Lessons From The Story Of Noah

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Noah is one of the most identifiable people in all of the Bible. Most people are familiar with his story about how God became so angry with the wickedness that had filled the world at the time that God determined He would destroy everyone who was living on the earth. That is, everyone except Noah and Noah’s family (as Noah found favor in God’s sight).
The way in which God would destroy the world was through a flood that would cover the entire world at the time. However, God would use an ark that would be constructed from gopherwood to save Noah, Noah’s family, and the animals taken onboard the ark. Then, after God caused the flood waters to recede, after the ark came to a rest (in the mountains of Ararat), and after Noah built an altar to the Lord, God put a rainbow in the clouds as a sign of the promise that God would never again destroy the entire world with a flood.
While this story of Noah is widely known, we must recognize that these events are not make believe. The things we can read about in Genesis 6-9 actually happened. And, as a true story about events that unfolded and concerned real people, we need to be diligent to make applications of this story. In fact, as we will see in this study, even Jesus and New Testament writers would make reference to the story of Noah and draw some lessons from it. Yes, we can all certainly learn some much-needed lessons from the story of Noah.
Romans 15:4 says that the things “written before were written for our learning.” Therefore, one of the reasons God included the story of Noah in the pages of the Scriptures is so that we would learn lessons from it that will help us live in a way that He approves. During this lesson, we want to focus on a number of lessons we need to learn from the story of Noah (though I am sure we will not identify every lesson we can learn from this story).