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Building the Church Ark
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| What is the spiritual meaning behind the ark? | |
| Noah, let's go to that for a minute. | |
| The Bible says that Noah built an ark to the saving of his household. | |
| I believe and I preach continuously on household salvation. | |
| Everybody here in this room is building an ark. | |
| Whether you think so or not, you're building an ark. | |
| When Noah built the ark, it was 100 odd years later from the beginning until the flood came. | |
| He laid the keel and built this huge monstrosity, the biggest thing built in that time. | |
| When the floods happened and the ark began to creak and rock in the water that was coming up, what do you think Noah was doing when that ark was beginning to lift off of the earth? | |
| I know exactly what he was doing. | |
| He was checking to see if all the planks were in place that he'd put in a hundred years ago. | |
| The reason why the ship is in trouble, the ship of Zion is in trouble, is because we've been shortcutting on the planks that we should be putting with nails. | |
| We've been missing nails and planks are not properly in place and the water's getting into the ark. | |
| We need all of us to understand that we are all Noah's building an ark for the saving of my family. | |
| I'm building an ark for saving my family. | |
| Jim's building an ark for the saving of his family. | |
| And all of us become part of the pixels that is the church that is the ark of safety for the world. | |
| But we are building an ark in the days of... | |
| I'll bet you every time Noah built the ark, every time he climbed up on that great boat, there were people around him mocking him and saying, what foolish thing are you doing right now? | |
| You telling us that rain, water, is going to fall from heaven? | |
| Up to this point, you came up and watered the earth. | |
| There was no rain. | |
| They'd never seen rain. | |
| So this old man is up on a boat and he's talking from the boat looking down to the people that were mocking him and saying, rain is going to come. | |
| It's going to fall from the sky and the earth is going to be destroyed. | |
| And they're all saying, he's nuts. | |
| What do you mean rain's going to fall from the heavens and fud us all? | |
| Never seen rain. | |
| He was the biggest fool on earth until the first drop of rain hit someone on top of the head. | |
| So as it was in the days of Noah. | |
| So here we are. | |
| God says it's going to be in the last days. | |
| What was going on in Noah's day? | |
| Wickedness. | |
| Wickedness. | |
| Wickedness that couldn't even. | |
| We murdered 60 million babies in the United States of America. | |
| Ten times more than the Nazis did to the Jew. | |
| But these are the evil things that God can't look at anymore. | |
| This is what God had been saying to me. | |
| And so as it was in the days of Noah, but what is happening? | |
| God has spoken to me for the last 40 years that the church, he says, I will build my church. | |
| Today's ark of salvation is the church. | |
| He said, I'll build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. | |
| The only safe place in these last days is going to be with God's people. | |