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If you're able, please remain standing
and let's hear God's Word From Genesis,
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Chapter Nine, verses twenty to twenty
eight. This is God's word, just
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as nine, verse twenty the sons
of Noah, who went forth from the
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Ark where Shem Ham and jpef Ham
was the father of Canaan. These three
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were the sons of Noah, and
from these three the people of the whole
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Earth were dispersed. Noah began to
be a man of the soil and he
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planted a vineyard. He drank of
the wine and became drunk and lay uncovered
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in his tent. And Ham,
the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness
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of his father and told his two
brothers outside. Then Sham and Japheth took
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a garment, laid it on both
their shoulders and walked backward and covered the
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nakedness of their father. Their faces
were turned backward and they did not see
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their father's nakedness. When Noah awoke
from his wine and knew what his youngest
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son had done to him, he
said, cursed be Canaan, a servant
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of servants shall he be. To
his brothers. He also said blessed be
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Jehovah, the God of Shem,
and let Canaan be his servant. May
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God in large Jaff and let him
dwell in the tents of Shem, and
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let Canaan be his servant. After
the flood, Noah lived three hundred and
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fifty years. All the days of
Noah were nine hundred and fifty years and
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he died. He may be seated. One of the things that the Bible
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teaches us to do is to think
of our lives as part of a bigger
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story. Though we are individuals,
of course, and God has his eye
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on even the hairs of our heads, we are nevertheless a part. Each
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of us are a part of something
much, much bigger, something with a
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beginning and an end. This large
story, this beginning and middle and end
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are told, is told in the
Bible. We have been focusing, as
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we've been going through these verses of
God's Word in Genesis, on the beginning,
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of course, focusing on how human
history begins, how it is established.
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We've considered also its end, as
it's fulfilled in Jesus Christ. And
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so what we see in this story, as with many other stories, that
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there are good guys, there are
bad guys and there is a hero,
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but of course it's not just any
story. It's not even one of the
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greatest stories of the world. It
is your story, it is your life.
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I'm God calls us to see ourselves
in these words and not merely by
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analogy or by the extension of a
metaphor. But these are our parents,
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our mothers, our fathers. These
is our family history, this is who
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we are as people. We see
the bigness of life in our daily lives.
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You are not born into a family
that you chose, you do not
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live in a place even that is
entirely your choice. Your genetics, your
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moment in history, your abilities,
all of these things are determined in large
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pipe part by a number of things
which you don't have any control over.
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Your genetics, your family history,
all number of things. And what we
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realize very quickly when we look at
just the little bubble that surrounds us right
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now, in this particular moment,
is how out of control we really are,
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not in a chaotic way, although
that certainly happens too, but just
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we don't control everything. It's a
really it's a really simple point, but
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what the Bible teaches us is that
go God does control everything. That he
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sovereignly rules over us and all of
our lives, not just at this particular
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moment, but as you expand that
out generation by generation, backwards into history
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and forwards into the future, we
see that everything is ruled by God.
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So this is what genesis does for
us. God intends to do here,
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particularly in a passage like this.
He wants to take us out of our
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smallminded and kind of myoptic way of
thinking about the world and establish us in
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something bigger. In Genesis Nine,
verses twenty through Twenty Eight, God takes
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us out of the moment by moment
actions of our lives and, a sense,
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takes us off the stage on which
all of this drama is being played
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out and puts us in the audience
so that we can see what he's doing.
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You know when you're on the stage, imagine if you're on and you're
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with a bunch of other people,
you may not be able to see everything,
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especially if this has been going on
in time. But God takes us
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off, he opens up the screenplay, so to speak, and says here
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this is what happened, this is
how the events of now are connected to
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the events then, and he gives
us this perspective and by doing that,
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by helping us to see how we
fit into the course of human history,
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by his sovereign hand, he humbles
us. He reminds us that we are
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not in control, that he is, that there's something bigger than us a
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going on. We're taken in Genesis
Nine, verses twenty through twenty eight,
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back to a moment when the world
is established again through Noah, and we
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see that in that as that happens, the seed of the serpent continues in
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a man like Ham, but also
the promised seed, the the chosen one
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that would come and save us from
that serpent, the evil and the sin
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in this world. The he too
would come. God shows us these things
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and he humbles us and he calls
US also to repentance and faith and trust
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in him who is sovereign. How
does the text humble us? How does
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God humble us when he shows us
these this tells us this part of our
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history. Well, as I've hinted
at already, more than hinted at,
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one of the ways he does this
is by telling us that he's sovereign over
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all the events of this world.
God is incontestably sovereign and irresistibly, irresistibly
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powerful. Unlike our self existence,
God's self existence is not dependent on anything.
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We read in John Five, for
as the father has life in himself,
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so he is granted the son also
to have life in himself. God,
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Father, son and Holy Spirit exists
in a self existing, independent kind
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of way. That's hard to understand, but it helps to contrast it with
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our own experiences, in which we
are totally dependent, from our our births
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to our lives to our deaths,
on other things. There's not a moment
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in our lives which we are independently
self existent, in which the power of
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our life simply springs from us.
It depends not only on secondary causes,
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like your mother causing you to be
born, or food being put on your
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table or, in the case of
death, diseases and other things causing your
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body to break down, not only
on these second theory causes, as your
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life dependent, but on the primary
cause of God himself. In Colossians One,
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God says all things were created through
him, speaking of Jesus, our
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God and Savior. All things were
created through him and for him. He
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is before all things, and in
him all things hold together. You see
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what the Bible is saying there.
If it weren't for Jesus holding all things
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together and being made through him,
they would all fall apart. We are
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dependent. Or Take Hebrews one three, also about Christ. He is the
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radiance of the glory of God,
the exact imprint of his nature. He
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upholds the universe by the word of
his power, or revelation, for eleven
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worthy are. You are, Lord
and God to Receive Glory and honor and
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power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and
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were created. You see what God
establishes in various places throughout his words.
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What I said before, he is
incontestably sovereign, irresistibly powerful. Our existence,
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our life, in every single moment, that last moment that just happen
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and in the moment that's just about
to happen, isn't all entirely dependent upon
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him. If God wanted your life
to be taken, he would take it,
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just as he wanted you to be
born in you were born. This
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should cause us to give him all
the glory and honor and Powers Revelation for
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says, in the praise and service
of him who rules US and sustains are
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very lives. These truths spaken,
spoken of generally in scripture, are made
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very concrete here in genesis nine.
What do we see? We see something
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happens. Something happens, a sin
happens, several sins actually, and this
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prophecy that Mo Noah speaks is a
prophecy that comes true. God's Servant,
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God sinful servant, says. I'll
read it again. He says, cursed
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be can and, a servant of
servants. Shall he be to his brother,
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blessed be Jehovah, the God of
Shem, and let Canaan be his
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servant, may God in Large Jfeth, and let him dwell in the tense
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of Shehem, and let can and
be his servant. Hundreds and hundreds of
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years before Abraham would be born,
before he would himself father, I'm children
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who would father children who would eventually
become these people that are spoken of here,
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the children of Shem and Jaff long
before all of that, long before
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Canaan was subdued by God, when
Israel entered into the Promised Land, God
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said that these things would happen.
God said that these three people through whom
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all of humanity would come, God
would be sovereign over it. He would
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rule over it and he would sustain
all these lives. What I'm trying to
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tell you is that we should be
very humbled by this. Our lives do
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not fit, do not fall out
according to accident, nor are they falling
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out according to some kind of abstract
principle like a like a an equation or
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something like that. Our lives happen
according to the very will of God.
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All of human history falls out according
to this personal triune beings will and desire,
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from every hair that falls on your
head to everyone that is born,
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to the things that happen here in
genesis nine and continue out from there.
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The should humble us. The God
is sovereign and we are not, as
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I read in revelation for eleven.
In light of this fact that God has
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created the world and through all things
exist in him, what are we called
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to do? We are called to
worship him and give him all glory and
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honor and power, to give him
ourselves in our lives. But what do
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we do? Instead of glorifying God, man glorifies himself, and this is
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the second thing that should humble us. Not Only God's great, incontestable sovereignty
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and power, but man's totally corrupt
and evil ways, his sins. That's
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what we see here in this passage. Don't we first consider Noah's sin?
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What has God just done? God
has preserved Noah and his entire family,
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and therefore the world, from judgment. Noah has experienced the wrath of God.
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He's ridden on the high seas above
the tops of the mountains, feeling
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in every rock and movement of the
boat the very wrath of God, and
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he passes through it unscathed. Unlike
all the rest of humanity, Noah and
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his family do not drown, all
because of God's amazing grace. God then,
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after rescuing him from all of this, then promises to sustain him in
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the world. This is what we
considered last time. God makes this covenant
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with all of creation and promises that
he will sustain it and continue it until
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the last day when his son returns
in judgment. Rain and no rain,
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Sun, evening and night, day
and night, seed time and harvest.
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God will continue the regular establishment of
things. He will bless them so that
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Noah can do things like plant a
vineyard, which he does. God makes
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this promise not just to Noah for
this moment of planting a vineyard, but
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to all of us, promises on
which we currently stand, a covenant in
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which we enjoy the blessings of this
is what God does for Noah, for
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humanity. How does Noah respond?
Well, first he responds well. Noah
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and his sons are fruitful and multiply, as God calls them to do.
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They populate the Earth as as God
as commanded them, and God has blessed
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them in that. God also holds
the curse at bay and blesses Noah's work.
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He allows Noah to do something wonderful
with the so soil. Noah figures
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out how to grow grapes, how
to make wine, no easy task.
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On top of this, the superabundance
of God's blessing can be seen not only
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in know his ability to produce food
and sustain himself, but notice he produces
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something beyond sustenance. God's blessing to
Noah gives the world not only food but
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wine. You see God blessing over
and over and over again, God's sovereignty
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and love expressed in a man producing
wine. Listen to Psalm four, fourteen
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through fifteen. You cause the grass
to grow for the livestock and plants for
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man to cultivate that he may bring
forth food from the earth and wine to
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gladden the heart of man. Isn't
this an amazing thing that God does?
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He takes no on his family.
He blesses them in all of these ways.
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He brings him back onto the earth. And he doesn't only say all
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right, now get to the work. He blesses his work. He doesn't
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just grow vegetables and corn and wheat
and things like that, which our self
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are wonderful, but he grows grapes, wine to gladden his heart. Is
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this amazing, the way that God
blesses him? And what does Noah do?
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What does Noah do with all this
superabundance of blessing, this wine that
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God is given to him to gladden
him his heart, to make him joyful?
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He sins. Instead of joying the
blessings of God, he swallows it
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down like a beast without control.
He becomes intoxicated, drunk. Instead of
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enjoying wine as a blessing, he
allows it to become his master. Losing
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control and all sense, he collapses
in his tent, naked, exposed,
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shamed. How he went from drinking
wine supposedly with his clothes on to naked
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is beyond me, but it is
a reminder of how unreasonable, stupid,
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foolish, dangerous and sinful we become
when we get drunk. A back at
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two fifteen says woe to him who
makes his neighbors drink. You pour out
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your wrath and make them drunk in
order to gaze at their nakedness. This
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is what happens, and we know
this. This is what people do,
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and they abuse the good gifts that
God has given us. And this is
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what Knowa does. He takes all
of these blessings and he swallows them down
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like a beast and he sins against
God. Well, not only is that
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all sinful in itself, but we
see the effects of sin and that they
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sort of have this way of multiplying. And then that we turned to him,
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who, by the way, has
likewise experienced all of these things,
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and we could come up with more. He was there with his father,
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being saved, on the ARC,
riding on those high seas with him.
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But what does he do? Well, he also abuses the God, the
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gifts that God has given him,
including a father who, though obviously very
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sinful, here are in this moment, was called been called righteous by God,
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who's trusted in God's promises, who's
no doubt taught ham and his as
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brothers, is why, and their
wives and their children, what it means
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to trust and walk with God.
With all this blessing, what is Ham
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do? Well, Genesis Nine hundred
and twenty two says that him saw his
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father's nakedness. Understand that this is
no glance, no accident. The word
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here look means to look at searchingly. It's a way that's used in a
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positive way in the song of songs, this great love Song. He looks
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at his father in this knowing and
searching way. Hand, in other words,
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takes advantage of a situation where Noah
has fallen into sin, has made
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himself vulnerable his extras. What he
does is not only in an act of
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lust, but an act of power. He uses Noah's weakness to exercise a
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kind of power over him, to
shame his father, to even, in
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a sense, control his father.
And as he looks on Noah's nakedness,
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this sin, of course, hits
on so many levels. It's a breach
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between two human beings and the sexuality
that God has given them. As homosexual
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voyeurism it's also a breach between the
sexes. That it's done to his father
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is a breach between the family ties
as well, and on top of that,
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the thought the duties and honors that
a son owes a father. At
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every point the sin is multiplied,
multiplied, multiplied, multiplied. This is
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one of those things that is often
spoken of in the Bible, that just
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things that ought not to be done. In many ways, you don't even
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have to make an argument for this, that this kind of thing is sinful.
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It's so obvious, so recognizable.
Later on we'll see that these kinds
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of sins will be judged greatly by
God, Sodom and Gomorrah. In other
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ways, Ham takes advantage of his
father's situation and looks on him in this
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way. But we might also note
certain details in the text that suggest that
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this lust for sex and power was
went beyond even looking and resulted even in
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the rape of his father. We
get this in a few ways. Strangely,
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him is inside the tent where no
one can see him. We read
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that he comes out of the tent. We never read of him going in,
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but he comes out of the tent
and and tells his brothers. We
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also read that when Noah sobers up, he realizes what his son, youngest
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son, has done to him.
It's hard to imagine how this would be
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impossible. If Ham just kind of
peeked inside the tent for a moment,
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he wakens up from his drunkenness and
realizes in his his body what has been
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done. And then, of course, there's the extent of the curse,
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this powerful curse, and which God
curses the seed of his son as a
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response for acting in this way.
Cursed be Canaan, not just now but
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forever. A servant of servants shall
he be to his brothers. This is
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the kind of judgment and wrath that
we see for these kinds of sins.
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And indeed, if there is a
connection between Canaan and Sodom and Gomorrah,
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which many argue that there there is
geographically speaking, then we see that this
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thing is played out yet once again, when the men of Sodom seek to
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do very similar things to the men
that are entertained in lots house. This
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sin is a is what we see. This sin is a sin in its
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worst form, at least in one
of its worst forms. But as you
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think about these things, you have
to remember that, though this is kind
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of the cadillact of sins, so
to speak, or or one of them,
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this is the same thing that is
in our hearts. This sin,
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this particular sin of Ham, may
not be one you have, I'm engaged
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in, or perhaps you have in
part or in whole, but for all
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of us it is the of made
of this very same kind of stuff,
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the very same corruption and pollution that
is in all of our hearts. And
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you know this. You know this
because your own deeds testify to this,
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your own similar lusts and and cravings
and moves to exercise control over other people.
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It's the same kind of things.
And, as I started with,
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I'll say again, when we read
of Sin, and read therefore, of
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the sin and corruption that is in
our own hearts, the violence and lust
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and evil passions and desires, this
should humble us because, like Noah and
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Ham, we also have received the
many blessings of God's power and His grace
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over and over again in our lives, the way he is taken care of
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us and watched out for us and
given us many good things. This should
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humble us, it should bring us
to our knees when we consider what God
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has done, how much he has
blessed us and how sinful our hearts really
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are. As we do this,
though, as I said before, we
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don't humble ourselves before a formula or
fate. We humble ourselves before the god
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of the universe who created US and
sustains US and who, in this passage,
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not only curses hand but blesses Ja
Shem and jff Shem and J fef,
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men through whom the rest of the
history of the world would come,
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and even a Messiah who would save
us from our sin. Him exercises his
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will in a way that seeks to
disown God, in even his father,
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a way that seeks to conquer with
evil that which is good. But God
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does not allow it. And this
fuel, trust me and hang with me
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for a moment, is very good
news, because it means that because God,
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who is sovereign over these things,
it has the power and indeed does
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over rule these kinds of evils,
the sin in our hearts. A sovereign
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God is one who can sovereignly rule
over these kinds of things, and that's
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exactly what he does. Ham rises
up to take to to ham rises up
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in sin, and God over rules
it for good. He blesses, doesn't
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he? He Blesses Shem and Jaff
and he does this throughout history. He
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continually over rules the evil for good. We'll see this over and over and
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over again the story of Joseph,
for example, when his brothers try to
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put him to death and lie to
their father and all kinds of terrible family
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things going on, more murder,
moral lies. We see it in the
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way that Joseph is accused of committing
adultery with his master's wife, I'm falsely
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and all of these things that happen. But ultimately God blesses them and uses
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them for good. We see the
way that out of this event God will
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establish his people, Israel. He'll
make a covenant with them and they will
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become a great nation and will indeed
rule over Canaan and all of his wickedness.
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Canaan will be put out, the
people of God will be blessed.
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And as you continue on through history, God continues to exercise this power,
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and we see it particularly in our
Savior, Jesus Christ, who comes as
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a king to put to death the
evil one, to crush the head of
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the serpent and though all kinds of
evil is poured out on him, as
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mankind raises up in this great act
of rebellion and crucifies him on the cross,
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and he dies. What does God
do? He over rules evil with
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good, for on the third day, this Jesus, the son of God,
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rises from the dead. He rises
from the dead and then later on
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even ascends into the heavens to be
seated at the right hand of God,
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the Father Almighty. This same king
will come one day to judge the living
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and the dead. We Sing in
one of our hymns. This is my
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father's world, we sing, this
is my father's world. Will let me
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Ne'er forget that. Though the wrong
seems oft so strong, God is the
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ruler. Yet this is good news, isn't it? Because God, unlike
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us, is holy. God is
righteous and he rules and he reigns in
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righteous in according to His grace.
God over rules the evil in this world
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and he uplifts the good. This
good news goes deeper still when we are
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reminded that the way in which he
overrules this good is in part by forgiveness
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of our sins. If this were
not the case, if this particular point
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we're not the case, if Jesus
Christ didn't simply go to the cross so
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that he might defeat Satan, but
that he also went to the cross to
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defeat your particular sins. You would
be lost right along with Caine and cursed
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and and assigned to judgment. But, beloved, listen. Jesus didn't only
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come as a king, he also
came as a priest. He overrules the
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sin in your heart by offering himself
and his own body up to death so
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that he might take all of your
corruption and cleanse you and purify you and
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make you holy. So we consider
again God's sovereignty in history. We can
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look at particular examples of this.
Consider a man like David, who murdered,
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who committed great sexual sins, who
lived in this moment that we are
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told in history, this terrible moment, and yet he turns to God in
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repentance and he finds forgiveness. Beyond
David, you can consider even Canaanites like
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Rahab or RUF. We see that
these way in which God has sovereignly exercised
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his plan in history, though it
falls out according to these family lines,
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God does not limit himself to these
things, but ultimately defines these families in
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spiritual terms. So those who trust
in Jesus Christ can switch scythes, so
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to speak. They can stop being
Canaanites and become Smites, they can stop
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being a children of Wrath and condemnation
and become children of God. This is
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how God overrules evil in this world
and sin in our hearts by giving to
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US Jesus, who rules over US
and dies for us. All this means
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that when you repent and you believe
in Jesus, he takes this corruption that
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you see in Genesis Nine, this
corruption in sin that's in your own hearts,
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the corruption and sin that you know
from your own lives, in your
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own history, before the Lord,
and he forgives you who, by the
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virtue of his perfect and great sacrifice, when you believe in Jesus, instead
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of belonging to him and Canaan,
God makes you belong to Jesus, all
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the power of sin is broken by
the power and grace of God. Want
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to read to you that verse again. I read earlier from Hebrews three and
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then read the verse right after it. He is our sorry Hebrews one,
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verse three. He is the radiance
of the glory of God in the exact
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imprint of his nature. He upholds
the universe by the word of his power.
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After making purification for sins, he
sat down at the right hand of
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the majesty on High. You see
what he seed there. We read that
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he is king over this world,
not only as its creator but also as
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its savior. The passage I read
from colosh and says the same thing,
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but in more detail. The one
who created and made the world is the
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one who is also head over the
church, who brings a salvation from our
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sins and nails this record of debt
that we have, with all of its
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legal demands. He nails it to
the cross. So to do the same
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thing that I did with that verse, with the him. The Hymn says
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this is my father's world. Oh, let me Ne'er forget that, though
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the wrong seems off. So strong
God is the ruler. Yet and then
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it goes on and says this is
my for what father's world? The battle
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is not done. Jesus, who
died, shall be satisfied and Earth and
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heaven be won. See this desire, this purpose that God sets forth right
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here in Genesis Nine, that he
will overrule the evil in this world,
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even the most dark and terrible evils
in this world, ones that we see
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continuing on today, ones that are
in our own hearts. He promises that
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he will overrule it and he does
it through Jesus Christ. Now, as
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you see all that from the audience
and you look up at the stage and
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you see all that God has doing, God calls us then to live our
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lives in light of that, to
not simply go on thinking as we used
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to think, but to live according
to this grace that he has given,
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to live according to the son who
is come to live in faith that,
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if we trust in Jesus Christ,
God will bless us with these things.
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They God grant us the grace to
do just that, may bless us according
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to his perfect and holy will.
Let us pray
