Noah (2)

Hello everyone,

How are you doing today? I hope well and bubbling in the Lord.

Primary Text

“And God did not spare the ancient world – except for Noah and the seven others in his family. Noah warned the world of God’s righteous judgment. So God protected Noah when he destroyed the world of ungodly people with a vast flood.” 2 Peter 2v5 (NLT).

One admirable trait Noah had was that he was obedient. Genesis 6v22 (NIV) says “Noah did everything just as God commanded him.” Brethren, may we also be obedient to the Lord in Jesus name, amen. Our Lord Jesus also showed the mark of humility and obedience; Philippians 2v8 (NIV) saying “And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to death - even death on a cross.” Noah also walked in habitual (close) fellowship with God. Are you walking with God? Luke 17v26-27 (NIV) says “Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man. People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.” People, if your ways are not right with God, don’t wait until tomorrow, make it right today. I saw some verses today in Ezekiel 14, and verses 13-14 (NLT) say “Son of man, suppose the people of a country were to sin against Me, and I lifted My fist to crush them, cutting off their food supply and sending a famine to destroy both people and animals. Even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were there, their righteousness would save no one but themselves, says the Sovereign LORD.” This verse seems to imply that you cannot appropriate someone else’s righteousness for yourself – you have to know God for yourself, you can’t use your country, your parents, spouse, children, friends to say, they know God and so I am covered. Now, the righteousness we speak of is not one born of good works, or good deeds, but one which comes because of faith in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Colossians 1v13-14 (AMP) says “[The Father] has delivered and drawn us to Himself out of the control and the dominion of darkness and has transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, In Whom we have our redemption through His blood, [which means] the forgiveness of sins.”

Supplementary Text

“And God purposed that through (by the service, the intervention of) Him [the Son] all things should be completely reconciled back to Himself, whether on earth or in heaven, as through Him, [the Father] made peace by means of the blood of His cross. And although you at one time were estranged and alienated from Him and were of hostile attitude of mind in your wicked activities, Yet now has [Christ, the Messiah] reconciled [you to God] in the body of His flesh through death, in order to present you holy and faultless and irreproachable in His [the Father’s] presence. [And this He will do] provided that you continue to stay with and in the faith [in Christ], well-grounded and settled and steadfast, not shifting or moving away from the hope [which rests on and is inspired by] the glad tidings (the Gospel), which you heard and which has been preached [as being designed for and offered without restrictions] to every person under heaven, and of, which [Gospel] I, Paul, became a minister.” Colossians 1v20-23 (AMP)

Prayer

If your ways are not right with God, please make them right.