God’s Timeline – Part 14
Noah
did Everything God Commanded Him
Pastor Bruce A. Shields
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SERMON INTRODUCTION
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Creation Week
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Adam, Eve, and the Fall
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Cain and Abel
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Evil Fills the World
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NOW Noah Did All God
Commanded Him
From the time of Seth’s
birth (Genesis 5:3 tells us Adam was 130), to the birth of Noah
was 1,056 years. The Flood took place when Noah was 600 years old, making it
1,656 years from the birth of Seth to the Flood.
Genesis 5 gives us the lineage
from Adam’s family line. Adam to Noah.
Now we reach Genesis 6 and the description of sin, once more, and
the discipline (correction) God gives.
SCRIPTURE READING
Genesis 6:9-22
“This is the account of Noah and his family.
Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his
time, and he walked faithfully with God. 10 Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and
Japheth.
11 Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of
violence. 12 God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on
earth had corrupted their ways.
13 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 surely
going to destroy both them and the earth. 14 So make yourself an ark of cypress
wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out.
15 This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be three
hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high. 16 Make a roof
for it, leaving below the roof an opening one cubit high all around. Put a door
in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks. 17 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.
18 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. 19
You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to
keep them alive with you. 20 Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal
and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to
be kept alive. 21 You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and
store it away as food for you and for them.”
22 Noah did everything just as God commanded him.”
I.
A
RIGHTEOUS MAN RECEIVES GODS FAVOR
a. Noah was a righteous man
i.
Blameless among the
people of his time (comparatively speaking)
ii.
Walked faithfully with
God
b. Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth
i.
Shem – the middle.
Probably listed first because it was from his bloodline Jesus Christ came.
ii.
Ham – the youngest.
iii.
Japheth – the oldest.
iv.
We can determine their
order by Genesis
9:24; 10:21
c. God does not say here that the sons or wives are
righteous
i.
But He doesn’t say they
are not either
ii.
It is logical to
assume they were decent enough before the flood, and probably all helped in
constructing the ark
iii.
However, we will find
in Genesis 9:20-27 all that changes when Noah becomes drunk, and Ham
was alone with his father before going to tell his brothers.
iv.
There are two views to
take with this event which caused ham to be cursed.
1.
There are scholars who
believe more may have happened than seeing his father naked, which would bring
punishment.
2.
Seeing and looking are
two different things, and perhaps the looking is what brought punishment.
3.
We see the brothers
enter with coverings and entered backward to cover their father.
4.
Whatever the cause, we
will cover the punishments at a later time.
II.
OBEDIENCE
IS KEY TO PLEASING GOD
a. Obedience is what makes us righteous in God’s
sight
i.
The takeaway here is
God desires obedience.
ii.
He rewarded it in the
Garden
iii.
He rewarded it outside
the Garden
iv.
He is rewarding 1600
years later
v.
1 Samuel
15:22 “Samuel replied: "Does
the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the
LORD? To obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed is better than the fat of
rams.”
vi.
Proverbs
21:3 “To do righteousness and
justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.”
vii.
John
14:15 “If you love me, you will
keep my commandments.”
viii.
1 John
2:4 “Whoever says “I know him”
but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him,”
b. The new command to Noah
i.
God says, “the
earth is corrupt and full of violence. ALL the people of the earth are corrupt
in their ways”
1. All the people are referring to the corrupt people,
because obviously, Noah is not corrupt here.
2. So, when God explains his plan to Noah, repeating
“ALL” the people, he is referring to the corrupted ones. Which still does not
tell us if Noah’s wife, sons, and daughters-in-law were corrupt or not.
3. We can assume either stand at this point.
a.
Either they were NOT
corrupt at this point
b.
They were corrupt but
God allowed them to live to repopulate the new earth
c. God lets Noah in on the plan
i.
God says to Noah, “I
am going to put an end to ALL (corrupt) people, the earth is filled with
violence because of THEM (corrupt). I am going to destroy the earth and THEM
(corrupt).”
ii.
God did not have to
tell Noah His plan
iii.
I believe He did
because when you correct or discipline, it is to change a direction or path. It
would do no good to correct or discipline and not explain WHY.
iv.
This Flood would be
remembered forever, and the story told and retold about disobedience to God and
the coming punishment, Judgment Day.
v.
Chinese is the oldest
written language.
1.
They use symbols for
words, and combinations of symbols to create new words.
2.
There are MANY
documents referring to the great flood in their ancient texts, including the
following.
a.
The symbol for boat = the symbols for vessel + 8 + people
b.
The symbol for desire/covet
= woman + trees
c.
The symbol for No, not, negative = serpent + trees
d.
The symbol for restrain
= mouth (eating) + tree
e.
The symbol for righteous
= hand + lance = me & me + sheep = righteous
f.
The symbol for beautiful
= noble person + lamb = beautiful
g.
The symbol for FLOOD =
water + total & together + earth + 8
3.
Here is the reference
-> https://creation.com/images/pdfs/tj/j19_2/j19_2_96-108.pdf
III.
GOD
ESTABLISHES THE COVENANTS, NOT MAN
a. I will establish a covenant with you
i.
The first covenant in
the garden, to be obeyed outside the garden
ii.
Most did not, and were
corrupt without covering
iii.
Now a new covenant
with Noah
b. A contract with instructions and a
reward/disciple
i.
Covenants have
protection for obedience, and correction/discipline or punishment for disobedience.
ii.
This covenant would
protect Noah and his family, along with animals to repopulate the new earth.
(he saved animals too because creation was over. Everything that would be made
was made during the week of creation)
iii.
As long as they obeyed
the command, they would receive the blessings, benefits, and protection from the
coming punishment.
iv.
SIDE NOTE – the
scriptures say the animals will “come to you,” Noah and his family did not have
to gather them up.
c. How did Noah respond?
i.
Just as a righteous
man who walked with God should
22 Noah did everything just
as God commanded him.
CONCLUSION –
Matthew 24:37-39
“37 But as the days of
Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days
that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving
in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the
flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man
be.”
Next week we will read about Noah and the Flood
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