Life After The Flood | Rev. Nick Mahaney
by Nick Mahaney
First Apostolic Church of Maryville (Maryville, TN)
Kind: sermon
Scripture: Genesis 6:5-9, Genesis 1, Genesis 6:13-18, Genesis 7:10-12, Genesis 7:24, Genesis 8:4-5, Genesis 8:18-20, Genesis 9:28

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now I've been wrestling with what to preach if you could have seen me the the little while I was in the room this afternoon laying out there going God what do you want me to do you know what I heard nothing nothing not One text not one phone call I even turned the TV on to see if somebody oh it's legal now ain't it I had the television come to one of my services somebody said what's a UPC going to say I said how they going to know and I've been struggling just going to be I'm very transparent I don't know if y'all figured that out yet I'm the same way at home okay well almost and what you see is what you get doesn't matter where I'm at or where I'm preaching I'm always the same and I'm like dear Lord please help me sing a song do something somebody walk up and say hey I got a word for you how was it one one conference and they were all giv words and this is a true story the man walked up me and my wife standing there I'm not going to tell you it was it because of the times but he walked up and said brother I got a word for you I'm like hit me he said the Lord told me you need to lose weight I looked at him I said bro Stevie Wonder can tell that I need to lose weight go I pointed out my pastor I said from now on when you think you got a word for me go ask him first y'all need to be careful come on you getting words from people they don't know they don't know the what you've been through they don't know your your hurts they don't know your habits they don't know your Hang-Ups and they will derail you if it don't come from these men of God you better not listen to it I'm just going to tell you but here's what I feel like the Lord wants me to preach I'll try to hurry I don't I'm hungry that Mentos didn't do a whole lot for me bro thanks Nick but it Genesis 6 and5 that's the first book of the Bible for all you Bible scholars and I'm don't know why he wants me to preach this but I listen and God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually and it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth and it grieved him at his heart and the Lord said I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the Earth both man and Beast and the creeping thing in the fouls of the earth of the air for it repent me that I have made them but Noah found Grace in the eyes of the Lord these are the generations of Noah Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations and Noah walked with God and I don't I'm going to follow the unction of the Holy Ghost I haven't you know I don't know if y'all know this but evangelists preach the same sermons a lot oh wow you didn't stay off YouTube but I haven't preached this in years and I don't know why he's dropped this in my spirit but he wants me to preach on about life After the flood that the storm is not the last thing that there's life after your storm come on I want you to lift your hands with me by the authority of the word of God and by the power that's in your name Jesus Christ Lord we loose you once again into this place we've already felt you moving amongst us God God we need you more and more and more each second and each minute of our life God I'm asking you right now to place your hands upon me place your hands upon this church God we want you to look down from your holy habitation in heaven and turn your ear towards us Jesus not only turn your ear towards us Lord but look at us let your eyes look at us and see our needs and how that we need you God I need you to touch my mind and touch my voice and touch my body Jesus oh how I need you right now in the name of Jesus everybody say in Jesus name come on let's give him another hand clap of praise hope I don't spill this you may be seated I love it everybody listens the Bible tells us that in the beginning what does that mean what's the beginning mean come on I know we're in Tennessee but you know it's the start right the start God created the heavens and the Earth doesn't that sound great in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth now it says the Earth was without form and it was total darkness so God said let there be light and there was light see God saw the light and he said it was good and he divided the light from the darkness he's never called The Darkness good and then we have have night and day this is the first day well real complicated isn't it on the second day God divided Heaven and Earth and on the third day God divided the water and the land and created the grass and the trees the fourth day God created the Sun the bigger light that's what the Bible calls it don't look at the big light everybody and the blesser light was the moon and the stars to rule the night then my favorite day is the fifth day this is where God created all the whales all the fish catfish Hallelujah Fried Chicken fowls of the Earth come on all the winged foul I was preaching in Minnesota at a men's outing they took me fishing and we caught a bunch of fish and so the next day they hired a guy where was Wisconsin they hired a guide and the first day and the second day they said hey won't we hire this guide again and we'll go fishing I said why you want to hire him I can take us to every spot we went to yesterday I'm a redneck you put me on a good fishing home I'm not going to forget it so they were amazed that we went to all the places and caught a whole bunch more fish I saidwell let's have a fish fry and I said y'all cook the fish and I'll go get some stuff to make hush puppies they asked me this what's a hush puppy I thought lightning was going to hit him I said what do you mean what's a hush puppy how do you have fish without hush puppies so they ate more hush puppies than they did fish and fried chicken listen one thing I'm still mad at Co over they shut down all the KFC buffets that just isn't right my watch wondered what happened because I would go to the buffet so much I'd get steps in Paul buffeted his body I Buffet time baby and I love surprise CH might like Pride chicken you'll know the mahany table at the marriage supper of the Lamb cuz the Colonel's going to be sitting at our table I believe the colonel saved I don't know how but anybody come up with all those herbs and spices they heard a word from God then all the sixth day God created the cattle and the beasts but he needed someone to have dominion over the Earth so with dirt he formed and shaped and created us some of us took a little more dirt they were backing up the back hole for the mahanes and people think we're crazy cuz we believe that the Earth isn't 6 7,000 years old and that we believe that God created everything but they'll go to school and where they teach Evolution that's the dumbest stuff I ever heard in my life a one cell Deeba flops around on the beach because he's only got one cell so he can't do nothing but flop and it just so happens that another one cell deba comes FL popping by what's the odds there and they go out on the date to get married they better have been married and guess what they have a two cell Deeba and out of the whole world and universe this two cell deba bumps into another two-cell deba what is the odds it's called a bipad they have a tripad three cells then they have a quadraped this is a this is evolution then they have a piped I think in the 70s they were riding mopads I think who's ever wrote this was a dop head don't you no God created me I'm not a descendant of an eight come on I can only climb a tree if it has a dear stand attached to it come on I'm in the image of God you want to know what God looks like take a look honey everything that God created he just commanded it he said hey let there be light but not man because we were special to him God took his own breath and he breathed upon man and Man became a living Soul they're placed in this paradise they have everything they need at their disposal the only thing that was missing God knew that man needed a wife a help meet man Hallelujah I thank God for Sandra mahaney she's probably watching right now hey baby what's up Papa's coming home so he causes a deep sleep to fall on Adam and I know it says it took a rib but if you read the the original languages it means he reached inside of him and pulled out part of Adam see your wife's not just something that you hang on your arm she's a part of you come on you want a happy marriage you learn to say yes ma'am and you better thank God I wasn't ad him cuz I love ribs you ain't getting my rib everything's at their disposal except the tree in the middle of the garden was forbidden to them they couldn't eat it they couldn't from it they couldn't touch it and unlike animals God created man with a will and the ability to make choices in their life we all know the story how the serpent beguiles Eve and she eats of the fruit and it causes Adam to eat now they're banished from Paradise and they're cursed Eve has to Bear children Adam has to work till the ground and they're blessed with two sons but it's not long before jealousy and hatred Works their way into their lives and Cain is angry because God doesn't accept his sacrifice and he's jealous because God has accepted Abel's more excellent sacrifice it wasn't the type of sacrifice it was the attitude of the sacrifice so in Anger he kills his brother and now they also taste the sting of death and once again they're blessed with Seth Generations go by and the world is Multiplied but now instead of good and godly the world has become worldly and corrupt evil abounds boy this is sounding real familiar their imagination that means they're sitting around Imagining the evil things that they can do their thoughts and their very hearts are evil Genesis 6:13 and God said unto Noah the end of All Flesh has come before me for the Earth is filled with violence through them and behold I will destroy them from the Earth make thee an ark of gopherwood room shalt thou make in the ark and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch and this is the fashion which Thou shalt make it of the length of the Ark shall be 300 cubits the breadth of it 50 cubits and the height of it 30 cubits a window shalt thou make to the ark and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above and the door of the Ark shalt thou setting aside thereof with lower second and third stories shalt thou make it and behold I even I do bring a flood of waters upon the Earth To Destroy All Flesh wherein is the Breath of Life from under heaven and everything that is in the Earth shall die so God establishes a covenant with Noah and his wife and their three sons and their their three sons wives that they could come into the ark and be saved and He commands Noah he says when you build this Ark I'm going to start bringing in the animals now I'm just going to tell y'all folks were a little bit slower back then if number one my neighbor is building this big giant boat and I've been making fun of him for a long long long long long time and all of a sudden animals Two by Two start loading up in the arc I'm GNA be like hey man pack the to me cuz I'm getting in that Ark seven clean and and two by two of the unclean you know why there was seven of the clean because God it only takes two to procreate but he wanted one of the clean to be ready for sacrifice come on God always wants you to be prepared for sacrifice come on sacrifice is what brings the fire down from heaven come on we live in a society now without sacrifice and I'm afraid a lot of our churches are not teaching it in their homes or showing it by example but I come to tell you that everything I've ever seen in my life has come from sacrifice I'm so thankful that Charles and Wanita mahany taught us how to sacrifice and how that the anointing and the fire of God happens when we sacrifice Noah takes his family in the arc as commanded by God they sit there and wait for seven days seven days and not one person decides to go into the boat 7 Days the do is left open 7 days at a chance for Mercy 7 days for a chance of Grace seven days and not one person in the whole world took that opportunity to be saved come on it's no different today come on I watch the best preaching you've ever heard in Apostolic circles comes across this Pulpit come on then you're not going to find any better music it's anointing and it's well done but still some of you know that you're not right in your heart and you think that you have time come on I'm not here to condemn you I'm here to beg you do not leave this building today tonight without getting your heart right with God come on you don't need me to get up here and tell you that you're living in sin because every time you do something that you know you shouldn't do the Holy Ghost convicts you every time you go to that place you know you shouldn't go the Holy Ghost convicts you every time you watch something that you know you shouldn't be watching the Holy Ghost convicts you come on the door is still open don't wait until the door is shut Genesis 7 and 10 sorry screen operator y'all are doing awesome and it came to pass after 7 days that the Waters of the flood were upon the Earth in the 600th year of Noah's life in the second month the 17th day of the month the same day where all the fountains of the great deep broken up and the windows of Heaven were open and the rain was upon the Earth 40 days 40 nights 40 days 40 nights the ark was pounded by these waves 40 days 40 nights it never lets up not just the rain but the waves the wind everything tossed up can you imagine up and down side to side and it's not just the wind the waves and all the other stuff Have you ever been to the zoo somebody needs to give them Lions some dub deodorant cuz you got not only the wind and the r rain going on but you got hippos never been around the hippo I've been called that a time or two and there's nowhere for you to go if you get in an argument with your wife you can't go to the woods come on you can't fish on this boat cuz you only got two worms Noah yes what happened to one of the worms that have been my hardest battle not being able to fish and not just the smell but the sounds I've got a I got two dogs at home one of them's a little white malti he he's barking right now I I can just tell you and the other one is Chihuahua and Papa Was a Rolling Stone we don't know but they can get to barking and I go in there and start loading my 6.5 Creed more I about had enough can you imagine all the noise and all the stench and after 40 days and nights the rain finally stopped can you imagine you're going I'm going to kill a hippopotamus for Christmas you hear the thunder no you hear the rain no it stops but even though the rain has stopped the storm isn't over Genesis 7: 24 and the waters prevailed upon the Earth 150 days come on I come to tell somebody the rain may have stopped but you're still trapped in your boat come on water and waves are still pounding you there's still nowhere for them to go and get rid of the stench and the stink and the smell the rain stopped but the storm is still there then after 150 days Genesis 8 and4 and the Ark rested in the seventh month on the 17th day of the month upon the mountains of arat and the waters decreased continually until the 10th month and the 10th month on the first day of the month were the tops of the mountain seene and it came to pass at the end of 40 days that Noah opened the window of the Ark which he had made 150 days trapped in this boat after the rain stops was still everything going on the stink and the filth of the storm and finally the water starts to dry up on the earth the boat stops and comes to a rest and they're still two and a half months and 40 days another 105 days sitting there not knowing what's going on what's happening outside there's no light penetrating no air flowing and you can't even see outside and finally one day Noah gets up in front of his congregation his sons and his daughter-in-laws and wife and he starts walking and they go is he going to the window I think Noah is going to the window Lord let him go to the window and he walks up to the window he opens up that window and fresh air rushes in and sunlight begins to penetrate the darkness and Noah sends out a raven and a dove and the dove returns because there's nowhere for it to rest he turns around and looks at everybody and he says seven more days but we can make it seven more days seven days later the dove is released again this time it comes back with an olive leaf and the Bible tells us that no and then knew the water was abated on the earth Hallelujah but we're going to wait seven more days finally the door is open and the storm and the trial is over Genesis 8:18 and Noah went forth and his sons and his wife and his son's wife with him every Beast every creeping thing and every foul and whatsoever creepeth upon the Earth after their kinds went forth out of the Ark and Noah builded an altar unto the Lord and took of every clean beast and of every clean foul and offered burnt offerings on the altar the very first thing that Noah did this is the first time in the word of God that this word is even mentioned altar he didn't run out and kiss the ground the very first thing that he did was he built an altar after the worst trial ever known to man after the worst storm in history the only thing on his mind was I've got to build an altar of sacrifice so I can give thanks to God for bringing me through the worst storm that's ever happened come on I come to tell you First Apostolic Church come on I'm talking to some people right now you've been through the biggest storm of your whole life come on the wind and the rain has been tossing you and turning you not knowing if you're going to make it another day people people your peers and your friends and your family they see you in the trial they see the rain coming down on you and you cry out in agony but it seems to no avail finally the rain quits and the wind ceases and to all appearances it seems like you've weathered this storm but what no one sees is you're still embedded in the stinch and the pits and the filth of the storm the boat of your trial finally comes to rest and you begin to think maybe it's over maybe I'm about to get out of this out of here but in reality you're just halfway through it so you walk around you put on airs you want everybody to think that it's all right that you've made it but the reality is it's not over and alone at night you cry out in pain with the tears of the storm streaming down your face but suddenly you're in a Sunday morning service suddenly you're in a Sunday night service and the window of your boat all of a sudden opens up and fresh air and light begins to stream in that's when all of a sudden you realize I think I'm going to make it I think I'm going to make it after all after all the rain after all the trials the doors of your prison is finally open and you are free Hallelujah and this where the this is where the altars of your sacrifice becomes memorials to your life because you know that he brought you through it that there's no way that you was going to make it but he brought you through it come on I come to tell somebody the storm is over hold on victory's in sight come on your storm is over come on don't you worry no more won't you step out in faith at that door won't you realize that God has held you in his hands here's one of the most powerful scriptures in the Bible Genesis 9- 28 you need to save this one highlight it do whatever you got to do and it says this and Noah lived After the flood 30050 years let me read that again and Noah lived After the flood 300 and 50 years after all the wind after all the waves after all the stench and pain of the Storm at the altar of sacrifice God wants you to know that there's life after your storm it's not over come on don't let the enemy try to tell you that it's over God wants you to know that there life after the food you didn't think you was going to make it come on you may have thought it was over for you the enemy had you had you almost ready to give up but at the altar God brought you out for the next 350 years Noah was a walking testimony come on about God's grace about God's goodness can I tell you you know why you been through a trial you know the only thing that burned on the three Hebrew boys was the ropes that had them bound come on sometimes you got to go through the fire sometimes you got to go through the trial so God can get rid of all that stuff come on that's trying to hold you back bad doctor's report no there's life come on there's Life After the flood finances aren't right no you just hold on children aren't living for God come on I refuse to believe that my children are not going to be saved there's Life After the flood so here we are once again what a great looking crowd most of you there's some of you could use some work I'm not going to point brother John Stone I ain't saying nothing and we're in the presence of God and some of you walked in here tonight you had to make yourself come oh I'm not getting on to you I commend you CU there's nothing that's harder when you seem like it seems to you that everything that can go wrong has went wrong come on that you don't know how you're going to make it another day oh yay though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death he didn't say yay though I camp out and sit down in the valley of the shadow of death sometimes you know what you got to put one foot in front of the other you just got to keep on walking you just got to Keep On Believing guess what you walked in here tonight they sing a song I like now you walked in heavy you're going to walk out light I receive it but you walked in here with a storm cloud that nobody else could see but you're going to walk out of here Victorious I want us all to stand oh I feel him's really really strong right now I don't know why and I promise you that I have talked to nobody about anything about this church I don't I usually when I come to a place I've never preached before I don't even go out or nothing tonight before that's what I did last night I'm not going to say I didn't watch any football but I did we don't want to lie here but I want to sequester myself and I don't want any outside interferences about nothing and I want to get plenty of rest because I know I'm walking into a battle and this morning my plan was to give my testimony because that's usually what I do the first time I preach somewhere so everybody knows who I am what I went through nope the Lord changed that message he changed that message for about being having peace in your storm I was going to preach something else tonight and then when I got here chaos in my brain Lord what do I do I don't know what I'm going to do what do I do what do I do Lord the Lord spoke to me sitting right there said I'm still still not through with the storm yet can I tell you you don't understand you may never understand but I'm going to tell you there's life after your flood don't give up come on don't lose Faith come on don't lose hope that Storm's going to be over and guess what you're still going to have life you're still going to see things that you've been praying about come on you're still going to witness things that you've been dreaming about come on you're still going to be a part of things you've been reading about come on who is it I'm not into numbers I don't care if it's one person come on who's been walking around dragging that old boat that storm who is it who have I been preaching to who' the Lord tell me to tell you that there's Life After the flood come on you're going to have to make a move come on I can't do it for you but you're going to have to step out and say you know what Here I Am Lord I'm ready open that window I need frh share open that window let the light come in come on here you go come on come on don't let the enemy Steal You of this come on he wants to rob you of your blessing but God wants to God wants to put your feet back on Solid Ground no more tossing and turning come on no more smell of the of the of of the putrid smell of all the enemy and the Animals there's life after your blood come on there's life after your flood come on be sensitive to the Holy Ghost come on pray for somebody come on reach out and find the one that God's laid a burden on you right now I come to tell you there's life after your flood it's not over come on it's not over Noah lived 350 Years After the flood come on it's not over I'm telling you under the unction of the Holy Ghost it's not over there's life after your flood come on begin to claim it right now come on tell the enemy speak speak against the very thing that's trying to toss your boat upside down speak against it open up your mouth and you tell the enemy it's over come on open up your mouth and tell the enemy it's over we're not doing this anymore my God has the last word come on open up your voice right now let there be a a thunderous Roar go across this building it's over hallelujah hallelujah come on don't let up come on come on first apostolics come on step into the supernatural there's life after your flood come on dad take your wife and hug her and tell her it's not over there's life after our flood there's life after the stormr your all the SE the r come on you need to tell your sickness or your disease it's not over I'm going to live after this come on you need to tell your fear and anxiety it's not over I'm living after this let that trial know God told me there's Life After the flood sweep across this place come on Lord I pray in the name of Jesus that every anything Darkness anything dark be cast out of this place