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Few are able. Please remain standing, and let's turn our attention to Genesis,
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chapter four, verses Seventeen through twenty
six. Genesis four, verse seventeen.
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Genesis seventeen. Kane knew his wife
and she conceived and bore Enoch.
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When he built a city, he
called the name of the city after the
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name of his son, Enoch.
To Enoch was born Ir Rad, and
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irrad fathered Mahouahjel and Mahoujael fathered Mathushla
Mathushale, and mathushale fathered LEAMIK and Laimeek
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took two wives. The name of
the one was Adda and the name of
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the other was Zilla. Odda bore
Jabal. He was the father of those
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who dwell in tense and have livestock. His brother's name was Jewball. He
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was the father of all who,
those who play the liar and pipe.
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Zillah also bore Tubalkane. He was
the forger of all instruments of bronze and
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iron. The sister of Tubalkane was
not Alma. Lamek said to his wives
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Adah and Zillah, hear my voice, you wives of Lamek. Listen to
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what I say. I have killed
a man for wounding me, a young
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man for striking me. If CAINE's
revenge is sevenfold, then lamex is seventy
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sevenfold. And Adam knew his wife
again and she bore a son and called
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his name Seth, for she said
God has appointed for me another offspring instead
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of Abel, for Cain killed him. To Seth also was born a son
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and he called his name Enosh.
At that time people began to call upon
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the name of Jehovah. You may
be seated. These last lines in the
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song that we've just sung, a
mighty fortresses our God, serve as an
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appropriate transition between the passage of scripture
just before the one we read in Genesis
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A, Chapter Four. The beginning
verses we read of Cain killing his brother
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Abel and, as we considered before, this is in many ways a great
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threat to the promise of God,
God's promise that of Eve would be born
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offspring that would come and would set
things right, would crush the head of
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the serpent, although bruised on himself
in his heel. And so this offspring
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that was born cane, we find, instead of doing the right things,
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in the good things, instead of
fighting evil, is the very manifestation of
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it. I'm he is, I'm
evil. He is of this father of
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lies and a murderer who was from
the beginning. On top of that,
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he kills his other, his brother
Abel, and that's where we come to,
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as I put it, this line
in a mighty fortress is our God.
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The body they may kill, God's
truth abide is still his kingdom is
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forever. So we're here. We
have a two brothers, one dead,
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the other a murderer, sent away, I'm from from God and from his
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presence, cursed, and just as
Adam, I'm his father was. But
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though Abel was dead and in many
ways it seems as if the promise would
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be dead, we read that though
they kill the body, God's truth Abideth,
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his promises are always sure, they
always come true. His Kingdom is
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forever, and we get the the
fulfillment of that in the last verses that
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I read in Genesis, for where
Adam knew his wife again and she bore
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a son and called his name Seth, and she said God has appointed for
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me another offspring instead of able,
for Kane killed him to seth also was
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born a son and he called his
name Enosh. At that time, people
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began to call upon the name of
Jehovah. You See, here God is
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establishing his kingdom, he's working in
the world. Despite the work of Man
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Against Him, despite Satan's continuing work
to destroy the offspring that is supposed to
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destroy him, God continues to keep
his promise. His Kingdom is forever his
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promises and his word always abide.
In between these two things, God's a
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promise interrupted, we might say,
or at least seemingly so, we have
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another kingdom that is built, a
kingdom or a city of Man, his
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kingdom by Kane. And when,
as we consider this, the city,
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in this legacy that is being built
up under Kane and his children, what
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we realize and come to see is
that sin, just as it was passed
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on to Adams children, such as
Kane and Abel, Kane, also passes
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it on to his children. Instead
of going away, sins strong a strangle
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hold on man is just growing tighter
and tighter. And you see this in
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the way the end of this this
genealogy, with laymeck putting himself far above
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any expectations and things we have seen
so far, in many ways setting him
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side outside of so many orders.
God has already set up. I'm even,
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in many ways, seeking to be
a god himself. As we consider
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these things, what we see is
that there really is only one way to
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live. There's only one way to
live, and that's under the authority of
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God and for the glory of God. That's how Adam was made, that's
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what he was made for, that's
how he and all of us are designed
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to be, to live under God's
authority and to Live for God's glory.
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If we were fish, this would
be our water. This is where we
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live, this is where we thrive, this is the environment which God has
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made us for. But an Adam
sin he makes that impossible, impossible for
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us, impossible for his children after
him, for Caine, for Sath,
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for Lamick, for Zilla, for
Auda, for you, for me,
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for all of us. After Adam
and Eve sinned, we fell into this
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estate of sin and misery, as
we confess in our catechism. We fall
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into this state where we are bound
and and and and enslaved in a way
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that takes us out of that water, so to speak. It takes us
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out of this environment in which we
were made to thrive. And we see
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that in these early chapters, first
and canes lies in his murder and his
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false worship and his anger, and
then it just goes on and on and
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on, continuing. Now in Caine's
children we see more of these sins in
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the image of man. Instead of
living under his authority, in and for
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his glory, man is more and
more in open rebellion against God, with
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the exception of Seth that we see
later in the chapter, because of God's
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working in working among men. We
see what man does. He does not
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call on the name of the Lord, but he calls on the name of
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himself, naming cities after himself,
establishing culture in his name and like a
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fish pulled out of water, his
death is not far off. When a
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fish is pulled out of water and
they don't often seem like they're going to
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die. They flop around, they're
very strong in many ways, they seem
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as if there's a lot of life
in them, and it's like that here
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with Kane and this this this civilization
that he and his children are building.
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There is great strengthen them and even
good things, and we see that many
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of these things God will employ,
even in the worship of in his temple
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and other things I'm to care for
livestock, to build culture, to build
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societies and work with the various things
that God have given us. These are
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all wonderful and good things, but
Kane and his children aren't not doing that
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in the way that God designed them
to do. Things start normally enough,
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a testimony to God's continuing kindness and
mercy to those that don't deserve it.
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But very quickly we have this figure
of Lamech Laimek, you see, transgresses
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God's law in a number of ways. He transgresses God's law in the in
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his desire for power. You see
that in many ways. I'm you see
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that. For example, and is
taking two wives. The first instance of
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polygamy is not with Abraham or the
other or other saints, but it is
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here in this sinful line of kin. Mean and Kane takes two wives for
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himself, though God has always commanded
and an example has always been a one
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man and one woman our as being
what was designed for marriage. Lay Mack
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transgresses that and he takes two wives. On top of that, he he
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executes justice in an incredibly improper way. Notice what he says in this prideful
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commands boast. He says I've killed
a man for wounding me, a young
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man for striking me. You See, lay mack is not saying hey,
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I just want to let you know
this happened. I'm filing a report.
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He's boasting here. He's saying,
look how powerful I am. This young
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man came and he wounded me,
he offended me, he struck me and
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I killed him. That's the kind
of man that I am, that's the
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kind of power that I am.
And he says that not to his wife
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and his children, but to his
wives and to his children. In many
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ways, this is often what polygamy
is, not only a demonstration of man's
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lusts and passions, but also his
lusts for power, to have more than
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belongs to him. And so he
stands here having done this terrible thing,
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having committed murder, killing unjustly,
and he says this to his wives and
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instead of repenting for this, instead
of running for his life, instead of
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being afraid, he says, if
CAIN's revenge is sevenfold, which was what
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God promised those who would might,
anyone who might kill Kane, lay mix
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is seventy sevenfold, a kind of
way of speaking of not only a complete
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judgment but almost an eternal judgment,
a judgment that will go on forever and
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ever. Laymick is taking the very
prerogatives of God to himself. He is
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living in his own way, and
we see then, that as sin controls
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mankind. Man, instead of living
under the authority of God and for the
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glory of God, lives against God, lives in an atheistic way. He
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he clamorous, I'm for his own
glory and for his own authority. LAYMEX
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actions shouldn't surprise us. They are
as common as the cities that we dwell
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in. People continue to push the
boundaries of sex in ways that pursue their
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sinful pleasures and seek after power and
control rather than in God's design, whether
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that's polygamy, adultery, homosexuality,
pornography, rape, the list of the
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evils in this one category go on
and on and on and on, evils
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that we have to take very seriously
and and and consider in our lives and
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how we live with them, how
we deal with them. People push the
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boundaries and all kinds of other ways, taking God's creation, the things that
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he has made, and using it
for purposes that are against him, against
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his law and for their own glory, whether that's the materials of the earth
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or instruments that we make, all
kinds of things. And then, of
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course, we see today abuse of
power as well, unjust sentences, lawlessness,
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people who don't deserve to be judges
standing and as judge over men,
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I'm using their strength to their own
advantages, doing what they can simply because
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they can, and all these things. We see what sin does, and
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we have to take this very seriously
in our own hearts. This is not
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just something that is out there in
the world. This is also in there,
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in here, in our hearts.
This kind of pride, this kind
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of control, this kind of rebellion. That's what sin is. That's what
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it was on or Adam, that's
what it was under Kane and it's what
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it was under laymk. It's what
sin does. It captivates our desires for
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evil things. It makes us covet
and want to control things that don't belong
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to us. It takes away the
checks that God has given on man and
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society and seeks to live by one's
own why, one's own rule, and
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in that sense, atheism is really
methism, isn't it? It's not just
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being against God, but it's making
oneself into God, taking your God's rule
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and his authority on yourself and saying
I am powerful and I am great,
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and in many ways this seems to
go very well for Laymik. There's nothing
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here in this chapter that seems to
counter that or call that into question or
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or accept. For the counter example
of Seth, so small, so weak,
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seth and his son, we read
in that time they began to call
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on the name of Jehovah. This
is a pattern we're going to see throughout
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the book of Genesis and really throughout
all of history that often times the greatest
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civilizations and the greatest things that are
built are are not built by God's people.
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God's people are found in places of
weakness and suffering. Not Always,
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of course, he's often pleased to
bless us and take care of us and
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many marvelous ways, but at the
same time the flourishing of evil is a
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constant something David refers too often in
the psalms, something solemn and refers to
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in Ecclesiastes, I'm something that's lamented
and many times, in many ways,
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why is it that the righteous suffer
and the unrighteous prosper? There is this
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way in which life seems to go
on for the evil but, as will
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continue to see, and as we
read the rest of the story, we
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actually don't even have to go all
that far. We realize that, despite
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all this blustering and Saber rattling and
supreme foolish confidence in ourselves, at any
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moment God can bring a sinner to
his knees and even to his grave.
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We'll see that in Noah, in
just a few chapters, will see how
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this great city and civilization that Kane
is establishing will grow and grow and grow,
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until it's so bad that God says, I'm going to destroy the whole
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earth. Genesis's thirteen says, I
have determined to make an end of all
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flesh, for the earth is filled
with violence through them. Behold, I
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will destroy them with the Earth.
This is the trajectory that sin takes us
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on. It takes us to destruction. LAMAC feels like he's sitting pretty,
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but God promises that he will not
wink, and I'm injustice that he doesn't
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let Abel's blood rye in the ground
without vengeance. He will, and he
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does, make an end to all
all who rise up against him in this
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rebellious way. You see this not
only in the generations following Noah, but
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of course an Adam sin that we've
already discovered or considered, and also in
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the final judgment. God has promised
that there is coming a time when the
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earth, when he will shake not
only the earth, as he did in
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the days of Noah, but also
the heavens. That's a quote from Hebrews
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twered and twenty six. He says, I will shake not only the Earth
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but also the heavens, and the
descriptions of this time, this day of
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the Lord, that we considered in
second Thessalonians, are powerful. God talks
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about the heavenly things being shaken like
a like a garment, so that the
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things that remain can and remains steadfast. Jesus Talks about this in Matthew Twenty
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Four. I'll turn there and read
his words of Matthew Twenty Four, verses
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thirty seven through thirty nine. He
makes this comparison between Noah and the last
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day himself, he says, for
as were the days of Noah, so
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will be the coming of the son
of man. For in those days before
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the flood they were eating and drinking
and marrying and giving in marriage until the
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day that Noah entered the Ark and
they were unaware until the flood came and
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swept them all away. So will
be the coming of the son of man.
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And so, you see, we
are not to be foolish about these
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things and not to act like those
who act like those who lived in the
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days before Noah acted. If we
are enslave to our sin, if we
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are living our lives outside of God's
authority and outside his law, we can't
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just continue on and pretend as if
nothing's going to happen, because judgment.
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God has already shown himself in the
history of the world to be a powerful
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judge, and the judgment that he's
is coming, he says, is even
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greater. Like the days and the
days of Noah soul will the days,
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so will the day be when the
son of man comes, and yet even
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more so. Yet, once more, I will shake not only the Earth
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but also the heavens also. There's
one more place that we see God's anger
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against this kind of sin, this
kind of this kind of living outside of
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the water in which we were created
to live, and that's in Christ's death,
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this final destruction of the world,
this great judgment that is rained down
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upon all that God has made.
I'm came in a first installment, you
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might say, on the Cross of
Christ, when God judged all those whom
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he had chosen to save there in
Jesus, the great judgments of the last
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day being poured out here on on
Jesus Christ. We know this from many
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passages, one thing, one place
you might consider as Romans four hundred and
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twenty five, when we read that
he was delivered up for our trespasses and
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raised for our justification. Jesus went
to the Cross to die for our sins,
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for the sins that we commit,
just like Laim it committed, just
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like came committed, and many more
that we might consider and we will as
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we read on in God's word.
Here we see in all these places,
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in God's judgments of Adam and God's
judgments of the earth, in Noah and
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God's judgment and on the last day, and in God's judgment not of Christ
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but of us in Christ, in
all of these ways in which God execute
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justice, even on us in his
son, we see that God does not
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wink at evil. The Lay Mak
and people like him boast and our so
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feels so strong and so sure.
God is promising over and over and over
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again that he will make things right
and he will bring about justice against those
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who sin against him. But in
Christ's death we also find hope and good
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news, because when we read that
he was delivered up for our trespasses,
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we read that he was delivered up
for our trespasses to know that our justification
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has already happened, that judgment for
our sins has already passed for us in
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Jesus Christ. Well, that's good
news, isn't it? And that's the
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kind of news that seth and his
children and all who have been faithful to
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God and called upon his name.
That's the news they were hoping for and
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hoping in. The judgment for sin
of men in Christ is a substitutionary judgment,
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a mediatorial judgment, which our fancy
ways of saying he died for you.
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He endured the cross. Jesus endured
the cross for you. He became
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the offspring of Adam. He became
the one that would be born from eaves
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womb for you. Jesus Christ became
man so that he would go to a
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cross and die, so that he
would come and not only fulfill what Adam
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failed to do. But also take
on the punishment that Adam deserved. Christ
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was perfect, a perfect man.
He lived every moment of his life under
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the authority of God and for his
glory, and you hear that constantly throughout
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the Gospel's don't you? I come
to do my father's will. I come
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to do my father's will, not
my will, but yours be done.
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He does this because that's how the
law is kept, and he keeps it
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for you. He died for those
who didn't do this, who didn't fulfill
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God's law, and this is,
of course, God's great gift to us.
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This is God fulfilling his promise,
first here in with Seth and e
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Enosh, and continuing on and on
and on until the Christ is born,
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the Messiah comes, and it's through
this gift of the son of God that
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you are made, as scripture puts
it, children of the promise. When
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Seth was born and Enosh after him. This, as eve points out,
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is the work of God. She
says, we'll read it again. She
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says, God appointed for me another
offspring instead of Abel, for Kane Killed
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Him. We see here that the
difference between Seth or able or enosh and
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kine and lay meck and his line. The difference between these two is not
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something that's inborn in them. Seth
is born, just like came sinful and
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bound to sin. What's the difference? The difference is what Eve says.
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God has appointed, God intercedes and
does something special. That's why we seek
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God. That's why we, who
are the children of the promise, call
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on the name of Jehovah. We
don't call on our own name, we
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don't call on ourselves, we don't
live to our own glory, because God
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has worked, because God has brought
us a gift life and life in Christ.
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We don't please God by picking up
Adams work. We receive Christ's work
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and we call on his name.
Paul says in Romans nine eight, this
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means it is not the children of
the flesh who are the children of the
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God of God, but the children
of the promise are counted as offspring.
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So in this sense we see that
God's promise to Eve about offspring is a
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promise that needs fuller explanation and is
given here in Genesis. For that it's
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not just being born of Eve that's
going to make the difference, but it's
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being born of God, it's being
born through Christ and the work of the
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Holy Spirit. It's God again interjecting
himself into the world and acting in this
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saving and redeeming way that is going
to change things. We see it with
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Seth and Enosh, and we'll see
it with Noah when that as the whole
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world is destroyed in judgment, God
promises to save a people for himself,
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and he does that Noah and his
family, Genesis. For then, in
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the context of scripture, is God's
message to us that he keeps his promises
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and that those who die in Adam's
sin can live in Christ's righteousness. And
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this has a powerful effect on our
life, doesn't it? It makes us
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call on the name of Jehovah.
We do so because we are a changed
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people. As those who are no
longer bound to sin, we call on
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the one to whom we should call. We obey God in this way and
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we seek his face in this way. We do these as those who have
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passed through judgment and who have received
a city that cannot be shaken, Mountain
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Zion. This is what God promises
to us. He promises and us not
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only life in Jesus Christ, but
a city, a dwelling place, a
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kingdom of God that is eternal,
that is everything that it was supposed to
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be from the beginning lay mack and
Caine, and that whole project is going
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to end. It's going to be
burned up, washed away. But God
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promises to give us something that cannot
be taken away. Eight thirty Romans,
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thirty two. He who did not
spare his own son but gave him up
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for us all, how will he
not also, with him, graciously give
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us all things? Paul says that
as we die in Christ, we also
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live and reign in him. We
do our work, we work in this
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world and we do it for God, but we do it in the hope
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for something lasting, as Hebrews says. A continuing on to quote from Hebrews,
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here we have no lasting city,
but we seek the city to that
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is to come, the city of
the Living God, the heavenly Jerusalem,
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beloved. This is the message of
God's grace, this is the message of
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God's taking you and your rebellion and
your sin and just giving you something that
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you'd never deserved, that you are
fighting against and that you are working against
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in Atheism, atheism, in Metheism, and setting yourself up over and against
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God to establish your own pitiful kingdom. The one day burn and judgment,
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God rescued you, that false king
and brought you under the Authority of Christ
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by dying for you, by raising
for you and by causing you to live
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and reign in him. And that
is why we call on the name of
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Jehovah and not the name of ourselves. That's why we seek after him and
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him alone, and and not ourselves. That's why we find our strength in
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him. He is our rock,
he is our redeemer. Jesus Christ is
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the offspring that we were seeking.
Let us pray now and ask that God
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would establish us in these things.
