["Pomp and Circumstance"]
Amen.
All right.
Heavenly Father, thank you for having us all reunited here.
I pray that you bless the beacon and you fill it with your Holy Spirit
so you can preach so it's boldly, Lord.
I pray that everybody has ears and the heart to listen and understand
and that we all go out there and put this sermon and practice in our lives, Lord.
The mighty name is Jesus Christ. Amen.
Amen.
Let's start our hymn. It's a song of 216.
It's a song of 216.
It's a really good piece of verse.
216.
116.
As always, the service times are listed there on the upper left-hand side.
We're going to be back on Sunday at 10.30 am against 5.30 pm.
for the book of Genesis will be chapter number seven tonight I have the
salvation of baptism school of the month and year and a couple notes about the
church and also over on the right-hand side the donuts of course is last
Sunday everybody's celebrating month of February so if you feel like any
of these people on this list deserve a little bit more than just a donut for their
birthday you can maybe make a point of at least wishing them happy birthday
below that we're still doing the east side blitz so this is just
Saturday dates there mark such excuse me February 17th and March 2nd which can
meet the building we're gonna go to the east side about a half hour away and
just do some slowly over there for the morning in the afternoon and then on
the back also we have the Bible memory pass it's not really a Bible
memory passage necessarily this week more of just some Bible stats so we're
doing the six days of creation this week so if you can do children and young
people can recite the six days of creation correctly to an adult
non-relative in the church then they'll earn of course the cookies
back there and if you want the different pies well you have to eat the
cookies first so let's let's get through the cookies in the milk first
and then we can talk about you know the Takis and we're not she goes
everything else okay but we got to get through that also there's a double
bonus this week if you can name the four rivers that flowed from Eden so I know
some kids have already got it down so again adults you might want to get
this down because they might approach you about this and you could I guess you
could always use this as a cheat sheet but if you need this as a cheat
sheet to know these things well you know maybe you put a little more
effort into your Bible knowledge but before rivers flowing from eating I'll give
you is kind of it's kind of a little bit more but you know it's to get that
double bonus like I said you gotta get these cookies eaten up so also
don't forget there's a couple of events taking place up in Tempe of
course tomorrow the big one for other urban his bride or is the wedding so
that's tomorrow at 2 p.m. it's not too late to go you don't have to RSVP
you can go up there it'll be cake and punch at the ceremony and then
there's going to be small-town soulmate and Eloy on Saturday February 24th which
is not this Saturday it's actually two Saturdays from now so if anyone wants
to participate in that let me know and I'm still kind of in the air a
little bit if there's enough interest down here we'll make a point to go up
there and meet with the Tempe brother to do some soulmate and Eloy is there
here that feels like they probably would want to go
several hands okay all right well I'm not gonna say I'm making it official
just yet I know you really want to come all back you know so we got some
visitors from from Wisconsin I was told it's warmer in Wisconsin than a
Tucson so don't figure you know anyway that's going to do it for announcements
we'll quickly just count up the soul winning going back to Monday the fifth
there's anything from Monday one on Monday anything else for Monday
to and Tuesday Tuesday what about Wednesday and today
okay keep up the great work slowly sing one more song before we get into the
picture
Oh
as always
yes
first one the Lord said Noah come down all that houses in York to be have I
seen righteous before me in this generation very clean beast I shall take
to the by sevens the male is female and the beasts that are not by two the
male is female a thousand also in the air by sevens the male and female to
keep see you live on the face of all the earth we had seven days no
what caused it to rain upon the earth 40 days before you nice every
living substance that I made will I destroy the face of Europe and no
according to all of the Lord's humanity no 600 years old when the flood of
waters upon Europe and no one in the Sun's his wife my son's wife with
into the yard because of the waters of the flood of clean peace and a beast
are not the fowls of everything that creeped upon the earth their
women too and she wants no one's in New York the male and female
started to know that came to pass after seven days the waters of the flood
upon the earth in the six hundred years know his life the second month 17
day of the same day well found the great deep broken up and the windows
of heaven rope and the rain is upon your 40 days for a nice the self
same day no no no no his wife three wives of the Sun with them into the
earth they every beast that there's time
two and two of all flesh
it was 40 days upon the earth and the waters of priests bear up and it was
lift up above Europe and the waters prevail and we're increased creating
here and the ark went upon the face of the waters and the waters prevail
exceedingly upon Europe and all the high hills that were under the whole
Earth have been recovered
and all flesh died upon the earth both the fowl the cattle and the
beast and very creeping creeping upon the earth and every man on whose
nostrils was the breath of life and of all that was in the dry land died and every living substance was
destroyed which was upon the face of the ground both man and cattle and the
creeping beast and the fowl of the heaven and they were destroyed from the earth and no one
who made them live and they that are with them
today's so now Adam would you pray for us
Lord may the father just take it for the day Lord God just thank you for the opportunity to be in the church Lord
I say to the blessed servant just feel thinking about your Holy Spirit Lord God and just give us understanding of your word
thank you for all you do and just all the names of prayer you have. Amen.
Everyone knows pretty much the story of Noah's Ark and this is where we're
at tonight. I'm being told I'm muted even though you can hear me. I'm just kidding. That's not how that works but anyway we're
gonna look at this tonight I'm gonna kind of go through it quickly really
just gonna try and make one point tonight out of the story it's an
important one but before we get into all that reiterate some things that the
Bible is reiterating here there's a couple statements that are made here in
chapter number seven. Remember in verse one it says the Lord said unto Noah
come thou and all thy house into the ark for thee have I
made the point that Noah found grace
that Noah was in the extreme minority okay and we're gonna look into that a
little bit more detail of just who was still around
maybe kindred you know his uncles and grandfathers and things like that some
people that were alive during Noah's day the grandfathers that we proved
using a very conservative number that there was at least 10 million people
alive on the face of the earth
I believe it's many many many more times than that many more millions of
people were alive but just using what we know from the Bible using those as
our
they were at least in all likelihood at 10 million people if not many more
so when the Bible is telling us that the earth is filled with violence and
that the imagination of every heart of excuse me the imagination ever of
man's heart was only wicked continually
why God chose to flood the earth some people might read the story and think
how cruel you know some people
you know let's make a you know I mean I think one of our maternity
shop you know when you read the story it's you kind of wonder where people
are coming from with that like get the cake with the arc and all the happy
animals you know they're they leave out all the water you know on the cake
and stuff like that you know all the animals are happy even though the rest
of their species has been wiped out who's got to do this right but we
have to remember that this is God punishing man for his week we talked
about you know the Nephilim and that that theory there we debunked all that
so God
God and he judges the earth he's a God that judges in the earth that's what the
Bible tells us but again it's pointing out here and I'm just reiterating all
this because the Bible does right we're just going chapter by chapter through
the book so they might as well repeat it too okay the Bible says that he
that God said to Noah I have seen the army in this generation it's a
great lesson there that Noah found grace and that he was in the minority
about the flood how he took this you know certain beasts by seven certain
beasts by two to unto him in the boat and then after seven days he caused it
the rain to rain upon the face of the earth and again verse five I'll
point out this is something the Bible reiterates these two chapters chapter
six and seven the Bible says and no
word commanded him you know you could see why Noah was called a righteous man
why he found grace in God's eyes because he's a type of man
found him yeah he was being obedient unto the Lord he was following God he
was with God's people he wasn't given 600 years old when the flood waters
extreme the flood of waters was upon the earth so we get a little bit of a
timeline here Noah was 600 years old
she goes on talks about how no one went in with the sons and his wives for seven
the clean beasts all going in two by two and then after they were in there
for seven days verse 10 the waters of the flood were upon the earth in the
11 the same day where all the fountains of the great deep broken up
so that's another fact that a lot of people
they might not know this detail that it was actually not just the rain but that
the fountains of the deep
you know came up from underneath here that was part of it wasn't just rain
obviously the rain had a lot to do with the two but there was this
breaking up of the great deep that really probably was responsible for most
entered Noah and Shem and Ham and Japheth the sons of Noah Noah's wife and the
three wives of his
that cattle after their kind every creeping thing they went into the ark
verse 15 two and two of all flesh
reaching a whole series on this just all the little miracles that you see in
the Bible that you don't really pay attention to or you just kind of miss
because it's saying that they that they talking about the
wasn't like Noah had to like open up like a dog catching service or something
right he didn't have to like go animals and chase them down if they
came to him and just went into the ark you know he just opened the door
however that happened you know however the logistics played out I don't know
but the point is is that these animals just came to him that God just
directed them to the ark and it's kind of a mini miracle you just kind of read
over because you don't read about Noah running around and trying to catch
animals and he was kind of busy building an ark you know that's he's like you
know that's a big enough project I mean it's like build the ark okay now
go catch all these animals right go catch birds go catch all these things
that would I mean I can't even get my dog to come to me I mean it'd be a
pretty difficult to go catch you know and I don't know what all animals were
there you know but I'm sure there's some of them were probably not the kind
you want to go chasing after anyway so that's just one of those mini
miracles that you see in the scripture and if you kind of pay attention in
your Bible reading you'll notice things like that where there's just these
little things that the Bible just mentions that are a miracle in and of
themselves we're kind of obviously we're kind of you know focused on the
flood here that's kind of the main thing that's taking place that's the I
don't want to call it a miracle but obviously it is rain you know it's
kind of a miracle back then but then you know we're focused on that we
kind of miss these things so anyway I just thought I'd mention that and then
it says verse 15 they went into no one of the ark to and to of all
flesh wherein is the breath of life okay so these are you know animals that are
are breathing oxygen above water okay so no one did not have an aquarium all
right you did the water took care of that okay that's an actual question
that's out there I've heard people ask how did the fish survive at that
point you just kind of pat them on the head and say there there and walk
away right verse 16 it says and they went in and they that went in went in
male and female of all flesh as God had commanded him and the Lord shut him
in so the Lord is the one that's sealing the door of course there's this
great picture of salvation in the ark the fact that the door was in the
side of the ark right so it's a picture of Christ's side being pierced
you know he's going to see us through the wrath of God you know we're not
going to be you know in the flood as it were we're not going to be destroyed
with the wicked if we are in the ark which is Christ right another
interesting thing in the ark if you notice in the construction of it there's
one window that's looking upward right so once you're in Christ you know you
only have one direction that you're headed you're always looking up you
know you're kind of what's going on around you doesn't really matter
anymore you know it's obviously I'm not saying we're gonna not care about
those around us but the point being you know where are we headed well we're
headed towards heaven we're always looking up so anyways that's a whole
sermon in of itself that's really not what I want to focus in on tonight
verse 17 it says in the flood was 40 days upon the earth and the waters
increased and bear up the ark and it was lived up above the earth and the
waters prevailed and were creased greatly upon the earth and the ark
went upon the face of the waters and the waters prevailed exceedingly upon
the earth and all high hills and that were under the whole heaven were
covered so all the high hills under the whole heaven right so this
debunks the notion of a local flood right we believe the Bible teaches in a
global flood this is a very great verse on that you know and that wasn't
even my notes I'm just reading that and it's just like there you go
there's your proof all the high hills under the whole heaven are covered
15 cubits upward did the waters prevail and the mountains were covered verse
verse 21 and all flesh died that move upon the earth both of foul and
of cattle and of beasts of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the
earth and every man all in whose nostrils was the breath of life but all
that was in the dry land died and every living substance was destroyed
which was upon the face of the earth but face of the ground both man and
cattle and the creeping things and the foul of the heaven they were
destroyed from the earth Noah only remained alive and they that were with
him in the ark and the waters prevailed upon the earth and hundred
in fifty days so I know I'm kind of already at the end of the chapter
but wait there's more so what I want to focus in on tonight again is the
idea that Noah is being found righteous in guy's eyes he's being
seen as a as a holy person as a righteous man he's finding grace in
the eyes of the Lord in a time when the earth is being filled with
violence so much so the word world has become so wicked that God has
decided to destroy it with the flood that's not something God just does
on a whim right obviously we're living in wicked times you know we're
living the Bible does say we'll look at it a little bit but in the
latter times perilous times shall come right that we're going to
face you know spiritually dark times and we see you know that
taking place we can see kind of a spiritual shadow being cast
over our land as Christianity is being more and more rejected
and as these you know demonic influences these demonic philosophies
are being promoted and adopted more and more but I don't believe
we're anywhere near as wicked as it was in Noah's day OK how do
you know you say oh how do you know well I mean just the
picture that the Bible's painting you know here it doesn't go into
specifics but when he's saying that you know that the
imagination of every man's heart was only evil continually
meaning man is just completely being given over to just whatever
they want to do they're not being tempered obviously back then
they didn't have the word of God they didn't have the
commandments weren't given they didn't have a lot of these
things to kind of temper man's spirit you know the Bible even
when it's not you know embraced as the word of God if
it's used as kind of just a guide or rule book in society
you know it kind of tempers man it kind of puts you know a
man on a leash so to speak right it kind of reigns in
some things that teaches us you know how to be moral and
good people right it's just something you know the
founding fathers understood that the that the Bible's
Christianity specifically in this country you know played a
great role in society that it was important to have that to
you know so that people could you know learn to govern
themselves using the morals and commandments out of the
word of God. They didn't have that in Noah's day. They
didn't have any of that. So things are just getting
really out of hand back then things are getting really
bad so much so that God destroys the earth with the
flood and obviously things will get worse and we know that
before the return of Christ things are gonna get so bad
that God again is gonna pour out his wrath upon the
earth and God is going to once more judge the earth. You
know that's that's a promise. That's something that's
foretold in scripture. I just don't think we're
obviously there yet. Okay. How far away are we. Who
knows. I can't tell you. I don't know but I can tell
you that I don't think things are as bad now as they
were in Noah's day. Okay. But I think there are still
some lessons that we can learn from the story and
apply to our current day. Okay. Because again this
didn't happen overnight. This was something that was a
gradual progression right over a millennia. That's how
things got to be as bad as they were. Okay. And if you
remember when we looked at math or excuse me when we
looked at Genesis chapter number five, we looked at the
generations of Adam and we did some math and I'm gonna
do a little bit more math tonight but don't worry.
I've already done the math. We're not gonna. I'm not
gonna botch it this time. Okay. So no one's gonna have
to break out a calculator but I wanna kinda just
point out you know who might have been alive you know
when Noah was alive. You know who are his spiritual I
guess and literal you know his actual you know
kinsmen in the flesh as Paul put it. We're still
alive right. His literal blood relatives. Well we know
Adam and I won't take the time to turn you there but
Adam was 130 years old when he had Seth. Seth was 105
when he beget Enos. Enos was 90 when he beget
Canaan. Canaan was 70 but Mahalel was 65 when he
beget Jared and Jared was 162 when he beget Enoch. So if
you just start doing the math, you start to see how
old people are getting right. Adam you know is 130
when he has Seth and then Seth is 105 when he begets
Enos. So now we know that Adam is 235 right. He's 230
plus 105 is 235 and then you just kinda keep adding
like that. Enos is 90 years that makes Adam when he
begets Canaan. That makes Adam 325 years. Seth 195
years. So you can just kinda do the math there and
and keep working that out right. Canaan is 70. So
you add another 70 years to Adam's life 395 and
you keep going and by the time you get all the way
down to when Methuselah begets Lamech, Noah's father,
Adam is 879 years old and we all know that Adam lived to
be. We got one alright 930 years old right. So he so
obviously Adam without even doing the math right. He's
dead when Noah was born. Some people have asked do you
think Noah knew Adam? No. He didn't because you just do
the math. You realize that he died after the birth of
Lamech and Noah's father and not that and he wasn't
even that alive that long really for Lamech. Also, Seth
has already passed away by the time Noah was born.
However, what is interesting with the exception of Enoch
who walked with God, it was not right cuz God took
him. He went alive into heaven at 365 with the
exception of Adam, Seth, and Enoch. Everybody else that's
born in that lineage is still alive when Noah is
born. Okay. In fact, they're still alive. Well, not when
he's born right. You have Lamech obviously his dad was
alive. Enoch, Mahalel, Jared, Methuselah. These guys
are all alive at the birth of Noah. Okay. And then Noah
the Bible gives us this detail right. You say why are
you going into this? Well, the Bible gives us this
detail in this chapter that Noah was 600 years old when
he entered in when the flood came upon the earth and
he entered into the ark right. He was 600. So that
gives us the ability to you know do the math a little
bit more and I won't bore you with all the math. But
Noah if you just wanna trust me tonight, then I won't
have to confuse everybody half to death trying to do
the math. Okay. But Noah was 600 years old. Do the
math yourself if you if you question me when he
entered in. We know that meaning this that the only
person that was alive when Noah went into the ark
was Methuselah. Okay. Because Methuselah is 369
years old when Noah is born right and then 600
years passed when the flood comes. So what's 600
plus 369. It's 969 and we know that the Bible
tells us that Methuselah died at 969 years old
making him the longest person that ever lived
that's recorded anyway in scripture and in all
likelihood he is the longest to have ever lived
right. So that ties in perfectly. The math works
out. Okay. He's that he's he's 369 years old when
Noah's born. 600 years later he's 969 and the
flood comes upon the earth. So Methuselah is the
only one that's alive when Noah finally goes into
the ark. So what you're seeing you know this
kind of correlates with the fact that God's people
the sons of God you know are they're going and
marrying the daughters of men right we read that
last week and then the spiritual forefathers
these direct descendants from Adam are dying off
and as these descendants are dying off the world
is becoming more and more wicked. Okay. So you
can kind of get that in your mind and you can
start to make you know application to where we
are today as the truth of God's word as God's
people begin to diminish the wicked begin to
increase okay. And that's why I think you see the
flood coming when it does is because God's people
are dying off and the sons of these godly men
these direct descendants of Adam are going off
into the world right. That's what we read last
week that the sons of God saw the daughters of
men that they were fair and took them as wives
okay. So Methuselah he's dying off at 969 years
the same years as the flood but that also tells us some
things also that that Methuselah knew Adam 51 years
and he knew Noah 595 years okay. And I'm not going to go through all
the math here so all these other guys that knew Adam
right for instance Enos knew Adam 605 years and Noah 84 years
Mahalel knew Adam 465 years and he knew Noah 169 years
Jared knew Adam 303 years and he knew Noah 336 years
Methuselah knew Adam 238 years and Noah 600 years
so you add all that up Noah did not have direct access
to Adam but he had the combined first-hand knowledge of Adam in these
men that would have been 1662 right kind
of like when you add up man hours right if we took a crew of guys to
go do some work we wouldn't just say you know we put in boss we put in an
eight-hour day no it's that you would add up everyone's eight-hour day right
so if you add up everybody that knew Adam for all those years you have one
at that and also knew Noah you have 1662 years
so he has this ability to call upon everything that Adam knew
right that combined experience because obviously when you got you said what's
the significance of Adam well you know he walked with the Lord
in the garden in the cool of day right he had
direct communication with God you know so obviously he has a lot of knowledge
we don't know everything that he knew
but there's a lot of great wisdom sure he's imparting to these other men
you know he's telling them all the stories like you know these are
these are godly men okay that have this knowledge
of the Lord of God and this is all being relayed to Noah
right and Noah kind of has to you know be somebody just accepts a lot of
this by faith right Adam's gone right the people say no
you're a great great great great great great great grandfather Adam
you know was the first man and and by again remember
by the time Noah's around there's just millions of people no you're
you're our descendants were the original you know your
great great great granddaddy was the first man that was ever made
you know that you have to kind of step out by faith and believe that don't
you at that point when you're Noah okay so you can see how Noah
is is believing all this how he's a righteous man
why he finds grace in the eyes of the Lord because he's just believing a lot
of things by faith he's doing all that the Lord
commanded him and he has this knowledge that's being
passed down to him but the main point that I want to
make tonight again as I already alluded to it
is that spiritual uh degeneration happens quickly okay again as these men
begin to die off wickedness begins to increase
and if you would go over to proverbs 14 we're going to spend a little bit time
in proverbs tonight and this is a principle that we need
to take heed to in our own lives on a personal level and as a society
okay I don't know that I need to get up here and and hopefully
hopefully this isn't the case I have to get up here and convince people
that our our nation is becoming more and more wicked all the time
you know I consider myself others might argue this point a young man
okay you say how old are you it doesn't matter
I'm just kidding so 43 so I'm 43 you know so I'm in you know the middle
years of my life right thank you
I needed that reassurance I'm just kidding but you know even in my
you know the in the in the time that I've been alive
how much the world has changed is is it's kind of
alarming I mean just just looking back at all the things that have happened
in society over even my 40 years on this earth
you know a lot has changed hasn't it you know and others that could go back
farther could probably testify this as well
you know they could probably say yeah there's been a lot of change even
leading up to when you came around we saw a lot of things take place
right so spiritual debt you know degeneration is something that
could happen quickly and what do we see happening
in our own nation you know we see wickedness on the rise and again do I
really have to convince and go over all of these things I mean when they're
mutilating children and giving kids hormone blockers
you know and I know it's an it's not something like talk about feeling
oh you always bring that up that's what's going on out there
you know this is the kind of this is where we're at and we can all just
turtle up you know we can all just go stick our head
in the sand and pretend it's not happening and we can come in here and
I can just tell you tell you all sweetness and light but the truth is
is that our nation our world really
is is you know just swirling down the bowl of sin
I don't know I mean it's it's nasty it's ugly it's not a pretty scene out
there and it's and it's and it's
increasing greatly okay I don't want to spend a lot of
time on that I think everyone can see that from
themselves anyone who's honest has any integrity
unless they want to embrace the spilt that's being promoted unless they think
all this is a good thing all the sodomy and everything else
that goes along with it if they think that's a good thing well then
yeah I can see how they would say oh no
things are quite progressive out there you know we're turning the whole world
into a giant safe space you know unless you're unless that's your
mindset yeah then I we're gonna have I'm gonna have a hard time convincing
you but anybody who has just like any sense of decency anyone who could
just clearly see right from wrong right can look at the
world and see that things are getting worse not better okay and I don't mean
just in terms of politics I don't just mean
in terms of the economy or some policy somewhere
I'm saying morally I'm saying we as a nation I mean
the birth rate in this country is below replacement people are
casting off traditional values when it comes to marriage
you know I mean let alone you know the fact that it's you know
dudes marrying dudes and chicks marrying chicks
you know the people that actually you know are marrying according to the
bible traditional marriage even they are refusing to have children okay
that that's just one thing I mean all the drunkenness the adultery
the fornication I mean I heard a statistic the other day and I didn't
fact check it but I heard someone saying it it's a credible source
I believe is that one in five people in america right now have an STD
that's that's horrific that's like you know and people got all worried
about coronavirus
it's like oh put a mask on we don't want this to spread it's like hello
you know oh you're gonna be sick yeah and I get it you know coronavirus
you know was a real thing and it did harm people I mean it did kill
people okay and if you disagree just don't talk to me about it
it's over okay whatever we believe about it it's funny now that it's like
several years behind all these people are coming out and saying well I didn't
agree with it when it was going on the shutdown
it's like well where were you then okay okay but anyway
you know people are all up in arms about coronavirus it's like well what
about the pandemic of of diseases that are
just being spread through fornication and other means I mean that's out I
mean that's just where we're at as a country things are getting worse and
worse and worse and well the last thing we need
is god's people cowering and saying the last thing we need is less men of
god preaching the word of god the last thing we need are more
cowards behind a pulpit and that's what we have that that's
another spiritual epidemic in this country
is men of god you know that I can't believe you know some of them I
I have a hard time even calling them that I don't know how
I can call somebody a man of god when they get up behind
a pulpit in front of god's people with god's book
and then just not preach what it says or make excuses for it
or try to you know explain something away
you know it's gonna get and I'm it wouldn't surprise me if we're at this
point in this country already where there's guys out there that are
trying to like apologize for god in the flood
oh you know god back then was just angry you know he's calmed down or
something you know he's not he's chilled out a
little bit you know he learned he's he's evolved on that issue right
it's like well read the last book of the bible where god kills the most
people okay we're we're the we're jesus christ
comes and slays people with the sword out of his mouth of his word all
right that that's the lesson I get out
of this you say what's with all the math
what can we learn from that I didn't come to here for a math lesson
right well the math shows us that by the time
the flood rolls around and you have noah there's just you know
there's him and methuselah and that's it
and as and during that this this span of time
from adam to noah these guys are dying off
their children are going off and just you know going
and marrying the sons of men they're forsaking the god of their fathers
and you know as a result the earth is filled with violence
and god has to destroy it that should be a lesson to us today
you know what can we learn from noah's flood well it's a warning
you know these things are written on as in samples unto us unto whom the
ends of the world are come now we need to read these things
and and take note and notice these patterns
right the righteousness of man goes down the wickedness of man goes up
and we see the same thing playing out before our eyes today
and that's why we need more bold preaching not less
that's why we need more men of god to get up in pulpit and to sound the
alarm not less okay spiritual
degeneration happens quickly and the results
are not good to put it mildly right that's the other lesson when man
becomes wicked god doesn't just sit on his hand and
say oh well god says oh you want to go that route well
i let's let's let's go there you know you know you want to step outside
that's kind of how god is you know he's he'll meet you where you're at
if you look at proverbs chapter 14 look at verse 34 righteousness exalted
the nation you know that's a great promise in
the word of god isn't it that righteousness exalts a nation i mean
how do you think the united states became as prosperous as
as it did i mean some people can make some arguments you know that
the economy took off you know as a result of you know world war ii and
things like that but long before that america was a very
prosperous industrious country and and god blessed this country i mean
more gospel preaching has been done through the united states of america
than any other country probably throughout all of history
combined okay why because it was a nation
although maybe they didn't all weren't all independent fundamental
baptists okay maybe they weren't all even
necessarily saved christians maybe there were even a lot of people
that just fell under that you know umbrella of christendom
that weren't necessarily you know bible believers but were at least
people who embraced biblical principles even in
high places of office back then we had those kind of people in this
country that exalted this nation this nation was exalted and this is a
god blessed nation i believe that and that's why it's so heartbreaking
that's why it's such a shame to see what it's turning into today
that you know that it's turning its back on god you know and it's not
and and and the worst part of that is it's not just that god is being
forsaken but that god isn't you know again
he's not just going to go hide somewhere he's not just going to
you know take his ball and go home god judges when people turn on him when
god's people turn away he judges the earth when man
wickedness gets to a certain level he judges the earth
so it's alarming to see what's taking place and look i you know i know you
came to church and you know maybe you were hoping to
get more of a feel-good message you know and there is a there is the
feel-good message i mean noah was safe
noah was afloat right noah floated his stock while everybody else was in
liquidation right you know noah it was nice and
warm in the arc i don't know what it smelled like in
there with those animals but you know he was in there just fine
you know that's a lesson to us that you know the world can get more and
more dark and more and more wicked but if we
do all that god commands us if we walk with god if we're righteous
before his eyes you know god will protect us i believe that miraculously
okay the bible says in providence 14 that
righteousness exalteth a nation but sin is our approach to any
people to any people it's our approach so we
don't want to get this attitude america will you know will god bless america
right you know we're just we're god you know why would give me a reason why god
would still bless this nation when it spits in his face
i mean this nation has turned their back on god
you can't you can't talk about god in in public school
you know these the bible's not being taught there
you know and you could probably go get some you know college classes on the
bible but they're probably going to tell you why it's just some old
archaic book written by a bunch of goat herders or something
they're kind of just trying to discredit the bible right
i mean the bible is just being thrust out god's being thrust out
and as a result what do we see from the story of noah when
righteousness goes out sin comes in right
and sin is our approach to any people the bible says
so as our nation begins to embrace sin and things that god calls an
abomination that's our approach to us in the eyes
to who it's our approach to us and in the eyes of god exactly
you know and america is kind of a laughing stock of the world at some
places you look at some of these african
countries where they they don't want our american values they don't want
sodomy pushed on them they don't want to embrace the
alphabet people over there they say you know keep your federal
money keep you know to a lot of places america has become the
ambassador of sodomy to the world that's that's our
approach folks because that that you know calling
that a sin is putting it lightly god calls it an abomination
you know i wish more preachers would get up and preach that
i wish we'd have more preachers behind a pulpit that were willing to
say things like that then get up and just
you know tell us who to vote for this election cycle
you know or would spend more time reading these gnarlier parts of the
bible than they would you know the
constitution or something go to proverbs uh chapter six proverbs
chapter number six
actually go to proverbs 29 i gotta i'm already
gonna run out of time here but again righteousness exalts a nation
and sin is our approach to any people okay
and that should be you know concerning to us because we're seeing things
begin to play out in our own country in our own world the same as in noah's
day and again it didn't happen overnight
right it took it took a thousand years or so
for this to finally happen took about 1600 years for this
to finally come about right from adam to the day noah went in the ark
okay we have this and i'm not an exact figure okay but i've
i think we've had enough math for one night okay
the point is is it didn't happen overnight it's it took time
okay and that's what's playing out right now where are we
on this timeline of spiritual you know degeneration
i don't know but i feel like if we're not
past the halfway point we're really close
if not already because of the way things are in this country and the way
it's just become so so normal i mean just think about it
for a second remember back you know i don't even it's hard to even put it
in the early 2000s right when when all the conservatives
were up in arms over what
homo marriage i'm not going to call it gay marriage
okay there's nothing gay about it
about all the homos getting married that's what they remember that they
were all up in arms we can't let this happen
right to where we are today well just just hold off you know
hormone replacement therapy until they're 18
that you know that's that's the that's the banner of conservatism now
in america so you know excuse me if i want to check out of politics at
this point okay when that's you know that's the that's
the wave i'm supposed to or the the flag i'm supposed to wave like
hey just don't let minors into the uh you know transvestite
drag queen story hour right that's one of our arizona
representatives you know that was the great
that was the hill he's going to die on you know was it
let's ban all trannies from teaching school children
or from reading them stories in public places that are paid for by our tax
dollars no it was just like well just wait
till they're 18
just wait till they're 18 you know just no one that's under 18 is allowed to go
there but you see you see how you me saying
that some people are probably just thinking well what's i don't see what's
so bad about that this is how people are desensitized to
to sin this is how spiritual degeneration
take it takes place this is how a righteous nation
forsakes god and becomes a reproach in his eyes because they embrace sin
right i mean no one bats at an eye at a couple of dudes getting married today
nobody that's that's not what they're up in arms about
because they're just boiling that frog aren't they
slowly but surely look at proverbs 29 verse 2 when the righteous are in
authority the people rejoice but when the
wicked beareth rule the people mourn okay so the bible's
real clear that there's wicked people and there's righteous people okay
there's there's the wicked and the righteous and the people you want
ruling over you are righteous people and when wicked people get into power
it's not good the people mourn things are not going to go well
because sin is reproach to any people so that's what we see happening in
noah's day right less and less godly men more and
more wickedness less righteousness and more wicked people ruling
keep something uh well actually just go over to first timothy
second timothy chapter number three second timothy chapter number three
i'll just begin reading in verse one and let's just see if we can kind of
you know see some parallels from second timothy
chapter number three and the world we're living in today
verse one this know also then in the last days which
if you know your bible is describing the day those are the days that we're
living in right the last days perilous time
shall come perilous times and i believe he's referring to
spiritually perilous times right it's going to be dangerous it's
going to be perilous why what's going to make it so
dangerous for verse two glad you asked men shall be lovers of their own selves
men shall be lovers of their own selves
i don't know do we see any of that today
yeah we see a lot of that don't we where people are just only concerned
about themselves they they they they you know they don't
care about their other people they they they're in love
with themselves right look and i don't want to be one of
these guys it just harps on social media all the time
but i mean when i read that i just instantly think
social media lovers of their own selves right you know it's all these guys
that are out there just and and gals right that are just
posting photos of themselves look at me follow me
like me right we see a lot of that covetous no there's none of that today
clearly covetous is not a problem in this country right
no people are discontent people are trying to get more
they want more they got to have more boasters
you see a lot of that proud you know i'm trying to think where that
how i could apply proud you know you know pride where does pride come in in
this equation in in our world how can i draw a
parallel from second timothy three to our world today using the word
pride hmm g i don't know oh i don't know
maybe it's like we have a bunch of people
half naked homos marching up and down every major metro
in the city once a year waving a flag called a what
pride flag
blasphemers that's you know practically every movie song
comedians all the entertainment that's out there
you know blaspheming god disobedient to parents
you know let that sink in children these are this is the end times
attitudes right this is what people are going to be like in perilous times
and when you disobey your parents when you're disobedient to your parents
you're on the same list as these other people i think it seems to me like god
takes obeying your parents pretty seriously
and he says honor thy father and mother for this is the first
commandment with promise that it may be well with thee
and that they days may be long upon the earth you want to live a long
life honor your mom and dad period
there's a whole sermon that most kids don't mean to preach
unthankful unholy without natural affection
right without natural affection meaning they affect
they have affection for things that are unnatural they're perverse in their
affections despisers uh well i gotta i gotta finish
the list here truce breakers false accusers
incontinent meaning they cannot contain themselves they just
they just anything they want they they take they just gratify the lust of
the flesh anytime they want fierce i mean try
standing up to some of these people and see how fierce they really are when
churches are being bombed you know when churches are being
burned down when when christians are being you know
opposed and persecuted when men of god are being uh
you know taken to court you know you're dealing with fierce people
people that cannot be placated despisers of those that are good
you and you look you i don't you know hopefully everyone agrees with the
preaching tonight but whether you like it or not this is
what the bible says okay and god is good
god is good and that means everything that proceeds out of his mouth
is also good you know the commandments of god
are pure thinking why is it simple we just sang it
right the testimonies of the lord are right okay the law is right
god's word is right it's good and those that embrace it
are also good those that preach it are good those that believe it are also
good who are the good people that love god's
word god's word is good and today we have people that despise
those that are good there's people out there that hear this type of preaching
and despise it i can't believe you'd say that
can you believe what this guy said they despise it
despise of those good traders heady high-minded lovers of pleasures more
than lovers of god big time having a form of godliness
but denying the power thereof from such turn away
and we're to turn away from these type of people but this is what
you know we're going to see in the end times this is what's going to come upon
us in the last days these are the perilous times they're spiritual in
nature how does this happen how do you get
to a point where this you know this description here is what
fits the vast majority of people in the country
it's when the righteous decline it's when there's
less of god's people there's less of biblical preaching taking place
and that's where that's what's going on right now in this country
we have less and less biblical preaching taking place
i mean people wouldn't bat an eye even back in the 80s and 90s
you know at preaching some of these these harsh sermons these you know
what we would call today hard sermons people wouldn't bat an eye at it
but today you know people they get all up in arms over it don't they
philippians uh if you would
actually go to hebrews 11 go to hebrews 11
so what are we supposed to do well you know you're supposed to be like noah
be like noah don't be afraid to be alone don't be afraid to
be the last man standing you know if you know if everyone else
forsakes you you know god's still with you
he said i will never leave thee nor forsake thee
you know and if you're you know the last light in a dark world then
you're just going to shine all the brighter you can still find
grace in the eyes of the lord you know but if we have to be but we
have to be like noah right we have to do all those things
which are commanded of us right the bible says i'll just read you in
philippians chapter number two for it is god which worketh in you both to do
will and to do of his good pleasure do all things without murmurings
and disputings do all things without murmurings and disputings
you shouldn't you know the christian life should be like well
because if i have to
you know we don't want to be that despondent teenager who's told to take
the trash out spiritually in the eyes of god
but have to you know yes sir go do it just get it done right do it all things
without murmurings and disputings hey noah i'm gonna destroy the earth it
repented me that i've made man go build an arc all right
i don't want to drown
you think that's noah's attitude and he's like oh
i'm righteous in your eyes lord i love you i'll do anything you want oh you're
gonna say spare me and my family praise god how big do you want it
you know what kind of nails do you want what should i use for a fastener
you know tell me where to put the window where's the door going where's
the blueprints do all things without murmurings and
disputings that you may be blameless and harmless
the sons of god without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation
you know we could look out you know and we could look out the world around
us and just complain about it and how bad it is and and you could
say well that's what you're doing tonight
i'm just pointing it out folks i'm just pointing out the obvious
because sometimes we need that we sometimes we need somebody to kind of
shake us a little bit and say hey wake up it's bad it's getting worse
okay it's not like i go i'm gonna leave here
and go to work tomorrow and just dwell on the fact that
my nation's wicked you know i'm still gonna i'm gonna live my life and
come home and spend time with my family and and be blessed
i have to do all things about murmurings and disputings if i want to
be blameless and harmless in the midst of a
crooked and perverse generation among whom you shine as lights in the
world you know we have an opportunity to
shine as lights in this world as it gets darker
you know or you could just you know be a murmurer
you can just complain about it you can just do nothing about it
or we could hold forth you know the glorious light of the gospel
right as he says here in verse 16 holding forth the word of life
you know that's what we ought to be doing is shining the light of the
gospel in this dark world you know and and
that's what noah did when he was building that arc
that whole time when he's telling people blood's coming
blood's coming and i bet you they all mocked him
and ridiculed him until the day he went in there
and then as soon as it got up to their knees or what you know
they're kind of like hey noah
i believe too late it's not by faith now
it's like that stupid jehovah witness doctrine that the people in hell
are going to have another chance to believe on christ
who's not going to believe at that point do you believe in hell now
you know that it's not you know obliteration it's eternal destruction
do you believe in hell now that you're there
now that you're actually there and you're in the smoke of your torments
ascending up forever and ever you have no rest in your night
of course you're going to believe it right
here in hebrews 11 look at verse 7 by faith noah being warned of god
of things not as not as seen as yet he's warned of god and god and he's
like hey there's this thing called uh rain it's gonna happen i'm gonna flood
the earth there's no sign of it there's no clue
you know there's no hint he just by faith believes god
when he's warned oh you're gonna flood the earth i believe you
he moved with fear prepared an arc to the saving
of his house
that's the way we ought to be today when things are getting worse
and worse and more and more wicked we had to move with fear and get some
people saved in the process get some people saved
i mean noah moved with fear and he saved his house
by the which he condemned the world and became heir of righteousness which
is by faith right he believed god and he acted on it
that's what we need to do because we're in
we're not in the exact same situation as noah obviously we can't compare it's
not an apples to apples comparison but we're on that trajectory we're on
that same path as a nation a nation that's
being turned into hell the bible says all they that forsake god shall be
turned into hell excuse me the wicked i got it right
here the wicked shall be turned into hell
and all nations that forget god the wicked shall be turned i'm gonna say it
again the wicked shall be turned into hell
and all nations all of them that forget god
and that's not talking about a hell on earth folks that's like a literal time
in a literal hell i mean think about that like
every time i read that verse it always blows my mind that entire nations
can forget god and then entire nations entire
countries of people birth of people you can just go right into hell
i mean we could probably think of countries that are like that today where
just the vast majority of people do not believe on christ they are not
saved and they will suffer for their sins
in hell entire nations that are like that today
you know and and to a large degree our own
you know i know the stats are out there you know like so many people are
christians but when you start to really ask people who identify as a
christian who call themselves a christian you start to kind of drill down you
find out they don't believe the gospel they believe that going to heaven
is through their own good works that somehow they're going to be a good
enough person to earn or merit heaven because that's what a lot of
people are taught even within you know the scope of
christianity the catholics teach it the mormons
teach it i i i wish i didn't have to call them
you know christians but they call themselves that
you know and all these other religions they all take this
this uh workspace salvation that's what it is the bible says you're saved by
grace through faith and not not of yourselves it is the gift of god you
don't work for a gift you simply believe i mean that's what
hebrews 11 is showing us that's what it's saying about
faith abraham or uh noah here that he became an heir of righteousness by
faith he simply believed god he believed god's word when there was
nothing seen as yet he believed god's work and he was saved
but what did he do with that he moved with fear he did something
he prepared something he did some work for god
in the midst of a wicked world we should not let this wicked world
quench our love for the lost and our love for god
if anything it should it should light a fire under us to want to do more
i mean it's just like i mean don't we care about people
i mean that's the problem that we read in second timothy they're lovers of
their own selves right they're they're without natural
affection they don't care about their common man
they don't care about their fellow man they don't care about their
neighbor you know don't we we should care
about people and you know we that know and believe the truth
i mean it's like if you really believed that hell is a real place
and that that the gospel has power and if you really believe that there were
people out there that would get saved if they just heard a clear
presentation of gospel why wouldn't you preach it how could
people sit there and say yeah i believe the gospel has power
i believe the right gospel i believe people will get saved and then not
preach it to lost people you're not moving with fear you're
nothing like noah you're not preparing anything for the
wrath to come you're not saving anyone noah moved
with fear and saved his household he got people
saved as a result you know why because he was a
righteous and godly man we can't we can't sit there and and
think that we're on anywhere near on noah's level when we
don't want to even pull people out of the fire
um that's what we need to be like it's like no and not let this world
you know snuff out the last bit of light that's in it
because it's going to get to that point i'm not saying that's where we're
at okay i know there's always seven
thousand that haven't been the knee to bail
right but it's just you know i don't think our numbers are going up
you know i mean even amongst baptist churches it's like all you hear
anymore is how they're not doing the soul winning
you know i listen to these other guys and it's like they're not they're not
doing the preaching that needs to be done
they want to do everything else but soul winning that's just
that's just the general condition that we're in that's just the general state
of of where we're at spiritually in this
country
i guess we should all just throw in the towel then and just become covetous
and just become lovers of our own selves and only concerned about
ourselves just like everybody else and what's the point
well you know i'm glad noah didn't have that attitude
otherwise none of us be here i mean i'm sure somebody like god could have
started over or whatever you know but you know and what if that was
how the story went and noah just went right along with him
methuselah died off you know he tried to tell noah one last time
about adam about everything that he'd learned
about the lord all these other guys that knew adam they're trying to tell
him one more time how it all played out
and now it's kind of whatever everybody else is doing it
everybody else is wicked nobody else cares about things god
might as well just go along with them and just be another covetous
proud poster who just loves my own self and nobody else
you know and just let the rest of the world go to hell
you know that the only thing that would have gotten on arc is a bunch of
animals that's it you just have an arc full of
animals floating around then they'd all get off and god had to
start all over again we don't you know we want to be like
noah move with fear move move
you know what's the movement we're supposed to do today
go and preach the gospel to every creature
and and save some you know that's what he did he moved
he prepared an arc the beautiful thing for us is that the work is already done
we don't have to go build a boat folks
and i tell you what if you built a boat here probably you would get some
crazy looks you're in the desert what are you
doing the boat whenever i see somebody hauling a boat around here i'm just
like where do you think you are
right but we don't have to build a boat we don't have to haul some boat
around the boat's built the arc is done it's
called christ it's already prepared we just got to go
tell people about it and people will get saved i got
we got numbers to prove it that it still works
soul winning is not some outdated relic of the past you know it's so funny
when people say that isn't it oh that's just something they did
back in the 70s and 80s this door-to-door soul winning
it's like hello have you read matthew 10 did you read when jesus sent
his disciples two by two before his face everywhere
whether he himself would come i told him to go preach
in every gospel and village or every town and village
now when he left he told us to go and preach the gospel to every
creature
yeah you want to call it outdated you need to throw it back to jesus though
if you get it right then see it's some old relic that jesus taught
because that's the truth oh it's just some outdated you know method
from when jesus was on earth you know what a stupid thing to say
you know that's what jesus taught we ought to go that's the movement right
but noah moved with fear we need to move we need to go
you preach that arc get some people on board
because whether you believe it or not it's getting darker out there it's
getting spiritually and spiritually worse the thoughts the imaginations of men's
hearts are getting only worse and worse and worse it's just that
we're just the degeneration is just escalating right now
you know i and i just for one for me i'm not going to stand idly by and do
nothing about it you know i'm going to get up behind
this pulpit i'm going to preach this book
to whoever wants to hear it and i'm going to go out there and preach that
gospel and anybody else that wants to come along with me
let's go let's get it done and let's let's save some people let's not just
have this defeated despondent and just
uh you know despairing attitude let's not do things with murmurings and
disputings let's hold forth the word of life
let's go ahead closing the word of prayer dear lord again thank you for
this great example of noah and lord help us to be more like him help us
to be people of faith lord that despite a wicked world we could still
see that you're moving and you're working that there's still work for us
to do and that that great work can bring
salvation or that uh that the ark has been prepared for us
in christ lord thank you that that we're saved lord i pray that we would
do something with it that we wouldn't just
selfishly hoard it to ourselves that we wouldn't just let the gospel go
unpeached even despite the fact that the world
yes is being more and more wicked lord but it just means that our message
will sound all the louder we ask you bless us as we go in jesus name amen
all right we'll go ahead and sing one more song for you
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