Podcast: God's instruction to Noah and his sons after the flood

 

1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

2 And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.

3 Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.

4 But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

5 And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.

6 Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made HE man.

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Genesis 9

18 And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.

19 These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread.

(All humans descended from Noah and the 3 sons, Shem, Ham, Japeth)

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The curse upon Ham:

Genesis 9

20  And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:

21 And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.

22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.

23 And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.

24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.

25 And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

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From the beginning of man, disobedience toward God was exhibited through man.  By the time of Noah, God saw what man was and it was described as follows:

Genesis 6:5   And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

11  The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

Many people like to think that man is basically good.  But the opposite is shown in the Bible.  Most men are basically evil for the imaginations of the thoughts of their heart is only evil continually, as stated by God.

Humans often exalt other humans and call them good but the Bible show us the opposite.

Occasionally a righteous man would rise up, such and Noah, and God would save that righteous man.

But mostly humans are evil as shown us by the Bible.

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Humans do the works of the flesh of man:

Galatians 6

19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

20 Idolatry, witchcraft (following various superstitions), hatred, variance (to vary/argue), emulations (to exalt themselves above others), wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

The answer for man came with Jesus Christ who said:

John 3:7  Ye must be born again.

God reveals HIMSELF to us and causes us to be changed from that which we once were.

II Corinthians 5:17   Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

God gives us HIS own Spirit, the Holy Spirit, who lives in us to teach us and guide us and show us what to do.

And as we walk in the Spirit, doing the will shown to us by the Holy Spirit, we keep our flesh under control so it no longer does what it wants to do.

If we walk in the Spirit, following that which is brought to our mind by the Holy Spirit of God, we have no condemnation.  

Romans 8:1   There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

So by choosing the way of the Spirit we overcome our own flesh and keep our flesh crucified, not letting our flesh do what it wants to do.

The flesh never improves.  We just keep it under the control of the Spirit as we walk in the ways shown us by the Spirit.

And when we choose the way of the Spirit we will automatically produce the fruits of the Spirit.

Galatians 5:22-23   But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance:

It is not that we learn to do the works of the Spirit.  Because the Spirit lives in us, HE brings thoughts to our mind and we do that which HE shows us.  And when we do that which the Spirit brings to mind, our righteousness is of God because it is God who authored our righteousness through HIS Spirit.

Therefore in all things, we pray, asking God to help us and to show us what to do.

We put our trust in God rather than trusting in our own selves.

When the problems come in this life, we turn to God and follow what HE shows us in the matter at hand.

Thus we are a totally different person from that one who was born in the flesh.  Now we are born in the Spirit.

I Cor. 3:16  Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

We are the church.

Now God gives us HIS Word and we follow HIM.

 

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