Judgement is what we deserve, but salvation is what we can have if we trust the Lord. Noah had to trust God and do what He said, otherwise he would not have been saved. Peter, in particular, was very impressed by the story of Noah.
Noah lived a faithful life, even though he lived amongst wicked people. No matter what out circumstances, we can live a godly life in the midst of them, and should do so. As evangelicals we tend to get hung up by anything that might seem to hint that someone, in this case Noah, earned their salvation. We should not do so, but just take the Bible as it stands and learn from it.
Many other civilisations have a story of a flood. There are two ways of taking this. One is to assume that the writers of the Bible were borrowing from these other “myths”. The other (and I believe to be the correct way) is to take this as backing for the truth of the Bible story. All the world of the time experienced the flood, but only Noah understood it.
God told Noah what He was going to do, why He was going to do it, and what Noah had to do in response to this. God would establish a covenant with Noah. Note also that creation itself in the form of livestock is also saved with man.
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