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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