神的心意, 人的顺服，事就成就！
讲员：张伟良实习传道
Speaker: IP Ezekiel
经文：创世纪7:1-24
引言：
创世纪1:1「起初神创造天地。」
创造的原文 bara’ 挑选的意思。就是说起初神挑选天地！挑选是有目的的，有计划的。
神的救赎（创7:1-7）
「耶和华对挪亚说：“你和你的全家都要进入方舟；
正如我刚才所说的，神的心意是要施行拯救，救赎要进入人类，
神的成就（创7:8-16）
（一）神迹的发生（创7:8-10）
「洁净的畜类和不洁净的畜类，飞鸟并地上一切的昆虫，
挪亚在短短的七天就能够召集所有的动物，进入方舟。
例子：教会买地建殿的例子
（二）预言成就（创7:11）
「当挪亚六百岁，二月十七日那一天，大渊的泉源都裂开了，
（创7:11）
在这里圣经一再强调挪亚整600岁，第一次在6节出现，在11节
挪亞满600岁，是神所預言的日子滿足了，
例子：Daniel 和 Amanda 的预言。
（三）神的计划（创7:13-16）
「正当那日，挪亚和他三个儿子闪、含、雅弗，
为什么要各从其类，要一对一对呢？这全是神的计划，
神的审判 （创7:17-24）
「水 势 比 山 高 过 十 五 肘 ， 山 岭 都 淹 没 了 。」（创7:20）
洪水比山高十五肘，而十五肘大约是2.7米高。
例子：发生在日本的Tsunami
回应：今天，我们在神的面前是个义人，我们是否愿意回应神，
Introduction: Genesis 1:1 “In the beginning God created the heavens and earth. The originate word of “create” in Hebrew is “bara”, which means choose. Which means in the beginning God chooses the heavens and earth! God chooses with purpose and plan. Just like us today when we purchase a house, we will choose the best fit for us because we knew the purpose of a house is enable us to have enough rest.
The purpose of God chooses the world is to implement salvation. In Genesis 6:11, Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence. The judgment of God is not to destroy human being, but trying to help men to return to God, into His salvation. This is God’s will.
Salvation of God Genesis 7:1-7
Just as I was mentioned, the purpose of God is to implement salvation into men and then they have the opportunity to return to God.
v1 The Lord told Noah: The LORD then said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.
God needs a vessel to implement salvation. God found a righteous man – Noah, who brings men into the salvation of God.
Fulfillment of God – Genesis 7:8-16
1. Miracle happens verse 8-10
Gen 7:8 Pairs of clean and unclean animals, of birds and of all creatures that move along the ground
Gen 7:9 Male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark, as God had commanded Noah.
Gen 7:10 And after the seven days the floodwaters came on the earth.
Noah is able to gather all the animals in 7 days and enter into the ark. This is amazing because how could animal understood human’s word? From where Noah going to find all the animals? Too many impossible states, but only God who can done this, it happens because of miracle.
2. Fulfillment of prophecy – Genesis 7:11
Gen 7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month—on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened
Bible emphasized once again that Noah is 600 years old. It mentioned in verse 6 and 11. What so important with the age of 600 of Noah?
When Noah is 600 years old, which means the days of prophecy of God had fulfilled, God prophecy to Enoch also fulfilled. When Enoch had lived 65 years, he became the father of Methuselah. Which means there will be a flood after his death. Altogether, Methuselah lived a total of 969 years, and then he died. Methuselah lived for 969 years, he gave birth to Lamech. Lamech gave birth to Noah at the age of 182. So the prophecy of the Lord still have a distance of 600 years.
Calculation of years: 969-187-182 = 969-369 = 600
Noah lives for 600 years, which is the days of flood, that is God’s time, also the fulfillment of prophecy.
Brothers and sisters, when we receive this prophecy we might think “can this really happen on me?” It seems impossible! But God will fulfill every prophecy according to God’s timing!
3. Plan of God – Genesis 7:13-16
Gen 7:13 On that very day Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, together with his wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the ark
Gen 7:14 They had with them every wild animal according to its kind, all livestock according to their kinds, every creature that moves along the ground according to its kind and every bird according to its kind, everything with wings.
Gen 7:15 Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life in them came to Noah and entered the ark.
Gen 7:16 The animals going in were male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.
Why is it must be a pair and differ types of animals? This is God’s plan! Because by pair it will be able to breed and forbid extinct, by that the salvation of God will be able to fulfill on earth.
Judgment of God – Genesis 7:17-24
Flood is approximately 3meter high.
Living example: The earthquake triggered powerful tsunami waves that reached heights of up to 40.5 metres (133 ft) inMiyako in Tōhoku’s Iwate Prefecture,The Japanese National Police Agency confirmed 15,844 deaths, 5,890 injured, and 3,451 people missing across eighteen prefectures, as well as over 125,000 buildings damaged or destroyed. The earthquake and tsunami caused extensive and severe structural damage in Japan, including heavy damage to roads and railways as well as fires in many areas, and a dam collapse. Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said, “In the 65 years after the end of World War II, this is the toughest and the most difficult crisis for Japan.” Around 4.4 million households in northeastern Japan were left without electricity and 1.5 million without water.
