Gleanings From Grace

TEXT:Genesis 5:21-24

INTRODUCTION: 1. Someone has called the fifth chapter of Genesis “A desert of death.” You can almost see the pine boxes and the graves. You can almost hear the weeping widows. You can almost smell the stench of death that arises from this chapter. Over and over we read these words, “and he died.” The last words of v.5 read, “and he died.” We read in v.8 “and he died.” We read in v.11 “and he died.” We read in v.14 “and he died.” We read in v.17 “and he died.” We read in v.20 “and he died.” {Read More…}

TEXT:Genesis 7:7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.

Introduction: I know God has promised there will not be another flood to destroy ALL flesh, but that is not to say there will not be disastrous floods. There are some wonderful New Testament truths that are illustrated by this Old Testament story of the flood of Noah’s day. When some person, place, or thing in the Old Testament has characteristics which are similar and thereby point to another, usually greater, person, place, or thing in the New Testament, we call it a “type.” The ark, although it does not match in every case (Noah built it; God didn’t, for instance), is a wonderful “type” of the Lord Jesus Christ and His salvation. For instance, notice that: {Read More…}

TEXT: By faith Noah — Heb. 11:7.

INTRODUCTION: Faith is to trust God without terms. For when God has a big job to be done, faith gets the contract. A person can never be a hero unless he is first a hero in faith. For we do not test the resources of God until we try the impossible. Even faith can stifle science. It is faith that expects from God that which is beyond all expectations.
Noah knew that there was no better way to show his trust in God than to bury himself in the thing God had asked him to do. For he found that faith was the key that unlocked the cabinet of God’s promises, and emptied the content of its treasures into his soul. Noah walked with God in a day and age when “all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth” (Gen. 6:12). This verse should be of special interest to all of us living in these days. Jesus told us, “As the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be” (Matt. 24:37). {Read More…}