Good morning, children. Welcome to Spring Branch Academy, where we are seeking to instill wisdom and inspire worship in every student to the glory of God. We have eight categories today. Are you ready? In theology, we're learning about revelation, that God has revealed himself in three ways, through his works, his words, and his word. general revelation, special revelation, and progressive revelation. Prophecy is when God puts his words in the mouth of a man. Inspiration is when God puts his words in the pen of a man. Prophecy began, God's normal operation of prophecy began at Mount Sinai when Israel was scared to hear God's voice. And so they said to Moses, let God speak to you and then you speak to us. And that's how we have prophecy giving us the Bible. And when it's written, it's inspiration. Prophecy is when God puts his words in the mouth of a man. Inspiration is when God puts his words in the pen of a man. Now in language, last week we learned that foreign languages can be learned through vocabulary, syntax, and practice. I'd like to introduce it to you today as a pile of words, and play by the rules, and practice, practice, practice. A pile of words, and play by the rules, and practice, practice, practice. The eight parts of speech have a certain chant. Are you ready? Nouns and pronouns, verbs and adverbs, adjectives and interjections, prepositions and conjunctions. Nouns and pronouns, verbs and adverbs, adjectives and interjections, prepositions and conjunctions. One more time, nouns and pronouns, verbs and adverbs, adjectives and interjections, prepositions and conjunctions. In scripture, we're at the flood. Noah exercised great faith in taking God at His word and building the ark. Now, faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. If you have faith, it enables you to hold what the future is so certain, it's as if you can hold what God has promised. And the unseen world is so certain, it's as if you can see into spiritual realities. Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Government began because man couldn't control himself. The earth had been filled with violence. And so the beginning of government is when God said, whoever sheds the blood of man, by man, his blood shall be shed. For in the image of God, he made man, Genesis 9, 6. Man is different than animals. You shed a man's blood, your blood should be shed. Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man, his blood shall be shed. For in the image of God, he made man. Genesis 9, 6. And of course, the importance of faith is emphasized in Hebrews 11, 6. Without faith, it is impossible to please him. For he who comes to God must believe that he is and that he is the rewarder of those who seek him. We do not just believe that God exists. We have to believe he's a certain kind of person, that he is a graciously giving God. He rewards those who seek him. Without faith, it is impossible to please him. For he who comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is the rewarder of those who seek him, a rewarder of those who seek him. Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers. But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water, that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does he prospers. The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away. Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. For the Lord knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish. Psalm 1. Give ear and hear the words of the wise, and set your heart to what I know. For words are pleasant when they arise, assembled and ready from down below. that in the Lord may be your trust. I teach you now, today I must. Have I not written to you 30 words in counsel and information that you may learn, that you may answer the truth in recitation?" From Proverbs 22 verse 28, Do not move the ancient fence which your father set with sense. Do not move the ancient fence which your father set with sense. Do not move the ancient fence which your father set with sense. In math, we learned about numbers and numerals last week. Numbers, numerals how we write them. So in numbers, let's go to the number zoo. Last week was cardinal numbers and ordinal numbers. We had 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and on. That's the cardinal numbers, sometimes called the natural numbers. The ordinal numbers are 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc. because they put things in order. In the number zoo, we have evens and we have odds. The counting or the cardinal numbers can be divided into even and odds. 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, even numbers never end. 1, 3, 5, and 7, odd ones also count to heaven. 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, even numbers never end. 1, 3, 5, and 7, odd ones also count to heaven. In science, we learned about biology and chemistry and physics last week. There are two myths of modern science. Chemistry has no myth, but biology has evolution and physics has the Big Bang. Both of these myths are stories of how things began. Evolution is the world story of the origin of species, of animals from other species. and the Big Bang is the origin of the stars from a singular point. Each of these myths have as in common that something greater supposedly came from something lesser. C.S. Lewis pointed this out. It is contrary to reason and so we're going to talk about this next week on how we might answer evolution and the Big Bang on a reasonable level But of course, the ultimate criterion is the Word of God. For as Hebrews 11 says, by faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the Word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible. It's by faith, ultimately, that we understand it, because nobody was there to see it. God must tell us. 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 10, and 12, 40, 70, tell the story well. 1. A moment, a location, a point in space and time, time and space. 2. Visible and invisible, beginning and end, B.C. and A.D. 3. The heavens above, the earth around me, and the sea below me. The past behind me, the present now, and the future in front of me. Yesterday, today, and tomorrow. The threes in space and time. In fours, we have the four seasons in time. Spring and summer, fall and winter. Genesis 8, 22, while the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall never cease, shall not cease. We also have four directions in space, north and south, east and west. From Revelation 7-1, after that I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth. You can see that God is a God of order. He loves numbers. Four seasons in time, four directions in space, spring and summer, fall and winter. North and South, East and West. So grab a globe. North and South, East and West. North and South, East and West. Let's grab the globe and pass the test. Longitude and latitude. Longitude and latitude. The long one has no flatitude. I'm sure your mom or dad can explain that one to you. Adam and Eve and the Toucan and Abel. Noah the flood and the Tower of Babel. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, our fathers, Sarah, Rebecca, and rivaling mothers, Reuben and Simeon, Levi and Judah, Joseph and Benjamin, 12 sons in all, an unlikely way to answer the fall. So who is Noah? The second father of mankind, a believer, is rescued from judgment through a complete covering in an ark. Our poem for Noah can be sung to any long meter hymn. Let's sing it to the doxology. When violence filled the earth with blood, And all its flesh became corrupt, Then God in judgment sent the flood, Which tells us now to listen up. The waters rose up higher and higher, but all within the ark were saved. The next time judgment is with fire and only those in Christ are saved. May the Lord bless each of you children. Until next time, God bless. Amen.