This is the 3rd lesson in Mike’s series on Bible Characters.
“It doesn’t matter what the world is doing; it matters what God expects us to be doing.”
Noah, Abraham, and Job — three giant, well-known men found in the pages of Scripture — provide terrific examples of what fathers have been called to do in leading their families. They are wonderful examples of responding to what God expects them to do as fathers.
In this lesson, Mike shares highlights from the lives of these three men, and examines the impact they had on their families and the world around them.
The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time. The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. So the Lord said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them.” But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord. This is the account of Noah and his family. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God.
22 Noah did everything just as God commanded him.
Genesis 6:5-9,22 (NIV)
For I have chosen [Abraham], so that he will direct his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just, so that the Lord will bring about for Abraham what he has promised him.”
Genesis 18:19 (NIV)
In the land of Uz there lived a man whose name was Job. This man was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil. He had seven sons and three daughters, and he owned seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen and five hundred donkeys, and had a large number of servants. He was the greatest man among all the people of the East.
Job 1:1-3 (NIV)