Which sometime were disobedient when once the long-suffering of God
Waited in the days of Noah while the ark was a preparing were in few that his eight souls were saved by water
Now a lot of false doctrine has been taught from this right here and verse number 21
So he uses Noah as an example
Okay
To show and look the most perplexing verse to a lot of people is the latter in a verse 20
Eight souls were saved by water
Okay. Now let me ask you this did the water save Noah and his family
No, not a trick question guys, you know water drowned a lot of people
Water killed the entire world, but no, okay. Let me let's go back to Noah's story. Okay, what saved Noah the ark?
Which is a picture of salvation?
Okay
The ark saved them
Go to Genesis chapter 6. Hold your place there in 1st Peter. Let's look at that real quick. Okay?
But it says in 1st Peter chapter 3 that eight were saved by water
Okay
Look at Genesis chapter 6 and verse number 1
it says and it came to pass when men began to multiply on the face of the earth and
Daughters were born unto them that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair and they looked them
Why excuse me
They took them wives of all which they chose and the Lord said my spirit shall not always strive with man
For that he also has flesh yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years
There were giants in the earth in those days and also after that when the sons of God came in
Came in unto the daughters of men and they bear children to them the same became mighty men which were of old men of renown
and God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only
Evil continually and it repents of the Lord that he had made man on earth and agreed them at his heart and the Lord said
I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth
Both man and beast and the creeping thing and the fowls of the air for it repented me that I have made them
But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. So what's taking place here? The world has become wicked
The only people that are saved are Noah and his family eight people were saved. Okay, the rest were destroyed by water
Okay, so you said well, how is it that they were saved by water then if they were rescued by the ark
Well when we talk about being saved we're talking about going to heaven
But what does that also include not going to help?
You see what I'm saying? So when you remove the wickedness from the land
You are basically saved because of the fact that that wickedness is no longer there. You're you didn't die with the people in that water
So to say that they were saved by water would make sense simply for the fact that
They were not under that judgment that wrath of God
In fact that wrath fell upon someone else and because of that they were able to be saved by the ark
For example, if we're to pay for our sins, we would go to hell but who went to hell for us Jesus Christ
so through his suffering
Through his sacrifice through him receiving the wrath of God. We are saved