Noah-Judgement Against Sin

God will judge sin, but will save his people from that judgement.

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God’s holy anger against sin

read Gen 6:5-8

God is righteously angry against sin. He must judge sin, his holy character requires it.

Do we have any leftover people here? Those who are willing to enjoy a meal a second time around? I don’t prefer it, but I also don’t mind it. But the chance is often taken from me. Kristen will just throw stuff away. To be fair, she doesn’t do it nearly as much as she used to, but stuff that I had plans to eat and was perfectly good, she would just chunk in the trash…

I would get angry! Rightly angry! Why are you throwing away my food?! It is good for me to be angry!…

It is right, even good, for God to be angry about sin, to bring judgement on sin. His judgement is slow because He is gracious. In talking about Christ’s return to judge sin, Peter says…

2 Peter 3:9 ESV

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

If you have not trusted God in faith, you will be on the wrong side of this judgement when it comes!

If you have, you too should be angry about sin, upset over sin! First and foremost, your own sin!

God is immutable, unchanging in his character and purposes.

1 Samuel 15:29 ESV

And also the Glory of Israel will not lie or have regret, for he is not a man, that he should have regret.”

Numbers 23:19 ESV

God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?

So what does it mean, how do we understand it?

Words have a range of meaning, think about saying “you hurt me”. Or the word bear…

In Scripture, human qualities are sometimes used to describe God to help us understand.

God is in pain, like a parent.

It’s not that He wishes He didn’t create humans or that he made a mistake, it’s that it hurts Him to see what humanity has done.

So God is not only rightly angry about sin, but his heart is broken over sin because He loves his creation. So He has determined that there will be a remnant saved for himself.

God saves his people

read Gen 6:13-14

Those who place their faith in God will be saved from his judgement against sin.

Put your faith and trust in God and believe and follow Him…

read Gen 6:22

Noah’s belief led to action. That’s what real belief does…

If I told you that there was a million dollars underneath that can back there, there’s not, but if I told you there was and you believed me, you’d be running up here to get it…

Hebrews 11:7 ESV

By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

If you say that you have faith in God but your life hasn’t changed any since the day you put your faith in Him, the Bible has a warning…

James 2:17 ESV

So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

Has your faith changed your life? Has it changed the way you live? That’s what true faith does! It also receives a promise…

God’s covenant promise

God makes a covenant with the people He has saved, promising blessing moving forward.

read Gen 9:15-17

This whole story looks forward to a new but similar judgement, salvation, and covenant, all realized in Jesus.

Hebrews 9:15 ESV

Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.

Sin will be judged and done away with, God’s people will be saved to enjoy the new creation forever, all to the glory of God!

Revelation 20:12-21:3

God’s people are saved by faith…

You have to ask yourself, as Phillip Bethancourt puts it, “Am I in the boat?”…