Talking Points

• As soon as worship exists, false worship shows itself. God sees and cares about our hearts’ motivation in our worship of Him. He responds to the heart and not the act.
• If people are not heeding the warnings and instruction of the Lord and are not actually walking with Him, sin takes hold and devours us. It literally becomes all-consuming. Sin grieves God, and He must judge it in His perfect justice. His just nature requires it. Even so, God is merciful and so gracious! God always tempers justice with mercy. God provides the only way of salvation from the flood.
• The genealogies, the precise descriptions of the ark, and the details of the days of the flood again echo the detailing of the events of creation. These descriptions are specific and detailed, because they are outlining actual, historical events. The flood was real, and it was global.
  

Thoughts

Weird. From the first sin forward, we see man’s gravitation toward wickedness. Hurt and destruction are the result, yet we still go toward sin. We seem to revel in it.

Also, from the first sin forward, we see God’s kindness to sinners. In man’s sin, God is not changed. He isn’t compromised. He is still perfect and holy and just. And yet, we find He is equally gracious in His dealing with His rebellious creation. Oddly, His grace doesn’t diminish His justice. Maybe our greatest times of worship should come as we understand, consumed in our sin, God is justified in His judgment and, at the same time, He is marvelously gracious in His deliverance from that judgment. Praise our perfectly just and marvelously gracious God!