Noah + Ark: "God's Got a Plan!" | Genesis | Week 5

Noah + Ark: "God's Got a Plan!"Genesis • June 11, 2023Teacher: Leanne Benton--Genesis 6:5 NIVThe Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time.GOD’S GOT A PLAN!We have a choice!Rev. Jasper WilliamsAll of the Bible is about Jesus...all 66 books, all 1179 chapters, all 31,173 verses in your Bible are all about Jesus. If you read your Bible and you do not see Jesus, then I challenge you to read it again. Because standing in the shadows somewhere is the Lord Jesus Christ.1. God Saves People By Grace.2. God Saves People Through Faith.3. God Saves People In Christ.1. God Saves People By Grace.  Genesis 6:8 NIVBut Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.Grace is not a reward of the righteous.It is a gift for the guilty.Ephesians 2:8-10 NIVFor it is by grace you have been saved, through faith —and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast.2. God saves people through faith.Hebrews 11:7 NIVBy faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family.3. God saves people in Christ Genesis 6:14 NIVSo make yourself an ark of cypress wood (gopher wood)......Make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out.Pitch = Kopher = AtonementGenesis 6:15 NIVThis is how you’re to build it: The ark is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.Genesis 6:16 NKJVYou 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.Colossians 3:2 NKJVSet your mind and keep focused habitually on the things above [the heavenly things], not on things that are on the earth [which have only temporal value]. For you died [to this world], and your [new, real] life is hidden with Christ in God.SubstanceSafetySizeStructureMatthew 24:37 NIVThen the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations. No longer will there be any curse. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and his servants will serve him. They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.2 Corinthians 5:17-19 NIVTherefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come. The old has gone, the new is here! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them.