TGP Unit 1|Session 4: Enter the Ark
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Introduction:
Q. What is the length of the ark?
One and a half football fields
Four stories high (roughly)
More than a kid’s story
Judgement
Obedience
Imagine Noah steeping out of the Ark
The final judgement
Body:
Context:
Cain and Abel
Humanity spiraled downward
Noah sounds like “bring us relief”
God must judge sin
Read Genesis 6:5-8, 11-13
“the earth” x 8
Widespread wickedness
“The Lord regretted”
Grieving
“Wipe mankind”
Uncreation
Noah finds favor
“… the simultaneous extremes of judgement and salvation”
Q. What does this passage reveal about God’s view of sin? How should this affect your view of sin?
Must judge
But there’s a way out
Seeing sin the way God does
Q. What does it show you about God’s heart that he grieved over making human beings?
God is most concerned with us
Deeply loves us
Q. What’s more appalling: the depth of humanity’s sin or the severity of God’s judgement? Explain.
The common response
1,000 years of opportunities
Ark building process: 120 years
Justice doesn’t diminish mercy
God saves those who fear and obey Him
Read Genesis 6:17-7:1
“Understand”
Emphatic!
A flood
The means to “wipe mankind”
Covenant > Ark
Moses’s basket
Other parallels:
Arks made of wood, covered by bitumen
Delivered from death by water
Preserved a people
God’s covenant
Two of each animal
“Male and female”
“According to their kinds”
Food
“He did everything that God had commanded him”
The obedience of Noah
Q. What is a covenant? What does it reveal about God that He is willing to make a covenant with sinful human beings?
Either conditional or unconditional
Noah’s = unconditional
Promise to send a Savior = unconditional
Christ fulfilled His and our part of the covenant
God’s love and faithfulness
Q. Where in this passage do you see Noah’s obedience? Do you think it was easy? Explain.
6:22
Against culture
Salvation of family
Q. How did Jesus do what Noah couldn’t?
Noah’s drunkeness
Jesus as “the better Noah
Wrap-Up:
Q. How can you walk in obedience this week, even if it feels like everyone around you is choosing another way?
God is calling you to something
Make look radical, but tremendous blessing
Obedience is always worth it