Provision In The Midst of the Storm

Genesis 7:1-24

Like Noah, We Will Encounter Storms In Life.

Through The Storm

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God Takes Care of the Righteous

Genesis 7:1 (NET) The Lord said to Noah, “Come into the ark, you and all your household, for I consider you godly among this generation.

Pursue righteousness and God will Protect you in the midst of your

storm.

Hebrews 11:7 (NET) By faith Noah, when he was warned about things not yet seen, with reverent regard constructed an ark for the deliverance of his family. Through faith he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

God Preserves and Cares for His Creation

Genesis 7:2–3 2 You must take with you seven of every kind of clean animal, the male and its mate, two of every kind of unclean animal, the male and its mate, 3 and also seven of every kind of bird in the sky, male and female, to preserve their offspring on the face of the earth.

God always gives adequate Warning

Genesis 7:4 For in seven days I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the ground every living thing that I have made.”

God expects us to pay attention to the details of His Words.

Genesis 7:5 And Noah did all that the Lord commanded him.

Be Ready for Change

Genesis 7:6–9 6 Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters engulfed the earth. 7 Noah entered the ark along with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives because of the floodwaters. 8 Pairs of clean animals, of unclean animals, of birds, and of everything that creeps along the ground, 9 male and female, came into the ark to Noah, just as God had commanded him.

God Will Fulfill His Promise

Genesis 7:10 And after seven days the floodwaters engulfed the earth.

The Days of Testing arrived

Genesis 7:11–12 11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month – on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst open and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. 12 And the rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.

Forty – The Time Period of seclusion, testing and trials:•Moses was on the Mount Sinai forty days and nights•The spies checked out the land for forty days.

•Their lack of faith resulted in 40 years of trial in the wilderness.

•Jesus began his ministry with 40 days and nights of testing by Satan.

God Shut the Door

Genesis 7:13–16 13 On that very day Noah entered the ark, accompanied by his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, along with his wife and his sons’ three wives. 14 They entered, along with every living creature after its kind, every animal after its kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, everything with wings. 15 Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life came into the ark to Noah. 16 Those that entered were male and female, just as God commanded him. Then the Lord shut him in.

God Cleanses the Earth

Genesis 7:17–18 17 The flood engulfed the earth for forty days. As the waters increased, they lifted the ark and raised it above the earth. 18

The waters completely overwhelmed the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters.

God’s Judgment is total

Genesis 7:19–20 19 The waters completely inundated the earth so that even all the high mountains under the entire sky were covered. 20 The waters rose more than twenty feet above the mountains.

The World that Was is Gone

Genesis 7:21–22 21 And all living things that moved on the earth died, including the birds, domestic animals, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all humankind. 22 Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.

Trust in God and Live

Genesis 7:23 23 So the Lord destroyed every living thing that was on the surface of the ground, including people, animals, creatures that creep along the ground, and birds of the sky. They were wiped off the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark survived.

God Protects the Righteous

Genesis 7:24 The waters prevailed over the earth for 150 days (about five months).

Noah is our example

2 Peter 2:5–10 (NET) 5 and if he did not spare the ancient world, but did protect Noah, a herald of righteousness, along with seven others, when God brought a flood on an ungodly world, 6 and if he turned to ashes the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah when he condemned them to destruction, having appointed them to serve as an example to future generations of the ungodly, 7 and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man in anguish over the debauched lifestyle of lawless men, 8 (for while he lived among them day after day, that righteous man was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard) 9 – if so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from their trials, and to reserve the unrighteous for punishment at the day of judgment, 10 especially those who indulge their fleshly desires and who despise authority.

As Noah Saved the World, Christ Saves Us.

1 Peter 3:18–22 (NET)18 Because Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, to bring you to God, by being put to death in the flesh but by being made alive in the spirit. 19 In it he went and preached to the spirits in prison, 20 after they were disobedient long ago when God patiently waited in the days of Noah as an ark was being constructed. In the ark a few, that is eight souls, were delivered through water. 21 And this prefigured baptism, which now saves you – not the washing off of physical dirt but the pledge of a good conscience to God – through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, 22 who went into heaven and is at the right hand of God with angels and authorities and powers subject to him.

Jesus is Coming

Matthew 24:37–42 (NET)37 For just like the days of Noah were, so the coming of the Son of Man will be. 38 For in those days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark. 39 And they knew nothing until the flood came and took them all away. It will be the same at the coming of the Son of Man. 40 Then there will be two men in the field; one will be taken and one left. 41 There will be two women grinding grain with a mill; one will be taken and one left. 42 “Therefore stay alert, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come.