09 September 27, 2015, Gensis 6 & 7, God Saves

Genesis 6:8-18, 7:11-14
God Saves
September 27, 2015
First Baptist Church
Jackson, Mississippi
USA

What’s the number one thing?

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The Glory of God!

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1 Corinthians 10:31 NKJV
31 Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or
whatever you do, do all to the glory of
God.

September MemoryVerse:
Psalm 86:11 NIV
11 Teach me Your way, LORD,
that I may rely on Your faithfulness;
give me an undivided heart,
that I may fear Your name.

Please Pray For
The Pastor Search Committee
Ross Aven Rodney DePriest
Laurel Ditto Susan Lindsay
Chris Maddux JoeYoung
Paul Moak, Jr. (Chairman)

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French Camp Academy

French Camp Academy
Date/ Time/ Opponent/Location/Score
10/2 7:00p Starkville Academy
10/9 7:00p @ Nanih Waiya (Louisville, MS)
10/16 7:00p Noxapater
10/23 7:30p @ Durant
10/30 7:00p Ethel (Ethel, MS)

Lee Thigpen, the FBJ Community
Director, challenged every adult
Sunday School class to be
engaged in one service project in
Metro Jackson before we celebrate
Global Missions Week
November 6-8, 2015.

Lee has complied Service Project
Opportunities that we as a Sunday
School class can connect with.
We may contact Lee Thigpen at
601-949-1932 or lthigpen@fbcj.org
to discuss areas of service.

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Share your faith with one person each month
and build a relationship with them, so they will
not only become a disciple – but a disciple
maker themselves.
Luke 19:11-27

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How have you seen God at work
during the week?

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Sunday

Joe Young teaches:
Genesis 8 & 9
October 4, 2015
First Baptist Church
Jackson, Mississippi
USA

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Feast ofTabernacles 2015
Sunday Evening, September 27
thru
Monday Evening, October 5

Jesus may have been conceived by
the Holy Spirit on December 25th but
there is strong evidence to suggest
that He was born during the Feast of
Tabernacles (shepherds abiding in the
fields and no room for Him in the inn).

The Feast ofTabernacles celebrates
God’s provision during the 40 years in
transient housing in the wilderness
but it also celebrates the coming
thousand year reign of Christ on
Earth.

Ezekiel 37:26-28 NKJV
26 Moreover I will make a covenant of
peace with them, and it shall be an
everlasting covenant with them; I will
establish them and multiply them,
and I will set My sanctuary in their
midst forevermore.

27 My tabernacle also shall be with
them; indeed I will be their God, and
they shall be My people. 28The
nations also will know that I, the LORD,
sanctify Israel, when My sanctuary is
in their midst forevermore.”’”
Ezekiel 37:26-28 NKJV

Revelation 21:2-4 NKJV
2Then I, John, saw the holy city, New
Jerusalem, coming down out of
Heaven from God, prepared as a bride
adorned for her husband.

3 And I heard a loud voice from heaven
saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of
God is with men, and He will dwell
with them, and they shall be His
people. God Himself will be with them
and be their God.

4 And God will wipe away every tear
from their eyes; there shall be no
more death, nor sorrow, nor crying.
There shall be no more pain, for the
former things have passed away.”
Revelation 21:2-4 NKJV

Today
Genesis 6:8-18; 7:11-14
God Saves

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Matthew 24:37-39 NKJV
37 But as the days of Noah were, so also
will the coming of the Son of Man be.
38 For as in the days before the flood,
they were eating and drinking,
marrying and giving in marriage, until
the day that Noah entered the ark,

39 and did not know until the flood
came and took them all away, so also
will the coming of the Son of Man be.
Matthew 24:37-39 NKJV

Luke 17:26-30 NKJV
26 And as it was in the days of Noah, so it
will be also in the days of the Son of Man:
27They ate, they drank, they married
wives, they were given in marriage, until
the day that Noah entered the ark, and
the flood came and destroyed them all.

28 Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot:
They ate, they drank, they bought, they
sold, they planted, they built; 29 but on the
day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained
fire and brimstone from heaven and
destroyed them all. 30 Even so will it be in
the day when the Son of Man is revealed.
Luke 17:26-30 NKJV

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Genesis 6:8-18; 7:11-14
God Saves

Genesis 6:8-18 NKJV
8 But Noah found grace (favor) in the eyes
of the LORD.
Noah Pleases God
9This is the genealogy of Noah. Noah was
a just (righteous) man, perfect (blameless)
in his generations. Noah walked with God.

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10 And Noah begot three sons: Shem,
Ham, and Japheth.

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11The earth also was corrupt before God,
and the earth was filled with violence.

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12 So God looked upon the earth, and
indeed it was corrupt; for all flesh had
corrupted their way on the earth.

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13 And God said to Noah, “The end of all
flesh has come before Me, for the earth is
filled with violence through them; and
behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

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14 Make yourself an ark of gopherwood;
make rooms in the ark, and cover it
inside and outside with pitch.

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15 And this is how you shall make it:The length
of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, its
width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.

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16You shall make a window for the ark, and
you shall finish it to a cubit from above; and
set the door of the ark in its side.You shall
make it with lower, second, and third decks.

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17 And behold, I Myself am bringing
floodwaters on the earth, to destroy from
under heaven all flesh in which is the breath
of life; everything that is on the earth shall
die.

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18 But I will establish My covenant with you;
and you shall go into the ark—you, your sons,
your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.”
Genesis 6:11-18 NKJV

11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s
life, in the second month, the
seventeenth day of the month, on
that day all the fountains of the great
deep were broken up, and the
windows of heaven were opened.

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12 And the rain was on the earth forty days
and forty nights.
13 On the very same day Noah and Noah’s
sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and
Noah’s wife and the three wives of his
sons with them, entered the ark—

14 they and every beast after its kind,
all cattle after their kind, every
creeping thing that creeps on the
earth after its kind, and every bird
after its kind, every bird of every sort.

Bible Exposition Commentary
BE Series - OldTestament
The Bible Exposition Commentary –
Pentateuch.

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The Flood came 4,317 years ago in 2302
B.C. which was 1656 years after the
creation of Adam in 3958 B.C.

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Except for the increase in violence and
crime, the times were pretty good.

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People were "eating and drinking, marrying
and giving in marriage" (Matthew 24:38), and
life was going on as usual.

When friends met at wedding feasts they
laughed about Noah and his family
("Imagine building that big boat on dry
land!") and talked about Enoch, the man
who suddenly disappeared ("Strangest
thing I ever heard!") and discussed
Methuselah, the world's oldest man ("He'll
die one of these days, mark my word!").

Methuselah was Noah's grandfather,
and Noah knew that when he died,
nothing stood in the way of God's
judgment falling on a wicked world.

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The name, Methuselah, means “his death
shall bring judgment” and traditions says he
died seven days before the beginning of the
Great Flood.

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The meaning of the names of the ten
pre-flood (antediluvian) patriarchs:

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God/Adam = Jesus "The God-man
Seth is appointed;
Enosh a mortal man
Kenen of sorrow is born!"

Mahalalel "The Glory of God
Jared shall come down and
Enoch teach that
Methuselah His death shall bring
Lamech the grieving
Noah comfort and rest!"

"The God-man is appointed;
a mortal man of sorrow is born!"
"The Glory of God shall come down
and teach that His death shall bring
the grieving comfort and rest."

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What kind of a person was Noah?
He was a believing man
who walked with God &
was the tenth and last
of the pre-flood
Patriarchs.

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Noah wasn't a minor character in the story
of redemption; he's mentioned fifty times
in nine different books of the Bible.

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One Man's Faith, One Man's Family

For over a century, Noah had been
warning people about the coming
judgment, but only his own family had
believed him and trusted the Lord.
Then Methuselah died and things
began to happen.

God was merciful and waited for his
people to turn to Him again;
Methuselah's name is aWARNING for
what was to come if people didn't turn
from their sins.

That's why God allowed Methuselah
to live so long, because of God’s
mercy.
When God took his life away - that is
when the flood began.

Noah was a "preacher of
righteousness" (2 Peter 2:5) during
the building of the ark, yet only "eight
souls were saved" (1 Peter 3:20) so
apparently, the people of his day
didn’t want to hear it (just like today).

God had promised that "the seed of
the woman," Eve (Genesis 3:15)
would one day destroy Satan, and
ever since then, Satan, in his
hatred for God and His image in
man, had schemed to thwart God's
plan (Genesis 4:7, 6:2).

Furthermore, man thought of "only
evil continually" (Genesis 6:5) and
"the earth was filled with violence
through them" (Genesis 6:13).
If left unchecked, there soon would
be no survivor of Eve remaining.

Certainly the extensive violence
took the lives of many.
Animals became violent and
bloodthirsty and wars must have
been rampant as man's sinful
nature had full sway.

Would we not be correct in
assuming that the violence was
directed toward believers most of
all?
• Perhaps Noah had many converts
over the years, and the only ones
left were the eight mentioned.

This may have been what
happened to Methuselah.
Perhaps he was the last martyr,
and when he was killed, God's
patience was over.

In order to preserve mankind, and
in particular Eve's lineage through
whom the Redeemer would one
day come, God's justice was finally
unleashed.
• Dr. John D. Morris is the President of the Institute for Creation
Research.
• Cite this article: John D. Morris, Ph.D. 2006. How Did Methuselah
Die?. Acts & Facts. 35 (12).

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The Flood was not only an episode of
judgment, it was also a time of God's
grace and salvation.

Noah and his family, and two
representatives of each "kind" of land-
dwelling, air-breathing animal (seven
of each "clean" kind), were protected
and preserved on board Noah's Ark.

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Outside of the ark, "all in whose nostrils
was the breath of life, of all that was in the
dry land, died" (Genesis 7:22).

Genesis 6:8 NKJV
8 But Noah found favor (grace) in the
eyes of the Lord.

Noah was a righteous man (v. 9; 7:1).
This is the first time the word
"righteous" is used in the Bible, but
Noah's righteousness is also
mentioned in other places (Ezekiel
14:14, 20; Hebrews 11:7; 2 Peter 2:5).

Noah's righteousness didn't come
from his good works; his good works
came because of his righteousness.
Like Abraham, his righteousness was
God's gift in response to his personal
faith.

Both Abraham and Noah believed
God'sWord "and it was counted to
them for righteousness" (Genesis
15:6; Hebrews 11:7; Romans 4:9ff;
Galatians 3:1ff).

The only righteousness God will
accept is the righteousness of Jesus
Christ, His Son (2 Cor. 5:21); and the
only way people can receive that
righteousness is by admitting their
sins and trusting Jesus Christ to save
them (Romans 3:19-30; Gal. 2:16).

2 Corinthians 5:21 NKJV
21 For He made Him who knew no sin
to be sin for us, that we might become
the righteousness of God in Him.

Isaiah 64:6b NKJV
6b And all our righteousnesses are like
filthy rags;

Noah must have learned this
important truth from his father
Lamech (Genesis 5:28-29), who
learned it from his father Methuselah,
who learned it from his father Enoch.

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How important it is to teach our children
and grandchildren how to trust the Lord!

Noah was a blameless man (v. 9).
If "righteous" describes Noah's
standing before God, then
"blameless" describes his conduct
before people.

"Blameless" doesn't mean "sinless,"
because nobody but Jesus Christ ever
lived a sinless life on this earth
(1 Peter 2:21-22).
Blameless means "having integrity,
whole, unblemished."

It was used to describe the animals
acceptable to God for sacrifice
(Exodus 12:5; Leviticus 1:3, 10).
Noah's conduct was such that his
neighbors couldn't find fault with him
(Philippians 2:12-16).

Philippians 2:14-16 NKJV
14 Do all things without complaining and
disputing, 15 that you may become
blameless and harmless, children of God
without fault in the midst of a crooked
and perverse generation, among whom
you shine as lights in the world,

16 holding fast the word of life, so that
I may rejoice in the day of Christ that I
have not run in vain or labored in vain.
Philippians 2:14-16 NKJV

The person who is right before God
through faith in Christ ought to lead a
life that is right before people, for "faith
without works is dead" (James 2:14ff).

Paul warned about "unruly and vain
talkers and deceivers...who profess
that they know God, but in works they
deny Him" (Titus 1:10, 16).
Noah wasn't that kind of person.

Noah was a man who walked with God
(Genesis 6:9).
• His great-grandfather Enoch had
"walked with God" and was suddenly
taken to Heaven and rescued
(Raptured) from the impending
judgment of the Flood (Genesis 5:24).

Noah walked with God and was taken
safely through the judgment.
Enoch modeled a godly way of life for
Methuselah.
• Methuselah must have passed it along
to his son Lamech who shared it with
his son Noah.

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Genesis 5:24 NKJV
24 And Enoch walked with God; and he
was not, for God took him.

Genesis 5:24The Message
24 Enoch walked steadily with God.
And then one day he was simply
gone: God took him.

Genesis 5:22&24The Amplified
22 Enoch walked [in habitual fellowship]
with God
24 And [in reverent fear and obedience]
Enoch walked with God; and he was not
[found among men], because God took
him [away to be home with Him].

Hebrews 11:5-6 NKJV
5 By faith Enoch was taken away so
that he did not see death, “and was
not found, because God had taken
him”; for before he was taken he had
this testimony, that he pleased God.

6 But without faith it is impossible to
please Him, for he who comes to God
must believe that He is, and that He is
a rewarder of those who diligently
seek Him.
Hebrews 11:5-6 NKJV

How wonderful it is when generation
after generation in one family is
faithful to the Lord, especially at a
time in history when violence and
corruption are the normal way of life.

The life of faith and obedience is
compared to a "walk" because this life
begins with one step: trusting Jesus
Christ as Lord and Savior.
This step of faith leads to a daily walk,
a step at a time, as the Lord directs us.

He commands us to:
"walk in love" (Ephesians 5:2),
"walk as children of light" (Ephesians 5:8),
"walk in the Spirit" (Galatians 5:16, 25), and to
"walk circumspectly [carefully]" (Ephesians
5:15).

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A step at a time, a day at a time, we walk with
the Lord; and He guides us into His will and
blesses us with His wisdom and strength.

It is interesting that the Bible tells us there
was only one door to the Ark (Genesis
6:16).
• Similarly, there is only one way to enter
into a relationship with God.
• Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and
the life. No one comes to the Father
except through Me” (John 14:6).

For those who believe in Him, Jesus is
our one entrance into God’s
redemptive grace.

Jesus said:
John 10:9 NKJV
9 I am the door. If anyone enters by
Me, he will be saved, and will go in
and out and find pasture.

Noah was an obedient man
(Genesis 6:22; 7:5,16).
One of the major messages in
Scripture is that we must not only
hear God'sWord but we must also
obey it (James 1:22-25).

Because Noah was obedient to the Lord,
his "house" wasn't destroyed when the
storm came (Matt. 7:24-27).
• It wasn't easy for Noah and his family
to obey the Lord, because the rest of
the population was disobeying God
and rebelling against His will.

According to Enoch, they were
ungodly people committing ungodly
deeds in ungodly ways and speaking
ungodly words against the Lord God
(Jude 15).

Whether it has to do with sexual
abstinence, using alcohol and drugs,
or joining gangs and breaking the law,
we hear a great deal today about
"peer pressure."
The fear of the sneer of the peer.

Anybody who has ever developed
godly character has had to fight
against peer pressure, including Noah
and his family,Abraham and his
family, Moses in Egypt (Hebrews
11:24-26), and Daniel and his friends
in Babylon (Daniel 1).

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Resisting peer pressure means not only
saying a determined no to people but also a
dedicated yes to the Lord (Romans 12:1-2).

Most people know that Noah built an
ark.
What they may not know is that he
also built a godly character and a
godly family.

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Had it not been for Noah's godly family,
Abraham wouldn't have been born; and without
Abraham, would there have been a Jewish
nation, the Bible, and the Savior?

A faithful man who worked for God
(Genesis 6:14-22)
“The secret of the Lord is with them
that fear Him; and He will show them
His covenant” (Psalm 25:14).

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When you walk with God, He speaks to
you through HisWord and tells you what
you need to know and to do.

John 8:47 NKJV
47 He who is of God hears God’s words;
therefore you do not hear, because
you are not of God.”

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Christians are more than just servants
who do His will; we're also His friends
who know His plans (John 15:14-15).

John 15:14-15 NKJV
14You are My friends if you do whatever I
command you. 15 No longer do I call you
servants, for a servant does not know
what his master is doing; but I have called
you friends, for all things that I heard from
My Father I have made known to you.

Building an ark (Genesis 6:14-17).
God told Noah what his task was: to
build a wooden vessel that would
survive the waters of the Flood and
keep Noah and his family safe.

Genesis 6:22 NKJV
22Thus Noah did; according to all that
God commanded him, so he did.

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If the cubit mentioned was the standard cubit
of eighteen inches, then the vessel was 450 feet
long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high.

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It had three decks, one door, and a series of
small windows eighteen inches high right under
the roof, providing light and ventilation.

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The three decks were divided into
compartments (Genesis 6:14) where
the various animals would be kept and
where Noah and his family would live.
This vessel was designed for flotation,
not navigation.

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It was a huge wooden box that could float
on the water and keep the contents safe
and dry.

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Dr. Henry Morris calculated that the ark was
large enough to hold the contents of over 500
livestock railroad cars, providing space for
about 125,000 animals.

Trusting God's covenant (Gen. 6:18).
This is the first use of the word "covenant"
in the Bible.
• The word appears often in Scripture
because the covenant concept is an
important part of God's great plan of
redemption.

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God would explain His covenant to Noah
after he left the ark in Genesis 8:20-9:17.

A secure man who waited on God
(Gen. 7:1-24)
"Do not be like the horse or like the
mule," God counsels in Psalm 32:9,
and Noah obeyed that counsel.

The horse sometimes wants to rush
ahead impetuously, and the mule
wants to drag its feet and stubbornly
stay back; but Noah walked with God
and worked for God and let God
arrange the schedule and work
through him.

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It is as dark a mile ahead of the LORD as it is a
mile behind Him.
Walk with Him daily!

A week of waiting (vv. 1-10).
Since the rains started on the seventeenth
day of the second month (Gen. 7:11), it
was on the tenth day of the second month
that Noah and his family moved into the
ark at God's instruction (v. 1).

During that final week before the
Flood, they finished gathering the
animals and putting in their supplies.
They followed the Lord's instructions,
trusted His covenant promise, and
knew that there was nothing to fear.

At the end of that final week of
preparation, Noah and his family
obeyed God's command and entered
the ark, and God shut the door and
made it safe (Gen. 7:16). (Noah may
have fallen down in the ark but he
could never fall out of the ark.) OSAS

They didn't know how long they
would live in the ark, but the Lord
knew, and that's really all that
mattered.
"My times are inYour hands"
(Psalm 31:15, NKJV).

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One year and ten days later, the same God
opened the door and invited them to come out
to live on His freshly cleansed earth (Genesis
8:16).

The day of reckoning (7:11-24).
The Flood was God's judgment of a
wicked world.

God opened the floodgates of heaven
so that torrential rains came down,
and "all the springs of the great deep
burst forth" (v. 11, NIV), so that even
the highest mountains were covered
by water (v. 20).

God had waited for over a century for
sinners to repent, and now it was too
late.
"Seek the Lord while He may be
found, call upon Him while He is near"
(Isaiah 55:6).

The rain stopped after 40 days, which
would be on the twenty-seventh day
of the third month (Genesis 7:12).
However, the water continued to rise
for another 110 days and reached its
peak after 150 days (v. 24).

At that time, the ark rested on a
mountain peak of Ararat (8:4).
It would take 150 days for the water to
recede (v. 3), which takes us to the
twelfth month, the seventeenth day.

Two months and ten days later, Noah
and his family left the ark and set the
animals free (v. 14).
From the day that God shut them in,
they had been in the ark a year and
ten days.

A patient family.
In spite of the devastation on the outside,
Noah and his family and the animals were
secure inside the ark.
• No matter how they felt, or how much
the ark was tossed on the waters, they
were safe in God's will.

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Patiently they waited for God to complete
His work and put them back on the earth.

It is "through faith and patience" that
we inherit God's promised blessings
(Hebrews 6:12; 10:36), and Noah was
willing to wait on the Lord.
• Peter saw in Noah's experience a
picture of salvation through faith in
Jesus Christ (1 Peter 3:18-22).

1 Peter 3:18-22 NKJV
18 For Christ also suffered once for
sins, the just for the unjust, that He
might bring us to God, being put to
death in the flesh but made alive by
the Spirit, 19 byWhom also He went
and preached to the spirits in prison,

20 who formerly were disobedient,
when once the Divine longsuffering
waited in the days of Noah, while the
ark was being prepared, in which a
few, that is, eight souls, were saved
through water.

21There is also an antitype which now
saves us—baptism (not the removal of
the filth of the flesh, but the answer of
a good conscience toward God),
through the resurrection of Jesus
Christ,

22Who has gone into Heaven and is at
the right hand of God, angels and
authorities and powers having been
made subject to Him.
1 Peter 3:18-22 NKJV

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The earth in Noah's day was immersed in water,
but the ark floated above the water and
brought Noah and his family to the place of
safety.

This was, to Peter, a picture of
baptism: death, burial, and
resurrection.
• The earth was "dead" and "buried"
because of the water, but the ark
rose up ("resurrection") to bring the
family through safely.

Jesus died, was buried, and arose
again; and through His finished work,
we have salvation from sin.
Peter makes it clear that the water of
baptism doesn't wash away sin.

It's our obedience to the Lord's command to be
baptized (Matthew 28:19-20) that cleanses the
conscience so that we are right before God.
• The British expositor Alexander Maclaren said: For
a hundred and twenty years the wits laughed, and
the "common-sense" people wondered, and the
patient saint went on hammering and pitching at
his ark. But one morning it began to rain; and by
degrees, somehow, Noah did not seem quite such a
fool.

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The jests would look rather different
when the water was up to the knees
of the jesters; and their sarcasms
would stick in their throats as they
drowned.
• So is it always.
• So it will be at the last great day.

The men who lived for the future, by faith in
Christ, will be found out to have been the wise
men when the future has become the present,
and the present has become the past, and is gone
forever; while they who had no aims beyond the
things of time, which are now sunk beneath the
dreary horizon, will awake too late to the
conviction that they are outside the Ark of safety,
and that their truest epitaph is, "Thou fool!"

We know from Noah’s account that God is
the Creator, that sin has consequences,
and that judgment is coming.
• The people of Noah’s time lived how
they wanted to live up until the Flood
took them.
• They never took the time to repent of
their wickedness.

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The Bible warns us that a second
judgment is coming—this time by fire
(2 Peter 3:7).
People are turning from God,
rejecting Him as Creator, and putting
themselves in His place.

God continues to be longsuffering, as
He was in Noah’s day, but there will
come a time when judgment will
come.
• During Noah’s time the question
was, “Were you standing in the
boat or standing out in the world?”

There was no hope of survival for the
people outside of the Ark, God’s
means of physical salvation.
• In Noah’s day grace came in the
shape of an Ark.
• Today grace comes in the shape of
a Cross.

The only way a person can be saved from
the eternal consequences of their
rebellion against God is to turn from that
sin and trust in the Savior Jesus Christ—
the way, the truth, and the life.
Where do you stand?

The Plan of Hope & Salvation
John 3:16 NKJV
16 “For God so loved the world that He gave His only
begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should
not perish but have everlasting life.”
John 14:6 NKJV
6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the
life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”

Romans 3:23 NKJV
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Romans 6:23a NKJV
23a For the wages of sin is death,
• Death in this life (the first death) is 100%.
• Even Jesus, the only one who doesn’t deserve death, died
in this life to pay the penalty for our sins.
• The death referred to in Romans 6:23a is the second
death explained in Revelation 21:8.

Revelation 21:8 NKJV
8 “But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable,
murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and
all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns
with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”
Romans 6:23b NKJV
23b but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our
Lord.

Romans 5:8 NKJV
8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in
that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Revelation 21:7 NKJV
7 “He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will
be his God and he shall be My son.”
•Romans 10:9-10 explains to us how to be saved.

Romans 10:9-10 NKJV
9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus
and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from
the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one
believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth
confession is made unto salvation.
Romans 10:13 NKJV
13 For “whoever calls on the name of the LORD shall be
saved.”

If you have questions or would like to know more,
Please, contact First Baptist Church Jackson at
601-949-1900 or
http://firstbaptistjackson.org/contact/

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