The God Who Had Noah Build the Ark (Huntsville First Full Gospel Church, Joint Cell Group Service)

In the world God created, Adam gave way to Satan’s temptation and sinned by judging good and evil with himself at the center, and since then the world has grown ever more corrupt as it races toward judgment. When the whole earth was filled with violence, God called Noah, the one man who walked with him, and told him to build an ark. Though he was mocked for it, Noah poured his whole life into the work and saw the ark completed.

The ark is not a church building or church attendance; it is faith in Jesus Christ itself. Just as Noah believed in the coming judgment and built the ark, those who believe in Christ’s return and the judgment must live now as people who build the ark of Christ and call others into it. As with those who laughed and made merry outside the ark, judgment is no less real for being unseen.

Even inside the ark Noah knew loneliness and a sense of emptiness, and after the flood he fell for a time, yet God did not rebuke him but waited for him. Ham, however, who mocked his fallen father, came under a curse; those who grow weary in the life of faith are to be embraced, not ridiculed. To obey the word as Noah did, building the ark and bringing even one more soul aboard, is the task entrusted to us today.