
someone died. Because Christ died. You know
why we're clean? We're in Him. They were all clean
in Him. Seven clean. Six lived. Christ
said, because I live, you shall live also. And because He died,
you die. How'd they all get in the ark?
Well, we already said that. Noah brought them. Noah called
them. Our Lord calls all His people. He said, My sheep hear
my voice. And they followed Him. I love
the thought of Noah standing on that door Maybe he went out
to get them and fetched them, maybe he did that. Maybe there's
a weak little lamb, you know, he put it on his shoulder and
brought it over home, probably. But all he had to do was call
them, didn't he? And lo and behold, wild creatures,
lions and tigers and bears and leopards came to him. You know,
when our Lord was tempted by Satan, you know who he dwelt
with, did you ever read that? with the wild beasts. Read it
for yourself. I think it's Luke's account.
He was with the wild beasts for 40 days. What was he doing? They
were all, they had nothing to fear in him. Doves were landing
on his shoulders. Fish were jumping out of water.
I'm not making this up. He was with the beasts. He's
our Noah. But all these creatures, came
to Noah when he called them. And God has a people out of every
kindred, nation, and tongue under heaven. And they all come to
Christ. How? They hear His voice. They hear His gospel. Black.
Black bears. White sheep. Red heifers. They all came to Noah. And all of God's people come
to Christ. Noah brings them. And Christ
brought us. All kinds. Now something remarkable
happened upon entering that ark. Number one, they called, they
came. It's amazing that they would come when Noah called.
But as soon as they went in that ark, something, a transformation
took place. A transformation took place.
When they got in that ark, I'm telling you the truth, now they
became new creatures. A lion and a lamb can't dwell
together. A wolf and a sheep will not get
along. Turn with me to Isaiah 11. Isaiah
11. There was a radical transformation
that took place for all of them to come and for all of them to
dwell together in unity and peace. They had to be new creatures.
The unclean became clean. Wild asses just settled down. Chapter 11 of Isaiah, it says
in verse, well, this whole chapter is about Jesus Christ. You know
that. He'll come, verse 1, He's the
rod, He's the branch. Spirit of the Lord, verse 2,
shall rest upon Him. The spirit of wisdom, understanding.
Verse 3, God will make Him a quick understanding and a fear of the
Lord. He'll not judge at the sight of His eyes, but will approve
with the hearing of the ears. But verse 4, with righteousness
shall He judge. Smite with the rod of His mouth.
Righteousness, verse 5, the girdle of his loin. Verse 6, and the
wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down
with the kid, and the calf and the young lion and the fat lamb
together, and a little child shall lead them, and the cow
and the bear shall feed. Their young ones shall lie down
together, and the lion, what's he going to eat? Straw. Like an ox. What's strong? Grass. They're all dwelling together
in that ark, in peace, in harmony, in love, new creatures. And so
it is with God's people. Every kindred, nation, and tongue.
You can't get the Hatfields and the McCoys to dwell together.
You can't get the Southerners and the Northerners to dwell
together. God does. He said, I'll call my children
from the North, and the South, and the East, and the West. And
they're coming to Christ, and they're going to dwell together
in perfect harmony and perfect unity. They're going to be new
creatures in Christ. Peaceable. Dwelleth together. Old things passed away. Old prejudices
are away, and they're all going to eat one thing. Well, I told
you what was in the ark. Let me tell you what's not in
the ark. You still with me? What's not in that ark is no
violence. No violence. There's no wrath. There's no
bloodshed. There's no death. Nobody died
in that ark. Not one creature died in that.
Nobody ate anybody else. No death. No bloodshed. No darkness. They all had light. No sickness. No stench. Whether there's no
sickness or death, there's no stench. That skunk told you about
that skunk. They let that skunk... Noah got
those skunks on there. Somebody said, don't let him
in here. Oh yeah. Every time. Lord took away his stinker. He's going to smell as good as
a... The horse's neck, most people know. You ever smell of a horse's
neck? No sickness, no stench, a sweet
smell. You know what? It was straw.
That's all everybody ate. No dead meat, no death. They
all ate straw. One thing I miss about the farm
is the barn. I used to love to go out in the
barn and buy alfalfa hay for my horses. I wanted to eat that
so bad. And men did find me napping there
quite a bit. Resting, nesting. Oh, how foul-behaved. Sweet smelling savor in Christ.
Oh, God's people love him. They just eat him like straw. No distinction. In that ark, there's no distinction.
They're all the same. No male, no female, no black,
no white, no red, no yellow, no skunks, no noble steeds. They're all the same in the Ark,
and we're all the same in Christ. There's no bondage. There's no
cages. You don't need a cage for the
lion. There's no bars, John. They're nests. They have liberty. They can come and go. They can
go in, go out. They can lie down here and there, wherever they
want to. No bondage. Perfect liberty. And so we haven't cracked. Come
in, out, find pasture. No hunger. How in the world did
Noah provide so much food for one year? They were on that ark
for one year. How could he provide so much food? Seriously? That's easy compared to how God
feeds this whole planet. One whale eats a ton of fish
a day. What? God feeds you. Oh, you little thing. No hunger,
no thirst, no complaining. When everybody realized God has
saved me by His mercy and by His grace, Shem, Ham, and Japheth,
their wives, Noah's wife, They realize we're here by the grace
and mercy of God. He saved us from destruction,
from wrath. If one of them did complain,
if Shem's wife said, I'd sure like to get... You shut up, woman. You ought to be happy to be here.
Oh, let us be content. Let us be thankful. Let us give
thanks. No murmuring and complaining
in here. No fear. No fear. It's shut in. It's shut in. And when you're shut in by...
He's the one that opes and no man shuts, and shuts and no man
opes. If God brought you to Christ, if you're really in Christ, if
that's your hope, you're found in Christ, you are found in Christ.
And if you're in Christ, who brought you? He did. And if He
brought you, He shuts him. Nobody's getting out. No one
out. Shut him. No fear. No doubts.
Shouldn't have any doubts. Shouldn't have any. Maybe somebody
did, but one of them would say to Noah, you reckon we're going
to make it? Like Manoah's wife. Manoah's
wife said, honey, God wouldn't have showed us these things. If He's going to kill us, champ,
if He's going to kill us, He wouldn't have put us in this
ark. He wouldn't have built this ark. Look what all God's done
for us. Just rest. Trust Him. What were they doing? What were
they doing in that ark? What do you do in a nest? You
rest. Eating. Yeah, they were eating.
Fellowshiping. What were they talking about?
Who's going to be elected next president? Oh, man. There was
no world. What ball team? What about the
game? What game? What are they talking about?
God's mercy. God's grace. They're talking
about Christ's redeeming. Salvation by His blood. They're
talking about a new world. What's it going to be like? Oh,
I can't wait to get there. That's what they're talking about.
And they're waiting. You know what they're doing? Eating, resting,
nesting, fellowshipping, and waiting on that door to open. And one day it did. Oh, damn. Oh, my. Thank God for His Word. Stand with me.