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This Sunday, Halim taught from Genesis 6-9, explaining that God was grieved by man's wickedness because He chose to bind His heart to ours', knowing that we would sin against Him. Halim showed how Noah, the flood, and the rainbow all point us to the redemptive nature of the Gospel.
Noah's righteousness and his family's undeserved salvation points to Jesus's righteousness and our own undeserved salvation.
By abiding in the ark, Noah was saved from judgment by the flood. By abiding in Christ we are saved from judgment by the cross.
The rainbow serves as a reminder that God's wrath is no longer turned toward those people who are saved by the righteousness of Christ.
In light of these truths, consider the following questions:
- What kept God from ending all of creation because of their wickedness?
- Do you view your life as a product of God's willingness to suffer? If not, what keeps you from believing that truth?
- Consider Noah and the salvation of his family. How do your responses to the following questions reflect on your view of the source of your own righteousness?
- Are there areas in your relationship where you feel entitled to blessing or undeserving of blessing?
- Do you struggle to feel forgiven from past sin because of guilt or shame?
- Does your repentance look like an attempt to repay God for your sin?
- Jesus screamed the "scream of the damned" so that you and I could sing songs of God's righteouness, His mercy, His grace, His justice and His love with our mouths and with our lives. How can your life sing of God's love for you during your week?