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The Rise of Wickedness and Noah's Grace 0:10 Good morning. Welcome to Stand on the Word. Well, we are off on our journey through the word of God. Today, we are looking at Genesis chapter 6 through 9 verse 11 of chapter 6. The earth also was0:22 corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. Now in these chapters today, we're gonna cover the generation of Noah, the generations of Noah, which was roughly 950 years. Long time.0:34 So we're gonna cover slightly less than 1000 years today. Tomorrow, we slow down. We're only gonna cover about 500 years. Verse 1, chapter 6. Now it came to pass when men began to multiply on the face of the earth and0:43 daughters were born to them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful, and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose. And the Lord said, my spirit shall not0:55 strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh, yet his day shall be 120 years. Now a couple of different interpretations for this, 1 being that this1:07 is a a interpret as a warning of God that judgment was coming in about 120 years. Alright? The judgment was falling. Verse 4, chapter 6. There were giants on the earth in those days, and also1:19 afterward, when the sons of God came into the daughters of men, and they bore children to them, those who were mighty men, who were of old men of renowned. Now there has been and remains much debate over1:30 this passage and the word Nephilim, which appears only here and in Numbers chapter 13 verse 33. So what's being described here?1:42 2 primary views or theories, both of which have biblical support. Number 1 is that angels left their proper domain and they cohabitated with women, and they produced1:54 what is described here as nephilim, mighty men, men who caused others to fall down or fallen ones depending upon the interpretation of the word. Now let's look at the2:06 support for this view. Sons of God used elsewhere in the scripture describe angels. Jude speaks to angels having left their domain. Verse, 6 of Jude.2:18 And the angels who did not keep their proper domain but left their own abode, he has reserved an everlasting change under darkness for the great day, as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities2:30 around them in similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. So we see that2:42 the the sexual aspects of both situations. Now the apocryphal book of, Enoch, which is quoted by Jude, describes angels2:54 cohabitating with women and producing, these giant offspring. Now another view that also has historical support from church fathers is that the sons of Seth, who were3:05 of the righteous line of Seth, sons of God, married women who were not godly, who worshiped other gods and caused the children of these unions to3:17 fall away from God. Personally believe that the first theory is plausible, and it speaks to the absolute moral chaos and sin that3:29 enveloped the world. Alright. Verse 5. Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart and just3:41 think about that for a moment. Every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. Pretty bad. And the lord was sorry that he had made man on the earth and was grieved in his heart.3:53 So the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them. But4:05 but Noah found grace in the eyes of God. So what do we read here? We found we read that Noah found grace. God's grace. It is God's grace that sets us apart. This is4:17 the genealogy of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God. And Noah begot 3 sons, Shem, Ham, and Jephthah. The4:30 earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. So God looked upon the earth, and indeed it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth. They were morally and spiritually4:42 corrupt. So no Noah was, as we read here, 500 years old when he had these sons. In chapter 7, we read that Noah was 600 years old when the flood began. According to biblical scholars, Noah spent4:54 somewhere between 50 and 75 years building the ark. Now I want you to pause for just a moment and think, and then we read, you know, we read these stories, especially the ones that we know so well. And I'm gonna5:05 encourage you through this journey when we get to these stories that we know so well, that we've heard even go back to when we were kids, if we were in church, to read them differently, to to slow down5:17 and just contemplate. So I want you to think about what Noah faced, the difficulties that he faced. I mean, the burden that he was carrying, that5:29 judgment was coming upon the earth, and that he was to build this ark, a means of conveyance to save mankind and animals. I mean, just think about the ridicule, the5:41 mockery, the rejection that he faced. You know, it's not unlike today as we warn of God's pending judgment, his return. And when he returns, he's coming back as a king, andNoah's Obedience Amid Ridicule and Modern Parallels 5:53 he will rule, and he will reign, and he will rule with an iron rod, and he will man will mankind will be judged if we're not under the grace of God, if we're6:05 not carried by that grace as this type we see here with with Noah. I mean, you consider I I think think about the moral state of the world in6:17 in Noah's day. It was it was less than 2000 years from creation. Okay? Okay? 2000 years. We're 2000 years from the resurrection of Jesus Christ and the creation of the church. The world6:29 2000 years after creation, per created in its perfection was a place of great wickedness. So since the fall of man and all the way to the end of time,6:41 the direction of the world has been downward, and it will be downward. Man is not evolving to a higher moral state. Man is devolving. After the flood, there was a short6:53 reprieve in that in in the evil as God destroyed the world, saving Noah and his family and this remnant of animals. And as I mentioned, 2000 years after that, Jesus came and conquered sin and death,7:04 provided a means of salvation, just like Noah who responded in faith and believed in God. And the church's presence became a preserving influence on the earth7:16 intended to slow that moral decline as we are called to be salt. But remember what Jesus said that the world would be like when he returned. Remember? He said it would be7:28 like the days of Noah. In fact, let me read that. Matthew chapter 24 verse 37, but as the days of Noah were, so also will be the coming of the son of man be. For as in the7:39 days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage until the day that Noah entered the ark, and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will be the coming of7:50 the son of man be. Various interpretations there, we can say people were distracted. They were just going about their business. Part of it, they didn't have time for God. They didn't care about God. They had8:02 left God, and they were pursuing other things. I mean, you look around this today. Is there is there violence? Is there moral corruption in the world today? Without question. And and and8:14 I'm not gonna predict the date or the time of Jesus' return, but I would suggest scripture makes very clear that we should be able to turn discern the season that we are in. And I8:26 believe we live in a season that is pointing to his return. You know, absent another revival within the church, which would lead to an awakening in our8:38 culture, which would lead to a reformation of our, you know, our laws and and the way we conduct ourselves. I mean, look, we are moving toward, I think, a8:49 description of what we have in the days of Noah. Alright. But chapter 7 chapter 7 has some good news. Verse 1, then the lord said to Noah, come into the ark and all and you and all your9:01 household because I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation. So just like Noah, the lord provides safe passage through the turbulent and troubled waters into a new life for thoseGod's Covenant and the Sanctity of Life 9:13 who will trust and obey him. So chapter 7 provides the details of the flood. I'm gonna leave that for you to read because we have a lot to cover today.9:25 Chapter 7 is post flood. I wanna point to a couple aspects of that verse 20 of chapter 8. Then Noah built an altar to the lord and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the9:36 altar. And the lord smelled a soothing aroma. Then the lord said in his heart, I will never again curse the ground for man's sake. Although the imagination of man's heart is evil from9:48 his youth. Again, look, it it's the heart of man. From his youth is evil. Nor will I again destroy every living thing as I have done. While the earth remains seed time and10:00 harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, and day and night shall not cease. Alright? God is sustaining this world until he says it's over. Chapter10:12 9 contains God's promise to never destroy the earth by flood again, and the sign of this promise, which is a rainbow, and it would accompany the rain clouds. Because I can imagine every10:24 time these rain clouds gathered, people got a little anxious. I know after we went through a flood in my, home area of Baton Rouge almost 10 years ago,10:35 that, for quite some time, every time there was a big storm coming, people were anxious. And God showed this promise was real by the rainbow that he put in the sky.10:49 Alright. Also, there was a change of, of diet for man after the flood because burgers were now on the menu. Verse 3 of chapter 9, every moving thing11:00 that lives shall be food for you. I have given you all things even as the green herbs. Now there's another significant development here that we read of. It it I think most likely instituted to11:12 keep violence in check. Look at verse 5 of chapter 9. Surely for your lifeblood, I will demand a reckoning. From the hand of every beast, I will require it, and from11:24 the hand of man. From the hand of every man's brother, I will require the life of man. Whoever sheds man's blood, by man, his blood shall be shed, for in the image of11:36 God he made man. So this what we read here is the basis for capital punishment. Right? God provides this reason11:48 for unique accountability. And and the reason is not because, you know, human, the value of human life is grounded in its usefulness, its intelligence, its social12:00 contribution, or even its innocence. None of that Well, some of that may be true or not true. It doesn't matter. It is all based upon the fact that man is an image12:12 bearer an image bearer of God. For in the image of God, he made man. That is why the taking of human life is treated as a singular moral crime, and our laws should12:24 reflect that. Even after the fall, human beings, though carrying the the fallen nature of Adam, they still bore God's image. We are created in the image of12:35 God. Man bears the image of God. That's what gives us value. That's why every person has this intrinsic worth and demands justice when that life12:47 is violently taken. Now consider what's happened. Right? Consider for just a moment what's happened over the last century, especially in the the last few decades as generations were shaped by12:59 the teaching of evolution. Especially in the formative years, children are being taught this in our schools. When a and and that's when a worldview is being shaped. You're gonna hear me talk about this a lot, but a13:10 worldview in a child is shaped between 15 months of age and 13 years. That's why there's all this push for early childhood education. So if children are taught that there is no13:22 creator, there's no design, no ultimate moral accounting, only chance and survival, then human dignity becomes negotiable. Life is reduced to biology,13:35 and ethics becomes a matter of preference or power. When a culture no longer recognizes the divine distinction that Genesis,13:47 the Bible, the word of God affirms, when it treats people as advanced animals rather than image bearers of God, We should not be surprised13:59 that it grows more callous toward life and increasingly confused about what true justice really is. And that's why it's so important that we're in the word of14:11 God, we know the word of God, and we live out the word of God. Father, we thank you for your word. Thank you that we bear your image and that every human being, regardless14:23 of what ZIP code they were conceived in or what side of the tracks they were born on, lord, they have value because they're created in your image.14:35 And father, I pray that we would have that understanding that life is precious because it bears your image. And I pray father that in this year,14:47 20 26, Lord, 2000 years after the beginning of the church and that preserving effect of the church in bringing a biblical moral true standard to14:58 bear. I pray father that we would not shrink back from that, but we would hold high the banner of Jesus Christ in your word. First, applying it to our own lives, but then, lord, teach15:10 us through the power and the presence of the holy spirit on how to apply it in this world in which we live. We pray and ask this in Jesus' name. Amen. Alright. Thanks for joining me this morning. And15:22 until next time, keep standing on the word.15:28 Today's study comes from the Stand on the Word Bible Reading Plan available for free at f r c dot o r g slash bible. By following along in just a few minutes a day, you15:40 can read through the entire Bible in just 2 years. Learn more and request the free reading guide at frc dot org slash bible.In this video 0:00 The Rise of Wickedness and Noah's Grace5:50 Noah's Obedience Amid Ridicule and Modern Parallels9:10 God's Covenant and the Sanctity of Life
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