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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hey everybody, thank you for tuning into pray dot com Radio.
My name is Mike Kai, the senior pastor of Inspired
Church in Hawaii. Be sure to check out my channel
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ways to connect from Hawaii to wherever you are listening from.
I hope you enjoy this message right here.
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On prey dot com Radio. I love America. I'm Hawaiian.
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I'm Kanaka ma Oly, born and raised on the Big Island,
and so I understand patriotism to a larger degree because
of my upbringing. When I was younger, I was in Disneyland.
Disneyland's changed a lot, but I was in Disneyland in
nineteen seventy six during the bi centennial when dinosaurs roam
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the earth, and it was during that time that there
are people like Johnny Horizon on tracks in red, white
and blue all over the place. I saw my very
first patriotic parade in San Diego, California, in the summer
of seventy six. It was in that time of being
an eight eight year old or a seven year old,
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where I was tremendously impressionable in that age that everything
that I saw I began to absorb because of my
young brain, and I saw just although I did not
know all the complete history of the United States of America,
at least I knew enough for me to say that
there was something special about the country that.
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You and I were born in.
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Not only was the country amazing that we were born in,
but also being raised in Hawaii is none like no
other place.
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I know.
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You might come from another city, in a small town
in Midland America, or another urban setting and nothing to
take away from where you were born.
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And raised in.
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But I believe that God blessed me, especially my family,
and you if you lived in Hawaii and you are
in the United States of America with that understanding of
understanding that grows as you realize, you realize that there
are people that really are legends who have given up
their life. I think we throw the term legend around
so loosely today. Legend, that's a legend.
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I get it.
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I call people legend all the time, but not likely
they should be really like, there are people who really
are legends. I'm like the Ghoats like greatest of all time.
We throw that along around a lot, but I understand
that being in Arlington National Cemetery over nine months ago
when I took that video, I knew that I was
amongst a field of greatness, of people who literally would
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rush in.
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Well, people were running away.
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When I think of greatness, I have to think about this,
I think about a legend. I think about my dad.
My dad was a legend in my eyes. He wasn't
a legend in his own eyes. My dad was very humble.
When my dad graduated from high school. He was a
great baseball player. My dad batted left through right, ambidextrous,
and he was so good that he got recruited from
the Big Island. Back in those days, that's not.
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Easy to do.
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He got recruited from the Big Island to play on
a statewide team that played in the American Legion. He
was on the All Star team, and on that All
Star team, that's not the photo I want on the
All Star team, that's the one I want. He ended
up in the state championship team and it went to
Long Beach, California, where he played on that team that
ended up winning, and a scout from the Milwaukee Braves.
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At the time. I know they're Atlanta Braves.
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But the Milwaukee Braves wanted him to join their team
and as a free agent, but he turned it down
because he and Mom were going to get married and
so he loved conquered right love one.
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If they did that, I wouldn't be here today.
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But anyway, moving along, then my dad did instead of
going baseball, he knew that he had to feed the family,
so he became a police officer. My dad was a
police officer. That's Dad without the mustache. That's Dad with
the tom Selick mustache. But back then my dad was
I believe it or not. He was the rookie of
the year, and in thirteen years he became Policeman of
the Year twice on the Big Island. For those of
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you who were in the police force, yeah, he was
a Chopo shop steward, a shop steward for Chopo, the
union for the police officers. And then in the thirteenth
year of his police career, he realized that there was
a ceiling. He saw the ceiling, knew that he would
have to make a shift, and he did. And the
Hawaiian Holiday Maccadaemonut company owned by Paul and Anita, diedominical.
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The parent owners were of Giri Delli Chocolate and Golden
Grain Macaroni made him an offer that he couldn't refuse.
They doubled his pay in the police department and said,
we would send your kids to any private school that
they want. And you know I did, and I stayed
at Honaka. Come on, how you like that, Let's go,
And that's where I stayed. My dad made moves that
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he needed to make in order to help the family.
To me, my dad as I passed, you know the
older I get, and he just passed away two weeks ago,
almost two weeks ago, as I realized my dad was literally.
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To me a legend. Like a legend.
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My dad started the second largest security guard firm called
Royal Guard Security.
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At one time it was the largest and no longer exists.
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They were the guys that brought in the smoking the
beare hats, you know those guys.
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And they were the gray uniforms and they would work at.
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The stand Sheriff's Stan Sheriff that was their place, and dough,
pineapple and castle and cook and my dad and his
partner broke it all the deals. They grew to about
two hundred staff, two hundred employees, and then during a
time of reorganization, my dad's partnership got dissolved with his partner.
My dad had to go his separate ways. And it
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was in that time that my dad came with me,
and he was distraught at the dissolving of the partnership
that he loved and he put so much into it.
I took him with me to a men's camp and
at the old Macaha Resort on the West Side, and
that's where in a men's camp he gave his life
to Jesus. Mom and Dad picked up steaks, moved to Portland, Oregon,
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and then from Portland or again to Las Vegas, where
Pastor Benny Perez became their pastor, and my parents grew tremendously.
I look back and I honestly can say with a
strong conviction that my dad was an absolute legend. You know,
the Bible has stories of legends people. They're not legends
legendary stories. They are stories of men and women used
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by God that were legends.
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When you think about the Book of Hebrews, the Book
of Hebrews.
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In the New Testament goes through the hall of faith
of fame in the Old Testament, and as a matter
of fact, that in Hebrews chapter twelve, verse one, it says, therefore,
since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses,
not the iCloud, but the cloud of witnesses, not the crowd,
because the crowd will turn on you. The crowd said
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to Jesus, Hosanna, Hosanna in the highest.
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But blessed is he who comes in.
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And they will Hosanna in the highest one week, and
on the next week that same crowd said, crucify him, crucifier.
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So don't go with the crowd. You gotta run with
the cloud.
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So he says, since we're surrounded by such a great
cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that entangles
us and hinders us, and the sin that holds us down,
and let us run with perseverance the race that is
marked out for us. And let us throw off everything
that hinders in, the sin that so easily entangles, and
let us run with per severance the race marked out
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for us. You are in a race right now, and
it's a marathon, and it is not a sprint.
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And you will sprint in the marathon.
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You might walk through the marathon, but you are still
in a race, and God has each and every one
of us on that path run it with perseverance. The
writer of Hebrews are not sure who it is. They
wonder if it's Paul, or it could be Apollos. The
writer never took credit for the letter to the Hebrews
that have been scattered throughout the world at that time.
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And that writer says in verse eleven, he says that there's.
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A hall of faith, hall of fame, and he mentions
Abraham and Noah and Enoch, and.
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He goes through a whole list of people.
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But in verse seven of chapter eleven of Hebrews, the
writer writes it was by faith that Noah built a
large boat to save his family from the flood.
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Noah built a large boat.
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Online a large boat to save his family from the flood.
He obeyed God who warned him about things that had
never happened before. And by faith, by his faith, Noah,
his faith condemned the rest of the world, and he
received the righteousness that comes by faith.
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Noah was important. Noah built an ark.
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Noah the ark was so big he was so detailed
in the way that God told him to build it.
And when you go off to college, they're gonna say, well,
there's the Epic of Gilgamesh that almost you know. And
I can tell you that the Epic of Gilgamesh is
an interesting and that has been preserved throughout history. But
in the Epic of Gilgamish it has nothing to do
with the salvation of humanity in Noah's ark in the
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story and the account of Noah, if you ever want
to go a deeper dive, go look up ken Ham Ministries.
Some people look to him. I think he's interesting. Can
Ham Ministries and go look him up? Can like Ham
Ham and eggs? Can Ham and look him up? And
it's really interesting because what God begins to do with
this people. God begins to sovereignly protect a group of
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people that he loves.
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Here's why.
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In Genesis, chapter six, verse five to eight, the Bible
tells us that the Lord observed the extent of human
wickedness on the earth.
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The Lord is observing.
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The Bible tells us that the eyes of the Lord
go to and fro throughout the earth to strengthen those
whose hearts are for him. Can somebody get me that
scripture for the next service upstairs.
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Thank you.
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The eyes of the Lord search to and fro to
out the earth. So the Lord is watching. The Lord
is looking, and so what he wants to do is
strengthen you. Right, he wants to strengthen us. But it
says that he saw that everything they thought or imagined
was consistently and totally evil. Consistently and totally evil. Now
you have to remember that was a much smaller population
back based back in those days and compared to what
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we have today. So we thank God for the righteous, right,
I mean, so the righteous are not, you know, holier
than thou. It's people who are set apart for God.
I believe I'm speaking to the right people in the room.
I believe that after two years I've been dropping stuff,
I've been saying stuff. If you're watching my Deep Dive Wednesday,
I go a little bit deeper on Deep Dive Wednesday.
If you are awake, I slid that one in there tonight.
I'm not sliding anything today. I gotta say it straight,
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just a little bit straighter, because I'm really really concerned.
I'm concerned, and I know that you are as well.
And I might be preaching to the choir, but I
think I'm going to help a lot of people, and
I might even bring some awareness that you might have
never seen it like this before. And it is in
this story and in this place. In verse six, it says,
so the Lord was sorry that he ever made them
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and put them on the earth and.
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Broke his heart. How do you break God's heart? Right?
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And the Lord said, I will wipe this human race
off I've created on the face of the earth. Yes,
I will destroy every living thing, all the people, the
large animals, the small animals, the scurry along the ground,
all the people, and even the birds of the sky.
And I'm sorry I ever made them. But Noah found
favor with God. Noah, out of all the human beings
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on the planet, out of one family, he found a man.
From all the human beings, from all the families, he
found one man. The eyes of the Lord searched throughout
the earth, and he found that man. And he didn't
find him to be perfect, He didn't find him to
be to be sinless. What he found him was to
be blameless. And not only was he blameless. In other words, yeah,
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I'm sure that he might have hid his finger while
he was hammering, and we might have said, I'm like,
oh gosh, he might have done that, or I don't know.
I don't know what his language was at the time,
but I can tell you that this man was not wicked,
that this man was blameless. The Bible also goes on
to tell us in verse nine, now Noah was a
righteous man and the only everybody say, only, the only
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blameless person living on earth at the time, and.
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He walked in close fellowship with God.
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Noah was the father of three sons, shem Ham and Jephthah.
And now God saw that the earth had become and
God observed all the corruption in the world, for everyone
on earth was corrupt. And God said to Noah, I
have decided to destroy Imagine this, He's telling one person
out of everybody, I'm gonna tell one person, and I
can share this with only Noah.
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I can only share this with Noah.
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And he says to Noah, I've decided to destroy all
living creatures, for they have filled the earth with violence.
So we've got wickedness, we've got corruption, we've got violence.
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That's what was happening.
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And out of the human population that was very limited
at that time there was only one man. He says, yes,
I will wipe them all out along the earth. And
so the Bible tells us in Genesis seven, verse five.
So Noah did everything as Lord commanded him. So Noah
did what the Lord commanded him.
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Noah built an arc. It took one hundred and twenty
years to build it. Noah lived to.
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A very very old age, like six hundred like beyond that,
Noah was such an old man.
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I mean that back in those days, you lived longer.
The food was cleaner. Come on, you know what I'm saying.
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The atmosphere was a lot healthier, it was different. God
would allow men to live longer. I think Benthusilla was
the oldest man in the Bible, in the Old Testament,
the Book of Genesis. I think he lived about twelve
hundred years old. I could be wrong. He was a
very old man. So when you think about it, God
finally says, I'm going to put a limit to man's
years after the Tower of Babel, and you will not
live past one hundred and twenty years. It is in
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this time that Noah obeys God. So he builds an
arc one hundred and twenty years to build that he
builds a big boat to the exact specifications that God
tells him to. The boat that Noah was going to
build was four hundred and fifty feet long. Imagine that
that's longer than the football field that's from end zone
to end zone and beyond at Aloha Stadium right here
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in the back.
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That is massive. Massive.
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It was seventy five feet wide, It was forty five
feet tall, and Noah and his sons were the only
ones that were building it.
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Can you imagine all.
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Of the criticism everything that was going on during Noah's time.
It could handle waves that were one hundred feet high
because there were probably were going to be waves when
God unleashes the water from caverns in the earth and
rain the torrents that pours down forty five feet tall
because twenty five.
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And a half, wait, twenty and a half, twenty two
and a half.
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Feet would be at the bottom, and at the bottom
of this would be underwater. The other twenty two and
a half feet would be above the water. And that's
because it would have to pass over the highest peaks
in the world called Mount Everest, Monakaia, and Mauna Loa
twenty two and a half feet had to pass over
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the highest height, so you had the equal amount of
the ark under the water as the equal amount of
the ark that is above the water. The lesson for
me and for you today is the foundation of your
life must be just as deep as it is going
to go high. If it goes high and there is
nothing below it, you have to have just as much
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above the ballast line as you have under the ballast line.
Otherwise your life will tip over and you will be
in trouble. What we put daily in our ballast stones
in rocks, the ballast stones are the most important things
to keep the buoyancy of a boat, rather than flipping
it over. But I digress. And here Noah does exactly
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what God tells.
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Him to do. It's amazing.
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But God was doing something and was saying to us
in Genesis. But he was also speaking through Jesus in
Matthew chapter twenty four. In Matthew chapter twenty four, Jesus
talks about the days of Noah or the generation of
Noah on the screen, and here it is, and it says, however,
no one knows the day or the hour Jesus's own words, However,
no one knows the day or the hour when these
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things will happen. Was the sudden rapture of the church,
not even the angels in heaven or the Son himself.
Jesus said, even I don't know. There's some things God
doesn't tell me, and this is one thing that he
won't tell me. And this is what he says. Only
the Father knows. And when the Son of Man Jesus's
favorite term for himself, meaning fully God yet fully man.
At the same time he says this, he says, when
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the Sun of Man returns, it will be like it
in as it was in Noah's day. In those days
before the flood, the people were enjoying banquets and parties
and weddings right up to the time Noah entered his boat,
and people didn't realize what was going to happen until
the flood came and swept them all the way. And
that is the way it will be when the Son
of Man comes. Didn't know, they weren't ready, but they
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were warned. But think about this for a moment. Are
we any better than Noah's generation? I sure hope so.
I mean, we certainly have more believers in Jesus Christ
we've certainly been covered by the blood.
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We certainly follow our savior. I believe that a lot.
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Of people in most of the people in this with
all of the people in this room today understand what
is right and what is wrong. Know that the Bible
tells us to not move the ancient boundary lines. Wasn't
just talking about your property. He was talking about old ways.
He sticked to the old ways. Don't get progressive, don't
get off track. This is the things that kind of
become the downfall of a nation. A downfall of a nation.
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Every nation is given about two hundred and fifty years
throughout history. Cal Thomas, syndicated columnists, who wrote a book
about different generations and different empires, says that an empire
has two hundred and fifty years of its greatest power,
and right about the two hundred and fortieth year, they
start to lose everything because the moral fabric of society
begins to pull apart and it gets frayed. And then
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that country, or that that in kingdom, like the Persian Kingdom,
or the Babylonian Kingdom, or the Egypt Egyptian Kingdom, or
the Greeks or the Romans, they lasted a long time,
longer than America, but their zenith was two hundred and
fifty years. And so in this time I asked the question,
are we better off in Noah's generation or are we
worse oft than Noah's generation?
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And in Noah's generation there was wickedness, there.
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Was corruption, there was evil in the thoughts and in
the intentions. And if I were looking to today, and
these are just things taken from the headlines. These are
not things that I go looking for you. They'll find
you if you want them to.
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And here it is.
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We have recent events in Texas of the shooting of children.
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We have Buffalo, New York.
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We have a church where a guy went in and
was upset because of politics and between Taiwan and China
and opens up on people.
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We have human trafficking that has been.
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Going on for a long time, a long time. And
it's not just America. I mean it's going through America.
It's coming, it's happening. There are deaths of unborn infants,
and that debate is gonna be massive for a very
long time. Who gets to determine when a fetus comes
to life?
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Who gets to determine that.
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Us doctors or God, we we have bloods not only
spilled in Arlington Cemetery, we have blood spilled all over
the place. When you are we better often Noah's generation.
When we think about what Disney is doing, Disney trying
to separate and start to indoctrinate, And when you think
about the current administration, don't get mad at me.
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I'm just saying the facts now.
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That the that the that the current administration is going
to pay for sex change therapy and.
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Surgery for children, children, not adults. Children.
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Why does my kindergardener grandson need to learn that. Why
that's my job, not your job. Stay out of my family,
Stay out of my family. So they're creating the confusion.
Are we better than Noah's generation.
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Or we just like it? Or are we worse? But
God found Noah.
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God found Noah faithful and blameless, and God can find you.
Even though you may not feel faithful, you may not
feel blameless, you may not feel righteous. It does not
matter how you feel. It's where do you stand with God.
Where you stand as a son and a daughter. You
are righteous when you come to the cross with brokenness
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and sincerity of heart. God is not willing that anyone
would perish, but all would come to repentance. It's his
kindness that leads us to repentance. That's why he's been
waiting and patient. The Bible tells us in Peter, it's
not his long finger said you naughty, You did that
twenty years ago, and you gave I'm guilty of sin
thirty years ago, thirty four years ago.
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That I'm not gonna even mention. I can tell you that.
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But it is that the foot of the cross that
we stand because of our brokenness, then we get righteousness.
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It's not my own, our own, your own.
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My own is filthy rags, it says, and it's a
worse term in the Greek than just filthy rags. All
of that is the goodness of God. And what God
was doing was a mercy move on the planet. What
seemed like judgment and was judgment. But there are two
sides to every sword. Is a judgment side, in the
mercy side, you get hit with both judgment and mercy.
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At the same time. When I look at this.
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In Genesis seven, it says in verse one, when everything
was ready, the Lord said to Noah, because of what
was going on the earth, get into the boat with
all your family among all the people of the earth.
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And I can see that you are righteous.
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And the Bible tells us it rain for forty days
and for forty ninths rotten NonStop. The caverns of the
earth were opened up. I'm just giving you a different
perspective to look at. It's a biblical perspective Mi Kai's opinions.
And the caverns opened up, and the waters filled and
flooded for forty days and for forty nights. You know
what I always thought, just forty days, forty nights.
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And then they got out. Uh, he was not done yet.
There were torrential rains. There were one hundred foot waves.
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The earth was covered in water for one hundred and
fifty days. And then in Genesis chapter eight, so Noah
and his wife and his sons and their wives left
the boat, and all of the large and small animals
and the birds came out of the bolt, pair by pair,
and the Noah built an altar to the Lord, and
there he sacrificed as burnt offerings because he was so
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grateful that they got out, and the animals and the
birds that had been approved for that purpose. And then
in verse chapter nine, verse twelve. Then God said, I'm
giving you a sign of my covenant with you and
with all the living creatures, for all generations to come.
I've placed my rainbow in the clouds. My rainbow in
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the clouds. It is a sign of my covenant with
you and with all the earth. And I will remember
my covenant with you and with all living creatures never again. Well,
the floodwaters destroy all life, never again, floodwaters. But I
said nothing about fire, but never again. Ain't that the truth?
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This is the truth.
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I think it was Peter that says the first flood
was like the baptism waters cleansing.
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Brand new.
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The second baptism is the baptism of fire. When you
come to Jesus Christ as your Lord and savior, if
you haven't been baptized, get water baptized. We did that yesterday.
The young adults did that yesterday at the beach. Was
it yesterday, Yeah, they got baptized. They get immersed in water.
So the picture of the grave and you come up.
The first baptism is water baptism. But Jesus said, because
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John the Baptist said, he comes, I come to baptize
with water. But he comes to baptize with fire, and
the fire is a second baptism that the world will
go through. The first one was water, the second one
is fire. It's all done for cleansing. It's all done.
And so the generation that we belong to. If God
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is not willing that anyone would perish, and if we
stand for righteousness and we get right with God, get
right with God, we start thinking, right God, Will I
believe God will move on our behalf and I'll watch this.
Then it says, it is a sign of my covenant
with you with all the earth. And I will never
again said this with you, with all the living creatures,
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never again with the floodwaters will I destroy the earth.
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What God was doing was giving him a rainbow, a rainbow.
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We see rainbows all the time in Hawaii rainbow falls,
you know, on the Big Island.
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We name falls after rainbows.
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The actual word in the Hebrew is not necessarily rainbow,
but it's a bow. In the rainbow is shaped like
a bow, a bow and arrow, that's what it's shaped like.
It's actually meant to be a war a war tool.
It's a bowl, but there's no arrow sticking up.
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But that's the bowl.
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The bowl the arrow, and actually the rainbow is actually
God simple to you and I that this is the covenant.
There's a suzarin and a vassal covenant that God makes.
So in the ancient world, in Mesopotamia, in Israel, and
in the United Days, you'd have a suzarin and you'd
have a vassal. A suzarin is a very powerful person
that makes a deal and a covenant with someone who's
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a vassal, who is lesser than And the covenant is
mentioned by giving exchanging something like a receipt. It would
be like a slipper or a sandal, it would be
a ring or piece of jewelry. And what it says
to the vassal, the seuzarin says, if you break this
covenant and you do not show the sign of the covenant,
whether it's the receipt, whether it's the sandal, whether it's
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the jewelry, whatever it is, I can come and take
back everything that you have.
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That's the way the ancient world work. Back then.
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However, God is saying, I am the suzerin and I
am making the deal with you that I whenever you
see that rainbow, it is ME showing you mercy and
love and grace. This is my covenant with you. The
rainbow doesn't belong to a people group, doesn't belong to
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an organization for marketing.
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The rainbow is God signed to me in to you
of his love. That's why when you see the rainbow
go oh, look the rainbow. It's still pretty. It's more
than pretty. To some people.
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It's a prism of water droplets being shot through with
sunlight that bring out primary colors. I learned that in
the seventh grade. And to some people it's just beautiful.
It's amazing. It's what Hawaii is. But can I tell
you when I look at that, it's more than that.
It is God's symbol, and it's God's sign of God's
goodness and of God's grace. And if you see a
double rainbow, that's unique to you and God, God say
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you better get your life right. When you see a
double rainbow, I'm just kidding. God is saying that you
are doubly blessed, that I love you more than you
could ever imagine.
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That's what that rainbow means.
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People, as a worship team comes up and as we
land this plane, I just want to tell you this.
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When you think about how long Noah waited for the rainbow?
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How long he waited for the symbol, the symbol that
God was giving him. Let's look at let's list this.
It took one hundred and twenty years to build the arc.
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One hundred and twenty years.
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Because it took at least one hundred years to build
the wood would to grow the specific wood that God
wanted Noah to use. There is a replica of that
somewhere in the Midwest. I forget what state I'd love
to see. It could be cute, could be could get
old after a while, but I don't know if it's beautiful.
One hundred and twenty years picture never mind, moving right along?
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Here we go, then never mind, doesn't forget. Then it
took seven days that they waited in the ark with
the animals and the family. Seven days, come on, like
seven days? Where's the water? Let's go one hundred and
fifty days. It rained and waters poured from.
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The earth for one hundred and fifty days.
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Took another one hundred and fifty days for the waters
to recede.
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Can you imagine what quarantine was like for them?
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Seventy days the world dried out, and Noah didn't rush it.
So when you add all of this, it was one
hundred and twenty one years and twelve days for God
to finally show him the symbol of the Covenant that
we know as the rainbow.
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That was the promise.
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How many times you try to rush God, God, you
too slow.
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And God says, hey, be patient.
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Isaiah forty verse thirty one says that they that wait
upon the Lord shall renew their strength. Wait, I'm very
I can be impatient. I'm not very impatient. I can
be impatient at times, I must confess. But when we
wait on the Lord, when there's something about pausing that
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God does a work in us. I wanted to talk
to you about this. I didn't read this up read this,
and I want to read it now. But and you
look at this and go back to chapter eight for
six and darn when you can come over here and
then get rid of the microphones ready, because you guys
might start singing real quick.
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No, never mind, you got knocking sing No more time
here it is I took the time in the beginning.
Here it is hello.
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Anyway, After forty days, Noah opened another forty days, Noah
opened the window he made in the boat and released
a raven. You know what a raven is, right, they're
not from Baltimore.
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I mean they're like ravens.
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Like there's a that's a great quarterback over there, man
that guys, that guy's unreal anyway. A raven is a
bird that basically you'll find in the Bible that fed
Elijah when there was a famine in the land. And
it's a dirty bird in terms of you can't eat
that bird. You won't eat the bird, and anything that
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bird touches make you ceremonially unclean. The raven feeds off
of the flesh of other animals or other humans. When
it's dead, ravens will they're like crows or they're like vultures.
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He sends out a raven and the raven goes out.
The Ark.
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To a lot of biblical scholars, and I agree with
them too, is that the arc is a picture of
the Church. It's a metaphor for the church. The Ark
was real, but it's a metaphor for the church. And
Noah is a type of Christ. In the Biblical Old
Testament theology, a type is a foreshadowing of a Christ.
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So he's a type of Christ.
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Melchisedec in the Book of Genesis that offers wine to
Abraham is a type of Christ.
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Noah is a type of Christ. The Ark is a
type of church.
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And so he lets out the raven, and the Bible
tells us the raven goes back and forth, back and forth,
and it doesn't come back.
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Let's go back and forth, it says.
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He also released the dove to see if the water
had receded, and he could not find dry ground. But
the dove could find no place to land because the
water was still covered with the ground over the ground.
So it returned to the boat, and Noah held out
his hand and drew the dove back inside. My friend
Pastor Howe, explained this to me that he said that
the raven can be like the Christian that is going
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out into the world and feasting on the flesh or
living out in the flesh, and coming back to the
church and coming back to the ark and releases can't
find a place to land, and can find a place
to then feeds on the flesh. But he says, the
Christian that is like a dove is a dove that
begins to look and lands where it needs to and
brings back to the hand Noah's hand to the hand
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of God. They didn't come necessarily to a church, and
the church is important. They do come to the church,
but that Jesus is in the church they come to.
They come to Christ. My bottom line for all of
us is this is that we would be whise is
serpents and innocent as doves. WI It's interesting a wise
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is a serpent, but innocent as a dove. And when
we are that, when we are awake, we are aware
and we understand what the world is trying to do
to take us down a different path than we know
that we should be going. I think what God does
is he just needs more people aware, and he needs
more people praying, and he needs more people standing, and
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he needs more people voting. Now I'm gonna say one
thing because I don't like to pray what I said.
I made the mistake of praying what I wanted to say.
So I'm going to say what I say and pray
what I pray. I'm not getting involved in politics, but
I have been asked to run.
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Twice, and it was the highest office in the state twice.
So I'm not gonna run.
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For that office because I don't feel called to do it.
But I will not stand back and say we got
to We're not gonna do anything about this.
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So here's what we're gonna do. Here's what we need
to do. If you're eighteen and.
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Above, you should be registered to vote. I'm not gonna
tell you how to vote. I'm gonna tell you how
to vote.
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Vote whatever's biblical. Yes, I'm not gonna tell you what party.
I'm gonna tell you what Bible. The Bible.
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That's how you have to vote. This is the only
thing that's gonna change the state. Of course, we need
a revival. We need God to pour out his presence.
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We need people to come to Jesus.
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We need people in the Honolulu Holiday to come to Jesus.
We need we need us to live up our lives
in Jesus. We need to walk that out, not weird,
but authentic. We need to walk that out. There's a
lot that God needs to do in us, God needs
and that God needs to do in me.
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But here's what we're gonna do.
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We are going to be a church that makes an
impact for the betterment of Christ. Nothing else but the
betterment of Christ, and everything else works in Jesus name.
I will unpack this a lot better at deep Dive
Wednesday online, where I could probably write my thoughts better
and say it more clear than I did just.
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In the last two minutes. But this po our heads
and prave Father.
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We need you in America. We need you in the state.
We need in this country more than ever before. Our
families need you, husbands and wives need you, children need you.
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I need you.
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We all need a touch from God. And thank you
Lord that we're gonna build our house on you. I
don't I want to build my house on you. I
don't want to build my house on anything else. Hope
is built on nothing less but Jesus blood and righteousness. Father,
We thank you that as you show us the legend Noah,
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the one man that you changed, that you use that
changed humanity, means.
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We're all related. We all because we all come from Noah.
We give you all the praise and glory in the
name of Jesus.
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ways to connect from Hawaii to wherever you are listening from.
I hope you enjoy this message right here.
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On prey dot com Radio. I love America. I'm Hawaiian.
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I'm Kanaka ma Oly, born and raised on the Big Island,
and so I understand patriotism to a larger degree because
of my upbringing. When I was younger, I was in Disneyland.
Disneyland's changed a lot, but I was in Disneyland in
nineteen seventy six during the bi centennial when dinosaurs roam
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the earth, and it was during that time that there
are people like Johnny Horizon on tracks in red, white
and blue all over the place. I saw my very
first patriotic parade in San Diego, California, in the summer
of seventy six. It was in that time of being
an eight eight year old or a seven year old,
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where I was tremendously impressionable in that age that everything
that I saw I began to absorb because of my
young brain, and I saw just although I did not
know all the complete history of the United States of America,
at least I knew enough for me to say that
there was something special about the country that.
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You and I were born in.
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Not only was the country amazing that we were born in,
but also being raised in Hawaii is none like no
other place.
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I know.
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You might come from another city, in a small town
in Midland America, or another urban setting and nothing to
take away from where you were born.
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And raised in.
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But I believe that God blessed me, especially my family,
and you if you lived in Hawaii and you are
in the United States of America with that understanding of
understanding that grows as you realize, you realize that there
are people that really are legends who have given up
their life. I think we throw the term legend around
so loosely today. Legend, that's a legend.
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I get it.
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I call people legend all the time, but not likely
they should be really like, there are people who really
are legends. I'm like the Ghoats like greatest of all time.
We throw that along around a lot, but I understand
that being in Arlington National Cemetery over nine months ago
when I took that video, I knew that I was
amongst a field of greatness, of people who literally would
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rush in.
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Well, people were running away.
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When I think of greatness, I have to think about this,
I think about a legend. I think about my dad.
My dad was a legend in my eyes. He wasn't
a legend in his own eyes. My dad was very humble.
When my dad graduated from high school. He was a
great baseball player. My dad batted left through right, ambidextrous,
and he was so good that he got recruited from
the Big Island. Back in those days, that's not.
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Easy to do.
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He got recruited from the Big Island to play on
a statewide team that played in the American Legion. He
was on the All Star team, and on that All
Star team, that's not the photo I want on the
All Star team, that's the one I want. He ended
up in the state championship team and it went to
Long Beach, California, where he played on that team that
ended up winning, and a scout from the Milwaukee Braves.
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At the time. I know they're Atlanta Braves.
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But the Milwaukee Braves wanted him to join their team
and as a free agent, but he turned it down
because he and Mom were going to get married and
so he loved conquered right love one.
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If they did that, I wouldn't be here today.
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But anyway, moving along, then my dad did instead of
going baseball, he knew that he had to feed the family,
so he became a police officer. My dad was a
police officer. That's Dad without the mustache. That's Dad with
the tom Selick mustache. But back then my dad was
I believe it or not. He was the rookie of
the year, and in thirteen years he became Policeman of
the Year twice on the Big Island. For those of
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you who were in the police force, yeah, he was
a Chopo shop steward, a shop steward for Chopo, the
union for the police officers. And then in the thirteenth
year of his police career, he realized that there was
a ceiling. He saw the ceiling, knew that he would
have to make a shift, and he did. And the
Hawaiian Holiday Maccadaemonut company owned by Paul and Anita, diedominical.
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The parent owners were of Giri Delli Chocolate and Golden
Grain Macaroni made him an offer that he couldn't refuse.
They doubled his pay in the police department and said,
we would send your kids to any private school that
they want. And you know I did, and I stayed
at Honaka. Come on, how you like that, Let's go,
And that's where I stayed. My dad made moves that
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he needed to make in order to help the family.
To me, my dad as I passed, you know the
older I get, and he just passed away two weeks ago,
almost two weeks ago, as I realized my dad was literally.
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To me a legend. Like a legend.
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My dad started the second largest security guard firm called
Royal Guard Security.
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At one time it was the largest and no longer exists.
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They were the guys that brought in the smoking the
beare hats, you know those guys.
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And they were the gray uniforms and they would work at.
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The stand Sheriff's Stan Sheriff that was their place, and dough,
pineapple and castle and cook and my dad and his
partner broke it all the deals. They grew to about
two hundred staff, two hundred employees, and then during a
time of reorganization, my dad's partnership got dissolved with his partner.
My dad had to go his separate ways. And it
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was in that time that my dad came with me,
and he was distraught at the dissolving of the partnership
that he loved and he put so much into it.
I took him with me to a men's camp and
at the old Macaha Resort on the West Side, and
that's where in a men's camp he gave his life
to Jesus. Mom and Dad picked up steaks, moved to Portland, Oregon,
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and then from Portland or again to Las Vegas, where
Pastor Benny Perez became their pastor, and my parents grew tremendously.
I look back and I honestly can say with a
strong conviction that my dad was an absolute legend. You know,
the Bible has stories of legends people. They're not legends
legendary stories. They are stories of men and women used
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by God that were legends.
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When you think about the Book of Hebrews, the Book
of Hebrews.
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In the New Testament goes through the hall of faith
of fame in the Old Testament, and as a matter
of fact, that in Hebrews chapter twelve, verse one, it says, therefore,
since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses,
not the iCloud, but the cloud of witnesses, not the crowd,
because the crowd will turn on you. The crowd said
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to Jesus, Hosanna, Hosanna in the highest.
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But blessed is he who comes in.
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And they will Hosanna in the highest one week, and
on the next week that same crowd said, crucify him, crucifier.
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So don't go with the crowd. You gotta run with
the cloud.
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So he says, since we're surrounded by such a great
cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that entangles
us and hinders us, and the sin that holds us down,
and let us run with perseverance the race that is
marked out for us. And let us throw off everything
that hinders in, the sin that so easily entangles, and
let us run with per severance the race marked out
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for us. You are in a race right now, and
it's a marathon, and it is not a sprint.
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And you will sprint in the marathon.
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You might walk through the marathon, but you are still
in a race, and God has each and every one
of us on that path run it with perseverance. The
writer of Hebrews are not sure who it is. They
wonder if it's Paul, or it could be Apollos. The
writer never took credit for the letter to the Hebrews
that have been scattered throughout the world at that time.
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And that writer says in verse eleven, he says that there's.
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A hall of faith, hall of fame, and he mentions
Abraham and Noah and Enoch, and.
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He goes through a whole list of people.
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But in verse seven of chapter eleven of Hebrews, the
writer writes it was by faith that Noah built a
large boat to save his family from the flood.
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Noah built a large boat.
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Online a large boat to save his family from the flood.
He obeyed God who warned him about things that had
never happened before. And by faith, by his faith, Noah,
his faith condemned the rest of the world, and he
received the righteousness that comes by faith.
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Noah was important. Noah built an ark.
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Noah the ark was so big he was so detailed
in the way that God told him to build it.
And when you go off to college, they're gonna say, well,
there's the Epic of Gilgamesh that almost you know. And
I can tell you that the Epic of Gilgamesh is
an interesting and that has been preserved throughout history. But
in the Epic of Gilgamish it has nothing to do
with the salvation of humanity in Noah's ark in the
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story and the account of Noah, if you ever want
to go a deeper dive, go look up ken Ham Ministries.
Some people look to him. I think he's interesting. Can
Ham Ministries and go look him up? Can like Ham
Ham and eggs? Can Ham and look him up? And
it's really interesting because what God begins to do with
this people. God begins to sovereignly protect a group of
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people that he loves.
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Here's why.
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In Genesis, chapter six, verse five to eight, the Bible
tells us that the Lord observed the extent of human
wickedness on the earth.
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The Lord is observing.
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The Bible tells us that the eyes of the Lord
go to and fro throughout the earth to strengthen those
whose hearts are for him. Can somebody get me that
scripture for the next service upstairs.
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Thank you.
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The eyes of the Lord search to and fro to
out the earth. So the Lord is watching. The Lord
is looking, and so what he wants to do is
strengthen you. Right, he wants to strengthen us. But it
says that he saw that everything they thought or imagined
was consistently and totally evil. Consistently and totally evil. Now
you have to remember that was a much smaller population
back based back in those days and compared to what
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we have today. So we thank God for the righteous, right,
I mean, so the righteous are not, you know, holier
than thou. It's people who are set apart for God.
I believe I'm speaking to the right people in the room.
I believe that after two years I've been dropping stuff,
I've been saying stuff. If you're watching my Deep Dive Wednesday,
I go a little bit deeper on Deep Dive Wednesday.
If you are awake, I slid that one in there tonight.
I'm not sliding anything today. I gotta say it straight,
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just a little bit straighter, because I'm really really concerned.
I'm concerned, and I know that you are as well.
And I might be preaching to the choir, but I
think I'm going to help a lot of people, and
I might even bring some awareness that you might have
never seen it like this before. And it is in
this story and in this place. In verse six, it says,
so the Lord was sorry that he ever made them
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and put them on the earth and.
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Broke his heart. How do you break God's heart? Right?
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And the Lord said, I will wipe this human race
off I've created on the face of the earth. Yes,
I will destroy every living thing, all the people, the
large animals, the small animals, the scurry along the ground,
all the people, and even the birds of the sky.
And I'm sorry I ever made them. But Noah found
favor with God. Noah, out of all the human beings
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on the planet, out of one family, he found a man.
From all the human beings, from all the families, he
found one man. The eyes of the Lord searched throughout
the earth, and he found that man. And he didn't
find him to be perfect, He didn't find him to
be to be sinless. What he found him was to
be blameless. And not only was he blameless. In other words, yeah,
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I'm sure that he might have hid his finger while
he was hammering, and we might have said, I'm like,
oh gosh, he might have done that, or I don't know.
I don't know what his language was at the time,
but I can tell you that this man was not wicked,
that this man was blameless. The Bible also goes on
to tell us in verse nine, now Noah was a
righteous man and the only everybody say, only, the only
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blameless person living on earth at the time, and.
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He walked in close fellowship with God.
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Noah was the father of three sons, shem Ham and Jephthah.
And now God saw that the earth had become and
God observed all the corruption in the world, for everyone
on earth was corrupt. And God said to Noah, I
have decided to destroy Imagine this, He's telling one person
out of everybody, I'm gonna tell one person, and I
can share this with only Noah.
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I can only share this with Noah.
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And he says to Noah, I've decided to destroy all
living creatures, for they have filled the earth with violence.
So we've got wickedness, we've got corruption, we've got violence.
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That's what was happening.
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And out of the human population that was very limited
at that time there was only one man. He says, yes,
I will wipe them all out along the earth. And
so the Bible tells us in Genesis seven, verse five.
So Noah did everything as Lord commanded him. So Noah
did what the Lord commanded him.
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Noah built an arc. It took one hundred and twenty
years to build it. Noah lived to.
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A very very old age, like six hundred like beyond that,
Noah was such an old man.
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I mean that back in those days, you lived longer.
The food was cleaner. Come on, you know what I'm saying.
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The atmosphere was a lot healthier, it was different. God
would allow men to live longer. I think Benthusilla was
the oldest man in the Bible, in the Old Testament,
the Book of Genesis. I think he lived about twelve
hundred years old. I could be wrong. He was a
very old man. So when you think about it, God
finally says, I'm going to put a limit to man's
years after the Tower of Babel, and you will not
live past one hundred and twenty years. It is in
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this time that Noah obeys God. So he builds an
arc one hundred and twenty years to build that he
builds a big boat to the exact specifications that God
tells him to. The boat that Noah was going to
build was four hundred and fifty feet long. Imagine that
that's longer than the football field that's from end zone
to end zone and beyond at Aloha Stadium right here
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in the back.
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That is massive. Massive.
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It was seventy five feet wide, It was forty five
feet tall, and Noah and his sons were the only
ones that were building it.
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Can you imagine all.
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Of the criticism everything that was going on during Noah's time.
It could handle waves that were one hundred feet high
because there were probably were going to be waves when
God unleashes the water from caverns in the earth and
rain the torrents that pours down forty five feet tall
because twenty five.
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And a half, wait, twenty and a half, twenty two
and a half.
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Feet would be at the bottom, and at the bottom
of this would be underwater. The other twenty two and
a half feet would be above the water. And that's
because it would have to pass over the highest peaks
in the world called Mount Everest, Monakaia, and Mauna Loa
twenty two and a half feet had to pass over
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the highest height, so you had the equal amount of
the ark under the water as the equal amount of
the ark that is above the water. The lesson for
me and for you today is the foundation of your
life must be just as deep as it is going
to go high. If it goes high and there is
nothing below it, you have to have just as much
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above the ballast line as you have under the ballast line.
Otherwise your life will tip over and you will be
in trouble. What we put daily in our ballast stones
in rocks, the ballast stones are the most important things
to keep the buoyancy of a boat, rather than flipping
it over. But I digress. And here Noah does exactly
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what God tells.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Him to do. It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
But God was doing something and was saying to us
in Genesis. But he was also speaking through Jesus in
Matthew chapter twenty four. In Matthew chapter twenty four, Jesus
talks about the days of Noah or the generation of
Noah on the screen, and here it is, and it says, however,
no one knows the day or the hour Jesus's own words, However,
no one knows the day or the hour when these
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things will happen. Was the sudden rapture of the church,
not even the angels in heaven or the Son himself.
Jesus said, even I don't know. There's some things God
doesn't tell me, and this is one thing that he
won't tell me. And this is what he says. Only
the Father knows. And when the Son of Man Jesus's
favorite term for himself, meaning fully God yet fully man.
At the same time he says this, he says, when
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the Sun of Man returns, it will be like it
in as it was in Noah's day. In those days
before the flood, the people were enjoying banquets and parties
and weddings right up to the time Noah entered his boat,
and people didn't realize what was going to happen until
the flood came and swept them all the way. And
that is the way it will be when the Son
of Man comes. Didn't know, they weren't ready, but they
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were warned. But think about this for a moment. Are
we any better than Noah's generation? I sure hope so.
I mean, we certainly have more believers in Jesus Christ
we've certainly been covered by the blood.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
We certainly follow our savior. I believe that a lot.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Of people in most of the people in this with
all of the people in this room today understand what
is right and what is wrong. Know that the Bible
tells us to not move the ancient boundary lines. Wasn't
just talking about your property. He was talking about old ways.
He sticked to the old ways. Don't get progressive, don't
get off track. This is the things that kind of
become the downfall of a nation. A downfall of a nation.
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Every nation is given about two hundred and fifty years
throughout history. Cal Thomas, syndicated columnists, who wrote a book
about different generations and different empires, says that an empire
has two hundred and fifty years of its greatest power,
and right about the two hundred and fortieth year, they
start to lose everything because the moral fabric of society
begins to pull apart and it gets frayed. And then
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that country, or that that in kingdom, like the Persian Kingdom,
or the Babylonian Kingdom, or the Egypt Egyptian Kingdom, or
the Greeks or the Romans, they lasted a long time,
longer than America, but their zenith was two hundred and
fifty years. And so in this time I asked the question,
are we better off in Noah's generation or are we
worse oft than Noah's generation?
Speaker 2 (18:20):
And in Noah's generation there was wickedness, there.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Was corruption, there was evil in the thoughts and in
the intentions. And if I were looking to today, and
these are just things taken from the headlines. These are
not things that I go looking for you. They'll find
you if you want them to.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
And here it is.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
We have recent events in Texas of the shooting of children.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
We have Buffalo, New York.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
We have a church where a guy went in and
was upset because of politics and between Taiwan and China
and opens up on people.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
We have human trafficking that has been.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Going on for a long time, a long time. And
it's not just America. I mean it's going through America.
It's coming, it's happening. There are deaths of unborn infants,
and that debate is gonna be massive for a very
long time. Who gets to determine when a fetus comes
to life?
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Who gets to determine that.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Us doctors or God, we we have bloods not only
spilled in Arlington Cemetery, we have blood spilled all over
the place. When you are we better often Noah's generation.
When we think about what Disney is doing, Disney trying
to separate and start to indoctrinate, And when you think
about the current administration, don't get mad at me.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
I'm just saying the facts now.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
That the that the that the current administration is going
to pay for sex change therapy and.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Surgery for children, children, not adults. Children.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Why does my kindergardener grandson need to learn that. Why
that's my job, not your job. Stay out of my family,
Stay out of my family. So they're creating the confusion.
Are we better than Noah's generation.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Or we just like it? Or are we worse? But
God found Noah.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
God found Noah faithful and blameless, and God can find you.
Even though you may not feel faithful, you may not
feel blameless, you may not feel righteous. It does not
matter how you feel. It's where do you stand with God.
Where you stand as a son and a daughter. You
are righteous when you come to the cross with brokenness
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and sincerity of heart. God is not willing that anyone
would perish, but all would come to repentance. It's his
kindness that leads us to repentance. That's why he's been
waiting and patient. The Bible tells us in Peter, it's
not his long finger said you naughty, You did that
twenty years ago, and you gave I'm guilty of sin
thirty years ago, thirty four years ago.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
That I'm not gonna even mention. I can tell you that.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
But it is that the foot of the cross that
we stand because of our brokenness, then we get righteousness.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
It's not my own, our own, your own.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
My own is filthy rags, it says, and it's a
worse term in the Greek than just filthy rags. All
of that is the goodness of God. And what God
was doing was a mercy move on the planet. What
seemed like judgment and was judgment. But there are two
sides to every sword. Is a judgment side, in the
mercy side, you get hit with both judgment and mercy.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
At the same time. When I look at this.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
In Genesis seven, it says in verse one, when everything
was ready, the Lord said to Noah, because of what
was going on the earth, get into the boat with
all your family among all the people of the earth.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
And I can see that you are righteous.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
And the Bible tells us it rain for forty days
and for forty ninths rotten NonStop. The caverns of the
earth were opened up. I'm just giving you a different
perspective to look at. It's a biblical perspective Mi Kai's opinions.
And the caverns opened up, and the waters filled and
flooded for forty days and for forty nights. You know
what I always thought, just forty days, forty nights.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
And then they got out. Uh, he was not done yet.
There were torrential rains. There were one hundred foot waves.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
The earth was covered in water for one hundred and
fifty days. And then in Genesis chapter eight, so Noah
and his wife and his sons and their wives left
the boat, and all of the large and small animals
and the birds came out of the bolt, pair by pair,
and the Noah built an altar to the Lord, and
there he sacrificed as burnt offerings because he was so
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grateful that they got out, and the animals and the
birds that had been approved for that purpose. And then
in verse chapter nine, verse twelve. Then God said, I'm
giving you a sign of my covenant with you and
with all the living creatures, for all generations to come.
I've placed my rainbow in the clouds. My rainbow in
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the clouds. It is a sign of my covenant with
you and with all the earth. And I will remember
my covenant with you and with all living creatures never again. Well,
the floodwaters destroy all life, never again, floodwaters. But I
said nothing about fire, but never again. Ain't that the truth?
Speaker 2 (23:21):
This is the truth.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
I think it was Peter that says the first flood
was like the baptism waters cleansing.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Brand new.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
The second baptism is the baptism of fire. When you
come to Jesus Christ as your Lord and savior, if
you haven't been baptized, get water baptized. We did that yesterday.
The young adults did that yesterday at the beach. Was
it yesterday, Yeah, they got baptized. They get immersed in water.
So the picture of the grave and you come up.
The first baptism is water baptism. But Jesus said, because
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John the Baptist said, he comes, I come to baptize
with water. But he comes to baptize with fire, and
the fire is a second baptism that the world will
go through. The first one was water, the second one
is fire. It's all done for cleansing. It's all done.
And so the generation that we belong to. If God
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is not willing that anyone would perish, and if we
stand for righteousness and we get right with God, get
right with God, we start thinking, right God, Will I
believe God will move on our behalf and I'll watch this.
Then it says, it is a sign of my covenant
with you with all the earth. And I will never
again said this with you, with all the living creatures,
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never again with the floodwaters will I destroy the earth.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
What God was doing was giving him a rainbow, a rainbow.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
We see rainbows all the time in Hawaii rainbow falls,
you know, on the Big Island.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
We name falls after rainbows.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
The actual word in the Hebrew is not necessarily rainbow,
but it's a bow. In the rainbow is shaped like
a bow, a bow and arrow, that's what it's shaped like.
It's actually meant to be a war a war tool.
It's a bowl, but there's no arrow sticking up.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
But that's the bowl.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
The bowl the arrow, and actually the rainbow is actually
God simple to you and I that this is the covenant.
There's a suzarin and a vassal covenant that God makes.
So in the ancient world, in Mesopotamia, in Israel, and
in the United Days, you'd have a suzarin and you'd
have a vassal. A suzarin is a very powerful person
that makes a deal and a covenant with someone who's
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a vassal, who is lesser than And the covenant is
mentioned by giving exchanging something like a receipt. It would
be like a slipper or a sandal, it would be
a ring or piece of jewelry. And what it says
to the vassal, the seuzarin says, if you break this
covenant and you do not show the sign of the covenant,
whether it's the receipt, whether it's the sandal, whether it's
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the jewelry, whatever it is, I can come and take
back everything that you have.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
That's the way the ancient world work. Back then.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
However, God is saying, I am the suzerin and I
am making the deal with you that I whenever you
see that rainbow, it is ME showing you mercy and
love and grace. This is my covenant with you. The
rainbow doesn't belong to a people group, doesn't belong to
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an organization for marketing.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
The rainbow is God signed to me in to you
of his love. That's why when you see the rainbow
go oh, look the rainbow. It's still pretty. It's more
than pretty. To some people.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
It's a prism of water droplets being shot through with
sunlight that bring out primary colors. I learned that in
the seventh grade. And to some people it's just beautiful.
It's amazing. It's what Hawaii is. But can I tell
you when I look at that, it's more than that.
It is God's symbol, and it's God's sign of God's
goodness and of God's grace. And if you see a
double rainbow, that's unique to you and God, God say
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you better get your life right. When you see a
double rainbow, I'm just kidding. God is saying that you
are doubly blessed, that I love you more than you
could ever imagine.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
That's what that rainbow means.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
People, as a worship team comes up and as we
land this plane, I just want to tell you this.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
When you think about how long Noah waited for the rainbow?
Speaker 1 (27:16):
How long he waited for the symbol, the symbol that
God was giving him. Let's look at let's list this.
It took one hundred and twenty years to build the arc.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
One hundred and twenty years.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Because it took at least one hundred years to build
the wood would to grow the specific wood that God
wanted Noah to use. There is a replica of that
somewhere in the Midwest. I forget what state I'd love
to see. It could be cute, could be could get
old after a while, but I don't know if it's beautiful.
One hundred and twenty years picture never mind, moving right along?
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Here we go, then never mind, doesn't forget. Then it
took seven days that they waited in the ark with
the animals and the family. Seven days, come on, like
seven days? Where's the water? Let's go one hundred and
fifty days. It rained and waters poured from.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
The earth for one hundred and fifty days.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Took another one hundred and fifty days for the waters
to recede.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Can you imagine what quarantine was like for them?
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Seventy days the world dried out, and Noah didn't rush it.
So when you add all of this, it was one
hundred and twenty one years and twelve days for God
to finally show him the symbol of the Covenant that
we know as the rainbow.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
That was the promise.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
How many times you try to rush God, God, you
too slow.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
And God says, hey, be patient.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Isaiah forty verse thirty one says that they that wait
upon the Lord shall renew their strength. Wait, I'm very
I can be impatient. I'm not very impatient. I can
be impatient at times, I must confess. But when we
wait on the Lord, when there's something about pausing that
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God does a work in us. I wanted to talk
to you about this. I didn't read this up read this,
and I want to read it now. But and you
look at this and go back to chapter eight for
six and darn when you can come over here and
then get rid of the microphones ready, because you guys
might start singing real quick.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
No, never mind, you got knocking sing No more time
here it is I took the time in the beginning.
Here it is hello.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Anyway, After forty days, Noah opened another forty days, Noah
opened the window he made in the boat and released
a raven. You know what a raven is, right, they're
not from Baltimore.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
I mean they're like ravens.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Like there's a that's a great quarterback over there, man
that guys, that guy's unreal anyway. A raven is a
bird that basically you'll find in the Bible that fed
Elijah when there was a famine in the land. And
it's a dirty bird in terms of you can't eat
that bird. You won't eat the bird, and anything that
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bird touches make you ceremonially unclean. The raven feeds off
of the flesh of other animals or other humans. When
it's dead, ravens will they're like crows or they're like vultures.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
He sends out a raven and the raven goes out.
The Ark.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
To a lot of biblical scholars, and I agree with
them too, is that the arc is a picture of
the Church. It's a metaphor for the church. The Ark
was real, but it's a metaphor for the church. And
Noah is a type of Christ. In the Biblical Old
Testament theology, a type is a foreshadowing of a Christ.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
So he's a type of Christ.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Melchisedec in the Book of Genesis that offers wine to
Abraham is a type of Christ.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Noah is a type of Christ. The Ark is a
type of church.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
And so he lets out the raven, and the Bible
tells us the raven goes back and forth, back and forth,
and it doesn't come back.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Let's go back and forth, it says.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
He also released the dove to see if the water
had receded, and he could not find dry ground. But
the dove could find no place to land because the
water was still covered with the ground over the ground.
So it returned to the boat, and Noah held out
his hand and drew the dove back inside. My friend
Pastor Howe, explained this to me that he said that
the raven can be like the Christian that is going
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out into the world and feasting on the flesh or
living out in the flesh, and coming back to the
church and coming back to the ark and releases can't
find a place to land, and can find a place
to then feeds on the flesh. But he says, the
Christian that is like a dove is a dove that
begins to look and lands where it needs to and
brings back to the hand Noah's hand to the hand
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of God. They didn't come necessarily to a church, and
the church is important. They do come to the church,
but that Jesus is in the church they come to.
They come to Christ. My bottom line for all of
us is this is that we would be whise is
serpents and innocent as doves. WI It's interesting a wise
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is a serpent, but innocent as a dove. And when
we are that, when we are awake, we are aware
and we understand what the world is trying to do
to take us down a different path than we know
that we should be going. I think what God does
is he just needs more people aware, and he needs
more people praying, and he needs more people standing, and
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he needs more people voting. Now I'm gonna say one
thing because I don't like to pray what I said.
I made the mistake of praying what I wanted to say.
So I'm going to say what I say and pray
what I pray. I'm not getting involved in politics, but
I have been asked to run.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Twice, and it was the highest office in the state twice.
So I'm not gonna run.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
For that office because I don't feel called to do it.
But I will not stand back and say we got
to We're not gonna do anything about this.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
So here's what we're gonna do. Here's what we need
to do. If you're eighteen and.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Above, you should be registered to vote. I'm not gonna
tell you how to vote. I'm gonna tell you how
to vote.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Vote whatever's biblical. Yes, I'm not gonna tell you what party.
I'm gonna tell you what Bible. The Bible.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
That's how you have to vote. This is the only
thing that's gonna change the state. Of course, we need
a revival. We need God to pour out his presence.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
We need people to come to Jesus.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
We need people in the Honolulu Holiday to come to Jesus.
We need we need us to live up our lives
in Jesus. We need to walk that out, not weird,
but authentic. We need to walk that out. There's a
lot that God needs to do in us, God needs
and that God needs to do in me.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
But here's what we're gonna do.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
We are going to be a church that makes an
impact for the betterment of Christ. Nothing else but the
betterment of Christ, and everything else works in Jesus name.
I will unpack this a lot better at deep Dive
Wednesday online, where I could probably write my thoughts better
and say it more clear than I did just.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
In the last two minutes. But this po our heads
and prave Father.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
We need you in America. We need you in the state.
We need in this country more than ever before. Our
families need you, husbands and wives need you, children need you.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
I need you.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
We all need a touch from God. And thank you
Lord that we're gonna build our house on you. I
don't I want to build my house on you. I
don't want to build my house on anything else. Hope
is built on nothing less but Jesus blood and righteousness. Father,
We thank you that as you show us the legend Noah,
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the one man that you changed, that you use that
changed humanity, means.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
We're all related. We all because we all come from Noah.
We give you all the praise and glory in the
name of Jesus.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
And everybody said, hey, everybody, thanks again for tuning into.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Pray dot com radio.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
To find more of my messages, podcasts, and leadership resources,
go to pray dot com or head directly to my
website at Mike Kai dot tv. Mike Kai dot tv
for curated content. Once again, this is Mike Cott, senior
pastor of Inspired Church in Hawaii. Thank you so much
for joining me on pray dot com Radio. Aloha and
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God bless
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