Noah

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0:00 Okay, today we're talking about Noah and I'm in Genesis chapter 6. I'm starting at verse 5. The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in earth, in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the Lord was sorry that he had made humanity on the earth and it grieved him to his heart. So the Lord said, I'm going to blot out man from whom I have created from the face of the land, man and animals and creeping

0:34 things and birds from the heavens from I'm sorry that I've made them. But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord. Then he goes on to tell Noah exactly how to build the ark and survive the flood. I've got with me today Carol Forrest and Brian Carlson, maybe you heard of him. I got him here because I like the way they ask questions of the text and the way they think about scripture. So guys, what does that story of Noah make you think about? It makes me think about why did he have to build a boat?

1:10 And put all the animals on it. Like they're so like the destruction is great. And he found favor with Noah. Why a flood and a boat? Yeah, like why that way? Which is interesting to think about because the guy had to do the work, like he had to do hard work and get his sons to do hard work. Convince that to me. Yeah. And build and put the animals on there.

1:48 Yeah. I imagine super nadurally like showed up. Right? Or did they have to go pick them up? No, no, they they came to him. I was just looking to see if it says how long it took him to make it. I don't think it does. I would think a long time. Yeah. Yeah. My thought process goes with the making it is when you go further in that story, he talks about everybody was ridiculing him. Everybody's just walking by and being like, look at that moron. I mean, and us presumably for a long time to where everybody, I'm sure every single.

2:24 You would think so. No one, it doesn't indicate that anybody in the story was like, can I get on the boat? So that's like a whole town calling you an idiot. Yeah. Yeah. And who does the Noah for going through with it? Because I don't know if if I had the, you know, all of Orlando going, Hey, Brian, you're full. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Keep going. Yeah. Like I, yeah. It makes me wonder like, this kind of gets deeper, but like, you know, before Pentecost and the release of the spirit, this call on Noah, where he has this

2:57 conversation with God, I think has to be kind of unmistakable. Right. Like, yeah, like, oh, okay, very clear this. And now he could be full of himself and dismiss God, but it was clear that God was giving him this command. When, when Demetrius and I were thinking about this text before, the imagery of the boat and like everybody, the salvation of God being in this boat on this water.

3:32 The hope of humanity is it's so like, yeah. And like that image of salvation being a boat translates over time to the church being this image of a boat. Like, so you get in the church into the people of God and navigate the waters of life into salvation to come. It was like really encouraging to imagine that. And water cleanses. Sure, sure, sure. Yeah. Just I wonder what if they

4:06 had a sense of fear or rest, like the 40 days while the rain's coming down and they're in the boat, do they feel safe? No, it's a journey. No, it says no. There's poo. Is it a cruise? Right. Not a cruise. No, like, did they have? Yeah, they had a food. Did they pack extra animals for food? I don't know. Carol's going to logistic. Yeah. I got to spread sheet. Yeah. Playing this out.

4:37 Yeah. I mean, I think like, but it's a picture of the beauty of the journey to the people. Yeah. And like, demonstrates the character of God that he provides a way out. And so for me, one of the things I take from it is like, I mean, I'm not Noah, but that God will always give me a way out. And his ways make it to the other side. Yeah. Yeah.