Things We Can Learn From Noah

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Things We Can Learn From Noah The Flood

• Gen 65-8- 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, and the fowls of the air for it repenteth
  me that I have made them. But Noah found grace
  in the eyes of the Lord.

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Noah The Flood

• This event should never be diminished in our
  minds as just a simple childrens story.
• There are many lesson we can learn.
• Consider a few
• GOD CAN BE GRIEVED The flood came about because
  God regretted making man (66) and He was grieved
  in His heart. God is not an impersonal Being.
  He can be touched by our obedience and by our
  disobedience. I truly pained God to see what man
  had become.

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Do You Cause God Grief Or Joy?

• Do you make God cry or make him smile?
• Do you make your heavenly Father proud?
• We all want acceptance from our peers, but do we
  really think about what impression we are making
  on God.
• What attitude would He have about mankind today?
• How long will He delay His vengeance? No one
  knows! It may be today.

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Noah The Flood

• NOAHS FAITH MOVED HIM TO OBEY GOD.
• Heb. 11 By faith Noah, being divinely warned of
  things not yet seen, moved with godly fear,
  prepared an ark for the saving of his household,
  by which he condemned the world and became heir
  of the righteousness which is according to faith
• This passage does not say that Noah acted by
  faith only! He was moved by godly fear, and he
  did something and in doing this he condemned the
  world and became an heir of righteousness
  (according to faith). Note that true faith
  involves action.
• God called on Noah to show tremendous faith. It
  had not yet rained on the earth. God promised
  that a flood would destroy every living thing and
  Noah paid attention and was moved by godly fear.

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The Ark

• Gopher wood
• Rooms inside
• Pitched within and without with tar
• One window for light
• One door
• Lower, second, and third decks

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Noah The Flood

• By faith Noah made the ark according to Gods
  exact specifications. He did not wing it or do
  it like he thought it should be done!
• He made it Gods way- exactly (Gen. 614- 16).
• He did it according to Gods pattern (one window,
  one door, three stories and out of gopher wood.
• Gen. 622 75- Noah did according to ALL the
  Lord commanded him.

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Noah Our Salvation

• 1 Peter 320- 22- who formerly were disobedient,
  when once the Divine longsuffering waited in the
  days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared,
  in which a few, that is, eight souls, were saved
  through water. 21 There is also an antitype which
  now saves us baptism(not the removal of the
  filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good
  conscience toward God), through the resurrection
  of Jesus Christ, 22 who has gone into heaven and
  is at the right hand of God, angels and
  authorities and powers having been made subject
  to Him.

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Noah Our Salvation

• 2 Peter 25 33-6- And spared not the old world,
  but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of
  righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the
  world of the ungodly
• 2 Peter 33-6-Knowing this first, that there
  shall come in the last days scoffers, walking
  after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the
  promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell
  asleep, all things continue as they were from the
  beginning of the creation. For this they
  willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of
  God the heavens were of old, and the earth
  standing out of the water and in the water
  Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed
  with water, perished
• We do not know when the Lord will return- must be
  ready- HE IS COMING BACK! Noah was careful to
  save His life and soul- ARE YOU AS CAREFUL ABOUT
  SAVING YOUR SOUL

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Noah Grace

• GRACE DOES NOT NEGATE WORKS.
• Many believe that salvation by grace means no
  works are necessary. Some even say that just one
  work on the part of man negates Gods grace!
• Salvation by grace means that God has given us a
  gift that we are incapable of earning on our own
  merits (Eph. 28-9 Titus 35-7)
• Eph 28-9- For by grace you have been saved
  through faith, and that not of yourselves it is
  the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone
  should boast.
• Titus 35-7-not by works of righteousness which
  we have done, but according to His mercy He saved
  us, through the washing of regeneration and
  renewing of the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out
  on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior,
  that having been justified by His grace we
  should become heirs according to the hope of
  eternal life.

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What Is Salvation By Grace?

• Gen. 68- Noah was saved by grace but he had to
  do what God told him to be saved.
• God through His grace, WARNED NOAH of the coming
  flood and told him how to escape it. Noahs
  deliverance came as a result of Gods grace but
  Noah still had to build the ark and preach to the
  lost.
• God warns us (through His grace). He tells us of
  coming judgment and how to escape eternal
  damnation. It is up to us to meet the
  conditions set forth in the gospel Heb. 59- And
  having been perfected, He became the author of
  eternal salvation to all who obey Him.
• We are saved by grace when we accept Gods gift
  of salvation and obey the terms He gives us to
  receive it.

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Noah Judgment

• JUDGMENT IS COMING. Some falsely believed that a
  God of love would never punish men with eternal
  destruction. According to Peter in 2 Pet. 36-7,
  9 the flood is our assurance that God will one
  day destroy the earth with fire.
• God was patient with those of Noahs day, yet the
  flood eventually came.
• God is patient with the wicked today but His
  divine patience will one day reach its limit and
  destruction will surely come (2 Pet. 39-11-The
  Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some
  men count slackness but is longsuffering to
  us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but
  that all should come to repentance. But the day
  of the Lord will come as a thief in the night in
  the which the heavens shall pass away with a
  great noise, and the elements shall melt with
  fervent heat, the earth also and the works that
  are therein shall be burned up. Seeing then
  that all these things shall be dissolved, what
  manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy
  conversation and godliness,

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Noah Living Godly

• IT IS POSSIBLE TO LIVE GODLY IN A WICKED WORLD.
• We live in a wicked world. We are to be in it
  but do not have to be of it (Jn 1714-16).
• Moral standards are tanking as we speak.
• Good is called evil and evil good.
• Children are not safe. How can we be expected to
  live godly in such a world?
• Consider living in Noahs day? Gen. 65- the
  thoughts of man were only evil continually. In
  spite of this Noah managed to be faithful to God
  and raise a godly family. God was aware of his
  efforts.
• He is aware of our efforts also. We can live
  godly in a wicked world. When God brings you
  through the storm do not forget to stop and thank
  Him. Also take the time to view the rainbow
  (Gods promise that He will not destroy the world
  with water again)- but He will come again- ARE
  YOU READY FOR THE JUDGMENT DAY?

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Noah Us

• The events of Noahs life and the flood were
  written for our learning to bring us unto Christ
  (Rom. 154).
• Despite the modernists attempts to try to make
  this event a myth- Gods word rings true and the
  events of Noah and the Flood encourage us and
  urge us on to more faithfulness and assurance
  that if we are faithful unto death we too shall
  receive salvation.
• Are you finding grace in the eyes of the Lord?
• Have you followed His pattern for salvation?