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Bright and shining lights in the Bible #13

Scripture: “By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith,” Heb 11:7.

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We continue our study of this verse which tells us about the faith of Noah, one of God’s bright and shining lights.

1. He obeyed God and thereby saw his family saved. Noah warned them as he did all around who would listen to him. “For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: by which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water,” 1 Peter 3:18-20. His family was his chief concern – “Prepared an ark to the saving of his house”. Faith in Christ has not just a personal impact, it touches upon others also. John 1:40-42. Acts 16:31-33.

2.He inherited that which God has promised to believers. He became a ‘son of God’, John 1:12 and thereby an heir, Gal 4:7. Those that believe God have a wonderful inheritance awaiting them. Heed these verses, Matthew 25:34, Acts 26:15-18, 1 Peter 1:3-4, 5:4.

3. His works, born of his faith, condemned the world. His believing God and acting in obedience to Him condemned those who did not, despite the warnings given them, see 1 Pet 3:18-20, quoted already.

This is one of the reasons why Christians are hated by the world. See the Saviour’s words to the unbelieving Jews of His day in Matthew 12:41-42. “The people of Nineveh believed God,” Jonah 3:5.

The Unsearchable Riches of Christ, Pt8

The purpose of God, Pt1

Scripture: Ephesians 1:10-12

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We last considered how that God had revealed to us the mystery of His will through the gospel of Christ, verse 9 (1 Cor 2:7-10). Now we come to what is at the heart of God’s purpose. That purpose is stated in verse 10. He might gather together in one all things. The phrase means to bring together again. Sin is a scatterer, a bringer of disorder. It scattered God’s order in creation and it is God’s purpose to gather that which was scattered together again.
Consider what these verses teach us regarding this gathering together again of all things.
I. THEY ARE GATHERED AGAIN THROUGH CHRIST
1. Christ is God’s Gatherer. The marring of Creation through sin is far above our understanding. Christ undertook the gathering of that scattered together again. Man has his plan to gather together. It was seen at the Tower of Babel, Gen 11:9 and in the modern Ecumenical movement and the future apostasy under Antichrist. But this is a gathering in REBELLION. Christ will gather through RECONCILIATION. And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven, Colossians 1:20.
2. His work of redemption will have far-reaching results. Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature, Colossians 1:15. That is: He is the source of life for all of redeemed creation. See Rom 8:19-23; 1 Cor 15:22-29; Rev 21:1-6.
3. Through Christ, paradise is regained. In the Garden of Eden, God walked with Adam and Eve. Earth and Heaven will again walk in harmony. How ignorant of heavenly things this earth is! Angels, saints in heaven etc, are a frightening mystery because of man’s sinful ignorance. Christ will bring about AGAIN a harmonising of all creation.

Bright and shining lights in the Bible #12

Scripture: “By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith,” Heb 11:7.

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We have arrived in a new world now that we have moved to the times of Noah. The great flood which covered the whole world had taken place. “And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered. Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered,” Gen 7:19-20.

Despite what men say, the whole earth was flooded and there is evidence still of that having happened for seashells and fossils of fish have been found high up in many mountains of the world, even in the Himalayas! The Bible is true despite the foolish notions of men!

1. God issued a warning of coming judgment to Noah. In like manner, God warns today of coming judgment. “But when he (John/Baptist) saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?” Matt 3:7.

2. It is right to fear God’s wrath. Back then, the majority rejected God’s warning. So it is still today! “Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it,” Matt 7:13-14. There was only ONE door into ark!

3. Noah started doing that for which no one else could see any reason. “ . . being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark . . .” We speak of and believe in that which no man has seen! Thus they reject what we say.
There was no sea where Noah built his ark. He has no need of a boat! The ark did not look like any boat that men may have built. It was like a very long box! That is what the word  ‘ark’ means.