Genesis 9 - ”Re-Creation?” - Who Are We Series

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9 and God blessed Noah and his sons and

said to them be fruitful and multiply

and fill the Earth the fear of you and

the dread of you shall be upon every

beast of the earth and upon every bird

of the heavens upon everything that

creeps on the ground and all the fish of

the sea into the your hand they are

delivered every moving thing that lives

shall be food for you and as I gave you

the green plants I give you

everything but you shall not eat flesh

with its life that is its blood and for

your lifeblood I will require a

reckoning from every Beast I will

require it and from man from his fellow

man I will require a reckoning for the

life of man

whoever sheds the blood of Man by man

shall his blood be shed for God made man

in his own

image and you be fruitful and multiply

increase greatly on the earth and

multiply in

it then God said to Noah and to his sons

with him behold I establish my Covenant

with you and your Offspring after you

and with every living living creature

that is with you the birds the livestock

and every beast of the Earth with you

and as many as came out of the

Ark it is for every beast of the

earth I establish my Covenant with you

that never again shall All Flesh be cut

off By the Waters of the flood and never

again shall there be a flood to destroy

all the

Earth and God said this is the sign of

the Covenant that I make between between

me and you and every living creature

that is with you for all future

Generations I have set my bow in the

cloud and it shall be a sign of the

Covenant between me and the earth when I

bring clouds over the earth and the bow

is seen in the clouds I will remember my

Covenant that is between me and you and

every living creature of All

Flesh when the bow was in the clouds I

will see it and remember the Everlasting

Covenant between God and every living

creature of All Flesh that is on the

earth God said to Noah this is the sign

of the Covenant that I have established

between me and All Flesh that is on the

earth the sons of Noah who went forth

from the ark were Shem ham and

japheth ham was the father of Canaan

these three were the sons of Noah and

from these the people of the whole earth

were

dispersed Noah began to be a man of the

soil and he planted a

Vineyard he drank of the wine and became

drunk and lay uncovered in his

tent and ham the father of Canaan saw

the nakedness of his father and told his

two brothers

outside then sham and japheth took a

garment laid it on both their shoulders

and walked backward and covered the

nakedness of their

father their faces were turned backward

and they did not see their father's

nakedness when Noah awoke from his wine

and knew what his youngest son had done

to him he said cursed be Canan a servant

of servants shall he be to his

brothers he also said blessed be the

Lord the god of Shem and let Canaan be

his

servant may God enlarge japheth and let

him dwell in the tents of Shem and let

Canan be his

servant After the flood Noah lived 350

years all the days of Noah were 950

years and he

died the New Testament reading is for 1

Corinthians

15: 20-

28 but in fact Christ has been raised

from the dead the first fruits of those

who have fallen

asleep for as by a Man Came Death by a

man has come also the resurrection of

the

Dead for as in Adam all die so also in

Christ shall all be made alive

but each in his own

order Christ the first fruits then at

his coming those who belong to

Christ then comes the end when he

delivers the kingdom to God the Father

after destroying every Rule and every

Authority and

power for he must Reign until he has put

all his enemies under his feet The Last

Enemy to be destroyed is death

for God has put all things in subjection

under his

feet but when it says all things are put

in

subjection it is plain that he is

accepted who put all things in

subjection under

him when all things are subjected to him

then the son himself will also be

subjected to him who put all things in

subjection under him that God May be all

in all this is the word of the Lord

thanks be to

God wow thanks again for these texts why

didn't we stop at chapter 3 like I

asked Noah's nakedness yeah thanks

guys there's actually sense to it but

you're going to have to give me a

minute this text is a profound text

they're all profound but it's building

on what's happened before it comes from

this ancient genre called creation

narratives it isn't a modern historical

telling it's crafted in a way that's

just opposing to the other creation

narratives around it it's saying this is

what our God looks like not like the

other gods it's written to an ancient

people for us but not to us so to

understand this text we're going to have

to allow ourselves once again to live in

their world live in their shoes and then

apply to

ourselves now when I'm sitting there

thinking how I'm going to preach this

thing I thought of a time I was in jail

yes I did

time as a

guard and there was one particular

gentleman I I I always say that guard

part because one time I said it and I

forgot to say it and a older lady in my

last Church prayed for me all the time

for this inmate that had spent all this

time in

jail now when you're in jail you don't

have a lot of relationship with the

inmates and anyone who's done time knows

why you don't they don't want it it

looks bad for them and you kind of do

your best to be polite but there was one

particular guy he was in remand do you

know what remand is he's remanded to

custody he's in jail but he hasn't been

fully charged yet and in Prince George

we had a remand unit and he was charged

and you never knew what these guys were

going to be charged cuz some of them

came to remand and were innocent and

ended up leaving others ended up being

convicted well this particular gentleman

who was very polite and kind I went to

his one time I'd been working with him

for about 4 months which is a long time

in remand and I would always kind of as

far as you get to have a relationship we

were able to have a bit of a connection

and I figured I could say something nice

to him because I was locking him up for

J uh uh December

31st so I said something stupid I know

that shocks some of

you but the foot in the mouth came

out and and I slow closed his door and

in the most innocent way said Happy New

Year and for the first time I saw

another side to my

friend he vined right up to the C the

cage and said what's going to be happy

about it emry I'm going to spend the

rest of the year right here in fact I'm

going to spend the rest of my life in

here now that shocked me cuz because he

didn't come across as a lifer and by the

way another lesson that every guard

needs to realize do not read the book by

the

cover read the story I see Val nodding

we were in the same

business

anyways so it turned out I went into his

file I hadn't even gone into his file

just couldn't think he was that bad and

he had just been convicted for a group

gruesome murder of a taxi driver where

he made

$50

yeah some immigrant guy just driving

home and I was

shocked and all of those thoughts come

back to you when you see that I thought

about the people who suffered because it

was graveyard you have lots of time to

think I read the F and it was

bad one of the worst I

read and it makes you sit there and

wonder how does somebody get to that

point it sits there and makes you wonder

Where's God in all this it

does it it to make you wonder who is the

real guy the guy who's been talking to

me for four months or the guy who did

that

well I think those are good questions I

think these are questions ultimately

maybe in different ways you guys are all

going to have to face because you're

going to realize that this world isn't

what it's going to

be and if you're going to be honest this

world is messed

up and the question is how do we deal

with that and I'm going to argue to you

this is exactly the questions that this

text is

answering let's

pray Heavenly Father you are so good

you're so gracious to US Open up our

eyes and ears and give us wisdom

in jesus' name amen well like I told you

this text is written against another

text and I'm going to invite you please

my friends take the moment if you find

this interesting read The Lost World of

the flood by John Walton or just go back

and read the Gilgamesh epic and you'll

realize that this Noah story was an

Assyrian Mesopotamian story that was

there way way before Israel this is in

the collective memory of these people

and the main point is the Gilgamesh epic

story is telling the exact same Noah

story but in completely different ways

and the reason why is the Gilgamesh epic

which is a creation story that has a

flood and the guy hops on a boat and

takes all the

animals has a very different God and a

very different purpose I want to remind

you again in Noah's story with it's not

Noah's story it's enu story in the

Gilgamesh epic he hops on the boat

because he gets tricked by the gods

because they flooded the Earth why

because they were trying to sleep and

Humanity got too noisy it's a true

story sounds silly doesn't it it's like

that upstairs neighbor that evicts you

because you had your music on too late

with

water a

joke it's quite strange and in the end

of this

story when they finally find land it's a

little God that tricked the other gods

that said oh we better keep Humanity

together so he saves this one guy in one

boat why does he save them so that they

can live and be able to feed the gods

cuz the gods get

hungry do you

see and in that case that guy named U

enu whatever I can't I can't speak

ancient Assyrian

um he ends up becoming like a god does

that sound familiar he becomes Divine

because he helped the gods survive and

then Humanity was there ready to be

slaves again to feed the gods and that's

what their story is our story is way

different I think it's based on the same

event but God breathed on our

Storyteller and said not like that God I

do this because of

Justice I do this because the world has

become chaos I am the good god I've made

order and now it's disorder and so I've

allowed the chaos Waters right we talked

about that to go come back and fill the

Earth but he doesn't doesn't give up and

why does he save because he needs humans

to feed him he needs nothing Our God he

saves by Mercy

alone and what he does is he recreates

in the Noah story right that's what the

Noah story is about you remember the

land coming out of the water Genesis 1

the land coming out of the primordial

Seas the big breath blowing over it

Genesis 1 the big breath blowing over it

I saw an African-American gentleman who

does reals of Theology and he does it in

the urban

tongue and I'll tell you what you got to

watch this because it'll give you a

different

perspective and he said I tell you if

you think God doesn't judge he put a

whole new reboot on this creation one

time he rebooted the whole thing I like

that God had rebooted

creation and his reason was Justice and

to destroy chaos

so now we're at the story where Noah's

arrived the question has to be has

everything

changed is evil gone is it done do you

see the questions are Cain and Abel and

all of that stuff and all of the stuff

of the I'm going to say it Nephilim

done I hope so because I'm never

teaching that

again well here comes the answer and the

writer knows what he's doing he starts

off with them coming off the boat and

God blessed Noah and his sons it starts

off with a blessing just like in the

original creation story and said to them

just like the original creation story to

Adam and Eve be fruitful and multiply

and fill the Earth he begins he's still

blessing and then right after he does

that we realize something's

changed that in some ways it's not even

that the bad is still there it's

actually gotten worse do you remember in

the Genesis story he tells them to be

fruitful and multiple and he's talking

but with the animals and then he says

what are you to do Rule and subdue do

you remember

that kingly language kingly language of

taking care of but no there's two words

now that

change and he goes to the side of the

animal and he says the fear of you and

Dread fear and dread has taken over Rule

and

subdue of you shall be on every beast of

the earth and upon every bird of the

heaven and upon everything that creeps

on the ground and all the fish of the

sea into your hands they are delivered

now rather than Rule and subdue name the

animals we have a change human beings

and the animal kingdom are a

conflict and a human beings the greatest

Hunters are now the ones to be afraid

of he

continues every moving thing that lives

shall be food for you and as I give you

the green plants I give you

everything he didn't give them

everything at the beginning now he has

but he says cuz things are going to get

worse you shall not eat flesh with its

life that is its

blood why does he put that in there

because God loves the animals he does

love the animals they're good they're

part of the good part of creation and in

Antiquity in Assyria they did eat the

animal live because they believe they

could suck the soul not soul for God's

people and that's why that rule is there

and and then he gives this rule that

many pro capital punishment people point

to it's a foundational law because it

comes from God right from the beginning

and for your life blood I will require a

reckoning from every Beast I will

require it and from man from his fellow

man I will require a reckoning from

fellow man whoever sheds the blood of a

man by man shall his blood be shed for

God made man in his own image

but something radically changed here

folks this is different God has changed

the game right after the creation story

and the good came and then they fell who

brought the Judgment against Cain do you

remember

God who had mercy on

Cain God who brings all the Judgment up

to this point god notice what's changed

here he's moved the judge to

humanity you notice that it's no longer

going to be God doing the direct

judgment he's going to empower His Image

bearers to begin to bring the justice

and he uses the image of death because

he showed what he did in the death in

Canaan abble there all these ties are

together and he's saying listen there is

going to be murder there's going to be

death and you guys have to deal with it

and you deal with it because we were

made in God's image and it's a big

offense do you see

that and then he stops and we're back to

blessing and you be fruitful and

multiply increase greatly on the earth

and multiply you're going to see a lot

of repetition in these texts can I tell

you why they're there when they repeat

something they're like listen it's like

you with your kid right you repeat

yourself you need to listen to

this increase greatly on the earth and

multiply it then God said to No One his

sons behold I have established a

covenant with you our first one and your

Offspring after you and with every

living creature with you the birds the

livestock and every beast of the Earth

with you as many as it came out of the

Ark it is for every beast of the earth

you notice that this blessing is not

just for humans I got to tell you

something that's crazy about our God

that none of the other gods he really

cares about the animal kingdom he places

us right with

them you notice

that no other gods like that so if

you're a person who likes animals he

this is your

god I establish my Covenant you that

never again shall All Flesh be cut off

By the Waters of the flood in other

words I am no longer going to use chaos

to destroy chaos doesn't mean he won't

bring judgment and it will be localized

but he's no longer going to destroy the

world and never again shall there be a

flood to destroy the Earth and here we

get the reput because this is really

important and God said this is the sign

of the Covenant that I make between you

and the living creatures and every

living creatures that is with you for

all generations and he uses a symbol now

you have to understand that ancient

Mesopotamian symbol when they saw the

bow the bow represented the attack

weapon for the

gods all gods so when you go back to

back into Antiquity the bow is always

used as the arrow and bow that the gods

would use and they would use these to

fight one another what God is saying

here is I'm hanging up my

bow you see

that this is a different time it's the

process of this God that's ultimately

going to be in

peace I have set my bow in the cloud and

it shall be a sign of the Covenant

between me and the earth when I bring

clouds over the earth and the bow bow is

seen in the clouds I will remember my

Covenant that is between me and you and

every living creature do you see the

repetition are you

listening and the water shall never

again become flawed and destroy all the

flesh continued said again when the bow

is in the cloud said again I will see it

and remember the Everlasting Covenant

between God and every living creature of

All Flesh that is on the earth said

again it seems almost too repetitious

doesn't it maybe he's saying

listen this is really important

and God said to Noah well here we go

again this is the sign of the Covenant

that I have established between you and

All Flesh that is on

Earth five

times God's making a point that's what's

changed God is no longer going to be the

one that brings ultimate judgment in

fact I'm going to pass judgment on to

you okay God but has anything changed

with us I mean yeah the animals are

afraid of us but what about us well

there we get to our story about good old

drunken

Noah the sons of Noah went forth from

the ark where Shem ham and japeth and

then he explains ham is a father of

Canaan I'm not going to describe that

you can go to my Bible study if you want

to know why these three were the sons of

Noah and from these the people of the

whole world Earth were

dispersed these are the

foundations and then we begin our story

that seems really strange but he puts

this in to make a point nothing's really

changed it might have got

worse Noah began to be be a man of the

soil and he planted a Vineyard and he

drank of the wine and be got liquored up

and lay uncovered in his

tent there is no theme here that this is

good or bad he's kind of a flat

character

Noah and that's not the main point the

main point is now

what well then you got this ham the

father of Canaan and he says he saw the

nakedness of his brother the exposed

sensuality the nakedness of his father

and he goes and told his two brothers

outside now this is supposed to be

something really

bad what could be so bad I

unfortunately have seen my

father in the swim

pool it's not

enjoyable but I don't think he'd curse

me for it my sons have seen me and it's

even less

enjoyable so the question we rightly

have is what is going on here were they

just prudes in the ancient

world no you see what we do know and

there we have to go back to their world

is when they use this is a nice way of

saying he saw his wife Noah's wife cuz

his nakedness Noah's nakedness back then

meant the nakedness of his sensual one

or his wife okay and why does he go and

the first reason we can connect it with

the fall is remember what Eve did when

she saw that fruit it says she saw and

what does she do she goes and tells Adam

this is a literary technique they he

sees the fruit the sensuality of Noah

the nakedness of Noah meaning again

almost guaranteed his wife and whatever

we take out of this he went and told his

brothers trying to draw them in just

like Eve tried to draw Adam

in that's your problem I'm not going to

go any deeper I'll let your

imaginations go to what you think our

good friend ham was thinking of

doing but the good

news then shed and hath took the Garment

laid it on both of their shoulders and

walked backward and covered the

nakedness of the father again this

language meant the wife beside you the

nakedness of the father was the person

he was with that's how it worked that's

how their language worked their faces

were turned backwards and they did not

see their father's nakedness when okay

so now that's it you've got the same sin

but you've got this time at least two

that aren't going to follow through but

it's still going to be bad

it's going to continue and then we find

that what God's kind of promised that

now I'm not going to judge you are

that's exactly what happens now it's not

God that brings the Judgment it's Noah

the human when Noah woke from his wine

he knew what his younger son had done to

him and he said cursed do you see it who

else said cursed in chapter 3 who was

the only one who said cursed

God but it's moved on hasn't it God's

passed judgment on humans to humans and

now Noah can say cursed be Canan a

servant of servants shall he be to his

brothers he also said

blessed another word god uses be the

Lord the god of sheeman then let Canaan

be his servant and may God enlarge jath

and let him dwell in the tents of Shem

and let Canaan be his

servant the judgment has come and it's

human

judgment the world is turned and God's

no longer going to he's going to let

human beings try and work through the

knowledge of Good and Evil the very

thing that destroyed

them and this is going to bring us on a

story of tragedy and ultimately

Redemption and then afterwards it says

he lived 350 years and all died of

nowhere were 950 years after he died

which if you're keeping notes at home

just before the flight said he wasn't

going to live more than 120 years so

obviously they're doing something with

numbers that are beyond the way we use

numbers which is

common so you've got this story laid out

folks God blesses says very clearly if

somebody dies they're made in God's

image they should be killed you got this

blessing and this Covenant I'm no longer

going to destroy and then he passes on

the judgment to humanity and we have

this story that the sin of Eve

is still with

us and nothing ultimately has changed

you can imagine that early Community

asking the question they just saw the

world quote unquote go through a

reboot they're asking themselves has

things changed that's the main question

and it

hasn't well let me ask you a question

when I'm sitting in

that unit and I see this guy and he's

done what he's done I can't help but

Wonder has anything changed I'm a

Christian

right I have a story about God coming

down and dying for our sins and

resurrection and I read this story what

happened to this

guy well in a way nothing's changed in a

way don't give up on me you see here's

the reality folks we live in

a culture of death did you know

that we live right now in our culture as

a culture of death we celebrate death we

actually see death as an option out we

see it very lightly and Loosely and why

do we do that because we don't see

people made in God's

image that's Long

Gone Going

Back Francis schaer man made in the

image of God has a purpose to be in

relationship to God who is there man

forgets his purpose and thus he for for

gets who he is and what life

means and when you forget why you're

there and what life means then you're

stuck celebrating

death you say well Amry come on we're

not in a in a death culture are we we've

been in a death culture for about 500

years did you know that didn't start

with Trump or Biden or Trudeau or POV or

whoever your latest one

is it didn't

started in the 16th century when the

philosophers started to go around and

they decided that they were going to

figure out Humanity without god well

they paid lip service to God but they

were going to figure out

God and soon you see this in the

European culture that people started to

look sideways at God they they did

religious actions but they didn't really

care about God and the way they looked

at humans were

different and got to the point to the

19th century where a very smart by the

way and very messed up human being and

the smartest philosopher finally said

the

truth

death is

come and we have killed God as

philosophers and it's infecting our

culture do you know who that philosopher

would

be

nii listen to his word

this is Tim to his philosophical

people God is dead God remains dead and

we have killed him how shall we Comfort

ourselves the murderer of all

murderers what was Holiness and mess of

who what was holiest and mightiest of

all that the world has yet known has

bled to death under our knives who will

wipe his blood from us what water is

there for us to clean ourselves what

festival of atonement what sacred Games

Shall we have to

invent what he said is the truth that

the Western culture had abandoned God

and only gave it lip service and finally

nii said let's be honest and admit God

is dead and there was another guy with a

big beard named Carl marks and he said

amen

right agree with

that and thus became the rise of what we

call atheism

frankly and and out of this

world the world embraced to the God's

really irrelevant even people going to

church even theologians started to talk

as if he was a set of ideas a set of

morals not a living

God well there was another contemporary

of these

two

dovi a

Christian and he said if God is dead

everything is

allowed and he prophesied the 20th

century you see why do I say we're in a

culture of death because These Guys

these two philosophers nii and Mark's

influence they were both dead the 20th

century how well do you know who Adolf

Hitler have you heard his

name do you know who his favorite

philosopher was want to

guess

nii and he embraced with all of his

heart art Superman uberon he could go

and take over the world cuz it's all

about power and there is no

God but being no God then people weren't

made in the image of God so what did he

do with anybody he didn't

like if God is dead everything's allowed

do you

see and all the fascists killed 62

million people in the 20th century think

of that

and the other fun guy the bearded guy

the other guy who hated God he too sent

out his men and you know who his biggest

fan was there were

two

lenon and

Ma how did they do with their

people you see people no longer were

made in God's image and so again Fodor

dovi if God is everything is allowed and

they thought you think you Nazis have it

figured out with your 62 million we

did

115 Million

Dead you think we live in a culture of

death you see what's happened is the

philosophers laid in the 16th century

the truth that nii said we've killed God

and what's happened in our culture and

what you're seeing in your culture is a

culture of death that started years

before you came around and it hasn't

stopped how many people do you really

believe in your political leaders

believe human beings are made in God's

image there's probably

some but do you really believe that

that's the way the culture looks at

it I would argue to you our culture our

capitalist economic consumer culture is

just as bad

they value you as long as you have

value but if you don't have value or if

you step away from your

value well if God is dead everything is

allowed

so sometime if you're wondering if the

culture of dead lives go out to your

local friend and say what do you think

about The Unborn

if you want to see if that is not

hopping go ask them about

maid and who should get

it go ask

them about what we should do with those

who struggle or those who oppose

us go down to imperialist

America and ask him what we should do

with those who aren't our

friends we live in a death

cult we live live in a death cult that

does not believe people are made in

God's image so let me bring it back to

my friend at the

beginning he did a heinous

crime but I guarantee he grew up in the

same world I did we were not taught to

look at people as made in God's

image and so he was an

object and if God is

dead everything's

allowed you see the the problem we have

is the same problem the world always has

once God gets moved out people get

destroyed

right yes maybe okay um the tough crowd

today and this is predicted by Noah's

story do you see that it's predicted

what's going to

happen

H but what about us who know Jesus

I mean no one his brothers they didn't

have Jesus they didn't even have good

news really did they except oh boy we

didn't have to go for a

swim that was their good

news what about

us when you're sitting there and you're

taking a child as I did out of a home

out of the most brutal circumstances

what about us who hear these stories

about the resurrection and New Life

well we have to come to terms with

something

Christian we live in the not

yet whatever else you're going to do

whatever else Jesus resurrection did it

did not stop

evil evil was allowed to rain the neros

the the neros the the de I can't think

of their

names dation thank

you the

ulas they lived and they persecuted

didn't

they and yet generation after generation

has had Tyrant after Tyrant highlighted

by Hitler and Adolf Adolf Hitler

and Donald Trump no joking it's a joke

that was a joke that was a

joke that was a joke I'm really joking

okay oh I only because it's out there

right now and it's stupid

emry wisdom use

it but the reality is we do live in a

world of suffering of pain and dominance

don't we and we live in the not yet and

we look around it and here's the other

problem here's the worst problem for me

I look at myself and I'm going have I

changed anyone else been

there anybody else have one of those

days you're like I'm not sure that what

I believe I know how to do

right in many ways the Jesus

thing doesn't seem to have changed

much even Martin

Luther we are not yet well we what she

we shall be but we are growing towards

it the process is not yet finished so in

this world we ourselves are on a journey

let alone the people around us who deny

him so should we be surprised when we

see all of the death that's

celebrated

no

no now the good

news I left you

hanging

but something has

changed right you see there's something

that's changed and there's a reason

you're sitting

here CU something changed in you

because in Jesus Christ unlike the Noah

story where there really was no good

news in the end he definitely did

something this

time he brought New Creation he didn't

just recreate he didn't just reboot he

brought a whole new

program and he showed he was doing it

remember it his baptism and he's going

into those Waters

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water and he goes under those Waters

and he comes out and what comes down

from heaven the Holy Spirit like

a what does Noah let out of his

boat you don't think there's new

creation going on

here New Creation not Recreation New

Creations

come and what does he do he goes on and

he brings order and all of a sudden even

in his death in John's gospel he's

sitting there and what does Eve he calls

her

woman see when she sees Jesus he thinks

he's a what a gardener who's a gardener

in the creation

story you see it a new Adam what about

the thorns and thistles the curse on the

ground what happens at that cross what's

placed on his

head thorns and thistles oh my friends

the gospel I could sit here all day and

tell you again and again all the

symbolism but God beat

this he

destroyed

this in Jesus Christ and he took the

number one curse and he hung on the

cross and he said it is finished and

that's what he was talking

about that's what he was talking

about and my friends he didn't just

leave it there he did something crazy

that same spirit that came like a dove

that new creation it fell on us the

church

so we're not the same we're not just

Bound by the stuff that some days we

feel like we are we have been given the

Holy Spirit and what does Paul call us

in First Corinthians right after talking

about the spirit you all are

New

Creation he already has come as well and

we should celebrate that and we should

celebrate Ella cuz that's new creation

that's the Fulfillment of bearing fruit

this is all good stuff and the great

news is we have been changed we really

have we can't just live in the sadness

I've also been there with people who

have changed and watched their lives

change because the spirit has come and

taken that dead flesh and given them

life

amen aliser beg the outpour of the

spirit of God on the day of Pentecost is

the part is part of the saving work of

Christ it is the grand finale that he

will set forward his purpose and he for

his people until the time he returns we

have been given that we are not just

Bound by what

was but now we live in attention don't

we do you know why you feel so bummed on

those days where you're wondering am I

even a Christian do you know why because

non-christians aren't worried about

that you know why the holy

spirit because he wants to see you

become truly human to be the man you

were created to be the woman you were

created to be and that's good news when

you feel that conviction it's the

greatest gift God gives

you next time you think oh God doesn't

like me first of all he does and number

two I've been stupid that's his gift to

remind you of that

and you might not like

it I can't help but think of my father

my father was a a

uh uh I don't want to explain it a

Prince George

dad and so my dad didn't have a lot of

what you call touchy feely Progressive

ideology and he would come home and I

would do something stupid and he'd say

boy you're an

idiot straight up

because I

was and you know what he did though is

he loved me and he called me out on it

and you know what that was the best

thing ever I know I'm going to get

letters for this you you were abused I

wasn't

abused I had a dad who loved me and

wanted the best for me boy we need more

parents like that today and our father

comes in and we do suck sometimes and he

says

hey hello

cuz he loves

us the already is coming and then he

brings that peace and joy doesn't he if

you ever been

there where you're worshiping and then

you feel his

love we do have the

already and we live in tension but I got

a promise I have to end on the

best we

win Noah didn't know that Shem didn't

know that the other guy who I can't

can't remember his

name JP paath or something forget

it because in the end this is what

happens it's

guaranteed one day that garbage in us

that not yet in the world and in us will

be

gone one day we will be renewed and

resurrected we will be the creation he

meant to be

and yes up to that time we're going to

have to listen to people who say God is

dead and kill each other because of it

but I'm going to quote Carl Bart who

clapped back at them and I love this

clapping

back he said the statement that God Is

Dead comes from nii and has recently be

trumpeted abroad by some German and

American theologians but the good Lord

has not

died of

this he who dwells in the heavens laughs

at

them because we have a

resurrection so what about the

now well now we live with our eyes

focused focused on that day and we live

today in our Brokenness like that is

true and we wait for it with

longing and we become the most

optimistic realist there's ever

been realist cuz the world is what it is

but optimistic cuz the kingdom is

coming Austina hippo he who loves the

coming of the Lord is not he who affirms

that it is far

off nor is it he who says it is

near it is he who whether it be far or

near awaits it with sincere Faith

steadfast hope and fervent

love a started with a

murder here's the craziest part if he

had done that in the time of Noah there

was no hope and there was evil and he

would have been

killed but he did that post the

resurrection and here's the craziest

part that murderer could be

saved he could encounter the Living God

in Jesus Christ that's how good it is

and if he did even for the awful things

he did and he

did he could be like the rest of us and

looking for the kingdom that's

coming going to end with aliser beg the

return of Jesus is an absolute certainty

it is personal visible Cosmic and

glorious

live your life like that's

true live it like it's true when you've

had a terrible

day live it like it's true when you've

had a beautiful

day live it like it's

true in

confession live it like it's true in

praise and one day you will see

it and it's going to be better than

anything you could have

imagined and you will hear the those

words on that

day well done my good and faithful

servant let's

pray Heavenly Father we thank you that

you're faithful that you blessed Noah we

thank you that you have blessed

us we live in a world that's Dark Lord

but you have redeemed it remind us even

in the darkest times that you were King

of Kings people who are here that are

going through the darkness we ask you to

lift it to remind them that you've

already

won and that you have

overcome and remind us that the days are

short that you will

return help us to focus on that fill us

with your spirit so we may be New

Creations and light in this world

and make us a

people that when they walk by us our

neighbors our friends or strangers they

say these people have been with

Jesus amen