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Dr. Dave White opens with the claim that decisions are destiny, drawing on his experience as a basketball referee to argue that life requires decisive calls rather than passive hovering. He points to Elijah's challenge between two opinions, Joshua's call to choose whom to serve, Jesus' teaching on yes and no, and the warning to the lukewarm church, then turns to Noah as a model of faith that acts. Knowing, praying, and theorizing are not enough, he says; growth comes only when a person actually chooses.
Dr. Dave condenses Genesis 6 through 9, first recalling the earlier chapters: God's creation, the gift of free will, Adam and Eve's rejection of God's rule, and Cain's violent choice. He then reads Genesis 6:1-8 as the dark setting for Noah's story, noting that he does not unpack the Nephilim in detail. Noah, by contrast, is called righteous, blameless, and a man who walked faithfully with God in a corrupt generation, and Hebrews 11:7 is cited to show that Noah responded to a warning about unseen things with reverent obedience.
The ark itself, Dr. Dave notes, is described as a long box without rudder, sail, or engine, signifying that God would steer. Noah built it to save his family and, according to 2 Peter 2:5, preached righteousness while he worked. The message closes by treating the ark as a picture of Christ: Jesus is the boat to get on board, and the coming judgment is fire rather than water. Dr. Dave invites anyone without a relationship with Christ to begin one, then prays for courage to make the call God is asking of each person.
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Indecision is still a decision
Dr. Dave insists that refusing to choose does not keep a person neutral; it stalls growth and maturity. He applies this to large and small matters alike, including choosing a spouse, a college, or a major, since no one can gather every fact before acting. He cites Elijah's challenge to the people in 1 Kings, Joshua's call to choose whom they would serve, Jesus' teaching in Matthew 5 about a plain yes and no, and the warning to the lukewarm church in Revelation, urging clear, courageous, committed decisions rather than straddling.
Faith acts on what it cannot yet see
Dr. Dave reads Hebrews 11:7 as saying Noah was warned about things not yet seen and responded with reverent obedience, building a structure with no apparent means of navigation. He presents this as the shape of faith generally: God gives nudges and insight to those close to him, and the faithful respond by acting on them.
Faithfulness stands out in a corrupt age
Dr. Dave reads Genesis 6:1-8 as a portrait of a world whose every inclination was evil, then points to Genesis 6:8, where Noah found favor with God, and Genesis 6:9, which calls him righteous and blameless in his generation. He emphasizes that Noah walked with God in that specific time and place, not in easy circumstances.
The ark points to Christ
Dr. Dave treats the Genesis account of Noah's ark as a metaphor for Jesus, the boat to get on board before judgment comes. He frames the story as real history rather than myth or nursery rhyme, included to show that salvation is available now, and he ties the coming judgment to fire rather than flood.
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foreign [Music] good morning [Applause] let's go good morning Bend decisions are destiny life is all about choices you know that and today I'm going to ask you to make a choice I don't know what that's going to be for you but I know if you don't make a choice you're not going to grow you're not going to mature you're not going to
develop you're not going to make progress life is about making the call and that's a decisive emphatic call a Resolute ruling do you like ruling you like governing like adjudicating why not God's given you free will use it knowing's not enough this is a Praying Church but praying's not enough he's so fun isn't he come on come on bring It life is action you can know you can theorize you can pray but you got to act you got to choose
sometimes when I look at the good book the choices are pretty easy God has given us Lane lines and you know like these things are out these things are in and it's like okay well that's obviously God doesn't like that you know that but a lot of life is somewhere in here in here and it's like I don't know I'm choosing and if you didn't exercise your faith you'd never choose a mate I'm here with my wife Sue and she's super hot I mean she's a total Fox I mean I married way up 37 years we've been together married and more honest 37 years she stayed with me I've given her ample reason to leave and we've got five great kids two grandkids so far my kids are finally figuring it out it's like yes that's how it works keep going we'd love a lot of those but
um you'd never choose a spouse you'd never choose a major uh you'd never choose a school you wouldn't choose to sit because you never have enough to interview everyone on the planet before you choose your mate who can like figure out every college you might want to attend and like do all the reasons you can't you don't have time you have to trust God's Providence that maybe he puts you together and then you have to exercise faith and make some choices but when you make those choices today I'm asking you to make some decisive choices that's clear courageous committed decisions because if you don't make a decisive decision you'll plateau you'll stall out you'll decline if you abdicate governing and if you passively
make no decision which by the way is a decision you will falter God does not favor the wishy-washy the hesitant the haltering the tentative the wavering Providence never favors never blesses the fence sitter the one who straddles the weak need you have to choose and then of course fail for your forward with the rest of us like you sometimes you choose poorly and it's like ah that looks like such a bad choice good learn from it and move forward and make new choices but you're not going to like figure it out by not choosing no one does life on a theory
you have to choose and it's a faith journey and today we're going to be looking at Noah and man this guy has so much Faith he's so inspiring so this morning my exhortation is going to be make the call I don't know what that call is for you but own your destiny own your Authority own your limited but significant sovereignty to govern your life you are the CEO of your life and when you stand before God he's going to ask you to be accountable for your life your decisions your move not your wife not your spouses not what Keith says we welcome the word of God we welcome our pastor's input we welcome our spouses our friends there's wisdom and you know a constellation of wisdom from counselors and thoughtful
people but ultimately you choose you're not going to be able to say well she said he said it's like you have finite Powers but you have meaningful power and authority in your life lots of verses come to mind we see this throughout scripture I'll throw a few references up there but in First Kings you might know the story of Elijah in chapter 18 verse 21 Elijah came to the people and he says how long are you going to hesitate between two opinions if God is your guy then worship him if you want to go with Baal worship him but make the call how long are you gonna like straddle like are you in are you out
we see that as well with Joshua Joshua 24 15. he says choose this day whom you're going to serve and I love that because he honors your freedom you get to ruin your life if you want to that's what I say to my five adult kids you know if you want to drive off that Cliff that's up to you not my problem anymore boundaries oh yeah yeah but choose make the call who are you going to serve and if you decide you're going to serve god well you can't find a better Church than the one you're in like so do it you can't find a better
Pastor than the one you have I'm just saying look I know a lot of churches and a lot of pastors and they want your pastor I'm just saying treat them really well like love on them because you could lose a guy like that he's just a rare gem I mean he's smart intelligent super handsome looks cool you know I'm gonna shave my head for this morning I just thought it might like take it out I needed to grow a beard or something Keith and Kara you know he's super smart because he married up too right right but anyways you need to choose and I love that Joshua he didn't make any threats he didn't call names he didn't do any social shaming or put people down and he's like well you could choose that pathetic choice if you know he's like no
it's your life but do choose who you're gonna serve we see this of course with Jesus we could go into this all day remember in Matthew 5 in The Sermon on the Mount it says let your yes be and your no be no don't get passive aggressive weird indirect you know like let us like it's okay you can say no you can say yes but but say it in Revelation Jesus talks about some Churches he likes and what he doesn't like about them and one of them he says you know your Deeds are fantastic but I have this against you you're neither hot nor cold
you're what lukewarm he's like what do you do with lukewarm spit it out I'd rather you be hot or cold you have to make a call you're straddling trying to be so feng shui and cool it's not cool with God so lots of places in Scripture that say make the call any basketball fans in here maybe a few this is like I need like a I need hunting gear and stuff when I'm up here I'm like who cares about I'm all sports down in Los Angeles right you know and I come up here and my wife's so happy it's snowing I'm like What's the white stuff outside it's like sweetie but we brought a jacket and I brought a scarf that I haven't used in two years
you know I'm like I think I can use that in Bend praise God I brought it my goodness so uh anyways I'm a basketball guy if you like but any uh duck fans here UFO right I got two daughters that went to U of O you know so huh we got some beavers here what do we got Trailblazers what do we got well as you know um when you're a referee my whole job is just making decisions it's really irritating to the nc2a to take the floor as a referee and go actually I have no opinions on that whatsoever I I don't know I don't I don't feel like making a call on that they're like that's what you're paid to do make a decision a decision
make the call decide and determine adjudicate and arbitrate officiate settle mediate Rule and by the way they give us a a hefty rule book every year and they're very punctilia about it they apparently want me to enforce these rules not Dave's because there's a lot of things when I go out there like I don't really tucking in your shirt it's fine the NC trade it's not fine so get them to tuck their shirts in and if they take four or five steps but it was such a cool play they apparently want traveling gold and they're really irritated when I call my own game and they're like Dave you're not out there you represent us here's your book go do it and you make your
decisions based on this by the way it's not that different than this book do you realize that you're going to meet your supervisor at the end of your lifetime and they're going to watch your game film we watch a game film in the locker room after every game it's really irritating Dave would like four minutes and 12 seconds left remember this play what were you thinking on this one then they play it real slow with like seven camera angles like no I didn't see it like that no I had one angle and I had to make a choice well if you'd rotated a little bit more you would have had a clearer angle it's like okay I missed it I hate that and you get to learn every game what you missed and then log your calls and you had 12 calls on the white and two on the
blue what's going on here like that's like that's not right you'll have your own supervisor at the end of your life and he's gonna go you made some calls that were not consistent with the rule book I gave you come on I'm just trying to warn you I'm just so make decisions and calls but just know you'll be accountable for them it's all filmed and then of course when you make the call in the nc2 they tell us to sell the call what does that mean like do it with a little grit and Gusto you know you don't just go oh you blow the whistle
should I blow my whistle you don't want to hear the whistle do you let me turn my mic off you blow it with a little authority boom right there blue 54 it's a hold white ball right here you do it with a little gusset boom boom charge oh yeah and then you hear you know the players are like why it's like you can have a seat over there because on my court you don't question my call that's not your job you're a player you're a coach I don't need your coaching thank you back in the Box get off the court oh is he throwing a chair at me what's
going on I have noticed in reffing though it's super cool the audience is so friendly they're always giving me input the ball just goes out of bounds and everyone's like blue it's blue it's like thank you so much apparently this whole section says blue will go Blue but sometimes it's not blue it's white and I go White and then they go boo that's terrible you make the best cause you can and you're not out there to be popular because you're going to give an account for your calls and if it's on the film and you got it right that's good anyways let me pause there because we're going to jump into Genesis because it's all about making the call and Noah made some amazing calls but before we jump in there I want you to know I love Bend
have I said that already this city is something else wow okay here's where we ate we had breakfast at ciao have you had that and then we had some lunch at spork and then my wife who loves coffee we went to thump is this all a one-syllable city ciao Spork thump dude cool I was like I'm loving it we came over here yesterday and uh I want to just Scout it out you guys are all the staff were all gone so it was all locked up but I looked in the windows I'm like this is gonna be so fun I can't wait to be here oh there's a Dairy Queen so I got a blizzard I mean I had to get it you put it right there you
can't like tempt me like that awesome M M's cookie dough in it anyways I love Bend and I love Keith and his wife and his team super cool he's a man of faith and let's jump into the man of Faith we're going to look at today Noah in Genesis now before we jump into well I love when you're preaching when the when the pastor says we want you to come in and preach you have a chapters Genesis well 6 7 8 9 like four chapters How do you summarize that so thanks Keith that's super cool you could give me like two verses but no four chapters so I'm gonna condense it for you and I'll pick up the main highlights but before we do let's remember where we've been in Genesis in the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth that
was a decision God made he chose to to make a lot of stuff and then it gives you like the six days of what he created and then he creates man in his own image which is super cool and decides to give man free will I don't know why he did that but apparently he didn't want puppets he wanted people who actually chose him and he told Adam you know you can follow me or you can eat from the tree which I wouldn't recommend if I decide the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil that's the tree of I decide I make the rules I call it I don't want to use your rule book I want to use mine and both Adam and Eve ate from that tree really bad decision that's impacted you and me I'm really glad it's him it could have been Dave in there but it's not it's it's Adam
so God makes a lot of decisions he makes distinctions between the light and the day between the land and the Seas he made distinctions and decisions between animals and Mankind we are not animals thank you Darwin but we're not he makes distinctions between men and women which apparently is very confusing today I don't we don't even know what a woman is anymore it's like well God tried to make it super clear he made some decisions there's a difference between parents and children the church and the state he makes a lot of decisions early on and Adam and Eve choose to reject some of those decisions and make their own and then of course they get the consequences of that we get
to chapter four and we get to see a couple of their kids apparently the school district was poor maybe they were in a poor neighborhood I don't know what happened but or maybe they had bad hearts but Cain and Abel well Cain decides he's going to do it his way he doesn't want to worship as God told him to do it he wants to worship His Way and that decision is very costly and then he decides when he's uh chastised for it rejected he's like then I'm going to kill you and he kills his brother it's like what wow these are really catastrophic choices chapter five we get the descendants of Adam all the way to Noah and then we get where we are today Genesis 6 where we get a world that's filled with wokeness and
weirdness do you think it's only today no this has been gone a long time people CRT BLM they had it all way back then we're just doing it all over again and lots of bad decisions but there's a guy named Noah who makes some really good choices and his choice is to follow God that's your choice today and that's my choice too and I've been making that choice for a while now but I have to make it again today I noticed this when I'm reffing if I make a bad call which of course never happens but hypothetically if I make a bad call it just doesn't go over well to tell the coach you know actually I've been doing this for like four decades and I've been in the nc2a tournament for like 13 years and I made
a lot of good decisions I did the national championship game in 2005. like I know what I'm doing they don't care called tonight apparently you can't rest on your laurels well I normally make good calls that doesn't go over well you have to keep calling it right tonight and even though you and I may have walked by faith for many years you have to decide if you're going to walk by faith today and then tomorrow you have to decide again and again Noah kept doing that he was called to make an ark as you know and follow God do something unusual um
he did it for 120 years some of you I know you're like Lord why are you taking so long don't go there not with Noah him it's like okay I'll be patient I'll be patient okay so let's go through some verses I want to start in the New Testament can we go there first even though we're in the Old Testament I'm really impressed that Noah's mentioned as a hero of faith in chapter 11 of Hebrews in in verse 7 I'll just give you one verse it says this by faith he's a hero of faith Noah when warned by God how impressive is that that God takes the time to go Noah just a heads up there's going to be a problem ahead by the way if if you're not getting warned by God you may not be close enough to God he walked with God and
when you're close to God he gives you like little nudges and little insights like don't don't go there when warned by God about things that he had not seen in other words future events that had not occurred yet he responded in holy fear or Godly fear could be translated respect or reverence and prepared and built an ark an arc is a it's a large boat it's really like a giant shoebox it's 450 feet long-ish that's like a football field and a half who cares about football that's about 20 basketball courts long that's what you want to hear okay 36 tennis courts whatever it doesn't matter it's very long and the
scriptures give us even the dimensions of this box this chamber this container which is this super interesting boat you know sometimes you see children's pictures of the Ark and it has a hole in Windows and it's super cute and what the drafts are always on the top deck looking out and stuff but this one's like a shoebox it's just like a box and it's like how no mention of a Rudder no mention of a steering wheel it really lacks all the navigational things that you'd want because apparently no you just build the Box God says I'll guide it I'm going to steer it I'm going to take it where it needs to go it doesn't have a sale it doesn't have an engine it's like I got you the spirit of you just build the Box so he builds an ark and what's the
purpose it says in Hebrews 11 7 to save his family to rescue and deliver those he cares about which by the way just word man-to-man for you men in here this is your calling in life save your family love your family work hard for your family provide for your family of course they have their own choices to make but raise them in such a way that they can choose God and it goes on to say by by his faith by his belief by his trust in God Noah condemned the world or criticized the world or showed the world really that the world was wrong that's really a radical statement he by his faithfulness showed the whole world that they were wrong
that takes a unique person to show the world that Dr fauci was wrong to show the world that Russian collusion was wrong to show the world that the CIA and the FBI were wrong to to I to show the Deep state is wrong whatever that means I'm trying to use some modern language so you know that it would take a lot of grit and gumption to go against the the the the word of the day to say for example uh I didn't get vaxed now you know so the nc2a took all my games away last year every one of them
and then they did it again this year though I appealed it and got a religious exemption and now they've given me a few games this year but the going word whatever it is if you choose to stand against it I'm I don't care if you're backs are not vaxxed that's your choice those are your decisions and those should be respected and honored but here the nc2a says no no no no we want to decide what you do with your body and what you should and to stand against that it takes a little Grit I'm now on the non-compliant list for the nc2a wow that's thrilling Noah by faith condemned the world he was the first he was the original conspiracy theorist
that all of a sudden wasn't a conspiracy theorist when it started to rain but for 120 years he's like he's the wacko he's the problem he proved the whole world wrong this guy's radical and became an heir of the righteousness that is in keeping with faith so that's super cool now I don't think I put this verse up for you but second Peter 2 5. in the New Testament says Not only was he an heir of righteousness but he was a preacher of righteousness which just tells us when Noah built the ark he wasn't just working he was witnessing too he was witnessing too all my nc2a colleagues now know my vac status but they also know the reason why and it has something to do with my
relationship with God at least for me personally I'm not speaking for anyone else and that's not exactly the route I wanted to go but that's the route God chose and now people know even more about my faith and and now they know more about Noah's faith and if you take a stand at your workplace you're cul-de-sac your fire station your school they'll know something about you too and when you tell them you know our kids aren't going to participate in that Sunday morning basketball event why because we go to church um they'll come to the other games but these two Sunday morning games they're not going to be at that's not only about the basketball team but we're part of another team well you're letting the team down well I'm part of another team I don't want to let that team down come on
so in Hebrews 11 we know we have this man of Faith now let's go back to Genesis and see what it says I'm going to start in Genesis 6 9. we'll pick this verse because it tells us before we even get to the New Testament this is Noah is an exceptional Guy this is the account it says or the record or the story of Noah and his family is my time up what is that hi I'm Keith you got to give me more time Noah was a righteous man it says he was a moral he was a just he was a good man blameless could be translated like innocent exemplary and integrity and character among the people of his time and Community by the way Keith is not only an amazing Pastor who loves this
church he loves this community he loves this community yeah he does yeah you can clap for that that's awesome and he loves his country by the way which is super I mean he's like it's like bigger it's super cool so Keith was a righteous man and so is Noah blameless among the people and he walked Faithfully with God day after day continuously so Genesis tells us right off before you get into the flood and the boat and the animals and all that this is a legit dude now what's super interesting is this is verse 9 of chapter six but the first eight verses give you the context which is like okay so he's a good guy
that's awesome but but look at the time he was a good guy which is super compelling let's go through these verses real quick because the world is so lewd and Lawless at this time it's so vulgar and vile so unruly it was just dark and degenerate in his day and if you feel like today is a little bit more corrupt than you want it's like you're not alone we got this because we're connected if Believers can like Thrive under pharaohs and Caesar's I think we can do Biden or Trump or whoever the next will you know like we got this like we don't have to give in to the inflation and the fear and the anxiety and the worldlessness and the Godless globalism and the
progressive agenda and it's like this is a great time to be alive it's a great time we need people of faith and you are that anyways let's let's read this together Genesis 6 starting verse one uh this is the context for Noah's time when human beings that's mankind begin to increase the number and multiply in the Earth the daughters were born to them the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful and they married any of them that they desired or chose then the Lord said my spirit it's not going to contend it's not going to remain with humans or man forever for they are mortal their flesh nevertheless their days will be 120 years verse 4 the Nephilim meaning Fallen ones were on the earth in
those days and also afterward when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and they had children by them and they were the heroes of old men of renown their famous people and the Lord saw how great the wickedness or the immorality or the the lewdness or profanity or the Blasphemous you know you could put a really kind of demonic the human race had become on the Earth now I don't want to get in the Nephilim in all the details I don't want to unpack this I just want you to see the context whatever this is it's it's a train wreck the the world was so wicked and evil in fact he goes on to say that every inclination or imagination or intent and thoughts of the human heart every idea
in the mind of man was only evil it was wicked all the time continually like night and day like no people aren't basically good apart from God they they go south they they're Wayward they're they're they sour so much so in verse six it says that the Lord actually regretted like he was sorry that he had made human beings on the earth in the first place his heart was deeply troubled he was grieved he was heartbroken it's like this is not what I made people for so the Lord said verse 7 I will wipe from the face of the Earth that means blood out I'm going to exterminate the human race that I actually created and with them the animals and the birds of the sky and the creatures that move
along the ground and for I regret I'm really sorry that that I made them I mean this is just so heartbreaking I mean God loves mankind all through Genesis you see even though mankind fails and Falls he keeps trying to find ways to redeem him and rescue him and save them he's like sometimes people reach a point where they can't be saved their hearts get too hard their their hearts are too hard and they're too deluded and their minds get too depraved so be careful people don't like push it too far come back but verse 8 says but Noah he was different he found favor he found approval in the eyes of God
he pleased God because he chose to follow God and to obey him no matter what the whole world was saying and God made a covenant with him and a a promise because he wanted to redeem him and then he put a rainbow in the sky and you know told them I'm not going to like destroy the world like this again but we have to do a do-over it's gotten so bad we've got to clean the slate and let's start over again so Noah is a man who's not only blameless and righteous and you know legit but he did it in a Time
in a space in a world that was dark and tough and that's what we need today so I'm hoping uh you today are here to go okay Lord what do I need to decide to do today to walk with you honor you heed your word love my spouse honor my kids work harder make a difference be salt be light whatever that is I don't know what it is for you but make that choice I thought to to make it clearer I would just make sure that you know you don't have to have a whistle you don't have to have black and white stripes to do this
but you do have to decide I just want to make sure that visually it's clear call it I'm following Jesus boom that's it well that could cost you they could take your games away someone may not like you as soon as you say blue someone says I thought it was white as soon as you say foul and it's a hold someone may say I didn't even touch them but you have to go on the court and then off the court living with the choices you make and if you make good enough ones over time and you have to practice because you're gonna make a lot of bad ones I trained some young referees and like I think I'm ready for the big leagues Dave you know you know you can mentor me it's like you're not ready dude how do you know I'm not ready because
you haven't ref like a thousand third grade games yet with parents yelling at you and if you haven't made enough mistakes yet when we put you in D1 or D2 or on TV or March Madness we can't afford a mistake you know how many people are betting on these games you've been to Vegas lately we can't afford in fact they don't want enough mistakes we're now looking at the cameras now more you know that we we can actually go to replays though like on that call we'd like to go to the table and then we get to watch the monitor because they do not want us to get it wrong we do not want to get it wrong but it's nice when you like got it right most of the time now if you're playing for the referees to get the game right for you to win you're not playing to win
kept telling my kids this yeah but they blew the call at the end you kept the game way too close for them like if they have to make all the right choices for you to win you didn't play to win but when you're refering the game and you are referring your own life you need to decide get a good angle boom I see the play there's contact is it a nothing or do you go with it we make a thousand calls every like no calls calls I'm going with it yep you got them enough contact we're going for it number 22 on the arm two shots so I don't know what calls you need to make today maybe it's you need to be saved maybe you don't know God personally well maybe today's your day
maybe you're saved but you've never been baptized it's like maybe you need to decide that maybe you know know the Lord but you don't really walk in the spirit maybe you don't have a quiet time maybe you don't you got to know this I remember going to a conference in Las Vegas a Pro-Am conference with a bunch of referees and they were trying to choose which referees to advance to a tournament and they had to sit down they said put your your rule book at the front of your desk and the supervisor started walking by and picking up each person's rule book and just panning it like this if you didn't have a lot of markings in there they're like you're free to leave thank you it's like uh your excuse thank you for your service yeah you can go I mean the only ones
left you could tell who cares about this book I'm worried about this one so we want to look through your you if I get to look through your Bible right it's like wow this one's pretty weathered someone's someone's getting into it that's what you want right so maybe that's your choice I got to get into this and by the way I know you can do it on a platform or on your phone or there's a lot of places you can get it but get into God's word okay so here's the application before we close out Luke 17 verse 26 through 27. I always like the words of Jesus and the Pharisees were coming to him and they were telling Jesus you know tell us about the kingdom of God like what is that like and when is that coming and blah blah blah here's what Jesus says which I think is so radical it's so cool he says just as it
was in the days of what Noah so it will be in the days of the son of man if any of you are feeling like it's getting crazy like the days of Noah it's like then he's coming back right [Applause] I've got two daughters married one's like I hope he doesn't come back yet till I'm married I'm like you'll be happy when he comes back we'll work that out verse 27 it says uh Jesus says well they were eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage until the day when MOA entered the Ark and then the flood came and then destroyed them all he said when I'm coming back no one's going to expect it everyone's going to be doing life as
usual we're going to be hearing crazy stuff on the news and crazy political stuff but people are just going to go on as you know we're just going to go to our jobs and do our thing and hopefully attend the journey church on Sunday morning and you know we'll just do our thing but it's like it's going to be like in the days of Noah that the evil will be so normalized it's like [Music] look there's a murder show on every channel you can watch there's this the world's violent whatever we love that stuff you know it's right he's like no that's like the days of Noah it got really yucky as soon as they start like defunding the police and unleashing the criminals and punishing the Patriots and eliminating distinctions like there's no difference between a man and a woman and sexuality
is fluid and you can be whatever you want as soon as you they start telling you you need to worship the state not to not God that you have to do what the state tells you uh well it's kind of like the days of Noah you know I'm not a prophet or anything but I would say be ready right be ready I hope we're here a long time because well the longer we're here the more we have an opportunity to share with people who don't know Christ because when he comes back that's like watching the game clock it goes down when it hits zero game over there's no more coaching or free throws that matter no no need to steal the ball game is over either one or you lost and in the days of Noah it's like God said we're done I'm done with this I'm doing a do-over
so he wiped a clean slate and Noah and his wife and their three sons and their wives that was it it's like no one else wanted on the boat well everyone was so woke and so Progressive and so cool and so feng shui and so in the know that they rejected the things of God they seemed archaic to people until plop [Music] blob a couple raindrops like wow this crazy Noah guy oh oh my gosh what what is that oh wow it's getting oh see Noah's building a boat a hundred miles from the ocean on dry land
in an area that we have no record in Scripture that they had ever seen a flood or that kind of rain or anything like he was out there but when it started to rain people were like wow now why does God include this Old Testament story for us today because he's making a metaphor of Our Lord Jesus is the ark you you can tell someone literally like get on board with Jesus you want to get on the boat oh Jesus this is a story about the Lord that's why it's included in there for us it's not just interesting history it's not a myth it's not a fairy tale it's not a a nursery rhyme it's a real historical story to let you know when
the Savior comes and he has that he's the ark you want to get on with you want to get on board because eventually he's not going to wipe the world out with water next time it's going to be wet you know fire but you want a relationship with him so this Titanic we're on is sinking and the Carpathia is Christ get on board so if you're okay I don't want to be too intrusive or rude or pushy or anything that doesn't that's not helpful I want to be loving and gracious and kind but if you're here do you mind like me just exhorting you if you don't know Christ
to get on board today now you might be saying you know I didn't I wasn't raised in a Christian home so I know like I didn't know a lot but I know there was a point I didn't know very much I was like I don't really know that much my prayer was just Lord I don't know very much about you but I want to begin a relationship with you and I said to myself in my prayer it's like and if you're not true I'm rejecting you in the end I'm going to tell you that right now like if I find out this is like a lot of cuckoo stuff like I'm gonna but that's fine I knew I needed to take a first step look I think OJ did it laughs [Music] and all my friends who don't believe that I'm like well what do you got they have nothing I've got DNA I've got blood sample but
I'm putting my I think he did it I think it's so obvious but look if you find something else out like you got a film of someone else doing it that's never surfaced yet I'm open to changing my mind because it's not just about Jesus it's about the truth but he is the truth and until you have something else I'm going with that so you don't need all knowledge today to make a face step you can just start there and turn it back later if you find something else out you're not going to find something else out but if you do let me know too and tell Keith he's banked his whole life on this so I'm gonna give a prayer and maybe our worship people can come back up and we can like I'm gonna pray for someone here
who's like I want that relationship and you know you can do it in the privacy of your own heart you don't have to make a public declaration you're certainly welcome to come forward I know there's people here who pray with you if you're like I I'd like to talk to someone well cool when I'm praying like feel free to come up maybe to one of the sites here that's cool we're we're real relational we'd love that but some of you are like I'm already saved oh I'm still talking to you decisions are destiny there's something you need to decide today I know there is quit obsessing over finances stop worrying pray instead
trust God maybe leave room for that marriage that you think is over like leave room for the mirror like I don't know what you have to decide but you are going to be accountable for your choices make the call boom do it with a little enthusiasm and then learn [Music] and again if you don't know Christ I say now's your moment can I pray heavenly father thank you for this morning Lord thank you for who you are thank you for Noah I mean in a day and age they hadn't really Seen Rain he's building a boat didn't make a lot of sense things that he just had the faith to do what you said he believed you when no one else did and give us the courage and the faith today to make whatever decision you've called us to make if we don't know you
personally I pray right now we would say Lord thank you for providing an ark for me do you love me you want to rescue me you've given provision to save me I acknowledge I'm sinful broken Fallen have my own wickedness but you died for my sins so you could pay for that but it's not enough to do that you have to make the call you have to like decide you have to receive him and I'm open to doing that right now [Music] and again if there's someone here that's not clear on all that that's fine we can talk more but in your heart you can go make that call I want to make that call right now I might even come forward so I can pray with someone about that right now because Lord I I don't want to flood I don't want to fire I want to be on the boat with you and for the rest of us Lord I don't know
the call we need to make but I know it has to be a decisive decision you tell us we are human beings with free will to make choices I pray we make a call that is honoring and affirming and respectful of Who You Are and all God's people said [Music]
