This week we’ve been looking back on some lessons to learn from the great flood of Genesis 6-9.

We saw it as a picture of creation, as God returned the world to an empty, water-filled planet, devoid of life (but for those in the ark). We also saw it as a picture of judgment, as God overwhelmed the sinners who refused to repent and heed his invitation. The flood is also–and perhaps most famously–viewed as a picture of salvation.

In what way?

Imagine you’re Noah. You’re in the place God told you to be to be “saved.” Outside the ark is a flood of judgment destroying those who refused to get in the boat with you. What is God doing? He’s washing away the sin(ners)! The eight souls who got in the ark of safety were spared. The rest were destroyed.

If only there was a New Testament application we could make…Hmm….

Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:

1 Peter 3:20-21

God has extended an invitation of salvation to all who will get into His Son. If we refuse then we’ll be destroyed. If we repent and obey God, we will get into Christ, then God will wash away the sin from us.