Jase Robertson

I want to read the verse five because it says, "...the Lord saw how great man's wickedness on the earth had become and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time."

The Lord was grieved that he had made man on the earth and his heart was filled with pain.

So the Lord said, I will wipe mankind whom I have created from the face of the earth, men, animals, creatures that move along the ground, and birds of the air, for I am grieved that I have made them.

But Noah found favor.

So that's kind of how the story goes.

I mean, look, in the scholarly world, there's some, because you're like, well, he wiped mankind out.

Some believe that it was a localized flood.

I'm not going to claim to be a scholar, but we had a reboot of some sort, and God chose a new family.

We had Adam and Eve, and now we have Noah.

But look, when we get to Abraham, guess what happens?

We have another family that he raises up.

He keeps rebooting over and over to ultimately bring Jesus to save the entire family.

Yeah.

He actually says arise, kill, and eat.

The point I wanted to make is, which very few people talk about in the spiritual world,

the importance of family being God's family.

He created Adam and Eve to be his family forever.

You have the tree of life here.

And the only place you see the tree of life specifically is in Genesis.

Well, then you see it in Revelation at the end where he starts talking about a new heaven and a new earth, and here's the tree of life again.