" A POWERFUL SERMON"

                                      "A POWERFUL SERMON"

                          Building the ark was itself a powerful sermon

                               to the people. Such labors showed them

                          that Noah believed what he preached, and was

                               a constant warning to them. But human nature

                          was the same then as now. Unbelief was stubborn

                               and resisting. It scoffed at the wiser course of

                          faith and humble obedience. No doubt the people

                                condemned Noah as a fool and pronounced

                          building the ark a cracy expenditure of time and

                                means. To them, Noah's preaching and warnings

                          were only the  babblings of a crazy fool. To the most

                                 conservative amongst these unbelievers, Noah 

                           was not a practical man, only a dreamer of dreams.

                                 But all, whether conservative or radical, resisted

                           while Noah labored and warned. But when the flood 

                                  came, they must have realized that Noah was

                           wise and they were fools. They might resist God in

                                  His entreaties, but they could not resist Him in

                            His wrath!

(Nichols and Whiteside) 

We need so much to heed the warning even now, that though

God is a loving God, He, justly, is, also, a God of Wrath. 

Byrl Brockman