God's Faithfulness and Renewal: Lessons from Noah

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You see God never forgot Noah he sustained him every day on the ark but at this point God once again turned his active attention towards Noah and said, okay Noah now we're going to go on to the next step and it was as if he remembered Noah again. [00:02:00]

As the waters began to steadily recede both from God cutting off the supply of the waters from The Fountains of the deep below and the rain coming down from the heavens God stopped the supply of water so to speak then God using his own engineering Brilliance and the great wind that was upon the Earth began to make the waters to recede. [00:03:52]

Now in one way of thinking Mount Eric was not a good place to leave the ark if you left the ark at a high altitude and very mountainous terrain it meant that it would be a difficult departure for Noah his family and all the animals in the ark, but if God had a purpose to put the Ark in a place where it could be preserved for thousands of years then God chose an excellent place for it. [00:04:34]

He also sent out from himself a dove to see if the waters had receded from the face of the ground, but the dove found no resting place for the soul of her foot and she returned into the ark to him for the waters were on the face of the whole Earth so he put out his hand and took her and Drew her into the ark to himself. [00:06:18]

Spurgeon explained that like the dove the believer finds no true resting place in this world. Let me read you a quote from Spurgeon's sermon on this he says this quote the world is said to be progressing advancing improving but we cannot Discover it the same sin the same filthiness the same universally abounding unbelief that our fathers complained of we are obliged to complain of still. [00:09:35]

Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. See here that verse 20 tells us that Noah built an altar you might say that this was his first act or at least the First Act mentioned after leaving the ark to build an altar to worship God through sacrifice. [00:16:04]

Friends if you've only got seven sheep in all the world to offer one of them to the Lord is a great sacrifice indeed that's the nature of true sacrifice a costly offering unto God with only seven of every clean animal on the ark Noah risked extinction by sacrificing some of these animals, but I'll tell you this costly sacrifice is pleasing to God. [00:17:14]

Costly sacrifice pleases god well why what's not because God's greedy and he wants to get as much from us as he can no it's because God himself sacrificed at Great cost God wants costly Sacrifice from his people because it shows that his people are then being conformed into the image of Jesus Christ who was the greatest display of a costly sacrifice. [00:18:46]

God promised to never again visit the Earth with judgment by a flood at least on this scale God would never again destroy every living thing God did this even understanding and it says there in verse 21 that the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth because it I know the wickedness of man's heart I know that from his youngest years that there's Evil Within man. [00:22:42]

This strange combination at least in one sense was accounted for by Noah's Altar and sacrifice God took pleasure in the sacrifice verse 21 says that the Lord smelled a soothing Aroma and that sacrifice you could say was a turning point you see because there was adequate sacrifice made for sin God says I will turn away the curse even though I know the sinfulness and the wickedness of man. [00:24:23]

God promised that after the flood the Earth would have established seasons and this speaks of the profound uh changes in climate changes in the Ecology of the Earth since the covering of the water Vapors around the Earth was emptied now there would be seasonal and temperature variations much more extreme than existed before the flood. [00:26:47]

The changing of the seasons is a demonstration in fact of the great faithfulness of God now we're at the end of the chapter but let me make just a couple of points here at the end of our look at Genesis chapter 8. Two points on how Genesis chapter 8 points to Jesus Christ. [00:29:06]

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