wondrous sovereign of the sea. I like lofty language when you
describe our Lord. In talking about the gospel,
it needs simple, easy-to-be-understood terms, but language can't get
lofty enough when you describe that wondrous sovereign of the
sea. Right? His name shall be called
Wonderful. And on and on the Scriptures describes Him to our finite minds. Genesis 6. This morning we looked at Noah
the sinner, and tonight And by God's grace, we're going to look
at Noah the Savior. We're going to look at Noah as
a type of the Lord Jesus Christ. It was because of Noah, it was for Noah's sake, that
everyone with him was saved. Right? Because of Noah. For Noah's sake, God said, thee
have I seen righteous. It didn't say that about Noah's
sons. It didn't say that about Noah's
wife. It said Noah. Because of him,
for Noah's sake, everyone with Noah was saved. I've already
spoken the gospel, haven't I? For those of you who have eyes
to see and ears to hear. Verses 1 through 7 we looked
at this morning speak of the utter depravity
and sinfulness of man, how that God said he would destroy
man and beasts. And we saw this morning, I think,
that it is the same now in our generation as it was in the days
of Noah. Man is the same. He's the same
wicked, vile, depraved, sinful creature. He hasn't changed a
bit, but neither has our God. He said, I'm the Lord. I change not. Noah found grace,
and we found that others have found grace, too, in the eyes
of the Lord. He hasn't changed. He's still
gracious. He's still merciful. But man
is the same sinful, depraved creature, and God will someday
soon, I believe, based upon the Scripture, God
will someday soon destroy man and beast again. God will destroy man, but not
all men. not all mankind. Some, like Noah,
have been chosen by God. Some have been elected by God. Some are objects of his love,
his mercy, and his grace. Those sinners, like Noah was,
they will be spared. And the reason being, the reason
that God chose to spare some. The reason that God has elected
some to save some is because he placed them in a just man. They are found in and with a
just man. All right, look at verse 9. I
think you've already seen this. and know where we're headed.
Verse 9 says, These are the generations of Noah. Now, back in chapter
8, verse 29, we see his name is called Noah for a reason. His father called him Noah, saying,
This same shall comfort us. His name, Noah, means rest. He'll comfort us concerning our
work. and toil of our hands because
of the curse of the Lord. We'll get comfort because of
the curse through this son, Noah. Rest. Noah's family, back then, before he was born,
Noah's family took great comfort from this son, didn't they? Well,
so do the past saints in the Old Testament. They took comfort
and consolation in knowing that someday a child would be born,
a son given, and we'll receive great comfort and rest through
him. And then after Noah was born,
Noah's wife, Noah's children, they rested in Noah, didn't they? They found comfort in Noah. They
found the place a haven of rest, a place that they could be free
from fear of condemnation and judgment and death, because God
accepted Noah. He said so. God accepted Noah. So Noah's boy, Noah's wife, could
feel comfortable, because they were with Noah, you see. God
accepted Noah. He would accept me, because I
went with him. God's gonna save Noah in the ark, but I'm going
in with him, so I'm gonna be saved too, see? So they were
comforted as well. Noah was their representative.
Right? Noah was their representative.
Noah was their hiding place. Noah, in effect, was their righteousness. God said, I've seen thee righteous.
Jesus Christ is our Noah. our rest, our comfort. And we
are the generations of Jesus, the regenerated of Jesus Christ. Read on. Verse 9. Now, these
are the generations of Noah. Rest, comfort. Noah was a just
man. Noah was a just man. Now, the Scripture says a just
shall live by faith. How is a man justified by faith?
A man, to be justified by God, must live by faith. Believe God. Live by faith. The Scripture says, great is
the mystery of godliness. God was manifest in the flesh. A child was born. Son was given,
a man made of a woman, made under the law, a man. The Word was
made flesh and dwelt among us. The Word was made flesh and he
was justified in the Spirit. The Scripture says in 1 Timothy
3, 6, 10, justified in the Spirit. Jesus Christ, as a man, lived
by faith. Now, that's a miracle in itself.
It really is. Christ became a man for men so
he could not perform miracles for himself. He had to live by
faith in his God. Now, there's real comfort in
that for me. How about you? A man. Christ was a man who had
perfect faith in his God. Perfect thing. He was justified
in or by the Spirit. Romans 1 said he was declared
justified in the Spirit. Justified means declared holy,
doesn't it? And what do I mean? It means
to be declared holy, righteous, just, pure in the eyes of God. Justified. Just as if I'd never
sinned, but more than that. To be holy. Justified. justified,
or declared holy and righteous. Romans 1 says he was declared
to be the Son of God. How? According to the spirit
of holiness. According to the spirit of holiness.
Christ was a just man. The only real just man that ever
lived. Only man. The Scripture says
it over and over again. Who shall ascend under the holy
hill of the Lord? Only he that has clean hands,
a pure heart, a pure heart, mind, thought, word, deed, motive,
everything about him, never lifted up his soul unto vanity, or sworn
to be a just man. Who can find him? Is there a
just man on the earth? Jobat, is there a just man? How
can he be clear he was born a woman? It's a mystery, isn't it? Great
is the mystery of God the man. He was justified in the spirit. A man was just a man and just
one was just. Jesus Christ, a just man. And
we are justified by faith in him, by his faith, by his faith. Read on. It says, no one was
a just man. Now, we've heard all these things
before, haven't we? I've said these very same exact words. I have books that foot full of
sermons. I don't know how many I've preached
since I've been here. I say the same things over and over. But I'm telling you, this is
all your comfort. This is the gospel. This is all
your peace, your consolation, your comfort, your hope, your
strength. This is my job. to make line upon line, precept
upon precept, precept upon precept, to bring remembrance. I would
have you, Peter said, to be in constant remembrance of these
things. And when I'm dead, Peter said, I want somebody else to
come along and remind you of these. And when I'm dead, if
you're still around, whoever replaces me, I want him to say
the same thing. I was telling the brethren, and
I listened to Brother John Chapman's message that he preached here
when I was gone in Thanksgiving. He preached on Zacchaeus. And
he just, just the gospel's so simple and plain and clear, things
you've heard a thousand times. I've heard men preach on Zacchaeus
dozens of times, and my heart was so lifted. I knew what he
was going to say before he said it, but I enjoyed it. I was riding that high off my
seat going down to North Carolina. That's the power of God. You
see, this is what makes the gospel the power of God, is that you
can hear the same things over and over again and still delight
in them. And that's what I'm supposed
to do now. And I won't get tired of this.
To write, to preach the same things, to me, is not grievous.
You'd think I'd get tired of writing these things. Just reach
up and grab another sermon. And you mean you might as well
say the same thing. Every time I study it and write
the same things, it's still fresh. It's a just man. And I endeavor
to say it in such a way that I can't Now, it's up to God to
make these things live, he said. But just shall live by faith.
Well, we've never had man to say, really. Christ did. A man lives by faith. And he
says, because I did that, you're going to live. To be lived by
the faith, what? You know, I'll let you speak
once. Say it. Ah, the Son of God. who loved us and died for us
by His faith. God says a man's going to be
justified by faith. Henry, you're going to be justified
by faith. You got any? Not much. Nothing to speak of. Sometimes doesn't look like you
have any at all. Christ did. You're going to live by the faith
of the Son of God, the faithfulness of the Son of God. It's not your
faith that's going to save you, Henry. It's not. It's not. The
day you die, you might not be able to say his name. Right? Somebody might say to you, do
you believe Jesus Christ? When your mind's gone, or Zimmer
kicks in fully, you might say, who? Right? What's your hope? That he knows
you, remembers you. Huh? Lord remember me? He was
perfect in his generations. See that, verse 9? Noah was a
just man. Christ is, oh, a just man. Perfect in his generations. Perfect. Upright. Even his enemies,
even those who sought to kill him, tried to find something
bad about this man. Pilate, he tried. Samuel, he
tried. And his wife said she suffered
many things because of this man. In dreams, he tried, he wanted
to find something that he could condemn this man for. He said,
I find no fault in it. Behold the man! What a man! Pilate saw him, he'd seen, that
old Roman ruler, he'd seen man after man after man, wheels under
Roman pressure and pain and torture and suffering and all that, that
those professional soldiers brought upon countless people. They'd seen man after man come
and go, and they saw him. Oh, wait, behold the man! What a man! Take his beard out! Pull him into a bloody mass!
Clear him with thorns! He didn't utter a peep. Held charge after charge after
charge, condemnation, all false, against him. What did he do? Behold the man! What a man! What an upright man! This is
man. This is the God-man. Behold the
man. A man approved of God. A just man. The only one. The only one. A perfect man.
Perfect man. Perfect man. Perfect God and
perfect man. What a mystery. Perfect in His
generations. Perfect. And Noah, it says, verse
9, walked with God. Oh, Christ walked with God, didn't
He? Oh, Nancy, I'd like—just for
thirty seconds of my life, He did it twenty-four hours a day. Sometimes he went days without
sleeping. Why? He was walking with his
God. Days, forty days and nights without
eating anything. We go, we go four hours and we're
miserable. Forty days, they said, Lord,
take something and eat something. Well, he went forty days, but
he did that over and over again, day after day without eating.
He said, Lord, eat something. He said, I'm eating. Didn't he,
Barbara? He said, I'm eating. Well, what
if we don't see anything? I know you don't. I've caught
meat to eat that you don't know of. Someday you will. Walking with his God, he said,
as a child, a 12-year-old boy. A 12-year-old boy. How old are
you, Andrew? 11? He said, I must be about my father's
business. A twelve-year-old boy. He was a man and when he was
twelve years old, he walked with his God. He said,
I do always those things which please my Heavenly Father. I
can't say that ever. I don't ever do anything which
pleases my Heavenly Father. Do you? I try, but I fail miserably. He said, I do always those things
which please my Heavenly Father. Always! He said, I delight to do thy
will. I find in myself another law
worrying against my will. But I cannot do the things that
I would do it. He said, I always do. Whew, man. He walked with God, didn't he? His meat, his drink, his life,
his conversation, his walk was with his God. Ah, boy. Jesus Christ. You know, Noah's name means rest,
and our Lord's name speaks rest to his people, does it? Huh?
His very name speaks rest to his people. Lord. You call me
Lord? So I am. He's Lord of the dead
and the living. Lord. We're in his hand, Lord. Let me speak peace to you. I
don't say it like Kenneth Copeland, some of these blasphemous fools,
just as kind of a byword, just so you won't think we're heretics.
He's Lord. That's the joy and rejoicing
of my heart. That's the peace and the comfort
of my life. He's Lord. People say that, don't
they, as a byword, as a catchphrase. Jesus is Lord. It's the salvation
and the sustenance and the provision. It's everything to believe. He's
Lord. Let's speak peace to you. You
want to speak a word in season to somebody that's suffering,
that's sorrowing, that's troubled and tried and afflicted? You want to speak one word in
season? He's Lord. Say it enough, Terry. Say, I'm
the Lord. I kill. I make alive. The Lord gave. The Lord taketh
away. Blessed be the name of the Lord. More than a praise to His people,
it's rest and comfort. Lord Jesus. Call His name Jesus. We hesitate to use it very much,
don't we? Because this world is so abused it. But I tell you,
it means something to us, doesn't it? Call His name Jesus. Why? He shall save. It means Savior. It means Savior, Barbara. Jesus. There's only one that deserves
that name, isn't there? There's a bunch of them down
in Mexico, little brown-skinned Jesuses, but they can't save
a flea. Oh, there was a brown-skinned
Jewish boy that was born, though. He can save anybody. Jesus, Savior, Christ, Messiah,
comes for your man. Is not this the Christ? The woman
said, yes it is. It's the Christ, the one we've
been waiting on. That's what Christ means, the one we've been
waiting for, the Messiah. The Messiah. Every single people
on earth has a Messiah. The Islamic people, they believe
in Muhammad. The Buddhists believe in, I don't
know what they believe in, Buddha. I don't believe he's coming back.
believe in what he said. The Hindus believe in Krishna
or some manifestation of him in some form of an elephant or
something. I tell you, we've got a person, a Christ, a Messiah, who's coming
back, who's coming back. Every other Messiah died with
no and their bones are in graze. We've got one who's seated at
the right hand of the majesty on high, and he's coming back,
a real THE Messiah. Verse 10, it says, Noah begat
three sons. Noah begat three sons. Well,
we are sons of God through Jesus Christ our Lord. We are begotten
by the Word of God, which liveth and bideth forever. Who's that,
John? That's Christ, isn't it? Huh?
He's the Father. He says He's the Son. No, He's
the Father. The begatta. Tell them if I've been so long
time with you, you don't know me. If you've seen me, you've
seen the Father. We're begotten of Him. Begotten
of God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit. Noah begat
sons, and ours did too. Our Noah did too. Cry. All right,
and God said to Noah—I said something to Noah here. Verse 13, God said unto Noah,
The end of all flesh is come before me. The earth is filled
with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with
the earth. Noah, make an ark. Noah, you've
got to do a great and difficult work to save mankind. to save your family. Noah, I've
got a job for you to do. Build an ark. Make an ark. Make
thee an ark. The Word, the Scripture says,
was made flesh. Made flesh. Christ was made an ark for us,
wasn't it? Huh? Christ was made that ark. The word was made flesh. The Jews said this, listen, the
Jews said, we stone thee because you being a man, make yourself
God. Well, spiritual Israel, the true
Jews says, we crown thee because you being God, make yourself
man. Huh? True Jews. He made himself. That's the mystery
in it. He made himself. The father. The child of the mother was her
father. He made himself of no reputation. Christ made himself our ark. No one was told to make an ark.
Christ did. He made an ark, a tabernacle,
a place for him to dwell in and his people to. A refuge, a hiding
place, a cleft rock. Now, verses 14 through 16 describe
the ark, and I'm not going to go into that now. I want to do
a whole message on that, just on Christ the ark, because there's
much to be seen there. We're looking at a man now, looking
at Noah. So look down at verse 17. And so Noah was given a work
to do, an ark to build for the salvation of mankind. Do you
know that Noah saved mankind? Not all men, without exception,
but he saved mankind. as the species, didn't it? Well,
so did Jesus Christ. Oh yeah, God so loved the world,
mankind, as a species. Isn't this the way this is written,
Brother Ed? He so loved his creation. He so loved the species of man,
creating his own image. He wasn't going to destroy this
image completely. He so loved mankind as a species
that He sent His Son. God so loved the world that He
gave His only begotten Son. What did He give Him for? Gave
Him a work to do to save man. Christ saved mankind. Had it
not been for Christ the Ark, God would have wiped out all
mankind. Gave Him a work to do. Scripture
says, a body hast thou given me, an ark, to do this work. Verse 17, God said, Behold, I,
even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all
flesh, wherein is the breath of life from under heaven, and
everything that is in the earth shall die. Everything that's
in the earth, but not everything in the ark. So God gave Noah
a work to do, and it was a long and a difficult task. A long
and a difficult task. Noah was a hundred and twenty
years—I hope we don't take that long building our house—a hundred
and twenty years. Can you imagine? A hundred and
twenty years he was in building this park. The reason being,
because it was such a great work. The size of that ship, and for
one man to do it, it doesn't say he had any help. Does it,
Rick? You see anywhere where it says
that Shem, Ham, and Japheth helped him in it? We're just surmised
that they did, but it doesn't say they did. So I guess they
didn't. I don't know. when by himself
he built this ark. That's the reason it took him
120 years. By himself! Could be his boys were worthless,
about like much of their money now. Didn't want to help him
in, huh? By himself, that would work,
wouldn't it? It worked for the tithe. When he had by himself
built this ark. That's our Lord Jesus Christ,
when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down. the right
hand of God. But 120 years Noah was in building
this ark, because he did it by himself for one thing, but there
were exact blueprints to follow. God wrote him specific orders
in how to build this ark, and every jot and tittle was to be
followed, wasn't it? Exact blueprint were drawn from
God's Word. God spoke the Word, and Noah,
I bet you Noah was Okay, an arc, how big is it going to be? It's
going to be so, so, it's going to be, uh, uh, 300, 300 cubits. Hold on, Lord. Wait a minute,
let me write this down. 300 cubits and, uh, and so on
as the Lord dictated to, Lord, wait a minute, I want to make
sure that I get this down. Now, how am I supposed to do
that? He took exacting blueprints from the Lord. And then the time
it took him to gather all the materials. Now, he just didn't
go down to Forty West, building supply. Trees had to be cut down. Had my hand sawed, shaped, planed,
seasoned. They'll put green wood in there
and season it. Just, you can imagine the work
involved in building this big mountain. Huh? Material, trees,
salt. And they weren't taken just from off the property. They
were loaded down. Just, the work was tremendous. A daunting task. The actual work
was long and arduous. Great physical pain and suffering
that he endured. Noah suffered in building this
mountain. You know he did. pain and exhaustion. Well, Christ
was given a work to do, a work to perform, a people to save. And He was given these people.
When was He given to them? When He turned thirty? Before the foundation of the
world. This was a long work, wasn't it? According to the Scripture,
You see, every jot and tittle, think about this, every jot and
tittle of God's infinite law had to be written. You know how
complex the Scriptures are, Stan? How intricately woven they are,
how amazing, just how glorious the Scriptures are. It had to
be written. It had to be written, it had to be fulfilled. Every
detail. Every detail, listen, in the
life of every person. Purpose, it had to be purposed
and planned before... ...down and put in a blueprint. That's the reason the Scripture
says a day is a thousand years with the Lord. Every day in the
life of mankind, the Lord spent the equivalent of a thousand
years in purposing and planning it. Think about that. It was a long and difficult work. Time went by. Thousands of years,
the work was being carried out. The work was being carried out.
The ark was being built. Huh? You see those beautiful
pictures throughout the oak? The ark was being built, wasn't
it? Board upon board, brick upon brick. The house was being built. Until one day, John, the last
Old Testament prophet, said, there he is. Look. There's the
ark. Here he comes, the Lamb of God.
And then, those thirty-three years that Christ spent on this
earth, he lived eternity in 33 years. I kind of believe he looked like
an old man at 33 years old. Maybe I'm wrong. I don't know.
Sin has something to do with aging, but you know he didn't
look like a child. He looked like a man. Sorrow
and sin and suffering, the weight of sin and suffering and His
responsibility and all weighed upon Him. It had lines in His
face, furrows in His brow, stooped shoulders. Yes, a long, difficult
work. Thirty-three years, and then
just in six hours on the cross. What went on in six hours on
the cross? We'll never know. All of time and eternity was
riding on those six hours on the cross. What a work. What a work. To finish the work. Six hours. Did he do it? Did he finish the work? Did Noah? Did Noah build the boat? Willed
the boat so? Now, read on. Verse 18. Verse 18,
God said about Noah, He said, With thee will I establish my
covenant. With thee will I establish my
covenant. Oh, I love the word covenant. I just like the sound of it.
I love to talk about it. I love the book that talks about
it, Hebrews. Oh, that's one of my favorite books, Covenant.
Covenant. Whenever I hear the covenant,
my heart just kind of I don't know what it does. It's
a sign of peace. Covenant. Covenant. I've laid with thee in every
lesson covenant, ordered in all things ensured. Covenant. It's
God Almighty. His oath. You quoted it so vividly
today, John. His oath. He quoted that song
we sung this morning. His oath. His covenant. His blood. Support me. in the
overwhelming flood. His covenant. Terry, although
it be not so with my house, yet God, but God, hath made with
me an everlasting covenant. Covenant means promise. Covenant
means everything. God has got it all worked out
concerning you, and it's all written. His word is settled
in heaven. Two immutable things. It's impossible
for him to lie. His oath is covenant. His covenant
and his word on it. Sealed. It's all sealed and blind.
Sure. His covenant. God made with whom
a covenant. Look at it real closely again.
Do you remember when we studied this one time, the covenant?
Did he make with Noah a new covenant? Did he make with Abraham a new
covenant? Did he make with Moses a new
covenant? Did he? Look at it again. You might have missed it. Verse
18, With thee will I establish my covenant. Not a covenant. Huh? That's significant. Every
word is significant. My covenant, what is His covenant?
It's that everlasting covenant. Huh? That ain't no covenant.
No one says, you're such a good boy, I'm going to make a new
agreement with you. No! God only made a covenant,
and no one happened to be in on it. It was concerning Noah,
but it wasn't between God and Noah. You don't hear God say,
well, if you agree with this, Noah, I'll do that. That's the
covenant, isn't it? He keeps saying, I'm not going
to make a covenant. We're going to agree to do something. I'm
saying, I'll do the work if you'll provide the money. Then we'll
make a covenant. We're going to do something.
If he agrees, I agree. We'll both get together. We'll
clash payers. We're going to do something together. God does
not ask you, Noah, anything here. Is it? God's not asking Noah
to help him. God said, do this, do that. It's
part of my covenant. You do this, you do that. God
rolled a covenant, an everlasting covenant, before the world began
with his Son. With his Son. That's the covenant
of grace. It's the old covenant. Though
it's newly revealed, yet it's the old covenant. It was really the first, not
the second, but the second reveal. If he takes away the first reveal,
he'll establish the second. The old covenant is a covenant
of grace. The only covenant we made with
man—agree, we all do this if you dare—it was Adam. Covenant
of works with Adam. He didn't make a covenant with
Moses, covenant of works. He didn't make a covenant with
Abraham, covenant of works. For his salvation, he made with
Christ a covenant of works. Right? God said, if you will
do this, I will save them. Right? You do, they live. This do they live. Right? Huh? That's the covenant. That's God's covenant. Instead,
we're just... He had our name. We were in on
it. Not that we had anything to say
or do with it, but He had us in mind. And so He's just revealing
it to no one. That's all He's doing is revealing
it to you. And that's when God says, God was made with me, an
everlasting covenant. When David said that, that means
that God just reveals to him that everlasting covenant. Does
that make sense to y'all? You all? The covenant. My covenant. God says, I'll establish
with—do you realize I'll establish my covenant? When the gospel
comes to you, God is establishing with you his covenant. Isn't
it? Is this—are you established,
Henry? Peter prayed that, that the Lord
might establish you and strengthen you. How are you established?
That's how it reads, established. You established? And on the covenant
of grace, has God made with you, established with you the covenant?
Are you grounded and settled in this, that all things are
ordered and shared concerning you? Huh? That's what that's saying there.
Well, God made with Christ, he said. Christ is the one he made
this covenant with. It's God's covenant, not a covenant,
but God's covenant, his everlasting covenant, the one he made with
Christ before the world began. And here's what it says, and
thou shalt, verse 18, thou shalt come into the ark, thou, thy
sons, and thy wife, thy sons' wives with them, thy sons and
thy wives. shall come into the ark." All
these fellows—listen to me now—all these fellows were to enter the
ship which Noah suffered to build for them. You catch that? All these fellows were to enter
the ship which Noah suffered to build for them. They were
entering into the fellow ship. And that's exactly what we do.
We enter into a fellowship of Christ's suffering, the work
that He performed, the suffering that He performed, we enter into
it with Him. Verse 19, And of every living
thing, of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring, shalt
thou bring into the ark. Thou shalt bring two of every
sort. Thou shalt bring them into the ark to keep them alive with
thee. Thou shalt come, and thou shalt
bring," he said to Noah. Call his name Jesus, the scripture,
for he shall. He shall come to save a people. He shall save them from their
sins, and he who says it became him in bringing many sons unto
the Lord. He shall come, and he shall bring,
our Noah, to keep them alive. to keep them alive with thee,
male and female. Joseph said to his brethren,
then when Joseph said to his brethren, God has sent me before
you to keep you alive, to keep you alive. And Jesus Christ was
kept alive with him. Because Noah built this ark,
they were saved. Because Noah went in, they went
in. Because Noah lived, They lived also. And Christ is
our life, and in him we live and move and have our being,
and in Christ shall all be made alive, the Scripture says. All
right, let's hurry. Look at verse 23 of chapter 7. Look down there. Chapter 7, verse
23. It says, Every living substance was destroyed
which was upon the face of the ground, both man and cattle and
creeping things and the fowl of the heavens. They were destroyed
from the earth, and Noah only remained alive." See, in Christ
is life. In him alone is life, and they
that were with him in the ark. Only they, everyone else is dead
and trespasses the sinner. And only those in Christ have
life. They that have the Son have life.
He that hath not the Son hath not life. Because in Him is life,
you see. Noah only remained alive. Christ
only is life. Look at chapter 8, verse 1. This
says, God remembered Noah and every living thing. that was
with him. All the cattle that was with
him in the ark. Every living thing was with him
in the ark. They were baptized, in effect,
into the water with Noah. Point that. They were baptized
into the water with Noah, buried with him in the ark. Scripture
said, I was crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, I live because
he lives. Never to die again. Finally,
I asked you a while ago, did Noah get the job done? Did he? Did Noah build the boat? Did
he get all the animals in? Did he shut the door and say,
oh, I've forgotten. that female ostrich. Oh, it slipped
my mind. Did he get them all in? Huh? Look at verse 19 again in
chapter 6. And of every living thing, of
all flesh, two of every sort shall thy breeding. Verse 20.
Of fowls, of cattle, of every creep. Every creep. Creeping thing of the earth.
Every worm, isn't that one? A creeping thing? Be sure and
bring the worms, Noah. I got something very fond about
worms. We'll talk about it later on,
Noah. Bring the worms. Every creeping thing of the earth,
after his time, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to
keep the child come unto thee. Oh, have I given you to bring
child come unto thee? Know what? Any doubt? Child come unto thee. Oh, it
became him, and bring him many sons, it says, of every sort.
Doesn't the Scripture say, out of every nation? Kindred, tongue,
and people on earth. He brought a people in. Gather
them out of the lake, he said, from the four corners of the
earth. Every nation, kindred, tongue, and people. Bring in
many sons, all sorts, male and female. Jew and Gentile, black
and white, rich and poor. Bring them all in. Bring them
in. Now, how is it that all the Father gives me, Christ said,
shall come unto me, and I have driven unto them eternal life.
In this glory, verse twenty-one, look at this, And thou takest
thou unto thee of all food that is eaten. Thou shalt gather it
to thee, and it shall be food for thee and for them. Noah,
you provide food for them. You're going to be their provider.
They're going to eat from your hand. You're going to have to
feed them, Noah. Christ became our bread, didn't he? And our
water, our meat, and our drink. Well, did he do it? The suspense
is building. Did he? Verse 22, Thus did Noah. According to all that God commanded
him, and for emphasis it says, so did he. Does he do it? So did he. That'd
be a good title of this one. So did he. So did he. Thus did Noah. Christ said, he
said, I've finished the work you gave me to do. You know what
he said, John? You read it tonight. I have given
them. The work you've given me to do,
I've finished it. gathered the elect out all safe
in the ark. They're all here, every one. He didn't forget a one. It's
not that he couldn't round up. See, that horse is fast. It's
not that he couldn't kill him. He caught him. He rounded him
up. Now, miraculously, though, they
were all made willing. They all came. Those wild beasts
were tamed. That's how they did it. The wolf laid down with the lamb.
The lion ate straw like an ox. Oh, they didn't provide meat
in that ark. They all ate the same food. Sure they did. Their natures
were changed when they were in that ark. And all provisions, Christ
said, all provisions are made for the journey, Father. Everything's
here. They're all here. The child, the children which
Christ has given me, all provisions have been made for their journey.
They'll get there. We'll all get there in a sweet
by-and-by. Safe on dry land. Safe on dry
land. Because when? Because Noah's
a good captain. He's the captain of their salvation,
and Christ is our captain. All remained alive with Noah.
All right. Next time we'll look at the ark,
and there's a glorious picture there in that earthen vessel. All right. Stand with me.