Well, thank you so much for the
special music. Let's ask God to enable us to
see some things in the scriptures again tonight regarding our Savior
as we go to Genesis chapter 5. May the Lord as we endeavor to
consider our subject, Noah, a type of Christ. Noah, a type of Christ. Now, back in the chapter that
precedes chapter 5, chapter 4, of course, We have an account
of Abel offering to God what is recorded in Hebrews 11 as
being a more excellent, a more excellent sacrifice than that
of Cain. That is a sacrifice far superior
unto the offering of Cain. The scripture says, Abel, therefore,
he obtained witness that he was righteous. Righteous men look
to Christ for all of their salvation. They look to the Lord Jesus for
all of their acceptance before God. It was said of Abel that
he brought the firstling of his flock with the fat thereof. The word fat might indicate that
best part of the sacrifice as it would later refer to in the
book of Leviticus, or it may very well mean the fattest of
the flock, the very best of the flock belonged to God, and that's
what Abel brought, and he offered that as a sacrifice unto the
Lord. Abraham, or rather Abel, believed
in salvation by substitution. He believed in salvation by the
death of an innocent in his stead. When Abel went to offer unto
God the sacrifice that he presented, he did so with an understanding
that he ought to die for his own transgressions, but he brought
to God a suitable substitute to die in his stead, and that
substitute directed his attention to that one whom God had revealed
in Genesis chapter 3 and verse 15 as being the seed of the woman
who would come and he would crush the head of the serpent. But
we know that Abel was murdered. He was murdered by his brother.
And his brother's beliefs can certainly be, they can be summed
up as salvation by the works of one's own hands. Now, though Abel died, the gospel
did not die with him. In fact, his father and his mother,
Admin Eve, lived many years. and Adam, he continued the belief
of the gospel. Now as you look, and we're not
gonna have the time or take the time tonight to go into Genesis
chapter four, but after Abel's sacrifice is mentioned, and after
God sits before us by the pen of Moses, the death of Abel by
his brother Cain, God briefly, he briefly sets before us the
lineage of this ungodly man called Cain. And then after doing that,
then the Lord begins to introduce to us that lineage that would
ultimately lead to the Lord Jesus. What we have in Genesis chapter
five and right even at the end of Genesis chapter four is the
genealogy that leads us to the Lord Jesus. And I know in these
genealogies, we kind of get lost in them and we sometimes maybe
even lose interest in reading all of these names, many of which
we have difficulty pronouncing And we wonder what's the use
of God putting the names, especially like in Genesis chapter 5. What's the purpose in God putting
all of these names in the Word of God? It's for this reason.
God is showing us how He maintained the seed. He maintained that
lineage that would lead to the Lord Jesus. You see, Adam and
Eve, Adam begat Abel indeed. And Abel knew the gospel and
Abel believed the gospel of substitution. But Abel died. There was no lineage
from Abel to continue the truth of God. As we get to the end
of Genesis chapter four, we find that Adam and Eve begat another
son. Another son. In fact, look back
at chapter 4 and verse 25. And Adam knew Eve his wife again,
and she bare a son, and she called his name Seth. And it is from
the lineage of Seth that God will maintain the gospel. And
in the lineage of Seth, we come all the way down, it leads to
Noah. It leads to Noah. These men who
are listed in Genesis chapter 5, God lists men who believe
the message of grace. And these are the men that God
used to maintain the truth in this world. And they maintained
the truth for hundreds and hundreds of years. The gospel did not
continue through the lineage of Abel. The gospel continued
through the lineage of Seth. And as God maintained His seed
in this world, He maintained His people in this world. His
people believed the gospel of grace and they passed it on from
one generation to another. And that which is revealed in
Genesis chapter 5 is that God is passing down divine truth
from one generation to another. It's a marvelous thing the way
God does preserve His truth as He preserves His gospel. And
I was thinking about it this afternoon as I came over to kind
of put the finishing touches upon this message, I was thinking
upon this fact. You know, God has used this assembly
to maintain the truth. in our generation. Now, indeed,
there are many other churches as well. And we're very thankful
for those. I'm thankful for every man who
preaches the gospel. But isn't it a wonderful privilege
that God is using us in maintaining the voice of truth the voice
of grace, the voice of Christ Jesus the Lord, being the only
Savior of sinners. It's a wonderful thing to be
involved in the ministry of the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. God used these men. And you've
got to remember that these men that God used, most of them lived
many, many years. In fact, you can span the distance
between Adam and Abraham by referring to four men. Just four men. Adam, Seth, or I should say Adam
Methuselah, and then one of Noah's sons, his name was Shem. and then Abraham. Did you know
that no one of Noah's sons, Shem, he knew Abraham. In fact, Abraham
died before he did. And there's every reason to think
that this boy, Shem, he even knew Isaac and Jacob. So we must
not confine our thoughts and think, well, they only lived
for a few years and then they died off. Those four men, they
covered many, many years maintaining the very truth of God. And you
think of Methuselah, who lived, he lived the longest of anybody's
ever lived, 969 years. He could speak. He could speak
to people of his day having received information from Adam. Their
lives overlapped and Adam could tell him about the fall. And
Adam could tell him about how God came searching for him and
for his wife Eve. And Adam could tell him about
those animals that died in their stead in the garden. God has
maintained his truth down through the years. It's a marvelous thing.
And when you arrive at these genealogies, such as the one
in Genesis chapter five, don't be so quick to dismiss it and
say, well, all of these names, I don't know what these names
mean. I don't know anything about them, don't have much information.
I'll just skip over that. Don't skip over them. They're
in the word of God. God said His Word will last forever. And so as you arrive here in
Genesis chapter 5, and you're indeed confronted with all of
these names, You must remember that these names are written
to give every indication of number one, God maintained His truth
through these men, and number two, through these men, going
far off in the distance, Messiah will come. You see, this has
to do with our Lord Jesus. We know that all of the Word
of God has to do with our beloved Savior. And this is no different. This is no different. So, as we get to the end of chapter
four, we have Adam, whose name means, what does Adam's name
mean? Red dirt. Now back in those days, especially
in Bible days, names were of great significance. I mean, you
didn't pick out a name. They didn't pick out names because
they were well-known or famous people. Actually, God led them
to name their children, and these names are very significant, even
in God giving to Adam his name Red earth, that's a reminder
that we came from the earth. We're of the earth, earthy. Thank God there's another man,
the last Adam. He also is associated with us,
but we read in 1 Corinthians chapter 15, he's the Lord of
heaven, he came from heaven. And we read that Adam begat Seth. What does Seth's name mean? The
appointed one. He's the appointed one. As are
all of God's people, we're appointed unto salvation. We're appointed
to know God. We're appointed to be his children.
And God maintained the truth in this world for many years
through the ministry of this man Seth. He worshiped God exactly
the same way Abel did. And then we read that Seth begat
Enos. Enos means to call upon. Look at chapter four, verse 26. And back up to verse 25, and
Adam knew his wife again, she bare a son and called his name
Seth, for God said she hath appointed me, there's what his name means,
appointment, he's appointed me another seed instead of Abel
whom Cain slew. And it's this one through whom
Messiah will come. And verse 26, and to Seth, to
him also there was born a son. And he called his name Enos.
Then began men to call upon the name of the Lord. What does that
mean? They began to, in an organized way, have public worship. They
began to call upon the name of the Lord. And so Enos means to
call upon the name of the Lord. Then Enos, as you get down into
chapter five, chapter five and verse nine, Enos lived 90 years
and he begat Cainan. Cainan means possession. He belonged to God. He was God's
choice. How long had he belonged to God?
Just as long as you belong to God if you're a believer, forever.
Forever. He's God's possession. God's
possession by choice. God's possession by redemption. God's possession by effectual
call. And then we read in chapter 5
and verse 12, And Cainan lived seven years, and begat Mahalaleel. Mahalaleel. What does his name
mean? The praise of God. The praise
of God. The Lord led this man Canaan and his wife
to name Mahalil, the praise of God. They rejoiced in the Lord.
And then in chapter 5 and verse 15, and Mahalil lived 65 years
and he begat Jared. And Jared, I told you this morning,
means descending. Descending. It was during the
lifetime of Jared. that the worship of God began
to really go downhill. An era became more prevalent. The truth was beginning to be
corrupted. Things began to go down. Descending. That's what Jared's name mean,
and then in verse 18, and Jared lived 162 years, and he began
Enoch. Enoch means dedicated to the
Lord. Up to this time, so some of the
older writers say, that the heads of these generations
warned their descendants Don't be corrupted by false teaching. Don't be corrupted by those who
have descended from Cain, who believed salvation by works,
salvation by the labors of man's hands. They were works mongers. Don't be corrupted by them. But
corruption set in anyway because man is depraved by nature. and he doesn't naturally receive
the message of grace. Now this man Enoch, he maintained
a witness before the world, walking with God, fellowshipping with
God, speaking with God. He's a man of faith. He's mentioned
in Hebrews chapter 11. By faith Enoch, and how marvelous
to have your name listed in that chapter. And there's Enoch's
name. Who gave him faith? God did. We begin in the service, Ephesians
2 verse 8. For by grace you say through
faith, and that not of yourselves. Enoch's faith didn't originate
with him. God gave him the faith, the faith
to believe. He's one of the witnesses of
the truth. He's one of the ones that God
used to maintain the gospel in his day. And then, look at verse 21. And Enoch lived sixty and five
years, and he begat Methuselah. Methuselah, whose name means,
here's the abbreviated meaning of his name, a dart. or error. An enlarged definition of his
name is this. When he dies, the error of God
will be sent. The dart of God's error will
be sent. What dart would that be? The
flood. The flood. Because if you do
the math of this, in the year he died, that's when God washed
away the ungodly. In the year that he dies, God
will send the error of his judgment and show his disdain for the
error that had polluted the world, that is religious error. When
he dies, God will send forth the error of his judgment. And by the way, as you read through
Genesis chapter five eight times, you will read these words, and
he died. And he died. This shows the reign
of death. And it's been going on for a
long, long time. Abel's the very first one who
died. And he just began a long caravan
of people. Oh, what a train of people have
fallen in the steps of Abel who have died. Enoch did not. He was translated
that he should not see death. Translated means he passed over. As did Elijah. If I were you,
I wouldn't figure on being the third. And he died. That's one of the
key things to see here. But look at chapter five. Well, then Methuselah begat Lamech. This is verse 25. Methuselah
lived 180 and seven years and he begat Lamech. Lamech means
powerful. Now, don't get confused on Lamech's
name because Lamech was also a name given to one of the descendants
of Cain. earlier as listed in chapter
4. But that man was an ungodly man. He's the first man who became
a bigamist. He had two wives. This is a man
who had total disregard for the Word of God and the Gospel of
God's grace. Don't confuse that Lamech with
this one who is the father of Noah. This is a man who in himself
is also powerful. He's powerful. He's powerful
to hold forth the gospel. He's powerful to hold forth the
way of truth. God taught him the gospel. And
then, verses 28 and 29, and Lamech lived 180 and two years, and
he begat a son. And he called his name Noah. Noah, now watch this, saying,
this one, this same, this son, he shall comfort us concerning
our work and our toil of our hands because of the ground which
the Lord hath cursed. And Lamech lived after he begat
Noah 590 and five years, and begat sons and daughters, and
all the days of Lamech were 770 and seven years, and he died. Noah was 500 years old. Noah
begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth. The gospel then did not go through,
and I'll just give this to you because I need to get to the
subject at hand for the night. The gospel did not go from Noah
through Ham. It did not go from Noah through
Japheth. It went from Noah through this
man Shem. And that's the gospel lineage. God has never left himself without
a witness in this world. He's always had somebody who
believed the truth, who taught the truth, who preached the truth,
who embraced the truth. And it wasn't Ham, it wasn't
Japheth. It was this man Shem. And he continued the truth even
after his father had died. In fact, this man lived, he lived
longer than Abraham lived. Yeah, he outlived Abraham. And
you wonder in the providence of God if this man indeed met
Abraham. And it's likely Isaac and Jacob
also. And if He did meet them, would
He not have related to them about the flood? And about the great
provision God made of an ark? and how his father led him and
his two brothers and perhaps others who were hired to assist
in the building of the ark, in making this wonderful place of
refuge, this gigantic rectangular ark in the which God spared eight
souls. He would have related that if,
in the providence of God, their paths had crossed, the paths
of Shem with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob. He would have shared
with them the gospel of God's grace that had been revealed
to him in his days. It's quite marvelous here. But Noah, He's the subject for
tonight, or at least we want to begin with him. Noah's a type
of Christ. I'll give you several things.
Number one, he's a type of Christ in his name. Because his name
means rest. His name means consolation. His name means comfort. I certainly would not make the
same kind of mistake that Adam and Eve, I don't, Lamech did
make the same kind of mistake, I should say, that Adam and Eve
made when they named their firstborn son Cain. His name means possession,
and they concluded, we born a son, he's the Lord. No, they were
absolutely wrong. He wasn't the Lord, he was a
devil. He was a devil. That's why the next son, Abel,
you know what his name means? Vanity. Vanity. Vanity of vanity is all is vanity. The scripture says, behold thou
hast made my death, my breath is a hand breath. Mine age is
as nothing, verily every man in his best state is altogether
vanity. Well, They named Lamech and his
wife, named their son, Noah. And his name points us directly
to Christ Jesus. He's our comfort. He's our consolation. In fact, when the Lord told Isaiah
to comfort his people, He reminded him and he told him and then
Isaiah reminded the people what Messiah would do. And this is
of great comfort to us. Christ is our Savior. He is the
one who suffered for our sins and brought in for us everlasting
righteousness. Our Lord is indeed Himself, our
consolation. And did He not say to His disciples,
He said, if I go not away, I will not sin to you, there will not
come to you another comforter? Another? Another? Well, who's the first one? He
is! He's the comforter of His people
and you see that in John chapter 14 when He speaks to His troubled
disciples and says, let not your heart be troubled. Who says that? That one whose name is Jesus,
our Savior, the comforter of His people. His name means rest. That's what Noah's name means,
rest. Did not our Lord Jesus say, and oh how sweet are these
words, come unto me. All ye that labor and are heavy
laden, and I will give you rest. Rest. Noah's a type of our Lord
Jesus in his name. In his name. Isaiah 28 and verse
12 says, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest. And this is the refreshing. You
look around you, there's nothing to refresh you. There's nothing
to encourage you. There's no comfort in the world.
You look within, there's nothing to refresh you. There's nothing
to comfort you from within. But when you look to Christ Jesus,
and you look to his death upon the cross of Calvary, you look
to his blood, you look to his faithfulness, you look to his
righteousness, when you look to him, then you have rest. There's no rest to be found anywhere
else. And then secondly, he's a type
of Christ in his very person. Chapter seven, verse one. The
Lord says to Noah, Come thou, chapter 7, verse 1, come thou
and all thy house into the ark. For thee have I seen righteous
before me in this generation. Indeed, Noah was made the righteousness
of God in Christ Jesus by the obedience of our Savior. He obtained
a righteousness which he received by faith. But this is what I
want to point out to you. Our Lord Jesus Himself He is
righteousness. He is the Lord, our righteousness. He has a righteousness, not by
imputation. That's how we have a righteousness. That's how every child of God
has a righteousness. It's been imputed to us. It's
been credited to us based upon the obedience of the Lord Jesus
Christ that God saw that He would render to Him from before the
foundation of the world. We have always been righteous
in the Lord Jesus. We have always been accepted
in Him. That is an imputed righteousness. But our Lord Jesus, He is righteous
in and of Himself. Amen. In Him is no sin, no shortcomings,
no failures. He was the holy man, the only
truly holy man who ever lived. Do you remember when Gabriel
came to Mary and announced to her that she was going to have
a child? Gabriel said, that holy thing
which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God. He was pure. Undefiled, he walked
spotlessly before God. In him was no sin, and he did
no sin. Pilate said, I find no fault
in this man. Moreover, God saw no fault in
this man. And by his death upon the cross,
He established for all of His people. He obtained. He reached
out and He took hold of righteousness for us. And we stand in His righteousness
today. And God sees neither spot nor
wrinkle nor any such thing in any of His people. In the eyes
of God Almighty and His eyes are the only ones that matter.
In his sight, all of his people are righteous in Christ Jesus. So Jeremiah says in that day,
the sins and iniquities of God's people shall be sought for. They
won't be found. They won't be found. Thirdly,
he's a type of Christ in his walk. Look at chapter six and
verse six. Chapter 6 and verse, let me go
down a little bit. Verse 8 and 9. But Noah found
grace in the eyes of the Lord. These are the generations of
Noah. Noah was a just man and perfect in his generation. And
watch this. And Noah walked with God. in an age of religious darkness. And I'll just repeat a little
bit of what I said this morning. In verses 1 and 2, we find the
real culprit, the reason for why God sent this judgment was
because the people of God intermarried with unbelievers And then the
truth of the gospel got mixed in with error. And whenever truth
is mixed with error, the result is not to improve error. The result is to do away with
the truth because it all becomes error. And that is what has happened
in Genesis chapter 6. And God is angry. God is angry. He even says it repented Him
that He had made the world, that He had made the earth. What does
that mean? God was sorry? No, it means that God willed
a different direction. He's gonna go in a different
direction than it appeared that He would go in. And He's going
to wipe out civilization, and it's estimated, estimates vary
from one billion to seven billion people were upon the earth in
that time. I don't know how many there were,
lots of people, but God said, I'm going to wipe out the whole
earth with the exception of eight souls. And he did it because
the mixing of the truth of the gospel with a works religion
is something that God absolutely detests. His truth, that truth
of salvation by grace, of salvation by Christ Jesus only and his
work of redemption. That is the truth that gives
God the greatest glory. And you tamper with that, now
you gonna get God's attention for sure. And that's what happened. God looked down from heaven.
He saw this. He saw that the wickedness of
man was great. And the greatest wickedness in
all the earth was then and it still is false religion. It's the greatest error. It's
the greatest danger to your soul. Because it's so deceitful. Oh, it's so cunning. And it'll
ruin you. It'll ruin you. And that's why
the leadership of the congregation, and really all of us together,
we've got to be on our P's and Q's as we used to say. We've
got to stand guard, we've got to stand up to the line. Stand
up and be counted and say, listen, here we stand, I can do no other. This is the truth of the gospel
and we're not gonna stand for anything else. To stand for anything
else is a compromise of the truth. And then it's to reap the wrath
of God. I sure don't want to do that.
No, sir. But in the midst of all of this,
in the midst of false religion, in the midst of open profanity
and wickedness, Noah walked with God. Everybody else is in the dark.
He's walking in the light. Everybody else going this way.
Broad road that leads to destruction. He's on the narrow road that
leads to life everlasting. Everybody else going this way.
And Noah said, no, that's the wrong way. I'm going this way.
Yeah, but it's just one of you, and look how many of us it is.
Uh-huh, I see. But still the truth of God. He
says, that's what I follow. That's what I follow. He walked
with God as his great-grandfather Enoch did. And how much more
is that true of our Lord Jesus? In the age of moral darkness,
in the age of religious darkness, our Lord Jesus shined brightly
for the glory of God. You see, the darker it is, the
brighter a star shines. And oh, the star of God. That bright and morning star,
how brightly he shone walking in this world. Walking contrary
to the evil that's in the hearts of all men. Walking contrary,
speaking openly against the era of hypocrisy and self-righteousness,
and thereby earning the wrath of the religious crowd. But yet
he continued to stand for the truth of God's glory, and they
killed him for it. But that was in the purpose of
God too. Because he must die for our sins
according to the scriptures. Fourthly, Noah's a type of Christ
in his position. He's the one man God dealt with.
Didn't deal with anybody else. All of the rest of posterity,
you know, we owe our existence to Noah. who was used in the
providence of God. You say, well, we all go back
to Adam. That's right, but everybody else
of Adam's race is wiped out. And Noah is the man. We owe our
existence to him. And we owe our spiritual existence
to Christ Jesus. Because God deals with sinners. Oh, listen to me. Listen to the
word of God. God deals with sinners through
one man. The God-man. The God-man. And I've said it a hundred times
before, and Lord leaves me here long enough, it'd be a thousand
times. God will not speak to nor be spoken to by any son or
daughter of Adam except through me. Boy, I'd like to tell the
whole world that. You see, out of all the men living,
let's take the low number. One billion people. That's a
lot of people. That's the low estimation of
how big the population was back then. Let's say one billion people. Out of one billion people, He
speaks to one man. And through that one man, He
deals with all those who will come in the future. And our God dealt with one man
for us. For all of his posterity, God
dealt with Christ Jesus. And then, he's the type of Christ
in his preaching. Second Peter 2.5 says he's a
preacher of righteousness. Well, you know about that. He
was a preacher of righteousness. And our Lord Jesus, he was the
preacher of righteousness. Psalm 40, I have declared thy
righteousness in the great congregation. I have not hesitated to do that,
he said. And so in our Lord's day, he
said to the crowds, he said, accept your righteousness, exceed
the righteousness of the scribes and the Pharisees. You're not
going to enter into heaven. He is a preacher of righteousness.
Don't you ever get on any preacher that he preaches righteousness
too much. Our Lord Jesus preached righteousness. And all of his preachers preached
righteousness. The righteousness we don't have,
the righteousness we can't produce, the righteousness God demands
and where that righteousness can be found in Christ Jesus
the Lord and nowhere else. And then he's a type of Christ
in his work. God gave him a work to do. Build
an ark. Build an ark. What's the reason for the ark?
For the salvation of my people. And our Lord Jesus, he came into
this world, he was a sign, a work to do. What is that work? It's the work of deliverance. It's the work of the salvation
of His people. It's the work of saving them
from sin. Saving them from themselves. Saving them from the world. Saving
them from the evil ones. Saving them from hell. That's
His work. Well, did Noah finish the work
God gave him to do? You betcha. He surely did. Well, did our Lord finish the
work that God gave Him to do? Oh, yes, He did. He said in His
high priestly prayer, I have finished the work thou gavest
me to do. And in John 19, verse 30, He
says it is finished. I've finished the work. I've
redeemed them. I've reconciled them. I paid
their debt. I put away their sins. Well, Noah's a type of Christ
seventhly in that he led his family into the ark. You know, when you read the word
of God, read carefully. Read carefully. If you read too
fast, you read right over some things that are very important.
Look at chapter 6 and verse 19. And of every living thing of
all flesh, in verse 18 he said, Thou shalt come into the ark,
thou, thy sons, wife, thy sons' wives, with thee, of every living
thing, two of every sort, thou shalt bring into the ark, to
keep them alive with thee. They shall be male and female,
notice, to keep them alive with thee." There's not going to be
any life anywhere else. If you don't come to Noah, there's
going to be death. Everything else is going to be
dead. But read on, verse 20 says, fowls after their kind and of
cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after
his kind, two of every sort, watch this, shall come unto thee
to keep them alive. Come unto thee. Notice again
in chapter seven, in verse nine. There went in two and two unto
Noah into the ark. Where did they go to? They went
to Noah. Look at chapter 7 verse 15. And they went in unto Noah into
the ark. You see, Noah is a type of Christ
Jesus in that he led his family into the ark. And the Lord God
said to him, they'll come to you. We come to you, Noah. What shall we do, Noah? Well, you've come to the right
one, I can tell you that. You've come to the messenger
from God. You've come to the one who's
built the ark. You come to the one who will
direct you into the place of safety. And that's what we do. We come to Christ Jesus. The
legalists say, come to the law. The Charles Feeneys of this world
say, come to the altar. Come to the front. Church of
Christ people say, come to the baptistry. But our Lord Jesus
says, come unto me. That's what He says. I'll give
you rest. And then He's a type of Christ
in that through Him God preserved a race. God used Him to maintain
and continue a race of people. And God used Christ Jesus to
save a race of people, a race handpicked by God for his glory. A people out of every nation,
kindred, tribe, and tongue. And then he's a type of Christ
in that God made with him a covenant on behalf of others. You say,
oh yeah, I read about that covenant over here in chapter nine. Oh,
but you can read about it earlier than that. Look at chapter six
and verse 18. And by the way, for those of
you who are serious Bible students, and to a degree we all are, of
course, here's the first usage of the word covenant. The very
first usage of the word covenant in the Bible. Chapter 6 and verse
18, but with thee I will establish my covenant. And God established
his covenant with his son. His son's the mediator of the
new covenant. His blood, his blood is the blood
of the new covenant. God made with Him an everlasting
covenant of grace on behalf of a race of people, a chosen people. And our Lord Jesus represented
in that legal binding contract between the Father, the Son,
and the Spirit. The Father chose a people, Christ
pledged Himself to give His life for those people, and the Spirit
of God said He'd call those people. God made a covenant with His
Son. And then he's a type of Christ
in that all that God entrusted to him, of all those that were
entrusted to him, he didn't lose a one of them. I read this to you this morning,
and I, may I read it to you again? Chapter eight, at verse 18. Chapter eight in verse 18. And
Noah went forth, this is at the end, the flood's over now, been
in this ark about a year. And Noah went forth and his sons
and his wife and his son's wives with him. Now go back to chapter
7 and verse 7. And Noah went in, and his sons,
and his wife, and his sons' wives with him into the ark. Eight
of them went in, eight of them came out. All that God entrusted
to him were safe, they were delivered from death. And our Lord Jesus
said in John chapter six, all that the Father giveth me shall
come to me, and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast
out. And this is the Father's will, that of all he hath given
me, I should lose nothing. I'll not lose a one of them.
I'll raise them all up at the last day. And then, can I give you one
more? Noah is a type of Christ in the
offering, in that the offering he brought to God was a sweet
savor to the Lord. Chapter 8, verses 20 and 21. And Noah built an altar unto
the Lord, and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl,
and offered burnt offerings on the altar. And the Lord, he smelled
a sweet savor. That's pleasing to the Lord.
It was a delightful fragrance to him. And the Lord said in
his heart, I will not again curse the ground anymore for man's
sake. I won't do it anymore. Now let me give you a reference
over in the New Testament. So that's a sweet saver. You
probably know where I'm going. Ephesians chapter 5, it'll bear
reading again. Ephesians chapter 5, verses 1
and 2. Ephesians chapter 5, verses 1
and 2. Be ye followers of God. You know
what the word followers means? Imitators. Imitators. Children imitating
their father. God help us to walk that way.
Be ye therefore followers of God as dear children and walking. Love as Christ also hath loved
us. and hath given himself for us
an offering and a sacrifice to God." Watch this, for a sweet
smelling savor. I tell you, if those offerings
that Noah offered after he came out of the ark, if those were
sweet smelling to God, oh how much more fragrant And how much
more delightful was the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ that
satisfied divine justice. What a sacrifice and what a savior. And what those animals that Noah
offered could not do, they couldn't put away sin, the sacrifice of
the Lord Jesus did do. and put away all the sins of
God's people.