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Days of Noah
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| And you just said in Noah's day, God gave up. | |
| Well, yeah, he pushed the reset button on the whole thing, but he never gives up on his people. | |
| But he said it's over. | |
| Yeah, yeah, but it wasn't for Noah and his family. | |
| See, he preserved them in the midst. | |
| In fact, Peter talks about this, Pastor. | |
| He talks about the days of Noah and the days of Lot. | |
| And anybody could have gotten on with him if they wanted to. | |
| The door was open right up to the last. | |
| And then God shut the door. | |
| And of course, in the New Testament, the revelation is Jesus said, I am that door. | |
| I am the door. | |
| I am the gate. | |
| See, it was that whole picture was a picture of the gospel. | |
| It will reach a point in the last days where the door is shut, which is why what you do and what I do and what we do is so important now because we're in those days again. | |
| You got to remember in Noah's day, the preaching and teaching lasted, the Bible says, 120 years. | |
| So it's not like God said, Okay, I'm getting ready to push the reset button. | |
| And two hours later, he did it. | |
| No, it was 120 years later. | |
| And in the meantime. | |
| When you look back 120 years from now, we've had a lot of opportunity on this world to find God. | |
| Oh, my gosh, yes. | |
| The invention of radio television. | |
| Power lifetime and a part of the generations before us. | |
| And the gospel being preached in all the world. | |
| That's right. | |
| And in the midst of it all, here's Noah with an aircraft carrier-sized ship in his backyard on the plains. | |
| And you know, people had to see that from everywhere. | |
| It was like Disney World, man. | |
| I mean, you could see it from afar off. | |
| And people went, they were just drawn to it to see what this crazy preacher was doing. | |
| And the Bible doesn't say this, but I can imagine that was used as a platform that Noah would go up on that platform as it was being constructed, and he would teach and preach why he was doing them, what God had spoken to him, and the vision and the revelation God had given. | |
| And the people mocked him. | |
| They called him a conspiracy theorist. | |
| They called him a prepper. | |
| You know, they mocked him and laughed and scorned. | |
| But Noah didn't live in isolation. | |
| He had to go into town and buy supplies and, you know, and he had a family, and of course they were taking care of themselves as well. | |
| But he had family members. | |
| The people of that area knew him well. | |
| And his renown went out to the settled world for 120 years. | |
| So the thing is, Pastor Jim, back to your original question, God will bring his wrath. | |
| He will bring his judgment on those that are not under his grace and mercy. | |
| And in these days, his grace and mercy means we're under the blood of Jesus Christ. | |
| We're born again. | |
| But the point I'm making is, so God did push the reset button, but Peter says it like this in 2 Peter. | |
| Peter writes about him in 1 Peter, but in 2 Peter he says, look, he said, if God knew how to take the angels of those days that crossed over their boundaries and put them in the deepest, darkest dungeons to hold them for the day of judgment. | |
| He said, if he knew how to do that, and then he says, and if he knew how to preserve Noah and his family, a man of righteousness, a preacher of righteousness, right up until the day that the flood came. | |
| And then he said, and if he knew how to preserve and protect Lot, a man who was vexed in his own righteous heart at the filth that he saw around him every day, if he knew how to do that and deliver him right up to the time that fire fell and the angels, Yahweh sent the angels to Sodom and Gomorrah, if he knew how to do that, and I'm paraphrasing, but he said, How much more will he know how to take care of us in the same way? | |
| See, so the thing is, is I tell the church, when we speak about the days of Noah and days of Lot, I'm very balanced and contextual and biblical here. | |
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Good Message Still Open
00:00:23
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| This is not a word of doom and gloom for God's born-again people. | |
| It is for those who spurn the word of God, who spit in God's face. | |
| It is a message of doom. | |
| But it doesn't have to be. | |
| The good message is: you can still turn. | |
| You can still get in the ark. | |
| The door is still open. | |