A NEW START IN RIGHTOUSNESS
Genesis 7:1-10
YOUR FAITH IN THE WORD PLEASES GOD
V:1. \” The Lord then said to Noah, \”Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation. \”
A. Whatever you do for Christ counts.
1. When you are obedient to God\’s commands you store up treasures in Heaven.
2. What ever you do for Christ affect the quality of life for you and your family.
B. Hard work and dedication sustains your daily life.
1. God has special and unique blessings stored up for you during trouble times.
2. Noah and his family dedicated 120 years building the ark as God commanded.
3. God counted their obedience to His commands a righteous.
4. God instructed them to build a house for their salvation during the flood.
c. In Noah, God started a new nation after the flood in righteousness.
1. Sinful man, that populated the earth was wiped out.
2. Adam and Eve were born in the righteousness of God.
3. Likewise, the new population was born in righteousness starting
with Noah and his family.
WHAT YOU DO TODAY FOR GOD, PREPARES YOU FOR TOMORROW
V:2-3. \” Take with you seven of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and two of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate,
3 and also seven of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth.\”
A. God reveals to us His third command to man regarding sin.
1. The first command was not to eat from the Tree Of Knowledge And Of Good
And Evil.
2. The second command was to bring a blood sacrifice from the atonement of sin
a. The animal was to be the first born of the flock
b. The animal was to be the best of the first born.
3. The third command was to distinguish between clean and unclean animals
a. Clean and unclean animals are described in Leviticus 11.
b. This command was passed down from Adam.
c. Only certain clean animals could be offered as a sacrifice to God.
B. I can only suggest that six pairs of the clean animals were for food and sacrifice.
1. The seventh pair was probably for the start of the repopulation of clean
animals on earth.
2. God continued His plan for man with heterosexual relationships.
a. God\’s concern is for the family growth and development.
b. God commanded Noah to bring into the ark male and female of each
kind of animal so that they reproduce themselves.
THE COUNT DOWN TO THE RETURN OF CHRIST
V: 4-5. \” Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made.\”
5 And Noah did all that the Lord commanded him.\”
A. God has set the time for the end of our existence on earth.
1. After building the ark for 120 years, and filling it with animals and food
God gave Noah the final count down to get his family and all their
stuff in to the ark.
2. Frequently, God reminds us of how devastating floods can be.
a. Hurricane Harvey in September 2017 brought 60 inches of rain
to Texas in three to four days.
b. Many neighborhoods were flooded, some up to the roof of houses.
B. During the flood, the earth was flooded above the tallest mountain.
1. Mount Everest is 29,000 feet high, the tallest mountain in the world.
2. The tallest mountain in the Middle East where the ark would have
landed is 17000 feet (Mount Damavand).
3. This should remind us that the God we serve has unlimited resources.
WALKING WITH GOD PREPARES YOU FOR THE STORM
6 Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth.
7 And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons\’ wives entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.
A. Because Noah was obedient to God, he and his family was given sanctuary in the
ark that they built.
1. When you walk with God, He gets you prepared for the storms of life.
a. Mentally, because you are talking to Him.
b. Physically, because you are working for Him
c. Provisionally, because He is the source of all you need.
d. Positionally, because he will send you to the right place
to survive the storm.
B. Your family benefits from your obedience to God.
1. In the world. there are two types of people.
2. There are those who follow God.
3. There are those who reject God.
C. There will be more people in hell than there will be in heaven.
1. according to the text, out of the entire population on earth
at the time of the flood, only Noah and his family was saved.
2. Salvation is only for those who trust the Word of God.
Isaiah 59:1-2
Surely the arm of the Lord is not too short to save,
nor his ear too dull to hear.
But your iniquities have separated
you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you,
so that he will not hear.
GOD CAN BRING BLESSING TO YOUR DOOR
V: 8-9. \” Pairs of clean and unclean animals, of birds and of all creatures that move along the ground,
9 male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark, as God had commanded Noah.\”
A. Blessing comes to the door of those who follow God\’s commands.
1. To be blessed by God, all you have to do is be willing to serve God.
2. When you serve God, He can arrange your circumstances so you can be
blessed without the help of others.
3. God changed the instinct of all the animal He wanted in the ark to move
toward the ark.
a. The instinct of wild animals is to seek shelter in the fields and forests
that they were born.
b. You can put food out to draw wild animal s to a particular place.
c. In the case of Noah, all the animals came to the ark at the same time.
B. It was by God intervention with the animals that both male and female came
to the ark together of every species.
GOD KEEPS HIS PROMISES
V:10. \” And after the seven days the floodwaters came on the earth. \”
A. God keeps His promises.
1. God has given us His final warning that Jesus is coming back to
judge the living and the dead.
2. The count down to judgment day has already begun.
B. The door to the ark of salvation will be closed the moment God calls us home.
1. Like the people prior to the flood, we have to make choice to
follow God or reject God.
2. Those who have accepted Christ have made the choice to enter the ark.
3. The ark represented the salvation that is in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
THANK GOD FOR REDEEMING US.
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