STORY TIME
with Aunt Jo!

NOAH'S ARK

How would you like to have been on the big boat with all of those animals? Do you suppose that Noah worried about the woodpeckers pecking a hole in the ark? I don't think so.

You see, God was the one who told Noah to build the ark. And there wasn't even any water anywhere around. Noah, and the people who lived on earth, had never seen it rain before. Yet, while Noah was building the ark, he warned the people of the great flood that was coming. He warned them that they must enter that one door, or they would be lost. The people laughed, and laughed--until the day that all of the animals entered the ark, as well as Noah and his family. Then God shut the door--and it began to rain.

Don't you imagine that the people began to run to the ark, and beat on the door, because they did not want to drown. But Noah had not closed the door, God did!

Jesus warned us that the days of His Second Coming would be like the days of Noah. Many people would just live any way they wanted, and they would laugh at the preacher's warning concerning judgment to come.

The ark had three stories, but only ONE door! Do you know why? Jesus said, "I am the door" (John 10:9). The three stories represent the three parts of the gospel:

1. The death of Jesus
2. His burial
3. His resurrection

We obey the gospel by:
1. Repenting of our sins (Dying out to our sins)
2. Being baptized in the name of Jesus Christ (We are buried with Jesus by baptism -- Romans 6:3-4)
3. We "rise to walk in newness of life" when we are filled with the Holy Ghost.

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