Many within the "church" system have much blood on their hands. They preach a Gospel that presents half of God and not His full counsel. There is a judgment we all must face. As our key verses illustrate many in Noah's time refused to listen and they were swept away by the flood and their own ignorance.
But Noah preached the full counsel of God as Paul did. In examining Noah, we can glean some truths for ourselves today. First of all, he did not waver in what he had heard from God. He had a word and it dictated his life. I am sure there must have been days he wondered what it was all for. It took him 100 years to build the ark! That is 100 long years in the dry heat building a boat. That is 100 years of everyone he knew and many he did not telling him he was a fool. "How can you build that boat?"; "You must be stupid."; "Crazy Noah he'll believe anything!" Yet despite his detractors he always remembered the Word of God not the word of his doubters.
We too will face our doubters in our walks. "How can you believe all the animals fit inside the ark?"; "You must be stupid."; "Only a fool would believe the Bible literally." We need to respond and react the same way Noah did. We do not compromise the word we have been given and we do not waver in what we know is true.
What if some did not have faith? Will their lack of faith nullify God's faithfulness? Not at all! Let God be true, and every man a liar. As it is written: "So that you may be proved right when you speak and prevail when you judge." Romans 3: 3-4
We also must walk in close
fellowship with God. As indicated above, Noah found favor in God's sight
because he was righteous, blameless and walked in close fellowship with God. We
are righteous and blameless because of the sacrifice Christ made on
This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin. 1John 1: 5-7
It is the fellowship with God that kept Noah on task. It is his relationship with God that kept him building the ark amidst every sane and rational thought of the day he was living in. Noah tried to get through to his neighbors. He preached even though none would hear. But he kept building the boat. No matter how the world tried to distract him, he kept building the boat. For one hundred years there was not a cloud in the sky but he kept building the boat.
Where are we today? Where does this word find us? The days of Noah seem eerily familiar in light of the world around us. What word has God given us today given you today? What boat are you supposed to be building for the Lord? The word disciple means that we are a pupil or an adherent to the doctrines or teachings of another. We are a follower. Yet what are we following today? Are they the doctrines and teachings of Christ or the whisperings of our neighbors telling us we're crazy? What distracts us from building the boat God has assigned us to?
