Title Noah's Obedience Ⅱ (May 24, 2009)
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Word: Genesis 7:1-12
1) The LORD said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and all your household, and you shall be before me in this generation.
for I have seen righteousness
2) You shall take seven males and females from every clean animal, and two males and females from every unclean animal.
3) Take seven male and female birds of the air, and let their seeds spread over all the earth.
4) In seven days from now, I will make it rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living thing I have made will be destroyed.
I will sweep it off the ground
5) Noah did all that the LORD commanded him.
6) Noah was six hundred years old when the flood was upon the earth.
7) Noah and his sons and his wife and wives entered the ark to escape the flood.
8) Clean and unclean animals and birds and all creeping things on the ground
9) As God had commanded Noah, male and female came to Noah two by two and entered the ark.
10) After seven days the flood covered the earth.
11) In the six hundredth year of Noah, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, in that day the springs of the great deep
burst and the windows of the sky open
12) It rained on the ground forty days and forty nights.
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Today, I would like to share Noah's second words of obedience following the last time.
First, a gracious and blessed life fully trusts in the Word of God.
The days of Noah were a time when the world was dark with sin. But in those days Noah
He was a man who worshiped and lived godly.
One day, when God told Noah to 'build a boat', it must have been humanly surprising and bewildering. But Noah gathered all his family and delivered God's plan and command,
From that day on, the whole family began to build ships according to God's command. I pray that you believe that it is a blessing for the whole family to obey God with one heart.
At that time, many people may have ridiculed and ridiculed Noah and his family as they built a boat on top of the mountain. However, in Noah's heart, he lived with the vision God had given him. And I completely trusted and believed the word of God. There wasn't an ounce of doubt. Because it is the word of God. For this reason, we were able to consistently carry out the paper without shaking for 120 years.
And Noah's family became a blessed family.
What is your gracious and blessed life? It is the blessed life of believing and obeying God
I pray in the name of the Lord that you believe that it is life.
Second, there is a time to receive grace and a time to judge.
Noah built the ark commanded by God over a long period of 120 years. during that period
Noah himself must have had many thoughts. But he obeyed to the end.
What is clear is that it is God who initiated the work, and it is God who completes the work.
Everyone, like Noah's Ark, building up the Lord's church and living as workers is never easy. There are many situations in which we have to endure as a human being. However, in any situation, you must take up your cross and follow the Lord and build the church. Many people believe that when they understand the events of the Bible,
I'm trying to believe. However, the events of the Bible are not about understanding and believing the Word of God. Seeing with the eyes of faith. We must look at it from the perspective of God's revelation to save the sinful world.
Even in the days of Noah, God gave 7 days before judgment as the last opportunity, in addition to the 120 years of long time. But people did not believe it. And all mankind was judged by the deluge.
In this way, God judges those who do not believe in God sternly.
Third, I hope you believe that true grace is enjoyed by the whole family.
According to the text, Noah was not saved alone, but his whole family was saved together. That is why Noah's family was blessed.
Through today's Word, I pray that all of you and your family will be saved like Noah's family in the name of the Lord
I congratulate you on your intercession.
In the end, as God had foretold, 7 days later, it rained and there was a flood. Faith is believing and acting on the Word of God. And that faith is accompanied by patience.
I waited 120 years with faith, and waited another 7 days. And when the time was fulfilled, all things were done according to the word. When the time is right, I pray that our family will be saved, all problems in my life will be resolved, and believe that life will be full of blessings.
The Bible cannot be understood by human reason and the laws of nature. This is because it is an event caused by God, not by man.
Folks, Noah's flood incident is not just an event in the Bible. Noah's Ark is a model and symbol of the church established with the blood of Jesus today. Please believe that you will be saved only when you enter the ark.
If there is one thing that is most important in the world, wouldn't it be to gain eternal life?
People in the world say that death is the end. However, the Bible says that death is not the end, but 'know that there is eternal judgment'. The Lord writes in 1 John, "I have written these things to you who believe in the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life."
The life of grace is lived by faith and obedience to the revelation of God.
Also, true grace is not enjoyed alone, but with the whole family.
In the name of the Lord Jesus, I earnestly bless you that the work of salvation for your family will be accomplished soon, not just you, who always pray and earnestly pray, but your whole family will come together to worship and praise God. Amen