The Bible, I have told you, is the revelation of the living Lord
God, even Jesus Christ; who, in his turn, reveals to us the Father.
And what we have to think of is, how does this story of the flood
reveal, unveil to us the living Lord of the world, and his living
government thereof? Let us look at the matter in that way, instead
of puzzling ourselves with questions of words and endless
genealogies which minister strife. Let us look at the matter in
that way, instead of (like too many men now, and too many men in all
ages) being so busy in picking to pieces the shell of the Bible,
that we forget that the Bible has any kernel, and so let it slip
through our hands. Let us look at the matter in that way, as a
revelation of the living God, and then we shall find the history of
the flood full of godly doctrine, and profitable for these times,
and for all times whatsoever.
God sent a flood on the earth.
True; but the important matter is that GOD sent it.
God set the rainbow in the cloud, for a token.
True; but the important matter is that GOD set it there.
Important? Yes. What more important than to know that the flood
did not come of itself, that the rainbow did not come of itself, and
therefore that no flood comes of itself, no rainbow comes of itself;
nothing comes of itself, but all comes straight and immediately from
the one Living Lord God?
A man may say, But the flood must have been caused by clouds and
rain; and there must have been some special natural cause for their
falling at that place and that time?
What of that?
Or that the fountains of the great deep must have been broken up by
natural earthquakes, such as break up the crust of the earth now.
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