WEBVTT 0 00:00:04.890 --> 00:00:07.322 Welcome to the Willow Ridge Sermons podcast. 1 00:00:07.466 --> 00:00:11.150 This is where you can find audio from Sunday morning messages and more. 2 00:00:11.300 --> 00:00:14.442 Make sure you're subscribed so that you don't miss future episodes. 3 00:00:14.506 --> 00:00:15.950 And thanks for listening. 4 00:00:20.930 --> 00:00:21.840 Good morning. 5 00:00:22.690 --> 00:00:26.818 It sounds like all the moms and I'm going to even say most of the dads. 6 00:00:26.914 --> 00:00:27.958 You felt that, right? 7 00:00:28.044 --> 00:00:32.742 That resonated as truth this morning of things we don't say. 8 00:00:32.876 --> 00:00:36.710 But we are excited for you guys to be here to join us today. 9 00:00:36.780 --> 00:00:38.578 As we worship our Lord and Savior. 10 00:00:38.674 --> 00:00:44.634 If you got your Bibles going over to Genesis, chapter six, we're going to start here in just a moment in verse nine. 11 00:00:44.752 --> 00:00:49.638 I'm going to tell you as you're turning there this morning, we're going to do things a little bit differently. 12 00:00:49.734 --> 00:00:54.934 We're going to read this morning together, genesis six nine through chapter nine, verse 16. 13 00:00:54.982 --> 00:00:56.174 So we're going to read a lot. 14 00:00:56.292 --> 00:00:57.966 I'm going to try to talk less. 15 00:00:58.148 --> 00:01:03.418 And what we're going to do is we're going to build over the next several weeks as we focus on the flood. 16 00:01:03.514 --> 00:01:12.494 So today is going to be giving us some groundwork as we navigate through this Bible story for us of Noah and the flood. 17 00:01:12.622 --> 00:01:16.966 I do want to wish all the moms out there a very happy Mother's Day. 18 00:01:17.068 --> 00:01:26.754 I hope that this afternoon is filled with rest, naps, prime rib, and whatever else your husband and kids are doing for you this afternoon. 19 00:01:26.882 --> 00:01:34.486 But we do value, we do appreciate all that you do, all that you provide for, not only for your family, for the kingdom. 20 00:01:34.598 --> 00:01:36.826 As we go through that every year. 21 00:01:36.928 --> 00:01:54.800 As we celebrate Moms on Mother's Day, there's a reminder for me that is all real and it is this simple truth in today where we celebrate Moms this morning, Sundays are different for us. 22 00:01:55.410 --> 00:02:01.234 The day that I get up to make sure that I'm definitely here for worship, for work, for part of me. 23 00:02:01.272 --> 00:02:03.906 So I usually give my Mother's Day. 24 00:02:03.928 --> 00:02:05.102 Gift to my wife on Saturday. 25 00:02:05.166 --> 00:02:09.906 But my kids wake up and they cooked her breakfast and they had gifts. 26 00:02:09.938 --> 00:02:11.446 And so all those things right as. 27 00:02:11.468 --> 00:02:13.986 We celebrate but as we celebrate Moms. 28 00:02:14.018 --> 00:02:23.820 We also recognize that with all the joy and the excitement that Mother's Day brings, that for so many different people, that there's a weight that also carries on Mother's Day. 29 00:02:24.430 --> 00:02:27.002 Growing up, I was reminded of this. 30 00:02:27.136 --> 00:02:30.346 My mom lost her mother when my. 31 00:02:30.368 --> 00:02:32.060 Mom was 15 years old. 32 00:02:32.450 --> 00:02:41.760 And so all growing through as my mom celebrated being a mom herself, it was always the reminder of the experience that she walked through from such a young age. 33 00:02:42.210 --> 00:02:56.530 After I got married, aaron and I decided that we felt the lord was needed to start a family, which we walked down a path that so many ladies walk through, so many families walk through, of miscarriage and infertility. 34 00:02:56.870 --> 00:03:07.942 But on top of that, of being a pastor and walking alongside people in life, we know that there's a lot of you, as we talked about even a few weeks ago, who have had to bury your children and walk through. 35 00:03:07.996 --> 00:03:13.542 And so the thought of Mother's Day, while there is great joy, the thought of Mother's Day also carries a weight. 36 00:03:13.686 --> 00:03:16.246 So if you're here with great joy. 37 00:03:16.278 --> 00:03:22.698 Of what it means to be a mom and being celebrated or celebrating your mother, we want to celebrate alongside with you. 38 00:03:22.784 --> 00:03:24.346 But if you're here this morning and. 39 00:03:24.368 --> 00:03:28.398 There'S a weight that you feel, we want you to know that we feel that weight for you. 40 00:03:28.484 --> 00:03:31.854 We feel that weight with you and that we are praying for you. 41 00:03:31.972 --> 00:03:37.070 So as we dive into this in Genesis, let's go ahead and go to the Lord in prayer. 42 00:03:37.410 --> 00:03:37.726 God. 43 00:03:37.748 --> 00:03:39.060 I come to you this morning. 44 00:03:39.670 --> 00:03:41.700 We're thanking you for who you are. 45 00:03:42.070 --> 00:03:43.922 Lord, I thank you for those kids this morning. 46 00:03:43.976 --> 00:03:49.318 I thank you that they did not get up on this stage and perform, but they got up on this stage and they worshipped you. 47 00:03:49.404 --> 00:03:51.350 And, Lord, they led us in worship. 48 00:03:51.850 --> 00:03:57.400 And so, Lord, I thank you for who they are, for what You've purpose and designed their life for. 49 00:03:57.950 --> 00:04:03.770 Lord, I lift up every person in here, but especially, Lord, our ladies. 50 00:04:04.350 --> 00:04:11.834 Lord, I lift up all the moms, from the youngest of young to the most seasoned and experienced mom in the room. 51 00:04:12.032 --> 00:04:15.120 I thank you for their presence and their impact on their family. 52 00:04:15.650 --> 00:04:24.610 I thank you for the reminder of who they are in Christ and as they sought to share that and continue to pass on faith. 53 00:04:25.510 --> 00:04:31.566 But, Lord, I also pray for all the ladies in the room who today, the day is heavy. 54 00:04:31.758 --> 00:04:33.970 The day is a reminder of loss. 55 00:04:34.470 --> 00:04:39.720 The day is a reminder of something they long for, but they haven't been blessed with. 56 00:04:40.330 --> 00:04:49.542 And Lord, I pray that in there that they would be reminded that not only, Lord, do we grieve with them and lift them up, but, Lord, you have not forgotten them. 57 00:04:49.596 --> 00:04:53.020 You have not forsaken them, Lord, and you are with them as well. 58 00:04:53.710 --> 00:05:11.950 Lord, I pray as we go through this account today and over the next several weeks, Lord, in the midst of what the flood can be remembered for and was, Lord, I pray what we would see is the glory of God and Your plan for salvation. 59 00:05:12.770 --> 00:05:15.858 May we celebrate and may we worship you. 60 00:05:16.024 --> 00:05:18.014 And it's in Jesus name we pray. 61 00:05:18.142 --> 00:05:19.090 Amen. 62 00:05:19.670 --> 00:05:21.300 I want to ask you a question. 63 00:05:21.910 --> 00:05:35.800 Whether now currently in your life or at a young age, have you ever seen someone, maybe someone famous, maybe someone not famous, and thought to yourself, I would like to be like them? 64 00:05:36.410 --> 00:05:43.366 They possess a talent or characteristics that you see and that you desire. 65 00:05:43.558 --> 00:05:47.578 And so what you then try to do in ways is you try to. 66 00:05:47.664 --> 00:05:50.826 Maybe emulate them a little bit, right? 67 00:05:50.928 --> 00:06:00.862 You try to mold and shape the things that you do by looking at the things that they do and molding and shaping your patterns, your behaviors, to emulate them. 68 00:06:00.996 --> 00:06:05.374 I was thinking about this week, like, growing up for me, what did that look like? 69 00:06:05.412 --> 00:06:07.714 And I was a sports guy. 70 00:06:07.832 --> 00:06:09.186 I still am a sports guy. 71 00:06:09.208 --> 00:06:10.686 I love to play sports. 72 00:06:10.798 --> 00:06:12.558 I love to watch sports. 73 00:06:12.654 --> 00:06:16.270 Now, at 43 years old, I'd rather watch a sport than play a sport. 74 00:06:16.350 --> 00:06:17.574 But you all are with me, right? 75 00:06:17.692 --> 00:06:19.234 I love sports. 76 00:06:19.362 --> 00:06:24.450 And I remember growing up playing basketball, playing football, playing baseball. 77 00:06:24.530 --> 00:06:32.998 But my favorite sport to play was the sport of basketball, which, ironically, that was probably my least gifted sport. 78 00:06:33.094 --> 00:06:37.418 I wasn't a great athlete by any means, but basketball I struggled in. 79 00:06:37.504 --> 00:06:47.966 But I loved to go outside, whether it's playing one on one, which, by the way, Mother's Day, let me tell this story playing one on one against my mom, all right? 80 00:06:48.068 --> 00:06:50.560 And you're like bo, let me tell you, all right? 81 00:06:50.930 --> 00:06:59.840 I remember the day in 7th grade when I finally beat my mom in one on one, right? 82 00:07:00.630 --> 00:07:02.674 Really quick, before we dive into this, here's what happened. 83 00:07:02.712 --> 00:07:03.730 I'll never forget this. 84 00:07:03.800 --> 00:07:09.000 This was the moment that I realized I could beat my mom in basketball, but that my mom owned me. 85 00:07:11.130 --> 00:07:12.870 She went up for a layup. 86 00:07:14.810 --> 00:07:15.174 And. 87 00:07:15.212 --> 00:07:23.462 I came in from behind her, and I brought that right hand over, and as she went to lay that ball. 88 00:07:23.526 --> 00:07:31.790 Into the hoop, I swatted it and threw it about 20ft in the opposite direction. 89 00:07:33.250 --> 00:07:35.086 And then in only a way that. 90 00:07:35.108 --> 00:07:47.822 A foolish 7th grader boy would ever do, I kind of bowed up at my mom, and the look on her face was, if you ever do that again, I will kill you. 91 00:07:47.876 --> 00:07:48.480 Right? 92 00:07:48.850 --> 00:07:49.458 We tell you. 93 00:07:49.464 --> 00:07:51.234 I never blocked another shot from that moment forward. 94 00:07:51.272 --> 00:07:52.706 But me and my mom, we didn't play one on one. 95 00:07:52.728 --> 00:07:53.970 I had beaten her. 96 00:07:54.120 --> 00:08:00.642 But it took me until 9th grade to beat my mom in a game of horse, right? 97 00:08:00.696 --> 00:08:03.942 She'd just sit outside and just knock them down and knock them down and knock them down. 98 00:08:03.996 --> 00:08:05.858 And she'd remind me, you may be taller. 99 00:08:05.954 --> 00:08:08.650 You may be faster, you maybe can jump higher. 100 00:08:08.720 --> 00:08:10.442 But my shot is better. 101 00:08:10.576 --> 00:08:13.500 And it was and probably still is, right? 102 00:08:14.430 --> 00:08:17.610 But I wanted to emulate my heroes in basketball. 103 00:08:18.270 --> 00:08:19.482 1989. 104 00:08:19.536 --> 00:08:20.326 Michael Jordan. 105 00:08:20.358 --> 00:08:23.386 The Chicago Bulls were playing the Cleveland Cavaliers. 106 00:08:23.418 --> 00:08:26.266 And if you know NBA, you probably know what I'm about to reference. 107 00:08:26.298 --> 00:08:33.098 Michael Jordan made what basketball historians refer to as the shot over Craig ELO. 108 00:08:33.274 --> 00:08:39.086 So the NBA playoffs, michael Jordan cut across the lane, got the ball, stopped, went up and over, scored. 109 00:08:39.118 --> 00:08:42.942 Bulls win, leaves his hand dangling, fist pumps. 110 00:08:43.006 --> 00:08:47.794 I get out in the backyard, not with anybody else, but just me, pretending that I'm Michael Jordan. 111 00:08:47.842 --> 00:08:49.366 Catch the ball, go across to the. 112 00:08:49.388 --> 00:08:51.880 Foul line, shoot, most of the time miss. 113 00:08:52.730 --> 00:08:55.910 But if I made it I've emulated my hero. 114 00:08:56.250 --> 00:09:03.110 In 1994, a guy and a family moved into our neighborhood who turned out to be one of my best friends, a guy by the name of Joe Timmerman. 115 00:09:03.190 --> 00:09:11.530 And he moved from to North Augusta, South Carolina from Durham, North Carolina, which is the home of the Duke Blue Devils. 116 00:09:12.270 --> 00:09:15.870 And his favorite player was Grant Hill. 117 00:09:16.210 --> 00:09:19.194 My favorite player was Christian Lakener. 118 00:09:19.322 --> 00:09:24.526 And we would get in his driveway and practice to the best of our ability. 119 00:09:24.718 --> 00:09:34.126 Him throwing the basketball, to me, me catching it, posting up on an invisible Kentucky basketball player turning and making the shot. 120 00:09:34.318 --> 00:09:39.190 And the goal wasn't simply to make the shot. 121 00:09:40.090 --> 00:09:43.720 The goal was how did they position themselves? 122 00:09:44.170 --> 00:09:46.194 How did they hold the ball? 123 00:09:46.322 --> 00:09:48.840 What did they do when the ball went in? 124 00:09:49.530 --> 00:09:58.810 And as we would emulate, as we would practice, as we would do these things, we would look and say, I don't want to just make it like Jordan made the shot. 125 00:09:59.470 --> 00:10:04.734 I don't want to just make it like Leitner made it in 1992. 126 00:10:04.932 --> 00:10:11.760 I want to do everything exactly the way that they did this. 127 00:10:13.090 --> 00:10:16.066 I wanted to say, Somebody see me. 128 00:10:16.088 --> 00:10:17.598 Do that and go, whoo. 129 00:10:17.774 --> 00:10:20.260 That boy looks just like Michael Jordan, right? 130 00:10:20.870 --> 00:10:24.114 All five foot ten, 120 pounds of him. 131 00:10:24.152 --> 00:10:24.546 Right. 132 00:10:24.648 --> 00:10:25.640 Not now. 133 00:10:30.170 --> 00:10:30.920 Right. 134 00:10:31.610 --> 00:10:36.150 And I find sometimes we do that in faith. 135 00:10:38.170 --> 00:10:42.010 We read through Scripture, and I think there's some room for this. 136 00:10:42.160 --> 00:10:43.322 I think this is okay. 137 00:10:43.376 --> 00:10:45.578 I'm I'm not I'm not condemning this. 138 00:10:45.744 --> 00:10:49.718 That that we look at men and women in Scripture. 139 00:10:49.814 --> 00:11:01.120 We look at men and women of faith, and there's a longing and there the desire within us that says, I'd like to have faith like that. 140 00:11:02.130 --> 00:11:05.086 We see that we see that in the Old Testament. 141 00:11:05.118 --> 00:11:11.058 We see that in the New Testament, and we read through and we land in this. 142 00:11:11.224 --> 00:11:14.100 I would like to have faith like they do. 143 00:11:15.510 --> 00:11:19.154 But sometimes when we have that, we walk away defeated. 144 00:11:19.202 --> 00:11:20.054 Because here's what I knew. 145 00:11:20.092 --> 00:11:22.594 Playing basketball in my backyard or basketball. 146 00:11:22.642 --> 00:11:24.390 In Joe Timmerman's driveway. 147 00:11:24.730 --> 00:11:26.738 I would never be Michael Jordan. 148 00:11:26.914 --> 00:11:28.882 I would never be Christian Leitner. 149 00:11:29.026 --> 00:11:31.174 As many times as I practiced those. 150 00:11:31.212 --> 00:11:35.478 Shots, I would never have the stage that they had. 151 00:11:35.644 --> 00:11:38.760 I would never have the talent that they had. 152 00:11:39.130 --> 00:11:40.670 I'd never be them. 153 00:11:40.820 --> 00:11:42.000 And that's okay. 154 00:11:43.250 --> 00:11:54.900 But I find that sometimes as we read through Scripture, we find ourselves in looking at this and saying, man, I'd like to have faith like them, but I never will. 155 00:11:55.830 --> 00:12:01.966 And we approach the faith of our life in defeat instead of approaching the faith of our life in victory. 156 00:12:02.158 --> 00:12:20.454 And so as we look through Noah today, as we journey through this, when we get Me land, we're going to examine his faith of what this looked like and the understanding that as we walk with the Lord, right, that this can be part of our story, too. 157 00:12:20.492 --> 00:12:21.210 So let's start. 158 00:12:21.280 --> 00:12:26.438 We're going to read Genesis six, nine through twelve to start off, since these are the generations of Noah. 159 00:12:26.534 --> 00:12:29.574 Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. 160 00:12:29.702 --> 00:12:34.458 Noah walked with God, and Noah had three sons shim, Ham and Jacob. 161 00:12:34.554 --> 00:12:38.410 Now, the earth was corrupt in God's sight, and the earth was filled with violence. 162 00:12:38.490 --> 00:12:44.990 And God saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt for all the flesh had corrupted their way on the earth. 163 00:12:45.070 --> 00:12:49.390 And God said to Noah, I've determined to make an end of all flesh. 164 00:12:49.470 --> 00:12:52.178 For the earth is filled with violence through them. 165 00:12:52.264 --> 00:12:56.222 Behold, I will destroy them with the earth. 166 00:12:56.286 --> 00:12:58.854 And so this is what we see a little bit from last week. 167 00:12:58.892 --> 00:12:59.318 All right? 168 00:12:59.404 --> 00:13:00.338 So here's what reminded. 169 00:13:00.354 --> 00:13:06.146 We get this description of Noah that Noah is blameless, that Noah is righteous. 170 00:13:06.258 --> 00:13:07.222 Let me describe this. 171 00:13:07.276 --> 00:13:09.530 This does not mean that Noah is perfect, all right? 172 00:13:09.600 --> 00:13:17.530 This does not mean that Noah is a perfect specimen of human in this moment. 173 00:13:17.600 --> 00:13:20.774 That's not what we see, but blameless and righteous. 174 00:13:20.822 --> 00:13:27.610 What we can draw from this is that it's a positive, it's a Godly description of Noah's integrity. 175 00:13:27.690 --> 00:13:29.210 That's what it means to be blameless. 176 00:13:29.290 --> 00:13:33.390 And it's a positive description of Noah's conduct. 177 00:13:33.470 --> 00:13:37.310 So he had godly integrity, godly conduct. 178 00:13:37.390 --> 00:13:41.858 So this is what we see, who he is, and this is what he does. 179 00:13:41.944 --> 00:13:51.542 This is the full embodiment, the piece of this that's so important for us is all of this is because Noah walked with God. 180 00:13:51.676 --> 00:14:00.642 All of this is possible, not because Noah determines within himself that he's going to be this great man of great conduct, this great man of great character. 181 00:14:00.706 --> 00:14:07.622 It's all because Noah understands in the closeness of the relationship with God that he pursues in his walk with the Lord. 182 00:14:07.686 --> 00:14:14.922 It's the language that's used at the very beginning in the relationship where Adam and God walked together in the garden. 183 00:14:14.986 --> 00:14:19.562 It's the same picture of the language that we get when God walked after Adam. 184 00:14:19.626 --> 00:14:23.140 But Adam did what adam fled from God. 185 00:14:23.590 --> 00:14:25.234 It's the walking together. 186 00:14:25.352 --> 00:14:38.402 And so Noah's blamelessness and Noah's righteousness comes from walking with God, an intimate, personal, growing, real relationship that Noah has with his Creator. 187 00:14:38.466 --> 00:14:41.560 And it's what God longs for you and I to have with him. 188 00:14:43.050 --> 00:14:52.362 Not that we're pharisees determined in our own way, not that we are figuring out for ourselves what we need to do and how to do it. 189 00:14:52.416 --> 00:15:05.006 We are not a better version simply of ourself, but in our relationship with the Lord and walking with Him under the power of the Holy Spirit, we are transformed and sanctified and who he would like for us and who he. 190 00:15:05.028 --> 00:15:06.638 Has called us to be. 191 00:15:06.724 --> 00:15:13.934 And the imagery of Noah stands in complete opposition with the earth and the. 192 00:15:13.972 --> 00:15:16.050 Men and women who fill the earth. 193 00:15:16.470 --> 00:15:27.198 And so the opposite is said in God's word of the earth, that the earth is corrupt, that the earth is filled with violence, that flesh, humanity is corrupted. 194 00:15:27.374 --> 00:15:28.674 That's what we looked at last week. 195 00:15:28.712 --> 00:15:35.730 So God says in this that he's going to make an end to the flesh and he's going to destroy them with the earth. 196 00:15:35.890 --> 00:15:40.166 So it's going to be the call, right, for Noah to build an ark. 197 00:15:40.198 --> 00:15:41.530 Let's look at verse 14. 198 00:15:43.310 --> 00:15:46.966 Make yourself an ark of gopher wood. 199 00:15:47.158 --> 00:15:51.130 Make rooms in the ark and cover it inside and out with pitch. 200 00:15:51.550 --> 00:15:53.374 This is how you are to make it. 201 00:15:53.492 --> 00:16:00.458 The length of the ark, 300 cubits, its breadth, 50 cubits, and its height, 30 cubits. 202 00:16:00.634 --> 00:16:08.020 Make a roof for the ark and finish it to a cubic above and set the door of the ark in its side. 203 00:16:08.390 --> 00:16:11.422 Make it with lower second and third decks. 204 00:16:11.486 --> 00:16:19.634 For behold, I will bring a flood of water upon the earth to destroy all the flesh in which is the breath of life under heaven. 205 00:16:19.762 --> 00:16:21.874 Everything that is on the earth shall die. 206 00:16:21.922 --> 00:16:25.890 But I will establish my covenant with you, and you shall come into the ark. 207 00:16:25.970 --> 00:16:36.794 You, your sons, your wife, your son's wives with you, and of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ark to keep them alive with you. 208 00:16:36.912 --> 00:16:46.366 They shall be male and female of the birds according to their kinds and the animals according to their kinds, of every creeping thing on the ground according to its kind. 209 00:16:46.468 --> 00:16:51.562 Two of every sort shall come into you to keep them alive. 210 00:16:51.706 --> 00:16:55.114 Also take with you every sort of food that is eaten and store it up. 211 00:16:55.172 --> 00:16:57.890 It shall serve as food for you and for them. 212 00:16:57.960 --> 00:16:59.346 And Noah did this. 213 00:16:59.448 --> 00:17:02.322 He did all that God commanded him. 214 00:17:02.456 --> 00:17:04.674 So God gives Noah some things in this. 215 00:17:04.712 --> 00:17:08.958 And so the first thing that God does is God gives Noah instructions for building the ark. 216 00:17:08.974 --> 00:17:11.506 And so it's going to be the structure that's got rooms. 217 00:17:11.538 --> 00:17:12.514 It's got three floors. 218 00:17:12.562 --> 00:17:21.362 It's been described to me the more of what we look at the ark to understand it, like the imagery and the picture that we think of when we see a battleship is more accurate with this. 219 00:17:21.436 --> 00:17:25.238 It will end up being I know we don't function in qubits, so here's. 220 00:17:25.334 --> 00:17:27.020 The best we can kind of understand. 221 00:17:27.470 --> 00:17:29.142 The dimensions of the ark. 222 00:17:29.206 --> 00:17:31.482 The ark would be 510ft long. 223 00:17:31.536 --> 00:17:33.174 This is one and a half football fields. 224 00:17:33.222 --> 00:17:35.190 It would be roughly 50ft high. 225 00:17:35.280 --> 00:17:41.182 So if you think of most of us, probably this is a silly comparison, but the close I could have a four story house, right? 226 00:17:41.236 --> 00:17:42.302 So this is there. 227 00:17:42.356 --> 00:17:45.518 And the ark had the storage equivalent. 228 00:17:45.614 --> 00:17:47.282 This is the part for me that blows my mind. 229 00:17:47.336 --> 00:17:55.630 It has the storage equivalent of 450 semi truck trailers is what could be stored in the ark. 230 00:17:55.710 --> 00:18:02.306 So God gives Noah instructions for what he is to do with the ark, but then God also gives Noah a covenant. 231 00:18:02.338 --> 00:18:10.322 Now, next week, we're going to talk way more about this, about the covenants that we're going to get throughout God's encounter with Noah and the ark and the flood. 232 00:18:10.386 --> 00:18:12.490 But this week, let's just kind of think through that. 233 00:18:12.560 --> 00:18:17.610 This is this promise on God's end that God's going to uphold what God said he's going to do. 234 00:18:17.680 --> 00:18:22.970 And he makes this promise, he makes this commitment to Noah, and he says, here's the first one. 235 00:18:23.040 --> 00:18:28.494 You're going to come into the ark with your family and you will live, right? 236 00:18:28.532 --> 00:18:37.778 God begins it by saying, you're going to build an ark and I'm going to destroy the Earth and all that's in it, but you and your family, you will live. 237 00:18:37.864 --> 00:18:43.266 And then he gives Him as if that's not overwhelming enough, he gives Him instructions for animals and for food. 238 00:18:43.368 --> 00:18:44.754 Every animal, two of each kind. 239 00:18:44.792 --> 00:18:47.110 And we're going to see some more here in a minute about that. 240 00:18:47.180 --> 00:18:54.326 And then every sort of food that is eaten, every single thing, god said. 241 00:18:54.348 --> 00:18:55.650 Here'S what you're going to collect. 242 00:18:55.810 --> 00:18:57.560 And so the ark is built. 243 00:18:58.030 --> 00:19:01.498 And Noah did all that God commanded him. 244 00:19:01.664 --> 00:19:06.300 I love that Noah did all that God commanded him. 245 00:19:06.830 --> 00:19:09.414 And we'll see this flow throughout. 246 00:19:09.462 --> 00:19:10.470 God says, do this. 247 00:19:10.560 --> 00:19:12.158 So Noah does this. 248 00:19:12.244 --> 00:19:14.814 And just if you're curious, noah was. 249 00:19:14.852 --> 00:19:18.000 Around 500 years old when construction began, right? 250 00:19:18.770 --> 00:19:20.026 You think you're tired. 251 00:19:20.138 --> 00:19:21.120 Here we go. 252 00:19:21.650 --> 00:19:22.814 Chapter seven, verse one. 253 00:19:22.852 --> 00:19:29.710 Then the Lord said to Noah, go into the ark, you and your household, for I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation. 254 00:19:29.790 --> 00:19:46.002 Take with you seven pairs of all clean animals, the male and his mate, and a pair of the animals that are not clean, the male and his mate, and seven pairs of birds of the heavens, also male and female, to keep their offspring alive on the Earth, on the face of all the Earth. 255 00:19:46.066 --> 00:19:55.398 For in seven days I will send rain on the Earth, 40 days and 40 nights, and every living thing that I have made, I will blot out from the face of the ground. 256 00:19:55.494 --> 00:19:58.522 And Noah did all that the Lord commanded him. 257 00:19:58.576 --> 00:20:00.298 Again, here is what we see. 258 00:20:00.384 --> 00:20:06.942 God gives more instructions, and Noah obeys, and Noah does what God commanded him. 259 00:20:07.076 --> 00:20:12.698 So God says to Noah, go inside and seven days rain is coming while you are inside. 260 00:20:12.804 --> 00:20:15.902 Here's how long it will rain, 40 days and 40 nights. 261 00:20:15.966 --> 00:20:20.290 And while you're preparing for this, prepare for sacrifice. 262 00:20:20.870 --> 00:20:22.478 Prepare for sacrifice. 263 00:20:22.654 --> 00:20:27.202 He says, you're going to bring these pairs of clean animals on here. 264 00:20:27.256 --> 00:20:30.646 And this is going to be important for the very end when we apply this for our life. 265 00:20:30.748 --> 00:20:32.422 God says, I want you to prepare yourself. 266 00:20:32.476 --> 00:20:36.070 I want you to think through, because throughout all of this, you're going to worship me. 267 00:20:36.220 --> 00:20:37.398 You're going to worship me. 268 00:20:37.484 --> 00:20:39.340 Let's look now at verse six. 269 00:20:40.670 --> 00:20:46.310 So Noah was 600 years old when the flood of waters came upon the Earth. 270 00:20:46.390 --> 00:20:49.306 500 when this started, 600 when the flood comes. 271 00:20:49.408 --> 00:21:02.490 And Noah and his sons and his wife and his son's wives with him, went into the ark to escape the waters of the flood of clean animals and of animals that are not clean and of birds and of everything that creeps on the ground. 272 00:21:02.570 --> 00:21:06.222 Two and two, male and female, went into the ark with Noah. 273 00:21:06.286 --> 00:21:09.330 Get again, as God had commanded Noah. 274 00:21:09.670 --> 00:21:13.822 And after seven days, the waters of the flood came upon the earth. 275 00:21:13.886 --> 00:21:28.082 In the 600th year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the 17th day of the month, on that day, all the fountains of the deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were open, and rain fell upon the earth 40 days and 40 nights. 276 00:21:28.146 --> 00:21:35.798 On the very same day, noah and his sons, shim, Ham, and Japheth, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his son, with them entered the ark. 277 00:21:35.894 --> 00:21:47.774 And they and every beast according to its kind, and all the livestock according to its kind, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth according to its kind, and every bird according to its kind, every weaned creature, they went. 278 00:21:47.812 --> 00:21:49.194 Into the ark with Noah. 279 00:21:49.242 --> 00:21:52.638 Two and two of all the flesh in which there was breath of life. 280 00:21:52.724 --> 00:22:00.402 And those that entered, male and female, of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him, and the Lord shut him in. 281 00:22:00.536 --> 00:22:00.846 Here's. 282 00:22:00.878 --> 00:22:04.626 The repetition that we see is God saying, this is what's going to happen. 283 00:22:04.728 --> 00:22:05.798 This is what happens. 284 00:22:05.884 --> 00:22:10.738 And the similarity that we draw from is that Noah obeyed. 285 00:22:10.834 --> 00:22:11.954 God spoke. 286 00:22:12.082 --> 00:22:13.378 Noah listened. 287 00:22:13.474 --> 00:22:14.658 Noah obeyed. 288 00:22:14.754 --> 00:22:16.694 This is the pattern that we see. 289 00:22:16.892 --> 00:22:21.850 We talked a little bit about the patterns that we see in Genesis and the genealogy that we saw. 290 00:22:21.920 --> 00:22:23.818 And this is the pattern of Noah's life. 291 00:22:23.904 --> 00:22:24.966 God spoke. 292 00:22:25.078 --> 00:22:28.634 Noah has clarity on what God desires for him. 293 00:22:28.752 --> 00:22:30.130 Noah listens. 294 00:22:30.230 --> 00:22:31.866 Noah obeys. 295 00:22:32.058 --> 00:22:33.550 God is faithful. 296 00:22:35.890 --> 00:22:36.990 Verse 17. 297 00:22:38.050 --> 00:22:40.206 The flood continued 40 days on the. 298 00:22:40.228 --> 00:22:44.874 Earth, and the waters increased and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the Earth. 299 00:22:45.002 --> 00:22:47.598 The waters prevailed and increased greatly on the Earth. 300 00:22:47.614 --> 00:22:51.086 And the ark floated on the face of the waters, and the waters prevailed. 301 00:22:51.118 --> 00:22:56.870 So mightily on the Earth that all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered. 302 00:22:57.450 --> 00:23:03.378 The waters prevailed above the mountains, covering them 15 cubits deep. 303 00:23:03.554 --> 00:23:06.626 And all flesh died that moved on the earth. 304 00:23:06.738 --> 00:23:10.106 Birds, livestock, beast, all swarming creatures that. 305 00:23:10.128 --> 00:23:11.190 Swarm on the Earth. 306 00:23:11.270 --> 00:23:17.290 And all mankind, everything on the dry land in whose nostrils was the breath of life, died. 307 00:23:17.790 --> 00:23:20.266 He blotted out every living thing that. 308 00:23:20.288 --> 00:23:22.086 Was on the face of the ground. 309 00:23:22.198 --> 00:23:27.706 Man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, they were blotted out from the earth. 310 00:23:27.818 --> 00:23:35.854 Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ark and the waters prevailed on the Earth. 311 00:23:35.982 --> 00:23:37.794 150 days. 312 00:23:37.992 --> 00:23:39.460 So the flood comes. 313 00:23:40.390 --> 00:23:55.480 Mountains covered by roughly 23ft, the highest mountain in the world, completely covered and the flood lasts 150 days. 314 00:23:56.250 --> 00:24:00.966 I think, as I was young and I read this, I would think, like, 40 days and 40 nights. 315 00:24:00.998 --> 00:24:04.602 And then God pulled the plug and, like, water going out of a bathtub, right? 316 00:24:04.656 --> 00:24:06.666 And the ark circled, and it was done. 317 00:24:06.768 --> 00:24:08.220 But no, right? 318 00:24:09.230 --> 00:24:13.120 And it happens in a moment. 319 00:24:13.490 --> 00:24:15.520 All died, just as God had said. 320 00:24:16.610 --> 00:24:28.210 God, a God of his word, who's faithful and true to Noah and faithful and true to his judgment and his wrath, all died. 321 00:24:29.270 --> 00:24:30.740 Chapter eight, verse one. 322 00:24:31.350 --> 00:24:40.274 But God remembered Noah but God remembered Noah and all the beast and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. 323 00:24:40.402 --> 00:24:43.778 And God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided. 324 00:24:43.874 --> 00:24:47.010 The fountains of the deep and the windows in the heavens were closed. 325 00:24:47.090 --> 00:24:51.714 The rain from the heavens were restrained, and the waters receded from the earth continually. 326 00:24:51.842 --> 00:24:55.494 At the end of 150 days, the waters had abated. 327 00:24:55.542 --> 00:25:01.610 And in the 7th month, on the 17th day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Arab. 328 00:25:02.530 --> 00:25:05.502 And the waters continued to abate until the 10th month. 329 00:25:05.556 --> 00:25:10.880 And in the 10th month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen. 330 00:25:12.390 --> 00:25:13.890 I love this passage. 331 00:25:14.470 --> 00:25:16.130 God remembered. 332 00:25:16.630 --> 00:25:35.000 And as God brought the rain and as God brought the flood, god brought the wind and the waters, and they subsided, and they receded, and God dried the earth and say, about five more months, as this process goes on. 333 00:25:36.090 --> 00:25:37.160 Verse six. 334 00:25:38.170 --> 00:25:43.286 At the end of the 40 days at the end of the 40 days think back. 335 00:25:43.308 --> 00:25:47.430 Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made and sent forth a raven. 336 00:25:47.770 --> 00:25:51.226 It went to and fro until the waters were dried up from the earth. 337 00:25:51.338 --> 00:25:55.898 Then he sent forth a dove from him to see if the waters had subsided from the face of the ground. 338 00:25:55.994 --> 00:26:01.802 But the dove found no place to set her foot, and she returned to him to the ark, for the waters were still on the face of the whole earth. 339 00:26:01.866 --> 00:26:06.478 So he put up his hand and took her and brought her into the ark with him. 340 00:26:06.564 --> 00:26:08.370 He waited another seven days. 341 00:26:08.440 --> 00:26:10.782 And again he set forth the dove out of the ark. 342 00:26:10.846 --> 00:26:13.310 And the dove came back to him in the evening. 343 00:26:13.390 --> 00:26:17.358 And behold, in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. 344 00:26:17.454 --> 00:26:20.450 So Noah knew that the waters had subsided from the earth. 345 00:26:20.530 --> 00:26:26.322 Then he waited another seven days and sent forth the dove, and she did not return to him anymore. 346 00:26:26.386 --> 00:26:29.338 There's two words that sum this up. 347 00:26:29.504 --> 00:26:31.974 There's two words that we learn from Noah. 348 00:26:32.022 --> 00:26:34.090 In this noah waited. 349 00:26:35.150 --> 00:26:36.570 Noah waited. 350 00:26:37.630 --> 00:26:45.870 The patience that God calls his people to as God works, noah waited. 351 00:26:47.010 --> 00:26:48.190 Verse 13. 352 00:26:49.410 --> 00:26:59.678 In the 601st year in the first month the first day of the month, the waters were dried from all the earth, and Noah removed the covenant from the ark and looked, and behold, the face of the ground was dry. 353 00:26:59.774 --> 00:27:03.026 In the second month, on the 27th day of the month, the Earth had dried out. 354 00:27:03.048 --> 00:27:06.510 And then God said to Noah, go out from the ark. 355 00:27:06.590 --> 00:27:10.422 You and your wife and your sons and your son's wives with you. 356 00:27:10.556 --> 00:27:23.462 Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may swarm on the earth and be fruitful and multiply on the earth. 357 00:27:23.526 --> 00:27:27.530 So Noah went out, and his sons and his wives, and his son's wives with him. 358 00:27:27.600 --> 00:27:34.362 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth went out by families from the ark. 359 00:27:34.426 --> 00:27:37.450 And so here, you see, God gives Noah instruction. 360 00:27:37.530 --> 00:27:40.990 Again, God had told Noah when to go into the ark. 361 00:27:41.650 --> 00:27:44.254 God had Noah wait, and God gave. 362 00:27:44.292 --> 00:27:48.610 Him instructions, as when he could leave in every aspect. 363 00:27:49.190 --> 00:27:51.218 God, what do you desire from me? 364 00:27:51.384 --> 00:27:52.420 Verse 20. 365 00:27:53.350 --> 00:27:58.862 Then Noah built an ark to the Lord and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird. 366 00:27:58.926 --> 00:28:02.386 And the offered and and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 367 00:28:02.498 --> 00:28:10.442 And when the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, the Lord said in his heart, I will never again curse the ground because of man. 368 00:28:10.576 --> 00:28:14.118 For the intention of man's heart is evil from his youth. 369 00:28:14.214 --> 00:28:19.274 Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done. 370 00:28:19.392 --> 00:28:26.154 While the Earth remains seed, time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall not cease. 371 00:28:26.202 --> 00:28:28.590 So Noah has built an ark. 372 00:28:29.170 --> 00:28:32.910 But now Noah builds an altar. 373 00:28:34.390 --> 00:28:36.690 Noah builds an altar for the Lord. 374 00:28:39.190 --> 00:28:42.340 Verse verse one, chapter nine. 375 00:28:43.750 --> 00:28:49.726 And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. 376 00:28:49.918 --> 00:29:01.606 The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the Earth and upon every bird of the heavens, upon everything that creeps on the ground and of all the fish of the sea, into your hands they are delivered. 377 00:29:01.718 --> 00:29:05.098 Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. 378 00:29:05.184 --> 00:29:07.946 And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything. 379 00:29:08.048 --> 00:29:12.854 But you shall not eat flesh with its life that is, its blood. 380 00:29:12.982 --> 00:29:16.314 And for your life blood, I will require a reckoning. 381 00:29:16.362 --> 00:29:18.526 From every beast I will require it. 382 00:29:18.548 --> 00:29:23.438 And from every man, from his fellow man, I will require a reckoning for the life of man. 383 00:29:23.524 --> 00:29:27.150 Whoever sheds the blood of man by man shall his blood be shed. 384 00:29:27.230 --> 00:29:31.810 For God made him in his own image, god bringing it back to creation. 385 00:29:32.230 --> 00:29:38.146 And you be fruitful and multiply and increase greatly on the earth, and multiply in it. 386 00:29:38.248 --> 00:29:47.126 And then God said to Noah, and to his sons with him, behold, I will establish my covenant with you and your offspring and with every living creature that is. 387 00:29:47.148 --> 00:29:52.982 With you, the birds, the livestock, every beast of the earth with you, as many as came out of the ark. 388 00:29:53.126 --> 00:29:55.366 It is for every beast of the earth. 389 00:29:55.398 --> 00:30:05.722 I will establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth. 390 00:30:05.786 --> 00:30:12.922 And God said, this is the sign of the covenant that I will make between you and every living creature that is with you for all generations. 391 00:30:13.066 --> 00:30:18.590 I have set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the Earth. 392 00:30:18.670 --> 00:30:27.214 When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is seen in the clouds, I will remember my covenant that is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh. 393 00:30:27.262 --> 00:30:32.130 And the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. 394 00:30:32.210 --> 00:30:40.818 And when the bow is in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature, and of all flesh that is on the earth. 395 00:30:40.914 --> 00:30:47.094 God said to Noah, this is the sign of the covenant that I've established between me and all the flesh that is on the earth. 396 00:30:47.142 --> 00:30:49.622 And so what we see here is God gives his promise. 397 00:30:49.686 --> 00:31:07.010 And when this season, which is particularly this season for us around here, when the rain comes and the humidity settles afterwards and the clouds are there and we see a rainbow, it's not just simply the beauty of the creation, it's the promise of God that we cling to as God's people and we're reminded of his salvation. 398 00:31:07.990 --> 00:31:09.794 So I wanted to walk through all. 399 00:31:09.832 --> 00:31:11.650 Of this over the next several weeks. 400 00:31:11.800 --> 00:31:22.982 We can reference back to the flood, but I do want us to tie into this and look of what we see, what we learn from Noah, of. 401 00:31:23.036 --> 00:31:27.800 What it means to have faith like that, faith like him. 402 00:31:29.050 --> 00:31:32.246 What does this look like for you and I as we cling to this? 403 00:31:32.268 --> 00:31:42.170 Well, the first thing that we see in the life of Noah throughout, over and over and over again, if we say, man, I want to have faith like Noah, is that Noah had obedient faith. 404 00:31:42.590 --> 00:31:44.102 Noah had obedient faith. 405 00:31:44.166 --> 00:31:46.990 So many times when we talk about faith, it's what I believe. 406 00:31:47.140 --> 00:31:51.962 And we can believe things, we can know things, but God calls us to an act of faith. 407 00:31:52.026 --> 00:31:53.486 It's who we are, it's what we do. 408 00:31:53.508 --> 00:31:56.190 It's what we are becoming more and more and more. 409 00:31:56.260 --> 00:32:02.738 And so it wasn't just good for Noah to sit back and go, you're going to do that, you're going to do that, you're going to do that, you're going to do that. 410 00:32:02.824 --> 00:32:06.230 As God said to Noah, noah obeyed. 411 00:32:06.810 --> 00:32:08.280 And it's what we find. 412 00:32:08.810 --> 00:32:12.790 And he built an ark, a massive ark. 413 00:32:15.290 --> 00:32:21.082 He received all the animals right? 414 00:32:21.216 --> 00:32:24.378 I just feel like at some point in time they were standing there going. 415 00:32:24.464 --> 00:32:26.234 Oh, there's more coming, right? 416 00:32:26.432 --> 00:32:28.806 There's more like, we have two dogs. 417 00:32:28.838 --> 00:32:30.638 And it's overwhelming, right? 418 00:32:30.804 --> 00:32:35.546 And more and more and more, he prepared for a flood. 419 00:32:35.578 --> 00:32:36.494 Let's understand, right? 420 00:32:36.532 --> 00:32:42.640 It's never flooded, it's never rained, and he prepared for it. 421 00:32:43.270 --> 00:32:46.770 When God said it, Noah went onto the ark. 422 00:32:48.230 --> 00:32:49.620 He went on to. 423 00:32:51.750 --> 00:32:53.090 On the ark. 424 00:32:53.590 --> 00:32:55.010 Noah waited. 425 00:32:55.610 --> 00:33:00.760 He waited on God, and he waited on God to call Him to leave. 426 00:33:01.370 --> 00:33:11.660 And I don't know if you noticed this in this whole encounter of what we see. 427 00:33:12.830 --> 00:33:14.490 Noah never speaks. 428 00:33:16.030 --> 00:33:17.530 No one ever speaks. 429 00:33:18.430 --> 00:33:28.800 Scripture is filled with God recording the conversations into his word of men and women, of faith as they converse with him. 430 00:33:29.810 --> 00:33:41.220 God comes, god speaks something that is so foreign to Noah that you and I could not possibly understand the requirement of what God is asking. 431 00:33:42.550 --> 00:33:46.500 And Noah does not speak. 432 00:33:49.050 --> 00:33:54.360 I find that oftentimes we ask the question, what does God want me to do? 433 00:33:54.730 --> 00:33:56.566 What does God want me to do? 434 00:33:56.748 --> 00:33:58.358 I think it's a great question. 435 00:33:58.524 --> 00:34:00.054 What does God want me to do? 436 00:34:00.172 --> 00:34:02.022 What does God desire for my life? 437 00:34:02.156 --> 00:34:03.462 What does God have for me? 438 00:34:03.516 --> 00:34:09.674 But here's the question that I want to ask you this morning, if you're willing to ask the question, what does God want me to do? 439 00:34:09.712 --> 00:34:12.220 If God asked you to do something, would you do it? 440 00:34:12.910 --> 00:34:14.300 Would you do it? 441 00:34:15.310 --> 00:34:21.038 Would you be like so many others and go, whoa, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. 442 00:34:21.124 --> 00:34:22.062 Let's talk this out. 443 00:34:22.116 --> 00:34:23.680 Let's work through this. 444 00:34:24.470 --> 00:34:28.610 Or if God called you to do something, would you do it? 445 00:34:28.680 --> 00:34:34.450 Church, may our obedience be positional, not circumstantial. 446 00:34:35.190 --> 00:34:43.160 May our obedience be based in our position in Him and not our circumstances of life. 447 00:34:43.530 --> 00:34:50.700 I'm pretty sure at 500 years old, noah's plan wasn't let me build this. 448 00:34:51.790 --> 00:35:02.720 I'm pretty sure, as he had lived 500 years on this earth, that his plan in life was not to see the destruction of everyone that he knew. 449 00:35:03.970 --> 00:35:10.558 I'm pretty sure that this is not what Noah had in mind of convenience in his life. 450 00:35:10.644 --> 00:35:12.778 These were not the circumstances. 451 00:35:12.874 --> 00:35:15.722 I'm sure that Noah thought that he was going to live these out. 452 00:35:15.796 --> 00:35:21.890 But positionally who he was in God was that Noah walked with him. 453 00:35:21.960 --> 00:35:26.354 And I find that in my life, and I'd be willing to bet in your life too. 454 00:35:26.472 --> 00:35:31.342 Our obedience to the Lord is oftentimes limited to circumstances. 455 00:35:31.406 --> 00:35:33.590 God, I know that you want me to go there. 456 00:35:33.660 --> 00:35:36.102 God, I know that Your Word calls for me to do this. 457 00:35:36.156 --> 00:35:39.718 Lord, I know this is what you want to create in me, but God, not now. 458 00:35:39.804 --> 00:35:40.810 I don't have the time. 459 00:35:40.880 --> 00:35:42.314 These are the things that I need to do. 460 00:35:42.352 --> 00:35:44.250 God, did you know, I'm busy. 461 00:35:46.110 --> 00:35:48.860 And God says yes, because you don't walk with me. 462 00:35:50.750 --> 00:35:52.300 You don't walk with me. 463 00:35:53.070 --> 00:35:54.874 Man we don't want faith like Noah. 464 00:35:55.002 --> 00:35:56.810 Noah had obedient faith. 465 00:35:56.970 --> 00:36:01.338 The second thing is, Noah had trusting faith. 466 00:36:01.514 --> 00:36:02.830 Trusting faith. 467 00:36:03.490 --> 00:36:07.394 I had a guy the other day tell me, hey, man, if you ever. 468 00:36:07.432 --> 00:36:12.500 Want to borrow my boat, I'd let you take my boat out on the water. 469 00:36:13.670 --> 00:36:15.490 That was a very kind statement. 470 00:36:16.410 --> 00:36:21.560 I received that in great kindness and was very blessed by that offer. 471 00:36:22.250 --> 00:36:24.054 But then I had to say, man. 472 00:36:24.172 --> 00:36:25.400 Let me tell you this. 473 00:36:27.530 --> 00:36:33.066 I know nothing about boats, and if. 474 00:36:33.088 --> 00:36:37.370 I take your boat out, I could drown. 475 00:36:37.870 --> 00:36:40.534 My family could, too, but I guarantee. 476 00:36:40.582 --> 00:36:42.394 You we're going to tear something up. 477 00:36:42.512 --> 00:36:43.786 That's what I know. 478 00:36:43.968 --> 00:36:46.878 So if you want to go out on the boat, man, we'll go with you. 479 00:36:46.964 --> 00:36:50.878 And like a little kid, maybe I could sit in your lap and drive, like you know what I'm doing. 480 00:36:51.044 --> 00:36:52.800 That was a weird imagery, right? 481 00:36:55.250 --> 00:36:58.702 But, no, I'm not taking your boat, because I don't know anything about boats. 482 00:36:58.766 --> 00:37:00.094 I didn't grow up with boats. 483 00:37:00.142 --> 00:37:01.966 I grew up with John boats and paddles. 484 00:37:01.998 --> 00:37:02.194 Right? 485 00:37:02.232 --> 00:37:03.300 That's what we had. 486 00:37:03.910 --> 00:37:11.030 But here's what I do know on this, there's no sail on the ark. 487 00:37:13.050 --> 00:37:14.038 Sales important. 488 00:37:14.124 --> 00:37:15.430 They don't have motors. 489 00:37:16.010 --> 00:37:16.918 Sales important. 490 00:37:17.004 --> 00:37:21.580 So you can go where you need to go, where the wind will take you. 491 00:37:22.510 --> 00:37:32.250 There's no rudder on the Ark, so that you can determine where you want to go and you can steer it and position it for where you need to go. 492 00:37:32.320 --> 00:37:39.690 There were boats during this time because there were seas, but on the Ark, there was no sail. 493 00:37:39.770 --> 00:37:41.962 And on the Ark, there was no rudder. 494 00:37:42.026 --> 00:37:44.000 So here's what this means. 495 00:37:44.310 --> 00:37:48.500 Here's how Noah had trusting faith, because Noah went wherever God took him. 496 00:37:49.830 --> 00:37:55.300 Wherever he went is where God had said go. 497 00:37:55.910 --> 00:38:00.326 But then the second thing, when they. 498 00:38:00.348 --> 00:38:04.726 Get onto the boat, noah didn't yell back. 499 00:38:04.908 --> 00:38:14.860 Hey, last person closed the door you ever left somewhere with your family and your kids are the last ones to leave, and you get home, and the front door is wide open. 500 00:38:15.390 --> 00:38:18.234 That's happened at our house, right? 501 00:38:18.432 --> 00:38:23.150 So, hey, whoever's coming out last, close the door. 502 00:38:24.210 --> 00:38:28.480 Bible tells us that the Lord shut him in. 503 00:38:29.490 --> 00:38:31.120 The Lord shut him in. 504 00:38:32.050 --> 00:38:35.890 Noah responds to what he knows. 505 00:38:36.390 --> 00:38:38.226 God says, do this, do this, do. 506 00:38:38.248 --> 00:38:39.346 This, do this, do this. 507 00:38:39.368 --> 00:38:40.658 Noah does it. 508 00:38:40.824 --> 00:38:48.310 And then he trusts in what he doesn't know, because God gave Noah some, but not all the details. 509 00:38:50.010 --> 00:38:51.590 Let me give you this illustration. 510 00:38:52.170 --> 00:38:57.430 Let your trust in the Lord be surrendered and not reasoned. 511 00:38:58.170 --> 00:39:03.042 Let your trust in the Lord be surrendered and not reasoned. 512 00:39:03.106 --> 00:39:05.146 Here's what it means to trust God with reason. 513 00:39:05.248 --> 00:39:08.090 God, I trust you with all that I know and I accept. 514 00:39:08.910 --> 00:39:11.658 I reason with you that this makes sense for my life. 515 00:39:11.744 --> 00:39:14.170 I reason with you that this is the plan for my life. 516 00:39:14.240 --> 00:39:16.766 And, God, I am obedient to the point. 517 00:39:16.868 --> 00:39:25.330 I have faith to the point to where my reason aligns with your plan that you have for me, and that's not the faith that we see from Noah. 518 00:39:25.910 --> 00:39:30.450 Noah's faith was based in surrendered. 519 00:39:33.430 --> 00:39:49.080 My prayer for you and my prayer for me this week was this that we would live our life with no sail and that we would live our life with no rudder, and we simply went where God took us. 520 00:39:50.090 --> 00:39:51.906 We went there in our marriage. 521 00:39:52.018 --> 00:39:53.642 We went there with our kids. 522 00:39:53.776 --> 00:39:55.366 We went there in our career. 523 00:39:55.478 --> 00:39:57.174 We went there in our finances. 524 00:39:57.302 --> 00:39:59.078 We went there in our sanctification. 525 00:39:59.254 --> 00:40:00.522 We went there in our heart. 526 00:40:00.576 --> 00:40:01.690 We went there in our mind. 527 00:40:01.760 --> 00:40:04.078 We went there in every aspect of our life. 528 00:40:04.164 --> 00:40:09.054 God, where you take me, I will go. 529 00:40:09.172 --> 00:40:20.900 God, give me power of Your Holy Spirit, the axe that I need to chop down that sail that I've built, and to rip out that rudder that I've put onto my life as I determine what's best for me. 530 00:40:22.870 --> 00:40:27.026 And then, lastly, Noah had responsive faith. 531 00:40:27.138 --> 00:40:28.978 Noah had responsive faith. 532 00:40:29.154 --> 00:40:33.698 We see two different times that Noah was prepared for worship. 533 00:40:33.874 --> 00:40:40.134 He brought the seven pairs of clean animals on two and the birds in the altar. 534 00:40:40.182 --> 00:40:41.766 Upon leaving the ark. 535 00:40:41.958 --> 00:40:43.660 Here's why I think this is important. 536 00:40:44.990 --> 00:40:47.930 Noah worshipped on the boat and off the boat. 537 00:40:49.790 --> 00:40:53.070 Noah worshipped in the storm. 538 00:40:53.970 --> 00:41:02.960 And after the storm, noah's worship was responsive to God. 539 00:41:04.210 --> 00:41:08.530 May our worship be responsive to God and not to ourselves. 540 00:41:09.590 --> 00:41:13.950 Too many times I let myself determine my worship or become the object of my worship. 541 00:41:14.030 --> 00:41:18.680 And in that, that is not the worship that God longs for and desires for me. 542 00:41:19.690 --> 00:41:32.140 How I all too often determine my worship are done by the conditions of my life and determined by my adoration of who I am and in my preference of who I want to be. 543 00:41:34.030 --> 00:41:43.050 But God is who my worship needs to be geared toward. 544 00:41:43.810 --> 00:41:48.190 See, my circumstances don't determine my worship. 545 00:41:48.690 --> 00:41:51.162 I'm not waiting till the storm calms. 546 00:41:51.306 --> 00:41:53.290 I'm not waiting till I'm out of the boat. 547 00:41:53.370 --> 00:41:56.050 I'm not waiting till I'm simply at the mountaintop. 548 00:41:56.710 --> 00:41:59.010 And I worship him through the storm. 549 00:41:59.990 --> 00:42:19.900 But when the waters cease, when the waters are dried, when the ark is settled of my life and I come out of that season, it's not a chess poked out of look at what I've overcome and look at what I've done. 550 00:42:22.590 --> 00:42:26.700 It's a look at what God has done in his faithfulness to me. 551 00:42:30.190 --> 00:42:39.070 The aim of this message remember when that song came out, I Want to Be Like Mike? 552 00:42:40.690 --> 00:42:54.290 I think it was Gatorade came out with that in the want to be like Mike picture of us being like Michael Jordan, every little boy, a lot of little girls in the backyard taking that shot. 553 00:42:54.710 --> 00:42:56.450 I want to be like Mike. 554 00:42:57.290 --> 00:43:06.790 The aim of this message is not to be like Noah, but to be like Christ and to learn from Noah. 555 00:43:07.610 --> 00:43:09.480 And here's what we see this week. 556 00:43:10.270 --> 00:43:12.650 This is what it means to walk with the Lord. 557 00:43:13.230 --> 00:43:18.170 Noah was obedient, noah trusted. 558 00:43:18.910 --> 00:43:20.810 Noah responded. 559 00:43:21.890 --> 00:43:31.390 And what we're going to look at next week is this and in that God alone saves. 560 00:43:32.290 --> 00:43:35.410 That's the story of the flood. 561 00:43:35.750 --> 00:43:37.140 Would you pray with me? 562 00:43:39.750 --> 00:43:56.166 God, we come to you this morning looking and seeing Your faithfulness throughout Scripture, Lord, who you are, what you've done, but also, Lord, we're reminded of what. 563 00:43:56.188 --> 00:44:02.330 You'Re doing, that you are still a God who saves. 564 00:44:02.670 --> 00:44:06.534 You're, still a God who calls you're. 565 00:44:06.582 --> 00:44:11.814 Still a God who empowers obedience, who empowers trust. 566 00:44:11.952 --> 00:44:15.470 You're still a God who receives the worship. 567 00:44:16.850 --> 00:44:19.102 And God, may we look at our. 568 00:44:19.156 --> 00:44:22.160 Lives and say, lord, I want to walk with you. 569 00:44:23.090 --> 00:44:30.210 I want to walk with you, lord, adam ran, but Noah walked. 570 00:44:30.950 --> 00:44:36.018 Adam ran away from you, but Noah walked with you. 571 00:44:36.184 --> 00:44:56.714 And Lord, may we walk with you and understanding that's where our life, our hope, our purpose, our meaning, our salvation comes from, that if there's anything good, that if there's anything righteous, that if there's anything that's blameless, that if there's anything that's holy, Lord, it does not come from us and from our ability, but comes from walking with you. 572 00:44:56.832 --> 00:45:01.846 And salvation was not found by Noah in coming up with a plan. 573 00:45:01.968 --> 00:45:14.080 Salvation was found not in the craftiness of his hand or the intellect of his mind, but the salvation of Noah was found in God. 574 00:45:17.510 --> 00:45:24.210 And he went into Your means of salvation. 575 00:45:27.050 --> 00:45:43.260 And, Lord, you closed him up and set him in there promise in him the life that comes for Noah to be found in the promises of God. 576 00:45:46.110 --> 00:45:49.660 Lord, that truth rings true for us. 577 00:45:50.910 --> 00:45:58.240 We will not leave here and go into a structure made by the hands of man. 578 00:46:00.050 --> 00:46:16.580 But Lord, you call us into a life with Christ, whose sacrifice whose sacrifice was made possible because of the hands of man. 579 00:46:18.490 --> 00:46:29.190 And we identify with Him in his life, his death, his burial, and his resurrection. 580 00:46:31.150 --> 00:46:55.630 Lord, I pray for anyone in here who does not know you, who does not walk with you, and could today be the day that they surrender their life to you and trust Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Savior since Jesus, and pray. 581 00:47:00.530 --> 00:47:05.034 Thanks again for listening, and be sure to check back next week for another episode. 582 00:47:05.162 --> 00:47:13.350 In the meantime, you can visit us@willeridgechurch.org or by searching for Willow Ridgechurch on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.