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June 3, 2025 | S25:E133

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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Mountain of Covenant | June 3, 2025

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Dr. ed young: there are few things in life that are
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Surrounded by as much mystery and excitement as heaven.
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In this booklet, "heaven: a place prepared for you," we'll
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Look at the incredible vision god gave us
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In the book of revelation.
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Of heaven and life today.
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Dr. ed young: ladies and gentlemen,
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Our faith is based on fact.
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We need to understand that.
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If i wake up in the morning, and i'm depressed and down,
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I'd say, oh, maybe jesus didn't rise from the dead.
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That doesn't change the fact of that historical truth.
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The fact of the gospel, we're in christ, we're in christ.
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We are new people, brand-new.
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That is a fact, and we rest our faith on that fact, remember?
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It's our faith is rest on that fact.
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One plus one is two.
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Not going too fast for anybody.
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We have faith that one plus one is two,
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And that's part of what we believe about the foundational
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Principles of mathematics.
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One plus one is two.
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We put our faith on that absolute fact.
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Now, you can play with one plus one and get in quantum physics
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And do all kinds of gymnastics and physics,
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But still basically, we accept that fact and we put our faith
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On it, and then if there's any emotion to something,
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It follows along after faith and fact.
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And we talked about when faith looks at feelings.
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"well, i don't feel--" you know, some days,
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You know, i tell you, by the time i speak all day sunday,
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I don't believe in god till about 10:00 monday morning.
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I'm being humorous, but the point is that you are just
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Emotionally drained sometime, and you're not physically well.
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And you say, "my feelings about, where is god"?
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And our faith looks at our feelings.
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Need to look at our fact and say,
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"i am secure in the lord jesus christ!"
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So, don't let your feelings control your faith because
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Our faith is resting on fact.
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So, we look in the bible, and we see that there is big-time
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Trouble in the world.
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And then we have this flood, but what went ahead of the flood?
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What is the first thing that messed us up?
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Man, adam and eve, wanted to run their own life just like
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We want to run our own life.
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And by the way, we were born trying to run our own life.
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That's original sin.
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And then we see what happened, they were kicked out
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Of the garden.
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The fall of man, the plan of redemption was built in.
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And then you say generation after generation
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After generation.
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Genesis 2, 3, 4, 5, what do you have there?
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Let me just summarize it in a pedestrian way.
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What you have there is birth, life, marriage, children,
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Grandchildren, death.
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Birth, life, marriage, children, grandchildren, death.
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Birth, life, you have over, and over, and over again,
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Generation, after generation, after generation,
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Until you wake up one day prior to the understanding
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And the introduction of noah,
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And the world is in a mess.
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I promised you i'd let you guys in on this.
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I'm not doing away with fact.
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I'm not discouraged with faith, and feelings usually
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Follow along, make no mistake about it.
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Welcome.
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So, the whole world was messed up.
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Genesis, moses tells us clearly right here what was going on.
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Look at genesis, chapter number 6, verse 5,
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"then the lord saw," listen carefully,
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"that the wickedness of man was great on the earth,
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And that," listen, "every intent of the thoughts of
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His heart was only evil continuously."
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In other words, all of mankind 24/7,
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Evil was on their heart, the whole world generation,
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After generation, after generation.
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Birth, life, marriage, children, grandchildren, death.
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And now evil was on the heart of everybody and everywhere.
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How did this happen? genesis tells us.
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I'm gonna say it simply, seth people married cain people.
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That's it.
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Say, "what, what in the world is that"?
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Seth people represent the lineage of god-fearing people.
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Cain represents the lineage of godless,
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Fleshly, secular people.
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And what happened was, through all of these series
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Of generation, seth people, god-fearing people,
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Marrying secular, non-god-fearing people,
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And it went on for generation after generation.
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By the way, you call this compromise.
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And they ended up until the whole world was decadent,
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Was evil, had no hope, no future.
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Boy, that's really something, isn't it?
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I would guess that half the people here,
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30 and over who've been married, have been divorced, half.
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That's just the way it is.
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And i would tell you that the cause,
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Many causes of divorce basically goes back to the same cause
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That happened there in genesis right from the beginning,
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The early stage of humanity.
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Seth people married cain people, god-fearing folks married
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Secular folks, and they had children,
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And it was watered down the faith,
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And they had children.
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Oh, a few turning to god, and they had children
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Until finally in time, the whole world was lost,
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And decadent, and evil.
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What's wrong with america?
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Any thoughtful analogy will tell you it is the destruction
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Of marriage and the family.
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And it comes from, as everyone here can witness who've been
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Through the horrific experience of divorce as i have close
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And deep in my own family, will tell you it's basically
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Seth person marrying a cana person.
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Now you say, "well you know, he's a christian.
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He's a member of the church. he's good, he's gonna be fine."
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You know, he prays when we sit down and have a meal together.
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I mean, you know, i think he's just a good christian boy,
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But there was no real evidence of worship and obedience to god
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In christ, and therefore, you have an unequal yoke.
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That's the way it is. that's where we are.
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And that kept on, that compromise,
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Compromise, compromise.
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"well, she'll come along, he'll come along."
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Compromise, compromise until finally the diagnosis was clear
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Made by god almighty saying, "there's no hope,
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There's no future."
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People get upset at god destroying sodom and gomorrah.
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"oh, what a mean, vengeful god!"
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Let me tell you something, god was showing mercy
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And grace on sodom and gomorrah on the unborn generations
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Because to be brought in that kind of decadent,
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Immoral climate, a child would not have a chance to have a life
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That would be pleasing to god or a life that was worth--that was
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God's grace in that judgment, and it was god's grace
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Right here because the people on the earth,
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Even it flowed to all the animals,
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All of creation was fallen, and there was no hope.
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Now, we have five facts.
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I want us to look at 'em as quick as zig-zag lightning.
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That's pretty fast.
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First, genesis 6, verse 8, "but noah found favor
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In the eyes of the lord.
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These are the records of the generation of noah,
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And noah was a righteous man, blameless in his time.
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Noah walked with god."
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I hear a lot of people on television say,
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"well, i found favor with god."
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It sounds like they've rolled the die--and god has said,
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"oh, i'm gonna show partiality to that one."
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No, that's not the way it worked.
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God shows favor to everybody who walks with him.
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That's the requirement.
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It's not capricious, it's those who walk with god.
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And this verse says something about noah, guess what.
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Noah walked with god.
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Somebody said, "boy, being a christian is sure a tough thing.
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I'm telling you, there's so much to understand.
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It's so complicated.
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Man, i don't know all the bible!"
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Listen, it's very simple, walk with god, that's it.
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Walk with god, receive christ, seek his leadership.
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Doesn't mean we're perfect, doesn't mean we get our wings.
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We just seek to walk with him, and we may get some hinds feet
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Along the way so we can ascend and go in places
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That he wants us to go, but just walk with god.
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Noah didn't have an iq of 180.
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Noah wasn't 6 feet 8, handsome, muscular.
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He didn't have a big, strong voice of leadership.
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He wasn't necessarily ambitious.
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When god was going to destroy the world he didn't say,
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"oh god, let me be the remnant, just keep me and my family."
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No, no, no, noah just walked with god.
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That's all it is, folks.
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It's in view of everybody.
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It's very flat there, just walk with god.
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He's a farmer, maybe did a little carpentry work,
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I don't know.
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Had this midlife crisis after living about 500 years,
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And god says something special to noah,
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But first of all, the qualification was,
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He just walked with god.
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That's all we have to do.
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Don't have to worry about big, little, small, important,
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Prestigious, rich, poor, doesn't matter what i do.
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It's just walk with god. that's all noah did.
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You know, that'd be a good tv thing, "winning walk."
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I mean, noah had a winning walk.
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He, first thing, first fact, noah walked with god.
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Second fact, mind you now, there's not a lot of feeling
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Here, just bang, bang, bang, here are the facts.
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Here's the second fact, then god, verse 13,
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Said to noah, "the end of all flesh has come before me,
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For the earth is filled with violence because of them,
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And behold, i'm about to destroy them with the earth.
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Make for yourself an ark."
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Noah built an ark.
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Noah built a boat.
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He walked with god.
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The fact was that god said, "build a boat," and noah said,
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"right on.
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I'll build a boat!"
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And god gave him, if you read it very carefully,
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Specific instructions for building a boat.
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He said, "i want you to build this boat 450 feet long,"
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That's about a football field and a half.
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"i want you to build it 75 feet wide,
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45 feet high, build a boat."
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Noah started to build a boat.
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Do you know how long it took him to build the ark?
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A hundred and twenty years.
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And can you imagine, he was building that ark
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Hundreds of miles from any large body of water,
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What his neighbors were saying?
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"noah, what in the world are you doing"?
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"i'm building a boat."
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"my, a boat this big?
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My glory, what a boat.
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We'd have no place to sail that boat."
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He said, "we'll have a flood because god's gonna judge
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All the wickedness that's in the lives of people."
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"ah, my goodness, god, yeah, that's--you're just crazy.
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You, you're a fundamentalist.
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You, you, you--"
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"no, god told me to build a boat, that's all i know.
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He told me the size to build it."
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And can you imagine, all these years, noah, his wife,
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Three sons, their wives, people looking and says,
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"there's that crazy noah, building that big ole' boat.
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He says we're gonna have a flood.
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It's gonna reach us way over here, the water.
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Nah, no way."
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And they just laughed at him.
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Let me tell you what that boat was.
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That boat was a living sermon, wasn't it?
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It was reminding everybody here was noah who was a righteous man
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Who had a righteous family, and that was a witness
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To all of those who were living those decadent, ungodly lives.
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Ladies and gentlemen, your life or my life can be
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That same kind of witness in this broken world.
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That boat was a physical witness to everybody who looked at it.
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Can't you imagine?
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You'd go visit he'd say, "you gotta go see my neighbor's boat!
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Heh, heh, heh, heh, football field and a half long."
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Went on for 120 years.
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Noah built a boat, fact.
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Second fact, noah got in the boat, once again,
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Instructed by god.
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Excuse me, third fact.
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"then the lord said to noah, 'enter the ark,
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You and all your household, for you alone has seen to be
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Righteous before me at this time."
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And so, noah got in with all the animals.
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By the way, you say, "well, that's impossible."
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No, no, no, they've calculated you can put 50,000
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Smaller animals in that ark by that dimension.
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By the way, it's pretty close, the dimensions of one of these
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Big, big liners that many of you go on and take cruises on.
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I don't do that.
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I get seasick taking a bath, but many of you've done that.
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That's sort of the dimensions.
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I mean, they put thousands on, so there you see it.
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And so, we have-- they entered the boat.
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And then, how long do you think there were out there
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On the water?
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First of all, they went in for seven days before it rained.
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That was a good one.
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God said, "get in the boat. we're gonna have a flood."
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Monday, tuesday, wednesday, no rain.
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Thursday, friday, and most people believe the world
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Had never seen rain.
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They'd seen mist.
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And no rain, and finally can't you see his son saying,
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"hey dad, um, you know, we don't want to stay in a boat
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With all these animals in here.
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It's already getting pretty tough.
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Are you sure--"
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"yeah, god says, get in the boat."
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In fact, he put his faith on the fact of what god had said,
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Very simple.
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Then the seventh day, little sprinkling.
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Before long, there was a deluge, there was a flood,
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A flood, a once-in-the-history-of-the-world
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Flood, and it flooded everything.
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It flooded over the highest of mountains.
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And a year and 17 days, they were at sea in that box-like
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Coffin with all the animals, and with that one family
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Which was a godly remnant that was left alive.
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Boy, can you imagine how they felt?
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Can you imagine the emotions involved until they said,
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"you know, maybe god's forgotten us."
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But you got a great little verse in here that i really love.
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It's found over here in the 8th chapter,
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Verse 1, "but god remembered noah."
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"lord, i'm glad you remembered me.
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I thought you'd forgotten me.
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Everything's dead, everything's destroyed.
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The whole world is flooded.
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We've been bouncing around here."
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By the way, the word "remember" there in hebrew,
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It doesn't mean to recall.
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The word "remember" here means to renew.
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God was renewing the world as we're gonna discover, to renew.
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Fresh new beginning, a new start, a clean slate,
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Everything wiped out, everything now just bright,
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And clean, and sparkling, and pure.
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Think about it, it's the garden of eden 2, in one sense.
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And then, we see the other fourth fact about noah.
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And god spoke to noah saying, "go out of the ark,
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And your wife, and your sons, and with you."
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And so they, now finally, they have stopped.
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They sent out the raven and the doves,
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And now the boat is stopped.
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And now they get out of the ark.
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What do you think the first thing jonah did?
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Now, remind you, whole new world--whole--did i say jonah?
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I'm getting jonah and noah, both of 'em had a problem
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In the ocean, that's all i know.
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Man, after three times, they're almost interchangeable.
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So, noah and his family get out of the big boat,
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And now the whole world is brand-new,
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New creation, new life, the animals go out
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To the natural habitat, and boy, it's a whole new beginning.
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And by the way, you read it carefully, it's almost like
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The garden of eden 2, but not really.
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Things have changed.
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Capital punishment is introduced for murder,
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Which is still valid today, by the way.
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And, the relationship between man and animals,
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And all of this moves on, but what is
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The first thing noah did?
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You know what he did?
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Built an altar, came out of the ark,
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Built an altar, why?
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It's the first altar that's built
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In all the bible right there.
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And he worshipped.
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You see, god remembered noah, and then noah remembered god.
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Isn't that beautiful?
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He built an altar.
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And what's the next thing he did?
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And by the way, this is a question that's not asked,
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But it is asked because it's an answer.
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Noah said, "what am i gonna do with the ark?
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Do i need to keep it?
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It's a pretty big ole' guy."
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Much, much bigger than this room, by the way.
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"what am i going to do about the ark?" said noah.
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God said, "you're not gonna need it.
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Nobody's ever gonna need it."
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And now we have the fifth thing involving noah,
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And that is a covenant is made.
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This is the fifth fact i want us to see very,
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Very clearly here.
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It says, verse 13, "i set my bow in the cloud,
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And it shall be for a sign of a covenant between me
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And the earth.
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It shall come about when i bring a cloud over the earth that the
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Bow will be seen in the cloud, and i will remember my covenant,
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Which is between me and you and every living creature
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Of all flesh, and never again shall the water become a flood
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To destroy all flesh."
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A covenant is established now with noah.
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God says, "here it is.
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If you, you're a part of it, except with noah's covenant
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And he makes--it is a unilateral covenant.
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He says, "this i will do with all humanity.
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You don't have to worry about me destroying the world again.
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The world may be destroyed, but man will do it.
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God will not do it."
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And we look in the sky, we see that bow,
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That rainbow up there.
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And by the way, you notice something very interesting here.
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When you look at the sky, it doesn't remind us
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Of that covenant.
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The bible says, read it carefully.
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I read it over it says, "god remembers."
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Isn't that something?
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So, we look and see the rainbow.
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We say, "god remembers this covenant that he has placed
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Over you and over all humanity."
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And then we look up and we say, "now we remember that
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We are secure, and we're under this covenant of the rainbow."
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Let me show you something.
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The cross of jesus christ is the new rainbow, see?
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It's the new promise.
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It is the new covenant in which we confess and we receive,
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And we know that god so loved us in christ,
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He initiated that love.
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Let me tell you how much he loves us.
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While you and i were still living in garbage,
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He died for us.
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The one who is just became the justifier.
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The one who knew no sin took all of our sin upon him,
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And he makes that promise to us.
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Because he lives, we too shall live.
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And we've picked up a lot of nonsense
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That we attribute to the bible.
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We say, "god will always meet you halfway."
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Would you show me that scripture?
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You see, a lot of things, god is already there
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With his love before we ever get there.
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See, love is risky.
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God took that risk when his son entered this world.
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What a great risk of love.
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You tell somebody you love 'em, first time, i remember,
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Jo beth and i were on a date.
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We dated a while.
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She got in the car, and i didn't pull away from her house,
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And i said, "jobie, i don't like you anymore."
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And she looked at me and she said--i said, "i love you."
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That's a great risk.
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That's a big risk, isn't it guys?
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You don't know.
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You can't tell, but that's what god has done.
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God has taken that risk, and he has died for us on the cross.
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He took all of our garbage upon him before we even knew it.
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It was already there for us, a love that will never let us go,
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Amazing, staggering.
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So therefore, one day we'll unpack all the truth behind
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The promise of the rainbow because the arch there is like
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The body of jesus christ on that cross, and in revelation,
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It tells us that around the throne of god almighty
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In jesus christ, there is a complete bow,
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A complete rainbow.
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A rainbow is beautiful.
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It reminds us of the beauty of god we have in jesus christ.
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Ed: i'm always amazed when i see a rainbow.
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You see, god places rainbows in the sky as a reminder
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Of his presence and of his provision.
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It means that god has not forgotten you and he knows
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When you are in a storm and your life is filled with difficulty.
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God knows and god always provides for his children
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Before, during, and following any storms
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They encounter in life.
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Remember, he loves you and keeps his promises every single time,
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No exceptions.
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Ed Young - Mountain of Covenant

June 3, 2025 | S25:E133

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