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I'm thinking today of Genesis 7 -1. Then the

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Lord said to Noah, Enter the ark, you and all

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your household, for you alone I have seen to

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be righteous before me in this time. God saw

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Noah alone to be righteous, which is an amazing

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thing to say of him. There really was no reason

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for him to be righteous. He had a nature that

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was the same as every other man, I'm sure. He

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didn't have access to the Holy Spirit. He hadn't

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seen the Christ or probably heard anything about

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him. Can you imagine being a good and righteous

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man under those circumstances? He was right when

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right was not really a thing anyone else was

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doing. Surely, it had to do with faith, just

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as it does now. Was it a general faith in God

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and that there were rewards for those who sought

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him? Seems right. The testimony of creation was

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there, something in his heart, something that

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had to do with choosing the better path. There

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is a part of me that wants to say that this righteousness

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would have shined out among men. The fact that

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others did not follow him in righteousness and

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that no one killed him because of the contrast

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caused by his righteousness speaks of a separation,

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protection, and provision from God.