“An Obedient Faith” - Genesis 6:13-22 – (Eastside Baptist/Sun PM/April 6, 2014)13 So God said to Noah, "I am going to put an end to
all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely
going to destroy both them and the earth.
14 So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it
and coat it with pitch inside and out. 15
This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be three hundred cubits long,
fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.
16 Make a roof for it, leaving below the roof...
“An Obedient Faith” - Genesis 6:13-22 – (Eastside Baptist/Sun PM/April 6, 2014)
13 So God said to Noah, "I am going to put an end to
all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely
going to destroy both them and the earth.
14 So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it
and coat it with pitch inside and out. 15
This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be three hundred cubits long,
fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.
16 Make a roof for it, leaving below the roof an opening one
cubit high all around. Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle
and upper decks. 17 I am
going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens,
every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will
perish. 18 But I will
establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark-- you and your sons
and your wife and your sons' wives with you.
19 You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures,
male and female, to keep them alive with you.
20 Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of
every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept
alive. 21 You are to take
every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and
for them." 22 Noah did
everything just as God commanded him.
(Genesis 6:13-22, NIV)
1. The limits of divine patience and holy
justice
So God said to Noah, "I am going to put an end to
all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely
going to destroy both them and the earth. (Genesis 6:13, NIV)
The LORD saw how great the wickedness of the human race
had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the
human heart was only evil all the time. (Genesis 6:5, NIV)
to those who were disobedient long ago when God waited
patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In it only a few
people, eight in all, were saved through water, (1 Pet. 3:20, NIV)
4 They will say, "Where is this 'coming' he promised?
Ever since our ancestors died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning
of creation." 5 But they
deliberately forget that long ago by God's word the heavens came into being and
the earth was formed out of water and by water.
6 By these waters also the world of that time was deluged and
destroyed. (2 Pet. 3:4-6, NIV)
2. A gracious covenant and a remnant saved by mercy
I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy
all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it.
Everything on earth will perish. (Genesis 6:17, NIV)
But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will
enter the ark-- you and your sons and your wife and your sons' wives with you.
(Genesis 6:18, NIV)
You are to bring into the ark two of all living
creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you. (Genesis 6:19, NIV)
Once more a remnant of the kingdom of Judah will take
root below and bear fruit above. For out of Jerusalem will come a remnant, and
out of Mount Zion a band of survivors. "The zeal of the LORD Almighty will
accomplish this. (2 Ki. 19:30–31, NIV)
"What has happened to us is a result of our evil
deeds and our great guilt, and yet, our God, you have punished us less than our
sins deserved and have given us a remnant like this. (Ezr. 9:13, NIV)
3. A simple, obedient faith
Noah did everything just as God commanded him. (Genesis
6:22, NIV)
Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance
about what we do not see. (Heb. 11:1, NIV)
By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in
holy fear built an ark to save his family. By his faith he condemned the world
and became heir of the righteousness that is in keeping with faith. (Heb. 11:7,
NIV)
For we are God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do
good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. (Eph. 2:10, NIV)
Through him we received grace and apostleship to call all
the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from faith for his name's sake.
(Romans 1:5, NIV)
but now revealed and made known through the prophetic
writings by the command of the eternal God, so that all the Gentiles might come
to the obedience that comes from faith-- (Romans 16:26, NIV)
Main Idea
Ø Faith
responds to divine grace, accepts God at his Word, and then acts in obedience
to that Word.
