Go with me if you would now to Genesis chapter six. Genesis chapter six, we are going to look at something this morning that we've looked at many times before, but I believe it would do us good to look at it again, and I pray the Lord will make this to be a real blessing to us by reminding us of some of his truths concerning grace. Our subject matter is grace. The title of this message is grace. And our text is Genesis 6 verse 8. It says, but Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. Oh, that's so good. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. We know the story of Noah and the flood and the ark. Many of us have heard that story from a child. We're not going to look at that story. We're going to look at the subject of grace. But Genesis six tells us the reason for the story. All right. Look at verse one. 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 took them wives of all which they chose. And the Lord said, my spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh, yet his days shall be in 120 years. There were giants in the earth in those days and also after that when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. Verse five says, 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 repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him 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 repenteth me that I have made them. God created mankind. By the fall of Adam into sin, all of mankind became wicked and rebellious and vile. All of mankind. Every imagination of man's heart was only evil continually. It was full of lust. It was full of hate. It was full of pride. And that's how it still is today. That's how it still is to this very day. The thoughts and imaginations of every man and woman on this earth. They are all vile, wicked, self-centered, self-motivated, self-glorifying thoughts. That's the thoughts of everybody. And in Noah's day, God said he was going to destroy man. And in our day, God says the same thing. He is the Lord. He changes not. How he was in Noah's day. That's how he is in our day. People say I've heard it and you've heard it. You ever heard a man stand in the pulpit telling people that God has changed. Not so. God does not change how he was in Noah's day. That's how he is in our day. The Lord our God is destroying sinful men and women as I speak throughout this world. right now. That one moment right there of the flood, okay, this event, this account of the flood, that one moment represents God's dealings with the entire human race throughout all of time and all generations of people. God Almighty is literally destroying this world because of its sin. He is right now destroying the men and women of it. One day very soon when He returns, He is going to physically destroy the planet itself. He is going to destroy this planet. Right now, this actual world and the other planets and the stars of the heavens, all of that is being kept in store by the Word of His power. But 2 Peter 3 says, it is all being reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition. And that means the destruction of. Judgment and the destruction of ungodly men. That flood was a picture of what is coming to every ungodly soul because of his or her sin. Verse 8 says, but. Anybody mind if I get to that part? Thank God. Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. Noah was a sinner just like everybody else. Have you ever read the story of Noah? You know any of the details about Noah? It's in here. Noah was a sinner just like everybody else. I am a sinner just like everybody else. You are a sinner just like everybody else. But there is grace with the Lord. There is mercy to be had through grace. Verse eight says, but Noah found grace. Grace is what we need. Grace, grace, God's grace. If we, like Noah, can find grace in the eyes of the Lord, we, just like Noah, We will be spared from the wrath of God that is owed to us from our sins. If we can find grace like Noah did, we'll be spared like Noah was. And if we're really gonna enter into God's grace this morning, that's what we need, God's grace. If we're going to enter into it, we need to first enter into the fact that we are sinners against God who do not deserve his grace. We do not deserve his grace. Noah did not deserve his grace. Noah was a sinner who deserved the same wrath as the rest of the world, the same wrath that the rest of the world received. We don't deserve God's grace. No soul on this earth deserves God's grace because no soul has earned it. The definition of the word grace is gift. Gift. You ever given anybody a birthday gift? Why'd you do that? Because they earned it. Did they earn it by just breathing God's air and staying on this earth for another year? No. Gift. It's a favor. It's a kindness. It is a graciousness. The definition is goodwill, liberality. Grace is a gift. And there's not a soul on this earth who has done anything worthy of deserving that gift from God. So what makes it a gift? It wasn't earned, it wasn't owed. Grace is something that originates in the heart of God and is according to his goodwill and pleasure extended to, it's given to undeserving sinners as he sees fit to give it. Grace is something that God has shown because God was pleased to show it. And before we get into the details of this, I want to make this very clear and very plain, okay? Christ is the gift. Christ is the grace. He is the grace of God. People talk about the grace of God. People talk about all the time everywhere. People talk about the grace of God, grace of God. People sing songs like amazing grace. They claim the message of grace. Oh yeah. We preach grace. What are we talking about? What are we singing about? What are we preaching about? Christ. The answer is Christ. For God so loved the world, he gave Christ his only begotten son. Christ is the gift. Noah found Christ. You know, Nathanael ran to the other brethren and said, we found him, we found the Messiah. No, you didn't find anybody. The Messiah found you. Christ found you. Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. It started with the Lord. It started with the eyes of the Lord looking on Noah. Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord by way of the Lord providing Noah with an ark. You know everybody calls it Noah's Ark. Somebody made this statement one time and it's so good. It's not Noah's Ark, it's God's Ark that he put Noah in. Noah found grace by way of the Lord providing Noah with an ark. That ark was Christ. That physical arc was a picture of the Lord Jesus Christ. There are so many wonderful pictures of Christ in the scripture, but that arc is one of the greatest pictures of Christ in all of the Bible. I mean, it really is. That picture involved the whole world. The judgment of God reigned. literally rained down on everybody. It rained down on everybody. But while the judgment of God rained down on Noah, all right, the judgment of God rained down on Noah and his family, eight souls. They had the judgment of God poured out on them. But while the judgment of God rained down on Noah and his family, Noah found grace by being placed inside an ark. That ark bore the judgment for Noah and his family. That ark covered Noah and his family. That ark stood in between Noah, his family, and the judgment of God Almighty. That ark took the beating, that ark endured that all-consuming flood for Noah and his family. That ark rose above it all for Noah and his family. Noah couldn't rise above it all. He couldn't rise above it all. Well, couldn't Noah have just built his own ship? Oh, I'm sure there were many ships in that day. What happened to them? The judgment of God beat them all to pieces. Everybody had their own little hope. It didn't last. That ark was the gift of God. For God so loved the world, he gave Christ. That was a picture of how it is for every one of God's people today. That gift that God gave to Noah, that is the gift that all of God's people have received today. Christ, our ark, is God's grace to us. Every soul in Christ You know, Noah was a preacher of righteousness for a hundred years. And this is what he was telling people. If you want to live, you must be inside this ark. That's what he was saying to people. Judgment is coming. And the only way to live is inside this ark. Every soul in Christ is safe. Every soul outside of Christ is going to suffer the wrath and condemnation of God. We need Christ. We need Christ. We need the gift of God's grace. I plead this. You know, I was a young person. I just told you in the Bible study I'm young. Well, I was younger than I am now once. And I had ambitions and I had this idea of life and things that I wanted to do and I wanted to get out there and be somebody and be my own person and these are the things I want to accomplish and such on and so forth. And everybody's like that. These children are like that and you teenagers are like that and you young adults are like that. And I'm pleading with everyone. We need Christ. I mean, I literally am. I don't know how much longer this world's gonna last. May not make it till this evening. We need the gift of God's grace, which is the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. We need Christ. When we talk about God's grace, we're talking about the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. Oh, amazing person. Amazing person, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me. If we have Christ, we're safe, we are saved. He that hath the Son hath life. If we find grace in the eyes of the Lord by way of Him giving Christ to us, Christ our shelter, Christ our covering, Christ our safety, then we will be spared from the wrath that is coming. We will be spared. We need grace. We need Christ. Those two words go hand in hand. And because it's so critical that we receive God's grace in Christ, I want us to understand these truths about God's grace in Christ, okay? I'm just gonna study the word grace for a minute and then I'll be done. It's critical that we know this and understand this concerning God's grace, all right? Turn with me over to Exodus 33. Exodus 33, verse 18, it says, and he said, Moses said to the Lord, I beseech thee, show me thy glory. And the Lord said, he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee. And I will proclaim the name of the Lord before thee and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy. The first thing we need to know about God's grace is it is sovereign grace. It is sovereign grace. If anybody hears about God's sovereign grace and says, well, I don't like that, I don't like that kind of grace, there's going to be a problem. Like it or not, it's sovereign grace. Just like His mercy is sovereign mercy, His grace is sovereign grace. What that means is He gives the gift of Christ to whoever he's pleased to give the gift of Christ to. He shows mercy through the blood of Christ to whoever he is pleased to show mercy through the blood of Christ to. He is sovereignly in control of his own grace. It's his. It's the grace of God. Our brother just read it in our scripture reading a moment ago. Now the God of all grace, it's all his. And he has the right and he has the ability to give it to whoever he's pleased to give it to. It's in his hands. If any soul on this earth finds grace, it's because the sovereign God of all grace chose to reveal His grace to that soul. All right, that brings us to the next truth we need to know about grace. Turn over to Romans 11. Romans 11 verse 1 says, I say then, hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. God hath not cast away his people, which he foreknew. What ye not or know ye not that the scripture saith of Elias, how he maketh intercession to God against Israel saying, Lord, they have killed thy prophets and dig down thine altars and I'm left alone and they seek my life. But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself 7,000 men who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal. Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace. God's grace is an electing grace. All of God's people were chosen to it before the foundation of the world before anything was even made. God had a remnant elected to grace. Look at Romans 9, just a couple of pages or one page back for me to Romans 9 verse 9. Verse 9 says, for this is the word of promise at this time will I come and Sarah shall have a son. Abraham and Sarah, they were going to have a son, Isaac. And not only this, but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac, she had Jacob and Esau. For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, But of him that calleth, it was said unto her, the elder shall serve the younger, as it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. In the eternal foreknowledge and purpose and will of God, he chose exactly who would receive grace from him. He chose who would receive the gift of Christ. Ephesians 1 verse 4 says, all of God's people were chosen in him before the foundation of the world. So God's grace is sovereign grace. God's grace is electing particular grace. And turn back to Romans 11, verse 5 says, Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace. And if by grace, then it is no more of works. That means it's free. Free grace. If by grace, then it is no more of works. Otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then it's no more grace. Otherwise work is no more work. What he's saying is it's one or the other. It's either works or grace. And it's not works, it's grace. And all of God's people who have received grace will love it to be so. Our Lord said, whosoever will, let him come freely. All of God's people will. That's the only way we can come, freely. In my hand, no price I bring. The gift of Christ to God's people, that's a free gift to them. free to them. It cost Him everything. It cost them nothing. Romans 3 says God's people were justified freely by His grace, by His gift, at His expense. Look with me at 2 Corinthians 8. 2nd Corinthians 8 verse 9, it says, For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might be rich. It was a sacrificial gift on his part, it cost him everything. You know, I've thought so many times, why do men and women want to add their works to God's grace? Why would anybody want to add their payment to God's payment? If somebody came to you and said, here's the declaration to you today. Your mortgage is paid free and clear. Why would anybody go, nope, I'm writing a check too. It's free, it cost him everything. Though he was rich, he made himself to be poor. That you, through his poverty, might be rich. God's people are so rich. So rich in the Lord Jesus Christ. It cost him everything. What was the price? His blood. No, I'm gonna add my blood to his blood. How about let's not? Where did he pay the price? On the cross of Calvary. On that cross, this is what we view. As we see the Lord Jesus Christ hanging there, we view the sovereign, electing, free, saving grace of God Almighty. That's what we see. God's grace is saving grace. Turn over to Ephesians 2. Ephesians 2 verse 1, it says, wherein in time past you walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience, among whom also we all had our conversation in times past, in the lust of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others, but God who is rich in mercy. For his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ. By grace, you are saved. The announcement is not, by grace, you can be saved. By grace, you are saved. Thank God His grace is saving grace. Verse 8 right here says, for by grace are you saved through faith, that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God. Salvation is the gift of God. And it's a sovereign, particular, free, sacrificial, saving gift. Salvation's of the Lord. It's of the Lord. If God has given us this gift, then we have been given everything we need. All right, now I'm closing with this. If God has given us this gift, we've been given everything we need. If we have Christ, we have the riches of God's grace. If we have Christ, we have the abundance of God's grace. If we have Christ, we have the all-sufficiency of God's grace. If we have Christ, we have everything we need. And if we have Christ, we will see it to be that way. We'll see it to be that way. If we have Christ, if we are among the ones who have him, we will see it to be that way. I'm just a sinner, nothing at all. Jesus Christ is my all in all, everything I need. 2 Thessalonians 2 says, if we have Christ, we have the everlasting consolation and good hope through grace. Hebrews 4 says, if we have Christ, we can approach the throne, the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. The Lord God of heaven ended and this is so precious to me. All right, turn over to Revelation 22. We'll close with this. This is how the Lord God ended his entire book. Here's his very last verse. Final word to his people. Revelation 22 verse 21. Lord Jesus Christ said, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen. I pray so. I do, I pray so. I sincerely pray that God shed his grace on thee. I really do. That's my deep desire. God shed his grace on thee. May all of us find grace in the eyes of the Lord. Christ's sake. Amen.