Like the Days of Noah
August 9, 2015 Evening Service
Immanuel Baptist Church, Wagoner, OK
Rick Boyne
Message Point: People don’t seem to care that Jesus will return; we must tell them.
Focus Passage: Matthew 24:37-39
Supplemental Passage: Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. The LORD was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. (Genesis 6:5-6 NASB) (Pew Bible page 6)
Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and the earth was filled with violence. God looked on the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth. Then God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before Me; for the earth is filled with violence because of them; and behold, I am about to destroy them with the earth. (Genesis 6:11-13 NASB)
Introduction: In a speech made in 1863, Abraham Lincoln said, "We have been the receipients of the choicest bounties of heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prospertiy; we have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us."
I. People had corrupted God’s plan
a. People were violent
b. Certainly, today people are not keeping God’s plan
c. Today, in America, the highest court in the land legalized that which God finds an abomination
d. Today, all over the world, people are turning their backs on God
e. But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD. (Genesis 6:8 NASB)
II. People’s hearts were evil
a. The very intent of their hearts were evil
b. Today, ISIS is killing people just for their beliefs
c. Today, America is killing its unborn and are making a profit from it
d. But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD. (Genesis 6:8 NASB)
III. People were oblivious
a. The ark was being built right before their eyes
b. They went on eating, drinking, marrying, and partying without any regard for the future
c. Today, all manner of signs are taking place. Even some Christians are ignoring them. Things are going on out of Bible prophecy that are covered in the news, yet people are oblivious.
d. However, even non-religious people notice something is going on; they just don’t know what
e. But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD. (Genesis 6:8 NASB)
Application/Invitation: So shall the coming of the Lord be.
