said, "My spirit shall not always strive with men, for that he also is flesh, yet his day shall be in
hundred and twenty years." There were giants in the earth in those days, and also after that,
when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bore children to them, the same
became mighty men, which were of old, men of renown. And God saw that the wickedness of men was great in
the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
And the Lord said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth,
both man and beast and the creeping thing and the fowls of the air,
for repenteth me that I have made them." But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.
These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations,
and Noah walked with God. And Noah begat three sons, Shem Ham and Japheth.
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
And God looked upon the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted
his way upon the earth. And God said to Noah, "At the end of all flesh has come before me,
for the earth is filled with violence through them, and behold, I will destroy them with the earth."
Make thee an ark of gopher wood, rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within,
and without, with pitch. And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of. The length of the
ark shall be three hundred cubits, and the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty
cubits. A window shalt thou make up to the ark, and in the cubit shalt thou finish it above,
and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof, with lower, second, and third stories
shalt thou make it. And behold, I, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy
all flesh, wherein is the breath of life from under heaven, and everything that is in the earth shall
die. But with thee will I establish my covenant, and thou shalt come into the ark, thou and thy
sons and thy wife and thy sons' wives with thee. And of every living thing of all flesh, two of
every sort shalt thou bring into the ark to keep them alive with thee. They shall be male and female,
of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind. Of every creeping thing of the earth
after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee to keep them alive. And take thou unto thee
of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee, and it shall be food for thee and for
them. Thus did Noah, according to all that God commanded him, so did he. Let's pray, dear Lord.
God, just thank you for this evening. We have to hear the preaching of your word, Lord. Just pray
that you bless this service, Lord, and be with us, Lord, in the congregation to hear the preaching of
your word. And please bless Pastor Mejia with your spirit, Lord, as he preaches your word unto us.
We pray this all in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Okay. We're continuing this evening with our
Bible study here in the book of Genesis, and we are in a pivotal chapter here in chapter six.
And of course, we're all familiar with the beginning stages of God talking about wiping
out the earth with a flood. And this is a very controversial chapter, not because the world dies,
but because a lot of people misinterpret what Genesis six is referring to. And so we're going
to get into a little bit of that in just a bit. And of course, I've already covered some of that
last week in Genesis chapter five, but I'm going to reiterate some of it in this particular sermon.
Now verse number one says, and it came to pass when men began to multiply on the face of the earth,
and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were
fair, and they took them wives of all which they chose. So let's go ahead and clarify some things
regarding these first couple of verses, because again, this is often taken out of context to talk
about or to teach that the sons of God are referring to angelic beings. We've all heard that,
and it's possible that some of us believe that in times past. It's possible that some of you
still believe that, right? That the sons of God are referring to these celestial beings, these angels,
and essentially what this doctrine says is that you have angels who essentially saw the daughters
of men, that they were beautiful, that they were fair, that's what fair is referring to, and that
they essentially fornicated, if that's what you would call it, you know, essentially had intercourse
with the daughters of men, and the byproduct of this unholy union were these 450-foot giants,
okay, these massive giants, and this is partly the reason why people believe in the book of Enoch,
right? The book of Enoch teaches this Jewish fable of giants, and it will often use Genesis
chapter 6 as a proof text to that particular doctrine. We obviously know this is heretical,
this is nonsense, this is, these are fables. Sons of God in the Bible consistently refers to
believers, okay? The Bible tells us in John 1-12, "But as many as receive them to them,
give you power to become the sons of God, even unto them that believe on His name."
And you say, "Pastor, you talk about this a lot, but here's the thing. The reason why is because
a lot of people still believe this nonsense." I mean, I get messages about this almost every week,
about the Nephilim, about the sons of God, about the book of Enoch. And, you know, when you mock
that doctrine, people will say, "Hey, well, but it says it in Genesis 6." But nowhere in Genesis 6
does it talk about the narrative that the book of Enoch tries to promote. Sons of God consistently
refers to believers. And we obviously see that in Hebrews 1, it says, "Unto which of the angels
said he at any time? 'Thou art my son; this day have I begotten thee.'" Right? In other words,
he's saying he doesn't refer to angels as the sons of God. Angels are a creation of God.
They are the messengers of God. Yes, they are celestial beings, cherubim, seraphim,
but they are not called the sons of God. A son of God is something that is begotten of God
through the gospel. Okay. You said then what is verse two referring to when it talks about the
sons of God seeing the daughters of men? Well, this is essentially highlighting the fact that
you have believers marrying unbelievers. Okay. Which is far more grievous than what this
supposed Nephilim doctrine is talking about, because what God is talking about here,
what he's highlighting is the fact that now you have a mixture of believers and unbelievers.
They are marrying each other. They're not being separate. And this is not God's will
for believers, right? God does not want believers to marry unbelievers. He wants believers to marry
those who believe on the Lord. And I explained a lot of that last week. And so what we have is
that in Genesis four, you have this distinction between the descendants of Cain and the descendants
of Seth, essentially implying that the descendants of Cain are not saved and the descendants of Seth
are saved, right? Of course, we know that Cain is of that wicked one, but Seth, of course, his lineage
is highlighted or is emphasized because those who follow his lineage began to call upon the name of
the Lord, essentially showing us that Seth's lineage emphasizes the things of God. They are
evangelizing, right? They're talking about the things of God. They're calling upon the name of
the Lord. And so Genesis five is that highlighting the highlighting of that genealogy of Seth's
lineage. But then in chapter six, you have an intermingling of the two. Okay. The sons of
God are coming into the daughters of men. They are marrying them. And this is not a good thing
in the eyes of God. Verse three says the Lord said, "My spirit shall not always strive with man,
for that he is also flesh, yet his days shall be 120 years." Now let's talk about this verse
for just a minute before we get into the rest of the chapter. What does he mean when he says that
his spirit shall not always strive with man? Well, we're obviously going to see that later on in the
chapter, the world has become corrupted because of violence. We could also infer into the text that
idolatries taking place. How do we know that? Well, Cain came up with the first false religion
of offering, you know, a false offering unto the Lord, that which did not please God. That's
essentially an example of false religion and false worship. But we have, we have violence. We have the
imagination of man's heart being evil. And God is saying here, you know, I'm not always going to put
up with this. Okay. When he says that his spirit will not always strive with man, he's basically
saying, you know, I'm not always going to tolerate this. I'm not always going to put up with it.
He's gonna do something about it and Genesis 6 is essentially God saying you know what you're all done
I'm gonna just wipe out the earth
I'm gonna flood the earth because my spirit shall not always strive with man now keep in mind that about a thousand years
Has passed between the creation
Adam's creation and Noah here in Genesis chapter 6 you have a thousand years of corruption
You have a thousand years of violence you have a thousand years of murder taking place
You have a thousand years of idolatry and you have a thousand years of people just rejecting the Lord, right?
That's what's basically taking place
How do we know that they're rejecting the Lord because it says here it talks about the daughters of man. Man is flesh
It's implying that there's people in this world, although they're in close proximity to the creation
Although they're in close proximity to Adam and Seth do you still have people rejecting the gospel message?
They're rejecting the Lord and God is very much upset with that
he's not always gonna strive with man and he essentially says here that the days of man not just referring to
Believers, but even non-believers just men in general the days of man shall be a hundred and twenty years now
This is referring to the fact that in a hundred and twenty years the flood is gonna come
But it also refers to the fact that man's life to expect excuse me life's little man's life
Expectancy will drop and be reduced to 120 years because keep in mind up until this point
Man is living to about what 700 800 even 900 years of age
You have Adam living up to nine hundred and thirty years of age you say well
Why would he reduce the life expectancy then you know what's the purpose of that well?
I think the reason why God reduced the life expectancy here in Genesis 6 is because he obviously sees what happens
When man is allowed to live for a really long time rejecting the Lord
What happens violence you see when a person is allowed to just continuously to just live and they're wicked and they're evil
They don't get better. They get worse evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse and look folks
We live in an age where you know according to the Bible man lives up to 80 years of age, right?
Well, you give someone a wicked reprobate 80 years of life. You see how wicked they can become, right?
Well think about 900 years and when he says that the imagination of man's heart is only evil continually
What if you give that man 900 years of life how much evil how much wickedness how much violence?
How much just abominable things they can conjure up because they are allowed to just live for decades and years
And centuries on end right? So obviously God wants to prevent from man prevent man from becoming
Exceedingly wicked and exceedingly evil creating evil imaginations more murder more idolatry
More violence and so he reduces the life expectancy to a hundred and twenty years and of course later on
In the book of Psalms the Bible says that man with strength lives up to 80 years, and that's basically where we're at right now
It's not saying that you know you're gonna live to 80 and no one can surpass that
That's just like essentially the average life expectancy of people we know people that have lived up to a hundred years, right?
90 years it's just saying the 18 is that average that God you know has instituted are imposed upon mankind
But when God says here that his spirit would not always strive with man
You know one thing we can learn from this is that God is long-suffering
God is patient God is gracious, but there comes a point when he says enough is enough
There comes a point where he's just like I'm not gonna strive with you anymore. I'm not gonna put up with this anymore
Judgment will come upon you and this is very much true for an individual but it's also true for a nation and it's true
For the world, you know, a lot of people mock the judgments of God
Atheists will mock the Lord and say where is the promise of his coming for since the fathers fell asleep
All things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. They're essentially mocking the judgment of God
But here's the thing the Bible says that God is long-suffering not willing that any man should perish
But that all should come to repentance the Lord was not slack concerning its promises and God promises that he's gonna judge the world
He's gonna do it
He's just being long-suffering towards those in this world so they can come to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ
But folks, let me just remind you there's gonna come a time where God says enough is enough and he's gonna destroy the world
he's gonna destroy it again, but we know that for a fact because the Bible tells us but also because
History tells us that God will not always strive with man. He flooded the world and drowned everyone
Let me read to you from Proverbs 1 verse 23. It says here turn you at my reproof
Okay, what does it mean? What does that mean? Exactly? It means when God is correcting you
He wants you to change your ways. You should change turn at my reproof
He says behold I will pour out my spirit unto you and will make known my words unto you
Because I have called and ye refused I have stretched out my hand and no man regarded
But ye have said it not all my counsel and would none of my reproof I will laugh at your calamity
I will mock when your fear cometh. What does this mean? It means that God will not always strive with man
He's basically saying look I'm giving you a chance to get right
I'm giving you a chance to get saved if you're already safe. I'm giving you a chance to get right with God
I'm giving you a chance to turn at my reproof. I'm giving you counsel. I'm giving you wisdom
I'm giving you chance after chance after chance and if you disregard the instructions and the reproofs of God
What does the Bible say? He's gonna laugh when your calamity comes
Why because you mocked him when he tried to reach out to you. Where is the promise of his coming?
Well, you know, God's not gonna judge me. I'm gonna be fine
I've been doing this for years on end and God's never done anything about it
You know, there's people out there that think that think that way this Christians out there who think that way
There's unsafe people who think that way not recognizing that hey, don't take God's long suffering
Don't mistake that and think well God's just never gonna judge
No, the Bible says that he's gonna laugh at your calamity when it comes
He's gonna mock when your fear coming and you know, I've often read this passage and thought to myself man
This said this is pretty harsh to mock someone when the fear what does it mean to mock?
It means like you imitate them, right? Isn't that what it means?
like when you mock someone obviously you're making fun of them, but the idea here is that you are
Imitating them you mock them by imitating them
So you think of someone who is fearing because God's judgment is coming upon they're like, oh no God's like, oh no
That's what it means. You know, you would think like oh man
If I'm afraid of something evil coming upon me
I would hope that God would show mercy and grace but not to the person who's been mocking God though
God says I'm gonna mock when your fear cometh when you're yelling. Oh, I can't believe this is happening to me
God's like, oh, you can't believe it, huh? You should have changed her ways when you had the chance
Why cuz his spear will not always strive with man and this is why it's important folks to learn the fear of God
Fear God why because at the end of the day we understand the Bible teaches that he's not always gonna strive now
Look folks, all of us have experienced the patience of God. We've experienced God's long suffering
How God has endured with us we thank God for his loving kindness and his long-suffering
But may that motivate you may that cause you to recognize
Hey
I need to make sure that I stay right with God and if I'm not right with God to get right with God
Why cuz his spirit would not always strive with man
He will mock when your fear cometh it says when your fear cometh as a desolation and your destruction
Comes at the whirlwind when distress and anguish cometh upon you
He says like this is not necessarily a verse that you'll hear read in Sunday school class, you know
You know a lot of churches want to
Portray God as only being lovingly kind only being merciful only being gracious
But there's another side of God that a lot of people don't like to talk about
But need to talk about because it'll cause people to depart from evil because the Bible says that when we fear the Lord
We depart from evil why because we don't want him to bring evil upon our lives
We don't want him to chastise us and we definitely don't want him to laugh at our calamity, right?
We want him to be long-suffering towards us when we are
Experiencing the day of evil the point being here is that Genesis 6?
God is stating that you know
He's had enough and we don't know all the details as far as what wickedness is being done in the world
During this particular time in Genesis 6, but it's enough to make God so mad that he's just gonna drown the entire world
Okay, and you know, it's it's crazy to think that you have churches out there. It's just like well, how can a loving God, you know?
I just don't think a loving God. Have you read Genesis 6?
He literally wiped out an entire world and not just people he drowned he drowned the kittens. He drowned the giraffe everything
Everything drowned only eight survivors. I mean God has been teaching replacement theology since the very beginning
He replaced the entire population of the world with Noah and his family, right?
And so we see here the importance of recognizing the that yes God is long-suffering
Yes, he's patient. Yes. He's lovingly kind and he delights to be that way
Until someone just kind of rubs it in his face and chooses not to get right with God and it's at that point that God
Says you know what?
I'm gonna bring a flood upon you to get your attention
And so as I mentioned although this is an announcement of when the flood would come it is also a dual statement
That addresses the shortening of man's life
Later of course as I mentioned he indicates that with man's strength in psalm 90 that he's gonna reduce it to 80 years
Verse number four says this there were giants in the earth in those days now
That's a very important phrase to pay attention to right you know a lot of times people were just only focused on the fact that it's
Mentioning giants right they're just like oh, there's a Nephilim the Giants
But notice that it says there were giants in the earth in those days
Okay, and then what does it say then it says and also after that?
denoting chronology now does it not meaning that there were giants in the earth before
The sons of God go into the daughters of men because it says here and also after that
When the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men and they bear children to them the same became mighty men which were of
old men of renown
so what is it saying it's saying that the Giants existed before the
Consummation of the sons of God and the daughters of men now obviously we don't believe the sons of God are referring to angels
But let's just pretend for a second that we do it wouldn't make sense that narrative doesn't make sense here because it's placing
the giants as
Existing before the consummation this unholy union between the two and so the children that are being born
Come after the existence of these giants. He said that what's the point of mentioning giants in the first place?
Well, just to kind of show you that this is the kind of conditions. This is the world
This is the population of that day. There were giants in the earth in those days. It's just telling us that okay
And it says also after that denoting chronology when these sons of God who saw the daughters of men that they were fair
They marry them they end up bearing children and the same became mighty men, which were of old men every now
You're like, no, I don't believe that this the children that are being born here are these 450 foot giants
They're the Nephilim when it says that they're mighty men
It's referring to they're just really large and they're men of you know
Men of renown is just referring to the fact that they're just you know
Nephilim and they're eating all the agriculture. They're eating men
They're just destroying crops and destroying the world and this is why God had to bring the flood
Okay, and you know, there's people out there that would just ignore the evidence and just go with that narrative because they just like fantasy
But you know, sorry not sorry. It's not referring to Gulliver's Travel Giants
You know, whatever anime out there that portrays Giants to this degree. It doesn't exist
You said them, you know explain to me then pastor
What does it mean when it says that these children that were born into them were mighty men were true of old men of renown
Okay, if you don't believe that it's referring to this nephilim these nephilim that the book of Enoch talks about
Then pray tell explain to me. Why are they called mighty men? Which are of old men of renown now?
That is a very good question. Okay, because it's interesting, you know, why is this being mentioned here that these children?
Ended up growing up to becoming mighty men which were of old
Men of renown. What's the point of even mentioning that in this flood account?
Well, you know when it says of old what is he talking about because we're barely in Genesis 6
I mean just a couple weeks ago. We just got finished talking about the creation period, right?
So what is it referring to when we talk about people who are of old because it's saying that these children that
These believers had with non-believers ended up being individuals in the earth who were mighty
Just like those of old time and it says that there were of men of renown renown simply means famous
Okay, you know, it actually comes from the word, you know to
Rename in other words their names were repeated a lot in the earth
That's what it means to be a person of renown
It's it's referring to the fact that you know, people are talking about them. They're popular among the people in the earth
Okay, they have a reputation in the world, right?
That's what it's referring to so these people became mighty men of old men of renown now the key to
Understanding what this is talking about is the phrase there mighty men which revolt excuse me mighty men
Which were of old now you say well, didn't we just cover the creation?
Yeah, but keep in mind that the creation period was about a thousand years prior to this. It's a long time
I mean when we talk about old school, we're talking about like the 90s just a couple decades ago
I mean, I don't really talk about it that way but you younger people do right you guys are just like it won't be born
19 19 can't even finish, you know talking about it the year I was born without people just falling over, you know, and you know
People think like oh man, you're old and I mean, you know, there's some truth to that. Yeah, I get it
You know born 1985. Okay, I'm a little old but that's still like well, you know 40 years ago
How much more old is a thousand years? So you can see why this would say men of old
so what the writers trying to address here is the fact that these children are
compared in their popularity in their fame to men of about a thousand years prior to this
Okay, you understand where I'm going with this you say so what is it addressing them?
Well, do you remember back in Genesis chapter 4 when we're talking about the descendants of Cain and what were the descendants of Cain?
Known for innovative city building right they were known for being industrious
musical
metallurgy and
Ethnology these were men of renown because when we look at the descendants of Cain in Genesis chapter 4 God isn't mentioned in
Their description just a lot of you know
Renowned activity is being addressed there. These are men who were known for building cities. They're not Neanderthals
They're industrious
They're not you know cavemen
They're not nomads these are people of activity and it seems to indicate that they were somewhat famous in those days
I mean if they are involved in instruments and music and metal work
And they are you know involved in livestock, and they're building cities this you know this we could look at them
And say in the world's eyes these people are like industrious these people are famous
I mean people today who are known for those things are also known as being famous people
you understand what I'm saying, and you know if you're to compare the fame of
Cain's descendants to the fame of Seth's descendants from the world's perspective Cain's descendants did more for this world
From a worldly perspective than Seth's descendants did right because you know they built cities they made hammers or whatever
You know they made instruments they made tools or what it says the sentence do well
I don't know they cause people to call upon the name of the Lord, but folks isn't it the same today
Do you think Christians are famous today?
You think actual Bible-believing Christians who preach the gospel who are spreading the truth
Hold a candle to anybody in this world who's known for worldly achievements. Absolutely not no in God's eyes
You know the spiritual achievements are far more important
But in the world's eyes the people of this world who are known for you know their inventions
Their technology their worldly and and terrestrial achievements
They're far more famous in the world's eyes than Christians are all right the musicians of this world
They didn't then wasn't the Grammys just didn't that just take place. You know you're like yeah, I mean, you know
Aren't they worthy of that? Yeah? Yeah, you talk about bad bunny
You know who even listens to that garbage right don't don't give yourself away if you do by the way
You know I saw a clip of that, and I'm like I speak Spanish, and I don't know what the heck that guy just said
I'm just like what is this is this what the Super Bowl has been reduced to and I'm not even a Super Bowl fan
I'm not a football fan. I don't care for those things, but obviously it's on my feed, and I see it and you know
Since when do artists call themselves bad bunnies?
You know it's the gayest name ever and then you just can't understand a lick of what he's saying
He just he's just like a Spanish mumble rapper, and I'm I speak Spanish, and I understand Spanish. I write Spanish
I can preach in Spanish. I don't know what the heck that guy said and you know someone translate because you know AI
Just is just incredible, and they just translated it into English
And then when you when you hear it in English is like oh
I might as well just listen to the Spanish because it's just it sounds just as retarded
But he's famous right just as Kane's descendants were they were men of old men of renown
Famed for their music they were famed for their innovations
You know who's famous in this world Elon Musk for his inventions very famous, right?
and so we kind of see somewhat of a parallel to those who are esteemed in Kane's descendants even with people of today and
Who are the sons of God those who just evangelize and help people to call upon the name of the Lord in faith?
Okay, you say okay. I get all that. You know, I see I see where you're going with that
It's basically saying that these children that were born unto the sons of God and the daughters of men
They became like Cain's descendants in the sense that they became mighty men who were of old
Men of renown their fame came from their earthly exploits and the answer is yes, that's exactly what it is
He said what's wrong with that? Well, you know, whatever inventions
Innovations they came up with in Genesis chapter 6 obviously didn't make the world better, right?
I'm sure there are men of renown. They were famous
They probably and you know created a lot of great things in the eyes of the world. God still destroyed the world
It didn't improve the world. They might have come up with all manner of technology
They might have come up with beautiful music better than bad bunny. They probably had good bunnies
They probably came up with you know built cities and they were esteemed in the eyes world
But in God's eyes, they were an abomination. How do you know cuz he drowned them that means no amount of
Activations no amount of earthly accomplishments was able to prevent God from destroying the world
Because even though they were you know, they were progressing in their technology and in their earthly achievements
Morally, they were just corrupt but isn't that the same today?
I mean we got AI now who would have thought you can call someone on your watch
You know you can use AI and hey Chad and you know use AI for your job and for your work
You have cars that drive on their own you have the technology is just amazing, right?
We're talking about you know people are planning to go to the moon again, and you have all of these
Incredibly incredible earthly exploits taking place, but this world is so morally corrupt though still what does it show?
It shows us that just because you have a world full of men of renowned men of fame
Doesn't equate to godliness and righteousness
That's what that's what it means because at the end of the day though
You have inventors the Bible says you have inventors of evil things or the Romans chapter 1, right?
And so even though you have all these innovations
industry music
Technology in Genesis chapter 4 and I'm sure it's a repeated
They had essentially a renaissance in Genesis chapter 6 yet. You still have spiritual degeneration. It's still morally corrupt
How do we know that? Well, I mean back in Genesis 4 you have polygamy violence
Boasting about bloodshed. Oh, yeah, but you know, you created cities though. Oh great. You know what I mean?
Oh, man, look at all this technology today and look at how advanced we are as a society
Yeah, but we got like the Epstein files though. How about that? Well, you got all this perversion and pedophilia
How about that? How is that a society that's advancing when you have all of this perversion and
Abomination and people that just want to turn a blind eye to all that corruption
Just because his name is on the folks if your name is if some politicians name is on the Epstein files
Like Trump and by the way, let me just remind everyone. This is not a Trump church. It's not a Democrat church either
You say what kind of church is it? It's a Baptist church. I think Trump would ever come to a church like this get real
Oh, I thought you're a Christian. Yeah, I'm a Christian. I'm not a Republican or a conservative believe it or not
Okay, and I know some of you voted for Trump or whatever you can all you know
Rear end hurt over what I'm saying, but you know what your boy your boy was found on the Epstein files though
Okay, and you need to stop making excuses for wicked people and just oh man
Yeah, but we don't really know just the mere fact that he's on there should be enough for you to say okay
Put the MAGA hat off throw on the Christ hat on and let me just say this man
I get super pissed about this one thing, you know
I get really angry when I see these Christian so-called online just constantly pushing Trump and their political agenda
But all of a sudden when something like this with the Epstein files comes out. They're just like, you know what?
I'm just gonna really focus on Bible studies right now
I'm just gonna really focus on evangelism and just talk about the word of it as though like
Christ is like a second thought or something like that. You just put on the back burner
You know
They treat Jesus Christ like a side piece or something like that all of a sudden they want to focus on their Christian walk now
That their favorite politician has been exposed or something nonsense
You know Christ should have been your focus from the start and if Christ was your focus from the start you would have the discernment
Not to follow that nonsense. Yeah, but you know our nation is just so much better under this administration than under Biden
Morally corrupt morally corrupt, you know, yeah, you know
They're they know how to put the smoke screen in front of you to make it look like everything's fine and dandy
But when you pull this pull the sheet back and the screen back and the curtains back you see how morally corrupt
It still is it's still wicked as hell point that I'm making here. Is that just because you see a
Nation a world that is progressing
technologically
progressing in industry
progressing financially
Doesn't mean God is happy with it as proven here that you have
Men that are being born and they are known not for their godliness not for their righteousness
They're known for being men of old like in Genesis chapter 4 understand
You say what's the point of even mentioning this in Genesis chapter 6? Why is God even talking about this?
Well turn with me if you would let's see here go to Haggai chapter 2 Haggai chapter 2 if you would
I'll give you some time to find it go into your table of contents go to Haggai chapter 2 you say well
You know, why is it that God's destroying the the planet over this?
Well, because he's obviously sick and tired of the fact that Christians are compromising
I'm saying Christians, even though they're not Christians here the believers
But he's tired of believers compromising here and mixing in and obviously what we're looking at
We're looking at a world in Genesis 6 where the believers are not influencing the unbelievers
It's more like the unbelievers are influencing the believers
Because when the sons of God come into the daughters of men and they produce these children
They become mighty men of old men of renown, but they're not renowned for their godliness though
They're not renowned for their righteousness. They're renowned because of earthly exploits earthly achievements
And it's basically demonstrating a failure on the part of believers
Not only to be separate from unbelievers
But also to not be able to they're not they're not able to influence unbelievers to be righteous
Look at Haggai chapter 2 verse 12
It says if one bare holy flesh in the skirt of his garment and with this skirt do touch bread or
Potage or wine or oil or any meat shall it be holy and the priest answered and said no
So what is the example that he's given here?
He says you know if someone is clean they're pure according to the Levitical standards
And you know their garment touches food it touches
You know meat it touches oil does it does the cleanliness of the garment does the purity of the clothing?
Automatically transfer to that oil does it automatically transfer to the food?
Does it transfer to the meat and the priests are saying no it doesn't that's stupid of course it doesn't things don't become holy by
Osmosis you know what if I have a clean hand and I touch this pulpit
My cleanliness is not being rubbed all over this pulpit the germs of this pulpit are being attached to my hand
That's how it works
He says the verse 13 then said Haggai if one that is unclean by a dead body touch any of these
Shall it be unclean and the priest answered and said it shall be unclean in other words
Well, what if a person is unclean according to the Levitical standards and his body?
Touches the potage the bread the wine the oil the meat, you know, what is it gonna do?
It is gonna be unclean. He's like, yeah, it'll be contaminated
That's the way it works and what this is telling us here is that you know
You can't expect to if we're to interpret this and use this to interpret Genesis 6
You can't expect the sons of God to come into the daughters of men, right and produce that which is holy
Just not gonna happen. He said what's the byproduct the flood violence wickedness unrighteousness?
God is angry and he ends up destroying the world
You know, this is why it's important folks listen to me to marry believers and be strict about this
Not just because they say they're a Christian, you know, it should be like, okay you say you're Christian
But what do you believe about salvation? Oh, it's through, you know the mass. I think you're Christian. Why I'm Christian
Yeah, that sounds Catholic to me. Well, we're the first Christians. You're a phony Christian
Get away from me and you know
I'm glad that this
Treadcath movement is being exposed for the nonsense that it is for the fraudulent movement that it is
Because it's fake but people are just like well, they say they believe in Christ. Yeah, but what does that mean exactly?
You we need a probe a little bit Mormons claim to believe in Christ and Mormons are weirdos
They are the fluoride of Christianity, right? They're just like they're just you can't marry a Mormon
And look, I've known Christians that married Mormons and you know what they would go to the Mormon Church
I'm talking about saved people that would go to the Mormon Church not because they believed in that nonsense
But because you know, the old ball and chain was dragging them to the Mormon Church
You know, we we can't take these things lightly folks
We need first of all you singles need to make sure you marry a safe person
But hey us as parents though, we need to make sure that our children we ingrain in our children the conviction to marry believers
And let's just like narrow that down a little more. How about like a believer that's in your church?
How about like a fundamental Baptist right? Why because you know sometimes you could even marry a believer
But then they're a part of some other denominational church, and they don't really like what you believe
They're just like we but your pastor so mean though. You know I like my limp wristed weak pastor
I like my pastor who I know he looks gay, but you know he's not he's just kind of you know
He's just more like Christ. It's just like you don't even know who Christ is so then you have conflicts in marriage because of that
Because you both you know you're not using the same version of the Bible. You don't believe they look folks
You know here's the ideal situation is that you and your spouse not only agree on on like major doctrines
But on even you know secondary and tertiary doctrines
You know Mrs. Mejia, and I are not at home arguing about replacement theology right and that's a tertiary doctrine
but my wife is not like hey, you know I really appreciate if you just stop talking about the Jews like that and
And I'm just like shut up woman. I'm the pastor here
And I can't believe you're saying that and we're just arguing about that and you know that would be weird
There's no harmony there. Okay. It's just like you know Bruce
It's just can you just you know?
I just think we can get homosexual saved and I don't think it's it's disgusting and perverse to be home
You know that would be a problem if we have that in marriage point that I'm making here
Is that what God is looking for is union in beliefs?
Primary secondary and yes, even tertiary doctors now when it comes to like the fourth stuff
You know that we could disagree on that, you know, my wife and I we disagree on certain foods
Okay, we disagree, you know, she doesn't like she doesn't like, you know to lift weights
I like to lift weights and we argue about that and you know, we're always debating or whatever
But that's like a fourth fifth type of a doctrine, right?
It's not even a doctrine of the Bible point that I'm making here is that God wants us to marry
Believers so that we have common scriptural grounds with each other common convictions
And look, it's also good to just marry within your culture, too
And when I say culture, I'm talking about Christian culture, right?
You know, if you want, you know, there's nothing wrong with you marrying some African who's a Christian
But you know what you're gonna have a hard time transitioning into that marriage and I'm telling you right now
I've seen this happen before and I'm not talking about like oh
It's wrong for you to marry a black person here in America because I don't I'm not of this persuasion that I'm against interracial marriages
Okay, I think that's stupid
It's nonsensical, but I do think like you got to have someone of the same culture though
If not, you're gonna be bumping heads a lot, you know
She should speak English or you should speak her language or something like that
Okay, but if you know they speak some click language and you don't you know, there might be some issues there
You know, you're like, I love you and she's like and you're just like what you know, excuse me
Or is it I love you. She's like and you're like, hold on a second. Someone's knocking on the door
There could be some issues there. All right. All right. I'm delving
I'm I'm going off on that too little too much going on Genesis 6
This is what happened
This is why I have to have notes because I got to come back to the notes
You know the structure point that I'm making here is the fact that the sons of God are mating with the daughters of men
They're producing children, but the children are not making the world better
They're men of old they're following the steps of Cain's lineage
Yeah, they're famous. Oh, yeah, they're politicians. Oh, yeah, they're part of government. Oh, yeah, they're mayors
Oh, yeah, they're musicians. Oh, yeah, they're achieving all this worldly success and they're achieving great things in this world
But that's not what God wants
You know what God deems a success is that if you can raise your children to be soul winners to love the Lord
To marry rights, even if you die broke, but to be rich spiritually. That's what God esteems
How do you know that because he flooded a world because these believers did not change the world
They didn't turn the world upside down. They caused the world to become flooded because of it
That's what we see taking place and look I'm not saying you know
Don't teach your children to be successful and have a good job and provide for their family
Obviously, that's a given but hold on a second
Let's let's make sure we remind our children to seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness
And these things shall be added unto you. We need to make sure that we keep the Bible
Jesus Christ and yes, even church as the centerpiece of our lives now be like well, you know, you don't have to go to church
You don't have to read the Bible. You don't have as long as you love Jesus
You want the flood to come? And so we have here
an example of civilization reaching impressive heights yet God ends up destroying it because
Human progress without holiness breeds wrath. Okay, very important point there
Let me reach you from Psalm 49 verse 12 says nevertheless man being in honor, you know renowned abideth not
He is like the beast that perish was what is the same?
You know just because someone is famous just because someone has a lot of honor just because someone has a lot of money
Just because someone has a lot of earthly achievements means nothing in God's eyes because that person is gonna die
What shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul or be a castaway the Bible says
And so very important. So no, you know, this isn't talking about
450 foot Giants, you know people want to make a big deal about that was like how does that change your life though?
How does that make you a better Christian knowing that there was 450 foot Giants? There were half angel half human
How is that making you a more righteous person? It doesn't it actually makes you more godless
Because that type of teaching increases more to ungodliness it eats as doth they canker it creates more
Disputes and strives of words to no profit. That's what it does
Whereas what I what I just taught you actually puts you in a righteous frame of mind helps you to realize
You know what? I need to take the raising of my kids more more serious
I need to make sure that I emphasize to my children to marry
Believers, I need to make sure that I instill within my children conviction
And yes, though
I want my kids to be successful so that they are providing for their families and that they are doing something that's
Significance for their family more important is the things of God though
Because let me say this if your child dies a millionaire, but they've never led anybody to Christ
You failed you failed look at verse 5
It says in God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart
was only evil continually and it repented the Lord that he had made man on earth and it grieved him at his heart
This is sad. He's you know, the Bible is literally telling us here that God obviously can see the inner recesses of the heart
And he only sees violence and then he's like he's like regretting that he created man
He's grieved at his heart now, you know just a side note here in the book of Enoch
It actually says that they repented God that he had destroyed men on earth
Whereas here the biblical account says that it repented that he had made man on earth a clear contradiction between the two
It says in verse 7 and Lord said I will destroy man whom I've created from the face of the earth
Both man and beasts and the creeping thing in the fowls of the air for repentant me that I've made them
Another thing I want you to notice here is that we have an example of God repenting
Did you look at that showing us conclusively that repentance in the Bible?
Doesn't always mean to turn from your sin. Are there instances where that can be implied?
Of course because to repent means to turn but the context is important in order for us to understand what you're turning from
And when it comes to salvation, you're not turning from sin because no one can turn from their sin for salvation
You need the forgiveness of sin that comes through your faith in Jesus Christ
No repentance means you got to turn from your sin
Then you're saying that God sins because we have him repenting right here. Well, that's the exception
Oh, so you're admitting that there's exceptions to that rule now isn't there like with God like with salvation. Okay now
Here's a great passage here. Look at verse 8, but Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord
So this is incredible is it not in a world filled with corruption and violence and wickedness
One man finds grace in the eyes of the Lord
it says these are the generations of Noah Noah was a just and
Just man and perfect in his generations and no walk with God and Noah beget three sons
Shem ham and J fifth let me make a couple comments regarding Noah course again
This is a thousand years after the creation and even though the world is corrupt Noah finds grace now
Let me explain something here because you know don't misunderstand what verse eight is saying as if God just like okay
This guy's good. You know he just like randomly chooses Noah or something
You know obviously what this means is that God favors Noah, okay?
And obviously it's not because he's just a believer because there's a lot of believers are in this time
And they're not pleasing God there's something that Noah is doing that is causing God to favor him as a believer now
What is that? Well let me read to you from 2nd Peter chapter 2 in verse 5
it says for if God spared not the angels that sin but cast them down to hell and
deliver them into chains of darkness to be reserved into judgment and
Spared not the old world the world that we're looking at right now
but saved Noah the eighth person and I want you to notice this a preacher of righteousness
Bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly so we see here according to
2nd Peter 2 that Noah was a preacher
It's not like he's just living his life and just God just handpicked some prior to the flood taking place prior to him being even
Commissioned I believe to building the ark. He's probably preaching the Word of God. You know, he's probably doing he's probably evangelizing
You say how can I get God to favor me serve God? How about that? You're like man
I just worried I just wondered do I have God's hand on me? Well, if you're serving God, you don't have to wonder
Here's a guaranteed way to make sure that God will favor you all the days of your life
Preach the gospel if you learn how to preach the gospel if you serve God you will find grace in his eyes
That's how it works. It's not like Noah's just like in in the woods just you know
Making chairs and doing woodwork and just raising his family
But I was says he's a preacher of righteousness and we don't know exactly what his message is
But I'm sure he's preaching against the wickedness of his day, but I'm also sure he's evangelizing
He's probably preaching the gospel getting people saved doing exactly what we're doing today
And it seems to indicate that he's probably like one of the only ones is doing it
Which is kind of sad if you think about it, so you but let me ask you
Do you think Noah's famous in the eyes of the world? No, not famous
The world's not thinking of him as being a man of renown, but jokes on them because they're not surviving the flood
He is and you know what?
No, probably got a lot of people saved during this time because the gospel is the power of God into salvation to everyone that believeth
And we know that people got saved because the sons of God are there meaning believers are there people are getting saved
But there's a difference between getting saved and living righteously though big difference and just because you're saved doesn't mean you're gonna live
Righteously don't let these churches lie to you and tell you oh now that you're saved
It's just batteries come included. You're just gonna do the right thing all the time
No, you won't for in me. That is in my flesh dwells
No good thing and you know what we have to choose to do right every single day
And let me just be real honest with you you're gonna you might have some bad days
You might have some days where you have some choice words to tell the person who cut you off on the freeway
You might have some bad days with your spouse
You might have some bad days at work. You might have some days where you're in the flesh and you're not in the spirit
Because that's that's reality. That's how life actually is. That's how the Christian life actually rolls
It's not like you just get up and everything is just hunky-dory. You never have problems
You don't struggle with the flesh. You don't struggle with sin. You don't fight against the flesh the world and the devil
No, you have to intentionally fight against those things every single day
It's how it works
And so Noah is preaching to a world a fleshly world a world that's disobeying God
And you know what? He finds grace in God's eyes because he's actually serving God
Okay
The Bible says in Philippians 2 verse 15 that you may be blameless and harmless the sons of God
Without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation among whom ye shine as lights in the world
So if sons of God means angels, then what does this mean?
If we don't murder and dispute will become like angels or something. No, it says that you may be like the sons of God
Believers that are shining forth as lights in a crooked and perverse nation crooked and perverse world
This is exactly what Noah was verse 11
It says the earth also was corrupt before God and the earth was filled with violence
And God looked upon the earth and behold it was corrupt for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth
And when it says all flesh it's including believers and God said unto Noah the end of all flesh has come before me
For the earth is filled with violence through them and behold
I will destroy them with the earth now what is the main element that we see here that has made the world corrupt?
Violence right that's what we see. This is what like is being highlighted here. It's like the world is violent
It's violence that they've corrupted themselves through violence. Okay
Now this should come as no surprise because the first sin aside from Adam and Eve was a violent act
Murder and then thereafter we continue to see violence with Cain's descendants
And the Bible tells us that because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily
Therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil
Meaning we have a world that is progressing technologically, but their civil government is just trash
Meaning violence is being executed upon other people and then people are not correcting that behavior
So what happens when justice is not executed speedily people begin to do worse. They're more brazen to commit crime
They're more emboldened to murder. They're more emboldened to rape. They're more emboldened to commit crimes
Punishable by death even though there is no death penalty there because they know I'm not gonna suffer for this
This is why the earth is filled with violence and you know back to the Epstein Files thing, you know
Obviously just having your name on there with no evidence as to whether you did something or not is not punishable by death
It definitely raises a lot of suspicion and you're guilty by association a lot of ways
But every person who is known for doing any type of pedophilia on that list a bullet should be put to their head
That's a fact. They should be shot in front of a firing squad
Justice needs to be executed speedily on all those reprobates and pedophiles and let me just a public service announcement
All pedophiles should be killed all of them and don't bring your sympathetic
Rhetoric to me and say well, we should pray for that. I pray that they go down quick into hell
I pray they are destroyed for violating the innocent and you know what, you know
Forget your online influencer who makes these dismissive statements about the Epstein file
Why are we still talking about this because it's pedophilia. I just don't know why we're talking about this anymore
It's not really pedophilia Nick Fuentes himself, you know, whenever someone just tries to excuse pedophilia
Oh, that's a red flag right there. Whenever someone tries to excuse and say oh, you know, yeah
I don't just don't think that oh red flag you I'm sorry saying, you know
You want to you want to bust the airy Spears it what I say that again? What was that folks?
People need to be brought to justice and you know, the sad thing is it's not gonna happen. It's just not gonna happen
They're too powerful, you know
Videos are gonna come videos are gonna go no one's gonna do anything about it and names are gonna be named
But nothing's gonna happen. But you know what one day the flood will come but I'm just demonstrating to you that you know when
Justice is not executed speedily for an evil work men become emboldened to commit more crimes
Which is why you have the earth being filled with violence
And you know, Jesus said in Matthew 24 that as it was in the days of Noah
So shall it be in the end of days, right and we see that today the world is violent today, you know
The world is wicked. It's violent
It's filled with iniquity and and just absolute abominable things and you know
If God was grieved back then just think how much more grieved he is today. Look at verse 11
So obviously he tells Noah he says hey, um, I'm gonna destroy the earth, but he doesn't tell him how okay
And then he says here make thee an ark of gopher wood rooms shout out making the ark thou shalt pitch it within and without with pitch
And this is the fashion which thou shalt make of it the length of the ark shall be 300 cubits the breadth of it
50 cubits and the height of it 30 cubits a window shalt thou make to the ark and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above
And the door of the ark shall thou set in the side thereof with lower second and third stories shalt thou make it
So I want I want to clarify something here, you know Noah's ark is not a boat
Okay, a lot of times is depicted as a boat, but it's an ark and ark is literally like a box
Kind of like a barge actually, okay, and you say why isn't it a boat because it's not intended to navigate
Where's gonna go? He just has to float. He's got to survive the flood and that's it. It's not like, you know, oh we're you know
Set sail let's let's you know sail the seven seas or something
No, he just has to stay put he goes into the ark and got away till the flood finishes
So it's more like a box. Okay, it's about 400 500 feet high
Ark there and it's just intended to essentially house
No one his family and of course the animals as well
And when you look at the dimensions, it obviously makes sense that it would fit everyone including the animals
Hebrew chapter 11 you not to turn to verse 7 says by faith Noah being warned of God of things not seen as yet
Moved with fear prepared an art to the saving of his house by the which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness
Which is by faith. So obviously the Ark of Noah saved his family
But it was off. It was also a beautiful picture of the Lord Jesus Christ
Right, which is kind of crazy to think that people will often use first Peter chapter 3 to teach
You have to be baptized in order to be saved right and though because of the fact that first Peter chapter 3
Uses Noah's Ark in order to describe that and so think about this the logic here is just like oh
You need to be baptized in order to be saved because you know first Peter chapter 3 talks about that
And it uses Noah's Ark as an example, but let me ask you did the water save anybody in Noah's day
It killed everyone. What are you talking about? The water didn't save Noah. What saved Noah the Ark did they went into the Ark?
they closed the door they were sealed inside the Ark and that's what saved them from the wrath to come when like manner when you
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ you go in Christ. You are immersed and here's another way for me saying the immerse
You're baptized into Christ. That's what it means to be immersed right baptism immersion. They both are synonymous
We just associate baptism with water baptism
But baptism in the Bible like repentance is used interchangeably with various
Definitions and various contexts such as just being immersed into Christ. So when you get saved you're placed into Christ
You're sealed unto the day of redemption and you're spared from the wrath to come just like Noah and his family
What's the sermon this evening? What's the Bible study of this evening? Well, you know if you get anything get this
Recognize the earthly achievements doesn't necessarily equate godliness, right?
We all want to achieve something in this world to a certain degree
and we should strive to have goals and not be lazy and
You know be industrious, but we should also seek not to be characterized by those things
You know our lives should be characterized by righteousness
Godliness by getting people saved by putting the things of God first to be a person like Noah, right?
Where he obeyed God he built the ark
He is what was Noah's life characterized by saving people saving his family
Saving people from the wrath to come and even though he wasn't able to save the world from the physical wrath to come
He definitely saved people from the spiritual wrath to come by being a preacher of righteousness
If you want God's favor on your life
You want God to you want that golden touch or everything?
Do you do is blessed of God serve God if you want God to bless all of your endeavors your job?
Your family your children your finances your health serve God if you want to find grace in God's eyes one
sure guaranteed way to do so is by putting him first and
Let's get specific preach the gospel and you know, that's my shameless little
Advertisement for the soul-winning training, you know
So any training is helping you to find grace in God's eyes
So that you get God's attention and don't be in a church like this and not learn how to preach the gospel one time
Or another don't be in a church like this where we talk about preaching the gospel
We teach you how to preach the gospel. We provide teams we provide material we provide preaching and you're just like everyone else is doing it
I don't have to do it. No, you better learn how to do it if you want to find grace in God's eyes
Let's pray father. We thank you so much for your word. Thank you for Noah and his great example Lord and Lord
I know within all of us we have a desire to accomplish and achieve
Earthly things but at the end of the day the most important thing that we can do in this world that serve you
Do all things as unto Christ win souls to Christ Lord
And a lot of us are gonna be surprised who are the greatest in the millennial reign
It's those who won souls to Christ who serve God with their lives
And I pray Lord that you'd help us to recognize that Lord
You've told us in your word
Jesus said that that which high that which is highly esteemed among men is an abomination in the eyes of God
And I pray that you'd help us to recognize how important it is to be highly esteemed in your eyes
Not in the eyes of the world. We love you. We thank you. Pray this things in Jesus name
Amen
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