This morning we are going to study the new world that Noah and his family entered when the land finally dried enough, and God told him to leave the ark.

• Then God said to Noah, 16 “Leave the boat, all of you—you and your wife, and your sons and their wives. 17 Release all the animals—the birds, the livestock, and the small animals that scurry along the ground—so they can be fruitful and multiply throughout the earth.” 18 So Noah, his wife, and his sons and their wives left the boat. 19 And all of the large and small animals and birds came out of the boat, pair by pair (Genesis 8:15–19 NLT).

So let’s set the stage for Noah’s entrance into this new world, this postdiluvian world, the world after the flood …

First, let’s just stop on that word “flood” for a moment. We have all observed the devastation from local floods: damns blown out, massive landslides, destruction of roads and bridges, houses filled with mud and stink and all manner of filth, houses and cars floating in rivers, the agonizing loss of human life. And then we can ratchet up the level of havoc and destruction to events like tsunamis, such as the one on the Indian Ocean in 2004 which killed 230,000 people in 14 countries, slamming coastal communities with waves up to one hundred feet high.

But we have never, nor will we ever, look on a scene like this—the aftermath of a worldwide flood. When Noah and his family stepped out of the ark, nothing was the same. There were no familiar landmarks, no recognizable physical features in the land before them. It is not just that their familiar valleys, rivers, meadows and hills looked different; they were no longer there.

And NO MORE PEOPLE! GONE! Get on the boat; millions of people. Get off the boat; no more people. All of them. The entire population of the planet gone. All the animals. Gone. No bears, no birds, no tigers, no eagles. Gone. And not just vanished but dead. Really gone. The judgment of God.

The only people and animals now inhabiting the planet were those just now making their way off the ark. They didn’t get off the ark and hear little, furry creatures scurrying off into the brush. They were no little, furry creatures. They didn’t make their way from the darkness of the ark into the sunlight and look up and see a seagull, or hear a flock of geese honking on their way by, or an eagle gliding or a robin flitting through the air. There were none. Gone.

One man and his family and the animals on the ark were now the sole inhabitants of the planet. There would be no discovering other people groups. They wouldn’t pop over a mountain peak one day as they were out exploring and see smoke rising from the chimneys of an unknown village. They could travel the entire globe, front to back and top to bottom, and they would find no one. All societies with their the arts and culture and industry. Gone. The beautiful women and the men of renown earlier referenced in Genesis. Gone. No one else survived. One righteous man found favor with God, and God brought him and his family to safety through the waters of judgment.

So this one righteous man who found favor with God … What did he find when he stepped off that boat into this new world?

OUTLINE … He found God’s blessing, 9:1-7. He found God’s promise, 9:8-17. He found that everything had changed and that nothing had changed: people are people, 9:18-29.

Message Title: Noah’s New World!

Message Text: Genesis 9 & Selected!

• PDF GENESIS MESSAGE 17 – Noah’s New World : Genesis 9 : ffc : dave scott : 081416 AM : STUDY SHEET ONE
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• PDF GENESIS MESSAGE 17 – Noah’s New World : Genesis 9 : ffc : dave scott : 081416 AM : STUDY SHEET THREE
• PDF GENESIS MESSAGE 17 – Noah’s New World : Genesis 9 : ffc : dave scott : 081416 AM : STUDY SHEET FOUR