Thank you. Two of those hymns
were about our Lord lifting us up out of the ark. How everyone
all over the world, unbelievers, sank to the bottom. That ark, the Lord, everyone
in that ark, He lifted up above the overwhelming flood, and they
landed in a new earth. 1 Peter 3. We've looked at this Noah and
the Ark so many times as we should. It's one of the first stories
in the beginning of the world, the end of the world. The Lord
told us the end and the beginning, didn't He? And our Lord spoke
of this. This came to mind. Let's read
the text first, verses 18 through 22. Christ once suffered for sins,
but just for the unjust, like that ark. And He might bring
us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by
the Spirit. And by which the Holy Spirit
also He went and preached unto the spirits in prison, which
sometime, or at the time, of Noah is when the Spirit of God,
Christ, through Noah, preached, verse 20, when they were disobedient,
when once the long-suffering of God waited in the days of
Noah. Now the ark was preparing, wherein
few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. The like figure
whereunto baptism doth also now save us, not the putting away
of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience
toward God. By the resurrection of Jesus
Christ, who has gone into heaven and is on the right hand of God,
angels and authorities and power have been made subject unto him. This came to mind since the Lord
recently, this last little bit has been blessing us with a great
deal of rain. It made me think of the flood. It's easy to see how 40 days
of rain could destroy this world. It's easy to see, easy to believe
that the Lord sent a flood. It's easy to see and easy to
believe that the Lord is going to destroy this world forever
when you look around us and see how this world really is. We
need to be reminded of this. We just read it in 2 Peter 3,
didn't we? seeing all these things, shall
be dissolved." Isn't that right? Soon. What manner of persons
we ought to be. This is mentioned in the Ark
of Noah, and we're not going to talk so much about the Ark
as about Noah and faith. But this is often mentioned in
scriptures. David spoke of the flood in Psalm 104. Our Lord
mentioned it twice in the Gospels of Hebrews. mentions it. Paul, the writer, we think, Peter,
in both of his epistles, he wrote two short epistles in both of
them. He makes a point to bring up
the flood. And we should think about this
so much more as we see the day approaching. Our Lord said, as
in the days of Noah, so shall the coming of the Son of Man
be. And God's people like Noah, are waiting, waiting on the Lord. That's the name of this theme,
really, of this message, resting and waiting in the ark. Noah
entered the ark when it was finished, and he was resting, he rested,
and he was waiting on the Lord's word to come true. Preaching. Christ, our Lord, was a preacher.
2 Peter 2, it says of Noah that he was a preacher of righteousness. The Lord spared Noah, saved Noah,
the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in
the flood upon the world of the ungodly. Noah was a preacher
of righteousness. Well, our Lord Jesus Christ was
a preacher, wasn't he? And Noah, warned of God, warned
his family and all those around him. He preached righteousness. Right? And you remember Psalm
40? We read it last time I preached
to you. When was that? I've been gone
some time. Anyway, where the Lord said His
meat was to do the will of the Father, finish the work. And
Psalm 40 says, I preach righteousness in the great congregation. I
have not hid thy righteousness in my heart. I've declared thy
faithfulness and thy salvation. Noah was a preacher of righteousness,
a holy and righteous God, and our Lord was too. And the first
thing our Lord preached was repent, because God is open. God will
punish sin. The apostles, the prophets were
preachers, the apostles were preachers, evangelists, pastors,
preachers. God, it pleased God by the foolishness
of preaching to save them to believe. Whoever heard Noah and
the Lord gave them faith, they were in the ark, and it was his
family, which is a good picture. Noah saved his family by preaching
righteousness. He's a type of Christ. Christ
saves His family. It's only going to be His family
in Him. No strangers. At any rate, how
shall they hear without a preacher? How shall they hear without a
preacher? Please, God. Preaching is foolishness to the world. It's becoming more so all the
time because most so-called preachers are fools. What they do, what
they are, what they say is foolishness, and the world sees right through
it. But preaching is what God has
chosen to save His people. And preaching is this, all right? It's declaring God's Word, and
with urgency. Preaching is declaring the warnings
of God. How many times have we said that?
The warnings of God. and the promises of God. Because
there's no good news unless you've heard the bad news. Unless you've
been warned, you're not going to fear. You're not going to
need saving. See? Noah found grace in the
eyes of the Lord, and the Lord warned him. He moved. He believed. Preaching is declaring
God's Word, God's truth. Noah preached the Creator, Holy,
Sovereign, God over all. But the world says, no, there's
no God. What I'm getting at is, why were
so few people in that ark? They asked the Lord that one
time, Lord, are there few that be saved? Didn't they? How many
people believed the Lord Jesus Christ while he was on his service?
Not many. And in the end, in the beginning
it says many believed on him, but in the end it said many went
back and walked no more with him. And in the end, everybody
got together and crucified him. Noah preached God, the holy and
sovereign God who who will punish sin, who's angry, and the unrighteousness of man,
the evil of man, that man is evil altogether, from the sole
of his feet, his walk, the top of his head, his mind, his imagination,
nothing but evil continually. That's what the Lord said in
Genesis 6. And Noah saw that, and that's
what Noah preached. The depravity of man. The absolute
holiness of God. The sovereignty of God. The justice
of God. God will punish sin. The depravity,
the evil of man. But no, man says, now, and they
must have said it then, we're not that bad, Noah. God's not
that holy. We think God loves us all. No
judgment. We don't believe that. What law
are you talking about, Moses? There was no law. The soul that sinneth shall surely
die. Noah preached that. The wages of sin is death. Death
is coming. And God's the one that's going
to do it. But no, no, they don't believe that, and they don't
believe it now. No, they believe if anything will kill us, it'll
be global warming. Honestly, that's what men think.
Isn't that ironic? No, we're not going to die because
of sin. That's what God said. The wages
of sin is death. You're going to die because of
sin. No, we believe the environment is going to be our death or our
poor diet, and we're working to fix that up so we can live
forever. Right? That's what man said. That's
what the thought did. Man hadn't changed. That's what the thing
is. To preach is to declare that
Jesus Christ is God to come down on this earth. sent by God in
a covenant like Noah. God made a covenant with Noah.
Thee have I seen righteous in this generation. My covenant
is with you, Noah. If anybody's saved, it's going
to be you. Right? Nobody's going to be saved
but by Noah. You're going to have to be with
Noah in that ark, right? No, I don't believe that. No,
you think you're right. He was right and everybody else
was wrong, wasn't he? And they all found out, most
too late. Noah found grace. He found out
because he found grace. He was found in the ark. How about you? The world thinks
this story is a fairy tale, a fable. Oh, it's interesting. They built
a big model of it, you know, so everybody could go see. That's
like going to Disney World to see the kingdom or whatever that
is. Don't do it. Don't go there.
That's idolatry. It really is. The Lord said don't make any
image of anything. They found the brazen serpent
and Hezekiah had it ground to powder. They were worshiping
it. And so-called Christians, I'm sure, I guarantee, they get
down on their knees when they get in that ark and think it's
some kind of sacred ground. No, no, no, I wish it'd burn
up. Don't go see that. It's not a thing to be looked
upon with interest and amazement. People go away thinking about
that ark and who built it and how amazing the ark was, and
not thinking of Jesus Christ, he said. We worship God in spirit and
have no flesh. We don't need props like that.
To preach God's Word is to preach Jesus Christ as God come into
the flesh and has all power and all judgment. Yes, He's the God
of judgment. All judgment has been committed
unto Him. He's the one way to God. Noah, as I said, you're going
to be with Noah or you're going to be cast down. There was one name that God had
all men saved under. Noah. Noah the name. His name means rest. Rest. And Christ is the one name, the
only person under heaven given among men whereby we must be
saved. He's the way. There is no other way to God.
He is righteousness. Not ours. His blood, he must
die for you. He must be your sin payment. He must bear your sins in his
body on the tree and God punish him in your stead and shed his
blood for your sins to be remitted. That's the truth. But the world
says no. God, that's barbaric, that's
bloody religion. And they thought it then, they
thought it, and think it now. So there were eight people. Why were there so few? After,
Noah was preaching this for a hundred years, maybe more. We don't know
when Noah actually found grace in the eyes of the Lord. It says
he was 500 years old when he started having children. But
the Lord may have revealed himself to him years before that. At
any rate, he preached, he was a preacher for a long time. And
in the end, eight people. Amazing. They thought this was
all foolishness. So preaching is warnings and
promises that. Noah, There's mercy. Noah, I love you. You've found
grace in my eyes. I'm going to show mercy to you,
Noah. You're going to be found in the ark. I've shown you the
way. My mercy, my love, my grace,
my kindness, my longsuffering to you, Noah. You and your house
come into the ark. What mercy, what a promise, you
shall be saved. Hebrews 11, go over to Hebrews
11 with me. Warnings, warnings of the consequences of sin. Rebellion
against God brings consequences, doesn't it? And promises of the
mercy, grace, peace with God, forgiveness of God for all who
repent. Boy, that's an old-fashioned message, isn't it? You just don't
hear it anymore. The God that we repent to is
a holy God, a just God. And the goodness of God leads
us to repent. But you don't hear that anymore.
Promises of mercy. What's mercy? Not getting what
you deserve, being spared. Noah knew that he should have
drowned in the flood like everybody else. It was a time when he didn't
know God. It was a time he didn't believe.
Shem, he knew that. Noah's wife, Shem's wife maybe,
I don't know. It was a time they all knew they
didn't know God. But God chose them and revealed
the way of mercy and grace, the heart. And so preaching is preaching
the warnings and the promises of God that are in, all of them
are in Christ Jesus. All the promises of God were
in that ark. And they're in Christ, and they're
yay and amen. Lord, will that ark save us? Yay. Noah said amen. Noah preached this for a hundred
plus years. Hebrews 11, 7. By faith, Noah,
Hebrews 11 verse 7, by faith, Noah be warned of God. It says, by grace you are saved
through faith. And that's not of yourself. It's
the gift of God. So Noah found grace in the eyes
of the Lord. The Lord gave him faith. He received
this precious gift called faith to believe God. To believe the
unseen God. To believe the warnings. To believe
the promises. to leave the covenant. Noah found
grace. By my faith, Noah being warned
of God. See the first thing? Warned. What does being warned do? What
does that cause in you? Fear. Where's the fear of God
today? Noah being warned of God, moved
with fear. Fear of the Lord. The Proverbs.
What's the very first proverb that Solomon begins with? Significantly,
it's the seventh verse. Proverbs 1, verse 7. The fear
of the Lord is the beginning of nothing. That's the first
proverb. Fear. Verse 7. Hebrews 11, 7. Genesis 7. Seven days. It's not by accident. By faith, Noah, being warned
of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear. He moved
with fear, fear of the Lord. Do you fear God? Do you? It says he prepared an ark. The
Lord told him there's one way. There's one way, and this is
the truth. And this is your life, Noah,
this ark. So he, I believe you, Lord. I believe you. When the overflowing
scourge of my wrath comes nigh, God said to Noah, there's one
way. I'm telling you the truth. And this is your life, the ark. And Noah prepared an ark. You know, real faith believes. Real faith fears God. Real faith
moves. Real faith comes to Christ. It
confesses Christ. We're going to look at that in
our text. He was baptized. Noah was baptized. Real faith desires more than
anything else to be found in Christ. Really. Real faith wants
more than anything else to be found in Christ. Noah believed God, so what was
his hope? Is that when the wrath of God
falls that he's found in the ark, right? He lived in the world. Noah had responsibilities and
things to do. He had home and all that, food
and so forth. Didn't he have things to do?
That went on as always. But his overriding thoughts,
the thing that he thought on all the time, every day, day
in and day out, and worked on every day, wasn't a day that
went by that he didn't think about, the ark. Is that you? That's faith. That's to believe God. The ark
was Noah's life. It says, to the saving of his
house. And Noah moved with fear. He moved. He got up. Went to work. Faith literally
moves where Christ is, where the gospel is. Yes, it does. And will not be moved away. Nobody
could entice Noah away from that ark. Nobody. Noah going, I don't
have time for that. And what you need to do is join
me in working on this ark. To the saving of his house. You
know, he wanted his house saved. The ark was Noah's life, and
it was his family's life. He knew that. If my family lives,
if my wife lives, if my sons live, if their wives live, they're
going to be in the ark. And he talked about it every
day. And he had his son. I like to
think about Shem, Ham, and Japheth. I don't know how old they were,
but, you know, like those three, four boys back there. Stephen
and Hope have them in here hoping they'll be in the ark someday.
Right? Do you think Shem, Ham, and Japheth
wanted to work on that ark? Get up, Shem. Oh, do I have to? Get up, son. Japheth, where are you going?
You come with me, son. I want you in that ark. There's
nothing on this earth I want more for you than to be in that
ark. I'm telling you the truth, boys. Tell your wives. This is real. It was their life, too. All he
wanted for his wife and his sons were to be found in that ark. Now, as said, they had things
that they had to do. They had responsibility. Is it
wrong? Did they have houses they lived
in? Probably. The Lord said that, that buying and selling and building
and eating and drinking and so forth, that's nothing wrong with
any of those things. Okay? But don't let it take your
mind away from it. And don't let it ever take you
away from the Gospel. Because there's one thing to
eat for. Right? So, look at Genesis 7. Look at Genesis 7. And it says
Noah condemned the world, didn't he? Condemned the world. Genesis 7, now look at this,
you're going to like this. Genesis 7, talking about resting
and waiting in the ark. A hundred years, for a hundred
years, Noah preached this message. Long time. And that ark was his
life. Where would you find Noah every
day? If you're looking for Noah, where
would he be? The ark. Where's Christ going to be? With his people. The ark is a
picture of the church, too, isn't it? Christ, Noah. Where are you going to find him?
Noah is one of God's people. Where are you going to find him?
In the ark. Working on the ark. Serving the
ark. He believes God. You know Christ
and His church are one. You can't separate them. You
can't separate them. You can't have one without the
other. Right? That's right. Genesis 7, look
at that. Verse 1. The Lord said unto Noah, here's
how he found grace, come now. and all thy house into the ark.
For thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation."
How did he see him as righteous? How did he see Abraham as righteous?
What did it say? Abraham believed God and was
counted on the infirmary. Of course, he's a picture of
Christ there, certainly. But faith is counted for righteousness. Come now, verse 7, Noah went
in. He believed God. When God says,
come, you'll come. You go in. You come to Christ. Our Lord said, all that the Father
giveth me shall come to me. And, in the coming of the day. I want no wise cast out. No sinner,
you know they don't. You know what he did a few years
after the flood. It took years to grow like that
wine. Years. It was a one time thing. And nevertheless, he was a sinner.
Okay? Like everybody else, he's a sinner.
But he found grace in the eyes of the Lord. How do we know?
He's in the ark. He's in the ark. Verse 13. It
says, In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and
Jacob, the sons of Noah, and their wives, and three wives
of his sons with them into the ark. It just keeps saying, into
the ark, into the ark, into the ark, into the ark. Look at chapter
6. I love this. Verse 18. This is
a picture of Christ. With thee will I establish my
covenant, and thou shalt come into the ark, and thy wives,
and sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives, with thee. Every
living thing of all flesh, two of every sort, shalt thou bring
into the earth, to keep them alive with thee. Verse 20, Fowls
and cattle and creeping things, after his kind, two of every
sort, shall come unto thee, to keep them alive. You see? One person, one way, one life,
one truth. With Noah in the ark. With Christ. They found in him. Verse 16.
It says they went in, all of them, male and female, as God
had commanded him. See, he gave commandment to save
Noah, didn't he? And you too. If you've come to
Christ because God chose you and God commanded you to. Almighty
love. Arrest that man. Bring him to
me. Fetch old Mephibosheth. He can't
come, he won't come. Fetch him. I'm going to show
him kindness for Christ's sake. That's the gospel, isn't it?
That's the gospel. So they went in and it says,
oh, don't you love these words? The Lord shut him in. Do you have your Gatsby handle
there close by? I don't have mine. 685. 685. Look at this. This is marvelous.
This is marvelous. You have it? Everybody have one? Gatsby's Hymnal? Everybody needs
to have one at home. This is the best hymnal ever
written. Marvelous. 685 says, now when
Noah with his favored few was ordered to embark, embark is
a boat, ship, you know that, in order to get in a boat, eight
human souls, a little crew, entered on board his ark. Though every
part he might secure with bar or bolt or pin to make the preservation
sure, That didn't do it. Jehovah shut him in. The waters then might swell their
tides, the billows rage and roar, they could not stave the assaulted
sides, nor burst the battered door. I thought, did the Lord
oversee Noah building that ship? I believe he did. I believe the
Lord Jesus Christ was right there by his side, commanding. Making
sure every single board, every crack in every board was pitched. You reckon? He's the one that
shut him in. Read on. It says, Souls, verse
4, So souls that enter Christ believe quickened by vital faith
eternal life at once received and never shall see death. Now
in his own heart, the Christian puts no trust but builds his
hopes on him that opes and no man shuts and shuts and no man
opes. I love that. In Christ, his ark,
he safely rides, not wrecked by death or sin. How is it he
so safe abides? The Lord has shut him in. I can see it. I believe this
actually happened. The Lord Jesus Christ, when that
ark was finished, went out there, and it's a big door, wide door,
tall door, giraffes can get in. Wide, high, wide, able. I believe the Lord Jesus Christ,
like He had that stone rolled away, went out, You see, the
Lord was in the ark and said, Noah, come back. Because God
was in Christ, reconciled unto him and said, come back. And
then when they came unto him in the ark, and I believe Noah
went in first before the animals. In chapter 6 it says, you'll
bring them. And in verse 20 it says, they'll
come to you. I believe he went out and called
them. Elephants, you, you, you, you,
you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you,
you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you,
you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you,
you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you,
you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you,
you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you,
you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you,
you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you,
you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you It says, seven days. Now look at
this, verse 4, chapter 7, for seven days. God waited seven
days and the work was finished. Seven days. God's Word is so perfect. Now I'm not sure if He shut the
door and then waited seven days, or the door was open for seven
days, or maybe it took seven days for all of the animals to
get in that ark. That's kind of what I believe.
It took seven days for all of those animals to come to Noah.
But the ark was finished. Noah finished the work, didn't
he? There was nothing left to do. It's finished. Dad? Shem may have said, did you get
that spot on top of it? Is it really going to rain? Yeah,
it's covered, son. It's finished. The Lord oversaw. Not one drop's going to come
on us. So when Noah went in that ark and sat, and all those animals
started coming to him, seven days, all right? And I told them
at the end of the other day, you know, it was a tough hundred-plus
years preaching, and so few people believed. and stopped and mocked
and laughed at it. It never rained before. And they
just mocked and scoffed at it. No, come on. Really, you don't
believe that, do you? Fire, the fire's going to fall
out of heaven, that God is actually going to... Oh, come on. Didn't
it? They scoffed at it. That was
hard enough. But when, I believe when the
world scoffed and laughed and mocked and maybe they all gathered
outside that door, when Noah went in and sat down, and for
seven days, no hammer, no tool, the work was finished. He sat
there and he waited. He's waiting. He's resting. Work's finished. He's resting. The door of the
ark's open. Now, that had to have been a
tough time for nobody. Those seven days seemed like
a long time. Beloved, don't be ignorant of
this now. You know, 6,000 years have passed
like that. A day is 1,000 years. That's how quickly it's gone
by. As a dream, as a sleep, you wouldn't wake up. As a vapor,
it's your life. 6,000 years have passed. Billions
and trillions of people have died in front of us. You know,
all of those people are dirt under our feet right now. Everybody
that died in the flood are dirt under our feet. That's sobering, isn't it? And we're going to live 70 years
at the most, 80 at the most. And then what? Better be in the
ark. It may be in the ark. But Noah
sat in that ark, and the work is finished. And he's confident. He believes God. Let the world
laugh. Right? They're laughing. They're
mocking. Look at him. They're saying, what a fool. What a fool,
Noah. Look at him in there. Noah, that's going to be his
coffin. You're right. You're right. Didn't Paul say
in Galatians 6, I am crucified with Christ, and the world is
crucified to me. Noah went in, sat in that ark,
waiting. On what? The Word of God to be
fulfilled. The rain to fall. You know, Scripture
says that Christ shall come down like rain. On the what? Mown
grass. And he went in that ark and he
sat there and he's waiting, confident. The work is finished. It's complete. The Lord said it will hold you. This ark will keep you. And he
sat there and he waited. Nobody else came in. And the
Lord went out there and shut that door and took a bucket of
pitch and pitched the seam on that door. All around. People may have been walking
by. I believe it's happening. Who's that man? No one knew who
it was. No one knew that man. The world
didn't. Who's that man? In the windows of heaven. Go back to our text now, real
quickly. 1 Peter 3. Let me close with this, because
this is vital. 1 Peter 3. Go back there. You know, we read there in 2
Peter 3 about water, water, water. It says, 8 souls were saved by
water, water, water. The world began in water. The
Lord created the world in water. The world overflowed by water.
Didn't it? You can't have life without water.
Christ said, I am the water. You're going to live by Him or
you're going to die by Him. The Word is His water. The Word.
The water of the Word. You're either going to believe
His Word and be saved by it, or you're going to be damned
by it. Right? Water. Water. The Red Sea. The people
of Israel crossed through on dry land. The waters were a wall
unto them. The waters kept. They were saved
by the water hedging them about. What was it to the Egyptians?
They are saved to go through and the water destroyed them.
That's Christ. He's the water. Eight souls saved
by water. The rest of the world dammed
by water. Babies weren't dammed. God mercifully
saved millions, billions of babies by water. So it keeps talking
about water. But look at 1 Peter 3. It talks about eight souls saved
by water. The like figure baptism also
does save us by the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Christ is that water. We're saved
by Him, being found in Him, crucified with Christ, buried with Christ.
Noah and his family were baptized into that ark in the water. The
water covered that ark, didn't it? The overflowing scourge of
God's wrath just covered that ark and they were tossed about.
By the way, they were in that ark a year. What's the longest
you've ever been in a boat? Oh, you know the hardships in
that boat? Sickness? Sadness? Sorrow? But they were in that
ark. They were saved. They were kept
by that ark. They had trouble, but they're gone. Someone said
one time that Noah stumbled and fell one day. He fell. He's a righteous man, but he
fell. But he didn't fall out of the ark. He fell in the ark. And the Lord picked him up. See,
the ark was kept by the power of God. Who? What's that? Christ. Their ark has shut us in, pitched
us, promised us. We're in here, safekeeping. And
baptism, you see, is the answer of a good conscience toward God. Baptism is a figure of Noah and
the ark of what it means to be found in Christ, to believe Him,
to confess Him, is by coming to Him and being found in Him,
going into Him. And going into that pool is the
same thing as Noah going into that ark. You know, baptism today,
put to the world, is an old-fashioned, ridiculous, when they hear about
baptism. Can you hear them scoffing? Our Lord said, he that believeth
and is baptized shall be saved. And when Peter preached at Pentecost,
he said, Save yourselves from this untoward generation. Repent. Be baptized. Every one of you. And it says everybody that received
his word were gladly were baptized. Every one of them. Three thousand
souls were baptized. Every person in that ark was
It says in 1 Corinthians 10 that all the children of Israel were
baptized into Moses in the sea and in the cloud and in the sea. Is it important? It doesn't save
us, but it's the answer of a good conscience. Meaning, a conscience
that's convicted of sin. A conscience. that's convicted
of sin, a conscience that knows, that's been taught by God, that
it's not our works. Conscience purged from dead works.
It's not our works. We're saved one way. Christ.
Ask Noah. Noah, why were you saved? The
ark. It's the only reason I live,
Noah said. Shem, what about you? The ark. So, you know, baptism is the
answer of a good conscience. Fear? A good conscience fears
God. A good conscience believes God.
A good conscience rests in the promises of God. A good conscience
is purged from dead works. The serf, Noah, worked on the
ark all the time. His conscience wouldn't let him
go after anything else. Do you understand? God wouldn't
let him be turned aside to anything else. God kept pricking his conscience,
the ark. A good conscience is one who's
waiting, believing, hoping in Christ to come and get him and
raise him up, like that ark. Because it goes on to say he's
gone into heaven. He's on the right hand of God.
Angels and authorities and power have made the subject of the
end. And we all believe, we all believe that our salvation is
completely and wholly in Jesus Christ. We've come to Christ
by His grace, we've found grace in His eyes, we fear God, we
believe God, we trust Christ, we look to Christ, we rest in
Christ, we gather together and we talk about Christ, our Ark.
Every time we get together, so much more as we see the day approaching
and God's true people, their conscience makes him plead to
be found in him in that day. And we know that God's Christ
is coming for his people to raise him up the last day. And so we
want to be found like that ark. We don't want to sink. We don't
want to drown in this world in perdition. We want to be raised
up to be with Him in a new heaven and a new earth, don't you? Oh,
if you do, you've found grace. Okay, stand with me.