Title: The Ark and the Church
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The Creator, Jehovah God, judged the people he had created and destroyed them in a deluge. Because they have sinned and have not repented. This is the first human event. Meanwhile, there were those who survived and were saved. Noah, his wife, three sons, and three daughters-in-law.
Humanity was destroyed by the flood because it was evil in the sight of God, both believers and unbelievers, although they prospered and lived by the grace of God. They lived according to their good looks (human point of view). They ate, drank, married and married. In other words, they lived their lives doing their own thing in every field. But they did not believe in God and disobeyed. They became more and more wicked and utterly corrupt, becoming stubborn and violent. However, Noah believed in God and obeyed God's word to build an ark and receive God's grace to enter it. To this end, Noah did not enjoy humanly like the fallen people, but his spirit and heart overflowed with the joy of God's great grace.
The reason Noah and his family received God's grace to build an ark and to enter into it and to be saved is because Noah was righteous in God's eyes (God's point of view). The sin of Adam, the first man of mankind, reduced all people to sinners, but Noah and his family saw Jesus Christ, who would come as the Savior of sinners, and his atoning death on the cross. . And in the same way, he always kept himself pure and lived to the fullest. God has accompanied you. When God spoke, he thoroughly obeyed it.
The building of the ark was done just as God had said. “You shall build an ark of cypress wood for yourself, and seal the trunks in it, and paint the inside and the outside with bitumen. The system of the ark is this: three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high. You shall make a spear a cubit from the top, and make its gates on the side, and it shall be three stories high.”
They built the ark, but did not break anything that God had designed, and built it as it was. The key is to build strong. To build strong is only to do what God says. This is because it withstands strong currents and prevents them from seeping into the ark. The ark became a ship that saves from destruction, so it is like the church today.
The church should not build strong buildings, but strengthen the faith of the members. If we do not have strong faith and we only build strong church buildings, we will be shipwrecked by the strong waves of sin in the world (a culture corrupted by human sin).
Therefore, the church must be built strong according to the word of God. Like Noah and his family, each individual must have faith enough to walk with God. Only then can you receive God's salvation in any situation.
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