Noah's Covenant: Priorities, Purpose, and Promise

Jul 19, 2026

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30s
#ChooseChristNow
“``The bible points a straight line that the ark is Christ. If you want to escape the coming judgment, you have to give your life to Jesus. it's been thousands of years, two thousand years since Jesus came. But God's like, hey. For the Lord, a day is a thousand years. So it's only been two days yet to God. It's soon for him. But don't let that confuse you with the fact that it is coming.”
32s
#GetOnTheArk
“God says, someday, the world will perish in fire. If you read the book of Revelation, you see God will come to judge the earth. But until then, God in his mercy is giving people a chance to repent. And it reminds me of Noah when he built the boat. What did Noah do? He built the boat, telling people, hey. There's a flood coming. Get on the boat. Get on the boat. And no one did except for his family. Don't make the same mistake.”
39s
#FirstAndBestToGod
“if it was me, I'd be like, hey, there's only a few of these left. Like, these are all endangered species. Right? Well well, let's how about, like, let's not kill them, and let's, like, let them, like, fill the earth. But Noah doesn't do that. He takes his first and his best and offers it to the lord as a sacrifice. And this is a statement of faith by Noah, that god will continue to replenish the earth. In fact, if god wants to create new animals, he can do that. But what he does is he takes some of the offspring of these animals and gives them to the lord and sacrifices.”
44s
#AllInForGod
“Because he understands that god is the most important person in the room and he wants to please him most. And I think a lot of us don't think about God that way. We think of God as like some kind of like like assistant, virtual assistant. He's like Siri. We ask him to do things for us. We we act like he's like a an accessory to our life. Noah's like, I've got no one else to turn to. I'm putting all of my eggs in God's basket. I'm trusting God with everything. So I'm gonna sacrifice to the Lord saying thank you for providing salvation for me and my family.”
42s
#CovenantNotContract
“And the idea of a covenant is an important one. It's not a promise. It's not a contract. Promise is like, hey. I promise I'm gonna do this. contract is like, hey. I I will do these things if you also commit to do the things you promised to do, and you can break that contract based on the other person's behavior. But neither of those is a covenant. A covenant is we're making a solemn vow. And when god makes a covenant, he's saying, I'm gonna keep both sides of it. I'm gonna insure it based off my name, my character that this is going to happen. There are three main covenants in the Old Testament. One new covenant in this in the New Testament.”
61s
#GiveYourLifeToJesus
“So what I want you to do right now as we get ready to take Lord's Supper in just a minute, I want you to look at your life and go, am I really believing the promise that God is good and merciful and he will not destroy the world anymore with blood. But there is a fire that is coming, and I wanna be ready for it. I wanna be ready for the coming of Jesus. So what I wanna do is I wanna be like Noah. I wanna give God my first and my best, my entire life. It's all yours, Jesus. I'm gonna accept the purpose you place on my life to be fruitful and multiply, to love God with all my heart, mind, soul, and strength. I'm gonna be someone who remembers that these things are real, and I wanna live my life for the glory of God. And I will fight for the glory of God with all my life and my calling because God's glory is worth it. That's what I wanna do, what I wanna be about. And the way you get there is simply by saying, God, I surrender my life.”
73s
#AltarOfSacrifice
“So the first thing that Noah does is he builds an altar. He builds a structure that he puts a sacrifice on, and he sacrifices some of every clean animal. So this means doves. It means lambs and goats, all the animals that they're able to eat. So this is a a nod towards the coming ceremonial law, the Levitical law, that there are some animals that they could eat and some that they couldn't, some that were clean and able to be used for for for for sacrifice and for eating, but others were not able to be do to to be used in those ways. And so, these animals are more precious in many ways than the others. And what Noah does is he takes some of each kind and sacrifices it to the lord. Now, I've read this my whole life. I haven't really thought about it a whole lot or what the significance of this is. But, basically, if you're tracking with me, Noah decides to take some of the only remaining animals on the planet and kill them, and then burn them, not even eat them, and give them to the lord.”
38s
#ReclaimTheRainbow
“Now think about that for Noah. He's like, man, that was really traumatic. I'm so glad you've given me that promise. But I think a lot of us have forgotten that promise. When we look at rainbows, many of us, like, no longer remember that god is promising us his grace and his mercy. And so I do think that we need to reclaim this idea of what the rainbow is ultimately about. Right? Like, what does it mean when we look upon a rainbow? It should remind us of God's glory and God's purpose and God's affection for people. We really should.”
41s
#PrioritizeGod
“And God, when he he sees Noah saying, I'm gonna give you my first and my best, God goes, that's the kind of person that I wanna make a covenant with, not because of his righteousness, but his hunger. For me, the willingness that he has to sacrifice things to follow me. And God's still looking for people like that. He wants that from your life where you're like, God, everything is yours. All of it. It's all in your hands. I want to please you more than anything else. So first thing is God had our priorities in mind. God wants us to prioritize him. Secondly, purpose.”
45s
#ConfessAndBelieve
“And maybe you've never heard this before. So I want you to remember this. God loves you. He does. He loves you with all his heart. And he sent Jesus so you didn't have to die in the fire that's coming. if that's you today, you're like, I wanna confess my life, my sins, my brokenness, and give my life to Jesus. I want you to do that. You just pray a prayer just like this. Just say, Jesus, I believe and I remember who you are. I believe and I'm putting you first. I accept your purpose on my life. And I submit all of my life to you. I'm giving it all to you.”
43s
#RememberTheCross
“And there's even some things in this message that really challenge you or offended you, and that's okay because we're not called to be God's editors of his word. We're called to be obedient to it. So I just wanna invite you to put your confidence in Jesus. So just close your eyes right now. I just want you to take a moment, just you and God, and ask yourself the question, remembering? Do you remember what Jesus did on the cross for you? Do you remember his love for you? Do you remember?”
48s
#ResistPride
“So god's glory reflects refracts the light around him. So god is surrounded by a rainbow. And here's here's the thing I think that is important for us from a spiritual perspective is that Satan's desire is to take God's place and take over all of his glory and take it for himself. That is why he is known biblically as the father of pride because he puts himself up against god's glory and nature. And I believe he's looked at god's glory, says I want that for myself. He doesn't just want that. He also wants you and me for himself, not to share us with God. He wants to take God's place in our life.”
38s
#RainbowBelongsToGod
“And we need to also be very aware that the the imagery here is is a co opting of god's symbol for himself. Like, the the flag the pride flag is something that is hijacking god's imagery of his covenant promise with people. It is a it is a changing of that. And I just really believe that as Christians, we should not simply just let that go, but rather we should, like, reclaim our rainbow because it's God's image of his mercy and grace for people. It just is.”
45s
#MultiplyGodsKingdom
“But as Christians, there's also the kingdom. It's not simply just kids. It's also the kingdom. We're called to be people who multiply God's restored image bearers. We should be looking to be people who not just simply have our kids, but we should be looking to fill the earth with God's kids. Right? To bring people into god's family through adoption over and over again. And so I've had some time to just take a a deep breath, you know, when I take my preaching break in the summer and just kinda, like, reflect and think about what god wants us to do. And here's what God really has put a burden on my heart over the last several weeks as I've just been seeking him and praying him is my burden is people.”
51s
#PrayForTheOne
“I wanna see people fall in love with Jesus. I'm praying for deep revival in our nation where men, women, and children would turn to Jesus and fall in love with him. And I realize that all of us have people in our life that we're praying that we would see them in heaven someday. Right? You have do you have people like that, right, in your life? You have you have a grandson or granddaughter that's far from Jesus. You have a spouse that's far from Jesus. You have a brother or sister that that is, like, maybe left the faith. Maybe they're strong in their faith when they're kid, and now they're not. You have a best friend or somebody you like a lot that loves to hang out with at the gym or at work, and they're not a follower of Jesus. And you know that the Bible teaches that without the blood of Jesus applied to their life, they are going to an eternity without god.”
24s
#HungerForGod
“It should also remind us that we should desire God and be hungry for God more than food, which I don't know about you. I'm already thinking about what's happening at lunch in a little bit. So we meet the Methodists there. Right? Like, we we're all thinking about food all the time. God's like, the way that you think about food, the way that you desire food, I want you to desire me more than that.”
29s
#BeFruitfulAndMultiply
“And so I do think that there's two levels that we need to think about this as Christians when it comes to multiplication. One and being fruitful, one is simply within our families. Right? We should be people who multiply, have children, have have descendants that we raise up to know and love the lord. There's this part of being human that should be looking to replicate ourselves and have children that fill the earth with the with the with the very image of god. That's a beautiful thing.”
64s
#SpeakTruthInLove
“However, I think it'd be kind of, like, weird if we didn't acknowledge the fact that in today's culture, in the last fifty years, the rainbow has taken on a different meaning, which has become the pride symbol. Right? That's just that's just reality. Right? But when you see a rainbow, like, okay. They're not thinking about God not destroying the world by a flood. What they're thinking is they're thinking about the LGBTQ agenda. And I just wanna be really careful as I talk about this because I know that many of us, including myself, we have friends, family members, brothers, sisters, children that would identify themselves with the pride movement or LGBTQ. what you do need to understand is the Bible points to that this is sinful activity, and it breaks God's heart, and it's not God's design. So this is not meant to be some kind of, like, clobber moment or some kind of, like, breaking people down or making people feel like they're not loved. In love, we say there's a better vision for human flourishing that God has for you because of God's creative design.”
48s
#HeedTheWarning
“And then the storm goes by, we're like, that wasn't severe. It was just raining, maybe a couple lightning bolts. Right? That's not not a thing. In fact, I sometimes wonder, like, can we get back to, like, non severe thunderstorms? Like, where are the mediocre thunderstorms? Like, where are where are they, hey. This is not such a bad thunderstorm. It's just a little thunder. Because when I hear a word severe, what do I think? I think about, like, this, like a lightning bolt, and I'm, like, gonna have to hide, and everything's gonna just, like, end around me. that that that kind of language keeps us from things that really are severe and to bring us to a place of real healthy fear when things are concerning. And rainbows actually do point to a severe warning that God has placed in front of us. Peter takes this up in the book of second Peter.”
57s
#GraceAndWarning
“And and and here's the thing, rainbows can't form in darkness. They can only be stolen. And so what I'm just simply just saying is that don't allow your worship to be shared with anybody or anything because rainbows aren't simply a sign of god's mercy that he won't fill the earth with a flood. They're also a warning that there is a judgment that is coming for every single person in the planet. There is. The bible tells us this. So when we look at a rainbow, what we're doing is we're looking at god's grace and mercy in the past, but also the fact that he one day will bring judgment on the earth. And it's a severe warning.”
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