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The Flood, Noah’s Reverent Fear, The Dove & The Freshly Plucked Leaf | The Implications
Feb 20, 2025
I didn’t plan on reading Genesis 8 at all this week, but as I was reading Hebrews 11, the chapter centered on faith, I was led to go back in time to look at certain specific events during Noah’s Life. And the elements that caught my attention were the flood , Noah’s reverent fear, the dove and the freshly plucked olive leaf after the flood. I wanted to understand the significance of each of the elements mentioned and that’s what we’ll be looking at today.
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welcome back again this is ty from Ty
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XCOM or Hazuki XCOM whichever one you
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want to use and today we're gonna be
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talking about the floor
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Noah's prevalent fear the dog and if
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freshly plucked olive leaf and their
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significance like there's some kind of
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implications and at first let me go to
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my intro real quick
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bye I did not plan on talking about
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Noah's Ark and all this stuff and
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actually I didn't plan on reading
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Genesis 8 are all this week
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was my focus was on Hebrews 11 the
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chapter is centered on faith so I was
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led to go back in time to look at
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certain specific events in Noah's life
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and the elements I caught my attention
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where the flawed Noah's reverent fear
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the door and it freshly brought olive
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leaf after the flood now I wanted to
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understand the significance of each of
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the elements mentioned and that's what
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was gonna be looking at today basically
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so before I do that less actually I want
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to read Hebrews 11 real quick and then
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we gonna get to this in a second okay so
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let's go to Hebrews 11 verse 6 to 8 and
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I'm reading out of the ESV now the
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scripture says and without faith it is
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impossible to please God for whoever who
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draw near to God must believe that he
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exists for he is and that he rewards
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those who earnestly seek after him and
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by faith Noah being warned by God
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concerning events as yet unseen in
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reverent fear constructed an ark for the
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saving of his household and by these he
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condemned the world and became an heir
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of the righteousness that comes by faith
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now what is all that means you know what
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I read it you know I'll take it at face
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value but at the same time I was led to
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go back to Genesis 8 to look at Noah's
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reverent fear and why that's so
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important so we're gonna be looking
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right now so now the first thing I
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wanted to talk about was there fraud any
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significance
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now the inhabitants of Sodom we
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just after Noah especially lots
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sons-in-law didn't take lots of warnings
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seriously and finally because Lord
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Himself wasn't living as righteous as he
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could he should have and as a result the
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wrath of God consumed the entire city my
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burning son for everybody died and I'm
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sure a lot of people you know they knew
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what was gonna happen didn't know they
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were living up to what God expected and
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he just laughed because their privacy to
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themselves nothing is gonna happen we
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are good in the same way like prior to
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Sodom folks in Loris time they laughed
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at the idea of the impending destruction
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and therefore they never took it off
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nor seriously and he perished Noah
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talked to the people he told him there's
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gonna be a flood everybody's gonna die
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the rain is gonna come - probably 40
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days and 40 nights and they just laughed
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they laughed him to scorn and that's
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gonna happen even today in our day many
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laughs and ridiculed a reality of Lost
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Ark and story and do you think it to be
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a fairy tale they think is just a
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bold-faced lie all this Bible stuff is
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not true man while who believes that
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kind of stuff but here's the thing just
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like that someday Christ will return and
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charge the world and it might be too
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late for some people to repent and God
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has always given us prototypes and the
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flawed Sodom and Gomorrah are a small
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copy of what is to come when Christ
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returns
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so my exhortation is today if you hear
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his voice if you listen in to this and
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it's always really speaking to you do
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not harden your heart and repent take
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this time to repent now let's hear what
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Jesus himself had to say about his
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second coming we're gonna read Luke
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17:26 to 37 to understand them so again
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this is the ESV and the scripture says
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just asked it was in the days of Noah so
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will it be in the days of the Son of Man
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they were eating and drinking and
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marrying and being given in marriage
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until the day when Noah entered the Ark
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and the flood came and destroyed them
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all likewise just as it was in the days
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of lot they were eating and drinking
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buying and selling planting and building
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but only
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day when lot went out of Sodom fire and
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sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed
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them all so will he be on the day when
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the Son of Man is revealed on the second
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coming on that day let the one who is on
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the housetop move his goods in the house
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not come down to take them away and
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likewise let the one who's in his field
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not turn back remember Lot's wife
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whoever seeks to preserve his life will
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lose it but whoever loses his life will
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keep it I'll tell you in that night
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there will be two in one bed one will be
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taken away and the other left there will
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be two women grinding together one will
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be taken and the other left and they
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stayed home where our Lord and you say
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to them where the crossings there
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diverges from God
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this is the Word of God take it very
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seriously now let's go back to the
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slides so now we understand they're the
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flawed any significance because someday
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there will there will be judgment and
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it's not up it's not optional
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it's going to happen because we have had
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two prototypes and this is to remind us
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to be to be watchful now no one's
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reverent fear now Noah he obeyed God and
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took God's warning seriously and he did
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he did it by faith
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now scripture say that without faith it
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is impossible to please God
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scriptures also say that faith comes by
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hearing and hearing by the Word of God
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in other words nobody heeded the warning
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of the Lord because the Lord Himself had
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enabled know what to do so that's good
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to say we love him because he first
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loved us so we responded our love God is
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the one that is doing the drawing we
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don't go to God because God draws us
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scripture says no one can come to him
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unless enabled by the Holy Spirit now
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the only thing that set apart Noah from
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his contemporary is the grace of God God
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chose Noah because of God's own purpose
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Noah wasn't any special or chosen
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because he was his own doing it's not
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because of his now because of Noah's
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doing but the Spirit of God on him
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working Noah to will and act according
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to the purposes of God
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so Noah's reverent fear was a result of
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the Spirit of God in aiming interfere in
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the same way you and I obey God because
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she commanded us to obey Him and God
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creates what he commands and that's why
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I David said create in me a pure heart
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every new a right spirit within me has
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me not away from your presence and do
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not take your Holy Spirit away from me
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and I want you out actually I want to
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read Psalm 51 this is after David had
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been he sinned against the Lord by
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taking another man's wife and Nathan the
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Prophet confronts David and he doesn't
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say well ugly because I was under
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pressure he admits that he was wrong and
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this is what he says I'm gonna pick it
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up from verse 10 create in me a clean
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heart O God and renew a right spirit
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within me cast me not away from your
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presence and take not your Holy Spirit
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away from me restore to me the joy of
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your salvation and uphold me with a
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willing spirit then I will teach
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transgressors your way and sin as we
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turn to you to return to you now G David
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understand something he knows that
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without God I can't do it I can't do it
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in my own strength this is what he's
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saying create in me Lord you do the
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creating you do the sustenance you
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sustain me
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the sanctification process is a work of
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the Spirit so we will bring nothing to
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the table for ourselves we empty ourself
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of ourselves and say lord please fill us
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create in us those desires that we
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should create in our state desire to
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obey you create in us the desire to fill
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you and then sustain us and when you do
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so lord please teach us to also hard to
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transgress us so that they can know what
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you have done in our life so everything
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that we do is by faith the fear of the
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Lord is by faith we fear because he put
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a fear in us so we have nothing to do
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with it is all God's doing this is what
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this is so important to understand why
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no I was able to obey God in reverent
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fear because if you obey God's Word is
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because his spirit is working in erst to
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respond that way and that pleases God so
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no one can boast in their own strength
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see God is pleased with his Spirit
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working in us he is pleased with himself
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so
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when he is working in us that pleases
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God because God is the one that is doing
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the work so he works in us to will and
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act according to his good purpose and
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God's purpose will always please God but
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we get to enjoy that partner should we
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get to be in there and he gets to put
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his spirit in us and we feel an
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experience and see the joy and we
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rejoice and we thank him in return so
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everything begins with God and ends
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we've got and we get to be part of it
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that's the thing it's not like we have
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to do this for ganas in luck God look
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what I'm doing for you now is thank you
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for what you're doing in me and through
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me to please yourself because God is
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pleased with himself but we are the
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recipient of his love and we we get to
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enjoy her and this is great guys because
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that takes away the pressure of trying
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to please God in our own strength we
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please him by faith next which I'm gonna
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show here now the dog and the freshly
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cracked olive leaf now that was the one
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thing that also caught my attention why
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did God want the author to write this
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particular phrase now olive oil olive
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trees and dogs are usually
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representative of the Holy Spirit and I
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think this is the case here as well out
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of all the living things and trees that
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were flooded the only tree that survived
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the flood and actually produced a fresh
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leaf was the olive tree in other words
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the Holy Spirit withstood the flood
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because he was God and God is righteous
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by Nature
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the righteous will not be judged on
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Judgment Day but only the unrighteous
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and who are the unrighteous is what we
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need to know those that are not in
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dwelled with the Holy Spirit so when
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Jesus comes back he will take his bride
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and what will characterize his bride
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then folks on whom his spirit rest so if
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you're a child of God then you don't
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fear the judgment because you are
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waiting the your your Lord and Savior
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you say I came with the same again I
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came with the same because I want to
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know my bridegroom and this is what we
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are what the church is waiting for the
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Lord to come back and take us back to
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himself you see like we don't fear the
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judgment but we just looking forward to
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being with him
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- being in his presence - being intimate
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with it you see what I'm saying it's so
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close because you wanna know the person
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who died for you and I'd want to know
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the person who put his spirit in you to
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sustain you so the leaf is a sign of
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just joy saying hey I'm waiting I'm
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looking forward to seeing the Lord again
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and we are righteous not because of our
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supper because when God sees us he sees
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Christ in us the hope of glory he's
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pleased with his sunlight in us that's
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what pleases God he is pleased to see
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his son in us through us working in us
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to accomplish his purpose and that
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pleases God you see see what my son has
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done see I see my son in you I see my
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son in this guy I see my son in this
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woman I see my son in this little child
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because this is the righteousness that
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we have received by faith now I also
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check to see if olive trees could
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withstand floods and came up with some
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very amazing discoveries like you know
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when I read stuff like this in Scripture
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you always make me think wow this is
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incredible because God is also making it
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a case here and and I went in line I
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looked on Google you know I didn't do
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any deep investigation and I saw some
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olive trees floated by heavy rains and
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look at this green leaf still there
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still standing you see this they're
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still standing this is an oil olive tree
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they are really deeply rooted they're
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still standing the leaves are still
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there and this is incredible because God
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uses nature to convey his messages now
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if this doesn't like blow your mind now
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I don't know what else could blow your
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mind because the book of Genesis it was
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written thousands of years ago and God
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knew something about nature and biology
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and science that we did not know about
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you see this like and to me this is
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amazing how you can corroborate the
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Bible and science and mathematics and
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whatever think field of study you're
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studying it's always like point of
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contact so to me this is just reinforces
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what I believe it makes me really happy
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to know that okay now again I would
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invite you to read on this chapter
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yourself and dig through it because
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there's a lot of truths in it and and
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and no one can claim to know all because
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nobody knows because God is the one that
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Arthur the Bible through people so I
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will invite you to go back and read the
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scriptures again because I would love to
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hear your take on it alright thanks
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again for watching this is time and stay
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tuned for more stuff