1st Peter 3:20. “Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.”
EIGHT SOULS WERE SAVED. Often people want to hear a count of heads To measure success as the Gospel spreads From place to place, “How many were saved?” But I can’t tell those to whom God gave New life and rescued them until I see Evidence of the Spirit’s work that came to be When they entered into “The Ark” making Christ their Lord And living out their faith in life guided by His Word.
Noah preached a lot for one hundred and twenty years As he worked, he preached, he probably shed a lot of tears While relatives and friends went on about their lives Paying no attention while the Holy Spirit strives To save them and deliver them from judgment to come But Noah’s message did reach those in his own home So, we know of at least eight whom God did save And that’s the number the Spirit has given us to have.
Maybe there were others who God saved, that died Perhaps some were drowned who their faith in fear did hide They didn’t enter the ark – were not physically saved It could be that a few heard Noah’s message and believed But for one reason or another like happens here today They didn’t make it known so I am not able to say How many trusted Christ as their Savior and their Lord We won’t know all the results until the day of reward.
“I know, O God, every one Thou dost save is in Thy kingdom. I also know it is not my right to give numbers as the measure of success in Thy work. I rest in Thy mercy towardssinners, knowing You want all men to be saved. I just pray Thee to continue to use Thy Word long after it has been preached. In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.”