Flood: Seeing Beauty in Tragedy

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The story of the Flood in Genesis is quite the epic. But what does it tell us today? And what does it say, if anything, about the events of the 1st century regarding Jesus? Derek examines those questions through the story of Noah.

Transcript of Flood: Seeing Beauty in Tragedy

GENESIS 6

ONLY EVIL, ALL THE TIME.

GOD’S FIRST RESPONSE TO SIN WAS NOT

WRATH, BUT GRIEF.

THERE WAS REGRET TOWARDS ALL MEN.

EXCEPT ONE.

NOAH FOUND GRACE.

GOD COVENANTS WITH NOAH.

NOAH OBEYS.

GOD’S GRACE LEADS TO OUR OBEDIENCE.

NOAH ENTERS THE ARK.

THE WATERS OF THE FLOOD COME UPON THE EARTH.

FOR FORTY DAYS.

THE WATER RISES.

DEVASTATION ABOUNDS.

SOME OF YOU BLAME GOD.

GOD REMEMBERED NOAH.

GOD ACTS ON HIS COVENANT.

NOAH LEAVES THE BOAT.

HE ATTENDS TO MATTERS OF THE HIGHEST PRIORITY.

WORSHIP.

THE STORY OF NOAH IS NOT ABOUT HOW

GOOD MEN ARE SAVED.

THE STORY OF NOAH COMMUNICATES THE TRUTH THAT SIN LEADS TO DEATH.

THE STORY OF NOAH LOOKS FORWARD TO THE

CROSS OF CHRIST.

THE STORY OF NOAH LOOKS FORWARD TO THE COMING JUDGE, JESUS.