Wednesday - By Faith, Noah

[Music] good morning class hi I'm Keith Moore and this is faith school and we welcome you to come right on in and join us get your Bible get something to make notes with and we're going to believe God that the same spirit of faith that we read about in patriarchs and and chapter 11 of Hebrews here that is in us and is going to grow and develop in us you know it's not far-fetched in fact it's what we should be thinking and looking at that we can think just like they did and speak and talk and act just like they did in fact the goal and the standards even higher than that the Lord said that those that are in Christ that we are to walk even as he walked he said if you believe on me the works I do you'll do all so is that true or not and greater things than they show you do because I go to the Father so it is possible in fact we're called to do it the Lord's expecting us to come up to this that we think like Jesus thought as he walked the earth that we pray like he prayed that we preach and teach like he preached and talked that we lay hands on people and pray for people and that we please God like he pleased God when you say that religious traditional trying to jump in and go no you're not you know there's Jesus and there's huge well no Jesus didn't function in the earth as God now he did do it without ever failing and we've already come short of that but but that's not the end of that what about the blood because of the blood we didn't start off each day with a clean slate you believe it or not as though we had not sinned so then we are able to walk like him not because of our perfect performance but because of what he has done and our faith we choose to believe God like he chose to believe God he said I do always those things that please him let's say that by faith I always do what pleases him praise God let's pray and release faith for the rest of the class today father we thank you so much for your great love and kindness and goodness that you manifest continually in our lives every good thing that we have experienced and enjoyed is from your hand every bad thing was not from your hand but you helped us overcome it and helped us get through and even things that our own mistakes and faults and failures you are he who has sustained us through and washed us from and cleansed us from it all thank you for the ability to walk even as Jesus walked teach us more about your precious faith about the spirit of faith the Unconquered spirit of victory that overcomes the entire world we receive it by faith we thank you for it for the utterance and the anointing in Jesus name Amen go in the please to Hebrews again Hebrews 10:38 you might say oh brother Keith haven't we already read this several times yes and you're gonna read it several more times this is faith school school and it's amazing how that repetition especially when the anointing is involved it it Sears into your spirit and we don't just want this in your head to where you can say y'all have heard that are that you made a note with it we want it a part of your inner being that will be with you from now on even past this life you gonna still be using your face it's just things are just going to get bigger and greater so never let yourself think oh I've heard that before yeah but silly have you got all the light and truth from that verse that you could possibly get surely you don't think you have right so every time you see a living word of God you need to go man they're things here I have not seen yet right show me open my eyes Lord to see it Hebrews 10 and 38 it says now the just shall live by faith but if any man draw back my soul shall have no pleasure in him I don't like that do you I don't want the Lord to have no pleasure in me I want him to have a lot of pleasure and be pleased with me and and what's that got to do with you got to walk by faith we're not of them come on say it out loud with me as we read it we are not of them who draw back unto perdition but of them that believe to the saving of the soul he goes on to say now faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen for by it by faith elders obtained a good report and we see later that God testified God's the one who gave this good report about their faith and in time to come the Bible says our faith is going to be found unto praise and honor and glory at the appearing of the Lord Jesus and in that day to come that every man who's done these kind of things that will have praise of God that's just hard to wrap your head completely around in it we don't know the fullness of that but it sounds really really good so we see by faith he's for these verses begin by faith by faith by faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice by faith Enoch walked with God and was translated verse 6 without faith it's impossible no way to please him for he that comes to God must believe he is and you must believe he's a reward them that diligently seeking by faith Noah that's what we've been in been on and involved in all this week by faith Noah what happened with him let me read this to you from a different translation the scripture says in amplified Hebrews 11:7 amplified by faith Noah being forewarned by God concerning events of which as yet there was no visible sign not only was it was there nothing you could see about it but there had not been anything you could see about it perhaps we'll see more of this later but the scripture describes that the earth has had former States from what it is in now I'm quoting scripture actually from Young's literal translation former our previous States if you read Genesis you'll see that in the beginning it did not rain the scripture said a mist came up and watered the ground now that may be hard for us to to fathom but the earth was was different in fact in the the day of one of Noah's sons sons they named him Peleg which means separated or divided because they said in his days the earth was divided so this has to do with the continents and even those who study these things believe that long long ago the continents were together and even little kids will look at the picture of the map and think well that's that piece would fit right there you know the earth was not like it is now long long ago in fact it's changing every day this chain or the tectonic plates are shifting and they tell us I was out somewhere recently in this entire mountain range we were looking at and they were saying that that mountain range was about an inch higher this year than it was just a few years ago well people said that's nothing over a million years yeah it adds up it's tremendous things happen our life span is so short we have such a tiny glimpse of it but just saying all that to say that when Noah comes out and says the Great God Jehovah has spoken to me now I don't know if he had a vision or he heard a voice we're not giving all the detail but we know that God communicated to him and he said it's going to rain everybody said huh oh what a ray what rain water is going to fall out of the sky well that's why it says events of which there was no visible sign the Goodspeed said he was warned by god of things no one had then saw the new living says he was God warned him about things that had never happened before well of course there had not been a flood like that there are people today who who debate whether it happened or not there's evidence all over the place but the you know faith doesn't have to understand it's a choice if God said there was a flood there was a flood right and the detail is just amazing even down to exactly how it happened and and this kind of thing sometimes P I've heard people speculate unbelievers say well you know there's no way that much water just fell out of the sky how did you know for one thing we've seen rains fall on places in a day or so a foot of rain failed flooded everything what if that happened for a couple of months but that's not all that happened the scripture said that the Fountains of the deep were broken up waters came out from below and it says the one translation says the network of the heavens were opened and something very dramatic happened in the heavens there were apparently waters above that are not like they are now that also gave a protection and a covering and moderated because after the flood things were different you can see that it affected a number of things you know the the radiation we get from the Sun and the damaging rays and all this it wasn't originally created that way if with God's original creation you'd never get too much Sun you'd never get hurt with anything everything was perfect it's all been radically changed but when Noah is preaching to them about this they're going what is he talking about and whatever scientist they had of their day are going no never gonna happen ridiculous preposterous but year after year Noah's out there building that house and preaching hmm now this is part of what we must endure as believers and that is persecution from non-believers it just goes with the territory you'll have people who will knock you and scoff about your belief but it's coming the end is coming life after death is real heaven and hell is real salvation in Jesus being the only way it's real and so we must be strong and not be influenced by unbelievers and when you hear some of the things that they say it doesn't it's not even reasonable because they weren't there how would they know who was there most of what we're talking about there no records from that far back nobody can can say absolutely this happened this way or it didn't happen this way if they're saying no it didn't happen that's their belief it's not science it's a belief they got no proof otherwise so they they have a different belief from us but don't call it science real science is going to agree with God every time the Bible warns us about you know thoughts of science so-called so when Noah is preaching about this nobody's ever heard about rain much less a flood and why would you need this giant ship but he's doing it the message says by faith Noah built the ship in the middle of dry land he was warned about something he couldn't see and acted on what he was told the result his family was saved his act of faith drew a sharp line between the evil of the unbelieving world and the rightness of the believing world there's so much in this verse in this one verse it is the entire picture of God's plan of salvation in this one verse and everything that happened with Noah I mean from the numbers of his age and when it happened we're given any time the Bible gives you specifics and it says on the first day of the first month in the 600 and first year that's not just to say okay now we know it's prophetic it's demonstrating something that it's it's prophesying something in time to come when we see it all play out will go well that that's just exactly like what happened with Noah and the hardest thing yeah yeah we saw it now it's giving you a preview and so the the bottom line that we're to get today are multiple things one of them is faith gets ready faith prepares as I was saying on yesterday's class everything that Phyllis and I in ministry and life have seen and done I can see this principal thing after thing after thing I know some years ago the Lord dealt with me I actually prayed this has been oh man 35 years ago or so I was in the floor praying one day and he just came up in my spirit that I needed to ask the Lord and believe him for the right tools for the ministry every profession needs its tools and so I asked the Lord what you know what do I need I knew I needed to just ask it by faith of course I know I need to study I need to pray we need to be willing to have meetings travel whatever we need to do minister to people 101 but what else do I need and the Lord oh I asked him I said Lord whatever it is we need I by faith I just ask you for the tools I claim him even though I don't know him I claim well his faith write evidence of things not seen I'm asking you and right after that the Lord quickened to me we would need computers now this was before we knew much about the internet and this was back when computers were about their screen was about that big and it was green you might remember that monochrome you know and the storage was a giant tweeny was at megabyte yeah I'm not gig no no 20 Meg and when you were you know opening up something in your program you could go make a cup of tea and come back while it finished working you just had to give it time but the Lord dealt with me you're gonna need that and sure enough well you know what's going on right now you know media Internet these kind of things and the Lord dealt with me that you're going to need that so begin believing me for it and begin preparing for it and so even years ago we prepared by building the word supply building and and building our own server room and investing into our own servers and our folks that are working on these things well there's a time when none of that's happening but you are preparing for it and you're investing heavily into it why what if nobody wants to see it what nobody wants to hear it well we're going to find out you know but the Lord wouldn't deal with you to do it unless there was going to be somebody that will receive it on the other hand that's what I'm you know we're doing these classes by faith we really are we're doing them by faith believing that they will find everybody that they need to find and everybody will find them but right after we begin in the church there at Branson we begin airing our services live on the internet and we begin making the teachings available as downloads on the internet and wow it just took off it just rocketed millions of downloads people begin getting and and download and all over the world without glory to God but do you see what I'm talking about what if we hadn't even back there those years ago started preparing and started say okay we know we got to get this ready why people would say it could be things you've never seen before can you see like with Noah it could be something other people hadn't seen before now I've had people ask me why are you doing that you know we have a Friday night service in our churches do you ho know that I had people when I first told them they heard I was gonna do that they said I actually people come tell me then I know people who tried that it doesn't work I'm telling you it doesn't work I've never seen it seen it seen it they were and I checked my heart and I thought well okay but that's what I got and so the Lord dealt with me he wanted other people to come and it was not their time for their service even ministers they could come and get fed and get built up and we found that as we kept going there were all kind of preachers coming in some of them sitting in the back incognito but it's that they could come on Friday as it wasn't interfere but I'm just saying whatever the Lord says to you and tells you to do you have to take steps to get ready for that I know later on the Lord dealt with me that Aviation would be a tool that we would need and use in the ministry and in the beginning I was I actually drugged my feet on it I was reluctant I had a fella this is after about though I don't know ten years in the ministry he came to me one day and he was a professional pilot he said I'll teach you how to fly if you want to and I said no no thanks I know that's hard to believe I had I knew people who had gotten aircraft and then were happier when they got rid of them because they were a burden to him and the expense and other things and also knew people who had gotten aircraft ministers who crashed and and you know were cut short young and you're thinking what should should they I got that aircraft you know and so I I just didn't pursue it but finally the Lord kept dealing with me this was back in 94 and 95 and I knew by the end of 95 if I didn't go learn how to fly I'm gonna be disobedient and I didn't know why so I did I pursued it and over the course of months I got my private license it's a lot of work and it's a lot like learning a new language and some other things and and then I thought okay okay I got it Lord dealt with me no no keep going go get your instrument get your instrument I'm thinking really do I have time for this back then I was speaking sometimes 20 times a week and so you know when you get a day off you just want to kick your face heals up in yes and so and when I get some time off the Lord prompt me go to the airport go the airport I'm thinking because you know you don't just go and sit around out there you got to study you got to focus got to learn how to land this thing got to learn how to do it and so I got that and now we're talking now you know a couple of years now the Lord dealt with me keep going get your multi-engine instrument get your motor engine I started learn how to fly with two engines you know and I thought okay so I did that I kept having this thing in me get ready you got if you don't if you don't keep getting ready you'll be behind you'll be late and so uh finally we this is after I don't know this is after three or so years or our for the Lord dealt with me to believe him for a jet now that just sounded crazy that's just crazy talk you know but the lot I knew the Lord kept dealing with me and finally one day I'm preaching and while I'm preaching he's talking to me at the same time he said Keith quit dragging your feet on this you think this is some kind of a luxury item you're gonna need this to do what I'm calling you to do stop procrastinating believe me for it well I didn't tell them what he told me I just kept preaching said turn to the next verse you know acted like everything was cool but when I got back to the room I repented and I said Lord forgive me I I realize what you're saying I hadn't been thinking right and so I knew the next step was to get ready I had no clue how to fly something like that even though I could fight a little plane and there was a particular plane I had a witness about a particular model and the Lord dealt with me you need to go to school learn how to fly that well the school was a month long and you're there all day and and sleep and hit it again and and I was so low time and I was so inexperienced but I just kept having this this thing in me get ready get ready if you don't get ready you won't be ready you'll be behind so I did it took the Lord helping me I can't say it was easy it was tough on me because I was so green I was so inexperienced but by the grace of God we made it through and just weeks after a finished school and I was type rated on that plane a couple invited us out to dinner we came and we knew they had one of these planes one of these models and they said the Lord has dealt with us too so that plane into your ministry and just so happened that the ink is still drying on my certificate but I am now can you see what the Lord was saying why was he said and this went back four years if I hadn't started years before I would have never been to that place come on can't you see that Frazer well that's just one example that's true with every one of us every one of us the plan of God involves things in our life involves tools associations resources you may need to go to school you may need to go to some night school you may need to take some courses you may need to believe God for you will need to believe God for some money and for some stuff hmm equipment it may be buildings it may be actually tools it may be electronics it could be computer gear there's something and several things you need to be able to do all that you're supposed to do in the kingdom of God and in order to do that you'll have to take a step of faith before you've seen it rain and maybe when nobody else has seen the kind of rain you're talking about either before you've experienced it I know not long after that the Lord dealt with us to believer for another little small plane and we didn't have it there's no way that we knew how to get it but I got a place to put it I thought well the first thing that's one that one of those things the Lord told me if I brought it to you today are you ready for it I thought no so I had to get a place to put it so we believe God I talked to some people we got a place to play then I measured how big the wing was and how long it was where am I going to put the tires we'll stop right here in the tail put X's where the tires go I marked it off I got stuff to clean it with and I got no plane but I don't want the Lord to tell me again are you ready if I gave it to you today and finally after after not too many days wag actually weeks I could say Lord if it comes today I'm ready I got a place to park it I'm ready to take care of it and sure enough do you believe it was only a couple of months after that it was sitting there on x marks the spot huh well a child of God what are you getting ready for today you if you're in faith you will be preparing you will be getting ready for that next great thing that God is doing in your life come on say it out loud I walk by faith I live by faith and faith gets ready I'm preparing I'm getting ready Lord show me what to get ready for I'll glorify you be strong in faith in Jesus name Amen praise God that's it for today we'll see you next time in faith school [Music] you

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Published: Tue Feb 12 2019