Thank you.

Thank you. Most of us are familiar with the story of Noah and his ark, the gigantic boat,

with the animals arriving two by two, the torrential rainfall, the global demise of everyone

outside the ark, and then the rainbow as a reminder of God's promise.

But we don't usually connect this story with the Advent season.

Today on Truth for Life weekend, Alastor Begg helps us find Christmas in the flood.

Well, I invite you to turn with me to Genesis chapter 5, and initially in verse 28.

When Lamech had lived 182 years, he fathered his son and called his name Noah, saying,

Out of the ground that the Lord has cursed,

this one shall bring us relief from our work

and from the painful toil of our hands.

And then in chapter six and verse seven,

the Lord said, I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land,

man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I'm sorry that I have made them.

But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.

These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man,

blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God. And then in chapter 7 and verse 6,

now Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters came upon the earth, and Noah and his sons and his wife and his son's wives with him went into the ark to escape the waters of the flood.

Of clean animals and of animals that are not clean and of birds and of everything that creeps on the ground.

Two and two male and female went into the ark with Noah,

as God had commanded Noah, and after seven days, the waters of the flood came upon the earth.

And then in chapter 9, verse 8, then God said to Noah and to his sons with him, behold, I establish my covenant with

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