w righteous persons were found in Noah's day 12.

* The efforts of the pope and bishops to crush the Gospel 13.

c. First world severely punished, neither old nor young were
spared 14-15.

d. Punishment of first world greatly moved Peter when he wrote
about it 16-17.

* Peter's record of sermon Christ delivered to the spirits of the
first world in prison 16-17.

a. Who are to be understood here by the unbelieving world 18.

b. Peter here shows the wrath and long suffering of God 19.

c. Nature and manner of this sermon 20.

* Apostles had special revelations we cannot grasp 20-21.

4. How Noah was righteous before God 22.

5. How the world laughed at him while executing God's command, God
then comforted him 23-24.

6. Greatness of Noah's faith and steadfastness in executing this
command 25-26.

* Luther's confession he would have been too weak for such a work
25-26.

* The great firmness of John Huss and Jerome of Prague 27.

* We are to comfort ourselves when all the world forsakes and
condemns us 28.

7. God commands Noah to take the animals he names along into the
ark 29.

* Why God so often repeats the same thing 29.

a. What is to be understood by Behemoth 30.

b. How many of each kind entered the ark 31.

* The rain at the flood was exceptional 32.

* The flood is a token of God's righteousness and from it we
conclude God will punish the sins of the last world 33.

8. By what may we learn Noah's faith and obedience to God 34.

* Why God did not save Noah in some other way 34.

I. NOAH OBEYS COMMAND TO ENTER THE ARK.

V. 2a. _And Jehovah said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into
the ark._

1. As soon as that extraordinary structure, the ark, was built, the
Lord commanded Noah to enter it, because the time of the deluge, which
the Lord announced one hundred and twenty years before, was now at
hand. All this convinced Noah that God was taking care of him; and not
only this, but also, as Peter says (2 Pet 1, 19), gave him an ample
and abundant word to support and confirm his faith in such great
straits. Having foretold the deluge for more than a century, he
doubtless was bitterly mocked by the world in many ways.

2. As I have said repeatedly, God's wrath was incredible. It could not
be grasped by the human