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Let me ask you, if I were to go out to my garden and plant a handful of lima bean seeds, in a few weeks when the plant comes up and starts to bear fruit, what do you think I should expect to pull from the plant? How about apples, if I pulled some apple seeds and planted a couple apple trees, they take a lot longer to grow and produce fruit, but when they did, what do you think I would expect to pull from my apple tree? One more question, if I went and got a handful of seeds from poison ivy, crab grass, and gympsom weeds and threw those out in my garden, could I feed my family from the harvest?

I must say, it was overwhelming to stand in the midst of Ark. It was huge, so intricate, so beautiful. And even though it was just a model of the original Ark, it reminded me of how big God is and how small I am, and how intricate God is and how He cares for the details of our lives.

With each exhibit I recalled another piece of Noah’s story, stopping to recount piece by piece how God saved Noah in the midst of judgement. However, as I laid in bed that night I was thankful for Jesus, because Jesus is a better version of Noah. This morning I would like to take a few moments this morning to show you what I mean- 4 points to be specific explaining how Jesus is a better Noah.

In this passage from Paul we are asked to ask some of the same kinds of questions. This passage in Galatians is all about relationships, in fact one of the overarching themes of Galatians is relationships.

Let’s face it, we all have have people in our lives that rub us the wrong way. Our personalities are different, our life experiences are fundamentally opposite, or we just have different ways of living in the world- and that is okay. We have all heard someone say “You have to love everyone to get to heaven, but you don't have to like them”

1- Jesus’ return reflects Noah’s flood- God sent a flood onto the Earth to judge the sins of mankind. The story tells us in that “5 The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6 And the LORD regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart. 7 So the LORD said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them.” 8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD. “

The sins of man had to be judged and God did so with a flood.

Paul asks us what we are sowing into our relationships with those around us- are we sowing from our flesh or from the Spirit of God. Let’s

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The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2016), .