Ahab is going to battle after the year is up as the Prophet of God had said. God once again says I am going to win this victory that you may know I am the Lord. Yet Ahab messes up, he lets Benhadad go scot free when it was not his decision. He was not the victor God was. No Ahab knows remorse.

We have been ransomed, Redeemed. Our lives are not our own. We are physically and Spiritually indebted to God. Yet we want all the rewards and none of the actual life we should be leading. This ME ME ME has to stop, we should be worried for the One that bought us with so great a price and with those that are lost and dying. Not us but Him and them, that should be our thought, our life.

God does deliver Ahab from a battle. Yet God also says, mark what thou doest. Whats that mean? "Ahab I have delivered you, so remember the God that delivered you. Watch how you live and what you do for the Syrians will be back in one year. Do not offend the God that delivered you or you shall be sorry." Christians, Remember the God of your salvation, the One that bought you with a price, He is coming back, do not offend Him, mark how you live the life He Redeemed.

Noah gets off the Ark, there is a covenant God makes with all the earth. The Rainbow shall stand as a sign that never again will He destroy the earth by flood. Noah becomes a farmer and in peace time, he relaxes his guard and slips into sin. Yet his life 120 years faithful building the Ark, gathering food and feed, 1 year on a floating barge, all of that is not out weighed by sin. Noah was a mighty man of God, and in the Hall of Faith.

This is not a thanksgiving thing this should be a daily thing at work, at the store at home, out loud, out in public etc. Sing, praise rejoice, not things Christians do anymore unless they are surrounded by other Christians. Time to get back to entering His gates with Thanksgiving and into His courts with praise.

150 days until the water stopped flooding, then another 7 months until Noah was able to leave the ark. 120 years building the Ark, 1 year on the Ark. What a life Noah led. A faithful servant, tried and true.

40 days and nights of rain? That was just the beginning. The violence and turbulence of what happened is fascinating. God destroyed all land life, trees, grass, animals, birds all except what was on the ark. His judgment is real, His wrath is real, but so too is His mercy and His Grace.

Hell was prepared for the devil and his angels, humans will go there if they reject Christ. It's written in Red all of it, it must be true. However there is a way out. John 3:16

Notice I capitalized His meaning God's ark. In all of the earth, approx 1800 years after Creation and 1 man is found worthy, one family saved and God had him build His ark to save that family. One man, in all the earth found grace in the eyes of God. On a high note, I can count of 15 I personally know that are righteous men. That does not include those I do not know, so we have a fighting chance of saving this world still.

The Holy Spirit, the indwelling of God and living as His Holy Temple? Let God be true and every man a liar

If we have historical fact in the Bible that we have proven, then the Bible is real. If the Bible is real - then Hell is Hot, Jesus is The Way, satan is real, and there is a day of judgment coming. Side note I fully believe every word in The Word, God's Holy Bible.

Claudius sent all the Jews from Rome, the Bible speaks of it, Josephus and Suetonius speak of it. Christ - Suetonius, Josephus and Tacitus all speak of Him. We will run down the historical fact of Gallio, Claudius, Paul, Aquila and Priscilla in Corinth.

Paul, on the verge of giving up is given a major victory. Then God gives Him a much needed season of rest.

We often pile on the Pharisees and Sadducees for seeing all they did and not believing. Yet we ignore those that did believe. My point this morning is this, Jesus preached to men who hated Him so much they ultimately plotted to have Him killed. However, some believed. When you are down thinking no one is hearing, keep on. They are, we may not know till we get to the other side but keep on witnessing, testifying, and being a testimony.

The Pharisees and Sadducees saw the demons cast out, the deaf to hear, the blind to see, the lame to walk but they did not believe. They did not want to believe for it would mess up their power, their authority and their money.

We will cover days 5,6 and 7 of Creation.

The Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul and the Lord sent a bitter spirit to trouble Saul.

In Matthew 6 we get a Model prayer, A template if you will. The Apostles ask Jesus to teach them how to pray and He gives them a model that we can benefit from.

That is how the Bible starts. God set all in motion, God made all you see, feel, hear, smell and touch. If you can not agree with that then throw your Bible out and go fishing. For the Holy Bible the Word of God says God created all. You can not be a Christian and disagree with that. All of our Bible is predicated on "In the beginning God".

The 7 churches of Revelations, many can name the churches of Ephesus, Laodicea,and Philadelphia, but few know Pergamos. God has said, in Words written in red, that if they do not repent He Himself will come and will stand against them. The Nicolaitans have infiltrated the church and they are teaching self indulgence, all things are lawful so do it. God hates that. They are teaching the ways of Balak and Micah, buying the leaders to hear what they want to hear rather than what God says.