"Noah was a just man..."

“Noah was a just man…”

This is a very powerful statement, because there are not very many people in this day and time that this statement would apply to.  The adjective “just” is defined by www.Dictionary.com as “guided by truth, reason, justice, and fairness.”  This seems to be the exact opposite direction our society is going today.

I wonder how close our society is to the civilization that existed before the flood?  The text says, “The wickedness of men was great in the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually,” and “the earth also was corrupt before God; and the earth was filled with violence. And God looked upon the earth, and behold, it was corrupt: for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.”  This description basically describes the condition our world is in today.

In Jeremiah 17:9 it says, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?”  Man, if left to his own devices will continue to sink more and more into corruption, and depravity.

Although the general consensus is that man is good, and it is just his circumstances that make him do evil things, this belief is as far from the truth as it can be.  “They have all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.”

The punishment for man’s wickedness is death.  Romans 6:23 says, “The wages of sin is death…”

The great news is that the mercy of God extends to all.  The second part of Romans 6:23 says, “…but the gift of God is eternal life though Jesus Christ our Lord.”  Although man is “deceitfully wicked”, Christ made the payment for our sins on the cross, and thus provided a way to escape the punishment of sin.  If you will trust Christ as the only way to Heaven, he will save you from your sins, and help you bring glory to him in the midst of a wicked and corrupt world.

Romans 10:13 says, “For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.”