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Sermon: A Risk to Build - The risk of Noah

Series: Risky Business

Text: Genesis 6:9-22               May 27, 2007 PM

\\ /Genesis 6:9-22 (NIV) 9 "This is the account of Noah.

Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked with God. 10 "Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth.

11 "Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence.

12 "God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways.

13 "So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them.

I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth.

14 "So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out.

15 "This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high.

16 "Make a roof for it and finish the ark to within 18 inches of the top.

Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks.

17 "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.

18 "But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you.

19 "You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you.

20 "Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive.

21 "You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them.”

22 "Noah did everything just as God commanded him."/

\\ INTRODUCTION

Last week we looked at the risk Abraham took

       A Risk to Go

              This week we are going to look at Noah

Noah was told to build an Ark

       Why was that a risk?

What Was Noah’s Risk?

What do we need to do

       If we are going to be builders?

I.

BUILD DESPITE CORRUPTION

/Genesis 6:9-13 (NIV) 9 "This is the account of Noah.

Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked with God. 10 "Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth.

11 "Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence.

12 "God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways.

13 "So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them.

I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth."/

\\ Let’s look at the history for a minute

       According to this chronology there were 1656 years between the creation and the flood.

Note that Adam would have been alive until Noah’s father was 56 years old!

All of the early patriarchs and prophets except for Noah would have heard the story of creation and the fall from Adam himself!

Quote: Mark Sutton: “Man's problems do not stem from acknowledging his sinfulness.

Instead, they are rooted in his pride and unwillingness to say, ‘I am guilty; I stand in need of forgiveness.’”

\\ But what had happened?

Look back at Genesis 6

\\ Corruption - Destruction, Destroyed - Already dead!

NOTE - the earth was violent, I wonder about the Dinos?

A.

LOOK OUT FOR LAWLESS TIMES

              1.

It was a time of anarchy

/Genesis 6:5 (NIV) 5 "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."/

a.

These mighty men

                     b.    Were mighty in wickedness

 

ILL: Like the young man who was stopped by the traffic cop.

The cop snarled, “Don't go telling me you didn't see that stop sign.”

“Oh, to be sure I saw the sign, Officer.

The point is--I didn't see you.”

There are a lot of people who think that God is not paying attention.

c.

Renowned for sin and for lasciviousness.

2.

It goes on to say

                     a.

Every imagination of the thoughts

                     b.

Of his heart was only evil continually

              3.

That word imagination is interesting word.

a.

It comes from a Hebrew root

                     b.    Meaning to shape as a potter

                     c.

They were shaping their thoughts to evil

              4.

Men were molding wicked philosophies.

a.

And they were espousing filthy causes.

b.

They were trying to reshape society.

c.    Making perversion and vice acceptable

                     d.    Saying good was bad, and bad was good

              5.

Lawless times

                     a.

And the same sins that produced the flood

                     b.    Are reaching to heaven in our day and age.

IT WAS LAWLESS

 

      B.

LOOK OUT FOR LISTLESS TIMES

              1.

Apathetic!

/Matthew 24:37-39 (NIV) 37 "As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.

38 "For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; 39 "and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away.

That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man."/

 

                     a.

It is not hard to see

              2.

Just before the flood,

                     a.

Right up to the very day

                     b.

They were eating, drinking, marrying

              3.

In spite of the preaching of the prophet Noah,

                     a.

They simply yawned in the face of God.