1 00:00:00,800 --> 00:00:04,720 Speaker 1: Let us pray. And the rain descended, and the floods came, 2 00:00:05,160 --> 00:00:09,399 Speaker 1: and the winds blew and beat upon that house, and 3 00:00:09,520 --> 00:00:13,240 Speaker 1: it fell not for it was founded upon a rock 4 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:19,919 Speaker 1: Matthew seven twenty five. Father, there are many types of disasters. 5 00:00:20,680 --> 00:00:25,319 Speaker 1: There are natural disasters like purricanes, floods, and tornadoes, but 6 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:29,200 Speaker 1: there are also the storms of affliction and persecution that 7 00:00:29,280 --> 00:00:33,599 Speaker 1: beats down the soul. When I am most comfortable, suddenly 8 00:00:33,680 --> 00:00:39,559 Speaker 1: out of nowhere, calamity strikes. In a moment, health, friends, 9 00:00:39,680 --> 00:00:43,440 Speaker 1: comforts may be gone. That is the time when I 10 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:47,880 Speaker 1: need an anchor in the storm, a rock of security, 11 00:00:48,760 --> 00:00:54,400 Speaker 1: something that can't be taken away. The promises, confidence, and 12 00:00:54,560 --> 00:00:59,800 Speaker 1: hope of heaven are only found in Jesus Christ. All 13 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:04,959 Speaker 1: earthly calamities cannot touch these eternal comforts. When my faith 14 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:07,840 Speaker 1: is founded on the rock of my salvation, which is 15 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:13,280 Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, all disastrous events shall not defeed my faith. 16 00:01:14,440 --> 00:01:18,039 Speaker 1: The gates of hell shall not prevail against me, and 17 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:21,560 Speaker 1: I shall not be beaten down and carried away in despair. 18 00:01:22,760 --> 00:01:26,120 Speaker 1: I will call upon the name of my God and 19 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:30,440 Speaker 1: he will lift me up. I may be shaken, but 20 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:34,160 Speaker 1: I will not be removed from the steadfastness of my faith. 21 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:39,240 Speaker 1: Life is not fair man never will be. Christ is 22 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:43,160 Speaker 1: the one who mediates justice in all things and makes 23 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:47,120 Speaker 1: right what we have suffered. Thank you Jesus for knowing 24 00:01:47,160 --> 00:01:50,800 Speaker 1: my heart and turning what the enemy means for evil 25 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:57,040 Speaker 1: to my good and your glory in Jesus name. Amen, 26 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:02,520 Speaker 1: Thank you for praying with us today. Continue your time 27 00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:06,360 Speaker 1: with God by listening to today's Bible story, brought to 28 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:08,560 Speaker 1: you by Bible in a Year dot. 29 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:20,200 Speaker 2: Com, Noah and the Ark. Before this story, we were 30 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:25,400 Speaker 2: told the story of humanity's first bloodshed, Cain and Abel. 31 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:29,240 Speaker 2: Cain's hatred for God and jealousy of his brother led 32 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:32,880 Speaker 2: to the brutal murder of Abel. But evil did not 33 00:02:33,120 --> 00:02:37,240 Speaker 2: stop with Cain. Evil continued its reign over the hearts 34 00:02:37,280 --> 00:02:41,600 Speaker 2: of man. God, for the good of humanity, now has 35 00:02:41,639 --> 00:02:46,680 Speaker 2: a plan for purification and redemption inspired by the Book 36 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:47,440 Speaker 2: of Genesis. 37 00:02:48,760 --> 00:02:52,080 Speaker 3: Hello, I'm pastor Jack Graham with today's episode of the 38 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:56,480 Speaker 3: Bible in a Year podcast. As we begin today's story, 39 00:02:56,520 --> 00:02:59,360 Speaker 3: we find that since Cain was cursed to wander the earth, 40 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:03,880 Speaker 3: humankind has multiplied, spreading out across the earth as God 41 00:03:03,919 --> 00:03:09,080 Speaker 3: had intended. But something else is also growing evil. It 42 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:12,920 Speaker 3: is a theme that's repeated throughout the Old Testament. Evil 43 00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:15,760 Speaker 3: is reigning in the hearts of man, and that is 44 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:19,200 Speaker 3: not at all what God wants. Each new generation is 45 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:23,320 Speaker 3: growing more and more evil, sin is spreading like wildfire, 46 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:26,960 Speaker 3: until finally God has had enough. He cannot ignore the 47 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:31,400 Speaker 3: depravity any longer. God is grieved at what has become 48 00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:34,639 Speaker 3: of humanity. He is ready to wipe man kind off 49 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:36,680 Speaker 3: the face of the earth with a great flood. He's 50 00:03:36,680 --> 00:03:40,400 Speaker 3: going to wash the earth clean of evil humanity. But 51 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:44,440 Speaker 3: there is one man who is different. Noah, we're told, 52 00:03:44,640 --> 00:03:48,600 Speaker 3: was righteous in God's eyes. It must have been extremely 53 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:51,440 Speaker 3: challenging for Noah to live a righteous life in the 54 00:03:51,480 --> 00:03:55,720 Speaker 3: midst of such rampant evil. Like Noah, you may often 55 00:03:55,760 --> 00:03:59,120 Speaker 3: feel surrounded by evil in our world today, and like Noah, 56 00:03:59,520 --> 00:04:02,400 Speaker 3: you musty and apart from those living to satisfy their 57 00:04:02,440 --> 00:04:06,280 Speaker 3: own desires. As you listen today, think about how Noah 58 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:09,520 Speaker 3: and his family must have felt building this giant arc. 59 00:04:10,360 --> 00:04:13,560 Speaker 3: They'd never before even seen rain or experienced a flood. 60 00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:18,040 Speaker 3: Think about the immense amount of faith is required. Imagine 61 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:20,160 Speaker 3: the fear in their hearts as they entered the ark, 62 00:04:20,240 --> 00:04:24,240 Speaker 3: and watch God close the door. But then watch as 63 00:04:24,279 --> 00:04:27,080 Speaker 3: God carries them through the flood, protecting them from all 64 00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:29,600 Speaker 3: harm and providing for them every step of the way. 65 00:04:30,480 --> 00:04:33,840 Speaker 3: Let's listen now to the story about a man an ark, 66 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:37,840 Speaker 3: a great flood and God's plan of redemption. For a 67 00:04:37,880 --> 00:04:39,479 Speaker 3: world filled with evil. 68 00:04:44,279 --> 00:04:50,080 Speaker 2: Mankind multiplied, with more people filling the earth, more opportunities 69 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:54,720 Speaker 2: for evil abound it. Sons and daughters of Cain established 70 00:04:54,880 --> 00:04:59,600 Speaker 2: corrupt kingdoms, men treated women as property, and the twisted 71 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:04,160 Speaker 2: heart of people cast the world into darkness. Even the 72 00:05:04,240 --> 00:05:08,200 Speaker 2: lives of people began to shorten, and humans were dying 73 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:13,000 Speaker 2: earlier and earlier. Mighty men of old would steal away 74 00:05:13,080 --> 00:05:17,679 Speaker 2: women and rape them. These things God would not ignore 75 00:05:18,520 --> 00:05:21,960 Speaker 2: the actions of people at this time reflected a broken 76 00:05:22,200 --> 00:05:27,480 Speaker 2: and corrupt heart. God saw this wickedness and regretted greatly 77 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:31,920 Speaker 2: the state of humanity. In sorrow, he said, I will 78 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:35,200 Speaker 2: blot out man whom I have created from the face 79 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:40,080 Speaker 2: of the land. Yet out of this twisted generation there 80 00:05:40,240 --> 00:05:44,720 Speaker 2: was one man named Noah, who was righteous in God's eyes. 81 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:49,120 Speaker 2: God said to Noah, I have determined to make an 82 00:05:49,320 --> 00:05:52,640 Speaker 2: end of all flesh, for the earth is filled with 83 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:57,880 Speaker 2: violence through them behold, I will destroy them with the earth. 84 00:05:58,920 --> 00:05:59,680 Speaker 1: The wrath of. 85 00:05:59,680 --> 00:06:03,400 Speaker 2: God would descend in the form of rain and water 86 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:08,080 Speaker 2: from beneath the earth would come after. This was God's punishment. 87 00:06:08,760 --> 00:06:13,720 Speaker 2: The flood was coming. God instructed Noah and his sons 88 00:06:13,760 --> 00:06:17,760 Speaker 2: to build an ark, a mighty vessel that would preserve him, 89 00:06:18,279 --> 00:06:22,760 Speaker 2: his wife, his sons, and their wives from the coming storm. 90 00:06:23,200 --> 00:06:28,440 Speaker 2: Noah and his three sons, shen Halm, and Jappith built 91 00:06:28,480 --> 00:06:33,000 Speaker 2: the ark exactly as God had instructed. He also instructed 92 00:06:33,040 --> 00:06:36,039 Speaker 2: Noah that he should bring every animal with them in 93 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:40,120 Speaker 2: pairs and keep them alive in the ark. Even now 94 00:06:40,279 --> 00:06:42,200 Speaker 2: God was making promises to. 95 00:06:42,200 --> 00:06:43,200 Speaker 1: Redeem the world. 96 00:06:44,480 --> 00:06:49,279 Speaker 2: Noah fearfully and obediently followed every instruction that God gave him. 97 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:52,239 Speaker 2: When the time had come for the flood to begin, 98 00:06:52,839 --> 00:06:56,360 Speaker 2: God told Noah, go into the ark and take your 99 00:06:56,440 --> 00:07:00,360 Speaker 2: family with you. The rain will fall for forty days 100 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:04,279 Speaker 2: and forty knights. It will destroy the land and all 101 00:07:04,360 --> 00:07:07,880 Speaker 2: those who live on it. But your family and all 102 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:12,200 Speaker 2: the animals that come to you will be saved. When 103 00:07:12,280 --> 00:07:15,680 Speaker 2: Noah's family and all the animals were secured in the ark, 104 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:20,880 Speaker 2: God shut the door. Seven days later, the rain began 105 00:07:20,960 --> 00:07:26,200 Speaker 2: to fall, and the cleansing power of God opened. Water 106 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:29,400 Speaker 2: fell from the skies, and the springs of the earth 107 00:07:29,520 --> 00:07:34,800 Speaker 2: burst open violently. The water rose, covering the mountains and 108 00:07:35,040 --> 00:07:39,040 Speaker 2: washing away all the corrupt and evil kingdoms built by 109 00:07:39,040 --> 00:07:44,960 Speaker 2: the wickedness of mankind. God once breathed life into mankind, 110 00:07:45,560 --> 00:07:49,720 Speaker 2: and now he took their breath away. All was destroyed, 111 00:07:50,480 --> 00:07:55,520 Speaker 2: all but those on the Ark. After forty days had passed, 112 00:07:55,800 --> 00:07:59,280 Speaker 2: the raining ceased, and the earth was still under water 113 00:07:59,440 --> 00:08:02,720 Speaker 2: for a hundred and fifty days. At the end of 114 00:08:02,720 --> 00:08:06,320 Speaker 2: the hundred and fifty days, the water had receded enough 115 00:08:06,360 --> 00:08:08,800 Speaker 2: for the Ark to land on the side of a mountain. 116 00:08:09,680 --> 00:08:13,640 Speaker 2: After four months had passed, Noah opened a window and 117 00:08:13,760 --> 00:08:16,960 Speaker 2: sent out a raven to find dry land, but the 118 00:08:17,040 --> 00:08:21,080 Speaker 2: raven never returned. Noah then sent out a dove to 119 00:08:21,120 --> 00:08:24,600 Speaker 2: seek out dry land, and it returned because there was 120 00:08:24,640 --> 00:08:28,600 Speaker 2: no dry land for it to perch on. Seven days later, 121 00:08:28,640 --> 00:08:31,640 Speaker 2: he sent the dove out again, and it came back 122 00:08:31,680 --> 00:08:34,920 Speaker 2: with an olive leaf, meaning that the dove had found 123 00:08:35,040 --> 00:08:39,720 Speaker 2: dry land and came back. Noah waited another seven days 124 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:42,800 Speaker 2: and sent the dove out again, hopeful that it would 125 00:08:42,800 --> 00:08:45,720 Speaker 2: not return, meaning the land was ready to live on. 126 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:50,080 Speaker 2: This time, it didn't return, so Noah knew that the 127 00:08:50,120 --> 00:08:54,320 Speaker 2: water was not covering the earth anymore. After a month 128 00:08:54,320 --> 00:08:57,560 Speaker 2: had passed, Noah opened the door and saw that the 129 00:08:57,640 --> 00:09:01,720 Speaker 2: land was dry. God beckoned Noah to come out of 130 00:09:01,720 --> 00:09:05,400 Speaker 2: the ark. So Noah brought his family and the animals 131 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:08,800 Speaker 2: out of the ark and offered a sacrifice to the Lord, 132 00:09:09,480 --> 00:09:13,320 Speaker 2: just as Abel did before them. God was pleased to 133 00:09:13,400 --> 00:09:17,440 Speaker 2: receive their offering and vowed to never flood the earth again. 134 00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:21,960 Speaker 2: So God gave Noah permission to eat animals and plants 135 00:09:22,280 --> 00:09:26,000 Speaker 2: so they might multiply the earth again with the newness 136 00:09:26,040 --> 00:09:29,079 Speaker 2: of life. God put a rainbow in the sky as 137 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:33,000 Speaker 2: a symbol of his promises. The story of evil does 138 00:09:33,040 --> 00:09:36,160 Speaker 2: not end here, but the story of God and his 139 00:09:36,320 --> 00:09:41,320 Speaker 2: passion to preserve and protect those he loves is still unfolding. 140 00:09:42,160 --> 00:09:46,560 Speaker 2: Evil abounds, but the promises of God prevail still. 141 00:09:48,160 --> 00:09:50,840 Speaker 3: As the story of Noah begins, we get a picture 142 00:09:50,880 --> 00:09:53,800 Speaker 3: of just how bad things can and do get when 143 00:09:53,880 --> 00:09:58,800 Speaker 3: mankind follows only their own heart. Just four chapters remove 144 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:01,480 Speaker 3: from when everything was perfect in the Garden of Eden, 145 00:10:01,960 --> 00:10:07,840 Speaker 3: the world is in disarray, death, violence, abuse. God simply 146 00:10:08,080 --> 00:10:12,400 Speaker 3: cannot will not allow evil to go unchecked. He will 147 00:10:12,400 --> 00:10:15,559 Speaker 3: not stand idly by and watch the world he created 148 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:20,040 Speaker 3: be destroyed by sinful men. There had to be a reckoning, 149 00:10:20,360 --> 00:10:23,400 Speaker 3: a judgment, and we see here in today's story what 150 00:10:23,520 --> 00:10:28,480 Speaker 3: God's righteous, holy anger can do. The truth is, we're 151 00:10:28,480 --> 00:10:31,200 Speaker 3: all deserving of such a flood of judgment for the 152 00:10:31,240 --> 00:10:34,680 Speaker 3: evil and sin in our own hearts. But God is 153 00:10:34,720 --> 00:10:38,120 Speaker 3: full of mercy and compassion, and here in the story 154 00:10:38,160 --> 00:10:41,080 Speaker 3: of Noah we see that He is making a way 155 00:10:41,160 --> 00:10:44,000 Speaker 3: for his ultimate plan of redemption to be carried out. 156 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:48,200 Speaker 3: We are not told much about Noah, other than the 157 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:51,080 Speaker 3: most important thing that he was walking in a right 158 00:10:51,200 --> 00:10:55,680 Speaker 3: relationship with God. He was not perfect. He was also 159 00:10:55,679 --> 00:10:58,360 Speaker 3: touched by the sin nature passed down from Adam. But 160 00:10:58,440 --> 00:11:02,640 Speaker 3: he was righteous in the sight of God, righteous in 161 00:11:02,720 --> 00:11:06,199 Speaker 3: God's eyes. The Book of Hebrews and the New Testament 162 00:11:06,520 --> 00:11:08,840 Speaker 3: tells us that it was Noah's faith in God that 163 00:11:08,960 --> 00:11:12,079 Speaker 3: made him righteous. He took God at his word even 164 00:11:12,120 --> 00:11:14,600 Speaker 3: when he had never seen what God told him was coming. 165 00:11:15,559 --> 00:11:18,440 Speaker 3: Look at how God delivers the news to Noah, first 166 00:11:18,440 --> 00:11:23,720 Speaker 3: the bad than the good Genesis six, verses seventeen through nineteen. 167 00:11:24,760 --> 00:11:28,000 Speaker 3: Now behold, I myself am bringing the flood of water 168 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:31,280 Speaker 3: upon the earth to destroy all flesh in which there 169 00:11:31,320 --> 00:11:33,800 Speaker 3: is the breath of life from under heaven. Everything that 170 00:11:33,920 --> 00:11:37,479 Speaker 3: is on the earth shall perish. But I will establish 171 00:11:37,480 --> 00:11:41,640 Speaker 3: my covenant with you, and you shall enter the Ark. You, 172 00:11:41,640 --> 00:11:45,600 Speaker 3: your sons, your wife, and your son's wives with you, 173 00:11:46,480 --> 00:11:49,360 Speaker 3: And of every living thing of all flesh, you shall 174 00:11:49,360 --> 00:11:52,680 Speaker 3: bring two of every kind into the Ark to keep 175 00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:57,120 Speaker 3: them alive with you. God made a covenant, a promise 176 00:11:57,280 --> 00:12:00,680 Speaker 3: with Noah. He and his family would be saved, along 177 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:03,720 Speaker 3: with the animals that were on the Ark, and through 178 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:06,600 Speaker 3: Noah's family, God was going to save a remnant of 179 00:12:06,679 --> 00:12:11,079 Speaker 3: humanity to start afresh, and even the animal world as well. 180 00:12:11,840 --> 00:12:15,840 Speaker 3: But first came the flood. For forty days, it rained, 181 00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:19,280 Speaker 3: waters rose, and destroyed every person not on the arc, 182 00:12:19,520 --> 00:12:23,200 Speaker 3: just as God had said. But it wasn't over. Noah 183 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:26,400 Speaker 3: and his family stayed on the Ark for a full year. 184 00:12:27,440 --> 00:12:30,280 Speaker 3: God provided rescue for Noah and his family during the 185 00:12:30,320 --> 00:12:34,320 Speaker 3: flood in provision far after the flood. Isn't that the 186 00:12:34,360 --> 00:12:37,320 Speaker 3: way we see it in our lives as well? God 187 00:12:37,400 --> 00:12:39,880 Speaker 3: is with us during the storm and through the storm, 188 00:12:40,320 --> 00:12:43,600 Speaker 3: He stays with us, providing for our every need through 189 00:12:43,760 --> 00:12:47,400 Speaker 3: the aftermath of the storm. When it was finally safe 190 00:12:47,440 --> 00:12:50,760 Speaker 3: to step outside, what did Noah do? He offered a 191 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:55,040 Speaker 3: sacrifice to God, worshiping him, thanking him for his protection, 192 00:12:55,880 --> 00:13:00,560 Speaker 3: his presence, his provision, and his mercy and grace. And 193 00:13:00,640 --> 00:13:03,880 Speaker 3: God gave Noah a beautiful sign of his covenant, a 194 00:13:04,040 --> 00:13:07,720 Speaker 3: rainbow in the sky. The story of Noah is a 195 00:13:07,840 --> 00:13:12,040 Speaker 3: powerful reminder that God, even in his anger, loves his 196 00:13:12,160 --> 00:13:15,320 Speaker 3: children and offers salvation and new life to those who 197 00:13:15,320 --> 00:13:18,520 Speaker 3: put their faith and trust in him. This was a 198 00:13:18,520 --> 00:13:21,880 Speaker 3: fresh start, but sadly not the end of sin and evil. 199 00:13:22,800 --> 00:13:26,080 Speaker 3: That would take a much bigger act, a sacrifice only 200 00:13:26,120 --> 00:13:31,040 Speaker 3: God himself can offer. Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for 201 00:13:31,080 --> 00:13:34,439 Speaker 3: this story that shows the consuming power of your righteousness 202 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:37,920 Speaker 3: and justice for sin. Thank you also for what it 203 00:13:37,960 --> 00:13:41,280 Speaker 3: shows us about your loving heart to save those who 204 00:13:41,320 --> 00:13:44,760 Speaker 3: trust in you. Help us as Noah did, to have 205 00:13:44,880 --> 00:13:49,400 Speaker 3: faith in you through Jesus Christ, and follow you wherever 206 00:13:49,520 --> 00:13:53,920 Speaker 3: you lead. Amen. Thank you for listening to today's Bible 207 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:57,960 Speaker 3: in a Year podcast. I'm pastor Jack Graham from Dallas, Texas. 208 00:13:58,280 --> 00:14:01,760 Speaker 3: Download Theprey dot Com app and make prayer a priority 209 00:14:01,840 --> 00:14:05,000 Speaker 3: in your life. 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