THE LAW OF LOVE (an excerpt)

Genesis 6:13-9:17. Because God judged the sin and violence that had filled the earth with Noah’s Flood, He is accused of not being a God of love, but a vengeful, wrathful, judgmental, angry God. In fact, the emotion that God experienced over the violence that filled the earth, was sorrow (Gen 6:6), not anger. Another way to interpret that Hebrew verb, is that He was glad that man was mortal.

Why is God against sin? Sin hurts people. … That God is against sin, is an expression of His great heart of love which desires to shelter and protect the weak and vulnerable. To judge sin, to make an end of sin, is an act of love.

So He was glad that man was mortal, because death would eventually make an end of the hurt that one man was inflicting on another. But even in the Flood, the judgment for sin, God provided an ark for Noah and his family, a way to be preserved through the judgment that was coming on the earth. Noah was a preacher of righteousness (2 Pet 2:5). He spent 120 years building that boat, and while he was building, he preached to everyone around him. More people than Noah’s family were invited to go on that ark and be preserved through judgment! God wanted everyone who would walk through that open door to walk through it!

This is the Gospel of grace preached from Genesis. Jesus is our ark, and our open door (Joh 10:9, Rev 4:1), who will preserve through the judgment to come, all who are willing to enter into salvation through Him.

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