Man Of God Bible Study Part 2-Noah: Righteous in a Corrupt World

We study Noah as a model of steady obedience in a corrupt culture, asking what it means to walk with God when it costs comfort, reputation, and approval. We offer five piercing questions to help realign your life with God’s call and choose faith over distraction.

• setting the scene of Genesis 6 and the depth of cultural corruption
• the meaning of righteousness, blamelessness, and walking with God
• Jesus’ reference to the days of Noah and why it matters now
• distraction and neglect as the quiet path away from God
• Noah’s detailed obedience and long endurance under mockery
• grace’s window and God’s decisive protection
• five questions for self-examination and faithful next steps

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Transcript

Welcome And Housekeeping

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Hey guys, it's B Rob, your host for the Food for Thought FaithCast. And we are back today. It's a lovely Tuesday, February 3rd. And I just want to say thank you, Faith Cast fam, for tuning in. Today, we got part two of our Man of God series, Bible study series. And we're going to be looking at another man who sought after God's heart, and God sought after his heart. So uh with that said, guys, I just want to um first of all do some uh housekeeping stuff. Uh check out the website w dot for Christ Ministry dot com. Sorry, somebody's trying to FaceTime me. I don't even know who it is. Weird. But that be happening these days, you know? Um I guess I don't I don't know who that is. But anyway, let's let's let's um get back. I'm gonna turn this thing over here. Let me uh silence it, turn it over, and then um we're gonna get back to the show. Sorry about the that um the enemy is always trying to distract, right? Especially when you're trying to do something for God. Um today we're gonna be looking at a second man of God, and um his name was Noah. You see, I want you to think about something for a second. God does not look for righteous men when the world is righteous, when everything's going right and everybody's good and righteous. Why does God look need to look for a righteous man, right? So he he looks for righteous men when the world is evil, when the world is corrupt. And in those days in the book of Genesis, Noah was that man. You see, first of all, I want to welcome everybody to the Man of God Bible study. This is uh chapter two, and um, we're going to go to the Lord in prayer real quick, okay? Dear Father, we come to you today, Lord. We just we just want to lift you up, Lord. We want to say thanks. We want to say thank you for your blessings, for your lessons, Lord. Just keep us. I pray that me, myself, and the listeners get a message straight, penetrated straight to our hearts today, Lord, from you, Lord. We pray that we all learn to be righteous men like Noah. We all learn to be obedient, Lord. We pray for that, Lord. We also pray for your everlasting grace and mercy, Lord. We pray these things in Jesus' holy, heavenly name. Amen. And hallelujah. Guys, good stuff today. Good stuff today. If you tuned in yesterday, thank you. Welcome back. Um, today we're not only studying a great man of the Bible, we're studying the life of a grown man who chose obedience when obedience would cost him comfort, reputation, security in this world. Does that sound uh familiar to you? Um this message isn't designed to make anybody stumble, slow anybody down. Um it's designed to make you ask yourself, look in the mirror and ask yourself a serious question. Will will I still walk with God when everything else isolates me? Will I still praise him in the storm? You see, Noah, let's see, let me see, my research correct. Noah lived about four and thirty years after Enoch. And remember yesterday we were talking about Enoch and how evil the world was, right? And Enoch warned the world that God's gonna come. You see, Enoch was taken by God about it's I've looked up a couple different places, some say 70, some say sixty-nine, some say seventy-two. Um, he was taken that many years before Noah was born. So just to give an example, Enoch was like seventh generation from Adam, Noah was like 10th generation, okay? If that makes sense. So if we go back and look, remember, I told you the world was evil with Enoch, okay? Well, let's look at the world Noah lived in. I mean, 80 years late, 70 years later, it's gotta be 70 times worse, right? Um, if you look at the book of Genesis, if you look at the book of Genesis, let's see, let's boom. All right, if you look at book of Genesis 6, chapter 6, verse 5, it says, the Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of thoughts of human heart was evil at the time. So he's saying all hearts were evil. Like the human race had totally betrayed God. Um, if you skip over to 11 and 12, it says, now the earth was corrupt in God's sight and was full of violence. It also says that all the people on the earth had corrupted their ways. I'm not gonna read the full passage because you know NIV is kind of copyrighted, so which I just found out. But I was reading from American Standard yesterday, so and it's not, but anyway, I just told on myself. It basically tells you how corrupt the human mind and the world was, you know. The issue wasn't that people sinned occasionally, it was that sin had become a total culture, kind of like what we talked about with Enoch. Imagine 70 years later, after sin was already a billboard, imagine how bad it had gotten in 70 years. That's kind of like our grand, our my parents looking at my kids' generation and being like, they're terrible. But actually, the younger generation, the ones that hopefully are watching this and listening, the ones in their teens and their 20s, they are solid. They know what loyalty is, they saw what not to do with us and our parents. They see the truth for what it is. And that's a great thing. I mean, we've got a lot of brainwashed ones, but let's let's get off of that, okay? We're talking about where Noah was, how the culture was, and Noah was a righteous man. You know, when sin normalizes, when everybody is sinning like everybody's drinking soda, or everybody's drinking coffee, or everybody's speaking of coffee, everybody is drinking sweet tea down in the south. You know what I'm saying? When it's normalized, a righteous person looks extreme. A person that speaks truth or looks for truth looks extreme. I know exactly what that feels like. You see, Noah lived wholly in a world that was evil, a world that was corrupt. And um, if you look at, if you look at Genesis, if you go back chapter six, eight, and nine, it says, but Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord. So Noah was a a light, if you if you will, like look at a Christmas tree, even though it's pagan. Look at a Christmas tree. The lights on the Christmas tree say they all go out by one. Noah was that one. You follow what I'm saying? 6889 also says Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God. You see, the word tells you what I'm talking about. I'm just using it as in a description. Okay. God defines Noah by his relationship with him, not by his reputation in the world. Does that make sense? God doesn't walk, you know, look at look at the world and say, hey, he's the most popular one. Look, look, it's Justin Bieber. Let's pick him out. No, it doesn't work that way. It does not work that way. You see, righteous means to be right with God, in good standing with God, having a positive relationship with God. You see, it says he was blameless as well. You see, blameless means trustworthy, like he has not done anybody wrong. His handshake meant what it meant. You see, in a world of evil, he was true, he was the real deal. And you see, it also says he walked faithfully faithfully with God. And what did we learn from yesterday? Walking with God means daily, consistent, obedient relationship. It doesn't mean perfection. It doesn't mean perfection or reputation by this world's standard. You don't have to be the most popular. Remember what Jesus said: last will be the first, first will be the last. Maybe not exactly in those words, but that was one of his parables that he was talking about. Okay. You see, Noah was righteous when no one else was. Even Jesus in the New Testament, years and years and years and years later, talked about how bad the days were in Noah. So if Jesus wasn't God in the flesh, then how did he know about what happened to Noah? Except for the scripture, which I don't I'd have to see the old scriptures, but I don't, you know, that's they were evil. Okay. Jesus even says in Matthew 24, 37 and 39, as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be the coming of the Son of Man. And what he was talking about was what's coming up next in Noah's life. What Jesus is talking about is what is about to happen in Jesus' life. But before we move to that, you see, it was so bad. It was so bad. Everybody was so distracted. And you see, distractions are very dangerous. It's a lot more dangerous than persecution. Because you do not drift away from God by just rebellion. It's the common person does it by neglect. Not having that relationship, not being in the word, not praying, not walking with God. You see? The common person, that's the most dangerous thing. Neglect. You see, what comes next in a world of evil is amazing. If you look at Genesis 6, 13, God said to Noah, make yourself an ark of cypress wood. Yeah. Told him exactly how to build it. Back in those days, that was not logical. But if you look at Genesis 6, verse 22, Noah did everything. Everything. Not just had a thought about it and told people, like we do today. He was obedient. He did everything just as God commanded. It says it right in the word. He did exactly what God said. Even though he didn't see God, God wasn't his boss. He didn't listen to his wife. He listened to God. You see, God explained every detail. And he asked for trust and obedience from Noah. You see, that's how faith works. That is how faith works. You look at Hebrews chapter eleven, verse seventeen. By faith Noah built an ark to save his family. By faith. Everybody thought he was crazy.

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You see what I'm saying? You see what faith does? It produces a movement. You see.

Jesus On The Days Of Noah

Distraction, Neglect, And Drift

The Ark: Command And Obedience

Faith That Endures Mockery

Grace’s Window And Closed Doors

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Noah's faith. Took years. You see, he was the only righteous man in his family. And they were all corrupt. Brothers, whatever. It's just Noah and his immediate family is who God saved. Or told him to build an ark, told them to build an ark. And they actually listened, did it, uh, got mocked, you know. It required crazy endurance. It was not logical. That's a big arc for that time. That's a big, big architecture build. Think about that. In those days, that would take a long time. That would take a long time today. But God had patience and Noah had faith. He waited until Noah completed it. You see, in Second Peter chapter two, verse five, it says Noah was a preacher of righteousness. He didn't even have to preach, he did it by action. And we can do the same thing. You see, Noah world he he he refused to listen to a corrupt, evil world world. After they're calling him crazy, laughing at him like on the sideline. You know? Kind of like a kid science class bringing a science project that doesn't conform to what they're doing in the classroom. But it's amazing. But everybody makes fun of them because it's different. You see. Or the music will. And then it's going to hurt your feelings. Because I've been there and done that. But I've also changed a lot of minds because I was righteous about that music. I should have been righteous about God. You see? You see, kids, when you get a brand new video game and it's so amazing and so good, and you take it over to your friend's house and that sort of thing. Don't be righteous. You need to take that same energy and be righteous about the word of God. When you get a new Bible, go show your friends. Anyway, you see, like I said, Noah refused to listen to the evil world around him. You see, success comes from faithfulness. It does not come from the response for this world. You see, the only response or responsibility that we should have is obedience to God. Because any results belong to him. In Genesis 716, it tells how he took. One pair of animal of each, his family in, and then Jesus shut him in, which means Jesus locked the door tight and made sure they were going to be safe. You see, grace for the righteous as a huge window. You see, mercy is an amazing moment. You see, God invites us patiently to have a relationship with him, but he also closes doors decisively to take us out of situations that are bad. But it's on his timing. You see, how long do you think it took Noah to build the ark? Let's see. Hold on. I haven't looked that up. I'm going to look that up. I've got a program that asked like eight different research platforms. So wow. God's warning window was a hundred and twenty years. Noah was five hundred years old when his sons were born, and six hundred years old when the flood came. So there was a hundred and twenty-year period of mercy before the flood. Man, imagine that a hundred and twenty years. But God still took him out of that evil situation. So he endured all that grief from the world, all that mockery for a long time. Imagine that. But like I said, grace has a window, and mercy always is amazing in the moment. So how can you be a man of God or a man after God in today's time? Well, if you look at Philippians chapter 2, verse 15, it says, shine among them like stars in the sky. In Luke 18, 8, it says, When the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth? That's some that's a that's a question there. Will he find faith in you? I'm sure gonna try. You know? Am I perfect? Oh no, no, no, no, no, no. I got skeletons. But we all do. And it's never too late. You see, God is still looking for men who will stand firm in his truth, who will walk faithfully with him, who will be obedient fully to him. You see, the story of Noah is not meant to condemn, but it's a tea, let it be a teaching lesson to call us closer to God. Repentance is not shame. It doesn't matter if you were mocking Noah, you can still come to God. There's no shame in that game, you see. It's just an invitation. There's always an invitation back to the kingdom of God, back into the fellowship of God. Learning and preparing and building your relationship with God. There's always that moment. Always. You see, Noah obeyed God when obedience made no sense. Because nobody was being obedient. Everybody was doing what everybody else was doing, what the world taught them to do. Evil had come upon the hearts of all men. Noah was the one light on the Christmas tree that did not go out. And God preserved him when God's judgment came, when God's wrath came. So, guys, here's our five questions. Our five study questions, and I want you to write them down. Number one, where is God gently calling me back to him? Where in my life is God gently calling me back to him? Number two. Give you a second to write down number one while I swig on this coffee. Number two. Question number two. What obedience have I might have delayed out of fear or just comfort? Where in obedience or what obedience have I delayed out of fear or comfort? All right, question number three. Where in my life do I feel pressure to compromise? And what I mean by compromise is compromising your relationship with God. Where do I feel pressure to compromise? The word conviction comes to mind. Where am I convicted? When I feel pressure to compromise, that makes sense. So number four, who or what influences my decisions more than God? And doesn't and don't say there's nothing because there's always something. Because this is an evil world. Evil. I mean, nobody's running around cutting each other's heads off and that sort of thing, but kind of sorta they are, you know, whether they're fake, false flags, whatever. I mean, they are, you know, maybe not like in the days of Noah, but you know. Anyway, question number four. Who or what influence did I I think I did that already? Yes. Okay, now we're on question number five. Last question. What is one thing I can do this week to walk more faithfully with God? What is one thing I can do to walk more faithfully with God? Give you a second for that, and then we're gonna recap everything. All right, question number one is where is God gently calling me back to Him? Question number two is what obedience have I delayed out of fear or comfort? What obedience to God have I delayed or stopped out of fear or comfort? Number three is where do I feel pressured to compromise? Where in my life do I feel pressured to compromise? Number four, who or what influences my God, my life more than God? Who or what influences my life more than God or my decisions in my life more than God? Number five, what is one step I can take this week to walk more faithfully with God? What is one step this week I can take to walk more faithfully with God? I'm gonna remind you again that Noah obeyed God even when the world was evil. So if Noah did it, you can do it. I'm not telling you to live 600 years, but those were different times back then. We're being they've the evil people have learned how to kill us a lot quicker. But we're dumb and we we buy the stuff, and anyway, that's a whole nother thing. Just know that Noah did that and God saved it during his wrath. So when the Son of Man returns, will he find evil or will he find obedience? That's the question. Guys, it's been a great podcast. It's been a great chapter too. And um check out my book, Discernment, a wake-up call for generationally cursed society. It should be on Amazon soon within the next 72 hours, hopefully. Check out the website, www.forchristministry.com. And this, my friends, after we finish this, I will be releasing the books. So keep checking the website to see release dates for new stuff. And guys, if you want me to pray for you, you know my number, 706-691-1043. Just give me a text or call me. Guys, I would love for you to call in. I would love to pray for you. And guys, we can't do it without you. So any gifts or donations, that would be most, most appreciated. And it would be a blessing. I love you. God loves you. And remember, if you don't have a relationship with Jesus, you better get right.