Lessons from Legends: Noah – Standing strong in a fallen world

Pastor Bryan – Lessons from Legends

NOAH – STANDING STRONG IN A FALLEN WORLD

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us.

Hebrews 12:1

⁹ This is the account of Noah and his family. Noah was a righteous man, the only blameless person living on earth at the time, and he walked in close fellowship with God. ¹⁰ Noah was the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

¹¹ Now God saw that the earth had become corrupt and was filled with violence.¹² God observed all this corruption in the world, for everyone on earth was corrupt.¹³ So God said to Noah, “I have decided to destroy all living creatures, for they have filled the earth with violence. Yes, I will wipe them all out along with the earth!”

Genesis 6:9-13

³ Most importantly, I want to remind you that in the last days scoffers will come, mocking the truth and following their own desires. ⁴ They will say, “What happened to the promise that Jesus is coming again? From before the times of our ancestors, everything has remained the same since the world was first created.”

⁵ They deliberately forget that God made the heavens long ago by the word of his command, and he brought the earth out from the water and surrounded it with water.⁶ Then he used the water to destroy the ancient world with a mighty flood.

II Peter 3:3-6

IN THE LAST DAYS AS IT WAS IN THE EARLY DAYS

• People will be with life.

³⁷ “When the Son of Man returns, it will be like it was in Noah’s day. ³⁸ In those days before the flood, the people were enjoying banquets and parties and weddings right up to the time Noah entered his boat. ³⁹ People didn’t realize what was going to happen until the flood came and swept them all away. That is the way it will be when the Son of Man comes.”

Matthew 24:37-39

• People will forget .

¹² Sin will be rampant everywhere, and the love of many will grow cold.

Matthew 24:12

• People will not be .

⁴⁰ “Two men will be working together in the field; one will be taken, the other left.⁴¹ Two women will be grinding flour at the mill; one will be taken, the other left. ⁴² So you, too, must keep watch! For you don’t know what day your Lord is coming.”

Matthew 24:40-42

⁵ The Lord observed the extent of human wickedness on the earth, and he saw that everything they thought or imagined was consistently and totally evil. ⁶ So the Lord was sorry he had ever made them and put them on the earth. It broke his heart. ⁷ And the Lord said, “I will wipe this human race I have created from the face of the earth. Yes, and I will destroy every living thing—all the people, the large animals, the small animals that scurry along the ground, and even the birds of the sky. I am sorry I ever made them.” ⁸ But Noah found favor with the Lord.

Genesis 6:5-8

BIG IDEA: It only takes one to .

MAKING A DIFFERENCE

1. You can make a difference for your .

¹ When everything was ready, the Lord said to Noah, “Go into the boat with all your family, for among all the people of the earth, I can see that you alone are righteous.”

Genesis 7:1

³¹ They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved, along with everyone in your household.”

Acts 16:31

        2. You can make a difference for .

³⁶ …for after David had done the will of God in his own generation, he died and was buried with his ancestors, and his body decayed.

Acts 13:36

3. You can make a difference for .

³⁰ “I looked for someone who might rebuild the wall of righteousness that guards the land. I searched for someone to stand in the gap in the wall so I wouldn’t have to destroy the land, but I found no one.”

Ezekiel 22:30

WE NEED MORE NOAH FAITH

1. Faith that .

⁸ But Noah found favor with the Lord.

Genesis 6:8

        2. Faith that .

¹³ So God said to Noah…

Genesis 6:13

        3. Faith that .

²² So Noah did everything exactly as God had commanded him.

Genesis 6:22

        4. Faith that .

⁵ And God did not spare the ancient world—except for Noah and the seven others in his family. Noah warned the world of God’s righteous judgment. So God protected Noah when he destroyed the world of ungodly people with a vast flood.

II Peter 2:5

        5. Faith that brings

⁷ It was by faith that Noah built a large boat to save his family from the flood. He obeyed God, who warned him about things that had never happened before. By his faith Noah condemned the rest of the world, and he received the righteousness that comes by faith.

Hebrews 11:7

⁶ Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.”

John 14:6