Faith Exemplified - Noah Obeyed God by Faith

We were singing about truths, God's truths, that will echo down through eternity. I was thinking about this character Noah. He's there in eternity. His testimony and example is echoing down through eternity, and his testimony and example is echoing to us. And we will stand before God one day and give an account for how we have received Noah and his testimony and all that's before us. Ponder that for a minute. Everything that you're going to hear this morning, everything that's going to be laid out before you this morning, we will be responsible for these things all throughout eternity. That should grip us. That should grip us.

You should take your Bible turn to Hebrews 11 verse 7. I did say earlier that we will turn back to Genesis chapter 6, but we will only look at one of those verses that we read earlier. That was verse 9. I'll tell you when to turn over. That's later on in the message. Now to me, I believe we're really starting to see how chapter 11 is all about the supremacy of the life of faith. Verses 1 to 3 got us started in this journey. In verse 1, the author taught us the meaning of Biblical faith. I have called that true faith. And in verse 2, he explained Biblical faith. And in verse 3, he exemplified faith.

So the truths and the teaching of verses 1 to 3 set us up for all of the great examples of the life of faith that we have all throughout chapter 11. And even though we've really just gotten started with these great examples, I do believe we are starting to see the supremacy of the life of faith. We'll continue to see the supremacy of the life of faith all throughout the chapter. But big picture, look at who we have examined so far. First, we studied Abel who worshiped God by faith. And then second, last week we studied Enoch who walked with God by faith. But these different examples of the life of faith are really related.

They're tied together into me. They need to be taken together. Let me explain. First, we saw the fact that Abel worshiped God by faith. He offered a better sacrifice than his brother Cain because I believe he offered what God expected and commanded for worship. He offered an animal sacrifice. And then second, we saw the fact that Enoch walked with God by faith. He walked with God in all manner of life and in all directions of life. Enoch served God in that he was a prophet of God who prophesied the judgment of God to all of the people around him. And he was commended by God.

He was given a testimony from God that he pleased God because he walked with God by faith. And get this, Enoch walked with God by faith because he worshiped God by faith just like his father Abel. He worshiped God like Abel in that he worshiped God according to what God expected and God commanded. Now think about it. Enoch could never have been commended as pleasing to God if he had not worshiped God by faith. See how it's all tied together? Now remember what we learned right here last week. This is very practical and much needed. Our worship of God dictates our walk with God. Our walk with God reveals the quality of our worship of God.

Let me restate that. Our worship of God dictates our walk with God, how we walk with God. Our walk with God reveals or points to the quality of our worship of God. And if our worship is off, then our walk is off. And if our walk is off, that shows us that our worship is off. Maybe you need to ponder those truths and realities. Now this morning we will be looking at Noah, who was a great man of faith in the third example given in the Hall of Fame of the Saints of God. And in our message this morning, we will see how Noah obeyed God by faith. I'll repeat that. Everything here with Noah is all about how he obeyed God by faith.

And Noah was able to obey God by faith because he walked with God by faith, just like his father Enoch, and he worshipped God by faith, just like his father Abel. See how it all goes together? Now we'll come back to this at the end of the message. But this leads me to the title of the message, "Faith Exemplified Noah Obeyed God by Faith." It's real simple. Faith exemplified Noah obeyed God by faith. Now before we get into our Hebrews 11 verse and into our message, we'll need to ask who was Noah? I have been giving us a brief biographical sketch of these individuals really before we dive deep into their lives and example.

But if Abel and Enoch were obscure and possibly unknown to us, my guess is that most of us know about Noah, the flood and the ark. I think that is a safe assumption. A little bit of information about Noah's family tree. Noah was tenth in the line from Adam. He was of the godly line of Seth, and he was the grandson of Methuselah. Remember that Methuselah was the son of Enoch. And we see nothing of Noah in the Scriptures until he was 500 years old when he fathered three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And we see Noah come onto the scene in Genesis 5 and we see some specifics in Genesis 5.32. But I want us to see Noah the man.

Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people that he lived. And the Scriptures tell us that he walked with God. We saw that last week. We'll see that again this morning, Genesis 6.9. Remember in the Scriptures only two men are said to have walked with God, Enoch and Noah. Many are said to have walked before God. But Noah lived among great, great wickedness and sin. He lived in a time when the earth was filled with violence, the text says, and all men and mankind were filled with great sin and great violence. And within Noah's biography, three facts stand out, which make Noah a very well-known Bible figure.

First, in the time of Noah, God decided to judge the world by a universal flood because the earth and mankind was great in wickedness and filled with violence. God chose to bring about a judgment by flood. And then second, God called Noah to build an ark, or what we would call a very big boat. So as to preserve in the ark, Noah, his family, and two of every kind of animal through the flood. We read that earlier in our Genesis Bible reading. But then third, God did judge the earth with a universal flood, and God did save Noah, his family, and two of every kind of animal. Now, my first memory of Noah came from a children's picture Bible.

I remember that vividly back when I was a child, and I attended Justice Heights United Methodist Church there in my hometown of Laurel. But I want to point out the great and real danger of not seeing Noah in the flood rightly or biblically. Many times, things like picture Bibles in certain children's material can minimize what took place in the flood. Some go one step further by denying certain vital facts concerning the flood, and many even scoff at the idea of a global flood and God saving the animals Noah and his family there in the ark.

I want to stamp out a few grave fallacies, and I want to elevate the seriousness and the truthfulness of the flood. So it is essential to see and accept the fact that the flood was a universal flood. All the earth from north to south, east to west was flooded totally. No part of the earth was not flooded. And also, it is essential to see and accept the fact that the flood was a judgment from God. This was no natural disaster like a tornado or a hurricane. The flood was the judgment of God by the hand of God for the purpose and glory of God.

So this was a universal flood that totally judged all the earth, all mankind, and this judgment was from God, by God, for the purpose and the plan of God. And then it is essential to see that the flood is a critical part of Bible theology. Let me restate that. It is critical to see that the flood is a critical part of Bible theology. The flood certainly is a quintessential example of the judgment of God upon the sin of men and men. As a matter of fact, the flood is seen all throughout the scripture as a picture of and pointing to God's final judgment at the end of time in human history. And this leads us to two facts we must see and accept.

First, God judges and will judge all sin and all unredeemed sinners. God judges and will judge all sin and all unredeemed sinners. And you need to hear that because if we're not careful, we can look around us and seem to think that lost, wicked, unredeemed sinners are getting away with their sin. That is not the case. Second, just like there was a universal flood in the judgment, the flood pictures and points to the fact that at the end of time in human history, Jesus will judge all ungodly and ungodliness, and only those who are in the ark of Christ Jesus will be preserved. So the simple but very serious point is this.

We must see the flood as the Bible teaches, as someone who dilutes it or denies what the Bible teaches. And right here in the middle of this great and very important flood was Noah, who obeyed God by faith, and that is because Noah understood now faith is the way to life and faith is the way to live. Do you see that? Noah understood that faith is the way to life and faith is the way to live. Now let's read our one verse, verse 7, and then we will come to the title of the message, and I'll explain how we will break this down.

"By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear, constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith." So let's get started with faith exemplified Noah obeyed God by faith, and I want to do this by making three observations out of this verse. First, how God warned Noah of the flood. Second, how Noah obeyed God in two ways, and we'll spend the bulk of our time right here because there is a lot here that Noah obeyed. And then third, how Noah became an heir or what he inherited in becoming an heir.

So number one, Noah was warned by God. Noah was warned by God. We could expand this by saying that Noah was warned by God about certain unseen events. It's plain to see right there in the verse. And I want us to see three details about this warning. First, this was a serious warning. This was a serious warning. This phrase warned of God. It was often used of communication from deity, which pertains to an announcement or an oracle from deity. Two examples that will help you here. In Matthew 2, 12, the wise men were warned by God. You know that verse. The wise men were warned by God not to return to Herod, so they went home another route.

And in Hebrews 8, 5, God warned Moses. God warned Moses to build the tent. That would be the tabernacle as he had instructed. So this was a very serious warning given to Noah here because this warning was from God. But before we move on, a question or two about this warned of God. How many warnings from God do we see in the Scriptures? How many warnings from God do we see in Proverbs? Specifically, how many warnings in Proverbs do we see concerning immorality and adultery? And how many men and women see those warnings concerning immorality and adultery? And they know they're from God, yet they ignore them and go after immorality and adultery.

The lesson here is this, folks. Noah took this warning from God serious, and we should take all of God's warnings serious. I pondered this earlier. What would have happened if Noah didn't take any of these things serious? Second, this was a blind warning. This was a blind warning. Here we see that God warned Noah concerning events as yet unseen. The New American says Noah was warned by God about things not yet seen. But what were the events not yet seen? Well, we know the rest of the story. We know these events not yet seen were all of those details and events concerning the flood. Again, we know the story.

And notice just how unseen these events were. We can truly say this was a blind warning because none of these things had ever happened before. Scholars tell us that at the time of Noah it had never rained. So rain was unseen. And if it had never rained, then a flood was unseen. And at this point, God had never brought judgment upon the earth like this, so judgment was unseen. Noah definitely could have asked God, "What is rain? What is the flood?" So this was a blind warning, or it seems to have been a blind warning. Third, I want us to see this blind warning was seen by faith. This blind warning was seen by faith.

God warned Noah of things not yet seen, or things that had never happened before. And if Noah had not been a man of faith, he certainly would not have been able to believe God and to see the reality of these things by faith. If Noah had not been a man of faith, he would have said something like this to God, "What is rain? What is rain? What is the flood?" I don't believe that. I've never seen rain. I've never seen a flood. But that is not how Noah reacted. Noah believed God concerning this warning, then involved things not yet seen, or things he had never seen. So Noah demonstrated faith.

And get this, Noah demonstrated and exemplified the reality of verse 1. See how it's all tied together, folks? Noah demonstrated and exemplified the reality of verse 1. Look back at verse 1. It's right above you. "Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for and the conviction of things not seen." This is why the amplified reads, "By faith, with confidence in God and His Word, Noah being warned by God about events not yet seen." So this blind warning was actually seen by faith because Noah was a man of faith. So look at this warning that Noah received. This was a serious warning in that it was from God.

But in blind faith, Noah believed God concerning these things not yet seen. Things never seen before, and as a result, because Noah was a man of faith, he had a confident assurance of things not yet seen because he saw them by faith. I love what John MacArthur says of Noah's faith. This is so good. And I'm quoting him. "One of the greatest practical acts of faith in all history was Noah's cutting down the first gopher tree for the wood to make the ark." Isn't that true? "One of the greatest practical acts of faith in all history was Noah's cutting down the first gopher tree for the wood to make the ark." But get this, church.

We have been seeing this all along. Faith is not blind because faith is belief in things not yet seen, so faith is not blind. Faith has substance so Noah's faith rested in God, in on God, and what God had commanded him and said to him. So humanly speaking, this was blind faith, but not for the man of faith. Faith is never blind, for faith is believing in things not yet seen. Again, verse 1, "Faith is the assurance of things hope for and the conviction of things not seen." And I believe there is one truth or one fact that we need to accept here before we move on.

We must work hard to study God's Word and to ask God to help us to believe what we see in God's Word, so much so that we believe God's Word and we live God's Word by faith. And it is critical that as the people of God, we get to a place that when we see instruction, commandments, and warnings from God, that by faith and in faith we simply believe those things and we live those things out. Question or two to ponder, what would happen to us as a church and as a people if we believe by faith all that we see in God's Word and we truly live it like Noah did? Let me resteath that.

What would happen to us as a church and God's people called Grace Life Church Brookhaven if we believe by faith all that we see in God's Word and we truly lived it out by faith like Noah did? So Noah was warned by God. And then number two, Noah obeyed God. Noah obeyed God. We can expand this by saying Noah obeyed God by constructing the ark and condemning the sin and wickedness of the world. It's right there in the verse. Look back at the verse. By faith Noah being warned by God concerning events as yet seen in reverent Freer constructed an ark for the saving of his household. That would be his family. By this he condemned the world.

Listen to the amplified by faith with confidence in God and his Word. Noah being warned by God about events not yet seen in reverence. Prepared an ark for the salvation of his family. By this act of obedience he condemned the world. Now here I want to point out two distinct ways Noah obeyed God. First he constructed the ark. He constructed the ark. You may say pastor I know the story. Noah built a boat on dry ground but there is more. But notice how he constructed the ark. Here we see that in reverent fear the King James says he was moved with fear. Moved with fear. Noah constructed the ark.

In this reverent fear it means fear, it means reverence. It means to be moved to fear, moved to fear and reverence, even to act in fear and reverence. But it was not that Noah was moved with fear as if he was frightened. Nor was he moved with fear as if he was a coward. This was a reverential fear of God and all that God had told him. So in reverential fear he obeyed. So we can see that Noah took this warning from God very serious. And he was moved to fear in reverence of God concerning his warning and to obey his instructions. But then second notice he condemned the world. He condemned the world.

Here we have just a short portion of Scripture and honestly I think we can overlook this. Look back at the verse. The English standard says by this he condemned the world. The amplified says by this act of obedience. He condemned the world. And this leads us to a question or two. Was he a silent witness? Just letting his actions speak for him. Think about that. Was he a silent witness just letting his actions speak for him? Certainly building the ark in obedience to God did speak volumes to all of the world around him. But we need to see that Noah condemned the world in three ways. First Noah condemned the world through his character.

And we see Noah's character back in Genesis 6 specifically Genesis 6 9. That verse says that Noah was a righteous man even blameless among the people in which he lived. Think about it all of the pagan people in which he lived. I love what Matthew Henry says here. Henry says when the rest of the world was corrupt and wicked Noah kept his integrity. Henry goes on to say he was a very good man but he was no better than the grace of God made him. So by God's grace and work in him Noah condemned the world by his godly character. Second Noah condemned the world by his actions.

In a big way he condemned the world by obeying God by constructing the ark on dry land far far away from any body of water Noah was condemning the world. But notice what this is leading up to. Words. Speech. Condemning the world by his character. Yes by his actions. Yes but that leads to words. So third Noah condemned the world by using words by using preaching. Now we do not see this in Genesis 6 chapter 6 to chapter 9. Nor do we see this in Hebrews 11 7 but from the Apostle Peter. Second Peter 2 2 tells us if he did not spare the ancient world but preserve Noah a herald of righteousness. You see that?

If he did not spare the ancient world but preserve Noah a herald of righteousness. This is easy to see. Peter tells us that Noah was a preacher, a herald. And to be a herald it meant to be a messenger invested with authority or one who conveyed the official or authoritative message and messages of the king. So just like Enoch Noah was a preacher and he preached righteousness. And the message of righteousness that he preached was simple. He preached of the coming judgment of God because of the great sin and wickedness of the world and the people. Why in the world was he building the boat to begin with?

And what did the ark and Noah's building the ark speak to? The coming judgment. And he preached of the righteousness of God which was and is opposed to the great sin and the wickedness of the people. And he called the people to repent and believe so as to avoid God's judgment. So by and through his character, by and through his obedience to God, by and through his words, Noah was a preacher of God's righteousness, condemning the sin and sinfulness of all of the world all around him. Now this leads me to a few questions. Can it be said of us that we preach Christ the gospel and the word of God by how we live? By and through our character?

By and through our integrity, Christian integrity? Can it be said of us that if we never open our mouth that we preach Christ the gospel and the word of God by how we live? Through our character, through who we are? And can it be said of us that we preach Christ the gospel and the word of God by how we obey God and his word? By how we obey God and his word? Can it be said that we preach Christ the gospel and the word of God? And can it be said of us that we preach Christ the gospel and the word of God by our lips? Are we a verbal witness of Christ and the gospel? See how it's all tied together. Let me say this before I move on.

If you're not living a true Christian life with the character of a true Christian, if you're not living in obedience to God's word, please do not open your mouth to witness for Christ. You'll do more harm than good. And we all know people who've done that. But at this point I want us to see the breadth and the depth of what it meant for Noah to condemn the world. Genesis 6.3 tells us that God did not send the flood for 120 years. So for 120 years Noah preached righteousness by his character, by and through his deeds and by his words. And he did this being right in the middle of nothing but great sin and great violence.

As Warren Wiersby says it, "The world and all humanity have become so corrupt that it was necessary for God to wipe the earth clean." You see that? "The world and all humanity have become so corrupt with sin and violence and wickedness that it became necessary for God to wipe the earth clean." And he saved only eight people, Noah and his family, because they had faith. So look at how Noah obeyed God. Per God's commands, Noah constructed the ark and he condemned the world. For 120 years he built the boat and he preached the righteousness of God all while condemning the sin and the sinfulness of the world.

But before we continue, I want us to look into the problem that we have here, the picture that we have here, and the point of what we have here. Let me restate that. I want us to look at the problem that we have here. We have a great problem, whether you know it or not. I want us to see the picture that we have here. I've alluded to this already. And I want us to see the point of what we have here. First the problem. Look at the verse.

"Noah, in reverent fear, moved by fear, reverent fear, constructed an ark for the saving of his household." The Amplified says, "In reverence, prepared an ark for the salvation of his family." Here we have the problem posed by the fact that Noah built an ark to save his family, and it seems no more. Some ask these types of questions, revealing this problem. If the ark was for Noah's family, then why was he preaching to the sinners around him? If any in the world would have believed Noah's preaching, could they have come in the ark and be saved?

If only Noah's family entered the ark, why did Noah preach the judgment of God and the righteousness of God for 120 years? See how those kind of questions bring about a problem and a potential problem? John MacArthur rectifies this problem very well. I really took his information and put it into my words and added to it. But we need to see that the ark certainly was large enough for all of the animals needed to ensure the survival of each species. God's plan to save each species in the ark certainly was possible by and through the ark, and that certainly did happen.

In the ark had enough room for any person who wanted to believe the preaching of Noah to come into the ark and be saved. And the fact that only eight people came into the ark does not mean that there was only room for eight. It means that only eight people wanted to be saved according to God's commandments, God's standards, and God's ways. Let me repeat that. The fact that only eight people came into the ark does not mean that there was only room for eight. It means that only eight people wanted to be saved according to God's commandments, God's standards, and God's ways.

2 Peter 3, 9 says, "The Lord is not slow to fulfill His promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance." So it was not that God did not desire that more believe Noah, repent, and come into the ark and be saved. It was that no more than eight wanted to believe God and come into the ark to be saved. Simply the problem of more coming into the ark does not lie with God, it lies with those who refuse to believe. Simply had more than eight believed and come to God and the ark to be saved, we can be certain that God certainly would have saved them.

So the problem or the potential problem was not with God, but with man. They refused to believe. And notice how this applies. On our day, God is the same as He was in Noah's day, God is the same as He was in Jesus' day, God is the same today. 2 Peter 3, 9 says, "The Lord is not slow to fulfill His promises as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance." So this tells us that the gospel and the sacrifice of Christ Jesus on the cross is more than sufficient to atone for all of the sins and sinners since the fall of man.

The problem is not with the sufficiency of the blood and the gospel, nor the desire of God for more to repent and believe. The problem is with sinners. The problem is with sinners who refuse to come to Jesus for salvation on God's terms. To loosely quote John MacArthur here, "That no more than eight were saved in the ark simply means that the ones who were not saved did not want to be saved.

They wanted to stay in their sin and wickedness, and that no more are saved today simply means that the ones who are not saved, that here the gospel, they do not want to be saved." Listen, folks, if you're sitting here in your sin and sinfulness, not born again, the problem is not with God, the problem is with you. You are refusing Christ Jesus. You are refusing to come to Christ and believe. Come to Christ and believe. Let go of your sin and your sinfulness and your pride and your rebellion. You are just like those outside of Noah's ark. You will not choose Christ. And look at all that he's done for you.

He's even put a man standing up here this morning who will tell you these things. Come to Christ and believe. But then second, the picture. Now, this is very simple and very short. The ark is a picture of Jesus and the salvation that is possible from men and men through the gospel. It's just that simple. The ark is a picture and a type of Jesus and the salvation that is possible from men and men through the gospel. Look, folks, the only people that were saved in that day were those in the ark. And the only people that will be saved on the great day of judgment are those who are in the ark of Christ Jesus.

If you've not come into the ark of Christ Jesus by grace through faith, come. Otherwise, you will be judged in your sin and sinfulness. But then third, the point. Notice that the author of Hebrews leaves out quite a lot of information about the ark. We read a little bit of it earlier. But what we need to see is that he clearly gives the reason for the ark. Notice that the author of Hebrews does not mention all of the great details of the ark that Moses gave in Genesis 6-9. He does not mention the size of the ark, any specifics about the ark, the animals coming into the ark, even how long it took Noah to build the ark.

He just says that Noah, being warned of God in reverent fear, built the ark. Now, simply, the point the writer of Hebrews is making is not about the details of the ark, but the fact that Noah obeyed God by faith and he built the ark. The point is clear and simply stated in verse 7. I love how the Amplified reads. It says, "By faith, with confidence in God and his word, Noah, being warned by God about events not yet seen in reverence, prepared an ark for the salvation of his family." So notice what we see here and notice Noah's obedience. When Noah obeyed God, he did a lot.

And in his obedience, he proved a lot, mainly that Noah obeyed God by faith, and Noah did this because he knew and understood that faith is a way to life and faith is a way to live. Oh, and by the way now, Noah could have never been a man of faith and obeyed God by faith if he had not possessed saving faith. Just like Abraham, Abel, and Enoch, Noah believed God and it was counted or credited to him as righteousness. Romans 4.3 says, "For what does the Scripture say?" Right here, Paul is quoting Genesis. Abraham believed God and it was counted or credited to him as righteousness. We can truly substitute Noah's name for Abraham's in the verse.

So Noah obeyed God. And then last, number 3, Noah became an heir. Noah became an heir. We can expand this by saying Noah became an heir of righteousness. But look back at the verse. "By faith Noah, being worn by God concerning events not yet seen, events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed in art for the saving of his householder family. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith." Now to understand what the author is saying here, we must see how Noah was already righteous to begin with and see how Noah became an heir to righteousness.

We can actually say he was a man of righteousness in two ways and that's what I want us to see here. First, Noah was righteous before he built the ark. Noah was righteous before he ever built the ark. This is where I want you to turn back to Genesis chapter 6. And I want you to put your eyes on this in verse 9. These are the generations of Noah. Moses had just given us family tree. And he says Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God. So here we see that before God called Noah to build the ark, and before Noah obeyed God by faith, Noah was said to be a righteous man.

He was blameless among the sinful people of the land. He walked with God as his father Enoch had walked with God, all because he was a righteous man and righteous before God. John Gill describes this righteousness by saying, "Not that he was perfectly holy or set free from sin, but was the partaker of the true grace of God. Simply Noah had obtained righteousness. He had become righteous just like his father Abraham. He had believed God and it was credited or counted to him as righteousness, Romans 4.3. And get this, God was able to use Noah to fulfill his plan to judge the world first because that was God's plan and purpose all along.

Second, because God found Noah a man he could use. Noah was righteous and he lived righteously. He was blameless among all of the people that he lived and he walked with God. And that leads me to a question. Can God choose to use us? Because we're so talented. Can God choose to use us because of all of our abilities? Can God choose to use us because of our great experience? I think you can pick up on my sarcasm. Really the question is this. Can God choose to use us because he finds us righteous and living righteously among the people in which we live like Noah?

Look folks, our usefulness for God is not based on our talent, ability, experience and such. True usefulness from God comes from being righteous and living righteously among the people in which we live like Noah. What in the world would our church be like if we became useful to God like Noah? So Noah was righteous before God. And then second, Noah inherited a righteousness because he obeyed God by faith. Now it is not that Noah somehow attained a right standing before God by his works. No, he was already righteous before God, before he obeyed God by faith and he built the ark.

But here the author tells us that Noah became an heir and a becoming heir. It simply means to become one who receives or inherits something. So Noah inherited a righteousness or he was given a righteousness, but why or how? What does this mean? Noah became an heir of righteousness because of his obedience and faith. He became an heir or a type of righteousness because he was a man of faith who obeyed God by and through faith. Bible scholar Kenneth Wuth explains this by saying, "In Genesis, the warning of God was given to Noah because he was righteous." In Hebrews, we are told that Noah wrought righteousness in his life by faith.

So what we need to see here is this with Noah. Noah obeyed God by faith and because of his obedience and faith, a righteousness from God was produced or brought about within Noah as a result. Get this brother, get this sister. When we worship God as able, when we walk with God like Enoch, and when we obey God like Noah, all by faith now, a righteousness from God is produced. It is brought about in us as a result. Do you see that? When we worship God as able, when we walk with God like Enoch, and when we obey God like Noah, all by faith, a righteousness from God is produced or brought about in us.

And we need to ask ourselves, is this type of righteousness being produced in us? And look, some of you need to go ponder this. Contemplate this. Seek the Lord to understand what this means because this is a type of righteousness we desperately need. So Noah became an heir of righteousness. He was declared righteous before, and he possessed righteousness before, but through his obedience and faith, a righteousness was brought about in his life. And get this church, our church, Christ Life Church, Brooke Avon, should be a church full of saints who are attaining more and greater righteousness because they obey. We obey God by faith.

I love that. In Noah we see righteousness before God, blamelessness among the people, walking with God, attaining more and more and more righteousness. And that should be the same as seen in us. So Noah became an heir of righteousness. Now when I closed out our messages with Abel and Enoch, I offered a few lessons to be learned from their lives in that teaching. But I do not want to do that this morning. At this point I want to close the message by revisiting how Noah is related to Enoch and then Abel, not by blood, and not by the family line. Noah simply walked in the footsteps of his father Enoch and his father Abel.

Noah worshipped God by faith. Therefore, like Enoch, he walked with God by faith, because he worshipped rightly and walked with God faithfully, he was able to obey God by faith. You see how it's all tied together? Noah worshipped God by faith. Therefore, like Enoch, he walked with God by faith, and because he worshipped rightly and walked with God faithfully, he was able to obey God by faith. And Noah was able to obey God by faith because he knew faith is a way to life. That faith is a way to live. And the same should be said of us. We are to be a people who worship by faith, walk with God by faith, and obey God by faith.

May God say that about us. Let's pray. As always, if you commit these things to the Lord,