Noah grew up in a world that was advancing from bad to worse. The world has been bad since the days of his great-grandfather Enoch who have fortold that the ungodly world will be destroyed. The people in Noah's day was very bad and even the thoughts of them was bad. From the most hight view Point the earth was filled with violence (Genesis 5:23) but what has made the earth been so corrupted and bad in Noah's time?
Remember that Satan the devil has already rebelled against God by deceiving eve to eat the apple.Other angels rebelled against God by leaving their homes in heaven and coming to earth to get married to the women on earth. These angels became very proud on earth and became a bad influence among humans. - Genesis 3:1-5.
These angels who left their original homes in heaven eventually got married to the women on earth and gave birth to children. The problem now was that they gave birth to hybrid children who where called "Nephilim". These children were very tall and huge and firerced. They started oppressing humans on earth and were very immoral. In fact the earth was filled with these hybrid sons causing a lot of trouble to humans.
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Just imagine Noah trying to protect his children from the influence of these nephelims, how difficult it would had been but yet Noah was able to protect them by teaching the principles and laws of God even telling them that God hates evil people. Noah must have also been helped by his good wife whom he got married to. We all know that Noah could not have completely hidden his sons from the view of this nephelims but he must have given them a very strong counsel concerning how bad it is to be evil no wonder the sons of Noah continue doing what was pleasing in God's eye. - Genesis6:6.
Let's take a short break and look at the moral lesson parents can learn from the example of Noah:
our world we live in is likewise influenced by violence and rebelliousness. Entertainments directed to a child can start to influence the behavior of that child. Now think of a child who always watch violent movies no doubt the child will start to exhibit some violent qualities and will want to start become very disobedient and harsh on his parents and peers. Wise Christian parents want to do all they can by teaching their children that God is a God of peace and he hates violence. Parents can teach their children what is recorded at psalms 11:5 which says that "God will bring an end to violence". By teaching your children about how to flee from violence, you are are imitating the example of Noah who was able to teach his children in a wicked world.
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One day Noah was faced with an enormous task which was to build an ark which was very very large. God told him that he was going to destroy the wicked people with a flood so he should build this ark and take his family and animals inside it. There is one thing which Noah did which was of very high importance. Despite knowing the fact that the people in his land were very evil and bad Noah was still courageous to go and tell them what will befall them if they did not change from their evil ways. The people were very angry and even taught that Noah was crazy, they must have laughed at Noah and took no note of what he was saying.
Let us take another short break and look at another point we can learn from the example of Noah:
Despite the face that the people in Noah's land were very bad Noah was bold enough to confront them and tell them to change from their evil ways. The lesson here is that we live in a wicked world were people do all sought of terrible things. Like Noah we want to be bold and courageous by telling them to change from their evil ways. Do not be sad that some might laugh at you but never be afraid because God is always with you and will surely protect you just as he protected Noah.
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Now the ark is complete and God ordered Noah to take his family including his sons wives into the ark along with various types of animals. Now imagine this senerio, remember that the flood has not yet come and the people must have been looking at his family going into the ark along with different animals. What would you think must have come to the mind of onlookers? No doubt they would surely have been laughing at Noah thinking that him and his family are crazy. But were they really crazy? We will find out soon.But first let's look at the moral lesson concerning entering into the ark.
The moral lesson here is that we should not let our faith weaken even though God has not act on our behalf at that moment.we want to put on a bold face and base our trust on God
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It must have been surprising when the wicked people saw the ark closing and not too long after that the gates of heaven opened and the rain kept falling and falling. The wicked people now realize that Noah and his family has been right all along but now it was already too late.The rain fell and killed all the evil ones on the earth (Genesis 7:16-27). The rain felled for 40 days and night and eventually it stopped. Just imagine the smile Noah must have put on his face when he saw the word of God came to pass. The earth once again was cleanse and only Noah and his family were saved.Noah had complete confidence and faith in God and he was saved. Is there any moral lesson for us to learn again? Yes of course! Let's take the final moral lesson from today topic.
Noah had complete faith and trust in God and he was saved. Just like Noah we need to have strong faith in other it be saved,by imitating Noah and having strong faith in God will enable us to survive this wicked world on the final day. May we all like Noah continue to walk with the true God by having faith in him which includes reading and studying the Bible and if we do so no doubt we will be saved just as Noah and his family was saved.
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LET'S REFRESH OUR MEMORY AND HIGHLIGHT THE MORAL LESSON WE HAVE LEARNT FROM THE EXAMPLE OF NOAH TODAY :
1)parent's should endeavor to teach their children that God is a God of peace and he hates violence and one day he is going to destroy the wicked ones.
2)Despite the fact that we live in a wicked world, we want to be courageous and bold and go out to preach to these ones that what the are doing is not good and should change from their evil ways before it is too late
3)We want to put our complete faith and confidence in God even though he has not yet acted in our behalf at that moment but we can be rest assured that God can never abandon his loyal servants.
4)we want to continue to imitate the example of Noah by worshipping only God and one way we can do that is by regularly reading and meditating on God's Word the Bible. Don't also forget to pray.
MAY WE ALL CONTINUE TO IMITATE THE EXAMPLE SET BY NOAH.
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