Showing posts with label Genesis 6. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Genesis 6. Show all posts
Monday, November 2, 2015
The Days of Noah: The Ark and the Heart of God
Genesis 6:3,5-7,13-22
Noah and the flood were both historic, Noah was a real person, a man of faith, a preacher of righteousness, a family man. His world was a real world, a sinful world that was characterized by certain things: an evil mind-set, the thoughts and imaginations were only evil continually. It was a foul society, a violent society. It was also characterized by perverted religion that had corrupted the true religion. This society was characterized by materialism and pleasure. Those are the conditions for calamity. That is the type of lifestyle that brought the flood. In the light of those things, it all led to something.
What did it lead to?
Gen 6:6 "And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart." grieved means to suffer pain in one's own heart. It grieved God at his heart, that is what it led to, grief. God is not sitting up there in heaven uncaring about the people he created, he is grieved at their behaviour and their lifestyle like you are when your little children grow up and they scorn and mock and throw off the standards that you have tried to teach them.. Don't think less of God, it grieved him at his heart. It also led to judgment pronounced and carried out. Gen 6:7,13 "And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth." There are consequences for sin and rebellion and the consequences taught in this passage teach a very important lesson, a lesson that is largely forgotten today even in churches where they have a view of a God that has just one attribute and that is love. That is a heresy. Sin leads to consequences. This passage teaches us the consequences. God is warning mankind of the limitation of his mercy and grace.
This passage teaches that human beings through their willful sin and willful neglect of salvation can put themselves beyond grace. Beyond God's mercy. By gross willful rebellion you can put yourself in the place where God says, "it is now over for you, there is no possibility of recall. Beyond grace, mercy and redemption forever. Where the only thing is judgment. Noah's world was in precisely that position. 120 years and that is it, God says "enough" There is a limit to God's mercy and grace. And how much grace has been poured on you week by week, unbeliever. How many times has God spoken to you in grace and mercy. But you have scorned his love, rejected his forgiveness. The lesson this passage is teaching is very simple, you need to be aware that the grace of God is not everlasting. If God's grace was everlasting the flood would not have come. If you are not a Christian, one day, if you continue rejecting the gospel, one day you will be one day too late.
Thursday, October 29, 2015
The Days of Noah Part 3: Noah's World
This is the third in a series of 7 posts regarding Noah and the flood from Genesis 6 to 9 in the bible.
The Days of Noah Part 3: Noah's World
In the previous two messages we have studied the proofs from the bible and from geology and geography that Noah and the global flood were historic events. Noah was a real person and the flood was a real event. Noah was a man of faith who walked with God, and because of that God told Noah that because the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually, (Gen 6:5) that God would destroy every living thing that he had created, from the face of the earth and Noah, in the light of that, became a preacher of righteousness, and he warned the generation in which he lived of the judgment which was coming. The fact that the generation of his day didn't listen is irrelevant because they were warned. Because of that there are no excuses in the day of judgment.
What kind of world did Noah live in?
Noah's world was a real world, not a world of fun added things of children's stories. It had a culture, it had a philosophy of life, a way of thinking. A way not very different from our society. Indeed we may discover that the same philosophy that prevails today in Western society is very similar to the way of thinking in Noah's day because humans don't change. They are the same today as they were in the whole of history since the fall. Technology advances, but humans do not change.
Gen 6:5 "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." They had an evil mind. God saw that man's wickedness, man's morality or ethics was evil. The wickedness of man was great, abounding, overflowing. Man's wickedness had reached a new low. Every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. Every imagination, every concept, every purpose or device of the thoughts of his plans of his heart. All day, all month or all year, continually. Genesis 6 teaches that man coming up to the flood had come to such a stage of moral evil just before the flood, that everything was utterly evil all the time. They did not do evil through carelessness not heeding what they do, they did evil deliberately, contriving how to do mischief. There was no good to be found among them and God saw it. In other words, an evil mind-set had come down. A depraved mind-set.
The Days of Noah Part 3: Noah's World
In the previous two messages we have studied the proofs from the bible and from geology and geography that Noah and the global flood were historic events. Noah was a real person and the flood was a real event. Noah was a man of faith who walked with God, and because of that God told Noah that because the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually, (Gen 6:5) that God would destroy every living thing that he had created, from the face of the earth and Noah, in the light of that, became a preacher of righteousness, and he warned the generation in which he lived of the judgment which was coming. The fact that the generation of his day didn't listen is irrelevant because they were warned. Because of that there are no excuses in the day of judgment.
What kind of world did Noah live in?
Noah's world was a real world, not a world of fun added things of children's stories. It had a culture, it had a philosophy of life, a way of thinking. A way not very different from our society. Indeed we may discover that the same philosophy that prevails today in Western society is very similar to the way of thinking in Noah's day because humans don't change. They are the same today as they were in the whole of history since the fall. Technology advances, but humans do not change.
Gen 6:5 "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." They had an evil mind. God saw that man's wickedness, man's morality or ethics was evil. The wickedness of man was great, abounding, overflowing. Man's wickedness had reached a new low. Every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. Every imagination, every concept, every purpose or device of the thoughts of his plans of his heart. All day, all month or all year, continually. Genesis 6 teaches that man coming up to the flood had come to such a stage of moral evil just before the flood, that everything was utterly evil all the time. They did not do evil through carelessness not heeding what they do, they did evil deliberately, contriving how to do mischief. There was no good to be found among them and God saw it. In other words, an evil mind-set had come down. A depraved mind-set.
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
The Days of Noah Part 1: Noah was a real, historic person
Are you one that doubts the reality of the man called Noah, and the flood that God brought upon the earth? This is the first in a 7 part series of in-depth articles on Genesis 6 to 9 based on the King James bible.
The Days of Noah Part 1
The Proofs that Noah was a living, historic person and the flood was an actual, historic fact.
Genesis 6:1-14 "And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. 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. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD. These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God. And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. And God looked upon the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. And God said unto Noah, the end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth. Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch."
About 5,000 years ago, around 3,000 BC there lived a man called Noah. Noah was a man who was very different from the generation in which he lived. We read about Noah mostly in the book of Genesis. The book of Genesis is the book of beginnings and it is a history book. Genesis contains real, actual, literal history. Genesis is the foundation of the whole bible and all the major doctrines of scripture can be traced in their foundation to the book of Genesis. The author is God, the writer is Moses. The first 5 books of the bible are called the books of Moses, the Lord Jesus says so in John 5:46 "For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me." 2 Chron 35:12 "......as it is written in the book of Moses" 2 Corin 3:15 "But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the veil is upon their heart." Romans 10:5 "For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law..." 1 Corin 9:9 "For it is written in the law of Moses..." To disagree on this is to disagree with the bible. Noah and the events recorded about his day are real history. These things happened and these things are recorded for us that we may learn from them. 1 Corin 10:11 "Now all these things happened unto them for examples: and they are written for our admonition upon whom the ends of the world are come." There is a stark lesson for the new testament church to be found in Noah and his day as recorded in the book of Genesis 6.
The Days of Noah Part 1
The Proofs that Noah was a living, historic person and the flood was an actual, historic fact.
Genesis 6:1-14 "And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. 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. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD. These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God. And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. And God looked upon the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. And God said unto Noah, the end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth. Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch."
About 5,000 years ago, around 3,000 BC there lived a man called Noah. Noah was a man who was very different from the generation in which he lived. We read about Noah mostly in the book of Genesis. The book of Genesis is the book of beginnings and it is a history book. Genesis contains real, actual, literal history. Genesis is the foundation of the whole bible and all the major doctrines of scripture can be traced in their foundation to the book of Genesis. The author is God, the writer is Moses. The first 5 books of the bible are called the books of Moses, the Lord Jesus says so in John 5:46 "For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me." 2 Chron 35:12 "......as it is written in the book of Moses" 2 Corin 3:15 "But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the veil is upon their heart." Romans 10:5 "For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law..." 1 Corin 9:9 "For it is written in the law of Moses..." To disagree on this is to disagree with the bible. Noah and the events recorded about his day are real history. These things happened and these things are recorded for us that we may learn from them. 1 Corin 10:11 "Now all these things happened unto them for examples: and they are written for our admonition upon whom the ends of the world are come." There is a stark lesson for the new testament church to be found in Noah and his day as recorded in the book of Genesis 6.
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