I've run out of other things to say. Bonjour. Aloha, yeah, aloha. Feels like aloha a little bit this past week, doesn't it?
You know what? Those of us who complained about the heat in the past week will be the same ones that will complain about the cold in November. The Canadians. The Canadians.
We have our complaining well-practiced. All right. Let's, uh, I'm here in the driver's seat faster than I thought, so I was back there collecting thoughts, waiting for us to sing that song. Maybe we could, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, little sing after.
Maybe we'll sing too after. How about that? Okay. All right.
Let's, uh, let's pray. Father, thank you for bringing us this morning. Thank you for the Lord Jesus, our Savior. And thank you, Father, that you have given us this comfortable place together where we can, looking to your word, where we can be in courage and strength.
And I pray for anybody who's here this morning who doesn't know the Lord Jesus, Lord, that this may be the day that they come to know the Savior of the world. I pray that you would help us as we look through and read your word. May the focus be on the Lord Jesus Christ and not on anything that I say, not on anything that is presented, but may Christ be presented clearly. And eyes turn to Him.
We ask in His name, amen. Studies in Genesis. This is part nine, the New World. So we have come to the end of, this is our last study in Noah, in, in Noah.
And, um, uh, it's been a while since I've been here. So probably April, I think, was the last one. So believe it or not, uh, it's, it's been that long. So I don't think I need to review the story of Noah and the Ark too much.
I think you know most of that. But the last time we looked at the great flood and how it began. So first of all, God invited Noah, if you guys can turn that down just a little bit, it's really bugging me. It's, it's, I'm hearing myself too much.
Um, so the invitation was given. Come, Noah, you and all your family into the Ark. Um, it was a, it was a one time offer. Come.
And the Ark represented the salvation that God was giving that we enjoy today in Jesus Christ. So Noah and his family were saved from the floods. Then we read about the floods. We studied the flood.
The, the, the, the great flood that was worldwide in scope, not a local flood, like Kingsley experienced last year. A worldwide flood that the covered to the tops of all the mountains. Now the mountains weren't at 29,000 feet as they are now because when the fountains of the great deep opened up, all kinds of tectonic things happened in the world and you have thrusts of plates over other plates and you have mountains build. And you all just called mountain building.
So a mountain building took place in these big large huge mountains. But still it was a substantial amount of water that fell for 40 days and 40 nights and then 150 days following that. And then you have the Ark just going around the world, around the world with unlimited tidal waves and all these things. And then the water subsided and it says, but God remembered Noah.
It's not like God said, right, Noah forgot about him. It was like God said, Noah, this is your day. Now I'm going to invite you once again. Come out of the Ark.
You see the believer, we have responded to the first invitation. Come onto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest to Jesus. So we come to him, the first invitation and we are now resting in him. You see in the book of Revelation, there's another invitation that's given to believers.
It's to come out of the Ark. Come up here. That's what we're looking for. The come up here invitation if you're a believer.
So Noah got the first invitation to come into salvation. The second is to come back into your new home, your new world. Then we have climate change 101. Seasons happen.
Rain is now going to fall on the earth. Snow is going to fall on the earth. There's ice, all of these things that happened. The Ark rested, rested in the mountains of Ararat.
And then as we'll look at today in more detail, Noah and his family left the Ark, the leaving of the Ark. Now I've been reading some of historian Josephus. Very, very interesting. Now my friend Mike Winger got me onto Josephus a bit.
Because he's quoted him so many times on different things in the Bible thinking YouTube accounts that he gives. So I thought I'm going to go back and read and see if Josephus says anything about Noah and the Ark and the flood. This was really interesting. I don't know if you can see that clearly, but I'm going to read it.
It says now the writers of barbarian histories make mention. So Josephus, just so you know, Jewish historian lived from 37 AD. So just after the resurrection and ascension of the Lord Jesus until about 180. Now all the writers of barbarian histories make mention of this flood and of this Ark, among whom is Barossos the Chaldean.
For when he is describing circumstances of the flood, he goes on thus. It is said that there are still some parts of the ship in Armenia, which would be in modern day Turkey. At the mountains of the Cordaeans, some of the people carry off pieces of the bitumen, so it's kind of colified now by this point in time that this other historian is writing of this. Which they take away and use chiefly as amulets for averting mischiefs.
The Egyptian also wrote the Phoenician antiquities and so on, and a great many more to make mention of the same. Nicholas of Damascus in his 96th book has particular mention about them, where he speaks that there is this great mountain in Armenia over in Manaeus, Calberus, upon which is a report and many who fled the time of the deluges were saved. And the one was carried in an Ark on the shore on top of it. And the remains of the timber were a great while preserved.
What's interesting about this is these guys that he's quoting, these historians, have these accounts of this Ark that people are going up in there and they're taking basically souvenirs from this wooden structure in the mountains. I look back at this, and while that's not scripture, it's kind of like the archaeological proofs that you see. This is a proof that this account is true. So many civilizations, so many in the past have known of this Ark.
So the point that people were going up and down in the mountains of Turkey, grabbing pieces of it, making amulets, making stuff from the pieces of the Ark. I don't know why people still go up there looking for it, thinking they're going to find it, because this tells me it's been well robbed and taken away for many years. The structures that are now there that people see are probably very much geological, not archaeological. So, all right, my first point this morning, the sending of Noah.
That was just the appetizer. So, I hope you enjoyed that, but I thought it was very, very important to know that historically the accounts of Noah's Ark back up, which needs no backing, but back up what has written in the scriptures, that this event took place. So many civilizations right of it, and so many historic records are given. So, let's read Genesis chapter 9 verses 1 to 4.
And God bless Noah and his sons, and said to them, be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth, and the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every bird of the heavens, and everything that creeps on the ground, and all the fish of the sea, into your hand, they are delivered. Every moving thing that lives shall be for you. As I gave all the green plants, I gave you everything. But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is its blood.
So, the first some point of this is that life is to be now perpetuated. I had to come up with things that are all peace. So, the commandment is the same as given to Moses. Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth.
We've done a pretty good job of that. I looked in 1804, we got back to a billion people, which is roughly what it was at the time of the flood. Then in 1927, it was 2 billion people. It accelerates.
Then 1960, 3 billion people. It's one of those things. It's a compound interest. The more people you have, the faster you get to the next billion.
1975, so 15 years, we got 4 billion people. 2022, we have 8 billion, we're at almost 8.2 billion today. So, what? We are commanded by God to fill the earth.
The problem is, in this world today, we look around and we say, I don't know, it's such a wicked world, how can a Christian bring children into a world like this? I'm so glad that when, last week Sunday school started, the place cleared up, Brian and I were saying afterwards, where did everybody go? Because we have so many children. Christian parents are doing the right thing.
Have children fill the earth with children who know Jesus Christ, that they may make more disciples, and that they may tell more. When you bring your children into the earth, you have a responsibility to bring them to Christ so that their children of God, that they will go into the world and bring more children to God. The problem we have is not that the earth is so full. There is, you're told this by so-called science, that there's a catastrophe happening because we fill the earth.
There are too many people, it's overpopulation and so on. You know, you could probably take everybody on earth and put them in the southern US and not bump into each other. The problem is not space. The problem is human greed.
The problem is the way humans treat each other. It is not that we're running out of space. It is not that we're running out of resources. God has provided it.
God would not tell us to fill the earth if he did not provide the resources to fill the earth. So don't buy into the whole overpopulation thing. It's an over greed thing. It's an over extension of man's feeling of dominion over people on the earth.
The next thing, man was told to spread out over all the earth. When we look at chapter 11, we're going to see what happened. They decided, no, we're not going to do that. I know God says that, but we're going to just gather into these big clumps in cities.
And we'll see what happens in Shiner. When we look at chapter 11. So the next thing is life should be prolonged. Man is to have dominion over the earth, dominion over the animals.
It's the same as was told to Adam in Genesis chapter 1 verses 26 and 28. The beast of the earth, the birds of the earth, all that move on the earth, the fish in the sea. I noticed that livestock is included from that because they're already domesticated. Something in livestock that they like to be around people.
Probably because we feed them, pamper them and all that stuff, then kill them, eat them. But man is the crown of God's creation. Now when I say, when it says to have dominion, it means have management over all the earth, over all the animals. But there's something changed with animals after the flood.
You see before God made all the animals come to Adam and he gave them names. No problem at all. They all came through. Elephant.
Because it looks like an elephant. Dog, that kind of thing. When Noah was building the ark, God sent all the animals. They all came.
No dread, no fear. But now after the flood, everything has changed. We have a new world, a new world order. Now you have seasons.
Now you have a massive death on the earth where all life has been rubbed out. And now what's come from that from these animals is the dread of man, the fear of man. Man has dominion over them. Now man is allowed to change.
Mankind is allowed to change their diet and eat animals, eat meat. So there's nothing wrong with being a vegetarian, but there's nothing wrong with eating meat. The scripture say you can eat meat. There's no restrictions until the law comes.
Man was not necessarily designed to be a vegetarian. We've got teeth for ripping apart meat and stuff like that. Cain was a gardener. Abel was a shepherd.
Noah and his descendants were hunters. But there's one thing that's said here that's quite interesting. Don't eat blood. Don't eat blood.
Why is that? Now we read that again in the New Testament. In fact, we were reading last week in our men's study, this division of Peterhead, a sheep being left down with all kinds of animals. And the Lord said to him, eat.
Fill up on this stuff. You've got a drip coming. And thinking, okay, that's interesting. He's allowed to go and eat the same commandment that's given to Noah.
So God allows man to eat meat. But very specifically he says, do not eat blood. Do not eat blood. Do not eat an animal that's still alive with its life blood in it.
You see, in Mark 7 verse 15, Acts 10, 9 to 16, we read of eating animals, but not their blood. Acts 15. Blood is the source of life of the animal. Blood is the source of life of the human.
In Leviticus chapter 17, 11 to 12, it's very specifically said, do not eat an animal with its life blood in it. Do not eat the blood of an animal. Don't cook it in its blood. Don't eat its blood.
Hebrews chapter 9 verse 22. Again, in the New Testament, it tells us not to eat blood. Now, not only is it a health concern, but it's a spiritual concern. Life and the price of atonement is found in blood.
It's Christ's blood that has paid for your sins. His life blood is the atoning sacrifice for your sins. Prior to that in the Old Testament, the blood of an animal was offered for the sins of the people. God, in some way, uses blood as the accounting for the sins of people.
When Christ died, he shed his blood to save you from your sins. He's paid with his blood. So when you pay for something with your blood, you've given your total life, your whole life. Christ gave his life.
He died for you. He died for me. And life is sacred. I remember one time when I was traveling, they asked me if I would like this breakfast and put this breakfast in front of me.
I was in Scotland and I said, what's that? And he said, that's pudding. I said, pudding for breakfast? And he says, yeah.
He says, it's blood pudding. I said, oh, blood pudding. Never heard of it. What is it?
He says, it's cheap blood. We make it into a sausage. He said, no thanks. I knew these verses, don't eat.
I thought I can't even try it because of what these verses are. So blood pudding is off the list. Sorry if I have offended anybody here from good old Scotland. But it's a very clear commandment that's repeated through the scriptures.
It's very important to God. The next thing is that life is to be protected. Read with me Genesis 9 verses 5 and 6. And for your life blood, I will require reckoning.
From every beast, I will require it. And from man. From his fellow man, I will require a reckoning for the life of man. Whoever sheds the blood of man by man shall his blood be shed.
For God made man in his own image. This is going to be, this is very, very controversial. But for me, it's clear because this is what the scriptures teach. The scriptures teach that if an animal kills a human being, that animal is to be put to death.
It's very, very clear. The scriptures, same scriptures also teach if a human being kills another human being, they are to be put to death. I know our country has abolished that. I know our country is against that.
There's probably people here who'd say, whoa, I'm against that. But the scriptures are not. This isn't my opinion. This isn't me up here giving my political speech by any stretch at all.
I'm just reading you what the scriptures say. The scriptures say that if a human being kills another human being, this would be purposeful because as you read on you understand that it's a purposeful thing because provision was made for accidental homicide. There was provision made for accidental homicide, manslaughter. But this is a purposeful.
I am going out to kill somebody or in a rage I kill somebody. That life is supposed to be taken. The scriptures are clear on that. You see, this is the beginning of human government.
Human government has its bases on this, on governing that when life is taken by one human being, another human being, that human being who took the life has to go to death for it. This is James Montgomery Boyce, great preacher who wrote this. He said, the test of human government is the test of capital punishment, according to James Montgomery Boyce. A lot of establishes government at this point.
Governments have powers and laws and we're going to read what they can do. Now you can test the powers and laws of the government if you want on the way home, drive as fast as you want, see what happens. You say, well, I'm just not going to pay that ticket. Well, see what happens after that because there will be an accounting.
The government is there to enact the laws. Governments are put in place by God to govern. Now, there are arguments about capital punishment. People say, well, it doesn't deter crime.
Guess what? Neither does any other punishment. No punishment deter is crime. Otherwise, we would have no crime.
That 10 cent fine on the library book. I still keep stuff overdue even after I've paid it. I've paid the library. I remember going in one time and had it paid them like 36 bucks.
That's delinquency, as worse. But you know what? I remember going back to paying like 20 a month later because we still had stuff that we kept overdue. I have multiple, shame to admit it, not for years, but I have multiple speeding tickets.
Did it deter me? I got to get there. Man, I got to get there. I'll just push it.
I'll go 10 over, 15 over maybe. Did that fine deter me the first time? No. Punishment does not deter us from crime.
So the argument that capital punishment doesn't work because it doesn't deter us from crime, or it's not, no. God has made us in his image, and his expectation is if we are just going to willingly go out and kill one another, he expects that we will pay with our own lives. In the New Testament arguments for the capital punishment. Paul says in Acts 26, he says to a grip, and he's standing there, he goes, I'll tell you what, if I have committed a crime worthy of death, which would have been murder, then go ahead, take my life.
Paul understood the law was for capital punishment, and he agreed to it. So, but how do you establish guilt for this? Well, the Israelites used to establish guilt as laid out for you in Deuteronomy 17, verse 6, it says, on the evidence of two witnesses, or of three witnesses, the one who is to die must be put to death. A person shall not be put to death on the evidence of one witness.
It's fairly clearly, I can't just say, I don't like warren. I'm going to cook up a charge, and I'm going to go and have him put to death, and I'll be the only witness. The scripture say, no, on two or three. In 2 Corinthians chapter 3 verse 1, it says, every charge must be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses.
That carried on through. That's why our courts work the way they do. We are to be subject to the higher powers and governing authorities that God has put in place. And I want to read, I think I put it up here, yeah, no, I didn't.
So Romans chapter 13, I'm just going to read this. Paul wrote this, and he wrote this while Nero, Caesar Nero, was in charge. Caesar Nero was a very, very, very wicked man, very wicked man. But he was the person that God had allowed to be in charge in Rome.
In Romans chapter 13 verses 1 to 7, it says, let every person be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore, whoever resists the authorities, resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will encourage judgment. For the rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. So you understand that.
The rulers don't punish you for doing good. It's only bad. Would you have no fear if one of the one who is in authority, sorry, let me read that again. For the rulers are not in terror to good conduct, but to bad.
Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority, then do what is good, and you will receive his approval? For he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid. For he does not bear the sword in vain.
For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath against the wrongdoer. Therefore, one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God's wrath, but also for the sake of conscience. For the same reason, you also pay taxes. For the authorities are ministers of God, attempting to this very thing.
Pay to all, what is owed to them, taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenues are owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honors owed. So I realize this is difficult, and I realize that we run up against things that we will probably have to make decisions down the road that are going to tell us, well, you're no longer allowed to preach on the streets. You're not allowed to say this from your pulpit. You're not allowed.
There is a point where the apostles in acts come to a point and say, but I have to obey God rather than man. So understand, while God has put government in place to rule over us and to honor the government, God will always be the higher authority. He will always be the higher authority. And if God says something, that is to be obeyed more than the whims of man.
I need to move on here. The other thing that strikes me as well, when people talk on this matter of capital punishment, I have some notes on this, they tend to be, people who are against it, tend to be also in favor of aborting children. Now, I'm putting a whole lot of stuff in this that you're thinking, okay, this is very political. I'm just not really, I'm just talking about this is the institution of government and what government is to be and what they're to do.
You cannot be against one and for the other. It's so hypocritical. I'd look at some statistics of what happens. Like the taking of life is so hideous to God.
It is hideous to God. He has put this in place. You kill a man, your life must be taken. He is very, very clear about this.
And I can't imagine what it must mean to God to have children slaughtered before they're born. I can't imagine how horrible and horrific this is. I look up some statistics. In World War I and World War II, 24 million military were killed around the world.
Think of that. Two World Wars that span years, 24 military. As of yesterday, so far this year, 25 million babies have been aborted. So far this year, more than two World Wars.
It's horrible. God will not turn a blind eye to that. It is the taking of life. Now we've come up with a new way to through medical murder, to terminate the ill.
Human life is valuable and a sacred to God and it must be preserved. This is God's opinion. This is not my political rant here. This is God's opinion.
I should say it's not God's opinion. It's God's word. This is his word, his law. Next, life should be a partnership.
I'll move fairly quickly from here. Life is to be a partnership with God. A covenant is established. A covenant is that.
I remember learning way back in school that a covenant was a contract. It says here, behold. Okay, so pay attention is what it means. Behold.
I'm about to tell you something important God says. It says I'm going to establish my covenant with you. Now what's a covenant? A covenant is an agreement.
But a covenant can have, there's two different kinds of covenant really. First of all, there's a conditional covenant. God has a part. Man has a part.
It's kind of an if then. If you do this, then I will do that. So if I hire somebody to come and fix my roof and he gives me an estimate and I sign it, go ahead, do it. That's a covenant.
If you do this work, I will pay you that much money. That's a conditional covenant. An employment contract with my employer. Then there's unconditional covenants.
It's kind of a unilateral, God just declares it. I'm going to do this. I promise this. I'm going to do it.
An example of that. Marriage vows. Full on praise. Did marriage vows recently.
I didn't hear them say in sickness and health and richer and poorer and so on. As long as we both should live and you dress this way or you serve this to me for my favorite meal or as long as you make me feel happy. As long as you do, no, no, no, no conditions. I marry you.
You get old and fat. I'm still going to love you. Okay? It's that's an unconditional covenant.
Through the scriptures we have various covenants. First of all, the first one is the Edenic covenant and it was a conditional covenant. God said to Adam, he said here's your garden. I'm giving it to you.
Beautiful garden. And it was a conditional covenant. God said to Adam, he said, here's your garden. I'm giving it to you.
Beautiful garden. And you can have every tree in this garden and eat them all. Except for that one. Long as you don't.
But the day that you eat of that, you're going to die. Conditions on this covenant, isn't it? Everything will be roses until the day you eat that tree. Then there's the unconditional covenant that comes along to Abraham.
Abraham, I'm going to make you a great nation. I'm going to make your seed as plentiful as the stars of the sky, as the sand on the shore. But he doesn't say, but you have to do this, but you have to do that. It's an unconditional covenant.
Moses and the law. It's a conditional covenant. You keep these laws. I will bless you.
You don't. Yikes. Jeremiah speaks of a new covenant. I love this passage.
In fact, I want to share it this morning at the Lord's Supper, but I thought I'll share it now instead. To behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord. When I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. Now, that is with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, not with the house of David, like all of them.
But we have the blessings from this covenant, don't we? We enjoy the blessings that have come out of this covenant. Not like the covenant I made with the fathers and the fathers on the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt. My covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the Lord.
But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord. I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they shall be my people, and no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, know the Lord, for they will all know me. For the least of them to the greatest declares the Lord.
I will forgive their iniquity and remember their sins no more. It is such a wonderful covenant. I am going to take away the sins of my people. And we have had the same, the new covenant that we have in Jesus Christ.
Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved. The forgiveness of our sins. If you read through the book of Hebrews, you read so many times with a better covenant that we have, the new covenant we have in Jesus Christ. It is not based on our ability to keep it, but God's ability to give it.
So as a sign of this covenant, God has given a rainbow. There is a lot of rainbows these days. An awful lot. My little granddaughter loves rainbows.
And Poppy, there is a rainbow for you. I told her I put a rainbow up for her. You see, this rainbow that is put up is a sign of the covenant. Before the flood there was no rainbows because there was no rain.
It never rained. It is kind of a statement of peace from God. When we look at it, and God sees it, it is a reminder that the judgment is passed, that now you have salvation and security. So the next time you see a rainbow in this guy, remember to thank God.
Remember to thank God that his judgment upon the earth in the flood has ceased. It will never come back again. It is also interesting that a rainbow is associated with the throne of God. Revelation 4 verse 3, it describes the throne of God being surrounded by a rainbow.
The covenant was not to destroy the earth with the flood. It was unconditional. It speaks again of the fact that this flood was worldwide. Now, there is judgment coming upon this world, but it is not coming in the form of a deluge like this.
I need to move on. Now we will look. That was the sending of Noah, now the sin of Noah. Noah began to be a man of the soil, verse 20.
And he planted a vineyard, and he drank wine and became drunk and lay uncovered in his tent. And ham, the father of Cain and saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brothers outside. And Shamb and Japheth took a garment and laid on both their shoulders and laid it on both their shoulders and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father. And their faces were turned backward and they did not see their father's nakedness.
Now, there is not a lot of details given here. But here is what I know. Consuming too much alcohol is a problem. We read it here.
We read it twice in Genesis. You may have shared something about that in the life of Lot as well. So we read twice in Genesis. Men who consumed too much alcohol and became drunk made a very, very bad decision.
He got drunk. Drunkness is a sin. We read it throughout Proverbs. We read it in Ephesians 5 verse 11.
It says, do not be drunk with wine, which is dissipation. Not to do that. It caused two men in Genesis alone to bring about gross sins. What did David do?
Remember David sinned with Fshiba? And he thought, what do I do? I know. I'll get her husband drunk and send him home.
And that way he will forget all about this and think that he's the father of the child. And that didn't work. So he said about to be murdered. It's caused so much problems in our world.
Scriptures are not to be in an altered state of mind from alcohol or from other drugs. You're not. Scriptures are clear. We are not to be in an altered state of mind.
We're to think clearly. We're to be thinking soberly. Don't mess around with this stuff. It's not the issue that he drank wine.
It's that he drank too much wine. The Scriptures actually say that wine is a blessing. Psalm chapter 104 verse 15 says, and wine to gladden the heart of man, oil to make a space shine and bread to strengthen a man's heart. So the Scriptures does not condemn wine.
They do not condemn wine. There are cultures that's part of their meal. But the Scriptures condemn drunkenness. The Scriptures condemned getting high, altering your mind.
This was the downfall of knowing. If you read knowing, you'd think, wow, what a righteous and perfect man. But God allowed us to see this account of what happened. Now there's something said about the sons of Noah here.
I have to go back a little bit. It says in Genesis 9 verse 18 to 19. It says, the sons of Noah who went forth from the ark were sham, ham, and japheth. Ham was the father of Canaan.
These three were the sons of Noah. And from these, the people of the whole earth were dispersed. It calls out ham as the father of Canaan. So several years have passed when they've come out of the ark.
And ham now has a son, his son named Canaan. And Canaan ends up a really bad dude. So when you read the book of Joshua, the descendants of Canaan are a thorn in the flesh of Israel, all the way through. Here's, so every time you read in the Bible about the Jebusites, the Amorites, the gurgusites, the hivites, the acites, the sinites, the termites, all the rest of them.
When you read all of those, they all descend from Ham. They all descend through Canaan. So what happens is they see Noah in, Ham comes in, he sees his dad drunk and naked in the tent. We don't know what happened.
But it's believed that what happened was he came out and he mocked him to the other boys. He made fun of his father. He belittled his father. He took joy in his father's miserable state.
And he passed that on to the other boys and they said, oh, dad. And they took the garment and they put it on their shoulders and they walked back. I don't even want to look at dad in this state. Oh, he's drunk.
He's naked. Maybe he's sick. Don't know. Ham said it to ridicule him.
Ham ends up cursed by Noah. Not Ham, but his son Canaan. Noah probably said, you know what? Nothing good in that boy when he saw Ham's son, his little grandson, growing up and the trouble he was causing and so on and so on.
And he said, you know what, cursed in his Canaan. And he put it on his son. You my son have humiliated me. Now you're going to see it when your son brings shame to your name.
And throughout all of history, the hamites have been a thorn in the flesh of God's people. Shem and Japheth, they covered him and showed respect. Shem becomes the focus of the future. He becomes central in God's plan.
Abraham and all of Israel descend from Shem. Jesus Christ, his mother, Mary, descend it from Shem. Shem is in the lineage of Christ. We read it in Luke.
Cursid be Canaan. This is all fulfilled throughout the scriptures. Now finally, I want to look at the seed of Noah. This is my conclusion here.
After the flood, it says in verse 28 and 29, Noah lived 350 years. All the days of Noah were 950 years and he died. So 950 years. It's interesting.
In the genealogies of Genesis chapter 11, Noah probably lived until the time of the Tower of Babel when human beings were dispersed over all the earth. It was close to the time when Abraham was born. Abraham could have known Shem. I put those green and red markings on here.
So here you've got Adam. Adam was alive at the time that Noah's father was born. Seth died around when Noah was born. Later on, so right here, great interruption.
Everybody's dead except for Noah and Shem. So here's Noah. It dies just after Abraham was born. Here's Shem all the way up to halfway through Isaac's life.
It's amazing how... So this adds weight to those genealogies that are given in the New Testament. The Bible traces the genealogy of Jesus Christ back to Shem in Luke chapter 3 verse 14. verses 23 to 38.
Alright, wrapping up. Here are some similarities between Noah and Adam. Sorry if I'm making this message more of a fact thing, but it's what's here in the scriptures. I look back and I thought about this.
Adam was the head of the human race. Noah was the head of the human race after the flood. Both our ancestors of all the people living in the world today can be traced back to them. Adam was told to be fruitful and multiply and have dominion over the animals.
Noah and his family were told to be fruitful and multiply and have dominion over the animals. Adam sinned by eating forbidden fruit. Noah sinned by drinking wine made from fruit. I know I'm stretching on some of this.
Adam saw his nakedness after sinning. Noah sinned and his nakedness. God gave a covering for Adam's sin, coats of skins. Noah was provided a covering for his nakedness by his new sons.
God judged Adam's actions with a curse and promised a Savior. Noah's actions resulted in a curse and a promise of a spiritual blessing through Shem who was the Savior of the world. Now I want to say just two minutes and then we'll sing. When I read this, it tells me that the scriptures are true.
It tells me that these historical accounts that have been given and backed up through time, through genealogies, through archeology, through historical records are true. So if what the Bible says about Noah is true, then what the Bible says about me and what the Bible says about you is true. We read a passage this morning that said, when we were without strength in due time, Christ died for the ungodly. That says so much to me.
It says that Christ died first of all for the ungodly. It also says that when we were without strength, we were the ones that were not true. We were the ones that were ungodly. We were the ones that needed the Savior.
We were the ones that needed the descendants of Hem, of Shem, rather, to come down to Jesus Christ. All of this was written for one purpose, that we would see Jesus Christ in the scriptures. Shem. And then all of this descendants pointed to one person, Jesus Christ, the Savior.
And I want to, one more time today, I want to invite you to consider Him, the one who died for you, the one who came to take away your sins. And I'll tell you what, if you're a believer and you know Him, you are greatly rejoicing in that. We are so thankful. I'm not thankful that I'm a good person or I'm better than anybody else, or I've done this, or I've done that, or I've given money to the church, or I've done all of these great things.
I'm thankful for one thing, that Jesus Christ died for me, an ungodly person. The scriptures describe me. So this morning, when you look at it, the scriptures are true. What the scriptures say about us is true.
The good news for you. And if you haven't heard this, or you haven't come to accept this before, Jesus Christ died for you, that your sins may be forgiven and taken away. How do I accept that? Well, what did Noah do?
He just came to the ark, didn't he? And went in, and he was saved. So that's what you need to do today. Come to Jesus Christ, just as you are, right there.
You don't have to build an ark. You don't have to do anything at all. He's already done it. He's already paid it.
And you can come to him today, just as you are right now. I think we'll sing that song just as I am after we're done here. But I'd like you to pray with me. Father, we thank you.
And sometimes it's, we wonder why these detailed accounts are given in the scriptures. But Lord, all of the scriptures are the point to your Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. We are so thankful that through all of the centuries in millennia, your word has been preserved in its truth. And just as it says in the account of Noah, of all of these details and these things that have happened, the same word says that when we were without strength, at the right time, Christ died for the ungodly.
Father, I thank you. You sent your Son, the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself up for me, who may have life. Well, while our eyes are closed and while we're here, if there's anybody who may be thinking of these things and wondering, do I know him? Maybe I don't.
Is this real for me? That right here today, right now, they have come to trust the Lord Jesus Christ, they'll just come just as they are, with all of their sin, with all of their sorrows, with all of their difficulties and trust the living Savior, the one who died for them. I pray that in Jesus' name, amen. We'll sing that song.