Genesis 6

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Genesis 6 begins the story of Noah and the flood, and it gives us the reason why

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God destroyed the earth. So why did God destroy the earth? There's no what?

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No good. There's nobody good on earth. Well, except maybe

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Noah. Noah himself or Noah and his family. Yeah, the earth had become totally corrupt.

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And why is that? Well, it has something to do with the sons of God and the daughters of men.

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So the main questions we're going to look at. Number one, what led to this corruption? Number two, we'll ask, how can

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God be sorry? It says that God was sorry that he made man. Well, didn't he know this was going to happen?

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How can God? The King James says that it repented God that he had made man.

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God wished that he hadn't. Well, how does that work? If God knows all things. And then number three, we'll get into the whole story of Noah's Ark and the flood.

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But let's start with verse one. Genesis six, one and two. Now it came to pass when men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born to them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful.

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And they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose.

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Okay. So the sons of God are intermarrying and having children with the daughters of men.

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So we have to first identify these two groups. Who are the sons of God?

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And there's basically two main theories on this. The first theory says that the sons of God are what?

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Okay. Yeah. Yeah. The first theory says that the sons of God are angels.

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All right. The second theory says that the sons of God are the godly line of set.

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So let's go over these two views and whichever it is will determine who or what the

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Nephilim are or the giants. And it will tell us what happened, why

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God decided he had to destroy all of mankind. So who's heard of the term Nephilim?

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Or let me ask, does your Bible say giant or Nephilim? Whose Bible says giant?

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Okay. Who says Nephilim? So it's almost half and half. So who are the

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Nephilim? This comes from the Hebrew word or who are the giants? It comes from the

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Hebrew word Nephil. And Moses writes that they were mighty men who were of old men of renown.

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So the two theories, the sons of God are angels. If the sons of God are angels, that would make the giants or the

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Nephilim half breeds, like half angel, half human. Because the angels are procreating with women, human women.

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And then their offspring would be half angel. Of course, they're fallen angels.

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So they'd be like half demon, half human. And a lot of people will just, you know, just reject that out of hand and say that's not even possible.

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So a lot of people don't even accept that as a possibility. But that's one view.

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I would say that's probably the minority viewpoint. The majority report is that the sons of God are simply the line of Seth.

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So the godly line of Seth. And I think based on the context, I'm inclined to think that, yes, these are the descendants of Seth, the godly people that are on the earth.

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So once the godly people start intermarrying with the ungodly, what happens? You know, if you have purity and corruption and you mix purity and corruption, all you get from there is corruption.

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So that's what would have corrupted the human race. Or, obviously, if demons were procreating with humans, that would have corrupted the human race as well.

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So we know mankind has been corrupted. It's just a matter of which position. I suspect this room is divided of who holds what position.

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Okay, so let's get into this. As I said, the Hebrew word nephil in most modern

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Bible translations, it says nephilim. And the word nephilim sounds very mysterious.

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If you look it up online, there are all sorts of wild pictures and crazy theories, maybe not crazy.

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But in the King James version of the Bible, along with the New King James, it translates it not nephilim.

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It translates it as there are giants on the earth. So most Bible translations say nephilim.

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And the other two, King James, New King James, says giant.

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Does anyone have a different translation that says giant other than the King James or New King James?

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Okay. So the only other time this word nephil or for nephilim is used is in Numbers chapter 13.

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If you remember that story, that's when the ten spies had gone into Canaan, spied the land.

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They came back with the bad report. Remember Joshua and Caleb had the good report. The ten spies said we should not go in.

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We shouldn't try to take the land because there's no way we can win because the giants are there.

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In Hebrew, it would be, you know, the nephilim are there, the sons of Anak. And basically, they're too big, they're too strong, and we can't defeat them.

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Now, that would be problematic because if the nephilim were destroyed in the flood, how did they show up later on in the book of Numbers?

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Like, if this really is a half -breed between demons and humans, how are they around in the book of Numbers?

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Like, to me, explain it to me if I'm not getting something, but to me, that doesn't make any sense.

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Now, if it's just that they're giants, that they're large, strong people, okay, there were giants afterwards, after the flood.

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You have Goliath and the men of Gath. So, giants being around after the flood, not really a problem, but this half -breed creature, yeah, that just wouldn't make sense.

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So then, why do people think the sons of God are angels? Let's turn to Job chapter 1.

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As I've shared with you, my belief is that they are the godly line of Seth.

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I think that makes the most sense, just logically and based on the context, because in the last chapter, you want to go to, you know, verses before and after, and the verses before are giving the genealogy, so it all makes sense with the genealogy that we're talking about the line of Seth.

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However, we have to admit that, yeah, it does seem like there are some instances in the

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Old Testament where the sons of God do refer to angels. When you hear sons of God, what do you think of?

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Like, who are the sons of God today? Marcus? We are, but isn't

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Jesus sometimes referred to that way also in the Old Testament? So today, under the new covenant for the past 2 ,000 years, it's clear believers are called sons of God, children of God.

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That is very rare. I'm not saying it never happened in the Old Testament, but that's more of a

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New Testament concept for believers to be sons of God. But I do think it is referring to sons of God here in Genesis as believers as well.

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Now, as far as Jesus being called the son of God in the Old Testament, what verse are you referring to? In Proverbs, there's a statement about God's son.

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Israel, the nation of Israel, was referred to as God's son. Or maybe it's the angel of the

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Lord. Yeah. So look at Job 1, 6 and 7.

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It says, Now there was a day when the, what? Sons of God came to present themselves before the

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Lord, and Satan also came among them. And the Lord said to Satan, From where do you come?

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So Satan answered the Lord and said, From going to and fro on the earth and from walking back and forth on it.

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So is Satan bound in the bottomless pit or is he chained up in hell? No. Satan and presumably his demons have free reign and he's going to and fro on the earth.

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But the more important thing here is that the sons of God in this context clearly seem to be the angels.

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So the angels present themselves to the Lord. It doesn't actually say that.

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So that is an assumption. But most commentators agree. Sons of God here does refer to the angels.

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And Satan is an angel, right? He's a fallen angel. So that's why a lot of people think that the sons of God in Genesis 6 refer to angels.

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And again, if angels are procreating with humans, then you have some like half -breed race of creatures.

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So that's the first point. Let's go to 2 Peter 2. Now, what are some of the problems with the idea that the sons of God are angels?

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A lot of people would say that this contradicts what Jesus said in Matthew 22, verse 30.

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He said in the resurrection, the angels neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like, or excuse me, not the angels.

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People in the resurrection will neither marry nor are given in marriage, but they are like the angels of God in heaven.

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So according to Jesus, angels don't get married. Angels don't procreate. That seems to be what

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Jesus is saying. So if that's true, then that can't be what's going on in Genesis 6, right?

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But again, there are some assumptions that we're making. So it's hard to say for sure one way or another.

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So either way you slice it, I think both positions have their points. But look at 2

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Peter 2. This is the one verse that made me think in the past.

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I used to believe this theory that the sons of God were angels.

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And this is why, based on this passage. I'll just start in verse 1 for context. Peter writes, but there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the

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Lord who bought them, and will bring on themselves swift destruction. And many will follow their destructive ways because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed.

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By covetousness, they will exploit you with deceptive words. For a long time, their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction does not slumber.

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And here's the part that ties in with Genesis. For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell, or Tartarus, I think is the

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Greek term, and delivered them into chains of darkness to be reserved for judgment, and did not spare the ancient world, but saved

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Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly, and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, and so on and so forth.

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So the argument goes that Peter is connecting the angels who sin. He's connecting that to the time period of Noah and the flood.

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So we've asked the question already. When did Lucifer fall? When did the angels fall?

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There's no real answer except that it was before Genesis 3. But here, again, it's another assumption, but yeah, he does seem to be connecting the time period of the flood to angels doing something wrong, and they were cast down to Tartarus, or this is the abyss or the bottomless pit where they are now in chains of darkness.

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Also, Jude 6, there's only one chapter. Jude 6 says,

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The angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, God has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day.

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So again, the angels, Satan and the angels seem to be, the fallen angels seem to have free reign.

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When Jesus is ministering, there's people that are possessed by demons. The demons seem to be kind of on the loose.

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But here we're seeing that there are some angels, fallen angels, that are chained. And the argument goes this.

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They sinned around the time of the flood. They procreated with humans. The sons of God came into the daughters of men.

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And that's the punishment. They were chained in the abyss. So that would be sort of like a separate fall.

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So there was angels who fell originally with Lucifer before Genesis 3, and then it sort of happened again, a different event in Genesis 6.

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So do we understand the two arguments? What do you think? What do you think about all this?

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Confusing. Confusing, okay. So as long as we understand the main points, the sons of God are either, and this is another thing, if they're doing something wrong and they're demons, then why are they called the sons of God?

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Because they're clearly doing something wrong. But the sons of God are either angels or fallen angels, or they're the descendants, godly descendants of Seth.

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My study Bible has a third option. It says the sons of God, and it has some verses, are like men of high social status, like kings.

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Right. Yeah. Right. But it says it's unlikely.

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Yeah, I mean that, and I said there are two main theories. That is a third theory, and there's probably other theories out there.

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But yeah, I mean that's possible. They could have been world rulers back then, men of renown.

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So that's a possibility. So what I was taught, what were you taught?

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Who was taught that they were the descendants of Seth? Okay. Who was taught that they were angels?

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Okay. Who was never taught anything about this? Or you don't remember? Okay. Here's what

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I was taught. I was taught that they were fallen angels, and that Satan had this plot to so corrupt mankind that the blood of man would be intermingled with demons, that mankind would be so corrupted that it would be impossible to bring the

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Messiah into the world. That was Satan's strategy. That's why he did it, and that these were indeed fallen angels.

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So that's the position I held to, because that's what I was taught. But when

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I was studying Genesis chapters 1 through 12, a couple summers ago,

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I did a series, Genesis 1 through 12. And based on the context, I changed my position, because I just thought this fit the context.

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So I think it's important that we are able to change our minds on things.

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But if you consider this, whatever happened, this is a very effective strategy.

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Let's go to this other theory, the line of Seth. How did Israel become corrupt?

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Remember God told them to be holy, be separate, have no dealings with the heathen, and what did they do?

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Yeah, they intermarried with non -Jews, and that is one way.

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It happened a couple times in their history. That is one way that the nation of Israel became heathen, because they intermarried with the heathen.

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So that's a very common strategy. King Solomon did this. Remember, he had many foreign wives who believed in other gods, and it led his heart away from the

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Lord, so much so that he set up idols in the temple. And that's true even right now.

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There could be a godly teenager, a godly young man, godly young woman.

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They meet somebody, they start dating an unbeliever, and within a month or two, they've fallen out of church, and this is an effective tool of the enemy to lure people away through temptation.

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Marcus. We know that Satan or the demons can appear as angels of light, but aren't there other examples where angels did take human form?

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They took human form many times, yes. So if they have the ability to take human form, perhaps they do have the ability to procreate.

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And again, that's... I've listened to both theories, and I'm not sure. There's a lot of things

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I'm not sure about. More and more all the time. This is another point.

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Let's say there's a third of the room that says that they're angels and that the

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Nephilim are a half -breed. Another third says, no, it's the godly line of Seth. And the other third says, well, we just don't know.

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That's okay. We can agree to disagree. This is not a gospel issue, as some people say.

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Your salvation does not depend on your viewpoint here. So I think this is a sign of maturity when you can hear another viewpoint expressed and you just agree to disagree and you don't have to freak out because someone believes something different.

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So it's totally fine if we have different views. But Mark, you had your hand up. Yes, the sons of God refers to the godly line of Seth.

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When intermarried with the daughters of men, the ungodly line of Cain. The result of these spiritually mixed marriages brought the judgment of God upon the primeval world.

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Yep. Yep. I agree. I agree with that statement. Did I see another hand over there?

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Yeah. Actually, there's a lot of things in the Bible that God doesn't want us to understand.

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Yeah. But we will one day when we get to be with Him. And then it won't be that important because everything will be answered and taken care of in His hands.

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Right. Linda? I think it's kind of strange that He destroyed everything on the earth just because they were unfaithful.

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If that's the case, we're doomed. Which we are. I mean, that's what the world is.

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And yet, I mean, why are there some demons that are now chained?

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They had to do something far worse than the rest of them. Satan and his whatever. Who took a stand against God.

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Right. And He didn't chain them. So... I mean, that verse in 2

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Peter, and you're right, there are some angels who are chained, fallen angels, then there are some who are not. So they had to do something really more than falsely.

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So the flood is such a drastic measure that something really bad had to have happened, not just groups intermarrying, which has happened throughout history.

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I get it. I can see both sides. So, Marcus? Well, God's patience does seem to run out on occasion.

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Sodom and Gomorrah. Right. Yet, we have to wonder if you watch the news at all from a reliable news source, our world's in very bad condition right now.

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Right. Let's turn to Matthew 24 for a moment, just along those lines, because we know that the flood is used as a picture when

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Jesus is talking about the second advent, when He comes to earth, and we know this is going to happen again, right?

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The wicked are going to be destroyed and only the righteous saved. So Jesus, when

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He talks about His coming again to earth, He does compare it to the days of Noah.

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So the idea that, well, we're doomed. Well, it's true. Mankind is doomed.

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It's going to happen again. The first time was with water, and we know the second time is with fire.

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We see this in Matthew 24, 38 through 40. It says, It's for as in the days of, or excuse me, for as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage until the day that Noah entered the ark and did not know until the flood came and took them all away.

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So also will the coming of the son of man be. Then two men will be in the field. One will be taken and the other left.

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So life is going to kind of be going on as is, and then, you know, judgment's going to fall.

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And He does seem to connect the two, the second advent and the flood.

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So, all right, we can go back to Genesis chapter six. And of course, second

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Peter three is another passage that seems to connect the flood with the day of the

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Lord. But yeah, like I said, I can see both sides here. All right.

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Any other remarks on this? No. All right. Let me find my place.

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So verse three, we're going to pick up in verse three. And the Lord said, My spirit shall not strive with man forever for he is indeed flesh, yet his days shall be 120 years.

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So again, there's two positions on this. One side says that there's going to be 120 years until the flood, that that's what he's saying.

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Mankind has 120 years remaining. Now, the other point of view says that after the flood, man isn't going to live to eight, 900 years.

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Man is only going to live to about 120. And that is over, you know,

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Abraham lived to be, I think 175. But after the flood, it's true. The life expectancy dropped drastically.

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So which is he referring to? It's a matter of debate. One translation puts verse three like this.

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I think it's a paraphrase that does it, but it says, Then the Lord said, My spirit will not put up with humans for such a long time.

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That is 900 years for they are only mortal flesh. In the future, their normal lifespan will be no more than 120 years.

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So according to many commentators, 120 is the tops for how long someone's going to live.

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All right. Verse four, we get this statement about the giants. So the sons of God came into the daughters of men, right?

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There were giants on the earth in those days. And also afterward, when the sons of God came into the daughters of men and they bore children to them, notice it says,

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And also afterward, this, this again would tell me that it's probably the, it's probably that they were actual giants, not half demon, because after the flood, there were no more

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Nephilim. Like if there really is a half breed creature, they were destroyed in the flood.

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But here it says there were giants and also afterward. So I think that they were really just large.

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Another way, the word can be translated as fierce or like tyrant or bullies, that they were just fierce warriors, large men like Goliath, because those people did exist after the flood.

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So again, that wouldn't, to me, it wouldn't make sense if they were, if they were half demon, but men of renown, what does it mean to be a man of renown or a person who is renowned that people are just talking about you, right?

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You're, you're famous. And that's what happened. Cause you see that they're still being talked about.

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Their legend lives on all the way to numbers 13. Of course, we're still talking about them today, but verse five, whatever happened, the result of this union, this is the result.

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Either way, verse five says, then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

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So this is a great verse on the teaching known as the depravity of, of man.

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So, you know how it is today. Most people would say about human beings, man is basically good.

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I mean, that's the non -Christian viewpoint. The Christian viewpoint is that man, there is none good, no, not one, right?

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This is Romans chapter three, Jeremiah 17, verse nine says, the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked who can know it.

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So the Bible definitely teaches the depravity of mankind. There has been only one good person in history and they nailed him to a cross.

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So the, the doctrine of the depravity of man's often misunderstood. If we're not saying that he's as mankind is as bad as he can possibly be, it's that man is as bad off as he can possibly be.

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Like we are totally lost, fully corrupted in our nature and man can do nothing in and of himself to, to earn

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God's favor or to work their way to heaven. So we are as bad off as we can be.

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Verse six, and this is that statement where it, it seems to describe

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God in such a way. This has made people wonder how, how can God be sorry that he did something?

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You know, because we know God didn't make a mistake, right? But let's look, verse six and the

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Lord was sorry that he had made man on the earth and he was grieved in his heart.

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Like I said, the King James says, it repented the Lord that he had made man. So how can

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God to repent means to change your mind? So how is it that God can change his mind?

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If God knows everything, Isaiah 46, verse 10 says, it's

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God speaking. I declare the end from the beginning. How can God change his mind then if he knows everything?

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Because you can do whatever he wants. He's God. You know, this is one of those things where sometimes asking questions helps and we can dig deeper and learn more.

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This is probably one of those questions that doesn't really help us. The Bible does say that at times

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God changed his mind, whether that's anthropomorphic language, where we're taking human attributes and applying them to God just to help us understand the story better.

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Maybe, but it says that he does change his mind at times. So I'm just going to take it at face value.

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Marcus, there's a track out there with a big three on it. Three things that God cannot do.

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I have another one that says four things that God cannot do. There are some things you can't do.

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We can't lie. I think I bet you could read that track that probably one of them will say you can't change, but you know what?

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He cannot create a rock so heavy that he can't sit up either.

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Yeah. Come let us reason together, say it the Lord. So that's the, that's the best way to look at it.

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God is unhappy. He is very displeased with mankind. That's an understatement.

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All right. Verse seven. So this is what he says. I will destroy man from, I will destroy man whom

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I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air for I am sorry that I have made them.

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But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. So we know that grace is undeserving.

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God didn't owe Noah anything, but it does seem like God chose Noah because he was righteous.

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It goes on to say that look at verse nine. This is the genealogy of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations.

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And it says Noah walked with God. That doesn't mean that he was perfect as in without sin, but he was, he wasn't, he was a man who lived uprightly.

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So there was nothing as we're talking about in a Sunday school, right? The, the word blameless, like there's nothing you can pin on Noah.

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Yeah. At some point in his life, he had sin in his heart somewhere, but I mean, he was head and shoulders above everybody else, but still he found grace because he still doesn't deserve what

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God did for him. Nobody really deserves it. Marcus. We're entering again, the debate between time and eternity, between the finally and the infinite.

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God, we're created in God's image. I believe that part of that means that God has emotions.

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We can grieve the Holy spirit. God can suffer too, just like we do.

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And that's just because, but it's important to remember that time will not always be.

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Uh, and eventually everything is going to be made right.

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And in heaven, there'll be no more death, no more pain, no more sorrow, no more crying.

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But in the meantime, you cannot tell me that God did not suffer when he had to pour out his wrath on his own innocent son.

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Okay. Uh, verse 11 says the earth was also, uh, the earth also was corrupt before God and the earth was filled with violence.

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Uh, you know, how bad it was, was it worse then than it is now? I don't know.

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There's no way to tell for sure, but so God looked upon the earth, verse 12, and indeed it was corrupt for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.

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Now, if it is the godly line of Seth intermarrying with the ungodly people, do you think that's happened among believers worldwide?

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Do you think that's happened? I mean, the real question is, are we reaching that point where God is so displeased with humanity that, you know, he's going to bring, you know, the flood 2 .0

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with, with the second advent? I don't know. I think so. I think,

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I think it's safe to say that mankind, we are, we are probably worse than we've ever been.

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You ask a Christian, that's typically what you'll hear. But then if you ask unbelievers, they thought, we've progressed.

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We are better than we've ever been. We have a long way to go, but so it's amazing how different we see it.

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But verses 13 through 16, God gives details about how Noah was to prepare the arc.

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Verse 14 should be made with gopher wood cover inside and out with pitch. Verse 15,

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God gives the dimensions for 16. It's going to have a window, three decks. And I think all these specifics are again, given so that we know this is a real historical account.

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It's a fairy tale. If it's just a made up story, we don't, there's not going to be all these details. Details prove that it, this is real history that we're reading about.

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Cause I think God knew this. Well, I know he did that, you know, in the latter times, perilous times would come and that there will be pulpits where the pastors,

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Christian ministers are even starting to deny the flood or to say that, well, it wasn't worldwide.

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It was only a local flood, but look at verse 17 and behold, the

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Lord says, I myself am bringing floodwaters on the earth to destroy from under heaven, all flesh in which is the breath of life.

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Does this sound like a localized flood to you? Yeah. On the earth to destroy from under heaven, all flesh, everything that is on the earth shall die.

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He says, that sounds worldwide to me, but verse 18, I will establish my covenant with you.

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That is Noah. And you shall go into the arc, you, your sons, your wife, and your son's wives with you.

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So this is the first time in the Bible that you read the word covenant. Now has

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God made a covenant before? Some people will say yes, but I would, I would point to this as the first covenant that God makes.

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And we know that a covenant is a promise, a binding agreement.

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And who is God making a covenant with? Noah. So this is an act of grace right here.

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The idea that God would make a binding agreement with any human. Um, we, we're not deserving of that.

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Again, Noah wasn't even really deserving. But God is going to preserve.

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He wants to preserve that godly seed because remember, all of this is meant to fulfill that prophecy in chapter three of bringing the

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Christ into the world. So this is all about bringing the savior into the world. The devil's trying to corrupt the human race, but God is going to preserve the human race and Noah and his three sons.

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And it says that Noah's three sons, their names are what? Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

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So it's believed that Shem is the father of the Semitic people in the Middle East.

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Uh, Japheth is the father of, you know, Europeans, I guess, or white people.

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And then Ham is the father of, you know, the tribes and in Africa.

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So any other people group would be a blending of, of, of these three. And obviously humans have, uh, blended throughout history, but that's typically how it, uh, is believed to have broken down.

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Look at verses 19 and 20. God says, and of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ark for what purpose?

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Again, to keep them alive. So if this is a localized flood, then this is all pointless because they would be living, you know, other places where the flood didn't reach.

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Also, if Noah was given 120 years to the flood, which it probably is about that he had plenty of time to move.

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So if you look at the whole flood story, there's just no room for the flood being a regional, regional flood.

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Um, when you hear that being taught, you know, a ministry that teaches a localized flood,

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I would say they're denying the flood account because the flood was worldwide. They're denying the worldwide flood.

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They're going to deny other things. So just, uh, just be on the lookout for that.

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You know, it's like a little leaven leavens the whole lump. You, you compromise on Adam and Eve and the age of the earth.

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You're probably compromised on the flood being worldwide. And then when it comes to the next controversial thing, they'll compromise on that and that, and then it just goes on and on.

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So we'll end the story with verse 22. It says, thus

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Noah did. So after God gave him all these instructions, we read thus Noah did, according to all that God commanded him.

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So he did. And really this is what God wanted all along.

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God created man. So that man would worship God, love God. Yes. But that man would obey.

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God wanted obedience from Adam. Did he get it? He wanted it from Cain and Abel.

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Did he get it? Well, he got it with one of them and then he was killed, but God is getting it now from Noah.

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And just to connect this to the new Testament, Jesus said multiple times in the gospel of John, you know, you are my disciples.

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If you continue in my word, and then John 15, verse 14, he says, you are my friends.

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If you do whatever I tell you. So that statement that, you know, thus

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Noah did, according to all God commanded him. I realize again, we fall short.

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I'm sure Noah fell short in some ways. We're going to see that after the flood, but we want

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God to say this about us, that whatever God tells us to do, you know, thus we did.

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So that's, that should be our goal, but we'll pick up next week with the account of the flood, maybe the next two weeks.

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And we will see that the ark is actually a wonderful foreshadow of Christ and the gospel.