It's Time To Build: Favor Is Our Framework

Sunday, February 7, 2021

How do we navigate the age in which we live?

We can play hide and seek with the devil and hope he doesn’t find us.

We can stick our head in the sand and act like nothing is happening.

We can rise up as righteous people and watch God use us to do something great!

This is a Time to Build!

Genesis 6:5-9

1. Wickedness is not hopelessness (v.5-7)

In Genesis 1:31 God finished His six creative days, looked it over and said, “This is Good.”

God was grieved at the sin and degradation of humanity. The coming flood was simply the reaping of their evil actions. 

2. Noah found favor in the eyes of God (v.

In the face of what appeared to look like hopelessness is a man who caught the eye of God.

James 4 tells us that if we will draw near to God - God will draw near to us.

You have the ability to position yourself to experience the favor of the God.

Favor has always been in the nature of God. How do we position ourselves to find the favor of God?

3. Righteousness is always right (v. 9)

Verse 9 reveals how Noah positioned himself to experience the favor of God - He was a just man, perfect in his generation, and he walked with God.

God is calling us to live a holy, righteous life so that with Him we can rise up and build.

God didn’t call Noah while the world was decent and living “okay lives.” God called Noah in the worst of times to reveal the best of messages.

God’s favors gives us:

1. Favor for the impossible. Impartation / Revelatio