back to indexWednesday Bible Study: Foundations of Redemptive History (Session 8) - 11/5/2025
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- What are you thinking, what do we see here? 00:13:05.020 |
And we pray that we would learn more about you. 01:16:02.480 |
for sinners to be reconciled to God from the beginning. So God didn't say, hey, in order for 01:16:07.860 |
you to come to me, these are the things that you need to go through. And that's why we think that 01:16:11.560 |
when Cain and Abel was giving sacrifice, again, it doesn't say it there, but it seems like they 01:16:18.040 |
already understood what was acceptable was not acceptable. And so what Cain was doing wasn't 01:16:23.100 |
simply by convenience. It was disobedience, right? And that's why later on Cain is called evil for 01:16:30.060 |
what he did, okay? So we see that from the get-go, God, even though judgment came into mankind, 01:16:36.880 |
immediately God provided a way to reconcile them to God. Does that make sense? It wasn't like a long 01:16:44.800 |
period of time went by where they had no way to get to God. It was from the very beginning, he provided 01:16:50.680 |
a way where sacrifices were made so that the atonement could have happened, again, foreshadowing what was 01:16:57.460 |
about to come, okay? And then in seven, two to three, God required, if you remember, he said to the clean 01:17:04.380 |
animals were to be given in seven. So in Hebrew, it literally says seven, seven, which means a pair of 01:17:11.360 |
seven, right? So all the clean animals were seven pairs, and all the unclean animals were one pair. 01:17:18.280 |
Now, why was that? Okay? Now, clearly it tells us, some people will say it's for food. Obviously, it was for 01:17:25.300 |
food. Later on, God tells us, tells them that they can eat these animals. But prior to that, in 820, 01:17:31.080 |
it spells out that as soon as Noah comes out of the ark, the first thing that they do is they give burnt 01:17:37.720 |
offering, right? Again, burnt offering is mentioned in Leviticus chapter one. And yet, it says here that he gave 01:17:45.420 |
burnt offering. So Noah somehow knew that already. And so in order to give burnt offering, only clean 01:17:52.680 |
animals were able to be given as burnt offering, right? So God was providing for them, even as they're 01:17:59.040 |
entering into the ark, a way for them to worship him, right? And to be atoned, their sins to be atoned for 01:18:05.660 |
through these animals, even as he is preserving these animals. Does that make sense? Okay? So this is not something 01:18:12.420 |
that happened gradually from right off the bat, God provided a way for them to get to him, right? Even the 01:18:18.060 |
animals that he preserved, you can see that in the details, okay? So how many years went by from the time 01:18:25.260 |
when God told Noah? Now, some will say 120, simply because in the previous chapters, it says that the 01:18:31.680 |
number of years will be 120 years. But if you calculate, Noah, when he had children, and when the flood comes, 01:18:39.340 |
he had children when he had, it says in Genesis 5, that he was 500 years old, okay? And then the flood 01:18:46.040 |
comes when he is 600 years old. So somewhere between those years, right? So it only tells us that when 01:18:55.300 |
he was 500, he had these three children. So it could be anywhere from 80 to 100 years, right? 01:19:03.300 |
Probably not 100. Maybe 97, right? Because he needs nine months in between, right? And so somewhere around 01:19:11.900 |
there. So let's say 80, between 80 and 100, so 90 years. Now, why is this significant? Because in 1 Peter 01:19:19.500 |
3.20, in those 90 years, it says, these souls at that time were disobedient when the patience of God 01:19:27.320 |
kept waiting in the days of Noah, during the construction of the ark, in which a few, that is 01:19:32.480 |
eight persons, were brought safely through the water, right? And it tells us in 2 Peter that 01:19:37.860 |
that Noah was a preacher of righteousness. So during those 80, 90 years, Noah was preaching to them. 01:19:45.320 |
And in 1 Peter 3.20, it says, even as the plan of the flood was coming, God was giving them an 01:19:52.960 |
opportunity to repent, right? You see that? Right? So right off the mat, as the judgment is coming, 01:20:01.200 |
as people are dying, as sin is increasing, God's grace is continuing to pursue the sinners, okay? 01:20:08.280 |
And so we see that even in the details of how the ark is described, what is allowed, 01:20:13.340 |
all of these things are God's provision for mankind to be reconciled to him, okay? 01:20:19.720 |
Okay. I don't know about you, but you probably noticed that detailed measurements or the timing, 01:20:32.360 |
right? In the description of Noah's ark, there's detailed measurements, and then here, it gives 01:20:38.360 |
detailed timing, right? Everything is so precise, right? These are some of the things that I've listed, 01:20:43.880 |
number one through six. You probably, there's more than this, but I just highlighted, right? 01:20:49.180 |
It even tells us that the water lifted up how high? Do you remember? 01:20:53.220 |
22 cubits above the highest mountain. Even that was measured, right? So why is, was it so important 01:21:03.500 |
to measure every single detail, right? A couple of things I noted, that God is precise with his 01:21:10.880 |
instructions on how we will be saved and lived, and so we talked about how he built the ark. Remember, 01:21:16.360 |
where else are the measurements are so precise. The tabernacle and descriptions of the new heaven 01:21:24.680 |
and new earth, right? And so we see here, when we're talking about the very specific timing, 01:21:30.680 |
timing, right? Where else is the timing, right? Where else is the timing very precise? 01:21:39.640 |
Look at the book of Revelation, right? Seven days, right? Four, you know, half times half. When we describe, 01:21:50.440 |
describe the book of Revelation, when it gets to the judgment, it's very precise with timing, right? So some may 01:21:57.640 |
interpret that and say it's all allegorical, but if you were to take it literally, I mean, it's like there's so 01:22:04.200 |
much, right? So much timing and measurement that's placed in the book of Revelation. And so if you see 01:22:11.800 |
what's happening here at the ark, the flood, you can kind of see the similarities between what he is doing, 01:22:19.240 |
how he is describing things at the ark at the end times, right? And that's why I think a literal 01:22:25.480 |
interpretation, as much as possible, of the book of Revelation makes more sense. Because that's how it's 01:22:31.960 |
fulfilled in the first time, okay? Same thing with the coming of Christ. Everything that Jesus said 01:22:40.200 |
is first ought to be interpreted literally because that's how it was fulfilled, hanging on a cross, 01:22:47.320 |
riding on a donkey, his servants scattering, all of these things that when it didn't happen may look 01:22:53.240 |
like, oh, that could have been allegorical, but it actually happened literally, right? So again, it kind 01:22:59.320 |
of mimics what's happening with God's judgment, and then the details support the validity of the historical 01:23:04.680 |
events of the flood, right? If you're making up something, you wouldn't go into that much detail, 01:23:10.760 |
right? The details are there that may seem unnecessary. It's because it's true. It's a fact, right? 01:23:18.280 |
In fact, a good example of that is a man named Sir William Ramsey. He's an archaeologist, historian, 01:23:26.440 |
who set out to disprove the New Testament, especially the Gospel of Luke and the Book of Acts, 01:23:32.200 |
because there's so many historical events and places that are mentioned only in Luke's writing. 01:23:37.880 |
So he set out that he's going to go and go to the details that are mentioned, that are mentioned nowhere 01:23:43.720 |
else except for Luke's writings, and thinking that at the end of it, he's going to disprove. You see, 01:23:50.440 |
if Luke's writings are fictional, then he can prove that what he's saying is also fictional, 01:23:58.280 |
right? So at the end of his pursuit, he ended up becoming a Christian. And what he says, and there's 01:24:04.840 |
many quotes from him, he says, "I began with a mind unfavorable to it, but more and more I found myself 01:24:10.040 |
brought into contact with the accuracy of the New Testament." And another thing, I don't have the quote 01:24:15.560 |
here, what he says, he said that it's very difficult for him to believe that Luke went to that much trouble 01:24:22.360 |
to describe every little intricate details of the surroundings, of the place, of the particular event, 01:24:31.480 |
if everything else he was saying was untrue, right? If he's making up the story of the resurrection, 01:24:37.480 |
why would he describe everything around it to be true, right? And so at the end of that, after 30 years 01:24:43.320 |
of digging, he ended up becoming a Christian because it doesn't make sense that so much of it would be so 01:24:49.320 |
accurate to that detail. It would only make sense if everything that he was saying was true, okay? 01:24:57.240 |
There's so many evidence of the flood. Instead of me describing it to you, I thought it'd be good if 01:25:02.360 |
we can hear this. I don't know if we can hear this. Okay, again, I don't know what I'm doing with this, 01:25:11.160 |
but I thought it'd be better if you just heard it instead of... 01:25:22.440 |
There is no sound. Is there is it possible? Is it possible to have sound? 01:25:34.680 |
The top five re... Okay, there you go. All right. 01:25:40.680 |
Ready? The top five reasons the global flood may have actually happened. Number five, human documented 01:25:50.760 |
history of the flood. If a global flood happened, you'd expect people around the world in ancient 01:25:55.880 |
history to have told this story. And they do. Basically, all the people. The Chinese, the Native 01:26:01.480 |
Americans, the Hindi people, the Sumerians, the Greek, the Aztecs, the Norse people, the story of Atlantis, 01:26:07.320 |
and of course, the biblical story, which is the account of the Jewish people. And their stories are 01:26:11.240 |
largely similar. God or the gods were mad, and so they flooded the earth, while the hero of the story 01:26:16.680 |
builds a boat and saved all the people and the animals. Number four, geologic evidence of a 01:26:22.760 |
catastrophic flood. There is evidence all over the world of unfathomably massive flooding. For 01:26:27.400 |
centuries, science taught us that everything we see was the - Can you flip it to the other, and then show it to them? 01:26:34.200 |
You're going to ruin the whole Bible study if this doesn't work. 01:26:45.960 |
There's a way to do it. Okay, give us one minute if we can't figure it out. Oh, so easy! 01:27:10.280 |
The top five reasons the global flood may have actually happened. Number five, human documented 01:27:16.360 |
history of the flood. If a global flood happened, you'd expect people around the world in ancient 01:27:21.480 |
history to have told this story. And they do. Basically, all the people. The Chinese, the Native 01:27:27.000 |
Americans, the Hindi people, the Sumerians, the Greek, the Aztecs, the Norse people, the story of Atlantis, 01:27:32.840 |
and of course, the biblical story, which is the account of the Jewish people. And their stories 01:27:36.680 |
are largely similar. God or the gods were mad, and so they flooded the earth. While the hero of the 01:27:41.880 |
story builds a boat and saved all the people and the animals. Number four, geologic evidence of a 01:27:48.280 |
catastrophic flood. There is evidence all over the world of unfathomably massive flooding. For centuries, 01:27:53.560 |
science taught us that everything we see was the result of slow, steady processes over deep time. 01:27:58.120 |
Until J. Harlan Bretz took on the scientific elites and proved the great ice dam flood of the Pacific 01:28:03.880 |
Northwest. You can see the size of these small ripples that are the result of a local flood. And 01:28:08.200 |
these pictures from the Camas Prairie in Idaho, which is in the path of this Missoula flood, 01:28:12.440 |
has the same kind of ripples, but the scale is hundreds if not thousands of times larger. 01:28:17.000 |
Everybody knows the Niagara Falls. This is the Horseshoe Dam, compared to the Dry Falls 01:28:22.200 |
formation in Washington, also part of this Missoula flood. The water at the Niagara Falls rushes over the 01:28:27.160 |
edge at 200,000 cubic feet per second. While the water at this Dry Falls formation ravaged through at 01:28:33.240 |
300 to 400 million cubic feet per second. Hundreds of times more water than the Niagara Falls. Imagine the 01:28:39.400 |
scale. And now that we know that these formations were caused by catastrophic floods, science is finding 01:28:43.880 |
evidence of these kinds of catastrophic floods all over the world, including two that are larger than 01:28:48.440 |
the Missoula flood. Number three, oceans underneath the Earth's crust. One of the first questions that 01:28:54.200 |
comes to mind when thinking of a global flood is where did the water come from? Which is a good 01:28:58.680 |
question at surface level. But if you read the biblical account of Noah's flood, it's very clear where the 01:29:03.400 |
water came from. Genesis 7:11, "In the 600th year of Noah's life, on the 17th day of the second month. On 01:29:09.880 |
that day, all the springs of the great deep burst forth." Job 38:8, "Who shut up the sea behind doors when it 01:29:17.160 |
burst forth from the womb?" Where did the water come from? The Bible clearly says that the floodwaters came from 01:29:26.920 |
inside of the Earth, and scientists have potentially just recently found this water. They now estimate that 01:29:31.960 |
there's more water underneath the Earth's crust than above. How did the author of the Bible get this 01:29:36.680 |
right over 3,000 years ago? Good guess, Moses. Number two, the ice age. The fact that there was 01:29:42.680 |
even an ice age at all provides strong evidence for a global flood. Why? We all have this idea of what the 01:29:48.440 |
ice age was. The entire Earth covered in snow. But that's not the truth. The Earth was only about four 01:29:53.480 |
degrees colder. However, up to 30% of the Earth was covered in ice. Glaciers, technically. Today, less than 5% 01:30:00.280 |
of the Earth is covered in glaciers. So where did all the snow come from to cover 30% of the Earth? 01:30:04.600 |
What do you need to form ice? Cold and water. If you only have cold, then you just have a cold age, 01:30:10.760 |
not an ice age. Where did the precipitation come from? At the beginning of this last winter, Buffalo, 01:30:15.400 |
New York, experienced the most massive blizzard in its recorded history, when a lake effect storm 01:30:20.120 |
caused 60 inches of snow to encase the city. And how did this happen? Freezing cold arctic air moved south 01:30:25.800 |
over the warm waters of the Great Lakes. The waters were still warm from the fall, and as the cold air 01:30:30.280 |
passes over the warm water, it causes evaporation, precipitation. And in the Buffalo Blizzard, this 01:30:35.240 |
created a conveyor belt of snow, as the warm waters meeting the cold air caused the formation of clouds 01:30:40.680 |
and precipitation. And this can explain where the water for the ice age came from. Models show that if 01:30:45.160 |
there was a global flood, this event would have created a tremendous amount of energy or heat, 01:30:49.560 |
largely due to friction. This heat would have dissipated into, and of course, heated up the 01:30:54.200 |
oceans, creating this lake effect phenomenon, but on a global scale. Number one evidence that a global 01:31:01.160 |
flood may have actually happened: the fossil record. How is a fossil formed? When an animal dies, 01:31:07.160 |
the scavengers almost immediately get to work on beginning the process of disassembling the formerly 01:31:12.360 |
living thing. And this is just the beginning phase of its total decomposition, finished off by bugs, 01:31:17.800 |
bacteria, and fungi. It's gross, but it's an amazing system for recycling organic material. Because of 01:31:23.560 |
the efficacy of this recycling process, dead animals stand basically no chance at being preserved in any 01:31:29.480 |
complete or articulated way. And this is why, in order for something to become a fossil, it basically 01:31:35.000 |
needs to be rapidly buried by mud or sand, which helps to make sense of the fossils of animals that died 01:31:40.440 |
while eating, giving birth, and that are found in death poses, arched back before being rapidly 01:31:46.040 |
covered by mud, sometimes sand. So the very fact that fossils are found all over the earth is 01:31:50.920 |
compelling evidence for a global, rapid animal-bearing event, like a flood. It also explains why marine 01:31:57.640 |
fossils, like whales and sharks, have been found in the middle of deserts, and also on the top of Mount 01:32:03.160 |
Everest, the Himalayas, the highest mountains in the world. So what do you think? Did a global flood actually happen? 01:32:09.480 |
All right, I got a couple more slides before we end, okay? So this is a picture of, how many of you guys have been here in Kentucky? 01:32:36.680 |
There's an actual replica that they made of, I think they call it the Creation Museum, right? 01:32:44.120 |
It's the Creation Museum, right? Anyway, this is in Kentucky, and they made the actual size of it. 01:32:51.320 |
And I wanted to give you an idea of how big the ark is in feet, because we don't do centimeters, right? 01:32:57.880 |
It's about 450 feet long, about 75 feet wide, and about 30 feet high, right? 01:33:06.600 |
So many guys who are not good with measurements, our sanctuary is about 100 feet sideways, 01:33:13.400 |
and about 70 feet length, right? From the pulpit to the back where the 01:33:19.240 |
AV room is, right? It's about 70 feet. And then the length, the width of it is 700 feet, 01:33:27.160 |
about 100 feet, about 90 some feet. And it's about 20 to 22 feet high, which means if you look at the total 01:33:34.760 |
volume, it would be about five times the size of our sanctuary, okay? And it was built in three decks, 01:33:41.640 |
right? And so the natural question that I had when I was younger, when I was looking through this, 01:33:48.920 |
is that could they have actually fit all these animals? According to, again, I'm not going to go 01:33:53.560 |
into too much details, but according to a study, they said majority of the animals on earth, even today, 01:34:00.200 |
are the size of a small dog or smaller, majority of them. So when we think of animals, we're thinking 01:34:05.480 |
elephants and buffaloes and all these things, but when you actually calculate the size of the animals, 01:34:11.080 |
majority of them are the size of a dog or smaller. And then on top of that, if you calculate 01:34:16.680 |
like the language of what it says, it says all of the birds of their kind, right? It doesn't necessarily 01:34:23.960 |
mean every single species. It means of their kind, right? And so according to the volume of what the 01:34:31.880 |
size of this boat would have carried, most people believe that it was probably even just volume-wise, 01:34:38.200 |
it would have only taken about 25% or less, okay? So is it possible? Yes, it's possible, right? And so 01:34:45.960 |
I just wanted to throw that out there, because this is something that I asked when I was younger, 01:34:49.800 |
looking at this, it's like, it's crazy to think that all the animals like fit into that boat, 01:34:54.520 |
but considering the size of the boat, the volume of the boat, and the volume of all the animals put 01:34:59.560 |
together, it could have easily done that, okay? And in chapter 8, verse 1, before the flood actually 01:35:08.760 |
comes, he said God remembered Noah. Now obviously, when he says he remembered, it doesn't mean like he 01:35:13.960 |
told him to build the ark, and then just, oh, that's right, I forgot about Noah, right? Clearly, 01:35:18.760 |
that's not what he means, right? He means that the covenant that he made, that he was going to save 01:35:24.360 |
mankind through Noah, that he keeps his promise, right? And that's the theme all throughout redemptive 01:35:31.080 |
history, it's God remembers, God remembers, God remembers, right? Meaning that what he was doing 01:35:36.520 |
in the creation, what he's doing with Noah, what he is doing with Israel, what he's doing, he does not 01:35:42.120 |
forget. He does not change his mind. God is not man that he should lie, nor the son of man that he should 01:35:47.480 |
repent, right? Has he not said it, and will he not do it? If God said it, he will do it, even though it 01:35:53.160 |
may seem as impossible, when you lose all hope, right? Because you just cannot see, well, how can God do 01:35:59.480 |
this, and why would God do this? He says God remembers, right? So what he is doing here with Noah, what he is 01:36:05.880 |
doing with the nation of Israel, he says he will remember, and you see that all throughout redemptive 01:36:11.000 |
history. God never changes his mind or his purpose, okay? And he, and Book of Hebrews says, nor can he do 01:36:17.800 |
so, he cannot change, right? Which means when he says, tells us to remember, obviously we have a tendency 01:36:24.840 |
to forget, but he, when he tells us to remember, he's telling us more than just think about it. He's, 01:36:30.680 |
he's telling us to be faithful to the covenant, because God is faithful to us, that we are to remember, 01:36:36.120 |
and to be faithful to him, okay? This physical, uh, I remember the very first movie that my dad took us 01:36:46.200 |
to in Philadelphia in 1975, when we came to the United States. He made such a big deal, and we went to the 01:36:53.480 |
theater, so excited, and there was a documentary on how they found Noah's Ark on the mountain of 01:37:01.560 |
Turkey, and we didn't even understand English at that time. So I remember to vow never to watch an 01:37:09.080 |
American movie again, because if this is what an American movie looks like, right? But there's so 01:37:14.760 |
many, so many documentaries of people looking for it, and I don't actually have pictures, but they do 01:37:19.640 |
think, okay, again, it's not proven that somewhere in Turkey that they have a place where it looks like, 01:37:26.360 |
whether they found wood pieces, or the shape of it, and sitting on the top of one of the mountains 01:37:31.320 |
over there. Um, if you Google it, you'll easily find it. There's tons of pictures, okay? 01:37:35.960 |
So the fact that God left evidence, right? And my guess is, by the time Moses was riding it, 01:37:44.360 |
Moses knew exactly where this boat was. That's my thought, right? Because it's not that far removed. 01:37:50.200 |
Okay. Uh, next question. God was so clear about how to build the ark, and what to collect, and yet when 01:37:58.280 |
it was time to exit the ark, right, Noah had to go through all this ritual of finding, is it dry, 01:38:03.400 |
is it not? Uh, why do you think God didn't give specific instructions after the flood? Now, again, 01:38:08.920 |
this is just conjecture, uh, but if you look at the pattern in which God works, there's a tendency 01:38:14.920 |
to people think that whenever you see God working a certain way that that's how God's going to work 01:38:19.720 |
in every single instance, right? God spoke to, you know, to Paul. God spoke to Moses. And so you're 01:38:28.920 |
waiting, I'm waiting for God to speak to me. Is that the typical pattern in which God works is through the 01:38:34.200 |
prophets through the written word, right? And so God was very engaged with, with them early on, even, 01:38:43.400 |
even in Noah's life. It wasn't like every single day God gave specific instruction, do this, turn left, 01:38:47.960 |
turn right. And, uh, I remember, especially in the charismatic camp, they think that whatever you see 01:38:54.040 |
is a pattern that, that needs to be repeated. But I remember two of my roommates who were very charismatic, 01:38:59.400 |
who are older than me, uh, right before they got married, I remember them being so disappointed. 01:39:04.760 |
And the reason why they were disappointed is because they thought that God was going to give 01:39:10.040 |
them some special revelation as to who they were supposed to marry. But that never happened. So they 01:39:16.440 |
were thinking, huh, this is not what we thought. And at the end, the end conclusion of both of them, 01:39:21.160 |
two separate times being married was, oh, this is just, I just need to make a wise, godly choice, 01:39:26.920 |
right? Um, the whole reason why I point this out is because even Noah, how God spoke to him in the 01:39:33.880 |
beginning and at the end was very different. Okay. This is not a normal pattern that we are to wait for, 01:39:39.080 |
like God for me to speak and say, do you want me to do this? Or do you want me to do that? Right? 01:39:44.440 |
God says to not to conform to the pattern of this world, but renew your mind that you may be able to 01:39:50.920 |
test and approve the will of God, that which is perfect and good. Right? So we are by renewing 01:39:56.760 |
our mind through the word of God, through repentance, that, that we are to be able to discern the will of 01:40:03.400 |
God. Right? So God's given that to us. And then you see right off the bat, Noah built an altar, 01:40:10.840 |
offered a burnt offering, and once they exited, where in the Bible does it, does this come out? 01:40:16.040 |
Obviously, Leviticus chapter one. So right off the bat, the sacrifices teach that sin requires death. 01:40:22.280 |
Right? Sin requires death, right? That's one of the first things that is taught in the sacrificial system. 01:40:29.320 |
That it is a bloody scene at the altar, that they are being slaughtered, and the blood is being 01:40:34.920 |
sprinkled everywhere. The fact that this was given not only at the tabernacle, but this was being 01:40:39.960 |
practiced from the very beginning. Sin requires death. God provided a way to live, right? Through the 01:40:46.600 |
sacrifice of the animals that they were atoned for, right? By faith, knowing that the true atonement was 01:40:52.040 |
going to come in Christ. And then again, the blood atonement was necessary, right? Without the shedding of 01:40:57.880 |
blood, there is no forgiveness of sins, right? And so this was embedded from the beginning, right? 01:41:04.360 |
In Genesis chapter three, it says the seed of the woman is going to crush the head of the serpent. 01:41:09.000 |
And so the specifics of that, even though it doesn't mention it there, the specifics of the coming of 01:41:14.120 |
Christ was embedded into their daily practice, right? And so we see that right off the bat, as soon as 01:41:22.360 |
Noah comes up, the first thing that he does is he offers sacrifice, right? One, out of thanksgiving, but two, 01:41:28.840 |
he knew that this was the only way that he can have a relationship with this holy God, okay? So all of 01:41:35.160 |
this is preparation for the coming of Christ, okay? All right, so this is the study question for chapter 01:41:41.880 |
nine. I'm not going to go through it. I think it's pretty self-explanatory. 01:41:44.760 |
And then here's the discussion questions, okay? Let me pray for us, and then I'll let you go to get to 01:41:53.000 |
your discussion. Father, we thank you for your mercies. We thank you, Father God, that you do remember 01:42:06.280 |
that everything that you have chosen to do and will to do, that you do, that you are faithful to your 01:42:11.240 |
promises, whether it is to Noah, to his family, to Israel, to the church, to us, that our confidence 01:42:19.560 |
may not come, Lord God, because of who we are, but because of who you are. Help us, Lord God, to ground our 01:42:27.080 |
faith firmly upon an unchanging love of who you are, and help us to even understand, Lord God, that we are 01:42:37.240 |
living in a period of grace, knowing that one day, that even though it may not be through a flood, that 01:42:43.400 |
the judgment will come. So help us, Lord God, to live like people who are preparing and being ready, that we 01:42:49.800 |
may not be caught off like a thief coming in the night. So we ask, Lord God, that you would bless this time of 01:42:55.480 |
discussion. Sanctify us and renew us, Lord God, through this time. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.