Our Ark Of Salvation

There is a grave type of urgency just as Noah must of felt in his day.

2 Peter 2:5
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5 if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;

Noah a preacher of righteousness prepared the Ark while preaching repentance.

The Ark being that of a boat that him and 7 others would enter and be saved from the judgment of God.

Today we preach the same message of repentance and be saved by entering into the Ark who we call Jesus Christ. Only in Him may anyone see salvation from the judgment of God.

We cry from our fallen state and wish evil would be done away with but yet we fail to look at the evil within us and comfort our ego with saying “I'm not as bad as that guy or that girl”.

We all have sinned against the Almighty, the Creator of all things, the Alpha and Omega. That is a crime of the highest order and the highest law. To rebel against gravity, you will reap pain if not death. To rebel against the laws of the Creator who is above all things including gravity. Then one can only expect the highest of judgment. Eternal death.

The Ark is our Savior and for all those who are in Him, they will be saved. Like Noah who was covered by the walls and protected, we are covered by the blood of Christ so that the judgment we deserve may Passover us.

We preach life while the world preaches death. A battle for the heart and soul is ever present. The spiritual enemy doesn't sleep or take holidays. We must always stay ready and focused on the preaching the gospel.

One day the time will come for the Ark to close it's door and everyone who isn't within will face the judgment of God. Nothing to protect them, no excuses, and by then it will be too late.

God hates evil and will destroy it. God not wanting any to perish gave us the Ark of salvation but He will not force us to enter into that rest. Instead those who rebel will labor in vain worshipping idols, greed, sex, power or anything else that disease or decay will ultimately bring futility.

Luke 17:27
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27 They were eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.

Stay focused on the mission at hand for the words “destroyed them all” should grieve in the most holy of saints. The weeping prophet felt great sorrow for the rebellion and judgment of his people.

Before saving faith, must come genuine repentance. Repentance can only come once one understands they have sinned against the Creator.

And that is exactly why we have Romans 1-3 at the beginning of that epistle.

ROMANS 3: ALL HAVE SINNED THEREFORE ALL NEED TO REPENT AND BE SAVED
9 What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
13 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
15 Their feet are swift to shed blood:
16 Destruction and misery are in their ways:
17 And the way of peace have they not known:
18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.
19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

That is a serious indictment. All the world is guilty before God since there is none righteous, no not one. Therefore we also read this in Acts 17:30: And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:

There should be billboards in every city on earth saying exactly that in every language:
GOD NOW COMMANDS ALL MEN EVERYWHERE TO REPENT.

Love Romans. But yes, I agree. Too many preachers are afraid to sound like the fire brimstone type and rarely get into repentance. But there is a balance. The unsaved needs to know of condemnation and how to receive salvation. The saved needs to know of grace, faith, and the fruit of righteous works as the byproduct.

Amen!

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Roman Catholics sometimes compare their church to Noah's ark.

But if the RCC were truly a model of the Ark; then not one single Catholic
would ever be in the slightest danger of hell and eternal suffering because
nobody aboard the Ark perished in the Flood.

And not only that, but were their church a true model of the Ark, then
nobody would even be able to apostatize. The reason being that after all
were aboard, God sealed the hatch.

● Gen 7:16 . .Those that entered were male and female, and of all species
they came, as God had commanded Noah; then The Lord shut him in.

The Hebrew word for "shut" actually means to shut up; like as when a corral
gate is closed to pen livestock; plus the Ark's door was calked with bitumen
to prevent leakage. In other words, the door could be opened only from the
outside; and that by the hand of God. (cf. John 10:9 & John 10:27-29)

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