Noah: Waters of Judgment, Covenant of Hope

W. Kyle Miller

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Introduction

The great flood and the story of Noah is one of the most well-known accounts, both inside and outside the church.

Several movies have been made, including one big-budget version with Hollywood-esque liberties

Real-life theme part in Kentucky

Every civilization has a great flood story. While not accepted by scientific community, there is too-much evidence to nullify

Sin grieves God’s heart

As powerful and well-known as this story is, it revolves around the sinfulness of man

Sin strikes at the very heart of God, grieving him…as it should grieve us

Genesis 6:5–7 “5 The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6 And the Lord regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart. 7 So the Lord said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them.””

Disobeying God has real-world consequences

At this point in the Bible, there was not many commands recorded as given by God to mankind but that which was spoken in the Garden

Corrupt x 3 — the term corrupt means to be ruined or to go to ruin

violence — i.e., a strong, fierce, destructive force resulting in acts that maim, destroy, kill, often implying a lawlessness, terror, and lack of moral restraint — Dictionary of Biblical Languages, James Swanson

Genesis 6:11–13 “11 Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight, and the earth was filled with violence. 12 And God saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth. 13 And God said to Noah, “I have determined to make an end of all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth.”

There’s hope in calamity

“I will destroy them” is God’s final words in verse 13, but hope is just around the corner

Genesis 6:14–18 “14 Make yourself an ark of gopher wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and out with pitch. 15 This is how you are to make it: the length of the ark 300 cubits, its breadth 50 cubits, and its height 30 cubits. 16 Make a roof for the ark, and finish it to a cubit above, and set the door of the ark in its side. Make it with lower, second, and third decks. 17 For behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life under heaven. Everything that is on the earth shall die. 18 But I will establish my covenant with you, and you shall come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.”

We can trust even in confusion

Rains, much less floods, were unknown in the world at this point. The land was still watered by the mist that provided the necessary moisture (Gen 2:5-6), so the concept of rain—in the amount that was going to happen—seem preposterous

Noah built a boat, likely not an unknown thought. But, to build a massive one…on dry ground…for 100 years once again seem preposterous

No one believed him; no one helped him save his own family. And yet he still trusted God

Genesis 5:32 “32 After Noah was 500 years old, Noah fathered Shem, Ham, and Japheth.”

Genesis 7:6 “6 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came upon the earth.”

God loves new beginnings

After the flood waters subsided, God gave man a new beginning with nearly the same commands from Eden.

Genesis 8:20–22 “20 Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21 And when the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, the Lord said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man’s heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done. 22 While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.””

Genesis 9:1–17 “1 And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. 2 The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and upon every bird of the heavens, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea. Into your hand they are delivered. 3 Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything. 4 But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood. 5 And for your lifeblood I will require a reckoning: from every beast I will require it and from man. From his fellow man I will require a reckoning for the life of man. 6 “Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image. 7 And you, be fruitful and multiply, increase greatly on the earth and multiply in it.” 8 Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him, 9 “Behold, I establish my covenant with you and your offspring after you, 10 and with every…”

Conclusion

Just as sin grieved God’s heart then, it grieves his heart now

Disobeying God brings real consequences into our lives

In all calamity that comes our way, there is always hope

We can trust God in our confusion, for he is never confused

God is a God of new beginnings

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