Exceptional Grace – Genesis 6:1-10

This chapter in the Genesis saga is introduced with the poetry of another Lamech – this man from the elect line of Seth. His contribution of faith in the narrative stands in stark contrast to the ancestor of Cain. Where as evil Lamech celebrates his tyrannical exploits to his multiple wives as a god unto himself – Lamech (the father of Noah) hold's out hope for deliverance from the curses of sin through a future son. This Sethite hope appears threatened by increasing wickedness, however, as the storm clouds of judgement gather and nearly all of humanity becomes increasingly swallowed up by their depravity of God-rejecting hedonism & selfishness. In spite of this, mankind is not left without hope. God will raise up a deliverer and an instrument of salvation in answer to Sethite Lamech's cry. The account of the great flood thus begins by reminding the reader of the holiness of God and what His righteousness demands given a world almost completely overtaken by sin...