Jack Graham - Christ The Door of Salvation

September 28, 2025 | 27:29

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Power Point with Jack Graham | Jack Graham - Christ The Door of Salvation | September 28, 2025

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There is no person that god cannot save!
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There is no promise that god will not keep!
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There is nothing that our god cannot do!
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I'm standing here at an incredible place; it's the ark
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Encounter. and at one of the most popular places within the
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Ark encounter. this is a replica of the ark and it truly
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Is, amazing! the ark that noah built during the great flood.
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And behind me here is the door which is central to message of
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The story of ark.
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And as you can see there is a cross reflected on that door
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Which reminds us that jesus said, "i am the door and who
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Enters in with me (is safe...) has eternal life." and so this
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Door... the door of the ark reminds us that christ is our
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Ark of salvation and that we enter salvation through jesus
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Christ.
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Now we shouldn't be surprised that in the old testament we
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Have these magnificent historical events... and i do
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Believe the flood and the ark experience... all of that is
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Historical. it happened. jesus said it happened, and the bible
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Says it's true and i believe the bible.
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And when jesus was walking with those two disciples after the
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Resurrection, it was at a place called the emmaus road. and
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These disciples were despondent. they were
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Despairing because they thought it was all over concerning
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Jesus the messiah. he was crucified and buried and left
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In a tomb, and they were on their way back to their
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Homeplace just so discouraged and without hope.
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And that's when jesus joined them in the road and began to
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Show them, the scripture says in luke chapter 24... "he began
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To show them in all the scriptures the things
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Concerning himself." he explained to them in the
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Scriptures the things concerning himself. this is why
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I call the bible the jesus book. in fact, i wrote a book
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Called the jesus book because all the bible is about jesus,
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Both old testament and new testament. it's the story of
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Jesus. it's the story of salvation and redemption.
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And i can only imagine what jesus was talking about on the
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Road with those unbelieving disciples. they ultimately
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Became believers and their hearts burned when they
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Realized that they had been walking with the risen christ.
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But, to this point, they were so full of tears and so full of
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Sadness that they couldn't see the light of day. and jesus
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Begins talking to them and he shows them in all the
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Scriptures the things concerning himself.
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No doubt, i believe he would have started in genesis chapter
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1, and talked to them about the creation, because christ is the
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Creator. he's the christ of the cosmos. he spoke and the worlds
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Came into being. and no doubt, he would have spoken to them
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About abraham and mount moriah and the fourth man in the fiery
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Furnace, and isaiah chapter 53... all about the suffering
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Servant, and the prophecies and the testimonies of the old
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Testament that all pointed to jesus. but no question in my
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Mind, that he would have also spoken to them about the ark
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And noah's experience and his family's experience of
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Salvation at the ark. because christ is our salvation. he is
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The ark of our salvation, and he is the door into that
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Salvation. and there was one door on the ark. we're not told
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That there were multiple doors or other options to get in the
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Boat, but there was one door. and once that door was shut,
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Then it was over for all of those who were left behind.
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But noah and his family... there were eight of them all
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Together... his wife, his three sons and their
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Daughters-in-law. and so eight altogether were on that ark.
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And they were saved. everyone outside the ark was unsaved and
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Perished in this flood. so what is this story really all about?
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We need to back up and get a running start as to what is
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Going on here when god destroyed the earth through
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This great global flood, and it was a global flood. in other
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Words, it happened throughout the earth.
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And when you begin in the bible... when god created the
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Heavens and the earth in genesis chapter 1, he then
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Created man, and then he created the woman... adam and
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Eve... and set them in the garden. i believe jesus would
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Have spoken about adam and eve.
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You know it's every interesting when you read what jesus said
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About the old testament and the people in the old testament.
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The very thing that people question, and the stories that
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People question the most in the old testament ... stories like
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Jonah and the great fish, that a man was swallowed by a fish;
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The story of creations itself... the story of adam and
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Eve, that they were literal, not figurative people, not just
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Representatives of humanity but there was an adam and there was
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An eve. jesus affirmed that story. he said, "as god created
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Them in the beginning male and female, he made them." and then
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Jesus spoke of noah and the great flood and the ark.
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So those are... those are questionable things in the
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Minds of skeptics and unbelievers. "how could a man
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Live in a fish for three days?" and yet, jesus used it to
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Illustrate his resurrection "as jonah was in the belly of the
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Fish for three days and three nights, so will the son of man
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Be in the belly of the earth." and he spoke of adam and eve
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And marriage. and he spoke about noah and the ark. in
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Fact, he said in matthew chapter 24, which is all about
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The last days and the final days of history. when he spoke
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Of this, he said "as it was in the days of noah..." so there
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It is again. jesus is affirming the fact that noah existed and
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The days of noah existed. and these are illustrative... these
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Are pointing to a future day... the last days when it will be
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Like the days of noah.
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And what were the days of noah like? well, when you read the
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Story of the ark, you discover that god saw that man's sin and
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Rebellion against him was so great... and this is in genesis
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Chapter 6... that it was so great that his mind and heart
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Was on evil... it says "only on evil continually." they were so
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Depraved and so debauched... the people in noah's day...
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That they were only thinking about ways to sin, new ways to
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Sin and new ways to rebel against god.
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There was also violence... there was violence and there
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Was viciousness because there was great violence on the
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Earth. and there was incredible ignorance. they were just
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Foolish in vanity because they were partying and eating and
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Drinking and marrying. this wasn't normal eating and
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Drinking or normal marriage, but they were serial marriages
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And multiple marriages and swapping wives and excessive
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Drinking and excessive partying. you get the picture.
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It was a terrible time in which to live. so how did all this
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Happen?
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Well, just back up again to the garden of eden when god created
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The man and the woman; he put them in the garden, and they
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Were enjoying the glory of god and experiencing the presence
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Of god every day. they were with god in the garden. they
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Were in love with one another and they were following their
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God. they loved god and god loved them. but something
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Terrible happened and that is when adam and eve broke god's
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Command not to eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of
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Good and evil, and they did exactly what god told them not
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To do.
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And as a result... as god told them if you eat of this fruit,
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You will die. and so while they did not die physically for a
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Long time, internally, spiritually they died. what
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Died? their relationship with god. they're no longer in
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Connection with god. they've broken god's commandments, and
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Now they're no longer living in fellowship with god. this is
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What sin does; this is the consequences of sin.
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♪♪♪
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Now sometimes people make the very foolish statement that
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They like the god of the new testament, reading about jesus
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And god's love and god's grace and, of course, you have the
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Cross and the resurrection, the glorious good news. and
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Sometimes you'll hear people mistakenly say something like
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“well, you know, i believe that the god of the new testament is
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More loving and more kind and more gracious and more
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Compassionate than the vengeful (they say) god of the old
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Testament.”
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But i want you to see that at the very start here that god,
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Though he is a god of judgment... god certainly
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Judges sin; god is a holy god, and because god is holy, he
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Must judge sin. you wouldn't want a god who did not practice
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Judgment and justice in the earth. but while he's a god of
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Justice and holiness and righteousness and purity. "he's
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Of purer eyes than to even behold (or look) at inequity",
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According to the bible. and yet, this same god in the old
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Testament is grieved by sin. and throughout the pages of
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Scripture, both old and new, we see of his grace, we see of his
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Love, we see him blessing people, we see him loving
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People. and he said in the old testament "i've loved you with
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An everlasting love." god loved these people and it was
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Grievous when they were breaking his commandments
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Because they had turned from him.
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And so god is called the faithful creator who made us:
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When he sees our sin, and he sees the sin of humanity, his
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Heart is broken. the great heart of god is grieving for
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Humanity, for people just like you and me. it's still
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Happening. it happened in jesus' lifetime, when he was on
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His way to the cross and he came to the edge of jerusalem,
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Overlooking from the mount of olives to jerusalem where in a
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Few hours he would die on the cross for the sins of the
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World. your sins and mine.
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He looked over jerusalem and the people were rejecting him
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And turning away from him. and he began to weep. he began to
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Grieve. and big tears welled up in his eyes, and they began to
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Flow down his face. and he said, “oh, jerusalem,
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Jerusalem! how i would have gathered you to myself but you
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Would not.” our sin, our rebellion breaks the heart of
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Our god. and jesus wept that day and he weeps this very day.
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Well, god wept on that day. he grieved. so what did god do? in
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Preparation for this great judgment, this flood that is
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Going send damnation and doom to every person on earth? he
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Offers a way of salvation. and how did he do that? he chose a
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Man by the name of noah.
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Now noah was a good man and we're told that he was a
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Righteous man, but he wasn't a perfect man. like any other
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Man, the sinful blood of adam and eve are flowing through the
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Sons and the daughters of god through the generations. and
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This man, noah, was a sinful man, just like everyone else.
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And that's important to remember. because god didn't
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Save noah because he was so good. it was like god said,
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“alright, if i could just find one person who is good enough,
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We'll save the world here.” no! that's not what happened. he
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Saw a man who was open to his love and his grace and it says
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In genesis chapter 6 that noah found grace (or favor) in the
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Eyes of the lord.”
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Now here's a fact. this is the first time that the word grace
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Shows up in the bible. the bible is all about the grace of
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God and the goodness of god and the salvation of god, and here
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This word grace shows up for the very first time. just
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Before god is about to destroy everything... the world and
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Everything in it, when the judgment is about to fall, here
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Is a man who finds grace and follows that grace to do what
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God had called him to do, which was to build this boat that
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Would save his family and offer salvation to all who would come.
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Grace... what is grace? grace is the unmerited, undeserved,
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Unmitigated love of god. it is the grace of god. it is what
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You see at the cross when jesus died. that is grace "god
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Demonstrated his love toward us that while we yet sinners,
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Christ died for us." and so noah like the rest of us,
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Wasn't saved because of his good deeds. he didn't have the
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Opportunity to build a boat and save his family and to offer
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Salvation to the world through this boat because he was so
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Good, because he was a better man than most, but he was not a
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Good man. how do we know that? because the bible says tha "all
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Have sinned and come short of the glory of god." tha "there
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Is none righteous, no not one." so big, big point here to
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Clarify. noah did not find grace in the eyes of the
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Lord... he was not favored because he was a good man. it
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Was because of the goodness of god... the grace of god that we
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Just act. that's what grace is.
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Well, let's fast-forward and all the way through the new
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Testament. but you can see how important it is to understand
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What happened at the ark. and so god said, "i'm going to
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Judge the world" but he gave the world of people in noah's
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Generation an opportunity to hear the truth. and so noah,
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Not only is he building this ark as god instructed him,
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According to specifications that we read about. that's one
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Thing that's so magnificent about this experience... an
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Encounter with an ark that we see here today... that it's
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According to specifications that we find in the bible.
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So he was a builder... he was a constructor of this ark. god
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Showed him how and he led the building project. and along
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He's building that, he's preaching the gospel of
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Repentance. he's telling the people to repent so that they
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Could hear the bad news in order that they might know the
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Good news, that there is a way of escape,
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That there is an ark coming.
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But, of course, the people thought he was just crazy;
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In hebrews chapter 11 he says,
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"by faith he was warned of things to come,"
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Of an unseen coming judgment and he believed the
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Word of god. and so he built that boat and he preached and
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He preached and he preached and he preached. and god gave grace
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And more grace and opportunity for salvation again and again
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And again. but nobody listened... for 120 years he
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Built and he preached. and in the end, no one believed
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Excepted his own family. it's good that his own family
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Believed. at least his wife and kids believed because they
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Entered the boat with him when the rain began to flow.
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And so after all this, you know "god is not willing than any
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Should perish but all should come to repentance." god did
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Not rejoice in judgment. there's a verse in scripture
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That tells us that god does not delight in judgment, in
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Punishment; he doesn't. he delights in showing his love
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And his grace and his salvation. but the day came
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After rejection and rejection. there was there in the
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Scripture early-on in the book of genesis god said,"my spirit
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Will not always strive (or struggle) with man."... my
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Spirit will not always strive against the resistance of a
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Rebellious, unrepentant heart.
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And so they came to the end... came to the end. the boat is
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Built and it's just sitting there in dry land. this good
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Ship grace is now ready to receive all who will come on.
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Noah and his family walked the ramp and get on the boat and
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They get inside. as they get inside it begins to sprinkle
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Just a little bit, and there's a drop here and there's a drop
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Over there. and then the drops turn to a sprinkle and maybe
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You've seen one of these storms that come in and you see the
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Storm begin to rage and the darkness and the foreboding
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That predicted this judgment that is to come. and now people
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Are wondering what this is.
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And as noah and his family are getting in the ark, i can just
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See noah one last time standing at the door and saying, “come,
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Believe in god.” and they're still laughing, they're still
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Mocking. they're enjoying the rain for the first time maybe
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They're experiencing this new phenomenon and here they are.
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And then the showers begin to turn to storms and the raging,
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Thunderous storms of god's judgment begin to pour out
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Upon the earth.
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There is a time when the floodtide of god's wrath beats
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Against the dam of his mercy. and so now the floodtides begin
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To come and people realize something terrible is
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Happening. before you know it, they're up to their ankles and
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Up to their knees and up to their waists in water. and i
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Can just imagine people running to that door which has now been
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Shut. because the scripture says god shut the door. it
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Wasn't even noah who shut the door. it says god shut the
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Door. and when he shut that door, there was no more
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Salvation available to everyone left behind.
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I can just see them pounding on that door. “noah! noah! let us
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In! for god's sake, noah, open this door!” but it was out of
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Noah's hands. it's all in god's hands now. and god shut the
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Door and the judgment came. of course, we know the story of
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Noah and his family getting on the ark and the beautiful story
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Of god saving the animals; two by two they go on there because
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God is preserving his creation. but outside everything is
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Destroyed, the whole world and everything in it, save noah
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Because noah and his family found grace in eyes of the lord.
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So that's just a little taste of the great story of the
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Banquet of the story of noah. and there's so much more to
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Talk about when it comes to noah and the ark and salvation.
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But i want us to fast-forward now to the new testament. and
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As jesus was walking with those disciples and telling them
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About noah and the ark and salvation, i believe he must
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Have said something like what he said in john 10.
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“i'm the door.” “i'm the way and the truth and the life.”
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You know, a lot of people don't like the idea that... they say
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Christianity is so narrow that ... it's so exclusive. well,
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The christian faith according to jesus is both inclusive and
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Exclusive. and here's what i mean by that: it is... it is
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Inclusive in that everyone is invited to know and follow
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Christ. jesus said "for god so loved the world that he gave
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His only begotten son that whoever believes in him will
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Have eternal life." jesus said, "whoever wants to come, will
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Come... whosoever will, will come."
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The last invitation of the bible... the last chapter of
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The bible is an invitation that says, "come to jesus." and so
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That means that anyone and everyone can come to jesus;
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Any age, any stage of life, any season in life, any kind of
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Life, any kind of person can come to jesus christ. you're
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Not too far gone. you are loved by god and he invites you in
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And you can be saved, and you can trust in christ, believe on
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The lord jesus christ.
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You see the problem that all these people have at the ark is
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That they just didn't believe. noah believed. noah believed
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The word of the lord and he acted in faith and he believed
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And he and his family were saved as a result and the human
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Race continued on through noah and his family in subsequent
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Generations. you know, belief... faith in christ, that
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Gets you in the door. and so the door is wide open. the door
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Is standing wide open for anyone.
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But there's just one door. jesus didn't say i'm one of the
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Doors. you know, it's not like that game show where you got
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What's behind door number one or behind door number two,
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What's behind door number three... you get your pick. no!
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There is one door according to jesus. jesus said "i am the
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Way, the truth, the life, and no one comes to the father
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Except by me."
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You say, well, that's narrow. well, that's what jesus said.
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He said, i'm not a way, i'm the way. he said, i'm not one of
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The ways; "i'm the way, the truth and the life" ... and
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Don't forget the last part of that verse... "no one... no one
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Comes to the father (that is god) apart from me." so yes,
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That is very exclusive. you don't go through the door of
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Religion. you don't go through the door of good works; you
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Don't go through the door of the church. i mean, you can go
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To church, you can be... you can go through church doors
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Every day of the week and still not go to heaven. no! jesus is
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The door. the apostle peter preaching on the day of
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Pentecost says "there is only one name by which we must be
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Saved and that name is the name of jesus."
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So i'm going to stand here right now and preach what noah
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Preached, and that is repentance and faith. if you
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Will repent of your sins... if you don't know jesus as your
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Lord and your savior, if you will repent of your sins... and
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The word repent means to change. you're going in one
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Direction; you turn around and you go in a brand-new
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Direction. to repent is to repent of sin. it's more than
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Being sorry that i sinned. it is repenting and asking god to
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Change you. that's repentance.
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And then faith, which is the other side of the coin.
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Repentance and faith, and when we believe in god, we receive
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Christ as our lord and savior by turning from our sins and
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Trusting in christ and christ alone as our salvation. that's
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What it means to get in the boat. that's what it means to
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Get into the ark. that's what it means to save yourself from
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The wickedness of this world and walk into a new life in
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Jesus christ.
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When noah and his family got off the boat it was a brand-new
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World and it can be a brand-new day and a brand-new world for
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You, if you will repent of your sins and receive christ as your
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Lord and savior. because the door represented with this door
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And the cross emblazoned upon it. the cross is the
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Opportunity for you to say yes to jesus because the door is an
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Open door, just like the tomb is an open tomb. god opened the
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Door of the tomb and jesus came out; he rose again. so this is
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Not a dead religion, it's not an ancient faith; this is a
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Living faith in jesus christ. we have living hope because of
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The resurrection of jesus christ.
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What a story! what a bible! what a salvation! what a
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Wonderful opportunity god gives each one of us through jesus
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Christ who is the door. so what a wonderful day and what a
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Wonderful opportunity for you to give your life to jesus
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Christ today. to walk through the door and to see salvation
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In christ and be secure forever. no matter the storms
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That come, you will be safe in his arms.
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So would you pray with me right now a prayer like this? lord
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Jesus, i invite you to come into my life. i do believe you
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Died for me and rose again, for my sins and my salvation. so
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Right now, i trust you. i believe in you and i received
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You as my personal lord and savior. i will follow you as my
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Lord and trust you as my savior, as long as i live. in
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Jesus name, amen.
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God bless you. and i am so grateful that today is the day
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Of salvation in your life.
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♪♪♪
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Jack Graham - Christ The Door of Salvation

September 28, 2025 | 27:29

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