Genesis 6: Noah the man who walked with God in the midst of a wicked world

I think each person here would agree the our planet is a complicated and wicked mess.

Things just don’t seem right.

How are we to even live in this wicked world? What does that look like? I believe a good example that we can follow is Noah.

Look what the Bible has to say about this.

Romans 15:4

We can learn from the life of Noah

The damaged planet

Genesis 6:5 “5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.”

As people spread across the earth they just got worse and worse

God calls them wicked.

Wickedness: A heart and mind removed from God and his desires

Psalm 10:4

They had wicked desires

Genesis 6:5

A their imaginations were evil. Their hearts and minds wicked.

Their thoughts were deemed wicked

They had wicked doings

Genesis 6:5, Genesis 6:11

A wicked mind will lead to a wicked man

Mark 7 21-22

Their wickedness brought destruction

Genesis 6:11

Their sin was against God

Their sin hurt their fellow human

sin is selfish

God’s determined plan

Their wickedness was an affront to God. Let’s see his response

God saw their wickedness

Gen 6:5

God sees ALL sin

God was saddened by their wickedness

Genesis 6:6

Wickedness hurts the heart of God

Ephesians 4:30

God had to judge their wickedness

Genesis 6:7

God is his holiness and justice must judge wickedness

Psalm 37:38

Noah the delivered person

Noah found Grace!

(Genesis 6:8)

Simply because he trusted God!

He trusted God’s words

He trusted God promises

He trusted God’s way to deliver him

Trusting God is how one is saved from judgement

Eph 2:8-9

Noah followed God

Genesis 6:22

He trusted and obeyed God. He was walking with him

Heb 10:22

Noah worshipped God

After God’s miraculous delivery Noah worshipped God!

Genesis 8:20

the delivered worship!

1 Peter 2:9

Our day is compared to Noah’s time by Jesus!

Matthew 24:37–39 KJV 1900

37 But as the days of Noe 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.

We too live in a fallen world that is ate up with sin

To be delivered from this world and judgment we too must trust God and his way to save us

Judgement is coming one day for the world and those that are wicked.

Have we trusted God?

Are we warning others?