A Drunken World (Genesis 9:18-29) [Jay Thomas]

Our world is intoxicated with disunity, especially among the people groups. We watch the nightly news as bombs explode, as people march in lament and anger, and we know the pain of broken relationships in our own families. How did we get here? Why does sin go after relationships and what fuels it? Our passage this week is sad, for sin enters the story right after the purifying flood. But it is also hope-giving. We find a drunken righteous man, a drunken family unity, which leads to a global intoxication of nations fighting nations. And yet it is a story of the covering of shame and we see in it, in seed form, that God will do the same to ultimately bring honor and glory back to his people - as individuals, as families, and as people groups who are co heirs of Jesus. All of that in Genesis 9? Yup.