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Genesis chapter 7. We're moving along. We're not in 6 anymore. We're
in 7. So Genesis chapter 7, and we've
been in a series called 8 is Enough. We've been looking at
the main key or central covenants in the Bible. And we've already
looked at the Edenic covenant. We looked at the Adamic covenant. You know, when we went through
there, and I've had reason to think of those two here recently,
it's unbelievable and it's just almost unfathomable how many
basic truths and basic things that we're talking about today,
this same-sex marriage and who's going to use what bathroom abortion,
just all these things that have come up to all these social issues. If they just look at Genesis
1, 2, and a little bit of 3, if they just do that, we'd be
okay. So everything is laid down in
the Edenic and Adamic covenant, and if you just follow that,
all the foundations of all the social issues that have ever
been considered are covered in there and covered well. in just
a very few short verses. But obviously today the folks
don't want to look at the Bible too much. They think God's meddling
in our lives or something. But anyway. But we've got to
the Noahic covenant. We've been looking at it for
a number of weeks now. And Genesis chapter 6 and verse 16, it says,
"...and they that went in," talking about the ark, "...went in, male
and female, of all flesh, as God had commanded him. And the
Lord shut him in. And the flood was forty days
upon the earth, and the waters increased and bare up the ark,
and it was lift up above the earth, and the waters prevailed."
I don't think we're gonna get to that word today, but the waters
prevailed. That word prevail or prevailed
is used a whole pile of times in Genesis chapter 7. The water
prevailed upon the earth. The name of it is, and the waters
prevailed and were increased greatly upon the earth and the
ark went upon the face of the waters. So we're looking at these
covenants in the Bible. We've got this Noahic covenant.
Now, in Noah's day, If you're going to describe Noah's day
and the population that was there, the folks that lived there, you'd
say this, they were only evil continually. That's the thing
that sticks out in the Bible as you read through about the
folks that are living in Noah's time. They were only evil continually. Verse 5 of chapter 6, it says,
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. I mean, just all the time, daytime,
nighttime, all the time, 24-7, all people could think of was
only evil continually. And so God reveals to Noah that
he's going to destroy the earth. He's going to destroy everything
upon the earth. Verse 12 of Genesis 6 says, And
God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt. and all
flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. And God said to Noah,
The end of all flesh is come before me, for the earth is filled
with violence through them, and behold, I will destroy them with
the earth." It's interesting to me, verses 12 and 13, we've
said this several times, but it won't hurt you to have it
reiterated a couple times. The word corrupt and corrupted
in verse 12, is the very same word that's translated destroy
in verse 13. So the society of Noah's day,
they were already destroying themselves. They were already
corrupting themselves, and they would have come to an end even
if God didn't intervene, because they already were corrupting.
They already were destroying themselves from the inside. So
the society was already doomed, and I guess God just said, I
have enough, and we're going to take care of this. We're going
to destroy them. And so God reveals to Noah that
he's going to destroy the entire earth. Obviously, God finds one
person, one man, one individual that stands head and shoulders
above everybody else, and that one man, obviously, is Noah. Noah, Genesis 6, 8, but Noah
found grace in the eyes of the Lord. And so the Noahic Covenant,
this Noahic Covenant. We talked about the door last
time. The door. The door of Noah's
Ark. I've seen pictures of Noah's
Ark and I didn't really think about it back then but all the
pictures I've ever seen, they got this little bitty door on
the Ark. That door was big. The door had
to be big because, yeah, they had the little dogs and the cats
and that kind of stuff, but they also had the big rhinos and the
big elephants, and so they had to have a door that was big enough
to accommodate all these huge animals that would go into this
ark, and so there's a large, huge door, and that's interesting
because, you know, the ark, that's the picture of salvation. I mean,
God saved Noah and his family by that ark. And so God provides
salvation through a big door. A big door. The idea is that God will save
all that will come in, and the door's big enough for everybody.
It's big enough for everyone. "...that whosoever believeth
in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For whosoever
shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." Revelation
22, 17, it says, "...and whosoever will, let him take up the water
freely." So this door was huge. It was large. It was big, a big
door. Then we said that the door would
close. The door would close. Genesis
7, 16, we read it. And they that went in went in,
male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him. And
then it says this little phrase, and the Lord shut him in. And the Lord shut him in. Now,
whenever I hear anybody preach about Noah's Ark and the Lord
shutting him in, they always emphasize the people on the outside
couldn't get in. That is not what God emphasizes.
Now, that's what everybody else emphasizes, and we're going to
get there today. We're going to emphasize it a little bit
today as well. We didn't get there last time, but we did this
part. The Lord shut him in. The Lord
shut him in. Again, Noah and the ark's a salvation
type. It's a redemption type. It's
a deliverance type. And when God saved Noah and God
saved his family, the Lord shut him in. He couldn't open the door because
God shut him in, and he was inside and he was saved. He was rescued
because God shut him in. Now, just like Noah was in the
ark, we are in Christ. If you're saved, just like Noah's
in an ark, we're in Christ. 2 Corinthians 5, 17, a pile above
the verses, therefore, if any man be in Christ, in Christ. I like these verses. 1 Thessalonians
4, 16, you know the rapture passage, "...for the Lord himself shall
descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel,
with the trump of God, and the dead in Christ." The dead in
Christ shall rise first. So in Christ, just like Noah
and his family was in the ark, we that are saved are in Christ,
and we can't get out any more than Noah could get out because
God shut us in. He shut us in salvation. So that's
good stuff. Like I say, most time people
preach on this, they always talk about everybody else trying to
get in. That's not what God emphasized. God emphasized that Noah was
shut in eternal security. Secondly, and we'll touch this
on, others were shut out. Others were shut out. And I've
tried to imagine the first day of that flood. the first day
of the deluge, if you will, the surge, that water coming. And
Noah was a good man. He was a great man, a grace-filled
man. He looked for the grace of God. Noah found grace. He found grace
because he was looking for it. So he was a grace-filled man,
and he wanted all to be saved. He wanted all to be rescued. He wanted all to be protected
and would have probably opened the door and cracked the door
and let them in. Can you think with me a little
bit about Noah inside this ark, this wonderful godly man that
has been preaching now for 120 years to the people that warned
them of the judgment to come? And now he's inside and they're
outside this ark and this ark is made of wood. It's not soundproof. Can you imagine Noah there with
all the shrieks and the screams and the moans and the groans
that would be coming from the outside and banging on the door,
scratching on that ark, trying to get in, trying to avoid being drowned? And finally, after all that comes,
there's the dead silence. because everybody on the outside
would have died. I've tried to imagine that. That's
a little beyond what my mind can do, but for 120 years he
preached and he warned and he asked and he begged for folks
to be saved. 2 Peter 2.5 says, "...and spared
not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person." Then
it says this little phrase, "...a preacher of righteousness." a
preacher of righteousness, and Genesis 6, verse 3 ends with,
"'Yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.'" So you put
that together. He was a preacher, and God, when
he started talking to Noah, he said, "'It's gonna be 120 years,'
and so for 120 years, Noah preached, and he tried to get folks to
buy into this thing of coming in the door, and the door was
huge. It was big. They could have come in at any time. I even
believe it was a big, big up in Kentucky. They're building
an ark right now, the deal over there. It's huge. I figure Noah probably hired
some folks. Think about that a little bit. He probably hired
some folks to help him build this ark. Now, they thought he
was probably nuts. They probably thought he was
crazy, but, you know, if they pay me a little money, I'll go,
yeah, I'll help with the ark. I helped the old man with the
ark. And so some of the same people that helped him build
the thing would now die. Because they didn't buy into
what Noah was saying was coming. So for 120 years, the door was
open. The door was ajar. The entrance
was available. It was accessible. It was obtainable. But God... shut the door and
shut him in and then out. When flying, we flew to Florida
and back here this past week. When flying, you know, there's
a check-in time, there's a boarding time, and there's a take-off
time. They got all these different
times that they have for you. And if you're running behind, if
you're held up, if you just oversleep, whatever it is that happens,
and you get there late, the door closes, and guess what? You're
out of luck. They take off without you. I was reading, when I was looking
at this type of stuff I was reading, I found some stuff I didn't know.
That's not hard because I don't know too much. But when you fly
commercially, sometimes flights are delayed or postponed or late
due to what they call factors out of their control. So if they
have things that are out of their control, in fact, on the flight
out, there was some bad weather in Florida, that rain that I
was telling you about, and they thought they're gonna have to
delay the plane, and about the last minute, they said, Oh, no,
we're gonna go. Everybody come on. They made a big announcement,
and, I mean, we got on there and they left. I mean, it was quick.
But they were gonna hold it up for about an hour and a half
because the plane's out of their control. But did you know this?
Most airlines, they also have a plan to protect you from being
late. Most of them. Not all, but most
of them. And they have varying, I looked
at several of them, they have varying rules. But they have
a name or a title or a clause that they give to it. It's called
the flat tire rule. Most of the airlines have it.
You just Google flat tire rule airlines and you'll come up.
It varies from one to the other, but if you can convince them
that something happened to you that was out of your control,
like having a flat tire or an accident or whatever happened,
if you can convince them of that, what they'll do is they'll, and
again it varies from one airline to the other, but most of them
will put you on standby for the next flight going wherever you
were going. So not only will they delay the flight because,
you know, unintended things or unexpected things for them, for
their part, they'll even help you. So if you go flying sometime
and you get a flight on the way and can't get there in time,
you say, but my son's school teacher, he told me there's this
flat tire rule. I hope that'll help you. But
anyway. But in Noah's case, in Noah's community, in the world
that he lived in, the time he was in, there was no flat tire
rule. There was no flat tire rule.
And there's coming a day. And we don't know when it is.
For the unsaved, the day will come. The end will come. It'll be over. And there'll be
no more time, no more opportunities, no more prospects. It'll be over. The door will be shut. I was thinking about this, I
was thinking about expiration dates. You know, everything has
expiration dates these days. Stores, they can't sell anything
beyond their expiration dates. My wife, she likes to go and
look at expiration dates. If she finds one that's a little
bit close, either close or just out, she'll go and say, will
you give me this half off? Sometimes they do. H-E-B used to, years ago, they
used to, if you could find something out of date, they'd give it to
you free. I guess they lost too much money. They don't do that
anymore. But, you know, they have expiration dates. Car registration,
they got an expiration date. Drug prescriptions, they have
expiration dates. We got all these different expiration
dates that things come to an end. Well, as far as our lives
go, our lives come to an end, as is appointed unto man once
to die, but after this, the judgment. That's an expiration date everybody
will be on time for, and there's no flat tire rule. When the end comes, if you're
not saved, you won't be able to go to heaven. You have to
go to the other place, and I don't want to go there, and that's
why I got saved many, many years ago. I hope you would get saved
as well. No expiration date more important
than the date of our soul meeting God. because our soul is going
to spend eternity either in heaven or hell, and it's up to us now
looking to Jesus. If we get saved, he'll allow
us to spend it in heaven. Otherwise, we have to go to the
other place. I was thinking along these lines, Matthew 23, 37,
"'O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets and
stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have
gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathers her chickens
under her wings." Can you see Jesus in his compassionate side,
in his almost internal, his soul internal, looking at all these
folks that are going their own way? And Jesus says, how often? How often would I have gathered
you together as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings?
But then it says this, and ye would not. It's not that you
could not. It's that you would not. And it's totally up to the individual,
person by person, will by will, whether you'll look to Jesus
for salvation or whether you won't. And so the Lord shuts
him in and, in effect, shuts everybody else out. All right,
so next thing, the flood. The flood, verse 17, and the
flood was 40 days upon the earth, and the waters increased and
bear up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth, and the waters
prevailed and were increased greatly upon the earth, and the
ark went upon the face of the waters. Now, my question is this,
where did all that water come from? I mean, that was a lot
of water. The water covered the entire
earth. I mean, it was 15 cubits above anything that was there.
I mean, that's a lot of water. The earth right now has, I can't
remember, I think it's two-thirds, but the earth is covered with
water, but the water's in its place. But in Noah's day, the water
covered everything, all at one time. Where'd all that water
come from? Well, verse 11 gives us a key
to this, and I think this is the key that unlocks this question.
Where did all that water come from? Verse 11 of chapter 7 says
this, in the 600th year of Noah's life, in the second month, the
17th day of the month, the same day where, watch these two statements,
the fountains of the great deep broken up and the windows of
heaven were opened. So it says, "...the fountains
of the great deep broken up and the windows of heaven were opened."
So these are the two sources, the two origins, if you will,
the two fountainheads of where all this water came from. The
fountains of the great deep broken up and the windows of heaven
were opened. So what does that mean? Well,
we're going to look into that. Fountains of the great deep broken up.
It'll help us if we look at some words. I like doing word studies.
If you've been in here a time or two, you know that. But we're
going to look at a couple of words. First off, the word fountain.
The word fountain. It's only used 23 times in the
entire Old Testament. Now, there's another word that's
used quite often, meaning a well of water. But that's not what
this word, fountain, means. In Genesis 7, it's a completely
different word than when you think of like a well. You know,
when they dig a well, that's an entirely different word and
entirely different meaning. I'll show you a couple places.
1 Kings 18, 5. If you know your Bible, 1 Kings
18, that's Elijah and, you know, stopping the rain and so on and
so forth. But verse 5 says, "...and they had said unto Obadiah, Go
into the land unto all fountains of water." That word fountain,
that's the same word. "...all fountains of water, and
unto all brooks." per adventure we may find grass to save the
horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts."
So Ahab knows that there's this drought, and so he tells them
to go to two different sources. He says, first off, go to the
fountains and then all brooks. In other words, he's wanting
to look at the fountains or the springs, try to find some springs
where water's coming out, or go to the brooks or the rivers.
And so there's these two type of water sources. One is a spring
or an active water source. The other is a brook or river
moving water. Psalm 114.8 adds to that, which
turned the rock into a standing water. That's one type of water. The flint into a fountain of
water. That word fountain there again.
Do I hear a fountain opening up just as we're preaching about
the fountain? God says, all right, son, I'll
help you. I know you're having trouble down there, so we're
going to help you. We're going to give you some water. The fountain of water. Maybe
you can see the difference, which turned the rock into a standing
water, the flint into a fountain of water. So there's standing
water and fountain of water, and the fountain again is like
a spring of water. It's something that's active.
Standing water versus a fountain of water. The word is translated
well a few times. The word well is translated a
few times. Let me read you one of them.
It's interesting, where God would use this verse and use this word
that means a fountain, this thing that's springing out and called
well. Isaiah 12, 3, "...therefore with
joy shall you draw water out of the wells of salvation." the
wells of salvation. Ain't that a blessing? It's not
like a well like you dig. It's a well like something springing
up. an active spring of water coming up because you know the
verses. John chapter 7, when Jesus was
there in the last day, the great day of the Lord, Jesus stood
and cried, saying, "'If any man thirst, let him come unto me
and drink. He that believeth on me, as the Scripture hath
said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.'"
water, that springing water that comes out of this sphincter of
the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive, for the
Holy Ghost was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified,
but the flow of rivers of living water. the spring of water of
salvation, this spring, this geyser, if you will, the source
of water coming out. So that word fountain is like
a geyser or a spring of water coming out, an active water source,
something that's under pressure, that's spewing forth, that's
erupting into the air. I was thinking about Old Faithful. Perhaps you've heard of the Old
Faithful geyser. in Yellowstone National Park.
I have never been there, but I've read about it, seen pictures
of it. It's in Wyoming. We have some
folks all the way from North Dakota. Every time I think of
North Dakota, I think of... I'm from Michigan. I was going to say this later,
but, you know, Michigan, the North Pole's not there, but you
can see it from there. You can really see it from North Dakota.
But anyway, cold. But up in Wyoming there's this
thing called Old Faithful. It was named by Henry Washburn
back in 1870, if you wanted to know. The eruption height is
between 106 and 185 feet, so the water comes out, it goes
up to 106 and 185 feet. I was reading, I was kind of laughing to myself, 106 to
185. Who thought 106 rather than 105? I mean, if I was to round it out, I'd
say 105, but oh, no, 106. Somebody really did some measuring.
But 106 to 185 feet is one of the most reliable timed events,
which is a natural occurrence. And they say that there's different
types of eruptions. Some of them last less than 2
1⁄2 minutes and some last over 2 1⁄2 minutes. These eruptions,
as water comes up and springs up to 106 to 185 feet, and they
happen, and some of them go longer than 2 1⁄2 minutes, some of them
go less than 2 1⁄2 minutes. If the eruption goes less than
2 1⁄2 minutes, you can set your watch, in 65 minutes, it's going
to do it again. If it's less than 2 1⁄2 minutes,
in 65 minutes, it'll spew out again. If it spews out more than
2 1⁄2 minutes, it'll be 91 minutes. before the next one goes. And,
I mean, it goes just like clockwork. These 65, 91 minutes, depending
on how long the last eruption was. But you get the idea of
this word fountain. It's like that. I mean, this
blast, this eruption of water that came out from the earth.
So, first off, there's that word fountain, which means like a
geyser, this water coming out. Second off, the word deep. fountains
of the great deep. When I was looking up the definition
of this, one of the words that's used to define it is this, the
abyss. The abyss. It's only used 36
times. In our Bible, we can read a few
verses where it's used. The first use is in Genesis chapter
1 and verse 2. and the earth was without form
and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep." It was
upon the face of the deep and the Spirit moved upon the face
of the waters. So there's these waters here
and evidently these waters are deep because the word that's
used to describe it is like the abyss. I mean, really deep, deep
water. But this one, Job 41, 31, he
maketh the deep to boil like a pot, he maketh the sea like
a pot of ointment. Now, that's the first time he
uses the word deep in this verse, 31, but 32 uses the same word
again, but it means something different. He maketh a path to
shine after him. One would think the deep to be
ory. Now, those two words, the deep
in verse 31 and 32, they're different words. One means a shallow amount
of water. He maketh it deep to bowl like
a pot. That's a shallow amount of water. But the other one,
he maketh a path to shine after him. One would think the deep
to be ory or old. The deep there is deep, deep
water. Again, it's that same word, the
word that means very, very deep, abyss-type deep water. And so
these two different words that you can see there that God uses,
one, the deep there is just a shallow piece of water. The other is
really deep. The word that he uses back in Genesis is the one
that's really deep, really deep like coming out of the abyss.
Another example where we can see the word deep used and they're
different words, Psalm 69, 2, I sink in deep mire. I sink in deep mire." Now, that
deep there is a shallowy, watery mire, but then it says, where
there is no standing, I am come into deep waters, where the flood
overflows me. That second word, that's the
deep, deep water, the same one that's used back in Genesis 7.
So hopefully you can see this idea that when it talks about
deep, when God's talking about waters coming up from the deep,
it's way deep. It's way down there. It's way
down. So we're looking at deep, deep
water which spewed out of the earth, which erupted out of the
earth that was like a geyser coming out of the earth. Even
today, scientists have been doing research on the different depths
of the earth's surfaces. They call the outer core the
mantle. Underneath the mantle, most scientists
believe that there's oceans, not ocean, but oceans, plural,
of water underneath there. Well, it appears what happened
in Noah's day, the mantle turned a bit, though the pieces of the
mantle turned a little bit, shook and broke open, basically what
we call today an earthquake, and there was this great breaking
of the ground all the way to the great deep, and when the
mantle shifted and had this earthquake, if you will, the fountains of
the great deep, they broke up and the waters came out. So one
of the places where this water came from was underneath the
earth, and the earth kind of came apart, an earthquake, and
the water spewed forth. So that's one place where the
water came from. Second thing, the second place
it came, we read in verse 11, in the 600th year of Noah's life,
in the second month, in the 17th day of the month, the same day
where all the fountains of the great deep broken up, But then
it says, and the windows of heaven were opened. The windows of heaven. Now, we're not going to get a
chance to finish this whole thing. I don't believe I got too much,
but we'll start into this. The windows of heaven were opened.
First, the word windows. It's an interesting phrase or
word usage, if you will. The windows of heaven. The windows
of heaven. The word window there is only
used nine times. in the entire Old Testament.
It's only used nine times. In order to really understand
this word window, we're gonna look at a different account in
the Bible and help you see it, but in order to be able to see
it right, we're gonna have to do a little background for it.
So we're gonna look at another account in the Bible and give
you a little background. Israel had some devastating times
and some days and hours in the past, and the day had come upon
when Israel, the northern tribes, were up around Samaria. And the
Syrians were encamped against them, and it was at that time
Elisha, the prophet of God, was there as well. 2 Kings 6, 24,
and it came to pass after this that Ben-Hadad, king of Syria,
gathered all his hosts and went up and besieged Samaria. And
there was a great famine in Samaria, and behold, they besieged it
until and the ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of
silver and the fourth part of a cab of doves dung for five
pieces of silver." Now, I don't really want to go ahead and describe
the cost of this food other than to say this, this was very cheap,
very disgusting food. It was very expensive because
there was such a fad. Such a famine in the land that
even a dove would defecate and they'd pick stuff out of the
dove and they'd sell it for a high price because there's such a
famine in the land. It's a very dire, awful, ominous
famine in the land. In fact, we're told at that time
that mothers were literally eating their children because they were
just starving. It was a bad time. But in the
midst of that, Elisha proclaims a prophecy. 2 Kings 7-1, then
Elisha said, "'Hear ye the word of the Lord, thus saith the Lord,
tomorrow.'" Now, he's not talking about, you know, ten years down
the road. Tomorrow. Tomorrow about this
time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel and
two measures of barley for a shekel in the gate of Samaria." Now,
that's an entirely different phrase. The first thing we were
looking about food was really cheap, very disgusting food,
but it'd keep you alive for very expensive. Now he's talking about
good food, stuff you can make some really good stuff out of
cheap. Really, Chief, well, there was
a guy standing by, and he wasn't quite buying into this because
he'd seen this famine, and again, this famine was so bad that women
were literally devouring their own children. It was a bad time.
People were starving to death. I mean, you know, we talk about,
uh-oh, I'm starving to death, I could eat a cow. We ain't never
been there. We ain't been to this level. These people were
dying because they were literally starving to death. Well, verse
2, this guy, he wasn't buying into this. Then a Lord, on whose
hand the king leaned, answered the man of God and said, Behold,
the Lord would make windows of heaven, or if the Lord would
make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold,
thou shalt see it. This is Elisha saying, Behold,
thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not eat
thereof. The windows of heaven. He said,
if God would just open the windows of heaven, I mean, right into
heaven, the very window in heaven, the very opening to heaven, if
God would even do that, could this be? I mean, you see the
famine we're in. This is a horrible famine. We're
paying all these high prices for this disgusting food, and
you believe that tomorrow we're going to have great food for
cheap? If God would open the very opening
of heaven, if God would open up the big hole in heaven and
look down and we could reach up into heaven and pull stuff
down, it still couldn't be. The windows of heaven. Well, this doubter, he's there
and he's standing by and he's saying this thing. It's interesting,
about that time, there was these lepers. Remember the story of
the lepers, these four lepers that were living on the outside
of the gate of Samaria. They weren't allowed to live
inside the city because they had leprosy. And they're out there, and they're
just like everybody else in Samaria. They're starving to death. And
the Syrians are out there, and they've got all the food they
want. And they get talking to each other and say, you know,
if we go out there, the worst they can do is kill us, and we're
going to die here anyway. Let's just go out and see what happened.
So they go out there, and in the meantime, God had made the
Syrians hear like there was an army coming. Verse 6 of 2 Kings
7, "'For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians hear a noise
of chariots, and the noise of horses, even the noise of a great
host. And they said once another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired
against us the king of the Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians
to come upon us. So the Syrians, they had bugged out, and they
left in a hurry, and they left all their supplies, left all
their food, left everything there. And these lepers, these 4 lepers
went out there, and they were all gone, and there was all this
food, and you can imagine, they're starving. They're going from
tent to tent. And they're just, I mean, they're chowing down.
They're having themselves a party, you know, eating all the stuff.
And one of the great verses in the Bible, one of the, if you
want to look at one of the mountain-type verses of the Bible, here it
is, verse 9, then they said one to another, these lepers, we
do not well. We do not well. I mean, we're
eating all this food. The folks over there, they're dying. We gotta
go let them know. And so they do. They go and they
let the folks in Samaria know what's going on. And verse 18
says, And that happened. And the Lord answered the man
of God, And that Lord answered the man
of God, the doubter, said, Now behold, if the Lord should make
windows in heaven, might such a thing be? And he said, Behold,
thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
And so it fell upon unto him, for the people trod upon him
in the gate, and he died." So this guy's holding the gate,
and all these people were so rushing out there to get all
that food for cheap, they mowed him over. But the point of that is the
windows of heaven, if God would open up an opening into heaven
itself. That's the picture this doubter was painting, and it's
the same word, the same phrase that's seen back in Genesis 7
about the windows of heaven being opened. So we've got to stop. We'll continue next time when
we're here, but we'll look more about these windows. But if you
just get that idea of where this water came from, first off, the
earth kind of shook a little bit, and underneath the water
came bursting out. And so water came out, and not
only that, the windows of heaven, we'll talk more about the windows
of heaven next time, the windows of heaven opened up somehow,
and the water came down from above. So it not only came from
below, but it also came from above, and it covered the entire
earth. So windows came from above and
below. That's the short answer of where
the water came from. And again, we'll look more at
this idea of the windows next time, and we appreciate you coming. Boy, Noah was a great man, a
man of great faith. A man who found grace in the
eyes of God because he was living for it. Well, we need to take
a page out of his life and put it in ours and think like Noah
did. Noah had never seen rain and
yet God told him destruction was coming and he built the ark
and probably hired folks to help him. He got all that together
and when the rain came, he was saved. Noah and his family was
saved. The others, not so much. Anyway, let's pray and we'll
be done. Father, I ask that you bless
what's been said today. Help us to put these things in
practice in our lives. Help us to be mindful of the
situation we're in where folks, if they don't get saved, they
can't go to heaven. Help us to be thankful for us
that are. Bless the rest of the activities of the day. We need
your help. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen. We'll be back here in about
15 minutes. Thank you for coming.
Eclectic Discipleship
| Sermon ID | 515162015200 |
| Duration | 41:06 |
| Date | |
| Category | Sunday - PM |
| Bible Text | 1 Corinthians 11:1-3 |
| Language | English |
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