The Epic Faith of Captain Noah
Hebrews 11:7
Hebrews 11:7 (NIV)
By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family. By his faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.
1. The warning his epic faith believed
Hebrews 11:7 (NIV)
By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen,
2 Corinthians 5:7 (NLT)
For we live by believing and not by seeing.
Genesis 7:4 (NIV)
[The LORD said to Noah] “I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made.”
Genesis 2:4b-5 (NIV)
When the LORD God made the earth and the heavens — and no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth and no plant of the field had yet sprung up, for the LORD God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no man to work the ground,
Genesis 1:11-13 (NIV)
Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening, and there was morning — the third day.
Genesis 2:5b,6 (NIV)
for the LORD God had not sent rain on the earth but streams came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground,
Genesis 6:17 (NIV)
I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish.
Genesis 7:11 (NIV)
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, on the seventeenth day of the second month — on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
2. The work his epic faith achieved
Hebrews 11:7 (NIV)
By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family.
Proverbs 1:7 (NIV)
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge;
Psalm 111:10 (NIV)
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom;
Proverbs 10:27 (NIV)
The fear of the LORD adds length to life,
Proverbs 16:6 (NIV)
through the fear of the LORD a man avoids evil
Proverbs 14:26 (NIV)
Those who fear the LORD are secure
Proverbs 22:4 (NIV)
Humility and the fear of the LORD bring wealth, and honor, and life.
Psalm 85:9 (NIV)
Surely his salvation is near to those who fear him,
Genesis 6:13 (NIV)
So God said to Noah, "I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth. So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out.
Genesis 6:15 (NIV)
This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high.
3. The wickedness his epic faith perceived
By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family. By his faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.
Genesis 6:5-7 (NIV)
The LORD saw how great man's wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time. The LORD was grieved that he had made man on the earth, and his heart was filled with pain. So the LORD said, "I will wipe mankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth — men and animals, and creatures that move along the ground, and birds of the air — for I am grieved that I have made them."
Genesis 6:8, 9 (NLT)
But Noah found favor with the LORD. Noah was a righteous man, the only blameless person living on the earth at the time, and he walked with God.
1 Peter 2:9 (KJV)
But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
Hebrews 11:7 (NEB)
Through his faith he put the whole world in the wrong.
2 Peter 2:5 (NLT)
And God did not spare the ancient world—except for Noah and the seven others in his family. Noah warned the world of God's righteous judgment. So God protected Noah when he destroyed the world of ungodly people with a vast flood.
2 Peter 2:5 (NIV)
but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others;
Acts 8:4 (NLT)
But the believers who were scattered preached the Good News about Jesus wherever they went.
4. The wealth his epic faith received
Hebrews 11:7 (NIV)
By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family. By his faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.
Genesis 6:8 (NKJV)
But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
