Good evening. Let us start with a prayer. Such a wonderful hymn we just sang. And our prayer is going to be much like it. Asking for his Holy Spirit to be with us tonight. Father God, merciful Father, thank you for your wonderful grace. Thank you for your wonderful gospel. Thank you for Jesus Christ, our Savior. Thank you that You have allowed us to meet here together to worship you and to hear the gospel, Father. We now are in need of you, Father. We need your Holy Spirit to enlighten us, these dead hearts and hard hearts, as the hymn described, Father. invite the Holy Spirit's ministry to our hearts tonight. May you be glorified by everything. Father God, in Jesus name, we pray. Amen. Okay, we're gonna be looking at tonight at Noah at Noah. Uh, in the Old Testament, we're gonna be looking at different passages because we're gonna be considering Noah as a picture of Christ. Many times we have, we have heard the gospel preached from the Ark of Noah. But tonight we're gonna be considering Noah himself as a picture of Christ. So, um, we're gonna be looking first at Noah's, um, meaning of his name. Genesis chapter five. Let's look up Genesis chapter 5 and verse 28 and 29. Genesis 5, 28, 29. We're going to begin with Noah's name because Noah, the story of Noah is just not, it's not only history, but it points us to Christ as we have, uh, heard both in the scripture reading as well as the hymn that we sang earlier. Um, in verse 28, it says, and Lamech, lived 182 years and begot a son. He called his name Noah, saying this same shall comfort us concerning our work and told of our hands because of the ground which the Lord has cursed. So he's here His name means rest, basically, is what his name means, Noah. And notice how it says that he's going to comfort us concerning our work and toils of our hands, as Jesus Christ has done. In Isaiah 1110, we read, and in that day, there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people, to it shall be the Gentiles seek, and his rest shall be glorious." This is talking about the Lord Jesus Christ, that his rest will be glorious. In Matthew 11, 28, Matthew 11, 28, our Lord says, come unto me. This is the Lord Jesus himself speaking. All ye that labor and are heavy laden, Now, he's not talking about physical work here, right? He's more talking about people trying to please God through their labors, trying to reach salvation and please God through their labor. He says, come unto me, either labor or heavy laden, and I will give you rest. This is the Lord Jesus Christ promising rest, not only to those hearers at that time, but to us as well. So we hear, uh, the name of Noah points to Christ because his name means rest. Uh, the second point is that Noah found grace and Genesis 68 says Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. Matthew 3 17. says, and lo, a voice from heaven saying, this is my beloved son, my well pleased. So God is always pleased with the Lord Jesus Christ, and as he's pleased with the Lord Jesus Christ, he's pleased with us, because he's our representative, and we are in him, in the Lord Jesus Christ. Also, it says in Genesis 6-9, regarding his name's Noah as a righteous man, He's an image of Christ who was to come. In Noah, I mean, in Genesis 6, 9, it says, these are the generations of Noah. Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God, okay? Obviously, he wasn't sinful. I mean, he wasn't sinless, however, he did says that he walked with God and that he was righteous. So he's also pointing to the righteous one. He's pointing to the Lord Jesus Christ as righteous. And of course, he was righteous by faith, just as our righteousness come by faith in Christ Jesus. Romans 4, 6 says the following, even as David also described the blessedness of a man, Unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works. This is what Paul says in Romans. So it says, even as David described the blessedness of any man, right? Unto whom God imputeth righteousness. So no one's righteousness came by faith, but his righteousness before God was imputed by God. In Romans, also in Romans 4, 22, 25, we read the following, and therefore, it was imputed unto him for righteousness. Now, this is talking about Abraham, but the topic is that it is, our righteousness is imputed. Our righteousness is not attained by our works or by our behavior. Now, it was not written for his sake alone. So this was not talking only about Abraham. says now it was not written for his sake alone. That is, it was imputed to him. But for us also, that's verse 24 of Romans four, but also to whom it shall be imputed. And if we believe on him that raised up Jesus, our Lord from the dead, who was delivered for our offenses and was raised again for our justification. And that is what we believe on. We believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. We believe on who he is, and we believe his work that he came to do. Much like the psalm that was read earlier regarding his works, his wonderful works. And the most wonderful works that God has ever done was our salvation. was Jesus Christ coming and fulfilling that promise of salvation. So now, um, my fourth point here is Noah. Uh, again, Noah was perfect in his generations. It says not only Noah is said to have been perfect among his contemporaries, but this also points to the immaculate humanity of our Lord of our Lord, who was also perfect. Luke 1 35 Familiar passage, this is the angel answering, and said unto her, the Holy Ghost shall come upon you, and the power of the highest shall overshadow thee. Therefore, also that holy thing, Lord Jesus Christ, so holy that he calls him that holy thing, which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God. So by Noah saying that he was perfect, he's pointing to our Savior, who is sinless and is coming without sin. In Hebrews 7, 26, in Hebrews 7, 26, it says, for such a high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, on the file, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens." Speaking about our Lord Jesus Christ. Noah also walked with God. That verse mentioned that he walked with God. Of course, Jesus walked with God for 33 years, for all his life. Beginning in Luke 2.52, we find that it says, in Jesus, increase in wisdom and stature. Remember, this is when he was a child when I think he was 12 years old and he got separated from his parents. And at the end of that passage, it says, and Jesus increase in wisdom and stature in favor with God and man. So he began walking. Well, he always walked with God from the beginning, but he grew in that and walking with God. And in Luke four four talks about our Lord, it says, and Jesus answered him saying it is written that man shall not live by bread alone. This is his answer to Satan who was tempting him. He was saying that man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God. This is how our Lord Jesus Christ completely fulfilled what he's saying here. That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God. And later on in Luke 6, 12, it says, and it came to pass in those days that he went out into the mountain and prayed and continued all night in prayer to God. That was Luke 6, 12, always walking with God throughout his lifetime. and look 23 46. It says, And when Jesus cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands, I commend my spirit. Having said this, he gave up the coast even till the end. He always served God. He always pleased God. He was perfect. Uh, as no, I was pointing when it says that about him. So a rate righteous savior, uh, could save unrighteous people like us. That's the way he can do it. And also, Jesus did mention Noah. Jesus said, as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be day also at the coming of the Son of Man. How was the days of Noah? It says the people were marrying and giving into marriage, and going about the cares of their lives. Um, not paying attention to know what's preaching because no, I was preaching for a long time. He took a long time to, uh, build that ship. The arc very long time, and he was preaching all the time for them to repent, but they did not listen to him. Um, I'm going to talk about a little bit about the arc. The arc could be, we could talk about a whole hour about the arc, how our pictures Christ or the gospel. But I'll just mention a few things regarding the arc here as as Christ is our refuge and Genesis 6 14. God commanded Noah to build this arc of salvation because that was the only way they were going to be saved. Um, and this task, this job was given only to Noah. only to Noah. Perhaps that's why he took so many years to do. You don't find anything in the scriptures about people helping out Noah. This was only given to Noah, tax only given to him. And this also points to Christ because Christ's salvation, our salvation, the salvation of his church, that task was given only to the Lord Jesus Christ. In John 17, four, the Lord Jesus Christ says, I have glorified thee on the earth, and have finished the work which thou had given to do. This is his his priestly prayer to God in our behalf. And he says, I have finished the work. This work of salvation. No one helped Jesus. No one. Absolutely no one helped Jesus, right? He did it all by himself. He had no help from angels. He had no help really from from the apostles, the apostles went on and preach the gospel, but they did not do the work of salvation. The gospel is declaring what the Lord Jesus has done. But the apostles did not assist them. And this is also true about the priest in the Old Testament. They worked alone in Leviticus 16, 17 says, and there shall be no man in the tabernacle. of the congregation when he goeth and to make an atonement in the holy place. So the priest in the Old Testament also had to do the work by themselves. Only they because these priests, of course, picture the Lord Jesus Christ. Any priest, any king, any prophet was a picture of the Lord Jesus Christ. Because the Lord Jesus Christ is all three. He is priest, king, and prophet, all in one. And no one in the Old Testament was all three as the Lord Jesus Christ was. So Jesus Christ accomplished his work that the Father gave him all by himself. In 1 Peter 2.24, it says, who his own self bore our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness. By those stripes we are healed." So him, by himself, he bore our sins, only the Lord Jesus Christ. He took the sins of every elect, all the sins of every elect. He took up all his body on the tree He was sacrificed, representing all the believers, all his church completely. So he did all of it. And going back to the ark, the ark had one door, one door. It was the only way in, right? Parallel to what Jesus says in verse nine, Did not put the, uh, I think it's John, John 10, John 10, nine. I am the door by me. If any man entering, he shall be saved. I shall go in and out and find pasture. So the Lord Jesus Christ says he's the door and he is the only door as, as this, the art had only one door, only one door to come in and be saved. and salvation is only through him. According to acts 4 12 says neither there is salvation and any other this no other for there is no other name on the heaven given among men whereby we must be saved. Only the Lord Jesus Christ gives us salvation. Only him and him alone. So And Noah, another thing that he had in common with the Lord Jesus Christ, where he points to the Lord Jesus Christ, is that he was a preacher of righteousness, right? He was a preacher of righteousness. In 2 Peter 2 5, it says, Noah was a preacher of righteousness. He warned of judgment as he was building the ark. And spare not, this is, the scripture and spare not the old world. This is talking about God does not spare the old world, and he's not going to spare the new world either. God is not going to spare anyone who's not in Christ. But he but save Noah did not spare the over but save Noah, the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, righteousness, pointing the Lord Jesus Christ was also a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly." One similarity also that I did not write down that I thought about was that we hear about Noah being righteous, but we don't hear about anything other than about his wife and his three children. So their salvation was based on their relationship to Noah. It doesn't say anything about how righteous they were or they were not righteous, both his wife and his children. However, it was his family. And they were in that ship because they were related to Noah. As we are saved based on our relationship to Christ. Christ is our husband. We are his wife, and that is why we are saved. We are, because we are elect, we are his bride. So our relationship to Jesus Christ is the reason why we know God, is the reason why we are saved. So Christ also was preaching righteousness in the kingdom of God. In Mark 1 15 was saying, and the time has fulfilled, And the kingdom of God is at hand. This is the Lord Jesus Christ preaching, repent ye and believe the gospel. So this is a passage where we see that our Lord Jesus Christ was also a preacher of righteousness as Noah was. And in Genesis chapter 7, we see how the judgment came by water. but it was also the means of salvation of those that were in the ship, right? In 1 Peter 3.20, we see that the flood is a prefigure of the baptism, point to the salvation of Christ's death and resurrection. In 1 Peter 3.20, it says, we sometimes were disobedient When once the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, God is always long-suffering. He's not quick to judge. He gave him plenty of time for those people to repent. He was building that ship for years and years, and they did not repent. Even when Noah was born, when Noah was born, it was said, his father said that that at the end, the world would end when I think it was Methuselah, when Methuselah was born. Methuselah lived 969 years. He was the oldest person. And when Methuselah was born, it was said that God's judgment will come when he dies. So they already knew almost 1,000 years. God was long-suffering. He waited on the days of Noah while the ark was preparing, says the scriptures, wherein a few, that is, eight souls, were saved by water. They were saved by water, but this same water was the judgment of the rest of them. So the light figure, it says the next verse, the light figure where into even baptism doth also now save us. So they were saved by water. And this scripture is using it as a picture of baptism that now saves us, not the putting away of filth or the flesh. but the answer of good conscience towards God, meaning it's clarifying that baptism itself doesn't save us, but it pictures our salvation by the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. So even this water that saved them is a picture of our baptism. And also, Christ on the cross Judgment fell on Christ, so we might have life. So the judgment fell on Christ, so we might have life, just like the judgment fell on all these people. So the next point is that Noah was He made a covenant with Noah. He was the person that he made this new covenant that he sealed with the rainbow, parallel with Christ, who established a better, a new and better covenant sealed by his blood. In Luke 22 20, it says, likewise, also the cup after supper, saying this is the cup of the new covenant. This is when he was established the last supper, which we also do when we do the Lord's Supper. This is the cup of the new covenant in my blood, which is shed for you. So here also, as Noah is, God makes a new covenant with Noah as he leaves the ship, as he comes out, Noah enters the new world, and Christ will become a new creation. We, in Christ, we become a new creation. In Second Corinthians 517, Second Corinthians says, therefore, if any man be in Christ, He's a new creature. All things are passed away. Behold, all things become new. So the Lord gives us a new creature. He makes us a new man. And all things have passed away. Behold, all things become new. This is what the Lord Jesus Christ does for us. He gives us a new, he makes it a new creature. So it's not, this flesh is not, This flesh that's going to heaven is not this flesh that can please God, because the flesh does not please God. But in Christ, in this new nature, in Christ, he gives us a perfect nature. That's why in 1 John, it talks about that the sons of God do not sin. And it's talking about this new creature, this new nature that God gives us. So God not only rescues us from judgment, but he makes us a new creature as well. So, in conclusion, the points that I mentioned here regarding Noah points to Jesus. He points to Jesus, it says that he was a righteous man. No one righteous like our Lord Jesus Christ's righteousness. Our Lord Jesus Christ's righteousness is imputed to everyone who believes in him, whoever whom who trust in him. to the elect that righteousness in this is imputed. So we are righteous as he is righteous, not by anything that we do. Um, not even by our faith. Even though God uses our faith, our faith is given by God, and we trust in someone other than ourselves, which is the Lord Jesus Christ. Um, Noah was a preacher of salvation. He was a preacher of righteousness. When it says preacher of righteousness, that's what it means, because salvation, when the gospel is preached, you're preaching about the righteousness, not our righteousness, but God's righteousness, which is Lord Jesus Christ, right? So he was a preacher of salvation, a preacher of the gospel. He was a builder of the ark, which was the refuge. The Lord Jesus Christ is our ark. He's our salvation. He is our refuge. And he also was a mediator of a new covenant. Noah was a mediator of a new covenant that took place at that point. And the Lord Jesus Christ is also a mediator of a new covenant. And And that's it. It's gonna be short this this time. So hopefully, uh, we are able to see the gospel in nor as a picture of Christ. And like, like, uh, like the pastor mentioned earlier, uh, in and, uh, and the him that we send the scriptures are all about Christ. The Old Testament was written and God is is a god of progressive revelation. And even though not every believer saw everything we are able to see now in this new covenant, looking back with the gospel, we able to see the gospel all over the Old Testament. Uh, and, uh, the Old Testament points to Christ. And even though it may have some some ethical lessons for those in that time, For us, we don't look at the Old Testament for ethical learning. We look to the Old Testament looking for Christ, right? Because Christ is our righteousness. And he is the main topic and who the scriptures speak about because he's the living word. And no other topic or nothing else that we can get out of the Bible comes close to Christ. And that's why, as Pastor Greg mentioned earlier, that the Lord Jesus Christ tells the Pharisees that you search the scriptures. And this reminds me of the religious today. They search their scriptures. They can even memorize the scriptures. They'll know doctrine from A to Z, and they'll know all these doctrines. The scriptures testify of a person. The scriptures are not an end of itself. The scriptures are a means of learning about the Lord Jesus Christ. And knowing Lord Jesus Christ is the means of knowing God the Father. So the scriptures for themselves are not the end. So sometimes they teach that the scriptures is sufficient for salvation. Well, they're necessary for salvation, but they're not sufficient because a lot of people know the scriptures. It's by grace that the Lord saves us. If he illuminates, his Holy Spirit has to come and illuminate us to understand, to see the Lord, the face, the Lord Jesus Christ in the scriptures. If he doesn't, no matter how much we study the scriptures, we're not going to have salvation because we don't see the Lord Jesus Christ for who he is. So that even the scriptures as important as they are, they're not a means. I mean, they're not an end of itself. They are a means. Father God, thank you for this time. Thank you for your scriptures. that leads us to Christ, help us, Lord, see more and more of you, more of the Lord Jesus Christ in your scriptures, help us to go in grace, and in the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. In his name we pray, amen.