MSBS - Covenant of Noah - Logos Sermons

Memory Verse for this week: “Whoever believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. Whoever does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne concerning his Son.”

Series Theme: The Bible tells one big story, God’s redemptive plan for His people and His glory.

Key Point: God withholds punishment in His mercy and redeems those He loves.

What did we talk about last week?

Ice breaker question: Think about the game “telephone” that we just played. Has there ever been a time where you’ve been misunderstood? What was that like?

What is this series about?

Genesis 6:5–8 ESV

The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the Lord regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart. So the Lord said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them.” But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.

READ:

God’s Character

The Holiness of God

The Wickedness of Man

READ: The Lord saw the wickedness of man was great on the earth.

God Punishes The Wicked

He was set to blot out man and all living creatures

God flooded the Earth, wiping out all creates except what was on the Ark

Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord

God had mercy => Define Mercy

After the flood subsided, God made a covenant with Noah and his offspring

Define: covenant

How can God blot out every living thing?

How did Noah find favor with God?

Genesis 6:5–8 ESV

The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the Lord regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart. So the Lord said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them.” But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.

What is the significance of the covenant with Noah?

How does the covenant with Noah relate to other Biblical covenants?

How does this apply to my life?

Justice

Grace

Who remembers what we are studying this semester? => Story of Redemption

What does “redemption” mean? (Redemption means to be saved from sin, and is the action of being bought back.)

Why must sin be punished?

Isn’t God being harsh?

What is the punishment for sin?

What does “redemption” mean? => to be saved from sin, and is the action of being bought back.

Noah’s righteousness and blamelessness in comparison to the people of his time.

What does “redemption” mean? (Redemption means to be saved from sin, and is the action of being bought back.)

It’s like a salvage operation -> involved retrieving that which is valuable from the wreckage.

This is what God has done for each of us. => attributed value => Jesus value attributed to us.

Is like Robinson Crusoe salvaging parts and using them like they are not intended.

Parallel with the creation - is like a new creation

Luke 17:27 ESV

They were eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.

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.

1 Peter 3:20 ESV

because they formerly did not obey, when God’s patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through water.

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2 Peter 2:5 ESV

if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;

2 Peter 3:3–7 ESV

knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires. They will say, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.” For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God, and that by means of these the world that then existed was deluged with water and perished. But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.

Application

Picture of God that emerges from the Flood narrative:

What is the story of redemption? (The Story of Redemption is the story of the Bible...which is how God has bought His people back from Satan, sin, and death by sending His Son to die in our place. See for more discussion.)

What is the story of redemption? => the story of the Bible...which is how God has bought His people back from Satan, sin, and death by sending His Son to die in our place. See for more discussion.

God is holy - set apart - and only those who are perfect can come before him.

We are sinners - the punishment we deserve is death.

Why are we studying the Story of Redemption? (We are studying the story of redemption in order to understand how God has redeemed us and given us true life in Him. We want to recognize that the Bible is one big story and how it all connected together.)

Why are we studying the Story of Redemption? => in order to understand how God has redeemed us and given us true life in Him. We want to recognize that the Bible is one big story and how it all connected together.)Read . (Or read sections of this and ask students to summarize it.)

God has mercy on his - offering redemption by grace through faith in his son Jesus Christ.

Read . (Or read sections of this and ask students to summarize it.)

This is a free give - it’s not based on anything we’ve done or will do.

Read . (Or read sections of this and ask students to summarize it.)

We place our faith in Jesus Christ as our savior.

Main Passage:

Restate in your own words why God saved Noah and his family. (Noah was righteous and walked with God, but God showed mercy on Noah and His family because of who He is. Noah was still a sinner.)

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Key Point: God withholds punishment in His mercy and redeems those He loves.

Plano Men’s Bible Study - Genesis

Key Point: God withholds punishment in His mercy and redeems those He loves.

How does what you heard about sin in the lesson change the way you think about sin?

Memory Verse for this week: “Whoever believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. Whoever does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne concerning his Son.”

NIV Application Commentary - Genesis

Using your own words, restate what sin is and why God hates it.

Main Passage:

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Christ of the Covenants - O. Palmer Robertson

Why did God destroy His creation with the flood in order to redeem it (put it back to right)?

Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. And when the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, the LORD said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man's heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done. While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.”

Key Point: God withholds punishment in His mercy and redeems those He loves.

Progressive Dispensationalism - Blasing & Bock

Supporting Passages:

Series Theme: The Bible tells one big story, God’s redemptive plan for His people and His glory.

The Bible talks about God’s wrath. How does God’s wrath in the flood actually serve to illustrate His love for His people? (God has wrath because He cannot be in the presence of sin. The punishment for sin is death. But God also poured out His mercy in choosing to save Noah.)

Stars, Sand, & Dust - A Seminar with Don

What do you take away from the flood narrative?

Open in Prayer.

Exploring the Old Testament

What do you learn about God? What do you learn about yourself?

Ice breaker question: Think about the game “telephone” that we just played. Has there ever been a time where you’ve been misunderstood? What was that like?

Review Previous Weeks and/or Large Group Lesson:

Read .

Somewhere it references that the people were warned for 120 years about the coming destruction. Where can I find this in the Bible?

What does “redemption” mean? (Redemption means to be saved from sin, and is the action of being bought back.)

Large Group Overview: Continuing on in the second week of God’s Story of Redemption, we’ll spend time examining sin’s thorough corruption of man and God’s response to this thorough corruption through the great flood. Finally, we’ll take a look at God the Son on the throne in , remembering His covenant with Noah and remembering His covenant with all people.

How is participating in baptism similar to what happened with Noah and the flood?

Did the people harass Noah and his family for obeying God? I remember this being part of the Sunday School lesson.

What is the story of redemption? (The Story of Redemption is the story of the Bible...which is how God has bought His people back from Satan, sin, and death by sending His Son to die in our place. See for more discussion.)

How did God plan to deal with our sin once-for-all?

Review and Summarize the Flood Narrative ().

How does the NT use references to the Flood?

Why are we studying the Story of Redemption? (We are studying the story of redemption in order to understand how God has redeemed us and given us true life in Him. We want to recognize that the Bible is one big story and how it all connected together.)

How did Christ’s death bring us to God? (Christ took all of the wrath and punishment that we deserve, and gave us His righteousness instead.)

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What was said in large group that was confusing?

Bigger Picture and Gospel Themes:

Large Group Overview: Continuing on in the second week of God’s Story of Redemption, we’ll spend time examining sin’s thorough corruption of man and God’s response to this thorough corruption through the great flood. Finally, we’ll take a look at God the Son on the throne in , remembering His covenant with Noah and remembering His covenant with all people.

Read . (Or read sections of this and ask students to summarize it.)

Large Group Overview: Continuing on in the second week of God’s Story of Redemption, we’ll spend time examining sin’s thorough corruption of man and God’s response to this thorough corruption through the great flood. Finally, we’ll take a look at God the Son on the throne in , remembering His covenant with Noah and remembering His covenant with all people.

Covenants: What covenant is seen in this week’s lesson? Why is it important?

Noahic Covenant - God promises not to destroy his creation by flood again and reorders creation.

Why is this passage important?

What do we want them to know? (Head)

Restate in your own words why God saved Noah and his family. (Noah was righteous and walked with God, but God showed mercy on Noah and His family because of who He is. Noah was still a sinner.)

Dwelling: How does this week’s lesson show that God desires to dwell with His people and wants a relationship with us? (This is a great question to ask and get students who don’t know the Lord to see that He wants them to know Him personally.)

Sin has thoroughly corrupted all people.

How does what you heard about sin in the lesson change the way you think about sin?

Noah receiving grace from the Lord during wicked and evil days reveals God’s desire to be in relationship with his creation. Just as God showed mercy to Noah before the coming of the flood, he also shows mercy to us.

Sin isn’t limited to actions that we commit – it describes the inclination of our hearts.

The story of the Flood is not a story about God saving animals; it is story about God’s righteous wrath poured out deserving sinners.

Using your own words, restate what sin is and why God hates it.

Jesus: How does this week’s lesson point to Jesus? Why is that important?

God didn’t save Noah because he was a good man, God saved Noah because Noah received grace and mercy from Him ().

Why did God destroy His creation with the flood in order to redeem it (put it back to right)?

God dealt with the problem of sin by sending Jesus as a sacrifice for sin once-for-all .

Redemption: How does this week’s lesson demonstrate that God is seeking redemption for His people?

What do we want them to believe? (Heart)

The Bible talks about God’s wrath. How does God’s wrath in the flood actually serve to illustrate His love for His people? (God has wrath because He cannot be in the presence of sin. The punishment for sin is death. But God also poured out His mercy in choosing to save Noah.)

What do you take away from the flood narrative?

God redeems his creation and mankind by sending the flood upon his creation. This was not just a reordering of creation, but rescuing Noah from the coming redemption

The story of the Flood is not primarily a story about God’s reordering of the world after the Fall, but a story of large-scale redemption.

What do you learn about God? What do you learn about yourself?

Just as God saved Noah in his mercy so also has saves His children who love and trust Him.

Challenge Questions:

Have you turned to Jesus as your Savior, allowing Him to take the wrath and punishment you deserve for your sins? If not, what is holding you back?

Read .

How is participating in baptism similar to what happened with Noah and the flood?

Reflect on their sinfulness and its effect on their feelings, motivations and actions.

Prayer: Praise God for His perfect justice and mercy. Praise Him for sending Jesus to take the wrath and punishment we deserve. Confess your sin to God, asking for Him to help you love and trust Him. Thank Him for His mercy on sinners, who do not deserve to have eternal life with Him.

How did God plan to deal with our sin once-for-all?

Recognize and admit their own sinfulness, and turn to Jesus for true life.

Repent and believe in the gospel.

How did Christ’s death bring us to God? (Christ took all of the wrath and punishment that we deserve, and gave us His righteousness instead.)

Organize and Plan Your Lesson.

Bigger Picture and Gospel Themes:

Covenants: What covenant is seen in this week’s lesson? Why is it important?

Intro: The Bible is the story of God and his redemption. tells us about this story. (Read ) We are all sinners and have turned from God. Yet God loved us so much that He didn’t leave us in our sin but rescued us by sending His one and only Son. We are studying this story in depth this semester in order to see the way God has redeemed us and given us true life in Him.

[This is the same paragraph for each week.] The Bible is from God’s true word. It is from God and about God. It tells one big story, God’s redemptive plan for His people and His glory. Redemption is a word that means being saved from sin, and is the action of being bought back. The Bible tells us the story of how God has bought us back from Satan, sin, and death. tells us about this story. (Read ) We are all sinners and have turned from God. Yet God loved us so much that He didn’t leave us in our sin but rescued us by sending His one and only Son. We are studying this story in depth this semester in order to see the way God has redeemed us and given us true life in Him.

Noahic Covenant - God promises not to destroy his creation by flood again and reorders creation.

Dwelling: How does this week’s lesson show that God desires to dwell with His people and wants a relationship with us? (This is a great question to ask and get students who don’t know the Lord to see that He wants them to know Him personally.)

Reach Back: Take students back to the Garden of Eden. God created Adam and Eve, and everything God made was good. They enjoyed a relationship with one another and an unhindered relationship with God. Imagine: Adam and Eve had none of the cares or troubles of the world and were fully known by the Lord. God’s creation was beautiful and Adam and Eve enjoyed it to its fullest extent. They were given one ‘positive’ law: do not eat the fruit from the Tree of Life. When Adam and Eve ate of the tree, they recognized their nakedness, and sin entered the world. In Adam’s refusal to submit to the authority of God, he also refused to really know God. In this, all of humankind was cursed with sin ().

Though Adam and Eve disobeyed God, God gave them clothing to hide their nakedness. God laid out His plan for mankind’s redemption at the very beginning, promising to crush the serpent through the coming of Christ (). It was God’s plan from the very beginning to redeem his people – Adam and Eve’s sin did not catch Him by surprise. Adam and Eve deserved punishment for their disobedience, yet God showed them mercy because of His kindness. (Key Point)

Noah receiving grace from the Lord during wicked and evil days reveals God’s desire to be in relationship with his creation. Just as God showed mercy to Noah before the coming of the flood, he also shows mercy to us.

Body:

Jesus: How does this week’s lesson point to Jesus? Why is that important?

God dealt with the problem of sin by sending Jesus as a sacrifice for sin once-for-all .

(Activity) Play the game of “telephone” with your students. Start with a newspaper headline or a phrase and have each student “pass” the phrase by whispering it to the student next to them. The final student to hear the phrase will say the phrase out loud - it will likely sound very different than the original phrase!

Redemption: How does this week’s lesson demonstrate that God is seeking redemption for His people?

The story of Noah and God’s judgment on the earth is a little bit like this: the message has, at times, been twisted to say something different than what it’s actually about. The story of Noah isn’t just about how God saved the animals. It isn’t about Noah’s obedience. It’s about God’s mercy.

Many years passed between the life of Adam and the life of Noah. As time passed:

God redeems his creation and mankind by sending the flood upon his creation. This was not just a reordering of creation, but rescuing Noah from the coming redemption

Challenge Questions:

Read “The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.”

Have you turned to Jesus as your Savior, allowing Him to take the wrath and punishment you deserve for your sins? If not, what is holding you back?

God decides to flood the earth, destroying his creation and all who live in it. The scriptures say that God was “sorry that he had made man” and that it “grieved Him to the heart” (). Simply, God hates sin. He’ll have no part of it – He hates it so much that He sought to undo what we created by sending a great flood.

Prayer: Praise God for His perfect justice and mercy. Praise Him for sending Jesus to take the wrath and punishment we deserve. Confess your sin to God, asking for Him to help you love and trust Him. Thank Him for His mercy on sinners, who do not deserve to have eternal life with Him.

How do we know that God hates sin? God hates sin because He is holy (). Sin has no place in His nature. God hates sin because it separates us from Him () – it was what separated Adam and Eve from Him in the Garden when they attempted to hide from Him in their shame (). God hates sin because He loves His own glory. God intended all of creation to testify to His glory, and because His creation became so ‘corrupted’ by ‘violence’ () He saw fit to destroy it, restore order and redeem it.

The scriptures say that though God was determined to destroy and begin his creation anew, that “Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord” (). Noah’s rescue from the coming Flood was not because of any abilities he had or good thing he had done, but it was because he trusted God in an age when all had turned aside from Him. The favor that Noah found came from God’s grace. Noah was just as sinful as those who would later be destroyed by the flood, but he trusted in the Lord’s mercy and kindness. This is how we can distinguish Noah from others who were wiped out by the flood: his faith in God’s kindness and mercy toward he and his family.

Read the whole flood narrative ().

When God began the world again, it wasn’t simply a reordering of creation or an isolated revelation of his divine power. God didn’t reveal His wrath purposelessly. By destroying the world with the flood and rescuing of Noah and his family, God was redeeming His creation and all of humankind.

Finally, God seals His covenant with the sign of a rainbow, promising to never to destroy his creation with a flood ever again.

Though our sin is deep, remember that God has dealt with it through Jesus once and for all. There’s a hint of what’s to come in .

Read “Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.”

God’s covenant with Noah comes after Noah’s sacrifice to him. This is a foreshadowing of what God will do to find a remedy for sin in another, greater sacrifice – Jesus. The final remedy for sin is Jesus Christ.

Read “For then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.”

The promise that God made to Noah finds it’s yes and amen in the Son. The clearest picture of this is in . The Son is seated on His throne, surrounded by a rainbow. As God is mindful of his covenant with Noah, so Jesus is mindful of his covenant mercy for those who believe in him. Just as Noah turned his back on the world and its corruption and boarded the ark, so we behold Christ and turn toward him for our rescue and redemption.

Everyone who trusts the crucified and risen Savior, who has taken the judgment that we deserve for our sin and rebellion, will forever stand in the presence of the One who is surrounded by the sign of the covenant. For all eternity, there will be a rainbow around the throne of Jesus Christ who will forever remember that covenant mercy, purchased for us by His life, death, and resurrection.

Application: We can apply Noah’s posture toward God in the way we live our lives today. Noah wasn’t rescued by God from the flood because he was obedient, but because he trusted in God’s mercy – fully aware of his sinfulness. Because of Jesus, we can approach God in prayer with hope for kindness and mercy. We have the ability to approach God the same way that Noah did – with full confidence in his grace and character and his work for our good.

Core Competencies Connections:

Wise Living: Students will understand their state because of the reality of their sinfulness. Because of this understanding, they will understand (perhaps for the first time!) and remember their need for Jesus. Because they know themselves, they will hopefully consider how to be merciful to each other, knowing that each are as

Pray: Father, we are more sinful than we know. Our hearts are desperately sick, but we are so grateful that you sent Jesus to cover our sinfulness. Thank you for giving us new hearts. For those of us who do not know you Lord, I pray that you might reveal our sinful nature to us, so that we might understand how badly we need a savior. Amen.

Pray. Spend time asking that God will speak through you. Ask that you would have favor in the student’s eyes and that they would hear God’s word through you. Pray that the Lord would protect you from error and arrogance. Pray that your words would be clear and that truth would be applied to the hearts of the students by the Spirit.

Practice. Talk through your lesson and make sure you know how you will teach. What words will you use? Do you know the key point by heart? Are there any words in a text you may be reading that you need to define?

Scripture quotations are from The ESV® Bible

MSBS - Covenant of Noah

Introduction

Review

Review

Today’s Outline

Questions

Application

Review

God’s Character

The Wickedness of Man

God Punishes the Wicked

God’s Redemptive Act

Application

How the New Testament Refers to the Flood

How the New Testament Refers to the Flood

Application

Application

Resources

Notes