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NASB | Genesis 6:18 "But I will establish My covenant with you; and you shall enter the ark--you and your sons and your wife, and your sons' wives with you. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 6:18 "But I will establish My covenant (solemn promise, formal agreement) with you; and you shall come into the ark--you and your [three] sons and your wife, and your sons' wives with you. |
Subject: Noah, a bad evangelist? |
Bible Note: T'oma, I noted your comments on this matter. How can you be so sure that Noah didn't preach for 120 years? C.H. Spurgeon- though most definitely a man- was no slouch when it came to Biblical exegesis. His comments (in part) on this point are thus: "Noah believed through a hundred and twenty solitary years! It was a long martyrdom. Our life is quite long enough for the trial of faith. Even if a man lives to be eighty, and has sixty years of that life spent in the exercise of faith, it is only by almighty grace that he holds out. Noah lived two of our lives in this way. If a little flood had happened and moved his ark a little, he would have had some evidence for his faith; but there was no flood at all; and his ark lay high and dry for a century and a quarter! How few could endure this! Yonder dear friend has been praying for the last six months, and the Lord has not heard him, and he begins to doubt whether the Lord does hear prayer at all. You are not much like Noah. You can hardly believe for one hundred and twenty days. "Alas!" says one, "I have prayed for my husband these twenty years!" It is a long time to wait; but what would you do with a hundred added on to it? Years made Noah's faith more mature, and not more feeble. This grey father of the age went on with his preaching, went on with his intercession, and, without a doubt" I think the point to consider is this: Noah was faithful according to Heb. 11:7 without seeing the fruit of his preaching! "By faith Noah, being warned by God about things not yet seen, in reverence prepared an ark for the salvation of his household, by which he condemned the world, and became an heir of the righteousness which is according to faith." Speaking the Truth in Love, BradK |