Noah - A Faith That Works! Series

Hebrews 11:7 7 By faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household, by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith. - NKJV

As we continue our study of the topic of faith, more specifically saving faith, we have been led by God to examine what it looks like in the 11th chapter of Hebrews.

Hebrews was not only written to aid us in our worship in that it emphasizes the deity and supremacy of Christ, but it was also written to emphasize the dangers of apostasy or falling away from Christ! It has warnings such as the following written throughout the letter…

Hebrews 2:1 We must pay the most careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away. .-NIV

Hebrews 3:12 See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. .-NIV

Hebrews 6:4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, 5 and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, 6 if they fall away, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and put Him to an open shame.-NIV

And so the writer of Hebrews does not only exhort us to believe, to exercise/demonsrate/dispay a saving faith…and here is what it looks like….

Hebrews 10 (KJV)

36 For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise:

37 “For yet a little while,

And He who is coming will come and will not tarry.

38 Now the just shall live by faith;

But if anyone draws back,

My soul has no pleasure in him.”

39 But we are not of those who draw back to perdition, but of those who believe to the saving of the soul

Having said that we see in today’s scripture passage another example, another illustration, or demonstrating of what soul saving faith looks like, let’s read that one verse togehter…here is what it looks like….

Hebrews 11:7 By faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household, by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith. -NKJV

I’ve entitled after one of the most amazing men, in the bible, who in my mind demonstrated one of the phenomenal expressions of soul saving faith…. in this age of “easy belief-ism” my message title today is…

Noah – A Faith That Works!

And by that I mean, not only one that acts, but one that can actually save the soul!

Which is SUCH AN IMPORTANT CONSIDERATION IN THE WORD OF GOD…

James in his epistle PUTS IT BEFORE US in the 2nd chapter when he asks…

James 2:14 What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can [that kind of] faith save him? -NKJV

Q; The implication? NO!

James 2:26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.-NKJV

SO AGAIN BELOVED LET’S LOOK AT WHAT A LIVING FAITH LOOKS LIKE BY LOOKING AT FIRST OF ALL….AT….

I. The Conditions in the life of this man named, Noah.

Genesis 6:1 Now it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them, 2 the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose.

Let me deal with a controversy right up front in order to explain the conditions!

A) The controversy?

1. Who "the sons of God," are and the “daughters of men”?

a) There have been primarily two major interpretations

b) The daughters of men refers to Cain’s posterity (his “ungodly” line) .

c) The sons of God, refers to the godly line of Seth (Genesis 5)

d) That is one interpretation.

2. The second is that "the sons of God," are a group of fallen angelic beings?

a) How do you clear it up?

B) The context?

1. Genesis 4 and 5 are genealogical chapters tracing the development of the ungodly and rebellious line of Cain and the godly line of Seth.

C) The conclusion?

1. The contextual evidence seems to favor the "the sons of God," is to be interpreted as the being the godly line of Seth.

a) That term “sons of God” is also used of men, the Israelites for example in…