Genesis - Part 22 | Pastor Paul McGee

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Genesis chapter #9 Again, we're here tonight and Genesis will be

here next week in Genesis. The week after that, I won't be

here, but brother Zach McGee will be here teaching.

And then we'll be flipping a format.

More than likely, I say more than likely, according to what

we do next week. Next week we're going to try to

do some genealogies, which I know everybody's just like

biting at the bit at my son Trevor thought it was night

tonight. I said no, it's not tonight.

That's probably going to be next week.

And. He's like, oh good.

What? It's the genealogies.

He says, Oh yeah, I'm really troubled or whatever.

Anyway, so Genesis chapter #9 and we're going to begin reading

with verse #8 I'm just read a few verses of Scripture, then

I'll allow you to be seated. Amen.

Here this evening the Bible said, And God spake unto Noah,

and to his sons with him, saying, And I behold, I

establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you,

with every living creature that is with you of the fowl and of

the cattle, and of every beast of the earth.

With you from all that go out of the ark to every beast of the

earth, I will establish my covenant with you.

Neither shall all flesh be cut off anymore by the waters of a

flood, neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the

earth. And God said, This is the token

of the covenant which I make between me and you, and every

living creature that is with you for perpetual generations.

I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a

covenant between me and the earth.

And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth,

that the bow shall be seen in the cloud.

And I remember my covenant, which is between me and you, and

every living creature of all flesh.

The water shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh, and

the bow shall be in the cloud. And I will look upon it, that I

may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every

living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.

And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant which

I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the

earth. It was said, it was said again,

it was said differently. It was said again, it was said.

He wants us to know this, I guess, Amen.

Want to talk about Noah's legacy here tonight and I'll be mindful

of your time. Amen.

Father, we're thankful, Lord Jesus, this evening that we have

an opportunity and a chance to Lord together, together, God, I

pray, O Lord Jesus, that your word, Lord Jesus, stand.

God, it doesn't need propped up, Lord Jesus, it doesn't need

help, but Lord God, it is good all on its own and by itself.

I pray, O Lord, today, God strengthen us, our hearts and

minds, God give us strength. Lord Jesus, for this evening, in

Jesus name I pray, Amen. Everyone say Amen, you may be

seated, everybody take a deep breath and let it out.

That was more for me than it was for you, Amen.

Just seems like it's been a rush, rush for the past couple

of weeks, Amen. So God is speaking again there.

This is very limited of God, of what we have recorded in

Scripture, of God speaking to Noah during this whole episode

of the flood, before, in the middle and after.

But he's speaking. And yet the Bible says in verse

eight that he spoke to Noah and to his sons, which is a little

different than what we have in previous verses leading up to

this time. All the other times it would

seem like God spoke to Noah alone, by himself and directed.

His his speech in his speaking to Noah.

But now he broadens that circle of involvement.

And he involves Noah's sons in what he is saying as well.

No doubt there's going to be a great responsibility on their

shoulders because Dad's going to pass, pass on, although he's

still going to be with us for 350 years.

But he's going to pass on in this whole replenishing and

repopulating the earth in many regards as going to be falling

upon the shoulders of his offspring to continue that.

So none the less, here's God speaking to them all.

And Noah receives from God, and his sons receive from God a

covenant God makes with Noah and his sons, the descendants and

the seeds that will even come after them.

And this is a covenant that God doesn't just make with knowing

his sons or with humans in general.

Because remember, there's only eight souls that's upon the

earth whenever they come off the ark.

So this is made with all humanity and those that shall

come or those that will be, not just with those that are there

that day, but those that will come.

And it's a covenant that's also made with the animals.

It's made with the living things according to the Scripture,

which may seem a little peculiar to us, that God would include

them in the covenant, but it's not real peculiar whenever you

consider that he included them in the destruction.

So you know God, he's a very even God.

You know he's a fair God. And so they're included likewise

within this covenant and all these living things.

And he gives it just a, a few divisions whom this concerns #1

namely, we know that this concerns humans because he

speaks to knowing his sons. But he also specifies there in

those verses that I read to you, that the fowl of the air, that

the cattle which our minds tend more to think of more

domesticated type of beast and then the beast of the earth,

that this, this covenant was made with Amen.

Not just the destruction, but also this covenant and in that

in these divisions of the human and the fowl and the cattle and

the beasts. Interesting, interesting.

Maybe not to everybody, but I'll say to me, OK, I'll speak for

myself. But interestingly, whenever you

go to the book of Ezekiel and you go also to the Book of

Revelation and both of these are describing times of God's

presence being there. And there are some, you know,

cherubim and seraphim that are there.

And the Bible speaks about worship that's taking place in

these modes. The Bible speaks in both of

these aspects. Not just that, but also bows or

rainbows that are present in both these areas in Ezekiel and

also in the Book of Revelation that you read of these creatures

or these living things that around about the throne or

around about this area where God's is.

And some of them are described as creatures.

Others are described as a creature with four faces.

None the less of the faces or the creatures that are described

in Ezekiel and both in the Book of Revelation chapter #4 it is

the face of a human. It is the that of a lion.

It's that of a calf or a ox according whether you're an

Ezekiel or Revelation, and it is that of an eagle.

In other words, all four of these divisions of the covenant

that was made with Noah and his sons and these other divisions

of a title of a wild beast and of a a fowl, they are

represented in all these places where the throne and the rainbow

is in Ezekiel and both in the Book of Revelation.

Which seems a little interesting that these creatures are there

in the presence of God, even depicted as worshipping God and

the presence of a rainbow is there because that which that

that covenant that God made with Noah and these divisions were

I'm not going to destroy the world again.

I'm not going to destroy it by water.

There will not be a flood upon the whole earth.

And with that, then all these living things are not going to

meet destruction as well. I know we safeguarded a

selective view on the ark, but all of creation then is

safeguarded as that. And so we see them in these

other places. They're worshipping in the

presence of God. The Bible even tells us New

Testament Scriptures when it speaks about that.

All of us, including creation, is awaiting a day for the full

redemption of mankind and the earth.

I know there is a certain level of redemption that we have upon

this earth, but there is a full redemption of our bodies

whenever the Lord comes back to to get His church.

And there's a full redemption of earth in itself because there'll

be a new heaven and a new earth that will come down eventually.

And so the Bible even speaks that not only do we wait for

that day, but the whole creation does groan and travail.

Is the Scripture in Romans for that complete redemption.

The Bible says in Romans 8 and verse 22.

For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travelleth

in pain together until now, and not only they, but all ourselves

also, which have the 1st. Fruits of the Spirit.

Even we ourselves grown within ourselves waiting for the

adoption to with the redemption of our body.

And so this in many ways is somewhat connected to that know

it the the Noah covenant, Amen, that God made with him and with

all of these other living things, Amen, that we're all

awaiting that day. We have, we have a little

respite, yes, because we have the comfort that it won't be

destroyed, Amen, by water again. But we're looking for a day of

full redemption. And so these covenant dull

pronouncements here in what I read to you, it's it's quite

wearisome because it's repeated over and over and over again

frequently. And God in Scripture restates

the parties and he states what parties are involved.

And he states it a little differently from verse from

verse. I'm sure you picked up on it,

but just in case you didn't, when you look at verses 9 and

10, he talks about this covenant being with you.

He's Speaking of Noah with your seed after you and with every

living creature you look at verse 12, he says it's between

me and you and every living creature that is with you for

perpetual generation. So this doesn't have a, this

doesn't have a time frame set to it.

It's not like for the next 10 years or 25, this is a eternal

covenant. This is a everlasting covenant.

This is perpetual. Verse 13 says it's between me

and the earth. Verse 15 says it's between me,

you, and every living creature of all flesh.

Verse 16 says it's between God and every living creature of all

flesh that is upon the earth. Verse seven.

I mean, folks, this is redundant.

I mean in many. Ways between me and all flesh

that is upon the earth. But evidently God wanted to

under score it, highlight it, and bold it.

Hey, this is between me and all of y'all all right?

And it's going to last the next time rain comes, don't you know,

don't grab your timber and start trying to construct an ark

because this, this is good. This is going to last.

And so this covenant that God made with them is the first time

that we have an idea of a covenant in Scripture.

It's the first time for sure, probably Genesis 6 when when God

said it before talking that I will make a covenant with you.

It's the 1st. Time we see this word covenant

prop up in the scriptures. Now by many accounts, people

talk about the the Garden of Eden with with Adam and Eve and

things that took place in Edom. Many speak that how that and

arrangements that God made with Adam and Eve could have been a

covenant, a Adamic covenant as it as they often times call it.

But the word covenant was never never used in in conjunction

with them. But when we talk about a

covenant, a covenant usually involves at least two parties,

at least two parties and. And with that.

There could be some stipulations that are on each party or just

stipulation on one party that follow.

Like if you keep this, this will happen.

If you don't keep this, this will happen type of things.

And sometimes again, the covenants are for a certain

period of time. Sometimes they are eternal,

everlasting, Amen. Sometimes there's conditions,

sometimes there isn't conditions.

And So what we have here in Scripture, and God repeats this

more than once. Imagine that Amen repeating

Amen. But God repeats and states that

this is my covenant. He says this is my covenant,

this is a unilateral covenant, this, this, this.

Covenant depends and totally is shouldered by God.

This this doesn't depend upon man.

It wasn't like we're going to I'm going to make this covenant

for you. I'm not going to destroy the the

land with water and every living things not going to be destroyed

again. If you do this that that that

wasn't that wasn't the prescription.

It wasn't like you do this and I'll do this.

No, all of this was totally dependent upon God, all right?

It was dependent upon him. And what we probably don't

recognize is God setting us up again.

Tremendously futuristic, as I pointed out to you over and over

again in Genesis thus far. That's something that's going to

happen in the future. A covenant that He has for

mankind is also going to be up on His shoulders that Isaiah

would even say Speaking of The government shall be up on his

shoulders and of His Kingdom. There shall be no end he's

pointing to. The covenant that will come,

that is another unilateral covenant, and God accepts all

the responsibilities of this covenant.

He doesn't place at this time any expectations.

Upon man concerning this covenant, and whenever you begin

to think about that, concerning the history we have with man

thus far, what type of expectations could he really

expect of man? Let's just recall Genesis Six

and five. This is BF.

Before the flood. I know I I, I took me.

Weeks to come up with it, but. And God saw that the wickedness

of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of

the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

BF right AF after the flood. You saw it coming, didn't you?

Genesis 821 And the Lord smelled the sweet savour, and the Lord

said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground anymore

for man's sake, for the imagination of man's heart is

evil from his youth. Before the flood, After the

flood, what can God really expect?

What can he really expect from man?

He can't expect perfection from man.

That's not there, nor will it ever be.

So when we start looking at man, what what what can God really I,

yeah, I believe God can't expect, you know, some things of

us, but there are some things that are beyond the realm of

what man can give because of his nature, because of who he is,

because of this element of sin that came in in the garden from

the very beginning. And so when we look at the Noah

covenant or the Noah covenant, it is a unconditional covenant.

There is there is no ABC section C from mankind.

It is a everlasting covenant. And we know from Scripture that

it is sealed with a token or with a sign, Amen, that this

covenant is sure this covenant is real.

He said to them, what did he say?

You know that he said, I'm going to put my bow in the cloud.

I'm going to put my bow in the cloud and I'm not going to flood

the earth and I'm not going to for sure flood it over all to

the degree of just totally destroying and decimating all of

the animals and the world and the living things, he says.

I'm going to put that bow in the cloud.

Is the token the seal that? This covenant is sure, this

covenant is good that you could depend upon this covenant.

The Hebrew word for bow in Scripture, of course, is what we

understand to be rainbow, right? Matter of fact, I was just

driving home. I don't remember.

It was just one day, just this week when it was pouring down

rain. I know it was.

It was yesterday. Yeah, cuz I drove in the rain to

go to the airport and Saint Louis.

Bad, bless the. Lord.

But none the less as I came back home after getting gas, there

was a bow in the cloud over in our neighborhood that I saw.

And we understand that is rainbow, but normally this same

Hebrew word, normally it refers to a warrior's bow.

And so as we see the rainbow in the sky, there is another shade

to this, that what we have is really a visual of God hanging

up his battle bow of judgement that He has had toward mankind.

He says you'll see my bow because notice, he says more

than once, my bow in the cloud. I'm, I'm hang.

I'm suspending judgment for you for now.

My bows hanging right there for now.

So to speak and so know us all. Interestingly enough, know us

all. The bow in the cloud after the

storm in the book of Ezekiel, when we read about the presence

of the Lord and the bow that shows up in there and the

creatures that are there, Ezekiel sees the bow in what

would in essence be in the midst of the storm.

When you get to the Book of Revelation, all of that is

pictured before judgement kicks loose.

So in essence Bishop they saw the bow, or in the Book of

Revelation is depicted that the bow was.

Seen before the judgement or before the storm, so.

God is so gracious that whether you're in the storm, before the

storm, or after the storm, He's wanting us to know that there is

a covenant that He is made with mankind in his book, Walter

Lewin, his book. The love of.

Physics. It says this.

For you to see a rainbow, three conditions need to be met.

First, the sun needs to be behind you.

Second, as a matter of fact, next time you see a rainbow,

turn 180° and you'll see where the sun is.

Number 2, there must be raindrops in the sky in front of

you. This could be miles in front of

you or just a few yards in front of you.

Thirdly, the sunlight must be able to reach the raindrops

without any obstruction or obstacles such as clouds.

It's got to be able to penetrate the raindrop.

With all that said, I believe that is nothing more but a

perfect picture of God's involvement in our lives.

Because the SON, his light must be behind you.

And although the remnant of your storm may.

Still yet be before you none the less, whenever he breaks through

the clouds, and he and any other obstacle that may be there,

he'll affirm to you and I by the bow in the cloud of his

unshakable covenants. Amen.

Before us, it appears that each covenant that God makes in

Scripture, and there are few that he's always sealed them or

given a token or a sign a company in them.

We have with Noah, of course, the bow and the cloud.

We come go to Abraham, all right, and the covenant with

Abraham becoming part of the Jewish people, it's sign or seal

and token with circumcision whenever you come to Moses.

And the law Amen that one of their covenant seals was.

The week, the weekly Sabbath it was.

It was a depiction of them having kept that which was

granted to them of the law. It was the weekly Sabbath that

was a seal or a sign. Another covenant.

When we come to the the David covenant, it was, he says, I'll

set one of your seed upon the throne to be a eternal king.

It was a kingship or a kingship dynasty.

That was the seal or the sign of the covenant.

When we get New Testament scripture, though, there is

still a covenant and there's still a sign and there's still a

seal. Amen.

We can see the bow, the circumcision can be observed.

The weekly Sabbath can be the dynasty.

All these things can be observed when we come to New Testament,

right? He spoke of it in in the book of

Isaiah, I believe it was, or Ezekiel rather, talking about

that those laws would no longer be written on a heart of stone,

but a heart of flesh, right? Amen.

And in the new covenant, which is our Spirit baptism being

covenant in covenant with God, there is still a sign in the

seal and the token of that covenant, Amen.

Evidenced by speaking in other tongues as the Spirit gives the

utterance, as Roman says, we are sealed with a seal of

righteousness, Amen. According to our faith, Amen.

This occurs, it happens. And so all of these covenants,

starting with knowing going forward, Amen.

In the Scripture, all of them are fulfilled in Christ Jesus.

All of them are fulfilled in Christ Jesus.

If you would even consider Adam in the end and Eden a covenant

type of mentality that is still fulfilled in Christ Jesus.

If you're talking about how the seed of the woman would give

birth to one that would, that would bruise the head of the

seed of the serpent, then that's pictured in Christ Jesus.

Jesus Christ fulfills the Adamic covenant, Amen.

We have seen then also the first Adam, all right, but in Noah, he

is almost like a second Adam because we have this whole

recreation thing, right? The young creation, then the

recreation, we have this whole thing and Noah's almost like a

second Adam, Amen. Pictured here in the book of

Genesis chapter #9 But with that is the case, we have the first

Adam. We have no, which is almost

pictured after the flood is the second Adam.

But then in the New Testament we have what is called the last

Adam and that's pictured again by the Lord Jesus Christ because

he did what Adam couldn't do. He did what Noah could not do

and accomplish and nations, the Bible says all nations according

to the Abraham covenant, all nations were to be blessed by

the descendants of Abraham, right?

He says I'll curse those that curse you, I'll bless those that

bless you all, all the nations, all the people will be blessed

room by you. And that would happen by

miraculous birthright. Abraham and Sarah late, late,

late in life, they're given birth to an Isaac and because of

that miraculous birth, given birth to then some other boys

that then goes into 12 tribes. And then we have nations being

blessed. So we have all nations being

blessed, but it's depended upon a miraculous birth that's

fulfilled in Christ Jesus, a miraculous birth of a boy inside

of a Virgin Mary being born, coming forth for the blessing of

all nations, Amen. And so then likewise, when we

see the Mosaic covenant, Amen. Here is the law.

They got to keep the law. If you don't keep the law,

here's the penalty of the law in the man Christ Jesus, Amen.

He was tempted in always, like you and I are, but he was

without sin. He kept the law, but he also

subjected himself to suffer the penalty of the law.

And then at Calvary, he absolutely fulfills that

covenant. And concerning the David

covenant, Amen. Here is a king of the line of

David that will have an everlasting Kingdom, Amen.

Jesus Christ is in the lineage of David and his Kingdom knows

no end, Amen. It's all in Jesus Christ.

He's the one that redeems us in the new covenant, that promises

a new heaven and the new earth. Jesus Christ, from beginning to

end, fulfills all covenants. So that means every covenant,

you come to the script, you know what it's doing.

It's pointing toward Him. We look at them as just isolated

things in an era of time, but they supersede time.

They're pointing toward Him. Even here in Genesis chapter #9

Jesus attested to this himself in many regards.

The book of Luke chapter 24 and verse 44, these are Jesus words.

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And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you

while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled,

which were written in the law of Moses and in the prophets, and

in the Psalms concerning me. He says these things are going

to be fulfilled, those things that were written in Moses, law

and the prophets, and they were all about me.

Yeah. You can find Jesus in the Old

Testament Scripture. They're speaking about him,

though his human lifetime has not yet begun, but they're

pointing to him for one. That's one reason why it's still

very important to study and read the Old Testament.

All right, If Jesus himself said all these things were talking

about me, If you don't, you're missing the some.

What's being said about him? Amen.

For that matter, almost anything that we have quoted in the New

Testament Scripture, you know what?

It is not the New Testament, the Old Testament.

We have these only New Testament people.

If you're only New Testament people, everybody out in the

www.world, then you better extract all of those quotations,

which are many that's in the New Testament.

Of the Old Testament. Amen.

John chapter 5 and verse 39, Jesus says again, search the

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scriptures. What's what scriptures?

What scriptures in John? What are the scriptures in John?

Do we have the New Testament yet?

Nope. So what are the scriptures?

The scriptures are those scriptures that are back that

direction in your Bible, right? He said search the scriptures

for him. Then you think you have eternal

life. And they are they which testify

again of me. Matthew 517 Jesus speaking

again, Think not that I'm come to destroy the law or the

prophets. I'm not come to destroy, but to

fulfill. And He did.

Even with the fulfillment of each covenant of the Old

Testament, He was fulfilling the law.

Let's go on with verse #18 and I'll read until the end of this

chapter. OK.

And the sons of Noah that went forth of the ark were Shem, Ham,

and Japheth. And Ham is the father of Canaan.

These are the three sons of Noah.

And of them was the whole earth overspread.

And Noah began to be a husbandman, And he planted a

vineyard, and he drank of the wine, and was drunken, and he

was uncovered within his tent. And Ham, the father of Cain, saw

the nakedness of his father, and told his to brethren without.

And Shem and Jacob took a garment, and laid it upon both

their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the

nakedness of their father. And their faces were backward,

and they saw not their father's nakedness.

And Noah woke from his wine, and knew that his younger son, and

knew what his younger son had done unto him.

And he said, Cursed be Canaan, a servant of servants shall he be

unto his brethren. And he said, Blessed be the Lord

God of Shem, and Canaan shall be his servant.

God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of

Shem, and Canaan shall be his servant.

And Noah lived after the flood 350 years, and all the days of

Noah were 950 years, and he died.

So we know just from the verses I read earlier that there is

still this human fallibility. It's it's not checked out, it's

not been erased. There's still human error.

There's still human sin still takes place after the flood and

it continues. It continues forward.

And in some measures we might even say it's grown much worse

maybe than what it was, or maybe it's just more noticeable than

what it was. But we continue forward after

the flood again with that recreation picture, right, of

land appearing again and vegetation happening again.

And here's man in the first family again, all after the

flood. And so we know the imaginations

of the harder evil and all this. We understand that.

But there is also a similar picture after the flood, a

similar picture of mankind before and after the flood in

some details as well. Remember, before the flood,

Adam, he's, he's dressing the garden.

He is in essence a farmer, which seems to be something that that

there's a passing down of through the lineage, but he is a

farmer. He is a keeper of the garden.

After the flood, Noah is a husbandman, he is a farmer.

Now there's been some time elapsed, no doubt, since they

come off the ark because Noah's had time, the planted vineyard,

the vineyard to grow. And I read that you can go from

planting to wine in about three years.

So there's some time that has elapsed that's taking place.

But in all of this here, these verses after the flood are

picturing, if you will, the fall of Noah.

He's drunk and uncovered in his tent.

Reason why I say this is before the flood with Adam, it was a

type of vegetation, a tree that ushered him into his fall.

After the flood, it's a sort of vegetation, a vineyard that

ushers Noah in to his fall. Furthermore, if you look at

verse #21. Here's Noah in his his his tent.

He's uncovered, he's uncovered, he's drunk and his his state of

awareness is compromised. Or maybe even not even.

Available at all at this moment in time, but none the less he is

naked and if I could say and unaware.

Does that sound similar to something But in verse #24

whenever he has awoke or come out of this stupor, a man that

he is now there and his eyes have been opened, so to speak.

So there's a lot of these parallels from before and after

the flood. And there's there's even more

that you could look at. You could look at even him

coming in and seeing his father's nakedness and almost

delighting it to the place that he shared it with others,

compared with Eve looking at the tree and the lightning it and

then sharing with her husband. You.

There's a lot of different imagery here before and after

Amen, the flood that you see this recreation of a pattern

Amen, that's taken place in Scripture.

So there's a lot of layers to that that you can just

investigate on your own time in verse #21 the Bible speaks about

Noah being uncovered or that he lay uncovered.

Scholar says that this is reflective this this means that

Noah uncovered himself. It's not that Ham did or anybody

else did, but Noah had done this himself, and that seems very.

Understandable, because Noah's in a drunken state, and

sometimes, from my understanding, you do some

things that you just would not otherwise do had you not been

drunk. But the importance is, notice

the difference between Ham's reaction all right, and Shem and

Japheth's reaction when they learn each of these groups learn

of their father's nakedness, him.

Now let's get this right pictured in your mind.

Sorry I didn't set up a tent and grab a blanket and all that

stuff. The picture, this Noah is in his

tent, he's within drunk and uncovered him evidently goes

into this private space and witnesses his father's nakedness

and then goes and tells his brothers that are on the outside

of the tin. So Ham's response to his

father's nakedness is, well, look at that.

Let me go tell the boys about it.

Jim and Japheth's reaction to learning about their father's

nakedness, not seeing it, just hearing about it.

Let me say that one more time, not seeing it, but just hearing

about it. They go into this private space

from the public space where they heard it with a garment on their

shoulders, and they walk in and they cover up their father's

nakedness and don't see it with their own eyes.

They just go off what they have heard.

This is very important. Father naked.

Yeah. Well, in the Near Eastern

culture, and as years go further, further back and back,

you would find that children had a higher respect for their

parents for sure than they do today.

I'm talking about in Near Eastern culture even.

But respect for your parents and showing that respect even when

they are in their mistaken states was important.

It was paramount to to to do this and and to protect us the

wrong word, but to still honor them even when they may be in a

dishonorable position. All right.

And so, though Noah is the one who has has compromised himself

with with wine and has been naked then and drunkenness, Ham

in reality owes his father the latitude to make a mistake

without exploiting his failure. Let that sink in for a little

bit. Because the generation we live

in is all about exploitation, is all about setting as a bird on

the line waiting for the failure.

And if we can even somehow help 'cause it without it being

known, then we want to capitalize on that and be a ham

that goes and tells somebody else.

Please understand again, what Noah had happened took place in

private, but Ham made it public. Ham.

Could have walked into the tent and discovered the nakedness of

his own father, and just as quickly as Saul had covered his

own eyes and found what he could have found to cover up, Dad left

the tent and never said even a word to Shim and Japheth or

anybody. Else.

And in doing so, he would have taken a private matter and left

it a private matter. But instead he took a private

matter and made it a public matter.

Oh, someone say glory. See, some of us relish in the

mistakes of others. Verse 21 Noah's within the tent.

Verse 22 Shem and Japheth. Are without the tent.

So once. Amen.

Ham Ham's not like our dear Psalmist David that we'll see

later that the Bible says whenever a Saul and his son

Jonathan are taken in the in the war on Mount Gilboa.

That David is lamenting and crying and saying, oh, how the

mighty have fallen. He's grieved by what's happened,

Ham. His interest is piqued and he

can't. Oh, how many times have you ever

heard? I just had to tell somebody.

Or let's get the phraseology right.

I shouldn't say anything to you about this, but Sister Sam, I

wouldn't just tell anybody this, but.

Well, me saying that number one, I don't need to be telling you,

but when I tell you I wouldn't tell anybody else but you, then

you feel special. Because you're so important, you

should be Privy to this information.

I won't share with anybody else but if they told you that,

guarantee they told five other people the same.

I shouldn't be telling you this but well glory someone say Amen.

So him saw his father's negative but he could not leave it at

that. Side note here on this telling

and not telling private and public stuff, we are still tale

bearers and gossips when the tell we tell and the information

we share is accurate. You hear me?

Tale bearing isn't about just saying something false about

somebody else. Gossip isn't just about

spreading something false or inaccurate about somebody else

when you share something accurate.

A failure. It's still a gossip and it's

still a tale. As long as we think that it's

accurate, then it's OK to share. Well, let's open up your life

and start sharing. If we can tell all things that

are accurate, let's open up your life then and start sharing.

It doesn't always work this way, but to the to the best of my

ability and I don't always get it right.

But as a pastor, there are things that have happened

through the series of my years here that when they've been

private matters. I've tried to read.

There's things in here none of you know that only I know.

And I'll go to my grave with because I'll keep a private

matter, a private matter if it's public.

A lot of times you got to deal with stuff in a public fashion,

and I hate that, but it's the nature of the setting.

Amen. If if Noah was outside of his

tent, just under the stars, well, probably the probably the

other seven individuals or however many was at that time,

three years removed are are going to be Privy to it.

But within the tent, him was Noah's responsible for his

failure. Am's responsible for everybody

else knowing about it, some Jew. They, the Bible says in verse

23, they took a garment in the Hebrew.

There's the definitive article there of the garment.

They took the garment laid upon their shoulders and went in

backward and laid it upon Noah. And I'm just going to touch on

this barely just enough to spike your interest, but some Jews

believe in Jewish teachings are that the garment that they put

upon Noah was Noah's garment. And it's actually something that

they believe was handed down through generations, even from

Adam. This is just a Jewish, this is

Jewish thought process. You didn't even ask for the lane

on this one. None the less that the coat that

God made for Adam and Eve, they believe this was the garment

that Noah had that whenever Adam had the animals come before him

be able to name him, it was due to that coat that he had.

And then that Noah having the same garment perhaps caused the

drawing of them for the pudding on the ark.

We follow this coat even to Esau and stuff through through Jewish

mindset, but nonetheless they believe perhaps a man could have

been even Adams nonetheless Shem and Japheth regardless the the

the Jewish ideas. Ishim and Jacob though resembled

God's actions and resembled the heavenly much in going in and

covering the nakedness of their Father.

Because God covered the nakedness of Adam and Eve, they

were emulating God in their in their practice of covering the

nakedness of another. The Bible says in first Peter

4:00 and 8:00 and above all things, have fervent charity

among yourselves, for charity shall cover the multitude of

sins. Charity love covers a multitude

of sins. Look, if you will, I won't hold

you much longer, but long enough.

Amen. All right, verses 18 and 22.

This is really peculiar in the setting of Scripture.

He's talking about Shem, him and Japheth, and then he wants to

follow back up and tell us in like verse 18 that him is the

father of Canaan. And then it says a little

further down about him is the father of Canaan.

And then whenever Noah, which is the the only recorded words we

have of him through all this stuff is his curse.

Cursed be Canaan, not him, but the one who walked in and seen

these negatives. But cursed be Canaan.

And so what's the big deal? You saying?

Well, him is him is the the father of of of Canaan.

Well, he was the father of more than Cain.

And why just pick out Canaan? He was the.

Father of many others. We'll get into that next week in

Genealogy 10. All right, Amen.

We have this whole scenario here.

There's others as well, but Cain is explicitly named Year.

The Bible says that whenever Noah realized what what had

happened that he curses Canaan, him son, and then follows some

blessings upon him and blessings of enlargement upon Japheth.

And so when we see this Noah's life here, because evidently

there was nothing more meaningful for God to share in

Genesis concerning Noah's life, because he still had 350 years

left, all right. But evidently there was still

nothing, nothing, you know, as meaningful as he wanted to

include in his story of the Bible that was going to usher

the whole concept alone of what he was trying to go.

And so we have been almost here because we're the statement's

going to be read 350 years after the flood.

He died 950 years, but we're done with Noah.

Put him over here, you know, file 13, whatever, you know,

well, a lot of times what happens, we see this in Genesis.

We see this with Jacob. We see this in Genesis 49.

I think it is one of the last chapters of Genesis where Jacob

is on his deathbed, right? Talk of him as far as directly

is about ready to be done. And he calls in all of the 12

different sons that he has of the 12 tribes.

And he begins to pronounce basically futures and prophecies

and pronouncements upon their lives and the lives of the

tribes that they are ahead of. That's very similar to the

picture that we're having here, right here in Genesis chapter #9

of what? What?

What Noah is doing here with his three sons.

Of, of of. Him and grandson for that

matter, Canaan, Shem and Jacob. Notice now it was Noah that

cursed Canaan. It doesn't say that God cursed

Canaan, but Noah did. And so again, that it's awful

and interesting that these are Noah's first recorded words.

Bless his heart. I mean, you really?

This really had to tip Noah off, that through all of this mess,

we don't have no recorded word of him.

But the moment there is, it's because you said something about

me being naked in the privacy of my tent.

I'm just saying that it kind of, you know, shines a light

somewhere. And so here he is, Noah's words.

I know it's curse and blessing, but they might be better viewed

as as being prophecy or pronouncement.

Up up upon his children, Noah declared future things.

Just as Jacob did some future things according to the

character that he saw in the one that was standing before him,

There's a lot of the things that was even spoken from Jake Jacob

later in Genesis about his individual sons that mirrored or

tongue and grood with the character that they had lived

before their father. And so he could say some, he

could say something about their future based upon where they

were right then. And so Noah is doing something

very similar right here in the scripture.

He's going to speak about these boys, these these grand boys.

Now here's the thing. Ham is the father of Canaan.

Canaan is cursed by Noah. Now listen, Genesis, Exodus,

Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, we all, most scholars would

agree that these are the writings of, of, of Moses.

Moses pinned these things. But Moses was not present in

Genesis. All right, So the Genesis record

is written much later than when it occurred.

And with that, Moses has insight of what's coming or what had

come. As he goes back and writes and

no doubt the inspiration of the Holy Ghost leading him and

guiding him as he's doing this insomuch that there are

connections, just stay with me. There are connections that are

being made about what we would understand in the future that's

still going to take place from Genesis forward.

That's going to unfold in. Scripture.

What are you saying Ham's descendant was Canaan?

When we get next week to Genesis chapter #10 you're going to

realize that Canaan is linked to being the ancestor then of the

Canaanite tribes that were in the promised land.

When you start reading of the different descendants of Canaan,

you're going to start. Noticing some names in there, a

man that is people that the children of Israel contended

with when they went into the promised land.

So Canaan is the ancestor of the Canaanites that would be in the

promised land. Remember when the children of

Israel then are finally entering that land of Canaan where these

Canaanites were, there was a, a, a, a plea over them that you go

in and you destroy their altars, you destroyed the people, you

snub them all out. We know according to the book of

Joshua, that didn't completely happen.

There were some that remained in the land.

And yet the Bible conveys to us that those that did remain in

the land, they were made tributaries, or if you will,

they were made servants, right? Because a tributary feeds into

another body of water. Amen.

And so the Canaanites were made tributaries to Israel.

All right. They were made to serve Israel

in some regards. As a matter of fact, Joshua was

going over and it's whenever the Gibeonites come over when it

acted like they were from a real distant land and our our bread

is Moody and our garments are tattered.

You were from far away when they were just like a few days

journey from where they were. And whenever he found out that

they were a part of that clan, a man of that Canaan land, he

said, well, here's what we're going to do.

We're going to make them drawlers of water and hewers of

wood. What?

There will be servants, they'll be servants to us.

That notes really what Noah prophesied for Canaan.

He said Canaan, you're going to be a servant unto Shem.

You'll be a servant unto Jephthah, you will be a servants

of servants to your brethren. What's interesting about this

again, we only have so many selves right now, right says

you're going to be servants of servants to your brethren.

Well, what are we talking about? Well, we get in the next week

the descendants of Shem, the word Shem in Hebrew,

transliterated Shem is name. From Shem's line will come the

Jewish people. From Shem you'll trace Shem all

the way to Abraham, who is the father of the Jews.

The people of the name Noah makes a pronouncement.

Canaan, you're cursed. You will serve your brethren.

We get to promised land, a chin of Israel going to the land of

Canaan. And those they don't destroy,

guess what's happening? They're made the servants of the

Jewish. People, they made the servants.

Of that line of father Abraham and then there's Japheth the

other son. He says he's going to enlarge

him and he is an ancestor of a good other portion of the other

Gentile nations beyond the Canaanites and it.

Says in verse #27 It says that Japheth will be dwelling in the

tents of Shem. That is, that Noah really had a

spirit of prophecy upon him. Japheth, these other Gentile

nations will be dwelling in your tents.

What? What?

What are we talking about? Well, if Shem is the Jewish

people, the nation of Israel, God's chosen, the people.

Of the name you get all the way in the New Testament scripture

what happens with the Gentile nations concerning Israel.

Bible says they are grafted in. In essence, the Gentiles are now

because of the New Testament Testament.

Now can become dwellers in the tents of the people of God.

Amen. The Bible says in Ephesians 3

and verse number six that the Gentiles should be fellow heirs.

We're not separate now. It's not Gentile.

Didn't know they're they're fellow heirs with what?

With Israel, Fellow heirs with the people of God.

Fellow heirs with the people of the name and of the same body.

And partakers of his promise in Christ.

By the gospel folks. The reality of that was in seed

form from Noah's mouth in Genesis 9 in the New Testament.

Then we have salvation that comes to every division of the

post flood family in Noah. Because when you have the

Ethiopian eunuch of Acts chapter #8 that receives salvation, you

have the line of Ham. When you have Acts chapter #9

with the Apostle Paul, you have the line of Shem.

When you have Acts chapter #10 with Cornelius of the Italian

band, who was a Gentile, you have the line of Jacob.

Every division known to mankind right after the flood are saved

in the book of Acts, because Christ fulfilled it all.

Stay with me right now. So Noah lives to be 950 years,

few years short of Methuselah. And about 2/3 of his life was

lived before the flood. About a third of his life was

lived after the flood. And yet Brother Mike Williams

years and years ago preached the sermon.

And it's important to realize that after the flood, Noah still

had 350 years of living after the flood.

Meaning whatever you go through, there's life on the other side

of that. Just as Job seen his children's

children to what, the 4th generation?

I think 120 years he lived after all that decimated his life.

So whatever you're going through right now, have hope.

There's life after you fill in the blank.

There's life after whatever it may be.

And so this is Noah's. This is Noah's legacy.

It's in his children. It will continue next week.

We'll look at it as many as do or don't.

Chapter 10, what's known as the table of the nations, because

this is where the populace of the world today.

This is where we all sprouted from.

This is where we all sprouted from all over the world.

Amen. But it's going to be serving us

again, another, another purpose. It's getting us further

connected to Noah, or not Noah, but Abraham, because that's

where we'll be going then in chapter 12.

And we have, of course, the tower of Babel in Chapter 11,

but we might not get the Babel, might not get the Babel, this,

this, this realm, but we will eventually bless the Lord, Amen.

Let's bow our heads today. Father, I'm so thankful, Lord

Jesus, for your word. Help me, Lord God, to take the

truths, Lord Jesus, of your word.

God, those areas, God that can be applicable, Lord, to my own

life and God to apply them. I pray, O Lord Jesus, this is

more about than God just say a chapter.

It's about broadening our whole mindset of the Bible and seeing

how it interconnects from beginning to end.

Though devised the Lord just written by several different

authors over different areas of time.

Lord, this this is a very one author God ordained book.

Lord, I pray God that could not be done any other way if it had

not been God breed. I pray, Oh Lord, help us to

appreciate that in that regard, Lord and thank you Lord Jesus

for sharing it with us and the lovely name of Jesus Christ that

I pray Amen and Amen and the church say Amen.

God bless you tonight in Jesus name again Friday mobile food

distribution starting here at 12 and it could go for a while.

There is if anybody asks, I think some Flyers got out with

household things. There is household requirement

as far as income or things like that.

Whosoever will so Amen. Hey, and on a side note, this

month, if you haven't realized, this month we have fed the

firefighters just Monday night. We have blitzed all the schools

with food during teacher appreciation week.

We have paid around $1000 for some high school students for

their fees. We have, we have paid about

$1000. We've had several different

students, we've paid about $1000 so that they could walk across

this the the stage at graduation.

So when you don't think nothing's going on, there's

stuff going on. All right, And so applaud you,

Amen, for your participation, your giving your so and so forth

in order to make those things happen.

And this Friday is just another thing that's been taking place

this month. So God bless you all.

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