Message Notes for July 20, 2025

Series: Mountaintop Moments

Title: Mount Ararat – A View of New Beginnings

Mountains are a destination place for people all over the world.  Mountains are places to engage in the awe, the pristine, the beautiful. They are places to rejuvenate our souls, challenge our resolves and re-awaken the possible. 

Mountains are the places God met with His people and elevated their view to see more clearly His love, His direction and His presence. This summer let’s meet God on the mountain.  He is waiting!  Prepare your soul! 

God’s sovereign move throughout history.

Isaiah 46:9-10 ESV I am God, and there is none like me, ¹⁰ declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose’.

The Story of Noah – Genesis Chapters 6-10.

Mount Ararat has us understand three things about God:

1. God’s judgement of sin is real.

2. Despite what we see, God’s promises are true, and His goodness prevails.

3. God still desires to move through human beings to fill the earth with His glory.

Family/Group Study Notes for the week of July 20, 2025

Series: Mountaintop Moments

Title: Mount Ararat – A View of New Beginnings

• Share with your friends or family a time when you felt like your life was not moving into God’s preferred future.  Why did it feel this way?  What changed?
• Read Isaiah 46:9-10.  What is this passage saying to you? How does this describe who God is?  What hope is found in this passage?  Read also 1 Corinthians 2:9. How do you understand this passage in relation to Isaiah 46?  How do these passages speak into what you shared above?
• Mount Ararat reminds us of the new beginnings for Noah and his family. Take some time as a group/family to read through the story of Noah found in Genesis chapters 6-9.  What was the difference between Noah and his family and those who drowned in the flood?  Why did Noah find favor with God even though he was also sinful (Genesis 6:9-10)?  What does the covenant in Genesis 6:18 suggest about God’s relationship with Noah?
• What does the complete destruction of life outside the ark indicate about God’s view of sin and judgment? What does it mean that “God remembered Noah” (Genesis 8:1)?
• What is the first thing Noah did when he left the ark (Genesis 8:20)? What does this show about his priorities? How might you and your family respond to God’s blessings? What was God’s response to Noah’s offering (Genesis 8:21-22)? What does it tell us about God’s mercy?
• What covenant did God make with Noah and all living creatures (Genesis 9:8-17)?  What does this covenant mean for every sinner in the world?  How might this relate to the new covenant we have through Jesus Christ? 
• What lessons can we learn from Noah’s obedience in a corrupt world? How can we build an “ark” of obedience in our lives when faced with societal pressures?
• Gather in prayer with each other in how you might live like Noah in a world that opposes God’s will and way.