Gen 6:9–22 — Noah and the Ark of Salvation

The title of the sermon today is “Noah and the Ark of Salvation.” And as we will see, those two things go together. Noah himself, the man, and the ark that he built. Noah and the ark together are a picture of our salvation in Christ. Noah himself is a type of Christ, and the ark as well is a picture of the salvation that we have in union with Christ.

Noah in Contrast to a Corrupt World

But we begin in our text with verses nine through 12 where Noah is set forth as this outstandingly righteous man in contrast with the total corruption of the earth around him. Verse nine, these are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man. Blameless in his generation, blameless in his time. Verse 11, the earth was corrupt in God’s sight, and the earth was filled with violence. Of course, last week when we looked at Genesis 6, verses one through eight, we got a glimpse of what that corruption was all about and what it was like. And we looked at all the different interpretations of that language there about the sons of God coming into the daughters of man. And whatever the interpretation is, it is clear that the text is trying to portray for us that mankind is becoming increasingly corrupt. There is a deepening corruption, a pervasive corruption of all mankind. And it does involve a supernatural element. That same serpent that we heard about in the garden who tempted Adam and Eve and brought deception into this world. That same sin that was crouching at the door that Cain was warned about, which is this ominous dark figure. This is the corruption of mankind that has a supernatural element to it.

All the world is in rebellion against God and it is getting worse and worse to the point where the whole world is so far gone and so corrupt that God says that he is going to destroy all mankind. Noah stands out, though, in contrast with this bleak picture of the increasing corruption and sin of man, where the earth is filled with violence, where there is a complete breakdown of society. In contrast with that, Noah stands out as this unique figure. He alone is righteous in his generation. Of course, we know that this is a picture of Christ himself, the one righteous man who ever lived. He is the true Noah, and he is the one who is going to bring about God’s deliverance of his elect.

The Ark Covenant

Now the text goes on to give us this speech of God to Noah. This begins in verse 13. After God decided that he was going to destroy the earth, then in verse 13, we have this narrative here, begins in verse 13, goes down to verse 21, of God’s word to Noah. And it occurs in two parts. It can be divided into two paragraphs. Part one is verses 13 through 16, where God warns of the coming judgment and he gives the instructions for the building of the Ark. Part two is in verses 17 through 21, which repeats the warning of coming destruction and also speaks about the importance of the Ark, but this time in terms of this covenant that God is going to make with Noah. That is in verse 18. Behold, I will establish my covenant with you. And you shall come into the ark.

So in part one, in verses 13 through 16, we read that God said to Noah, I have determined to make an end of all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth. Make yourself an arc of gopher wood. Make rooms in the arc and cover it inside and out with pitch. This is how you are to make it. The length of the arc, 300 cubits, its breadth, 50 cubits, and its height, 30 cubits. Make a roof for the arc and finish it to a cubit above and set the door of the arc in its side. Make it with lower, second, and third decks.

God is giving the architectural dimensions of this ark. It is an architectural description, almost sounds like a three-story house with the lower deck and the middle section and then the upper deck. It is a three-story house that replicates the architecture of the cosmos itself. The lower deck symbolizes the waters under the earth, the middle section symbolizes the earth and the land where man and the animals dwell, and the upper deck symbolizes the heavens. The ark is a miniature picture of the creation itself. And there are representatives of all the living creatures that are being brought into the ark. The ark becomes a microcosm of the world because God is preserving this world through the coming floodwaters and he is going to recreate the world after the flood. God is going to save the world that he has created, even though the world is corrupt, the earth is filled with violence, yet God, through Noah and his ark, is going to not only save his elect people, but he is going to recreate the world itself and bring about a new creation on the other side of the judgment.

So that is the first section, the first part of God’s speech to Noah. He begins with this statement, behold, I am going to destroy all things. And then he says, make for yourself an ark. And he gives the description of what the ark will look like. It is a microcosm of the world itself.

But then in part two of God’s speech to Noah, he returns back to that same initial statement, behold, I will destroy. That is verse 17. He says, for behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh. So notice that language, behold, I will destroy. In verse 17, it is almost a direct repetition of verse 13. Behold, I will destroy them, verse 13b.

So in part two, God recapitulates, he goes back again, states again this coming flood, this coming judgment, where he is going to destroy everything that is on the earth, everything that is on the earth shall die.

But then, notice that in verse 18, which is parallel to verse 14, verse 14 said, so, because I am going to destroy everything, make an ark, make for yourself an ark. But verse 18, which is parallel to verse 14, says, but I will establish my covenant with you and you shall come into the ark. You, your wives, your sons, your wife, and your son’s wives with you. And every living thing will also enter into the ark and be kept alive there.

So notice that in part two of God’s speech to Noah, God repeats the same basic concept, I am going to destroy everything, but make for yourself an ark. But this time he describes that second statement about the ark in covenantal terms. This is God’s ark covenant. This is God’s commitment to use that ark that Noah will build as the means for the deliverance of his people and the recreation of the world after the flood.

I will establish my covenant with you. It is God’s arrangement for the deliverance from the coming judgment that He has just announced twice. He announced it in verse 13. He announced it again in verse 17. God is going to bring about this deliverance through the ark, but through a covenant that is connected to the ark. The covenant itself says that it is related to the ark. The covenant itself says, I will establish my covenant with you. And you shall come into the ark.

So the covenant and the ark are very closely tied to one another. This is a very special covenant. In fact, this is an important verse because this is the very first time in the Bible that the word covenant is used. The concept of covenant is present earlier in the covenant of works with Adam in the garden, but the word itself is used for the very first time here in Genesis 6, verse 18.

This covenant is a special covenant of grace. It has promises associated with it, promises of deliverance, promises of you, Noah, and your family, and all the animals that come into this ark, they will be kept alive. God is promising to do something wonderful, even though he is bringing judgment, he is promising to bring about, through this covenant, through this ark, and we could combine those two thoughts together through this ark covenant, he is promising to bring about safety and deliverance, even though all the world around is being judged, and even though all mankind that are outside of the ark are going to perish in the floodwaters, God is promising, he is making an oath, he is making a covenant promise to Noah and to his family, saying, I will save you. I will save you and deliver you. Through this coming judgment.

The language there that is used is, they are going to come into the ark and be kept alive through the ark. It says, they shall come into the ark in verse 18, and I will establish my covenant with you and you shall come into the ark. And then again in verse 19, every living thing shall come into the ark to keep them alive. That language to keep them alive is the key. That is what this covenant, this ark covenant is promising.

When God says, I will establish my covenant, we might be kind of misled by that future tense, and we might think that he is talking about way off in the future, maybe after the flood is over. If you look in Genesis chapter nine and verse nine, God mentions a covenant there. I will establish my covenant with you. This is after the flood and maybe that covenant is what he is referring to here. Maybe he is looking ahead prophetically to that future covenant after the flood is over.

But not so. Do not be misled by this future tense. It is that not far into the future. He is saying, I am establishing this covenant now and I am going to fulfill it Right now, as the flood comes, when the flood comes.

How do we know this? How do we know these are referring to a specific covenant that is going to be fulfilled before the time after? It is because of chapter eight. Chapter eight, verse one. We are going to get to that in the future, but just quickly notice that in chapter eight, verse one, it says that God remembered Noah.

Remember, chapter seven was the flood itself. The waters prevailed on the earth for 150 days. And then it says, but God remembered Noah. That language of God remembering is the language of fulfilling the covenant. Remember in Exodus chapter two and verse 24, at the beginning of the story of the Exodus, when the people of Israel are groaning under the weight of the oppression of Pharaoh and all the buildings they had to do and making the bricks and all that, it says, but God remembered, he heard the groaning and the cries of his oppressed people and says, God remembered his covenant that he had made with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob.

When it says that God remembers something, that does not mean that God forgot. He is not a man like us. He is not a finite creature like us who forgets and says, oh yeah, I made a covenant. No, He is saying now God is doing what He promised to do. When God remembers His covenant, it means He is now fulfilling it.

Well, Genesis 8 verse 1 is narrating for us the fact that God is about to fulfill the covenant that was made in our text in Genesis 6 verse 18. I will establish my covenant with you to do what? To preserve you alive through this coming flood. You and your family and all of the animals that are with you in the ark, I am going to preserve you alive through the waters of judgment.

Chapter 8, verse 1, God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the livestock that were with him in the ark, and God caused the waters to subside. And so God remembered his promise to keep alive, to deliver, and to save.

The covenant later on in Genesis 9, verse 9, is a different covenant. That covenant is a covenant that has to do with common grace for all mankind, And that is a completely different covenant than this covenant here in our text. This covenant here is a covenant of special grace to save and to redeem God’s people and to bring about a deliverance in the midst of this coming judgment. So we have seen this speech of God that has these two parts to it. They both begin with verse 13 and verse 17 with this statement of, Behold, I am going to destroy all things that are outside of the ark. Then, verse 13 is followed by verse 14. Make for yourself an ark. And verse 17 is followed by verse 18. I will establish my covenant with you to enter into the ark so that you will be saved through the judgment. And so we see here that Noah and the ark together are a type, a picture, a foreshadow of the salvation that we have in Christ.

Noah as a Type of Christ

Now it is true that Noah is also an example of a believer who believes in the Lord and who is a sinner just like us, who is saved by faith just like us, he is an example of faith. And so if you look in the book of Hebrews, in that wonderful passage about all of the Old Testament saints, it says that by faith they were Believers, they trusted the Lord, they served the Lord. By faith, Abraham, by faith, Noah, by faith, all of these godly men.

And it is true that Noah, in that sense, is more like an example of what it means for us to be believers. But from another point of view, from the big picture of what God is doing in redemptive history, and the picture that God is painting here in this story, Noah is not only an example of faith, of what it means for us to be believers in the Lord, But he is a special, he has a special calling. He has a special function in the history of redemption. And so he is more than simply an example of faith. He is also a type that is a foreshadow, a picture of Christ as the second Adam.

We can see that from a number of things. One is the fact that, notice how in the text, Noah functions as a covenant head. That is, he has authority over his family. And the family that is joining him in the ark, and also the animals that come with him into the ark, they are being saved because of Noah’s righteousness, and because of Noah’s work of building this ark. He functions as a covenant head whose obedience secures the salvation of those whom he represents.

Now, literally speaking, Noah is a sinner just like you and me, and he is not perfect, and he is not Christ. But in terms of the picture that God is painting for us in the story, he functions as a covenant head whose obedience and whose work of building this ark, the task was given to him. He was assigned this task of building this ark. And it says at the end of our text that he did this. Verse 22, and he did all that God had commanded him. And so clearly in terms of the big picture of redemptive history, Noah here is being presented as a second Adam figure who has covenant authority over all of the people in the ark. That is all of the new humanity that is going to arise out of the ark after the flood. Noah’s family is saved because they are in and represented by Noah. They are in his ark. They are represented by him. They are saved because of Noah’s obedience.

Noah here is pictured in our text as not only a picture of Christ to come, but also, notice all of the things in the text that show the connection to Adam back in Genesis 1, 2, and 3. Noah is a lot like Adam. Noah has Adamic roles in our text. Number one, the covenant headship that we just mentioned. That is just like Adam. He was a covenant head. Because of his disobedience, Adam’s disobedience, the whole human race was condemned to die. If he had obeyed, instead of disobeying God and eating of the tree, then all of the human race descending from him would have been granted the right to eat of the tree of life. So Noah is like Adam in being a covenant head.

Another parallel between Noah and Adam is that just as The first Adam was to be this vice-regent that is a subordinate king under God the Great King who is to take dominion over creation and exercise dominion over all of the realms of creation. The birds and the animals and all of the creatures are under the authority of Adam. So also Noah here is being pictured like Adam. He has this worldwide role of taking dominion over, not the entire creation, but this portion of the creation that is going to be renewed and become the new creation after the flood. That is why there is so much of an emphasis here upon all the animals that are coming into the ark under the leadership of Noah, who has this Adam-like authority as taking dominion over creation and over all of the creatures.

The Ark as a Type of Christ

Another parallel is that the ark that Noah is building is a lot like a temple. It has architectural symbolism that reminds you of the cosmic temple of the world itself. We talked about that in Genesis 1 and 2, that the creation itself is divided into these sections, the heavens and the earth and the waters under the earth. And the heaven is the realm where God dwells with his angels. And the purpose that God had assigned to Adam was to bring about the fulfillment of God’s cosmic purposes for the cosmic temple. He was to fill the earth with image bearers. He was to take the garden, which was a sanctuary where God dwelled with His people, and He was to expand the boundaries of that garden to global dimensions. He was a temple builder and a temple filler. That is what Adam was supposed to do. He failed to do it, but that was his task at creation.

So also here, Noah is like Adam. He is building this ark. He is building the cosmic temple and he is filling it with people and with creatures and filling this whole world, this miniature ark that is like this cosmic temple in a small way. He has the same Adam-like authority and Adam-like task.

Of course, there is one major difference, is there not? And that is that with Adam before the fall, there was no threat of coming judgment. Because there was no sin yet in the world. The world was not yet under the curse. There was no judgment to come. So Adam’s role, or Noah’s role as a second Adam figure, has this unique aspect to it, which that he must deal with this coming flood of judgment. Just like Christ, Christ is the second Adam, but he has a unique role to play because of the reality of sin. Now sin is in the world, now death is in the world, now God’s judgment and wrath are coming upon the world. And so when Christ does his work as the second Adam, he must also deal with that judgment. In fact, he bears it himself upon the cross in order to deliver us from it.

Another parallel between Noah and Adam is that both were called to be obedient and righteous men. Adam was called to be that, but he failed. But in our text, Noah is, in fact, an obedient and righteous man. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God, verse nine. Verse 22, Noah did all that God had commanded him, unlike the first Adam, who did not do all that God had commanded him. Noah’s obedience is a very costly obedience. It was a sustained obedience involving years of faithful action, of taking down the notes of what exactly was the dimensions of the Ark, and getting the blueprint right, and collecting all the materials.

The text does not tell us exactly how long it took to build the ark, but we can surmise, we can get a basic idea from it, from the very fact that there is this statement in our text that Noah was 600 years old. This is later on in chapter seven, verse six. That Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters came upon the earth.

But we can compare that with another verse earlier, in Genesis 5, verse 32, that Noah was 500 years old when he had Shem, Ham, and Japheth. So, about a century. Now, we do not know exactly when it was that God came to Noah and said, start building the ark, but somewhere in that 100 year period, we can surmise that God was giving Noah this task, this job, this sustained obedience of faithful obedience to the Lord.

And to do so without any visible vindication. Can you imagine the world around just mocking Noah and saying, no, why are you building this ark? Everything is fine, there is no flood coming, what are you doing. And yet he was vindicated in the end when the floodwaters came, but for all those years, for all those decades of building this ark, this massive ark, He was not vindicated, he was probably mocked by the unbelieving world around him.

So Noah’s obedience, though, is the key to our text because it is the means by which the salvation occurs, just as Christ’s obedience is the means of our salvation.

And then one other parallel between Noah and Adam, And that is that just as Adam was supposed to guard the sanctuary from the intrusion of the serpent. He was supposed to be a priest and a king. He was supposed to be like the Levites in the time of Israel who were stationed around the tabernacle to make sure that no one unclean came into the holy presence of God.

So Adam was the guardian of the sanctuary. Remember that we mentioned that back in Genesis chapter 2. In Genesis chapter 2 and verse 15, it says, And that verb that is used, to keep it, means to guard it. It is the same word used later on in reference to the priests and the Levites who were to guard the tabernacle, to guard the holy sanctuary of God.

No one unclean can enter there, no Canaanite, no one who has a bodily disfiguration, nobody can enter there except the holy high priest can enter into that holy place. And so just as Adam was supposed to guard the sanctuary, of course he failed, he let the serpent in, and that led to the downfall.

But just as Adam was supposed to do that, so also Noah in our text is pictured as a holy warrior. And this fits in with last week’s text because in last week’s text we saw that there is a supernatural element to the text. There is something happening where mankind is being corrupted by these supernatural beings who are entering into the world.

I argue that it was in the form of these divine kings or claiming divine kingship. Not in the more speculative version of angels having sex with human women, but rather there is still a supernatural dimension to the text here. And Noah is pictured as a holy warrior who is the only one who is righteous. In the midst of this corruption of mankind. Contra the pervasive evil that has corrupted the human race. Noah stands out like this holy warrior who alone is righteous and who is building this ark in which righteousness dwells. And he is protecting it from the intrusion of the evil world around. And so our text then is very clearly teaching us the heart of the gospel, is it not? It is teaching us that just as Noah himself is a type of Christ and his obedience and building the ark is a type and a picture of Christ, so also the ark that he builds, which is an extension of Noah himself.

I like to think of it this way. It is almost as if Noah is this grand figure. He is the savior of the world. And so it is like he is, He is extending his arms by building the Ark to make an even bigger way of gathering the whole world to himself and saving the elect and saving all of creation. The Ark is like an extension of Noah, made with his own hands. And the Ark then becomes this place where you must be during the coming judgment in order to be safe, in order to be kept alive. It is this place where the covenant itself is now embodied in this location of God’s presence with his people through the mediator Noah.

You shall come into the ark, it says in verse 18. You shall come into the ark. And you shall bring with you two of every sort and keep them alive in the ark. The ark is where it is at. The ark is the exclusive place of salvation. This teaches us something very important about God’s salvation, which is that salvation is not a universal thing. There are many people who believe that God’s going to save everybody, that God is a God of unlimited love, and he has no wrath and no judgment. He is going to save everyone. But the text makes it so clear that salvation is only found in the ark. Only those who are in the ark, Noah’s sons and their wives and Noah’s wife and the animals that are with him, only they are preserved in the floodwaters of judgment. Outside of the ark, is nothing but judgment and death.

Christ himself is the only way of salvation. The Ark principle teaches us that there is only one way of salvation, and that is through Christ. There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name given among men by which we must be saved.

Another key thing that we see that has brought out in our text is that just as there is one place of salvation and salvation is not universal, it is only for those who are in the ark, in Christ, the text also teaches us that we must be in union with Christ. Union with Christ corresponds in our text to entering into the ark.

There is another wonderful picture in our text as well. Notice how in verse 14 it says, Make for yourself an arc of gopher wood. Make rooms in the arc and cover it inside and out with pitch. Ever seen the use of pitch in order to create a watertight seal? I remember one time when we were redoing the shower and they had to take out all the tiles and they had to bring in one of those, you see these sometimes on the roads. Where you see a contractor with a pitch trailer behind and it kind of smells up the road. And they had to bring one of those to the house and they actually literally got that black pitch and they laid down a foundation in order to provide a base at the bottom of the shower before they put in the shower floor in order to keep it sealed from any water leakage. This is what is happening here in our text. The ark itself is like this watertight capsule. It is going to be this watertight capsule that is going to go through the flood And only those who are inside that watertight capsule, covered in and out with pitch, will be protected. The waters of the wrath of God will not penetrate the ark. It is absolutely, perfectly secure.

Christ himself is our ark and he is the one that bears the judgment. The waters that are not getting into the inside of the ark are battering against the outside of the ark. And Christ himself receives that. He himself endures the wrath of God for us on the cross. He bears the judgment in our place. But because we are in him, we are safe. We are inside the ark.

It is a wonderful thing to understand about the gospel. So often we think about the gospel as just being this, that Jesus took the punishment I deserved so that I do not have to bear it. And that is absolutely true. He did take the punishment I deserved so that I do not have to bear it. But there is another way of thinking about it, which is just as true, and really fits in with the arc here in Genesis, is that we actually do endure the judgment, but we endure it in union with Christ. All the people inside the ark, it is not as though they are like extracted and taken off the planet and taken off to Mars somewhere. They are going through the flood too. They are going through the flood. You could imagine being in the ark and hearing all the thunder and the lightning and the waters. It is a pretty scary experience, but they were going through it in Christ. They were going through it in their representative. Noah was saving them through his ark. They are protected by that pitch, that watertight, waterproof pitch that preserves them from the judgment.

Christ, our ark, bears the judgment in our place so that it does not reach us. But from another point of view, we could say that we are indeed enduring that. We are indeed going to hell, but we are going to hell in Christ, in that capsule that preserves us from the judgment that we so richly deserve.

Noah is God’s righteous and obedient servant, in contrast with all the world around him that is corrupt. And Noah, as God’s righteous and obedient servant, built the ark with his own hands, over years of faithful obedience to the exact dimensions that God gave him. And through that, through his obedience, his household, and all the animals that are in the ark, they pass safely through the waters of judgment. Until after the flood, the capsule is opened up and the new creation emerges.

So also Christ, God’s perfectly righteous Son, he obeyed the Father to the point of death. And all who are united to him, but only those who are united to him by faith, pass through the judgment in him and emerge into the new creation of the other side, the new creation life that awaits us through the resurrection of Christ.

Enter the Ark by Faith

The death and the resurrection of Christ are inextricably tied together. Because if all we think about, if all we had is the death of Christ, but no resurrection, then that would be implying simply that we are still in the capsule, but we are stuck at the bottom of the ocean. There must be resurrection. We must come out on the other side. That is what happens in Genesis chapter eight and nine. As they come out of the ark, and then God repopulates the earth, all the animals go out and fill the earth, which is a picture of the resurrection life on the other side of judgment. How do you know you are in the ark? Do not assume that you are in the ark just because you think that, well, I am a pretty good person. I am better than a lot of other people. I think I am doing the best I can. That does not mean you are going to be saved. And do not assume that God is pure love. God is love. But He is also a God of justice, and there is a coming day of wrath and judgment. God does not love everyone unconditionally. That sounds like an unpopular thing to say. He does not. He does not love everyone unconditionally. He loves His elect, and He will make sure that they pass through that judgment in Christ.

But how do you know you are in the ark? How do you know that you are in Christ? There is only one way you can know, and that is by believing in the Lord Jesus Christ. Believing in that promise, just as God made a promise to Noah in verse 18. I will establish my covenant with you. Just as God made a covenant promise to Noah, I am going to save you through this, but he said, yes, I am making this promise to you, but you have to enter the ark. And so it is with us. We have this wonderful covenant promise, which is the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. Whoever believes in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ will be saved. But you have to enter the ark. You have to believe in Christ. You have to trust in Christ. No longer trusting in yourself. No longer trusting in the fact that you think you are a pretty good person compared to other people. You are not. You deserve judgment. You deserve wrath. You deserve to drown in the waters of God’s judgment and wrath apart from Christ.

So trust in Christ. Trust in Him. Say, Lord Jesus, I know that I am a sinner. I know that if it was not for Christ, I would deserve your wrath and your judgment. But thank you for Christ. Thank you for the ark. Thank you for that watertight capsule that delivers me and saves me through the water. And if you put your faith in him, if you trust in him, then you can be assured, based upon that covenant, that ark covenant, if you enter the ark, you will be saved. You will be kept alive in the day of judgment. You can be assured that you will be saved in Christ.

It is a very interesting thing that in the Gospels, so moving forward then to the New Testament, in the Gospels, before Jesus goes to the cross, he gives this discourse to the disciples, which is called the eschatological discourse, or it is about the end times. He talks about there is going to be wars and rumors of wars, there is going to be judgment, but the Son of Man will come, and he will gather his elect from the four corners of the earth, And I always used to wonder, why? Why would Jesus talk about that, of all things, as He is about to go to the cross? Why would He talk about eschatology? Why would He talk about the end times? Why would He talk about the coming judgment? Well, it is just like with our text. It is exactly the same as our text. Our text does talk about salvation. It does talk about the cross. It talks about the deliverance through our greater Noah. But that good news of the gospel, that work of Noah, of Christ, only makes sense if we understand that there is a coming day of judgment. The wrath of God is coming. The wrath of God is coming upon this world. Right now, it seems like everything is fine. You look around, oh, the birds are chirping, and yeah, there is sometimes some bad things that happen in the world. Every now and then there is a tragedy, but overall, it seems like things are pretty good. Things are pretty good in my life. I seem to be okay. I still get to breathe the air, wake up in the morning.

And so we begin to start to lose our sense of urgency and start to think that, well, maybe there is no coming judgment. But the Bible says, no, there is a coming day. There is a coming day of wrath and judgment.

I am sure the same thing happened to the people in Noah’s day, where they thought Noah was crazy. It had been decades, and they saw this incomplete ark being built for decades. They thought, nothing is going to happen. There is nothing, everything seems fine. Why are you so worried?

But the day of judgment is coming. The day of judgment is coming. The day of the wrath of God is coming. And that is why Jesus talks about that before He goes to the cross. The wrath of God is coming upon this world.

So make sure you are in the ark. Make sure that you are trusting in him because he is the only way that you can be delivered from that coming wrath. There is no other deliverance, not in yourself, not in your good works, not in everything that you try to do to make up for your bad things. That will not do it. Only Christ can deliver you from the wrath of God to come.

So put your faith in Him. Trust in Him with all your heart. And you have God’s promise that everyone who believes in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ will be saved. Everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved. That is His absolute promise. You can take that to the bank.

Just like God’s promise here to Noah in Genesis 6. This is an absolute guarantee you can trust in him. Jesus said that whoever comes to me, I will never cast out. There will not be anybody at the day of judgment who said, I thought I came to you, I trusted in you, and now you are casting me out. Everyone who comes to him in true, humble faith, trusting in Christ alone, will not be cast out, but will be redeemed and saved from the wrath of God at that day.