Wonder of the Word Highlights, Day 3

Your Place of Safety

Transcript

Blair Linne: This is Wonder of the Word Highlights with Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth. I’m Blair Linne.

We’re walking with Nancy through the whole Bible. We began by looking at the beauty of creation and the wonder that humans were made in God’s image.

Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth: “The Lord saw that human wickedness was widespread on the earth and that every inclination of the human mind was nothing but evil all the time.”

Blair: So God decided to judge the evil on the earth. Chapter 7 says, “The floodgates of the sky were opened, and the rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.”

Nancy: Noah, however, found favor.

Blair: In his mercy, God called Noah to build an ark to escape a worldwide flood.

Nancy remembers watching a dramatic presentation of this story at Sight and Sound Theater in Missouri.

Nancy: And when you come back from intermission and the lights come up, you find that the seats in the auditorium are now in the ark.

And then you start to hear the rain on the outside of the ark. And the patter of the rain becomes a torrential downpour. And you can hear as the waters start to rise, the people outside the ark screaming out in desperation as they are about to perish.

And I can remember as I was sitting there that day, just overcome with the sense of what it meant to be in the ark. And I just kept saying to myself, “I’m safe in the ark. I’m safe in the ark. I’m safe in the ark.”

Blair: Our day is a lot like Noah’s. Every inclination of the human mind is nothing but evil all the time. My mind thinks up evil. I know yours does too. We are all sinners, and we all deserve God’s wrath.

But God sent His Son, to live a perfect life, die in our place and give us His righteousness.

Nancy: Christ is our ark, our safe place, our place of safety, our refuge from the wrath of God and even as those floodwaters beat up on Him there on the cross, we are safe in Him from God’s judgment.

Blair: So when you put your faith in Jesus, you can say:

Nancy: “I’m safe in the ark. I’m safe in the ark. I’m safe in the ark.”

Blair: This was just a highlight from Nancy’s teaching series, The Wonder of the Word. You can follow along with the whole series on the Revive Our Hearts podcast, or watch the teaching on video. Visit ReviveOurHearts.com to learn more. Then join us again next time, here on Wonder of the Word Highlights.

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