This morning we are going to study the new world that Noah and his family entered when the land finally dried enough, and God told him to leave the ark.

• Then God said to Noah, 16 “Leave the boat, all of you—you and your wife, and your sons and their wives. 17 Release all the animals—the birds, the livestock, and the small animals that scurry along the ground—so they can be fruitful and multiply throughout the earth.” 18 So Noah, his wife, and his sons and their wives left the boat. 19 And all of the large and small animals and birds came out of the boat, pair by pair (Genesis 8:15–19 NLT).

So let’s set the stage for Noah’s entrance into this new world, this postdiluvian world, the world after the flood …

First, let’s just stop on that word “flood” for a moment. We have all observed the devastation from local floods: damns blown out, massive landslides, destruction of roads and bridges, houses filled with mud and stink and all manner of filth, houses and cars floating in rivers, the agonizing loss of human life. And then we can ratchet up the level of havoc and destruction to events like tsunamis, such as the one on the Indian Ocean in 2004 which killed 230,000 people in 14 countries, slamming coastal communities with waves up to one hundred feet high.

But we have never, nor will we ever, look on a scene like this—the aftermath of a worldwide flood. When Noah and his family stepped out of the ark, nothing was the same. There were no familiar landmarks, no recognizable physical features in the land before them. It is not just that their familiar valleys, rivers, meadows and hills looked different; they were no longer there.

And NO MORE PEOPLE! GONE! Get on the boat; millions of people. Get off the boat; no more people. All of them. The entire population of the planet gone. All the animals. Gone. No bears, no birds, no tigers, no eagles. Gone. And not just vanished but dead. Really gone. The judgment of God.

The only people and animals now inhabiting the planet were those just now making their way off the ark. They didn’t get off the ark and hear little, furry creatures scurrying off into the brush. They were no little, furry creatures. They didn’t make their way from the darkness of the ark into the sunlight and look up and see a seagull, or hear a flock of geese honking on their way by, or an eagle gliding or a robin flitting through the air. There were none. Gone.

One man and his family and the animals on the ark were now the sole inhabitants of the planet. There would be no discovering other people groups. They wouldn’t pop over a mountain peak one day as they were out exploring and see smoke rising from the chimneys of an unknown village. They could travel the entire globe, front to back and top to bottom, and they would find no one. All societies with their the arts and culture and industry. Gone. The beautiful women and the men of renown earlier referenced in Genesis. Gone. No one else survived. One righteous man found favor with God, and God brought him and his family to safety through the waters of judgment.

So this one righteous man who found favor with God … What did he find when he stepped off that boat into this new world?

OUTLINE … He found God’s blessing, 9:1-7. He found God’s promise, 9:8-17. He found that everything had changed and that nothing had changed: people are people, 9:18-29.

Message Title: Noah’s New World!

Message Text: Genesis 9 & Selected!

• PDF GENESIS MESSAGE 17 – Noah’s New World : Genesis 9 : ffc : dave scott : 081416 AM : STUDY SHEET ONE
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Just now realized that I have not uploaded the audio for last week’s messages. Probably won’t be until Monday or Tuesday now.

Dave

Still hot, still humid. Appreciate it while we can. Won’t be long and … Well, let’s don’t talk about it. 🙂

Here is this week’s bulletin.

• PDF Bulletin FFC August 14 2016

Believers believe. It’s what we do!

✔ Creation
✔ Fall of humankind
✔ Humans expelled from Eden
✔ Worldwide flood
✔ Son of God comes to Earth to redeem humanity
✔ Son of God will come again in power and glory
✔ Every person will come before the judgment of God

• Do we believe the Bible’s account of a literal, worldwide flood? Yes. Do we believe blindly? No. We have many evidences, but the evidences are not what we trust. We trust God and his word.

Message Title: “Noah and the Great Flood” 

Message Text: Genesis 6:9-8:22

• PDF GENESIS MESSAGE 16 – Noah and the Great Flood : Genesis 6-9-8-22 : ffc : dave scott : 080716 AM : STUDY SHEET ONE
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Hello and here is this week’s bulletin.

• PDF Bulletin FFC August 7 2016

SUNDAY PM – JULY 31, 2016

THE HOPE OF GLORY!

What is our worthy calling?

• We are exhorted to walk worthy of the calling to which we have been called.
• So what is that calling? What is our aim, our target, our direction? What is our mark, our bullseye, our goal, our focus, our objective?
• What does it mean to put our minds on things above? What are the things above?
• (Colossians 3:2 ESV) Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.
• So what are these things above that are to have the priority of our attention?
• What is now our holy grail for life and service? Our “end game”?
• The glory of God.

—The glory of God is now our mark, Romans 3:21-28.

◼︎ God does not share his glory with self-seekers, but he does share his glory with the redeemed.

• (Isaiah 42:8 ESV) I am the LORD; that is my name; my glory I give to no other, nor my praise to carved idols.
• (Psalm 115:1 ESV) Not to us, O LORD, not to us, but to your name give glory, for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness!
• (Proverbs 25:27 ESV) It is not good to eat much honey, nor is it glorious to seek one’s own glory.
• (John 7:18 ESV) The one who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory; but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood.
• (Acts 12:21–23 ESV) On an appointed day Herod put on his royal robes, took his seat upon the throne, and delivered an oration to them. 22 And the people were shouting, “The voice of a god, and not of a man!” 23 Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him down, because he did not give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and breathed his last.

◼︎ We are called to the glory of God.

• (1 Peter 5:10 ESV) And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.
• (2 Peter 1:3 ESV) His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence.
• (1 Peter 5:1–2 ESV) So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed: 2 shepherd the flock of God that is among you, exercising oversight, not under compulsion, but willingly, as God would have you; not for shameful gain, but eagerly.
• (Romans 9:23–24 ESV) In order to make known the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory— 24 even us whom he has called, not from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles?

◼︎ We are called to walk worthy of the glory of God.

• (1 Thessalonians 2:12 ESV) We exhorted each one of you and encouraged you and charged you to walk in a manner worthy of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.
• (Ephesians 4:1 ESV) I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called.

Who are you living your life for?

Whose glory is dominant on your horizon?

Message: “Just As in the Days of Noah”
Message Text: Genesis 5:25–6:13, Luke 17:22–30

Jesus is coming again. Are you ready?

• John Parsons with the Hebrew for Christians ministry states that: Our world appears to be careening toward a crash. Most of us are troubled, if not frightened. Corruption and decay are all around us and nothing makes much sense any longer. We cannot trust our politicians. Bankers and big business are anathema. Everyone seems out of control. In short, it seems as if our entire culture and way of life [are] tottering and ready to collapse. We are confused, perplexed and feel threatened.
• Friedrich von Schiller, a leading German dramatist and poet of the 18th century, gives us this well-known aphorism: “The history of the world is the judgment of the world.”
• And our world seems does ripe for the judgment of God, and this is not the first time. Over four thousand years ago the evil intentions and wickedness of humanity brought society to the brink, and God destroyed that world system with a catastrophic flood. From a population of possibly millions of human inhabitants on the planet, God spared eight in a huge ship that took 120 years to build.
• The New Testament tells us that our planet will one day once again come under the judgment of God at the second coming of Christ, culminating ultimately on the Great Day of the LORD when this world is destroyed, not by water, but this time by fire.
• So what are we to do? Is it too simple to say that we should make sure that we are ready? If you have not yet believed in Jesus Christ for forgiveness of sins and received his free gift of salvation, then today is the day and now is the time.
• Luke, the evangelist and gospel writer, tells us that the Second Coming of Jesus Christ will be like a lightning flash. Business as usual on the planet and then the lightning flash of his arrival and then judgment.
• Many will and do scoff at such an idea. That is what scoffers do; they ridicule and parody to avoid the truth of the reality of God. But on that day everyone will know that judgment has come as the Son of Man is revealed across the sky. No matter their professed religion, or theology, or philosophy, they will know. Atheist, deist, cultist, animist, agnostic … they will know.
• There will be no doubt, no ambiguity when Jesus the Son of Man, Son of God, returns to this planet.
• So are you ready? If you have not trusted Christ, you are not ready.
• But what about Christians, believers, authentic followers of Jesus? Are you ready?
• The Apostle Paul writes: Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ (1 Thessalonians 5:23 ESV).
• And Peter writes: Therefore, beloved, since you are waiting for these, be diligent to be found by him without spot or blemish, and at peace (2 Peter 3:14 ESV).
• So I am asking you, Christian, this morning, are you ready? Will our LORD find you at peace and blameless? Or have the noise and clamor of politics and the tumult and confusion of society drowned out the voice of your Sovereign LORD, and you no longer hear him speak his hope and peace and joy to you in the midst of the chaos?

So how do we live in peace in a world
that is ripe for the judgment of God?

How do we live in peace in the midst of chaos?

◼︎ First, believe God’s account of what has happened on the planet, Genesis 5:25-6:13.

◼︎ Second, believe God’s account of what is happening on the planet.

◼︎ Third, trust the plan, God’s plan that is. What will happen.

◼︎ Fourth, receive God’s peace.

• (John 3:16–17 ESV) For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
• (2 Corinthians 6:2 NLT) For God says, “At just the right time, I heard you. On the day of salvation, I helped you.” Indeed, the “right time” is now. Today is the day of salvation.
• (Romans 5:1 ESV) Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

◼︎ Fifth, live in the promised peace of God.

• (Romans 15:13 ESV) May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.
• (1 Thessalonians 5:23 ESV) Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• (2 Peter 3:14 ESV) And Peter writes: Therefore, beloved, since you are waiting for these, be diligent to be found by him without spot or blemish, and at peace.
• (John 14:27 ESV) Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.

Jesus is coming again? Are you ready?

JESUS IS COMING AGAIN!

Only ten generations from Adam to Noah …

Just as it was in the days of Noah …

• (Luke 17:26–30 ESV) Just as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of Man. They were eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot—they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building, but on the day when Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed them all— so will it be on the day when the Son of Man is revealed.

By this time there easily could have been millions of people on the Earth. And God only saved eight when he brought the cataclysm of the Flood.

God promised not to destroy this world again by water, but he is preparing once again for Earth’s destruction. This time by fire.

Peter tells us that scoffers will scoff. That’s what they do.

• (2 Peter 3:3-7 ESV) Knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires. They will say, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.” For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God, and that by means of these the world that then existed was deluged with water and perished. But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.

However the battle is not intellectual, but volitional. Humans want to do what humans want to do. And apart from the work of grace in our lives, we don’t want anyone, including (and sometimes especially) God, telling us how to live our lives.

• (John 3:19 NCV) They are judged by this fact: The Light has come into the world, but they did not want light. They wanted darkness, because they were doing evil things.

Message: “Just As in the Days of Noah”
Message Text: Genesis 5:25–6:13, Luke 17:22–30

• PDF GENESIS MESSAGE 15 – Just As in the Days of Noah : Genesis 5-6 : Luke 17-22-30 : ffc : dave scott : 073116 AM : STUDY SHEET ONE
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Hello All,

Here is our bulletin for this week.

• PDF Bulletin FFC July 31 2016

Hello All,

Here is this week’s bulletin.

• PDF Bulletin FFC July 24 2016