The days of Noah - Building an Ark | Ps Louis Holtzhausen | 25 September 2022 AM

so you say Amen this morning God knows what you need God knows the solution to the problems God knows the equations and God knows the strategy you need to defeat your Giants God really is all you need I'm telling you this because Noah found himself in a really a perverse, evil, sinful, chaotic or morally decaying generation, was surrounded by nothing but evil and sin and God spoke to Noah and God gave Noah a plan, so when God looks at you, He will answer that question, He will give you a plan. because God knows what you need God is not sitting on his throne and biting his nails because he doesn't know what to do, he is in control and God is at peace, so Genesis 6 is where God is painting a picture about the environment of Noah. meets him and immediately gives him direct and detailed instructions to save him and his family.

Noah I can see what's around you or who's around you and what evil is around you, but Noah today I'm going to give you something to do. You build an ark, say this out loud. I am an orca. Builder, what does the Orca mean? What does it symbolize? It is a place according to the dictionary, a place of protection and security. Noah is

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something that will give him security and Security Noah is

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something that will give him security Noah is going to build something that will give him security something that will protect him against the coming flood.

He is going to build something that will protect him against the coming flood. a flood is coming but no one should build something they will protect it it will make sense in a few sentences Jesus said the last

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will be the same for us a flood is coming Jesus came and said a flood is coming there will be a day when the people who sleep at your side will disappear there will be two people grinding in a Mill and one will disappear a day is coming when this dispensation will end this dispensation of Grace will end and enter a new destiny a dispensation where God will judge the Earth for evil and sin will judge those people who never receive the lamb as they said it was sacrificed in its place God is going to judge the Earth and that is what the flood symbolizes God judged God's judgment on sin so in the same way Jesus is going to give us something to build that will provide security and protection for the righteous for the righteous for the saved God is going to make us build something in the midst of moral decay in the midst of darkness and in the midst of chaos he is going to give us something to build that will help us provide Security and Protection whoever builds it say Amen then what are we building Matthew 16 17 to 19. some of you already have the answer Jesus responded and said Blessed are you Simon Barjona because flesh and blood has not revealed this to you but my father who is in heaven and I also tell you that you are Peter and on this rock this Revelation I will build my church and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it and I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven and everything you bind on Earth will be bound in heaven and everything you unleash on Earth will be unleashed in heaven Jesus is going to build his church like Noah built the ark in these last

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a church that hell cannot defeat a church with power and great Authority a church that also carries a great responsibility a church that will house the saints and the justified and the righteous and holy of God's people the church that is Jesus the building represents the ark Noah is building a church that will gather people like Noah gathered the animals a church that will feed God's people like Noah fed the animals and his family while they were in the ark a church that will disciple and train the saved like Noah trained his children to build an ark a church they will be rising above the floods and the attacks of the enemy as the ark was raised above the waters of judgment a church that will give security and protection to the same a judge will give protection to the weak a church that will overcome and that will find its resting place in Christ Our Mountain like the settled Earth on Mount Everest come on give God a big shout Christ he is building his church and the Gates of Hell will not prevail against it in Jesus a mighty name Jesus is building his church today Noah built the ark under tremendous persecution he built a Ark and the tremendous madness Noah, what are you doing building an ark in a desert so far from the sea.

Have you lost your marbles? Are you crazy? you lost the plot what are you doing Noah a boat Noah makes no sense God gave Noah something to build that made no sense to the world around him gave him something to build that seemed foolish to the world that the world cannot discern or understanding the wisdom of God and the wisdom of God is foolish to them why try to convince the world that the church is God's plan for those who are saved? Everything makes sense. There is a tremendous attack on the church today, at a time when the church is a you made fun of a church when even those who began to build the ark abandoned the ark because of the opinions of the people around it and you have been trying to convince the dumb to understand wise things 1 Corinthians Chapter 3 Verses 18 to 20 let me read it to you do not let anyone deceive himself If anyone among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become a fool so that he can become wise, isn't that exactly what Noah did?

He became a fool to test the wisdom of God to build an ark that the world cultivates like fools to test. the saving grace and wisdom of God when the flood comes many people are so aware and moved by people's opinions, statuses on Facebook, trends on Twitter and photos on Instagram that they lose sight of God's plan , God's wisdom and God's strategy because the more they spend time in the world, the more they try to please the world, the dumber or dumber they become, the dumber they become because suddenly God's wisdom becomes foolishness to them and what the world declares to be wisdom becomes your wisdom.

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this world, let him become a fool that he may become wise, because the wisdom of this world is foolishness before God, for it is written that it surprises the wise in their own cunning, and again the Lord knows the thoughts of the wise and they are useless to him. God knows Satan's plans and machinations and he says they are stupid plans, they are stupid plants, they are idiotic plants, you try to be so smart and at the same time you are the dumbest.

Being what I have done at some point, the Bible says that if Satan knew that he would place Jesus on the cross it would be his end, he would never have done it but because in his schemes, his strategies and his friends thought of placing Christ on a cross, killing Christ would be ​​a solution that became what saved humanity what the world calls nonsense God calls wisdom so Satan in all these schemes is a stupid idiot I'm sorry I repent that's how I feel in my heart of Art, You may think he is very intelligent, he is not a Christian. who always try to find Satan in every DVD and every Bush and every prophecy they are more concerned about Satan's wisdom which God calls nonsense and they are not concerned about God's wisdom which the world calls foreign nonsense because the more you know how smart God is , sillier In a sense you feel how I can compare my human intellect and thoughts with God's intellect and thoughts.

So when I'm in a conversation with God, I'm the fool, but some of us talk to God like he's the fool because you have all the answers, you know what's right and what's wrong, no one can tell you, not even God, so you talk to God like he has a low IQ, but who are you talking to someone who blows stars and all you can do is burp? Sometimes it is difficult to discern in this congregation, you burp, the extinct, he breathes and galaxies are born, so who are you? In any case, the closer you get to God, the more humble you become.

Okay, okay, because God uses silly things to stupefy the wise and that's what the ark represented building a ship in the desert like a Noah God says check the movement watch this movement what you call fools will be your saving grace the church is exactly that it is an uncomfortable and busy building in the midst of moral decay in the midst of evil in the midst of darkness, the church is God's idea in a foolish world, it is a divine idea and it is a good idea, there have never been attacks on the church and church attendance before, then in the last three years we have gone through where satan is out. to destroy the ark satan is out there to try to mock the ark to tell us the ark will never float the ark will never work the church is old school why on this planet will you leave your house? get dressed put on your very wet clothes come to a congregation and hear a person preaching the word why don't you do that at home? why don't you do it online?

Your time is more valuable than that mocking the church. I had a conversation with one of our political leaders. without saying where and he told me no, you know, the church must learn to connect to the Internet and digital. I said I agree, he said he because we really don't have to meet in churches anymore. I told them, you know, it's me. I love the face. time and I love Zoom, especially the days when he drops my family off and then I get to see my kids. I can talk to my wife, but one thing I can't do with Zoom is multiply my family.

I need my wife. I need to be. contact my wife so that we can obey the word of God and be fruitful and multiply, you see, Satan is trying to take Christ away from the bride so that they cannot grow, multiply, bear fruit, although it is a substitute, it is not the answer what the Bible says explicitly. that when we see these signs, when we discern the time and that it is the last time, we demonstrate that we should not do something that Hebrews 10 25 by not ceasing to gather together, as is the custom of some who are there at the same time. back I see as the way of some but exhorting each other and much more when you see the day capital D the day of judgment the end of this Grace day of dispensation when you see that the day is approaching do not stop meeting why because God knew when the apostle Paul wrote this, that would be an attack on the gathering of ourselves, especially as we see capital D-day approaching the day of judgment, the day of vengeance, the day of the Rapture of the church, seeing that we are in last season there will be a big attack on the meeting of ourselves the world will attack it social media will attack it politicians will attack it your Decks an aunt will attack it why do you go there every sunday just stay home spend time with your family your aunt in a sense is a fool because the Bible dictates our moral foundation the Bible dictates our standards our laws the Bible tells us what is right and what is wrong someone asked me this week I heard that two weeks ago you said no we should follow our heart I really don't agree I said have you ever followed your heart and the next day you regretted it?

Yeah, I said that's why you follow your heart through this pretty boy and he exposes you and uses you, but you followed your heart, you followed. your heart and you left your family you followed your heart and you left good friends you follow your heart and you left the church because the heart is corrupt the heart is emotional the heart is full of sin the heart can be deceived but if I follow God God who does not change and I follow the word of God then I will not be disappointed because God promised me that when I read his word I meditate on his word and act on his word that my house will withstand in every flood every storm and every rain in every earthquake that my house will never ever collapse, so I have the promise that if I do what God said is right, there will be a reward, but if I go and what I feel is right, there will be a curse, the ship, the ark that the church provides. we for sure provides us with responsibility something Christians hate today being responsible say responsibility a church provides us with a purpose and provides protection protection in numbers I say I spoke to you last week.

I told her that when I brought my girlfriend to my mom, there was protection in the herd. The matriarch elephant decided she didn't want this when I met Elizabeth and wanted to ask you to be my wife. I went to see my youth pastor. We have already been serving in the church for three or four years. She was her hostess I was an usher then she was promoted to serving in the living room serving pasta back there and I went to my youth box I said pastor I want to ask her to marry me, would that be okay? and he told me I said, I need to know if there are any warning signs.

I need you to tell me. He said, Louie, it's okay. I gave you the thumbs up a long time ago because there is safety and security because I can be emotionally manipulated. for someone and not seeing it is like Buzzard said last Sunday night he said you come to me for wisdom but you start saying this with God told me what should I say so I can't get over a God if God told you something How can I say like Louis? I really don't believe that. Rather, when you come and be responsible, Pastor says, what do you think?

Havepeace? Do you see warning signs? I want to be accountable to you. I don't want to. to be king on my own throne I want to be responsible I want to submit to the leaders that God gave me so I can make good wise decisions responsibility because you will see it quickly because we have seen it we have it on fire Hostess in the church serving, meet a boy outside the church and little by little she doesn't know America anymore, that's the wrong guy, the right guy will make her host longer and then she will join the Church ushers in any number so that We can review her and review it at him because I won't marry him or she you will, so I have nothing to lose.Telling you the truth, so calm down, let me give you my most honest and wise opinion as best I can.

Then you can deal with the truth however you want, but you can never say that no one told me and then maybe that's why you're not asking you want to learn the hard way you want to go through all the administration and the tears and the heartbreak over Pride whatever. case is a sermon for another day there is no other plan that Jesus has for us in these last days than to build the church there is no other boat that we must build this is Jesus is building his church and you and I are the stones that he is using to build it one Peter chapter 2 verse 5 says this you too as living stones are being built as a spiritual house a holy priesthood to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ you too are living stones you are the stone that God is laying in his church that you are building belong somewhere someone asked me the other day Pastor why don't we just have one church and all the other pastors and churches agree and we want one big happy family number one that sounds as boring as a rock second never will work, use the same strategy with Spa Pick and Pay Checkers and whoever says why are different types of stores the old and bloody ones that sell the same thing why not have a store no, it's boring each store has a different culture each store has a different brand a different look and feel brings excitement secondly the bible says that Israel was one nation under God but this one nation was divided into 12 different tribes these 12 tribes stayed in different places they never really mixed they slept alone these tribes so why didn't God let everyone mix because God loves tribes how boring would it have been if everyone spoke Afrikaans or everyone spoke English the very fact that we want everyone to speak their language is a spirit of boldness because they spoke the same language and they thought they were God hmm, it was Noah, talk about the Bible, then Abraham came into the picture, foreign diversity, anyway all the churches on this planet form one global church but there are different tribes spread all over the Earth join a tribe for please don't be lukewarm don't be full of nonsense don't think that you can't belong anywhere because you have the supreme truth, the supreme doctrines that there is no flaw in your thinking, there is no flaw in your beliefs and you cannot join to a tribe nowhere because you are full of nonsense, there is not a single family sitting here that is perfect, but anyway it is a family and in that family you belong to that family you obey your parents in that family you learn to share in that family you will be corrected you will be realigned and you will be disciplined because the family loves you, it's the same with churches today, we don't We don't all have to sing the same songs, preach the same sermon to show that we are in Unity, the blood of Jesus It has unified us and we can stand to be a single tribe, to be a single Church, to do what God has called us to do and run. to the one who anointed us say amen this morning don't try with your own strength to decide choose one where God speaks to you and shut up block yourself and help build the church hell build this family amen many people come and spy on us, what happens if you spy?

What will I find? What will I find in your phone history? What will I find in your closets? What will I find in your marriage? So relax, no one is perfect, there is no perfect Church, but we are perfect. family a family that we love a family that wants to save the lost a family that wants a saved disciple a family that wants to expand the kingdom of God a family that is generous a family that has Vision a family that is filled with the Holy Spirit a family that believe in the bible a family that loves God with all their heart soul and strength a family that advances in the mighty name of Jesus Christ Hallelujah foreigner I love people when God told Noah to build a ship, he did not leave it up. to Noah to decide what kind of boat because he could have built a canoe in a day.

What would happen if Noah built a canoe? Hmm for him and his wife. Seeing his children fall. See Animal Planet turned into a dog. No. God told him exactly how big, how big. how many rooms how many floors what to use when to use it was up to Noah to decide how fast he would build it Noah decided when how God was up to Noah to make sure he had all the wood in place all the nails in the place or pitch in the right place Noah God simply gave him instructions in the same way today God is telling us to build the church.

I'm going to read to you the detailed description of how God says we are to build the church because that is not really up to us, but the moment we find the details in the description in Acts chapter 2 of how God wants us to build the church, then really It is up to us to go find workers to save the loss and get everything. What we need to be able to build this ship we can decide how fast we will grow this church we decide how far we can go how high we will climb we decide how far our faith can take us because God has given us that, but the details are not up to us.

Are you with me this morning and can you take these details and give them different flavors and that's what we see in churches today? Churches are different, they have different flavors, different cultures, but at the end of the day they need it. to build it according to what is written in this book let me read to you Acts chapter 2 how God started the church he poured out his Holy Spirit and Peter spoke under the influence of the Holy Spirit make sure you find a church where the leader speaks under the influence of the Spirit Saint number one because you can talk about religion you can talk about your emotions you can express your opinions you need to speak under the influence of the Holy Spirit how do you know that someone speaks under the influence of the Holy Spirit? the Bible says they were cut to the heart suddenly you know what I need to change where I need to repent what I need to adapt what word I need to apply the word of God is constantly challenging us to be better it is constantly washing us to Be cleaner, it is a work that God begins with you and that God will one day end with you, but it is a work that happens every Sunday.

The Bible says that when the word is preached, he washes away the signs of it, so when you get down to it, it's actually one. great happy bath time for all of us Acts chapter 2 verse 37 now when they heard it they were pricked in their hearts and they said to Peter and the rest of the Apostles Brothers what we will do and Peter said to them repent and be baptized each one of you in the name of Jesus Christ a word was preached where people looked into their hearts and decided to do what or what it led to, but what would that do?

What shouldn't I do now? What should God do for me? What should I do? do now wasn't that the response of the apostle Paul when he met Christ on the road to Damascus who are you number one secondly what do you want me to do Peter preached and people ask what do you want God to do what can I do for you and he said repent leave your old life that is no longer you you need to change secondly get baptized baptism is not an opinion in the scriptures it is an instruction Matthew Matthew chapter 28 preach the word whoever believes it and is baptized we will be saved baptism is a instruction Romans chapter 6 says this when you were immersed in the water you died with Christ when you came out of the water you were resurrected with Christ or resurrected with Christ that's why there is such a number one there is an attack on salvation today an attack from the enemy so that people are not saved so that all of this can be left empty secondly so that born again believers are not baptized then we have divisions in the church and church doctrines that keep people away from the water but it is an instruction from the scriptures relax come down and come back to go up, everything will be fine, better obey the word of God and then obey tradition or obey religion while we are on the subject of baptism.

Jesus left heaven, came to earth and was baptized in water when he was an adult, so even if he doesn't understand baptism. I would rather be in front of Jesus and he asked me why you didn't get baptized again. He says well, so you tried to explain it to Jesus. Now you did it. It was not necessary. I would prefer to be a Christian. that's what he says to Jesus but you did it I didn't do it right but you did it I did it you preached I preached you were baptized I was baptized you raised up disciples I am my disciples I did what you did Jesus you are my leader you are my rabbi you are my teacher so If you are doing something I am also going to do something and one day you die you want to be resurrected and one day I will die and I will also be resurrected because you did it Jesus Hallelujah So if you have not yet been baptized and saved, go to the information desk after the service, write your name and we will arrange a baptism for you.

I change my life. I grew up in a Christian church with a Christian family, but the day came when I read my Bible for the first time and every time I see Jesus speak to people, there were baptisms involved when I read the rest of the New Testament, they were commanded to baptize them, Then they baptized them, they baptized them, the best thing we can do is simply be humble. ourselves and everything in the Bible is not necessarily an attack on you, don't take it personally, just relax, listen to what it says and then adjust your life to it, we don't always have to compete, oh God, and racial is the truth, so the first thing you need to know about church building is that when someone speaks under the influence of the Holy Spirit, there will be a challenge and repentance will be demanded because why does it help if there are 50 people here?

Today and we are 50 people for 20 years, what does that help? there are many other people who are still going to hell there are many other people who are not being discipled who are not being fed by the word of God so when he says when repentance occurs multiplication begins Acts chapter 2 .he told them repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit the baptism of the Holy Spirit this I want to tell you when you receive Jesus Christ the Bible says there is a deposit that is given to you it is like me drinking a glass of water I drink and there is the reservoir of water now in me that reservoir is the holy spirit that cries Abba Father I know I am saved I have an APO a reservoir I have water now inside me that cries I am a son and daughter of God being baptized in the Holy Spirit Are you jumping into a pool?

You are soaked in the Holy Spirit. you are overwhelmed by the water and that is where your strength is that is the baptism of the Holy Spirit that is the saint the baptism of the Holy Spirit that fell on Christ and that is the same spirit that raised him from the dead and the same Spirit they will do get up from your bed to come to church amen and I sell Hallelujah the Bible says this so they received his word and were baptized and that day about three thousand souls joined God is in numbers because who counted them do you think he was guided by the Holy Spirit I think there are three thousand someone was counting those who were baptized because the numbers have mattered to God yes because I am a farmer so if I have hundreds one is lost I am behind the one but how can I know who is lost if I never count thank you foreigner?

What happened then when God added numbers when God multiplied the church when the church grew and they dedicated themselves to the teachings of the apostles and to the fellowship they dedicated themselves to the teachings of the apostles not themselves. Proclaimed Apostle self-proclaimed Pastor so-and-so has a prophetic word they listened to the apostles God ordered that God put them in their place they were obligated to lead God placed leaders over the church and they listened to the apostles Doctrine not to the aunt so-and-so the Doctrine not to Bexton and Uncle's Doctrine to the apostles Doctrine those who walk with God those who God holds responsible those who God says be careful when you teach because I am going to hold you responsible for every word that comes out of your mouth leadership that God is Christ that God has ordained that God has anointed the church meets and listens to the apostles Doctrine that is not something the apostles thought because they were bored it was instituted by the baptism of the Holy Spirit this is the way of God when he gave birth to the Church of Jesus Christ that is why the Bible says in the book of Peter, submit to your leaders and obey because they are watching, they arewatching over their souls like someone who has to give an account.

I will give an account of what I teach you I will give you an account of my leadership and what I have built so the Bible says submit to them and then the verse continues because if you do not do it it will be of no use to you there will be a great advantage if they submit to the teachings of the apostles, it will be a great disadvantage to you when you rebel against the leadership of the Church and leave, and every one of you sitting here will be offended by the leadership of the foreign Church, including myself, sometimes I I offend every Sunday, but I never leave. my Bossa can correct me discipline me realign and encourage me I will never leave because my life matters to me and my calling matters to me and my destiny matters to me I never wanted to we see in the Scriptures that Timothy showed the apostle Paul a candy and He left oblivious to the apostle Paul, but We know that Barnabas left the role of the apostle Paul and we never heard of him again.

You know, you found a church you can submit to. Find leadership you can submit to if you cannot see me as a Leader, if you do not believe I have what it takes to guide you to spiritual maturity, find someone else who can. I won't be offended. I see many people come and go. I am doing this because God called me to do this and we do not apologize because nowhere here was there a church meeting that leadership was born, leadership was born that submitted to leadership, that is why the Apostle imagines seeing Jesus being trained by Jesus after this Resurrection for 14 years, that is the Apostle Paul, they in the Apostle Paul.

He returned to Jerusalem to the Church leadership of the Jerusalem Council to tell them the doctrine that Jesus taught him. He could have said who you are. Are they adorned with a Jesus in his fleshly body? I was stored by Jesus in his heavenly bodies. Suck that Pedro, no. but Paul knew that if he wanted to be someone with authority he needed to submit to the Authority, so Paul went to the Council of Jerusalem and the Apostles of the church and I said that it is pure Doctrine, that it is the truth that no Christian ever wants.

Do it because no one wants to admit they are wrong, even if you heard Jesus for himself when he was lost, have you felt God speaking to you and you rejected it from a church leader? Yes, because this word listens, but we can always want in secondary flies what helps. It is when someone can help us understand what God is busy doing so that we can live responsible and submissive lives so that one day we can finish our race let's move on this is Acts chapter 2 for those of you who want to study it they dedicated themselves to the apostles teaching and companionship you can't companionship over the phone you can't build a relationship over the phone I know you think you can I know we have dating sites and we develop friendships what we call them painful friends where you write to someone in a different country and you that's fake because he thought about it what said who is saying but when you talk to someone everything comes out of their mouth imagine I wrote everything before I spoke I will never make a mistake that's why some people write things and still make mistakes and then press share for everyone to walk around and see how brilliant who you are and fellowship, that's why church attendance is important because we have fellowship, that's why cell groups at home are important because it's fellowship, maybe I should India, we can. we can continue next week in a certain sense.

Leadership of the Birth of God Church. God just gave birth to a communion and breaking bread, let me continue quickly and it all came upon every soul and many wonders and signs were being done through the Apostle, signs that make you wonder what it was like. You guys do this, how the hell did you do this? People sold their possessions and took their finances or their profits and where they gave them, they put them at the feet of the apostles, offerings, it was never something man-made. idea that he was born under the baptism of the Holy Spirit, we are so moved by the holy spirit that we actually want to donate to the work of Christ, so they laid him at the feet of the apostles and the Bible says that they gave where there was need of the socialism. was not born so they did not take multi-million dollar things and give them to the poorest person who cannot bear 10 dollars the apostles were not stupid but they fed and discipled and provided for needs in the congregation based on the offerings that the people gave then the Bible says who went to the synagogue day by day Church secondly they went from house to house house sales God has created his church under a leadership where there is responsibility for fellowship and as CLC that is what we are trying to do every week