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When God told him to build an enormous ship in which his family and a pair of every
kind of animal might safely ride out the flood—even though the gargantuan vessel would
remain landlocked until the deluge came—noah obeyed.
“noah did everything exactly as God had commanded him”
noah lived
(6:22), Scripture says. noah wasn’t perfect; no one is. But
because of his faith, God declared noah righteous. the
among a
writer of hebrews says, “it was by faith that noah built a
vile people,
large boat to save his family from the flood. he obeyed God,
yet managed
who warned him about things that had never happened
to resist
before. By his faith noah condemned the rest of the world,
and he received the righteousness that comes by faith”
their corrupt
(hebrews 11:7).
influences.
We can only imagine the ridicule and abuse that noah
endured before “the underground waters erupted from the
earth, and the rain fell in mighty torrents from the sky” (Genesis 7:11). noah lived among
a vile people, yet he managed to resist their corrupt influence. how? By walking with God.
noah’s life was a wonderful example of the kind of life all believers are exhorted to
live in 1 Peter 4:2-5:
You won’t spend the rest of your lives chasing your own desires, but you will be anxious
to do the will of God. . . .
Of course, your former friends are surprised when you no longer plunge into the flood
of wild and destructive things they do. So they slander you. But remember that they will
have to face God, who stands ready to judge everyone, both the living and the dead.
in spite of his culture, noah continued to walk with God.
noah is an ancient role model for us, as through a living faith we strive to live “clean,
innocent lives as children of God, shining like bright lights in a world full of crooked and
perverse people” (Philippians 2:15).
THE POINT: A vital walk with God enables a man to find God’s favor.
someone you
• he was “a righteous man.”
• he was “the only blameless person living on earth.”
• he “walked in close fellowship with God” (6:9).
Noah
Violence in the StreetS. corruption in the halls of power. Greed. hatred. Debauchery.
All in all, a stinking cesspool of evil and wickedness.
Welcome to the time of noah.
We may bemoan the collapse of morality in our own age, and rightly so, but human
society in noah’s time had so degenerated that God looked down and saw that
“everything they thought or imagined was consistently and totally evil” (Genesis 6:5,
emphasis added). human behavior had so badly decayed that “the lORD was sorry
he had ever made them and put them on the earth. it broke his heart” (6:6). And so
the holy God of the universe decided to unleash a worldwide flood to wipe humanity
from the face of the earth—all, that is, except for one exceptional man and his family.
Scripture introduces him simply: But Noah found favor with the LORD (6:8).
in the middle of a violent, corrupt, and sordid society, what was different about noah?
the Bible describes three personal traits that set him apart:
should know:
A Bright Star in a Dark Sky
