1. The salvation of Christ is not a society; it isn't joining something; it's a living experience. 611112 A.TRUE.SIGN.THAT'S.OVERLOOKED_ JEFFERSONVI LLE.IN V-6 N-2 SUNDAY_ 55 Now, Noah was producing what he was talking about. He said, "There's coming a flood of judgment upon this unrighteous generation. And God will pour from the heavens rain, and He'll flood the whole earth." And not only was He doing that, but He was making a way of escape and bidding the people to come to it. But they wouldn't listen at him. But Noah as a prophet was a sign to that generation, a sign that was evil spoken of, a man that was thought to be a--a insane man, preparing something that there was no evidence anywhere, or never had been, that there'd ever be any use for it. But that's the way people seems to think today.

2. They can think of a fallout shelter. What good's a fallout shelter going to do you when there's not even a--will be a tree or a rock left on the earth? We got a fallout Shelter, the Christian has. As I said a few Sundays ago, or thought somewhere along the road, "It's not a fallout shelter; it's a 'fall in' Shelter, where we fall into it headlong with all of our heart, and all of our soul and all of our mind, into Christ, God's Ark of safety." 61- 1112 A.TRUE.SIGN.THAT'S.OVERLOOKED_ JEFFERSONVILLE.IN V-6 N-2 SUNDAY_ 58 But Noah, a neurotic, considered in that day, through the foolishness of preaching and performing a sign before the people, giving them warning, condemned the world, condemned the world by building an ark when there was no water for it to float in. He condemned the world, the Bible said, Hebrews 11th chapter. He condemned the world and saved his own house by preparing and being a sign for God of the oncoming judgments of that day. What a glorious thing.

4. Eph 4:8 Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. Eph 4:9 (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?

5. Eph 4:10 He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.) Eph 4:11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;

6. Eph 4:12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: Eph 4:13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

7. Eph 4:14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; Eph 4:15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:

8. Eph 4:16 From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.