Foreshadowings #2 - Noah's Ark

Scriptures Genesis 6-9, John 14:6, Matthew 24:37, 2 Peter 3:9-11, Isaiah 65:17. God provides remarkable glimpses of Jesus in the Old Testament. In Genesis 6-9, we discover that an object can be a foreshadowing of Jesus. What does the Ark of Noah show us about both God's judgment and His saving Grace? Pastor opens today's teaching with a reminder that the Old Testament speaks very powerfully about God's plan in Christ Jesus, our Savior and also that God knows the end from the beginning and has left every generation with a clear witness of His goodness, His mercy, His grace and His holiness. Pastor opens with prayer asking the Lord to help us see the signs of Jesus' coming, the signs of God's goodness, the signs of God's faithfulness and that we would bow before God in worship and praise and serve Him with our lives. The Ark was a massive vessel built for one purpose - to save lives. But what does this object have to do with foreshadowing Jesus?   Noah was a man who boldly proclaimed truth in his generation and who by faith built an ark as God had commanded him. His generation was a corrupt generation. - times that sound ominously similar to much of what we are experiencing in our world today. Noah found favor with God and God tells him to build an ark as it will save your lives. God gave us a tangible expression of His grace and mercy and love in the person of Jesus, his only son, just as the ark of Noah was a tangible expression that God would provide a way out. God didn't simply say build an ark, He gave Noah a divine plan, His plan, His purpose. The plan for the ark contains ONE door. There was one way into the ark - the place of safety, just as Jesus is the door, the ONE way to salvation. John 14:6 "Jesus said to him, 'I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.'"  One Door is the door to life, the door to the Father, the door to safety and deliverance, and that door is Jesus. The story of Noah's Ark is not simply a story about the past, it is a foreshadowing of the future! As we see things taking place around us, things that are ominously similar to things in the days of Noah, we are reminded of what Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be at the coming of the Son of Man." (Matthew 24:37). You and I do not want to miss what God has to offer. We do not want to trade a little temporary joy for eternal regret. What God calls us to is eternal joy and it's found in Him who is the ark of safety, the door to life, the hope of the nations. It's Jesus. The ark of Noah was New World transport. Noah and his family went from the judgment and wrath of a holy God in a sinful world to a new world, a new world that had been washed and cleansed. It was just a shadow of what had been, but it is a foreshadowing of what is to come. Here's what the Scripture says. This is what the apostle Peter wrote II Peter 3:9-10, he says, "The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead, he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance. But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything done in it will be laid bare." Then Peter goes on. He says, verse 11, "Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to live holy and godly lives as you look forward to the day of God and speed its coming."  The ark of Noah was the means by which God delivered Noah and his family from the old world into a new one. Jesus is the means by which God delivers us from a world that has fallen into a new heaven and a new earth. That is the promise of the Scriptures, not just in the New Testament, but in the Old. The prophet Isaiah quoted the living God by saying, "See, I am creating a new heaven and a new earth." (Isaiah 65:17). Jesus made it clear that He is the means by which we are brought to that new world. It is an incredible gift and it is something you and I do not want to miss. Noah's Ark is a reminder that God once judged the world by water. The Scriptures declare a day is coming when the world will be purged and cleansed by fire. In the nuclear age that does not sound so far-fetched anymore does it?  The day is coming when He will judge the world, but also remake it, and there is only one door and one means of safety into that new world and that is in the Lord Jesus Christ. He is foreshadowed in the ark of Noah. He's coming back soon. His called you and me is to repent, turn to Him, experience the fullness of His Holy Spirit, and the joy of knowing that not only is my debt paid, but life awaits me. Watch the video from our website https://www.awakeusnow.com/foreshadowings Now What? Learn about God at https://www.awakeusnow.com EVERYTHING we offer is FREE. Check out the video on Youtube:https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTaaqrC3dMOw9MNX3kA9Vw49sf4HcyV7b&si=hca_9BpRzZOK1gf8 Watch via our app. Text HELLO to 888-364-4483 to download our app. We invite you to join us for our Sunday service every Sunday at 9:30am CT (live or on demand) here: https://www.awakeusnow.com/sunday-service