Intro: Where is justice when you need it?

1.  Reasons for the Flood

Other flood stories

To blot out wickedness

To save Noah

1. The hero of the story

Other flood stories

Noah?

God

1. A new beginning

Other flood stories

Genesis 1 again?

Provisions for sin

A covenant of grace

1. Living righteously in a hostile world

1 Peter 3:20-22

Hebrews 11:1-2,7

2 Peter 2:5,9

Matthew 34:37-39,42,44