The opening chapters of the Bible are the seedbed for the truth found throughout the rest of Scripture.

As we study the first 11 chapters of Genesis, we will discover principles that can guide us as we seek to have a new beginning with God.

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Music Like Noah, we are living in very uncertain times.

These are unsteady days in our world, times when it is very easy to get fearful and fretful to worry and to wonder and this is why the

word of God is so always, always relative to where we are because the word of God is the anchor

in the storms of life in the in the rising waters, we find our salvation and we find our security

in the promises of Almighty God. Today we come to Genesis chapter number seven to the story of

the flood. And you know, for many years when I read this portion of scripture, I concentrated on the dimensions

of the boat and the geographical locations of things and all the peripheral things, but you've got

to boil it down. You have to boil the whole thing down to the Lord, Noah, and Noah's family.

Now, that's very important because when you get near the end of your life,

all the peripheral things are not going to matter. When you get near the end, the only thing that's

going to matter is you and the Lord and you and your family and the Lord. And so we're getting down to

what really matters here. I want to read just a few verses from Genesis

chapter 7 and draw your attention to three verses that I think are vital. Verse number

one, and the Lord said unto Noah come thou in all thy house into the ark for thee

have I seen righteous before me in this generation of every clean beast thou

shall take to thee by sevens the male and

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