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Wrath and Grace
Today we are going to talk about one of the most beloved stories in the OT.
This story has inspired flannel graphs, art work, and cute toys.
In fact, our nursery has a big mural of this story on one of its walls.
As do many nurseries across the country.
If you haven’t guessed yet we are going to be talking about Noah’s Ark.
I don’t know what it is about the story that makes it seem like a cute story.
Maybe it’s the animals.
Maybe it’s the boat.
Maybe it’s the rainbow at the end.
But the reality is this is not a cute story.
It should be a sobering story.
The story of Noah’s Ark should cause us to marvel at the power of God.
To Fear the judgement of God.
To shake and tremble at the consequences of sin and rebellion.
To stand in Awe and humility at the grace of God.
The salvation of God.
The restoration and Redemption of God.
Because in this story we read about the magnitude of God’s Wrath and the overwhelming, never-ending grace and love of God.
Let’s Pray
Before we get into the story of Noah we need to set the stage for what is really going on.
Wickedness Abounds
From the time Adam and Eve disobeyed God things have gone from bad to worse.
Their son Cain Murdered his brother Abel.
Cain’s son Lamech bragged about killing someone who wounded him.
God’s very good creation was tainted by sin and rebellion.
Men did what was right in their own eyes.
Murder.
Theft.
Debauchery.
The disease of sin was widespread.
“Every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only on evil continually.”
The image of God was distorted and wicked.
We read here from God’s perspective that the evil of the world was extensive.
Society has decayed and all of humanity had become degenerate.
There must be justice on the earth.
There must be a refreshing of the earth from this wickedness.
The sins of humanity must be washed away.
What God once saw as very good, now God saw as wicked and perverse.
And it wasn’t just in their actions.
It was the intentions of their very heart that were evil.
People didn’t just do wrong.
They loved, longed, and desired to do wrong in their hearts.
God was broken hearted over what man had become.
He didn’t regret creating man, rather he was pained over the fact that man had traded God’s image for their own.
That they were willing to abandon what God said was good for their own desires even if that meant absolute rebellion against God.
This creature, humanity, was not the pristine creation that God had intended it to be.
Rather than living a life representing God on earth, man was now foul, savage, and evil.
So God is righteously angry and ready to destroy his creation.
The pain of sin has consequences.
The pain of rebellion needs to be dealt with justly.
Sin leads to death.
So God says that he is going to wipe out his creation.
He is going blot out man b/c they live against his design.
They call good what is evil.
But he isn’t going to destroy all of his creation.
There is one that has God’s eye.
There is one that is walking with God.
There is one who is going to be like a new Adam.
God is going to start a fresh with this new man who loves him and is devoted to him.
A Righteous Man
Here we read that Noah stood out from the pack.
He was favored in the Eyes of the Lord.
When God looked out and saw all the evil and wickedness on the earth.
He also saw Noah who was different.
He was different from the rest of his generation.
We get three identifiers.
He was Righteous.
This is the first time in the bible that this word is used.
Meaning that he was in right relationship with God.
He was Blameless.
Meaning that he was moral and had integrity.
He walked with God.
To the careful reader of the bible, this would recall Gen 5:24 “24 Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him.”
Enoch didn’t experience death, rather he was taken by God because of his devotion to God.
Walking with God also mirrors Adam walking with God in the cool of the day in the Garden of Eden.
It demonstrates a devotion and closeness to God.
He was righteous and blameless b/c he walked with God.
Unlike the people of his generation he loved God and walked with God.
He was committed to the things of God.
He was not perfectly blameless or perfectly righteous, but when it came to comparison with his peers and generation.
He stood leaps and bounds over them.
God is showing us here, that even in the pervasive wickedness and evil of the world, there are still some that stand for righteousness.
That God is looking out for those that walk with him.
God was going to save Noah, b/c Noah walked with him.
Noah trusted God.
Noah obeyed God.
What does it mean to walk with God.
It means that we are on the same page as him.
It means that we are looking out for how to serve him and serve his creation.
It means that we are joining him in what he is doing.
Noah Had faith in God.
Not some intellectual understanding, but a personal relationship.
A desire to walk with God and do his work.
And because he walked with God he was going to be spared from the destruction of the earth.
He was going to find his refuge in God.
He was going to be saved from the wrath of God.
Noah’s desire was to please God.
And he pleased God by walking with God.
By Loving God.
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