Craig Smith • Noah • June 12, 2022

By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family. By his faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.
(Heb. 11:7)

The nature of Noah’s faith teaches you to…

• Be the

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even though the world is

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– “The LORD saw how great man’s wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time. The LORD was grieved that He had made man on the earth, and His heart was filled with pain…But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD…Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked with God.” (Gen. 6:5-6, 8, 9b)

Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us. (1 Peter 2:12)

• Use new

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: trust the spiritual

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despite the physical

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– “‘So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out’…‘I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish. But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark…’” (Gen. 6:14, 17-18a)

So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. (2 Cor. 4:18)

• Make the

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God’s word even when it’s

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– “Noah did everything just as God commanded him… And Noah did all that the LORD commanded him.” (Gen. 6:22, 7:5)

Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth…I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth… I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth.” (Gen. 9:1, 11, 13)

Even

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stories have

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chapters – “Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded to plant a vineyard. When he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent. Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father’s nakedness and told his two brothers outside.” (Gen. 9:20-22)

The covenant of a

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is a foreshadow of the covenant of a

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For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God…Also, He went and preached to the spirits in prison who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In it only a few people, eight in all, were saved through water, and this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also – not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a good conscience toward God. (1 Peter 3:18, 19-21a)