Trusting With

Paul Allen

With: Our Design According to Genesis • Sermon • Submitted a year ago • Presented a year ago

Genesis 8:1–22

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Trusting With Through the Storm

Genesis 8:1–14 (NIV)

But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded. Now the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens had been closed, and the rain had stopped falling from the sky. The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water had gone down, and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. The waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.

After forty days Noah opened a window he had made in the ark and sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth. Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground. But the dove could find nowhere to perch because there was water over all the surface of the earth; so it returned to Noah in the ark. He reached out his hand and took the dove and brought it back to himself in the ark. He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark. When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth. He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.

By the first day of the first month of Noah’s six hundred and first year, the water had dried up from the earth. Noah then removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry. By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry.

The Earth was completely flooded after it rained for 40 days and nights. The rains began of the 17th day of the second month of Noah’s 600th year of life. It took 150 days for the waters to begin to recede. On the 17th day of the 7th month, 5 months after the rains began, the ark rests on dry ground atop Mount Ararat. By the 1st day of the new year, the waters have dried from the earth. Finally, on the 27th day of the 2nd month, 1 year and 10 days after the rains began, Noah emerges from the ark with his cargo and his family.

Noah waits on the Lord even when the signs would point to his deliverance. Do you trust the Deliverer?

Trusting With’s Deliverance

Genesis 8:15–19 (NIV)

Then God said to Noah, “Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives. Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you—the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground—so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number on it.”

So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives. All the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds—everything that moves on land—came out of the ark, one kind after another.

So often we get so caught up in the destination, we lose sight of the one leading us toward our deliverance. When we jump in front of the Lord, we jump in front of His deliverance.

Trusting With in Our Victory

Genesis 8:20–22 (NIV)

Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it. The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.

“As long as the earth endures,

seedtime and harvest,

cold and heat,

summer and winter,

day and night

will never cease.”

God desires our trust that leads to obedience. Obedience in itself is unpleasing to God because it is void of relationship. Blind or wrought obedience does not seek to draw us closer to the Lord but rather hardens our heart by taking a pasture of control or worse yet apathy.

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