"7 By faith Noah, when he was warned by God about things that were not yet seen, with fear prepared the ark in which his house was saved; and by that faith he condemned the world, and was made heir of the righteousness that comes by faith. "Hebrews 11: 7
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Noah was warned; Unlike Enoch, Noah was told what was specifically what would happen. Another important phrase in this verse is "with fear" because we think that fear can not coexist with faith, but the truth is that there is a fear that coexists with faith, one that causes faith in your life. The fear that is spoken here is different from the one that frightens you, it is a reverent fear of God, that provokes faith, which is necessary for your life. Another important detail is that, by faith, Noah prepared the ark; And, by faith, you have to build. There is something in your life that you have to build; Not necessarily a building, but a family. God gives you children, and you have to build men and women. You do not pray to build men and women, but you build them. The problem of many is that they pray, but they do not build. You can not pray a good marriage, you build a good marriage; And the marriage that is lost, is because you did not build it in the right way. You can not pray to become an entrepreneur, you build a company. You can not pray to build a ministry; A ministry is built. And the problem of people is that they do not want to build, thinking that faith is to pray for their salvation to appear. Noah could not go to church, pray, fast, tithe, offer and agree, and say: Lord, send me an ark. Do not; God says to him: I warned you what is coming; Build it But people think that when they are declared "husband and wife", as if by magic, they are being given a man and a woman, facts and rights; But no, they are the same old boys. Every woman has to know that she has to build her man.
Another detail that this verse reveals is that Noah, because of that faith that he built, condemned the world. Religion wants you to condemn the world with your words, but you have to build something that condemns the world. They want you to express against homosexual marriages, for example, but your job is not to condemn that, your job is to proclaim the justice of God - which is not to condemn anyone, but quite the opposite: It is to build such a beautiful marriage, that your children do not want what the world offers, but what they have seen in your life. The problem is that people go to church and what they see are bitter marriages and who is going to want the marriage we say with that example? We say that the world is wrong, but we have not built something in our lives that saves those who want to be saved. But it is that building costs. So, your faith, if you build a nice marriage, nice - not perfect - but beautiful, that your children say "that's what I want, that's what I aspire", then, no matter what they offer outside, what you built, it will be your salvation.
But you can not pray that. He is praying and with the mallet giving; It is praying and working, praying and building, praying and striving.
This verse also tells us that Noah was made an heir or possessor of justice.
Now, Genesis 6 tells us about the problem Noah is experiencing; And to understand Noah's faith we must understand the context in which he is living. In this chapter, we are told that there were giants, fallen angels who were marrying the daughters of men, creating a corrupt and immoral race. That is, Noah was living in a world where there were giants wanting to sleep with their daughters. That is what Noah is living; How are we living in a world where the "manduletes" of the street are fixed on our daughters. And what you ask yourself is how you protect your children from those giants. That's what Noah wondered, like today you wonder how to protect your wife from those giants of the street, from work, from those who seek a night of pleasure, or how you protect your husband from those giants out there. That is the world in which we live. What is needed is a bad party, a bad drink at a bad time, so that things get complicated. And the Bible says that God warned Noah, because there is a faith that warns.
"8 But Noah found favor in the sight of the Lord. 9 These are the generations of Noah: Noah, a righteous man, was perfect in his generations; God walked with Noah ... 22 And Noah did so; He did according to all that God commanded him. "Genesis 6: 8-9 and 22
Noah found favor with God, he was a righteous man, and he did according to all that God commanded him.
"4 There were giants on earth in those days, and also after the children of God came to the daughters of men, and begot them sons. These were the brave men who were renowned men since antiquity. 5 And the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. "2 Peter 2: 4-5
In this verse, we are told about Noah, within the context of the world's doom and other problems. We are also told that Noah was a preacher of justice, a preacher of justice. All this speaks to us about Noah's faith, and it is relevant to us today.
The word grace had not appeared in the Bible until Noah arrived. Today, sometimes, this word is used to say that you can live in freedom because God forgives you everything, and sometimes it becomes a debauchery, but that is an unfortunate extreme. Grace is given to Noah because, in the midst of a time of corruption, of lost people, God seeks and says: I found one who is not perfect, but my grace is upon him; I am going to give you my grace, that will give you strength. Noah means rest, so grace finds rest.
When you learn to rest in your interior, the grace of God comes to your life; When you do not let yourself be carried away by problems, by the corruption of the world, when you learn to be at rest in your interior, knowing that you live in a world of corruption, of problems, but you do not allow that world to affect and change your interior and disturb and damage it; Then, God says: There is one different from the others. And, if you are still here, it is because you have found grace before God. There are those who, for less than you, have ended badly; But, by the grace of God, you are still here.
