Bible Conference Day Sunday PM (Day 1)

Back with us tonight.

I know many of you know him, most of you know him again, president

of the Norris Baptist Bible Seminary, really evangelist out of

the Victor Baptist Church in Weatherford and appreciate him, appreciate

his friendship.

Come on, preach to us.

Amen.

I do remember your mother singing that song.

She could surely sing.

Genesis chapter six.

We're going to use our little travel guide now and I got a little

insert in there for you so you'll be able to go home and go

deeper that'll mean something to you.

In a minute we start talking about the flood waters.

You can go deeper in the study.

Okay?

Genesis chapter six.

We're going to climb a mountain.

We're going to camp out on the mountain and then we're going to

claim the mountain.

All right?

And there is a four letter word here, starts with R in, ends

with T, rhymes with best.

And it's a very big part of what's going on here.

We can't climb a mountain.

We can't get up and get a perspective, refreshed to go back

down the valley to minister.

If we let things hold us down, hold us back.

Alright.

And by the way, one of the great things about a mountain, it

gives you a perspective and life can get kind of mundane in the

plain and you need to get up there and see some things in a fresh

way.

The air is better up there, it's cleaner on and on.

And maybe sometime this week I'll have a chance to tell you about

Mount Sunflower in western Kansas.

Don't go to the Internet and ruin it.

Just stay off the Internet.

Don't go to the Internet and ruin it.

Let me tell you about Mount Sunflower later this week.

If I don't squeeze it in Wednesday, then I'll email you.

Okay?

But anyway, Genesis chapter six.

Look at your notes and we'll have a word of prayer.

If you're Noah, you have truly weathered the worst part of the worst

storm ever.

He said.

Well, how bad was it, Brother Stewart?

It was worldwide all at once.

Not that it was all smooth sailing from here on, but the severity

of the situation was lessening.

You have left behind a society that was self destructing before

your eyes and on the verge of absolute implosion.

Coming in, not out, but imploding, collapsing on itself.

God has stepped in and done so in such a way as to leave behind

a testimony for the ages to come.

Don't raise your hand, but how many have scars in your body because

of past challenges?

Okay.

I walked into a barbed wire fence one time, out hunting, had

Grass growing up in it.

Ripped my arm open.

Here I was in shop class one day and we were working with metal,

and that was that semester.

And I was trying to get a deeper gnarl into the plumb bob we

had fashioned.

And us guys were trying to get the deepest one.

We're cranking that wheel on that machine.

I had a really fine point, had it stuck in there, cranking that

thing down and it snapped and my arm went in there.

It ripped my arm open.

Had that round thing full of water in the shop, had lava soap

there.

All my buddies are sitting there watching me.

Not a tear in the eye yet.

I go over there and he takes that lava soap machine oils all over

my arm from the machine, scrubs it on there.

My friends are looking at me.

Not a tear in my eye yet.

It stings like crazy.

And I didn't get stitches.

We just kind of butterflied it back together.

I got scars all over my body.

My shins looked like I played the NFL.

I can tell you story after story.

God left behind scars and sores and sicknesses.

Physically, in this universe.

The flood was not just upon the earth, the flood waters were.

But when God got done with creation, Genesis 1:31, he said it

Genesis 1:31

was very good.

It's not very good anymore.

And let me just say something, because we've preached Bible prophecy

on the flood and six days, it takes a whole semester to maybe even

broach the subject.

But God left behind such evidence.

And if Noah's flood happened, it blows the doors out of evolution

because evolution has these concepts.

We started chaotic and we're evolving.

And I don't want to tell them we're going to ruin their party.

We're devolving, okay?

But God did something and we need to see it and we need to hear

it.

Here's the biggest thing I've learned studying the Bible through

the years.

I think the biggest thing that we do not do as Christians is we

don't sufficiently personalize it.

When I say something and you hear it and that's fine.

But when Jesus, let these sayings sink down into your ears,

having ears, do you hear?

Having eyes, do you see?

You need to make this Bible personal.

What I mean by that is what we're going to look at tonight is

in the Bible for you as much as anybody else.

You are not an accident on this planet.

It's not incidental.

It's not accidental.

It's even stronger than providential.

You are here for a reason.

Man was not made for the present.

Present was never Intended to satisfy man.

Man was made for eternity, eternity with God.

This story in the Bible's really happened and it's for you.

Let's pray.

Father, help us the next few minutes to make good use of the time

allotted us.

Thank you for this church.

Thank you for how I don't come here and change the flow or offer

anything new.

It's just right along with this church is about Bible preaching

and teaching.

And I pray the Spirit of God would help me to say what you want

me to say and leave out what you want me to leave out.

And we pray these things in Jesus name.

Amen.

So you're there in Genesis chapter six.

Sometimes somebody will say what kind of God would wipe the entire

world out with a worldwide flood.

Well, let's take a look at look at verse number five.

And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the

earth.

And that every imagination.

Remember I told you our thought life is before God.

Every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil

continually.

Notice this.

Every only continually.

Every only continually.

This is not a man talking, this is not merely a man writing.

This is God telling you every imagination of the thoughts of his

heart were only evil continually.

So what do you think was happening?

They were living out those thoughts.

It was horrible.

It got bad.

If you drop down to verse 11, you ought to read this whole chapter

later, but drop down to verse 11.

God continues to present this case to us.

The earth also was corrupt before God.

And the earth was filled with what?

Violence.

Not as violence here.

Excuse me, not as violence here and violence there.

The earth was filled with violence.

Look at the next verse.

And God looked upon the earth and behold, and behold, it was corrupt.

For all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.

By the way, that's how we get in trouble.

We go against God's way.

So we're looking at a horrible situation.

And here just to jump right in and make sure you get this.

If God had not stepped in, there would have been nobody left

after a while.

If violence has filled the earth, you read this whole chapter,

it's very clear.

If violence filled the earth and there's just widespread evil

besides murder, it be disease, all kinds of things.

It was self destructing and just to think ahead and we'll hit

this a little bit in a minute.

God waited until There was only eight people left.

He'd been warning for at least 300 years.

The name Methuselah was a warning.

When Enoch was a certain age, very young, 65 years old, young.

Well he's going to live to be 930.

That's pretty young.

Amen.

He's 65 years old.

He's told about something that's coming and it hits him so

hard, he names his son Methuselah, which means when he dies,

it's coming.

Don't you feel sorry for Methuselah?

Never took the training wheels off his bicycle.

Never could get up on a tree very high.

Never could play football.

I mean, the kid had to be overly protected.

Amen.

Don't do that.

Dad, can I have my driver's license?

No, no, no, no.

Pretty soon.

Pretty soon.

The year the flood came, Noah, Methuselah died.

Enoch was a prophet.

Methuselah, Noah's name has great meaning too.

God warned and warned and warned the world and he waited till

there was eight people left.

God was not sitting up there doing this.

God was waiting until it was absolutely.

You couldn't wait any longer.

You understand what I'm saying?

All right, now look at the next paragraph.

Soon you will have been in the ark over a year.

In chapter seven, he builds the ark.

God says, I want you to build this ark.

And boy, this is worth several sermons.

Noah's sons and his family, basically his daughter in laws.

Weren't they glad they married the boys they married?

I don't think their mothers were real happy at first.

But I'll tell you what, they married the right guys.

They got through the flood okay.

But anyway, he saved them literally from the flood waters.

When they got inside that ark, it saved them from the flood waters.

He also saved his sons from the society of that day because they

were busy in the work of God.

What's the obvious?

Stay in church, stay active, get involved, have a ministry.

Let this church pull on you harder than society pulls on you.

The lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh, the pride of life can

pull you out of church.

Stay busy in the work of God.

His kids were saved from a corrupt society and they actually

saw a gospel presentation.

That's astounding.

We see them as understanding the greater thing, the wrath of God.

The floodwaters picture the wrath of God as we're going to see.

So just get this picture going and just kind of use your imagination.

And this is what's really neat.

If you look at chapter seven, they build the ark and they get it

all finished.

But look what God says in verse one of chapter seven.

I'm sorry I'm not as congested as I sound, but I don't want to cough

in your face.

I had that fluid.

I'm over it.

I just have just some memories of it.

Okay, Verse one.

And the Lord said unto Noah, go into the ark.

Is that what it says?

No, if you knock on my door, I don't walk outside and go, oh, yeah,

yeah, yeah, go.

Go on in, go on in.

That's what you do with your dog or your cat.

Okay.

No, you say, come.

What's that imply?

I'm in here.

And just jump ahead to chapter 8, verse 16.

When the flood was over.

What did God say in verse 16 of chapter 8?

Come, come out here, Noah.

Is that what it says?

No, he says, go forth.

Now.

I'm not going to tell you.

Christ was an Old Testament appearance.

He did make several Old Testament appearances.

They're called Christophanes theophanies, where he actually appeared

many times throughout the Old Testament.

Who's walking in the Garden of Eden after Adam and Eve sinned?

Who brought Eve to Adam?

Who's talking?

Okay.

When he said he heard the voice of the Lord.

But at least it implies they're going to sense God's presence.

They weren't just in that ark for a year by themselves, so to speak.

God ministered to them in a special way.

So keep thinking along these things.

And look at verse.

Look at the third paragraph.

Excuse me.

For the ark to stop moving.

They had been in that ship and it had rocked and moved around for

over a year.

Think about it.

You're inside that ship.

How many have been to the ark up north in Kentucky.

Yeah, there you go inside that thing for a year.

And think of the effect when you got in there from that.

They had to be affected by society to some degree.

They said goodbye to loved ones.

That wouldn't be easy.

They get inside that thing and they're inside there.

And you know what?

It came to a rest.

It came to rest in chapter eight.

It came to rest atop of a mountain, on top of a mountain.

This is the first mountain mentioned in the Bible.

Now it's going to say mountains of Ararat.

And we're not 100% sure where it is, but it's very possibly in

eastern Turkey.

There's a Lesser Ararat and Greater Ararat, two big mountains.

Evolutionists will even tell you this, that the mountains we have

today are the result of catastrophic, catastrophic events.

Plates of the earth crashing up like this uplift or from volcanoes.

Well, at least knocking on the right door.

The flood caused the mountains.

The flood caused the Grand Canyon.

I've got a little insert in here with you.

Don't read it now.

Okay, but it overviews the flood event.

It has a timetable for you on the flood event.

It has a picture of me.

No, no.

Anyway.

And it talks about sicknesses, sores and scars.

Droughts, floods, blizzards, hail, lightning, tornadoes, hurricanes.

That's not good.

You didn't have that in the pre flood world.

Look over here.

Swords, geysers, volcanoes, earthquakes.

That's the place in the Earth that are cracked and they shift.

Meteorites, comets, asteroids.

Say what?

There was no craters on the moon before the flood.

Do you know the Earth, if you drained all the water off of it and

took all the sedimentation, it's covered with craters just like

the moon.

The ocean floor's got craters in it.

We have an asteroid built out there that's broken satellites or

planets or broken planets out there.

You get past Mars, it's out there.

God is telling us there's been a catastrophe.

Evolution takes that warning away.

If you go with the Bible, you realize that God has made a big statement.

It's the second most impressive, the most dramatic illustration

of his wrath.

You say Mount Sinai is number two.

I'd say Mount Sinai is number three.

Okay, stay with us.

Flip over in the back.

And this tells you how Noah's flood is affecting our world right

now.

When you get a chance, read it.

God intended this.

All God had to do was this.

You want to see it again?

Look at it again.

All God had to do was this.

And everybody would evaporate off the Earth.

They're gone.

God, did he not have to do this?

No.

God could have just spoke the word.

God could have thought the thought.

Everybody would have disappeared.

But he sent the worldwide flood for a reason.

It's all through the Bible.

And we Baptists and other people that think properly about

what's behind me, a Baptistry, are illustrating Noah's flood and

something else.

We're starting a new convert on a life of maturity and growth,

if we get the picture.

Okay, so flip your page over there and you know, you see there

at the top of the second page here.

Go ahead and put this blue sheet away.

You have any idea why this is in blue?

Yeah, water.

Thank you.

That guy's sharp.

That guy is sharp.

Okay.

All right, second panel at the very top of the page.

Anticipation coupled with gratification would certainly have

been part of the family's thinking.

In chapter seven, they build the ark.

They go inside the ark.

Here come the animals.

In chapter eight, they're going through the flood event.

Man, every verse here is just amazing.

But now it's starting to come to an end.

Inside that ship, they would have a lingering sense of sorrow

for the loss of the masses, the mass of humanity.

This had been no joy ride inside that ark, as depicted on many

a nursery wall.

You know, nursery walls sometimes have pictures.

Everybody's smiling, they're on board this ark.

Well, the whole world's wiped out.

I'm not making fun of anybody, but, I mean, sometimes we have lost

sight of the drama of Noah's flood in the ark.

By the way, cousin, we all came from Ham Sham or Japheth.

I talked to junior high when I was in school.

You know the story.

Some of these guys have heard 98% of my stories.

Sam Walker, you got a few more to go, so don't.

Don't.

I used to tell the boys, the kids, the girls in junior high department

at Worth Baptist Church way back In, I guess, 1980, somewhere

in there, previous century, I'd say, Ham, Sham and jam.

No, no, no, no, no.

I said, what?

Ham Sham and Japheth.

I said, no, no, no.

I said, what?

Ham, Shem and Japheth.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

We all go back to Noah.

We all go back to Adam.

There's only one race, the human race.

Evolution messes stuff up.

It's so goofy.

He said, why do we look so different?

Well, first of all, just common sense.

You want to come home to yourself.

I didn't want to go to.

Got to go to a wedding.

I look at myself.

Well, it's a female version of me.

Ooh, I'm glad I got that version right there.

She's not, but I am.

But anyway, no.

When the tower of Babel took place, families scattered and they

had to intermarry back time.

The genetics were such genetics stacked and God made all

kinds of potential in us.

We all go back to one blood.

Acts 17, verse 26.

Acts 17:26

Okay, just.

I'm throwing a lot of stuff at you.

I'm trying to pull this in.

All right, so they've been on this ark, and you know, when they

get on board that ark and God shuts the door, I mean, how could

you shut the door on the world?

I'm glad I'm not making the decision.

The Rapture.

I'm glad it's in God's hands.

In some ways, I'd love to get out of here, but there's too many

people I'm concerned about.

We got midterms to great.

No, but anyway, there's too many people I'm concerned about.

And whatever.

I'm glad because I couldn't shut the door.

And if God said to me, okay, it's up to you.

You say, when we're going to have the Rapture, I wouldn't want

to make that decision.

God shut the door.

And you know what they were inside of?

They were inside of a hope chest.

That really wasn't a boat that you went out in the water and the

guys water skied some.

No, no, no.

That water was hot.

There was lava coming up from underneath.

There was stuff coming down.

You say, where are you getting all that stuff?

Well, creation scientists show us these things by the record.

But number two, Psalm 18 and Psalm 104.

Don't turn there.

Do that when you get home.

It describes fiery stones coming out of the sky, meteorites.

Not just meteors.

Meteorites hitting the earth.

The Bible is an amazing book.

The flood references are all through it.

Okay, so it's a floating hope chest.

Look at chapter nine, verse one.

Chapter nine, verse one.

You go through what they went through.

And I think this is so significant.

We're gonna come back in a minute to a passage.

I'm just trying to get this big picture to you.

Look at chapter nine.

Look at verse one after the flood event.

And they're getting off of the ark, et cetera.

They're leaving the ark.

What's it saying?

God bless Noah, Chapter nine, verse one of Genesis.

God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, be fruitful and

multiply and replenish the earth.

Why would it say God blessed?

If you're on an airplane and that airplane goes down and several

of the people don't make it, so to speak, and you're one of the

few that make it, you have what we call post traumatic stress.

What if you changed seats with somebody so you could be with your

wife because your tickets were separate, or.

Or you changed places, you'd be with your child and you survived,

and you would not have had if you hadn't changed seats.

You can't go through something like this.

I'm not talking about the terror of the ark.

I don't think the ark was terrifying.

I think once they kind of got acclimated and so forth, and God

knows what he's doing.

If Noah's wife would have been named Lara Stewart, there would have

been more than two of each kind.

We would have had them in our house.

You know, you go to that ark up there, they got their own living

quarters.

We would have animals.

Can I get a couple more of these?

My wife, she loves animals.

But anyway, some of you ladies are like that too.

But Anyway, look what he says.

I think it's telling us these are human vessels.

And when you really see what they went through, they need to be

touched by God.

Amen.

You know what Noah did as soon as the flood was over?

He took seven sets of clean animals for food and for sacrifice.

He built a big altar and sacrificed unto the Lord.

A picture of the coming great sacrifice of Christ.

Are you kind of feeling what I'm saying?

If you've studied this, it's kind of like.

Yes, yes.

If you haven't studied this, your mind might be getting blown

right now because this is so amazing.

Second Peter 3 says that this is a warning that I've judged the

world by water once.

The next time it's going to be by fire.

It's astounding.

God warns.

Okay, now let's climb the mountain.

Look at your notes there.

Go back to chapter eight, verse one through five in your notes.

You can have your Bible open there.

And God remembered Noah.

The flood's been going on for over a year.

And also the Bible says, and God remembered Noah.

That didn't mean God went, oh, I forgot about Noah.

Where's Noah?

Noah remembered him in action.

Okay, I can tell my wife.

Honey, I remembered it was Valentine's Day.

She said, yeah, yeah.

Oh, good, yeah, she's waiting for a card.

Waiting for a certain kind of rose that she likes and so forth.

No, by giving her things and doing something, I'm showing her

that I remembered.

I said Valentine's Day, not anniversary.

No, that's coming up.

My wife and I, it was great marriage, but fireworks started the

next day.

Oh, we got married July 3rd.

But anyway, look at Genesis 8:1:5.

And God remembered Noah.

Not in the sense he'd forgotten about him, but in the sense

that he acted on his behalf in what immediately follows the stopping

of the flood.

Now, we're going to camp out here in a few moments.

This is really big.

Get ready.

If you say right now.

Brother Stewart, I know everything you've said so far.

Stay with me.

And every living thing and all cattle was with him in the ark.

And God made a wind to pass over the earth because of the great

variation in temperatures occurring in the earth.

Now, with no canopy moderating the temperature, the firmament formerly

over the earth, uniformly over the earth as it had been the pre

flood world.

Why they live to be 800 to 900 years old.

Because of a lot superior environment, a lot better.

The pre flood world was far better than what we're living in

right now.

Our lives have been shortened because we don't need ADOLF Hitler's

living five and 600 years.

And by the way, during the millennial kingdom, during the millennial

kingdom, if the rapture happens today, I don't know when

the Rapture's going to happen, but if it happened today, seven years

from now, Christ is going to rule the world out of Jerusalem and

it's going to be like it was in the pre flood world.

If somebody dies at the age of 100, it'll be like a child dying.

There'll be no more disease.

If somebody dies, it'll be basically an accident.

We could be seven years away from that.

He doesn't totally lift the curse, but he lifts it largely and

he's ruling the world for a thousand years.

And you know what happens in the thousand years?

There's still a group that rebels against him.

God is showing us the problem is not society.

The problem's not outward.

The problem's the heart.

We're fallen.

We have a self centered heart.

If you give vent to that, you get uglier and uglier and uglier

in what you do.

Christians can be kind of ugly at times.

Why?

They still have that old nature.

Thank God, when you die and go to heaven, the rapture, that old

nature is gone.

The Bible says in Second Peter talking about this heaven wherein

dwelleth righteousness, as waterfall as the millennial kingdom

is, it's still not heaven on earth.

Okay, and folks, we'll talk about this Wednesday night.

Things are shaping up like they never had before.

You say Brother Stuart, you say that every year.

Yeah, but we're a year closer than last year, man.

If you can't see what's happening, they said the other day

they think about naming Gaza, Judea and Samaria.

Don't read Ezekiel 37, you'll be up all night.

Brother Gidney back there.

Okay, all right.

Anyway, keep going here.

And he acted on his behalf.

And what immediately follows, they stopping.

And look what it says here.

Come down to.

Excuse me.

Verse 3.

Beyond this, God especially sent a wind to accelerate the process.

Now when you read these psalms, I told you Psalm 18, 104

other passages.

What happened all of a sudden is the ocean floors dropped.

God created the deep oceans and he caused an uplift.

The mountains came up.

There were rolling hills in the pre flood world.

But because of the flood event, you have these mountains now

and then you have the ocean floors drop and that's when the water

with the wind begin to drain off and the ark finally stops and

it settles in as we're going to talk about in a minute.

And look what it says here.

Five words.

Now if you don't have your bible open, make sure you see what

I got down here on the notes here.

I got five words circled in blue.

This is a really big deal.

If you'll get this, it'll be foundational to the point I want

to make tonight.

You say, what's your outline tonight?

Climbing the mountain, camping out of the mountain and claiming

the mountain.

That's my outline.

Okay.

Alright.

So here you go.

If you read chapter eight.

And God remembered Noah, verse one and every living thing.

And all the cattle that was with him in the ark.

And God made a wind to pass over the earth and the waters.

What assuaged.

Now that's not that old of a word.

You actually see it more than you realize.

Once you realize, once you see it, it's sometimes spelled with a

U instead of a W.

Okay.

And I can give you instances.

I got a sheet where it's actually being used in different

places today.

But the word's very special.

Your King James Bible is the only one that has it.

The other ones use a different word and they blow it when they do

it.

Now you do know if you come out with a new translation, it can't

read the same as the King James.

You have to change words.

And you do know they're using different copies of the Bible.

That's one of the reasons why it translates different in some places

because it doesn't read the same.

We believe the manuscripts by the King James Old New Testament

are the right ones for a lot of reasons.

Number one, we have almost 6,000 of them.

They have around 50 or and it's pieces, et cetera.

So I don't want to chase that rabbit with horns, but I'm just with

antlers.

But anyway, this word assuaged.

The reason you have five different words here.

Look at your notes here.

Just for a minute.

Assuaged, stopped, restrained, returned.

And down at the bottom of that paragraph abated.

God uses five different words.

The reason your translators use five different words, because

there are five different Hebrew words.

God's got a big nail here and you can't drive it with just one

3 pound hammer hit.

You couldn't drive if you had one 10 pound sledge.

God hits this nail five times and leaves the dead to make sure

we got it.

What's he talking about?

The flood waters?

Picture his wrath.

That's important.

You want to understand water baptism.

If you don't know that they picture his wrath, that's what we

need to be saved from is his wrath.

It's the wrath of God that we need to be saved from.

Whatever Christ was suffering on the cross, that's what we need

to be saved from.

He wasn't suffering from a bad marriage.

He wasn't suffering from financial ruin.

He wasn't suffering from some terrible phone call from the doctor.

He was suffering something far worse.

The wrath of God for sins.

And thank God he took it all.

Only God could take all of God's wrath.

By the way, I'll give you another proof that we're not animals.

The Bible says the blood of bulls and goats cannot take away

sin.

See, we're not animals.

It had to be a man to die for man.

In fact, it had to be a son of Adam without sin.

Virgin birth.

Virgin conception.

Wow, what a book.

Alright, now look at this assuage.

What's the big deal about the word assuage?

It has a synonym.

A synonym means a word that means the same or very close to it.

This one means the same.

The word there means propitiation.

Say.

Oh yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, Propitiation, yeah.

We named one of our kids propitiation.

It's a wonderful word.

It's in First John and it's in Romans.

If it's in Romans, you better know.

Okay, it's in Romans and it's in First John.

Okay, for the sake of time.

Okay, we won't turn there.

But it says that Jesus Christ is the propitiation.

Not for our sins only, but for the sins of the whole world.

By the way, it was a worldwide flood, you say?

Well, I understood that it was maybe local.

Why would you build an ark?

Why would you have all the animals come?

And where's all this evidence come from if it was local?

Well, the Black Sea over there, you know, over there underneath

Russia.

No, that's not the Black Sea.

It was a worldwide flood.

You go around Dr.

Ball down there, these other scientists, you have the same limestone

bed going all the way across.

The white cliffs of Dover are part of what we have out here called

dinosaur highway.

This limestone out here, boy, we can talk about that for a while.

I told you I'd like to come back in one of my nine lives.

I'd like to come back as a.

I'd like to really come back as a flood geologist.

But anyway, let's move on.

Okay?

The word propitiation means that God has been propitious, propitiated.

Now, I know I've used this before and I've tried to use Other

illustrations, they just have the same punch.

Stop.

That's a clock.

Here.

They just don't have the same punch.

Brother Crawford gets a brand new, beautiful.

Don't say anything.

I know.

They have an exhaust manifold leak.

Don't say anything.

Gets a brand new ram pickup truck.

Just like what Abraham drove after Mount Moriah.

Some of you will get that later.

Okay?

Remember the ram?

Caught in the thickets by his horns.

He killed it instead of his son.

Okay.

Boy, that's a mountain.

I saw it was preached on Wednesday night.

So I just said, I'll stay away from it, okay?

I'll give you the handout, whatever.

But, hey, a brand new Ram pickup truck.

He says, brother Stewart comes out to school to preach in chapel.

I said, yeah, boy.

Where's.

How y'all.

Brother Stuart take it for a spin.

When I come back 30 minutes later, it's on its rims, the windshield's

busted out, it's dented up.

I mean, it sounds like it's got more than a manifold exhaust.

Tick, tick, tick, tick sound.

I mean, it's like what I said.

He said, what have you done to my truck?

He's mad, he's hurt, he's chagrined, he's scared.

That guy's crazy.

What have you done?

I said, what's your problem?

Don't you have insurance?

Yeah, they'll fix it.

And insurance would either fix it or replace it.

But what about how he feels towards me?

I've offended him.

Amen.

I've offended him.

Sin is not just an offense to God, as we talked about this morning,

because we violated the God of the universe.

You know, he's in charge.

How far did you get when you violated your dad growing up?

I didn't get any.

I lost ground, okay?

I didn't get anywhere.

This is our Father.

This is God.

But you know what I told you this morning?

When we sin, we're not just breaking God's law, we're going against

his nature.

We're rubbing God the wrong way.

Amen.

Well, guess what?

When the flood was over, which pictured the wrath of God for the

sins of the world, God had exhausted.

He had poured out.

By way of picture, he had flooded the whole Earth.

And you say, why did it affect the whole universe, folks?

The first three days, all there was was the Earth.

Read Genesis.

The first three days, all there was was the Earth.

He didn't make the sun, moon and stars and planets, etc.

Until the fourth day, when he made the sun and the moon.

He didn't say there's the sun.

There's the moon.

He said the greater light to rule today.

The.

The lesser light to rule the night.

They were made for the earth.

He's describing the sun.

The greater light to rule the day.

He's describing the sun and the moon being made for the earth.

We're it.

He created the earth to be inhabited.

We're it.

This is it.

All the universe is for us.

Well, that's another one we could chase.

You know, Genesis is a pretty amazing book if we just get it and

read it.

He started with one man.

What does that tell you?

If God set the precedent making one man, and from that one

man making a woman, why did he take the woman and make it from the

man?

Because if she comes out of Adam, then she can get saved.

Because Adam, Eve was deceived.

Her eyes weren't open until Adam ate.

Read it.

Go to Timothy.

Paul tells.

Tells you that tells Timothy that Eve was deceived, but Adam knew

what he was doing.

By one man sent into the world, not by one couple.

When he ate, he doomed us all.

Why?

So one person gets out of this mess.

If God would have made 10 Adams, we need 10 Saviors.

What are we going to do with God?

God can't become God, woman.

He's masculine.

The Bible makes sense.

It's consistent.

You couldn't come up with a better plan.

That's why Luke's genealogy goes all the way back to Adam to

make sure you get it.

Matthew to Abraham.

Because he's got to be a Jew, he's got to be in the Davidic royal

line, etc.

God was completely satisfied.

His wrath had been exhausted.

Are the young ones.

There's young kids in here, aren't there?

I was going to tell you I exhausted my dad's wrath so I wouldn't

get a spanking.

But I'm not going to go there because we don't want to have parenting

problems.

Early in the ministry, I would tell these stories.

You know, you're preaching four or five times a week and you

know you're just getting started.

You're starting a church, you're preaching four or five times

a week.

You can't keep buying illustrations out of books.

You got to come up with your own illustrations.

I started telling stories from my childhood.

One of these days the mothers come up and said, preacher.

I said, what?

They said, stop telling these stories from your childhood.

I said, why?

Because our kids are going out and doing them.

I said, duh.

So I have to be careful when I tell those stories.

This word Assuage is so big.

God was saying, I'm satisfied I've been propitiated.

Now expiations take care of the damage.

The insurance would fix the truck and replace it.

But who's going to restore goodwill between me and him?

That word's important.

You miss the Christmas story in Luke 2 if you miss that word,

goodwill.

When the angel said goodwill toward man, it meant vertically.

Christ is the peace offering.

He's a reconciler.

It's not peace among good men with whom God is pleased, like these

new translations.

It's goodwill from God.

Jesus is the peace offering and it restores goodwill.

It's just as if I'd never sinned.

I'm Kim out here for just a second.

This is where we got to get to.

Okay?

We have some baggage in our life from our past.

We've all said things we shouldn't have said.

We've all done things we shouldn't have done.

We've all whatever and so forth.

And let me tell you something.

It's not just what you've done.

It's what you haven't done.

I was here with Brother Stone growing up.

I was saved at the age of 11, and I became very convicted at the

age of 19, 18 and 19 that I had not been the witness I should

have been.

I didn't get involved in a lot of stuff young people got involved

in back then, but I wasn't the witness.

Should have been.

I had a lot of light.

I could have led a lot of people to Christ in junior high and

high school.

And God's going to hold us accountable for the light that we

had we didn't use.

So I got a lot I could be hung up on.

But you know what?

God can turn that to a good motivation.

I decided I didn't like to get in front of people and talk.

I'm shy.

I'm introverted.

I'm very reserved.

I.

I don't like to make funny faces or do goofy things unless you're

out at school.

I'm trying to keep you awake.

When I got called to preach, God unloosed my tongue.

I threw clocks out.

But anyway, so what I'm saying to you is this.

This is so important.

You're not going to climb a mountain to higher level if you let

your past pull you down.

It's amazing.

It's amazing.

We're going to see a word here in a little bit.

But God said, when that ark stopped, God made a statement.

And in the book of Hebrews, it talks about how we have to labor

to enter into that rest.

The ark is such a picture.

Okay, now watch this.

Look down here as quickly get these.

So that word assuage is extremely important.

Look that up.

The word also stopped, restrained, returned, abated five

times.

God said, it's over, it's over, it's over, it's over.

What did Christ say just before he died?

It is finished.

And the only reason he stayed in the grave for three days and three

nights was to make sure you knew he was dead.

Because we can't prove the resurrection in if he's not dead.

He could have died and three minutes later came back.

But he stayed dead for three days and three nights.

Committed your sins to the grave, et cetera.

Left the grave closed behind.

He left the grave close behind.

He left the grave closed behind.

He left the grave closed behind.

To show you that your past is in the grave.

When we get to heaven, God's not going to have a chip on his shoulder.

All right, come in.

I'll look at you in a minute.

Just hold on.

Boy, you were something else on earth, buddy.

Get in here.

I'll think about it later.

No.

There's rejoicing in heaven over one sinner that repenteth.

By the way, the Old Testament saints weren't there yet.

And it says among the angels.

I think it's a triune God rejoicing who ran out to meet their

prodigal son.

Who was Jesus talking about?

Our Heavenly Father.

You want to make God excited?

Get somebody saved.

How many times God's been excited about this church?

You know how many people are getting saved through your missions

program?

Amen.

Guys, we're not one of God's hobbies.

This is what God's doing.

Amen.

And you're part of it.

We have embraced with God.

Now let's skim through.

Let me get to something I want to get to real quick.

It says in verse four.

Look at it.

Chapter number eight.

Go back to chapter eight.

I had to get those words in there.

Look at verse four.

And the ark.

What rested there is a rest in Jesus Christ by nature.

We are performance based acceptance in our thinking.

We're raised that way to some degree for different reasons because

our parents caught that.

Caught that.

It goes all the way back.

What did Adam and Eve do after they sinned?

They hid in the trees, they covered themselves with fig leaves,

etc.

Why did Cain offer up the sacrifice trying to work his way

into salvation?

Religion is us trying to work our way into acceptance.

Christianity is not a religion.

It's not a Religion, It's a relationship.

They were in fellowship with God until they sinned.

And the word death is separation.

They died spiritually, they died relationally.

At that moment, they lost fellowship with God.

How much does this piano cost?

Listen to the difference.

Pretty good, huh?

This is what Adam and Eve sound like in the Garden of Eden

after they sinned.

We're out of fellowship with God.

We've got a fallen nature.

We're not descending.

We're separated.

Now God restores that you go from Brr.

Mmm.

We're in complete harmony with God.

Why?

Because we're in Christ.

Noah went through the flood.

Noah went through the wrath of God.

Everybody in that day went through the wrath.

Everybody went through the flood.

Everybody.

Everybody went through the flood.

Outside the ark or in the ark, who was better off?

Those inside the ark.

Amen.

Everybody's going to go through the wrath of God.

Either outside of Christ or in Christ.

Aren't you glad tonight you're in Christ?

You see, when you got saved, Christ's life and his death, his

burial, resurrection was applied to you.

And sometimes we need to forgive ourself the way God's forgiven

us.

Amen.

We finally come to the point where we realize you can't earn salvation.

But then we try to earn God's favor.

I'm going to.

I gotta tithe because I feel I didn't put.

You know, I feel bad because I didn't tithe.

God loves you whether you tithe or not.

Should you tithe?

Absolutely.

But not because you want God to smile on you.

We're co laborers with God.

This is our work.

This is our work.

We found out when God was doing.

We said, God, can I get on board?

God says, get on board.

Let's go.

Amen.

What's the work?

Reaching people, getting them saved, discipling them, etc.

Yes.

All right, so keep flowing here.

I.

I've got to hurry.

These things are flying.

You know what Henry Morris says?

Henry Morris says, when the ark rested, notice the date.

If you take their secular calendar the Jews had back then,

and you bring in the religious calendar that God gave later under

Moses.

Henry Morris and others tell you that was the same day that Christ

resurrected from the dead.

What's the resurrection prove?

God has been appeased.

He's been assuaged.

He's been satisfied.

The wrath is gone.

You know what Romans 8 says?

He spared not his own son.

He that hath a son hath life.

He that hath not the son of God hath not life, but the wrath

of God.

Abideth on him.

Ephesians and Colossians tell us, if you do these certain sins,

the wrath of God's on us.

You know what Jesus took on the cross, all the wrath of God.

He wasn't just showing us how ugly sin was.

And it does that.

He wasn't just showing us how much God loves us.

If that's all he's doing, we can't get saved.

He had to be the greater ark.

He had to go through the wrath of God.

Now, let me give you a thought just for a second.

Go buy Cracker Barrel.

Brother Reed in here.

Your father in here.

He's outside.

Go buy Cracker Barrel on the way home tonight or tomorrow.

And get a pack of clove gum.

I want you to have something to chew on.

Say, why clove gum?

It was probably one of the five ingredients.

Incense that they used in the tabernacle, the incense they burned.

Probably stacty.

Probably the little nails, what it means, probably cloves.

You need to meditate.

Chew on this.

It's just as if I'd never sinned.

Christ did it all.

And it says, he came to arrest.

He came to arrest.

Christ is completely satisfied.

God's satisfied.

The Father's satisfied.

You don't have to perform.

I tithe because I want to.

It's my work.

God gave me everything.

People say, well, the tithe's not for now.

You know, the Bible says, David said, we give God but his own.

We can't give God anything he didn't give us first.

If God didn't require 10%, you couldn't give an offering.

It's all God's.

I have nothing that God didn't give me first.

Amen.

So when I am required to give 10% anything, I give over, that's

an offering.

See how it works?

A lot of silly stuff.

Now, as we wrap this up real quick, go to Psalm 69.

Now, I'm gonna dwell on this more.

I just wanted to get the can opened up.

All right, you got the notes here.

It'd be helpful if you go read these when you get home.

And you go back on the backside here.

There's some great stuff.

I'm gonna bring two things together real quick, okay?

Don't turn there because of time.

But Psalm 69.

Boy, the Psalms are amazing.

In Psalm 69, it's called a Messianic psalm.

Brother, thanks for singing that song tonight.

Psalm 69, it's messianic.

It's quoted several times in the New Testament, several places.

It has Christ drowning on the cross.

Waters are coming to my soul.

Read it.

I sink in deep mire.

It's very definitely messianic.

It has Christ dying in our place.

Read it.

It's amazing.

What he's telling you is Noah's flood was a picture of what

I was going through.

Now think about what happened on that cross for six hours.

If we're gonna take those six hours, the first three hours of focus

is on physical suffering.

Christ, at high noon, it gets pitch black.

It wasn't an eclipse, it wasn't a dust storm.

From noon to 3:00, it's dark.

My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

Read Psalm 22.

It goes along with Psalm 69.

Wow.

He's drowning under the wrath of God in the Bible.

Water, okay.

Fire, famine and flood.

Picture God's wrath.

Christ is famine.

Psalm 22.

Flood waters.

Okay.

Fire.

And he's put in an oven.

In Malachi, in Leviticus, chapter two, they had an offering,

peace offering.

You put it in the oven, you cook it, fry it, burn it.

The Bible says the earth's going to be filled like the earth's

going to be like an oven.

When God pours out his wrath on the cross, it's as though he's

drowning in the wrath of God for us.

Now, let me tell you something.

This is what I want to leave you with tonight.

That Baptistery, that city water.

Yeah.

You know what I wish we could do, Brother Stewart?

I wish we could get water from the Jordan river and bring it over

here.

When I was over there, I got some water out of the Jordan River.

I still haven't a bottle.

I got some water out of the Dead Sea.

It's still dead.

Okay, I brought water back.

It's great.

Okay.

But you know what?

That's not the same water that was there when John the Baptist and

Christ was.

They were baptized with the apostles.

This thing called a hydrological cycle.

You may have drinking some Georgian water, we don't know.

By the way, there's no new water.

All water's pre flood water.

You ever had pre flood water?

All water you drink.

God's not making any new water.

All the water you drink is pre flood water like that.

We have pre flood water out of the school, okay?

Some of these guys would drink it.

It's called the Fountain of youth.

Okay?

The Baptistery waters do not picture a washing and they do not

wash.

If the Baptistry washed away your sins, Christ had never gotten

baptized.

If they pictured to wash away your sins, Christ never got baptized.

John said, I came Baptized to make it manifest.

Now, now we can't have.

I can't come up here.

Pastor.

Preach for 30 minutes on the wrath of God.

But you need to learn.

When that new convert's in that water, it's just as though he's

in Noah's ark.

He goes through the flood and then he comes out on the ark.

They walked out the ark on new ground.

Buried in the likeness of his death.

Left handed.

Oh, excuse me.

Buried in the likeness of his death.

I leave them under.

There are a couple of big sets, no buried likes of his death.

Raised in the likeness of his resurrection and walk a newness of

life.

Romans chapter six says, it's just as though you were on the cross.

It's just as though you were in the tomb.

And it's just as though you rose from the dead.

If they would have nailed you to the cross.

When Christ was on the cross and he died, you died.

When they put Christ in the tomb, they put a board between you

and wrapped you up.

And you laid there with him for three days and three nights.

And when he rose from the dead, you rose from the dead.

You'd be no more saved than you are now.

Because he didn't do it for himself.

He did it for us.

The ark.

This is where you get this.

Brother Stuart.

First Peter 3:18 through 22 says that Noah's flood and water

1 Peter 3:18–22

baptism are like figures.

The water in the baptistry picture the wrath of God.

That's why I look the way I look.

I've been through the wrath of God.

Amen.

Does that make sense?

So that new converts, he said, okay, now what do you do?

New convert.

The new convert begins to learn what it is to be fully accepted.

Guilt all gone, forgiven.

When I sin, God doesn't say, okay, get out of here.

He draws me back to himself.

I get to where I don't want to sin.

I want to live.

I grow.

I walk in newness of life.

I have a new nature.

So if we're going to climb that mountain and we're going to

get up there, you need to camp out on it and you need to meditate.

And we're going this further.

The mountains I've picked are taking us step by step.

Because you see, in a sense we're already in heaven.

We're already in Mount Zion.

We'll see that.

I think tomorrow night.

We're already.

We're already in heaven legally.

And we need to live like it.

Amen.

We've been fully accepted.

If we're saved.

I got a few more things to say.

But you'll have to come back, Pastor.