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[0:00] Please take again the living word of God and turn with me to Matthew chapter 24. First book of the New Testament, Matthew chapter 24.

[0:15] And I will be reading from verses 36 through to verse 44. Matthew 24 verse 36, this is the word of God.

[0:27] No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.

[0:44] For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark. And they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away.

[0:58] This is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. Two men will be in the field. One will be taken and the other left. Two women will be grinding with a hand mill.

[1:09] One will be taken and the other left. One will be taken and the other left.

[1:41] One will be taken and the other left. It's one of the most familiar Bible stories that most of us have heard ever since we were young children. Children. You know about Noah and the ark and the flood.

[1:59] And if you believe that that actually happened, you know more than many seminary and college professors who say it never happened.

[2:10] Well, of course it happened. The God of truth who cannot lie tells us it happened. Jesus Christ, we've just heard him, tells us it happened.

[2:22] But this real event that really happened is of more interest to us than just some historical interest about what has happened in the past. According to the Lord Jesus, it's a preview of what will happen when he returns again in judgment of this world.

[2:42] We just heard his words in Matthew 24, 37, as he spoke to his disciples. As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.

[2:53] Peter was there that day. He heard the Lord's warning and he repeats it in his second letter. And he makes the same connection between the world being destroyed by water in Noah's day and the world being destroyed by fire in Christ's day of return.

[3:15] 2 Peter 3 warns us about skeptics and scoffers. Peter says, first of all, you must understand that in the last days, scoffers will come, scoffing and following their evil desires.

[3:31] Those two things go together too, scoffing and evil desires. The reason they scoff at the Lord's coming in judgment is because that would ruin their enjoyment of their evil desires.

[3:43] So they just laugh it off and poke fun at this idea about Christ coming back in judgment. Where is this coming? The Lord promised. Ever since our fathers died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation.

[4:00] You see what they're saying? God has never interrupted human history with judgment. No, rather it's just been one uninterrupted flow of history.

[4:11] Time just keeps rolling on as it always has and so it will always be. Peter says, hold on.

[4:22] They're forgetting something. And the dirty, rotten secret is that they are forgetting on purpose. He says, but they deliberately forget that long ago by God's word, the heavens existed and the earth was formed out of water and by water.

[4:39] By these waters also, the world of that time was deluged and destroyed. What's Peter talking about? He's talking about Noah's flood.

[4:51] The global flood that destroyed the created world in Noah's day. There was a day when God's judgment interrupted man's downward spiral into wickedness and he wiped the earth clean of all human life except for Noah and his family.

[5:13] Furthermore, Peter goes on to say that Noah's worldwide flood was a preview of another worldwide judgment that's going to catastrophically interrupt human history.

[5:28] Verse 7 of 2 Peter 3. So, if Noah's flood in the past is a preview of the coming judgment, what can we learn from Noah's flood that will help prepare us for the return of Christ and his judgment that he brings?

[6:03] Well, let me first just give a brief summary of what happened. After Adam fell into sin, his sinful nature was then passed down to every human being.

[6:16] So, his firstborn son, Cain, murdered his own brother. And by the tenth generation from Adam, the earth was so full of violence and wickedness that God said, I will wipe mankind whom I have created from the face of the earth.

[6:35] For the inclination of the thoughts of his heart is only evil continually. And that's what God did. In judgment, he sent a global flood and the total population of the earth perished.

[6:51] All except Noah and his family of eight persons in the ark. So, the first lesson that we can learn from Noah's flood is don't be deceived.

[7:04] The wrath of God is coming. Don't be deceived. The wrath of God is coming. Because sin must and will be punished. You know, all sin is against God.

[7:18] When you sin against your brother, you're sinning against the God who says, love your brother. And sin is evil. Sin is ingratitude.

[7:29] It's arrogance. It's rebellion. It's obnoxious. It's offensive to God. Habakkuk 1.13, the prophet says to the Lord, Your eyes are too pure to look on evil.

[7:41] To look on evil with complacency and act like it just doesn't matter. No, your eyes are too pure for that, God. You cannot tolerate wrong.

[7:53] You know, tolerance is the big word today. We tolerate everything. Do you know God cannot tolerate wrong? It's impossible. Because of who he is. Sin is something he can't ignore.

[8:05] He can't just sweep it under the rug as if it didn't happen or doesn't matter. Why? Because of who he is. He's holy. And God's wrath is the reflex action, reaction of his own holiness against sin.

[8:21] It's what God does in the presence of sin. Wrath. Sin is the contradiction of his very nature. You know that sin is the most anti-God thing you can do?

[8:35] His nature cannot but recoil against it in wrath. And that's what brought the flood of God's judgment upon the earth in Genesis chapter 7.

[8:46] Sin. And that's what will bring the coming judgment of God's wrath when Jesus returns. Sin. There is an eternal hell to pay for sin.

[8:59] You see, sin is against an infinite God. And that means sin is an infinite offense against God. And finite man can never make the last payment of an infinite debt to an infinite God.

[9:16] That's why punishments are everlasting for those who have sinned against God and have not been forgiven. So the entire human population perished in the flood except for Noah and his family.

[9:32] We read, but Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. So that leads us to the second thing we can learn from Noah's flood.

[9:43] There is only one way to escape the coming wrath. Only one way to escape the coming wrath. Kids, what was the way of escape for Noah?

[9:54] Noah. What was it? The ark. A big boat. One and a half.

[10:06] How many of you have been to see the full-size model of the ark down at Cincinnati? Put your hand up. Oh, there's a good number of you. You know how big it is then. But it's the size of one and a half football fields.

[10:20] Long. And as wide as a football field. And three stories high. It's a big boat. And that was God's only way of escape, wasn't it?

[10:33] Now that God would make any way of escape for sinners is pure grace. Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. God didn't know any sinner a way of escape.

[10:46] All he ever owed us was hell for our rebellion. Noah too. He was a sinner. And yet in amazing grace, God provided a way of escape for him.

[10:58] And just to remind us of what a privilege it is to have a way of escape. Remember, God didn't provide a way of escape for the fallen angels. No, he didn't.

[11:10] But he did for us fallen humans. One and only one. You wouldn't escape by climbing the tallest mountain.

[11:22] No, the tallest mountain was covered with water. You wouldn't escape by holding on to some life preserver. No, only the ark. And that held for Noah and his family too.

[11:33] They would not escape unless they got into the ark. Only in the ark would they be delivered from the flood. All outside the ark perished.

[11:46] All inside the ark were saved. Now say, kids, does that remind you of anyone? The Lord Jesus Christ. All in Jesus Christ are saved.

[12:00] All outside of Jesus Christ are damned. So, you see, there are many lessons from Noah's flood. But none more important than this.

[12:12] If you forget everything else, don't forget this. The ark is a picture of Jesus Christ. The one and only way of salvation from the coming wrath of God.

[12:22] Just as the ark was the only way, Jesus stood there and said, I am the way. I am the truth. I am the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

[12:36] Neither is there salvation in any other. For there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved. We must be saved by Jesus or we must be lost forever.

[12:48] For there is but one God and one mediator between God and man. The man, Christ Jesus. And he and he alone is able to save completely all who come unto God through him.

[13:06] And so the ark preaches the gospel to you, children. The ark preaches the gospel. It's the good news. There is a way for us sinners, every one of us, a way for us sinners to be saved from the coming wrath.

[13:23] That's the good news. That's the gospel. He is Jesus Christ, God's son become man to save sinners. So borrowing from Thomas Goodwin's book, I'm entitling this sermon, Jesus Christ, the ark for all God's Noah's.

[13:38] He is the ark for all who will get into Jesus Christ. Children, if you get into Christ, you will be saved from the coming wrath.

[13:49] If you do not, you will be damned. That's the lesson. And he's all you need. You know, the ark was all that Noah needed. He found everything that he needed to be delivered and saved in the ark.

[14:02] You know, shipbuilders today reveal that the dimensions of the ark were perfect. I'm told that the biggest ship floating today is an oil tanker.

[14:14] And it has, way bigger than the ark. But it has the same dimensions as the ark. Isn't that interesting? It's made to, it's the best dimension to keep that boat afloat on the oceans.

[14:28] And even so, Jesus Christ is a perfect savior. He's perfectly suited to his work of saving sinners. Everything you need as a sinner to be saved from the coming wrath is found in Jesus.

[14:45] The ark was pitched, we're told, with tar inside and out. Sticky stuff, gooey stuff that if you stepped in or got on your fingers, you'd be wearing it for weeks. Sticky tar.

[14:56] Why? So that the ark wouldn't leak. It's just one leak in the ark would have sunk it. That's all it takes to sink a boat is one leak.

[15:07] And it's true of Jesus. Just one sin in Jesus would have sunk any hopes for us to be saved. Because if Jesus only sinned and sinned once, well then, he would need to suffer God's wrath himself for his sin against God.

[15:27] And his death wouldn't do nothing for me, a sinner, or for you, a sinner. There would be no merit in his death for you or me. He would die for his own sin. Oh, but he was a sinless lamb of God.

[15:41] And therefore, he was able to stand in for us and die in our place. That we might be saved from God's wrath. So the fact that Noah was spared from the flood doesn't mean Noah's sins got off unpunished.

[15:59] No, his sins were punished in full. They were punished in the same place my sins were punished. On the middle cross outside of Jerusalem 2,000 years ago, when Jesus Christ, God's son become man, hung between heaven and earth and suffered the wrath of God for the sins of all who put their trust in him.

[16:25] That's where my sins were forgiven. That's where Noah's sins were forgiven. That's where your sin, the only place we can escape the coming wrath. So the big question this morning, kids, is are you in Christ?

[16:41] Get into him. And you get into him by faith. And that's our third lesson. What do we learn from Noah's flood and the ark? That salvation is by faith.

[16:54] The ark teaches, the whole event teaches us that. You know, faith was needed to get into the ark of safety, wasn't it? The New Testament makes this very point.

[17:05] If you want to turn to Hebrews 11 and verse 7. There are three things that Noah's faith did. Hebrews 11, that chapter of faith, brings up Noah as the example, one of the many examples.

[17:19] And it says to us in verse 7, By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear, built an ark to save his family.

[17:32] Noah may never have seen a flood in his life before. We know for sure he had never seen a flood like the one God said was coming, that would cover the whole earth.

[17:46] But Hebrews 11, 1 says, Faith is being sure of what we do not see. And so faith takes God at his word. And faith is sure that what God's word says will come true.

[18:01] We're certain of it. And that's why when God warned Noah of the coming flood, things not yet seen, and God told him to build the ark, Noah got busy.

[18:16] Faith always moves us into action, into works of obedience. And so by faith, he built an ark to save his family.

[18:27] He never would have built that boat, kids, without faith. But he had faith in God and therefore built the ark to save his family.

[18:38] It says by his faith he condemned the world. Noah was 600 years old when the flood came. 2 Peter 2, 5 calls him a preacher of righteousness.

[18:50] It's estimated by answers in Genesis that it took Noah and his sons 55 to 75 years to build the ark. And all the while he's building, Noah is preaching.

[19:02] In fact, he's preaching by his building. Every timber proclaimed to the neighbors, flee the coming wrath. The flood is coming.

[19:14] Each pounding of the hammer cried, judgment is coming. Each whoopah, whoopah of the saw declared and shouted, prepare to meet your God.

[19:26] Noah, the preacher of righteousness, is preaching while he's building and by his building. 1 Peter 3, 20 says, God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built.

[19:40] Oh, the patience of God with that wicked generation. Withholding his judgment for 55 to 75 years that they might hear the preaching of the gospel.

[19:55] About their wickedness and of God's judgment that's coming and of an ark of safety. God was patiently waiting. The question is, then why did no one else get in the boat except for Noah and his family of eight?

[20:11] They didn't believe. They didn't have faith. They dismissed the whole warning of God through Noah. He's weird. That foolish old man has got some crazy ideas about a coming flood that's going to cover the whole earth.

[20:26] It's never happened. He says, God's going to punish us because of our sins. Old man, there's no body of water anywhere near here to float your boat in.

[20:39] You're a foolish old man. And so by his faith, he condemned the world. How does that work? How does Noah's faith condemn the world?

[20:53] Well, the same way a diligent student condemns a class full of lazy students. Everyone's given the same materials to study for the exam.

[21:04] But Christmas break is coming and nobody studied. They all flunked the exam. All except for one guy. He studied and he got an A. He's the curve breaker.

[21:16] And he proved that the test was not too hard. The test was not unfair. Had they studied, they could have passed too. And so his A condemned their laziness.

[21:30] You see, by Noah's preaching, the sinners that heard him preach had the same knowledge that Noah had. A flood's coming. There's only one place of rescue and escape.

[21:41] It's the ark that I'm building. They didn't believe and perished. Noah believed and was saved. He was the curve breaker.

[21:52] And so by his faith, by believing the promises of God, he condemned the world for their not believing. Some of you have grown up in families where you've got a brother or sister who have believed, but you haven't.

[22:08] Do you know that their faith condemns you for your unbelief? They grew up in the same Christian home. They grew up in the same Sunday school classes and same preaching.

[22:20] You heard exactly what they heard. They believed and you didn't. And their faith condemns you for your unbelief. So by faith, he built an ark.

[22:34] By faith, he condemned the world. And lastly, Hebrews 11, 7 says, by his faith, he became heir of the righteousness that comes by faith. What's this righteousness? Well, it's the righteousness that you need to get into heaven.

[22:47] It's the right standing with God. It's the obedience to his law that you need to get into God. It's perfect righteousness that you need because just one sin is enough to sink you for all eternity.

[23:01] That's the righteousness. And notice, by his faith, he became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

[23:11] It doesn't come by your works. It comes by believing in Jesus Christ. This is the justifying righteousness of Christ. His perfect obedience to God's commands for 33 years.

[23:24] And when a sinner believes on Christ and on his perfect life and his atoning death, God takes all of his perfect obedience, his straight A's, and he puts it to the account of the sinner.

[23:37] His record in heaven. He's made right with God. He's viewed as if he'd never sinned. Better than that, as if he'd obeyed every single commandment perfectly.

[23:49] And by trusting, by believing, by faith, Noah became an heir. He inherited this freely, not by his works. He inherited this righteousness that comes by faith that made him right with God and therefore escaped the coming wrath.

[24:09] As God the judge is satisfied to look on Christ and pardon the believing sinner. You know, in justifying sinners, God doesn't even look at us.

[24:25] He's not looking at your sin. He's not looking at your good deeds. He's looking at Christ. He says, oh, he is perfect. And if your trust is in that perfect Savior, then you are accepted in the beloved.

[24:39] In him. Just as Noah was spared in the ark. Well, we come then to the last point.

[24:50] The last lesson we can learn from Noah and the flood. And it's just simply, don't wait. Don't wait. Get into Christ today.

[25:04] Now. We read in Matthew 24, it was read for us. That when speaking of the coming wrath at Christ's return, Jesus tells his disciples, no one knows about that day or hour.

[25:22] As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, right up to the day that Noah entered the ark.

[25:37] And they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.

[25:49] So many of them had heard Noah's warning. A flood's coming. A flood's coming. That silly old man. They dismissed it. It had no room in their minds.

[25:59] So on the day of the flood, they didn't know what was coming. They were just carrying on life as usual. There's nothing sinful about marrying and giving in marriage, eating and drinking.

[26:13] Oh, they were sinning up big time. The Bible points that. But I think here the point is they were just carrying on life as normal life. It was just another day. Mother's getting up and getting their kids ready for school.

[26:28] Dad's going off to work and making plans, shopping, doing the laundry. All that you do every day. That's the way it was.

[26:40] And then suddenly the fountains of the deep were broken up and burst forth in water. And the heavens opened their gates and flooded down upon the earth.

[26:51] And before they knew it, they were caught in a flood with no way out. On the very day Noah and his family had entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood, God had shut them in.

[27:07] The door was closed. And so the flood came and it found all these people, the whole population except for Noah and his family, found them outside the ark. You know, it's not funny in a ha-ha sense, but it's interesting, isn't it?

[27:26] That as long as the door of the ark was open, it was a despised door. Despised. I wouldn't be caught dead in that smelly, floating zoo was their response.

[27:42] But when God shut the door and opened the heavens and broke up the fountains of the deep, suddenly the closed door became the desired door. Let us in.

[27:52] Let us in. But it was too late. You know, Jesus told us that in another place in Luke 13. Jesus was preaching as he's going to Jerusalem.

[28:05] And as he's teaching, someone asked him a question in the crowd. Lord, are only a few people going to be saved? And Jesus doesn't even answer the question.

[28:16] It's like he says, sir, you are asking the wrong question. You know how Jesus answered that question? Lord, are there only a few going to be saved? You strive to enter in.

[28:27] You strive, you agonize is the Greek, agonizomai, to enter through the narrow door. Because many, I tell you, will try to enter and not be able.

[28:41] Once the owner of the house gets up and closes the door, you will stand outside knocking and pleading, sir, open the door for us. And there will be no entry.

[28:51] And I will say, I never knew you. And you will go away to that place where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth. When you see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and the Gentiles who have trusted in Christ brought inside the kingdom and you yourself thrown outside.

[29:10] You waited too late to come. By the time you see with your eyes that judgment day has come. It's too late. The door of opportunity is closed forever.

[29:25] The story's told and it's only a story, but the facts behind it are true. Satan strategizes. We've learned this in our study in Sunday school. He has strategies.

[29:36] He's got battle plans on how to get you to sin. Satan hates you. We know that. He wants every one of us in hell. He hates the image of God in man.

[29:49] And he's got plans to get them there. And so he's got different plans. He's got a plan to say, there's no, to tell the lie, there's no hell. That's getting some people today.

[30:03] That's damning though. Others, he says, there's no heaven. John Lennon bought into that, didn't he? Imagine there's no heaven. Nothing above us but the sky.

[30:15] And some people bite on that line. But a strategy that gets far more people is Satan's strategy to say, yes, there is a heaven to gain.

[30:28] Yes, there is a hell to shun. But there's no hurry. There's no hurry. There's no way. There's no way. It's a well-known saying that the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

[30:48] You know, few people in hell planned to end up there. Many of them were telling themselves, I'm going to get right with God, but just not now.

[31:01] Remember Governor Felix? He's listening to his prisoner, Paul, give his testimony. And Paul is speaking about faith in Christ Jesus. And he's discoursing about righteousness and self-control and the judgment to come.

[31:13] And Felix is trembling. He's convicted. Because he doesn't have this righteousness that you need to get into heaven. He's convicted of his sins. But he says, that's enough for now.

[31:27] You're dismissed, Paul. You may leave. When I find it convenient, I'll send for you. Totally unprepared for the day of judgment. Heard about the Son of God who's come to prepare us for that day of judgment.

[31:40] To save us. No. Not now. A more convenient time. Children and young people. Outside of Christ.

[31:50] Hear me. Don't ever say, when I get older, I'll come to Jesus Christ. When I get older. When I'm out of high school.

[32:03] When I'm out of college. When I'm out of. When I'm married. When I'm this. When I'm that. Soon you'll find yourself.

[32:14] After blinking twice in a nursing home. With three-fourths of your brain. Your memory gone. Unable. To think seriously. About your sin.

[32:26] And the one safe place to be found in Jesus Christ. Is that your position? Later? Just not now?

[32:36] Oh, Satan's delighted. That's one of his key strategies. But you see. Today's just not now.

[32:48] Is followed by tomorrow's just not now. And each time you say it. It becomes easier to say it again. And each time you say it. It becomes harder to stop saying.

[33:00] Just not now. Satan says tomorrow. Tomorrow. God says. Do not boast about tomorrow. For you do not know what a day will bring forth.

[33:12] Why? You do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? It's a vapor. You breathe on a cold day. You see that breath just for a split second. And it's gone. That's your life. That's your life. If you could interview the souls of the damned in hell.

[33:28] You would hear many of them saying. Why did I wait for tomorrow? My tomorrow never came. And that word will haunt them forever.

[33:40] I knew about Jesus Christ. I heard the gospel. I knew about the one safe place. The ark of safety in Jesus. But I said. I'm going to enter tomorrow. And now it's forever too late.

[33:54] You know. Jesus knows that we tend to procrastinate. On that. The very most important issue of life. That we tend to say tomorrow.

[34:06] Like the devil's whispering in our ears. So God says. Today. If you hear his voice. Do not harden your heart. I tell you.

[34:16] Now is the time of God's favor. Now is the day of salvation. Come now. And let us reason together. Says the Lord. Though your sins are like scarlet. I'll make them. White.

[34:28] Like wool and snow. You see. Now. Never put off. Entering. The ark of Christ. Seek the Lord. While he may be found.

[34:38] Call upon him. While he is near. Why wait? When Jesus is ready to save you. Today. You know. He's the worst enemy. Any sinner could have. But he's the best friend.

[34:49] Any sinner could have. Go to him. He's come to give us life. And life more abundantly. He's come to give us eternal life. And you know what eternal life is.

[35:00] It's knowing God. Knowing Jesus. Having a relationship with him. This is life eternal. Jesus says. To know thee. The only true and living God. And Jesus Christ. Whom you have sent.

[35:11] He comes to bless you. So let the wicked. Now. Forsake his way. You've been going your way. Forsake that way. Let the evil man forsake his thoughts.

[35:22] You've been thinking all wrong. About life. About eternity. About the way of salvation. Forsake your thoughts. And let him return to the Lord. And he will have mercy on him.

[35:34] Let him return to our God. And he will abundantly pardon. As many sins as you have. He will have pardon for. That is his heart. For you.

[35:45] For any sinner today. And the offer. Is for you. Be like those idol worshiping Thessalonians. When Paul came to town. And preached the gospel. They didn't say tomorrow. Are you kidding?

[35:56] We've lived in our sin. For so long. And afraid of dying. And afraid of punishment. For what we know we've done wrong. And here's one way of escape. The Bible says they turned to God.

[36:10] From their idols. And they turned from their idols to God. To serve the living and true God. And to wait for his son from heaven.

[36:22] Jesus Christ. Whom God raised from the dead. Even Jesus. Who rescues us from the coming wrath.

[36:34] There it is. Why won't you run to him. Who rescues us. From the coming. You know the wrath of God is coming. That's point one we learned. It was 2,000 years.

[36:47] Ago that Paul wrote this. And it's 2,000 years. Closer today. The wrath of God was coming then. It's coming today. And each day you're waiting.

[36:58] You're storing up more and more wrath. For the day of wrath. When God's judgment is revealed. Oh don't wait. Come to Christ now. He's the only one to save you from the coming wrath.

[37:11] How does he do that? He does it by taking the wrath of God himself. We sang it. He bore the wrath. Kids. The early settlers of our country.

[37:23] When they were starting to head west. And they would go out. And lived on the plains. There would be great forest fires. That would just wipe out acres. By the hundreds. And burn up homes.

[37:33] And homesteads. And they learned from the Native American. The Indian. How to prepare for a prairie fire. And so when they saw in the distance.

[37:45] The smoke blowing their directions. They would get fire. And they would go outside of the village. And they would start a fire. Much like a controlled fire.

[37:56] Like farmers do when they're burning off a fence row. Never letting it get out of hand. But starting a fire. And they'd let a whole big area get burned off.

[38:07] And then they'd put the fire out. And then they'd get all their family. Into that burned out area. And all their belongings. They would bring everything precious. Into that burned out area.

[38:19] And then they could stand and wait. And as they saw the smoke coming at them. They saw the fire coming. And there did not be any fear. For as soon as it hit the edge of that burnt out area.

[38:31] The fire would divide. And go right around them. Why? Why? Why? Because there was nothing combustible. For the fire to burn.

[38:43] Continue burning. It had already burnt there. And you see. That's the gospel message. How is it that Jesus saves us from the coming wrath? He goes to Calvary.

[38:55] And there the fire of God's wrath fell on him. It punished the sins of all his people. And now whoever gets into Christ is in the burnt out area.

[39:08] Where the wrath of God has already fallen. And when we put our trust in that Savior. Well there's nothing combustible for God's wrath.

[39:19] To burn. All of our sins. Have already been punished. In Jesus. The sin bearing. Wrath bearing. Substitute.

[39:31] Of his people. That's how God saves us from the coming wrath. Through the Lord Jesus Christ. There on the cross he was made sin for us. There he was made a curse for us.

[39:42] There he suffered and died. God under God's wrath. For us. And then God raised him from the dead. Didn't he? And that was proof. That he had paid enough.

[39:54] Suffered enough. Died enough. Taken enough of God's wrath. To satisfy for the sins of all of his people. Of all time. Now.

[40:05] God's justice smiles. As he looks at us. Who are in the burnt off area. His justice smiles. And asks no more. For God the justice satisfied.

[40:16] To look on him. And pardon us. Yes. He suffered. My wrath. And everyone in him. Is therefore safe. You see the gospel. Is being preached to you.

[40:28] In Noah. And the ark. And the flood. Get into Christ. Right now. By faith. He's the one safe place to be. In the coming storm.

[40:40] Of God's wrath. Let's pray. Father in heaven. You are the holy one. There's none like you.

[40:52] And there's none like you in your wrath. And there's none like you in your grace. Thank you for providing an ark. To save Noah and his family. In the day of the flood. And that was by grace.

[41:04] And thank you that you have provided another ark of safety. In the Lord Jesus Christ. From a far worse flood.

[41:15] The coming wrath. That never dies. So thank you for Jesus. Thank you that he is our ark of safety.

[41:25] May many today. Even some here. Get into that ark of safety. Jesus. And taste that newness of life in him.

[41:37] And live for the whole glory of their savior. All of their life. Until they go in to be with him. Thank you Jesus for bearing that wrath. We pray in your name. Amen.

[41:48] Amen. Oh the blessedness to be found in that day. In Christ. Paul says to be found in Christ. Not having a righteousness of my own.

[41:58] That comes from the law. But that which is through faith in Christ. The righteousness that comes from God. And is by faith. By faith.

[42:08]  Amen.