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Uncover the incredible wisdom behind Noah's Ark as we explore Genesis verse 14 to finish, where divine instructions and the grace Noah found before the Lord are at the forefront. We'll guide you through the fascinating details of the ark's construction, from the robust gopher wood to the water-sealing pitch akin to modern caulk, highlighting the purposeful design and sheer scale intended for the preservation of life. You'll gain a fresh perspective on the significance of each room and the profound obedience Noah demonstrated, which can inspire your own journey of faith and trust in divine guidance.
As the narrative unfolds, we reflect on life's transitions, like moving from singleness to marriage, mirroring the faith and obedience shown by Noah. With God at the heart of every change, this episode encourages embracing life's challenges, knowing everything is made for His glory. You'll find solace in the covenant made with Noah, learning how to navigate your own life's passages with gratitude and prayer. Join us as we share insights and blessings, hoping to bring peace and inspiration to your day and night.
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Hello, hello, and welcome back to Learning to Live in Truth. We are so glad to be before you one more time. I hope all is well. I hope you're having a great day. Amen, my name is Catherine. Amen, I am your host. I hope that you are having you've had a good one. Yeah, hold on, turn this down a little bit. Turn it down. There we go. Yeah, that's better. All right, so I am ready to get into the word. I hope that you are.
Speaker 1:
Today, we're picking up at verse 14, as promised, yeah, and we are talking all about the grace that Noah found before the Lord. Amen, so now we are getting ready to go into building dark. So let's do it. Verse 14 what am I doing? We gotta pray. What am I doing? Y'all know it. Let's pray.
Speaker 1:
Thank you, god, for giving us yet another opportunity to get into your word. Thank you so much, father, that you have called us into this place. I want to hear and I want to be able to understand what you're saying to us, not only in this hour, in this moment, but in this season. Pray, god, that you would use us to your glory. Use, pray, god, that you use us to your glory. Use me, father to your glory, a willing vessel, god, ready to do what you called me to do. I pray, god, that you would just do what only you can. I pray this prayer and we ask, in the precious name of Jesus Christ, we do pray, amen, amen, hallelujah. So we are picking up at verse 14. I hope that you were here on yesterday and listening. If you have not, I want to suggest that you go back, listen to yesterday.
Speaker 1:
So, coming into the chapter, it makes sense. Yeah, because we left off at 14 and he said make thee an ark of gopher wood. On whom shalt thou make in the ark and shall pitch it within and without with pitch, amen. So what he says, uh instructs noah to do, is to get some pine, cypress type of wood, wood, wood that's strong and durable. It's able to be able to what is it like? A water resistance to it? Yeah, that it won't crumble, much like what we use today. It gets wet. What is that wood? Pressed wood, I think that's what it's called. Yeah, it's a bunch of wood chips like put together to make. This is wood that is solid. Yeah. And then he said when you make the rooms, put some pitch on it.
Speaker 1:
Pitch in our language, our today would be, would be like caulk, yeah, seal, it keeps, keeps um stuff from coming in or out. Yeah, we see caulk on our windows, see caulk on our bathtubs, caulk around our um windows, um the borders of our floor, of our um rooms. We see all of that. All of that is to protect again what is coming in and what is coming out. Nothing is damaged.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, so obviously that was the most good way of doing it before they came up with something much cheaper, much more attainable for us in our day Calking, yeah, verse 15. And he said and this is the fashion which thou shalt make of it. Makealky, yeah, verse 15. And he said and this is the fashion which thou shalt make of it. Make it of the length of the art shall be 300 cubits and the breadth of it 50 cubits and the height of it 30 cubits. Okay, so a cubit, because I've already, you know, bit, because I've already, you know, did a little bit of research, I guess you could say, uh, a cube, it is from your middle finger, should be here to your elbow. That's about 18 inches, about round, about 18, and so the length of it is 300, the thickness of the wood 50. I mean, god, that's long, right, um, and then your height is 30. So, yeah, an ancient ship as the bible describes here in my commentary. Ancient ship. I'm not like our cruise ships, we get on, but, but I ain't shitting, amen. And another thing to note the fact that it's three stories high. We'll read that in the next verse, but it's three stories high and I would definitely, and I hope y'all would agree that I'm sure that every room was by design. Yeah, because we had a male and a female of every animal that had been created. Yeah, and then, of course, the family of noah. Yeah, I think I'm getting ahead of myself, but I want to put some things in perspective in your mind. Yeah, drinking the.
Speaker 1:
So verse 16 this is a window shalt thou make to the ark, and it is a cubit. Shalt thou finish it above. And the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side. Therefore, with lower, second and third story, shalt thou make it. Now, when I picture that, I picture that like Therefore, with lower, second and third story, shop, I'll make it. Now when I picture that, I picture that like a skylight. You know how we have a skylight so we can see up in the sky. What's going on? That window, that's the only thing that I can figure no-transcript that the dove came out of and came back into. Yeah, so outside of that it says that it is above and then it says put aside, your there, I'm sure, so you can get in and out. Yeah, so I mean a little bit of logic, a little bit of spiritual. We're going to put it together, right. Yeah, y'all talk about it. Look 17,.
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He said, and behold, I, I do bring a flood of waters upon the earth. So god said this ain't nobody but me. I am bringing a flood into the earth to destroy all flesh. So I'm doing this on purpose. For purpose, yeah, because remember, earlier in yesterday he said you know, he repented that he had made all of the beads that he had made because of how they were acting, the things that they were doing. He repented of that. He wished he hadn't. Yeah, so we ought to be real, real mindful of that. So he said to destroy all flesh within is the breath of that. So he said to destroy all flesh within is the breath of life From under heaven, and everything that is in the earth shall die. All of it's going to die. I'm getting rid of it. Can you imagine what the land looked like, what the world looked like when that ship was rising above the water? All those bodies, the, the animals, all of the debris? You know, kind of like you know, after the flood is over, what it looks like? Oh my goodness, I can't even imagine. But just imagine it for a moment. This is how it looked, amen.
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Now we go on to verse 18. He says but with all. No, he says but with thee Will I establish my covenant. So he is Talking Indirectly or directly to Noah. He says With your obedience, through your obedience, this is a covenant or promise that I'm going to make with you, that that thou shalt come into the ark, thou and thy sons and thy wife and thy sons' wives, and with thee. So he says you know, this is a promise that I'm making with you. Know that you and your family will be saved. Y'all all are going to come onto the ark.
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Ark, he said. And of every living thing, of all flesh, two of every sort, shalt thou bring into the ark to keep them alive. With thee, thou shalt be male and female. So every living thing of all flesh, of all flesh Of all flesh, he said Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, and of every creeping thing Of the earth, after his time, two of every sort Shall come unto thee To keep them alive. So the flesh that he's talking about In verse 20. Is through his sons and his sons and their wives and the children that they produce. So that's going to save the human race. He said I want to do it like this. And then he says you know all of the animals, one of one, male, one female. You know all of the animals, one male, one female. He said the cattle. He says the fish. Look, he said the fowl of the air. All, one of each, male and female. That's just.
Speaker 1:
I mean, when you think about that, it's like man Noah had a lot of no, let's say it like this Everything and anything, it all surrendered unto the voice of God. I mean, can you imagine trying to capture a vulture or an eagle to get it inside of a ship? Yeah, with a top over it. Come on somebody. Logically, that would make no sense. That's impossible. But with god all things are possible. Right? Look at 21.
Speaker 1:
He says and take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten. So everything that everybody eats. He says take some. He says, thou shalt gather it to thee, and it shall be food for thee and for them. Thus did noah according to all that God commanded him. So did he. Okay.
Speaker 1:
So Noah moved in obedience, based on what the Lord told him to do. He didn't ask him a whole lot of questions, did he According to the word? He didn't ask him a whole lot of questions, he just did what he told him to do. Isn't it something that we will ask the lord a thousand questions before we do whatever he's told us to do? Just do it. Yeah, I mean, just do it, hallelujah. And you know the things that we don't know, the things we don't understand. He will bring us a sense of peace that surpasses understanding. Amen, all of that worry and that fear and the stress and all of that that comes in between being obedient. Yeah, it's difficult, hallelujah, come on. Tonight. It's difficult, but if we are trusting God to bring us through, then we got to trust God to bring us through. Yeah, whatever a blank we can't fill, we got to know God to bring us through. You know, whatever a blank we can't, we got to know that God has already filled it, hallelujah. He already knew the adversity that we faced along the way. Yeah, you just got to know that. He got it. He got it.
Speaker 1:
I was just praying here just a few minutes ago before I started. I mean, I had to talk to the Lord for a minute, amen, because there's some things happening in my life I don't understand. I mean I had to talk to the Lord for a minute, amen, because there's some things happening in my life I don't understand. I don't understand why. I don't understand what is the issue. I don't get it. But because I'm trusting God, I believe that he's going to work it all out for my good. Amen. He is not here to make us go through hell in our water, amen. But he does desire for us to prosper.
Speaker 1:
You gotta know that the journey it ain't always smooth. You're a journey especially like if you climb the mountain. You got parts of it. It's gonna be uh hard and difficult to walk, to climb. It's going to be places where it's real smooth and easy to walk on. That's life. You know what I mean. Amen.
Speaker 1:
At the end of the day, we're trusting God. Trusting God, no matter how high the mountain is. We know that we're not alone. Come on somebody. I hope that that was a word of inspiration. Uh, for somebody, amen, it was definitely for me. Amen. We are not alone in this journey. We are not alone in the things that god is calling us to do, amen. And here's another thing the things that god calls us to do, it ain't always necessarily a deed. Amen. God calls us into different arenas of life. Amen, hallelujah.
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We have to go through a period of childhood, don't we? Amen? It's difficult and it's hard, but God, that's a part of the process. Amen, hallelujah. And then we have to go through what? Young adulthood? Then we have to go through adulthood, amen. We're living our life in stages, or in cycles, you could say, and we are always gaining and losing and doing all types of things through this journey.
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Then we go from being single to married Come on somebody, hallelujah. Then we go from being married to having children come on somebody. And all of these dynamics we gotta know, like a big pot of soup, it's all working together. Hey, man, god working it together, because he made everything, he made everybody for him, and they were all made. What? By him, him For his glory, hallelujah, amen.
Speaker 1:
We got to know that God is in the midst of whatever is happening in your life. All right, y'all, I'm ready to pray. I hope y'all are. Father, we thank you so much for your grace and your mercy. Thank you, god, for allowing, yet again, another opportunity to be in your word. Thank you, god, for clarity and giving us some understanding, making the way clear.
Speaker 1:
I pray, god, as we continue to go forth, even beyond listening to this podcast, that you make our way clear, god, as we go forth following you as your disciples. God, make the way clear because you are the way, you are the truth, you are the life. Hallelujah, we thank you. Thank you, god, for all of who you are and all that we are. Because of that, father, we bless your people, we bless your name. In Jesus Christ's name, I do pray. Amen, amen and amen. Hallelujah, amen. I hope that y'all will come back with me as we jump into chapter 7 of this great book of Genesis. Amen. So much love, so many blessings from me to you. Have a blessed day and a blessed night. Amen, amen and amen.
