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Genesis 6:1-7:24

by Paul Choi   05/12/2022   Genesis 6:1~7:24

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Noah and Flood

(God who established a covenant with Noah)

Lesson 6

Genesis 6:1-7:24

Key Verse: 6:18

Since Adam’s fall how sin spread to the earth and what was the consequence?

How did God judge this corrupted world by water?

How did God promise to establish the covenant with Noah? What is Noahic covenant? (9:11)

  1. Read 6:1-13. Describe the times of Noah. What does it mean that man is ‘mortal’? (Jn 8:24) What does it mean that God’s spirit “will not contend with man forever…his days will be 120 years”? (Ro 8:5-8)

When human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose. Then the Lord said, “My Spirit will not contend with[a] humans forever, for they are mortal[b]; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.” The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.

24 I told you that you would die in your sins; if you do not believe that I am he, you will indeed die in your sins.”

Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God.

As the numbers of people increased, sin also increased and spread like coronavirus.

The sons of God are the descendants of Seth. (4:26)

The daughters of men are the descendants of Cain.

The corruption of marriage and immorality spread. No more monogamy, but polygamy became popular.

The standard of their marriage is outward appearance like Nephilim, the giants, not spiritual condition.

They became mortal---they became flesh…They all die as the descendants of Adam. They did not live according to the image of God.

The mind governed by flesh is hostile to God. The Holy Spirit cannot dwell in their sinful body. Our body is the temple of the Holy Spirit. (1 Co 6:19)

The average of their lifespan will be 120 years. Or 120 years they will be judged by water.

  1. Read 6:5-7. Why was God grieved that he had made man? What did he decide to do (7,13)? Read 6:8-10. How is Noah described?

The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time. The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. So the Lord said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them.” But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.

Noah and the Flood This is the account of Noah and his family. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God. 10 Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth.

When God saw the evilness and wickedness of men, he regretted of making man.

He planed to wipe all human race from the earth.

Noah found favor the eyes of the Lord. Noah means’ comfort’. God was comforted by Noah in the midst of the evilness of men.

Noah was a righteous man---have right relationship with God…He lived by faith in God. He was blameless…He was morally clean. He was respected by his sons.

He walked with God. He was close to God. He had the constant fellowship with God.

So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh (Gal 5:16,25)

  1. Read 6:11-21. How did God test and train Noah (14-17)? How did Noah respond to God’s command? (22,7:5) Why and what did God establish a covenant with Noah? (18)

    11 Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence. 12 God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. 13 So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth. 14 So make yourself an ark of cypress[c] wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. 15 This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.[d] 16 Make a roof for it, leaving below the roof an opening one cubit[e] high all around.[f] Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks. 17 I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish. 18 But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you. 19 You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you. 20 Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive. 21 You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them.”

    22 Noah did everything just as God commanded him.

God commanded Noah to build the ark, the ark of salvation…the huge size, the size of a football.

It must be very difficult, almost impossible for Noah to obey God’s command.

The difficulties to find materials, cost, hours, above all, persecution and ridicules from his neighbors.

But Noah did everything just as God commanded him. He obeyed God absolutely. He built the ark exactly as God had designed with the same materials.

How can we overcome this corrupted and ungodly generation? We overcome by faith in God. We overcome this world by living by faith.

He 11:7: by faith he condemned the world…

Noahic covenant: God will save Noah and his family from the judgment.

Adamic covenant (2:16,17)—Noahic covenant (9:11-13)—Abrahamic covenant (17:11)—Mosaic (Sinaic) covenant (Ex 19:5,6)—Davidic covenant (2 Sa 7:12-16)—Prophetic covenant by prophets (Eze 36:25-27,37:26,—New blood covenant by Jesus. (Lk 22:20)

  1. Read 7:1-16. How did Noah obey God’s command? (Heb 11:7) Read 17-24. How did God judge the corrupted world? What was the result of God’s judgment?

The Lord then said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation. Take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and one pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate, and also seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth. Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made.”

And Noah did all that the Lord commanded him.

Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth. And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood. Pairs of clean and unclean animals, of birds and of all creatures that move along the ground, male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark, as God had commanded Noah. 10 And after the seven days the floodwaters came on the earth.

11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month—on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. 12 And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.

13 On that very day Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, together with his wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the ark. 14 They had with them every wild animal according to its kind, all livestock according to their kinds, every creature that moves along the ground according to its kind and every bird according to its kind, everything with wings. 15 Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life in them came to Noah and entered the ark. 16 The animals going in were male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the Lord shut him in.

17 For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth. 18 The waters rose and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water. 19 They rose greatly on the earth, and all the high mountains under the entire heavens were covered. 20 The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than fifteen cubits.[a][b] 21 Every living thing that moved on land perished—birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind. 22 Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died. 23 Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; people and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds were wiped from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark.

24 The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days.

By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family. By his faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that is in keeping with faith.

When Noah obeyed God, not only all his families, but also all animals obeyed Noah and entered the ark.

7:11. In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month---the flood started…on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights…

21 Every living thing that moved on land perished—birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind. 22 Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died. 23 Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; people and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds were wiped from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark.


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