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I. Sin is the grate unseen enemy of the World.
I. Sin is the grate unseen enemy of the World.
Genesis 6:5 says that it was the imaginations of ens hearts that Angered God. Jesus expounded further in the N.T. In Matthew 15:19-20 Jesus said,
English Standard Version (Chapter 15)
For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander. 20 These are what defile a person. But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile anyone.”
Sin is that act of either commission or omission, which defiles a man and brings barriers between the sinner and God.
Modern thought process tells us that to live free and happy is to live in any way that pleases us. This is the same lie that Satan used to deceive Eve on the garden. This is also the same mindset that led to the flood. “Men took everything they choose.” v.2
We are living in dangerous territory when we seek to give our flesh every pleasure that it seeks.
Pau said in Romans
O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?
I want to say that it is okay to deny your flesh.
One reason that fasting is effective is that it shows a willingness to deny the flesh and sin, so that God may become a priority in our lives.
Just as those in the days of Noah were convinced that they were secure in their sin. Today men think that the coming judgement of God is a myth and that the price of sin is not real.
However, sin is that unseen enemy that slips up on you in the night and by the tie you recognize the enemy it’s to late.
Jesus is our Ark.
Jesus is our Ark.
For My flesh is food indeed, and My blood is drink indeed.
He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him.
As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on Me will live because of Me.
We have no merits to save our selves. The entire world perished except for those inside the ark. There was no escape, no measure of hope for those on the outside. Though they mocked and ridiculed they could not save themselves.
And so, today, men mock those who live for Christ. Our only hope is in Jesus. Without Him we are aimlessly hopeless. But in Christ all of our hope is found.
We are in need of God’s Atonement
We are in need of God’s Atonement
Pitch means to atone.
Atone means to cover or to cleanse.
It gives the picture of purification for preservation.
We can only be preserved if we are purified. However, Isaiah 64:6 tells us:
But we are all like an unclean thing, And all our righteousnesses are like filthy rags; We all fade as a leaf, And our iniquities, like the wind, Have taken us away.
We are unable to cleanse ourselves because of our own filthiness.
Therefore, we stand in need of Christs’ blood.
For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
Noah cleaned the ark, both inside and out, he prepared it for the waters. However, make no mistake it was not the preparations of Noah that spared he and his family, It was God.
In chapter 7:16 we see that God shut them in.
This word shut means to confine or imprison.
Those on the outside could not enter the ark and those on the inside were sealed and safe.
Noah had to obey through faith but salvation was not in his hands.
We find that what the O.T. concealed the N.T. revealed.
Romans 5:12-6:23 deals with these subjects.
Salvation produces both justification (Forgiveness of sin), and sanctification (Victory over sin).
Thus we can say that salvation is an act in the past, present, and future tense.
I have been saved from the penalty of sin.
I are being saved from the power of sin.
I will be saved from the presence of sin.
Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
And when the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, the Lord said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man’s heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done.
Noah displayed his thankfulness for the mercies of the Lord.
As we celebrate thanksgiving this week, we have much to be thankful for. However, lets be sure that we do not forget what this true blessings of the Lord are. Salvation, mercy, grace, and His good favor. All that we have is due to the loving kindness of a God whom all the world rest in the palms of His omnipotent hands.
Paul mentioned things that he would glory in.
The Lord. II Cor. 10:17
His infirmities II Cor. 12:9
The church II Thess. 1:4, Eph. 3:21