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Introduction

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Introduction

• Founder: God

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Introduction

• Founder: God

• Fees: Free

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Introduction

• Founder: God

• Fees: Free

• Pre-requisite: Alive

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Introduction

• Founder: God

• Fees: Free

• Pre-requisite: Alive

• Duration: life time

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Introduction

• Founder: God

• Fees: Free

• Pre-requisite: Alive

• Duration: life time

• Operation Hour: 24 hours (the school that never sleeps)

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Introduction

• Founder: God

• Fees: Free

• Pre-requisite: Alive

• Duration: life time

• Operation Hour: 24 hours (the school that never sleeps)

• Lecturers: Abraham, Moses, Noah, Joseph…etc.

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Hebrews 1038 “But my righteous one will live by faith.

And I take no pleasure

in the one who shrinks back.39 But we do not belong to those who shrink

back and are destroyed, but to those who have faith and are saved.

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Class Subject: FAITH is

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Class Subject: FAITH is

Week 1- Abraham: FAITH is TRUST

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Class Subject: FAITH is

Week 1- Abraham: FAITH is TRUST

Week 2 - Moses: FAITH is CHOICE

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Class Subject: FAITH is

Week 1- Abraham: FAITH is TRUST

Week 2 - Moses: FAITH is CHOICE

Week 3 – Noah

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Interesting facts on Noah / Flood

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Interesting facts on Noah / Flood

• The last person to live more than 900 years

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Interesting facts on Noah / Flood

• The last person to live more than 900 years

Gen 63 Then the Lord said, “My Spirit will not

contend with humans forever, for they are mortal; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.”

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Interesting facts on Noah / Flood

• God gathered the animals to the ark, Noah did not go hunting them down

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Interesting facts on Noah / Flood

• God gathered the animals to the ark, Noah did not go hunting them down

Gen 620 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.

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Interesting facts on Noah / Flood

• The flood is global in nature, not a local flood

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Interesting facts on Noah / Flood

• The flood is global in nature, not a local flood – Historically, there are Babylonian account of

such global flood

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Interesting facts on Noah / Flood

• The flood is global in nature, not a local flood – Historically, there are Babylonian account of

such global flood – Mesopotamian Epic of Atrahasis and Epic of

Gilgamesh

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Interesting facts on Noah / Flood

• The flood reveals the delicate balance of God’s mercy and His judgment

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Interesting facts on Noah / Flood

• The flood reveals the delicate balance of God’s mercy and His judgment – Methusaleh – 969 years (his death shall bring

judgment)

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Interesting facts on Noah / Flood

• The flood reveals the delicate balance of God’s mercy and His judgment – Methusaleh – 969 years (his death shall bring

judgment) – Son of Enoch, grandfather of Noah

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FAITH IS …

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FAITH IS …

• Noah’s answer: OBEDIENCE

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FAITH IS … • Noah’s answer: OBEDIENCEHebrews 11:7 (NLT)7 It was by faith that Noah built a large boat

to save his family from the flood. He obeyed God, who warned him about things that had never happened before. By his faith Noah condemned the rest of the world, and he received the righteousness that comes by faith

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CONTEXT: The Times

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CONTEXT: The Times

Gen 6:5-8 5The 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. 6The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled.

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CONTEXT: The Times

Gen 6:5-8 7So 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.” 8But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.

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CONTEXT: The Times

Gen 6:11-12

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CONTEXT: The Times

Gen 6:11-12 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.

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CONTEXT: The Times

Words to describe the times:

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CONTEXT: The Times

Words to describe the times:

• Extreme wickedness – great wickedness (exceedingly overflowing….)

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CONTEXT: The Times

Words to describe the times:

• Extreme wickedness – great wickedness (exceedingly overflowing….)

• Extreme evil – every inclination, every thoughts, and every time

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CONTEXT: The Times

Words to describe the times:

• Extreme wickedness – great wickedness (exceedingly overflowing….)

• Extreme evil – every inclination, every thoughts, and every time

• Extreme violence / corruption

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CONTEXT: The Times

Sin has gone from

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CONTEXT: The Times

Sin has gone from

• An individual

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CONTEXT: The Times

Sin has gone from

• An individual

• A family / lineage

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CONTEXT: The Times

Sin has gone from

• An individual

• A family / lineage

• A society

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CONTEXT: The Times

Sin has gone from

• An individual

• A family / lineage

• A society

• The known world

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CONTEXT: The Faith

Gen 6:12-14

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CONTEXT: The Faith

Gen 6:12-1412 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 …

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CONTEXT: The Faith

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CONTEXT: The Faith

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CONTEXT: The Faith

Noah’s response: v22 Noah did everything just as God commanded him.

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CONTEXT: The Faith

Noah’s response: v22 Noah did everything just as God commanded him.

FAITH is OBEDIENCE

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Noah’s extreme OBEDIENCE

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Noah’s extreme OBEDIENCE The ONLY righteous MAN

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Noah’s extreme OBEDIENCE The MOST ridiculous TASK

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Noah’s extreme OBEDIENCE The MOST ridiculous TASK

– Potentially 120 years of task/ project

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Noah’s extreme OBEDIENCE The MOST ridiculous TASK

– Potentially 120 years of task/ project – Age 480 years when started building the ark

alone

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Noah’s extreme OBEDIENCE The MOST ridiculous TASK

– Potentially 120 years of task/ project – Age 480 years when started building the ark

alone– Age 500 years – had kids (not sure how much

they help)

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Noah’s extreme OBEDIENCE The MOST ridiculous TASK

– Age 600 years – completed the ark … 120 years later

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Noah’s extreme OBEDIENCE The MOST ridiculous TASK

– Age 600 years – completed the ark … 120 years later

– 120 years of mockery, sneers, scorns, joke of the city

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Noah’s extreme OBEDIENCE The MOST ridiculous TASK

– Age 600 years – completed the ark … 120 years later

– 120 years of mockery, sneers, scorns, joke of the city

– No life group, no church, no internet, no friends to confide with….

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Noah’s extreme OBEDIENCE The MOST ridiculous TASK

– Age 600 years – completed the ark … 120 years later

– 120 years of mockery, sneers, scorns, joke of the city

– No life group, no church, no internet, no friends to confide with….

– Stayed in the ark for 7 days prior rain

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Noah’s extreme OBEDIENCE Gen 6:22, Gen 7:5 – Noah DID ALL that

God has commanded him…

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Noah’s extreme OBEDIENCE Gen 6:22, Gen 7:5 – Noah DID ALL that

God has commanded him… Noah was the ONLY MAN God trusted

with the MOST ridicules TASK!

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EXTREME TIME DEMANDS EXTREME OBEDIENCE

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Days of Noah

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Days of Noah

Matt 24:37

As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.

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Days of Noah

Today:

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Days of Noah

Today:

• Extreme ungodliness and evil

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Days of Noah

Today:

• Extreme ungodliness and evil

• Extreme compromise

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Days of Noah

Today:

• Extreme ungodliness and evil

• Extreme compromise

• Extreme selfishness

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How do we respond?

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How do we respond?

• Extreme Obedience:

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How do we respond?

• Extreme Obedience:– Complete Obedience

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How do we respond?

• Extreme Obedience:– Complete Obedience

• Not partial obedience, not pick and choose

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How do we respond?

• Extreme Obedience:– Complete Obedience

• Not partial obedience, not pick and choose• Noah obeyed everything God has

commanded

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How do we respond?

• Immediate Obedience:

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How do we respond?

• Immediate Obedience:– Not delayed obedience

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How do we respond?

• Heartfelt obedience:

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How do we respond?

• Heartfelt obedience:– Not reluctant obedience

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How do we respond?

• Heartfelt obedience:– Not reluctant obedience – Want to vs Have to

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OBEDIENCE

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OBEDIENCE

1 Sam 15:22

But Samuel replied:

“Does the Lord delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the Lord? To obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed is better than the fat of rams.

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OBEDIENCE

Phil 2:8

And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death— even death on a cross!

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OBEDIENCE

Acts 7:39

Our fathers were unwilling to be obedient to him, but repudiated him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt

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Restoring Back Obedience

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Restoring Back Obedience

• Bible

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Restoring Back Obedience

• Bible

• Finance

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Restoring Back Obedience

• Bible

• Finance

• Marriage covenant

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Restoring Back Obedience

• Bible

• Finance

• Marriage covenant

• Morality / purity…etc.

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2 Peter 2:55 if he did not spare the ancient world when

he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness

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