Title: Family with Divine Power (2008.5.18)
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Date: May 18, 2008
Word: Genesis 8:13-19
Title: A Family with Divine Power
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I would like to introduce Noah's family because it is a truly capable family that modern families need to learn.
It is a family that holds on to the Word to the end and has triumphed in God.
If you look at Israel's life in the wilderness, it is full of complaints and dissatisfaction. However, in Noah's family, the whole family, who came together as a team for 120 years, held on to God's word and went to the end, were saved. Isn't it truly a powerful family? No matter how the world changes, our family is to believe only in God and the Word and go to the end.
It is a family that has overcome great tribulation as one.
In fact, the value of the family becomes much more precious when everything goes through hardships together.
He built the ark for 120 years, overcoming the ridicule and bullying of the world.
Even if the people of this world don't know our family, they don't have any resentment against anyone, and they overcame ridicule and bullying, overcoming ridicule and bullying, as a family of eight, singing together as one.
We overcame the days of nearly half a year as one on the ark.
It's easy to say, how hard, uncomfortable, and tiring in the ark! Just as Moses saved the lives of the Israelites through the sprinkling of the blood of the Lamb on the Passover, Noah built an ark with his family in faith and overcame the plagues of death and foretold the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ on the cross. Just as no tribulation or the power of death under the world can touch even the very tip of life in the ark in God's promise, we believe that the life of those who are in the promise of the precious blood of Jesus Christ will be eternal.
It is a visionary family that comes out of the ark and starts anew with faith.
Noah's family, celebrating their victory, looked at the ark they built as a monument, and built an altar to God, the Lord of lords, who preserved victory and life. To Noah's family, God gave a great blessing of hope as a gift. We are now past mid-May. I hope that all the past will be washed away and the whole family will become a new, truly powerful team in God and in the church. All saints!! What kind of family is a family with real spiritual power?
It is a family that holds on to the word of God and becomes one in Jesus, even when heaven and earth change. It is not a family without tribulation, but a family that overcomes great tribulation as a team. It is not a family celebrating victory and trembling with pride, but receiving a new vision from God.