DWDP - Gen 6 11-13 Why God Brought the Flood

A world once drowned in corruption and violence feels uncomfortably familiar. We open Genesis 6:11–13 and ask hard questions about what God saw then and what He sees now—how cultures drift toward destruction, how violence gets normalized, and why judgment, though severe, is the just response of a holy and loving God. Along the way, we linger on Noah’s family, the power and limits of godly influence, and the honest reality that every child chooses a path. Influence forms, but it does not force; that truth should keep us humble, hopeful, and persistent.

From there, we widen the lens. Psalm 139 and Hebrews 4 remind us that nothing hides from God’s sight—every motive, every secret permission, every public celebration of harm. We connect the ancient term for violence, hamas, to modern headlines and to the cultural liturgies we often overlook: entertainment that prizes brutality, sports that trade long-term health for short-term spectacle, and online tribes that turn neighbors into enemies. The point isn’t outrage; it’s clarity. What we cheer, we become.

Yet the story does not stop at diagnosis. We talk about the restraining presence of the Holy Spirit in the church—the salt-and-light influence that slows decay and holds back waves of judgment. Scripture paints the flood as a global, cataclysmic reckoning, a real answer to real evil, and also a warning written for our hope. If mercy still holds the door open, then our task is simple and costly: like Noah, build in public and speak with patience. Share your testimony. Trust the gospel’s power more than your eloquence. Think of the names already rising in your mind and take one faithful step toward them today.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Welcome And Passage Overview
• 0:43 Reading Genesis 6:11–13
• 1:22 Defining Corruption And Violence
• 1:59 Noah’s Family And Godly Influence
• 3:38 Children’s Choices And A Patient’s Tragedy
• 6:21 Humanity’s Commands And Rebellion
• 6:29 Hebrew Terms For Corrupt And Destroy
• 7:07 God Sees: Omniscience In Scripture
• 9:31 From Noah’s World To Ours
• 10:39 The Church As Restraining Influence
• 12:42 Global Flood: Judgment Clarified
• 14:06 Urgent Call To Witness
• 15:50 Closing Blessing And Resources

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:02

Welcome to More Than Medicine, where Jesus is more than enough for the ills that plague our culture and our country. Hosted by author and physician, Dr. Robert Jackson.

Speaker 2: 0:16

Papa, can you tell me a story? Do you really want me to tell you a story? Well, you go get your brother and your sisters, and I will tell you a story. Welcome to Devotions with Dr. Papa. Gather round, grab your Bibles, and let us look into the written word which reveals to us the living word who is our Lord Jesus Christ. Today we're in Genesis chapter six, verses eleven to thirteen. Let me read those verses to you. Genesis chapter six verse eleven. Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and the earth was filled with violence. God looked on the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth. Then God said to Noah, The end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. And behold, I am about to destroy them with the earth. May the Lord add his blessing to the reading of his word corruption and violence. Why did God destroy the earth by a flood? Say the words corruption and violence. Fix those two words in your mind. The earth was corrupt and filled with violence. This wickedness was universal. Thus five times God emphasized in these two verses the corruption and violence that prevailed upon the earth. It is of interest that Noah's three sons were born into this depraved milieu, but were largely unaffected, largely uncorrupted, probably because of the influence of their father, the preacher of righteousness, and possibly because he kept them out of that wicked world by keeping them busy building the ark. I can hear it now. Dad, can we go out with our friends? Noah responds, not until we finish building this boat. But Dad, that's going to take a hundred years. Boys, you're right, but God commissioned our family to build the ark and no playing around until we finish the job. Ah, Dad, you're killing us. No, you'll understand later. I'm saving you. Noah's three sons were sanctified by their father's influence, just like our children are sanctified by our godly influence today. But is that a guarantee? No, certainly not. Children make their own choices in life. I know children of pastors, missionaries, and godly parents who choose to walk away from the faith of their parents. For example, I had a patient who was the son of missionaries. He was an alcoholic. His missionary parents called me one day, a day before their son came to see me as a patient. They informed me that they had faithfully shared the gospel with him while on the mission field, but that he had walked away from the faith, that he consumed alcohol with his friends in abundance. They were concerned for his spiritual life and for his health and asked if I would be willing to speak to him about his excessive alcohol consumption and about his faith, and I told them I would be glad to do so. He came to see me about a minor illness, and while in the office I asked him about his spiritual life. He looked at me as if he'd been stuck with a hot poker, and he admitted that he didn't really have much of a spiritual life. I began to share with him my testimony, and then I began to share the gospel. And in the midst of doing that I noticed that he had put his arm over his face, and then I realized that he was laughing up his sleeve at me. Now I was thirty years older than him, and I had shared the gospel with many people over the years in my medical office, but I had never had anyone laugh at me. I known people who didn't receive the message, but most people were respectful, but no one had ever actually laughed at me. I was offended, and I stopped, I handed him his paperwork, and I dismissed him. Two weeks later, one of my nurses brought me an obituary in the newspaper, and it was an obituary for this twenty one year old young man who had died in an alcohol related motor vehicle accident. Of course his parents were inconsolable. Conversely, I know children raised in very troubled homes who choose to follow the Lord Jesus Christ despite the negative influence of family and friends on their formative years. Remember, children make their own choices in life. God had commended men to be faithful, I'm sorry, commanded men to be faithful and multiply and fill the earth, which mankind had done quite well. But he had also commanded man to walk in righteousness, but mankind had filled the earth with corruption and violence. The word for corrupt in Hebrew, it's a Hebrew word shaka. It's a strong term and is often translated destroy. In other words, to corrupt is to destroy. There is a way that seems right to a man, but the end thereof is death or destruction. All men like sheep have turned away, turned aside to their own way, and in the end destroy or corrupt themselves. Although the inhabitants of the earth had forgotten God and the way of God. It is interesting to note in Genesis chapter six and verse twelve that God had not forgotten man, in that God looked upon the earth. In Hebrews chapter four and verse thirteen, the scripture informs us that there is no creature hidden from his sight, but all things are open and laid bare to the eyes of him with whom we have to do, to whom we must give account. None of us can hide from the all seeing eye of the omniscient God. In fact, in Psalms one hundred thirty nine verses one through twelve the Bible tells us a lot about the omniscient God. Listen to the Psalmist in Psalms one hundred thirty nine. O Lord, you have searched me and known me. You know when I sit down and when I rise up. You understand my thought from afar, you scrutinize my path and my lying down, and are intimately acquainted with all my ways. Even before there is a word on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it all. You have enclosed me behind and before and laid your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me. It is too high, I cannot attain to it. Where can I go from your spirit? Or where can I flee from your presence? If I ascend to heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheold, behold, you are there, if I take the wings of the dawn, if I dwell in the remotest part of the sea, even there your hand will lead me, and your right hand will lay hold of me. If I say surely the darkness will overwhelm me, and the light around me will be night. Even the darkness is not dark to you, and the night is as bright as the day. Darkness and light are alike to you, for you formed my inward parts. You wove me in my mother's womb. I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works, and my soul knows it very well. You see, that there's nothing that you can do, nowhere that you can go, that God is not already there, and that God does not already see. The Bible tells us that God looked and he saw, and behold the world was corrupt. Verse eleven tells us it was filled with violence. The Hebrew word is Hamas. Where have you heard that word Hamas? Oh yes, there is a terrorist organization by that name, who are committed to the destruction of the Zionist, the Jews, the state of Israel. They celebrated in the streets over the october seventh massacre at a music festival in southern Israel just outside Gaza two years ago. Hamas violence. They murdered women and children, the elderly, pregnant women, all of whom were non combatants, not soldiers, and then celebrated joyously Hamas violence. Then kept over two hundred of those souls as captives, as political pawns for over two years. Well, not much has changed since God looked upon the earth in the days of Noah, has it? Hamas violence. Have you ever pondered the violence in our culture today? Have you ever vote viewed the video games that young men play today that shoot and kill enemy soldiers and zombies? Those video games are filled with graphic violence, graphic humas. Have you watched ultimate fighting contest on television? Almost bare knuckle fighting? Pure violence by cheered on by screaming throngs of bloodthirsty crowds. Violence Hamos. The more violent professional football is, the more the crowds love it, the more they cheer it. The long term physical and mental consequences upon the players doesn't matter to the screaming fans. It's all about violence. Hamas. Over time, there's no difference from Noah's day except for one thing the presence of Holy Spirit in the lives of Christians in the church. There's no difference between our time and Noah's time, except that today Holy Spirit indwells the lives of Christian people that represent the Church of the Living God. I'm convinced that there is a moderating influence, a purifying influence, a salt and light influence of the church that forestalls the wrath of God. And when he looks over the ramparts of heaven and he sees the Hamas, the violence and corruption on planet Earth, today it forestalls the wrath of God. But listen to me. One day that moderating influence will be removed when God removes the church and Holy Spirit in you and me is also removed. Then the wrath of God, as described in the book of Revelation, will be poured out on the corrupt and violent inhabitants of this planet, who are left behind. The first time God told Noah He would destroy man with the earth, not from the earth, but with the earth, which eliminates any notion of a local or tranquil flood. The preparation used is the Hebrew word eth ETH, which means with not from. The Bible teaches that the flood was a world destroying, cataclysmic event. Peter tells us in Second Peter three and verse six, the world that then was being overflowed with water perished. That doesn't describe a local flood. That doesn't describe a tranquil flood. That describes a worldwide cataclysmic event. So here's the challenge for you and me. We know our world like Noah's is filled with corruption and violence. Hamas. We know a day of accountability is looming. We know the restraining influence of Holy Spirit is soon to be removed, which will then release the judgments described in Revelation. Therefore, your and my task is to warn our family and friends of the impending disaster, just like Noah did for a hundred years before the rain fell, before the windows of the heavens were opened, and the fountains of the deep were released and destroyed the earth. Here's my question. Who do you know who doesn't have a saving relationship with Jesus Christ? You know who they are. Their names are popping into your little mind right now. Our task is to give them Jesus. Tell them your testimony. Never underestimate the power of the gospel. I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God unto salvation to all who believe, to the Jew first and also to the Gentile. That's Romans chapter 1 and verse 16. The challenge for you and me is to give them Jesus. Share your testimony. Give them a gospel presentation. We don't know how much time we have. Noah had a hundred years. We don't know how much time we have. Today is the day of salvation. You're listening to Devotions with Dr. Papa. If you like what you hear, follow, like, share, or download. Tell your family or friends, and remember, God loves you, your doctor loves you, and I pray that this week you'll have a very, very Jesus-filled.

Speaker: 16:11

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