On Genesis chapter 7 the Bible reads in verse number 1
and the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark
for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation
and of course in chapter 6 we start out by seeing that the wickedness of mankind
had become so great in the earth
we saw that there was an intermarrying between the heathen and God's people
and the whole earth was filled with violence and God was so upset that the Bible
even says that it repented God
at his heart that he had even made man on the earth and he says he's going to destroy mankind
well he tells him, you know, 120 years
will be the days of man and then he'll destroy the earth
well now we come to that point in Genesis chapter 7 verse 1 the Bible says
the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark
for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation
now the thing that's amazing about that is that the earth was filled with
people and the Bible says
that the earth was overspread with people, the population had grown greatly
and men began to multiply upon the face of the earth
so there are lots and lots of people on the earth and yet God
looks down at Noah and says, Thee, singular
one person, for Thee only
have I seen righteous before me in this generation and what that tells me
is that God's standard of righteousness does not change with the standards of
the world around us
you see God doesn't look down and say well these are the people that are
really bad
and then these people are different than them so I guess they're okay
no God has standards of righteousness that don't change
God doesn't grade on a curve as it were, you know, well if everybody's doing bad
well I guess I'll be more lenient or lower the bar a little bit
no the Bible says that God looked at the whole earth, the whole population of the earth
and said there's only one person on the planet that I consider righteous
and that's you Noah, everyone else has perverted their way
everyone else is violent, everyone else is committing all these sins
you see the Bible says there is a generation that are pure in their own eyes
and yet is not washed from their filthiness
and the Bible says that that which is highly esteemed among men
is a abomination in the sight of God, I think what would surprise most people is
to realize
that God's standards of right and wrong
and God's standards of righteousness are higher
than what we probably think that they are and you see the more
ungodly the world around us becomes and the more sinful our generation becomes
we can sit back and say well I'm not as bad as these people look how
different I am from the world around me
and look how different I act but wait a minute
you don't need to be comparing yourself with the ungodly world around you
you need to compare yourself with God's word and if you compare yourself to
God's word you're gonna come short you're gonna realize that you have some
growing to do
and that you need to clean up some things in your life it's easy to compare
yourself to our world
and feel pretty righteous about yourself and I'll bet there were people at the time of
Noah
that could have looked around at some of the people who were really bad
and said well I'm not near as bad as these people but
you know in God's eyes they were not righteous in his sight
they were still ungodly, they were still sinful
in Revelation chapter 3 when Jesus Christ is addressing that the seven
churches which are in Asia in Revelation 2 and 3
he says to the church of the Laodiceans he says
these things saith the Amen the faithful and true witness the beginning of the
creation of God
I know thy works that thou art neither cold nor hot
I would thou work cold or hot so that because thou art lukewarm and neither cold nor hot
I will spew thee out of my mouth
because thou sayest I am rich and increased with goods and have need of nothing
and listen to this and knowest not that thou art
wretched and miserable and poor and blind
and naked I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire that thou mayest be rich
and white raiment that thou mayest be clothed and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear
and anoint thine eyes with eye salve that thou mayest see as many as I love
I rebuke and chase it be zealous therefore and repent
and so he's saying to the church at Laodicea what makes me sick about you
what makes me want to spew you out of my mouth is that you think
that you're righteous you think that you're fully clothed
you think that you're rich you think that you have need of nothing and you don't even
know
that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind
and naked so just because people are righteous in their own sight
doesn't mean that they're righteous in God's sight there is a generation that are
pure in their own eyes
and yet is not washed from their filthiness the Bible tells us
and so that's the generation that we're living in we look around at a lot of people
who think that they're pretty good people you knock on doors you go soul winning
and you talk to people and they think that they're going to heaven because they're a good person
and you ask them do you know for sure if you die today you go to heaven
yeah I'm a pretty good person I live a really good life
but yet if that person were to be weighed in the balances
they would be found wanting they would not be acceptable in the eyes of God because there's none
righteous no not one
but especially not in the generation that we're living in
there's none righteous no not one and we ought to be careful not to compare ourselves to the
people around us
but rather to compare ourselves to God's standards because God
has no problem at all looking down upon the entire planet
and saying this is the only person I approve of this is the only one
that's righteous in my sight
Noah and everyone else is unacceptable in my sight
so God is a very strict God is what that tells me
God has a high standard of holiness and righteousness
we need to get on board with his program of what's right and wrong
we need to get in the Bible and see what he considers clothed
versus what he considers naked
what he considers right from what he considers wrong
and you know the world will tell you you're clothed when you're wearing a bikini
the Bible says to cover your nakedness you got to cover your loins and your thighs
and so that short skirt the Bible calls that nakedness
the shorts and anything that's exposing your thighs and your loins
that is nakedness
and you say but the world but the Bible says that it's nakedness
you know you can sit there and say oh it's abortion
it's you know it's a it's a woman's right to choose no the Bible calls it
murder and one-third of American women
according to any statistic you want to look up have either had an abortion
or will have an abortion based on the statistics one-third of
our nation's women either have had or will have an
abortion you know that's when you look down at that and you see
that you can see how it was in Noah's day
where he only found one righteous person because mankind has the
capability to become very evil and very wicked
that's why we need more than ever the preaching of God's word
to thunder across the pulpits of America first of all going out and
soul winning and winning people to Christ
but then baptizing them in the name of the father the son the only goes
and then teaching them to observe all things whatsoever he commanded us
that's the answer to to the problem of having one righteous man here
we need to have uh many righteous people of course brought the way that
leads to destruction and always will be
but at least judgment must begin at the house of God and
we ought to be different than the world around us but look at verse number
two he said to Noah that he was the only
one that he'd seen righteous perform in that generation
verse two of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens
the male and his female and of beasts that are not cleaned by two
the male and his female of fowls also of the air by sevens the male and
the female to keep seed alive upon the face of
all the earth for yet seven days and i will cause it to rain upon the
earth 40 days and 40 nights and every living substance that i have
made will i destroy from off the face
of the earth and noah did according unto the all that the lord had
now let me say this this is the first time that the bible mentions the concept
of clean beasts versus unclean beasts it's the first time we see this really
come up now if you go to genesis nine flip
over to genesis nine quickly the bible reads in genesis nine this
is when noah gets off the ark in genesis nine the bible reads in
verse three every moving thing that liveth now
is that every animal or is it just me that's every single animal he's very
specific every moving thing that liveth
shall be meat for you even as the green
herb have i given you all things but flesh with the life thereof which is
the blood thereof shall ye not eat now the key thing to
understand here is that the bible does not institute eating
meat until genesis chapter nine before
genesis chapter nine before the flood god told man to eat of the green herb and
the fruits that grew from the earth uh
basically a vegetarian diet is what he instituted
before the flood then after the flood we see the first mention of god
telling man that he can eat meat and when he tells man to eat meat
he says in genesis nine that he can eat any type of meat
so he's not restricting it to just the types of meats that were available
under the levitical priesthood you know your cows and your sheep and
remember it had to part the hoop and chew the cud
and if it doesn't part the hoop and chew the cud they couldn't eat it so
they were not allowed to eat rabbits and they were not allowed to eat pigs
and they were not allowed to eat shrimp and and other types of
sea creatures that did not have fins and scales
now in the new testament the bible says clearly that every creature of god
is good and nothing to be refused if it be
received with thanksgiving for it is sanctified by the word of god
and prayer of course the lord appeared under peter on the
housetop and showed him all manner of beasts and creeping
things and told peter arise peter slay and eat
and he said not so lord for there is nothing common or
unclean entered into my mouth he said what god has cleansed that
call not thou common or unclean now i realize that he was referring to
a nationality of people the the gentiles the italians that peter was
to preach to but we see a clear parallel between what
he told peter when he said what god has cleansed
that call not thou common or unclean and then if we combine that with the
portion in timothy where he tells him every creature of
god is good nothing to be refused it's sanctified by the word of god and
prayer and there are a lot of other new
testament scriptures i'm not going to take the time to go through them
making it clear to us that we are allowed to eat any type of meat
and what i like to point out to people is that originally when mankind started
eating meat in genesis 9 he was told that he could
eat any type of meat there's no restriction here so in
genesis 9 man is told that he can eat
every type of meat it's not till centuries and centuries later
with the introduction of the mosaic law and the levitical priesthood
that he started having these other rules the the meats and drinks and divers
washings and carnal ordinances that were imposed on them
until the time of reformation but christ being come
those things are no longer required of us we are no longer under the levitical
priesthood we are no longer under the laws that
regard meats drinks divers washes and carnal
ordinances and and i like to point out that it's
not that there's anything intrinsically wrong with eating pork
because they were allowed to eat pork in the beginning in genesis 9
when they got off the ark and in the new testament were allowed to eat it
it was only a few thousand years of human history under the levitical
priesthood where they had those dietary rules and
there was a lot of symbolism there and that's a whole other sermon in and
of itself but i'm telling you that in genesis
9 it's clear that they can eat any animal now i've had some people say
this they've said well but if you go back to genesis 7 they
said god's already talking about clean and
unclean beasts so therefore there was already a
restriction of only certain animals that they could eat
well first of all that's not what the bible says in genesis 9 number one
but number two there is another reason why god distinguished between
clean and unclean beasts it has nothing to do with eating meat
keep in mind they did not eat there's no record of god telling man to eat
meat before the ark okay that only comes in
genesis 9 before that it was a vegetarian diet
look at genesis 8 20 and we'll see the reason why god distinguished
between the clean and the unclean beast it had nothing to do with eating
it wasn't that he had them bring seven each of the clean beasts onto
the ark that they might eat them that had
nothing to do with it because they weren't eating them on the ark
they only began to eat meat after they got off the ark it says in
genesis 8 20 and noah built an altar under the
lord this is right after he gets off the ark
and took of every clean beast and of every clean
foul and offered burnt offerings on the altar
so the reason that noah brought extra onto the ark
was so that when he got off the ark he would offer burnt sacrifices of
every the bible says of every clean
beast he offered those burnt sacrifices and so
the bible's clear in genesis 9 that every living thing that moveth would be
meat for mankind and if god wanted to express that it
was clean beast he could have easily done that because he talks about clean
versus unclean beast and really that just proves it even
further because in genesis 7 he talks about clean and unclean clean unclean
he just is a clean and unclean beast then when he gets to
diet he says eat everything so to me it's very clear i'm not going to make
suppositions that aren't in the bible the bible's real clear
i'm just going to trust what he said to eat every meat and
and he's very clear in the new testament you know i could go through
tons of scriptures for i'm not going to for sake of time
that make it clear that we can eat all animals that we can eat all things
and so yes i will eat pork yes it is my favorite meat
that's why i'm preaching no i'm just kidding but anyway you know it's
important bible doctrine the bible tells us if thou put the
brethren in remembrance of these things thou shalt be a good minister
of the lord jesus christ about this exact subject
and so it's an important thing that we teach we don't want to be like those
who are trying to go back to the old testament
as far as ritualistically and there are people out there there are
churches out there who are observing the sabbath and
they're circumcising their children and they're not eating pork and they're
under all these things that are just not
scriptural they're just flat out not scriptural and the bible clearly
rebuked those who would who would be circumcised
in the new testament and told them hey this has nothing to do
with salvation or the new testament you know this is not something for you
and so that's an important doctrine but he says in
verse number four he says for yet seven days
and i will cause it to rain upon the earth 40 days and 40 nights
and every living substance that i have made will i destroy
from off the face of the earth now when he says the earth there i remember
one time i went to this bible study and it was one of these bible
says where everybody had a different version of the bible
this is when i was a teenager and it was this liberal bible saying
everybody's got a different version it all says something different
it's like oh what's yours say oh what's yours say well i like that one
the best you know like pick your own bible
like choose the one you like i might pick the one that god likes
you know but anyway how about what he actually said
that would be good instead of just you know all the different versions of
what people think it means and have changed it to
but i've seen it this bible study and they're getting this big argument
about you know whether the bible's contradicting itself
because in one place it says he's destroying you know every animal but
what about all the fish you know did he destroy them too
you know this kind of nonsense obviously a flood is not going to
destroy the fish because guess what they like being
underwater in the first place okay they're they're in good shape
and it all came from their misunderstanding of the word earth
because if you remember god called the dry land earth
and the gathering together of the waters called he sees so there goes your
contradiction because when he says he's destroying every living substance off
the earth he's talking about things that live
upon the earth as in the dry land not upon the seas because obviously they
did just fine through the flood so he didn't have an aquarium on the
ark and that's what you know some and that's what some dumb teenager was
trying to say maybe an aquarium on the ark okay but
you see this is why these small group bible
studies aren't always what they're cracked up to be
because this is what it is it's a bunch of people who don't know
anything about the bible it's the blind leading the blind you
know you show up and people who barely even read the bible that like to
just hear themself talk i think maybe he had an aquarium on
the ark just because they didn't even read chapter one to get the definition
of the word earth and and that's just an example of what
every bible study was like in these places okay and so it's better to have
people and i'm not saying i'm the only one who knows the bible
but yeah there are other people who come up here and preach and teach god's
work but they need to be people who've studied enough and learned enough and
know what they're talking about not just this freestyle free-for-all
where everybody just puts in their two cents and just everybody's got a
uh you know a psalm and everybody's got a tongue and a revelation as the
bible says in first corinthians 14 god's not the author of confusion
and it's confusing when you have a bunch of people who don't know what
they're talking about spouting off nonsense that's just from
not even reading the bible cover to cover one time in their entire life
and so that's why it's better to uh to listen to people who've studied
than to just sit around with your buddies and some people
they don't even go to church today and you know maybe i've been on a kick
lately you probably noticed where i keep bringing this up
i'm on a kick about this because i've noticed this trend where people are
getting not out of our church but just out of
churches in general it seems like in the last days people
have quit going to church and that's why god said not forsaking
the assembling of ourselves together as the manner of some is but exhorting one
another and so much the more as we see today
approaching i think we're starting to get into the time that he predicted
when people would forsake the assembling
and and a lot of times they say well you know i don't have to go to church
i can just get together with my buddies and have a little bible study
and where two or three are gathered together that's true no the church
is an institution that has a bishop and if it's bigger it has deacons
and it's a it's an institution that's not a freestyle free for all
it's not a bunch of guys sitting around the coffee table
in a couch saying what do you think that means that is not what god
created when he created the church and instituted the church upon this earth
okay and so that is not church now if you want to get together and have a
bible study with your buddies go ahead have at it more power to you
that's great but it's not a substitute for church
and beware of the aquarium type doctrines that are going to come out of
those type of bible studies you know and if you get together and
people know what they're talking about
hey you can't study the bible too much for me get together
study the bible but know what you're talking about or don't talk about it
that's right you know and just talk about the things that
you know and so god said he's going to destroy every
substance from off the face of all the earth now some people have taken
this to say well god didn't flood the whole planet
he only flooded just that area has anybody ever heard that before
and sometimes they'll uh they'll have these uh documentary
shows i remember from when i was a teenager they'd have these documentary
shows trying to disprove the bible but they packaged it
as if they were talking about the bible and i remember
there was a show called mysteries of the bible
and it was a show that basically tried to disprove the bible but they they'd
have all these pastors and theologians doing it
and they'd tell you how there was actually a cold spot in the fiery
furnace and they had a diagram of the fiery
furnace how there was a cold spot with all the science behind it the
bible says they didn't even smell like smoke
the bible says the ropes burned off their head and then they explain how
you know the crossing of the red sea you know that could happen naturally
without god even intervening and all this nonsense and uh you know
that's the type of a program that would promote this thing where
well it just flooded the valley where noah lived
noah just lived in this little isolated valley
and that's what well the problem with that is that before the flood
1656 years went by now just to put that in perspective
what was going on in the world 1656 years ago
were people were men living here i mean maybe some people had come over
or whatever but not not really i mean have we
think about this way have we spread out the population of the war or world in
the last 1656 years would you say i mean go back 1656 years
and think about where the planet was at that time
i mean we're talking about a very different world
but islam hadn't even come out yet okay this is back in the
you know when just we're just beginning the stages of the
the roman catholic domination of europe and and it was just a completely
different world completely different technology 1656
years a really long time and the bible says that men
multiplied on the face of the earth and people
spread out people traveled and not only that people were living to be 900 and
some years old you remember that from genesis 5
when you're living to be 900 and some years old you're going to do some
traveling eventually you know now let's say you
retire at 65 you're going to spend a long time in that rv
you know traveling around if you're living to be 900 i'm kidding of course
but anyway you know elderly people they travel around in rv
but look i guarantee you're going to do some traveling if you're on this
planet for 900 years i guarantee you when you're living to be 900 years
old you're going to be pretty intelligent
because you're going to constantly be learning more and learning more and
learning more 900 years think about 900 years ago
okay we're talking about the year 1112 okay has a lot happened since then can
you imagine if a person were here tonight
that it was alive in 1112 and they were alive all the way till now
do you think that that person would be a dumb person or you think they'd be
an intelligent person think about the knowledge that they
would have gained and so i'm sure that these people were
very intelligent had lots of technology had lots of ideas
had lots of learning and they had obviously traveled around
and overspread the face of the earth period and so
you know this thing about a localized flood is simply not biblical
because the bible clearly states that he'll destroy
every living substance that he created i mean i don't know how it could be
any more explicit i like brother dave brought out in the preaching class a
few weeks ago how he said he would destroy every
living thing upon the earth under the whole heaven
well we know that the heaven with the or the the the firmament the sky the
heaven surrounds the entire globe and so if
you distort everything under the whole heaven
that's not just the little valley that noah lived in
noah lived in this little valley and it flooded no
in 120 years people would have figured out to get out of that valley
somebody would have got out of that valley that makes no sense that's
that's a ridiculous doctrine but he said he's going to destroy it all
and not only that it says in verse number uh look at verse number 18 it says the
waters prevailed and were increased greatly upon the
earth and the ark went upon the face of the water so the ark's floating
upon the waters and the waters prevailed exceedingly
upon the earth and all the high hills that were under
the whole heaven were covered 15 cubits upward did the waters
prevail and the mountains were covered so above the highest mountain
the waters were 15 cubits above that 15 cubits is about you know put in half
each is a cubic distance from your finger to your elbow
so we're talking about 22 and a half uh feet approximately
above the mountains well here's a here's a little tip when the water
goes above the mountain it gushes over out of noah's little valley
and floods everything else okay because the waters were upon the earth
uh it first of all they prevailed upon the earth for 150 days
and it rained for 40 days and 40 nights but the waters prevailed upon the
entire earth the entire earth was covered for 150
days it was a year before noah got off the arc so that's
how everyone drowned you say well couldn't somebody grab
hold of bits of shrapnel and wood and so forth and
couldn't people build their own little boat really
fast or hop in a boat that they already had
because you say i'm sure people had boats you know i mean these people
were not cavemen they've been around for 1656 years i'm
sure they had boats but here's the thing when you're in a
boat and the whole earth is covered with water
you don't have any food you don't have any fresh water you have nothing
but salt water everywhere you're not going
to live a year are you listening to me you're not
going to live for a year in a boat with nothing but salt water
and no food unless you've prepared for that like noah had prepared
and had everything ready for him on the ark
they weren't prepared for that even if they tried to grab hold of stuff
they're not going to survive they're not going to make it and god's clear
everyone died everyone died except who was on that ark
and all the land animals also died and the birds died
and so let's keep reading it says in verse number he said he destroy every
substance from off the face of the earth verse 5
and noah did according to all that the lord commanded him
and noah was 600 years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth
and noah went in and his sons and his wife and his son's wives with him
into the ark because of the waters of the flood so eight people got on the
ark that's why the bible calls noah in the new testament the eighth person
he was not the eighth person living on the planet he was not the eighth
generation he was the eighth person because there were eight people who got
on the ark and they're listed there his wife his
three sons and their wives the bible is clear that it was eight people
in the book of first peter it says in verse 8 of clean beasts and of beasts
that are not clean and a thousand of everything that
creepeth upon the earth there went in two and two
unto noah into the ark the male and the female as god had commanded
noah and it came to pass after seven days
that the waters of the flood were upon the earth
in the 600th year of noah's life in the second month
the 17th day of the month the same day where all the fountains of the great
deep broken up and the windows of heaven
were opened and the rain was upon the earth 40
days and 40 nights so two things happened
the bible says the windows of heaven were open causing it to rain
upon the earth and it also says that the fountains of the great deep were
broken up so there was also water gushing forth from under the earth
so that could have been part of how god ensured
the total destruction of every human on the planet
you know whatever buildings they had and technology and and boats or whatever
he's destroying the earth both from above and from below
he's causing the great fountains of the deep you say what's that about
well there's water under the earth there's always been water underneath of
the soil and and there could have been even more back then than there is
now we don't know but there's a lot of water under the earth right now
and that's why you dig down you make a well and you can get fresh water
from the earth and there's a lot of water that's
under the earth and that water came up and then the you know the rains came
down and the floods came up and so that's how this happened now
a lot of people have said that there was a special
water canopy surrounding the earth and that when the bible says the
windows of heaven were opened you know he's releasing the water from
that canopy i do not believe in that doctrine for the simple reason that
the bible says in genesis one that there were waters above the firmament
and some people will say that that was a special situation before the flood
and that part of what caused the flood was god releasing that water
but the problem with that is that at the end of the book of psalms it's
either 147 or 148 he says at the end of the book of
psalms that there is water above the firmament right now
there's waters above the heavens right now and so that was way after the
flood that's obviously just talking about the
moisture in the atmosphere not a special
situation before the flood so god had not caused it to rain
upon the earth i'm sure that there was much
water in the atmosphere perhaps more water in the atmosphere than there is
now of course for it to rain this much
there could have been much thicker cloud cover and so forth but i do not
believe that there was a special layer of water being held in place
simply because the bible talks about the same wording
of genesis 1 in psalm 147 and that's not that important but that's just
something to think about for those of you who want to delve into this a little
more deeply you can just think about that
so anyway he causes it to rain he breaks up the fountains of the deep
it says the rain was upon the earth 40 days and 40 nights verse 13 is a key
verse in the self-same day now which day
is he referring to well in verse 11 it says in the 600th year of noah's
life in the second day of the month or the
second month the 17th day of the month the same day
notice that term were all the fountains of the great deep broken up and the
windows of heaven were open and then in verse 13 it said the self-same day
entered noah and sham and ham and japhet the sons of noah
and noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them ended the ark day
and every beast after his kind and so forth
now a lot of people will uh misunderstand this chapter because at
the beginning of the chapter he said in verse 4 yet seven days
and i will cause it to rain upon the earth and he told him
to come into the ark in verse one and then he says in seven days
it's the blood's going to come the rains are going to come go to luke
17 quickly luke chapter 17
now the reason that uh people have a discrepancy there is because what the
bible is saying is that at the beginning of the
chapter he tells noah and his family and all of the animals to come aboard
the ark because he says in seven days the flood's
going to come the rains are going to come
but then later in the chapter he said in the self-same day
that it rained noah and his family got on the earth
i simply believe that he's saying that it's going to take them
seven days to load up that arc i mean
i mean think about it just for me to load up my family to go anywhere
you know it takes a long time you know if i'm taking a trip just for a few
days let alone for a year it takes a long time to pack up the
van and you're packing it up packing up let alone pack it up with
every animal every kind two of every kind seven of a kind
that's going to take a long time so i think what he's saying is
load up the ark because he mentions the animals
he says load up the animals seven days it's coming i think he began to load up
the animals and then on the seventh day is when
they actually enter the ark and god shuts the door
jesus verifies what i'm saying to you because first of all it said in genesis
seven that in the self-same day they got on
yet i was taught all my life and i don't know what you were taught
maybe when you were younger if you grew up in church i was always taught
that they sat on the ark for seven days
and then it started raining but jesus very clearly teaches
what genesis seven already taught us which is that it did not rain until
the day that they got on the ark look at luke chapter 17
verse 26 and as it was in the days of noah so shall it be also in the days of
the son of man verse 27 they did eat they drank they married
wives they were given in marriage until the day that noah entered into
the ark and the flood came and destroyed them all
so we see very clearly that the same day that noah got on the ark
was the same day that the flood came and destroyed them all he says
likewise also as it was in the days of lot they did eat they drank they
bought they sold they planned they built it
but the same day that lot went out of sodom
it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all so do you
see a parallel between the story of noah and the
story of lot story of noah the same day noah gets on
the ark the flood comes and destroys them all
rained from heaven the same day that lot left sodom
fire and brimstone fell from the sky and destroyed sodomy more
same type of pattern one was destroyed with water one was destroyed with fire
keep reading even thus verse 30 shall it be in the day
when the son of man is revealed so the bible says that in the day when
the son of man or jesus christ is revealed
the bible says it'll be the same as it was in the days of noah
in the sense that they got on the ark the same day the flood came
they got out of sodom the same day it rained fire and brimstone
he says of course in verse number 34 i tell you in that night
there shall be two men in one bed the one shall be taken and the other
shall be left two women shall be grinding together the one shall be taken
and the other left two men shall be in the field the one
shall be taken and the other left clearly talking about the rapture
two people are together one's taken the other left he says that's the day
when the son of man's revealed when jesus christ comes in the clouds the
trumpet sounds and of course uh the dead in christ
shall rise first then we which are alive remain shall be counted together
with them in the clouds to meet the lord in the air
and so shall we ever be with the lord and so people are misunderstanding what
it's going to be like when the rapture takes place
when they sit there and and believe a hollywood movie
it tells them you know the rapture is going to take place and everybody's going to go
where is everybody what's going on and they can't figure out what's going
on when the bible is really clear that the
same day that the rapture takes place god's going to rain fire and brimstone
from heaven and if you read the book of revelation if you read
you know all the four gospels you can read whatever you want about this in
the new testament you can read uh first i'm sorry second
thessalonians chapter one spells this out very clearly that the
same day that the rapture takes place god will
rain fire and brimstone from heaven so i
don't understand how people get this idea that it's
going to be a so-called secret rapture where the rapture takes place and
everybody where is everybody and people just disappeared and nobody knows
why i also would point out the term when
it says even though it shall be also in the day when the son of man is
revealed revealed it's not he's not going to be hidden
he's going to be revealed he's going to come in the clouds every eye shall
see him and so forth the trumpet will sound
those that are alive man he said that doesn't jive with what i've been i
don't care what you've been taught you have no bible to contradict what i
just said everything i just said is backed up
by everything in the bible and it's true
and people need to study to show themselves approved and not let kirk
cameron you know look growing pains was a stupid
show in the first let me just get that off my chest
right now okay some b actor from hollywood and you
know what christians do they take the hollywood's leftover
trash that's what they do and they get
all excited about it like little dogs that they're begging for crumbs
that fall from hollywood's table that's what they do
it is so true it is that it is as true as the day is long
wow a hollywood actor that's claiming to be saved
and they get all excited god not a respecter of persons
get out of here kirk cameron you don't preach the gospel you don't preach the
truth i'm supposed to get all excited
because some washed up actor that nobody cares about
that had some little tv show that was corny and stupid
that no career decides he can make more money in the christian business
now you know it's it's like that other
guy steven baldwin not a not a well-known famous actor
riding on the coattails of his more famous brother
he he comes into town with a dirt bike blasts a bunch of rock and roll
ride the dirt bike and does tricks and says jesus saves
and we're supposed to fall all over ourselves and get excited about
steven baldwin hey steven baldwin your movies are stupid
in fact every hollywood movie is stupid
in fact everything that the world does is stupid
and i don't love the world and i don't love the things that are in the world i
love things that are in this book and i have more respect for a bible
preacher and a man of god and a woman of god
and a so many christian lady and a righteous father
and a righteous mother and a righteous electrician and a righteous plumber
than an ungodly hollywood actor but oh but they're going to be a christian
or everybody gets all excited because some sports star
will say they're a christian get in church on sunday
quit wearing a bunch of tight pants and running around playing with a
stupid ball when you ought to be a church
listening to the man of god preach but no we get all excited and fall
all over ourselves oh this this sports star oh
god's not a respecter of persons god's not all excited in heaven
when some famous worldly hollywood athlete or
you know hollywood star and movie film star
claims the name of christ you know what he's excited about he's excited
about the poor that are serving god theirs is the
kingdom of god he said why he talked about this in
james too why do you get all excited about the rich
do not rich men oppress you and draw you before the judgment seats
do not they blaspheme that worthy name by the which you're called he said
it's the poor has not god chosen the poor of this world
rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to them that love
him but you despise the poor and you choose hollywood actors
and sports idols to be your heroes i'm not interested in it i don't care
about it you know kurt cameron needs to go read
the bible and get some real bible doctrine
instead of preaching a false gospel and preaching false end times prophecy
and and these these sports stars need to get right with god
and go to church on sunday you know they're a little chaplain
who comes and preaches some watered down message to them before the game
is at church just like sitting around the coffee
table with your friends is at church maybe if i can make church a priority
in my life if i can push back work and put
work aside and if i can go to work in california
and then fly back just to be in church on wednesday night
and then fly back to california and make it a priority
why can't tim tebow go to church why can't kurt cameron go to church
why can't these people make god's house a priority they don't promote a
church tell me tell me what church kurt
cameron goes to anybody else of course you don't know tell me
what church tim tebow goes to tell me what church steven volvin goes to
they don't care about church they care about glorifying themselves and
making money any questions all right let's move on so go back if
you would to uh genesis chapter seven because in luke 17
jesus clear as crystal and here's what's interesting about luke 17
in luke 17 is the first time that jesus really taught
on dan times now you say wait a minute pastor wouldn't that be matthew 24
well as you're reading the new testament you're going to come to
matthew 24 first you're going to come to mark 13 you're
going to come to luke 17 but here's the thing mark matthew 24
is a parallel passage with luke 21 and luke 17 comes before luke 21 so luke
17 the part that we just read that tied in with noah czar
that's the first time jesus exposed his disciples
to the details of his second coming where he actually went into some detail
about it and talked about you know uh people are going to be
taken now they didn't quite understand it because at the end of it they asked
him when he says you know two are going to be in the field
once taken the other left they didn't understand what he meant because it was
their first exposure to that doctrine and they said where lord and he and he
says to them whithersoever the carcass is
thither shall the eagles be gathered together i believe that that's tying in
with what he said in the book of exodus
when he said i carried you upon eagle's wings and brought you unto myself
because of course when jesus christ comes in the clouds he'll he'll bring
us unto himself and so shall we ever be with the lord and so forth
but let's go ahead and i've heard oh yeah i don't want to go into the carcass
and the eagles thing i i could preach a whole
you know sermon on that but i not gonna have time let's just get into
genesis 7 here but it but it is important to
to go to luke 17 and make an application with the second coming of
christ tie that in with the rapture and the flood and
everything like that but we see here that in verse 13 in the self same day
entered noah and sham and ham and japhet the sons of noah and noah's
wife and the three wives of his sons with them into the ark
they and every beast after his kind and so forth we already read it earlier
but uh jumped down to verse 16 and they went in
they that went in went in male and female of all flesh as god had
commanded him and i love this last phrase at the end of verse 16
and the lord shut him in so that last day so seven days early
he told him hey get on the ark get the animals on the ark they loaded up
they get to that seventh day they enter into the ark
the eight people and the bible says the lord shut them in now this is a great
picture of salvation right here because the ark pictures
salvation because the ark saved them from a physical flood
we are saved from spiritual destruction by believing on the lord
jesus christ we're saved from hell and the bible tells us that uh once
we're saved we're always saved jesus said i give
unto them eternal life and they shall never perish
neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand and jesus said i'm the
door if any man enter in by me he shall be
saved and shall go in and out and find
pasture so the bible tells us that jesus is the door
the ark only has one door according to chapter six
jesus is the door to salvation there's only one way to be saved only one
door jesus says unto him i am the way the
truth and the life no man comes under the bottom of my
knees when they went through that door which was picturing jesus to be saved
okay from a flood but of course it pictured being saved from hell
the lord shut him in it wasn't like they could get on and get off and get
on and get off that proves again and obviously
there's enough scripture to prove that you can't lose your salvation
it's eternal life once you're on the ark of salvation
he shuts you in and that door didn't open up again
until the flood was completely over and they were able to step out into a
beautiful paradise where there was no violence no wickedness
a brand new world a brand new start and so forth
that is what that pictures when he said he shut them in
and just like us when we get saved he shuts us in
we're locked in we he said no man can pluck them out of my hand
and we are saved and that door will stay shut until we're in the new
heaven and the new earth someday and and we will be saved eternally and
there's no way we could ever lose our salvation
so he says in verse 17 the flood was 40 days upon the earth
the waters increased and bear up the ark and it was lift up above the earth
and of course we already read the part where it says that all the
mountains and all the high hills were covered
it says in verse 21 and all flesh died that moved upon the earth
both the fowl and of cattle and the beast and of creeping thing that
creepeth upon the earth and every man all in whose nostrils was
the breath of life of all that was in the dry land died and
every living substance was destroyed and and god
couldn't be any clearer could he he keeps saying they all died they all
died oh did i mention that they all died
he just keeps saying that over and over and yet people will say well it was
just a local flood okay so he said they all died every
living substance was destroyed verse 23 which was upon the face of the ground
both man and cattle and the creeping thing and the fowl of heaven and they
were destroyed from the earth and noah only remained alive
and they that were with them in the ark and the waters prevailed upon the earth
150 days so amazing story that's it for tonight
of course we'll get into chapter 8 next week
but god destroyed the whole earth because of sin and wickedness now god's
not going to blink an eye to send people to hell in 2012 when they die
without believing on the lord jesus christ
and the bible makes it clear that whosoever believeth in him
should not perish could have eternal life it's not difficult to be saved
jesus did the hard part when he died for us on the cross
that was the difficult part it's easy to be saved and i'm often
telling people to god sometimes i'll be talking to an atheist or somebody
and i preach in the gospel and i say to them does it sound easy to be
saved or hard to be saved they say it sounds easy and i say you know what
but it's the one thing you're not doing
no matter how easy it is if you don't do it you're not saved you've got to
believe you got to believe the word of god you got to believe on the lord jesus
christ and thou shalt be saved that's better than that word of prayer
father thank you so much for your word and father help us not to compare
ourselves to this ungodly generation and to start getting high-minded or
prideful and thinking that we're wonderful
just because we're better than the people around us i'm sure that there
are some noah upon this earth that's probably a lot more righteous than
any of us and so help us to strive for a higher calling and strive to be
more like you and more godly in our lives
and father thank you so much for this story that we could learn
from and get some teachings about your second coming about the rapture and
so forth and also that we could uh just just
learn how serious you are about judging sin and
it'll help us to take things more seriously in our life but thank you so
much that we can find grace in your eyes as
noah did just by believing on christ thank you for making it
so easy to be saved in jesus name we pray amen all right let's sing one
more song before we go