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Book: Matthew
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Matthew 24:37-39 The Days of Noah
I. The whole context is the signs that Jesus is giving to His disciples
of His coming and the end of the world.
A. I think that we all have an awareness that things cannot
continue in the downward spiral that we that we have been
observing for the last 40 years, that soon we will be
hitting bottom.
1. Something has to change.
2. Look at the downward spiral of the moral values in
the nation.
a. Look at the divorce rate, and how many
children are living with only one of their
natural parents.
b. Look at the pornography, It used to be that
the Esquire Varga girls, were the most
sensuous thing available, now children can
pick up magazines filled with totally
in the most provocative poses. Even
worse are the readily available
videos.
c. Look at what has transpired in
community in the last 40 years. There
totally obscene parades down the streets of
San Francisco on fathers day.
d. Look at the drug problem.
e. Look at the violent crimes. Drive by
shootings, car jackings, child abuse,
terrorists.
f. Look at the increased proliferation of
Nuclear weapons, now many terrorists nations
have nuclear capability.
g. Look at Africa. It is estimated that in many
countries of Africa that more than 50% of the
population is infected with the H.I.V. virus.
we see the anarchy in Bosnia, Rowanda, Sudan.
South Africa with the support of the U.S.
being turned over to the predominately
communist A.N.C. I predict that this will
turn out to be just as disastrous as the
Carter administration helping to depose the
Shaw in Iran, and bringing Kuhamani into
power. Look at the famines that are plaguing
that continent.
3. We know that things cannot continue on as they are,
there is a day of reckoning coming.
a. Our government is on a spending spree, we
continue to spend more than what we take in,
that cannot continue indefinitely. One of
these days it will all crash.
b. As far as government is concerned, they are
offering no solutions, they are only helping
to make matters worse.
c. The abortion issue is another matter that must
be judged.
d. The prophet Isaiah said, "Woe unto those who
call evil good, and good evil."
1. To come out of the closet and declare
yourself to be a , or a
is good. To speak against
the evil of these ed practices
is evil.
2. The Bible speaks of the woes that are
coming upon the earth, during the days
of the great tribulation when God
judges the earth for its rebellion
against His laws.
B. The only hope for the future of this world is the coming again
of Jesus Christ to establish the Kingdom of God upon the
earth.
1. Education is certainly not going to save us.
2. The government for sure is not going to save us, it is
more apt to destroy us.
3. The United Nations is not going to save the world.
4. Science is not going to save the world, they have only
created weapons that almost insure the destruction of
the world.
5. Green peace cannot save the planet.
6. There is only one who can save this world, and that is
Jesus Christ.
C. How was it in the days of Noah? "As it was in the days of Noah,
so shall it be at coming of the Son of Man."
1. The wickedness of man was great and his thoughts were
only
evil continually.
GEN 6:5 And God saw that the wickedness of man [was] great in the
earth, and [that] every imagination of the thoughts of his
heart [was] only evil continually.
a. Would you admit that we are getting close to
that description today?
2. The earth was corrupt before God and the world was
filled with violence.
a. We hear a lot of complaints concerning the
violence on T.V. that our children are exposed
to. My grandchildren were over watching
cartoons on T.V. this week. I believe that it
was Bugs Bunny, I watched him blow up and
destroy this pirate a dozen times in 5
minutes. He always kept coming back tattered
and torn. He was smashed to bits, crushed
flatter than a pancake, and blown up
several times.
b. The problem is that if they go out on the
streets they are apt to face the same kind of
violence, but they won't like the little
pirate somehow miraculously survive.
3. I would say that we are today much as the world was in
the days of Noah.
a. Jesus points out that in the days of Noah,
they were totally oblivious to the pending
judgment of God that was about to fall.
b. They were going on in a "business as usual"
mode not aware that the whole system was soon
to go down beneath the waters of the flood.
c. They were eating and drinking, marrying and
giving in marriage until the day that Noah
went into the Ark.
d. They did not know anything was wrong until the
flood came.
e. How little does the world realize how close we
are to the day of God's wrath and judgment.
f. It seems of late that God is trying to shake
men up a bit, tornadoes, earthquakes,
hurricanes, fires, floods, Aids, but try to
suggest that these are possibly the beginning
of God's judgment and you will be laughed
to scorn.
g. Though man may acknowledge a belief in God, he
lives as though God does not exist.
III. What America needs today.
A. Rather than the Lesbians coming out of the closet, we need
godly mothers going into the closet to pray for their children,
the school system, the community, and for a spiritual revival
to sweep this nation.
1. I believe that more could be accomplished for good if
we would organize for prayer.
2. Without a spiritual awakening our nation is through,
it is only a matter of time.
B. Like Russia, we need to realize that we need to start teaching
Biblical morality in our public schools, for that is the only
true basis for morality.
C. We need men and women in our Congress and Senate, who love
God and fear God.
D. We need for God's people to humble themselves and pray and
seek His face, and turn from their wicked ways.
1. You are either a part of the problem, or a part of
the solution of the problem.
E. Most of all, we need for Jesus Christ to return in the clouds
with great glory and establish the kingdom of God upon the
whole earth.
1. That day when wars shall cease to the ends of the
earth.
2. That day when
ISA 11:6 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard
shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion
and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
ISA 11:7 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall
lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
3. The day when
REV 21:4 God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall
be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall
there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
4. The day when,
ISA 35:5 The eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the
deaf shall be unstopped.
ISA 35:6 Then shall the lame [man] leap as an hart, and the tongue of
the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out,
and streams in the desert.
5. The day when
ISA 2:4 And he (ie Jesus) shall judge among the nations, and shall
rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into
plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall
not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war
any more.
6. You mothers who have been crying before the Lord, take
heart the day of the Lord is coming soon, your prayers
will be answered.
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