LOTG Gen 6-9

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  1. 4. The conclusion of Noah’s story (and its clear connection with Genesis 3), intends to communicate that Noah and his sons (like every other descendant of Adam and Eve) are sinners. Noah and his family (like us) need to be _____________from their sin and guilt and shame.
  2. 7. Based on what Noah did as soon as he got off of the ark, walking with God involves thankfulness and ______________ in response to God’s grace.
  3. 10. Gen 6-9 says that the thoughts and intentions of the human heart are only evil all the time. Then it describes Noah as blameless and righteous among the people of his time. This should push us to ask how Noah can be called blameless and righteous if his heart is _______ like all humans.
  4. 11. Genesis 6-9 reflects the fact that God feels emotion. When he sees the evil state of our hearts and watches us destroy each other, he actually experiences emotional PAIN. Our sin causes GRIEF and ___________________ in the heart of our Creator.
  5. 13. Gen 8:21 After the flood, when only Noah and his family are left on earth, God says that human hearts are evil, even from childhood. This lets us know that even someone like Noah who God calls ________________ still deals with this sin sickness.
  6. 15. God’s love and compassion towards us (humans) is demonstrated when: God assures Noah that he will never again destroy the whole earth with a flood and when he assures Noah that the days, times and ________________ will continue as before
  7. 17. One of Noah’s sons doing something terrible and shameful that took ______________ of his father’s vulnerable condition
  8. 21. The center of Noah’s story is the fact that God chose to ______________________ Noah
  9. 23. The story of Noah teaches us that walking with God has something to do with being declared innocent or _________________ and that it is rare. Most people do not walk with God.
  10. 24. In Genesis 9:5-6,, God communicates that despite the fundamental ways that sin has changed the human heart, human sin has not erased the fact that they are made in God’s __________________.
  11. 25. How did Noah walk with God? ______________- (answer is two words--don’t leave a space in between them)
  12. 27. Genesis 6-9 communicates that God’s salvation is not somehow earned or deserved. All humans, even Noah, have rebelled against God and deserve the same sentence: __________.
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  1. 1. God gave very specific instructions to Noah for how to build the ark and what to take with him. He brought the animals to Noah. He told Noah when to enter the ark. He shut the door himself. This communicates that if humans are going to be rescued from the mess they’ve made, they need God to rescue them. They cannot rescue ____________.
  2. 2. The story of Noah teaches us that when the Bible says someone “walked with God,” it is not saying that their hearts are naturally different than the hearts of other people. Just like other people, the THOUGHTS and ________________ of their hearts are evil (naturally) and need God to change them.
  3. 3. The Genesis 9:5-6, God communicates something in the form of a __________
  4. 5. Getting rid of all the “worst” sinners and starting over with the “good people” (or the least bad people) cannot fix the problem of sin or erase sin’s_______________. God’s rescue plan is something very different.
  5. 6. In Genesis 9:5-6, based on the literary form used, we can know that the content should connect with our ___________
  6. 8. Based on God’s response to human evil in Genesis 6-9, it seems clear that God does not take human sin/wickedness lightly. He takes it very ________________
  7. 9. At the end of chapter 9, Noah uses God’s good gifts to get __________.
  8. 11. Gen 8:21 After the flood, when only Noah and his family are left on earth, God says that human hearts are evil, even from childhood. This lets us know that the flood didn’t somehow wipe out _________.
  9. 12. Genesis 6-9 communicates that God’s salvation is not somehow earned or deserved. When God saves someone, it is by his ______
  10. 14. Seven days passed between when God told Noah to board the boat and when it started raining. A little less than a year passed from the time Noah boarded the boat and the time he and his family walked on dry land again. It seems that Genesis 6-9 is showing us that walking with God often involves
  11. 16. The story of Noah teaches us that real faith means trusting God enough to __________ him
  12. 18. The story of Noah teaches us that walking with God is associated with righteousness--with being in right relationship with ____.
  13. 19. Noah _______________the guilty son and that his son’s descendants because of the shameful thing his son did to him.
  14. 20. The conclusion of Noah’s story (and its clear connection with Genesis 3), intends to communicate that Noah is not the rescuer that God promised (back in Genesis 3)--the rescuer who would come as a descendant of the ____________
  15. 22. The ______________ was a tangible, visual reminder of God’s covenant promise to Noah and his family.
  16. 26. The conclusion of Noah’s story in Genesis 9 intentionally directs our minds back to Genesis 3, and its description ofthe first man and woman in the Garden of Eden, naked and ashamed and _________________ from their Heavenly Father, after they had rebelled against His authority