>>John Bradshaw:
This is It Is Written.
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I'm John Bradshaw.
Thanks for joining me.
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Creationist Ken Ham
is the founder and CEO
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of Ark Encounter, which opened
in Williamstown, Kentucky,
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in July of 2016.
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We've spoken to Ken
Ham here on It Is Written.
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His debate in 2014 with
Bill Nye the Science Guy
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on creation and
evolution has been watched now
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by millions of people.
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Mr. Ham built an
amazing replica of Noah's ark.
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It took his team just two years
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to build what took
Noah a whole lot longer.
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You know, power
tools will do that.
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He built it according to the
measurements found in the Bible.
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It's 85 feet wide, 51
feet high, and 510 feet long,
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1 1/2 times as long
as a football field.
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The ark attracts almost
a million visitors a year.
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Today, as we
continue our series,
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"Great Characters of the Bible,"
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we're going to
study the life of Noah.
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Who was Noah?
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And what lessons can
we learn from the man
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that was chosen by God to save
the population of this world
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from total annihilation?
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It's a thrilling study.
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It not only gives
answers to some of the problems
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we face today, but causes
us to hope in a merciful God
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who can and will
save His children
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during these troublesome times.
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To begin, let's open our Bibles
to the "begots" in Genesis.
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Genesis 5:21, we'll find out
more about Noah's background:
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"Enoch lived sixty-five
years, and begot Methuselah."
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Verse 23: "So
all the days of Enoch
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"were three
hundred... sixty-five years.
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"And Enoch walked with God; and
he was not, for God took him.
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"Methuselah lived one
hundred... eighty-seven years,
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"and begot Lamech.... So
all the days of Methuselah
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"were nine hundred...sixty-nine
years; and he died.
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"Lamech lived one hundred and
eighty-two years, and had a son.
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"And he called
his name Noah, saying,
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"'This one shall comfort us
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"'concerning our work
and the toil of our hands,
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because of the ground
which the Lord [hath] cursed.'"
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That's the lineage of Noah.
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He lived and worked with
his grandfather Methuselah.
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Methuselah lived longer
than anyone who has ever lived--
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and died--on this earth.
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Methuselah's father
was the legendary Enoch,
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who walked with God.
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God just took Enoch
without Enoch seeing death.
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There's no doubt Noah grew up
hearing the stories of Creation
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and the fall of humanity,
and the promises of God.
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Yet he lived during
an extremely wicked time.
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The first sin mentioned after
describing the lineage of Noah
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was that the followers
of God began to intermarry
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with the nonbelievers,
and they practiced polygamy.
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Let's read it,
starting in Genesis 6, verse 1:
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"Now it came to pass,
when men began to multiply
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"on the face on the earth,
and daughters were born to them,
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that the sons of God"--or,
or the followers of God--
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"saw the daughters of
men, that they were beautiful;
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"and they took
wives for themselves
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of all whom they chose."
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Now, it's been said that
the "sons of God" in this verse
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are angels who procreated
with humans and created giants.
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Now, the next verse does talk
about giants being in the land,
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but that interpretation
just doesn't hold up.
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It doesn't agree with Jesus'
statement in Matthew 22:30
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that the angels don't marry,
nor are they given in marriage.
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Now, immediately after
talking about the intermarriage
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between the followers of
God and the wives they took
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from among the heathen,
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God said, "My Spirit shall
not strive with man forever."
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That's Genesis 6:3.
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In the New Testament,
Jesus said, Matthew 24:37,
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"But as the days of Noah were,
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"so also will the
coming of the Son of Man be.
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"For as in the
days before the flood,
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"they were eating and drinking,
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"marrying and
giving in marriage,
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"until the day that
Noah entered the ark,
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"and did not know until
the flood came and took them
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all away, so also will the
coming of the Son of Man be."
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It's not that
there's any problem at all
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with eating and
drinking, or getting married.
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It's the complacency
of life going on as usual,
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with no thought of
preparing for Jesus to come.
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The, the, the
"same old, same old,"
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it's the apathy and indifference
toward the message of the Bible.
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The biggest event of
the ages is about to happen,
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and just like in
the days of Noah,
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people are too occupied, or
maybe preoccupied, to notice.
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Part of the blame belongs
to the excess of our lifestyle.
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Our plates are too full, even
to the detriment of our health.
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Our closets are crammed;
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our houses are getting
bigger and more extravagant.
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The world is under the delusion
that happiness is achieved
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by what you own
or what you can buy.
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We waste our time trying
to fill a bottomless bucket,
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just like in the days of Noah.
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The planet has
produced a selfie generation
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with a me-first attitude.
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It only leads to
unhappy relationships,
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where one out of every
two marriages ends in divorce.
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Statistics show that 80
percent of divorcées remarry
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within four years,
only to repeat the process.
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That's a lot of heartache
and a lot of disappointment.
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When we compare what
was going on in Noah's day
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with what's going on now,
we can see that we're repeating
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the same sins of
the antediluvian world,
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same mistakes.
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Paul described the situation
perfectly when he wrote
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in Romans 1:21, "Because
that, when they knew God,
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"they glorified Him not as
God, neither were thankful;
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"but became vain
in their imaginations,
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"and their foolish
heart was darkened.
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Professing to be
wise, they became fools."
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Noah stood firm
against the sin of his age.
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Genesis 6:9 says,
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"Noah was a just man,
perfect in his generations.
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Noah walked with God."
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That's what God
wanted all along:
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children who
would walk with Him,
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children who would
love and serve Him.
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But instead, verse 6 laments,
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"And the Lord was sorry that
He had made man on the earth
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and He was
grieved in His heart."
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In a moment, we'll see how the
actions of Noah saved the world
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from total annihilation.
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I'll be right back.
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>>John Bradshaw: Thanks
for joining me on It Is Written
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as we continue our series,
"Great Characters of the Bible."
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We're talking
about the life of Noah.
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According to the
Associated Press,
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authorities were
warned at least 10 times
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that a massive
stockpile of explosive chemicals
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stored near the
port in Beirut, Lebanon,
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was potentially dangerous.
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But no
corrective action was taken.
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And on August the 4th, 2020,
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2,750 tons of
ammonium nitrate blew up,
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causing a massive amount of
damage to that beautiful city.
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Approximately 200 were
killed and 6,500 injured.
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Now, think of the lives
that could have been saved
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and the misery that
could have been prevented
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if only someone
had heeded the warning.
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Warnings are helpful, if you
listen to them and take action.
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In Genesis 6, verse 5, the
Bible says that in Noah's day,
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"The Lord saw that
the wickedness of man
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"was great in the earth,
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"and that every intent
of the thoughts of his heart
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was only evil continually."
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Verse 11 notes that "the
earth was filled with violence."
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Violence, it's everywhere--
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senseless
murders, physical abuse,
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war, crime everywhere you turn,
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children playing
violent video games.
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Doesn't take a multimillion-
dollar study to demonstrate
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that we are conditioning
our children to be violent.
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And parents cave into
pressure to give these games
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to their children
because--well, why?
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Because everybody's doing it.
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But what we see as normal
God sees as an abomination.
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Things were so bad in
Noah's day that God said,
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"'I will destroy
man whom I have created
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"'from the face of the
earth, both man and beast,
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"'creeping thing
and birds of the air,
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"for I am sorry
that I have made them.'
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But Noah found grace
in the eyes of the Lord."
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Of all the people in the world,
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Noah was the only one who
truly had a heart for God.
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No doubt there were people
that professed God's name,
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but they didn't
live out their faith.
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God is merciful and God is
love, but the world was so bad
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that its only
chance for survival
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was for God to
hit the reset button.
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Most of the people in
the world would be destroyed,
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virtually all, but
all who wanted to be saved
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could be saved.
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It's written in Amos 3, verse 7,
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"Surely the Lord
God does nothing,
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unless He reveals His secret
to His servants the prophets."
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A hundred and twenty
years before the Flood,
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the Lord, by a holy angel,
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declared to Noah
what was going to happen
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and directed
him to build an ark.
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Paul wrote in
Hebrews 11, verse 7,
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"By faith Noah, being divinely
warned of things not yet seen,
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"moved with godly fear,
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"prepared an ark for
the saving of his household,
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"by which he condemned
the world and became heir
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of the righteousness
which is according to faith."
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So God warned Noah, and Noah,
in turn, warned the people.
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God knew that Noah
would act on his faith.
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Now, this is what I want
you to remember about Noah:
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He gave the world an example
of believing just what God says.
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All of his time was
invested in building the ark.
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There was a lot to be done.
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The ark was made
out of gopher wood.
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It's the only time you read
about gopher wood in the Bible
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in connection with the ark.
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Just cutting and preparing
the wood was, in itself,
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a massive undertaking.
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The ark had to be covered
on the outside and the inside
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with pitch, so as
to make it leakproof.
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There'd be a window in
the top to provide light.
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No electricity back then.
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Stalls were needed
to keep the animals safe
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while the ark was being
tossed about on the water.
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And food was
needed to feed them all.
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As the ark began to
take shape on dry ground,
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people flocked from
every direction to not only see
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the strange sight but
to hear the words of Noah.
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They'd never seen rain before.
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According to Genesis 2, verse 6,
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"A mist went up from the earth
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and watered the
whole face of the ground."
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And here was a man
telling them a flood was coming.
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For centuries the laws
of nature had been fixed.
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The rivers had never
passed their boundaries.
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There had never
been a hurricane,
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never been a tornado.
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You can imagine people
saying, "And you're telling us,
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"Mr. Noah, that water is just
going to fall out of heaven,
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cover the whole world?"
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They must have thought
that Noah was out of his mind.
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But some recognized in
his words the voice of God.
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For a time, some believed.
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But as the years passed by,
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they didn't see any
evidence that Noah was right.
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Now, we accept what God
says not because of evidence;
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we believe by faith.
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We can't prove that God
covered the ground with manna.
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We can't prove that God
brought water out of a rock.
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But God has given us
enough evidence in the Bible
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that we can
believe whatever He says.
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For example, the
Bible records the history
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of certain world kingdoms
long before they existed.
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That ought to
give you confidence
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in the veracity of the Bible.
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Remember Hebrews 11, verse 7:
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"By faith Noah, being warned of
God of things not seen as yet,
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moved with fear, prepared an
ark to the saving of his house."
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"Faith is the
substance of things hoped for,
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the evidence of
things not seen,"
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according to verse 1
of that same chapter.
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Faith is what set Noah apart
from the rest of the world.
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Faith is what saved
Noah and his household.
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For 120 years Noah
warned the antediluvian world
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of the impending
judgment about to break forth.
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The day came when he
made his last solemn appeal.
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Again the people laughed at him.
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Then suddenly a stillness
settled upon the jeering crowd
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as animals of all
kinds and descriptions
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made their way to the ark.
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Fierce tigers,
lumbering elephants,
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hopping kangaroos made
their way to the open doors.
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Birds came flocking
from every direction.
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The animals went
two by two into the ark,
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although the Bible says the
clean animals went in by sevens.
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Now, some say there's no
way all the different species
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could have fit in there.
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But notice what the Bible
says in Genesis 7:13 and 14:
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"On the very same
day Noah and Noah's sons,
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"Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and
Noah's wife and the three wives
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"of his sons with
them, entered the ark--
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"they and every
beast after its kind,
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"all cattle after their kind,
every creeping thing that creeps
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"on the earth after its kind,
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and every bird after its
kind, every bird of every sort."
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Now, notice the
wording: "after its kind."
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That doesn't mean that
there were German shepherds,
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poodles, dachshunds, and
every single breed of dog
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going into the ark.
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It means two dogs
went into the ark.
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There could have been more,
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but it doesn't mean
that every breed went in.
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Same with cats,
same with cattle.
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The wording
doesn't necessarily mean
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every one of today's species.
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You, you see what I mean.
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After Noah and his family and
the animals were safe inside,
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God shut the door.
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For seven days nothing happened.
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You'd imagine the people outside
continued on as spectators,
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and you can imagine
them laughing and, and joking
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about the crazy old
man inside with a zoo.
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By now, Noah was 600 years old.
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But can you imagine how
the expressions on their faces
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changed from mirth to fear
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when dark clouds hid
the sun on the eighth day.
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They weren't laughing
anymore when thunder rumbled
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and lightning cracked
and flashed across the sky.
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[thunder rumbles]
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Then rain began to fall,
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slowly at first, you'd think,
and then faster and faster.
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It says that "the fountains of
the great deep were broken up,
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and the windows of
heaven were opened."
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Torrents of water hit
the earth with immense force.
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I don't suppose anyone laughed
00:16:08.83\00:16:10.43
as animals began
running to higher ground,
00:16:10.47\00:16:12.90
crying out in
terror as they went.
00:16:12.93\00:16:16.50
No, instead of laughing, the
people would have run to the ark
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and banged on the door.
00:16:19.67\00:16:21.88
But it was too late.
Probation had ended for them.
00:16:21.91\00:16:26.48
I can't imagine the terror,
00:16:26.51\00:16:28.52
the horror the
people would have felt
00:16:28.55\00:16:31.12
knowing they could have
been safely inside the ark.
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So what happened
after the door was shut?
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I'll share that with
you when we come back.
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the emotional pain
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>>John Bradshaw:
Welcome back to It Is Written.
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We are continuing our series,
"Great Characters of the Bible."
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Today we're looking
at the life of Noah.
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We can only imagine
what it must have been like
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on the outside of the ark as
people beheld the destruction
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of their houses and their idols.
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Imagine what it must
have felt like inside the ark
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for Noah and his family.
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They could hear the
people banging on the door,
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screaming and
yelling, begging to be let in.
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They could hear the
elements breaking up as trees
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and, and massive rocks
were hurled in the air.
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Did Noah want to open
the door and let them in?
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Well, you'd think
so. But he couldn't.
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God had shut the door, and
not even Noah could open it.
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I'm sure the animals
inside the ark were scared, too.
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All they or anyone could
do was sit tight and hang on
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for the ride of their life.
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For five long
months, or 150 days,
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they endured being
tossed about by wind and sea.
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They endured smelly animals
and being cooped up in the ark.
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Most people get a little
stir crazy after a few days
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shut up at home.
00:19:27.36\00:19:28.83
Imagine five
months with nowhere to go.
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Oh, now they were
traveling, all right,
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but they
couldn't see the scenery.
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But at last the waters began
to subside, and the ark drifted
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into a spot protected
by a group of mountains.
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Noah waited 40 days
and sent out a raven.
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The raven flew about but
couldn't find a place to land.
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So Noah waited another
seven days and sent out a dove.
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Same thing. The dove returned.
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Another seven days passed before
Noah sent out another dove,
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which flew back that evening
with an olive leaf in her mouth.
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Hope sprang in their hearts.
00:20:08.17\00:20:10.64
Seven days later
another dove was released,
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which didn't come back.
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They removed the covering of
the ark and smelled fresh air.
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It must have been heavenly.
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I'm sure they
were all very curious
00:20:20.62\00:20:22.48
about what the world
would have looked like,
00:20:22.52\00:20:24.05
but Noah waited patiently
for God to give the directions.
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Eventually God
spoke to Noah, saying,
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"Go out of the
ark, you and your wife,
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and your sons and
your sons' wives with you."
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According to the Bible,
the first thing Noah did
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was build an altar
and offer sacrifices
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from among the clean
animals as a thank offering.
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He wanted to praise God for His
kindness and mercy towards him.
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"And the Lord
smelled a soothing aroma.
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"Then the Lord said in
His heart, 'I will never again
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"'curse the
ground for man's sake,
00:20:59.19\00:21:02.06
"'although the imagination
of man's heart is evil
00:21:02.09\00:21:05.29
"'from his youth; nor will I
again destroy every living thing
00:21:05.33\00:21:09.30
"'as I have done.
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"'While the earth
remains, seedtime and harvest,
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"'cold and heat,
winter and summer,
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and day and night
shall not cease.'"
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And that's the
story of Noah and the ark.
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"God blessed Noah and
his [family]" and told them
00:21:24.31\00:21:27.25
to "be fruitful and
multiply, and fill the earth."
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Then God did a
very beautiful thing.
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He made a rainbow
and set it in the clouds,
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because He knew that
there would always be a question
00:21:41.16\00:21:43.13
in the minds of
future generations
00:21:43.16\00:21:45.17
about a worldwide flood.
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If God did it once,
wouldn't He do it again?
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But God did not want people
to be afraid of rain or storms,
00:21:52.17\00:21:55.81
so He made this promise:
00:21:55.84\00:21:57.31
"I set my rainbow in the cloud,
and it shall be for [a] sign
00:21:57.35\00:22:00.88
"of the covenant
between me and the earth....
00:22:00.92\00:22:03.22
"When I bring a
cloud over the earth,
00:22:03.25\00:22:05.32
"that the rainbow
shall be seen in the cloud;
00:22:05.35\00:22:07.76
"and I will remember my covenant
which is between me and you
00:22:07.79\00:22:11.66
"and every living
creature of all flesh;
00:22:11.69\00:22:14.20
"the waters shall
never again become a flood
00:22:14.23\00:22:17.03
to destroy all flesh."
00:22:17.07\00:22:19.57
Not that God would
forget, but His purpose was
00:22:19.60\00:22:23.04
that when future
generations would see the ark,
00:22:23.07\00:22:26.27
it would spark their curiosity,
00:22:26.31\00:22:28.74
and their parents would have the
opportunity to repeat the story
00:22:28.78\00:22:31.21
of the global
flood and God's promise.
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But what became of Noah?
00:22:35.22\00:22:37.12
Well, Noah became a farmer,
and he lived for 350 years
00:22:37.15\00:22:40.62
after the Flood, making
him 950 years old when he died.
00:22:40.66\00:22:46.93
His son Ham committed an
unnatural crime against Noah,
00:22:46.96\00:22:50.60
and he was cursed by God.
00:22:50.63\00:22:53.23
Ham's descendants
became the Canaanites,
00:22:53.27\00:22:55.27
the enemies of the Israelites.
00:22:55.30\00:22:57.87
The line of Shem was to
be that of the chosen people,
00:22:57.91\00:23:00.71
through which Abraham,
David, and Jesus would descend.
00:23:00.74\00:23:05.81
Concerning
Japheth, the Word says,
00:23:05.85\00:23:08.05
"God shall enlarge Japheth."
00:23:08.08\00:23:11.19
Noah's life is an
example of how you and I
00:23:11.22\00:23:13.92
should act upon our faith.
00:23:13.96\00:23:16.59
I would encourage you to
not think of Noah and the ark
00:23:16.62\00:23:19.56
as simply a story.
00:23:19.59\00:23:21.46
This is an account,
something that really happened.
00:23:21.50\00:23:26.07
It's not a fairytale.
00:23:26.10\00:23:28.17
History's repeating itself,
00:23:28.20\00:23:30.07
and once again the cup
of iniquity is filling up,
00:23:30.11\00:23:32.24
because man's
thoughts and imaginations
00:23:32.27\00:23:34.58
are "only evil continually."
00:23:34.61\00:23:37.25
The people in Noah's day
didn't have the written Word,
00:23:37.28\00:23:40.55
the Bible, as we do now.
00:23:40.58\00:23:42.88
But God has spelled out
what happened in the past
00:23:42.92\00:23:46.15
and what will
happen in the future.
00:23:46.19\00:23:48.06
You and I are without excuse.
00:23:48.09\00:23:51.39
God will eventually destroy the
wicked from off the earth again,
00:23:51.43\00:23:55.93
but the
righteous will be preserved
00:23:55.96\00:23:58.90
as Noah was
preserved in the ark.
00:23:58.93\00:24:00.80
God will be their refuge,
00:24:00.84\00:24:03.20
"and under His
wings" they shall trust.
00:24:03.24\00:24:06.21
Says the psalmist
in Psalm 27, verse 5,
00:24:06.24\00:24:09.01
"In the time of trouble He
shall hide me in His pavilion:
00:24:09.04\00:24:12.35
in the secret of His
tabernacle shall He hide me."
00:24:12.38\00:24:15.35
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00:24:15.38\00:24:16.32
God has an ark of
safety for His people.
00:24:16.35\00:24:20.16
If you listen to God's
voice and follow Him in faith,
00:24:20.19\00:24:23.26
as Noah did, you won't be
on the outside of the ark,
00:24:23.29\00:24:27.86
but you'll be on the inside.
00:24:27.86\00:24:30.33
What an example Noah gave us.
00:24:30.37\00:24:32.47
He heard the voice
of God and believed it
00:24:32.50\00:24:35.54
and followed what God said.
00:24:35.57\00:24:37.84
And that's something you can do.
00:24:37.87\00:24:39.34
God wants you to do that.
00:24:39.37\00:24:41.51
You know God's will?
00:24:41.54\00:24:43.35
Surrender to His will.
00:24:43.38\00:24:45.05
God tells you He's
going to do something?
00:24:45.08\00:24:47.22
Believe that.
00:24:47.25\00:24:48.68
God says He'll forgive you?
00:24:48.72\00:24:51.25
Believe that.
00:24:51.29\00:24:52.59
God says He'll
give you a new heart?
00:24:52.62\00:24:54.79
Believe what God says.
00:24:54.82\00:24:56.83
Noah believed.
00:24:56.86\00:24:59.13
When the world was
against him, Noah believed,
00:24:59.16\00:25:03.43
and Noah found
grace in the sight of God.
00:25:03.47\00:25:08.77
Will you believe today?
00:25:08.80\00:25:10.74
God loves you.
Can you believe that?
00:25:10.77\00:25:13.48
Jesus is coming
back to this world--soon.
00:25:13.51\00:25:16.48
Can you believe that?
00:25:16.51\00:25:18.31
God is good and gracious.
00:25:18.35\00:25:21.18
One day the saved
will be in heaven.
00:25:21.22\00:25:23.28
A time of trouble is
coming to this world,
00:25:23.32\00:25:25.92
but there's
safety in faith in God.
00:25:25.95\00:25:29.72
Can you believe that?
00:25:29.76\00:25:31.59
The best is yet to come,
00:25:31.63\00:25:34.00
and God wants you to be
part of His eternal kingdom.
00:25:34.03\00:25:37.10
Jesus said He was
going to prepare mansions
00:25:37.13\00:25:39.23
for His friends.
00:25:39.27\00:25:41.07
There's a place
for you in heaven.
00:25:41.10\00:25:44.27
Just believe, like Noah did,
00:25:44.31\00:25:47.21
and you can know
that eternity is yours.
00:25:47.24\00:25:50.95
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>>John Bradshaw:
Let's pray together now.
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Our Father in heaven, we are
grateful that You have preserved
00:26:25.15\00:26:28.48
the story of Noah in the Bible.
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We thank You for
this man of faith,
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who believed what You
said, even though what You said
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seemed as unlikely as
anything to everyone else.
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Lord, give us faith today.
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Give us faith to
believe Your Word.
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Give us faith to
believe in Jesus' return.
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Give us faith to believe in
forgiveness and grace and mercy
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and blessing and in a loving God
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who made us in His image that we
might spend eternity with Him.
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We ask Your blessing now.
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And, friend, I want to
ask God's blessing for you.
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If there's doubt in your heart,
would you bring that to God?
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If there's
uncertainty in your experience,
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would you bring that to God?
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If there's
something between you and God
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that needs to be cleared up,
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would you bring
that to God right now?
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Oh, friend, if
you have not believed,
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but it's time, would
you say, "Lord, I believe"?
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"I believe You
are a God who saves.
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I believe You are a God who
has an eternity waiting for me."
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Friend, would you lift
up your heart to God now?
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Father, we
pray, take our hearts.
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We cannot give them.
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Keep them pure, because
we cannot keep them for You.
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And save us, Lord.
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We're looking forward to
the day when Jesus returns
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to take us home to
be with You forever.
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Let that day come soon.
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We thank You for it,
and we pray in Jesus' name,
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amen.
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Thank you so
much for joining me.
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I'm looking forward to
seeing you again next time.
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Until then, remember:
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"It is written, 'Man
shall not live by bread alone,
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but by every word that proceeds
from the mouth of God.'"
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