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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Mountain of Covenant | November 25, 2024
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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.
- 00:15:32.512 --> 00:15:36.416
- By the way, you say, "well, that's impossible."
- 00:15:36.416 --> 00:15:38.685
- No, no, no, they've calculated you can put 50,000
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- Smaller animals in that ark by that dimension.
- 00:15:42.088 --> 00:15:45.058
- 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.
- 00:16:18.792 --> 00:16:22.695
- That was a good one.
- 00:16:22.695 --> 00:16:24.697
- 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--"
- 00:16:45.752 --> 00:16:46.986
- "yeah, god says, get in the boat."
- 00:16:46.986 --> 00:16:50.723
- 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.
- 00:17:24.924 --> 00:17:31.197
- Boy, can you imagine how they felt?
- 00:17:31.197 --> 00:17:35.435
- Can you imagine the emotions involved until they said,
- 00:17:35.435 --> 00:17:39.072
- "you know, maybe god's forgotten us."
- 00:17:39.072 --> 00:17:41.207
- 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."
- 00:17:58.458 --> 00:18:00.026
- By the way, the word "remember" there in hebrew,
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- It doesn't mean to recall.
- 00:18:03.129 --> 00:18:05.398
- The word "remember" here means to renew.
- 00:18:05.398 --> 00:18:09.402
- 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.
- 00:18:22.482 --> 00:18:25.552
- Think about it, it's the garden of eden 2, in one sense.
- 00:18:25.552 --> 00:18:30.490
- And then, we see the other fourth fact about noah.
- 00:18:30.490 --> 00:18:33.860
- And god spoke to noah saying, "go out of the ark,
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- And your wife, and your sons, and with you."
- 00:18:39.399 --> 00:18:41.734
- 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.
- 00:18:48.241 --> 00:18:51.311
- And now they get out of the ark.
- 00:18:51.311 --> 00:18:54.681
- What do you think the first thing jonah did?
- 00:18:54.681 --> 00:18:57.951
- Now, remind you, whole new world--whole--did i say jonah?
- 00:18:57.951 --> 00:19:04.591
- I'm getting jonah and noah, both of 'em had a problem
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- In the ocean, that's all i know.
- 00:19:07.260 --> 00:19:11.698
- Man, after three times, they're almost interchangeable.
- 00:19:11.698 --> 00:19:22.342
- 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.
- 00:19:33.820 --> 00:19:37.223
- And by the way, you read it carefully, it's almost like
- 00:19:37.223 --> 00:19:40.159
- 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.
- 00:19:46.933 --> 00:19:50.470
- And, the relationship between man and animals,
- 00:19:50.470 --> 00:19:53.139
- And all of this moves on, but what is
- 00:19:53.139 --> 00:19:55.875
- The first thing noah did?
- 00:19:55.875 --> 00:19:58.311
- You know what he did?
- 00:19:58.311 --> 00:20:00.380
- Built an altar, came out of the ark,
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- Built an altar, why?
- 00:20:02.982 --> 00:20:05.318
- 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.
- 00:20:09.355 --> 00:20:10.990
- You see, god remembered noah, and then noah remembered god.
- 00:20:10.990 --> 00:20:16.729
- Isn't that beautiful?
- 00:20:16.729 --> 00:20:18.531
- He built an altar.
- 00:20:18.531 --> 00:20:19.999
- And what's the next thing he did?
- 00:20:19.999 --> 00:20:21.567
- And by the way, this is a question that's not asked,
- 00:20:21.567 --> 00:20:24.737
- But it is asked because it's an answer.
- 00:20:24.737 --> 00:20:28.908
- Noah said, "what am i gonna do with the ark?
- 00:20:28.908 --> 00:20:34.113
- Do i need to keep it?
- 00:20:34.113 --> 00:20:35.682
- It's a pretty big ole' guy."
- 00:20:35.682 --> 00:20:38.951
- Much, much bigger than this room, by the way.
- 00:20:38.951 --> 00:20:41.921
- "what am i going to do about the ark?" said noah.
- 00:20:41.921 --> 00:20:45.625
- God said, "you're not gonna need it.
- 00:20:45.625 --> 00:20:49.896
- Nobody's ever gonna need it."
- 00:20:49.896 --> 00:20:51.464
- And now we have the fifth thing involving noah,
- 00:20:51.464 --> 00:20:55.201
- And that is a covenant is made.
- 00:20:55.201 --> 00:20:58.705
- This is the fifth fact i want us to see very,
- 00:20:58.705 --> 00:21:02.742
- Very clearly here.
- 00:21:02.742 --> 00:21:04.677
- 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.
- 00:21:10.516 --> 00:21:12.218
- It shall come about when i bring a cloud over the earth that the
- 00:21:12.218 --> 00:21:15.922
- Bow will be seen in the cloud, and i will remember my covenant,
- 00:21:15.922 --> 00:21:20.560
- Which is between me and you and every living creature
- 00:21:20.560 --> 00:21:24.030
- Of all flesh, and never again shall the water become a flood
- 00:21:24.030 --> 00:21:27.567
- To destroy all flesh."
- 00:21:27.567 --> 00:21:31.404
- A covenant is established now with noah.
- 00:21:31.404 --> 00:21:36.209
- God says, "here it is.
- 00:21:36.209 --> 00:21:40.613
- If you, you're a part of it, except with noah's covenant
- 00:21:40.613 --> 00:21:45.385
- And he makes--it is a unilateral covenant.
- 00:21:45.385 --> 00:21:49.522
- He says, "this i will do with all humanity.
- 00:21:49.522 --> 00:21:52.325
- You don't have to worry about me destroying the world again.
- 00:21:52.325 --> 00:21:55.261
- The world may be destroyed, but man will do it.
- 00:21:55.261 --> 00:21:58.030
- God will not do it."
- 00:21:58.030 --> 00:21:59.632
- And we look in the sky, we see that bow,
- 00:21:59.632 --> 00:22:01.200
- That rainbow up there.
- 00:22:01.200 --> 00:22:03.202
- And by the way, you notice something very interesting here.
- 00:22:03.202 --> 00:22:06.606
- When you look at the sky, it doesn't remind us
- 00:22:06.606 --> 00:22:09.142
- Of that covenant.
- 00:22:09.142 --> 00:22:12.011
- The bible says, read it carefully.
- 00:22:12.011 --> 00:22:14.580
- I read it over it says, "god remembers."
- 00:22:14.580 --> 00:22:19.819
- Isn't that something?
- 00:22:19.819 --> 00:22:21.487
- So, we look and see the rainbow.
- 00:22:21.487 --> 00:22:23.022
- We say, "god remembers this covenant that he has placed
- 00:22:23.022 --> 00:22:27.527
- Over you and over all humanity."
- 00:22:27.527 --> 00:22:30.163
- And then we look up and we say, "now we remember that
- 00:22:30.163 --> 00:22:33.633
- We are secure, and we're under this covenant of the rainbow."
- 00:22:33.633 --> 00:22:36.903
- Let me show you something.
- 00:22:36.903 --> 00:22:40.706
- The cross of jesus christ is the new rainbow, see?
- 00:22:40.706 --> 00:22:46.412
- It's the new promise.
- 00:22:46.412 --> 00:22:48.648
- It is the new covenant in which we confess and we receive,
- 00:22:48.648 --> 00:22:53.152
- And we know that god so loved us in christ,
- 00:22:53.152 --> 00:22:56.622
- He initiated that love.
- 00:22:56.622 --> 00:22:58.624
- Let me tell you how much he loves us.
- 00:22:58.624 --> 00:23:00.293
- While you and i were still living in garbage,
- 00:23:00.293 --> 00:23:02.462
- He died for us.
- 00:23:02.462 --> 00:23:04.831
- The one who is just became the justifier.
- 00:23:04.831 --> 00:23:09.068
- The one who knew no sin took all of our sin upon him,
- 00:23:09.068 --> 00:23:13.773
- And he makes that promise to us.
- 00:23:13.773 --> 00:23:18.044
- Because he lives, we too shall live.
- 00:23:18.044 --> 00:23:20.680
- And we've picked up a lot of nonsense
- 00:23:20.680 --> 00:23:24.484
- That we attribute to the bible.
- 00:23:24.484 --> 00:23:26.219
- We say, "god will always meet you halfway."
- 00:23:26.219 --> 00:23:28.721
- Would you show me that scripture?
- 00:23:28.721 --> 00:23:34.360
- You see, a lot of things, god is already there
- 00:23:34.360 --> 00:23:38.097
- With his love before we ever get there.
- 00:23:38.097 --> 00:23:41.200
- See, love is risky.
- 00:23:41.200 --> 00:23:44.036
- God took that risk when his son entered this world.
- 00:23:44.036 --> 00:23:48.241
- What a great risk of love.
- 00:23:48.241 --> 00:23:51.344
- You tell somebody you love 'em, first time, i remember,
- 00:23:51.344 --> 00:23:54.881
- Jo beth and i were on a date.
- 00:23:54.881 --> 00:23:56.582
- We dated a while.
- 00:23:56.582 --> 00:23:57.917
- She got in the car, and i didn't pull away from her house,
- 00:23:57.917 --> 00:24:00.653
- And i said, "jobie, i don't like you anymore."
- 00:24:00.653 --> 00:24:03.322
- And she looked at me and she said--i said, "i love you."
- 00:24:03.322 --> 00:24:09.595
- That's a great risk.
- 00:24:09.595 --> 00:24:11.964
- That's a big risk, isn't it guys?
- 00:24:11.964 --> 00:24:14.033
- You don't know.
- 00:24:14.033 --> 00:24:15.401
- You can't tell, but that's what god has done.
- 00:24:15.401 --> 00:24:18.538
- God has taken that risk, and he has died for us on the cross.
- 00:24:18.538 --> 00:24:23.543
- He took all of our garbage upon him before we even knew it.
- 00:24:23.543 --> 00:24:28.114
- It was already there for us, a love that will never let us go,
- 00:24:28.114 --> 00:24:32.652
- Amazing, staggering.
- 00:24:32.652 --> 00:24:36.722
- So therefore, one day we'll unpack all the truth behind
- 00:24:36.722 --> 00:24:39.859
- The promise of the rainbow because the arch there is like
- 00:24:39.859 --> 00:24:48.334
- The body of jesus christ on that cross, and in revelation,
- 00:24:48.334 --> 00:24:53.439
- It tells us that around the throne of god almighty
- 00:24:53.439 --> 00:24:58.010
- In jesus christ, there is a complete bow,
- 00:24:58.010 --> 00:25:01.747
- A complete rainbow.
- 00:25:01.747 --> 00:25:03.950
- A rainbow is beautiful.
- 00:25:03.950 --> 00:25:05.518
- It reminds us of the beauty of god we have in jesus christ.
- 00:25:05.518 --> 00:25:10.957
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- 00:25:12.091 --> 00:25:15.328
- On top of a mountain, it's awe-inspiring.
- 00:25:15.328 --> 00:25:19.899
- On top of a mountain, somehow we feel a sense of reverence,
- 00:25:19.899 --> 00:25:25.137
- And are closest to the almighty that we perhaps feel
- 00:25:25.137 --> 00:25:28.841
- No other place on the planet.
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- Ed: i'm always amazed when i see a rainbow.
- 00:26:22.228 --> 00:26:25.197
- You see, god places rainbows in the sky as a reminder
- 00:26:25.197 --> 00:26:28.601
- 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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