Intro: Where is justice when you need it?
1. Reasons for the Flood
Other flood stories
To blot out wickedness
To save Noah
2. The hero of the story
Other flood stories
Noah?
God
3. A new beginning
Other flood stories
Genesis 1 again?
Provisions for sin
A covenant of grace
4. 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