Noah Part 1

Genesis 6: 5 ~ 9

Noah Video # 1 the situation

Have you ever wondered what the difference is between the time in which we live and when Noah lived?  Throughout history violence and wickedness have always been.  Yet it has not been everywhere at once. Today as in the time of Noah it is throughout the entire world.  There is no safe place.

1. God focuses on that which is good.

   a. we are told to put on the mind of Christ

   b. thinking like God is Philippians 4 : 8

   c. nothing hid from God, He doesn’t dwell on evil Ps.5:4

   d. Jeremiah 19:5 does not consider depths of depravity

2. God looks on actions and motives

   a. nothing hid from God, knows all we do and think

   b. God was looking for good within found none

   c. grieved because mankind whom He loved would be separated from Him forever because of sin

   d. Ezekiel 33: 11 no pleasure in death of wicked

3. things people were doing Luke 17:26 ~ 37

   a. living their lives day by day not considering God

   b. what’s in it for me, exalt self no matter who it hurts

   c. our society the same, God not welcome in public life

   d. can be any religion except Christianity or Jew

4. man’s rejection of God hurt Him

   a. God is longsuffering, II Peter 3:9 no one to perish

   b. went straight to His heart, the essence of who He is

   c. God does not push people away people leave God

   c. God wanted to relieve the pain within Him

5. there must be a change

   a. God will start over, cleansing the earth w/ water

   b. The evil will be washed away, vs. 8 but Noah

   d. God will start over again cleansing w/ fire

It was not anger that caused God to send the flood.  It was love. God loved all of creation, especially us.  God will end evil and wickedness one day.  Not because He is mean but because He loves you and wants no one to perish.  Noah was different in a world of evil. We are to be different in our world of evil. God knows how to save the righteous while the wicked perish.  Look at God not the situation.