[SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to the way community church podcast.
[SPEAKER_00]: Our mission is to show people the way to life with Jesus.
[SPEAKER_00]: My name's Ahmed Gordon, I'm the podcast producer.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if you want to join us, need prayer or worship through giving, you can find the links in the transcript of this podcast.
[SPEAKER_00]: This service was recorded during Dr. Hall's sabbatical.
[SPEAKER_00]: Our guest pastor, Dr. Joshua Mitchell, came with the message saying, don't waste the window.
[SPEAKER_00]: He came from the book of Genesis, chapter seven, verses one through 16, where he talks about Noah building the ark.
[SPEAKER_00]: Open your bibles, let's get into the service.
[SPEAKER_02]: Genesis chapter seven, we're gonna use all the verses one through 16, but I'm gonna lift the first four for our reading today.
[SPEAKER_02]: It reads this way, the Lord said to Noah go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.
[SPEAKER_02]: Take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male, and it's made.
[SPEAKER_02]: And one pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male, and it's made.
[SPEAKER_02]: And also seven pairs of every kind of bird, a male, and female.
[SPEAKER_02]: to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth.
[SPEAKER_02]: Here it is, first number four, seven days from now.
[SPEAKER_02]: Someone say seven days from now.
[SPEAKER_02]: I will sin reign on the earth for 40 days and 40 nights.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I will wipe from the face of the earth, every living creature that I have made, and no a dead, all the Lord had commanded.
[SPEAKER_02]: You may be seated in the presence of our God.
[SPEAKER_02]: Seven days from now, I will sin reign on the earth.
[SPEAKER_02]: For forty days and forty nights, and I will write from the face of the earth every living creature that I have made, and know it did, what the Lord commanded.
[SPEAKER_02]: For the town that is all to share together on this second watch of the morning, I want to preach from the simple subject, don't waste your window, don't waste your window, turn to your neighbor, and say, don't waste your window,
[SPEAKER_02]: All right, they're still funky, because they think about brunch.
[SPEAKER_02]: Tell them, you gonna get to it, tell them, but don't waste, don't waste, don't waste your windows, seven days from now, I will sin reign for 40 days, don't waste your window.
[SPEAKER_02]: God, we thank you so much for this day, and we thank you for the opportunity to come into your house one more time.
[SPEAKER_02]: Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.
[SPEAKER_02]: The mention of your name, every knee will bow every tongue, show proclaim, we proclaim, you are Savior, you are Lord, and you are God.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I thank you that you continue to use one, who's righteousness is but a filthy rag.
[SPEAKER_02]: to be an instrument of your word.
[SPEAKER_02]: And now, God, you know, well, what I need, touch my mind, touch my mouth that I might be able to preach with power, clarity, and conviction to the end that somebody might be saved.
[SPEAKER_02]: Somebody might be encouraged.
[SPEAKER_02]: Somebody might be transformed.
[SPEAKER_02]: And as we sit in anticipation of your word, God, open our ears, open our hearts that we might be receptive to what your spirit has to say for ultimately God, it's your thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: You what you want to do in Jesus' name, amen, and amen.
[SPEAKER_02]: Don't waste your window.
[SPEAKER_02]: Family like your pastor.
[SPEAKER_02]: I am a huge fan of the NBA.
[SPEAKER_02]: National Basketball Association.
[SPEAKER_02]: I've been following it since I was a little boy, and this is one of the most exciting times of year for basketball fan, not just for some league in Las Vegas, but it's free agent season.
[SPEAKER_02]: free agent season is an exciting time because it's a season where teams are looking to trade and sign marquee names like LeBron James, who said I'm not going back to LA in Jesus' name.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're looking for other new talent to make their teams better in hopes of winning a championship in the next season, somebody say the next season.
[SPEAKER_02]: and the teams that are most active tend to be teams who are Anna or want to extend what is referred to as their championship window.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, window of time and opportunity for them to make significant changes enough to realistically win the championship with the majority of the people who are already on the team.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it is called a window because often significant shifts occur in the league every couple of years that totally flips the scales of power.
[SPEAKER_02]: Which teams realistically have a chance to survive and it is the job of the general manager to use the data and the analytics and the Intel that they have to make meaningful changes to their team
[SPEAKER_02]: to ensure their team survives and has a chance for success before the window of opportunity closes on them and while you might not be a basketball or a sports fan if you have a
[SPEAKER_02]: been keeping up with the news family.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know that we as a society may well be heading towards some seismic shifts in our world and society, and the window of opportunity to prepare for it may be coming to a close.
[SPEAKER_02]: In fact, just two weeks ago, as reported on Yahoo News, there was an article
[SPEAKER_02]: called window to control AI is closing up and it could widen in equity as experts and authority figures from the United Nations to corporate tech leaders like and dropping our warning that we may be living.
[SPEAKER_02]: through a short window of time to either stop or prepare to survive the seismic societal shifts that are coming our way technologically and economically and environmentally and maybe even spiritually that we can not waste and while
[SPEAKER_02]: I am more and more inclined to see them as a form of grace from Almighty God.
[SPEAKER_02]: Somebody say grace, because the transcendent truth that is buried in Genesis chapter seven, and the story of Noah and the Ark is this.
[SPEAKER_02]: That God will sometimes give you the grace of a window
[SPEAKER_02]: of preparation before seismic shifts that you have the responsibility of not to waste.
[SPEAKER_02]: Tell your neighbor for the second to the last time.
[SPEAKER_02]: Don't waste your window, don't waste your window.
[SPEAKER_02]: And that is the truth that God knower and his family help to illustrate in our key verses in Genesis chapter seven.
[SPEAKER_02]: The book of Genesis thought to be
[SPEAKER_02]: Moses is retelling up the history of the people of Israel to the second generation of Israel, like to a living post-egyptian slavery.
[SPEAKER_02]: And don't remember their history.
[SPEAKER_02]: The book of Genesis begins with God's creation of the world and everything in it.
[SPEAKER_02]: including a humanity that God soon regrets giving the breath of life to.
[SPEAKER_02]: In fact, just prior to our text this morning, one chapter over in Genesis 6, the Bible records in Genesis 6 and 5, the Lord saw how great the wickedness
[SPEAKER_02]: of the human race had become on earth and that every incarnation of the thoughts of the human harder was only evil all the time and the Lord regretted somebody say regretted that he had made human beings on the earth and his heart was deep
[SPEAKER_03]: So verse 7 says, the Lord said, I will wipe from the face of the earth, the human race that I've created, and with them the animals, the birds, the creatures that move along the ground for I regret that I have made them.
[SPEAKER_03]: Can you imagine that there's a lot of people in the world that are in the world.
[SPEAKER_03]: human beings were so buck wilder that God says I regret even putting them on earth.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know what God was seeing in Genesis chapter 6.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know if God was seeing how politicians were playing political games that were harming brothers and sisters on the ground that
[SPEAKER_03]: they were supposed to be representing a for greed and public policy that really fattened their pockets but didn't help the people.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know if God was looking at the ways in which brothers and sisters treated the marginalized, the least.
[SPEAKER_03]: the left out and said I regret it.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know if God was just looking at ancient Freetendix tapes that made him say I can't do this, but something that God saw said I got to wipe them out and start over, but
[SPEAKER_03]: God said in verse number 8, but Noah, somebody howling Noah, found favor in the eyes of the Lord.
[SPEAKER_03]: Noah is found to be a righteous man, maybe the only one that God can find during these wicked times, and despite being sure that God would allow a seismic shift in the world and in society
[SPEAKER_03]: that day that we can completely change everything.
[SPEAKER_03]: God says to Noah, I'm going to give you some grace and warn you and prepare you and yours to survive.
[SPEAKER_03]: The ship that is coming.
[SPEAKER_03]: God instructs him to build an art with specific amenities and specifications to prepare for a storm that was coming.
[SPEAKER_03]: In an age where rain has not yet
[SPEAKER_03]: been recorded in the biblical record.
[SPEAKER_03]: He tells Noah to be old and prepare for a threat that Noah and humanity had never even seen him despite the unknown and despite no doubt
[SPEAKER_03]: of noise from the people around him.
[SPEAKER_03]: Noah is obedient and Noah builds for rain in times of sun.
[SPEAKER_03]: Tell your neighbor, we gotta do the same.
[SPEAKER_03]: You don't prepare for rain.
[SPEAKER_03]: When it stormy outside, you prepare in sunny days.
[SPEAKER_03]: Everybody loves them.
[SPEAKER_03]: But you
[SPEAKER_03]: Can you stand the rain?
[SPEAKER_03]: He starts for Peria on sunny days for the rain that comes and when we get to I text in Genesis 7 the ARCA is complete.
[SPEAKER_03]: God returns to Noah with a warning and
[SPEAKER_03]: the articulation of time.
[SPEAKER_03]: He says the window that you and humanity have left in its current state of normalcy is short of before the world is about to turn upside down.
[SPEAKER_03]: a warning and a window of seven days that God does not have what Noah and his family to waste if they will survive and family if y'all like give me just a number ninety minutes to work this day just want to see if you will pay an attention if you'll give me just a few more minutes to work this text and Genesis chapter seven I think will leave here
[SPEAKER_03]: with an understanding of how we can take advantage of God's gracious windows about opportunity and warning so that you and I can survive the shifts that are coming our way can I give you a
[SPEAKER_03]: And then you'll be done with me, because the first thing I see in the text is that we can ensure we don't waste the window that God provides for us.
[SPEAKER_03]: If we are intentional with our intel, turn to somebody near and say be intentional with the intel.
[SPEAKER_02]: 10 verses one through five, the Lord said to Noah go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in the generation, take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal of male and its mate.
[SPEAKER_03]: And one pair of every kind of unclean animal of male and its mate.
[SPEAKER_03]: And also seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female to keep their various kinds of
[SPEAKER_03]: throughout the earth.
[SPEAKER_03]: And seven days from now, I will send rain on the earth for 40 days, and 40 nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature that I'm made.
[SPEAKER_03]: And verse five says, and no one did.
[SPEAKER_03]: All the Lord had commanded him, y'all that's in the text, Noah, and his family are walking up in grace.
[SPEAKER_03]: Somebody say grace, and we understand grace as the unmarried, favorite of God.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's when God gives you gifts that your conduct does not deserve it, and you have not earned it.
[SPEAKER_03]: And in this case, with these impending shifts to the world, that would reshape the world as they knew it.
[SPEAKER_03]: time where so many would be left behind.
[SPEAKER_03]: God gives them the grace of a window of time seven days a week to prepare seven days to get ready while the rest of the world goes on with business as usual turning up and having a good time so that you and your people can make it
[SPEAKER_03]: the shift happens.
[SPEAKER_03]: And not only am I going to give you a sense of when the shift is happening up.
[SPEAKER_03]: But I'm going to tell you what to do.
[SPEAKER_03]: The best preparer doing this window of time.
[SPEAKER_03]: If you want to make it a and survive and thrive after the shift.
[SPEAKER_03]: Here's what you need to do, Noah.
[SPEAKER_03]: I need you to go into the arca.
[SPEAKER_03]: I need you to take your family.
[SPEAKER_03]: I need you to take up these
[SPEAKER_03]: And this is what blesses me all the after Noah gets the intel of the information from the Lord Information that is designed to help him and his family to survive the impending global shift That was on the way Noah doesn't simply receive the intel of
[SPEAKER_03]: The information verse five says that Noah did all the Lord commanded him here.
[SPEAKER_03]: Me family Noah does not waste the window of grace that God gives him because he does not simply receive the important information from his divine authority but he executes somebody say executes on the intel he has been given and family in this window of time.
[SPEAKER_03]: authorities on climate change and on our political and democratic systems on the global economy and the shifting of labor markets as a AI and automation continue to affect everything from available jobs in what will want safety.
[SPEAKER_03]: industries up to the availability of usable water for the world that utilized we too have the responsibility not just to listen to what the experts have the authority figures are sometimes screaming to warn us about what's coming but what will be here in seven days but to hear the information
[SPEAKER_03]: internalize the intel uh and then make a move somebody say make a move uh based on what you know y'all uh I was reminded about this on last Thursday uh I have a podcast goal uh but pursue podcasts with Pastor Josh and we trying to take it to the next level so I heard that there was a podcast summoning 18-year-old on last Thursday uh and so I got near virtual ticket y'all and they brought together
[SPEAKER_03]: speakers and entrepreneurs who were talked about the ways for us to take those podcasts to the next level.
[SPEAKER_03]: And one of the speakers was a brother about the name of Kevin Oamstasia.
[SPEAKER_03]: And Kevin Oamstasia presented a, he presented on the things he would tell us about growing our podcasts and growing our business.
[SPEAKER_03]: If he did not want to hurt our feelings.
[SPEAKER_03]: That was the title of his keynote.
[SPEAKER_03]: The reflection he made that stuck with me was this.
[SPEAKER_03]: He looks straight into the camera Huh, because I was streaming online.
[SPEAKER_03]: He looked him to the crowd And said you don't have an information problem.
[SPEAKER_03]: I you got an execution problem Huh, good god almighty.
[SPEAKER_03]: He said you know what to do Huh, you know you need to lose weight and it's simple You got to eat less exercise more and drink more water than you do to kill her
[SPEAKER_03]: In Jesus name, it's simple.
[SPEAKER_03]: He said we've got the internet.
[SPEAKER_03]: We've got coaches.
[SPEAKER_03]: We've got courses.
[SPEAKER_03]: We got chat, D.P.T.
[SPEAKER_03]: We got Claude all the information you need.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's out there, but those who will thrive and survive.
[SPEAKER_03]: And those that will thrive the difference are those that are willing to move.
[SPEAKER_03]: And hustle and execute, I'm the word that has been given a new you and I'm moving on to my second point, but it all came up to tell somebody I believe that we've been given the grace of a short window of relative normalcy before we see major and disruptive shifts in our world in tech.
[SPEAKER_03]: and work and labor and the economy and beyond.
[SPEAKER_03]: And my word for you in this season is to be tapped in to the word of the Lord, and the word of authoritative voices who are shaping the future of these fields.
[SPEAKER_03]: So that you can make some moves now.
[SPEAKER_03]: I need you to learn important survival and new trade skills right now.
[SPEAKER_03]: I need you to be working to get yourself out of debt and save and invest for the future Right now, I need you to build the business that God put on your spirit I want to create new streams of income right now I need you to take care of your health The best you can right now turn to somebody near you and say you got seven days baby What you gonna do with them
[SPEAKER_03]: Y'all, says you got seven days until this thing is going down.
[SPEAKER_03]: I need you to work with it this way, but not only does Noah have the wisdom to be intentional with the intel he receives from the Lord and to do something with it.
[SPEAKER_03]: But the second lesson we learn from Noah in the text is that we ensure we don't waste the window of God's graciousness among us by secondly considering our companions.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's in the text verse five through 10 and Noah did all that the Lord commanded him.
[SPEAKER_03]: Noah was 600 years old when the flood waters came on the earth and Noah and his sons and his wives and his sons wives entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.
[SPEAKER_03]: Her pairs of clean and unclean animals.
[SPEAKER_03]: of birds and all creatures that move along the ground, male and female came up to Noah and entered the ark as God had commanded Noah and after seven days, the flood waters came on the earth.
[SPEAKER_03]: Y'all, it's simple though, but the traffic truth in the taxa is that God has been dealing with me on in this season that rocked me up.
[SPEAKER_03]: me and I hope it rocks you to get this.
[SPEAKER_03]: God says I'm giving you grace, but tools and ARCA, and this window of time to prepare for the seismic shifts that are about to happen.
[SPEAKER_03]: But the ARC that is going to ensure that you survive and thrive, post the flood is only engineers.
[SPEAKER_03]: for a certain amount of people.
[SPEAKER_03]: Could God Almighty, which means Noah, that if you are going to survive and thrive in this next season, everybody can't go with you.
[SPEAKER_03]: Let me say it one more time.
[SPEAKER_03]: He says the tool that I'm going to use to get you into the next season is only engineered for a few people.
[SPEAKER_03]: And if you are going to make it everybody can't go with you, God.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's very specific, there is room on this arc for you and your wife, for your sons and their wives and there is room for the pairing of the animals that I have prescribed, but to get you to the destination that I'm designed for you on the other side of the ship, the rest of these people that can't go with you.
[SPEAKER_03]: who know a grew up with and knew him when that could not go.
[SPEAKER_03]: There would be people who know a considered his friends and brothers and blood relatives who could not go with them.
[SPEAKER_03]: People who may have been instrumental in his development in one season who season was now the vainly of discontinuous.
[SPEAKER_03]: And this is a reminder to some of us that sometimes a survival comes with severance The severing and the breaking of ties with people who you love and care for and have respect for and have history with But don't fit on the vessel that God has used and I'll show you
[SPEAKER_03]: into the next season of your life.
[SPEAKER_03]: And that is a painful and a start reality, but one we may be forced to embrace, do me a favor and remind somebody near you everybody can go with you in the next season.
[SPEAKER_03]: So who can go with us?
[SPEAKER_03]: So what is the biblical blues clue?
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[SPEAKER_03]: according to the text of each kind of animal bird and creature there are pairs of them that are considered clean and there are bowls who are considered a unclean according to the religious practice of the people in Noah's time.
[SPEAKER_03]: Can I tell you why that blesses me because for the new world a post-shifah God Don't just desire to use the ones that you think are pure and holy and clean But there is also room
[SPEAKER_03]: and resourcefulness from those that you might label unclean and that's why you can turn your nose up at people that's why you can't talk about people crazy that's why you can't talk about those that don't check your preferential boxes because it's possible that's some of those who you look down upon
[SPEAKER_03]: of the very ones God may want you to ride with you on the next leg of the journey to serve you and be served by you on the other leg tell your neighbor be careful who you put your mouth on
[SPEAKER_03]: God says, there's some clean, and there's some unclean foe that can roll with you.
[SPEAKER_03]: But that's not all because there's an additional blues clue in the text that black says, me, Noah is instructed of, via his intel, that they would need to be a specific number of pairs of animals that need to accompany him and his family on the journey.
[SPEAKER_03]: And y'all, I am not a zoologist.
[SPEAKER_03]: I've seen Zootopia 1 and 2.
[SPEAKER_03]: shout out to Judy Hives.
[SPEAKER_03]: I've been to a few zoos in my time, but I have learned that all animals don't naturally live everywhere.
[SPEAKER_03]: Could God Almighty, I can imagine Noah says you need every animal God.
[SPEAKER_03]: You need pairs, all of them?
[SPEAKER_03]: He said, I know I've seen a few pit bulls out here in Kanye's, but I ain't never seen no elephants in Georgia.
[SPEAKER_03]: We got some snakes and some spiders, but I don't normally see lions and tigers.
[SPEAKER_03]: any guanas.
[SPEAKER_03]: How am I going to find and select and retain and to guide those that you said are needed to accompany me on this next leg of the journey.
[SPEAKER_03]: And that's why God is so good family.
[SPEAKER_03]: because ultimately Noah does not have to live in the stress of trying to seek out and select which ones are right to go with them on the journey.
[SPEAKER_03]: Because verse has eight and nine say that when it's time to go, pairs of clean and unclean animals of birds and all creatures that move on the ground, male and female, came to Noah.
[SPEAKER_03]: That Noah doesn't have to select.
[SPEAKER_03]: them for himself.
[SPEAKER_03]: But Lord, somebody huddle the Lord, huh?
[SPEAKER_03]: It sends the right ones straight to know a good giggling bugle.
[SPEAKER_03]: That thing is you sit at me, huh?
[SPEAKER_03]: And I got to close this point, huh?
[SPEAKER_03]: But I came on assignment to tell somebody, huh?
[SPEAKER_03]: But on the next leg of the journey, huh?
[SPEAKER_03]: Everybody can't go with you, but those who need to accompany you.
[SPEAKER_03]: You don't have to seek them out.
[SPEAKER_03]: You don't have to campaign for them.
[SPEAKER_03]: You don't have to search them out.
[SPEAKER_03]: If you are sensitive to the spirit of the Lord, you won't have to...
[SPEAKER_03]: find the right ones.
[SPEAKER_03]: The Lord has sinned the right ones.
[SPEAKER_03]: So come your way that I am a witness that in every major ship in my life.
[SPEAKER_03]: And indeed as we embrace ourselves, put the ship in our societies that are to come, every mentor and colleague, and friend that I saw it out.
[SPEAKER_03]: Didn't always avail themselves to me.
[SPEAKER_03]: But we are
[SPEAKER_03]: I thought they would or should.
[SPEAKER_03]: Good God am I the ones I would have chosen for myself.
[SPEAKER_03]: What sometimes the ones that disappointed me the most.
[SPEAKER_03]: But God is so good.
[SPEAKER_03]: God has a way of sending just the right people.
[SPEAKER_03]: Just the right time.
[SPEAKER_03]: But just the right season.
[SPEAKER_03]: With just the right ingredients.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'll show you.
[SPEAKER_03]: And for the next season of your life.
[SPEAKER_03]: And is there anybody in here?
[SPEAKER_03]: That is a witness and contestify.
[SPEAKER_03]: God picks up, wouldn't have been my picks up.
[SPEAKER_03]: But God sent me a, it's just what I needed.
[SPEAKER_01]: You said, what a book are right now.
[SPEAKER_01]: That you wouldn't pick that's your book.
[SPEAKER_01]: But they good to you.
[SPEAKER_01]: They treat your well.
[SPEAKER_01]: And they make it to anybody.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's grateful.
[SPEAKER_01]: That when you got the spirit of the Lord, you don't have the search for what you need.
[SPEAKER_01]: God has sent just the right ones who wouldn't need the most.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm done.
[SPEAKER_03]: Here it is, y'all.
[SPEAKER_03]: We got a window.
[SPEAKER_03]: Noah has a window.
[SPEAKER_03]: And if we don't want to waste the window of God's grace to prepare for the seismic shifts that can and may come, we ought to be intentional with the intel that we've been given.
[SPEAKER_03]: And we must consider the companions that are meant to go with us into the next season.
[SPEAKER_03]: But the last thing I see in the text is that if you don't want to waste the window, then finally you got to commit to locking in.
[SPEAKER_03]: Turn to somebody near you and say lock in.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, your text verse 12 through 16, it's in verse 16.
[SPEAKER_03]: But let me start its will and rain fell on the earth.
[SPEAKER_03]: 40 days and forty nights on that very day Noah and his sons, shim, ham and jettiff.
[SPEAKER_03]: Together with this wives and the wives of his three sons Enter the Ark and they had with them every wild animal According to its kind All livestock according to their kinds Every creature that moves along the ground According to its kind Every bird according to this kind Everything with wings The pairs of all creatures
[SPEAKER_03]: that have the breath of life in them.
[SPEAKER_03]: I came to Noah and into the Ark.
[SPEAKER_03]: And the animals going in, huh?
[SPEAKER_03]: What mail and female, huh?
[SPEAKER_03]: Of every living thing, huh?
[SPEAKER_03]: That's the Lord commended.
[SPEAKER_03]: Noah, here's where it is, huh?
[SPEAKER_03]: And then the Lord shut him in.
[SPEAKER_03]: Somebody Holla shut him in.
[SPEAKER_03]: Verse 12 bears witness to the fact that the entail, and the instruction that God gives to Noah, and his family is true.
[SPEAKER_03]: That everything God says will happen.
[SPEAKER_03]: The things that Noah look crazy for pairing for, while the people were party and it happened.
[SPEAKER_03]: The rain came, winds blew, and the world would soon find out that the rain would not stop for 40 days, and the blood borders would not receive from many more months after that.
[SPEAKER_03]: only hope of survival, arrested in the archa, but the Lord instructed Noah to be killed in the summer season.
[SPEAKER_03]: As the rain begins to fall, huh?
[SPEAKER_03]: And what's Noah and his family have boarded, huh?
[SPEAKER_03]: The Bible says the Lord checks him in, but Lord closes the door of the archa, but Lord, huh?
[SPEAKER_03]: Four says Noah, huh?
[SPEAKER_03]: To be locked in, huh?
[SPEAKER_03]: Somebody how
[SPEAKER_03]: I imagine y'all, that this is part painful, and part practical.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's practical, because in order for the archa to float without flooding, he would need the door to be closed, and essentially be locked in, but I also believe that the Lord had to shut him in, and had to lock him in, to keep the archa.
[SPEAKER_03]: outside noise coming in the door, the screams and the requests of everybody.
[SPEAKER_03]: All of those who calm know a crazy in one season, but needed him in this one.
[SPEAKER_03]: The sound that accompanied her, the crowning of those that know a hell dear, but couldn't get on the arc.
[SPEAKER_03]: And while this is a grim scene, I'm shutting Noah and his companions in.
[SPEAKER_03]: And forcing them to be locked in.
[SPEAKER_03]: They have been unsettling and uncomfortable for them.
[SPEAKER_03]: But it was a necessary, huh?
[SPEAKER_03]: There's a Bible, huh?
[SPEAKER_03]: need it for them to thrive.
[SPEAKER_03]: On the other side, up the storm.
[SPEAKER_03]: And my final word, huh?
[SPEAKER_03]: To somebody today, huh?
[SPEAKER_03]: Somebody worshiping online.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's just this, huh?
[SPEAKER_03]: That if you and I don't want to waste the gracious window, huh?
[SPEAKER_03]: A preparation, huh?
[SPEAKER_03]: That the Lord might be given us, huh?
[SPEAKER_03]: We too need to embrace the value of being locked in.
[SPEAKER_03]: Shut in, shut out, from the distractions.
[SPEAKER_03]: And the outside noise, and come find by God.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, shows in vessel.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's a curious through this season.
[SPEAKER_03]: And into the next, and to be clear, I'll be locked in, and always find.
[SPEAKER_03]: For some of those that spit time lock,
[SPEAKER_03]: behind her friends and bars and rehabilitation centers her shots for anybody that remembers her being locked in and Covid her being locked in and always fun her being locked in can lead her to some uncomfortability her the ease of movement her and the social norms her that existed before you are locked
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, so with the words of Reverend Tom Jones, today what could the Lord do?
[SPEAKER_03]: If you went out locked in, but the last few months of 2026, I know you had some goals.
[SPEAKER_03]: And some new years resolution, that you may or may not have hit us for.
[SPEAKER_03]: But no one's family is a witness.
[SPEAKER_03]: being locked in for a few months, can completely change your life.
[SPEAKER_03]: And what could your health look like?
[SPEAKER_03]: If you're locked in, what could your body look like?
[SPEAKER_03]: If you're locked in, what could your finances look like?
[SPEAKER_03]: If you're locked in, what could your business look like?
[SPEAKER_03]: If you're locked in, what could your word?
[SPEAKER_03]: of the Lord in your life be.
[SPEAKER_03]: If you embraced it and locked in, and I've done with the message family.
[SPEAKER_03]: May the Lord bless your real good.
[SPEAKER_03]: But do I have anybody?
[SPEAKER_03]: That says, I won't waste the window that God has given me.
[SPEAKER_03]: But for the second half of the year.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm locking in.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm locking in in prayer.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm locking in in devotion.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm locking in in movement.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm locking in in exercise.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm locking in in the gym.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm locking in in my worship.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm locking in with what I eat.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm locking in in my strategy.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm locking in for my finance.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm locking in for my family.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm locking in for the ministry.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm like an ear, because I believe that we serve a God, and that still does miracles.
[SPEAKER_01]: When God's people will lock me, turn your neighbor for the last time, and say, neighbor, oh neighbor, get a good look at me now.
[SPEAKER_01]: Take you a selfie, because who I am today, and who I'm going to be Overwatch Night Service, because I'm getting ready To lock in, to cut a miracle's happening When God's people lock in, and that's not the testimony Of just the man they know of, who is temporarily Confined to the wounds of an archer
[SPEAKER_01]: But it's the testimony of a man named Jesus Who locked in?
[SPEAKER_01]: And made his way To watch Calgary To embrace the world Of a rugged cross Luke 9 and 50 walk Says he locked in And turned as a loop To watch Jerusalem And he locked in And kept walking To watch Calgary They talked about him
[SPEAKER_01]: Locked in, they spit on him, but he locked in, he had his own doubts up, in gets him any up, but he locked in, they whip my cheeses up, but he locked in, they spadowed him up, but he locked in, and they took my cheeses up, to a rugged cross up, they hung him higher, they stretched him wide, he hung his head,
[SPEAKER_01]: And did he taunt her, but he would locked in her, and then thought it was over, then thought it was finished, but her late, Sunday morning, because he locked in her miracles happened, so they should have been up.
[SPEAKER_01]: Is there anybody?
[SPEAKER_01]: Definitely.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll see a miracle.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll be a miracle.
[SPEAKER_01]: If I lock him, lock him, lock him, lock him.
[SPEAKER_01]: For the rest of the year.
[SPEAKER_01]: And see what the Lord shall do.
[SPEAKER_01]: Do you believe it?
[SPEAKER_01]: Do you trust him?
[SPEAKER_01]: God, yes.
[SPEAKER_01]: Tell your neighbor, I'm gettin' pockets, I'm gettin' disoplayin' I'm gettin' pockets up, oh what's next for me?
[SPEAKER_01]: Cause I believe the best is yet to come On the other side, there will be glory There will be glory, there'll be glory for your children Glory for your grandson, glory in your body Glory with somebody, I believe, if I laugh
[SPEAKER_01]: What you don't do.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you see what the Lord has put on your heart, how would you praise them?
[SPEAKER_01]: If you're walking into what the Lord shows you, you can be in the next few months.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, give them the glory.
[SPEAKER_01]: Clap your hands.
[SPEAKER_01]: Stop your feet.
[SPEAKER_01]: To your dead.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's alive!
[SPEAKER_01]: I said brazenma, like your body's already healed.
[SPEAKER_01]: Brazenma, like your money's right.
[SPEAKER_01]: Brazenma, like your children will.
[SPEAKER_01]: Brazenma, like your know-it's not that happens.
[SPEAKER_01]: Brazenma!
[SPEAKER_01]: The best is yet to come, get focused, get locked in, get discipline, keep moving, step by step up every day, and see what's the law.
[SPEAKER_03]: They were locked in for about five months.
[SPEAKER_02]: Rain came 40 days, 40 nights, but what a receipt for another 100 plus days, they're in about another five months of the year.
[SPEAKER_03]: And on the other side of it, there's a whole new life.
[SPEAKER_03]: We've got about another five months to December 20, 26.
[SPEAKER_03]: Lock in, quiet the noise, the distractions, the temptations, the weights that so easily but set us, and get locked in for the next five months, your life today doesn't look nothing like what it will look like on the other side.
[SPEAKER_03]: Tell somebody, do you better get a good look at me now?
[SPEAKER_03]: I know I'm chocolate and chunky now.
[SPEAKER_03]: Next time you'll see me, I'm gonna be slim and trim.
[SPEAKER_03]: Come on, I'm fitting a lock.