OUT OF DISASTER 2 Consider it a great joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you FROM THE BEGINNING experience various trials, 3 because you know that the testing of Genesis 6:9-22 your faith produces endurance. 4 And let endurance have its full Pastor Daniel Cassels effect, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking June 21, 2020 nothing. 5 Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God— who gives to all generously and ungrudgingly—and it will be 1. OUT OF FAITHFULNESS COMES ______given to him. 6 But let him ask in faith without doubting. For the 9 These are the family records of . Noah was a righteous doubter is like the surging sea, driven and tossed by the wind. man, blameless among his contemporaries; Noah walked with 7 That person should not expect to receive anything from the God. 10 And Noah fathered three sons: , , and Lord, 8 being double-minded and unstable in all his ways. . 11 Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight, and the James 1:2–8 earth was filled with wickedness. 12 God saw how corrupt the earth was, for every creature had corrupted its way on the earth. 12 Therefore, my dear friends, just as you have always obeyed, 13 Then God said to Noah, “I have decided to put an end to so now, not only in my presence but even more in my absence, every creature, for the earth is filled with wickedness because of work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. 13 For it is them; therefore I am going to destroy them along with the earth. God who is working in you both to will and to work according to Genesis 6:9–13 his good purpose. Philippians 2:12–13

22 And after he fathered Methuselah, Enoch walked with God 300 3. OUT OF DIRECTION COMES ______years and fathered other sons and daughters. Genesis 5:22 17 “Understand that I am bringing a flood—floodwaters on the earth to destroy every creature under heaven with the breath of 5 and if he didn’t spare the ancient world, but protected Noah, a life in it. Everything on earth will perish. 18 But I will establish my preacher of righteousness, and seven others,, when he brought covenant with you, and you will enter the ark with your sons, on the world of the ungodly; 2 Peter 2:5 your wife, and your sons’ wives. 19 You are also to bring into the ark two of all the living creatures, male and female, to keep Therefore, since we also have such a large cloud of witnesses them alive with you. 20 Two of everything—from the birds surrounding us, let us lay aside every hindrance and the sin that according to their kinds, from the livestock according to their so easily ensnares us. Let us run with endurance the race that kinds, and from the animals that crawl on the ground according lies before us, 2 keeping our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and to their kinds—will come to you so that you can keep them alive. perfecter of our faith. For the joy that lay before him, he endured 21 Take with you every kind of food that is eaten; gather it as the cross, despising the shame, and sat down at the right hand food for you and for them.” 22 And Noah did this. He did of the throne of God. Hebrews 12:1–2 everything that God had commanded him. Genesis 6:17–22

2. OUT OF RECOGNITION COMES ______23 Let us hold on to the confession of our hope without wavering, 14 “Make yourself an ark of gopher wood. Make rooms in the ark, since he who promised is faithful. 24 And let us consider one and cover it with pitch inside and outside. 15 This is how you are another in order to provoke love and good works, 25 not to make it: The ark will be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 neglecting to gather together, as some are in the habit of doing, feet high. 16 You are to make a roof, finishing the sides of the ark but encouraging each other, and all the more as you see the to within eighteen inches of the roof. You are to put a door in the day approaching. Hebrews 10:23–25 side of the ark. Make it with lower, middle, and upper decks. Genesis 6:14–16 (CSB – Christian Standard )