A Man Worthy of Saving

Do you act like everyone around you, or do you stand out like a sore thumb in contrast to their wickedness? Genesis 6:9-10 begins a story about a man who stood up when the rest of the world was full of wickedness. Here we are introduced to Noah. We become acquainted with Noah at a time when the Bible says the earth was corrupt in God's sight (Genesis 6:11).

God felt that the human race was worth saving simply because of Noah. No other man survived the ensuing flood. Would God find you worthy of saving? Do you give the people around you reason to find fault with you? Noah's testimony in Genesis 6:9 is a two-part testimony. First, he was a righteous man; he was a man who lived rightly in the eyes of God. Second, he was blameless among the people of his time; he gave the people of his time nothing to blame him for.

At a time when the entire world was so wicked that God's wrath was kindled to the point of destroying everyone, this one man was worthy of life. He alone walked with God. Would this be your testimony? If everyone else is headed in a different direction, would you still stand for God?

Laughed At and Destroyed

Did you know that if you're following in the will of God, He laughs at those who come against you? Not only does He laugh, He scoffs at them according to Psalms 2:1-4. The King James version uses the phrase "the Lord shall have them in derision". Derision is just a shorter way of saying extreme mockery, humiliation, or ridicule. We don't want to be associated with those that God mocks. We don't want to be part of their group, part of their "in" crowd. We don't need to try to "fit in" with the world. When we join the world in their wickedness, we become a part of the group that God Himself ridicules.

We definitely don't want to be a part of that group, and Psalms 2:5-9 tells us why. God will deal harshly and angrily with them. They will be ruled with an iron scepter, and broken like pottery. Those who don't follow after the will of God will be utterly destroyed. We see a reference to this in Jude 1:5, where it talks about the people who complained about the Manna from Heaven, and we see that God destroyed all of those who complained.

Psalms 2:10-12 tells us what to do: serve the Lord with fear, rejoice with trembling, kiss the Son, and take refuge in Him. Jude 1:20-25 gives us a correlation to that as well, showing that not only should we take refuge in Christ, but that we should bring as many in with us as possible, saving them also from the wrath of God. Romans 12:1-2 says to give our bodies as a living sacrifice, and not conform to the world, but let God transform our minds to follow Christ. Let us not join in the world and be mocked and destroyed by God, but let's follow Jesus and save as many as we can through His power in our lives.