SPEAKER_01: Hello, I'm Ozzy Garcia.
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SPEAKER_00: Different stories.
SPEAKER_00: And God doesn't give us all of the details, but he gives us the necessary details that he wants us to remember, that he wants us to reflect on, that he wants us to see.
SPEAKER_00: Last Sunday we looked at the story of Noah and the worldwide, the global flood that God brought upon the earth.
SPEAKER_00: And this week we read the end of chapter number eight, but I want us to go back and look a little bit more at these final verses here in chapter number eight and then into chapter number nine.
SPEAKER_00: Throughout Genesis, we see this thing.
SPEAKER_00: We see corruption, we see judgment, but then we see God offering grace.
SPEAKER_00: God offers grace, and Noah finds grace in the eyes of the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: And let's look at what takes place after the flood is finished, and after Noah and his family are rescued.
SPEAKER_00: If you're able to, I'll invite you to stand one more time together for the honor of the reading of God's word here this morning.
SPEAKER_00: Genesis chapter number eight, and look with me in verse number 15 this morning.
SPEAKER_00: And God spake unto Noah, saying, Go forth of the ark, thou and thy wife and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.
SPEAKER_00: Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee of all flesh, both of fowl and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.
SPEAKER_00: And Noah went forth, and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him.
SPEAKER_00: Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark.
SPEAKER_00: Verse 20.
SPEAKER_00: And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord, and took of every clean beast and every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
SPEAKER_00: And the Lord smelled a sweet savor, and the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake.
SPEAKER_00: For the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth, neither will I again smite any more everything living, as I have done.
SPEAKER_00: While the earth remaineth seed time, and harvest, and cold, and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
SPEAKER_00: And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth.
SPEAKER_00: And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth, upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea, unto your hand are they delivered.
SPEAKER_00: Every more every moving thing that lieth shall be meat for you, even as the green herb have I given you all things.
SPEAKER_00: But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
SPEAKER_00: And surely your blood of your lives will I require at the hand of every beast.
SPEAKER_00: Will I require it and at the hand of man, and at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.
SPEAKER_00: Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.
SPEAKER_00: For in the image of God made he man, and you be ye fruitful and multiply, bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
SPEAKER_00: And God spake unto Noah and to his sons with him, saying, And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you, and with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl of the cattle, and of every beast, and of the earth with you, from all that go out of the ark to every beast of the earth.
SPEAKER_00: And I will establish my covenant with you, neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood, neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
SPEAKER_00: And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you, and every living creature that is with you for perpetual generations.
SPEAKER_00: I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
SPEAKER_00: And it shall come to pass when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud, and I will remember my covenant which is between me and you, and every living creature of all flesh, and the water shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh, and the bow shall be in the cloud, and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
SPEAKER_00: And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.
SPEAKER_00: Let's go to the Lord in a word of prayer.
SPEAKER_00: As I pray out loud, I encourage you as you pray in your heart this morning.
SPEAKER_00: Ask God, ask him directly to speak to you today and to show him from his word what you need this morning.
SPEAKER_00: Dear Lord, I thank you again for the opportunity that we have to gather together in your name.
SPEAKER_00: Lord, I thank you that Jesus, you paid it all.
SPEAKER_00: All to you we owe.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus, because of your sacrifice on the cross of Calvary, we can have life and we can have life more abundantly.
SPEAKER_00: We can have forgiveness of sins.
SPEAKER_00: We can have mercy, Lord.
SPEAKER_00: We can have heaven as our eternal destination.
SPEAKER_00: And so, Jesus, I thank you for your sacrifice.
SPEAKER_00: I glorify you for the resurrection.
SPEAKER_00: Lord, I thank you that you are real, that you're on the throne, that you're present here with us here this morning.
SPEAKER_00: God, I ask that you would please empty me of self, Lord.
SPEAKER_00: Fill me with your spirit.
SPEAKER_00: Holy Spirit, I pray for your flock.
SPEAKER_00: I pray for the people that are here this morning that have come to learn about your word, to learn about what the Bible says, to learn about who you are, God.
SPEAKER_00: And I pray that you would touch our hearts this morning.
SPEAKER_00: I pray that you would anoint me this morning.
SPEAKER_00: I pray that the teaching, the message would be a help to all that are here today.
SPEAKER_00: Lord, we need your grace this morning.
SPEAKER_00: We pray all these things in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.
SPEAKER_00: Thank you so much for standing.
SPEAKER_00: You can be seated today.
SPEAKER_00: I appreciate second chances.
SPEAKER_00: Another opportunity.
SPEAKER_00: Sometimes you get to hit the redo button.
SPEAKER_00: Second chances are a blessing.
SPEAKER_00: There have been times in school where I needed a little bit of a second chance, another opportunity, right, to uh take a test or a little bit of a prolonged opportunity to turn in an assignment.
SPEAKER_00: I'm thankful for the grace at times that my teachers have shown to me by giving me a second chance, a redo.
SPEAKER_00: I'm thankful for when I first I told the story before that when I first did my driver's license test, I didn't pass the first time, but I'm thankful that it wasn't just one try and you're out.
SPEAKER_00: You can't uh do it at all anymore.
SPEAKER_00: I'm thankful that I was able to have a second chance, another opportunity.
SPEAKER_00: I'm thankful that I had a second chance when me and Liv were first friends and we were there in Bible college one semester.
SPEAKER_00: I had asked her if she would consider going and getting some coffee with me.
SPEAKER_00: To which she replied uh essentially that I needed to uh that she would give me an answer later, right?
SPEAKER_00: She didn't say no on the spot, she didn't say yes on the spot either.
SPEAKER_00: And so uh she kind of avoided me from that point for a little while, and then she finally told me it's gonna be a no, right?
SPEAKER_00: She said no the first semester, but I'm thankful that I gave her a set, no, no, no, I'm just kidding.
SPEAKER_00: She gave me a second chance, right?
SPEAKER_00: And so I'm so thankful for second chances.
SPEAKER_00: I'm thankful that in God's word, he teaches us that he is a God of second chances.
SPEAKER_00: He's a God that allows us to have another opportunity.
SPEAKER_00: Because though mankind was, as we saw last week, willfully sinful, willfully wicked, wicked in their imaginations continually.
SPEAKER_00: What we see in Genesis at the end of eight and into chapter number nine is that God gives humanity another opportunity, a second chance.
SPEAKER_00: His plan for humanity was not finished at the flood, but it was renewed.
SPEAKER_00: And his plan for your life was not finished when you fell.
SPEAKER_00: It was not finished the last time you messed up.
SPEAKER_00: It was not finished when you thought it was over, and he wants nothing to do with you now.
SPEAKER_00: If you're alive, if you're breathing, if you have the breath of long, then you are not done yet.
SPEAKER_00: God is not finished with you yet.
SPEAKER_00: He gives us a second chance.
SPEAKER_00: Not because we deserve it, really, but because he's gracious.
SPEAKER_00: Because he's kind, because he's that word that we looked at last week.
SPEAKER_00: He's long suffering.
SPEAKER_00: He gives another chance.
SPEAKER_00: This morning, that's a main thought that I hope that we'll pull away from this text.
SPEAKER_00: That God is a God of second chances.
SPEAKER_00: We're gonna kind of just walk here and uh through this narrative.
SPEAKER_00: I just want to give us a few things to consider this morning.
SPEAKER_00: Number one, look in chapter number eight, and I want us to see that God He respects or He receives the offering of Noah.
SPEAKER_00: Think about Noah.
SPEAKER_00: Can you put yourself in the place of him and his family as they're on this boat for some 370 days?
SPEAKER_00: A whole year on the ark, a whole year as the earth has been uh rained upon, as the waters have opened up from uh inside the earth and it's come from above the earth, and now it's been a global flood, and Noah's been on this boat for three, so for some 370 days.
SPEAKER_00: Surely the visual destruction gave them pause to consider what God had rescued them from.
SPEAKER_00: Surely the fact that they were on the ark for such a long period of time and they were the only survivors gave them pause to think and to consider.
SPEAKER_00: Wow, God showed us grace.
SPEAKER_00: God rescued us, God saved us.
SPEAKER_00: And it is in this recognition that Noah has the only proper response.
SPEAKER_00: He gets off of the ark and immediately he builds an altar of worship to the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: And Noah building an altar unto the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: And if you remember through the reading of this particular text, there was uh uh both unclean animals and there was clean animals that were brought on to uh Noah's Ark.
SPEAKER_00: And here he sacrifices the clean animals, the clean beast and the clean fowl, and he offers them as burnt offerings on the altar.
SPEAKER_00: One commentator states the people of God are a worshiping people.
SPEAKER_00: The altar it pictures for us the only proper response that we should have towards salvation.
SPEAKER_00: If you are here this morning and you know Jesus as your Savior, you've put your trust in Jesus Christ, you understand that it's not your works that gets you to heaven, it's not your ability, it's not your goodness, but it's by the grace of God that you are saved.
SPEAKER_00: Well, that salvation should naturally produce in us this worship that's given back to the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: We just sang that song.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus paid it all.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus was the one that paid it all.
SPEAKER_00: And what's the next part of that go?
SPEAKER_00: It says, All to Him I owe.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus paid it all.
SPEAKER_00: All to Him I owe.
SPEAKER_00: The thing about salvation is if you've received it, you know it.
SPEAKER_00: Maybe it was a long time ago when you got saved.
SPEAKER_00: Sometimes we forget the value.
SPEAKER_00: We forget the cost.
SPEAKER_00: We forget how amazing the gift really is.
SPEAKER_00: You know, it's so funny at times where you get different gifts for your kiddos, especially when they're real young, like Jet's age or when they're like just infants, they're babies, and you have them open up a gift, right?
SPEAKER_00: Usually you have to have the help them open up a gift.
SPEAKER_00: And what do they kind of get their attention fixed on?
SPEAKER_00: Usually it's like the wrapping paper, the box, right?
SPEAKER_00: They play with the box more than they actually play with the toy, and they get excited about the the silliest things, right?
SPEAKER_00: And you're like, no, the the gift, the value is in the toy, it's in the present that I offered you.
SPEAKER_00: It's not in the box.
SPEAKER_00: Man, I shouldn't have spent the money on it.
SPEAKER_00: I should have just got you a box.
SPEAKER_00: And it's easy for us to look at these infinite silly, it's cute, right?
SPEAKER_00: As they get excited about playing in the box, measuring with the box, and they forget the toy altogether.
SPEAKER_00: It's cute when it's a child.
SPEAKER_00: It's not cute when it's us as Christians.
SPEAKER_00: And we've been saved.
SPEAKER_00: And the gift of salvation has been freely offered to you, and we forget what an extravagant, what an amazing, what a miraculous gift that salvation is.
SPEAKER_00: And we get distracted with the box of this earthly life, right?
SPEAKER_00: And we get distracted with the things of this world instead of recognizing, man, I have this gift of salvation.
SPEAKER_00: We can forget the value of it.
SPEAKER_00: But when we get our hearts, when we sing those songs, Jesus paid it all, all to him I owe.
SPEAKER_00: When we have a night of communion like we'll have this evening, and we get our eyes and we get our hearts off of the things of the world, and we get them back fixed on Jesus, and we recognize that he didn't just die for the sins of the whole world, but he died for my sins personally, for the crimes that I've committed, that it took the same grace that it took the apostle Paul, who was a murderer, who was a Christian persecutor, it took the same grace that was offered to him to rescue a sinner like me.
SPEAKER_00: And when we start to consider all the times that we failed and we faltered and we've sinned against God, but Jesus paid it all, then our hearts are ignited in worship to him.
SPEAKER_00: How could I not sing to my Savior?
SPEAKER_00: How can I not offer him my life?
SPEAKER_00: How can I not give him this response of worship?
SPEAKER_00: I think for Noah, it was no doubt that visual picture there, that visual understanding of being on the ark for a whole year.
SPEAKER_00: And he's rescued.
SPEAKER_00: Oh, what great response that he had to build an altar.
SPEAKER_00: The ark deserves an altar.
SPEAKER_00: Christ deserves our worship.
SPEAKER_00: God also, here in this text, what he does, he respects the offering of Noah, but he renews his first commands to mankind.
SPEAKER_00: If you've been with us throughout this series in Genesis, Genesis chapter number nine, it echoes what we found in Genesis chapter number one.
SPEAKER_00: Genesis 1, 27 and 28 says, So God created man in his own image.
SPEAKER_00: In the image of God created he him, male and female created he them.
SPEAKER_00: And God blessed them, and God said unto them, to Adam and Eve, Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
SPEAKER_00: Now, here in chapter number nine, this is where God gives second chances because he renews this first commands that he gave to Adam and Eve, and he renews them with Noah.
SPEAKER_00: And God blessed Noah and his sons and said unto them, Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth.
SPEAKER_00: God anticipated that mankind would be his representatives to the rest of creation, that mankind would steward the earth, would steward the image-bearing creatures that we are.
SPEAKER_00: And so he gives Noah the same mandate that was at the very beginning.
SPEAKER_00: He gives mankind a second chance.
SPEAKER_00: Though mankind was exceedingly corrupt, though mankind was exceedingly sinful, God gives a new opportunity and he knows our hearts because he even mentions in verse number 21, he says, at the end of it, they're the middle, for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth, neither will again smite anymore everything living as I have done.
SPEAKER_00: Man's heart was still exceedingly corrupt, exceedingly sinful.
SPEAKER_00: And we'll take a look even in Noah's life next week at the wickedness that he had and the sinfulness that he was that he carried as well.
SPEAKER_00: And so God knows that mankind is corrupt.
SPEAKER_00: The second chance that God gives man is deeper than repopulating the earth, though he desired that they would fill the earth with more humans and more humanity, but God knew that mankind would still sin, would still fail, would still commit wickedness against him, would still commit idolatry.
SPEAKER_00: And so what God does here, what we see throughout the Bible, is it's not necessarily a rule book that we're supposed to follow.
SPEAKER_00: The Bible is an unfolding narrative of redemption.
SPEAKER_00: And all throughout the Bible, what you see is that mankind is corrupt, mankind is sinful, and we have no rescue for ourselves.
SPEAKER_00: Though Noah and his sons, they got to restart, but it's just within the same chapter that Noah sins against God.
SPEAKER_00: Though Abraham would be that first patriarch we see in Abraham's life that he commits sin as well.
SPEAKER_00: Though David would come on the scene and he would be the great king of Israel and he would defeat Goliath, David messes up too.
SPEAKER_00: Though there would be great prophets, though there would be good kings, though there would be some uh leaders and priests that you could look to in the Bible, all of them would fall short of God's glory.
SPEAKER_00: And so the Old Testament paints for us this picture that mankind needed something more than a book of rules.
SPEAKER_00: We needed Jesus Christ to come and to live a perfect life, no sin, no lie, no dishonor, no, no idolatry, no wickedness in Christ at all.
SPEAKER_00: And what Jesus would do for us is he would die on the cross in our place so that we could have a new heart, a new relationship with God Himself.
SPEAKER_00: You see, what Genesis 9 points us to, what the Old Testament points us to, is the need for a Messiah, the need for a Savior.
SPEAKER_00: What your sin points you to is that you fall short and you need a savior more than you need religion.
SPEAKER_00: You need someone to rescue you from yourself more than you need to be a better person.
SPEAKER_00: You need Jesus to rescue you from your sin more than you just need your behavior to be changed, and that is a work of grace, and it is only found in the gospel of Jesus Christ.
SPEAKER_00: You don't just need religion.
SPEAKER_00: Religion doesn't get us any closer to God, it doesn't free us from sin.
SPEAKER_00: And you need a savior.
SPEAKER_00: We need Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus alone can rescue.
SPEAKER_00: You're here this morning, and maybe you've run far from God.
SPEAKER_00: You've committed sin against him.
SPEAKER_00: That has left you guilty, that has left you unfulfilled, that has left you wondering, why am I here?
SPEAKER_00: What is this life all about?
SPEAKER_00: You maybe have chosen rebellion, or you're here this morning and you've chosen religion.
SPEAKER_00: You are a quote unquote good person.
SPEAKER_00: You follow the rules for the most part.
SPEAKER_00: You're not as bad as so and so.
SPEAKER_00: And so you think that you are okay in either side, in either choice, they both fall short.
SPEAKER_00: Of what God intends for you.
SPEAKER_00: The only answer is to run to Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved.
SPEAKER_00: You may need a second chance today.
SPEAKER_00: And God is one who gives second chances.
SPEAKER_00: Maybe you know Jesus this morning.
SPEAKER_00: You can remember the time where you sincerely, sincerely, you weren't just going through the motions.
SPEAKER_00: You weren't just praying a prayer because a friend was praying a prayer.
SPEAKER_00: You sincerely placed your trust in Jesus Christ as your Savior.
SPEAKER_00: And yet there have been times in your life where you have run towards your sin or you've run back towards an idol of your heart and you've fallen down and you've tried to get back up and you've fallen down again.
SPEAKER_00: And maybe this morning you know Jesus, but if you were honest, you haven't been living for him.
SPEAKER_00: You've been straying further and further away, and you truly know him, but you don't walk with him.
SPEAKER_00: My friend, Jesus gives second chances.
SPEAKER_00: Proverbs 24, 16 says, For a just man, he falls down seven times, but he rises up again.
SPEAKER_00: God hasn't given up on you.
SPEAKER_00: He will never leave you nor forsake you.
SPEAKER_00: We may have walked away from him, we maybe have run towards our sin, but God desires for you to have a second chance.
SPEAKER_00: I love in the New Testament the story of the Apostle Peter.
SPEAKER_00: I love the story of Peter.
SPEAKER_00: Because Peter was one that, man, I think he sincerely, when he believed on Jesus, he sincerely believed on Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: Man, he was trusting in Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: He was, he was gung ho, he was following Jesus, right?
SPEAKER_00: He was like, man, whatever you need, Lord, we're not gonna run to anyone else.
SPEAKER_00: Like, you are the Messiah.
SPEAKER_00: We're all for you, Jesus, right?
SPEAKER_00: He was the one that was like the first up to the plate, the first up to volunteer.
SPEAKER_00: And yet we know the crucifixion story as we walk through it in the book of Luke, to where Jesus warned Peter, you're gonna deny me three times tonight.
SPEAKER_00: You're gonna deny me three times that you even know me.
SPEAKER_00: And Peter was there by the fire as Jesus was in the courtroom being falsely accused and falsely judged.
SPEAKER_00: And as Peter was warming himself by the fire, someone noticed, hey, weren't you with Jesus?
SPEAKER_00: No, no, no, no, no.
SPEAKER_00: I don't, I don't, no, I don't know him.
SPEAKER_00: No, I don't, I don't know that man.
SPEAKER_00: What are you talking about?
SPEAKER_00: And Peter denied Jesus Christ three times.
SPEAKER_00: You know what he did?
SPEAKER_00: I believe he sincerely believed on Jesus Christ as a Savior way back when, when Jesus called him to follow him.
SPEAKER_00: But Peter here, in a moment of weakness, Peter here in a moment where he chose his idol, where he chose to reject Jesus Christ, was here.
SPEAKER_00: And he said, No, I don't know him.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus turned to him.
SPEAKER_00: Peter goes out and he weeps later after they discover that Jesus is resurrected, that what Jesus said was the truth.
SPEAKER_00: And Peter knows that Christ is resurrected.
SPEAKER_00: He tells the guys, the disciples, hey guys, I think I think I'm gonna go back to fishing.
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, this ministry stuff, you know.
SPEAKER_00: I know we traveled with Jesus and we went all around, but I'm gonna go back to my old job.
SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna go back to fishing.
SPEAKER_00: Some of them say, All right, we're going with you, Peter.
SPEAKER_00: You're going fishing, we're going back to fishing too.
SPEAKER_00: Peter goes out on that boat and he tries to fish unsuccessfully.
SPEAKER_00: He tries to fish unsuccessfully, but here is where we see that God is the God of second chances.
SPEAKER_00: Even though Peter failed, Jesus came back walking on the seashore.
SPEAKER_00: And they said, Hey Peter, it's the master.
SPEAKER_00: It's the rabbi, it's Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: He's back up on the shore.
SPEAKER_00: Peter gets his fisherman's coat on, goes into the water, swims to shore, sits down at that fireplace.
SPEAKER_00: He probably doesn't even really make eye contact with Jesus, right?
SPEAKER_00: Because you've been there.
SPEAKER_00: Have you felt that guilt of that sin that you ran back to?
SPEAKER_00: And you feel like, man, God can't use me anymore.
SPEAKER_00: Peter's there and maybe he's meshing with the fire a little bit, sitting there, and Jesus talks to Peter again.
SPEAKER_00: He says, Peter, do you love me?
SPEAKER_00: Yes, Lord, you know I love you.
SPEAKER_00: You know I love you, Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: Feed my sheep.
SPEAKER_00: You know what Jesus was inviting Peter to?
SPEAKER_00: A second chance.
SPEAKER_00: Oh, but I messed up.
SPEAKER_00: Oh, but I failed.
SPEAKER_00: Oh, but I've been I denied Jesus like like Peter did.
SPEAKER_00: And and man, when I had the opportunity to witness, I didn't take it.
SPEAKER_00: And when I had the opportunity to say no to sin, I didn't say no to it.
SPEAKER_00: But God offers second chances.
SPEAKER_00: And wherever you're at this morning, if you're here and you've been running from God and you need a relationship with Christ, can I tell you you're not here by accident?
SPEAKER_00: God wants to give you a second chance to know Him and to follow Him.
SPEAKER_00: You're here this morning, and yes, I believed and I know sincerely I trusted on Jesus Christ as my Savior, but I failed and I've walked away and I've struggled.
SPEAKER_00: God desires to give you a second chance.
SPEAKER_00: A second chance.
SPEAKER_00: Here, God is renewing his commandment with humanity, with Noah and his children.
SPEAKER_00: Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth.
SPEAKER_00: Now God changes the dynamic a little bit between man and beast, or between man and the animal kingdom.
SPEAKER_00: And verse number two, he says, And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, upon all the fishes of the sea.
SPEAKER_00: Into your hand are they delivered.
SPEAKER_00: Now the animals look at mankind as predators, and oftentimes they flee, they hide.
SPEAKER_00: He says, Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you, even as the green herb have I given you all things.
SPEAKER_00: Many believe before the flood mankind were predominantly they were vegetarians.
SPEAKER_00: And now here God opens up because the uh uh the earth would have been different, the way uh uh like the visual that Brother Lupe gave this morning, the way things would grow.
SPEAKER_00: It probably was more abundant before the flood, but now after the flood, the atmosphere is different, uh, the layout of the earth is different, and so now God opens up the door for mankind to um eat animals.
SPEAKER_00: You can have burgers now, you can have uh these different things, right?
SPEAKER_00: But in verse number four, he points us to something that is a theme throughout the whole Bible.
SPEAKER_00: But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
SPEAKER_00: The blood, throughout the Bible, God gives us the visual of the blood.
SPEAKER_00: And the blood is not given as an accident, it says it's the lifeblood.
SPEAKER_00: Without the blood flowing through the animals' veins, without the blood through flowing through our veins, we will die.
SPEAKER_00: So he tells them that if they were gonna eat these animals, they needed to properly drain it of its blood.
SPEAKER_00: But here we see this theme, and it will be echoed later on in the Mosaic law and for the priests and how they were to give these offerings unto the Lord, but God begins to allude to it here.
SPEAKER_00: The blood.
SPEAKER_00: Why is it so important throughout the Bible?
SPEAKER_00: Why does God mention the lifeblood here?
SPEAKER_00: Well, in the New Testament, there would be a blood sacrifice given for us.
SPEAKER_00: It would be through the Son of God, through Jesus Christ, who died a real death, a physical death, where his blood was shed for us.
SPEAKER_00: 1 Peter 1 says, For as much as ye know that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, your salvation was not purchased by corruptible things like silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers.
SPEAKER_00: But how was your salvation purchased?
SPEAKER_00: How were you redeemed?
SPEAKER_00: It was with the precious blood of Christ as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.
SPEAKER_00: In Ephesians 1:7, the Bible says, in whom we have redemption through his blood, through the life blood of Jesus Christ that was shed on that rugged cross, through the life blood of Jesus Christ that was poured out for you and for me, our salvation could only come through a sacrifice, a perfect sacrifice in Jesus Christ.
SPEAKER_00: Then in Revelation, the Bible says in chapter number five, verse nine, and they sung a new song saying, Thou art worthy to take the book and to open the seals thereof, for thou wast slain and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred and tongue and people and nation.
SPEAKER_00: You may know that song.
SPEAKER_00: What can wash away my sin?
SPEAKER_00: Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: It is not by the works that we can try and offer to God, but it was by the precious blood of Jesus Christ.
SPEAKER_00: That he, as a hundred percent God and a hundred percent man, actually gave his blood for us as a covering for our sin.
SPEAKER_00: That our salvation had actually cost Jesus something.
SPEAKER_00: The blood of Jesus had to be shed in order for our salvation to be purchased.
SPEAKER_00: Here also, what God does with Noah, what God does for us is he re-emphasizes the value of human life.
SPEAKER_00: He re-emphasizes the value of human life.
SPEAKER_00: Back in Genesis 1, we see that man, that we are created in the image of God, that we have his likeness stamped upon our being, and God re-emphasizes the value of human life.
SPEAKER_00: He says in verse number five of chapter 9, and surely your blood of your lives will I require, at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man, at the hand of every man's brother, will I require the life of man?
SPEAKER_00: Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.
SPEAKER_00: For in the image of God made he man.
SPEAKER_00: Why does a human life have value?
SPEAKER_00: Is it because of what they can produce in this world?
SPEAKER_00: Is it because that they are successful?
SPEAKER_00: Is it because of this, that, or the other?
SPEAKER_00: No, our life, every life has value this morning.
SPEAKER_00: Every life has value in this world because we are the image bearers of God.
SPEAKER_00: And in taking a life of a human, we are sinning not against not just against humanity, but we are sinning against God Himself.
SPEAKER_00: The life of a human is precious in the eyes of God.
SPEAKER_00: My friend, you are precious in the eyes of God.
SPEAKER_00: We're created in his image.
SPEAKER_00: God places a high value on human life, and we have the responsibility to value life the way God values life.
SPEAKER_00: And in verse number six, whoso sheddeth man's blood by man shall his blood be shed.
SPEAKER_00: God lays out capital punishment, the death penalty.
SPEAKER_00: Murdering someone else requires justice, the loss of life.
SPEAKER_00: If you were here for our Joshua series, later on, when God brings the people of Israel into the promised land, he establishes cities of refuge.
SPEAKER_00: For those who perhaps unfortunately killed someone accidentally, could run to these cities of refuge and be properly judged based off of the incident.
SPEAKER_00: Was this an accident or was this murder?
SPEAKER_00: Those that had committed murder would receive the death penalty.
SPEAKER_00: They would receive justice at the hand of man.
SPEAKER_00: This not only provided justice for the loss of life, but it placed fear on those who would be tempted themselves to take another life.
SPEAKER_00: What God emphasizes here though, what he re-emphasizes is the value of life.
SPEAKER_00: The value of a person, the value that he places on each individual.
SPEAKER_00: Then lastly, here this morning, God establishes the Noahic covenant.
SPEAKER_00: He establishes a covenant with Noah, with his offspring, with the world, each of us, and every living creature that lives on earth.
SPEAKER_00: It says in verse number nine, and behold, I establish my covenant with you, with your seed after you.
SPEAKER_00: A covenant.
SPEAKER_00: What is a covenant?
SPEAKER_00: It's a it's it's a promise, it's a contractual agreement.
SPEAKER_00: And in this particular covenant, it's an unconditional covenant.
SPEAKER_00: God did not say, if you cease to sin, then I will never flood the earth again.
SPEAKER_00: No, he gives Noah, he gives the universe an unconditional covenant that even though man is incredibly sinful, I will never destroy the earth again through a worldwide flood.
SPEAKER_00: There'll be no flood to destroy the earth anymore.
SPEAKER_00: It's unconditional.
SPEAKER_00: It means that man did not have a responsibility in this contract or in this promise to uphold.
SPEAKER_00: All the responsibility rests in God.
SPEAKER_00: Because all the responsibility rests on God, we know that this is something that will never cease, that will never pass on because God is God and He cannot lie.
SPEAKER_00: He's not one who makes a promise and breaks it.
SPEAKER_00: He's not one who makes a covenant and goes back on it.
SPEAKER_00: God is one that when he says that the earth is never going to have face a global catastrophic flood again, it will never face that again.
SPEAKER_00: Thankfully, God's character is true.
SPEAKER_00: He never breaks his promises.
SPEAKER_00: He's a God who cannot lie.
SPEAKER_00: No matter how wicked mankind gets, no matter how far we stray away, he promises that he won't flood the earth again.
SPEAKER_00: And to solidify this promise, he gives us a sign for the covenant.
SPEAKER_00: The rainbow is a token of God's promise.
SPEAKER_00: The rainbow is a token of God's mercy.
SPEAKER_00: The rainbow, and we don't get it as often here and there.
SPEAKER_00: Well, we've happened getting some more monsoons lately, but we don't get rain as much, right?
SPEAKER_00: But at times when it rains and you can see that rainbow in the sky after, where the sun hits just perfectly, and you can look at that rainbow in the sky and you can believe the promise of God.
SPEAKER_00: That God kept his covenant, that though it may rain, and though it may rain longer in some places than it does in others, we can believe the promise of God that he's never gonna send a worldwide global flood.
SPEAKER_00: The rainbow is a token of God's promise.
SPEAKER_00: The rainbow is a token of God's mercy, that he will never flood the earth again.
SPEAKER_00: Even though in our day and age, we face much of the same wickedness that they did in the time of Noah.
SPEAKER_00: We face much of the same sinfulness, much of the same brokenness.
SPEAKER_00: Even though we often have a wicked imagination and thoughts to do evil.
SPEAKER_00: God won't destroy the earth with a worldwide flood.
SPEAKER_00: However, as we looked at last week, there is a judgment to be prepared for.
SPEAKER_00: All of us will one day die.
SPEAKER_00: And after death, the judgment.
SPEAKER_00: We'll stand before God and give an account of our life.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus says that he will return and catch away his bride.
SPEAKER_00: Maybe this morning, he's offering you a second chance that you need to take.
SPEAKER_00: That second chance, maybe you've heard this before.
SPEAKER_00: Maybe you've heard the gospel, but you you walked away from it.
SPEAKER_00: Maybe you heard about Jesus Christ, but you didn't want anything to do with him.
SPEAKER_00: Maybe this morning is your second chance to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Savior, to repent of your sin and to turn to Christ alone.
SPEAKER_00: Maybe this morning, Christian, it's a reminder for you that you have a second chance as well.
SPEAKER_00: To live for him, to follow after him wholeheartedly, to not be distracted by the things of this world, but to believe the same thing that he talked to Peter about.
SPEAKER_00: When Jesus came to Peter, he came to affirm that he wasn't done with him.
SPEAKER_00: But Peter goes on, not perfectly, but he goes on to preach throughout the book of Acts, to write uh uh portions of the scripture and to be used of the Lord in mighty ways.
SPEAKER_00: Maybe this morning you're a Christian, but you need to take the Lord on that second chance and recommit your life to him.
SPEAKER_00: You will follow after him wholeheartedly.
SPEAKER_00: Let's bow our head and close our eyes together this morning.
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