WEBVTT 1 00:00:04.200 --> 00:00:20.679 The sain't no on to Mary was this sain't no every the count a serf 2 00:00:20.839 --> 00:00:30.600 is queen, he ought, So I'm gonna give him mother hell be diable, 3 00:00:32.799 --> 00:00:42.640 come on herms here He sain't no. The sain't no hard to hear 4 00:00:44.840 --> 00:00:57.200 no no, the countless queen. So I'm gonna give him out a hand. 5 00:00:57.560 --> 00:01:07.359 I'm gonna get it on an. Let me tell the story. Ud. 6 00:01:07.400 --> 00:01:15.280 A woman went and this shoe and it's well blown years. It didn't 7 00:01:15.319 --> 00:01:27.280 go to do She heard a kind of man coming through her side. She 8 00:01:27.560 --> 00:01:36.640 fell to a knees and crawled on the crowd. This is what she said, 9 00:01:36.719 --> 00:01:44.040 y'all. She said, get fucking on the given. I'm gonna give 10 00:01:44.120 --> 00:01:51.719 it on my hand. Come on, help me see ya. This ain't 11 00:01:51.840 --> 00:02:00.760 no know where, I ain't nowhere, I ain't no way. Yeah, 12 00:02:05.040 --> 00:02:14.800 I say this brain, So I'm giving on the hell and giving it on 13 00:02:21.360 --> 00:02:30.800 BLA. Tell u star about a man for calling me. He healed. 14 00:02:30.879 --> 00:02:40.639 The lame caused the plan to see the span. You want the tree because 15 00:02:40.719 --> 00:02:49.800 it comes for you and me. The Span only wanted to make us three 16 00:02:50.479 --> 00:03:00.400 only Yes he did listen, y'all, but it three dies and heroes sweet 17 00:03:01.879 --> 00:03:15.520 Yeah, three does he roll? Sweet? Three days he roll? Swell 18 00:03:16.120 --> 00:03:30.599 yeah, I'm giving a life. I'm give this. Come on, Ela, 19 00:03:30.120 --> 00:03:32.719 come on, clack, come on, quack, Come on quack, 20 00:03:32.800 --> 00:04:30.480 come on play. Somebody said play Alsa lay m one, but some the 21 00:04:30.680 --> 00:04:45.920 same. No one to hear the same, No one to the song the 22 00:04:46.199 --> 00:05:13.759 Donna sis where. So I'm gonna get them on. I'm gonna ge and 23 00:05:14.040 --> 00:05:19.480 we rejoice, and we are glad in it. We are we are excited 24 00:05:19.519 --> 00:05:25.160 about what the Lord is doing in our lives, and we are just excited 25 00:05:25.519 --> 00:05:30.279 at the opportunity to share the gospel one more time. The season is changing 26 00:05:30.480 --> 00:05:35.079 and things are going well in our lives, and I just want us to 27 00:05:35.120 --> 00:05:40.160 go to the Lord and prayer. And we're going to pray that the Lord 28 00:05:40.199 --> 00:05:43.040 would not just bless our church and our ministry, but that the Lord would 29 00:05:43.079 --> 00:05:46.040 continue to put his hand a favor upon you and your family. Lord, 30 00:05:46.079 --> 00:05:49.319 I thank you, thank you for your righteousness. I thank you for your 31 00:05:49.399 --> 00:05:51.439 love. I thank you for your mercy. I thank you for your grace. 32 00:05:53.000 --> 00:05:56.480 Thank you for the foundation that you've placed inside of us that we might 33 00:05:56.519 --> 00:06:00.639 be able to share your word of liberation. The investage hope it's next few 34 00:06:00.720 --> 00:06:04.839 moments. We pray that you would have your way, that you would get 35 00:06:04.839 --> 00:06:08.879 the glory out of all that we say, and that your word will not 36 00:06:09.000 --> 00:06:15.959 come back to you void. We trust in you. We honor you soundly, 37 00:06:16.000 --> 00:06:20.800 alarmed that the righteousness of God is true. And even in this time 38 00:06:20.839 --> 00:06:25.279 when it seems as if the devil is winning, we know that the victory 39 00:06:25.319 --> 00:06:29.600 belongs to your Church and Jesus name, our prayer and God and a man. 40 00:06:30.160 --> 00:06:36.560 We're gonna look at Genesis, going back to Genesis chapter six. Genesis 41 00:06:36.680 --> 00:06:41.279 chapter six, beginning at the fifth verse. This is going to give us 42 00:06:41.319 --> 00:06:47.160 some foundational stuff as we go into our New Testament and we start to work 43 00:06:47.199 --> 00:06:56.000 on our testimonies, our personal testimonies. So Genesis chapter six, beginning at 44 00:06:56.000 --> 00:06:59.560 the fifth verse. And God saw the wickedness of man was great in the 45 00:06:59.639 --> 00:07:05.319 earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil 46 00:07:05.480 --> 00:07:12.240 continually. And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, 47 00:07:12.639 --> 00:07:16.040 and it grieved him at his heart. And the Lord said, I 48 00:07:16.120 --> 00:07:20.199 will destroy a man whom I created from the face of the earth, both 49 00:07:20.319 --> 00:07:27.000 man and beasts and creeping things and foules of the air, for it repented 50 00:07:27.079 --> 00:07:32.920 me that I made them, but Noah found grace in the eyes of the 51 00:07:33.079 --> 00:07:40.279 Lord. Why Noah. If I was to take up text, it would 52 00:07:40.279 --> 00:07:46.839 be why I mean title, it would be why and why Noah. The 53 00:07:46.959 --> 00:07:55.160 Bible is interesting in the fact that we are always looking for those who are 54 00:07:56.800 --> 00:08:05.240 opponents against the obscriptures of the Bible. We're always looking for a reason to 55 00:08:05.759 --> 00:08:11.800 say that the content of Bible or the Bible message is contradictory and or false. 56 00:08:13.000 --> 00:08:20.000 False because of when we remove the narrative that the Bible is an errant 57 00:08:20.120 --> 00:08:28.800 or infallible, then we can mirror it with any other self help book. 58 00:08:28.759 --> 00:08:39.519 But to the Christian, the Bible is in eric. The Bible is is 59 00:08:39.600 --> 00:08:43.759 not just a self help book. It actually shows us how God relates to 60 00:08:45.000 --> 00:08:52.879 humanity through his sovereignty. We can't remove his sovereignty and how He relates to 61 00:08:52.120 --> 00:09:00.759 humanity through his sovereignty, and how he redeems us from the fall through Adam, 62 00:09:00.840 --> 00:09:05.480 one man Adam felt. So we look at Adam and the whole narrative 63 00:09:05.919 --> 00:09:13.240 of creation. Some would argue that that narrative of creation is not biblical. 64 00:09:13.320 --> 00:09:16.919 One I mean, it's not how the world was made. But the Christian 65 00:09:16.399 --> 00:09:20.960 narrative of creation is that this is how it was made, so we believe 66 00:09:20.080 --> 00:09:26.440 this. So these arguments are in silos because of what we believe, because 67 00:09:26.480 --> 00:09:28.360 of what we feel, because of our faith. And when when it comes 68 00:09:28.399 --> 00:09:33.039 to faith, you cannot tell a person what or what not to believe, 69 00:09:33.279 --> 00:09:39.559 or how to believe, or when to believe. They just believe. Some 70 00:09:39.679 --> 00:09:45.559 people believe blindly. We look at in our politics today, people just really 71 00:09:45.639 --> 00:09:50.159 believe in one party over the other, regardless if that that party because of 72 00:09:50.240 --> 00:09:54.720 their faith, regardless if that party has their best interests at heart, regardless 73 00:09:54.759 --> 00:10:01.440 of how they what the news might bring. They just believe. So we 74 00:10:01.559 --> 00:10:05.879 can't get to try to get people to not believe once they believe. And 75 00:10:07.000 --> 00:10:11.039 that's the problem. We want people to either believe or not believe. There's 76 00:10:11.080 --> 00:10:20.320 no middle ground, there's no there's no shades as either black or his whiteness, 77 00:10:20.480 --> 00:10:22.759 our way or ways not our way, and we kill you. We 78 00:10:22.919 --> 00:10:28.960 have seen many people do stuff in the name of Christianity. We've seen many 79 00:10:28.000 --> 00:10:33.759 people do stuff in the name of religion because others did not believe, they 80 00:10:33.799 --> 00:10:41.279 didn't believe cut them off. And so we give what we believe a bad 81 00:10:41.440 --> 00:10:46.120 name because we're trying to make people believe what we believe. When they don't 82 00:10:46.159 --> 00:10:50.039 believe, we get angry and we get upset and we start to get volatile. 83 00:10:52.360 --> 00:10:58.600 That's not what God had intended for a man. So he uses in 84 00:11:01.000 --> 00:11:09.000 He uses in the Bible language that seems to contradict some of the things that 85 00:11:09.120 --> 00:11:16.639 we know and or believe about him. He uses language like in our text, 86 00:11:18.360 --> 00:11:30.240 and it repented God. We have been telling you that God is all 87 00:11:30.440 --> 00:11:37.639 knowing. We have been telling you that God sees all, he knows the 88 00:11:37.879 --> 00:11:43.399 end before the beginning. But when you open up the scripture, the scripture 89 00:11:43.519 --> 00:11:52.200 uses language that contradicts what we have been telling you. So you feel as 90 00:11:52.279 --> 00:11:58.960 if you can't understand scripture on your own. Because the man behind the death 91 00:12:00.919 --> 00:12:07.240 said one thing, and the scriptures reveal something different. Verse six. And 92 00:12:07.399 --> 00:12:13.360 it repented the Lord that he made man on earth, and it grieved him 93 00:12:15.159 --> 00:12:20.879 at his heart. So we look at this language, and we look at 94 00:12:20.960 --> 00:12:28.639 these terms, and we start to identify or we start to measure God to 95 00:12:28.840 --> 00:12:41.720 how we feel, to how we grieve, to what it means for us 96 00:12:41.799 --> 00:12:50.000 to repent. We level him with humanity. So instead of him being creator 97 00:12:50.279 --> 00:12:58.879 and sovereign over his creation, we bring him down to us. The slang, 98 00:13:00.080 --> 00:13:09.080 which is what theologians call anthropomorphic, it's words that we can wrap our 99 00:13:09.159 --> 00:13:18.840 mind around to help us understand how God was feeling within the moment. It 100 00:13:20.039 --> 00:13:35.399 doesn't necessarily reflect who God is. We can't understand why he would make such 101 00:13:35.480 --> 00:13:46.320 actions without first identifying the fact that he's upset and grieved. Because if it 102 00:13:46.480 --> 00:13:50.440 was just to say that God's saw wickedness in man's heart was great, and 103 00:13:50.480 --> 00:13:54.519 then imagination that their thoughts was even continually and then he says I'm just gonna 104 00:13:54.559 --> 00:14:03.799 kill everybody, he would look out of control, roll and angry. But 105 00:14:03.080 --> 00:14:09.480 because the Bible now gives us language that we can wrap our mind around that 106 00:14:09.720 --> 00:14:22.279 this being, this entity, was grieved out his heart. This entity repented 107 00:14:22.399 --> 00:14:35.440 the day that he created this human. Now we can understand his next move. 108 00:14:37.440 --> 00:14:43.960 But why was he angry? What is it that he sees in man 109 00:14:45.759 --> 00:14:54.320 that causes him to repent so to say, or causes him to grieve so 110 00:14:54.519 --> 00:15:03.679 to say? And can he grieve? And can he repent if he's all 111 00:15:03.799 --> 00:15:13.080 knowing? When does the repenting start? If he's all knowing? When does 112 00:15:13.159 --> 00:15:18.360 the grief start because he's not caught by surprises. Either he's caught by surprise 113 00:15:18.840 --> 00:15:22.399 at the wickedness of man, or he's caught by surprise at the imagination of 114 00:15:22.519 --> 00:15:31.759 man, or he's out of control over his creation. If he's out of 115 00:15:31.840 --> 00:15:37.759 control of his creation, then he can't be all powerful. If he's caught 116 00:15:37.799 --> 00:15:46.840 by surprise, then he can't be all knowing. So there's a real theological 117 00:15:50.000 --> 00:15:56.360 quagmire here because I'm supposed to serve a God that knows all, but the 118 00:15:56.480 --> 00:16:00.679 scripture says that he doesn't know. I'm supposed to serve a guide that has 119 00:16:00.720 --> 00:16:08.759 all power in his hands. But here yet his creation is running rampant to 120 00:16:08.919 --> 00:16:18.000 the place where he now grieves. The solution is not simple, it's complex. 121 00:16:18.159 --> 00:16:23.600 The scriptures sometimes places us in these complex situations that we have to now 122 00:16:25.799 --> 00:16:30.960 reconcile so that the believer can have an answer. The Bible says, give 123 00:16:30.080 --> 00:16:37.759 every man an answer. Yes, it's complex. It's a complex situation. 124 00:16:37.879 --> 00:16:48.200 It's complex because either he's not all known and he's just like us, or 125 00:16:51.080 --> 00:16:53.720 he is all none. But the Bible is trying to wrap our minds, 126 00:16:53.840 --> 00:16:59.559 give us a reason, a way to wrap our minds around how he feels 127 00:17:00.840 --> 00:17:04.000 when Adam and E falls. When Adam and E falls in the garden, 128 00:17:06.359 --> 00:17:10.079 he says, let us remove them, or they'll be like us, to 129 00:17:10.279 --> 00:17:15.559 know all good and evil, they'll be like us. So he removes them 130 00:17:15.599 --> 00:17:19.880 out of eating and he ushers them into another place in his creation, where 131 00:17:19.920 --> 00:17:26.200 they now begin to reproduce. They now begin to live out their new lives 132 00:17:26.640 --> 00:17:33.720 as falling creation when they felt the thing that is disconnected was their spirituality. 133 00:17:34.839 --> 00:17:40.440 They still are able to reproduce. They're still able to enjoy the pleasures of 134 00:17:40.480 --> 00:17:44.680 the world, to enjoy the food and enjoy everything that God had created around 135 00:17:44.720 --> 00:17:51.720 them. But they do so with ego. They do so with an ability 136 00:17:51.880 --> 00:17:56.759 to be evil. They do so with selfishness and selfish intent, which God 137 00:17:57.400 --> 00:18:03.400 created them to be selfless and to be partakers of all of his creation as 138 00:18:03.519 --> 00:18:10.000 one as as a one who would be helpers. That's how come when we 139 00:18:10.119 --> 00:18:12.920 are reconciled, when we get saved. He says, don't don't don't care 140 00:18:12.960 --> 00:18:19.039 about yourself, but look upon your neighbor, help your neighbor. Be altruistic, 141 00:18:19.200 --> 00:18:22.880 be helpful, be guiders of people, be beacons of life. The 142 00:18:23.799 --> 00:18:30.240 salt of the earth, be useful in creation because you're being restored back to 143 00:18:30.359 --> 00:18:33.519 where it is that you were supposed to be in the first play as useful 144 00:18:33.640 --> 00:18:37.519 in creation. So he sees the end. Heart of man, in the 145 00:18:37.640 --> 00:18:42.039 imagination of man is evil, continues me. This is what the Elogians would 146 00:18:42.079 --> 00:18:51.759 now call um. Man's nature is totally deprayed, and man's nature is totally 147 00:18:51.839 --> 00:18:59.160 deprayed. So God cannot get into full fellowship with someone who has a depraved 148 00:18:59.279 --> 00:19:03.519 nature. This is what leads. This is the leading to sacrifice. This 149 00:19:03.759 --> 00:19:10.880 is the leading too. Why um, we need it? A Christ who 150 00:19:11.000 --> 00:19:21.000 would be perfect in creation and obedience, perfect in his knowledge, perfect in 151 00:19:22.240 --> 00:19:27.039 fellowship with God. So because of his perfection, he does not need two 152 00:19:27.119 --> 00:19:33.839 things. One he does not need grace, and two he does not need 153 00:19:33.920 --> 00:19:40.119 or he does not or he should not excuse me, he should not face 154 00:19:40.240 --> 00:19:44.640 death. One he does not need grace in order to find favor with God. 155 00:19:45.319 --> 00:19:48.799 Two he does not or he should not face death because the wages of 156 00:19:49.079 --> 00:19:56.640 sin is death. Christ is sin less, so he should not face death, 157 00:20:00.200 --> 00:20:08.319 and he does not need grace. The story of Noah brings on other 158 00:20:08.680 --> 00:20:17.720 theological problems because God says in verse seven, I will destroy a man whom 159 00:20:17.759 --> 00:20:22.279 I have created from the face of the earth, both man, the beast, 160 00:20:22.920 --> 00:20:26.759 the creeping thing, the foul of the air. For it repented me 161 00:20:26.880 --> 00:20:33.880 that I have made them. So here's the rude. Not only did adam 162 00:20:34.000 --> 00:20:47.359 sin affect Adam, but it affects the beast of the field, the creeping 163 00:20:47.480 --> 00:20:53.400 thing, the flying thing. And he now repent not that he just made 164 00:20:53.480 --> 00:20:57.599 Adam, but he repent that he made all of the things that we now 165 00:20:59.000 --> 00:21:07.039 coexist with it. The thing that he gives us gives us dominion over false 166 00:21:07.160 --> 00:21:11.319 and Adam. Also, we are all made from the same thing. That's 167 00:21:11.319 --> 00:21:15.960 how come we need the trees in order to breathe, But the trees breathe 168 00:21:17.039 --> 00:21:25.680 back into us. The system is flawed, and it repented him that he 169 00:21:25.839 --> 00:21:33.240 made And here is the line. But Noah finds grace in the eyes of 170 00:21:33.319 --> 00:21:40.079 the Lord. The dispensationalists would teach that it was something inside of Noah that 171 00:21:40.319 --> 00:21:47.160 causes God to repent. There was something inside him Noah that causes God to 172 00:21:47.240 --> 00:21:51.559 find grace. It's something inside him Noah that causes God to halt that Noah 173 00:21:51.680 --> 00:22:02.839 now finds favor with God because of who Noah is, not because of who 174 00:22:03.240 --> 00:22:07.680 God is, but because of who Noah is. Noah finds grace with God. 175 00:22:07.759 --> 00:22:11.559 And Noah puts up the halt sign like a guy who's running from first 176 00:22:11.599 --> 00:22:15.359 to third and he's looking at the coach, and the coach is first waving 177 00:22:15.440 --> 00:22:18.680 him in, and then a coach has stop. Stop stop stay right there 178 00:22:18.720 --> 00:22:26.000 on third base. Because at home, you can probably get out that it 179 00:22:26.160 --> 00:22:33.640 was something in Noah causes God to find grace. The Reform teachers that God 180 00:22:33.960 --> 00:22:45.880 extends grace and Noah is also wicked, his imagination and his heart is just 181 00:22:45.200 --> 00:22:49.680 like the rest of the people. That is described in the text, that 182 00:22:49.960 --> 00:22:56.319 grace now is granted to Noah not because of who Noah is, but because 183 00:22:56.440 --> 00:23:00.160 who God is. That the complex nature of this all knowing, this, 184 00:23:02.200 --> 00:23:10.160 this all mightiness, all powerful being is so far that at one point the 185 00:23:10.279 --> 00:23:15.480 scriptures can say that He's grieved, and not another point he can still extend 186 00:23:17.119 --> 00:23:26.839 grace. Grace does not just happen through Christ in the New Testament, but 187 00:23:27.000 --> 00:23:38.000 we would not even get to Christ except that God gives grace. You can 188 00:23:38.079 --> 00:23:42.039 go back and listen to our podcast. We talked about when Adam, and 189 00:23:42.119 --> 00:23:48.799 he falls in the garden that God now closed them, and he gives them. 190 00:23:48.200 --> 00:23:53.279 He covers their nekedness after they cover their own nekedness. That is an 191 00:23:53.359 --> 00:24:02.559 extension of grace. It's a typology of him covering our nakedness in sight in 192 00:24:02.759 --> 00:24:07.559 Christ. He covers them with coats of skin from an animal, which would 193 00:24:07.640 --> 00:24:18.119 indicate the blood that would be sacrificed. That is grace. Gives them punishment, 194 00:24:18.240 --> 00:24:23.359 but he promises the woman that her seed will take vengeance and the seed 195 00:24:25.200 --> 00:24:30.839 it's promised that will come some generations later through the person of Christ. That 196 00:24:32.599 --> 00:24:38.039 it's for knowledge that is grace. He knows that they've fallen, he knows 197 00:24:38.119 --> 00:24:45.839 how far they've fallen, but yet he cannot tolerate it to the extent where 198 00:24:45.920 --> 00:24:52.039 he takes action. He finds grace with Noah, He finds grace with you, 199 00:24:52.880 --> 00:24:57.599 He finds grace with me, and he understands the heart of humanity. 200 00:24:59.000 --> 00:25:06.039 But he still finds grace in us, and through us, he allows us 201 00:25:06.079 --> 00:25:08.519 to pray. He allows us to come to his bosom, He allows us 202 00:25:08.559 --> 00:25:15.720 to come into full fellowship with him, knowing that our imagination in our hearts 203 00:25:15.839 --> 00:25:26.559 are far from him. There's nothing that we can do in our religious days, 204 00:25:26.319 --> 00:25:32.000 no praise too great, no no offering that we can bring that will 205 00:25:32.160 --> 00:25:38.400 change who we are as people. The only way that we can be transformed 206 00:25:38.440 --> 00:25:45.519 by the renewing of our mind is when He extends the olive branch. We 207 00:25:45.759 --> 00:25:49.960 love him back because He loves us first. Don't let no one else trip 208 00:25:51.039 --> 00:25:56.880 you up to believe that God cannot love you. He can look past your 209 00:25:56.960 --> 00:26:00.880 faults, look past your disease, look past your your your your your unjust 210 00:26:02.200 --> 00:26:07.640 ways, look past whatever you have done in your life, and extend to 211 00:26:07.799 --> 00:26:15.319 you love and grace. Because love now covers a multitude of faults. The 212 00:26:15.440 --> 00:26:19.200 same God who's grieved, the same God who's repented, the same God extends 213 00:26:21.319 --> 00:26:27.680 to Noah grace. Grace now calls us to do what we could not do 214 00:26:29.200 --> 00:26:37.880 without it. Grace now calls Noah to do something that he could not do 215 00:26:38.240 --> 00:26:44.119 except God called him to the task. This all knowing, almighty, all 216 00:26:44.200 --> 00:26:48.319 powerful God calls us into stuff that we would not otherwise do without him. 217 00:26:49.799 --> 00:26:56.880 He causes us to triumph, causes us to be healed in situations where sickness 218 00:26:56.920 --> 00:27:00.000 seems to be winning, causes us to be light in situations where it seems 219 00:27:00.000 --> 00:27:06.359 that darkness looms. The land calls us to be able to speak birds, 220 00:27:06.559 --> 00:27:14.160 those things that are not as though they are. He causes us go out 221 00:27:14.200 --> 00:27:26.359 into a dying world. Tell somebody about a man who sees our faults but 222 00:27:26.599 --> 00:27:33.960 respond by meeting our needs. He's not like us, and the fact that 223 00:27:34.119 --> 00:27:41.160 he repents and he's grieving and now he goes about his business without being forgiven. 224 00:27:47.400 --> 00:27:52.880 He doesn't hold to the account of his enemies, because the Bible refers 225 00:27:52.920 --> 00:28:07.279 to our relationship as hostile and we become his enemies. He doesn't hold to 226 00:28:07.400 --> 00:28:15.440 our account as creator. He doesn't at etch it out. He doesn't see 227 00:28:15.480 --> 00:28:19.319 the best in Noah. He sees Noah for who he is. But he 228 00:28:19.799 --> 00:28:25.240 extends grace to Noah if you come back next week, and we start to 229 00:28:25.279 --> 00:28:32.039 get into what happens after this particular event where he calls Noah and he tells 230 00:28:32.119 --> 00:28:34.759 Noah to build the boat and he and then Noah builds and he brings on 231 00:28:36.039 --> 00:28:38.400 all these animals into the boat, all of these imperfect beasts, all of 232 00:28:38.480 --> 00:28:48.359 these imperfect creatures, all of these imperfect beings on this one ship. Because 233 00:28:48.440 --> 00:28:59.359 he extends grace he doesn't wipe out humanity in Noah's day and save Noah and 234 00:28:59.440 --> 00:29:03.799 his family, thinking that it was going to be a reset and when they 235 00:29:03.880 --> 00:29:07.519 got off the boat that Noah would would because of Noah's perfection, he would 236 00:29:07.599 --> 00:29:14.440 now produce perfect, perfect beings. Noah is still a part of Adam's family, 237 00:29:15.680 --> 00:29:23.319 and Adam lived a hundred and somebody years and Adam created beings after his 238 00:29:25.359 --> 00:29:30.680 likeness. Noah is still after the likeness of Adam. Noah's not in the 239 00:29:30.799 --> 00:29:41.440 likeness of the creation. Noah is flawed, but Noah has God's grace. 240 00:29:41.920 --> 00:29:52.759 You're flawed, but you have God's grace. You have to forgive yourself because 241 00:29:52.839 --> 00:29:56.960 when you don't forgive yourself, what you say to God is I know you 242 00:29:56.119 --> 00:30:03.519 gave me grace, but it's not enough because I can't let go of what 243 00:30:03.759 --> 00:30:06.920 I did, even though you have forgiven me. I can't let it go. 244 00:30:10.640 --> 00:30:15.920 It's not good enough for me to pray. It's not good enough for 245 00:30:17.000 --> 00:30:21.319 me to give you the worship and honor and respect that you are doing. 246 00:30:21.319 --> 00:30:25.599 It's not good enough for me to love my enemies because I can't let go 247 00:30:25.880 --> 00:30:33.119 of my real enemy, which is in me. So I'll hold onto it. 248 00:30:34.400 --> 00:30:47.720 I'll hold onto my anger, I'll hold onto my issues. I won't 249 00:30:47.799 --> 00:30:57.319 let it go because I really don't believe that you can redeem a person such 250 00:30:57.359 --> 00:31:06.240 as myself. When we testify, we never really talk about what we what 251 00:31:06.440 --> 00:31:08.920 we overcome, or how grateful we are. We always talked about the bad 252 00:31:10.039 --> 00:31:11.039 stuff that we did. You know, I used to do this, and 253 00:31:11.119 --> 00:31:14.759 I used to hang out all night, and I used to run women. 254 00:31:14.759 --> 00:31:18.599 I used to do it. And I'm glorifying what I used to be, 255 00:31:18.480 --> 00:31:26.599 not in terms of thanking him for graciously saving me, but in terms of 256 00:31:26.759 --> 00:31:30.359 some people used the phrase. Then I decided to allow him to come into 257 00:31:30.519 --> 00:31:38.599 my life. That's not grace. I tried everything else, so one day 258 00:31:38.680 --> 00:31:48.000 I decided to try him. That's not the Bible narrative of salvation. He 259 00:31:52.079 --> 00:32:00.119 look beyond my faults. He invites me to come, and my cares upon 260 00:32:01.039 --> 00:32:07.480 him by grace, and I saved through faith. It is not of myself, 261 00:32:07.599 --> 00:32:15.640 less any manship, boast. It's a gift from him. If any 262 00:32:15.720 --> 00:32:22.240 man preaches any other gospel other than that salvation is unmerited, unearned, let 263 00:32:22.319 --> 00:32:28.359 him be a curse, let him go to hell. Noah did not find 264 00:32:28.440 --> 00:32:36.759 grace because Noah was good. Noah find grace because God is good. Same 265 00:32:36.920 --> 00:32:44.319 God who's angered at the conditions of man is the same God that reconciles and 266 00:32:44.599 --> 00:32:54.799 relates to that man that he's angry with. We are in communion with him. 267 00:32:57.319 --> 00:33:05.200 He communicates him himself through us. He doesn't give us him in part, 268 00:33:07.119 --> 00:33:12.799 he gives us all of him. Dwelling in you, if you are 269 00:33:12.880 --> 00:33:17.720 a believer, is everything that God has. We become joint heirs with him. 270 00:33:19.160 --> 00:33:28.359 I may not be living where he will eventually have me to live. 271 00:33:29.440 --> 00:33:35.759 I may not be acting out in all of his characteristics, but in me, 272 00:33:37.640 --> 00:33:43.440 that is in my reconciled mind, in my reconciled heart, is all 273 00:33:43.599 --> 00:33:50.759 of him. He doesn't have to show up. He's already there. That's 274 00:33:50.799 --> 00:33:53.640 why he said, low, I'm with you always, even until the end 275 00:33:53.799 --> 00:33:58.599 of time. He doesn't have to show up. He's already there. But 276 00:33:58.960 --> 00:34:05.759 he shows up and reveals himself as being there. Because there's a part of 277 00:34:05.839 --> 00:34:08.599 me that feel as if he's not there. How can he be there and 278 00:34:08.800 --> 00:34:16.159 not there at the same time. How can he be all knowing and repentant 279 00:34:17.440 --> 00:34:27.880 at the same time. How can he dwell in my heart, and in 280 00:34:28.000 --> 00:34:37.360 my neighbor's heart, all of him. At the same time, we lay 281 00:34:37.440 --> 00:34:42.960 hands to stir up the gift that is already inside of us. We speak 282 00:34:43.000 --> 00:34:46.280 words to stir up the gift that's already inside of us. We affirmed to 283 00:34:46.400 --> 00:34:51.840 stirt up the thing that's already inside of us. We meditate to conjure up 284 00:34:51.880 --> 00:34:54.679 the thing that's already inside of us. Nothing that none of those acts, 285 00:34:54.719 --> 00:35:00.280 in actions and activities is going to produce something that is not already in there. 286 00:35:00.519 --> 00:35:04.880 Is like the sauce when the mother and the commercial said, what about 287 00:35:04.920 --> 00:35:08.480 the garlic? What about this? It's in there. If you can understand 288 00:35:08.599 --> 00:35:15.559 that everything that you need to live a successful spiritual life is already inside of 289 00:35:15.679 --> 00:35:22.840 you, which can also lead you to be successful in your natural life. 290 00:35:27.679 --> 00:35:36.079 The mind of the pauper and the mind of the millionaire rest in you. 291 00:35:40.360 --> 00:35:49.639 You have to activate which mind you're gonna live towards. That's why we say 292 00:35:49.719 --> 00:35:54.239 stuff and now, let the weak say I am strong. By saying it, 293 00:35:54.360 --> 00:36:01.280 they begin to activate strength. Let the poor say I am rich. 294 00:36:01.960 --> 00:36:08.320 They began to activate within them the ability to be what they are not. 295 00:36:08.519 --> 00:36:14.719 Right now, if I continue to say I'm poor, then guess what. 296 00:36:14.960 --> 00:36:22.440 I will always be poor because what I say is what's gonna reveal itself out 297 00:36:22.480 --> 00:36:37.039 of me. I got to say it, I got to affirm it, 298 00:36:39.119 --> 00:36:45.119 I got to believe it. His grace now gives me the ability that I 299 00:36:45.239 --> 00:36:53.039 didn't have before. I am forgiven for all of my past sins. I 300 00:36:53.239 --> 00:37:04.000 am in an eternal relationship with the Almighty. He provides for me my daily 301 00:37:04.079 --> 00:37:09.199 bread, so I'm grateful. He leaves me besides the still water, so 302 00:37:09.440 --> 00:37:17.039 I'm grateful. He walks with me. He talks with me so high. 303 00:37:17.559 --> 00:37:22.519 I am grateful. So if I lead with a grateful heart when somebody steps 304 00:37:22.559 --> 00:37:25.559 so on my toe, I'm not gonna curse them out. Because if he 305 00:37:25.760 --> 00:37:31.880 can walk with me who has trust passed against him, then how can I 306 00:37:32.039 --> 00:37:37.000 not be forgiven with someone who trust passes against me. Now I don't always 307 00:37:37.079 --> 00:37:43.480 do it, but he's still yet loves me. There's some people that I 308 00:37:43.559 --> 00:37:51.039 don't like, but he still loves me. There's some people that I would 309 00:37:51.079 --> 00:37:55.440 probably see and walk right ba like I never knew. I'm being real with 310 00:37:57.239 --> 00:38:00.760 me. This is me. I don't know about you. Body else want 311 00:38:00.800 --> 00:38:04.639 to act like this so holy and altruistic. There's some things about me that 312 00:38:04.840 --> 00:38:07.280 I don't like that, some things about me that I'm still working on. 313 00:38:07.880 --> 00:38:14.159 I don't have grace because I'm perfect. I have grace because He gave it 314 00:38:14.280 --> 00:38:23.239 to me. Noah finds chrace. Wait, God, I don't know, 315 00:38:23.800 --> 00:38:27.239 I don't know who I'm talking to. I don't know who needs to hear 316 00:38:27.320 --> 00:38:32.440 this. But you don't have grace because he thought that you was all of 317 00:38:32.480 --> 00:38:40.239 that. You have grace not because he saw something in you, not because 318 00:38:40.280 --> 00:38:45.800 he saw what you become. Everyone who he calls becomes the same thing one 319 00:38:46.039 --> 00:38:51.239 in Christ. There's no let me get let me let you in on this. 320 00:38:51.880 --> 00:38:54.320 I've heard the sad in funerals. I've preached many funerals, and I've 321 00:38:54.360 --> 00:38:58.760 heard this say, I know my grandmother's getting a big crown. There's no 322 00:38:59.079 --> 00:39:02.760 big crowns. There's no bigger mansions in the sky. There's the streets. 323 00:39:02.880 --> 00:39:12.440 There's no vip section for those that come to God and decide to be whatever 324 00:39:12.559 --> 00:39:17.199 we think that they're supposed to be, just because they made chicken and they 325 00:39:19.159 --> 00:39:22.159 washed it past his feed and they did all of these other things that we 326 00:39:22.400 --> 00:39:27.440 think gains them extra favor with God. It's not true. There was a 327 00:39:27.559 --> 00:39:30.920 man that was out in the field, and he hires another man in the 328 00:39:30.000 --> 00:39:34.679 middle of the day. And he hires this man, and he gives him 329 00:39:36.199 --> 00:39:37.559 a wage, and he tells him what he was going to pay him. 330 00:39:37.840 --> 00:39:43.920 This man works all day long, but the owner of the land continues to 331 00:39:44.039 --> 00:39:45.800 hire. This is a powerable that Jesus is to use an I'm powerphrasing. 332 00:39:46.000 --> 00:39:51.199 He continues to hire throughout the day, all the way up until the end 333 00:39:51.599 --> 00:39:57.360 of the workday. At the end of the workday, he gives he starts 334 00:39:57.400 --> 00:40:00.800 to make his payoffs. He starts to pay by paying the person that came 335 00:40:01.000 --> 00:40:08.679 last, and he pays the person the same wage as he paid the person 336 00:40:08.800 --> 00:40:15.719 that worked all day. The person that worked all day gets the scrunted. 337 00:40:16.519 --> 00:40:23.239 That person came in at the end of the work day made the same amount 338 00:40:23.239 --> 00:40:30.159 of money I made, and you pay them first. I feel as if 339 00:40:30.800 --> 00:40:38.079 I am I have been dealt with unjustly the keeper of the field. The 340 00:40:38.320 --> 00:40:44.519 owner of the field said, I paid you what I told you I was 341 00:40:44.599 --> 00:40:51.760 gonna pay you. It didn't matter what I did. I own the field, 342 00:40:52.480 --> 00:40:57.079 I own the job. I can pay how I want to pay. 343 00:40:58.000 --> 00:41:00.440 What are you saying Jesus in that well, what are you saying, preacher? 344 00:41:01.159 --> 00:41:10.519 Grace gives the same wage to everybody eternal life. It doesn't matter if 345 00:41:10.599 --> 00:41:15.400 you will save fifty years and this person gets saved five minutes. You have 346 00:41:15.679 --> 00:41:22.119 no more access to God than they do. Grace extends to each and every 347 00:41:22.199 --> 00:41:25.840 one of us the same access. And if we start to preach this, 348 00:41:27.280 --> 00:41:30.599 and if we start to teach people this, and we start to get people 349 00:41:30.639 --> 00:41:35.639 to understand this, then we won't have people living beneath their means looking to 350 00:41:35.800 --> 00:41:43.400 you to be their spiritual guru and hero. We want to keep people under 351 00:41:43.440 --> 00:41:51.239 our thumb through our religious hierarchies. We want people without our feet. I 352 00:41:51.360 --> 00:41:54.320 see people throwing rose paddles at preacher's feet when they walk in the room, 353 00:41:54.760 --> 00:42:00.280 as if the preacher it's some kind of big wig or some kind of No, 354 00:42:00.599 --> 00:42:07.800 we're all sinners saved by grace. He just called some of us to 355 00:42:07.920 --> 00:42:19.159 carry the gospel. And the weight of carrying the gospel it's heavy. Should 356 00:42:19.239 --> 00:42:22.960 honor the men and women of God, but we should not lift them up 357 00:42:24.199 --> 00:42:31.360 as if they are God. If someone is helping you in your spiritual walk 358 00:42:32.000 --> 00:42:38.840 and you have riches or access to some things that can help them in their 359 00:42:38.920 --> 00:42:47.440 personal walk. If they're helping you, you should be generous to your preacher, 360 00:42:49.400 --> 00:42:58.239 to your community, to your church. If you have to share with 361 00:42:58.400 --> 00:43:04.679 the poor, you should be generous. Because He has given us the wage 362 00:43:04.760 --> 00:43:08.360 of everlasting life. The problem is, here's the problem, and I'm done 363 00:43:09.440 --> 00:43:20.679 that everlasting life is not good enough for us. So we want to be 364 00:43:20.840 --> 00:43:28.079 greedy and rob the pool. We want to be greedy and use people's faith 365 00:43:28.239 --> 00:43:32.960 against them to take from them so that we can have a jet, so 366 00:43:34.119 --> 00:43:37.519 that we can have the biggest house, so that we can because we're still 367 00:43:37.679 --> 00:43:52.920 operating from the place of evil, imagination, of ill in tech. And 368 00:43:53.079 --> 00:44:00.320 then we see how God feels about about that. It repents him that he 369 00:44:00.440 --> 00:44:07.599 created people like us who would take advantage of our fellow human but he still 370 00:44:07.679 --> 00:44:15.079 gives grace. There's nothing that we have done one that would catch him by 371 00:44:15.119 --> 00:44:22.480 surprise two that he cannot forget. Lord, I thank you that, in 372 00:44:22.559 --> 00:44:27.039 your infinite wisdom and your power and your knowledge and your might and your will, 373 00:44:27.679 --> 00:44:35.239 that you created grace, grace so that we can have access to you, 374 00:44:37.400 --> 00:44:40.519 grace, so that we can pray grace so that we can show the 375 00:44:40.599 --> 00:44:47.880 world our faith that even in our business, even in our commerce, even 376 00:44:47.960 --> 00:44:52.320 in the things that we do, that we are ought to be gracious to 377 00:44:52.480 --> 00:44:59.920 others because you have been gracious towards us before we go wrong with our day. 378 00:45:00.320 --> 00:45:02.800 Thank you for our daily break. Thank you for being a friend that 379 00:45:02.880 --> 00:45:08.079 sticks closer than a brother. Thank you for bringing us out of difficult times 380 00:45:08.079 --> 00:45:13.199 and tough situations. Thank you for changing our language. And now let the 381 00:45:13.400 --> 00:45:20.440 week say I am strong, Thank you for your grace, and Jesus has 382 00:45:20.559 --> 00:45:22.679 name, I pray, Thank God and Amen.