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INTRODUCTION:
A- A serious question:
The beginning of a new year presents the opportunity to make some lifestyle changes that will impact the rest of your life.
There are some decisions that you can make that will have eternal consequences.
The beginning of a new year presents the opportunity to make some lifestyle changes that will impact the rest of your life.
There are some decisions that you can make that will have eternal consequences.
Could you imagine having the opportunity of engaging a brand new beginning in a brand new world?
What would you do?
Could you imagine having the opportunity of engaging a brand new beginning in a brand new world?
What would you do?
In , we find a man and his family who were faced with just such a situation.
B- The background ().
1- The wickedness of the human race :
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2- The Judgement of God upon the world:
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3- The Grace of a New Beginning:
a. Through the lives of people who experienced God’s grace.
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Noah was in a right relationship with God (righteous).
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Noah lived a blameless life (unlike the other people on the earth).
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Noah walked in close fellowship with God.
In order for this new beginning to come to pass, Noah and his family had to make some decisions.
If you are to experience the New beginning that God has in store for you, you must make these same decisions.
I- DECIDE TO ENTER GOD’S ARK OF SAFETY ().
A- Accept the fact that sin results in God’s judgment.
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17).
1- Noah believed God’s declaration of coming judgment.
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He recorded God’s instructions for building the ark and populating it.
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He followed God’s instructions.
He did not try to make it his own way.
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B- Accept God’s covenant terms to receive His promise (v.
18).
1- Noah and his family entered the ark with the animals, when commanded to by God ().
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Even after building the ark, they had to get on board in order to escape God’s judgement.
2- God has provided the ark of safety to escape God’s judgment for sin.
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The gift of eternal life purchased by the blood of Christ.
(1) You must be reject the self-willed life of sin (repent)
(2) You must receive the payment-in-full for your sins made by Jesus Christ on the cross and the power to live a new life as evidenced by Jesus’ resurrection from the dead.
(3) You must surrender control of your life to the Lordship of Christ—choosing to become his disciple.
II- DECIDE TO TRUST GOD IN THE STORM ().
A- The storm is not often short, nor easy.
1- Noah and his family faced a serious situation enroute to their new beginning.
a.
The journey was dangerous:
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Jewish writings and the New Testament (kataklusmós) have the same practice for reference to the famous deluge (; ; ).31b.
The idea conveyed is that the flood was so dangerous, it was cataclysmic!
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The journey was long:
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The journey was long:
Jewish writings and the New Testament (kataklusmós) have the same practice for reference to the famous deluge (; ; ).31b.
The journey was long:
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The ark journey took a full year.
We have here the last date in the Flood story.
The earth is dry on the 27th day of the 2nd month in the 2nd year.
The Flood had begun on the 17th day of the 2nd month in the previous year (7:11).
From first to last we have here a period of one year and 10 days.
It has been pointed out that a lunar year consists of 354 days; and that one lunar year and 11 days is exactly a solar year of 365 days.
The LXX in 7:11 dated the commencement of the Flood from the 27th day of the 2nd month of the 1st year; and, therefore, assigns an exact year to its duration.
We have here the last date in the Flood story.
The earth is dry on the 27th day of the 2nd month in the 2nd year.
The Flood had begun on the 17th day of the 2nd month in the previous year (7:11).
From first to last we have here a period of one year and 10 days.
It has been pointed out that a lunar year consists of 354 days; and that one lunar year and 11 days is exactly a solar year of 365 days.
This may be merely a coincidence; and in calculating the months we reckon them as solar months of 30 days each.
The LXX in 7:11 dated the commencement of the Flood from the 27th day of the 2nd month of the 1st year; and, therefore, assigns an exact year to its duration.
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The journey was inconvenient:
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Confined.
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Noisy
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Uncertain - didn’t know the end.
2- God has not promised that the road will be easy, nor that the pathway will be short for you and I.
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In fact, scripture assures that the opposite is true.
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B- The journey requires continued obedience.
1- You must be willing to carry out what God has given you to do and let him take care of the rest.
a. Noah and his family had to continue to take care of the animals and other day-to-day tasks.
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Had to leave the steering and safety of the ark to God.
2- You must be willing to wait on God’s direction … don’t get ahead of God.
a. Noah and his family stayed ready to move, but did not exit the ark until God directed them.
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III- DECIDE TO MAKE WORSHIP AND SERVICE TO GOD THE PRIORITY ().
A- God is to be given top priority.
1- The first thing that Noah and his family did was to worship God.
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They built an altar and offer the prescribed sacrifices.
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God was pleased and made a promise.
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2- The sacrifices he desires from us:
a. brokenness over our sin.
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Yieldedness of our whole life to him.
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B- Live in the assurance of his promises.
1- God is always faithful to keep his promises.
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CONCLUSION:
SONG:
“I have decided to follow Jesus”
1 I have decided to follow Jesus;
I have decided to follow Jesus;
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