You can do some very significant things. You can be conscious of the judgment to come, and you can live in the light of that reality. Secondly, you can build an ark for the saving of your family. You can set a priority on bringing your children, your grandchildren, your great grandchildren to Jesus Christ. By entrusting them to him and his grace, by interceding continually for them, by sharing with them the gracious message of the good news of Jesus Christ, you can “build an ark” for the saving of your house. 

What can you do? If you are a person of faith, you can be like Noah. He was all alone in his generation as a man of faith. He did three things. As a person of faith, you can do these same three things. It’s all recorded in Hebrews 11:7.

First, you can accept the warning of God about things not yet seen.

Just like Noah, you can hear directly from the revelation of God that this world shall be consumed. Once by water with Noah’s flood, but next time by fire. Just as surely as it happened in the days of Noah, it shall happen once more. Jesus said, “As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be when the Son of Man comes” (Matt. 24:37). People are still saying that all things have continued the same way since the creation of the world. But they willfully forget, in unbelief they deny that the world was once destroyed by a flood (2 Pet. 3:5-7). But Scripture is plain: the world was destroyed by a flood; the next time it will be destroyed by fire (2 Pet. 3:10).

You have received the same warning that came in the days of Noah. This warning concerns things that no one has seen. But it’s going to happen. Be sure of this fact. God shall bring judgment on all the nations of the world. You can see a foretaste in the wars, in the rumors of wars, in famines, the floods and the pandemics. Jesus said all these catastrophes serve as forewarnings of what God will finally do in his righteous judgments.

Have you received this warning? If you’ve never heard it before, you are hearing it now. God will destroy this world. He will one day consume even the essential elements that make up this world (2 Pet. 3:10, 12).

Secondly, you can construct an ark for the saving of your household.

What could be more important than the saving of your children, your grandchildren, and your great grandchildren? How do you do that? You obviously cannot save them from the corruptions of sin by yourself. But you can look to God for their salvation. You look by faith. By faith you communicate the gospel to your family. You speak it out. You do not force it down their throats. But you tell them the good news. Just as Noah by faith built an ark for the saving of his family, so you can set a priority on the saving of your family. What a wonderful promise God has given to believers. By faith you can hope to see your family saved from the destruction of the judgment that is coming soon.

Thirdly, by faith you may be declared righteous even as you declare His righteousness.

Just as Noah, you may become an inheritor of all the blessings of the righteous throughout eternity. Even in this life, you may receive the blessings of the righteous by faith.

The writer of this verse in Hebrews 11:7 agrees perfectly with the teaching of Paul as well as of James. As clearly stated, Noah’s righteousness came “by faith.” Noah was just as guilty of sin as the rest of humanity. But his father had named him Noah, which means “rest” or “comfort.” His father believed the ancient, original promise that God would remove the curse on the world that came through the sin of Adam and Eve (Gen. 5:28, 29).

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