Sep. 21, 2025

Saints & Sinners

Noah

Primary Text: Genesis 6:3-22                      

1)  Great Grandson 

Genesis 5:21-24:  When Enoch had lived 65 years, he became the father of Methuselah….  Altogether, Enoch lived 365 years.  Enoch walked with God; then he was no more, because God took him away.

Genesis 5:28-29:  When Lamech had lived 182 years, he had a son.  He named him Noah and said, “He will comfort us in the labor and painful toil of our hands caused by the ground the Lord has cursed.”  

DQ 1) Who were noteworthy members of Noah’s ancestry?

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2)  Astonishing Wickedness

Genesis 6:3-8:  Then the Lord said, “My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days will be a hundred and twenty years.”…  The Lord saw how great man’s wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time.  The Lord was grieved that he had made man on the earth, and his heart was filled with pain.  So the Lord said, “I will wipe mankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—men and animals, and creatures that move along the ground, and birds of the air—for I am grieved that I have made them.”  But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord. 

DQ 2) Why was God grieved with having made humankind?

DQ 3) Is there anything in your life that grieves God?

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3)  The Ark of Faith

Genesis 6:9-10, 18-22:  This is the account of Noah.  Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked with God.  Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth….  “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.  You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you….  You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them.”  Noah did everything just as God commanded him.

Hebrews 11:7:  By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family.  By his faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.  

DQ 4) What are the most significant aspects of the character of Noah?

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4)  Noahic Covenant

Genesis 8:18-21:  So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives.  All the animals and all the creatures… came out of the ark, one kind after another.  Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it.  The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from childhood.  And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done. 

Genesis 9:8-13:  Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him: “I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you and with every living creature that was with you….  I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.”  And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come: I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth.” 

DQ 5) What were the terms of the Noahic Covenant?  Was it unilateral, bilateral, or multilateral in nature?

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5)  The Days of Noah

1 Peter 3:18-21:  For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God.  He was put to death in the body but made alive by the Spirit, through whom also he went and preached to the spirits in prison who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built.  In it only a few people, eight in all, were saved through water, and this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also.

2 Peter 2:4-9:  For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them into gloomy dungeons to be held for judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others… if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from trials and to hold the unrighteous for the day of judgment, while continuing their punishment.  

DQ 6) What do New Testament scriptures tell us about Noah and the ark?  

DQ 7) Do you need God to rescue you from a trial?

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