Genesis - Part 21 | Pastor Paul McGee

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We're going to turn to the book of Genesis here tonight.

Amen. Genesis chapter #8 And we're

going to read a few verses of Scripture here tonight.

We left off with verse #14 We'll pick back up with that here this

evening. Genesis chapter #8 verse #14 The

Bible says in the second month, on the 7th and 20th day, or the

27th day of the month, was the earth dried.

And God spake unto Noah, saying, Go forth of the ark, thou and

thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons wives with thee.

Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee

of all flesh, both the fowl and of cattle, and of creeping thing

that creepeth upon the earth, that they may breed abundantly

in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.

And Noah went forth in his sons, and his wife, and his sons wives

with him. Every beast, every creeping

thing, and every fowl whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after

their kinds went out, went forth out of the ark.

And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord, and took of every

clean beast and every fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the

altar. And the Lord smelled a sweet

savour. 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.

Neither will I smite again, smite any more every living

thing as I have done, while the earth remains of seed time and

harvest and cold and heat, summer and winter and day and

night shall not cease. I want tonight just going to

title this Beyond the flood, All right?

Beyond the flood, because now we're on the backside of it,

Amen. And so look at that.

We'll delve into chapter #9 here a little bit as well, too,

beyond the flood. Glad to have Aiden with us

tonight here again with Glenna. Glad to have Isaiah with us

tonight, Amen, as well, Amen. So beyond the flood, we'll pray.

Father, I need your help tonight.

God, we all do. Lord, in this place.

God, the truths of your word, help him God to find Lord

placements Lord in our own individual lives and will not

fail to thank you and praise you for in the name of Jesus Christ

that we pray. Amen.

I want to say Amen. You may be seated.

I'm kind of backtracking just a little bit, maybe just a little

redundant, a little repetitive here.

But remember, as we start here tonight, again, we, we had the

graphs and stuff up last week and the dates that we know that

were included in Scripture. And so that's the reason why I

started with verse #14 on that second month of that 27th day is

when the Lord spoke to Noah. As we continue reading, He spoke

to Noah and them that they should come off the ark.

And if you'll remember, we looked at this remember as far

as records go, when God told Noah to get off the ark, that

was the first time Noah has heard from God, according to the

records, since he had told Noah to get on the ark.

So he told. Him to get on the ark?

Here's nothing. For a little.

Over a year and and then he is told to get off the ark and so

this whole concept and idea still rocks my boat.

And yes, the pun is intended. It's still rocks my boat.

Because no one knew what the ark would save him from.

God told him what was going to take place as far as 40 days of

rain and night. That was kind of it in a

nutshell, really, of what God shared with with Noah.

He didn't share all the details, but enough of that 40 days and

40 nights. So he knew, he knew that the ark

would save him and his family from that again, but he did not

know the length of time that they would be on the ark, nor

did he know the severity of everything that took place while

they were on the ark. And so that really rocks my boat

a little bit to not know those things, but yet know that

there's 40 days, 40 nights, and all of this that God is going to

keep me from if I'll just join on this ark.

The apostle Paul said in Second Corinthians one and verse #5 he

says, For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our

consolation also aboundeth by Christ.

And what's interesting about that is this is that both the

sufferings of Christ and the consolation of Christ concern

us. It's not one or the other one to

preclude the other, but both of these things.

And really that's what Noah and his family faced here in the

ark. They face the consolation

because they were on the ark. Their lives were spared.

But there was no doubt also some suffering for the length of time

that they were on it, some of the headache and the heartache

of having to deal with everything that was taking

place. Just because they were on the

ark does not mean they did not feel the UPS and the downs of

the waves. Just because they were safe on

the ark does not mean they did not experience the turmoil of

being crammed in with other animals and all that goes with

that. And your imagination can go

wild. So they had both the consolation

of the Lord, but there was also some suffering, if you want to

call that as well. And with that, I think it's

important to understand then that our obedience to God's

commands does not exempt us from the trials and challenges of

this life. You can still be on the ark and

feel the wind. You still be on the ark and feel

that the tossing of the to and fro of the boat.

The apostle Paul also said in Second Corinthians chapter 4

2 Corinthians 4:8–10

verses 8 through 10. These are popular verses the

Scripture. He says we are troubled on every

side, yet not distressed. We are perplexed, but not in

despair, persecuted but not forsaken, cast down but not

destroyed, always bearing about in the body the dying of the

Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest

in our body. What are you saying?

I'm saying sometimes we are all of that.

Sometimes we are troubled, sometimes we are perplexed,

sometimes we are persecuted and cast down.

But if we're Noah, we're still alive.

We're still alive. The, the ark has not capsized.

The, the ark has not sprung a leak, so to speak.

Yes, it may pitch and heave and toss and and and sway, but at

least it's still afloat. And so this, this ark that we

are on May, may at times creak and groan, but we're confident

in God's design. And so we take consolation in

our suffering as a result of that.

And so this next thing, if you look at verse #16 and this may

seem petty, OK, this may seem petty, but I believe it's

significant. All right, God instructed Noah

on how they were to disembark from the ark, All right?

He told them how to get on, but he also told them how they were

to disembark. Verse #16 this was this was his

saying. He says, go forth.

This is his instruction. Go forth of the ark of thou.

He's speaking to Noah and thy wife and thy sons and thy sons

wives with thee. Then in verse #18 verse #18

records how they came off the ark.

Verse #18 says, And Noah went forth, and his sons and his wife

and his sons wives with him. Did you see it?

Did you see it? God says I want Noah, then his

wife, then his sons, then their wives.

They came off Noah and his sons, then his wife and their wives.

God had instructed them in a sense to leave as couples off

the ark, but the way that they exited was boys 1st and then the

ladies. Just stay with me here for a

moment. Again, you may think it's petty.

I believe it's important. Before the flood, the

instructions for entering the ark were given to them as they

really did come off the ark. They were to go on Noah and his

sons, then his wife and then his son's wife.

That were the instructions that were given.

Sometimes it was given very generally because we have a lot

of the repetition in Scripture, but when they boarded the Ark.

It was as when they came off, the ark really came off, No.

Genesis 16 and 18. I ain't going to read every

verse, but just snippets of it. Genesis 618 This is instruction,

thou and thy sons and thy wife and thy sons wives with thee.

That's how they're to go on. Genesis 71 Again, this is a

generality. Come thou all thy house into the

ark. Genesis 7/7 When they actually

went in, this is actually what occurred.

Noah went in and his sons and his wife and his sons wives with

him. Genesis 713 again, how they went

in actually entered Noah and Shem and Ham and Jacob and the

son, the sons of Noah and Noah's wife and the three wives of his

sons with them. All right.

But as I said in a previous lesson, and I made note that God

prescribed this order of them going on the ark entering as

Noah and his sons, and then wife and his sons wives.

And I made a a mention of how the Lord was showing forth

headship. That it's in and it's even true

still yet today that if if the father of the patriarch of the

family will take a lead for the things of God, then it's more

likely that his family will follow suit.

That's that's that's founded statistical evidence even from

today. And so that he was marking

headship that he would go then his family would follow.

But the purpose and this again, you might think it's petty and I

could be totally wrong, but I'm just telling you, the purpose

for coming off the ark was different.

Rather than God underscoring headship, he wanted to emphasize

relationship. Man and woman, you might say,

Brett McGee, what's the big deal?

You, you, you've had too many pepperonis or you ate pizza late

at night. Well, think of it for a moment

before we got here. The family since the beginning

till now has steadily dissolved since the fall.

The family has had a a steady dissolving and introduction and

growing of dysfunction in it since the fall.

We, we've highlighted this a few times already to this point of

time. Remember, let's start back at

the beginning and that's not too far for us, at least for right

now. Amen.

Remember, unless, unless God spoke directly to Eve, she

learned the information she learned about the tree of life

and the tree of knowledge and good and evil from her husband,

unless God spoke to her directly.

And yet with this information, she went forward and took of the

fruit and her husband was there with her, the Bible tells us.

And he didn't say anything, didn't say anything, didn't do

anything. And in the process, when God

came to talk to them about this whole occurrence, Adam blamed

his wife and this woman who God made for Adam to be his help

meet this woman that came from his side.

Even in the speaking to her, He spoke to her that she should

have some type of affinity or desire toward him and that he

should rule over her in the sense of being responsible for

her. I believe coming off the ark,

God gave specific instructions of how they come off the ark.

Because again, God is hitting the reset button not just for

creation. God is hitting the reset button

for the family. He's wanting them to step off

the ark. Man and woman, Noah and his

wife, him and his wife, him and his wife, Jacob and his wife.

Because before the flood, there's been this breakdown

between the man and his wife. Amen.

Before the flood, we have we have Lamech, according to Keynes

line, who was practicing polygamy, he had more than one

wife. Huh.

Before the flood. And so part of the human

condition, part of fallen human condition, is the dysfunction of

families. And so God coming off the ark

with a recreation is also going to have a, a fresh start with

the family, with the couple, the man and the woman, Amen, To

begin again on this earth. But instead of following that

order, the men came off and then the women came off.

And I believe that is significant.

Amen. That they came off like that

rather than like God expected them or, or instructed them to

come off. Because coming off like they did

is almost, they're not saying it with their mouth, but the way

that they're coming off. It's like this whole art

scenario affected every area of my life except my family, 'cause

God wants this journey. We talked about the the the ark

even be a metaphor for the church.

God wants this journey to not just revolutionize us

individually, but collectively as family units.

Though Noah had been pictured as and he has and we've we've we've

prompted that looked at that, you know, he did all that the

Lord commanded. He did all that the Lord

commanded. Although he is is pictured like

that all times in Scripture as an obedient man.

He's not a perfect man. And that is important for every

character in Scripture because we have stuff we focus on about

them that are grand. And there are some grand things,

but none of them are perfect, just as none of us are perfect.

He is an obedient man, but he's not a perfect man.

And so God certainly listened to me.

So he comes off there, not necessarily as prescribed, and

then goes over and builds an altar that God didn't even ask

him to build. And so I'm sure that God is, is

appreciative. He's happy.

He's like, yay, Noah, you're building the old, I didn't even

ask you to do that. Amen.

And he's happy about that. He's happy that Noah could walk

with him, that Noah could walk with God.

But if you can walk with me, why couldn't you walk with your wife

off the 'cause I asked you to do that.

Is everybody doing OK? The statement is this that

burned into my heart this afternoon is sometimes we

believe we're perfect, doing the unrequested good deeds while

neglecting God's actual commands.

So yes, there's things that we want to applaud him, yes, for

that altar, but let's not forget some of these other things as

well. And so with this, we find

balance in the character of Noah, or any character for that

matter. There's always good traits.

There's negative traits. We can have takeaways from both

of them. It's not that we ignore the good

in the person because of the negative in the person, or vice

versa, that we ignore the negative because of the good.

We take the whole individual all right here in the scriptures.

And so the Bible says that the burnt offering that Noah

prepared produce a sweet savour unto the Lord.

Remember, before the flood, God provided the offerings of him

taking more of the clean animals, all right, more of the

clean fowl upon the ark. God provided for it, although,

although he never demanded Noah to build the ark, he was

providing for what he knew that Noah was going to do when he

came off the ark. And so here's Noah, think with

me for a moment. He's gets off, He does this

altar, He has the offering. It is in a sense, worship unto

the Lord. And what Noah could have done

was rationalized away sacrifice when he knew there was a

scarcity of clean animals and he seemed the evident destruction

that had taken place while he was on the ark.

But Noah didn't do that. Noah prioritized worship over

all of his logical reservations about the sacrifice.

What's that? What's that mean?

That means he worshipped when it didn't make sense to him.

Yeah, yeah. We come in here sometimes and

according today, according to circumstance, although that's

not worship's all about because worship's about him anyway.

But sometimes just all the other things we want to rationalize

away why we shouldn't worship this.

So ABC and we have the list. Noah could have done it too.

Noah could have done it too, but he he prioritized worship over

everything else he says. I know I can rationalize this

away and it may make good sense. It could be a good excuse,

Sister Jen Cruz. But I know within myself what

I'm drawn to. Do I need?

I need to worship. In this moment.

It's no different than Job after after having lost his family and

animals and everything else and he learns of all of it.

And the last servant has just come with the bad news.

The Bible says that Job fell down and he worshiped.

You're not experience. You are not expecting that after

you. If you've heard all of the

mayhem that went through Job's life and family, you're

expecting you know him, shaking fists and.

Kicking dirt and all that. No, How does, how do you do that

job? Because I prioritize worship

over my logical reservations for not worshipping.

Amen. Amen.

And so this sweet savour comes up to the Lord.

And we know God is a spirit, but many times in Scripture it gives

him human features like a hand or a finger or a nose.

All right, this idea of smelling, but none the less,

it's a sweet savour that comes Amen unto the Lord.

And if it didn't directly come from a sacrifice, because I

don't know the last time you smelt burning flesh of an

animal, it's usually not that sweet, but it is to God.

Amen. Noah's actions in this moment no

doubt are well pleasing to God. And so in this God, then upon

seeing this and experiencing this, in this aroma, if you

will, of sacrifice, he bowed in himself not to curse the ground

again because he had already done that, not to curse the

ground again because of man, because why?

Because man is what man is. He is a fallen man, and he is

what he is. The Bible, even at this mode.

This is after the flood, right? Destruction of humanity.

This is like the big reset. And yet God attest himself that

the imaginations of man's heart are evil from his youth.

The same story that was told before the flood is the story

that's towed after the flood. Man is still as man is.

So cursing, cursing the ground that man was made from or

cursing man, if you want to look at it like that himself was not

going to solve the dilemma. God, God already knows this.

I hope you know God's not having like a little epiphany here

like, oh, I guess that don't work.

God already knew. He put it in Scripture so we

would know it didn't work. This isn't for this isn't God

having a moment and an idea. He's doing this for us to get it

that destroying man because of his sin isn't the answer.

Destroying living things because of their sin isn't the answer.

Smite and even the living things because the creatures, they

suffered as well, those things that man dominated that that

that were closer attached to them.

He says, touching them, touching something that that they had

dominion over that that will not solve it as well.

What does that do to us then as readers here in the book of

Genesis? Because whenever we find

ourselves without a solution, we eagerly await a solution.

The unsolved human dilemma, then, that's taken place here in

the Genesis story. What does it keep us doing?

It keeps us reading on, and for what?

For the purpose of hopefully what we'll be anticipating and

looking for an answer to the dilemma, because despite all

these failed attempts here in Scripture, the resolution to

humanity's problems, if we keep reading and keep going in

Scripture, eventually it's going to emerge.

Eventually it's going to be there.

Amen. And so all of the failed

attempts set up for us, really the most unlikely yet most

effective solution in Scripture, we're good.

It takes us a long time from Genesis to get to it in the

Gospels. But all along the journey from

Genesis to the Gospels, God is going to present to us a lot of

different solutions that don't work for man's evil continually

in his art, that don't work for his sin.

And he's doing that not for his own chef.

He's doing it for us. He wants us to know the

destruction don't work, that having the right earthly king

don't work over and over and over again doing that which is

right in your own eyes, not having a king don't work.

That's the book of Judges. He's showing us as readers that

until we get to the book of of the the Gospels to show us them

the death and the bear on the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

his blood that was shed, his life that was given because when

destruction couldn't take care of man and a king, an earthly

king couldn't take care of man and when people couldn't take of

themselves, you know what's going to work?

The King of kings, it's Christ Jesus, his blood, his life

that's going to work. Amen.

Go. Break a sweat up here.

My goodness, it's going to happen.

The solution. God is going to manifest himself

in flesh, as Timothy says, right?

He's going to become the sacrifice bearing humanity, sin.

Peter said that he bore our sin in his body, right?

And he is going to be the sacrifice that ends all

sacrifices. Hebrews says he entered into

that holy place once and for all.

The ultimate solution. But Genesis is the Bible has to

give us all these other things that are not solutions first.

Because if we're like humanity, we would say, well, couldn't

there be a different route? Couldn't there be an

alternative? Couldn't there be something

else, maybe something easier? He has to show us all the

failures of our mindset of what could work so that we would be

sold on what only works. That's in essence folks, A-Z.

That's the story of the Bible. That is the story of the Bible

beyond the Gospels going forward.

And when do we get to Revelation?

You know what that shows other people that tried some of those

other solutions and guess what? It don't work.

Amen. And so along with bowing not to

curse the ground or to flood the earth again, then God begin to

allude to in the very last verse of Genesis 8822, begin to allude

to all these foundational structures of creation.

He he kind of references time. He references the weather and

climate again, all those things in in the creative work of

Genesis, he he he references agriculture.

Look at it Genesis 8/22. He says, I'll not do any of

these things while the earth remaineth sea time and harvest

time. There's your agriculture and

cold and heat and summer and winter.

There's your weather, your climate and day and night.

All right, there's your time because the even the morning

when such and such day shall not cease.

Heads up hate telling me about one Genesis 822.

You're not going to go into some just eternal thermal earth here

and never have code because he says while it remaineth.

This is the way it's going to be.

I will not do if it comes to the thermal, it's where the heating

of the elements when this world is dissolved in the end of time

that Peter speaks of. So Genesis 9 verse #1 look, here

we go. We're such big folks.

We can go on another chapter and God bless Noah and his sons and

said unto them, be fruitful, multiply and replenish the

earth. Sounds very familiar.

And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every

beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all

that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea.

Into your hand they are delivered.

Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you, even as

the green herb. Even as the green herb.

Have I given you all things but flesh with life thereof, which

is the blood thereof. Shall ye not eat?

And surely your blood of your lives will I require at the hand

of every beast I will require it at the hand of man, at the hand

of every man's brother will I require the life of man who so

sheddeth man's blood by man shall his blood be shed.

For in the image of God made he man, and you be fruitful and

multiply, bring forth abundantly in the earth and multiplied

there in first verse and the said the verse very very, very

very similar. It's almost like 2 bookends.

It's actually a real literary device that they use in the

scripture, but it's like 2 bookends that's containing all

this content in between them. They're both reiterating the

original promise to Adam and his family being fruitful, multiply,

replenish. Amen.

Same thing that we see happening right here.

And no, that wasn't just a promise, just four of the

humans. That was a promise for the

animals as well in Genesis 8 and verse #17 it speaks that they

should also, that they should breed and also be fruitful and

multiply. So as it was in the beginning,

so it is now. So again, we're seeing this,

this duplication, right? A recreation, a reforming of

many things. And blessing, again, is

associated with reproduction. And that seems to be the case

throughout Scripture in the verses that follow.

Verse #1 There is a constant plea here of wanting to increase

human life up on the earth. But it's also followed by

measure that we would deter from decreasing life upon the earth.

So we want to build it up rather than take it away.

And this is very crucial. But let's think about how

crucial this is right in the world you're talking about.

Be fruitful. Multiply between these two

things. Then you're talking to me about

increase life. Increase life.

Don't take life, don't take life.

How crucial is it? Well, folks, all we got is 8

people. I mean, we're just a few good a

few good arguments and a a stone throw from the annihilation of

the human race, huh? We're did someone, someone Burke

dinner and it's over, you know, type thing.

We're just we're on a banana peel here right now.

So we're going to talk about prospering life, you know, and

try not, you know, eliminating any type of death that is not of

a natural causes. All right.

I mean, we're close here to extermination.

Amen. So when we get to verse two,

this, this reset of the the creative beginning is happening.

But it's it's somewhat with A twist because now the Bible says

that the animals fear and they dread the humans.

They fear and they dread the humans.

This seems to be A twist. Yes, Adam and the Eve were to

subdue and have dominion over the animals.

But this is this is different that there's a dread in the

fear. We're talking about the animals

at one time could walk before Adam as they did and he named.

Now there is a fear and a dread, some probably more than other.

Even as we know today, there's a little bit more skittish now in

the animal Kingdom. So it went from Adam subduing

and having dominion to now a fear and a dread of man.

The message Bible speaks of it like this.

In that verse it says, then it closes that verse out with

you're responsible for them. You're responsible for the

animals in the animal Kingdom. Now we still are today.

We are stewards of living things as man.

We are stewards of living things, but we got to keep a

proper balance there that we don't move and shift to a place

of ridiculousness where we've elevated just the animal Kingdom

over the human. All right, and you understand

what I'm talking about without saying anything else.

But none the less we got to be without being ridiculous.

We get further into the. Torah or the Law of God in the

Book of Deuteronomy. If an ox.

Gored a neighbor through all right, nothing was done about it

or and such that there was going to come some ramifications

because of what it did. But also scripture says that if

an ox was treading out the corn that you weren't to muzzle the

arcs as it was treading out the corn.

It was to be able to take some of the food of what of its labor

of its work to muzzle it would just just just wouldn't be

proper, wouldn't be right said so don't do that.

It said that if a man in Exodus it said that if a man seen a

beast of burden that was overburdened with some load on

its back, then it was required of the man or the woman that

seen this to lighten the load up on the back of the overburdened

animal. So we're stewards of them.

Not only that, whenever you read the 10 commandments and it talks

about us keeping the Sabbath, the Sabbath wasn't just for

humans. The Sabbath was for their

animals as well, that they get a day of rest because we're

stewards. And so in all this then verse #3

people's diets changed. It wasn't keto, it wasn't

Mediterranean. It was in addition to the herbs,

in addition to the fruits that they had prior to the fraud back

at the beginning of creation. In addition to that now meat,

meat as in they became carnivorous.

They are carnivores now there they can have meat a part of

their diet. All right.

But in all of this talk then about we're expanding your diet

and now you can have these animals or you can have meat a

part of it. The the, the the plea was this,

that you could not eat the meat with the blood in it because

they link the ungodly link, because the life of the flesh,

it's in the blood. It's in the blood and blood is

in the life. So as a result of that, they

needed to properly drain the blood out of an animal before

they ate it as best as possible properly.

They didn't want to take a living animal, cut a chunk off

and just get at it. I'm not trying to be gross, what

I'm just saying. And so with this also with this

idea of life being in the blood, then came also another aspect of

and facet of the preciousness of the life of man.

And he goes on and begins to say then how man is not even to kill

man. He must not shed a man's blood.

And if he did, the man who shed the blood must die.

Again, in the years before the flood, what's happening?

The world is becoming exceedingly violent.

That's your Bible. It becomes exceedingly violent.

And that word violent covers a grand scheme and spectrum of

things. Not only that, the very thing

that the first son of Adam and Eve or or that we know to be the

first son of Adam, Eve Cain, what'd he do?

Killed his brother. And then in the line, in the

line of Cain Lamech, what's he do?

He says I killed a man for wounding me.

And he kind of was braggadocious about it.

Yeah. He talked about, is that.

Is that a bad word? I'm sorry.

I appreciate that. I mean, I was really feeling

good about myself today. And I'm glad there's more than

eight people on the earth now. Amen.

But now so these very things that they had done, now God

blatantly prohibits. Why?

Because man going back to Jesus one again, man is created in the

image of God. There's no horse glinted that's

been created in the image of God.

I'm sorry, man is the only thing that's been created.

Man and woman, they've been created in the image of God.

And so in a sense, whenever he talks about all required of man,

all required of beasts, all required of brothers, right?

I mean, from Abraham back to Adam, we all in a sense

literally are, are are brothers. But even in a figurative sense,

we are brothers. Amen.

And so man is to be reverence, God is to be reverence.

And we reverence God by reverencing man who is made in

the image of God. So man is to be treated with

dignity because he's been made in the image of God.

What does that matter? What does that mean?

That means it doesn't matter what race the man's from.

It does not matter what background the man's from.

It does not matter what religion the man is from.

No matter if he is absolutely in rebellion spiritually against

the things of God, it does not matter what religion he is from.

He is made in the image of God and we are to respect the life

as a result of that. Or can't you send it like this?

He says you disregard. Disregard for the gift of life

is affront to the giver. Of life.

The New Testament would say it like this.

This is what we read. He that have done it unto the

have done it unto me, because to kill a human was to assault God,

because we're made in the image of God and we, we as

individuals, as people, Murder is usurping God's right to

decide life and death. Job said in his claim said,

naked, I came to this room naked.

I'll depart, right. He said all these things and he

speaks about how God had had the dominion, if you will, of, of

taking his life or leaving his life, how all of that was up to

God in Job chapter #1 And so whenever we want to step in and

take life, we're usurping God's right in, in a sense we're

attempting. To be God.

And so yes, that is not to say that there is not a, a system of

human government right now that decides, for instance, capital

punishments in certain regions and areas of our world and

capital punishment. We could go back to 10

Commandments, which was a series I did when probably I first came

here as pastor, was premeditated murder in Scripture.

There's a difference between manslaughter and murder in

Scripture, but premeditated murder.

And so. And you said, well, Brother

McGee, what? Well, human government is better

than anarchy. Again, let's go to judges where

there was no rule. All right.

And so what's interesting, though, about these things that

God is saying in this moment, these are things he's talking to

Noah and these eight souls, which, guess what, consisted of

all of humanity at that point in time.

So the Noah law, as many times it's referred to, is a law that

pertains to all humanity. This is not a law that's just

for Israel. This is not a law just for the

church. The nation of Israel did not

exist at this moment in time. There were eight people, and it

applied to all of humanity. As a matter of fact, this law

concerning the shedding of blood, if blood was shed to shed

that person's blood, this the only law that we see repeated

over and over again, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and

Deuteronomy, all the first five books have this very same law.

And again, even if a beast killed a man, as I said earlier,

if an ox, Gord, one through the ox was to lose its life, he had

to give. A beast had to give an account

for shedding man's blood. What's all this do, Pastor

McGee? I'll tell you what it does.

So we need to pay a lot of attention and Revere the blood

of an animal and the blood of mankind.

What's this do? It's setting us up.

God's Bible does this. Oh, it does it.

Sometimes you don't realize it. It sets you up because as he's

causing mankind to be very reverent toward the blood of an

animal, he'll move later into like Leviticus and Deuteronomy,

and through a sacrificial system of animals, their blood will

atone for the sins of people. He's setting this up because as

we get further than into the New Testament, it'll be the blood of

the Lamb of God, Christ Jesus that will atone and make right

for the sins of the world. So what's he doing?

He's conditioning us. Back here as soon as we step off

the ark in this new recreation. Of the world, the start to adopt

A reverence for the. Blood.

Who? A reverence for the blood of the

animal. A reverence for the blood of

mankind. Oh, Brother McGee, hogwash.

He can't. Oh, yes, he is.

That's what's taking place here in Scripture.

Why would that be important? I'll tell you why.

Will you bear with me? I'm really I'm.

I'm about done. And see, we're doing really

good. Let me just share all these are

Scripture verses. I'll give you the reference as I

go, because Christ would purchase His church with His

blood. Acts 2028.

It says in Romans 5:00 and 9:00 that we are justified by His

blood. In First Corinthians 11/25 he

said that the New Testament or the New Covenant was guess where

in His blood. Ephesians one and seven says we

have redemption through His blood.

Colossians 114 and Hebrews 922 says not only do we have

redemption through his blood, but we also had forgiveness of

sins and the remission of sins. Guess what happens by his blood.

Ephesians 213 says that the blood made those that were far

off nigh. That happened because of the

blood. Colossians one and 20 says peace

comes through his blood. Amen.

In Hebrews 922 we've been purged by His blood.

Hebrews 1312 we are sanctified, set apart by His blood.

First John 17 says His blood cleanses us from all sin.

Revelation 12 and 11 says we are overcomers by the blood of Lamb

and the word of our testimony. All the way though, back in

Genesis chapter #9 God's depositing the reverence for His

blood because He knew what the blood would come to mean to the

church and humanity in the future.

And I'm going to get them to start reverencing it now so

they'll for sure lasso their life around it then.

Amen. The old sacrificial system, even

the Old Testament, you weren't going to, you had different

types of offerings, trespass offerings, sin offerings,

fellowship offerings, 5 different or so different

offerings. All of these, most of these, I

say most of these included blood.

There were some that were just purely green offerings, but a

lot of them included blood. And when we talk about the Day

of Atonement, whenever the priest went in and he put blood

upon the mercy seat so that mankind and the nation, Israel

could be at one at one, at one with God that required blood.

Amen. It's blood, blood, blood.

No man even entered into the holy place, which was the place

where the Spirit of God, Amen. They believed what no one person

even entered there. The Bible says without blood.

In other words, Old Testament symbolism, you didn't have

access to His spirit without the blood.

And whenever they caught the blood that was at the altar from

the animal that was slain, they took that blood with them to the

labour in the washing. There's no washing without the

accompaniment of blood, folks. What's that mean?

Well, it's at the altar. This is where the animal that

died, that again, that mirrors our repentance.

The labor mirrors our baptism, the holies of holies, where the

presence of God is, where the blood was sprinkled on the mercy

seat. That that that pictures are Holy

Ghost, folks. Your repentance, baptism and

infill in the Holy Ghost all requires blood.

So yes, I'm going to reverence it.

Yes, I'm going to pay kindly to it because this Bible is a

bloody book and we are bloody people because the life is in

the blood. Stay with me, I'll close.

So verse #7 that other book in comes in, right?

The other book in comes in, and again it talks about replenish,

multiply, and do your thing abundantly here across the

earth. Again, it comes in and it's

promoting life, claps off this little section by promoting life

because in the context of talking about this death and

dying and killing and the taking of animals and the taking of

humans, it wants the final thought in our mind again is

choose life, not death, not shedding of those things, not

taking of another man, not not, not not drinking or or for

taking of an animal that has blood in no choose life.

Choose life. And so this is life beyond

beyond the flood. We'll get a little further in

Genesis chapter #9 I'm, I'm, I'm like hopeful to get Genesis 9

and maybe if I can get through 10 for a stopping place by the

end of the, by the end of the time that I got two more, I got

two more Wednesdays personally. I'll be gone the last Wednesday

of the month because Zach will be here teaching, but I got two

Wednesdays personally. So if I can get through nine and

maybe 10, guess what? 10 is back to some genealogies

and I knew that I would just suck the air out of every

individual with that announcement terms us to save it

for next year. We're going to trace your family

tree, brother, Amen. Let's pray tonight in closing,

Father, we're so thankful God. We're thankful Lord Jesus for

you being mindful of us. We're thankful God, for these

things that you have put in place, these things that you

have conditioned us, the Lord Jesus, for and with God

questions and other things that you left open God for.

Our minds would constantly search and be looking for a

solution that you would present to us, Lord boldly and

profoundly, God that we would accept.

Lord, I pray God, we have much history Lord, to lean upon and

go on. But God, there's a great future

ahead of us because the Lord of the history you left at Calvary,

Lord, we're thankful for it and we appreciate you in the name of

Jesus Christ that I pray Amen and Amen.

God thereby say Amen, you're dismissed tonight.

Amen in Jesus name. Thank you for listening.

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