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Genesis 6:5-8 Only evil continually - Day 6

 I will be making reference to Genesis 3:15 through out these devotions.  Sinclair Ferguson is another gifted preacher.  He quoted somebody else as saying that the whole Bible is a footnote to Genesis 3:15 - the covenant promise of solution to man's sin problem.

Blessings,

Jeff

Instruction - God regrets making man on the earth and is grieved in his heart   How did Moses understand this?  In his own experience, God had threatened to destroy Israel after they had left Egypt.  The sceptic objects to the "genocide" when Israel final takes possession of promised land.  God's holiness is the only explanation.  Out of all the people on earth, only one finds favor. All deserved death but one man and his family was preserved. The promise of 3:15 was for one man to save many.   

But if God really knew the plan of salvation would involve wiping out all but 8 after several thousand years, how could he regret what He had done?  He did not hope that Man would realize his predicament and decide to become better people.  

Man needs a savior.  This is all for His glory and our good. How can the Arminian look at this and conclude that man is just sick and not dead spiritually?  Yet here we are trusting in politics and education to save us. 

Convergence -  driven to my knees by my  rejection and disregard for the gospel.  The Father turns his face away from the Son.  If I struggle with regret and grief prior to flood, how much greater is the Cross. 

God shows that the plan for the fullness of time alone is sufficient. All the other possibilities are actually "tried" to show finite man that cross is the only way.

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