HEROES
Hebrews 11:7, Genesis 6:5-9, 13-14, 18-22, Genesis 7:1, 4-5, 17-20, 23-24, Genesis 8:1,
6-13,15-19. Genesis 9:1-2, 7-13, 17
NOAH
Reading: Hebrews 11:7 Common English Bible
7 By faith Noah responded with godly fear when he was warned about events he hadn’t seen yet. He built an ark to deliver his household. With his faith, he criticized the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes from faith.
WE STRUGGLE WITH FAITHFUL/PATIENT OBEDIENCE……WE WANT WHAT WE WANT,& WE WANT IT NOW…
This story of Noah teaches us about obedience to God, we are called to faithfulness even if everyone else around us is against us
Genesis 6:5-9, 13-14, 18-22, Genesis 7:1, 4-5, 17-20, 23-24,
Genesis 8:1, 6-13,15-19 (9:1-2, 7-13, 17)
6:5 The Lord saw that humanity had become thoroughly evil on the earth and that every idea their minds thought up was always completely evil 6 The Lord regretted making human beings on the earth, and he was heartbroken. (V7 God decided to start over again with the exception of Noah who was said to have {V8} “found favor with the Lord.”
9 …Noah was a moral and exemplary man; he walked with God.
Noah was took God at his word & he ACTED on it
13 God said to Noah, “The end has come for all creatures since they have filled the earth with violence. I am now about to destroy them along with the earth, 14 so make a wooden ark. Make the ark with nesting places and cover it inside and out with tar.
18… You will go into the ark together with your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives. 19 From all living things—from all creatures—you are to bring a pair, male and female, into the ark with you to keep them alive. 20 From each kind of bird, from each kind of livestock, and from each kind of everything that crawls on the ground—a pair from each will go in with you to stay alive. 21 Take some from every kind of food and stow it as food for you and for the animals.”
22 Noah did everything exactly as God commanded him.
Obey Irrationally: Noah Obeyed God even though
there was no indication a flood was coming
(When the Ark was completed) 7:1 The Lord said to Noah, “Go into the ark with your whole household because among this generation I’ve seen that you are a moral man.
4 In seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. I will wipe off from the fertile land every living thing that I have made.”
5 Noah did everything the Lord commanded him.
17 The flood remained on the earth for forty days. The waters rose, lifted the ark, and it rode high above the earth. 18 The waters rose and spread out over the earth. The ark floated on the surface of the waters. 19 The waters rose even higher over the earth; they covered all of the highest mountains under the sky. 20 The waters rose twenty-three feet high, covering the mountains.
…23 …Only Noah and those with him in the ark were left. 24 The waters rose over the earth for one hundred fifty days.
8:1 God remembered Noah, all those alive, and all the animals with him in the ark. God sent a wind over the earth so that the waters receded.
6 …(after waiting a really long time — one-year {however they reckoned time}) Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made. 7 He sent out a raven, and it flew back and forth until the waters over the entire earth had dried up. 8 Then he sent out a dove to see if the waters on all of the fertile land had subsided, 9 but the dove found no place to set its foot. It returned to him in the ark since waters still covered the entire earth. Noah stretched out his hand, took it, and brought it back into the ark. 10 He waited seven more days and sent the dove out from the ark again. 11 The dove came back to him in the evening, grasping a torn olive leaf in its beak. Then Noah knew that the waters were subsiding from the earth. 12 He waited seven more days and sent out the dove, but it didn’t come back to him again.
13 …the waters dried up from the earth. Noah removed the ark’s hatch and saw that the surface of the fertile land had dried up.
15 God spoke to Noah, 16 “Go out of the ark, you and your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you. 17 Bring out with you all the animals of every kind—birds, livestock, everything crawling on the ground—so that they may populate the earth, be fertile, and multiply on the earth.” 18 So Noah went out of the ark with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives. 19 All the animals, all the livestock, all the birds, and everything crawling on the ground, came out of the ark by their families.
GOD’S COVENANT WITH ALL LIFE (9:1-2, 7-13, 17)
9:1 God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fertile, multiply, and fill the earth.
2 All of the animals on the earth will fear you and dread you—all the birds in the skies, everything crawling on the ground, and all of the sea’s fish. They are in your power
7 …be fertile and multiply. Populate the earth and multiply in it.
8 God said to Noah and to his sons with him, 9 “I am now setting up my covenant with you, with your descendants, 10 and with every living being with you—with the birds, with the large animals, and with all the animals of the earth, leaving the ark with you.
11 I will set up my covenant with you so that never again will all life be cut off by floodwaters. There will never again be a flood to destroy the earth.”
12 God said, “This is the symbol of the covenant that I am drawing up between me and you and every living thing with you, on behalf of every future generation. 13 I have placed my bow in the clouds; it will be the symbol of the covenant between me and the earth…./…17 This is the symbol of the covenant that I have set up between me and all creatures on earth.”
We are called to different?
An unbelieving WORLD IS WATCHING. They will adopt what you do, NOT WHAT YOU SAY… THEY SEE WHOSE KINGDOM YOU ARE BUILDING…