The Faith Behind Noah's Ark

Hebrews
Written By Steve Estes

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Speaker: Steve Estes
Scripture: Hebrews 11:7
September 3, 2023

Hebrews 11:7: By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

Sermon Outline

1. Human wickedness spreads

  • Adam and Eve

  • Cain and Abel

  • The righteous and unrighteous family lines

  • The family lines merge

2. How God responded to human wickedness

  • Delayed judgement for Noah's sake

  • Blueprints for Noah's Ark

3. Noah's faith

  • Noah believed God's warning of incoming judgement

  • Noah believed God when he had no children

  • Noah believed God over a long period of time

  • Noah believed God despite the world's scorn

4. The Great Flood

5. What do we learn from Noah's faith?

  • Faith can rescue one's family

  • Faith draws a line between the redeemed and the unredeemed

Steve Estes

Steve Estes has been senior pastor at Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, Pennsylvania, for over thirty-five years. 

Steve’s books and other writings began with his longtime friendship with Joni Eareckson Tada. As teenagers, they grappled with why God allowed Joni’s paralysis in a swimming accident in the Chesapeake Bay. Steve left for college . . . they kept in touch . . . she liked the style of his letters. When her 1976 autobiography Joni spawned thousands of reader responses, she asked Steve to join her in crafting a follow-up. The result was A Step Further in 1978.

Later, Wycliffe Bible Translators commissioned Steve to write the biography of former college friend Chet Bitterman, a Wycliffe linguist who was kidnapped and murdered by political terrorists in Colombia in 1981. Other books and articles followed, including When God Weeps (with Joni) and A Better December (a giveaway book for non-Christian friends at Christmas.)

Steve was educated at Westminster Theological Seminary, Columbia Bible College and Jerusalem University College in Israel. He has taught homiletics at Westminster and is a board member of the Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation.

But Steve would say his most significant life achievement was persuading college classmate Verna Stoltzfus to marry him in 1974.  They now have eight children and more grandchildren than can fit in a van.

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