She texted me to ask you, and I was like, yes, we'll pray for you.
What's going on, buddy?
I lost it in my room.
Oh, God, I know where it is.
Let me off that taxi.
Okay, thank you.
You found all the things.
Do you want to break the decent amount?
Why don't you write your name on it?
All right, let's get started.
All right, we're gonna go ahead and get started this morning. It's good to see everyone. Welcome to
We're in a sing song 516, are you washed in the blood?
pass them out I would appreciate that oh man I'm telling you I'm free today is not June 1st
today's June 8th I forgot to change the date I was more concerned with the announcement
so I just wanted to let you guys know uh well right there on the left we have our
contact info and then our service times are 10 30 a.m Sunday morning sole waiting time is 2 p.m
Sunday afternoons Sunday evening 430 and Wednesday service 530 one of the things I'm gonna
Do is whenever I told them oh whenever I have like just I know I just have a free afternoon or free morning
I'm just gonna start sending out like a
Blast text and whoever can meet me somewhere. We can't meet at the church
I'll just go and meet someone out so we can just add more soul anytime
I mean obviously we want to have a set schedule
But I also understand that the majority of the people come from far away to church
And so it'd be easier to also be flexible. So we could just get some more soul when you're done
and then we did it unofficially, but it's now official Institute the
Memory chapter. I don't have all the rules. I know sister Toby sent him to me
But I don't know where there are and I think that Moe we just need to get those rules in there somewhere
but we are
We're going to start out with something simple.
This one should be pretty easy for the next coming weeks.
And it's Psalm 23.
There will be rewards for the adults and also for the children.
And there's a weekly reward if they can quote that verse of the week.
So next week.
If anybody, if any of the children quote it to a non-family member, to two non-family
members, then we'll have a reward.
I haven't figured it all out yet, but just know that I want to encourage you.
So it'll be something fun like ice cream or candy, you know, the things that the parents
love for the church to give out to their kids.
And then year to date, souls one, we have 145.
Up there we have the happenings in June.
Past we do have sister Linda's birthday coming up and then Christian's birthday at the end of the month and then as you can see there
yesterday at
1223
Elizabeth Brooke Garcia came into the world and then just pray for the mom
In the dad, I talked to Josh yesterday.
He sounded tired.
It was a C-section, apparently, you know,
she just needed to get a C-section and just pray for him.
I think they're gonna be in the hospital
for a few more days and then they're gonna be out.
But everybody's fine, mom's fine, dad's fine,
and of course the baby is fine.
She was seven pounds, nine ounces.
So we're really excited about that.
And then today, Pastor Cobb is preaching
Number one, he's preaching because we still want to hear him preach, but number two, it's the 48th anniversary
of when he first showed up to Spring Crest Baptist Church.
So he's been preaching here longer than I've been alive, and so that is just a testament to just
being steady and steadfast in the faith.
You know, so when you get a chance just congratulate him. None of us would be here if it wasn't for Pastor Cobb.
Pulled it out 48 years and in 48 years you're gonna have a lot of ups and downs
And so I'm just being able to stay faithful as is is a testament to his
Ministry and then on the back we did add Joshua Cynthia and the baby just pray for all of them again
everybody else where
Sister Karen have you guys heard from her? Is she okay?
She's not up to par so just pray also for sister Karen
She's one of those I don't know if you know that about her, but she hates missing church
Like it actually it messes with her so just pray for her
She's not feeling well, and so obviously we've missed her for the last couple weeks
Yeah, she has well actually I don't know if a lot of you guys know but she has MS
So that does actually affect her whenever she gets any you know
It is once you have something and if you get sit even just the slightest thing can can throw you off
But if there's no other is there anything else I'm missing. Oh
Yes, there is and I forgot to put on the bulletin. I didn't realize but we have spit Sunday dinner this month
So it's the obviously the fifth Sunday of the month
Three more Sundays. What?
Yes, like the last day or the second or the last day of the month and then of course
I think Father's Day is next weekend. Is that correct? Nobody cares about Father's Day like Mother's Day
So whatever day it is you guys can celebrate as if you want if you don't you know what even the fathers don't really care about all
You know just as long as our kids listen to us and our wives love us. I guess that's all we care about
Turn over turn your handles over to page 560 and what brother Bo lead the service. I mean
All right we're there in song five sixty five hundred and sixty trust and obey
Genesis
Oh never mind
We're gonna be in our hymnals we have one more hymn
It's gonna be song four hundred and sixty
Song four hundred and sixty come thou found
number seven. Turn to Genesis number seven. We'll read the whole chapter. Brother Tray can take up
the tithes and the operas while we read that. Then Pastor Cobb will come up and give us the message.
Chapter seven, verse one, And the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark.
For thee have I seen before me in this generation
Of every clean beast thou shall take to thee by seven
The male and his female and of the beast
That are not cleaned by two, the male and his female
Of vows also of the air, by seven the male and the female
To keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth
For yet seven days
For yet seven days and I will cause it to rain upon the earth
40 days and 40 nights and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth and
Noah did according unto all the Lord commanded him and Noah was six hundred years old when the flood
Waters was upon the earth and Noah went in and his sons and his wife and his son's wives with him in
The Ark because of the waters of the flood of clean beasts
and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of everything that creepeth upon the earth,
there went in two and two unto Noah and the ark. The male and the female has God had commanded Noah,
and it came to pass after seven days that the waters of the flood were upon the earth,
and in the six hundred year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month.
The same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened,
and the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
One day entered Noah and Shem and Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah and Noah's wife,
and the three wives of his son with them into the ark.
They and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind,
and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind,
and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.
And they went in unto Noah into the ark,
two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.
And they that went in went in male and female of all flesh.
As God had commanded him and the Lord shut him in
and the flood was 40 days upon the earth
and the waters increased and bear up the ark
and it was lifted above the earth.
increased greatly upon the earth and the ark went upon the face of the waters and
the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth and all the high hills that were
under the whole heaven were covered 15 cubits upwards of the waters prevailed
and the mountains were covered and all the flesh died that moved upon the earth
both of the fowl and of cattle and of beasts and of every creeping thing that
creepeth upon the earth and every man
All in whose nostrils was the breath of life and all that was in the dry land died and every living substance was destroyed
Which was upon the face of the ground both man and cattle and of and the creeping things in the fall of the heaven
And they were destroyed from the earth and Noah only remained alive
And they that were with him in the ark and the waters prevailed upon the earth
115 days let us pray
Heavenly Father, Lord, thank you so much for today.
Thank you for the opportunity to be here, Lord.
Thank you for just all those here in attendance
and an opportunity to listen to Pastor Cobb preach once again
on his 48th year anniversary here at Spring Crest.
We know he's been in the mystery much longer, but just here in
His spring crest he served for the last 48 years and what a privilege it is to just have that kind of example
Lord give him the words to thunder through and that it may be your spirit and not his and Jesus name we pray. Amen
Well, good morning, everybody.
Good day in the Lord's house and the Lord's day.
Greetings in the Lord's word.
My message this morning, I've been titled Safe from the Storm.
Safe and also Saved from the Storm.
came across Galveston and killed 8,000 people. The worst natural disaster to hit the country
storm came and destroyed life like you would not believe but in those days when
the blood came they had no thing that you and I have today to if you've been
listening to TV the last few days they're talking about the the hurricane
They're preparing for it, and so forth, and there's nothing wrong with preparing for the
storms.
But you need to prepare for that eternal thing, the most important.
But in those days, they had no airplanes to fly over and scout out the storms.
A lot of things they didn't have.
And would you believe no cell phones?
Right.
And where you go now, you see someone
looking at cell phones.
You stop at a light, you wonder why the guy in front of you hadn't moved on, he's sitting there looking at his phone.
Road rage begins.
But if you think about it, no cell phone.
I'll share with you.
And I don't think I have, at least from the book that I haven't.
Happening that happened to the wife and I about three years ago.
We're from Nacogdoches, and our family had buried at Old North Church, which is the oldest
church in Texas, an existing church.
North of Nacogdoches is about two or three miles.
My great-grandfather, grandmother, my grandparents, my mom, dad, my son, all buried there.
But my dad was one of the visited cemeteries, I don't know how he missed it, but we found
that we had a little cousin that had died and buried in the cemetery.
where her grave was at. How many of y'all knew they did that? So you took Google maps,
I did, with some help. And I put the latitude and longitude in there before our little cousin
I began to embark and follow that, and it directed me as you do on Google Maps, you
know, how they direct you.
And I'm one of them old timers not getting used to it, but they talk to you by the way.
And this thing on the way, as Lyndon and I were a little apprehensive about what we were
But on the way
He told us where to go and where to turn and where to turn and he says at this point
You can go no further the reason there's a fence there
and then he said
Where you go you'll have to walk straight ahead didn't it directed us if where they go north or south and we followed its instructions
And it got to the grave of where the little girl was buried
and lo and behold it says now get this you have reached your destination
we're talking about a grave in a cemetery and we've reached that time well it's gonna come a
time we will reach it we all agree with that and that's what we're talking about preparing for that
Jefferson, turmoil was everywhere.
Can you imagine?
No cars, no airplanes, and how people got around in no days.
And that year of 1900, and they didn't start cars until, according to Henry Ford around
But they there was an awful storm
It shook the life of civilization especially here in the south at Galveston
Yesterday
Our country celebrated like I say celebrated D-Day
Y'all heard that on the news. I'm sure were it was that time of the year 81 years ago yesterday
United States attacked France. You know how many people lost their lives?
550,000, that's a half million, 200.
Folks think about that loss of life. Now, if you turn over and look and see the troops of the
thousand, or forty thousand, I'm sorry. So quite a contrast between our enemy. But
talking about the storm that we just, you just read about there in Genesis 7,
years ago our Lord gave us record of what was going to hit of a storm that's
going to affect the whole earth. The whole earth was hit by that storm and they
We read in Genesis 7
Or Noah and his family
Preached they went so went in to Nobel 120 years they labored
We don't have one record of one convert
But they had plenty of warning
God sent a messenger by the name of Noah and his family and
He told them of the impending destruction that was going to happen
And they didn't believe the story
They refused to believe God
Oh, that's a difference between life and death is belief
the gospel, now he had to be a gospel preacher because he said he was a
preacher of righteousness, talking about Noah. But these folks just flat did not
believe. I thought about it how it must have been when the flood waters came now.
Until that time
And here in oil was talking about water that was going to cover the earth
They didn't believe it they didn't want to believe it
You know, I think about these children they're precious these children are
But these little children the little children they live no days perished
because of the unbelief on their parents' part.
Everybody say, well, I don't care what my kid does,
as long as they don't do so-and-so.
But folks, when Noah's flood came,
and water covered the earth,
and those little fellows,
because mom and dad was worrying about themselves trying to withstand the flood.
But why did God allow such a gruesome judgment on the people?
verse 11 says the earth also was corrupt before God and the earth was filled with
violence you hear that the earth was filled with violence just a note last
He said my old daughter and then took his own life
Focus that that's awful, but it's an everyday happening
I don't by the way, you got noise around my house. You're gonna burglarize me have a problem cuz I can't hear
But my wife can
She said did you hear that shooting?
I said, well, if you listen long enough, you will hear it here.
But folks, it's gotten considerably worse, ain't it?
But the Lord said, in those days, the land
is going to be filled with violence.
I've got to tell you, the Lord wasn't guessing.
No guesswork in his part.
He's telling us what has happened and what will happen,
what's bound to happen.
All right, continuing Genesis 6, verse 12,
God looked upon the earth and behold it was corrupt.
For all flesh had corrupted his way upon the flesh, on the earth, I'm sorry.
And God said unto Noah, the end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth was filled with violence
through them.
And, behold, I will destroy them with the earth."
God told them, he pronounced judgment upon the generation there, for whether they believed
it or not, they did not stop the floods or the judgment from coming.
I say all that because there's another judgment coming in here.
But we asked the question, why did God allow all this?
Because he's got to bring judgment.
Whatever a man sows, he's going to reap.
Whatever a nation sows, they're going to reap.
God knows what he's doing. He's preparing us for eternity.
It wasn't safe to be out on the street anymore is one of the reasons that God
another day with that judgment is going to come and I want to read to you one last verse
as far as references. 2 Peter chapter 3 and verse 10. 2 Peter chapter 3 and verse 10.
and the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the element shall melt with
fervent heat. The earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up." We make no
apologies for God. He knows what He's doing, but He tells us that the works are going to be burned up.
That the elements are going to mellow and fervent heat
Those things that we treasure that we hang on the wall or whatever
That we let sometimes become the
Idol of our life is gonna be destroyed
Why I know that God God said it that's good enough for me
Can I grasp it know I came
But it says that even the heavens shall pass away with a great noise
These astronauts won't be protected even with that if you thought about that or not
But the Lord has sent plenty of warning
Even through his word this morning
We're warned of
the impending judgment
His work was given unto us thousands of years ago
Not all of it, but at least part of it
And we now see the storm clouds as they're gathering
I'm not telling you a date. I
Don't plan to violate what God says do and I don't know I
Lord himself didn't know first. He said the father only knew
but I tell you this much, it gives a sign of things that are going to be happening in the last day
and the scripture says, as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the day of the Son of Man.
But we can now see the storm clouds as they're gathering.
We don't know exactly when.
We have a hurricane tracking shark.
If you just pick up this book and read it from Genesis
to Revelations, you can track what God's doing.
Never told y'all this before since I've been here
In 48 years
I grew up in Sunday school in church
On Sunday, you knew where the Cobb family was at least all but my dad he worked most of the ever Sunday as security guy
But we went to church
We listened to what the preacher said the Sunday school teacher
Right about five or six years old
This really happened not anything made up
My brother was matter of fact he surrendered to the ministry when he was 14
But when he was 10 he was five years older than me
He and his buddy Charles Berkshire by the name
caught me up in a corner down the way and they started preaching to me
that the Lord was going to come and they said you see these vines right here
they're blooming out of season and the Bible says before the end of time you won't want one season
from another. Now we're talking about ten-year-old boys and five myself. Scared me to death.
I thought I wasn't going to get home to see my momma.
And that literally was true.
No joke, it's real, our Lord coming after us through demons
from this old earth.
And that's our blessed hope, isn't it?
By the way, my brother didn't get to do what he said he would call to do
He preached his first message when he was 82 years old
He preached for four years and had a stroke when he was 86
That's the way when he was 90 but he didn't get to fulfill until the last part of his life
I'm telling you there's no people here that's that age, but
Don't don't give up yet keep preaching the word
The Lord called us to be a witness to this generation he called Noah to witness to his generation
Well what's making this church right now?
Well, of great interest and growing is our soul winning program that we've got.
Well, that's the heart of a church, your soul winning.
Now, I'll tell you, most of you don't want to go knock on the door and say, oh, there's
the Lord prepares the hearts of those that you witness to.
And I'm telling you to hear that the Lord called us to be a witness for him.
And God told Noah, in our text we read a moment ago, or that was read,
told Noah to enter the ark that it was time.
and see that the time doesn't run the eye.
But I tell you, the best news,
if you make things right with the Lord Jesus Christ right now,
you won't have anything to worry about.
You'll be safe from the storm.
Storm's gonna come.
It's going to be bad, but not too bad for the Lord.
He's going to pluck us away from this earth.
We're going to get to live with Him forever.
And I mentioned a while ago about my mom's love and the fact that my world turned in her.
She came to the church many times and said you're in the pew and let us in prayer
I'm gonna get the hug that lady again. I look forward to that time
All right, folks
In all seriousness
The Lord gave you life. He gives us eternal life through him that loved us
And we can't do it for you
The folk you can turn your life around and get to live with God forever.
The folks, you've got that blessed hope and you're in good shape.
May God have his blessings, these thoughts this morning.
Okay.
We'll go ahead and stand together.
What trade would you leave us at work perhaps?
I just want to thank you for allowing us to gather again today.
We just thank you that, uh,
after all these years,
best regards to the delivery of the message board.
And that, uh,
the staff that, uh,
you've been on apparently
the three of us.
All right.
Yes.