1. The Flood Genesis 6

2. Think Do you believe the “stories” in the Bible? Have you ever met someone who didn’t believe in the Bible’s miracles?

3. Gen. 6:1-5 ä The Lord saw how great man's wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time.

4. Moral Decline: How? ä 6:4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days - and also afterward - when the sons of God went to the daughters of men and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown. ä See Job, Psalms: “Sons of God” = Angels ä Jude 1:6; 2 Pet. 2:4 ä Violence: v. 11-13 ä Knowledge of God was gone!

5. Only Noah Believed! ä V. 8 “But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.” ä God’s Plan: v.13-17

6. What Proof? ä Osiferous Fissures ä Siberian Mammoths ä Sociological Evidence: Sumarian, Babalonian, Assyrians, Egyptians, Greeks… ä Arameans, Hindus, Chinese, Hawaiins, Mexican Indians, Aboriginese, Batracks, Fiji Islanders, Polynesians, Sudanese, New Guineans & Zealanders, Celts of Wales, Hottentotts ä Over 270 Global Accounts

7. A Picture of God and Mankind ä 1 Peter 3:20-21 The Ark was Salvation from God’s Judgement ä vs.21 Christ is also Salvation from Judgement ä John 5:24 "I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes Him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life.”

8. The Bad News… ä Gen. 7:16 “The Lord shut him in.” ä The Door was Sealed Shut… ä There are Limits to God’s Patience ä Gen. 6:3 Then the Lord said, “My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal;”

9. 2 Corinthians 6:2 ä For He says, “In the time of my favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you.” I tell you, now is the time of God's favor, now is the day of salvation. ä We MUST Choose! Matt. 12:30-31.

10. The Good News… ä Some will be glad! ä 2 Peter 2:5...if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others… if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from trials… ä 2 Tim. 3:12 Noah was “insane” ä 2 Pet. 3:3

11. The End