“Impacting Faith”

Father’s Day

Gen 7-8 and Selected

“In the Beginning…” series Part 8 of 10

Nehemiah 9:6 You alone are the LORD. You made the heavens, even the highest heavens, and all their starry host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You give life to everything, and the multitudes of heaven worship you.

Review…

        God created “bara” and energized the entire universe

        Days of creation were literal 24 hr days NOT long periods of time

        Adam disobeyed God plunging the entire human race into sin

        Estimated pre-flood population of 10 billion people (5-17 billion)

        Highly sinful preflood civilization were corrupt morally and spiritually

1.  Evidences of Noah’s Flood and God’s Recent Creation…

·         Global fossil record contained in the rocks

o   Fossils found on mountaintops, under the sea and in deserts throughout the world

·         Many human footprints found, whale skeletons on mountains, human footprint in a dinosaur’s.

o   Many mass animal graveyards discovered worldwide

·         Killed in Noah’s flood… swirled into mass burial graves… mammoth site in hot springs, SD

o   Worldwide fossil fuel beds of coal, oil & natural gas

·         From Coal – surface & deep mined, drilling for oil & Natural gas… Sinclair Dino Logo

o   Meteorite dust, magnetic field, ocean salt, etc…

·         3/8” layer on the moon correlates <10,000 yrs… Earth’s magnetic field ½ life of 1400 years…

·         Unusual discoveries from pre-flood world

·         A man 100,000 yrs ago who wore “sandals” crushed a living trilobite 500 million yrs old

o   Dinosaurs in recent history (Read Job 40 & 41 – more on this and cavemen next week)

·         This stone was engraved by the Incas long before the discovery of dinosaurs in the mid 1800's. Engraved on this stone is a triceratops dinosaur which is accurately portrayed in detail with a human rider mounted on its back. It would appear that the Incas, or their ancestors, had seen living dinosaurs… also eyewitness accounts from diaries of early explorers deep in the Amazon of a brontosaurs

·         In 1977, Japanese fishermen on board the Zuiyo Maru caught a dead Plesiosaur, very smelly "monster", in their nets at a depth of 900 feet. It was estimated to have been dead for over a month. It was 32 feet long and weighed over 4,000 pounds.

o   Tree trunks protruding thru “ages” of layered rock

·         Found all over the world, made by a global flood… through various “millions of years” layers

o   Petrified finger

·         Here’s the famous petrified “stone finger” of a person who lived in the days of Noah

o   and other manmade objects

·         Small figurine, metal bowl, vase, 6” hammer found in Cretaceous rock near London, Texas with a wooden handle, very pure (with no bubbles iron castings), blackened section turned to coal.

·         Probable Discovery of Noah’s Ark (View that Noah saw from the ark site!)

o   Found on the mountains of Ararat w/ proper dimensions

·         Can you spot it?  Let’s put an white oval around it… Ron Wyatt who “discovered”  the site with the ark in background 6524’ elevation… (Do a Google Earth at 39-26-26N and 44-14-05.3E)

·         Here’s some other pictures… notice white ribbons… marking metal locations at regular intervals

·         Other “old” boats were discovered with years of weathering, looks very similar to this one…

o   Located many (12) “drogue stones” used for ballast / anchor

·         Crafted for ballast… to increase stability in rough seas… artist conception

·         Found in an area 14 miles west of the Ark’s final landing site at Naxuan in Turkey – w/ holes

o   Obvious timbers, planking, metal rivets/fasteners mapped

·         Timber marks… hewn petrified beams and planking, metal fasteners mapped throughout ark

o   Petrified antler, dung and hair fiber from large “cat” family

·         A sample bore hole was drilled and found some fascinating items… petrified horn of an antler, petrified animal dung called coprolite and a hair fiber from the large cat family

·         Has the ark been found?  You judge for yourselves… will it make a difference to the skeptics out there?

·         How’s your faith?  What impact are you making for the cause of Christ?

·         As a Christian… let God grow your faith deeper… stand in awe of a Great God whose patience ran out…

·         Who poured out judgment upon a highly wicked unbelieving world… the evidence we saw stands strong.

·         As it was in the days of Noah… so it will be when Jesus returns to earth… are you ready? 

·         Are you praying for and trying to reach people for Christ before it’s eternally too late? Faith that impacts?

2.  Noah, a Father who Made a Difference…

Genesis 5:32 After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham and Japheth.

Genesis 7:6 Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth.

NOAH - Genesis 6:9-10 ⁹ This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked with God. ¹⁰ Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth.

	Righteous and Blameless who walked with God
	Married with three named sons… possible triplets?
	Probable additional unbelieving children… great pain of loss… (leaving behind family members)
	Shem, Ham and Japheth were 100 years old when flood came… (began young in helping build the ark)
	They changed generations to come by repopulating the earth… (earth was repopulated thru them)

Genesis 9:1 Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth.  

Genesis 9:18-19 ¹⁸ The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth… ¹⁹ These were the three sons of Noah, and from them came the people who were scattered over the earth.

Be a Man of Faith… (Begin this Father’s Day – Just Do-it)

·         Live in Obedience to God’s Word

·         Rise above the Status Quo

·         Teach by Example

·         Walk with God

Impact your Generation for Christ!