What can we learn from the behavior of God and Noah?

God judiciously judges sin but that God is not

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in his judgment.

How do we know the Lord is longsuffering?

2 Peter 3:9 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.

Peter reveals that

1 Peter 3:20 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.

2 Peter 2:5 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;

Genesis 5:21 When Enoch had lived 65 years, he fathered Methuselah. Methuselah means, “When he is dead it shall be sent”

Genesis 5:27 Thus all the days of Methuselah were 969 years, and he died.

To what does this “long-suffering” refer which “waited” while the ark was preparing! How long had God’s patience been exercised? 969 years seems to be the answer—the span of Methuselah’s life. As long as Enoch’s son lived, the world was safe, but when he died, then should it (the Flood) be sent.

God’s patience does come to an end and he destroys

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sinners.

God the Father’s behavior in the flood narrative teaches us that his

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with sinners should not be mistaken for his unwillingness to judge sin.

God’s judgment of sin serves as a

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that judgment on sin will come.

Noah’s life shows us that we are saved by grace through

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Noah’s behavior teaches us that true