BUILDING BIG FOR GOD Genesis 6

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BUILDING BIG FOR GODGenesis 6
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• NOAHS
• CONTEXT
• EXTREME
• IMMORALITY
• EXTREME
• VIOLENCE

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• In the days before the
• flood, people were
• eating and drinking,
• marrying and giving in
• marriage, up to the day
• Noah entered the ark
• and they knew nothing
• about what would
• happen until the flood
• came and took them all
• away.
• Matthew 24.38-39

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• BUT NOAH
• FOUND
• FAVOUR.!

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• Noah was a
• righteous man,
• blameless among
• the people of his
• time, and he
• walked with God.
• Genesis 6.9

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• By faith Noah, when
• warned about things
• not yet seen, in holy
• fear built an ark to
• save his family.
• Hebrews 11.17

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BUILDING BIG FOR GOD
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• To build something big
• for God you need
• PERSPECTIVE

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• So God said to Noah,
• "I am going to put an
• end to all people, for
• the earth is filled with
• violence because of
• them. I am surely going
• to bring both them and
• the earth to ruins. So
• make yourself an ark
• of cypress wood
• Genesis 6.14

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WHATS AN ARK?
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To build something big for God you need

• PROCESS

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• Make rooms in it and coat
• it with pitch inside and out.
• This is how you are to build
• it The ark is to be 450 feet
• long, 75 feet wide and 45
• feet high. Make a roof for
• it and finish the ark to
• within 18 inches of the top.
• Put a door in the side of the
• ark and make lower, middle
• and upper decks.
• Genesis 6.14-16

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• The Wood
• The Coating
• The Compartments
• The Roof
• The Entrance
• The Levels
• The Dimensions

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Utnapishtims Ark Epic of Gilgamesh
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• To build something big for God you need
• PROMISES

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• I am going to bring
• floodwaters on the earth to
• destroy all life under the
• heavens, every creature that
• has the breath of life in it.
• Everything on earth will
• perish. But I will establish my
• covenant with you, and you
• will enter the ark - you and
• your sons and your wife and
• your sons' wives with you.
• Genesis 6.17-18

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• A covenant is a
• promise of God to
• people with whom he
• is dealing in a
• special way
• James Montgomery Boice

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• THE COVENANT
• WITH NOAH
• Unilateral
• Universal
• Unconditional
• Unshakeable

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• Since the construction of
• the ark was very difficult,
• and innumerable
• obstacles might
• perpetually arise to
• break off the work when
• begun, God confirms his
• servant by a superadded
• promise. Thus was Noah
• encouraged to obey
• God
• John Calvin

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To build something big for God you need

• PROVISION

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• You are to bring into the ark
• two of all living creatures,
• male and female, to keep
• them alive with you. Two of
• every kind of bird, of every
• kind of animal and of every
• kind of creature that moves
• along the ground will come
• to you to be kept alive. You
• are to take every kind of
• food that is to be eaten
• and store it away as food
• for you and for them
• Genesis 6.19-21

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• Mammals 3700
• Birds 8600
• Reptiles 6300
• Amphibians 2500
• Fishes 20600
• Tunicates 1325
• Echinoderms 6000
• Arthropods 838000
• Mollusks 107250
• Worms 39450
• Coelenterates 5380
• Sponges 4800
• Protozoans 28400

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• When the resources
• start coming in, you
• know its Gods
• time to build
• something new

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To build something big for God you need

• PERSEVERANCE

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• Noah did
• Everything just as
• God commanded
• him
• Genesis 6.22

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• GOD SPEAKS,
• NOAH
• IMPLEMENTS

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• By perseverance
• the snail reached the
• Ark
• Charles Spurgeon

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