Sermon

Before the Flood: Understanding the Days of Noah

Genesis 6:5

January 24, 2009 | Joel R. Beeke

Joel R. Beeke examines Genesis 6:5, focusing on the widespread wickedness and corruption in the world during Noah’s time. He highlights God’s grief over human sin and the impending judgment through the flood. Beeke emphasizes the importance of understanding the gravity of sin and God’s righteousness, urging believers to live faithfully and righteously in a sinful world.

Joel R. Beeke serves as president and professor of systematic theology and homiletics at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, and pastor of the Heritage Reformed Congregation of Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is the author or co-author of more than 100 books, editor of another 100 volumes, and has just finished writing the final volume, with Paul Smalley, of Reformed Systematic Theology (4 vols.; Crossway).