Noah was a just man, He was justified by faith in the promised seed that he never knew; “By his faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes by faith” – Hebrews 11:7.
He was sanctified and he was righteous in his conversation; He was a man who made God's ethics his own ethics and was careful to give to God His due and to men theirs. Only a completely honest man or woman can find favor with God.
Noah was perfect, not with a sinless perfection, but a perfection of sincerity; He was not perfectly holy, or free from sin, but he was a recipient of the true grace of God; as we accept Christ’s work of grace, His righteousness is accepted as our perfection.
Noah walked with God, as Enoch had done before him.
He was not only honest, but also devoted and dedicated; he walked with God. He knew that God saw him. And lived accordingly.
He lived a life in relationship with God; it was Noah’s unwavering desire to conform himself to the will of God, to please Him, and to approve himself to Him and not men.
Noah was righteous and perfect and walked with God, in his generation.
He did not ask to be born in that corrupt degenerate age. But he was born into that sinful society and he lived in that society with his eye toward heaven and his ear toward heaven that he might see and hear God and act for Him.
No one else in all the world of his day could be described this way. We are called to be like Noah in our generation; to be just, sanctified, perfect, and to walk with God. While we live in a wicked fallen world, we are here to walk with God and show others the way to God.
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