And in Genesis chapter 7, and the verse 1, we read this, And the Lord said unto Noam, Come thou, and all thy house into the ark. For thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation. And with the Word of God open before us, let's bow together, please, in a further word of prayer. Heavenly Father, we do rejoice that we can come at any time to Thy Word. We have such a privilege that some of our houses may well be full of Bibles. And we can take the Word down at any time and immerse our thoughts in it and allow ourselves to be guided by the direction of Thy blessed Holy Spirit. We know that He's been sent to guide us into all truth. We know that His special ministry is to highlight and draw our attention to Jesus Christ, His person and His work. We recognize that many preachers in the past When they're lecturing maybe some students for the ministry, passing on some counsel to a brother just starting off in preaching, we'll be telling him, always find the road that leads to Christ. Don't be preaching Christless sermons. May this be the case tonight, that we will not be preaching some Christless sermon that would not even be worth the time it would take to deliver it. May the Lord be exalted, may Christ be made much of, and we pray that Thy Spirit will be powerfully at work in the hearts of those who are here, those that may be tuning in tonight, And those that may tune in on some other occasion, in Jesus' name and to Thy glory, we ask these things. Amen. The Genesis flood is a historical fact. How do I know? Well, I could say because science, and in particular geology, tells us this. There is massive geological evidence for the catastrophe of the flood as described in the Bible. Whenever the Bible talks about a global flood or a worldwide flood as it does in Genesis chapter 7 and Genesis chapter 8, then that is exactly what it means. It wasn't a local flood. It's not a metaphorical flood. It's not some crazy dream that Noah or somebody else thought up. The waters covered the whole earth. Take a look at the evidence beneath your feet or sometimes suspended above your head, and we'll consider some lines of geological evidence. Evidence number one, fossils of sea creatures that you will find high above sea level. due to the ocean waters having flooded over the continents. For example, most of the rock layers in the Grand Canyon, more than a mile above sea level, contain marine fossils. Now what took them up there? Sometimes we say it doesn't take a rocket scientist, and it doesn't take a rocket scientist right here to tell us those fossils didn't go up in a rocket. It was water that carried them there. Evidence number two. The rapid burial of plants and animals, the huge fossil graveyards that we have dotted around the world, that they contain exquisitely preserved fossils, demands for those fossils to be in the case they were, the rock layers had to be laid down very quickly. Catastrophically even, by a massive flume of sediment. And then evidence number three, rapidly deposited sediment layers spread across not localized areas, but vast areas. We find rock layers that you can trace all across continents, even between continents, for example. The Tapeatsan stone, the red wall limestone of the Grand Canyon, can be traced across the entire United States, up into Canada on occasion, even across the Atlantic Ocean, coming towards us in Ireland and England, testimony to the fact that hundreds of thousands of cubic miles of sand and sediment were deposited by huge water currents within days. This evidence is hard, and it is real. Nevertheless, I do not believe in the Genesis flood simply because of science, or in particular, geology. I rather believe in the Genesis flood because of bibliology and Christology, because simply Jesus spoke about it. And what he said about it is recorded in the pages of Holy Scripture. In Matthew 24, the verse 37 through 39, our Lord is speaking and He says, but as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be. For as in the days that were before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage until the day Noah entered into the ark and knew not until the flood came and took them all away, so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be." When Jesus comes, I'm told every eye shall see Him. It will be a global event. And even on that basis alone, and there are many others, He says, the flood came, took them all away, so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be an indicator of this global flood. And that's good enough for me. Jesus Christ, my Lord, believed in the flood, and he tells us the last days are going to be like the days of Noah in return visit. What were the days of Noah like? Well, the answer is threefold. Back in the days of Noah, they were days of apostasy. You learned that from Genesis chapter six. We're told there the sons of God took the daughters of men. There was an intermarrying between them. Not going to delve into some people's interpretation of what they think that is. I believe the sons of God were men of the godly line of Seth, the intermarried with the own godly line of Cain. That's been the picture right up until Genesis 6, why should it change? There was no longer separation here. There was an unholy mixture. There was compromise. There was apostasy. Those were the days of Noam. Also, they were days of anarchy. In Genesis 6 and 4, we read, there were giants in the earth in those days. And also, after that, when the sons of God came in onto the daughters of men, and they bore children to them, the same became mighty men, which were of old, men of renown. Mighty, but mighty to do what? Men of renown, but renowned for doing what? We're not left to guess what they did, where they were mighty, in what area they were operating. Verse 5 of Genesis 6 tells us, And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. So these mighty men, they were mighty to do wickedness. They were annoyed for their sin and for their iniquity and for their lasciviousness. Days of apostasy, days of anarchy, also days of apathy. That comes through clearly in what our Savior says in Matthew 24, verse 37 to 39 that we have just referred to. He described a typical day that happened just before the flood. In fact, right up until the time when the flood arrived, and they were, He said, eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage until the day that the flood came. Noah entered into the ark, knew not until the flood came and took them all away. In spite of the preaching of God's man sent to them, no one, they just stretched their necks back and they sighed and they yawned and they laughed in the face of God. Those were days when nothing seemed to shake them. Preach the Word. You're not moving them. Preach the Word. You're not impressing these men and women. Preach the Word. Tell them of the judgment to come. You're not terrifying them, just like today, I might add. And so it was in these days of apostasy, of anarchy, and of apathy that the flood swept in and took them all away. But I want to concentrate tonight not so much on the gruesome aspects of this historical effect. I want to talk about more the grace that shines through the center of this event. Genesis 6, verse 8, tells me this, but no one found grace in the eyes of the Lord, and the rest of the chapter And at least part of the chapters that come on after that, they show how this grace of God was displayed in the provision of the ark and the protection that ark afforded. The ark itself is a tremendous object lesson. So much you could say about it. We can't say it all tonight. But we're going to look at the ark and its symbolism. the ark and its symbolism. It's a symbol, let's keep this in mind, right from the off, a symbol of our Lord Jesus Christ. Peter tells us in 1 Peter, the chapter 3, the verse 20 to 22, very interesting passage, one that's often misunderstood, he tells us that the ship Noah built, It's actually a most wonderful type, picture, figure of the Lord Jesus Christ in His death, in His burial, in His resurrection, and we're going to view it tonight in that light. Consider the plan for the ark. It's called Noah's Ark. But was it Noah's personal design? Was the blueprint for the vessel the product of Noah's brain? No. Read Genesis 6, verse 14 and 15, and you'll see this ark was built according to the blueprint of heaven. Exactly as God directed, as God appointed, Noah constructed, Noah did not invent it. Now tell me, whose invention was it? To send Jesus Christ to this earth to redeem us and save us from our sins. Was it our idea? Did we dream it up? Did we advise God as we knocked on his door or tapped on his shoulder? Lord, now this would be the best method that you could employ for saving man from a self-imposed destruction. Never! We could never have devised anything like the plan of God's wondrous grace. The Heavenly Father Himself, in infinite wisdom, He designed the plan for us, and so we hear His voice. In, for example, Job 33, in verse 24, then He, God, is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit. I have found a ransom. Or in Isaiah 59, verse 16, And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor. Therefore his arm brought salvation unto him, and his righteousness it sustained him. And when we think of this, God designed the entire plan of salvation that should spark in your heart and mine gratitude and love tonight to think, Before the earth was formed, our planets fashioned. Before the clay was formed to make a man, Christ was the Lamb of God. For sinners offered, it was redemption's one and only plan." The plan for the ark. What about the particulars of the ark? We're thinking first of the substance of this ark. Genesis 6.14, make thee an ark of gopher wood. What's gopher wood? It's hard, it's a dense wood, and maybe as yet it's still not identified. A lot of scholars thought it was Cyprus, and Cyprus certainly would answer the issue here of a hard and a dense wood. It's wood that doesn't rot easily. It's very durable. But here's the key thing. In the Bible, wood is a symbol of humanity. And if the ark is taken as a type and a picture of Jesus Christ, then the very fact that it was made of hard, durable wood speaks of the indestructible humanity of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Is he not referred to in Scripture in Isaiah 53 and 2 as a tender plant and a root out of a dry ground? In Isaiah 11 and the verse 1, a rod out of the stem of Jesse and a branch shall grow out of his roots. And those were enduring things. Our Lord Jesus Christ was God's mighty tree, a tree that was cut down at Calvary but raised again on the third day, indestructible. So, we see something of Christ in the substance of the ark. But then what about the safety of the ark? Genesis 6 and verse 14 again. Make thee an ark of gopher wood, loom shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. And so we've an ark just not made of durable wood, though it was, it's to be covered all over on the outside, all over on the inside as well with pitch. So put pitch Noah is told, on the outside and put pitch on the inside, spread over the timbers of the ark to seal up the beams, to stop the waters of the flood from entering in. The interesting thing about the word pitch, it comes from the Hebrew kaphar. Not that you need to know Hebrew to get the value of it. It's translated over 70 times in the word of God, by our English word atonement, the same word pitch. Now that's not an incidental fact. That's a truth of great importance. What God said here to Noam, make thee an ark of goofer wood, pitch it within him with pitch. It's a quite sublime pointer to the blood atonement of Jesus Christ. Leviticus 17, verse 11, contains exactly the same word as is rendered pitch in Genesis 6, 14. waterproof. The blood of Jesus Christ does what? It covers our sins. What did the waters of the flood represent? They represented God's judgment. God is judging the world. What is the atonement in place form to keep the waters of judgment out? No one was safe inside, how safe he was, because not one solitary drop of water could find its way through God's atonement. Praise God for the atonement. Thank Him. Not one drop of undiluted wrath can get through to any soul who is hiding in the person and in the work of the Lord Jesus Christ. The blood of Christ has sealed my soul and the waters of the judgment cannot penetrate. Then we're thinking in terms of another particular about the size of the ark. Genesis 6, 14 and 15, the authority again, make thee an ark of gopher wood. Rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch, and this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of. The length of the ark shall be 300 cubits, the breadth of it 50 cubits, and the height of it 30 cubits. Pretty standard dimensions for a vessel that's going to be seaworthy. It's a large ship, to say the least. 1.5 cubic feet of space in there. Certainly enough room to house all the species of land creatures that existed in Noah's time in just one of its three stories. Notice I said species. You didn't put all the animals in the world in there. That would be preposterous, impossible. What you did, you needed to preserve life after the flood, and so they went in male and female. What's the lesson here? Well, there was a very interesting study way back in 1993 by Koreans, and their scientific study endorsed the seaworthiness of the ark. They said it came bang center of three values that they applied to it. Maximum comfort, maximum stability, maximum strength for a vessel this size made of these materials, balanced. The ark was amply sufficient for all it was intended to do. And the immensity of this great vessel is God's way of saying to you tonight, through Christ, there's room. at the cross for you. There's room at the cross for you. Though millions have come, there's still room for one. Yes, there's room at the cross for you. There's room for all who will come. What about the structure of the ark? In verse 16 of Genesis 6, we're told about a window and a door. Incorporate it into the design of the ark. A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cupid shalt thou finish it above. And the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof, with lower, second, and third storeys shalt thou make it." Everybody came in the one way. Through the door. Again, illustrative of our Lord Jesus Christ, for how he proclaims himself in John 10 in verse 9, I am the door. By me, if any man enter in, he shall be saved. There's a window. Why a window? Well, that's to allow light into the ark. Otherwise, it could have been a bit of a dungeon, a coffin, a grave to Noah and his family. Those who are in Christ, they are enlightened. with heavenly light, Ephesians 5 and verse 8. God opens the eyes of the mind that once were darkened by sin and by the devil. Noah could look out of the window. Now, the window, we're told, was on top. And so, when he looked out, he looked up. God closed Noah in that no one might look up to him. He was shut in to look up. He was not to have his eyes on all the degradation and all the death and all the putrefaction and all those perishing that were swirling around that ark. Instead, it was the design of this ark that he had a view of heaven. Are we not instructed in Colossians 3 and the verse 1 to 3? If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth, for ye are dead and your life is hid with Christ in God. Get your eyes off the deadness of this world and lift them up to fasten them on Jesus Christ. You'll remember it was through this window. that the dove went out, and the dove came back in by olive branch in its mouth. Those who were saved by grace in Jesus Christ have a window open towards the heavens. They send out their prayers and their supplications through it. They receive the message of peace and pardon back through it, and all of the abundant supplies that God can give in this window is again Christ himself. What about the supplies on the ark? Genesis 6, 21, and take thy one to thee of all food that is eaten. Thy shall gather it to thee, and it shall be for food for thee, and for them all food that is eaten. So in that, you have a full larder or two or more. You have a sufficient stock of food for the voyage that is going to last over a year as the waters come for that length of time and stay for a further time. Noah finds shelter, but not only shelter, he finds sustenance here, supplies in the ark. Let me tell you this, Jesus Christ not only saves, he satisfies. Those who are in Him are well provided for. I think of Psalm 84, the verse 11. The Lord God is a sun and shield. The Lord will give grace and glory. No good thing will He withhold from them that walk uprightly. He brings me into His banqueting house, and His banner over me is love, provision that is boundless. What about the schedule of the ark? Some ships, never mind planes, fail to arrive on time. This one arrived bang on schedule. When did it arrive? Look at Genesis chapter 8 and verse 4 for this, and the ark rested in the seventh month on the seventeenth day of the month upon the mountains of Ararat. Why this date? Just a little bit of meaningless trivia. Did God just put it in here to give a little bit of space and take up that room, or is it important? It certainly is. Do you know what day the ark rested on Mount Ararat? What month? It was the seventh month. The Jewish legal calendar begins in October. Count seven months on from October. You're in the month of April. You're on the 17th day of April, we're told. Do you know what the 17th day was? Well, Passover was April the 14th. Three days after Passover is that 17th day the ark landed on that very day, later on in time, that would become three days after Passover, which is the day when our Lord Jesus came out of the grave, the day of resurrection. And notice also, The fourth verse of Genesis chapter 8 tells us, the ark rested on Mount Ararat. Mount Ararat, that word means the Mount of Holiness. It means a new creation. They point us in the direction of a resurrected Lord. Here He is, sitting on the Mountain of Holiness, Hebrews 1 and 3. He has taken the brunt of the storm of the wrath of God. The waters of God's judgment had beat on the ark, but on this specific day, He rested on the mount of God's holiness. And because He rested, we rest in Him. What about the submergence of the ark? Every droplet of rain that fell around the ark, what did it do? Submerge it? Threaten to capsize the vessel? No. Every drop of rain that came down raised Noah higher. towards heaven. Though he's tossed to and fro with the wind and the waves, yet as those waves swelled and prevailed upon the earth, the ark was continually being lifted up and up and up towards, closer to heaven. The children of God endure all kinds of trials and tribulations and problems in the world, and yet when God is in the vessel and our eye is upon him, we'll be raised to a higher plane with himself. when the fierce tempest, uplifting its waves, seeks to engulf us. We cry and he seeth, looking to Jesus, upheld by his hand, tread with the billows, as seeth as on land. The ark, its symbolism, points us again and again to Christ. But then what about the ark and its salvation? It was the ark that seeth Noah, Of course, it's Jesus Christ who saves us. Let me emphasize that God has only ever had one way of salvation. Don't think he had one plan for the Old Testament, another for the New. He only ever has one plan of salvation now, in the past, in the future. What is it? Well, Ephesians 2 and verse 8 to 10 summarize it very well for us. For, by grace are ye saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast, for we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. How is a person saved? Here's how. First of all, by grace. Let's remind ourselves, check into the passage again. How was Noah saved? He was saved by grace. Genesis 6 and 8 tell us, Noah found grace. This had nothing to do with the goodness of no one, but everything to do with the grace of God. Salvation does not rest on the merit of man, but in the mercy of God. Salvation is no reward for a righteous person, but a gift for the guilty. You're not saved by good works. You're not saved by attending church. You're not saved by trying to keep the Ten Commandments. Try and you'll feel anyway. You're not saved by reading your Bible. You're not saved by praying. You're not saved by getting baptized. All of these are good, but they're not saving all for these could not atone, thou must save, and thou alone." It is not by works, it is by grace. But people say, but you know what? I'm sure there has to be a little bit of me in it. And there's a little grace and a little works. Is that not how it does work? Well, if you're thinking that, then you're lost. It is all grace, 100 percent. No works, zero percent. Romans 11 and verse 6, and as soon as you add your works together, then you destroy the whole concept of grace. Many preachers have taken an acrostic in the word grace. Sums up what salvation is all about. You've heard it many, many times. G-R-A-C-E, God's riches at Christ's expense. That is grace. God extended this grace to Noah, but Noah had to receive it. reciprocated with faith. And so we're told in Galatians 2, the verse 8 and 9, that we are saved by grace and we are saved through faith. And that's why when you turn to Hebrews 11, the verse 7, you'll read, by faith. Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house, by which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness, which is by faith. God says, Noah here, did what he did by faith, and became an heir of righteousness. Salvation, it's by grace, through faith. It's not faith that saves us, it is grace that saves us, but it's faith that brings us into contact with grace. Look at Genesis 7 and 1, God's invitation there, and the Lord said unto Noah, and if God is speaking to you, that's a big blessing. Don't discount that. God said unto Noah, Come thy and all thy house into the ark, for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation. And so the warning of the flood is given here. The ark has been prepared. That was an act of faith to even build the ark, to put one plank to another. build this ark with everybody scoffing around you, but now God says to Noah, come into the ark. And at this very moment, Noah has to make a decision whether or not he's going to believe God the whole way and commit himself to that boat. That's a wonderful illustration of what faith really is. Faith is not simply believing there is an ark. It is committing yourself to the ark. It's not simply believing, I need to be saved, Jesus can save me. It is coming with the empty hands of your faith and saying, Lord Jesus, receive me, the guilty sinner that I am. Take me in, save me by your grace. Noah entered into the ark by faith. We enter into Christ by faith. For by grace are ye saved through faith. Was it difficult for Noah to exercise faith? Everything around him would have conspired against it. Nobody else believed in the flood. Only eight people are saved, very much there in the minority. And in the world we live in today, it's often very difficult to walk by this book. Everybody seems to be coming along to the Bible and pouring the cold water of their ignorance and the hot fire of their iniquity upon the book of God. And they're saying, you don't have to believe that. Do it your own way. Do it your own way and you don't get into the ark. You may end up in the waters of the flood. Romans 10, 17, faith cometh by hearing, hearing by the word of God. But how was Noah saved? By grace, through faith, unto, unto good works. Once Noah got on board the vessel, there was a lot of work to be done. That reminds us, as he gets on and he decides, well, We did an action plan here, feeding the people, feeding the animals, sanitation, instruction, a whole lot of things had to be done there. It reminds us that we work from salvation, not for salvation. It is by, through, and unto. Of course he served the Lord. Of course he helped feed the animals. Of course he served the tables. But he didn't do any of those things in order to be saved. He did it because he was saved. I will not work my soul to see of that work my Lord has done, but I'll work like any sleeve for the love of God's dear Son." So we have the ark and its symbolism, the ark and its salvation, and as we close, the ark and its security. I'm intrigued by this word, come. in Genesis 7 and 1. It means, for one thing, God is already inside. He's not prodding them up the gangway saying, go. He's at the top saying, come. That's the clearest possible indication Noah went in where God had already gone in. In other words, he's in the ark and he has the divine presence with him there, the company of God. Philip Henry said, all that God puts into Christ shall be sure of his blessed presence with them at all times and in all conditions. What a joy that is. Noah didn't close the door. Genesis 7, 16 tells us God did. Noah might have got it wrong. God would not know I was sealed in. The door was well closed. What does that remind us of? Well, the Bible tells us in Ephesians 1, the verse 13 and 14, in whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, in whom after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance unto the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory. Let's simplify that. by saying this, just as Noah was sealed into the ark, so the believer is sealed into Christ. A question, Noah was in the ark, he looks around, it's extremely durable, it's gopher wood, it's pitched within and it's pitched without. God is in there with him. High Seath is Noah now. He is as Seath as God is Seath. I am in Christ. I am accepted in Him. I've come up the gangplank of faith, through the door of salvation, into the ark of grace. He has shut me in, and this is what I am tonight. This is how He seeth. I am. Words such as we find in John 10, the verse 28 and 29, John 6, 37. And I give unto them eternal life, and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. Him that cometh to me, I will in no wise cast out. We have the company of God here. We have the closure by God here. That's security. Well, what about the connection to God? The connection to God. I love the way an old preacher put this and illustrated it. It's not a matter of you holding on to him. It is a matter in salvation of Him holding on to you. Suppose God had said to Noah, just suppose this, Noah, see when you have the ship built, I want you to take eight broomsticks, and I want you to drive them hard along the sides of the ark, that ark made of gopher wood, and I want you to get a stepladder, and when it starts to rain, I want to see you climbing up the stepladder and getting hold of one of the broomsticks attached to the outside of the ark, and you hang on there, and though the water comes down and it rises and it breaks open underneath you, you hold on with your feet dangling, and if you can hold on until the water goes down, days upon days later, you'll be saved then. Can you imagine that? Slimy pegs, the boat rocking and reeling, all nature breaking out around you. I can imagine after 15 minutes, Noah would look out at Mrs. Noah and he'd said, love you, pray for me that I'll hold on faithfully to the end. He could never have made it. Not a chance. It's not a matter of you holding on to God. It is a matter of you being in the ark. It's a matter of being in Christ. That's what saves. Fearful you couldn't keep it? I want to come to Christ. I know I need to be saved, but I just couldn't keep it. God will shut you in. He will keep you. That's what the Bible teaches, 1 Peter 1 and 5. Not only that, Philippians 1 and 6, Jude 24. He will keep you. till the river rolls its water at your feet, and then He'll bear you safely over where all those loved ones you will meet. Security in Christ. But the caution from God, a word of warning. There are people here tonight, and you're going to treat this message as maybe a little bit of interesting information. Didn't think of those details about the ark before, and you'll, just as you've walked into the building tonight, you'll walk out again, and you'll go your way. I have no idea what kind of day it was that dawned on Noah the day when the flood began. Maybe it was bright and sunny like other days. Maybe the people were bounced out of their beds that morning by some clap of thunder or a blinding flash of lightning and they got up with a jolt and they ran and wondered, what is happening? But I do know, and Jesus tells me, up until this point, everybody was going on as normal. But then, there was that terrifying feeling that began to snake up and down the spine of every living person, because the wind began to moan, and the clouds began to boil, and angry lightning shot its blue and white and yellow patterns across the heart of the sky, and drops of water began to fall on their upturned faces, and the earth rocked and reeled, and great fissures opened up in the earth, and the earth released oceans of water, and people saw that ark. As it started to rock and lift off from the land, the boat that they mocked Noah for building, and people saw, this is my only chance, and they started swimming out towards it, and they clawed upon it, and they beat it, and they cried, Noah, open the door, but Noah couldn't do it. God had closed it. Just like Abraham in Luke 16. And the man who had dropped into hell, that rich man, is looking for a preacher to go and preach to his brethren and give them at least another chance. There was no chance. And he himself, wanting to be out of hell, there was no second chance to respond to the overture of God's mercy. The day of grace had come to an end. And there will come a time in your life When it will be too late to cry out like that publican in the temple in Luke chapter 18, God be merciful to me, a sinner. I'm not trying to be sensational when I say to you in the words of Isaiah 55 and 6, seek ye the Lord while he may be found. Call upon him while he is near, the The Bible says, 2 Corinthians 6 and 2, now is the accepted time. Now is the day of salvation. In Hebrews 3 and 7 it warns, today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts. In Proverbs 27 and 1, boost not thyself of tomorrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. One day it'll be too late, and the door will be irreversibly shut. to you while the voice of Jesus calls you. Be in time. Get on board the ark of salvation. Embrace Christ as He's offered in the gospel. Take me in, the sinner that I am. Give me this covering for my sin that I need, the precious blood of Christ. See of me, by thy grace.