In In Noah's Day, most of the people perished in the flood because they refused to heed the messenger's warnings.

They failed to see their need for refuge until it was too late.

Today on Truth for Life weekend, Alistair Begg draws the line between

this tragic story in the book of Genesis and the miraculous story of Christmas.

With the arrival of Noah, the question is at least raised, will this be the man who will

deliver the cosmos from the curse? And of course, what we're going to discover is that

he was not that man, but that he did have a crucial part in the unfolding story.

Now, from chapter three and into chapter four, we immediately learn how sin impacts life, impacts

it on an individual basis, impacts it within the framework of the family, and certainly

within society. And that is exactly what we discover, isn't it? That sin spoils what God has made good, the perfection and his plan for us, fiddled with

and rejected by us, and we discover that the things that God has made in order that we might

benefit by them actually are spoiled as a result of our sins.

So we said by way of summary, number one, the earth was

corrupt. Number two, God's judgment was just. The just judgment of God is what comes across

here. It is difficult to read, and we have to bow down underneath it. But it comes again and again,

verse 7 of chapter 6, I will comes again and again. Verse seven of chapter six,

I will blot out man. Verse 13, I have determined to make an end of all flesh.

Verse 17, I will bring a flood of waters. And what we actually discover now is that the rest

that was enjoyed in the garden has now been taken over by a restlessness, if you like, a chaos that is pervasive and is growing daily.

It is a restlessness that is producing all the things that we've even outlined in Chapter 4, and they're just representative

of that which will develop from this point. The restlessness of our contemporary culture

is, again, not hard to find. It's fascinating, isn't it? As people roam to and fro, trying

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