NOAH-A SUCCESSFUL

AND GODLY FATHER

GENESIS 6:5-11 NIV

• 5 The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the

human race had become on the earth, and that every
inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only
evil all the time.
• 6 The Lord regretted that he had made human beings
on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled.
• 7 So the Lord said, “I will wipe from the face of the
earth the human race I have created—and with
them the animals, the birds and the creatures that
move along the ground—for I regret that I have
made them.” 8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of
the Lord.
• 9 This is the account of Noah and his family.Noah
was a righteous man, blameless among the people
of his time, and he walked faithfully with God.
• 10 Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth.
• 11 Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and
was full of violence.
Hebrews 11:7 NIV
• 7 By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet
seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family. By
his faith he condemned the world and became heir
of the righteousness that is in keeping with faith.
INTRODUCTION

The Bible is replete with examples of some of the

worst and some of the best fathers.
• Noah is an example of a good father. We normally
think of him as the guy who built the ark, brought
the animals on the ark two by two, and restarted the
human race after the catastrophic flood. He was
also a good father.
• The building of Noah’s ark was probably the most
remarkable accomplishment in history up to that time
when you look at the dimensions for the ark that is given
in the Bible and the lack of power tools in that day.
Noah’s greatest accomplishment was his family’s faith!
• Noah raised a family in a difficult time. It was an age of
wickedness and evil thinking.
Genesis 6:5 NIV
The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the
human race had become on the earth, and that
every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart
was only evil all the time.
INTRODUCTION (Cont)
• That sounds much like our own day, but Noah
proves that a man can be a good father and raise a
godly family even in the worst of times. His was
also an age of corruption and violence.
Genesis 6:11 NIV
• 11 Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and
was full of violence.
HOW DID NOAH SUCCEED AS A FATHER IN
SUCH A TIME?

1. Noah walked with God.

• He resisted peer pressure. Teens have told me
that peer pressure is on of their toughest
struggles.
Genesis 6:9 NIV
9 This is the account of Noah and his
family.Noah was a righteous man, blameless
among the people of his time, and he walked
faithfully with God.
1. Noah walked with God. (Cont.)
Walking: a close daily intimate relationship with
God. Before we’re told that Noah walked with God,
verse 9 says he was a “just man.” The term “just” in
the Bible doesn’t have to do with living a good life.
• To be “just” in the biblical sense means to be without
sin before God. Being this is not something that is
earned, but is bestowed upon a person by God. This
concept of God making a person just before Him is
known as “justification.”
• The word “perfect” here does not mean he
never sinned. The Hebrew word means
“without blemish, complete, sound, upright,
whole.”
 Hebrews 11:7 NIV
7 By faith Noah, when warned about things not
yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family.
By his faith he condemned the world and became
heir of the righteousness that is in keeping with
faith.
3 NOTES ON HEBREWS 11:7

First, note that Noah had “righteousness.”

• Righteousness” means the same thing as the
word “just” in Genesis 6. To be “righteous”
means to be able to stand without sin before a
holy God.
• Well, none of us are perfect—including
Noah, so that presents a dilemma. Even if
we reform and live for God, we’re still not
perfect. But that’s what God demands—
absolute perfection.
Second that this righteous standing before God
is bestowed, not earned.

Hebrews 11:7 says Noah became “heir” to this

righteous state before God. To become an heir means
to receive something absolutely free. That’s what
salvation is: a free gift from a loving God.
ROMANS 6:23 NIV

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of

God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
3 NOTES ON HEBREWS 11:7 (CONT)
• It’s only through Jesus that we can have this gift of
righteousness before God. The Bible teaches that on the
cross, Jesus died for our sins in our place.
• The third truth we see is that righteousness is by faith.
“[Noah] became heir of the righteousness which is by
faith.”
EPHESIANS 2:8-9 NIV
8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through
faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of
God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast.
JOHN 3:13 NIV

13 No one has ever gone into heaven except the

one who came from heaven—the Son of Man.
BEING A GODLY FATHER
• The first thing to do to be the dad God wants
you to be is to have your sins forgiven by
believing in the Lord Jesus Christ.
• Once he was saved by God’s grace, we’re
told that Noah “walked with God.” As Noah’s
sons watched his life, they saw a man who
practiced what he believed.
• Noah’s kids would say, “Dad’s walk matched his
talk”— and you can follow a man of integrity. Noah
looked around at the wickedness and the violence
of his day and he refused to follow the lead of his
culture.
• The world said, “Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow
we die,” but Noah said, “No, that’s not a God’s way. I
want to walk with God. I want to please God in my life. I
want to live for God. I want to obey His rule in my life.”
• The world was going to hell in a hand-basket, but
Noah resolved to be different from those around him and
to walk with God.
What does it mean to “walk with God?”
Walking with someone means you’re going in the
same direction as him. Now if you and God are
traveling together, who’s going to lead the way? Why
God is, of course. That’s the only way God will have
it HE has to be in control. So to walk with God is to
walk in His ways, to follow His lead.
HOW CAN YOU WALK WITH GOD AS A
GODLY FATHER?
First, spend time with God in His Word and prayer.
You cannot cultivate a relationship with someone
you don’t spend time with. Dad, do you have a time in
God’s Word and in prayer every single day? A time
when God can set you straight; correct you; get you
reoriented on a daily basis towards Him; get you to
refocus your priorities? You’ll need to do that to walk
with God.
Second, be the spiritual leader of your home.
When Joshua came into the land of Israel, he
didn’t give his kids an option about serving the Lord.
He said, “As for me and my house, we will serve the
Lord.” You need to be the key leader in going to
church and putting the Lord first in your life and
reading the Bible in your home.
Third, to walk with God, OBEY Him.
God came to Noah and told him to build an ark. “A
what? What in the world is an ark?” It had never
rained before and there were no large bodies of
water. What God was asking him to do didn’t seem
to make any sense to him. But he did it out of
obedience to God.
GOD COMMANDS US TO DO MANY THINGS WE
MAY NOT FULLY UNDERSTAND.

• He says to give up your life to save it.

• He says to give so that you may receive.
• He says the way to greatness is to be a servant.
YOU MAY NOT UNDERSTAND WHY GOD SAYS TO
DO THIS OR THAT, BUT IF YOU’RE GOING TO
WALK WITH GOD, YOU’VE GOT TO OBEY GOD.
• God says to “let your speech be seasoned with
salt,”
• God commands “Be angry and sin not,”
• God said “You shall not steal,”
• God commands us to keep ourselves unspotted
from the world
 In the church, God teaches us to find a ministry
to serve God with your talents and abilities.

Let's walk with God through a vibrant, passionate

daily time with God, by being a spiritual leader in our
homes, and by being consistently obedient Christians
in each of these areas. Yes, Noah was a saved man,
and he walked with God.
2. NOAH WITNESSED TO OTHERS
• Compare God’s descriptions of Noah and his neighbors:
• His neighbors were corrupt, violent, wicked, evil.
• Noah was justified, holy, one who walked with God.
• Noah was a righteous man living in an evil day, which
called for him to be a witness to those around him.
2 PETER 2:5 NIV
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;
2. NOAH WITNESSED TO OTHERS (CONT)
Are you a witness for Christ? Do you invite
others to church to hear the Gospel? Do you
tell others about Christ’s love and how they can
have their sins forgiven? Do you share with
them how they can have eternal life through
Jesus Christ?
 One more truth: Noah didn’t have a lot of
visible fruit for his preaching. But not everyone
rejected his message. There was one group of
people he won, and they were the most important
of all.
GENESIS 7:1 NIV
The Lord then said to Noah, “Go into the ark,
you and your whole family, because I have found
you righteous in this generation.
GENESIS 7:7 NIV
And Noah and his sons and his wife and his
sons’ wives entered the ark to escape the waters
of the flood.
3. NOAH WON HIS FAMILY
• This was the most important thing he did in his life!
• Noah’s family members were his only converts—yet God
deemed him a success!
• He was not a great financier, but he was a great father for his
boys.
• He was not a corporate executive, but he was a conscientious
example.
• Noah may not have been a great preacher, but he was a great
pattern.
CONTRAST NOAH WITH LOT
When Lot fled Sodom and Gomorrah, he begged his
family to escape, having received warnings of Sodom and
Gomorrah’s imminent destruction. Lot, who compromised
every step of the way with the culture around him, had
absolutely no credibility with his family spiritually. They
mocked his warnings. When God began to rained down
his judgment and Lot fled…he fled alone. Every one of his
family members perished in Sodom and Gomorrah.
HOW DID NOAH WIN HIS FAMILY? HE WAS AUTHENTIC
IN HIS WALK WITH GOD AND NOT HYPOCRITICAL.

Authenticity and genuineness without

hypocrisy is a persuasive argument for a person’s
faith: the strongest argument that can be made.
That’s why Noah was able to reach his family. He
was not hypocritical and they saw the reality of
his faith.
 Kids react to hypocrisy, but they respond
positively to a genuine faith in God. God help us to
be REAL Christians; to be sold-out, whole-hearted
Christians; to be faithful Christians; to be obedient
Christians, just as Noah was.
CONCLUSION
As it was in the days of Noah, so it is in our day: a
time of wickedness, violence and sin. God’s grace is
sufficient for fathers now as it was then. May God
enable us to win our families to Christ!
• Let us walk with God by first being saved and
second by obeying God in our lives.
• Let us witness faithfully for Christ.
• Let us be so real and authentic as Christians that
our families are convinced Christianity MUST be true,
and thereby lead them to faith in Christ by our godly
example.
HAPPY FATHER’S DAY

THANK YOU
GOD BLESS 