SOAKED IN RIGHTEOUSNESS #2

SMELLING GOOD FOR GOD

August 17, 2008

with Adam Waters

INTRO
· Living in the HOLE in college.
· Tim and Jason’s room… 50 gallons of water.
· Pooty and Todd’s room… who knows?
· Going back years later.
· DID YOU REALIZE THAT GOD IS LOOKING FOR PEOPLE LIKE NOAH?
· He’s looking for people with a certain smell… do you understand that?

BODY
WHAT DID THE BOAT SMELL LIKE? Paint the picture…
Ø 45 foot tall boat only the top 18 inches have an air hole (6:14-15)
Ø Pairs of every kind of animal (6:19-21) + food.
Ø Take 14 more! (7:2-3) “Take 7 pairs of each animal that I have approved for eating and for sacrifice, and take one pair of each of the others. Then select 7 pairs of every kind of bird. There must be a male and a female in each pair to ensure that every kind of living creature will survive the flood.”
Ø Rain for 40 days/nights (7:4)
Ø They had to wait a week for the rain (7:10)
Ø The water covered the earth for 150 days (7:24) or 5 months (8:2-4).
Ø (8:5) after 2.5 more months the other mountains began to appear.
Ø After another 40 days, Noah opened the window he made in the boat (8:6) 272 days!!!
Ø 7 days, Noah sent out the dove…
Ø 7 days later sent out the dove again
Ø Finally, when Noah was 601 (bday on the boat… yuck), 10.5 months after the flood began (8:13) Noah lifted back the cover to look and the water was drying up.
Ø (8:14) 2 more months went by and God finally told them to come out!... a YEAR LATER!
Ø No showers. Hundreds ? of animals. Going stir crazy. Everyone has died! All animals have perished! Alone… smelly… confined… AWFUL!

WHAT DID THE OFFERING SMELL LIKE?
Ø Which animal do you think Noah wanted to kill the most?
Ø 8:20-22 Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and sacrificed on it the animals and birds that had been approved for that purpose. And the Lord was pleased with the sacrifice and said to himself, “I will never again curse the earth, destroying all living things, even though the people’s thoughts and actions are bent toward evil from childhood. As long as the earth remains, there will be springtime and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, day and night.”
Ø God’s Plan for the offering.
Ø What kind of strength would it have taken to do what Noah did on that altar?


WRAP IT UP
Do you realize that God is looking for people like NOAH?
· Are you ready to commit?
· Commit to a life of obedience, closeness… righteousness?
· Are you ready to sacrifice?
· Are you ready to live a life of worship?
· Put yourself on the altar?
· Put your most precious things on the altar and give them to God?

BANNER SIGNING…