The Life and Evangelism of Noah

                           


Ever notice in Scripture that Noah didn't try to placate, tolerate, be like, or love the world? He stood out like a sore thumb in his proclamation of the Gospel and his building of the ark.

He didn't tell the world of God's love. He didn't try to get the world to like him so that they would like God. God's judgment was already set in place. "With every nail pounded" as MacArthur notes, with every word with which Noah used to proclaim the righteousness of God (and thus conversely, the world's sin), God's judgment was proclaimed. With every day Noah worked on that ark (120 years' worth), the judgment of God got closer.

Noah didn't spend time trying to be like the world. Why?

Because to do so would be to also incur the wrath of God like the world. Why would he try to act like and think like the world, when God said that's the very thing He was about to judge?

So why are "Christians" today doing what Noah didn't do?

Gen 6:5  The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 
Gen 6:6  And the LORD was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.
Gen 6:7  So the LORD said, "I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them."
Gen 6:8  But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD. 
Gen 6:9  These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God. 

Gen 7:4  For in seven days I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground." 

Gen 7:5  And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him. 

Heb 11:7  By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith. 

2Pe 2:5  if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;