WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:02.760 Windows of heaven were stopped and the rain from heaven was restrained. 00:02.760 --> 00:06.640 And the waters returned from off the earth continually. 00:06.640 --> 00:10.120 And after the end of the 150 days the waters were abated. 00:10.120 --> 00:13.680 And the ark rested in the seventh month on the seventeenth day of the month upon the 00:13.680 --> 00:15.640 mountains of Ararat. 00:15.640 --> 00:18.480 And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month. 00:18.480 --> 00:22.160 And the tenth month on the first day of the month were the tops of the mountains seen. 00:22.160 --> 00:26.040 And it came to pass at the end of forty days that Noah opened the window of the ark which 00:26.040 --> 00:27.040 he had made. 00:28.040 --> 00:32.080 And he sent forth a raven which went forth to and fro until the waters were dried up 00:32.080 --> 00:33.680 from off the earth. 00:33.680 --> 00:37.240 Also he sent forth a dove from him to see if the waters were abated from off the face 00:37.240 --> 00:38.240 of the ground. 00:38.240 --> 00:40.520 But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot. 00:40.520 --> 00:44.400 She returned unto him unto the ark for the waters were on the face of the whole earth. 00:44.400 --> 00:49.360 And he put forth his hand and took her and pulled her in unto him into the ark. 00:49.360 --> 00:51.960 And he stayed yet other seven days. 00:51.960 --> 00:53.920 And again he sent forth the dove out of the ark. 00:54.320 --> 00:58.800 The dove came into him in the evening and lo and her mouth was an olive leaf plucked 00:58.800 --> 01:03.560 off so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. 01:03.560 --> 01:07.800 And he stayed yet other seven days and sent forth the dove which returned not again unto 01:07.800 --> 01:08.800 him anymore. 01:08.800 --> 01:13.040 And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year and the first month, the first 01:13.040 --> 01:15.960 day of the month that the waters were dried up from off the earth. 01:15.960 --> 01:19.200 And Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked and behold the face of the ground was 01:19.200 --> 01:20.360 dry. 01:20.400 --> 01:24.080 And the second month on the seventh and twentieth day of the month was the earth dried. 01:24.080 --> 01:28.240 And God spake unto Noah saying, Go forth to the ark thou and thy wife, thy sons, thy 01:28.240 --> 01:29.920 sons' wives with thee. 01:29.920 --> 01:34.040 Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee of all flesh, both of fowl and 01:34.040 --> 01:37.960 of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, that they may breed 01:37.960 --> 01:41.440 abundantly in the earth and be fruitful and multiply upon the earth. 01:41.440 --> 01:46.360 And Noah went forth and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him, every beast, 01:46.360 --> 01:50.080 every creeping thing and every fowl and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth. 01:50.120 --> 01:52.720 After their kinds went forth out of the ark. 01:52.720 --> 01:56.640 And Noah built an altar unto the Lord and took up every clean beast and every clean 01:56.640 --> 02:00.440 fowl and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 02:00.440 --> 02:04.760 The Lord smelled the sweet savor and the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse 02:04.760 --> 02:09.080 the ground anymore for man's sake, for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his 02:09.080 --> 02:10.080 youth. 02:10.080 --> 02:13.640 Neither will I again smite anymore every living thing as I have done. 02:13.640 --> 02:17.320 While the earth remaineth to seed time and harvest and cold and heat and summer and winter 02:17.320 --> 02:19.040 and day and night shall not cease. 02:19.240 --> 02:20.040 Let's pray. 02:20.040 --> 02:23.280 Father God, we thank you dear Lord for the King James Bible and we thank you for this 02:23.280 --> 02:26.400 wonderful church you've given us and we thank you for every precious soul in it dear Lord 02:26.400 --> 02:27.800 and we thank you for our pastor. 02:27.800 --> 02:30.840 Please bless him as he preaches your word unto us in Jesus name we pray, amen. 02:32.160 --> 02:32.760 Amen. 02:32.760 --> 02:36.000 Okay, we're continuing this evening with our Bible study, the book of Genesis. 02:36.000 --> 02:37.800 I'm going to do something a little different tonight. 02:37.800 --> 02:41.600 Of course, I am going to cover chapter 8, but I'm also going to get into chapter 9. 02:41.600 --> 02:46.520 Now, the reason for that is because I want to catch up from last week, but really when 02:46.520 --> 02:48.560 you read chapter 8, it's pretty self-explanatory. 02:49.200 --> 02:53.640 Noah and his family are getting off the ark and we do have some pretty important passages 02:53.640 --> 02:58.160 in chapter 8 that I'm going to address, but I am going to breeze over some of the information 02:58.160 --> 03:02.520 that's given and just kind of give you an overview of what exactly is taking place with 03:02.520 --> 03:04.760 Noah exiting the ark. 03:04.760 --> 03:08.960 First and foremost in verses 1 through 5, we do have God remembering Noah. 03:08.960 --> 03:12.600 Of course, at this point, he has drowned the entire world. 03:12.600 --> 03:16.760 Everyone is dead and Noah and his family are the only ones alive. 03:16.760 --> 03:17.760 God remembers Noah. 03:17.760 --> 03:19.560 Not to say that he forgot Noah. 03:19.560 --> 03:23.840 This is just simply saying that God is now going to move to act on Noah's behalf. 03:23.840 --> 03:29.920 The time of judgment has now ended and the time of a new beginning is beginning to start. 03:29.920 --> 03:36.800 He starts drying the earth by allowing the winds to move the water and slowly allow the 03:36.800 --> 03:39.480 land mass to come to the surface. 03:39.480 --> 03:41.760 The water slowly begins to go down. 03:41.760 --> 03:46.320 The ark finally stops moving in the mountains of Ararat. 03:46.320 --> 03:48.640 Then the land begins to appear. 03:48.640 --> 03:53.120 If you look at verse number 6, it says, and it came to pass at the end of 40 days that 03:53.120 --> 03:56.960 Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made. 03:56.960 --> 03:57.960 So what is Noah doing here? 03:57.960 --> 04:03.880 Of course, although he knows that it's pretty much the judgment is over, he's not necessarily 04:03.880 --> 04:07.920 hasty to just get out of the ark and then start a new life. 04:07.920 --> 04:13.800 He's obviously testing the conditions of the earth to see if they are suitable for living. 04:13.800 --> 04:18.880 The interesting thing here is that in verse 6 it says that at the end of 40 days he begins 04:18.880 --> 04:19.880 to do this. 04:19.880 --> 04:20.880 Now why is that significant? 04:20.880 --> 04:27.020 Well, in the Bible, the number 40 is often a number that signifies testing. 04:27.020 --> 04:30.400 We have that number appearing multiple times throughout the Word of God. 04:30.400 --> 04:34.060 You have 40 days of Moses being on Mount Sinai. 04:34.060 --> 04:38.560 You have 40 years of Israel wandering in the wilderness being tested. 04:38.560 --> 04:41.600 You have 40 days of Jesus being tempted in the wilderness. 04:41.600 --> 04:45.200 Of course, here after 40 days what happens? 04:45.200 --> 04:51.560 Noah begins to test the conditions of the earth to see if they are suitable for exiting 04:51.560 --> 04:54.200 the ark and starting his new life there. 04:54.200 --> 05:02.080 So he begins by waiting for the period, that 40 day period, in order to start doing that. 05:02.080 --> 05:03.080 What does he do? 05:03.080 --> 05:06.960 He sends forth a raven, but he also sends forth a dove. 05:06.960 --> 05:09.080 Now the raven here, why does he do that? 05:09.200 --> 05:12.760 Well, it's because of the fact that he's testing for death and carcasses. 05:12.760 --> 05:14.160 You say, how so? 05:14.160 --> 05:21.120 Well, a raven is a bird that essentially feeds on that which is dead, carcasses. 05:21.120 --> 05:26.120 The way that Noah can tell if the waters are coming down is if the carcasses are coming 05:26.120 --> 05:27.120 up. 05:27.120 --> 05:32.400 So if there is a place for the raven to rest his foot upon and begin eating the carcasses, 05:32.400 --> 05:37.240 it's kind of an indicator, okay, the water is starting to go down, the surfaces are starting 05:37.240 --> 05:40.440 to come up, bodies are essentially arising. 05:40.440 --> 05:43.000 And so that's indicated by the raven itself. 05:43.000 --> 05:48.040 So he sends forth the raven first, which is a scavenger bird so he can feed on carcasses 05:48.040 --> 05:52.640 and dead flesh that unfortunately is floating in the water. 05:52.640 --> 05:57.120 And so because of this, it does not need dry land to survive. 05:57.120 --> 06:00.940 It's somewhat of an indicator, like, okay, progress is being made, we're not fully ready 06:00.940 --> 06:06.880 yet to exit the ark, but because the raven doesn't return, it's obviously found sustenance. 06:06.880 --> 06:11.440 You know, landing upon carcasses and that which is dead in order to feed upon it says, 06:11.440 --> 06:17.280 and he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro until the waters were dried up 06:17.280 --> 06:18.920 from off the earth. 06:18.920 --> 06:22.440 And so the raven never returns to the ark. 06:22.440 --> 06:26.680 It flies back and forth and this likely means that there were still floating remains and 06:26.680 --> 06:29.440 debris where it could land and feed. 06:29.440 --> 06:34.080 The raven surviving outside indicates death is still present in the environment. 06:34.080 --> 06:38.560 In other words, the earth was not yet suitable for normal life. 06:38.560 --> 06:41.460 But then he also sends forth the dove, right? 06:41.460 --> 06:43.960 And the dove, what is he sending forth the dove for? 06:43.960 --> 06:49.220 To test for living vegetation, suitable areas for the dove to live in. 06:49.220 --> 06:54.080 So he sends forth that dove and obviously we know that the dove cannot survive on carcasses, 06:54.080 --> 06:55.080 okay? 06:55.080 --> 07:01.180 It needs dry land, it needs some form of vegetation, it requires a clean place to rest. 07:01.180 --> 07:05.180 So therefore when he sends forth the dove, it returns to him because the waters were 07:05.180 --> 07:11.060 on the face of the whole earth still and so there was no dry land yet suitable for life 07:11.060 --> 07:13.420 as indicated by the fact that the dove returned. 07:13.420 --> 07:17.900 However, he sends it forth again and then it does return but it returns with an olive 07:17.900 --> 07:18.900 leaf, okay? 07:18.900 --> 07:21.460 Now this is very significant because what does that mean? 07:21.460 --> 07:26.980 Well, it means that the water has lowered to the extent where vegetation has begun to 07:26.980 --> 07:28.380 grow again, okay? 07:28.380 --> 07:30.260 Which is very important. 07:30.260 --> 07:36.460 These are emerging from the waters and the earth is recovering from the flood judgment. 07:36.460 --> 07:41.040 So the olive leaf becomes somewhat of a symbol of the fact that, you know, God is starting 07:41.040 --> 07:42.040 something new. 07:42.040 --> 07:47.040 But even then, he's not exiting from the ark because again, the dove returns. 07:47.040 --> 07:51.060 If it was already suitable, it would have stayed out there and it would have been fine 07:51.060 --> 07:52.100 but that doesn't happen. 07:52.100 --> 07:57.840 So then he sends it forth again and at that point the dove does not return which means 07:57.840 --> 08:05.240 dry land now exists, vegetation is available, the bird can survive outside of the ark and 08:05.240 --> 08:08.760 so the earth is now habitable again. 08:08.760 --> 08:09.840 So what do we have here? 08:09.840 --> 08:16.000 We have a practical lesson that obviously Noah is not necessarily in a rush to get out 08:16.000 --> 08:17.000 of the ark. 08:17.000 --> 08:21.440 He's testing the water, so to speak, to make sure that everything is suitable for him to 08:21.440 --> 08:23.860 exit and then make his move. 08:23.860 --> 08:25.860 Now go to verse 15 if you would. 08:25.860 --> 08:27.620 Verse 15 says this, 08:27.620 --> 08:33.540 And God speaking to Noah, saying, Go forth of the ark, thou and thy wife and thy sons 08:33.540 --> 08:35.860 and thy sons' wives with thee. 08:35.860 --> 08:37.700 Now here we have two elements, right? 08:37.700 --> 08:43.700 Because Noah is obviously testing the conditions on a practical level but he's also waiting 08:43.700 --> 08:45.940 for the word of the Lord, right? 08:45.940 --> 08:51.360 He exits not only when he realizes on a practical level that the conditions are good for exiting 08:51.360 --> 08:54.340 but he's also awaiting the commandment of the Lord. 08:54.420 --> 08:56.620 This is kind of how we should live our lives, right? 08:56.620 --> 09:01.740 In other words, the way we make moves in life, the way we make decisions in life is first 09:01.740 --> 09:06.580 and foremost, you know, God expects us to exercise some form of wisdom, testing the 09:06.580 --> 09:08.300 conditions, right? 09:08.300 --> 09:13.180 Making sure things are suitable for, you know, whatever it may be that we're trying to do 09:13.180 --> 09:16.440 but in conjunction with the word of the Lord. 09:16.440 --> 09:20.220 Now if you don't know how to test conditions, then just go by the word of the Lord. 09:20.220 --> 09:21.220 Amen? 09:21.220 --> 09:25.580 Just go by the word of God and see what the Bible says, what it explicitly tells you to 09:25.580 --> 09:26.780 do. 09:26.780 --> 09:30.140 And so you can never go wrong with just obeying what the Bible says, right? 09:30.140 --> 09:34.660 But obviously there's instances where we want to make a decision but, you know, in the Bible 09:34.660 --> 09:37.180 it's not necessarily black and white. 09:37.180 --> 09:40.100 It's not necessarily distinctly clear what we should do. 09:40.100 --> 09:44.340 Well at that point, God wants us to just simply exercise wisdom. 09:44.340 --> 09:50.180 He wants us to make the right decision based upon the wisdom given to us either by experiences, 09:50.180 --> 09:55.580 by the experiences of others or by just simple guidelines and principles that the Bible lays 09:55.580 --> 09:56.580 out for us. 09:56.580 --> 09:57.580 You understand? 09:57.580 --> 10:03.060 And so here we have a good example of making decisions based off of both. 10:03.060 --> 10:07.420 We want to make sure that we know what the Bible says but, you know, also understand 10:07.420 --> 10:11.140 that we need to exercise wisdom and ask God for wisdom. 10:11.140 --> 10:16.140 You know, the Bible tells us, tells us if any of you lack wisdom, let them ask of God 10:16.140 --> 10:20.420 which give it to all men liberally and abradeth not, the Bible says. 10:20.420 --> 10:24.580 So obviously there's not going to be a verse in the Bible that says thou shalt do this 10:24.580 --> 10:26.180 this day, right? 10:26.180 --> 10:28.500 You know, this is the decision you have to make. 10:28.500 --> 10:30.300 This is what you have to do today. 10:30.300 --> 10:36.340 You know, the Bible provides guidelines, it provides principles and we're to exercise 10:36.340 --> 10:40.540 common sense and wisdom in order to make those decisions. 10:40.540 --> 10:41.980 So I like what Noah does here. 10:41.980 --> 10:46.740 He's obviously testing the conditions but in like manner, he's waiting for God to give 10:46.740 --> 10:48.180 him the green light. 10:48.180 --> 10:51.420 Now let me clarify something here real quick, okay? 10:51.420 --> 10:55.940 I'm not saying you have to wait for a voice from heaven to make a decision, right? 10:55.940 --> 10:59.580 Because you know, a lot of people out there, they're like, I feel like God's telling me, 10:59.580 --> 11:02.100 you know, in a dream or something like that. 11:02.100 --> 11:04.820 This is not that kind of church, okay? 11:04.820 --> 11:08.780 And you know, that's not, that's non-existent in Christianity. 11:08.780 --> 11:14.020 See that was a thing before in Bible times because of the fact that they did not have 11:14.020 --> 11:19.340 the entire revelation of God's word and so they had to go by visions. 11:19.340 --> 11:23.300 But let me just say this, the visions that people got from God in the Bible were very 11:23.300 --> 11:28.340 explicit and left no room for doubt that it was God who was the saint, right? 11:28.340 --> 11:31.420 You're like, well how do I know that I'm not getting that? 11:31.420 --> 11:35.420 Well because of the fact that we already have the revelation of God's word, we already have 11:36.420 --> 11:43.780 And here's a good way to just simply interpret that is that if you have a dream, if you have 11:43.780 --> 11:48.020 a vision and it coincides with the Bible, ditch the dream because the Bible already 11:48.020 --> 11:49.860 said it. 11:49.860 --> 11:53.980 But if you have a dream or a vision that contradicts what the Bible says, ditch the dream because 11:53.980 --> 11:55.260 the Bible is the final authority. 11:55.260 --> 11:56.620 So what am I saying? 11:56.620 --> 12:00.380 Well one is that if you're having a dream that coincides with the Bible, ignore your 12:00.380 --> 12:01.580 dream. 12:01.580 --> 12:04.900 But if you have a dream that coincides, that doesn't coincide with the Bible, you just 12:04.900 --> 12:07.340 had too many onions on your burger, right? 12:07.340 --> 12:09.860 You just had Taco Bell the previous night. 12:09.860 --> 12:12.460 And if you want some visions, right? 12:12.460 --> 12:16.580 Go ahead and get you some Taco Bell or whatever in your system and you will definitely have 12:16.580 --> 12:22.540 ... your cogitations will be troubling you throughout the night, amen? 12:22.540 --> 12:24.300 Why do you need drugs when you got Taco Bell? 12:24.300 --> 12:25.300 I'm just kidding. 12:25.300 --> 12:26.500 You know what I mean? 12:26.500 --> 12:31.080 So the point that I'm making here is the fact that we need to make sure that we exercise 12:32.080 --> 12:35.840 sense but also like Noah does here, wait for the word of the Lord. 12:35.840 --> 12:37.760 God spake unto Noah and told him to get out of the ark. 12:37.760 --> 12:38.760 Verse 17 says, 12:38.760 --> 12:57.080 So obviously the implication here is that all animals survived on the ark during this 12:57.960 --> 13:03.640 time and now it's time to release them so they can reproduce and replenish the earth. 13:03.640 --> 13:04.640 Verse 18 says, 13:04.640 --> 13:20.080 Let me just say that Noah and his family probably stuck to the high heaven with all that livestock 13:20.080 --> 13:21.760 and animals in there, right? 13:21.760 --> 13:22.760 Verse 20 says, 13:22.760 --> 13:35.200 And of course verse 21 says that the Lord spelled that sweet savor and the Lord said 13:35.200 --> 13:36.200 in his heart, 13:36.200 --> 13:44.760 So the first thing that Noah does before really establishing himself in this new world, before 13:44.760 --> 13:48.040 constructing his house and getting his house in order, what does he do? 13:48.040 --> 13:49.920 He worships the Lord, right? 13:50.040 --> 13:56.240 He offers a burnt offering unto the Lord for the fact that he arrived safely, he was able 13:56.240 --> 13:59.600 to survive the flood and he's worshiping God because of it. 13:59.600 --> 14:00.800 And that pleases the Lord. 14:00.800 --> 14:03.460 It says that he smells that sweet savor. 14:03.460 --> 14:09.340 And obviously that is a picture of the Lord Jesus Christ who is the Lamb of God who should 14:09.340 --> 14:10.980 take away the sins of the world. 14:10.980 --> 14:15.360 He was that burnt offering, so to speak, and that sweet savor unto the Lord. 14:15.360 --> 14:17.880 And so when God smells this, what does he say? 14:17.880 --> 14:24.480 I will not again curse the ground anymore for man's sake, for the imagination of man's 14:24.480 --> 14:27.640 heart is evil from his youth. 14:27.640 --> 14:33.760 Neither will I again smite anymore, excuse me, anymore everything living as I have done. 14:33.760 --> 14:39.120 So the first thing that God says after he smells the sacrifice is that he commits to 14:39.120 --> 14:42.160 not cursing the ground anymore for man's sake. 14:42.160 --> 14:43.160 Why? 14:43.160 --> 14:46.640 Because he understands that at the end of the day he can cleanse the entire world. 14:46.640 --> 14:52.040 He can literally just destroy billions of people and even with Noah and his family, 14:52.040 --> 14:54.400 wicked people will still prevail in this world. 14:54.400 --> 14:55.400 Why? 14:55.400 --> 14:59.480 Because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth. 14:59.480 --> 15:00.480 And how do we translate that? 15:00.480 --> 15:01.480 What does that mean? 15:01.480 --> 15:02.560 How do we interpret that? 15:02.560 --> 15:06.040 It means that at the end of the day our flesh is corruptible. 15:06.040 --> 15:11.680 And even in a perfect world where the conditions are great, you and your family are the last 15:11.680 --> 15:12.680 ones, guess what? 15:12.680 --> 15:14.480 You're going to corrupt this world still. 15:14.480 --> 15:15.480 Why? 15:15.480 --> 15:16.480 Because of our corruptible flesh. 15:17.320 --> 15:18.320 And we're sinners. 15:18.320 --> 15:22.560 And this is what God is stating here is that at the end of the day there is no physical 15:22.560 --> 15:29.220 cleansing that can be made to completely remove the wickedness of man from this world. 15:29.220 --> 15:30.220 What is needed? 15:30.220 --> 15:33.640 The cleansing blood of Jesus Christ. 15:33.640 --> 15:38.500 And so this is in conjunction with the sacrifice that's being made here. 15:38.500 --> 15:42.080 God is essentially saying that he's not going to flood the world because at the end of the 15:42.840 --> 15:47.720 Even with eight people surviving the flood, out of those eight, you're going to have an 15:47.720 --> 15:52.320 extremely wicked people come from them known as the Canaanites. 15:52.320 --> 15:56.060 And of course, even out of the other sons, there's going to be sinners. 15:56.060 --> 16:01.600 Even though they are righteous, they're still corruptible because of the flesh, because 16:01.600 --> 16:04.320 of the fact that they are sinful man. 16:04.320 --> 16:06.400 They are evil from their youth. 16:06.400 --> 16:09.480 And when it says evil from their youth, it's not necessarily saying that they are like 16:09.480 --> 16:11.160 workers of iniquity. 16:11.160 --> 16:15.680 It's just communicating the fact that man is sinful. 16:15.680 --> 16:20.760 Even though you have an innocent baby born into this world, that baby, as innocent as 16:20.760 --> 16:25.440 it is when it grows up, will be slain by the law, will commit sin, will do that which is 16:25.440 --> 16:29.820 displeasing in the eyes of God because of its corruptible flesh. 16:29.820 --> 16:36.560 And he says here, neither will I against smite anymore everything living as I have done. 16:36.560 --> 16:38.920 And what this means is that he's not going to flood the world. 16:38.920 --> 16:40.560 We're going to see this in chapter nine. 16:40.560 --> 16:44.320 He's not going to necessarily flood the world where he just destroys every living thing. 16:44.320 --> 16:48.880 Now we obviously know that he's going to baptize the world in fire in the end times. 16:48.880 --> 16:52.280 And when you read the book of Revelation, a lot of people die. 16:52.280 --> 16:57.440 But here's the thing is that as many people as we see die in end times, it still doesn't 16:57.440 --> 17:01.640 compare to the amount of people that died during the flood. 17:01.640 --> 17:07.400 And so he's not smiting every living thing in the end times as he did here in Genesis 17:07.400 --> 17:08.400 chapter seven. 17:08.720 --> 17:15.080 Verse 22 says, while the earth remaineth, see time and harvest and cold and heat and 17:15.080 --> 17:20.160 summer and winter and day and night shall not cease. 17:20.160 --> 17:21.160 Now what is this saying? 17:21.160 --> 17:27.920 Well, this is implying that the world has physically changed forever after the flood 17:27.920 --> 17:33.800 because the wording strongly suggests that the post-flood world operated a lot differently 17:33.800 --> 17:35.840 than the pre-flood world. 17:36.800 --> 17:41.120 According to this passage, it never really had seasonal cycles. 17:41.120 --> 17:42.120 Right. 17:42.120 --> 17:45.760 There was never summer, winter, harvest, spring. 17:45.760 --> 17:50.920 The climate appears to have been far more stable in the pre-flood world. 17:50.920 --> 17:55.840 And of course, as we know, there were longer lifespans in the pre-flood world. 17:55.840 --> 18:00.320 Lush vegetation obviously suggests a very different environment. 18:00.320 --> 18:05.880 So once the flood came and just destroyed everything, it actually kind of changed the 18:05.880 --> 18:09.720 face of the world, including the seasons and so forth. 18:09.720 --> 18:14.600 And so after the flood, God explicitly states that cold, heat, summer, and winter will now 18:14.600 --> 18:16.600 characterize life on earth. 18:16.600 --> 18:17.760 And make no mistake about it. 18:17.760 --> 18:20.720 It's going to continue like this forevermore. 18:20.720 --> 18:26.920 Because even when you read the book of Revelation, in the new heaven and the new earth, the seasons 18:26.920 --> 18:27.920 are still continuing. 18:27.920 --> 18:28.920 OK. 18:28.960 --> 18:31.640 Nowhere in the Bible does it say that they stop. 18:31.640 --> 18:34.800 And so this is something that extends far into eternity. 18:34.800 --> 18:39.760 This implies that the flood did more than just destroy life and animals. 18:39.760 --> 18:43.280 It fundamentally reshaped the planet's environmental systems. 18:43.280 --> 18:50.120 Obviously, atmospheric conditions changed, ocean distribution, land elevations. 18:50.120 --> 18:55.480 Anytime I travel, if I'm on an airplane or if I'm driving through particular states and 18:55.480 --> 18:57.800 you see these large mountains, right? 18:58.120 --> 19:00.200 You see these large hills, large mountains. 19:00.200 --> 19:03.000 I always think to myself, like, the flood made that. 19:03.000 --> 19:03.720 Right? 19:03.720 --> 19:09.400 When you look at these massive just mountains, and even by where I live, they're not massive, 19:09.400 --> 19:10.840 but they are large hills. 19:10.840 --> 19:15.160 I think to myself, like, the flood had a major part in that. 19:15.160 --> 19:20.680 These chasms throughout the world, obviously, the flood was responsible for much of that. 19:20.680 --> 19:27.240 So the land elevations, weather patterns, all of this was influenced by the flood. 19:27.240 --> 19:33.720 So from that point forward, the earth would operate according to a regular seasonal cycle 19:33.720 --> 19:38.440 that governs agriculture and, of course, just life on earth in general. 19:38.440 --> 19:40.520 Now, let's go to chapter 9. 19:40.520 --> 19:42.040 Chapter 9, if you would. 19:43.720 --> 19:44.920 Chapter 9. 19:44.920 --> 19:49.480 Now, you know, you ask yourself, so, pastor, you know, that's all good, you know? 19:49.480 --> 19:50.520 That's all great and everything. 19:50.520 --> 19:52.040 Really interesting, pastor. 19:52.040 --> 19:55.320 But, you know, like, so do you think that that's the ark over there, though? 19:55.320 --> 19:55.960 You know? 19:55.960 --> 20:01.960 That little, that image that Al-Maharraat right now, that people find and they say they 20:01.960 --> 20:04.760 found, you know, the ark or whatever? 20:04.760 --> 20:07.560 Well, it's my personal opinion that it's not, okay? 20:08.280 --> 20:12.840 And the reason why I don't think that is Noah's ark, no offense to Haik over here, 20:12.840 --> 20:18.680 because, you know, that's what they base their entire ethnicity on, is just like, oh, you know. 20:18.680 --> 20:22.120 First Christians, Noah's ark in Armenia and all that. 20:23.240 --> 20:24.280 But let me explain to you why. 20:24.280 --> 20:28.760 From a practical perspective, if you're getting off the ark and you're trying to start life, 20:28.760 --> 20:34.040 and, you know, you're trying to build homes, use wood for fire, before you start digging into, 20:34.600 --> 20:39.080 you know, whatever trees there are, you know, there's a great source of wood right next to you 20:39.080 --> 20:40.760 called the ark, right? 20:40.760 --> 20:45.400 So they're obviously probably using that or tearing that down, you know, just because it's 20:45.400 --> 20:51.160 common sense to just use that for building or for whatever it may be and just utilize that. 20:51.160 --> 20:54.600 But at the end of the day, let's say it was, it doesn't really mean anything, right? 20:54.600 --> 20:58.920 A lot of times today, people are obsessed with, well, we found the ark of the covenant. 20:58.920 --> 21:00.040 You know, well, let's just say you did. 21:00.040 --> 21:01.000 It doesn't mean anything. 21:02.120 --> 21:02.360 Okay. 21:03.000 --> 21:07.960 You know, oh, man, we found, you know, the shroud of Turin or something like that, 21:07.960 --> 21:11.320 which I don't even believe is the shroud that covered Jesus Christ. 21:12.120 --> 21:15.480 Because you look at the images, it's like, that's not my God right there. 21:15.480 --> 21:20.600 That's some European dude, you know, and, you know, he has long hair and it fits the 21:20.600 --> 21:23.400 Catholic description, but not the biblical description. 21:24.120 --> 21:26.280 But, you know, let's just say it was, it doesn't matter. 21:27.640 --> 21:28.920 It literally does not matter. 21:28.920 --> 21:34.200 God does not esteem those things as being anything viable according to spiritual, 21:34.200 --> 21:35.960 you know, within spiritual means. 21:36.440 --> 21:39.640 You know, the thing that matters the most is spiritual things, right? 21:39.640 --> 21:43.080 Me commendeth us not to God for neither if we eat, are we the better, 21:43.080 --> 21:45.000 neither if we eat, not are we the worse. 21:45.000 --> 21:49.240 Essentially saying that, you know what, sometimes people focus on these physical things so much 21:49.240 --> 21:51.400 as though they mean something spiritual, but they don't. 21:52.120 --> 21:57.240 And so very important to know if it is Noah's Ark and it's legitimate, cool, 21:57.240 --> 21:58.680 but doesn't really mean anything. 21:59.240 --> 22:00.840 You know, look at chapter nine, if you would. 22:02.040 --> 22:05.160 We're going to look at the commission and prohibitions that he starts giving in chapter 22:05.160 --> 22:10.120 nine verse one says, and God bless Noah and his sons and sent into them, 22:10.120 --> 22:13.640 be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth. 22:13.640 --> 22:16.200 So obviously God is blessing the womb at this point. 22:16.760 --> 22:17.080 Why? 22:17.080 --> 22:20.760 Well, because they need to start getting down to business and start replenishing the world. 22:20.760 --> 22:21.320 Right. 22:21.320 --> 22:23.000 I mean, it's eight of them. 22:23.000 --> 22:25.320 God is obviously going to multiply them. 22:25.320 --> 22:28.600 He wants them to replenish, start having babies. 22:28.600 --> 22:30.040 There's a lot of work to do here. 22:30.040 --> 22:30.520 Right. 22:30.520 --> 22:33.800 So he says, be fruitful, multiply, replenish the earth. 22:33.800 --> 22:38.840 Verse two, and the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth 22:38.840 --> 22:42.360 and upon every foul the air, upon all that moved upon the earth 22:42.360 --> 22:45.400 and upon all the fishes of the sea into your hand are they delivered. 22:45.400 --> 22:51.560 So there's obviously some sort of division here of how animals viewed mankind as opposed 22:51.560 --> 22:53.480 to how they viewed them prior to the flood. 22:53.480 --> 22:58.040 Every moving thing that liveth, I want you to notice this shall be meat for you. 22:58.040 --> 22:58.680 Okay. 22:58.680 --> 23:01.160 I mentioned this before, but it's worth mentioning again. 23:02.040 --> 23:08.840 This is proof that, you know, even the unclean animals, according to the Mosaic standard, 23:09.480 --> 23:15.080 were permissible to eat because he says every living thing shall be meat for you. 23:15.720 --> 23:17.080 And this is God speaking this. 23:17.080 --> 23:20.360 He's saying, look, you know, if it can move, it can be eaten. 23:20.360 --> 23:20.680 Right. 23:21.320 --> 23:24.200 Now, you know, there's people today that still take this very serious. 23:25.560 --> 23:28.280 You know, we're talking about this, I think it was last week, you know, 23:29.560 --> 23:33.560 my Chinese sister-in-law, okay, I got to make that disclaimer. 23:34.280 --> 23:35.720 Less people think I'm racist or something. 23:35.720 --> 23:38.840 You know, my Chinese sister-in-law said that the part of the world that she's from, 23:38.840 --> 23:42.200 the part of China that she's from, I think it's called Dalian or something like that. 23:42.200 --> 23:43.000 Some Chinese name. 23:43.960 --> 23:46.760 She says that they have this philosophy that is just like, 23:46.760 --> 23:49.960 if the sun's hit in the back, it's good to eat, you know? 23:50.680 --> 23:53.960 So it's just like, as long as the sun hits it, it's good to go. 23:53.960 --> 23:56.520 So, you know, they still take this very serious. 23:56.520 --> 23:59.000 But at the end of the day, we may think, man, that's gross. 23:59.000 --> 24:02.600 But here's the thing, though, is that from the beginning, it was so, right? 24:03.480 --> 24:09.240 After the flood, God said, you can eat pretty much anything and nothing is off limits. 24:09.240 --> 24:14.680 Now, keep in mind is that animals were still categorized as being clean or unclean, 24:14.680 --> 24:20.280 but they weren't forbidden to be eaten until the Mosaic Law was instituted. 24:21.080 --> 24:24.200 Now, that's important to know because you have people today that think that we're still under 24:24.200 --> 24:30.600 that Mosaic Law as though the dietary rules that we see in the Old Testament still apply. 24:31.240 --> 24:35.240 What they fail to realize, or should I say what they just blatantly ignore, 24:35.880 --> 24:39.480 is the fact that the New Testament specifically says that those meats, 24:39.480 --> 24:43.000 drinks, divers, washings, and cardinal ordinances are no longer imposed upon us. 24:43.720 --> 24:49.960 Those things were done in order to symbolically represent spiritual truths in the New Testament. 24:49.960 --> 24:55.960 They were imposed upon the nation of Israel during a small window of time 24:55.960 --> 24:57.880 in order to accomplish that Old Covenant. 24:58.920 --> 25:02.280 And so that's important for us to understand, you know, 25:02.280 --> 25:07.560 I'm not for this, well, you can't eat pork, you can't eat shrimp, you can't eat whatever. 25:07.560 --> 25:11.080 According to the Bible, you know, it's good to go, right? 25:11.640 --> 25:17.000 And in fact, if you run into a religion or any segment of Christianity so-called 25:17.880 --> 25:21.960 that tells you to abstain from these things, according to 1 Timothy chapter 4, 25:21.960 --> 25:24.040 they're teaching a doctrine of devils. 25:25.400 --> 25:27.080 I mean, that's how serious it is, right? 25:27.720 --> 25:31.240 You know, people who say that you need to abstain, 25:31.240 --> 25:34.120 that they forbid to marry and command to abstain from meats, 25:34.120 --> 25:38.280 the Bible says they're teaching doctrines of devils because according to the Bible, 25:38.280 --> 25:46.120 every creature of God is good and nothing to be refused if it be received with Thanksgiving, 25:46.120 --> 25:49.880 for it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer. 25:49.880 --> 25:51.800 Now, a lot of times people have taken that verse to say, like, 25:51.800 --> 25:55.640 that's why we got to pray for our food, you know, to make sure that, like, 25:55.640 --> 26:00.920 God blesses this quarter pound of cheese and I don't get all the bad stuff from it or whatever. 26:00.920 --> 26:04.920 But what it's simply saying is that, like, it's sanctified by the word of God, 26:04.920 --> 26:08.040 it's saying that, like, God is now sanctioned for it to be consumed. 26:08.040 --> 26:12.280 Okay? So when you have people saying, oh, you can't eat this, you can't eat that or whatever, 26:12.280 --> 26:18.440 because it's against the Bible, it's a complete lie, it's not true, and it's a doctrine of devils. 26:18.440 --> 26:22.200 And I have to remind you of that because 1 Timothy chapter 4 tells me 26:22.760 --> 26:25.960 that in order for me to be a good minister of the word of God, 26:25.960 --> 26:27.960 I need to make sure that I'm preaching that to you. 26:27.960 --> 26:29.800 Okay? So eat up. 26:29.800 --> 26:33.640 And of course, we have multiple examples of this in the New Testament, 26:33.640 --> 26:37.640 where, for example, Acts chapter 10, God comes to Peter. 26:38.840 --> 26:43.240 And obviously, you know, the spiritual application there is that he wants Peter to go out and preach 26:43.240 --> 26:50.680 the gospel to the Gentiles, but he uses this vision of a sheet knit at the four corners 26:50.680 --> 26:54.280 with every single animal that's clean and unclean on top of it. 26:54.280 --> 26:56.600 And he says what? Rise, kill, and eat. 26:57.320 --> 27:00.760 And then Peter is just like, not so, Lord, for nothing common or unclean 27:00.760 --> 27:04.280 has ever entered into my mouth. I don't eat shrimp. I don't eat pork or whatever. 27:04.920 --> 27:07.560 And God's like, he had to do it three times. 27:09.400 --> 27:13.480 And then finally, he like understood, like, oh, I guess I should obey God, you know what I mean? 27:13.480 --> 27:16.440 And he eats it. But then he realizes that the spiritual application 27:17.080 --> 27:20.200 is that God wants him to go on and reach the Cornelius. 27:20.760 --> 27:26.440 Cornelius is a Roman centurion. He is a Gentile, and he's very much open to the gospel. 27:27.000 --> 27:31.400 Now, people often will look at that explanation and say, oh, you're missing the point. 27:32.040 --> 27:35.560 The point is that Peter, God wanted Peter to reach out to the Gentiles. 27:35.560 --> 27:38.040 Yeah, but he uses a legitimate illustration, though. 27:39.080 --> 27:43.240 You know, why would he cause him to sin in order to teach him the spiritual truth? 27:43.240 --> 27:46.440 It feels a sin, right? It doesn't make any sense. 27:46.440 --> 27:48.360 It's like, oh, it's so sinful to eat all that. 27:48.360 --> 27:55.080 Oh, so you're trying to tell me that God is using this vision and he's causing Peter to sin 27:55.080 --> 27:58.520 in order to teach him obedience. It doesn't make any sense. 27:59.240 --> 28:03.960 He's using the illustration of eating unclean animals because according to the Jews, 28:03.960 --> 28:07.720 Gentiles were unclean. And in fact, we're still unclean to them, right? 28:09.560 --> 28:12.680 And so, you know, he's he's he's kind of viewing them as an unclean animal. 28:12.680 --> 28:16.920 And God is saying, well, God has cleansed and actually after chances, well, God has cleansed 28:16.920 --> 28:21.880 that called not out common or unclean. It doesn't mean that God has saved the Gentiles. 28:21.880 --> 28:25.240 He's just saying like they're sanctified, like they're set apart now. 28:25.880 --> 28:31.800 They are good to go. Like you can go out and consume the Gentiles, give them the gospel, 28:32.360 --> 28:36.440 preach to them kind of thing because, you know, they're receptive to the word of God. 28:37.000 --> 28:40.840 And so obviously, there's multiple examples in the New Testament that teaches this, 28:40.840 --> 28:46.440 but it starts off here in Genesis where he's saying that every living thing that 28:46.520 --> 28:51.640 shall be meat for you, even as the green herb, have I given you all things. 28:52.280 --> 28:56.760 So obviously, you know, people were, you know, eating a vegetarian diet as well. 28:56.760 --> 29:02.600 He just saying like you can also eat meat, like eat the berries, eat the fruits or whatever, 29:02.600 --> 29:07.560 you know, and eat the eat the dog too. He says in verse number four, 29:07.560 --> 29:11.640 but flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall you not eat. 29:12.280 --> 29:17.400 So he's saying, you know, you could pretty much eat any animal, just make sure there's no blood 29:17.400 --> 29:23.560 in the animal though, when you're eating it. So, you know, not don't eat anything raw with blood 29:23.560 --> 29:30.120 or, you know, in it, make sure it's drained out or whatever. And don't be a pagan, a heathen about it. 29:30.120 --> 29:37.560 And why is that? Why is he forbidding for man to eat flesh with blood? Because blood plays a very 29:38.280 --> 29:43.480 sacred role in life, right? It is the life of the flesh. And of course, you know, there is a 29:43.480 --> 29:51.240 symbolic representation here of the sanctity of the blood of Jesus Christ. And so he's saying, 29:51.240 --> 29:56.280 look, you can eat anything you want, just as every green herb, but you got to make sure that the 29:56.280 --> 30:01.480 blood is drained out and that you are consuming it and it doesn't have blood in it because obviously 30:01.480 --> 30:07.400 that is that is sinful to do. Okay, look at verse number five, it says, and surely your blood of your 30:07.400 --> 30:12.120 lives will I require at the hand of every priest will I require it. And at the hand of man, at the 30:12.120 --> 30:19.880 hand of every man's brother, will I require the life of man who so shedded man's blood by man 30:19.880 --> 30:25.400 shall his blood be shed for in the image of God made he man. Now this is important to note here 30:25.400 --> 30:32.840 because verse six is essentially showing us God sanctioning the death penalty, capital punishment 30:32.840 --> 30:39.880 for killing someone right murder. He's saying that if you shed man's blood by man shall your blood 30:39.880 --> 30:45.720 be shed. Now this isn't saying that murder just became wrong or something right. Like, oh man, 30:45.720 --> 30:49.640 now it's now it's bad or something. Because you think there's several you know, I'm kind of 30:49.640 --> 30:56.120 confused here because he's instituted the death penalty here in in Genesis chapter nine. But like 30:56.120 --> 31:02.600 the first sin that was basically committed after Adam and Eve was able arcane killing able. And 31:02.600 --> 31:08.440 then obviously Kane's descendant committed murder. He killed or he killed someone. So what's going 31:08.440 --> 31:11.480 on there because they didn't receive the death penalty. Well, you have to understand on a 31:11.480 --> 31:16.280 practical level, the death penalty couldn't necessarily be instituted right away. Because 31:16.280 --> 31:23.080 then like there'd be no people. You know, it's just Kane, right? He has to replenish the earth. 31:23.080 --> 31:27.960 Obviously, he received a mark. Obviously, God protected him. And obviously, he became a vagabond 31:28.520 --> 31:33.720 you know, in all the world. But you know, there had to be this replenishment in the world. 31:33.720 --> 31:40.760 And it's also showing us that what happens when the death penalty is not punished speedily, 31:40.760 --> 31:46.440 people begin to do even more wickedly. Because what happened when Kane was not punished? What 31:46.440 --> 31:51.480 happened when his descendants were not punished? We have a Genesis six problem where violence fills 31:51.480 --> 31:57.800 the world, right? Because obviously, execution of these crimes are not executed speedily. So this 31:57.800 --> 32:03.000 is God basically saying like now from here on out, we need to make sure you guys need to make sure 32:03.000 --> 32:08.040 that you're instituting the death penalty for those who shed blood. Now this is before the 32:08.040 --> 32:14.040 mosaic law being instituted. Because people you know, today, Christians today think like, oh, 32:14.040 --> 32:20.360 you can't be pro death penalty. That's wrong. We're New Testament Christians. But this, you know, 32:20.360 --> 32:26.280 the death penalty was instituted in Genesis way before the mosaic law. Okay. And it's just crazy 32:26.280 --> 32:31.320 to think that there's Christians out there that are not for the death penalty. Just insane. You 32:31.320 --> 32:36.280 know, it's just like everyone has should have an opportunity opportunity for what to kill again? 32:36.280 --> 32:40.840 What do you want from people? You know, there has to be consequences to actions. And to say, 32:41.480 --> 32:47.720 to weaponize the New Testament, to say that it's not right for Christians to, you know, 32:47.720 --> 32:52.200 institute the death penalty is just plain ignorance of the New Testament. Because you have 32:53.080 --> 32:59.480 Romans 13 clearly saying that God has sanctioned governments to put people to death for capital 32:59.480 --> 33:06.120 crimes. You know, it says that he does not bear the sword in vain, right? A sword is not for 33:06.120 --> 33:12.200 spanking. It's not for a slap in the wrist. It's the slice and dice, right? It's just pierce someone 33:12.200 --> 33:17.320 through and kill someone. And make no mistake about it. When the Bible says thou shall not kill, 33:17.480 --> 33:22.120 obviously the implication there when we compare it to the entirety of scripture, 33:22.120 --> 33:27.400 it's referring to murder. Because not all killing is wrong. Why? Because when you put someone to 33:27.400 --> 33:32.440 death for a capital crime, you're killing someone. But that's actually righteous in the eyes of God. 33:32.440 --> 33:38.920 Right? You know, self-defense isn't considered murder if you kill someone because they try to 33:38.920 --> 33:44.040 kill you. That's actually sanctioned in the Bible. And you know, that's not wrong. And so yeah, 33:44.680 --> 33:49.880 killing in general is wrong if it's murder, premeditated murder. But if you're defending 33:49.880 --> 33:54.200 someone, if someone's being put to death for a capital crime, that is actually justifiable in 33:54.200 --> 34:00.840 the eyes of God. Okay? No, killing is wrong or whatever. You're just ignorant of the New Testament. 34:00.840 --> 34:04.200 Romans 1 says that they which commit such things, listen to this, are worthy of death. 34:05.720 --> 34:12.040 Right? Yeah, but what would Jesus say? Let him die the death. How about that? 34:14.040 --> 34:17.720 I mean, what's the issue here? Yeah, but I mean, how many more scriptures do you need? 34:18.840 --> 34:24.920 How many? And here's the thing. The reason the New Testament doesn't reiterate what the same 34:24.920 --> 34:29.720 amount of volume of verses as the Old Testament did is because God expects for you to read the 34:29.720 --> 34:35.160 Old Testament already. Like, does he have to give you like all those commands again in the New 34:35.160 --> 34:40.520 Testament for you to get? Like, don't be lazy. Read the Old Testament. And if God repeals it in 34:40.520 --> 34:44.520 the New, he'll let you know. He'll give you a note to let you know, don't, you know, hey, 34:44.520 --> 34:52.280 this is done for. But if it's not, then continue at business as usual. Okay? You know, and for 34:52.280 --> 34:58.200 Christians not to be pro death penalty is just extremely unrighteous and wicked because it is a 34:58.200 --> 35:07.080 lack of love for justice. Capital punishments for capital crimes is people executing justice and God 35:07.080 --> 35:13.560 loves justice. People need to pay for their crimes. And so, you know, we have this all the 35:13.560 --> 35:19.560 way in the beginning. God had already instituted somewhat, you know, small government here to 35:20.440 --> 35:26.440 shed man's blood for shedding man's blood because they're made in the image of God. 35:26.440 --> 35:30.360 And so very important to note that there. Now you say then why, you know, 35:30.360 --> 35:35.560 why did he reiterate this during the Mosaic law? Well, because of the fact that once you have the 35:35.560 --> 35:41.240 Mosaic law, once the children of Israel, you know, they're delivered out of Egypt, they go to Mount 35:41.240 --> 35:49.160 Sinai. Now it's like a functioning government. So now like God has a people that he can rule over 35:49.160 --> 35:55.080 specifically as a nation. It's what we would commonly refer to as a theocracy where God is 35:55.080 --> 36:00.840 their king. Right. And now they can get more organized about this stuff. It's not like just 36:00.840 --> 36:05.880 a stoning taking place here. People kill, you know, it's like now they have judges. 36:05.880 --> 36:12.120 They can investigate a matter. They can inquire diligently. You understand? And they have these 36:12.120 --> 36:18.040 specific rules that they have to abide by if they want to or have to put someone to death. 36:18.680 --> 36:22.360 OK, for example, let me just give you this last point and we'll move on with this. 36:22.920 --> 36:27.960 You know, sodomy is a capital crime that's punishable by death according to the Bible. 36:27.960 --> 36:33.240 Every Christian should say amen and be in agreement with that. OK, if you believe the 36:33.240 --> 36:36.920 Bible, you call yourself a Christian because the Bible says so today if we still had that, 36:36.920 --> 36:43.000 like homos would we put the death like left and right? OK, if they're committing the act of 36:43.000 --> 36:47.800 sodomy and they were caught for it, then they would get put to death. Right. Now, here's the 36:47.800 --> 36:52.440 thing, though, is that prior to the Mosaic law, that wasn't really happening. So God was just 36:52.440 --> 36:57.080 taking matters into his own hands and just putting them to death. Because you have Genesis 19. 36:58.040 --> 37:04.360 So he just wipes out an entire city of homos, right, for committing that crime, just destroys 37:04.360 --> 37:10.280 them. I know, like a lot of we Christians like to just ignore Genesis 19 and you read Genesis 18, 37:10.280 --> 37:16.360 just skip to 20 or something like that. But 19 is there, though, OK, where God literally just 37:16.360 --> 37:22.680 rains down fire and brimstone upon a city who is guilty of the perverse act of sodomy 37:22.680 --> 37:27.720 and just does not let anybody live except for Lot. And Lot was not a sodomite. He just he's 37:27.720 --> 37:32.760 just like these guys who defend sodomites. Right. He's a he's a right. It says that he was a righteous 37:32.760 --> 37:39.560 man and not because, you know, he lived righteously because he was saved. He delivered just lot, 37:39.560 --> 37:43.720 the Bible says. And it doesn't mean like he delivered just him and just saying that Lot was 37:43.720 --> 37:48.120 a just man. He was a righteous man. But now that the mosaic law was instituted, 37:48.120 --> 37:55.480 now it's like, OK, now you guys do it. OK, like I rain fire and brimstone upon Sodom and Gomorrah. 37:55.480 --> 37:59.720 But now we have a functioning government. Here are the rules. This is what you have to do. 37:59.720 --> 38:03.640 Don't let it happen, because if you let it happen, if you let it go unfettered, 38:03.640 --> 38:07.720 you're going to have a Sodom and Gomorrah situation where people are being molested, 38:07.720 --> 38:12.840 they're being raped, children are being taken advantage of, you know, and so forth. And so 38:12.840 --> 38:17.000 don't let that happen. Don't let it get out of hand. Make sure you put them to death right away. 38:17.000 --> 38:22.280 And obviously they didn't listen. Right. Because then what do you have after that? Judges 19. 38:23.080 --> 38:29.000 You have literally a tribe in Israel full of homos. And you're trying to tell me that that's 38:29.000 --> 38:32.920 the first time they heard that they were committing that. Like they knew for a fact that these people 38:32.920 --> 38:39.000 were doing that. Right. They're just being lenient. So even though it is a law, just like today, 38:39.000 --> 38:44.680 there's a bunch of laws that the government doesn't impose punishments on. Right. You know, 38:44.680 --> 38:48.920 even though it was a law, they were being lenient with it. So they had another issue. They had 38:48.920 --> 38:54.280 literally a judges 19 that is the equivalent to what happened in Genesis 19. But then of course, 38:54.280 --> 38:59.080 God doesn't rain fire and brimstone upon them. He expects Israel to take care of the problem. 38:59.080 --> 39:05.080 Okay. Anyways, we're almost to June. So I just want to explain the death penalty here. 39:05.800 --> 39:09.640 God is saying, Hey, you need to make sure you don't let people who commit murder get away with it. 39:10.200 --> 39:14.600 Their blood needs to be shed. Look at verse seven, if you would. It says here, and you 39:14.600 --> 39:19.480 be fruitful and multiply and bring forth abundantly in the earth and multiply therein. 39:19.480 --> 39:22.840 It sounds like there's like a desperate need for repopulation because he's like reiterating 39:22.840 --> 39:29.160 this again. He's like, by the way, you know, go have babies. Verse eight says, and God spake 39:29.160 --> 39:35.160 into Noah and to his sons with him, saying, and I behold, I established my covenant with you 39:35.160 --> 39:40.360 and with your seed after you. He says, and with every living creature that is with you of the 39:40.360 --> 39:45.400 fowl, the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you for all that go out of the arc to every 39:45.400 --> 39:49.000 beast of the earth. And I will establish my covenant with you. Neither shall all flesh be 39:49.000 --> 39:55.800 cut off anymore by the waters of a flood. Neither shall there be there any more be a flood to destroy 39:55.800 --> 40:01.240 the earth. And so what does he do to essentially institute this covenant? He 40:02.040 --> 40:09.160 declares the rainbow to be right. That symbol that God would not destroy the world. Right. 40:09.160 --> 40:14.280 So it's a very beautiful picture. And, you know, we have the rainbow today, right, where when it 40:14.280 --> 40:20.920 rains, you know, take some time to admire that rainbow. It's not there on accident. Like anytime 40:20.920 --> 40:26.440 there's heavy rain in any area of the world and a rainbow appears, that's God's reminder. 40:27.160 --> 40:31.400 He's just like, hey, I'm not going to let it continue to rain and flood and destroy the world 40:31.400 --> 40:37.320 because I made a covenant with Noah. So that rainbow is like, you know, an ending of like a 40:37.320 --> 40:43.640 visible indicator of God's covenant with Noah. It's beautiful. Right. And he says there in verse 40:43.640 --> 40:48.120 12, and God said, this is the token of the covenant, which I make between me and you and every 40:48.120 --> 40:52.760 living creature that is with you for perpetual generations. I mean, to this generation, I do set 40:52.760 --> 40:59.160 my bow in the cloud and it shall be for a token, meaning a symbol of a covenant between me and the 40:59.160 --> 41:03.480 earth. And it shall come to pass when I bring a cloud over the earth, the bow shall be seen in the 41:03.480 --> 41:08.440 cloud. And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all 41:08.440 --> 41:13.320 flesh. And the water shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. So this seems to imply that 41:13.320 --> 41:17.320 sometimes it rains in certain parts of the world and God just wants it to continue to rain there. 41:17.960 --> 41:21.560 You know what I mean? Because it's such a wicked area or something like that. There's just, you 41:21.560 --> 41:25.720 know, floods it. But then he sees the rainbow and he's just like, I made a covenant. I'm not going 41:25.720 --> 41:30.200 to let it continue to flood. I'm not going to destroy the world. And obviously people die all 41:30.200 --> 41:35.320 over the world from floods, but not the entire world. Right. And so very important there. He 41:35.320 --> 41:41.080 says here in verse 16, and the bow shall be in the cloud. And I will look upon it that I may remember 41:41.080 --> 41:47.480 the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the 41:47.480 --> 41:51.240 earth. And God said into Noah, this is the token of the covenant, which I have established between 41:51.240 --> 41:58.360 me and all flesh that is upon the earth. So what is the rainbow significant of? It's the fact it's 41:58.360 --> 42:07.480 to indicate, it's to remind us of God's judgment, not of queerness, right? Not a faggotry and 42:07.480 --> 42:14.600 sodomy and perversion. And look, obviously, you know, I'm not interested in taking the rainbow back. 42:16.280 --> 42:20.440 Let's take the rainbow back. I'm not wearing no rainbow. Okay. It's just not going to happen, 42:21.320 --> 42:27.480 but I am going to recognize the bow in the sky as being a legitimate symbol of God's judgment 42:27.480 --> 42:32.840 and his mercy that when it rains, he will not destroy the world ever again. But it goes to 42:32.840 --> 42:38.360 show you that sodomites are super wicked and perverse and they are essentially mocking the 42:38.360 --> 42:45.160 things of God because they've taken that rainbow in order to represent perversion, right? And so 42:45.160 --> 42:49.240 they want to take that. And obviously people are like, oh, it's different colors. I don't care. 42:49.240 --> 42:54.520 Obviously they refer to it as a rainbow, but it's God who instituted that. And the irony there is 42:54.520 --> 43:02.440 that, you know, that rainbow is a token of judgment upon a violent world. And, you know, sometimes 43:02.440 --> 43:06.600 you'll see stuff on the internet was just like, oh, you know, it's interesting that sodomites do 43:06.600 --> 43:11.400 this even though it represents the fact that God destroyed the world for things that they did, 43:11.400 --> 43:16.680 but that's not necessarily 100% accurate. He did it because of violence, right? But it is a symbolic 43:16.680 --> 43:23.880 representation of just judgment period for sin. And so for them to try to like hijack that and 43:23.880 --> 43:29.240 use that to represent perversion, they are treasuring up wrath against the day of wrath. 43:29.960 --> 43:34.920 Okay. And so I'm not against you wearing a rainbow on your shirt or something like that. 43:35.640 --> 43:39.560 You know, I'm just saying like, that's not my thing. But, you know, if you want to do it, 43:39.560 --> 43:44.600 you're saying, you know, you put Genesis nine on there. I'm all for it. Amen. But, you know, 43:44.600 --> 43:48.440 they've obviously hijacked that just like they hijacked the word gay, just like they hijack 43:48.440 --> 43:54.200 everything. You know, they hijacked Disney. They hijacked their, they hijacked all of the movies 43:54.200 --> 44:00.680 or whatever. They pervert everything. Homo's destroy everything. You know, they just destroy 44:00.680 --> 44:06.840 health. They destroy young boys. They destroy children. They destroy Hollywood. Well, they're 44:06.840 --> 44:10.520 part of Hollywood actually. Hollywood's always been bad, but they just destroy everything that 44:10.520 --> 44:17.160 they touch. And so we have that God is instituting that boat to do so. So, you know, the next time 44:17.240 --> 44:24.920 it rains, take some time to admire the rainbow, right? Look at the rainbow, the double rainbow, 44:24.920 --> 44:30.040 you know, just admire that thing and let it remind you like, man, that's like, that's the token of the 44:30.040 --> 44:36.520 fact that like the whole world died at one point, like God was willing to flood the whole world. 44:36.520 --> 44:42.520 And that kind of like makes me think that when it rains, the world is still worthy of just 44:42.520 --> 44:48.360 completely dying. Like the world, like God is just like, I would wipe you guys out all again 44:48.360 --> 44:53.800 if I could, because the world is just so wicked. But because he's so faithful to his everlasting 44:53.800 --> 45:00.760 covenant with Noah, he won't, but he will burn the world one day. And so, you know, there is somewhat 45:00.760 --> 45:07.640 of a difference there. Look at verse 18. It says in the sons of Noah that went forth of the ark 45:08.440 --> 45:14.600 were Shem, Ham and Japheth. And Ham is the father of Canaan. These are the three sons of Noah. And 45:14.600 --> 45:21.000 of them was the whole earth overspread. And Noah began to be a husband man. And he planted a vineyard 45:21.000 --> 45:28.600 and he drank of the wine and was drunken and he was uncovered within his tent. So things go south 45:28.600 --> 45:35.880 real quick. Everything's growing, going great. He gets off the ark. He does the sacrifice. God makes 45:35.880 --> 45:41.640 a covenant with him, this beautiful bow. And then the dude gets drunk. Okay. When it says he becomes 45:41.640 --> 45:47.400 a husband, I mean, he basically is referring to the fact that he's growing grapes and obviously 45:47.400 --> 45:54.200 he's consuming alcohol. He's drinking fermented wine. Okay. Now let me make myself very clear is 45:54.200 --> 46:01.640 that when the Bible talks about wine, it is used interchangeably to describe both alcohol and 46:01.640 --> 46:07.880 non-alcoholic beverages. And the way we can tell which one is which is based upon the context. 46:08.680 --> 46:13.400 If someone is getting drunk, right? If they're being belligerent, if they're vomiting, 46:13.400 --> 46:16.920 if the Bible is speaking about it in a negative context, it's alcohol. 46:18.120 --> 46:24.280 If it's in a positive context, it's juice. Make no mistake about it. Wine in the Bible is also 46:24.280 --> 46:31.240 referring to juice because it comes from the vine. Right? And in fact, the Bible talks about the blood 46:31.240 --> 46:38.760 of the grapes is referring to the juice, the unfermented juice of grapes. Okay. But in this 46:38.760 --> 46:44.200 particular context, this is referring to alcohol. Okay. How do we know? Because he was drunken and 46:44.200 --> 46:51.000 he was uncovered. Now here's a good tip for you to understand and to learn if you ever want to know 46:51.000 --> 46:55.880 what God thinks about a particular subject in the Bible. It's called the law of first mention, 46:56.760 --> 46:59.240 which means if you want to know what God thinks about a particular topic, 46:59.880 --> 47:04.520 go study the first time that it's mentioned in the Bible. So even though he doesn't say 47:04.520 --> 47:10.440 Dao Sha Na or Dao Sha, just look for a story of where it first takes place. And that kind of 47:10.440 --> 47:17.640 gives you the overall picture of how God views that. I.e. we have alcohol. Right? So the first 47:17.640 --> 47:23.880 time that someone becomes a husband, man, or that it's mentioned, he gets drunk and he's naked. When 47:23.880 --> 47:29.960 he says that he was uncovered within his tent, it means that he's basically naked. Okay. Why? 47:29.960 --> 47:36.200 Because when you drink alcohol, your judgment is impaired. The more alcohol you drink, the less 47:36.200 --> 47:42.520 clothes you wear. Right? Oh, but he's not hurting anybody. Yeah. But here's the thing is that when 47:42.520 --> 47:50.280 you drink alcohol, you open yourself up to being hurt. Right? You're vulnerable to people taking 47:50.280 --> 47:53.480 advantage of you. And this is something that's consistent throughout the Bible. The Bible warns 47:53.480 --> 47:57.880 about this. And make no mistake about it. Drinking alcohol is a sin in the Bible. 47:59.160 --> 48:05.800 Don't be like these reformers out there, these dumb Calvinists, a bunch of winebibbers who think 48:05.800 --> 48:08.680 it's just great to drink a beer as they're studying the Bible or something like that. 48:10.280 --> 48:15.960 You know, it's just like, no, alcohol is okay to drink just in moderation. You don't know moderation. 48:17.480 --> 48:22.280 And it's impossible to drink alcohol and to say like, oh, you just, you can drink, 48:22.280 --> 48:27.880 you just can't get drunk. Doesn't exist. It's not a thing in the Bible. It's not a thing even today 48:28.680 --> 48:34.040 for anybody to drink alcohol to the point where they are tolerant of the alcohol. So they don't 48:34.040 --> 48:40.520 get drunk. They have to get drunk first. That's the way it works to build up a tolerance to alcohol 48:40.520 --> 48:45.720 to the point where you can drink a beer or wine or whatever it is, whiskey, and you don't get drunk. 48:45.720 --> 48:50.200 You have to initially get drunk, build up the tolerance, and then you don't get drunk. So you're 48:50.200 --> 48:54.520 trying to tell me you got to sin first before you stop sinning or something like that. It's retarded. 48:55.960 --> 49:02.360 Stupid, you know, and you see these Calvinists, these reformers online, justifying alcohol 49:02.360 --> 49:09.400 consumption with their big red nose, their fat alcoholic nose, twisting scripture with their 49:09.400 --> 49:14.840 cirrhosis of the liver, wicked. And it's just like, oh, you're just like the weaker brethren. 49:15.800 --> 49:19.960 You know, this is causing you to stumble. You don't drink alcohol because you're just the weaker 49:19.960 --> 49:24.680 brother. Okay, then with that in mind, then stop drinking alcohol because it's causing me to stumble. 49:24.680 --> 49:30.760 Can you do that? Because based upon the Bible, the Bible says that if you're causing me to stumble 49:30.760 --> 49:36.360 with that, then you should stop drinking. Right? You want to pervert the Bible, whatever. But what 49:36.360 --> 49:40.760 about the fact that the Bible literally says that if this is causing me to stumble, you should stop 49:40.760 --> 49:48.440 doing it. Can't do it because you're an alcoholic. That's why. I hate alcohol. It destroys people's 49:48.440 --> 49:54.680 lives. It kills people. You know, it killed a righteous man who was beloved of our church 49:54.680 --> 50:01.400 a year ago. I'm talking about a missionary, a soul winner. His baby, I don't remember how old she was 50:01.400 --> 50:07.400 at the time, but she was just a baby. He was survived by his wife and his child. He was 50:07.400 --> 50:13.960 literally working a second job to earn money to pay for other people's mission strips. Okay. And 50:13.960 --> 50:19.480 then what happened? He was killed by a drunk driver. Don't come trying to justify alcohol to me 50:20.200 --> 50:24.680 when the Bible not only clearly condemns it, we have enough evidence and circumstances in this 50:24.680 --> 50:30.920 world to point to the fact that only idiots drink alcohol. And, you know, and by the way, 50:30.920 --> 50:35.240 if you're drinking alcohol in our church, you know, you got a couple options, either sober up 50:35.240 --> 50:41.400 or get out or I can throw you out because the Bible says that, you know, a person who's 50:41.400 --> 50:46.440 unrepentant as a person who drinks alcohol in a church merits excommunication from the church. 50:47.320 --> 50:52.440 First Corinthians chapter five justifies throwing someone out of the church because they are a 50:52.440 --> 50:59.400 drunkard and that applies to smoking marijuana. That applies to heroin. That applies to meth. That 50:59.400 --> 51:04.600 applies to any kind of drug. If you are not sober in our church, you're getting thrown out and you 51:04.600 --> 51:09.960 don't want to repent of that. You're getting thrown out. Okay. But obviously, you know, we're not 51:09.960 --> 51:15.080 necessarily having a bunch of people here who like do cocaine, right? Probably the most common 51:15.080 --> 51:20.760 way that people, you know, are drunk is through alcohol. Obviously, the second one would be 51:20.760 --> 51:25.800 marijuana or something like that. The point being here is that the first mention of alcohol in the 51:25.800 --> 51:31.880 Bible is already negative. Bro gets drunk. He's naked in his tent. And look what happens. Verse 22, 51:31.880 --> 51:38.120 In Ham, the father of Canaan saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brethren without. 51:38.120 --> 51:43.160 And Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it upon both their shoulders and went backward and 51:43.160 --> 51:47.640 covered the nakedness of their father. And their faces were backward and they saw not their father's 51:47.640 --> 51:53.640 nakedness. And Noah awoke from his wine and knew what his younger son had done to him. So there's 51:53.640 --> 51:59.000 a lot of speculation as far as what this means. Like what is it that Ham did? And some people would 51:59.000 --> 52:03.640 say, well, he just looked upon his nakedness. And obviously, that's a valid interpretation because 52:03.640 --> 52:07.720 that's literally what it says, right? In verse 22, that he saw the nakedness of his father. 52:08.360 --> 52:15.240 But the only problem with that interpretation is Noah's response or his assessment of what 52:15.240 --> 52:20.600 his son Ham did, right? Because it says in verse 24 that he awoke from his wine and knew what his 52:20.600 --> 52:26.600 younger son had done unto him. So obviously, it leaves room for interpretation that Ham is just a 52:26.600 --> 52:34.840 stinking pervert who potentially committed sodomy of sorts, or he raped his father or whatever may 52:34.840 --> 52:44.440 have been. And I don't think that is a preposterous idea of an interpretation because Ham becomes the 52:44.440 --> 52:52.280 father of who? The Canaanites. Nor the Canaanites, a bunch of perverts responsible for sodomy, 52:52.280 --> 52:58.840 bestiality, incest, all manner of evil and wickedness. They're the Hibites, the Hibites, 52:58.840 --> 53:06.040 the Jebusites, all the Ibite brothers. And they're the ones who God says later on, like wipe them out 53:06.040 --> 53:13.720 because they're so wicked and evil, they make the land want to vomit them. So I think that 53:13.720 --> 53:21.160 interpretation is valid, that Ham is just a stinking pervert. He's some reprobate who essentially 53:22.120 --> 53:29.160 took advantage of his father. Now obviously, Ham gets cursed for this, but Noah messed up. 53:30.520 --> 53:36.840 He put himself in that situation by drinking alcohol, impairing his judgment, passing out, 53:36.840 --> 53:41.240 because that's basically what he's talking about, the fact that when he sleeps in his tent uncovered 53:41.240 --> 53:47.160 is referring to the fact that he's passed out. The Bible says in Habakkuk chapter 2 verse 15, 53:48.120 --> 53:53.960 Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor to drink, that putteth thy bottle to him. Now it doesn't 53:53.960 --> 53:59.800 finish there. It's obviously saying like, you should never give alcohol, first of all, to anybody, 53:59.800 --> 54:05.320 right? We obviously know that. But what the verse is saying here is that this person is giving his 54:05.320 --> 54:10.120 neighbor to drink with an underlying motive of taking advantage of it. Because it says, woe unto 54:10.120 --> 54:15.320 him that giveth his neighbor to drink, that putteth thy bottle to him, and maketh him drunk also. 54:15.320 --> 54:18.760 And I want you to notice this, that thou mayest look on their nakedness. 54:20.520 --> 54:27.480 And obviously, that's even common today, right? Where you have young people that go to parties. 54:27.480 --> 54:32.120 Women end up getting raped. Why? Because they drink alcohol, someone slips something into their 54:32.120 --> 54:37.480 bottle, into their glass, a date rape drug or something. They pass out, they get raped, 54:37.480 --> 54:42.360 they get taken advantage of. That happens all the time. And it's wicked, but guess what? That's 54:42.360 --> 54:49.240 what happens when you put yourself in that situation. Don't go to parties where there's 54:49.240 --> 54:54.520 alcohol and all manner of evil and wickedness, because wicked people thrive in those areas. 54:54.520 --> 54:59.080 You want to party? Come to the men's prayer night. Well, not the ladies, but the dudes can come to 54:59.800 --> 55:05.640 men's prayer night. We got pizza and soda, and you won't have a hangover. 55:06.520 --> 55:12.600 Okay? And no one will take advantage of you, you'll just take advantage of how much pizza there is. 55:15.080 --> 55:20.200 Oh, that doesn't sound fun. Oh yeah, getting raped sounds great. It's just way better, right? 55:20.600 --> 55:28.040 Waking up, not knowing exactly what happened to you. Folks, I like sobriety. I like a clear mind. 55:28.040 --> 55:32.360 I like to be able to, I like it when my cogitation don't trouble me. 55:32.600 --> 55:38.520 I like it when I can think clearly. And let me just say this is the Bible condemns alcohol consumption 55:38.520 --> 55:43.800 first and foremost, because drinking alcohol violates the command to be sober. How can you drink 55:43.800 --> 55:52.680 just a little bit of alcohol and be sober? It doesn't exist. Brother, be not drunk with wine 55:52.680 --> 55:58.600 when there's excess. It's just alcohol moderation. It says, but be filled with the spirit. The 55:59.000 --> 56:04.600 alternative is not like drinking moderation. Be not drunk with wine when there's excess, 56:04.600 --> 56:08.360 just drinking moderation. No, it says be filled with the spirit, not spirits. 56:11.000 --> 56:15.640 But look, the Bible warns about drinking alcohol first and foremost, because it violates the 56:15.640 --> 56:23.320 command to be sober, but also because of the fact that wicked people, rapists, molesters, 56:24.200 --> 56:26.280 use that as a tool to take advantage of you. 56:29.240 --> 56:34.600 Oh man, I'm just going out with my girlfriends. There's no guys around. You just never know. 56:35.400 --> 56:42.680 You just never know. There's wicked people out there. And so stay away from it. The Bible 56:42.680 --> 56:47.880 tells us in Proverbs 23 and verse 29, who hath woe? Now what is a woe? It's like a cursing. 56:48.840 --> 56:55.160 Who hath woe? Who hath sorrow? Who hath contentions? So he's saying, who's the person 56:55.160 --> 57:00.440 who just seems like their life is just cursed? Who's the person who's just always sad and 57:00.440 --> 57:06.760 depressed? Who's the person who has contentions, who just wants to fight everyone? Who has babbling? 57:08.920 --> 57:12.360 Who has wounds without a cause? How'd you get these wounds? I don't know what happened last 57:12.520 --> 57:17.720 night. I just started yelling at some guy and my nose is broken now. 57:19.720 --> 57:24.680 Who hath redness of eyes? Now I got redness of eyes because I have a hard time producing tears. 57:25.560 --> 57:29.640 So I use eye drops all the time. But this is referring to the redness of eyes that is a 57:29.640 --> 57:37.080 result of drinking alcohol. They that tarry long at the wine, they that go to seek mixed wine, 57:37.640 --> 57:44.840 look not thou upon the wine when it is red. Now folks, listen to me. There is no such thing as 57:44.840 --> 57:50.200 drinking alcohol in moderation because here it says don't even look at it. This is not a challenge 57:50.200 --> 57:55.720 for you to drink alcohol with your eyes closed. It's just like, well, you're just not supposed to 57:55.720 --> 58:00.520 look at it, so I'm just going to keep my eyes closed. If you get drunken when I tip the glass 58:00.520 --> 58:05.320 over, it's not my fault. This is saying don't even look at it. You know what that means? Throw 58:05.320 --> 58:12.360 away all of your alcohol in your house. Oh, you don't understand. I got this vintage wine. 58:13.240 --> 58:22.920 It's so old. Trash it. Break it. Don't give it to some wino. Dump it in the sink. Now I'm not 58:22.920 --> 58:29.400 telling you if your dad has this or whatever, if you want to be a Jerob Bale, I'm all for it or 58:29.400 --> 58:35.720 whatever. But if you're the owner of this wine and alcohol, there should be no alcohol in your 58:35.720 --> 58:44.760 household. Zero alcohol in your household. No beer. And I'm not even for having fake alcohol. 58:45.480 --> 58:49.960 They have these fake beers or something like that. It's just like, oh, man, I just want beer so bad, 58:49.960 --> 58:55.480 but I just don't want to drink alcohol. Just drink soda if you want. Get rid of all the alcohol. 58:56.120 --> 59:00.840 Get rid of the rubbing alcohol. No, I'm just kidding. Get rid of it. Don't even look at it. 59:00.840 --> 59:05.080 So obviously God wants us to have a distance between us and alcohol to the point where he 59:05.080 --> 59:09.800 says don't even look at it when it ferments. Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, 59:09.800 --> 59:13.720 when it giveth its color in the cup, when it moveth itself at right. Why? Because at the last 59:13.720 --> 59:20.440 it biteth like a serpent. Oh, wine is just such a blessing. Really, it's compared to a serpent. 59:20.440 --> 59:27.000 It's compared to Satan. Give me an example where God compares wine, alcoholic wine, 59:27.000 --> 59:32.760 to something good. Here it says it's like a serpent. Stingeth like an adder, which is a 59:32.760 --> 59:37.480 venomous serpent. Thine eyes, what's the result of it? Shall behold strange women. 59:38.440 --> 59:45.080 This is how bastard children are birthed. And thine heart shall utter perverse things. Why? 59:45.080 --> 59:50.920 Because alcohol emboldens you to say things that you wouldn't typically say. This is why guys, 59:50.920 --> 59:53.720 you know, they get drunk and then they want to fight everyone because they think they can. 59:55.800 --> 01:00:00.040 It loosens their tongue, right? Well, that's why I drink because I just need a little more 01:00:00.040 --> 01:00:01.160 boldness. Be filled with the spirit. 01:00:04.360 --> 01:00:09.560 Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea or as he that lieth upon the top 01:00:09.560 --> 01:00:14.760 of a mast. They have stricken me, thou shalt say, and I was not sick. They have beaten me and I 01:00:14.760 --> 01:00:19.960 felt it not. In other words, he wakes up and he's just all bloodied and bruised and he's just like, 01:00:20.760 --> 01:00:25.480 what happened last night? Oh man, that was a great New Year's Eve party. 01:00:26.520 --> 01:00:31.000 You know, the only hangover I got from New Year's Eve was just too much sugar. 01:00:31.000 --> 01:00:34.040 Okay. I know that's foreign to a lot of people. I get headaches when I wake up, 01:00:34.040 --> 01:00:41.320 when I have too much sugar the night before. He says, I felt it not. When shall I awake? 01:00:41.320 --> 01:00:46.520 I will seek it yet again. So this shows you the stupidity of the alcoholic person. 01:00:48.440 --> 01:00:53.800 His nose is broken, he's bloodied, he woke up with some ugly chick next to him. 01:00:55.800 --> 01:00:57.720 He's like, what the heck did I just do? 01:00:59.880 --> 01:01:05.160 You know, and then he's just like, oh man, I just, I don't remember anything, you know, 01:01:05.160 --> 01:01:08.920 and then he sees the bottle and he's like, oh, and he goes after the bottle again. 01:01:09.640 --> 01:01:13.400 It's like, it's like alcoholics when they, when they wake up with a hangover, they think they're 01:01:13.400 --> 01:01:18.360 like, oh man, I just, and then the people tell them like, oh here, just drink a beer. It'll help the, 01:01:18.360 --> 01:01:22.440 it'll help the, the hangover or something like that. It's like the stupidest thing to do. 01:01:22.440 --> 01:01:27.320 You're just dehydrating yourself even more. I think that's probably why I get hangovers for 01:01:27.320 --> 01:01:32.680 from sugars because I've just dehydrated myself or something. But it's saying here, like the person 01:01:33.240 --> 01:01:39.240 who wakes up from a hangover, he's bloodied, he's bruised, he's been robbed, he fornicated, 01:01:40.280 --> 01:01:45.080 he, he or she has been raped, right? They just destroy the iron. They're just like, 01:01:45.640 --> 01:01:51.000 let's do it again next Friday. Folks, alcohol would destroy your life. 01:01:53.640 --> 01:02:01.640 Don't drink beer, don't drink wine, don't drink whiskey, just stay away from it all together. 01:02:02.840 --> 01:02:07.240 Whatever joy or happiness you think it'll bring to you, it's a complete lie. It's deception. It's, 01:02:07.240 --> 01:02:11.640 it's an adder that will assure your life. And guess what? Let's say none of that will happen to you. 01:02:11.640 --> 01:02:16.520 Guess what? You're just destroying your body. You end up dying of cirrhosis of the liver. 01:02:19.000 --> 01:02:20.520 Anyways, look at verse 25. 01:02:23.000 --> 01:02:30.040 And this guy, I mean, Noah got raped by his son, right? Because he was drunk. He says, and he said, 01:02:30.040 --> 01:02:37.160 cursed be Canaan, a servant of servants, shall he be unto his brethren. And so obviously, Ham is 01:02:37.160 --> 01:02:43.080 essentially the father of the Canaanite nation. And later on, you know, you'll see that they're 01:02:43.080 --> 01:02:49.320 just known for their extreme moral corruption. And it says that he's going to be a servant of, 01:02:49.320 --> 01:02:53.400 he's going to be their servant, right? This ends up happening because the Gibeonites, 01:02:54.280 --> 01:03:00.760 who are a Canaanite people become servants in Israel. So a lot of this is fulfilled later on. 01:03:01.400 --> 01:03:05.800 I'm going to skip a lot of stuff here because I'm completely out of time. Look at verse 26. 01:03:06.680 --> 01:03:11.160 And he said, blessed be the Lord, God of Shem and Canaan shall be a servant. God shall enlarge 01:03:11.160 --> 01:03:15.240 Japheth. Of course he does so. And he shall dwell in the tents of Shem, meaning that he's going to 01:03:15.240 --> 01:03:21.960 receive the blessings of Shem and Canaan shall be his servant. And Noah lived after the flood 350 01:03:21.960 --> 01:03:28.600 years and all the days of Noah were 950 years and he died. So, you know, what can we learn from Noah 01:03:28.600 --> 01:03:32.760 and the flood? Well, we can learn that, you know, just because we have a great victory, 01:03:32.760 --> 01:03:37.560 don't let your guard down. You know, I know Noah, you're stressed. I know you're going through a 01:03:37.560 --> 01:03:44.120 hard time. Everything died, you know, but now's not the time to be drinking fermented wine. Never. 01:03:44.120 --> 01:03:48.600 It's never a time. You know, you're putting your guard down and then, you know, you end up getting 01:03:48.600 --> 01:03:54.440 taken advantage of. And now, like everyone reads that story forever. You know, you became a byword 01:03:54.440 --> 01:03:59.160 and a proverb, but it's a good byword and a proper for us because it helps us to recognize 01:03:59.160 --> 01:04:06.120 to stay away from alcohol. It'll destroy your life. It'll destroy your children's lives. 01:04:06.120 --> 01:04:11.240 You know, if you want a little, want a little fun, then, you know, drink some sparkling cider. 01:04:12.440 --> 01:04:17.080 Okay. Let's pray. Father, we thank you so much for your word and thank you for these examples that 01:04:17.080 --> 01:04:22.360 we have in the Bible. Help us as your people to recognize that when it rains and we see the 01:04:22.360 --> 01:04:26.440 bow, that that is the covenant that you've made with Noah. We thank you for the mercy that you've 01:04:26.440 --> 01:04:31.400 extended to this world and to this earth each time that happens. We're thankful that you've been 01:04:31.400 --> 01:04:37.240 gracious to us, Lord, though this world deserves to be flooded again because of all its wickedness, 01:04:37.240 --> 01:04:43.880 Lord. You are not slack concerning your promises, but you're just long suffering towards this world 01:04:43.880 --> 01:04:47.560 because you don't want people to perish. You want people to come to repentance. And may that bow 01:04:47.560 --> 01:04:53.240 remind us of it when we see it and help us as your people also to recognize the wickedness of alcohol 01:04:53.240 --> 01:04:57.240 and how much it destroys people's lives. And I pray that you bless us as we go on our way in 01:04:57.240 --> 01:04:59.880 Jesus name. We pray. Amen. 01:05:09.400 --> 01:05:10.840 All right, we have one last song.