MAN WHO WALKED WITH GOD (20 OF 29)
Scripture: Hebrews 11:7
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Man Who Walked with God (20 of 29)
Series: Hebrews
Robert Dawson
Hebrews 11:7
Today, thanks to a modern technology, we have early warning systems to alert us to impending dangers like hurricanes and floods. Inevitably, during the natural disaster, there are those who take the warning seriously and take the necessary precautions and others don't. Some will evacuate the area while others choose to stay and endanger their lives, their families and those who ultimately have to come rescue them. Some even forfeit their lives because they failed to head the very real warnings.
What is even more amazing is that the warnings they receive are visible. They can hear reports and see radar images. They can look at the changing skies, feel the wind and rising tides. Despite all these visible and tangible warnings they refuse to respond or believe. It is as if they think they will somehow be exempt from nature's fury.
In Hebrews 11.7, which will be our text for the night, we are going to look at the life of a man who responded in faith to a divinely delivered warning, warning of a coming judgment through a natural disaster. We are going to look at the life of Noah. This one verse condenses and summarizes roughly four chapters in the book of Genesis and continues to drive home the importance of faith in the lives of God's people.
Hebrews 11.7 - By faith Noah, being warned by God about things not yet seen, in reverence prepared an ark for the salvation of his household, by which he condemned the world, and became an heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.
The author, by the brevity of this verse, expects his very Jewish readers to know well the story of Noah and the great flood. I trust that you know the story of Noah and the great flood. Sometimes our familiarity with the facts and narrative of a story obscures the important lessons imbedded within it. In Noah's story there is a wonderful lesson of faith and obedience. (I continue to put those t ...
Series: Hebrews
Robert Dawson
Hebrews 11:7
Today, thanks to a modern technology, we have early warning systems to alert us to impending dangers like hurricanes and floods. Inevitably, during the natural disaster, there are those who take the warning seriously and take the necessary precautions and others don't. Some will evacuate the area while others choose to stay and endanger their lives, their families and those who ultimately have to come rescue them. Some even forfeit their lives because they failed to head the very real warnings.
What is even more amazing is that the warnings they receive are visible. They can hear reports and see radar images. They can look at the changing skies, feel the wind and rising tides. Despite all these visible and tangible warnings they refuse to respond or believe. It is as if they think they will somehow be exempt from nature's fury.
In Hebrews 11.7, which will be our text for the night, we are going to look at the life of a man who responded in faith to a divinely delivered warning, warning of a coming judgment through a natural disaster. We are going to look at the life of Noah. This one verse condenses and summarizes roughly four chapters in the book of Genesis and continues to drive home the importance of faith in the lives of God's people.
Hebrews 11.7 - By faith Noah, being warned by God about things not yet seen, in reverence prepared an ark for the salvation of his household, by which he condemned the world, and became an heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.
The author, by the brevity of this verse, expects his very Jewish readers to know well the story of Noah and the great flood. I trust that you know the story of Noah and the great flood. Sometimes our familiarity with the facts and narrative of a story obscures the important lessons imbedded within it. In Noah's story there is a wonderful lesson of faith and obedience. (I continue to put those t ...
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