But Noah found favor in Yahweh’s eyes.
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- Genesis 19:19 See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown to me in saving my life. I can’t escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die.
- Hebrews 4:16 Let’s therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace for help in time of need.
- Psalms 84:11 For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.
- Luke 1:30 The angel said to her, “Don’t be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.
- Psalms 145:20 Yahweh preserves all those who love him, but he will destroy all the wicked.
- Exodus 33:12-17 Moses said to Yahweh, “Behold, you tell me, ‘Bring up this people;’ and you haven’t let me know whom you will send with me. Yet you have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have also found favor in my sight.’ Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please show me your way, now, that I may know you, so that I may find favor in your sight; and consider that this nation is your people.” He said, “My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” Moses said to him, “If your presence doesn’t go with me, don’t carry us up from here. For how would people know that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Isn’t it that you go with us, so that we are separated, I and your people, from all the people who are on the surface of the earth?” Yahweh said to Moses, “I will do this thing also that you have spoken; for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name.”
- Proverbs 3:4 So you will find favor, and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
- Acts 7:46 who found favor in the sight of God, and asked to find a habitation for the God of Jacob.
- 1 Corinthians 15:10 But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
- Titus 2:11 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,
- Proverbs 12:2 A good man shall obtain favor from Yahweh, but he will condemn a man of wicked plans.
- Romans 4:4 Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as something owed.
- Proverbs 8:35 For whoever finds me, finds life, and will obtain favor from Yahweh.
- 2 Peter 2:5 and didn’t spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;
- Jeremiah 31:2 Yahweh says, “The people who survive the sword found favor in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.”
- Romans 11:6 And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.
- Galatians 1:15 But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through his grace
- 2 Timothy 1:18 (the Lord grant to him to find the Lord’s mercy in that day); and in how many things he served at Ephesus, you know very well.
- Titus 3:7 that being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain 8. But Noah found grace in the eyes of…
8. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. This is a Hebrew phrase, which signifies that God was propitious to him, and favored him. For so the Hebrews are accustomed to speak: — ‘If I have found grace in thy sight,’ instead of, ‘If I am acceptable to thee,’ or, ‘If thou wilt grant me thy benevolence or favor.’ Which phrase requires to be noticed, because certain unlearned men infer with futile subtlety, that if men find grace in God’s sight, it is because they seek it by their own industry and merits. I acknowledge, indeed, that here Noah is declared to have been acceptable to God, because, by living uprightly and homily, he kept himself pure from the common pollutions of the world; whence, however, did he attain this integrity, but from the preventing grace of God? The commencement, therefore, of this favor was gratuitous mercy. Afterwards, the Lord, having once embraced him, retained him under his own hand, lest he should perish with the rest of the world.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain God was merciful unto him.
God was merciful unto him.
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Gen 6:8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
Ver. 8. But Noah found grace.] Because in covenant with God; who of himself was a child of wrath, and saved by grace only, though "just and perfect in his generation." The mercy seat was no larger than the ark; to show that the grace of God extends no further than the covenant. As all out of the ark were drowned, so all out of the covenant are damned.
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i.e. Obtained mercy and favour; which is noted to show that Noah was so far guilty of the common corruption of human nature, that he needed God’s grace and mercy to pardon and preserve him from the common destruction.
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We have here Noah distinguished from the rest of the world, and a peculiar mark of honour put upon him. 1. When God was displeased with the rest of the world, he favoured Noah: But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord, Gen 6:8. This vindicates God's justice in his displeasure against the world, and shows that he had strictly examined the character of every person in it before he pronounced it universally corrupt; for, there being one good man, he found him out, and smiled upon him. It also magnifies his grace towards Noah that he was made a vessel of God's mercy when all mankind besides had become the generation of his wrath: distinguishing favours bring under peculiarly strong obligations. Probably Noah did not find favour in the eyes of men; they hated and persecuted him, because both by his life and preaching he condemned the world. But he found grace in the eyes of the Lord, and this was honour and comfort enough. God made more account of Noah than of all the world besides, and this made him greater and more truly honourable than all the giants that were in those days, who became mighty men and men of renown. Let this be the summit of our ambition, to find grace in the eyes of the Lord; herein let us labour, that, present or absent, we may be accepted of him, Co2 5:9. Those are highly favoured whom God favours. 2. When the rest of the world was corrupt and wicked, Noah kept his integrity: These are the generations of Noah (this is the account we have to give of him), Noah was a just man, Gen 6:9. This character of Noah comes in here either, (1.) As the reason of God's favour to him; his singular piety qualified him for singular tokens of God's loving-kindness. Those that would find grace in the eyes of the Lord must be as Noah was and do as Noah did; God loves those that love him: or, (2.) As the effect of God's favour to him. It was God's good-will to him that produced this good work in him. He was a very good man, but he was no better than the grace of God made him, Co1 15:10. Now observe his character. [1.] He was a just man, that is, justified before God by faith in the promised seed; for he was an heir of the righteousness which is by faith, Heb 11:7. he was sanctified, and had right principles and dispositions implanted in him; and he was righteous in his conversation, one that made conscience of rendering to all their due, to God his due and to men theirs. Note, None but a downright honest man can find favour with God. That conversation which will be pleasing to God must be governed by simplicity and godly sincerity, not by fleshly wisdom, Co2 1:12. God has sometimes chosen the foolish things of the world, but he never chose the knavish things of it. [2.] He was perfect, not with a sinless perfection, but a perfection of sincerity; and it is well for us that by virtue of the covenant of grace, upon the score of Christ's righteousness, sincerity is accepted as our gospel perfection. [3.] He walked with God, as Enoch had done before him. He was not only honest, but devout; he walked, that is, he acted with God, as one always under his eye. He lived a life of communion with God; it was his constant care to conform himself to the will of God, to please him, and to approve himself to him. Note, God looks down upon those with an eye of favour who sincerely look up to him with an eye of faith. But, [4.] That which crowns his character is that thus he was, and thus he did, in his generation, in that corrupt degenerate age in which his lot was cast. It is easy to be religious when religion is in fashion; but it is an evidence of strong faith and resolution to swim against a stream to heaven, and to appear for God when no one else appears for him: so Noah did, and it is upon record, to his immortal honour.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain But Noah found grace in the eyes of the…
But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. This man and his family were the only exception to the general apostasy; God always reserves some, in the worst of times, for himself; there is a remnant, according to the election of grace; it was but a small one, and that now appeared; and this was owing to the grace of God, and his choice upon that, and not to the merits of the creature. This grace, which Noah found and shared in, was the favour and good will of God; Noah was grateful and acceptable to him; he was well pleased with him in Christ; his person, services, and sacrifices, were acceptable to him through the Beloved; though he might not be acceptable in the eyes of men, who derided him for his piety and devotion, and especially for his prediction of the flood, and making an ark to save him and his family from it; yet he was very acceptable in the eyes of the Lord, and grateful in his sight, and was favoured with grace from him, who is the God of all grace, and with all the supplies of it: the Jerusalem Targum is, he"found grace and mercy;''the grace he found was not on account of his own merit, but on account of the mercy of God: and this shows that he was not without sin, or he would have stood in no need of the mercy and grace of God to save him; and as he found grace and favour in things spiritual, so in things temporal; he found favour with God, and therefore he and his family were spared, when the whole world of the ungodly were destroyed; he found favour with God, and therefore was directed by him to build an ark, for the saving of himself and his; he found favour with him, and therefore he had the honour of being the preserver of mankind, and the father of a new world.
But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. This man and his family were the only exception to the general apostasy; God always reserves some, in the worst of times, for himself; there is a remnant, according to the election of grace; it was but a small one, and that now appeared; and this was owing to the grace of God, and his choice upon that, and not to the merits of the creature. This grace, which Noah found and shared in, was the favour and good will of God; Noah was grateful and acceptable to him; he was well pleased with him in Christ; his person, services, and sacrifices, were acceptable to him through the Beloved; though he might not be acceptable in the eyes of men, who derided him for his piety and devotion, and especially for his prediction of the flood, and making an ark to save him and his family from it; yet he was very acceptable in the eyes of the Lord, and grateful in his sight, and was favoured with grace from him, who is the God of all grace, and with all the supplies of it: the Jerusalem Targum is, he"found grace and mercy;''the grace he found was not on account of his own merit, but on account of the mercy of God: and this shows that he was not without sin, or he would have stood in no need of the mercy and grace of God to save him; and as he found grace and favour in things spiritual, so in things temporal; he found favour with God, and therefore he and his family were spared, when the whole world of the ungodly were destroyed; he found favour with God, and therefore was directed by him to build an ark, for the saving of himself and his; he found favour with him, and therefore he had the honour of being the preserver of mankind, and the father of a new world.
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gen 6:9These are the generations of Noah,.... Or this is the account of his posterity, of the persons that were generated by him, that sprung from him, and peopled the earth after the flood, who are mentioned in the next verse, what follows being to be put in a parenthesis; as the genealogy of Adam is carried on from Adam to Noah, Gen 5:1 so the old world ending at the flood, the genealogy of the new world begins with Noah: though Aben Ezra and Ben Gersome interpret the word "events", things which days bring forth, Pro 27:1 these are the events or the things which befell Noah, of which an account is given in this and some following chapters, whose character is next observed:
Noah was a just man; not only before men, but in the sight of God; and not by his own works of righteousness, for no man is just by them before God, but by the righteousness of the promised seed, the Messiah; for he "became heir of the righteousness which is by faith", Heb 11:7 the righteousness which was to be brought in by the Son of God, and which was revealed to him from faith to faith; and which by faith he received and lived upon, as every just man does, and believed in as his justifying righteousness before God; though he also lived a holy and righteous conversation before men, which may rather be intended in the next part of his character:
and perfect in his generations; not that he was perfectly holy, or free from sin, but was a partaker of the true grace of God; was sincere and upright in heart and life; lived an unblemished life and conversation, untainted with the gross corruptions of that age he lived in, which he escaped through the knowledge, grace, and fear of God; and therefore it is added, that he was holy, upright, and blameless "in his generations": among the men of the several generations he lived in, as in the generation before the flood, which was very corrupt indeed, and which corruption was the cause of that; and in the generation after the flood: or "in his ages" (w), in the several stages of his life, in youth and in old age; he was throughout the whole course of his life a holy good man.
And Noah walked with God: walked according to his will, in the ways of truth and righteousness; walked in a manner well pleasing to him, and enjoyed much communion with him, as Enoch had done before him, Gen 5:22.
(w) "in aetatibus suis", Drusius, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Cocceius.
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But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord - This vindicates God's justice in his displeasure against the world, and shews that he had examined the character of every person in it, before he pronounced it universally corrupt; for there being one good man he smiled upon him.
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Verse 8. Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.] Why? Because he was,
1. A just man, איש צדיק ish tsaddik, a man who gave to all their due; for this is the ideal meaning of the original word.
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2. He was perfect in his generation - he was in all things a consistent character, never departing from the truth in principle or practice.
3. He walked with God - he was not only righteous in his conduct, but he was pious, and had continual communion with God. The same word is used here as before in the case of Enoch. See Ge 5:22.
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Gen 6:8. Noah found grace — That is, he obtained mercy and favour; for although he was by nature corrupt and sinful, he had been renewed in the spirit of his mind, and by repentance and a lively faith, had obtained witness that he was righteous. This vindicates God’s justice in his displeasure against the world, and shows that he had examined the character of every person in it, before he pronounced it universally corrupt; for, there being one good man, he smiled upon him.
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Grace. Notwithstanding the general denunciation against all flesh, we see here that God will not confound the just with the guilty, in the same punishment. Noe pleased God, by observing the most perfect justice, in the midst of a corrupt generation. (St. Chrysostom; &c.) (Worthington)
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But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord--favor. What an awful state of things when only one man or one family of piety and virtue was now existing among the professed sons of God!
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8. Noah found grace — Because of his godly filial fear and faith, (Heb_11:7,) which wonderfully showed itself in preaching righteousness to that corrupt generation, and especially by working through more than a century in the construction of the vast ark for the saving of his house.
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8. But Noah] The sudden introduction of Noah’s name implies that there had been some previous account, in J, describing the contrast of Noah’s virtue with the sinfulness of his contemporaries. In the composite narrative of Genesis many features have necessarily disappeared in the process of combining the different traditions. Possibly, the passage at the beginning of this chapter (Gen_6:1-4) was substituted for one that had introduced the mention of Noah’s piety in contrast with the wickedness of man.
found grace] This familiar expression occurs here for the first time in the Bible. For the expression “find grace” cf. Gen_19:19, Gen_32:5, Gen_33:8; Gen_33:10; Gen_33:15. The rendering “grace” is sometimes altered to “favour,” cf. Gen_18:3, Gen_30:27. It is implied that the “favour” which Noah “finds” in the eyes of Jehovah is based on moral grounds. The phrase, common in J, is not found in E or P.
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(8) But Noah found grace.—This is the first place where grace is mentioned in the Bible, and with these words ends the Tôldôth Adam. It has traced man from his creation until his wickedness was so great that the Divine justice demanded his punishment. But it concludes with words of hope. Jehovah’s purpose was not extermination, but regeneration; and with Noah a higher and better order of things was to begin.
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But Noah found grace. Hen; the same letters as in Noah, but reversed (cf. Gen_18:3 Gen_39:4; 1Ki_11:19) The present is the first occurrence of the word in Scripture. "Now for the first time grace finds a tongue to express its name" (Murphy); and it clearly signifies the same thing as in Ro 4 Ro 5 Eph 2 Ga 2, the gratuitous favor of God to sinful men.
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Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God
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Noah
I.
NOAH, we read, was a just man and perfect in his generations; and why?
1. Because he was a faithful man--faithful to God, as it is written, The just shall live by faith. Noah and Abraham believed God, and so became heirs of the righteousness which is by faith; not their own righteousness, not growing out of their own character, but given them by God, who puts His righteous Spirit into those who trust in Him.
2. Noah was perfect in all the relations and duties of life--a good son, a good husband, a good father: these were the fruits of his faith. He believed that the unseen God had given him these ties, had given him his parents and his children, and that to love them was to love God, to do his duty to them was to do his duty to God.
II. The Bible gives us a picture of the old world before the flood--a world of men mighty in body and mind, fierce and busy, conquering the world round them, in continual war and turmoil; with all the wild passions of youth, and yet all the cunning and experience of enormous old age; everyone guided only by self-will, having cast off God and conscience, and doing every man that which was right in the sight of his own eyes. And amidst all this Noah was steadfast; he at least knew his way; he walked with God, a just man and perfect in his generations.
III. There was something wonderful and Divine in Noahs patience. He knew that a flood was to come; he set to work in faith to build his ark, and that ark was in building for one hundred and twenty years. During all that time Noah never lost faith, and he never lost love either, for we read that he preached righteousness to the very men who mocked him, and preached in vain. One hundred and twenty years he warned those sinners of Gods wrath, of righteousness and judgment to come, and no man listened to him. That must have been the hardest of his trials. (C. Kingsley, M. A.)
A good man living in degenerate times
I. THAT GOOD MEN LIVING IN DEGENERATE TIMES ARE NOT OVERLOOKED BY GOD.
II. THAT GOOD MEN LIVING IN DEGENERATE TIMES ARE OFTEN CHARACTERIZED BY SIGNAL PIETY. Piety at such times is--
1. A contrast.
2. A rebuke.
3. A testimony.
4. A duty.
III. THAT GOOD MEN LIVING IN DEGENERATE TIMES ARE ANXIOUS THAT THEIR FAMILY CONNECTIONS MAY BE PRESERVED FROM MORAL DEFILEMENT.
IV. THAT GOOD MEN LIVING IN DEGENERATE TIMES RECEIVE THE COMMUNICATIONS OF HEAVEN IN REFERENCE TO THE DESTINY OF MEN.
1. This is a dignity.
2. This is a discipline. LESSONS:
(1) The good man is worth the mention and commendation of God.
(2) That true piety can survive the darkest ages and live through the most arduous toils.
(3) That good men know most of the mind of God in reference to the worlds future.
(4) That good men will not be included in the destructions which overtake the wicked. (J. S. Exell, M. A.)
The piety of Noah
1. It was characterized by justice.
2. It was characterized by moral perfection.
3. It was characterized by holy communion with God. (J. S.Exell, M. A.)
The Christians walk
1. Christ the rule of it.
2. Christ the company of it.
3. Christ the end of it. (J. S. Exell, M. A.)
The saint among sinners
I. Notice here, first, THE SOLITARY SAINT. Noah stands alone in his generations like some solitary tree green and erect in a forest of blasted and fallen pines. Among the faithless, faithful only he. His character is described, so to speak, from the outside inwards. He is righteous, or discharging all the obligations of law and of his various relationships. He is perfect. His whole nature is developed, and all in due symmetry and proportion; no beauty wanting, no grace cultivated at the expense of others. He is a full man; not a one-sided and therefore a distorted one. We do not take these words to imply sinlessness, of course. They express a relative, not an absolute, completeness. Hence we may learn both a lesson of stimulus and of hope. We are not to rest satisfied with partial goodness, but to seek to attain an all-round perfectness, even in regard to the graces least like our dispositions. And we can rejoice to believe that God is generous in His acceptance and praise. He does not grudge commendation, but takes account of the deepest desires and main tendencies of a life, and sees the germ as a full-blown flower, and the bud as a fruit. Learn, too, that solitary goodness is possible. Noah stood uninfected by the universal contagion; and, as is always the case, the evil around, which he did not share, drove him to a more rigid abstinence from it. Flowers grow on a dunghill, and a very reeking rottenness may make the bloom finer. Learn, too, that the true place for the saint is in his generations. If the mass is corrupt, so much the more need to rub the salt well in. Notice, again, the companion of the solitary saint. What beauty there is in that description of the isolated man, passing lonely amid his contemporaries, like a stream of pure water flowing through some foul liquid, and untouched by it, and yet not alone in all his loneliness, because he walked with God! One man, with God to back him, is always in the majority. Though surrounded by friends, have we found that, after all, we live and suffer and must die alone? Here is the all-sufficient Friend, if we have fellowship with whom our hearts will be lonely no more. Observe that this communion is the foundation of all righteousness in conduct. Because Noah walked with God, he was just and perfect. If we live habitually in the holy of holies, our faces will shine when we come forth.
II. Notice THE UNIVERSAL APOSTASY. Two points are brought out in the sombre description. The first is moral corruption; the second, violence. Bad men are cruel men. When the bonds which knit society to God are relaxed, selfishness soon becomes furious, and forcibly seizes what it lusts after, regardless of others rights. To walk with God is the true way to make men gentle and pitying. Learn from this dark outline that God gazes in silence on the evil. That is a grand solemn expression, corrupt before God. All this mad riot of pollution and violence is holding its carnival of lust and blood under the very eye of God, and He says never a word. So is it ever. Then comes a further expression of the same thought. God looked upon the earth. As a sudden beam of sunshine out of a thundercloud, His eye flashes down, not as if He then began to know, but that His knowledge then began, as it were, to act.
III. WHAT DOES THE STERN SENTENCE TEACH US? A very profound truth, not only of the certain Divine retribution, but of the indissoluble connection of sin with destruction. Sin is death in the making; death is sin finished. The promise of deliverance, which comes side by side with the stern sentence, illustrates the blessed truth that Gods darkest threatenings are accompanied with the revelation of the way of escape.
IV. We pass by the details of the construction of the ark to draw the final lesson from the exact obedience of Noah. We have the statement twice over, HE DID ACCORDING TO ALL THAT GOD COMMANDED HIM. It was no easy thing for him to build the ark, amidst the scoffing of his generations. Smart witticisms fell around him like hail. All the practical men thought him a dreamy fool, wasting his time, while they prospered and made something of life. The Epistle to the Hebrews tells us the secret of his obedience: By faith, Noah, etc. He realized the distant unseen, because he believed Him who warned him of it. The far-off flood was more real to him than the shows of life around him. Therefore he could stand all the gibes, and gave himself to a course of life which was sheer folly unless that future was real. Perhaps a hundred and twenty years passed between the warning and the flood; and for all that time he held on his way, nor faltered in his faith. Does our faith realize that which lies before us with anything like similar clearness? Do we see that future shining through all the trivial, fleeting present? Does it possess weight and solidity enough to shape our lives? Noahs creed was much shorter than ours; but I fear his faith was as much stronger.
V. We may think, finally, of THE VINDICATION OF HIS FAITH. For a hundred and twenty years the wits laughed, and the common sense people wondered, and the patient saint went on hammering and pitching at his ark. But one morning it began to rain; and by degrees, somehow, Noah did not seem quite such a fool. The jests would look rather different when the water got up to the knees of the jesters; and their sarcasms would stick in their throats as they drowned. So is it always. So it will be at the last great day. (A. Maclaren, D. D.)
Noah
I. HIS PRIVATE CHARACTER.
1. He found grace in the sight of the Lord.
2. He was a just man.
II. HIS PUBLIC LABOURS. A preacher of righteousness (1Pe_2:5).
1. As such he would have to place their unrighteousness before them.
2. He had to enforce attention to righteousness.
3. As a preacher he was faithful.
4. He preached practically. By his own example, and especially by building the ark.
5. Yet he was an unsuccessful preacher.
III. HIS GRACIOUS DELIVERANCE.
1. The gracious reward of his faith and obedience.
2. For the encouragement of believing sinners to the end of the world.
APPLICATION.
1. Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years; displayed great frailty, etc. Let us watch and pray, etc.
2. Ministers may learn their duty.
3. Sinners, their only way of sure and certain safety.
4. And the incorrigible, their inevitable doom. (J. Burns, D. D.)
Noah
I. THE INNER PRINCIPLE OF NOAHS LIFE. Walked with God.
1. Companionship.
2. Confidence.
3. Communion.
II. THE OUTER ASPECTS OF THE LIFE OF THE PATRIARCH. His religion was no fruitless tree, no scentless flower, no painted fire; it was a tree growing fruit, a flower giving fragrance, a fire casting heat everywhere. I know there were many mournful and some disgraceful defects in his character, but then they were the defects, not of death, but of imperfect life. Society is always influential; companionship moulds character, association produces resemblance; the less always catches naturally something of the spirit and character of the greater; and so he, who walked with God, became a just man, says my text, and perfect in his generations. He who wears a mask before his God will always try to wear a veil before his fellow creatures. Integrity is the invariable accompaniment of spiritual religion; open, manly, brave, unselfish integrity. And so Noah was a just man, always upright, always straightforward, always clear as crystal. The righteousness at which he aimed was a righteousness of the heart; and here, of course, as everywhere, the waters took their sweetness and their purity from the fountain out of which they rose. He who has felt that inner life, which is a walking with God, will be no sham amongst his fellow creatures, no trickster towards them. Truth will be upon his lips, justice in his hands, honour in his acts, probity in his dealings, purity in his affections. Noah, too, my text says, was perfect in his generations. There was nothing pretentious, nothing vain; all was sincere; his devotion to his God was a visible reality. The man was just what he seemed to be--honest, earnest, truthful. The word generations is a very emphatic word in this connection. The age was all against such a character as this; it would be least looked for, and it would be sure to pass unhonoured and unloved at such a time. The world was never more corrupt than it was then, goodness never so scarce, so limited to a single person; yet the man kept his course, contracted no contagion, never fell clown quite to the low level which was on all sides of him. (C. J. P. Eyre, M. A.)
Noah walking with God
I. ILLUSTRATE THE SENSE OF THE PHRASE, WALKING WITH GOD.
1. To exercise the thoughts upon God continually.
2. A conscientious regard to His Word and ordinances.
3. To live habitually in the exercise of spiritual graces, depending on Divine influence.
4. It also imports that the attainments, intimacies, and joys, of godliness are of a progressive kind.
II. WHAT WE MAY ASSOCIATE WITH SUCH A WAY OF LIVING.
1. There is the highest honour which man can realize,
2. There is safety and peace to be found.
3. There will be a happy futurity. (Essex Remembrancer.)
Companionship with God
If we endeavour to keep the familiar figure of walking with a person fully in mind, we shall see that the phrase implies--
I. COMPANIONSHIP--constant and habitual; for as God is everywhere present and at all times, so the saint is never parted from Him. United once we are united forever by a companionship as constant as the omnipresence of God, and as long continued as the immortal life of mans soul. Let the expression be closely observed, together with the familiar ideas it suggests--walking with God. Not amid Gods works, nor in Gods presence; notwith the saints of God, not in the ways of God, but actually with God, as if the Divine Being Himself had quitted His throne--as, indeed, He has done in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God--and, linking Himself with the creature He had redeemed, went forth in sweet and wonderful companionship with man, inseparable throughout all the trials and perplexing paths of human experience.
II. The expression IMPLIES CONCURRENCE OF WILL. To walk together implies movement toward the same object, along the same road. Where two persons take different roads, companionship must cease. Yet we know that Noah was a fallen creature like ourselves. He lived after the curse of sin had fallen upon man; and we know it to be the essence of sin that mans will and Gods will do not agree. In unfallen man, pure and holy as he came from his Creators hand, there was perfect agreement with God. The two wills, the Divine and the human, were like two strains of music in sweet harmony with each other. But sin turned the harmony into discord. It is the very essence of the carnal nature that, in St. Pauls language, it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. The will of man has become contrary to the will of God. One of the two must be subject to the other. That is most certain. Which is it to be? Is the will of the great, omnipotent, and holy Creator to be brought into conformity with all the wayward fancies, all the petty selfishnesses, and all the foolish imaginations of fallen man? God forbid! Gods will can not be changed to suit mans. Then it remains that mans will must be changed to suit Gods, and thus all the varying wishes of mankind be harmonized in one adoring submission to the Divine mind. This can be; this may be; if you will not drive the Holy Spirit away from you, this will be.
III. The expression IMPLIES AFFECTIONATE AND DELIGHTFUL INTERCOURSE. Do you not choose as a companion one whom you love? and if your choice be well placed, and there be thorough sympathy between you and your friend, is not companionship delightful? Indeed, do you not walk with him, for the sake of being alone with the loved one and enjoying his society? (E. Garbett, M. A.)
The duty and advantage of cleaving to the Lord and His way, in a declining time
Two doctrines are deducible from the words. Doctrine 1--In the most declining generation, wherein sin and wickedness come tothe greatest height,
I. GOD HAS STILL SOME, THOUGH FEW, THAT RETAIN THEIR INTEGRITY, and cleave to Him and His ways. It has been found so in all ages of the Church. In the old world there was a Noah; in Sodom a Lot; among the children of Israel in Egypt a Moses, who all retained their integrity, and cleaved to the Lord and His ways. When Christ came into the world, there were some waiting for the consolation of Israel; and when the Jewish nation was ruined at the destruction of Jerusalem, there was a remnant according to the election of grace. In the grand apostasy under the New Testament, there were still two witnesses left (Rev_9:1-21).
II. How is it that the declining of a generation comes to he so very general, THAT SO VERY FEW ARE LEFT RETAINING THEIR INTEGRITY, that they may be for signs and wonders in the day wherein they live?
1. The corruption of human nature is the springhead of it (Gen_6:5).
2. No due care taken for the religious education of those who are springing up, doth notably advance it.
3. Corruption of manners thus prevailing, everyone serves to corrupt another, till the leaven has well nigh gone through the whole lump Gen_6:12).
4. When a generation is thus posting on in the road of apostasy from God unto ruin, the Lord usually takes home many of His own out from among Isa_57:1-2).
5. The declining humour by these means at length so prevails, that it makes its way over all opposition, and gets the mastery; so as it carries all before it, like a flood.
6. What puts the copestone on the course of a generations defection from God, and readily fills the cup to the brim, is persecution of the way of God, and of any that will dare to retain their integrity.
III. WHY ARE SOME, THOUGH FEW, STILL LEFT RETAINING THEIR INTEGRITY IN SUCH A GENERATION?
1. Because of Gods faithfulness in His promise (Mat_16:18).
2. Because God will not leave Himself without a witness in an apostatizing generation.
3. Because therein the power of His grace appears most illustriously.
4. The Lord preserves them for a seed to better days.
Use 1. Whatever encouragement such have, that turn their back on the way of religion and seriousness, and take a sinful latitude to themselves from the multitude going their way, there is a witness against them still left, that will rise up in judgment against them, and condemn them.
2. However bad the days are, let none pretend it cannot be better with them, because their lot is cast in such an evil day.
3. Be exhorted not to conform yourselves to the ways of the declining generation wherein our lot is cast: but be among the few who cleave to Him and keep His way. It is hard, yet it is possible. Doctrine 2--God takes special notice of them for good, who in a declining generation retain their integrity, and keep right, cleaving to Him and His way in the face of a generation departing fast from Him.
I. The first thing is to show what this rare attainment is, this perfection in such a generation; or, How men keep right, like Noah, in such a generation. It is then to be,
1. Sincere, and not a hypocrite.
2. Downright for God, without going aside to the ways of carnal wisdom.
3. Tender in ones private walk and conversation, as under the eye of the all-seeing God.
4. Watchful against snares and temptations, that one be not led away with them.
5. Proof against ill example, which is the great engine of Satan for carrying on apostasy in such a day and generation.
6. A mourner for the sins of others.
7. An opposer of the sinful courses of the day and generation wherein he lives, as he hath access. Hence is that exhortation (Eph_5:11).
8. In a word, it is to be rowing against the stream of iniquity, and endeavouring to draw the nearer God that others are going from Him.
II. The second thing is, to show what are the advantages of this course, in which the Lord takes special notice for good, of those who follow it in a declining day.
1. Sweet peace of conscience in keeping the Lords way, while others are disregarding it. Hence said the apostle (2Co_1:12).
2. Communion with God, and access to Him in duties. Hence saith our Joh_14:21).
3. A sweet allowance of furniture, strength, and support, for the duty called for (Pro_10:29).
4. Seasonable providential appearances for them. God has a watchful eye for good over them who keep His way; and He will protect them in it, while He has use for them in that way (Psa_121:2-3).
5. Special favour in a suffering time, when the Lord ariseth to plead His controversy with the sinful generation. Hence saith the prophet Habakkuk Hab_3:16).
USE. I exhort you to be perfect in this generation, to be persons of integrity, downright for God, rowing against the stream of this sinful generation. And in order to that,
1. Purge your conversation from the gross pollutions of the outward man.
2. Be Christians indeed, in the inner man. Such an one is described Rom_2:28-29).
3. Be of a public spirit (Psa_137:5-6).
4. Be of a Gospel spirit, having high thoughts of the free grace of God, and deep impressions of the nothingness of man and all that he can do Gal_6:14).
5. Be accurate observers of your duty to God, whom the generation we live in has much cast behind their back.
6. Be nice observers of justice and truth in your dealings with men; for both these are rare to a marvel in this generation, as they were of old (See Isa_59:13-15; Mic_7:1, etc.).
7. Oppose and set yourselves against sin and wickedness in others, as ye have access; and so endeavour to stem the tide of the apostasy of the generation (Eph_5:11).
8. Do your endeavour to get a right set in the young generation, who are in great hazard at this day. I shall give you the following motives to press you to be perfect in this generation, as you have been exhorted.
Consider:
1. It will be a great discovery of your sincerity, and unfeigned love to the Lord and the way of holiness.
2. It is a noble, heaven-like disposition, to be perfect in such a generation; to cleave to Christ, when the generation is so generally turning their back on Him (Joh_6:66-68).
3. It will glorify God very much; and that is the great business we have to do in the world, agreeable to what is said (1Co_10:31).
4. It is the best service ye can do for the generation, like David, who served his own generation by the will of God (Act_13:36).
5. Suppose it should not be effectual to stop the career of any in their sin, yet it would leave a conviction of sin in their consciences.
6. It is a debt we owe to posterity. Hence says the Psalmist (Psa_45:17).
7. It is an honourable thing. It is to be a witness for God; and this is one of the characters of His people (Isa_43:10).
8. It is the best course ye can take to be safe in the evil day, when the Lord calls the generation to an account.
9. It will be most comfortable in a dying hour; as it was to the good king Hezekiah, when he said, Remember now, O Lord, I beseech Thee, how I have walked before Thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in Thy sight (Isa_38:3). (T. Boston, D. D.)
Noah
I. NOAHS EARLY LIFE.
II. NOAHS TIMES.
III. NOAHS WORK.
IV. NOAHS SECRET.
What was it that made Noah different from other people? What was it that made Noah a strong and valiant man--a hero, in fact? Why, his faith. He did not see the deluge approaching, but he believed in it; he was sure it would come, because God had told him so. And his belief in Gods Word made him despise all the opposition he had to encounter; made him begin the work, and carry on the work, and end the work; made him bold to tell people the truth, although there was at the time no proof or evidence to back his words. (G. Calthrop, M. A.)
That the power and providence of the most wise and most gracious God doth preserve and provide the best of men for the worst of times
I. How IT IS SO. Tis most manifest in sacred history, that God ordered the best of prophets to be born and to officiate in the worst of times; oh what a degenerate age was that wherein Moses appeared! Israel was in the bondage of Egypt, and in the worst part of that bondage, their tale of brick and mortar work was doubled upon them, and that without straw Exo_1:11; Exo_1:14; Exo_5:18-19, etc.). Then God sent Moses their deliverer. And what a degenerate age was that wherein Samuel was born, where there was no open vision (1Sa_3:1, etc.). No better, but far worse, were the times of Elijah, who, in his own computation, was left alone of all the Lords prophets, when the prophets of Baal were many (1Ki_18:22). This is also remarkable in the civil or secular history (complying with that of the sacred aforesaid) that the best of human laws have been gained in the reigns of the worst of kings, as a happy counter-balance to their exorbitant and extravagant actings.
II. This leads me to the WHY IT IS SO. Herein appeareth the wisdom and graciousness, as well as the power and providence, of God to reserve a little remnant for royal use in the worst of times, that he might not ruin the whole work of His hands at once: saints are called the salt of the earth Mat_5:13). Oh, how dark would the world be in the night of degeneracy if God had not some orient stars sparkling and bespangling the world, though not in every part, yet in every zone and quarter of it. Such an one was our Noah here. Some good men in bad times, a holy remnant kept for a reserve. Good husbands cast not all their corn into the oven, but reserve some for seed. God kept His Mithe-Mispar, a small few, here to replant the world.
III. AFTER WHAT MANNER IT IS. Tis as the chaff is kept from burning while the corn is amongst it. As in all times God hath a few pearls to preserve the many pebbles, and a few jewels to preserve the lumber from being destroyed, so the Holy Seed. (C. Ness.)
The preacher of righteousness
I. NOAHS CIRCUMSTANCES. The earth was filled with violence, i.e., oppression, tyranny, persecution of good men, injustice, cruelty. How difficult for Noah to be faithful! How he would be taunted, scoffed at, ridiculed!
II. NOAHS CHARACTER. Just, i.e., righteous, trying to do that which was right in Gods sight, and right towards his fellow men; and perfect in his generations, i.e., living a blameless life among those of his own day and his kinsfolk. He also), like Enoch, walked with God, i.e., loved, trusted, and served God. He also found grace in the eyes of the Lord, i.e., was pleasing to the Lord, and was accepted by Him.
III. NOAHS WORK. To warn the people of his generation.
1. By preaching Gods truth.
2. By preparing an ark.
LESSONS:
1. Our day and opportunity is now and here. We must prepare now for the unseen future.
2. Being warned ourselves, we must both by what we say, and by what we do, proclaim Gods truth to those around us.
3. Let us pray God to give us Noahs faith and Noahs fear. (W. S. Smith, B. D.)
Lonely moral goodness
I. THE CHRISTIAN MAN IS SOMETIMES SOLITARY IN HIS COMPANIONSHIP. It was so with Noah. No companionship for him in the violent men of his age.
1. His was not fancied loneliness, like Elijahs.
2. His loneliness was not the result of an exclusive spirit.
II. THE CHRISTIAN MAN IS SOMETIMES SOLITARY IN HIS CHARACTER. Noah was alone in moral goodness. The real king of the age his sceptre a holy life.
III. THE CHRISTIAN MAN IS SOMETIMES SOLITARY IN HIS WORK. (J. S.Exell, M. A.)
Solitary excellence
1. It is painful to find but one family, nay, it would seem but one person, out of all the professed sons of God, who stood firmly in this evil day. Some were dead, and others, by mingling with the wicked, had apostatized.
2. It is pleasant to find one upright man in a generation of the ungodly: a lily among thorns, whose lovely conduct would shine the brighter when contrasted with that of the world about him. It is a great matter to be faithful among the faithless. With all our helps from the society of good men, we find it enough to keep on our way: but for an individual to set his face against the whole current of public opinion and custom, requires and implies great grace. Yet that is the only true religion which walks as in the sight of God, irrespective of what is thought or done by others. Such was the resolution of Joshua when the whole nation seemed to be turning aside from God: As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
3. It is encouraging to find that one upright man was singled out from the rest when the world was to be destroyed. If he had been destroyed with the world, God could have taken him to Himself, and all would have been well with him; but then there had been no public expression of what he loved, as well as of what he hated. (A Fuller.)
Noahs piety
Standing on the seashore on a calm summer morning or evening, the vessels in the far distance appear to be sailing in the sky and not on the sea. So doubtless did Noah appear to these worldling spectators of his age, to be walking in the sky, and not on the earth. He was a marked man, secretly to be admired, but openly to be avoided. They took notice of him that be was unlike themselves, living a life of faith, traversing his spiritual way to the glory of God. (W. Adamson.)
Noahs perfection
The perfection here ascribed to Noah, and elsewhere to other servants of God, is to be understood as being a perfection, not of degree, but of extent--not of height, but of breadth. He is perfect--not as having reached on earth the full maturity of holiness which he is to attain in heaven, nor as being immaculate and exempt from liability to sin--but as having the entire new man formed in him, and no affection of the old man willingly allowed. For it is this completeness and consistency of character that is to be understood by perfection. It is opposed to a partial and insincere devotion of the heart and life to God--to everything like compromise, or evasion, or reservation in the obedience that is rendered to Him--to the idea of doing many things to please Him, but yet something to please self or the world. It implies the dedication of the whole man, soul, and body, and spirit, absolutely and unequivocally to God--and the keeping of the whole law, without offending in any one point or breaking one of the least of its commandments. In short, it is the wisdom which cometh down from above--whose distinguishing characteristic is, that it is perfect--complete and compact in all its parts--being first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. To this wisdom is opposed that which descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish Jam_3:15-17). The bitter fruits and characteristics of that wisdom are envying and strife, confusion, tumult, unquietness, and every evil work in one word, violence--such as then filled the earth. Now, the perfection which has been described naturally attends upon a heart right with God--a mind calmly fixed in a righteous peace with heaven. To have got settled, upon just terms, the dread controversy which sin has caused, the angry strife of conscience, the impatient struggle against judgment--to have this warfare ended, in that blessed tranquillity which a sense of saving mercy and justifying righteousness inspires, through the love of God being shed abroad in the heart, by the Holy Ghost, which is given to the believer Rom_5:5)--to have the heart thus established with grace Heb_13:9)--this, this alone, and this effectually, disposes to universal holiness and love. (R. S. Candlish, D. D.)
Grace not defiled by contact with sin
As all the water in the salt sea cannot make the fish salt, but still the fish retains its freshness, so a]l the wickedness and filthiness that is in the world cannot destroy, cannot defile true grace; that will bear up its head, and hold up itself forever. (J. Caryl.)
Grace will show itself
Grace in the heart will appear in the life. If there be a new spirit, a tender heart, there will be walking in the statutes. A new spirit cannot be imprisoned within; but it will break out into action. When the seed is sown in good ground, it will not lie long under ground, but spring forth. Grace is light, and will manifest itself. (W. Greenhill.)
All grace is from God
Not only are the first beginnings of grace from God, but also the daily increase and progress of grace in every degree and step from the lowest to the highest. (J. Ferguson.)
Three wholesome fears with respect to grace
Happy art thou if thy heart be replenished with three fears--a fear for received grace, a greater fear for lost grace, a greatest fear to recover grace. (Quarles.)
Grace progressive
Trace back any river to its source, and you will find its beginnings small. A little moisture oozing through the sand or dripping out of some unknown rock, a gentle gush from some far away mountains foot, are the beginning of many a broad river, in whose waters tall merchantmen may anchor and gallant fleets may ride. For it widens and gets deeper, till it mingles with the ocean. So is the beginning of a Christians, or a nations, grace. It is first a tiny stream, then it swells into a river, then a sea. There is life and progression towards an ultimate perfection when God finds the beginning of grace in any man. (J. J. Wray.)
The perfect life pleasant
Matthew Henry, shortly before his death, desired his friends to take down, and remember, as his dying saying, that, A life spent in the service of God, and communion with Him, is the most comfortable and pleasant life that any man can live in this world.
Noah begat three sons
Lessons
1. Fruitfulness in body is an effect of grace, to continue Gods Church.
2. The holiest parent cannot bring forth a holy seed; that is, born of grace. Noah could not.
3. Little or small may be the visible Church; father and sons and wives but eight.
4. In the visible Church may be such as are not saints, indeed; but far from it.
5. Grace puts the last before the first, and the younger before the elder.
6. Mixtures in the Church not destructive to its being, were permitted not to divide, but to put them upon purging it. (G. Hughes, B. D.)
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God Chooses Noah
v. 8. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. "In these words there breaks forth from the dark cloud of wrath the mercy which gives security for the preservation and restoration of humanity. " (Keil. ) God did not plan an absolute destruction of the entire human race, but only of those that deliberately persisted in their wickedness and would not accept the warning of His Spirit.
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v. 9. These are the generations, the genealogy, of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations; and Noah walked with God. That is a summary of Noah’s history: he was a righteous man, upright and just before the eyes of the generations that passed before his eyes. Like Enoch, Gen 5:22, he was in the most intimate relation with God, on terms of such confidence as to make his performing of the will of God self-evident. As Noah was the last of the patriarchs before the Flood, so he was the first of the line whose descendants after the Flood were the children of Israel, the chosen people of God.
v. 10. And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Cf Gen 5:32.
v. 11. The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
v. 12. And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. These statements complete the picture drawn in verses 1-4. Utterly corrupt was the earth before the face of God, like a rotten piece of meat whose very appearance is nauseating. It would have been impossible to hide the conditions from the Lord; He was compelled to intervene with His curse and punishment, because the earth was full of violence and open wickedness. The Lord was a witness of the growing, unspeakable corruption which finally included the entire human race, carnal-mindedness being the governing impulse of every man’s life. All that men had before them and wanted to keep before them was the gratification of their own fleshly desires. Their wickedness was openly perpetrated, and their moral judgment, their conscience, was submerged in their approbation of everything that was evil and corrupt.
v. 13. And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before Me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth. As the end of the time of respite approached, God saw that it was useless to extend this period. Its termination meant the end of the world which had reached the limit in wickedness and corruption and was bound for everlasting destruction. The Lord therefore announced that He would destroy men with the earth in the form which it then had, just as one of the consequences of the Flood has been that the earth and the fruits it produces no longer have the strength of the uncorrupted soil, neither does the life of men reach the length which was common with the patriarchs before the Flood. Thus the sentence of the Lord was passed, a word of warning also for our day and age. 1Co 10:11.
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6:8 Noah and his godly life stand in stark contrast to the sinfulness of the rest of the people.
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