Are You on the Boat? The Judgment of Sin & The Way of Salvation

Setting the Stage for the Flood Genesis 1-2 The Characteristics of Man in the garden: Perfect & without sin. Created to worship & serve God. Given the power to choose. Genesis 3 The Result of Man’s Choice : Nature corrupted with sin Physical bodies began to decay & die God’s Judgment against Sin: Deut.32:4 “He is the Rock, His work is perfect: for all His ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is He.”

The Fall to the Flood Gen.6:3 God issued a proclamation ? ? ? ? ? ?

The Judgment of Sin A Proclamation : Genesis 6:3 “And the Lord said, my spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.” Man is Flesh—Nature is now totally given over to sin. Majority of the world had begun to serve Satan Genesis 6:5 “And God saw the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.” Gen.6:6-7 “And it repented (grieved) the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth (grieved) me that I have made them.” Gen.6:8,14,17 “But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.” “Make thee an ark of gopher wood….” “And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.”

When we sin the judgment is always punishment. A price must be paid for our sins.

The Longsuffering of God: 2Pet.3:9 “The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.” 1Pet.3:20 “Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing…” 2Pet.2:5 “And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;”

The Way of Salvation Get on the Boat! The Ark would bring salvation from the destruction of the flood. To anyone who would hearken to God’s longsuffering and repent of their sins. This would involve Getting on the Boat !

Is there a boat for us? Like people before the flood, we sin. Rom.3:9-10 “…for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin; As it is written, There is none righteous, no not one:” Every person that has ever set foot on the earth has made the decision to sin.

The Judgment of Sin Rom.2:2,6,8-9 “But we are sure that the Judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things; Who will render to every man according to his deeds; But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil….” Demands Vengeance

The Way of Salvation Rom.3:23 “For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.” John3:17 “For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.” Rom.3:24-25 “Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood,….” Redemption--releasing one from guilt upon receipt of a ransom. Which makes complete satisfaction for the offences committed. Propitiation—an atoning victim making complete satisfaction for sin. A covering for sin by means of a sacrifice.

Are You on the Boat?