And tonight, I talked about Noah
and him preparing the Ark, about his name. Tonight, I want to
preach on Christ, God's Ark. Christ, God's Ark. Our Lord Jesus
Christ, let's start reading here in verse 5. God saw that the wickedness of
man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the
thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented
the Lord that he had made men on the earth, and it grieved
him at his heart. And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom
I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast,
And the creeping thing and the fowls are there, for it repenteth
me that I have made them. But Noah found grace in the eyes
of the Lord. These are the generations of
Noah. Excuse me. Noah was a just man and perfect
in his generations, and Noah walked with God. And Noah begat
three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. The earth also was corrupt before
God, and the earth was filled with violence. And God looked
upon the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had
corrupted his way upon the earth. And God said unto Noah, the end
of all flesh has come before me, for the earth is filled with
violence through them, and behold, I will destroy them with the
earth. Make then an ark of gopher wood,
rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and thou shalt pitch it
within and without pitch, and this is the fashion which thou
shalt make it of. The length of the ark shall be
300 cubits, the breadth of it 50 cubits, and the height of
it thirty cubits. A window shalt thou make in the
ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above. And the door
of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof, with the lower
second and third storey shalt thou make it. And behold, even
I do bring a flood up 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, but with thee will I establish my covenant,
and thou shalt come into the ark, thou and thy sons, and thy
wife, and thy son's wife with thee." How Lord Jesus Christ
said, as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it also be in
the days of the coming of the Son of Man. And it says, as it
was in the days of Noah, that they were marrying and giving
in marriage, Eating and drinking and doing all those things they
do not Until the flood came and took him away and God saw the
wickedness God saw the wickedness He sees all that's why we say
Lord forgive us not only for what we do and why we are but
for what we don't do And so we understand something about the
desperate condition of our hearts apart from Christ. God saw the
wickedness. He sees all, knows all. He says
He knew the imagination of their hearts. He said the imagination
of their heart was only evil. He knew what their hearts imagined.
Not what they did, but what they just imagined in their hearts.
They couldn't be as bad as they wanted to be. They would have
been worse if God hadn't restrained them. And then He set the judgment
upon all of them. He said, judgment's gonna come
on all of them. And in the days of Noah, salvation
is just as the same today as how God saved Noah. Noah found
grace in the eyes of the Lord. And beloved, he was just a man.
He is a sinner by nature like everyone else. He was a son of
Adam, born of Adam, not many generations away from Adam. So
he is a sinner like everybody else. And then he found grace
in the eyes of the Lord. His name means comfort. Comfort. God sent him to be a comfort.
Christ came to be our comfort. And he had to be saved by grace.
As everyone that was ever before him and everybody that's ever
been saved since him. They've got to be saved by grace.
He found grace. God gave him grace. And I tell
you, beloved, every man must be saved. If he's going to be
saved, there's only one way. God will save a man by grace.
And why does He save by grace? Lest anybody should boast. If
anybody has a word or does anything, God has to give him faith. And
He gives him grace, and with the grace comes faith. And He
does that so no one should boast in anything that they ever did.
So God gets all the glory. Grace means that God gives you
something that you don't deserve. Grace is unmerited. Grace is
something that God just gives. That's what it means, give. And
oh, He gives us grace. And I tell you, beloved, that
Christ is the key. to have a true understanding
of Noah's salvation, a true understanding of Noah's ark, a true understanding
of Noah's preaching, and he preached for 120 years, and a true understanding
of the flood that came and destroyed them all, Christ is the key to
this. Now let's look here at a few
things about this. Let's look at the ark. Look at
the ark. God said in verse 14, make thee
an ark. I'm going to destroy everything
on the earth and everything on it. Make thee an ark of gopher
wood. And the ark. Now let me tell you the first
thing about it. God provided it. Noah didn't
think of an ark. Nobody else didn't think of an
ark. Nobody else thought about a boat. Didn't think about it.
The ark was provided before the flood ever came, before judgment
ever fell. And there was no danger of rain
or flood starting till the ark was provided. God provided us
salvation in Christ before the foundation of the world. Before
Adam was ever put in the garden. Before Adam ever sinned. Before
Eve was ever deceived by Satan. God had us a Savior before everything
ever happened in this universe. Before God created the earth,
He had Christ. Before God ever put a man on
the earth, He had Christ slain. You know, God did not make Adam
sin. Adam was left to himself, the
only man who ever had a free will. And when God left him to
his free will, what did he do? He sinned. And from the day he
sinned, no one's had a free will since. They're free in the sense
that you can get up, get out, sit down, get up, go here, go
yonder. But beloved, when it comes to
having a free will to accept or reject Christ, man's in bondage,
and he's in death, and he's in sin, and he cannot Cannot change
his nature you read it tonight to as many as received him to
them Gave he the power to become the sons of God. How do you become
a son of God? How do you receive Christ which
were born? Not of blood not of the will
of man not of flesh flesh, but of God And that's where it was
your God provided Christ He was delivered When Peter preached
on the day of Pentecost, you know what he said? Men and brethren,
Jesus of Nazareth was the man approved of God, and he was delivered
by the determinate counsel of God before the world began. I mean, Christ was not an afterthought. God didn't say, well, Adam fell.
Now I've got to do something. He had the Savior before there's
ever a sinner. Ain't you grateful He did that?
If God was like most people think He is, He just jumps to whenever
something happens, God's got to try to figure out how to deal
with it. So, God declared the end from
the beginning and the things that are not yet done said, all
my counsel shall stand. You know what else He said? He
said, I'll do what I please to do. Ain't that what He said? Oh, listen, beloved, it was man's
sin that caused the flood. It was man's sin that caused
the flood. It was man's sin that got us
into conditioning. And because of man's sin and
because of the condition of the world, that's the reason the
ark was provided. And here, when we see this, God
provides the ark, we can see how God can be just and destroy
sinners and also at the same time be a Savior and save us
in Christ. Judgment's got to fall. He's
a just God, but He's also a Savior. He provides salvation, and He
provided it in the heart. And here's the second thing about
it, not was the ark was provided, God did it. And it was before
the flood, just as Christ was provided before we sinned. And
God revealed his will to Noah, or he would have perished like
the rest of them. God made his will known to Noah,
or he would have perished just like the rest of them. Look what
it says in verse eight. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the
Lord. When God revealed his will to
Noah, if he hadn't have done that, and showed him grace, and
revealed grace to him, and saved him by grace, he would have perished
like everybody else. And when God came to Noah, it
was an act of pure, free grace to provide the ark. Pure, free
grace to save Noah. That's the only reason. You know,
when Abraham took Adam, up on the mountain and he asked
him said where's the lamb he said my son God will provide
Jehovah Jireh and God in pure free grace provided an ark and
made his will known to Noah it had never rained Never rained. God said He's gonna bring a flood
on the earth. It'd be a strange thing. Something that nobody
had ever experienced. And yet God, God made a covenant. Look in Genesis 17 and 18 here.
I mean, excuse me, verse 17 and 18 here, verse 6. Chapter 6.
It never rained. Nobody ever experienced it. It
would be a strange thing. But yet God, before it ever started,
look what He said, And behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of
waters upon the earth. He didn't know it. He believed
God. Noah did. To destroy all flesh
wherein is the breath of life from under heaven and everything
that's in the earth, but with thee. With you. I'm going to establish a covenant
I've got a covenant made with you. Now, Noah didn't make the
covenant. Noah didn't make the covenant.
Noah didn't say, well, Lord, I'd like to get some kind of
agreement worked out between me and you. God said, with you,
I'll establish my covenant. I'm gonna make a covenant with
you, an agreement with you. Noah didn't have anything to
do with it. He said, I will. And you shall
come in the ark and your sons and your wives and your sons'
wives with you." He said, I've made a covenant with you. A covenant. And this covenant was based on
the pure, free grace of God. And Christ is the blood. We're
saved by the blood of the everlasting covenant of Christ. And oh, listen,
beloved. And it never rained. And I'll
tell you this, and you read it tonight, if anyone ever, ever
knows God's will of salvation, if anyone ever knows anything
of God's grace, if anybody knows anything about Christ, God must
reveal it to them. It's a revelation. It said, and
they knew Him not. And they knew not. And a man
knows not until God reveals it. Huh? God is who commanded the
light to shine out of darkness hath shine in our hearts. To do what? To give the light,
the revelation of the glory of God. Where at? In the person
of His blessed Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. John 3.27 says
a man A man can receive nothing. Nothing. That's what nothing
is. Zero. Nothing except it be given him
from heaven. Now ain't that right? And I tell
you, folks, people don't, they won't even know that they haven't,
they're not able to see until God gives them eyes. Person don't know he's blind
until God gives him sight. He don't know he's deaf until
God gives him ears. He don't know he needs life until
God gives it to him. Now that's the truth. I was religious. I was a preacher. And I could quote chapters of
the Bible. Y'all remember that? I mean just...
I was faster than... I was just... and run here and run yonder and
jump here and jump there and oh my goodness. But I was blind
as a bat. I didn't know God from nothing.
I knew how to live right. I knew how to dress right. I knew what I'd let my children
do and what I wouldn't let them do. But I knew not. until God gave
me eyes to see and everything I'd ever done before God taught
me the gospel and revealed Christ to my heart was a grief to my
heart and still a grief to my heart. God's got to show you. I can't
show you. God can. I can't open your heart,
but God can. I can't give you eyes, but God
can. I can't let you hear, I can't cause you to hear, but God can.
I can't give you life, but God can. Oh my. And Noah preached for 120 years. And Noah knew and told everybody
else. You know the scripture said he
preached for 120 years. And you know what he said he
preached? He preached righteousness. He preached righteousness. You
know what he preached righteousness? God is right. And the only hope
I've got is in Him. The only way I'm going to be
saved is by Him. The only way I know to do anything
is what He tells me and what He teaches me. God showed him
everything to do about that ark. Noah never built an ark. Never
seen one. And God showed him and taught
him how to build it. And Noah found grace. And now
God reveals grace in His blessed Son. That's where He reveals
grace. You keep Genesis 6. And look
with me over here in Ephesians 1. You know, no man has seen
God at any time save the only begotten Son. He is in the bosom
of the Father. He has declared it. Oh my, God
now in grace reveals Himself in His Son. In His Son. You know, our Lord Jesus, he
turned, lifted up his eyes and said, I thank thee, O Father,
Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from
the wise and prudent. Who'd you reveal them to? Babies.
Babes. Babes. Oh my. And I tell you what, that's where
God opened our hearts and make us to see Christ. Look what he
says here in Ephesians 1, 6. Grace, talking about grace. To
the praise of the glory of His grace, wherein He hath made us
accepted in the beloved. Now listen to this. To the praise
of the glory of His grace He made us accepted in Christ. In
whom? In Christ. Because of grace we
have redemption through His blood and forgiveness of sins. Now
listen to this now. According to the riches of His
grace. And in Christ, and by his blood,
and to the praise of his grace, and to the riches of his grace,
wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom, in Christ and
prudence. Oh, and what did he do? Hath
he made known, made known. We didn't know it till he made
it known. Made known unto us the mystery of his will. according
to his good pleasure, which he hath purposed in himself." And
that's what he did here. Nobody else knew the will of
God but Noah. Nobody else knew it. And oh my! So I tell you, here we are. Noah
found grace in the eyes of the Lord. And here we all go again. Now listen. This ark was the
only refuge from God's judgment, the only refuge from God's wrath. Now God said he's going to bring
a flood on the earth and destroy all flesh on the earth and he's
going to destroy the earth itself. And the only place a man could
be saved, the only place to hide from God's judgment and God's
wrath was in that ark. In that ark. He said, He that
believeth on the Son of God hath life, and he that believeth not
the Son of God, do you know what it says? The wrath of God abides
on him. But God hath not appointed us
unto wrath, but to obtain salvation through the Lord Jesus Christ.
Now there's three arcs in this scripture, three arcs. There's
Moses arcs. And all of these arcs, all of
them speak of salvation in Christ. And there's only three things
in this universe that can harm us. And Christ saves us from
all three of those things, and there's three arcs. First, there's
Moses arc. You remember when his mother
put him in an arc? Because he said that every man-child
ought to be killed and would be killed. That's what Pharaoh
said. Satan's assault. He's going to
kill Moses. And Moses was in that ark, and
he was saved in that ark. He was found in that ark. And
that's the way it is in the Scripture. Satan came to Eve and deceived
her. Satan came and tried to destroy
Job, but God preserved him. And Satan came along and tempted
Christ. And our Lord Jesus Christ is
on a safe place. It's the only ark that can save
us from death. Then there's the ark of the covenant. That ark. Ark, so long, so high, so wide. And they lifted up the lid and
they put God's law in there. They put the Ten Commandments
in there. And those Ten Commandments was
put in there. And those were, you know when you put them in
the ark? After they was broken. And God said, put them in the
ark. And you know what He did in that ark? The law was kept
in that ark. The law was preserved in that
ark. But here's the difference between
that ark and just the law being in it. God put a gold mercy seat
on top of that ark. Had that thing put up and overlaid
with gold. And He had this mercy seat on
top of it with this little thing around it, you know, little Think
about that high around us. And oh, listen. And you know
why? Because of that mercy seat, there's
no condemnation where the blood was put on that mercy seat. And there's no condemnation to
us because the law, Christ is the end of the law for righteousness
to everyone that believes. The blood's been shed. And not
only that, but He Himself, the scripture says, is our propitiation,
our mercy seat. Our mercy sink. And then the
third ark is Noah's ark. And that, the only thing that
can save you from the wrath of God and the judgment of God.
Satan's assault, the broken tablets of the law, and the wrath and
judgment of God. Those three things can destroy
us. And Christ is the ark that saves us from all of them. Oh my. Ain't you grateful that
our Lord Jesus Christ is our all in all? And here I'm going
to tell you something now. Listen to what I'm going to tell
you. Noah bore God's wrath. Noah and his family endured God's
judgment. But do you know where he bore
the wrath at? The judgment at? In the ark. That rain beat down on that ark. Oh my! God was angry with men
on the earth and He judged them. And oh my! You see the ark bore
the beating of the rain. The ark was carried through the
flood while everyone in the ark was saved. And God said this
in Isaiah 42, when thou passest through the waters, I'll be with
you. And that's what he's talking
about here. When you pass through the waters of the Red Sea, when
you pass through the waters of judgment, when you pass through
the River Jordan, when thou put'st you into fiery trials, I'll be
with you. And I'll preserve you. Huh? Oh
my. Was Noah and his sons afraid?
Probably were. I know I would have been. I would
have been. I was afraid of that hurricane
down there. I would have been out there long.
I would have been one of the first ones out of town. I wouldn't
have waited. Was Noah and his sons when it
started raining? Oh, you reckon they were afraid?
They probably were. When the rain started, and it
was a while before the ark moved, Look over here at Genesis 7,
17. It was quite a while for that water, the ark just sat
there before that beating rain fell on it. And it was quite
a while for the water got in such a condition that that ark
was finally lifted up off the ground. 717 look what it says here and the
flood was 40 days upon the earth and the waters increased and
then it bear up the ark and it was lifted above the earth it
took a while for that water to fall and that ark was sitting
there and it was poured down to rain And everybody thought,
well this will stop in a little while. This will stop in a while. And it kept getting worse and
worse and worse. And finally the water got up
and up come that ark. And it started floating. But
oh my, when the rain started it was a while before the ark
moved. But let me ask you this, but did his fear or feelings
make him any less saved or secure? He might have been scared to
death, but he is secure. He might have been afraid, but
he is secure. And, oh, beloved, he was saved
and secure. And I'm going to show you this
here, too. Genesis 7-1. Oh, I tell you, Christ, Noah's
Ark. Christ, our Ark. And our Lord Jesus Christ bore
our wrath. And I tell you, that's what I'm
telling you about. This is what the Gospel tells
us. God never let us get by with our sin. He punished us for our sin. He
poured His wrath on our sin. He judged us for our sin. And
yet at the same time was His Savior. How did He do it? Christ. for our sin, our wrath, cries
for our judgment, cries for our punishment. And no matter how
we feel, if he did that, and how much we fear with what goes
on, our salvation is secure. Not by our feelings, not by our
fears, but because of what Christ did. And here in Genesis 7-1 it says
this, Noah was told to come into the ark. And the Lord said unto
Noah, cometh thou and all thy house into the ark. In Genesis 3, he drove man out
of the garden. Separation. Death. Now here's reconciliation. Here is being brought in instead
of set out. He's being told to come in. God
put them out. He brings Noah in. And here he
brings him in. And he told him to come in. Oh,
listen. Now the average preacher, Armenian,
freewheeler, you know what he would have said? God wants you
to come into this ark. Won't you please come in? Oh, don't tarry another minute. Oh, please. God wants you so
much to trust Christ. God wants you so much to be saved. And God don't ask, He tells. A sovereign don't plead, He proclaims
and He commands. God's never been a beggar, never
has been, never will be. And you know what He said to
Noah? Come. You know what Noah did? He got up and come. And you know what He gives us?
Come down into the ark. That tells us God wasn't on the
outside sitting down. Now, Noah, you and your sons
and sons' wives and your wife go into the ark. He said, come
in. Because I'm in here with you. I'm in here with you. You come
in. God was inside. Christ was inside. He said, Noah,
come in here. And how you disaffect your calling.
Could Noah have refused? For whom he did foreknow, them
he also did predestinate. Whom he did predestinate, them
he also justified. Whom he justified, what did he
do to them? He called them. As many as were ordained to eternal
life, what did they do? Bleed. Oh, that the Father giveth
me, what are they going to do? They're going to stand back and
say, well, God's going to have to beg me. I'm going to patronize
God. One of these days I'm going to
let God save me. One of these days I'm going to make a decision.
One of these days I'm going to join the church. No, no. Oh,
that the Father giveth me, what's going to happen to them? They
shall come to me. They're going to come to me.
That's what our Lord said. Blessed is the man Blessed is
the man whom thou choosest, and you know what the next line says,
whom and causes, causes to approach unto thee. That's what, we're talking about
a salvation that's sure and powerful. You know, people think, well,
you can't get out of Christ's hands. The only way you can get
out of Christ's hands is to take yourself out of His hands. If you can
put yourself in, you can take yourself out. But if He puts
you in, you can't get out. And who would want to get...
You reckon after Noah got in that ark, he started banging
on the door and said, let me out? I don't like this salvation. I don't
like being shut in here. God didn't ask him, do you want
to go in? And here's the thing about every
call that's given in the scriptures, and there's lots of calls, and
there's characteristics in every call that's given by our Lord
Jesus Christ and throughout the scriptures. He said, if any man's
thirsty, let him come to me. Now you know who he's talking
to? Thirsty people. Anybody wasn't thirsty never
paid a bit of attention to what he had said, but everybody's
thirsty And he's the water of life They come to him And then
he said if any man's hungry If you're heavy laden If you're
heavy laden if you're burdened if you labor He said I come to
call sinners He come to call those who are
sick, those who are impotent. And those who come say, Lord,
if you will, if you will, you make me clean. If you will, come
up to Zacchaeus. Little bitty, he probably wasn't,
probably four or eight, five foot maybe at the most and he
couldn't see anything so he climbed up a tree and the Lord Jesus
walked by and there's a big crowd around him and he just says,
is that you ask? Come down and you know that's
not the only thing he said to him he said today Must abide
at your house for salvation Has come to you Not only come down,
but I'm going home with you and I brought salvation to you today I'm going home with you. That's what he said. It's not
just come down. I And here's the long and the
short of it. Everything the Lord did for someone,
it was because they had a need. Had a need. And when a man has a need, he's
going to go to the person that can fulfill that need. And Christ
meets our needs. He did all that we needed done.
And then God was in that ark, huh? God was in Christ, reconciling
the world unto himself. And look here in verse 14, I
believe it's in Genesis 6. Yes. Genesis 6, 14. Noah had absolute
security in the ark. Genesis 6, 14. Make then ark
of gopher wood, rooms shall thou make it in the ark, and shall
pitch it within and without with pitch." Now this pitch, you know,
we'd call it tar or something like that, but he had something
to seal that ark inside and on the outside. He said, pitch it
within and pitch it without. And this word PIDGE is the same
word for ATONEMENT. Cover it. Cover it inside and
cover it outside. And that word COVERING is as
blessed as the man whose sins are covered. And it's the same
word for atonement. Where sins are put away, where
sins are atoned for. Where the blood has been covered.
And that's why, beloved, that's why He was secure. Because there
was an atonement already provided for me. And I tell you, the blood
of Christ applied. And that's why it's like Hebrews
pitched with it, Christ is our atonement. Look with me in Romans
5.10. Romans 5.10. Look what it says
here. Romans 5.10. And you know, we read back there
in the study, as you know, elect accord to the foreknowledge of
God and to the obedience of the sprinkling of the blood of Christ.
God's Holy Spirit takes the blood of Christ and applies it to our
souls, applies it to our hearts. And where the blood of Christ
is applied like that pitch within and without, it sanctifies us,
makes us secure, safe from judgment. Look what he said in Romans 5.9,
or excuse me, 5.10. For if, when we were enemies,
we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son, much more
since we was reconciled by his death much more being reconciled
since he lives we shall be saved by his life and not only shall
we be saved by his life that he ever lives to make intercession
for but we also joy rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ
by whom now we have received the atonement Oh, when Christ, who is our life,
He is our life. Oh, we're kept by the power of
God through faith. And then look what it says here
in Genesis 7, 16. Look what it says. Genesis 7, 16. And they that went in, went in,
male and female, of all flesh, as God had commanded him, and
listen to this, and the Lord shut him in. I give up there in my hand, there
in my father's hand. And no man's able to pluck them
out. I said, Tim James, and I've told you this before. He said,
that's what you call a two-fisted salvation. Christ's hands in
God's hands. And no man's able to pick them
out of my hands. Oh my. And the Lord shut him
in. Shut him in from the world. Shut
him in from sin. Shut in by God himself. And then there were those that
were shut out. So if he was shut in, that means
there were people who were shut out. And this is awful to think
about. Can you imagine how many people
were on the face of the earth at this time? Billions. But though the Lord
shut him in, but there were people who were shut out. And these
people were people who were preached to. Noah preached for 120 years. These were people, no doubt,
that Noah prayed for. These were people who probably
assisted him in the ark. It took a lot of time, 220 years
to build it. So he had a lot of people that
worked on that ark with him, probably, no doubt. These were
people who had seen wonders. They stood there. These are people
who saw the animals go in there two by two by two and saw the
animals go in there, the clean animals go in by sevens. And
they stood and watched and said, what in the world is going on?
What's making these animals all start going into that ark? And then he takes in seven doves
and he takes in seven sheep and he takes in seven bulls and seven
heifers, seven clean animals. You know why? Gotta have something
to sacrifice when you come off that ark. And they seen those parental
animals going in and then when the door was shut, when the Lord
shut him in, doors not going to open
again. All hope is gone. If you're not
in Christ, all hope is gone. All hope is gone. You know, Genesis
22, Isaiah 22 says this, that Christ has the keys of David.
He opens and no man can shut. And when he shuts, no man can
open. And that's a terrible thing to
think about. And there was only one way into the ark, one door
back over here, Genesis 6, 16. Look what it says down the middle
of the verse. And the door of the ark shalt thou set in the
side there. There was only one way into the
ark, one door. One door. And that was in the
side of the ark. In the side of the ark. He didn't
have to make no efforts to get up to get in. In the side. And beloved, the church come
from the side of Christ. the blood of Christ just like
he was in Adam we were and are in Christ from the foundation
of the world all this and I'll tell you the
tabernacle had one door there's only one way to get in the tabernacle and then look what else he said
there's only one window in it and he said in verse 16 well
window shalt thou make in the ark and thou shalt finish it
above it's going to be in the top One door? Christ is that
door. He said, I'm the door. I'm the
door. If any man's saved, you gotta
come in by me. And oh, beloved, and there's one window above.
There's only one way they could look. That's up. They couldn't look out over there.
They couldn't get out on the deck and look down and see. They
had only one place to look. And beloved, God gave us one
place to look. the Lord look unto me and be
ye saved all the ends of the earth looking unto Jesus the
author and finisher of our faith and we're looking to Christ right
now we're looking to him when Christ who is our life shall
appear shall we also appear with him and then look what it says
here in Genesis 7 17 and the flood was 40 days upon the earth, and the waters
increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lifted up above the
earth. And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon
the earth, and the ark went upon the face of the waters. And the
waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth, until all the
high hills that were under the whole heaven were covered. Fifteen
cubits upward did the waters prevail, three times it talks
about the water prevailing, and the mountains were covered. and
here's what happened and all flesh died that moved upon the
earth both of fowl and of cattle and of beast and of every creeping
thing and that creepeth upon the earth and every man every
man and this is what happens when
people miss Christ and it says here three times the waters prevailed
The waters prevailed over their unbelief. They didn't believe. The waters prevailed over them. They were indifferent. The waters
prevailed over their indifference. The waters prevailed over their
pleasures. The waters prevailed over their
efforts to save themselves. And then look what happens in
Genesis 8.20. And just as after the flood,
you know what the first thing Noah did? They came down and the flood
was over. And he came out of the ark and
they came out of the ark and took all the beasts and let them
out of the ark. They went forth. And listen to
what it said. And Noah built an altar unto
the Lord and took of every clean beast and of every clean fowl
and offered burnt offerings. unto the Lord and on the altar
of the Lord. And this was said, and the Lord
smelled a sweet savor. Oh, first thing he did. And you
know, when first thing we do, when God opens our hearts to
see us saved in Christ, we worship the Lord. We worship the Lord. And the Lord smelled this sweet
savor, and the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse
the ground any more for man's sake. For the imagination of
man's heart is only evil from his youth. Neither will I smite
any more ever living thing as I have done. While the earth
remains, seed time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter,
day and night shall not cease. Thank God for Christ. And what
Ruby says all the time, thank God for His unspeakable gift.
His unspeakable gift. Just as Noah was secure in that
ark, we're secure in Christ. Just as God brought him into
that ark, He brought us into Christ. Just as sure as He sent
him in, He sent us in. And now we have an altar, and
He is Christ. Our Father, in the blessed name
of our Lord Jesus, thank you for the gospel. Thank you for
the gospel. Thank you for our Lord Jesus
Christ. Thank you for the great, great,
great salvation you provided us in Him. Oh Lord, you brought
us. And one of these days you said
you'd bring many sons to glory. And Father, we look forward to
that day. As you put Noah in the ark, in one of these days
you'll take us to glory. And there we'll rest forever
and spend eternity with you, rejoicing. Oh, we rejoice now. We have great joy now. We have
peace and rest now. But oh Lord, what a day it'll
be when you take us home to be with you. Thank you for our Lord
Jesus Christ. Thank You for His blood. Thank
You for His righteousness. Thank You for putting away our
sins through Him, by Him, and because of Him. And Lord, we
praise You for Your grace. Praise You for Your grace given
us in Christ. Amen and Amen. upon Jesus. Look full in His wonderful face,
and the things of earth will grow strangely dim in the light
of His glory and grace. See you Wednesday, God willing.
Good night and God bless.