Terrorists, random shooters, extremists, dictators.

Sometimes it seems like the world is overwhelmed by evil people.

Here's Nancy Lee DeMoss.

It's easy to feel helpless, to feel overcome,

but we need to remember that these are just men.

They have no power against God. This is the Revive

Our Hearts podcast for Tuesday, August 4, 2015. Nancy's continuing to explore the gospel in the Old Testament in the series Noah and the flood.

We've been talking about the era in which Noah lived, the era in which God sent the flood to judge the world.

And as I said earlier in this series,

if you just listen to these first several days and don't hang in for the rest of the series,

you're going to leave depressed because we're focusing a lot on the depravity of man,

the extreme wickedness of the earth in those days. And it is depressing, but I think it's

important that we dig in and understand

how sinful man can be, because if we don't understand the utter sinfulness of man, then when God

sends his judgments on the earth, we will think God is unfair. We'll question God. We'll challenge

God. But if you see how sinful man is,

then you don't challenge God. You realize that God's judgments are true and righteous. And also,

if you've never seen how sinful man can be, you will not really appreciate and be able to

thoroughly enjoy the salvation that God has provided to us through

Jesus Christ.

So as we jumped into Genesis chapter 6, the first paragraph in the last session, we saw

that there was this widespread increasing wickedness on the earth in those days.

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