Noah.

[Notes of a Youth Meeting. Christian Assembly, YMCA, Secunderabad.]

Nov. 29, 2015.
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Br Chaitanya: The gargantuan mass of nominal Christianity is rebuffed by the simple lessons garnered from the life of Noah. A preacher for one twenty years; the result being just seven saved apart from himself. Penchant for numbers has become a trend for some evangelicals but this is incongruous to faithful preaching of the Gospel. For Peter, the holy vocation of preaching finds its deep chord in Noah’s life- ‘a preacher of righteousness’ (2 Pet 2:5). Gospel preaching is not an amphitheatre to scourge the guilty with the dread of heaven’s retribution but to communicate instead the deep pathos of agape love and righteousness in Christ. Other areas of prime study include: the altar (spirituality) and the alcohol (carnality) in Noah’s history. Prophetic profiles seen in Ham (Noah’s son) are negative.

Br Joseph Prasad: That God is longsuffering needs to be appreciated- especially in this story of the flood (1 Peter 3:20) we find it so. Another important thing for us to emulate is the faith principle that acted powerfully in Noah’s life (Heb 11:7).

Br Nuthan Prasad: A little math leaves us with roughly 860 years of testimony, patience and grace (from Methuselah’s oracular to Noah’s ark) on the part of God; such a thing rhymes doxologies of God’s great longsuffering. The ark’s wood and the pitch speak of Christ’s atonement on the cross. In giving the name, ‘Noah’ which means-‘Rest’ (Gen 5: 29), Lamech anticipates the figure of millennial efficacy in Christ.

Br Wilson: Noah’s personage is a tale of obedience ab-initio (Gen 6:21). Obedience is faith in action. A cynic may hold faith in abstraction but it is faith in God’s word that stirs up the needful action for Christ’s glory as against all the ruses and noises in the world. The other thing is the putative idea that life flows by moments and seconds- biologically it does but scriptures warranty a different view i.e. the years exercised in spiritual utility are the only ones’ counted, leaving out the idle years .

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