ORIGINS: The Book of Genesis

No. 24 | CORRUPTION—The Judgment of God, pt. 4

By Ethan Wooten, August 06, 2023

CREATION

Genesis 1:1-2:3 | The Seven Days of Creation

Genesis 2:4-25 | Man and Woman in the Garden

CORRUPTION

Genesis 3:1-24 | The Fall of Man

Genesis 4:1-5:32 | The Progress of Sin

Genesis 6:1-8:1-22 | The Judgment of God

  • 6:1-8 Backdrop to the Flood
  • 6:9-22 Preparations for the Flood
  • 7:1-24 Fulfillment of the Flood
  • 8:1-22 Receding of the Flood

1. God’s Faithfulness through Deliverance (Gen. 8:1-19)

  • The structural center of the narrative.
  • God’s complete faithfulness.
  • The need for the waters to be gone.
  • God’s control of the waters.
  • Continued work of deliverance.
  • Testing the waters.
  • Noah’s patience for deliverance.
  • Returning to God’s design.
  • Deliverance fully realized.
  • All went out by families.

2. God’s Faithfulness through Promise (Gen 8:20-22)

  • The best to offer.
  • An offering like Abel’s.
  • God’s heart compared with man’s heart.
  • God’s promise to cease.
  • God’s promise to continue.

Noah as Example:

  • Patiently waiting for God
  • Doing due diligence
  • Caring for animals
  • Giving God the best

Theological Conclusions:

  1. God is a God Who remembers...His people
  • Noah (Gen. 8:1)
  • Abraham (Gen. 19:29)
  • Rachel (Gen. 30:22)
  1. God is a God Who remembers...His promise (Ps. 105:8)
  2. Creation is served well to function as God designed
  3. God saves through judgment
  4. Delayed deliverance does not equal no deliverance