The picture was taken recently when I was in Revival in Indiana, not far from Indianapolis. We (early Wednesday morning of that week) drove to the Creation Museum, not far from Cincinnati, Ohio. What a learning experience! There, among dozens if not hundreds of subjects, I was captivated by Noah!

Today’s Bible Study Lesson …

In fact, the Lord is leading me to preach a week (somewhere soon perhaps) on the Flood! Which will include the Ark, the fact of sin, and the man whose photo (a life-sized figure, dressed as men of that time would have been) I’ve included above! Yes, the godly man Noah.

We often think of him as a carpenter par excellence, a builder.

But Peter calls him a “preacher of righteousness.” (See Second Peter 2:5 for proof.)

The Flood …

Because of world-wide sin!

Finally God’s patience was exhausted!

“And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the LORD said, I WILL DESTROY man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.” Genesis 6:5-7

But …

(Here used as one of the greatest conjunctions in the Bible … but!)

“BUT … Noah found GRACE in the eyes of the LORD.” Genesis 6:8

Grace, what a theme!

It’s Hebrew parent, “chen,” is translated “favour” 26 times in the King James Bible. Then “pleasant” once. And once again “precious!” In God’s eyes!

Wow, apart from that Grace … Noah would have been destroyed like all the rest of humanity! When I was a teenager our Preachers defined Grace as “God’s unmerited favor!”

Undeserved, but given anyway!

Praise the Lord.

I, too, have found GRACE in God’s eyes.

Jesus died for me!

For you as well, dear reader of these lines.

I am a recipient of God’s GRACE and have been saved, washed in the Blood of Jesus! “For by GRACE are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God.” Ephesians 2:8

I have a feeling we shall talk about GRACE for all of eternity!

Oh, how we should thank God for His Grace!

In fact, the Greek word for giving thanks includes the very noun “grace” at its root!

I trusted the Blood of Jesus.

And God, in Grace, saved me!

Just as well say, Mike Bagwell found grace in the eyes of the Lord!

You have too!

As did Noah long ago.

— Dr. Mike Bagwell