Podcasts about then noah

Join Dr. Holmes as she interviews the Seback family. David and Nadine will share their journey with their son to find his voice through letterboard. Then Noah was interviewed and his answers were spelled out communicating what he wants listeners to understand about the power of communication and the differences between non-speaking and non-verbal. You don't want to miss this! If you see him spell, you can finally hear his voice! I have seen him spell and each time I interview Noah I am always excited about what Noah has to say to educate us all to open our minds to hear what we may be missing as professionals and educators and parents.Noah Seback is a nonspeaking autistic who had gained the ability to communicate effectively through spelling on a letterboard or keyboard with the support of a communication regulation partner. He is a rising self-advocate who is passionate about promoting communication r flights for fellow autistics who don't speak, speak minimally, or speak unreliably. His lived experience of 16 years as a non-speaker without a voice has provided him with the ultimate training and expertise. Noah was interviewed in Autism Parent Magazine Noah's Voice: Non-speaking Man Advocates for Big Changes which had over 2000 shares. He recently wrote an article in the new magazine Exceptional Needs Today, Issue 2: "Let Nonspeakers 'speak' into their own lives".You will also want to check out his presentation with SpellX powered by I-ASC at https://vimeo.com/478613863..For more information, you can go to Noah's website: thisismenoah.com

Morning: Psalm 119:11; Psalm 119:130; John 1:1; John 1:4; John 15:3; 2 Corinthians 4:6; Ephesians 5:8; 1 Peter 2:9; 1 John 1:5; 1 John 1:7 The unfolding of your words gives light. This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.—For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.—The Word was God…. In him was life, and the life was the light of men.—But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.—I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.—“Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you.” For at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light.—But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Psalm 119:11 (Listen) 11   I have stored up your word in my heart,    that I might not sin against you. (ESV) Psalm 119:130 (Listen) 130   The unfolding of your words gives light;    it imparts understanding to the simple. (ESV) John 1:1 (Listen) The Word Became Flesh 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (ESV) John 1:4 (Listen) 4 In him was life,1 and the life was the light of men. Footnotes [1] 1:4 Or was not any thing made. That which has been made was life in him (ESV) John 15:3 (Listen) 3 Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. (ESV) 2 Corinthians 4:6 (Listen) 6 For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. (ESV) Ephesians 5:8 (Listen) 8 for at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light (ESV) 1 Peter 2:9 (Listen) 9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. (ESV) 1 John 1:5 (Listen) Walking in the Light 5 This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. (ESV) 1 John 1:7 (Listen) 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. (ESV) Evening: Genesis 6:9; Genesis 8:20–21; Romans 3:20–22; Romans 5:1; Romans 5:11; Romans 8:30; Romans 8:33; Galatians 3:11; Revelation 13:8 Noah was a righteous man. “The righteous shall live by faith.”—Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. And… the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma.—The Lamb that was slain. Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin. But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it—the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction. More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.—Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies…. And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified. Genesis 6:9 (Listen) Noah and the Flood 9 These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God. (ESV) Genesis 8:20–21 (Listen) God’s Covenant with Noah 20 Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21 And when the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, the LORD said in his heart, “I will never again curse1 the ground because of man, for the intention of man’s heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done. Footnotes [1] 8:21 Or dishonor (ESV) Romans 3:20–22 (Listen) 20 For by works of the law no human being1 will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin. The Righteousness of God Through Faith 21 But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it—22 the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: Footnotes [1] 3:20 Greek flesh (ESV) Romans 5:1 (Listen) Peace with God Through Faith 5 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we1 have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Footnotes [1] 5:1 Some manuscripts let us (ESV) Romans 5:11 (Listen) 11 More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation. (ESV) Romans 8:30 (Listen) 30 And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified. (ESV) Romans 8:33 (Listen) 33 Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. (ESV) Galatians 3:11 (Listen) 11 Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for “The righteous shall live by faith.”1 Footnotes [1] 3:11 Or The one who by faith is righteous will live (ESV) Revelation 13:8 (Listen) 8 and all who dwell on earth will worship it, everyone whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slain. (ESV)

Genesis 6:5-22 5 The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time. 6 The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. 7 So the Lord said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them.” 8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord. Noah and the Flood 9 This is the account of Noah and his family. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God. 10 Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth. 11 Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence. 12 God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. 13 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 destroy both them and the earth. 14 So make yourself an ark of cypress[a] wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. 15 This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.[b] 16 Make a roof for it, leaving below the roof an opening one cubit[c] high all around.[d] Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks. 17 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. 18 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. 19 You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you. 20 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. 21 You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them.” 22 Noah did everything just as God commanded him. Genesis 8:18-22 18 So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives. 19 All the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds—everything that moves on land—came out of the ark, one kind after another. 20 Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it. 21 The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though[a] every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done. 22 “As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.” Genesis 9:1-17 God’s Covenant With Noah 9 Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth. 2 The fear and dread of you will fall on all the beasts of the earth, and on all the birds in the sky, on every creature that moves along the ground, and on all the fish in the sea; they are given into your hands. 3 Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything. 4 “But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it. 5 And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. And from each human being, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of another human being. 6 “Whoever sheds human blood, by humans shall their blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made mankind. 7 As for you, be fruitful and increase in number; multiply on the earth and increase upon it.” 8 Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him: 9 “I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you 10 and with every living creature that was with you—the birds, the livestock and all the wild animals, all those that came out of the ark with you—every living creature on earth. 11 I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be destroyed by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.” 12 And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come: 13 I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. 14 Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, 15 I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life. 16 Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth.” 17 So God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant I have established between me and all life on the earth.”

Noah and Ben are joined by the University of Michigan's very own Austin Remick for a discussion about the indoor track and championship XC seasons in the age of COVID. Then Noah and Ben preview and give some predictions on the upcoming twitter bracket of Musical Training Plan albums.

Ryan Frith 10 After waiting another seven days, Noah released the dove again. 11 This time the dove returned to him in the evening with a fresh olive leaf in its beak. Then Noah knew that the floodwaters were almost gone. 12 He waited another seven days and then released the dove again. This time it did not come back.

Chris and Noah open the episode by giving shoutouts to listeners around the world that have reached out to the podcast recently. Then Noah talks about a recent rut in his training and why he's feeling better again. Then Chris and Noah discuss how many episodes are required to "get hooked" to a TV series. They specifically touch on the most "bro" TV series, Spartacus, and its copious amounts of violence and nudity. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bjj-and-brews/support

Psalms and Wisdom: Psalm 8 Psalm 8 (Listen) How Majestic Is Your Name To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith.1 A Psalm of David. 8   O LORD, our Lord,    how majestic is your name in all the earth!  You have set your glory above the heavens.2     Out of the mouth of babies and infants,  you have established strength because of your foes,    to still the enemy and the avenger. 3   When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,    the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,4   what is man that you are mindful of him,    and the son of man that you care for him? 5   Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings2    and crowned him with glory and honor.6   You have given him dominion over the works of your hands;    you have put all things under his feet,7   all sheep and oxen,    and also the beasts of the field,8   the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea,    whatever passes along the paths of the seas. 9   O LORD, our Lord,    how majestic is your name in all the earth! Footnotes [1] 8:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term [2] 8:5 Or than God; Septuagint than the angels (ESV) Pentateuch and History: Genesis 8:20–9:19 Genesis 8:20–9:19 (Listen) God’s Covenant with Noah 20 Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21 And when the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, the LORD said in his heart, “I will never again curse1 the ground because of man, for the intention of man’s heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done. 22 While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.” 9 And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. 2 The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and upon every bird of the heavens, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea. Into your hand they are delivered. 3 Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything. 4 But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood. 5 And for your lifeblood I will require a reckoning: from every beast I will require it and from man. From his fellow man I will require a reckoning for the life of man. 6   “Whoever sheds the blood of man,    by man shall his blood be shed,  for God made man in his own image. 7 And you,2 be fruitful and multiply, increase greatly on the earth and multiply in it.” 8 Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him, 9 “Behold, I establish my covenant with you and your offspring after you, 10 and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the livestock, and every beast of the earth with you, as many as came out of the ark; it is for every beast of the earth. 11 I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.” 12 And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations: 13 I have set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. 14 When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is seen in the clouds, 15 I will remember my covenant that is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh. And the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. 16 When the bow is in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.” 17 God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth.” Noah’s Descendants 18 The sons of Noah who went forth from the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.) 19 These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the people of the whole earth were dispersed.3 Footnotes [1] 8:21 Or dishonor [2] 9:7 In Hebrew you is plural [3] 9:19 Or from these the whole earth was populated (ESV) Chronicles and Prophets: 1 Chronicles 9 1 Chronicles 9 (Listen) A Genealogy of the Returned Exiles 9 So all Israel was recorded in genealogies, and these are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel. And Judah was taken into exile in Babylon because of their breach of faith. 2 Now the first to dwell again in their possessions in their cities were Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the temple servants. 3 And some of the people of Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh lived in Jerusalem: 4 Uthai the son of Ammihud, son of Omri, son of Imri, son of Bani, from the sons of Perez the son of Judah. 5 And of the Shilonites: Asaiah the firstborn, and his sons. 6 Of the sons of Zerah: Jeuel and their kinsmen, 690. 7 Of the Benjaminites: Sallu the son of Meshullam, son of Hodaviah, son of Hassenuah, 8 Ibneiah the son of Jeroham, Elah the son of Uzzi, son of Michri, and Meshullam the son of Shephatiah, son of Reuel, son of Ibnijah; 9 and their kinsmen according to their generations, 956. All these were heads of fathers’ houses according to their fathers’ houses. 10 Of the priests: Jedaiah, Jehoiarib, Jachin, 11 and Azariah the son of Hilkiah, son of Meshullam, son of Zadok, son of Meraioth, son of Ahitub, the chief officer of the house of God; 12 and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, son of Pashhur, son of Malchijah, and Maasai the son of Adiel, son of Jahzerah, son of Meshullam, son of Meshillemith, son of Immer; 13 besides their kinsmen, heads of their fathers’ houses, 1,760, mighty men for the work of the service of the house of God. 14 Of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, son of Azrikam, son of Hashabiah, of the sons of Merari; 15 and Bakbakkar, Heresh, Galal and Mattaniah the son of Mica, son of Zichri, son of Asaph; 16 and Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, son of Galal, son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah the son of Asa, son of Elkanah, who lived in the villages of the Netophathites. 17 The gatekeepers were Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, Ahiman, and their kinsmen (Shallum was the chief); 18 until then they were in the king’s gate on the east side as the gatekeepers of the camps of the Levites. 19 Shallum the son of Kore, son of Ebiasaph, son of Korah, and his kinsmen of his fathers’ house, the Korahites, were in charge of the work of the service, keepers of the thresholds of the tent, as their fathers had been in charge of the camp of the LORD, keepers of the entrance. 20 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar was the chief officer over them in time past; the LORD was with him. 21 Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah was gatekeeper at the entrance of the tent of meeting. 22 All these, who were chosen as gatekeepers at the thresholds, were 212. They were enrolled by genealogies in their villages. David and Samuel the seer established them in their office of trust. 23 So they and their sons were in charge of the gates of the house of the LORD, that is, the house of the tent, as guards. 24 The gatekeepers were on the four sides, east, west, north, and south. 25 And their kinsmen who were in their villages were obligated to come in every seven days, in turn, to be with these, 26 for the four chief gatekeepers, who were Levites, were entrusted to be over the chambers and the treasures of the house of God. 27 And they lodged around the house of God, for on them lay the duty of watching, and they had charge of opening it every morning. 28 Some of them had charge of the utensils of service, for they were required to count them when they were brought in and taken out. 29 Others of them were appointed over the furniture and over all the holy utensils, also over the fine flour, the wine, the oil, the incense, and the spices. 30 Others, of the sons of the priests, prepared the mixing of the spices, 31 and Mattithiah, one of the Levites, the firstborn of Shallum the Korahite, was entrusted with making the flat cakes. 32 Also some of their kinsmen of the Kohathites had charge of the showbread, to prepare it every Sabbath. 33 Now these, the singers, the heads of fathers’ houses of the Levites, were in the chambers of the temple free from other service, for they were on duty day and night. 34 These were heads of fathers’ houses of the Levites, according to their generations, leaders. These lived in Jerusalem. Saul’s Genealogy Repeated 35 In Gibeon lived the father of Gibeon, Jeiel, and the name of his wife was Maacah, 36 and his firstborn son Abdon, then Zur, Kish, Baal, Ner, Nadab, 37 Gedor, Ahio, Zechariah, and Mikloth; 38 and Mikloth was the father of Shimeam; and these also lived opposite their kinsmen in Jerusalem, with their kinsmen. 39 Ner fathered Kish, Kish fathered Saul, Saul fathered Jonathan, Malchi-shua, Abinadab, and Eshbaal. 40 And the son of Jonathan was Merib-baal, and Merib-baal fathered Micah. 41 The sons of Micah: Pithon, Melech, Tahrea, and Ahaz.1 42 And Ahaz fathered Jarah, and Jarah fathered Alemeth, Azmaveth, and Zimri. And Zimri fathered Moza. 43 Moza fathered Binea, and Rephaiah was his son, Eleasah his son, Azel his son. 44 Azel had six sons and these are their names: Azrikam, Bocheru, Ishmael, Sheariah, Obadiah, and Hanan; these were the sons of Azel. Footnotes [1] 9:41 Compare 8:35; Hebrew lacks and Ahaz (ESV) Gospels and Epistles: Luke 5–6:16 Luke 5–6:16 (Listen) Jesus Calls the First Disciples 5 On one occasion, while the crowd was pressing in on him to hear the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret, 2 and he saw two boats by the lake, but the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets. 3 Getting into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, he asked him to put out a little from the land. And he sat down and taught the people from the boat. 4 And when he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.” 5 And Simon answered, “Master, we toiled all night and took nothing! But at your word I will let down the nets.” 6 And when they had done this, they enclosed a large number of fish, and their nets were breaking. 7 They signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both the boats, so that they began to sink. 8 But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord.” 9 For he and all who were with him were astonished at the catch of fish that they had taken, 10 and so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, “Do not be afraid; from now on you will be catching men.”1 11 And when they had brought their boats to land, they left everything and followed him. Jesus Cleanses a Leper 12 While he was in one of the cities, there came a man full of leprosy.2 And when he saw Jesus, he fell on his face and begged him, “Lord, if you will, you can make me clean.” 13 And Jesus3 stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I will; be clean.” And immediately the leprosy left him. 14 And he charged him to tell no one, but “go and show yourself to the priest, and make an offering for your cleansing, as Moses commanded, for a proof to them.” 15 But now even more the report about him went abroad, and great crowds gathered to hear him and to be healed of their infirmities. 16 But he would withdraw to desolate places and pray. Jesus Heals a Paralytic 17 On one of those days, as he was teaching, Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there, who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was with him to heal.4 18 And behold, some men were bringing on a bed a man who was paralyzed, and they were seeking to bring him in and lay him before Jesus, 19 but finding no way to bring him in, because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and let him down with his bed through the tiles into the midst before Jesus. 20 And when he saw their faith, he said, “Man, your sins are forgiven you.” 21 And the scribes and the Pharisees began to question, saying, “Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?” 22 When Jesus perceived their thoughts, he answered them, “Why do you question in your hearts? 23 Which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Rise and walk’? 24 But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—he said to the man who was paralyzed—“I say to you, rise, pick up your bed and go home.” 25 And immediately he rose up before them and picked up what he had been lying on and went home, glorifying God. 26 And amazement seized them all, and they glorified God and were filled with awe, saying, “We have seen extraordinary things today.” Jesus Calls Levi 27 After this he went out and saw a tax collector named Levi, sitting at the tax booth. And he said to him, “Follow me.” 28 And leaving everything, he rose and followed him. 29 And Levi made him a great feast in his house, and there was a large company of tax collectors and others reclining at table with them. 30 And the Pharisees and their scribes grumbled at his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?” 31 And Jesus answered them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. 32 I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.” A Question About Fasting 33 And they said to him, “The disciples of John fast often and offer prayers, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink.” 34 And Jesus said to them, “Can you make wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? 35 The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in those days.” 36 He also told them a parable: “No one tears a piece from a new garment and puts it on an old garment. If he does, he will tear the new, and the piece from the new will not match the old. 37 And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the new wine will burst the skins and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed. 38 But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins. 39 And no one after drinking old wine desires new, for he says, ‘The old is good.’”5 Jesus Is Lord of the Sabbath 6 On a Sabbath,6 while he was going through the grainfields, his disciples plucked and ate some heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands. 2 But some of the Pharisees said, “Why are you doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath?” 3 And Jesus answered them, “Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him: 4 how he entered the house of God and took and ate the bread of the Presence, which is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and also gave it to those with him?” 5 And he said to them, “The Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.” A Man with a Withered Hand 6 On another Sabbath, he entered the synagogue and was teaching, and a man was there whose right hand was withered. 7 And the scribes and the Pharisees watched him, to see whether he would heal on the Sabbath, so that they might find a reason to accuse him. 8 But he knew their thoughts, and he said to the man with the withered hand, “Come and stand here.” And he rose and stood there. 9 And Jesus said to them, “I ask you, is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do harm, to save life or to destroy it?” 10 And after looking around at them all he said to him, “Stretch out your hand.” And he did so, and his hand was restored. 11 But they were filled with fury and discussed with one another what they might do to Jesus. The Twelve Apostles 12 In these days he went out to the mountain to pray, and all night he continued in prayer to God. 13 And when day came, he called his disciples and chose from them twelve, whom he named apostles: 14 Simon, whom he named Peter, and Andrew his brother, and James and John, and Philip, and Bartholomew, 15 and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon who was called the Zealot, 16 and Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor. Footnotes [1] 5:10 The Greek word anthropoi refers here to both men and women [2] 5:12 Leprosy was a term for several skin diseases; see Leviticus 13 [3] 5:13 Greek he [4] 5:17 Some manuscripts was present to heal them [5] 5:39 Some manuscripts better [6] 6:1 Some manuscripts On the second first Sabbath (that is, on the second Sabbath after the first) (ESV)

With family: Genesis 8; Matthew 8 Genesis 8 (Listen) The Flood Subsides 8 But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided. 2 The fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, the rain from the heavens was restrained, 3 and the waters receded from the earth continually. At the end of 150 days the waters had abated, 4 and in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. 5 And the waters continued to abate until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen. 6 At the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made 7 and sent forth a raven. It went to and fro until the waters were dried up from the earth. 8 Then he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters had subsided from the face of the ground. 9 But the dove found no place to set her foot, and she returned to him to the ark, for the waters were still on the face of the whole earth. So he put out his hand and took her and brought her into the ark with him. 10 He waited another seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark. 11 And the dove came back to him in the evening, and behold, in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters had subsided from the earth. 12 Then he waited another seven days and sent forth the dove, and she did not return to him anymore. 13 In the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried from off the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and behold, the face of the ground was dry. 14 In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth had dried out. 15 Then God said to Noah, 16 “Go out from the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons’ wives with you. 17 Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh—birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth—that they may swarm on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.” 18 So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him. 19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, went out by families from the ark. God’s Covenant with Noah 20 Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21 And when the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, the LORD said in his heart, “I will never again curse1 the ground because of man, for the intention of man’s heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done. 22 While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.” Footnotes [1] 8:21 Or dishonor (ESV) Matthew 8 (Listen) Jesus Cleanses a Leper 8 When he came down from the mountain, great crowds followed him. 2 And behold, a leper1 came to him and knelt before him, saying, “Lord, if you will, you can make me clean.” 3 And Jesus2 stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I will; be clean.” And immediately his leprosy was cleansed. 4 And Jesus said to him, “See that you say nothing to anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a proof to them.” The Faith of a Centurion 5 When he had entered Capernaum, a centurion came forward to him, appealing to him, 6 “Lord, my servant is lying paralyzed at home, suffering terribly.” 7 And he said to him, “I will come and heal him.” 8 But the centurion replied, “Lord, I am not worthy to have you come under my roof, but only say the word, and my servant will be healed. 9 For I too am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. And I say to one, ‘Go,’ and he goes, and to another, ‘Come,’ and he comes, and to my servant,3 ‘Do this,’ and he does it.” 10 When Jesus heard this, he marveled and said to those who followed him, “Truly, I tell you, with no one in Israel4 have I found such faith. 11 I tell you, many will come from east and west and recline at table with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven, 12 while the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” 13 And to the centurion Jesus said, “Go; let it be done for you as you have believed.” And the servant was healed at that very moment. Jesus Heals Many 14 And when Jesus entered Peter’s house, he saw his mother-in-law lying sick with a fever. 15 He touched her hand, and the fever left her, and she rose and began to serve him. 16 That evening they brought to him many who were oppressed by demons, and he cast out the spirits with a word and healed all who were sick. 17 This was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah: “He took our illnesses and bore our diseases.” The Cost of Following Jesus 18 Now when Jesus saw a crowd around him, he gave orders to go over to the other side. 19 And a scribe came up and said to him, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.” 20 And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.” 21 Another of the disciples said to him, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.” 22 And Jesus said to him, “Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead.” Jesus Calms a Storm 23 And when he got into the boat, his disciples followed him. 24 And behold, there arose a great storm on the sea, so that the boat was being swamped by the waves; but he was asleep. 25 And they went and woke him, saying, “Save us, Lord; we are perishing.” 26 And he said to them, “Why are you afraid, O you of little faith?” Then he rose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm. 27 And the men marveled, saying, “What sort of man is this, that even winds and sea obey him?” Jesus Heals Two Men with Demons 28 And when he came to the other side, to the country of the Gadarenes,5 two demon-possessed6 men met him, coming out of the tombs, so fierce that no one could pass that way. 29 And behold, they cried out, “What have you to do with us, O Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?” 30 Now a herd of many pigs was feeding at some distance from them. 31 And the demons begged him, saying, “If you cast us out, send us away into the herd of pigs.” 32 And he said to them, “Go.” So they came out and went into the pigs, and behold, the whole herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea and drowned in the waters. 33 The herdsmen fled, and going into the city they told everything, especially what had happened to the demon-possessed men. 34 And behold, all the city came out to meet Jesus, and when they saw him, they begged him to leave their region. Footnotes [1] 8:2 Leprosy was a term for several skin diseases; see Leviticus 13 [2] 8:3 Greek he [3] 8:9 Or bondservant [4] 8:10 Some manuscripts not even in Israel [5] 8:28 Some manuscripts Gergesenes; some Gerasenes [6] 8:28 Greek daimonizomai (demonized); also verse 33; elsewhere rendered oppressed by demons (ESV) In private: Ezra 8; Acts 8 Ezra 8 (Listen) Genealogy of Those Who Returned with Ezra 8 These are the heads of their fathers’ houses, and this is the genealogy of those who went up with me from Babylonia, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king: 2 Of the sons of Phinehas, Gershom. Of the sons of Ithamar, Daniel. Of the sons of David, Hattush. 3 Of the sons of Shecaniah, who was of the sons of Parosh, Zechariah, with whom were registered 150 men. 4 Of the sons of Pahath-moab, Eliehoenai the son of Zerahiah, and with him 200 men. 5 Of the sons of Zattu,1 Shecaniah the son of Jahaziel, and with him 300 men. 6 Of the sons of Adin, Ebed the son of Jonathan, and with him 50 men. 7 Of the sons of Elam, Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah, and with him 70 men. 8 Of the sons of Shephatiah, Zebadiah the son of Michael, and with him 80 men. 9 Of the sons of Joab, Obadiah the son of Jehiel, and with him 218 men. 10 Of the sons of Bani,2 Shelomith the son of Josiphiah, and with him 160 men. 11 Of the sons of Bebai, Zechariah, the son of Bebai, and with him 28 men. 12 Of the sons of Azgad, Johanan the son of Hakkatan, and with him 110 men. 13 Of the sons of Adonikam, those who came later, their names being Eliphelet, Jeuel, and Shemaiah, and with them 60 men. 14 Of the sons of Bigvai, Uthai and Zaccur, and with them 70 men. Ezra Sends for Levites 15 I gathered them to the river that runs to Ahava, and there we camped three days. As I reviewed the people and the priests, I found there none of the sons of Levi. 16 Then I sent for Eliezer, Ariel, Shemaiah, Elnathan, Jarib, Elnathan, Nathan, Zechariah, and Meshullam, leading men, and for Joiarib and Elnathan, who were men of insight, 17 and sent them to Iddo, the leading man at the place Casiphia, telling them what to say to Iddo and his brothers and3 the temple servants at the place Casiphia, namely, to send us ministers for the house of our God. 18 And by the good hand of our God on us, they brought us a man of discretion, of the sons of Mahli the son of Levi, son of Israel, namely Sherebiah with his sons and kinsmen, 18; 19 also Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, with his kinsmen and their sons, 20; 20 besides 220 of the temple servants, whom David and his officials had set apart to attend the Levites. These were all mentioned by name. Fasting and Prayer for Protection 21 Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a safe journey for ourselves, our children, and all our goods. 22 For I was ashamed to ask the king for a band of soldiers and horsemen to protect us against the enemy on our way, since we had told the king, “The hand of our God is for good on all who seek him, and the power of his wrath is against all who forsake him.” 23 So we fasted and implored our God for this, and he listened to our entreaty. Priests to Guard Offerings 24 Then I set apart twelve of the leading priests: Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their kinsmen with them. 25 And I weighed out to them the silver and the gold and the vessels, the offering for the house of our God that the king and his counselors and his lords and all Israel there present had offered. 26 I weighed out into their hand 650 talents4 of silver, and silver vessels worth 200 talents,5 and 100 talents of gold, 27 20 bowls of gold worth 1,000 darics,6 and two vessels of fine bright bronze as precious as gold. 28 And I said to them, “You are holy to the LORD, and the vessels are holy, and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering to the LORD, the God of your fathers. 29 Guard them and keep them until you weigh them before the chief priests and the Levites and the heads of fathers’ houses in Israel at Jerusalem, within the chambers of the house of the LORD.” 30 So the priests and the Levites took over the weight of the silver and the gold and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem, to the house of our God. 31 Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem. The hand of our God was on us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and from ambushes by the way. 32 We came to Jerusalem, and there we remained three days. 33 On the fourth day, within the house of our God, the silver and the gold and the vessels were weighed into the hands of Meremoth the priest, son of Uriah, and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas, and with them were the Levites, Jozabad the son of Jeshua and Noadiah the son of Binnui. 34 The whole was counted and weighed, and the weight of everything was recorded. 35 At that time those who had come from captivity, the returned exiles, offered burnt offerings to the God of Israel, twelve bulls for all Israel, ninety-six rams, seventy-seven lambs, and as a sin offering twelve male goats. All this was a burnt offering to the LORD. 36 They also delivered the king’s commissions to the king’s satraps7 and to the governors of the province Beyond the River, and they aided the people and the house of God. Footnotes [1] 8:5 Septuagint; Hebrew lacks of Zattu [2] 8:10 Septuagint; Hebrew lacks Bani [3] 8:17 Hebrew lacks and [4] 8:26 A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms [5] 8:26 Revocalization; the number is missing in the Masoretic Text [6] 8:27 A daric was a coin weighing about 1/4 ounce or 8.5 grams [7] 8:36 A satrap was a Persian official (ESV) Acts 8 (Listen) Saul Ravages the Church 8 And Saul approved of his execution. And there arose on that day a great persecution against the church in Jerusalem, and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles. 2 Devout men buried Stephen and made great lamentation over him. 3 But Saul was ravaging the church, and entering house after house, he dragged off men and women and committed them to prison. Philip Proclaims Christ in Samaria 4 Now those who were scattered went about preaching the word. 5 Philip went down to the city1 of Samaria and proclaimed to them the Christ. 6 And the crowds with one accord paid attention to what was being said by Philip, when they heard him and saw the signs that he did. 7 For unclean spirits, crying out with a loud voice, came out of many who had them, and many who were paralyzed or lame were healed. 8 So there was much joy in that city. Simon the Magician Believes 9 But there was a man named Simon, who had previously practiced magic in the city and amazed the people of Samaria, saying that he himself was somebody great. 10 They all paid attention to him, from the least to the greatest, saying, “This man is the power of God that is called Great.” 11 And they paid attention to him because for a long time he had amazed them with his magic. 12 But when they believed Philip as he preached good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women. 13 Even Simon himself believed, and after being baptized he continued with Philip. And seeing signs and great miracles2 performed, he was amazed. 14 Now when the apostles at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent to them Peter and John, 15 who came down and prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit, 16 for he had not yet fallen on any of them, but they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. 17 Then they laid their hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit. 18 Now when Simon saw that the Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money, 19 saying, “Give me this power also, so that anyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit.” 20 But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money! 21 You have neither part nor lot in this matter, for your heart is not right before God. 22 Repent, therefore, of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord that, if possible, the intent of your heart may be forgiven you. 23 For I see that you are in the gall3 of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity.” 24 And Simon answered, “Pray for me to the Lord, that nothing of what you have said may come upon me.” 25 Now when they had testified and spoken the word of the Lord, they returned to Jerusalem, preaching the gospel to many villages of the Samaritans. Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch 26 Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Rise and go toward the south4 to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” This is a desert place. 27 And he rose and went. And there was an Ethiopian, a eunuch, a court official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was in charge of all her treasure. He had come to Jerusalem to worship 28 and was returning, seated in his chariot, and he was reading the prophet Isaiah. 29 And the Spirit said to Philip, “Go over and join this chariot.” 30 So Philip ran to him and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet and asked, “Do you understand what you are reading?” 31 And he said, “How can I, unless someone guides me?” And he invited Philip to come up and sit with him. 32 Now the passage of the Scripture that he was reading was this:   “Like a sheep he was led to the slaughter    and like a lamb before its shearer is silent,    so he opens not his mouth.33   In his humiliation justice was denied him.    Who can describe his generation?  For his life is taken away from the earth.” 34 And the eunuch said to Philip, “About whom, I ask you, does the prophet say this, about himself or about someone else?” 35 Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning with this Scripture he told him the good news about Jesus. 36 And as they were going along the road they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “See, here is water! What prevents me from being baptized?”5 38 And he commanded the chariot to stop, and they both went down into the water, Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him. 39 And when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord carried Philip away, and the eunuch saw him no more, and went on his way rejoicing. 40 But Philip found himself at Azotus, and as he passed through he preached the gospel to all the towns until he came to Caesarea. Footnotes [1] 8:5 Some manuscripts a city [2] 8:13 Greek works of power [3] 8:23 That is, a bitter fluid secreted by the liver; bile [4] 8:26 Or go at about noon [5] 8:36 Some manuscripts add all or most of verse 37: And Philip said, “If you believe with all your heart, you may.” And he replied, “I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.” (ESV)

Old Testament: Genesis 7–8 Genesis 7–8 (Listen) 7 Then the LORD said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation. 2 Take with you seven pairs of all clean animals,1 the male and his mate, and a pair of the animals that are not clean, the male and his mate, 3 and seven pairs2 of the birds of the heavens also, male and female, to keep their offspring alive on the face of all the earth. 4 For in seven days I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living thing3 that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground.” 5 And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him. 6 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came upon the earth. 7 And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him went into the ark to escape the waters of the flood. 8 Of clean animals, and of animals that are not clean, and of birds, and of everything that creeps on the ground, 9 two and two, male and female, went into the ark with Noah, as God had commanded Noah. 10 And after seven days the waters of the flood came upon the earth. 11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened. 12 And rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights. 13 On the very same day Noah and his sons, Shem and Ham and Japheth, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them entered the ark, 14 they and every beast, according to its kind, and all the livestock according to their kinds, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, according to its kind, and every bird, according to its kind, every winged creature. 15 They went into the ark with Noah, two and two of all flesh in which there was the breath of life. 16 And those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him. And the LORD shut him in. 17 The flood continued forty days on the earth. The waters increased and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth. 18 The waters prevailed and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the face of the waters. 19 And the waters prevailed so mightily on the earth that all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered. 20 The waters prevailed above the mountains, covering them fifteen cubits4 deep. 21 And all flesh died that moved on the earth, birds, livestock, beasts, all swarming creatures that swarm on the earth, and all mankind. 22 Everything on the dry land in whose nostrils was the breath of life died. 23 He blotted out every living thing that was on the face of the ground, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens. They were blotted out from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ark. 24 And the waters prevailed on the earth 150 days. The Flood Subsides 8 But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided. 2 The fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, the rain from the heavens was restrained, 3 and the waters receded from the earth continually. At the end of 150 days the waters had abated, 4 and in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. 5 And the waters continued to abate until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen. 6 At the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made 7 and sent forth a raven. It went to and fro until the waters were dried up from the earth. 8 Then he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters had subsided from the face of the ground. 9 But the dove found no place to set her foot, and she returned to him to the ark, for the waters were still on the face of the whole earth. So he put out his hand and took her and brought her into the ark with him. 10 He waited another seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark. 11 And the dove came back to him in the evening, and behold, in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters had subsided from the earth. 12 Then he waited another seven days and sent forth the dove, and she did not return to him anymore. 13 In the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried from off the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and behold, the face of the ground was dry. 14 In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth had dried out. 15 Then God said to Noah, 16 “Go out from the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons’ wives with you. 17 Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh—birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth—that they may swarm on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.” 18 So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him. 19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, went out by families from the ark. God’s Covenant with Noah 20 Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21 And when the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, the LORD said in his heart, “I will never again curse5 the ground because of man, for the intention of man’s heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done. 22 While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.” Footnotes [1] 7:2 Or seven of each kind of clean animal [2] 7:3 Or seven of each kind [3] 7:4 Hebrew all existence; also verse 23 [4] 7:20 A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters [5] 8:21 Or dishonor (ESV) New Testament: Matthew 3 Matthew 3 (Listen) John the Baptist Prepares the Way 3 In those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea, 2 “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”1 3 For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah when he said,   “The voice of one crying in the wilderness:  ‘Prepare2 the way of the Lord;    make his paths straight.’” 4 Now John wore a garment of camel’s hair and a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey. 5 Then Jerusalem and all Judea and all the region about the Jordan were going out to him, 6 and they were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins. 7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? 8 Bear fruit in keeping with repentance. 9 And do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father,’ for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham. 10 Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 11 “I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. 12 His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.” The Baptism of Jesus 13 Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptized by him. 14 John would have prevented him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?” 15 But Jesus answered him, “Let it be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he consented. 16 And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him,3 and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him; 17 and behold, a voice from heaven said, “This is my beloved Son,4 with whom I am well pleased.” Footnotes [1] 3:2 Or the kingdom of heaven has come near [2] 3:3 Or crying: Prepare in the wilderness [3] 3:16 Some manuscripts omit to him [4] 3:17 Or my Son, my (or the) Beloved (ESV) Psalm: Psalm 4 Psalm 4 (Listen) Answer Me When I Call To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Psalm of David. 4   Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness!    You have given me relief when I was in distress.    Be gracious to me and hear my prayer! 2   O men,1 how long shall my honor be turned into shame?    How long will you love vain words and seek after lies? Selah3   But know that the LORD has set apart the godly for himself;    the LORD hears when I call to him. 4   Be angry,2 and do not sin;    ponder in your own hearts on your beds, and be silent. Selah5   Offer right sacrifices,    and put your trust in the LORD. 6   There are many who say, “Who will show us some good?    Lift up the light of your face upon us, O LORD!”7   You have put more joy in my heart    than they have when their grain and wine abound. 8   In peace I will both lie down and sleep;    for you alone, O LORD, make me dwell in safety. Footnotes [1] 4:2 Or O men of rank [2] 4:4 Or Be agitated (ESV) Proverb: Proverbs 2:1–15 Proverbs 2:1–15 (Listen) The Value of Wisdom 2   My son, if you receive my words    and treasure up my commandments with you,2   making your ear attentive to wisdom    and inclining your heart to understanding;3   yes, if you call out for insight    and raise your voice for understanding,4   if you seek it like silver    and search for it as for hidden treasures,5   then you will understand the fear of the LORD    and find the knowledge of God.6   For the LORD gives wisdom;    from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;7   he stores up sound wisdom for the upright;    he is a shield to those who walk in integrity,8   guarding the paths of justice    and watching over the way of his saints.9   Then you will understand righteousness and justice    and equity, every good path;10   for wisdom will come into your heart,    and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;11   discretion will watch over you,    understanding will guard you,12   delivering you from the way of evil,    from men of perverted speech,13   who forsake the paths of uprightness    to walk in the ways of darkness,14   who rejoice in doing evil    and delight in the perverseness of evil,15   men whose paths are crooked,    and who are devious in their ways. (ESV)

Old Testament: Genesis 7–8 Genesis 7–8 (Listen) 7 Then the LORD said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation. 2 Take with you seven pairs of all clean animals,1 the male and his mate, and a pair of the animals that are not clean, the male and his mate, 3 and seven pairs2 of the birds of the heavens also, male and female, to keep their offspring alive on the face of all the earth. 4 For in seven days I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living thing3 that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground.” 5 And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him. 6 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came upon the earth. 7 And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him went into the ark to escape the waters of the flood. 8 Of clean animals, and of animals that are not clean, and of birds, and of everything that creeps on the ground, 9 two and two, male and female, went into the ark with Noah, as God had commanded Noah. 10 And after seven days the waters of the flood came upon the earth. 11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened. 12 And rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights. 13 On the very same day Noah and his sons, Shem and Ham and Japheth, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them entered the ark, 14 they and every beast, according to its kind, and all the livestock according to their kinds, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, according to its kind, and every bird, according to its kind, every winged creature. 15 They went into the ark with Noah, two and two of all flesh in which there was the breath of life. 16 And those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him. And the LORD shut him in. 17 The flood continued forty days on the earth. The waters increased and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth. 18 The waters prevailed and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the face of the waters. 19 And the waters prevailed so mightily on the earth that all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered. 20 The waters prevailed above the mountains, covering them fifteen cubits4 deep. 21 And all flesh died that moved on the earth, birds, livestock, beasts, all swarming creatures that swarm on the earth, and all mankind. 22 Everything on the dry land in whose nostrils was the breath of life died. 23 He blotted out every living thing that was on the face of the ground, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens. They were blotted out from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ark. 24 And the waters prevailed on the earth 150 days. The Flood Subsides 8 But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided. 2 The fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, the rain from the heavens was restrained, 3 and the waters receded from the earth continually. At the end of 150 days the waters had abated, 4 and in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. 5 And the waters continued to abate until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen. 6 At the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made 7 and sent forth a raven. It went to and fro until the waters were dried up from the earth. 8 Then he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters had subsided from the face of the ground. 9 But the dove found no place to set her foot, and she returned to him to the ark, for the waters were still on the face of the whole earth. So he put out his hand and took her and brought her into the ark with him. 10 He waited another seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark. 11 And the dove came back to him in the evening, and behold, in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters had subsided from the earth. 12 Then he waited another seven days and sent forth the dove, and she did not return to him anymore. 13 In the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried from off the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and behold, the face of the ground was dry. 14 In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth had dried out. 15 Then God said to Noah, 16 “Go out from the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons’ wives with you. 17 Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh—birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth—that they may swarm on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.” 18 So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him. 19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, went out by families from the ark. God’s Covenant with Noah 20 Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21 And when the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, the LORD said in his heart, “I will never again curse5 the ground because of man, for the intention of man’s heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done. 22 While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.” Footnotes [1] 7:2 Or seven of each kind of clean animal [2] 7:3 Or seven of each kind [3] 7:4 Hebrew all existence; also verse 23 [4] 7:20 A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters [5] 8:21 Or dishonor (ESV) Psalm: Psalm 4 Psalm 4 (Listen) Answer Me When I Call To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Psalm of David. 4   Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness!    You have given me relief when I was in distress.    Be gracious to me and hear my prayer! 2   O men,1 how long shall my honor be turned into shame?    How long will you love vain words and seek after lies? Selah3   But know that the LORD has set apart the godly for himself;    the LORD hears when I call to him. 4   Be angry,2 and do not sin;    ponder in your own hearts on your beds, and be silent. Selah5   Offer right sacrifices,    and put your trust in the LORD. 6   There are many who say, “Who will show us some good?    Lift up the light of your face upon us, O LORD!”7   You have put more joy in my heart    than they have when their grain and wine abound. 8   In peace I will both lie down and sleep;    for you alone, O LORD, make me dwell in safety. Footnotes [1] 4:2 Or O men of rank [2] 4:4 Or Be agitated (ESV) New Testament: Matthew 6 Matthew 6 (Listen) Giving to the Needy 6 “Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. 2 “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. 3 But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4 so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. The Lord’s Prayer 5 “And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. 6 But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. 7 “And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words. 8 Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. 9 Pray then like this:   “Our Father in heaven,  hallowed be your name.110   Your kingdom come,  your will be done,2    on earth as it is in heaven.11   Give us this day our daily bread,312   and forgive us our debts,    as we also have forgiven our debtors.13   And lead us not into temptation,    but deliver us from evil.4 14 For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, 15 but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. Fasting 16 “And when you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. 17 But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, 18 that your fasting may not be seen by others but by your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. Lay Up Treasures in Heaven 19 “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust5 destroy and where thieves break in and steal, 20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. 22 “The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, 23 but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness! 24 “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.6 Do Not Be Anxious 25 “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27 And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?7 28 And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, 29 yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? 31 Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. 33 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. 34 “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. Footnotes [1] 6:9 Or Let your name be kept holy, or Let your name be treated with reverence [2] 6:10 Or Let your kingdom come, let your will be done [3] 6:11 Or our bread for tomorrow [4] 6:13 Or the evil one; some manuscripts add For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever. Amen [5] 6:19 Or worm; also verse 20 [6] 6:24 Greek mammon, a Semitic word for money or possessions [7] 6:27 Or a single cubit to his stature; a cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters (ESV)

Morning: Genesis 6–8 Genesis 6–8 (Listen) Increasing Corruption on Earth 6 When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them, 2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose. 3 Then the LORD said, “My Spirit shall not abide in1 man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years.” 4 The Nephilim2 were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown. 5 The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6 And the LORD regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart. 7 So the LORD said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them.” 8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD. Noah and the Flood 9 These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God. 10 And Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. 11 Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight, and the earth was filled with violence. 12 And God saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth. 13 And God said to Noah, “I have determined to make an end of all flesh,3 for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth. 14 Make yourself an ark of gopher wood.4 Make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and out with pitch. 15 This is how you are to make it: the length of the ark 300 cubits,5 its breadth 50 cubits, and its height 30 cubits. 16 Make a roof6 for the ark, and finish it to a cubit above, and set the door of the ark in its side. Make it with lower, second, and third decks. 17 For behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life under heaven. Everything that is on the earth shall die. 18 But I will establish my covenant with you, and you shall come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you. 19 And of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ark to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female. 20 Of the birds according to their kinds, and of the animals according to their kinds, of every creeping thing of the ground, according to its kind, two of every sort shall come in to you to keep them alive. 21 Also take with you every sort of food that is eaten, and store it up. It shall serve as food for you and for them.” 22 Noah did this; he did all that God commanded him. 7 Then the LORD said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation. 2 Take with you seven pairs of all clean animals,7 the male and his mate, and a pair of the animals that are not clean, the male and his mate, 3 and seven pairs8 of the birds of the heavens also, male and female, to keep their offspring alive on the face of all the earth. 4 For in seven days I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living thing9 that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground.” 5 And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him. 6 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came upon the earth. 7 And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him went into the ark to escape the waters of the flood. 8 Of clean animals, and of animals that are not clean, and of birds, and of everything that creeps on the ground, 9 two and two, male and female, went into the ark with Noah, as God had commanded Noah. 10 And after seven days the waters of the flood came upon the earth. 11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened. 12 And rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights. 13 On the very same day Noah and his sons, Shem and Ham and Japheth, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them entered the ark, 14 they and every beast, according to its kind, and all the livestock according to their kinds, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, according to its kind, and every bird, according to its kind, every winged creature. 15 They went into the ark with Noah, two and two of all flesh in which there was the breath of life. 16 And those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him. And the LORD shut him in. 17 The flood continued forty days on the earth. The waters increased and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth. 18 The waters prevailed and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the face of the waters. 19 And the waters prevailed so mightily on the earth that all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered. 20 The waters prevailed above the mountains, covering them fifteen cubits10 deep. 21 And all flesh died that moved on the earth, birds, livestock, beasts, all swarming creatures that swarm on the earth, and all mankind. 22 Everything on the dry land in whose nostrils was the breath of life died. 23 He blotted out every living thing that was on the face of the ground, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens. They were blotted out from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ark. 24 And the waters prevailed on the earth 150 days. The Flood Subsides 8 But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided. 2 The fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, the rain from the heavens was restrained, 3 and the waters receded from the earth continually. At the end of 150 days the waters had abated, 4 and in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. 5 And the waters continued to abate until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen. 6 At the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made 7 and sent forth a raven. It went to and fro until the waters were dried up from the earth. 8 Then he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters had subsided from the face of the ground. 9 But the dove found no place to set her foot, and she returned to him to the ark, for the waters were still on the face of the whole earth. So he put out his hand and took her and brought her into the ark with him. 10 He waited another seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark. 11 And the dove came back to him in the evening, and behold, in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters had subsided from the earth. 12 Then he waited another seven days and sent forth the dove, and she did not return to him anymore. 13 In the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried from off the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and behold, the face of the ground was dry. 14 In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth had dried out. 15 Then God said to Noah, 16 “Go out from the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons’ wives with you. 17 Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh—birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth—that they may swarm on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.” 18 So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him. 19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, went out by families from the ark. God’s Covenant with Noah 20 Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21 And when the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, the LORD said in his heart, “I will never again curse11 the ground because of man, for the intention of man’s heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done. 22 While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.” Footnotes [1] 6:3 Or My Spirit shall not contend with [2] 6:4 Or giants [3] 6:13 Hebrew The end of all flesh has come before me [4] 6:14 An unknown kind of tree; transliterated from Hebrew [5] 6:15 A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters [6] 6:16 Or skylight [7] 7:2 Or seven of each kind of clean animal [8] 7:3 Or seven of each kind [9] 7:4 Hebrew all existence; also verse 23 [10] 7:20 A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters [11] 8:21 Or dishonor (ESV) Evening: Matthew 3 Matthew 3 (Listen) John the Baptist Prepares the Way 3 In those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea, 2 “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”1 3 For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah when he said,   “The voice of one crying in the wilderness:  ‘Prepare2 the way of the Lord;    make his paths straight.’” 4 Now John wore a garment of camel’s hair and a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey. 5 Then Jerusalem and all Judea and all the region about the Jordan were going out to him, 6 and they were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins. 7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? 8 Bear fruit in keeping with repentance. 9 And do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father,’ for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham. 10 Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 11 “I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. 12 His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.” The Baptism of Jesus 13 Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptized by him. 14 John would have prevented him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?” 15 But Jesus answered him, “Let it be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he consented. 16 And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him,3 and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him; 17 and behold, a voice from heaven said, “This is my beloved Son,4 with whom I am well pleased.” Footnotes [1] 3:2 Or the kingdom of heaven has come near [2] 3:3 Or crying: Prepare in the wilderness [3] 3:16 Some manuscripts omit to him [4] 3:17 Or my Son, my (or the) Beloved (ESV)

Genesis 8–11 Genesis 8–11 (Listen) The Flood Subsides 8 But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided. 2 The fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, the rain from the heavens was restrained, 3 and the waters receded from the earth continually. At the end of 150 days the waters had abated, 4 and in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. 5 And the waters continued to abate until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen. 6 At the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made 7 and sent forth a raven. It went to and fro until the waters were dried up from the earth. 8 Then he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters had subsided from the face of the ground. 9 But the dove found no place to set her foot, and she returned to him to the ark, for the waters were still on the face of the whole earth. So he put out his hand and took her and brought her into the ark with him. 10 He waited another seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark. 11 And the dove came back to him in the evening, and behold, in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters had subsided from the earth. 12 Then he waited another seven days and sent forth the dove, and she did not return to him anymore. 13 In the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried from off the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and behold, the face of the ground was dry. 14 In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth had dried out. 15 Then God said to Noah, 16 “Go out from the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons’ wives with you. 17 Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh—birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth—that they may swarm on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.” 18 So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him. 19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, went out by families from the ark. God’s Covenant with Noah 20 Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21 And when the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, the LORD said in his heart, “I will never again curse1 the ground because of man, for the intention of man’s heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done. 22 While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.” 9 And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. 2 The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and upon every bird of the heavens, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea. Into your hand they are delivered. 3 Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything. 4 But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood. 5 And for your lifeblood I will require a reckoning: from every beast I will require it and from man. From his fellow man I will require a reckoning for the life of man. 6   “Whoever sheds the blood of man,    by man shall his blood be shed,  for God made man in his own image. 7 And you,2 be fruitful and multiply, increase greatly on the earth and multiply in it.” 8 Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him, 9 “Behold, I establish my covenant with you and your offspring after you, 10 and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the livestock, and every beast of the earth with you, as many as came out of the ark; it is for every beast of the earth. 11 I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.” 12 And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations: 13 I have set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. 14 When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is seen in the clouds, 15 I will remember my covenant that is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh. And the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. 16 When the bow is in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.” 17 God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth.” Noah’s Descendants 18 The sons of Noah who went forth from the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.) 19 These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the people of the whole earth were dispersed.3 20 Noah began to be a man of the soil, and he planted a vineyard.4 21 He drank of the wine and became drunk and lay uncovered in his tent. 22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brothers outside. 23 Then Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it on both their shoulders, and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were turned backward, and they did not see their father’s nakedness. 24 When Noah awoke from his wine and knew what his youngest son had done to him, 25 he said,   “Cursed be Canaan;    a servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.” 26 He also said,   “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem;    and let Canaan be his servant.27   May God enlarge Japheth,5    and let him dwell in the tents of Shem,    and let Canaan be his servant.” 28 After the flood Noah lived 350 years. 29 All the days of Noah were 950 years, and he died. Nations Descended from Noah 10 These are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood. 2 The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras. 3 The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah. 4 The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. 5 From these the coastland peoples spread in their lands, each with his own language, by their clans, in their nations. 6 The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan. 7 The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan. 8 Cush fathered Nimrod; he was the first on earth to be a mighty man.6 9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD. Therefore it is said, “Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the LORD.” 10 The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. 11 From that land he went into Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah, and 12 Resen between Nineveh and Calah; that is the great city. 13 Egypt fathered Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim, 14 Pathrusim, Casluhim (from whom7 the Philistines came), and Caphtorim. 15 Canaan fathered Sidon his firstborn and Heth, 16 and the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites, 17 the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites, 18 the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Afterward the clans of the Canaanites dispersed. 19 And the territory of the Canaanites extended from Sidon in the direction of Gerar as far as Gaza, and in the direction of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha. 20 These are the sons of Ham, by their clans, their languages, their lands, and their nations. 21 To Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, children were born. 22 The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram. 23 The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash. 24 Arpachshad fathered Shelah; and Shelah fathered Eber. 25 To Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg,8 for in his days the earth was divided, and his brother’s name was Joktan. 26 Joktan fathered Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, 27 Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, 28 Obal, Abimael, Sheba, 29 Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab; all these were the sons of Joktan. 30 The territory in which they lived extended from Mesha in the direction of Sephar to the hill country of the east. 31 These are the sons of Shem, by their clans, their languages, their lands, and their nations. 32 These are the clans of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, in their nations, and from these the nations spread abroad on the earth after the flood. The Tower of Babel 11 Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. 2 And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. 3 And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar. 4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.” 5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built. 6 And the LORD said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another’s speech.” 8 So the LORD dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city. 9 Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused9 the language of all the earth. And from there the LORD dispersed them over the face of all the earth. Shem’s Descendants 10 These are the generations of Shem. When Shem was 100 years old, he fathered Arpachshad two years after the flood. 11 And Shem lived after he fathered Arpachshad 500 years and had other sons and daughters. 12 When Arpachshad had lived 35 years, he fathered Shelah. 13 And Arpachshad lived after he fathered Shelah 403 years and had other sons and daughters. 14 When Shelah had lived 30 years, he fathered Eber. 15 And Shelah lived after he fathered Eber 403 years and had other sons and daughters. 16 When Eber had lived 34 years, he fathered Peleg. 17 And Eber lived after he fathered Peleg 430 years and had other sons and daughters. 18 When Peleg had lived 30 years, he fathered Reu. 19 And Peleg lived after he fathered Reu 209 years and had other sons and daughters. 20 When Reu had lived 32 years, he fathered Serug. 21 And Reu lived after he fathered Serug 207 years and had other sons and daughters. 22 When Serug had lived 30 years, he fathered Nahor. 23 And Serug lived after he fathered Nahor 200 years and had other sons and daughters. 24 When Nahor had lived 29 years, he fathered Terah. 25 And Nahor lived after he fathered Terah 119 years and had other sons and daughters. 26 When Terah had lived 70 years, he fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Terah’s Descendants 27 Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran fathered Lot. 28 Haran died in the presence of his father Terah in the land of his kindred, in Ur of the Chaldeans. 29 And Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran the father of Milcah and Iscah. 30 Now Sarai was barren; she had no child. 31 Terah took Abram his son and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife, and they went forth together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan, but when they came to Haran, they settled there. 32 The days of Terah were 205 years, and Terah died in Haran. Footnotes [1] 8:21 Or dishonor [2] 9:7 In Hebrew you is plural [3] 9:19 Or from these the whole earth was populated [4] 9:20 Or Noah, a man of the soil, was the first to plant a vineyard [5] 9:27 Japheth sounds like the Hebrew for enlarge [6] 10:8 Or he began to be a mighty man on the earth [7] 10:14 Or from where [8] 10:25 Peleg means division [9] 11:9 Babel sounds like the Hebrew for confused (ESV)

Genesis 8–11 Genesis 8–11 (Listen) The Flood Subsides 8 But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided. 2 The fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, the rain from the heavens was restrained, 3 and the waters receded from the earth continually. At the end of 150 days the waters had abated, 4 and in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. 5 And the waters continued to abate until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen. 6 At the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made 7 and sent forth a raven. It went to and fro until the waters were dried up from the earth. 8 Then he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters had subsided from the face of the ground. 9 But the dove found no place to set her foot, and she returned to him to the ark, for the waters were still on the face of the whole earth. So he put out his hand and took her and brought her into the ark with him. 10 He waited another seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark. 11 And the dove came back to him in the evening, and behold, in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters had subsided from the earth. 12 Then he waited another seven days and sent forth the dove, and she did not return to him anymore. 13 In the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried from off the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and behold, the face of the ground was dry. 14 In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth had dried out. 15 Then God said to Noah, 16 “Go out from the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons’ wives with you. 17 Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh—birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth—that they may swarm on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.” 18 So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him. 19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, went out by families from the ark. God’s Covenant with Noah 20 Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21 And when the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, the LORD said in his heart, “I will never again curse1 the ground because of man, for the intention of man’s heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done. 22 While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.” 9 And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. 2 The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and upon every bird of the heavens, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea. Into your hand they are delivered. 3 Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything. 4 But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood. 5 And for your lifeblood I will require a reckoning: from every beast I will require it and from man. From his fellow man I will require a reckoning for the life of man. 6   “Whoever sheds the blood of man,    by man shall his blood be shed,  for God made man in his own image. 7 And you,2 be fruitful and multiply, increase greatly on the earth and multiply in it.” 8 Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him, 9 “Behold, I establish my covenant with you and your offspring after you, 10 and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the livestock, and every beast of the earth with you, as many as came out of the ark; it is for every beast of the earth. 11 I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.” 12 And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations: 13 I have set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. 14 When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is seen in the clouds, 15 I will remember my covenant that is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh. And the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. 16 When the bow is in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.” 17 God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth.” Noah’s Descendants 18 The sons of Noah who went forth from the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.) 19 These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the people of the whole earth were dispersed.3 20 Noah began to be a man of the soil, and he planted a vineyard.4 21 He drank of the wine and became drunk and lay uncovered in his tent. 22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brothers outside. 23 Then Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it on both their shoulders, and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were turned backward, and they did not see their father’s nakedness. 24 When Noah awoke from his wine and knew what his youngest son had done to him, 25 he said,   “Cursed be Canaan;    a servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.” 26 He also said,   “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem;    and let Canaan be his servant.27   May God enlarge Japheth,5    and let him dwell in the tents of Shem,    and let Canaan be his servant.” 28 After the flood Noah lived 350 years. 29 All the days of Noah were 950 years, and he died. Nations Descended from Noah 10 These are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood. 2 The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras. 3 The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah. 4 The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. 5 From these the coastland peoples spread in their lands, each with his own language, by their clans, in their nations. 6 The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan. 7 The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan. 8 Cush fathered Nimrod; he was the first on earth to be a mighty man.6 9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD. Therefore it is said, “Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the LORD.” 10 The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. 11 From that land he went into Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah, and 12 Resen between Nineveh and Calah; that is the great city. 13 Egypt fathered Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim, 14 Pathrusim, Casluhim (from whom7 the Philistines came), and Caphtorim. 15 Canaan fathered Sidon his firstborn and Heth, 16 and the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites, 17 the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites, 18 the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Afterward the clans of the Canaanites dispersed. 19 And the territory of the Canaanites extended from Sidon in the direction of Gerar as far as Gaza, and in the direction of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha. 20 These are the sons of Ham, by their clans, their languages, their lands, and their nations. 21 To Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, children were born. 22 The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram. 23 The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash. 24 Arpachshad fathered Shelah; and Shelah fathered Eber. 25 To Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg,8 for in his days the earth was divided, and his brother’s name was Joktan. 26 Joktan fathered Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, 27 Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, 28 Obal, Abimael, Sheba, 29 Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab; all these were the sons of Joktan. 30 The territory in which they lived extended from Mesha in the direction of Sephar to the hill country of the east. 31 These are the sons of Shem, by their clans, their languages, their lands, and their nations. 32 These are the clans of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, in their nations, and from these the nations spread abroad on the earth after the flood. The Tower of Babel 11 Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. 2 And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. 3 And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar. 4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.” 5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built. 6 And the LORD said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another’s speech.” 8 So the LORD dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city. 9 Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused9 the language of all the earth. And from there the LORD dispersed them over the face of all the earth. Shem’s Descendants 10 These are the generations of Shem. When Shem was 100 years old, he fathered Arpachshad two years after the flood. 11 And Shem lived after he fathered Arpachshad 500 years and had other sons and daughters. 12 When Arpachshad had lived 35 years, he fathered Shelah. 13 And Arpachshad lived after he fathered Shelah 403 years and had other sons and daughters. 14 When Shelah had lived 30 years, he fathered Eber. 15 And Shelah lived after he fathered Eber 403 years and had other sons and daughters. 16 When Eber had lived 34 years, he fathered Peleg. 17 And Eber lived after he fathered Peleg 430 years and had other sons and daughters. 18 When Peleg had lived 30 years, he fathered Reu. 19 And Peleg lived after he fathered Reu 209 years and had other sons and daughters. 20 When Reu had lived 32 years, he fathered Serug. 21 And Reu lived after he fathered Serug 207 years and had other sons and daughters. 22 When Serug had lived 30 years, he fathered Nahor. 23 And Serug lived after he fathered Nahor 200 years and had other sons and daughters. 24 When Nahor had lived 29 years, he fathered Terah. 25 And Nahor lived after he fathered Terah 119 years and had other sons and daughters. 26 When Terah had lived 70 years, he fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Terah’s Descendants 27 Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran fathered Lot. 28 Haran died in the presence of his father Terah in the land of his kindred, in Ur of the Chaldeans. 29 And Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran the father of Milcah and Iscah. 30 Now Sarai was barren; she had no child. 31 Terah took Abram his son and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife, and they went forth together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan, but when they came to Haran, they settled there. 32 The days of Terah were 205 years, and Terah died in Haran. Footnotes [1] 8:21 Or dishonor [2] 9:7 In Hebrew you is plural [3] 9:19 Or from these the whole earth was populated [4] 9:20 Or Noah, a man of the soil, was the first to plant a vineyard [5] 9:27 Japheth sounds like the Hebrew for enlarge [6] 10:8 Or he began to be a mighty man on the earth [7] 10:14 Or from where [8] 10:25 Peleg means division [9] 11:9 Babel sounds like the Hebrew for confused (ESV)

20 Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it. 21 The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though[a] every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.Genesis 8:20-21

20 Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it. 21 The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though[a] every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.Genesis 8:20-21

THE SEED OF THE NEW SEASON. PRINCIPLE OF THE NEW The Father dropped this profound revelation to my spirit while declaring his word in our morning session yesterday. Every new season requires new seeds. We are now planting the new seeds of the Father’s kingdom initiative. The Sabbath of the Lord has prepared the ground, and now the seed of God’s word is being sowed into good grounds. Genesis 8:20 Only prepared hearts and ready minds will receive the seed of heaven’s divine knowledge, wisdom, counsel for this hour. Heaven is releasing tools, insights, revelation, and wisdom to effectively build and journey ahead unto the place of his pleasure. We are now being giving seeds for the new earth; planting the divine intention of the Father is a process of seeding. Having the right seed sowed in the right, the prepared ground is a powerful spiritual value that will accelerate heaven's intention for our day. The Father will continue to engage our ground; hearts in this season. nothing of the old will remain in us before we are able to successfully sow and reap the harvest of God's kingdom. This is a powerful, relevant word that will challenge the very core of our spiritual system. Genesis 20 Then Noah built an altar to the LORD. And taking from every kind of clean animal and clean bird, he offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21 When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done. 22 As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”

THE STORY OF NOAH AND THE ARK After Abel was slain, and his brother Cain had gone into another land, again God gave a child to Adam and Eve. This child they named Seth; and other sons and daughters were given to them; for Adam and Eve lived many years. But at last they died, as God had said they must die, because they had eaten of the tree that God had forbidden them to eat. By the time that Adam died, there were many people on the earth; for the children of Adam and Eve had many other children; and when these grew up they had other children; and these had children also. These men and women and children lived in tents. They owned sheep and cattle, and they moved about with them, wherever they could find pasture. The children played around the tent doors and sat beside the campfires in the evenings, where they all sang together, and the older people told them stories. And after a time, this land where Adam's sons lived began to be full of people. It is sad to tell that as time went on more and more of these people became wicked, and fewer and fewer of them grew up to become good men and women. All the people lived near together, and few went away to other lands; so it came to pass that even the children of good men and women learned to be bad, like the people around them, and no longer did what was right and good. And as God looked down on the world that he had made, he saw how wicked the men in it had become, and that every thought and every act of man was evil and only evil continually. But while most of the people in the world were very wicked, there were some good people also, though they were very few. The best of all the men who lived at that time was a man whose name was Enoch. He was not the son of Cain, but another Enoch, who came from the family of Seth, the son of Adam, who was born after the death of Abel. While so many around Enoch were doing evil, this man did only what was right. He walked with God and God walked with him and talked with him. And at last, when Enoch was an incredibly old man and weary with life, God took him away from earth to heaven. He did not die, as all the people have since Adam disobeyed God, but “he was not, for God took him.” This means that Enoch was taken up from earth without dying. All the people in the time of Enoch were not shepherds. Some of them had learned how to make rude bows and arrows and axes and plows. And after a long time, they melted iron, and they made knives and swords and dishes to use in their homes. They sowed grain in the fields and reaped harvests, and they planted vines and fruit trees. But God looked down on the earth and said: “I will take away all men from the earth that I have made; because the men of the world are evil and do evil continually.” But even in those bad times God saw one good man. His name was Noah.  Noah tried to do right in the sight of God. As Enoch had walked with God, so Noah walked with God, and talked with him. And Noah had three sons; their names were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth. God said to Noah, “The time has come when all the men and women on the earth are to be destroyed. Everyone must die because they are all wicked. But you and your family shall be saved because you alone are trying to do right.” Then God told Noah how he might save his life and the lives of his sons.  He was to build a very large boat, as large as the largest ships that are made in our time; very long, and very wide and very deep; with a roof over it; and made like a long, wide house in three stories; but so built that it would float on the water. Such a ship as this was called “an ark.” God told Noah to build this ark, and to have it ready for the time when he would need it. “For,” said God to Noah, “I am going to bring a great flood of water on the earth to cover all the land and to drown all the people on the earth. And as the animals on the earth will be drowned with the people, you must make the ark large enough to hold a pair of each kind of animals and several pairs of some animals that are needed by men, like sheep and goats and oxen; so that there will be animals as well as men to live upon the earth after the flood has died. And you must take in the ark food for yourself and your family, and for all the animals with you; enough food to last for a year, while the flood shall stay on the earth.” And Noah did what God told him to do, although it must have seemed very strange to all the people around, to build this great ark where there was no water for it to sail upon. And it was a long time, because this ship was so big, that Noah and his sons were at work building the ark, which God had told them to build, while the wicked people around wondered, and no doubt laughed at Noah for building a great ship where there was no sea. At last the ark was finished and stood like a great house on the land.  There was a door on one side, and a window on the roof, to let in the light. Then God said to Noah: “Come into the ark, you, and your wife, and your three sons, and their wives with them; for the flood of waters will come very soon. And take with you animals of all kinds, and birds, and things that creep; seven pairs of these that will be needed by men, and one pair of all the rest, so that all kinds of animals may be kept alive upon the earth.” So, Noah and his wife, and his three sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, with their wives, went into the ark.  And God brought to the door of the ark the animals, and the birds, and the creeping things of all kinds; and they went into the ark. And Noah and his sons put them in their places and brought in food enough to feed them all for many days. And then the door of the ark was shut, and no more people and no more animals could come in. In a few days, the rain began to fall, as it had never rained before. It appears the heavens were opened to pour great floods upon the earth. The streams filled, and the rivers rose higher and higher, and the ark began to float on the water. The people left their houses and ran up to the hills; but soon the hills were covered, and all the people on them were drowned. Some had climbed up to the tops of higher mountains, but the water rose higher and higher, until even the mountains were covered and all the people, wicked as they had been, were drowned in the great sea that now rolled over all the earth where man had lived. And all the animals, the tame animals, cattle, and sheep, and oxen, were drowned; and the wild animals, lions, and tigers, and all the rest were drowned also.  Even the birds were drowned, for their nests in the trees were swept away, and there was no place where they could fly from the terrible storm. For forty days and nights the rain kept on, until there was no breath of life remaining outside of the ark. After forty days the rain stopped, but the water stayed upon the earth for more than six months, and the ark with all that were in it floated over the great sea that covered the land. Then God sent a wind to blow over the waters, and to dry them up, so by degrees the waters grew less and less. First mountains rose above the waters, then the hills rose, and finally the ark ceased to float and lay aground on a mountain which is called Mount Ararat. But Noah could not see what had happened on the earth, because the door was shut, and the only window was up in the roof. But he felt that the ark was no longer moving, and he knew that the water must have gone down. So, after waiting for a time, Noah opened a window, and let loose a bird called a raven. Now the raven has strong wings; and this raven flew round and round until the waters had gone down, and it could find a place to rest, and it did not come back to the ark. After Noah had waited for it awhile, he sent out a dove; but the dove could not find any place to rest, so it flew back to the ark, and Noah took it into the ark again. Then Noah waited a week longer, and afterward he sent out the dove again. And at the evening, the dove came back to the ark, which was its home; and in its bill was a fresh leaf which it had picked off from an olive tree. So, Noah knew that the water had gone down enough to let the trees grow again. He waited another week and sent out the dove again; but this time the dove flew away and never came back. And Noah knew that the earth was becoming dry again. So, he took off a part of the roof, and looked out, and saw that there was dry land all around the ark, and the waters were no longer everywhere. Noah had now lived in the ark a little more than a year, and he was glad to see the green land and the trees once more. And God said to Noah: “Come out of the ark, with your wife, and your sons, and their wives, and all the living things that are with you in the ark.” So, Noah opened the door of the ark, and with his family came out, and stood once more on the ground. And the animals, and birds, and creeping things in the ark, came out also, and began again to bring life to the earth. The first thing that Noah did when he came out of the ark, was to give thanks to God for saving all his family when the rest of the people on the earth were destroyed. He built an altar, and laid upon it an offering to the Lord, and gave himself and his family to God and promised to do God's will. And God was pleased with Noah's offering, and God said: “I will not again destroy the earth on account of men, no matter how bad they may be. From this time no flood shall again cover the earth; but the seasons of spring and summer and fall and winter, shall remain without change. I give to you the earth; you shall be the rulers of the ground and of every living thing upon it.” Then God caused a rainbow to appear in the sky, and he told Noah and his sons that whenever they or the people after them should see the rainbow, they should remember that God had placed it in the sky and over the clouds as a sign of his promise, that he would always remember the earth, and the people upon it, and would never again send a flood to destroy man from the earth. So as often as we see the beautiful rainbow, we are to remember that it is the sign of God's promise to the world.

REBUILDING THE ALTAR AND THE PRIESTHOOD FOR KINGDOM ENGAGEMENT.PART 8. 1 Kings 18 After a long time, in the third year of the drought, the word of the LORD came to Elijah: “Go and present yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain upon the face of the earth.”2 So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab. Elijah represents heaven's apostolic system in the art of reforming and restoring a nation and society that has suffered the long reign of Ahad and Jezebel. The return of rain will demand we acknowledge and position ourselves as the Church of the Lord to the order of divine intervention. The ministry of order is important to the restoration of the altar and the priesthood that will represent the government of God in this season. As we have carefully observed from the pattern of beginnings that setting up altars is necessary to hear the voice of the Father. Without building and repairing broken or burnt altars we do not have access to the establishment of the prophetic order and initiatives of heaven. Noah, a pattern, and system of the firstborn church showed us how to access heaven again. Building an altar is not just a ritual or religious right but a powerful principle of re-establishing the government of heaven over a place or region. There is a present required priestly order demanded to move the things of the Spirit and the presence God from where it was to the rightful place it ought to be in this present hour. GENESIS 8 20 Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it. 21 The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done. To engage the kind of powers, authorities, and dominions before the nations in this season, we cannot afford to assume all his set and ready, we need to precisely affirm we are truly ready. We must be certain that the prophetic voice which represents the ministry of Elijah is adhered to in the reconstruction of the broken altars by Jezebel. If we dare to engage the Kings of the earth and the rulers who have ganged up themselves against the Lord as his anointed without the repairing of our personal and corporate altars, we will be defeated. We must learn from David; he had the right heart, but his good intention was not aligned to the divine order of the priesthood. The returning of authority to engage the forces of darkness corresponds to the rebuilding of the broken and burnt altars of our lives, family, cities, and the nations. Broken altars speak to the broken covenant of God over our lives and on behalf of our nations. When we allow ignorantly allow Jezebel to gain access into our space, we have to return to God in repentance and allow his approval to rebuild his altar even before building a temple for his name. Many do not mind building a temple without a legitimate altar towards the Lord. The altar is the place of divine validation where authority and power flow from. The re-establishment of broken covenants demands the rebuilding (repair) of altars. The erection of altars demands a new sense of priesthood that will effectively and correctly offer the required sacrifice as required and expected. This new day we've been ushered in is demanding we adjust our prophetic sight towards the approved standard of heaven so may live and move in the governmental authority of the hour.

REBUILDING THE ALTAR AND THE PRIESTHOOD FOR KINGDOM ENGAGEMENT.PART 5. 1 Kings 18 After a long time, in the third year of the drought, the word of the LORD came to Elijah: “Go and present yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain upon the face of the earth.”2 So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab. Elijah represents heaven's apostolic system in the art of reforming and restoring a nation and society that has suffered the long reign of Ahad and Jezebel. The return of rain will demand we acknowledge and position ourselves as the Church of the Lord to the order of divine intervention. The ministry of order is important to the restoration of the altar and the priesthood that will represent the government of God in this season. As we have carefully observed from the pattern of beginnings that setting up altars is necessary to hear the voice of the Father. Without building and repairing broken or burnt altars we do not have access to the establishment of the prophetic order and initiatives of heaven. Noah, a pattern, and system of the firstborn church showed us how to access heaven again. Building an altar is not just a ritual or religious right but a powerful principle of re-establishing the government of heaven over a place or region. There is a present required priestly order demanded to move the things of the Spirit and the presence God from where it was to the rightful place it ought to be in this present hour. GENESIS 8 20 Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it. 21 The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done. To engage the kind of powers, authorities, and dominions before the nations in this season, we cannot afford to assume all his set and ready, we need to precisely affirm we are truly ready. We must be certain that the prophetic voice which represents the ministry of Elijah is adhered to in the reconstruction of the broken altars by Jezebel. If we dare to engage the Kings of the earth and the rulers who have ganged up themselves against the Lord as his anointed without the repairing of our personal and corporate altars, we will be defeated. We must learn from David; he had the right heart, but his good intention was not aligned to the divine order of the priesthood. The returning of authority to engage the forces of darkness corresponds to the rebuilding of the broken and burnt altars of our lives, family, cities, and the nations. Broken altars speak to the broken covenant of God over our lives and on behalf of our nations. When we allow ignorantly allow Jezebel to gain access into our space, we have to return to God in repentance and allow his approval to rebuild his altar even before building a temple for his name. Many do not mind building a temple without a legitimate altar towards the Lord. The altar is the place of divine validation where authority and power flow from. The re-establishment of broken covenants demands the rebuilding (repair) of altars. The erection of altars demands a new sense of priesthood that will effectively and correctly offer the required sacrifice as required and expected. This new day we've been ushered in is demanding we adjust our prophetic sight towards the approved standard of heaven so may live and move in the governmental authority of the hour.

REBUILDING ALTARS FOR KINGDOM ENGAGEMENT As we have carefully observed from the pattern of beginnings that setting up altars is necessary to hear the voice of the Father. Without building and repairing broken or burnt altars we do not have access to the establishment of the prophetic order and initiatives of heaven. Noah, a pattern, and system of the firstborn church showed us how to access heaven again. Building an altar is not just a ritual or religious right but a powerful principle of re-establishing the government of heaven over a place or region. There is a present required priestly order demanded to move the things of the Spirit and the presence God from where it was to the rightful place it ought to be in this present hour. GENESIS 8 20 Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it. 21 The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done. To engage the kind of powers, authorities, and dominions before the nations in this season, we cannot afford to assume all his set and ready, we need to precisely affirm we are truly ready. We must be certain that the prophetic voice which represents the ministry of Elijah is adhered to in the reconstruction of the broken altars by Jezebel. If we dare to engage the Kings of the earth and the rulers who have ganged up themselves against the Lord as his anointed without the repairing of our personal and corporate altars, we will be defeated. We must learn from David; he had the right heart, but his good intention was not aligned to the divine order of the priesthood. The returning of authority to engage the forces of darkness corresponds to the rebuilding of the broken and burnt altars of our lives, family, cities, and the nations. Broken altars speak to the broken covenant of God over our lives and on behalf of our nations. When we allow ignorantly allow Jezebel to gain access into our space, we have to return to God in repentance and allow his approval to rebuild his altar even before building a temple for his name. Many do not mind building a temple without a legitimate altar towards the Lord. The altar is the place of divine validation where authority and power flow from. The re-establishment of broken covenants demands the rebuilding (repair) of altars. The erection of altars demands a new sense of priesthood that will effectively and correctly offer the required sacrifice as required and expected. This new day we've been ushered in is demanding we adjust our prophetic sight towards the approved standard of heaven so may live and move in the governmental authority of the hour.

As we have carefully observed from the pattern of beginnings that setting up altars is necessary to hear the voice of the Father. Without building and repairing broken or burnt altars we do not have access to the establishment of the prophetic order and initiatives of heaven. Noah, a pattern, and system of the firstborn church showed us how to access heaven again. Building an altar is not just a ritual or religious right but a powerful principle of re-establishing the government of heaven over a place or region. There is a present required priestly order demanded to move the things of the Spirit and the presence God from where it was to the rightful place it ought to be in this present hour. GENESIS 8 20 Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it. 21 The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though a every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done. To engage the kind of powers, authorities, and dominions before the nations in this season, we cannot afford to assume all his set and ready, we need to precisely affirm we are truly ready. We must be certain that the prophetic voice which represents the ministry of Elijah is adhered to in the reconstruction of the broken altars by Jezebel. If we dare to engage the Kings of the earth and the rulers who have ganged up themselves against the Lord as his anointed without the repairing of our personal and corporate altars, we will be defeated. We must learn from David; he had the right heart, but his good intention was not aligned to the divine order of the priesthood. The returning of authority to engage the forces of darkness corresponds to the rebuilding of the broken and burnt altars of our lives, family, cities, and the nations. Broken altars speak to the broken covenant of God over our lives and on behalf of our nations. When we allow ignorantly allow Jezebel to gain access into our space, we have to return to God in repentance and allow his approval to rebuild his altar even before building a temple for his name. Many do not mind building a temple without a legitimate altar towards the Lord. The altar is the place of divine validation where authority and power flow from. The re-establishment of broken covenants demands the rebuilding (repair) of altars. The erection of altars demands a new sense of priesthood that will effectively and correctly offer the required sacrifice as required and expected. This new day we've been ushered in is demanding we adjust our prophetic sight towards the approved standard of heaven so may live and move in the governmental authority of the hour.

Genesis 8:10-11 NLT  'After waiting another seven days, Noah released the dove again. This time the dove returned to him in the evening with a fresh olive leaf in its beak. Then Noah knew that the floodwaters were almost gone.' How did Noah feel when he knew the floodwaters were almost gone? Was he hopeful, or afraid? Earlier this year, as the coronavirus took hold, many people found themselves confined to cruise ships. What had no doubt been a dream holiday rapidly turned into a nightmare. Their ship, marketed as luxurious living, became a prison from which they might not escape. As Noah gazed out upon the endless waters surrounding the ark, I imagine he felt marooned and uncertain how God’s purpose might work out. He must have been delighted to receive the olive branch carried back by the dove, a sign of hope that judgement was past.   The olive tree is remarkable. It is robust and long-living, with an average lifespan of 800 years. It grows well in very poor soil and can withstand drought, and is a sign of God’s grace and healing throughout scripture. In our last house we planted an olive tree and, while plants around it failed to flourish in poor soil, it grew and produced olives every year.  I recall it when the soil I’m planted in fails to provide me with the nutrients I need for life. I remind myself each day to send out a dove, in the hope that an olive branch will be carried to me on its return. In other words, I’m to practise the discipline of hope rather than slip beneath the chilling waters of despair. I cry aloud: “Kyrie eleison, Lord have mercy.” God’s oil of healing restores hope.   QUESTION: How easy is it for you to find your inner resolve?  PRAYER: Whatever my circumstances, today I will hope in you, Lord.  

The incredibly accomplished Dr. Marty Makary is Mark’s very special guest on the podcast today. Among his many, many roles and achievements, Dr. Makary is a surgical oncologist and chief of the Johns Hopkins Islet Transplant Center, a clinical lead for the Johns Hopkins Sibley Innovation Hub, and the Executive Director of Improving Wisely, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation project to lower health care costs in the U.S. He is a best-selling author, a frequent medical commentator on NBC and FOX News, an advocate for health care innovation, and, quite simply, a national treasure who has dedicated his life to making the lives of others better. The passage he has chosen for today is Genesis 8:11. Marty begins the discussion by sharing his summary of the passage, its meaning for him, and the impact which Chuck Colson has had upon him. With Mark, he reviews the importance of the dove in this passage, our connection to the natural world, and the regrets which his dying patients often share with him. The two then explore the polarization of the United States these days, Mark’s concept of ‘offense archeology’, and the power of living each day as if it’s your last. Marty also explains the lessons he has learned about mankind, gives his perspective on one of the biggest public health crises in the United States today, and offers a touching tribute to his aunt, Mama Maggie, and her inspiring mission. You owe it to yourself to seize this unique opportunity today to enjoy the analysis of this iconic story of hope and loyalty by these two remarkably accomplished seekers of Biblical truth. Episode Highlights: Marty’s summary of the passage and what it means to him Our connection with the natural world Chuck Colson and his impact on Marty The importance of the dove Common regrets that Marty hears from patients close to death The polarization of the United States Offense archeology Living everyday as if it’s your last The lessons about mankind which Marty has learned One of the biggest public health crises in the United States today Marty’s aunt, ‘Mama Maggie’, and her work with Stephen’s Children Quotes: “This is a message of hope here – that’s what my patients want when I talk to them.” “What we treasure in life most is loyalty, it’s love, it’s empathy, it’s being available for people.” “Kids want your time, not your money.” “I’m not going to define him by his worst moment. I’m going to assess the man by the whole breadth of his life.” “No one has just one face.” “You can be fed up, you can be angry as hell, but still communicate in a civil fashion.” “We’re all gifted differently.” “I think part of being relatable, part of being effective is to be vulnerable and be honest about all of your personality, including the child in all of us.” “God made us to be part of communities…people are hungry for community.” Genesis 8:11 The dove came back to him toward evening, and there in its bill was a plucked-off olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the waters had decreased on the earth. https://www.sefaria.org/Genesis.8.11?lang=bi&with=all&lang2=en Links: The Rabbi’s Husband homepage: http://therabbishusband.com/ Mark’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/markgerson?lang=en Stephen’s Children homepage: https://stephenschildren.org/

Sermon Manuscript: Genesis 6-9 Series: Known in the Unknown Title: Living in Chaos Date: 8/2/20 Location: Rock of Generations / Perris.Online.Church     Genesis 6:8-16 (NLT) 8 But Noah found favor with the Lord. 11 Now God saw that the earth had become corrupt and was filled with violence. 13 So God said to Noah, “I have decided to destroy all living creatures, for they have filled the earth with violence. 14 “Build a large boat from cypress wood and waterproof it with tar, inside and out. Then construct decks and stalls throughout its interior. 15 Make the boat 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high. 16 Leave an 18-inch opening below the roof all the way around the boat. Put the door on the side, and build three decks inside the boat—lower, middle, and upper.       God has all the answers.     Genesis 6:17-22 (NLT) 17 “Look! I am about to cover the earth with a flood that will destroy every living thing that breathes. 18 But I will confirm my covenant with you. So enter the boat—you and your wife and your sons and their wives. 19 Bring a pair of every kind of animal—a male and a female—into the boat with you to keep them alive during the flood. 21 And be sure to take on board enough food for your family and for all the animals.” 22 So Noah did everything exactly as God had commanded him.     Sometimes we have to move forward into the unknown.   Genesis 7:5 (NLT) 5 So Noah did everything as the Lord commanded him.   Genesis 7:7-22 New Living Translation (NLT) 7 He went on board the boat to escape the flood—he and his wife and his sons and their wives. 8 With them were all the various kinds of animals.   9 They entered the boat in pairs, male and female, just as God had commanded. 10 After seven days, the waters of the flood came and covered the earth.   11 When Noah was 600 years old, all the underground waters erupted from the earth, and the rain fell in mighty torrents from the sky. 12 The rain continued to fall for forty days and forty nights.   13 That very day Noah had gone into the boat with his wife and his sons. 14 With them in the boat were pairs of every kind of animal—domestic and wild, large and small—along with birds of every kind. Then the Lord closed the door behind them.   17 For forty days the floodwaters grew deeper, covering the ground and lifting the boat high above the earth. 18 As the waters rose higher and higher above the ground, the boat floated safely on the surface. 19 Finally, the water covered even the highest mountains on the earth. 21 All the living things on earth died. 22 Everything that breathed and lived on dry land died.       The Lord provides for those who follow his instructions.       Deuteronomy 28:1-6 (NLT) 28 “If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully keep all his commands that I am giving you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the world. 2 You will experience all these blessings if you obey the Lord your God.     Genesis 8  (NLT) 8 But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and livestock with him in the boat. He sent a wind to blow across the earth, and the floodwaters began to recede. 3 So the floodwaters gradually receded from the earth. After 150 days, the boat came to rest.  6 After another forty days, Noah opened the window he had made in the boat 7 and released a raven. The bird flew back and forth until the floodwaters on the earth had dried up. 8 He also released a dove to see if the water had receded and it could find dry ground. 9 But the dove could find no place to land because the water still covered the ground. So it returned to the boat, and Noah held out his hand and drew the dove back inside. 10 After waiting another seven days, Noah released the dove again. 11 This time the dove returned to him in the evening with a fresh olive leaf in its beak. Then Noah knew that the floodwaters were almost gone. 12 He waited another seven days and then released the dove again. This time it did not come back. 13 Noah was now 601 years old. 15 Then God said to Noah, 16 “Leave the boat, all of you. 17 Release all the animals—so they can be fruitful and multiply throughout the earth.” 20 Then Noah built an altar to the Lord   Genesis 9:12-17 (NLT) 12 Then God said, “I am giving you a sign of my covenant with you and with all living creatures, for all generations to come. 13 I have placed my rainbow in the clouds. It is the sign of my covenant with you and with all the earth. 14 When I send clouds over the earth, the rainbow will appear in the clouds, 15 and I will remember my covenant with you and with all living creatures. Never again will the floodwaters destroy all life.   God always keeps his promises.     John 16:33  (NLT) 33 I have told you all this so that you may have peace in me. Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows. But take heart, because I have overcome the world.”

This week it’s crazy apartment buildings that get taken over by demons! First up we get really confused about reality in DEMONS 2. Then Noah watches the wrong movie and we find out about how SWAT teams handle demons in REC 2. After that we chat about SWAMP THING, TERMINATOR DARK FATE, and DARK SIDE … Continue reading Demons 2 & REC 2 →

This week it's crazy apartment buildings that get taken over by demons! First up we get really confused about reality in DEMONS 2. Then Noah watches the wrong movie and we find out about how SWAT teams handle demons in REC 2. After that we chat about SWAMP THING, TERMINATOR DARK FATE, and DARK SIDE OF THE RING.

Genesis 9:18–27 (NLT) The sons of Noah who came out of the boat with their father were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham is the father of Canaan.) From these three sons of Noah came all the people who now populate the earth. After the flood, Noah began to cultivate the ground, and he planted a vineyard. One day he drank some wine he had made, and he became drunk and lay naked inside his tent. Ham, the father of Canaan, saw that his father was naked and went outside and told his brothers. Then Shem and Japheth took a robe, held it over their shoulders, and backed into the tent to cover their father. As they did this, they looked the other way so they would not see him naked. When Noah woke up from his stupor, he learned what Ham, his youngest son, had done. Then he cursed Canaan, the son of Ham: “May Canaan be cursed!    May he be the lowest of servants to his relatives.” Then Noah said, “May the Lord, the God of Shem, be blessed, and may Canaan be his servant! May God expand the territory of Japheth! May Japheth share the prosperity of Shem, and may Canaan be his servant.”

NOAH, A PATTERN OF GOD’S ECONOMY AND THE EMERGING APOSTOLIC CRAFTSMEN PART 17. Defining the quality of men who will lead the reopening of this new era, we have ushered in is critical to the administration of the economy of God. It is clear the Lord is up to something that is changing the balance of power in society. The movement of God in the earth begins with finding the right instrument of representation. Men are designed to be visionary leaders who birth creative and innovative resources to reform, transform, and restore their society. As Noah became the first man to step out of the Ark during the post-flood era, the Spirit of the Lord is now releasing certain kingdom-value men with governmental grace, going ahead to set things in order as they lead their families and nations to reopen the prophetic program of the Father. The Spirit of the Lord stirred the atmosphere of our devotion in the direction of praying for the men of the nation of South Africa. It is clear the Father has begun to rebuild the various components of the economy of the nations. One of the major aspects of kingdom value within a nation is the quality of the men who live within the walls of such a society. The searchlight of heaven today was turned on the position and role of men in our cities. The reopening of the economy of our nation and the rest of the nations should be focused on the type of men seated at the gates of affairs. If we do not get quality, spiritual men with the precise visionary spirit to lead and rebuild that which as been broken and has become dysfunctional, then we are not truly ready to step into a post-rest era. Genesis chapter 15 Then God said to Noah, 16 “Come out of the Ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives. 17 Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you—the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground—so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number on it.” 18 So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives. 19All the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds—everything that moves on land—came out of the Ark, one kind after another. 20 Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it. 21 The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though a every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.

GOD IS RAISING AN ARMY OF RIGHTEOUSNESS MEN IN SOUTH AFRICA. PORTALSGATE PROPHETIC PRAYER SCHOOL. SESSION 312. Defining the quality of men who will lead the reopening of this new era, we have ushered in is critical to the administration of the economy of God. It is clear the Lord is up to something that is changing the balance of power in society. The movement of God in the earth begins with finding the right instrument of representation. Men are designed to be visionary leaders who birth creative and innovative resources to reform, transform, and restore their society. As Noah became the first man to step out of the Ark during the post-flood era, the Spirit of the Lord is now releasing certain kingdom-value men with governmental grace, going ahead to set things in order as they lead their families and nations to reopen the prophetic program of the Father. The Spirit of the Lord stirred the atmosphere of our devotion in the direction of praying for the men of the nation of South Africa. It is clear the Father has begun to rebuild the various components of the economy of the nations. One of the major aspects of kingdom value within a nation is the quality of the men who live within the walls of such a society. The searchlight of heaven today was turned on the position and role of men in our cities. The reopening of the economy of our nation and the rest of the nations should be focused on the type of men seated at the gates of affairs. If we do not get quality, spiritual men with the precise visionary spirit to lead and rebuild that which as been broken and has become dysfunctional, then we are not truly ready to step into a post-rest era. Genesis chapter 15 Then God said to Noah, 16 “Come out of the Ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives. 17 Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you—the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground—so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number on it.” 18 So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives. 19All the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds—everything that moves on land—came out of the Ark, one kind after another. 20 Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it. 21 The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though a every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.

Hello, everyone! Today Zach and Patrick attempt to tackle the weighty subject of the crucifixion-- just in time for after Easter! We hope that this podcast is informative and encourages you to worship the One True King. Questions, comments? Contact us:Facebook: The Aquila and Priscilla HourInstagram: @aquilahourTwitter: @aquilahourWordpress: hemadeusalive.wordpress.comGmail: theaquilaandpriscillahour@gmail.com Zach's Recommendations:"The Atonement" by Shai Linne: https://open.spotify.com/album/5f1Wt873Rlq3UkK5eP0zp7Matthew 27:26-66Mark 15:15-47Luke 23: 24-56John 19:16-42 Patrick's Recommendations:"The Cross" by Shai Linne: https://open.spotify.com/album/5f1Wt873Rlq3UkK5eP0zp7?highlight=spotify:track:1bTgqopEdZ134XVrP1KDkvCrossway's 'Holy Week' Videos Playlist: http://www.deliveredbygrace.com/holy-week-videos-by-crossway/ PATRICK'S LIST of "25 Examples of the Foreshadowing Christ's Crucifixion in the OT":-All Scripture points to Christ, so to see all in the OT that pointed to Him, you'd have to read thewhole OT. These are just a few texts that foreshadow specifically the crucifixion. The completepervasiveness of this theme throughout the OT should show us how absolutely central it is. Wedo well to determine with Paul to know nothing but Jesus Christ, and Him crucified. It shouldalso lead us to worship a God who is so wise, a God who we find constantly in His word"declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, 'Mycounsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose."Isaiah 46:10[The format of what follows is basically notes for something I was going to present verbally, so itmay not be entirely coherent]1. "I will put enmity between you [the serpent] and the woman, and between your offspringand her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel." (Spokeninterestingly to Satan- CD Col 2, where Christ triumphs over him)Genesis 3:152. First death in OT. "And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skinsand clothed them." Genesis 3:21(Then a WHOLE lot of death cf Gen 5. "And he died, and he died, and he died. Theproblem from/curse of sin=death. The last enemy 1 Cor 15)3. Make yourself an ark of gopher wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and outwith pitch Gen 6:14 ( כפר Co-fair= ATONEMENT/Ransom. Cf Lev 16 Yom kippur(Hebrew word roots based on Vowels. Eg verbal form of atonement used repeatedly lev16.Noah escaped God's judgment by taking refuge in the ark (Christ) covered with ATONEMENT.Also, the ark landed on the mountains of Ararat (curse reversed) 3 days after passover (the dayof the resurrection- Easter) before the calendar was changed."in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on themountains of Ararat" Gen 8:4God changes the Hebrew Calendar in Ex 12(See speaker's commentary)Cf. Moses in the basket covered with כפר4. "Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and took some of every clean animal and some ofevery clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar."Gen 8:205. Gen 15- God makes a covenant with Abraham and passes through animals that havebeen cut in half alone signifying that he alone takes on the responsibility of seeing to theFulfillment of this Covenant and will bear the consequences if it is broken by either party.E.g., He will be killed like these animals6. Gen 22 sacrifice of Isaac. Cf Heb 11.7. Gen 37-45 Joseph betrayed by his brothers."Then they took Joseph’s robe and slaughtered a goat and dipped the robe in the blood."Gen 37:31"Then I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse! The one sitting on it is calledFaithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war. His eyes are like aflame of fire, and on his head are many diadems, and he has a name written that no oneknows but himself. He is clothed in a robe dipped in blood, and the name by which heis called is The Word of God."Revelation 19:11-13His father thinks he is dead- turns out, he is alive (resurrection). "And they told him[Jacob] “Joseph is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt.”He has been exalted as ruler in Egypt and by being betrayed and sold by his brothers, hassaved Egypt, his brothers and his fathers whole house.8. Ex 2- Moses in the basket (*literally, "ark")"When she could hide him no longer, she took for him a basket made of bulrushes anddaubed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and placed it among the reeds bythe river bank."Exodus 2:3(Side note: water, especially oceans/big bodies of it , very often represent evil. E.g.chaos/de-creation/obstacles to God's people/God's enemies. Cf creation, Noah, Mosesin the nile, Red sea, Jordan (Joshua and Elijah/Elisha), Nile, Peter walking on it &sinkingCf Several times in Isaiah, eg:"Ah, the thunder of many peoples; they thunder like the thundering of the sea! Ah, theroar of nations; they roar like the roaring of mighty waters!"Isa 17:12And in psalms.And the angel said to me, "The waters that you saw, where the prostitute is seated, arepeoples and multitudes and nations and languages.Revelation 17:15"Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth hadpassed away, and the sea was no more."Rev 21:1See here:https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/will-heaven-have-oceans/%3famp9. Passover: Exodus 12"For the Lord will pass through to strike the Egyptians, and when he sees the blood onthe lintel and on the two doorposts, the Lord will pass over the door and will not allow thedestroyer to enter your houses to strike you."Exodus 12:23Christ = our passover lamb (Paul)ALSO- "Behold the lamb of God"10. "Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb, and you shall strike the rock,and water shall come out of it, and the people will drink." And Moses did so, in the sightof the elders of Israel."Exodus 17:6"For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and allpassed through the sea, and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, and allate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from thespiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ."1 Corinthians 10:1-4CF "Rock of Ages"11. "The next day Moses said to the people, "You have sinned a great sin. And now I willgo up to the Lord ; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin." So Mosesreturned to the Lord and said, "Alas, this people has sinned a great sin. They havemade for themselves gods of gold. But now, if you will forgive their sin—but if not,please blot me out of your book that you have written." But the Lord said to Moses,"Whoever has sinned against me, I will blot out of my book."Exodus 32:30-3312. Leviticus: Sin OfferingsHave to do with a) sin, b) atonement c) forgiveness. We read over and over:"Thus shall he do with the bull. As he did with the bull of the sin offering, so shall he dowith this. And the priest shall make atonement for them, and they shall be forgiven.And he shall carry the bull outside the camp and burn it up as he burned the first bull; itis the sin offering for the assembly.Lev 4:20-21Specifically a formula repeated with minor changes: " and the priest shall makeatonement for him for his sin and he shall be forgiven"-Lev 4:20, 26, 31, 35.5:6, 10, 13, 16, 186:713. Day of Atonement. Lev 16Why is atonement made for inanimate objects? SIN"Thus he shall make atonement for the Holy Place, because of the uncleannesses of thepeople of Israel and because of their transgressions, all their sins. And so he shall do forthe tent of meeting, which dwells with them in the midst of their uncleannesses."" For on this day shall atonement be made for you to cleanse you. You shall be cleanbefore the Lord from all your sins.""And this shall be a statute forever for you, that atonement may be made for the peopleof Israel once in the year because of all their sins.".Leviticus 16:16, 30, 3414. Num 21- The Brass Serpent"From Mount Hor they set out by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land ofEdom. And the people became impatient on the way. And the people spoke against Godand against Moses, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness?For there is no food and no water, and we loathe this worthless food." Then the Lordsent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many people ofIsrael died. And the people came to Moses and said, "We have sinned, for we havespoken against the Lord and against you. Pray to the Lord , that he take away theserpents from us." So Moses prayed for the people. And the Lord said to Moses, "Makea fiery serpent and set it on a pole, and everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shalllive." So Moses made a bronze serpent and set it on a pole. And if a serpent bit anyone,he would look at the bronze serpent and live."Numbers 21:4-9"And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be liftedup, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. "For God so loved the world,that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but haveeternal life."John 3:14-1615. "And if a man has committed a crime punishable by death and he is put to death, andyou hang him on a tree, his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall buryhim the same day, for a hanged man is cursed by God. You shall not defile your landthat the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance."Deuteronomy 21:22-23Cf. "For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, "Cursed beeveryone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them."Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for "The righteous shalllive by faith." But the law is not of faith, rather "The one who does them shall live bythem." Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for itis written, "Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree"— so that in Christ Jesus theblessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promisedSpirit through faith.Galatians 3:10-14God's providence: Jew's mostly stoned ppl. Roman's killed by crucifixion16. Judges: Samson, with arms stretched out, defeats his enemies through death"Then Samson called to the Lord and said, "O Lord God , please remember me and pleasestrengthen me only this once, O God, that I may be avenged on the Philistines for my two eyes."And Samson grasped the two middle pillars on which the house rested, and he leaned hisweight against them, his right hand on the one and his left hand on the other. And Samson said,"Let me die with the Philistines." Then he bowed with all his strength, and the house fell uponthe Lords and upon all the people who were in it. So the dead whom he killed at his death weremore than those whom he had killed during his life."Judges 16:28-3017. David after the census ( the actual events here are obviously different because he wasbeing punished for his own sins but the sentiment is similar in what he says)Then David spoke to the Lord when he saw the angel who was striking the people, andsaid, "Behold, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly. But these sheep, what have theydone? Please let your hand be against me and against my father's house."2 Samuel 24:1718. Esther- Hamaan tries to kill Mordecai, and is hung on the very gallows that wereconstructed for Mordecai (satan will experience eternal death. He was defeqted when hetried to defeat Christ through death- Col 2)Now just a run through:19. Job- the righteous sufferer20. Many of the PsalmsEspecially *Psalm 22*- quoted by Jesus on the cross (Well known)Psalm 41Ps 59Psalm 8821. Isaiah 6 cf Jn 12. Jesus is on the throne. The coal burns Isaiah's lip and he is told thathis sin has been "atoned" for.Isaiah 53. VERY CLEAR. Incredible. (Tons of things about Jesus in Isaiah, just thesetexts focus most on the 'cross'/atonement.22. Jer 31 (indirectly) Hebrews 8 and 10 tie the blessings of the New Covenant directly toChrist's sacrifice on the cross. CF Ezek 3623. Jonah- His being in the belly of the Whale 3 days/nights foreshadows Christ. Christ says"Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered him, saying, "Teacher, we wish tosee a sign from you." But he answered them, "An evil and adulterous generation seeksfor a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. For just asJonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son ofMan be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth."Matthew 12:38-4024. Now muster your troops, O daughter of troops; siege is laid against us; with a rod theystrike the judge of Israel on the cheek. But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are toolittle to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to beruler in Israel, whose coming forth is from of old, from ancient days. Therefore he shallgive them up until the time when she who is in labor has given birth; then the rest of hisbrothers shall return to the people of Israel.Micah 5:1-3 (Cont through 6)[note many of these passages have immediate filaments in events that took placearound the Times these prophets wrote, but these events were themselves types ofChrist CF Hosea 11:1]25. Zechariah 3- Joshua the high priest, bearing Israel's guilt via dirty clothes:Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord , andSatan standing at his right hand to accuse him. And the Lord said to Satan, "The Lordrebuke you, O Satan! The Lord who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Is not this abrand plucked from the fire?" Now Joshua was standing before the angel, clothed withfilthy garments. And the angel said to those who were standing before him, "Remove thefilthy garments from him." And to him he said, "Behold, I have taken your iniquity awayfrom you, and I will clothe you with pure vestments." And I said, "Let them put a cleanturban on his head." So they put a clean turban on his head and clothed him withgarments. And the angel of the Lord was standing by.Zechariah 3:1-5"And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit ofgrace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they havepierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly overhim, as one weeps over a firstborn.Zechariah 12:10 (Quoted of Christ in Jn 19:37)

Noah built an altar to God. Verse 20 “Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it” (Genesis 8:20). The sequence of events is very important.  God tells Noah to leave the ark. So, he leaves the ark. But the first thing he does after stepping on dry ground is to build an altar to the Lord! Praise God! Not many people would have done that as their first act after getting out of the ark.  I can imagine most folks running from the ark, kicking up their heels, and saying, “Thank God were out of there!”  “Let’s go. Let’s get started. Let’s look around and see what’s here!”  Not Noah. His first act was to publicly thank God for his deliverance. Like the ten lepers who were cured by Jesus and only one returned to give thanks (Luke 17:11-19), even so we often receive great blessings from the Lord and in our haste to enjoy them, we seldom stop to say thank you to God. But Noah took time to build an altar and then to make sacrifices to the Lord.  Often, God makes the provision and we just go along for the ride. But then, we think “we did it” and don’t give God the Glory He deserves. Noah did not do that.  The first thing he did was acknowledge the God did it all. Amen! The offering represented his complete surrender and total dedication to the Lord. After the flood Noah could see that God was not only a God of wrath, but also a God of mercy. Amen! Let this be your motto: I will remember the Lord. Take time to give thanks.  Support this podcast

Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar And the Lord smelled a soothing aroma Then the Lord said in His heart ldquo I will never again curse the ground for man rsquo s sake although the imagination a of man rsquo s heart is evil from his youth nor will I again destroy every living thing as I have done

Fueled by 10% IPAs, Chris and Noah discuss a noteworthy mat event of the the past week in the gym: a jacked-up trial student that goes like Bane on the mats. Noah recounts the trial student's time on the mats and the aftermath. Then Noah continues by revealing a horrifying realization he had while watching fellow students roll for the first time: everyone is going full porrada seemingly all the time. Chris chuckles and begins to educate Noah on what he's seen over his 15 years of training and why he always gives his "safety speech" before letting people spar. As the 10% IPAs start to really hit the bloodstream, Chris and Noah talk about the side-effects of teaching and Noah shares his tennis origin story and how he became a tennis instructor in a past life. As the conversation concludes, Chris and Noah talk about things they always seem to talk about: belts, training methods, and John Danaher instructionals. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bjj-and-brews/support

Noah and Luke share their thoughts on the classic Christmas movie "A Christmas Story". Then Noah interviews "Spam Ads" a small band from rural Connecticut who makes hip-hop music. 28:30 Find them on Spotify, Apple Music, Soundcloud, and Tidal. 

Hosts Noah Thomas and Jian DeLeon are joined by Jabari "Jacuzzi" Khaled, founder of Basketball Skateboards and under-the-radar creative who's worked with your favorite designer's favorite designers.  Jacuzzi talks about putting Basketball Skateboards on hold and teases his next project, which should be even more fire. Then Noah shares a story about his first time in London and getting roasted for his Suicokes.  We also discuss the most fire pieces from our Stranger Things 3 collab, which just dropped this week. So while you're listening to the latest episode you should do yourself a favor and cop a piece or two (please, it helps us keep lights on, and we're tired of eating peanut butter soup for lunch).  Things get a bit heated when the conversation turns to Kim Kardashian's "SolutionsWear" line, which she first called Kimono. That's fine and all but then she attempted to copyright the term "kimono," which definitely did not make the internet happy. Then we turn to Dropcast listeners to weigh in on the QOTW: What's the most underrated skate brand right now? AND BOY DOES THAT OPEN UP A WHOLE 'NOTHER CAN OF WORMS. The VMs are piping hot with takes, but we end up with more questions like what constitutes a "skate brand" today, the importance of supporting "rider-run" labels from skaters, and in general how skate culture and street culture have become more similar than ever, but still have a few key differences. As always, call The Dropcast Hotline at 833-HIGHSNOB (833-444-4766) for a chance to end up in a future episode. See you next week! Relevant links: THE OFFICIAL HIGHSNOBIETY X ‘STRANGER THINGS 3’ COLLABORATION Lil Nas X Comes Out as Gay in Pride Post Team USA Women’s World Cup Jersey Breaks Nike Sales Record NBA Free Agency & Durant to the Nets Has Twitter Going Wild Kim Kardashian To Launch Kimono Under a New Name Virgil Abloh Talks Work Ethic & Hiring From Instagram in New Interview Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hosts Noah Thomas and Jian DeLeon are joined by Jabari "Jacuzzi" Khaled, founder of Basketball Skateboards and under-the-radar creative who's worked with your favorite designer's favorite designers. Jacuzzi talks about putting Basketball Skateboards on hold and teases his next project, which should be even more fire. Then Noah shares a story about his first time in London and getting roasted for his Suicokes. We also discuss the most fire pieces from our Stranger Things 3 collab, which just dropped this week. So while you're listening to the latest episode you should do yourself a favor and cop a piece or two (please, it helps us keep lights on, and we're tired of eating peanut butter soup for lunch). Things get a bit heated when the conversation turns to Kim Kardashian's "SolutionsWear" line, which she first called Kimono. That's fine and all but then she attempted to copyright the term "kimono," which definitely did not make the internet happy. Then we turn to Dropcast listeners to weigh in on the QOTW: What's the most underrated skate brand right now? AND BOY DOES THAT OPEN UP A WHOLE 'NOTHER CAN OF WORMS. The VMs are piping hot with takes, but we end up with more questions like what constitutes a "skate brand" today, the importance of supporting "rider-run" labels from skaters, and in general how skate culture and street culture have become more similar than ever, but still have a few key differences. As always, call The Dropcast Hotline at 833-HIGHSNOB (833-444-4766) for a chance to end up in a future episode. See you next week! Relevant links: THE OFFICIAL HIGHSNOBIETY X ‘STRANGER THINGS 3’ COLLABORATION Lil Nas X Comes Out as Gay in Pride Post Team USA Women’s World Cup Jersey Breaks Nike Sales Record NBA Free Agency & Durant to the Nets Has Twitter Going Wild Kim Kardashian To Launch Kimono Under a New Name Virgil Abloh Talks Work Ethic & Hiring From Instagram in New Interview Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Genesis 8:20-22 20 Then Noah built an altar to the LORD, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21 The LORD smelled the soothing aroma; and the LORD said [fn]to Himself, “I will never again curse the ground on account of man, for the [fn]intent of man’s heart is evil from his youth; and I will never again [fn]destroy every living thing, as I have done. 22 “While the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest, And cold and heat, And summer and winter, And day and night Shall not cease.” -What do you notice here? -What can we learn about ourselves from this? -What's the most important takeaway? -Does this challenge you? How can we rise to that? Thanks for stopping by! Say hi and throw out a question or two!!!

Four fathers and a grandsonGenesis 9:20-29This Father's day we return to a passage in Genesis that we skipped during our In the Beginning sermon series. Noah disembarks the Ark, offers a sacrifice to God and receives a wonderful promise from God: “Never again.” The rainbow testifies to God's remembrance of this promise.Then Noah plants a vineyard. This scene ends with a cursed grandson. Sin stepped off the Ark as well and it does not take long before it rears its head. One author (Henry Morris) points out the similarities between Adam - the first human in the original creation - and Noah - the progenitor of the new world. “Both Adam and Noah were commanded to fill the earth and exercise control over it. Each of them is actually the ancestor of all men in the present world. Each sinned by partaking of a fruit - Noah of the fruit of the vine and Adam of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge. As a result, each became naked and then was provided with a covering by someone else. Finally the prophecy resulted in a curse which has affected mankind ever since.” (Genesis Record, 237)Before we seek to understand the circumstances described by Noah's sons, we need to establish an important truth: Sin has consequences. The way this story is told and the way the narrative flows doesn't allow us to divorce Noah's action from its sinful consequence. He planted a vineyard - not a sin. He drank of it's produce - not a sin. He got drunk - this is a sin. He became immodest - this is a sin. Sure it was in his tent, but was it the action of a righteous man? No. The response of Shem and Japheth (going to great length to not see their father in this condition) tells us something about their family culture regarding nudity. They respected each other's bodies and avoided exposing themselves in front of others.Did this happen gradually? Let me explain what I mean… Could it be that Noah longed for the wine (a throw back to the pre-flood world) and planted the vineyard? Haven't you ever thought: “I'll only go this far. I can handle it. I will stop before I go to far. I won't cross that line.” Whether or not that is what Noah's thinking was, he crossed a line. He got drunk. There's a gospel song that goes something like this: “Sin will always take you farther than you had wanted to go and it will always cost you more than you were willing to pay.” And how very true. You can choose your sin, but you can never choose your consequences. Noah failed and the price was steep.So what did Ham do? He catches his dad in his immodesty. There does not need to be more to the story than what is immediately apparent. Many interpretations introduce sexual overtones to the narrative, but there really isn't any warrant for this. Ham entered into his father's tent and saw his father's nakedness. The Hebrew verb chosen here carries the idea of “seeing with satisfaction”, which is why some interpreters have interpreted this sexually. But equally sinful would have been a pleased look that he found his father in this way. He revelled in his father's spectacular failure and then he gossipped about it with his brothers (failing to protect his father's reputation). What was his sin? It was tremendous disrespect.Imagine if a friend of yours stumbles into back yard and collapses drunk and immodest. Would you just stand there and watch? Would you run and get your friends so that they can come and see this too? Or would you grab a blanket and take care of your friend?The other two sons go to great lengths to show respect and to not look upon their father's shame. They seek to protect his honor, despite his lapse in character. Ham sought to destroy his father's honor because of his lapse in character. And this shows the heart attitude of these sons. Two seek to honor thy father. One seeks to dishonor.So what about the curse? Why did Noach curse Canaan - his grandson - rather than Ham? I offer two explanations: one prophetic, one prosaic. Prophetically, God utters this curse upon Canaan, due to the people they will become. Out of Canaan will come the Philistines, the Jebusites and Ammorites. Very wicked and idolatrous people. Canaan's descendents will build Niniveh, Sodom and Gomorrah. God pronounces a curse upon these people through the mouth of Noah. God is not flippant, because in promising to give the land to Abraham, God says his descendants will be oppressed by Egypt for 400 years - before the measure of the sin of the Ammorites has been filled. God is patient and the people refuse to repent.Prosaically, Noach is establishing that if Ham models this disrespect, his son doesn't stand a chance and will follow in his father's footsteps. This is the kind of man that Canaan will become. He will never respect you or God and will become a cursed people.I draw three conclusions from this text for Father's Day:> Fear the Lord and avoid evil. Proverbs 1:7 (Responsibility)> Honor your own father. 1 Timothy 5:8, Proverbs 22:6 (Modeling)> Always Punish disrespect and rebellious attitudes. Proverbs 1-11; Hebrews 12:5-11 (Follow through)We need to keep a careful eye on our own holiness and walk, because our children watch our behavior and learn from you. That's why we should model what we want our children to be. If I want my child to honor and respect me, I need to honor and respect my own father. And when my child does not evidence these traits and he disobeys, Scripture teaches me to punish in love, so that they learn to honor and respect. If they never learn to honor and respect you, they will never learn to honor and respect God.Be a good dad and start in your own heart.

Speaker or Performer: Bob Petersen, Ben Selby, & Anthony Jones Date of Delivery: May 13, 2018 Honor Your ParentsDeuteronomy 5:16 NAS Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God has commanded you, that your days may be prolonged and that it may go well with you on the land which the Lord your God gives you.Ephesians 6:2 NAS HONOR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER (which is the first commandment with a promise), 3 SO THAT IT MAY BE WELL WITH YOU, AND THAT YOU MAY LIVE LONG ON THE EARTH. Honor (Dictionary) regard with great respectHonor (Greek) timao (tim-ah'-o); to prize, fix a valuation upon, to revereThe bible addresses areas that could be, in our fallen world, errant.They are areas of possible weakness do to our gender, age, experiences, etc.Examples are: Women-gossip, youth-pride, men-lust, mistreatment-forgiveGod instructs us in these areas to keep us from opening doors to the enemyParents will probably make mistakes in raising children due to a number of reasonsSome of the mistakes can cause a child to look at their parents with contemptSo the bible addresses this by telling us to honor our parentsIt is so important that God made it one of the 10 commandments and addresses it numerous times throughout the bibleEven when parents have acted unhonorable we are to cover and not expose them.Genesis 9:20-25 NAS 20 Then Noah began farming and planted a vineyard. 21 He drank of the wine and became drunk, and uncovered himself inside his tent. 22 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside. 23 But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it upon both their shoulders and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were turned away, so that they did not see their father's nakedness. 24 When Noah awoke from his wine, he knew what his youngest son had done to him. 25 So he said, Cursed be Canaan; A servant of servants He shall be to his brothers.Look at the curse from uncoveringDeuteronomy 27:16 NAS Cursed is he who dishonors his father or mother.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.' Misconceptions about honoring one’s father and motherTo honor your father and mother, you must let them control your marriage.The marriage bond takes priority over other family relationships.Your father and mother have ultimate authority.Parents authority never overrules God’s authority.Honoring your father and mother requires you to follow their religious beliefs unquestionably.The Bible encourages us to test what we are being taught to see whether it is the truth.Proverbs 30:17 NAS The eye that mocks a father And scorns a mother, The ravens of the valley will pick it out, And the young eagles will eat it. Proverbs 15:20 NAS A wise son makes a father glad, But a foolish man despises his mother. Matthew 15:4 AMP For God commanded, Honor your father and your mother, and, He who curses or reviles or speaks evil of or abuses or treats improperly his father or mother, let him surely come to his end by death.

March 11, 2018 Dr. Dan Doriani Genesis 8:20-9:16 20 Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21 And when the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, the Lord said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man's heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done. 22 While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.” 9 And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. 2 The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and upon every bird of the heavens, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea. Into your hand they are delivered. 3 Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything. 4 But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood. 5 And for your lifeblood I will require a reckoning: from every beast I will require it and from man. From his fellow man I will require a reckoning for the life of man. 6 “Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image. 7 And you, be fruitful and multiply, increase greatly on the earth and multiply in it.” 8 Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him, 9 “Behold, I establish my covenant with you and your offspring after you, 10 and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the livestock, and every beast of the earth with you, as many as came out of the ark; it is for every beast of the earth. 11 I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.” 12 And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations: 13 I have set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. 14 When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is seen in the clouds, 15 I will remember my covenant that is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh. And the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. 16 When the bow is in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.” English Standard Version (ESV) The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.

Where Are the Sheep? Part 1 Speaker: Pastor Brandon Pardekooper Originally Recorded: Feb 18, 2018 Genesis 8:18-21 So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him. Every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, went out by families from the ark. Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. And when the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, the Lord said in his heart, "I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man's heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done. The Purpose of the Altar To offer up a sacrifice to the Lord in worship for what he has done on behalf of his creation God was under no obligation to interact with mankind since sin had created a divide, yet God continued to reach across the divide to engage with mankind Genesis 12:7 Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, "To your offspring I will give this land." So he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him. Genesis 13:18 So Abram moved his tent and came and settled by the oaks of Mamre, which are at Hebron, and there he built an altar to the Lord.

During the presidential campaign, Daily Beast executive editor Noah Shachtman opened up Twitter, saw all the vitriol and fake news and conspiracy theories, and thought 'Man, is this really my country?'  Then Noah and his team started to investigate Russian interference in the election. Videos made in Russia, purporting to be from the American South. Activist groups invented in Russia, prompting Americans in Idaho to attend real-life protests. Is this his country? Yes. Also, maybe no.   As Facebook, Twitter and Google’s parent company Alphabet sit down before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Note to Self is separating conspiracy from reality. Connecting the dots without turning the office into a scene from Homeland. With Noah Shachtman and reporter Spencer Ackerman of The Daily Beast. Plus, a look back at what we knew all along. We started in November 2016 with tech under the Trump administration. In March, we questioned Facebook’s responsibility for fake news with former ad executive Antonio Garcia Martinez. Exploring the Trump campaign’s use of psychometrics, we interviewed the chief product officer of data-profiling company Cambridge Analytica. April brought a foray into the alt-right corners of Reddit, and the origins of the word cucked. And in May, we talked to Phil Howard, an Oxford University professor among the first to research the armies of Russian bots spreading garbage and confusion on Twitter. Turns out, almost without realizing it, we’ve been assembling pieces of this puzzle all year. Become a member today and support our work. Just visit NotetoSelfRadio.org/donate.  This is the first episode of our series on Russia. Listen to the second and third parts next. For more spy terms explained, reasonable/sensible coping strategies for when democracy is under threat, and Nyet more puns.   

During the presidential campaign, Daily Beast executive editor Noah Shachtman opened up Twitter, saw all the vitriol and fake news and conspiracy theories, and thought 'Man, is this really my country?'  Then Noah and his team started to investigate Russian interference in the election. Videos made in Russia, purporting to be from the American South. Activist groups invented in Russia, prompting Americans in Idaho to attend real-life protests. Is this his country? Yes. Also, maybe no.   As Facebook, Twitter and Google’s parent company Alphabet sit down before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Note to Self is separating conspiracy from reality. Connecting the dots without turning the office into a scene from Homeland. With Noah Shachtman and reporter Spencer Ackerman of The Daily Beast. Plus, a look back at what we knew all along. We started in November 2016 with tech under the Trump administration. In March, we questioned Facebook’s responsibility for fake news with former ad executive Antonio Garcia Martinez. Exploring the Trump campaign’s use of psychometrics, we interviewed the chief product officer of data-profiling company Cambridge Analytica. April brought a foray into the alt-right corners of Reddit, and the origins of the word cucked. And in May, we talked to Phil Howard, an Oxford University professor among the first to research the armies of Russian bots spreading garbage and confusion on Twitter. Turns out, almost without realizing it, we’ve been assembling pieces of this puzzle all year. Become a member today and support our work. Just visit NotetoSelfRadio.org/donate.  This is the first episode of our series on Russia. Listen to the second and third parts next. For more spy terms explained, reasonable/sensible coping strategies for when democracy is under threat, and Nyet more puns.   

During the presidential campaign, Daily Beast executive editor Noah Shachtman opened up Twitter, saw all the vitriol and fake news and conspiracy theories, and thought 'Man, is this really my country?'  Then Noah and his team started to investigate Russian interference in the election. Videos made in Russia, purporting to be from the American South. Activist groups invented in Russia, prompting Americans in Idaho to attend real-life protests. Is this his country? Yes. Also, maybe no.   As Facebook, Twitter and Google’s parent company Alphabet sit down before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Note to Self is separating conspiracy from reality. Connecting the dots without turning the office into a scene from Homeland. With Noah Shachtman and reporter Spencer Ackerman of The Daily Beast. Plus, a look back at what we knew all along. We started in November 2016 with tech under the Trump administration. In March, we questioned Facebook’s responsibility for fake news with former ad executive Antonio Garcia Martinez. Exploring the Trump campaign’s use of psychometrics, we interviewed the chief product officer of data-profiling company Cambridge Analytica. April brought a foray into the alt-right corners of Reddit, and the origins of the word cucked. And in May, we talked to Phil Howard, an Oxford University professor among the first to research the armies of Russian bots spreading garbage and confusion on Twitter. Turns out, almost without realizing it, we’ve been assembling pieces of this puzzle all year. Become a member today and support our work. Just visit NotetoSelfRadio.org/donate.  This is the first episode of our series on Russia. Listen to the second and third parts next. For more spy terms explained, reasonable/sensible coping strategies for when democracy is under threat, and Nyet more puns.   

During the presidential campaign, Daily Beast executive editor Noah Shachtman opened up Twitter, saw all the vitriol and fake news and conspiracy theories, and thought 'Man, is this really my country?'  Then Noah and his team started to investigate Russian interference in the election. Videos made in Russia, purporting to be from the American South. Activist groups invented in Russia, prompting Americans in Idaho to attend real-life protests. Is this his country? Yes. Also, maybe no.   As Facebook, Twitter and Google’s parent company Alphabet sit down before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Note to Self is separating conspiracy from reality. Connecting the dots without turning the office into a scene from Homeland. With Noah Shachtman and reporter Spencer Ackerman of The Daily Beast. Plus, a look back at what we knew all along. We started in November 2016 with tech under the Trump administration. In March, we questioned Facebook’s responsibility for fake news with former ad executive Antonio Garcia Martinez. Exploring the Trump campaign’s use of psychometrics, we interviewed the chief product officer of data-profiling company Cambridge Analytica. April brought a foray into the alt-right corners of Reddit, and the origins of the word cucked. And in May, we talked to Phil Howard, an Oxford University professor among the first to research the armies of Russian bots spreading garbage and confusion on Twitter. Turns out, almost without realizing it, we’ve been assembling pieces of this puzzle all year. Become a member today and support our work. Just visit NotetoSelfRadio.org/donate.  This is the first episode of our series on Russia. Listen to the second and third parts next. For more spy terms explained, reasonable/sensible coping strategies for when democracy is under threat, and Nyet more puns.   

During the presidential campaign, Daily Beast executive editor Noah Shachtman opened up Twitter, saw all the vitriol and fake news and conspiracy theories, and thought 'Man, is this really my country?'  Then Noah and his team started to investigate Russian interference in the election. Videos made in Russia, purporting to be from the American South. Activist groups invented in Russia, prompting Americans in Idaho to attend real-life protests. Is this his country? Yes. Also, maybe no.   As Facebook, Twitter and Google’s parent company Alphabet sit down before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Note to Self is separating conspiracy from reality. Connecting the dots without turning the office into a scene from Homeland. With Noah Shachtman and reporter Spencer Ackerman of The Daily Beast. Plus, a look back at what we knew all along. We started in November 2016 with tech under the Trump administration. In March, we questioned Facebook’s responsibility for fake news with former ad executive Antonio Garcia Martinez. Exploring the Trump campaign’s use of psychometrics, we interviewed the chief product officer of data-profiling company Cambridge Analytica. April brought a foray into the alt-right corners of Reddit, and the origins of the word cucked. And in May, we talked to Phil Howard, an Oxford University professor among the first to research the armies of Russian bots spreading garbage and confusion on Twitter. Turns out, almost without realizing it, we’ve been assembling pieces of this puzzle all year. Become a member today and support our work. Just visit NotetoSelfRadio.org/donate.  This is the first episode of our series on Russia. Listen to the second and third parts next. For more spy terms explained, reasonable/sensible coping strategies for when democracy is under threat, and Nyet more puns.   

What is the first thing you will do after being in a boat for a year? The ark has landed and Noah responded. Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and took some of every clean animal and some …

We’re talking again to Blister's bike editor, Noah Bodman, about what’s interesting in the world of bikes this season, including where the most innovations are taking place, whether Noah thinks that 26” wheels will eventually make a comeback, and whether e-bikes are gaining public acceptance. Noah and I also discuss several particular bikes, including the YT Jeffsy, the Canyon Spectral, and a couple of “plus” bikes — the Scott Spark Plus and the Scott Genius LT Plus. Then Noah and I wrap up the conversation with some predictions about the World Cup downhill season that starts this week.TOPICS & TIMES:What’s interesting this season? (2:10)Are e-bikes gaining public acceptance? (4:50)Death-O-Meter: How dead are 26” wheels? (9:28)Where are we seeing the most innovations in bike stuff? (14:05)Specific Bikes: YT Jeffsy 29 (21:10) Canyon Spectral (23:10)Scott Spark Plus & Scott Genius LT Plus (24:45)The upcoming Word Cup DH Season -- who are you betting on? (29:09)29ers on the WC DH circuit (32:33) See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

About Stuck in the GameAfter a terrible car crash puts seventeen-year-old Noah Newbolt into a coma, he is hooked up to the innovative Dream Engine—a virtual reality helmet that immerses the player in an online fantasy game. The Dream Engine keeps Noah’s mind alive while the doctors work feverishly to heal his body, but dying in the game could send Noah back into a coma, forever.While Noah learns how to survive in the competitive Dream Game, his girlfriend is slowly dying of injuries from the same crash. The doctors’ attempts to connect her to the game seem to have failed. Then Noah starts receiving mysterious notes which suggest that the last remnants of her consciousness are being held prisoner in the most dangerous part of the game.In order to reach her, Noah aligns himself with a group of high-level players. They teach him all the tips and tricks of the game, but the better Noah gets the more the other players are threatened by him. Soon there is a bounty on his head. Can Noah stay alive long enough to save his girlfriend and escape the game?Meet Christopher KeeneChrisopherKeeneGrowing up in the small town of Timaru, New Zealand, Christopher Keene was the first student from Mountainview High School to win the annual creative writing trophy two years in a row with his fantasy short stories. Having a mother who enjoyed painting and an accountant father, as well as a brother who also became an accountant, Christopher broke the trend of the males in his family by following his mother’s more artistic career path.Moving to Christchurch to study a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature, he won first place in the University of Canterbury Gazette creative writing competition. He stayed on at Canterbury to do Honors because of the creative writing course it provided, while also writing a blog to share his love of the fantasy and science fiction genres in novels, films, comics, games and anime. He recently received two honorable mentions in the Writers of the Future Competition under the pen name Hayley D. Woolf.Christopher is dedicated to reading and writing fiction in the hope of publishing a popular fantasy or science fiction series that he can be proud to put on a shelf in his favorite book stores.Christopher's blog site https://fantasyandanime.wordpress.com/

YSM returns to the erotic thriller genre with the 2015 classic The Boy Next Door! Claire Peterson (Jennifer Lopez, in her third appearance on the podcast), is a pathetic high school classics teacher with a broken garage door and a cheating ex-husband when a buff-armed 28-year-old "boy" Noah (Ryan Guzman, apparently playing a 19-year-old) moves in next door. The two bond over their mutual love of the Iliad and he fixes both her car and garage door. They then engage in a night of "passion" after Noah refuses to take no for an answer. Then Noah is revealed to be a sociopath who is willing to murder Claire's ex-husband (John Corbett) and mid-level high school administrators (Kristin Chenoweth) if it means "winning" Claire back.

"Then Noah built an altar unto the Lord..." Gen 8: 20 Pastor Dave Johnson explores the courageous and risky worship of Noah, taking the first of all his surviving livestock to offer to the Lord who saved him.  Message by Pastor Dave Johnson, Calvary Chapel Old Towne from his series on Genesis.       

Subject: The Sunday in the Octave of Epiphany Speaker or Performer: Pr. Mark D. Lovett Scripture Passage(s): Luke 2:41-52 Date of Delivery: January 11, 2015 In the name of the Father and of the +Son and of the Holy Spirit.“The parents of Jesus went to Jerusalem every year at the Feast of the Passover. And when He was twelve years old, they went up according to custom.” (Luke 2:41)It was the custom of the Jews to make the pilgrimage to Jerusalem for the Feast of the Passover. It has always been the custom of the people of God to make the pilgrimage to where God is. So even the Wise Men of the East made the pilgrimage to where God was born in Bethlehem. One might even say that it is the custom of all men to make pilgrimage to find God. All religions of the world have pilgrimages. This isn’t coincidence. It began when Adam and Eve were thrown out of the garden and Cain wandered the earth. Then Noah made pilgrimage on a boat, in the ark, until he came to where God rested the ark. There Noah built an altar and worshiped the Lord because that’s where God was with him. Later Abraham made pilgrimage to the land of Canaan where he, too, built an altar and worshiped having arrived where God promised to rest with him and his descendants. (Genesis 12:7)Then there is Jacob who made pilgrimage into Egypt with his whole family, and Moses who led the people in pilgrimage out of Egypt and Joshua who led the people of God – the pilgrims – into the Promise Land where Abraham had built an altar and worshiped God. The people of God are always on pilgrimage. They are always moving, never settling even as our Lord Himself says that the Son of Man has no place to rest His head. So it is our custom to call our whole life a pilgrimage, a journey. We begin where Noah left off, having come up out of the water. Then we walk the way of Enoch so that rather than journeying with mere men, we walk with God.It may seem somewhat trite, but you have made pilgrimage today. You were at home but you prepared yourself and your family and you set out as the Lord has directed you. You set out to come here where God has promised to meet you, to instruct you, to feed you the Bread of Heaven; where He has promised to confirm you in His promises through Jesus our Lord. You have come to the altar to worship God.So it is your custom to make pilgrimage even as it was the custom of your parents and grandparents, the custom of many of our brothers and sisters, cousins and relatives. But it’s not our earthly families with whom we are making pilgrimage but our heavenly family, the family of whom God is our Father and Christ is our Brother. It is our custom to gather to the Lord on the Lord’s Day, as it was the custom of the holy apostles and all the saints of God since then. And it is a good and godly custom.For this is where God promises to be for us.But it’s not the location as it was for our forefathers in the faith, men like Abraham and Moses and David. It’s not the location but the things. We could, as the saints of God have done in years past, gather in cemeteries or in the pastor’s house or some other place (though having a meeting hall such as this is good and a blessing for many reasons). The location is not a physical location so much as it is a heavenly location where the word of God is preached and the mysteries of Christ are given and received according to His instruction and mandate. That’s where God has promised to meet us.Those Christians who say that they can meet God anywhere, that they don’t have to come to the Divine Service, that it isn’t necessary, they miss the point entirely. And they miss the point entirely because they misunderstand what the Divine Service is. They must else they would make their custom to be here.This Divine Service is the service of God to His people, just as the temple cult in ancient Israel was the service of God to His people. How many make excuses why they can’t be here. Too tired; too sick; too ashamed; too whatever. Now there are some who can’t be here, we call them shut-ins. But then the Lord does not abandon them but goes to them and take His Service with Him. We call it Shut-in Communion Visits. And I know, people will ask if it’s necessary to be here every Sunday or every time the doors are open. But I refuse to answer that question from now on because it’s a question of the Law. What’s the bottom line? What’s enough? What is necessary? It’s a question of man who always seeks to do only what is absolutely necessary and nothing more. But the ways of the Lord give in abundance, even wastefully as He provides more food than there are people and fills cups to overflowing. Don’t be so concerned about the minimum but more concerned about what is necessary.It is necessary for us to be among our Father’s things.It was necessary for Jesus to be among His Father’s things – in His Father’s house, we translate it. So it is necessary for us to be among our Father’s things, too. The things that Jesus was speaking of were the ark of the covenant, the lampstands, the altar of sacrifice, so too the scrolls of the prophets and the teachers of God’s word. And these things are all types of Christ. He is the Ark of the Covenant, containing in Himself the Law of God and judging the people of God from the Mercy Seat. He is the lampstands from where the light of God shines and the Spirit of God flows. He is the Teacher. He is the things of God and it is necessary for us to be among Him.But there is something more, too. You are the things of God too. You are the Body of Christ, the Church, which means the gathering. It is necessary for you to be around the saints of God. Not just those who happened to still be breathing, but also and especially around the apostles of Christ through whom the Spirit teaches, leads, and instructs.The Lord Jesus is still among His Father’s things. He is among you: teaching you and asking you questions. Not to learn from you but that you would learn from Him. His questions open you will and your heart and His answers draw you ever closer to the Father. Do not be surprised that it is necessary for Jesus to be among His Father’s things, for He is the thing of the Father. Do not be surprised that it is necessary for you to be among your Father’s things, for you must be where Christ is who is seated at the right hand of the Father.And it is your faith that hears and obeys God so that you come to hear His word and participate in His mysteries and be called the children of God.It should not surprise you, this talk about the necessity and glory of the Divine Service. Where else would you expect to find the Christ, the Son of God? Or do you not know that it is necessary that He be among His Father’s things? And the things of the Father are the Bible, Holy Baptism, preaching, the Holy Supper; but you are also the things of the Father. You, too, are part of this gathering, part of the Church, part of the Body of Christ. It is necessary for you to be among your Father’s things; to be blessed by Him and to bless Him. To be loved by Him and to love Him. To be claimed by Him and to claim Him.+ In Nomine Iesu +