SYMBOLS OF THE CHUTCH
Genesis 7:11-24
GOD\’S CONTROL
V:11. \” In the six hundredth year of Noah\’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
1. God has the events of your life planned out to the exact day of occurrence.
2. According to some Biblical scholars, the time of the flood
was 2348 BCE
3. According to the text it was the 2nd month and the 17th day of the year.
perhaps February 17th 2348 BCE
4. Every day of your life is an event on God\’s calendar .
5. When you woke up this morning, God had a time stamp on all
the activities of your day.
TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS
V:12. And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.:
A. The way we live affects the lives of generations of people after us.
1. Noah was six hundred years old when the flood started
2. How old was Noah when God told him to build the ark?
__________Genesis 6:3 and 6:12
3. The work that God has for you may cover a long time.
B. You are never to old for God to use you.
God may use your earlier years to prepare you for His work.
1. Those who are faithful to God will be used by God.
2. What did the Lord say about Noah to let you know
He approve his attitude? Genesis 6:8, 6:22,
C. Noah did all that God commanded.
1. He lived a life of righteousness
2. He had track a record of following God directions.
D. What were the sources of the water for the flood.? Verses 11 and 12
It was____________ from the heavens and waters from the_________
SAVATION BY RELATIONSHIP
V:13 In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah\’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;
A. How many couples entered the ark?__________
1. How many men?_____. How many women?_______
2. God started the population of the earth with one couple, Adam And Eve.
3. God restarted the population of the earth with four couples.
B. God does not need a lot of people to accomplish His will.
1. You may find yourself working alone doing God\’s work.
2. But you are never alone, because God is with you.
3. What part of Noah\’s family did not enter the ark?
The relatives of the ___________.
4. To follow God you may have to break fellowship with family members.
5. God did not call everyone to salvation.
6. You have the responsibility to tell everyone about Jesus.
GOD\’S PROVISIONS
V:14 They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.
A. 1. How were the animals sorted in the ark.?
After their own ______________
2. How many animals entered the ark?
B. What animal species was not included in the ark?
1.The ________and every______of the sea.
2. Why do you think they were not included?
GOD\’S DIRECTION AND PROTECTION
V:15-16. And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is
the breath of life.
16 And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the Lord shut him in.\”
A. Why do you think God made mention of two by two and male and female?
1. You need a male and a female animal to ________________
2. How did the animals come to the ark male and female?
____________ commanded the animals to go into the ark Genesis 6:9
B. When God instructs you to do something, He will not leave you helpless.
1. If God can command the winds to be still, He
certainly can command animals to do as He pleases.
2. The animals paired themselves off and came to the ark as
God commanded.
3. All Noah and his sons had to do was to make room for the animals.
C. Who closed the door of the Ark?
1. Why do you think ___________ closed the Ark instead of Noah?
2. Noah was able to hear the noise of his neighbors crying to get in the ark as
the waters rose,
3. When judgment day comes it will be too late to accept Christ as your
personal Savior.
GOD\’S SHELTER
V:17-18 And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.
18 And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.
A, Working For God always pays off.
1. To work for God, you have to be patience and wait on His timing.
2. Noah worked 120 years, before he saw the results of his labors.
B. The ark was water proof with pitch and floated upon the
water.
1. The ark was built according to God\’s design and was strong enough
to carry the weight of all the animals. Some estimate 35 to 40.000
animals.
3, If you ARE obedient to God, you will be ready when trouble comes.
TRUSTING THE LORD
V:19-20 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.
A. How high above the highest mountain peak did the Ark float?____________
GOD\’S JUDGEMENT
V:21-23. And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:
22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.
23 And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
A. The wages of sin is death
1. All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.
2. The flood is just an example of what will happen at the
second coming of Christ.
a. The unrighteous will be judged and place in the eternal hell.
B. It is by God\’s grace that we are saved.
1. Noah and his family developed a relationship with God.
2. It is through our relationship with Jesus that we have salvation
C, Why do you think the sea life was not destroyed?
FAITH AND WORKS
V:24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.
A. From what we know from this text how long was Noah in the
in the ark?__________days
1. God does not prevent storms from coming into our lives.
2. God allows storms in our lives to strengthen our faith.
B. Noah had to rely on God for safety in the ark.
1. Its in the middle of a storm that our faith is tested.
2. Noah had to rely on God to keep the ark floating
during the flood.
3. No structure like the ark had ever been built
a. It is estimated that there may have been 1500
species of animals.
b. The number of animals in the ark could have been 3000 to
7000 are more.
4. Noah had to relay on God\’s design to handle the weight of
all the animals in the ark.
5. We don\’t know what tomorrow holds, but we can
rely on God.
Rev M. Mitchell
Asst Pastor Of Greater Macedonia Baptist Church
5510 West Sam Houston Park Way North
Houston, Texas 77041.
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