Most of society around us are not Christians There is a pending judgment Most people disbelieve in this judgment or at least act as if it is not true Only those who respond to God’s offer of salvation will live Similarities: Noah & Today

This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked with God. Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence. God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. 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 going to destroy both them and the earth.” Genesis 6:9-13

“So make yourself an ark of cypress wood … 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. 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. You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you” … Noah did everything just as God commanded him. Genesis 6:14, 17-19, 22

The Lord said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation … 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.” And Noah did all that the Lord had commanded him … And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood … And after the seven days the floodwaters came on the earth. Genesis 7:1, 4-5, 7, 10

For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth. The waters rose and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water … The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than twenty feet … Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; men and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds of the air were wiped from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark. Genesis 7:17-18, 20, 23

The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days … The water receded steadily from the earth … the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat … Then God said to Noah, “Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives. Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you … so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number.” Genesis 7:24, 8:4b, 15-17

Then Noah built an altar to the Lord … The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done. As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.” Genesis 8:20a, 21-22

Once upon a time the rivers began to flood. The god told two people to get into a ship. He told them to take lots of seed and to take lots of animals. The water of the flood eventually covered the mountains. Finally the flood stopped. Then one of the men, wanting to know if the water had dried up let a dove loose. The dove returned. Later he let loose a hawk which did not return. Then the men left the boat and took the animals and the seeds with them. Southwest Tanzania

“The family of Fuhi,“ was saved from a great flood. This ancient story tells that the entire land was flooded; however, one family survived in a boat. The Chinese consider this man the father of their civilization. This record indicates that Fuhi, his wife, three sons, and three daughters were the only people that escaped the great flood. He and his family were the only people alive on earth, and repopulated the world. China

Humans became proud, Zeus decided he would destroy all humans. Prometheus, the creator of humans, warned his son and wife and put them in a large wooden chest. Rains flooded the world except for peaks of two mountains, Mt. Parnassus and Mt. Olympus (home of the gods). The wooden chest came to rest on Mount Parnassus. At Zeus' instruction they re-populated the earth. Greece

43 references to Noah, including God commanding Noah to preach to the wicked world, Noah complaining to God when his preaching was ridiculed, and specifying that Noah had three sons who boarded the ark with him. Qur’an

Babylonian 1.Take the seed of all creatures aboard the ship 2.I boarded the ship and closed the door. 3.I sent out a dove … the dove went, then came back, no resting-place appeared for it, so it returned. 4.Then I sent out a raven … it was the waters receding, it ate, it flew about to and fro, it did not return. 5.I made libation on the peak of the mountain.

La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles 1.Pools of entrapment for unwary animals 2.Since 1909 over 1 million fossils have been unearthed 3.But … intermingling of skeletal parts? Numerical superiority of water beetles among insect species? Water saturation of wood debris? 4.Scientists now say these animals could likely have been placed there by a catastrophic flood. 5.Same theory can apply to other late Pleistocene fossil sites, where similar anomalies occur.

“Fossil deposition by catastrophic flood seems to be global in scope.” William Weston La Brea Tar Pits: Evidence of a Catastrophic Flood

Lessons from Noah 1.Eventually, God will call you to do something you’ve never done before.

By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family. Hebrews 11:7

Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth and no plant had yet sprung up, for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no one to work the ground, but streams came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground. Genesis 2:5-6

Lessons from Noah 1.Eventually, God will call you to do something you’ve never done before. 2.Obedience is a long-term commitment.

Most of the things God calls you to do will not be hour-long projects.

The Lord said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation … 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.” And Noah did all that the Lord had commanded him … And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood … And after the seven days the floodwaters came on the earth. Genesis 7:1, 4-5, 7, 10

Lessons from Noah 1.Eventually, God will call you to do something you’ve never done before. 2.Obedience is a long-term commitment. 3.When you think you’re done, you may not be done.

Lessons from Noah 1.Eventually, God will call you to do something you’ve never done before. 2.Obedience is a long-term commitment. 3.When you think you’re done, you may not be done. 4.God is merciful.

The Lord said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from childhood.” Genesis 8:21

1.The wickedness of man is very great and his heart is full of evil continually. 2.God’s patience does eventually come to an end and He destroys unrepentant sinners in judgment. 3.Nevertheless, God does not surrender His purpose in creating man. Three Main Themes

Noah did everything just as God commanded him. Genesis 6:22

1.In this story, are you more like Noah or everybody else? 2.Does your obedience have a limit? 3.How much do I understand God’s mercy? Three Questions