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Scripture reading for this morning is in the

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ninth chapter of the book of Genesis, and

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we are reading verses 18 through 29.

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Genesis chapter 9, verse 18 through verse 29.

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Remember, in the context, we have just had

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the account of the establishment of the Noahic

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covenant.

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And Moses continues in the 18th verse, writing,

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Now the sons of Noah came out of

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the ark, who came out of the ark

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were Shem and Ham and Japheth, and Ham

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was the father of Canaan.

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These three were the sons of Noah, and

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from these the whole earth was populated.

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Then Noah began farming and planted a vineyard.

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That verse in the Hebrew text may be

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rendered slightly differently, and if you have a

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different version, you might have noticed some difference.

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Literally, the Hebrew text says that Noah was

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a man of the earth, and that he

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began planting a vineyard.

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And so we could render it, then Noah,

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a man of the earth, a husbandman or

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a farmer, began planting a vineyard.

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And he drank of the wine and became

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drunk and uncovered himself inside his tent.

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And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the

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nakedness of his father and told his two

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brothers outside.

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But Shem and Japheth took a garment and

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laid it upon both their shoulders and walked

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backward and covered the nakedness of their father,

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and their faces were turned away so that

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they did not see their father's nakedness.

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When Noah awoke from his wine, he knew

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what his youngest son had done to him.

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So he said, cursed be Canaan, a servant

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of servants, he shall be to his brothers.

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He also said, blessed be the Lord, the

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God of Shem, and let Canaan be his

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servant.

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It is important, as we've been trying to

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point out reading through the book of Genesis

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and expounding the text, to notice the names

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for God as they occur.

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And this verse particularly is important.

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Blessed be Yahweh, the Elohim of Shem, and

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let Canaan be his servant.

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May Elohim enlarge Japheth, and let him dwell

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in the tents of Shem, and let Canaan

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be his servant.

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And Noah lived 350 years after the flood.

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So all the days of Noah were 950

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years, and he died.

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May the Lord bless this reading of his

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word.

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The questions of race and nationalism, that is

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nationalism versus internationalism, have gained serious attention from

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20th century thinkers.

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But in spite of the onslaughts of the

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sociologists and the politicians, the barriers have still

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survived.

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Are there many races among humans?

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The only reliable account of the origin, characteristics,

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and history of human society is found in

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the Bible.

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And unfortunately that account has been greatly neglected

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in the 20th century.

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We generally tend to categorize people by their

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color.

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We speak of white people, yellow people, brown

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people, and black people.

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And depending upon the person whom we are

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reading, we generally say they are, there are

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from three to six major races.

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Or if we classify by languages, we know

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that there are thousands of languages.

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Every time the Wycliffe Bible Translation Society gives

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a count of the languages of the earth,

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the figures tend to rise.

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But there are many thousands of languages, many

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of which have not yet been committed to

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writing.

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The Bible, however, affirms that there is one

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race of men.

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Not many races, one race, but nevertheless that

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there are three families of men.

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The descendants of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

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It is rather striking, I think, in connection

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with this that the Apostle Paul, in the

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words that he spoke in Athens, would appear

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to agree with this.

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Because he says, and he made from one

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every nation of mankind to live on the

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face of the earth, having determined their appointed

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times and boundaries of their habitation, that they

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should seek God, if perhaps they might grope

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for him and find him, though he is

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not far from each one of us.

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You'll notice he says that there is, that

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all have come from one, every nation of

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mankind, that God has determined their appointed times,

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he has determined their habitation, and he has

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also determined that they should seek after God.

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That is his purpose for the providential dealing

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of God with nations.

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Well, in Genesis chapter 9, we have just

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been reading about the Noahic covenant made with

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Noah and the sons of Noah and the

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family, and in verses 18 and 19, we

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read of their emerging from the ark, and

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evidently from the standpoint of the providence of

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God, they turn now to the seeking after

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God.

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And of course we see a quite different

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thing emerging from that which is expressed by

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the Apostle Paul as ideally our purpose upon

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the earth.

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One of the very important things about this

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section that we're going to look at is

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the further development of the messianic prophetic program.

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And there is some indication of a covenant

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that already exists between the redeemed and the

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Lord in the words that God speaks through

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Noah.

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In verse 26, when we read, Blessed be

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the Lord, the God of Shem.

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And there is a relationship that evidently has

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been established between the Lord and Shem, so

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that Shem is the people of God, and

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God is the God of Shem.

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So evidently, if I may add this, the

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seed of the woman is to come from

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the Semitic family of the families of the

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earth.

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Well, let's look now at our passage, and

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we look first at verses 18 and 19,

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where Moses writes of the sons of Noah

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and the populating of the earth.

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We read in verse 18, Now the sons

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of Noah who came out of the ark

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were Shem and Ham and Japheth, and Ham

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was the father of Canaan.

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These were the three sons of Noah, and

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from them the earth, the whole earth, was

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populated.

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The Noahic covenant has been established.

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The rainbow has been established as the sign

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of that covenant, which suggested, among other things,

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the willingness of God in the heavens to

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penetrate the earthly sphere.

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Even in the very activity of providing a

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sign for men, we have evidence of the

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initiative of God in things.

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For just like the sun's rays shine from

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heaven upon the droplets that are in the

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skies and the rainbows produced, so God from

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heaven determines to give man blessing and a

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part of his blessing is the unconditional Noahic

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covenant.

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So there is suggested by the rainbow the

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willingness of God to have a measure of

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fellowship with those who are upon the earth,

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and he promises them that he will no

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longer destroy the earth by a flood.

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There is no redemptive promise specifically bound up

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in that, but it is an evidence of

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that initiative that proceeds from God determining to

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bless man.

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The rainbow, in addition to the things that

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we suggested last week, suggests to that extent

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that there is a measure of peace between

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God and man.

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Evidently, it is based upon the atoning work

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that the Lord Jesus should accomplish, and this

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common grace that is ours of a promise

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of never being destroyed again by a flood

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is one of the byproducts of our Lord's

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ministry of sacrifice upon the cross at Calvary

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to be accomplished centuries after this.

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The fact that the rainbow embraces the circle

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of a man's vision suggests also again the

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universality of the Noahic covenant.

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It is a covenant that is made by

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God unconditionally with all of men.

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Now, in verses 18 and 19, there is

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a formal mention of these emerging sons, Shem,

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Ham, and Japheth.

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three sons.

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How many daughters he had, the scriptures does

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not, does, the scriptures do not say, but

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evidently his progeny male-wise was limited to

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Shem and Ham and Japheth.

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Now, before we pass on, let me just

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make this comment.

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It is evident from the account in general

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that though the flood has been used by

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God to destroy all but eight sinners from

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the face of the earth, sin has not

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been destroyed.

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And the things that Noah and his family

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bring into the new age are the things

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that resulted from the sin of Adam in

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the Garden of Eden.

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When Adam sinned, remember, all men became guilty

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of Adam's sin.

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The imputation of sin took place immediately so

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that every man is born guilty of Adam's

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sin.

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Not only that, but the scriptures affirm that

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we also by the process of generation give

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to our descendants a sin nature.

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that we possess of Adam's sin and the

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sin nature that is communicated to us by

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generation, we therefore now have inability to turn

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to the Lord apart from divine enablement.

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The scriptures make that very plain.

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The Lord Jesus himself saying, No man can

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come to me except the Father which hath

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sent me draw him.

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So that no man is able to come

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to God apart from divine enablement.

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We are unable.

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Human inability is the third effect of the

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fall in the Garden of Eden.

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And the scriptures also reveal that if there

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is no redemptive experience, then all of the

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full penalty of death shall be ours.

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The spiritual death in which we all live

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will be prolonged into an eternal spiritual death.

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So those four great effects flow from Adam's

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sin.

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It is evident then that Noah and the

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members of his family, the eight souls that

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were saved, bring with them the curse of

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Adam's sin.

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And while everything begins with a new kind

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of glory about it, sinners are still there.

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And the future therefore is not good from

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that standpoint.

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Now we look secondly at the defiance of

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man in verses 20 through 23.

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It's rather, I think, it's a very touching

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thing to realize what has happened to this

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great man, Noah.

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Let me describe to you how he must

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have seemed to those who lived with him.

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He was a very prominent figure in the

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first place.

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He was well over 600 years of age

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because he was 600 years of age when

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the flood came to pass.

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Furthermore, now time has elapsed so that he

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has been able to plant a vineyard.

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The vineyard has been able to grow.

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He has been able to harvest grapes.

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And so there must have been a half

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a dozen years or more.

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These grapes have been gathered.

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All of the processes for making wine have

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taken place.

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And the fermentation and perhaps some aging, if

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he knew anything about the processes.

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There is a question about that, of course.

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But at least it's some time now after

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the occurrence of the flood.

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And so he's a man of 620 years

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or more of age.

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Old men, old Christian men, old believing men

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are always an object of interest because they

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are men who have passed through the vicissitudes

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of life.

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I know one of the great experiences that

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I had as a young Christian was having

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an opportunity to talk to some of the

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greatest of the Bible teachers that I was

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able to have contact with.

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And I used to always try to find

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some time to get with them and ask

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them about the study of the Word of

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God.

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How to study the Word.

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And any hints that they might give to

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the preaching of the text.

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And it always seemed to me that old

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men who had passed through the experience of

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Christian living and had been successful to that

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point were men from which we could learn

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a great deal.

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Nor was a man that was worthy of

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peculiar honor.

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Distinguished for the elevation of his piety, he

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is one of the men who is said

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to have walked with God just like Enoch.

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He had long maintained his fidelity to God

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in the midst of very evil times.

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For the days before the flood were very

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evil days.

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In addition, he had experienced the special deliverance

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from the hand of God.

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He had passed through the experience of the

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catastrophe of the flood.

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And in addition, he had not brought any

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stain upon his piety nor cloud upon his

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name.

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He was, in a sense, the second head

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of the human family.

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Adam was the first and he is the

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second.

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He is also, in one sense, the second

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head of the believing family of God.

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Because he comes through and if his family

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were believers, as we may surmise, he was

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the second head of that company.

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He was an old disciple who had probably

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seen Seth by virtue of his age.

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The son of Adam.

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He had also walked with Enoch.

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He had spoken with Methuselah.

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And since he lived to be 950 years

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of age, he lived on into the days

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of Abraham and was over 50 years of

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age when Abraham, when Abraham, or rather he

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had about 50 years of opportunity to converse

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with Abraham.

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So he is a remarkable man.

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One of, clearly one of the most distinguished

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figures in all of Holy Scripture.

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And if we were to paint a picture

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of the famous men of the Bible, Noah

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would surely be one of them.

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But now, in spite of the high regard

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with which Scripture speaks of Noah, and with

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which the people of Noah's day must have

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regarded him, we read here of his drunkenness.

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Listen again.

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Noah, a man of the soil, began planting

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a vineyard.

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And he drank of the wine and became

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drunk and uncovered himself inside his tent.

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This event, we say, was much later than

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the leaving of the ark.

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What happened?

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Well, we are not sure whether Noah began

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to drink because of inexperience with the alcoholic

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beverage.

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The chances are that he knew, he well

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knew, the consequences of this act.

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The chances are, if we may judge by

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the intelligence of the people who lived before

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the flood, the chances are that he understood

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all that we understand about the making of

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wine, perhaps even more.

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So it's probably to be regarded as an

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act of self-indulgence on Noah's part.

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The Bible says that we are to beware

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of Satan who goes about as a roaring

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lion, seeking whom he may devour.

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And that is what happened.

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He devoured Noah, the patriarch.

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Now, let me hasten to say that the

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picture that we give here is a picture,

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then, of a man who is disobedient to

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the word of God.

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But he is, nevertheless, Noah the patriarch.

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I guess I should also mention that when

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we read here that Noah drank of the

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wine, we are not saying that Noah's sin

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rested in the fact that he drank of

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the wine.

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As far as the Bible is concerned, to

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indulge in the drinking of wine is a

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perfectly legitimate gratification.

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There's nothing wrong, so far as we can

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tell, in Noah's drinking of the product of

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the vine.

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The sinfulness of making fermented liquors cannot be

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established from the Bible.

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As a matter of fact, the Bible speaks

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of the beneficial effects of the drinking of

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wine.

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For example, in Judges, in the Psalms, in

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the Proverbs, even in the New Testament, when

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Paul tells Timothy to take a little wine

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for his stomach's sake, it is clear that

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the use of wine has certain beneficial influences

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upon man's physical system.

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God himself, in Holy Scripture, employs wine as

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a symbol of the highest and choicest blessings,

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both temporal and spiritual.

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The Lord Jesus Christ made wine at the

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marriage feast in Cana of Galilee.

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Now, of course, we must temper all of

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this by pointing out that the New Testament

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tells us that if there are weaker brethren

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who do feel that the drinking of wine

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is a sin, for the sake of the

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conscience of the weaker brethren, the stronger brethren,

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who know that Scripture teaches that to drink

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wine is all right, should refrain from drinking

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for the sake of the conscience of the

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weaker brethren.

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But it is the weaker brethren who have

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the scruples, the Scripture says.

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There are other reasons for total abstinence, which

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may exist in certain circumstances, and the Bible

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speaks about them.

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This is not a message on this subject,

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and so I'll leave it at that.

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I want to say this, however.

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The Bible speaks most strongly about the effects

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of drunkenness.

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And so while we say that the Scriptures

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do not say anything about the drinking of

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a glass of wine, the Bible speaks most

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strongly about the overuse of alcoholic beverages.

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And furthermore, the Bible reveals that there are

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terrible consequences for the overuse of the alcoholic

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beverages.

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Characteristic from the standpoint of the Bible is

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that intoxication tends to the sins that go

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along with sensuality, frequently of sexual abuse.

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And we have illustrations in the Bible that

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plainly teach that.

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We have one in the book of Genesis

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that comes to mind immediately of the experience

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of Lot when he became drunken himself, or

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Ahasuerus, or Belshazzar.

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And there are many others in Scripture of

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the effects of overuse of that which is

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permissible according to Scripture teaching.

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So it teaches us the lesson that just

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as is the case in so many things,

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all things are lawful, all things, however, may

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not be expedient.

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So Noah's sin was not in the fact

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that he drank the wine.

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Noah's sin lay in the fact that he

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drank it and became drunk.

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And you can see the terrible picture of

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this godly man drinking the wine, becoming more

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and more under the influence of it.

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Finally, as the wine begins to inflame his

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being, he's warm, he throws off his outer

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garment, has nothing on but his underwear, and

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then, as we say, he passed out, fell

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on the floor.

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Quite a picture for a man who had

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walked with God.

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Now him, enters the tent at this moment,

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sees his father lying upon the floor, obviously

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passed out from some overuse of the liquors.

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He probably could smell the odors of the

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tent.

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Instead of acting as a child under the

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influence of a father's authority, he acts the

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reverse.

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Incidentally, modern biblical criticism demonstrates its failure to

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understand humanity by suggesting that because we have

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this beautiful picture of Noah being a righteous

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man in the first part of the life

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of Noah, as it is recorded here, and

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now have this picture of Noah's great sin,

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that obviously, according to them, the accounts of

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the first part must have come from one

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source, whereas the story of Noah's drunkenness must

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come from another source, as if it would

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be impossible for the same writer to write

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of Noah's walk with God and then to

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write of Noah's sin.

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Modern criticism not only does not know its

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criticism too well, but it certainly does not

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know human nature.

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This is very true to human nature.

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Noah was a great man, but he was

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a man, and because he was a man,

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he can sin and he can sin in

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the most degrading way.

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Some interpreters have suggested that what Ham did

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was not simply to make fun of his

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father, but that he actually performed a homosexual

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act upon his father.

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Now we read in verse 22 that Ham,

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the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of

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his father.

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In Leviticus chapter 18 and verse 6 through

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verse 19, the expression, see the nakedness of,

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occurs a number of times.

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And that expression in that chapter is related

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generally to sexual types of sins, but not

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simply to homosexuality, I might add.

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So it is the opinion of some that

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when Ham saw the nakedness of his father,

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that is a reference to a homosexual act

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that he performed upon his father.

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And that is supported, they say, by the

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fact that in verse 24 we read, when

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Noah awoke from his wine, he knew what

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his youngest son had done to him.

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Now I must say that we must give

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attention to this interpretation of the event.

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It would not certainly be beyond the range

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of possibility, and it surely would be in

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accordance with the curse that is pronounced upon

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Ham's family.

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Because from the beginning homosexuality is looked upon

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as rebellion against the authority of God, and

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it still is rebellion against the authority of

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God.

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That is why the Bible speaks of homosexuality

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as sin.

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It is rebellion against the natural constitution and

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against the authority of God.

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But nevertheless, in spite of that, it is

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difficult to prove that interpretation.

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So I am inclined to be a little

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more modest in interpreting the expression and refer

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it rather to salacious, scornful ridicule on Ham's

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part.

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He saw the nakedness of his father and

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he rejoiced in it, evidently.

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He relished it.

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He evidently had some grudge against his father,

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or at least he did not want to

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abide under the parental authority.

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And as a result of it, he told

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with relish and pleasure what had happened to

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Shem and Japheth.

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And so it was salacious, scornful ridicule, I

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believe.

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It was an act of rebellion against the

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father's authority.

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It was the very opposite of what came

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to be regarded in the Ten Commandments, under

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the Fifth Commandment, as the requirement to honor

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one's father and mother in order that our

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days might be long upon the earth.

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So long before the Fifth Commandment was broken,

543
00:25:35,180 --> 00:25:38,600
it is Ham who breaks the principle that

544
00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:39,460
lies behind it.

545
00:25:39,500 --> 00:25:41,020
He dishonored his father.

546
00:25:42,260 --> 00:25:45,220
Now the characteristic, by the way, that is

547
00:25:45,220 --> 00:25:47,700
repeated in the New Testament in Ephesians chapter

548
00:25:47,700 --> 00:25:50,800
6, and it is something that children should

549
00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:52,140
remember, and young people.

550
00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:56,600
The father does have a measure of authority

551
00:25:56,600 --> 00:25:58,960
that is spoken of in Holy Scripture, and

552
00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:03,460
to dishonor one's father is a sin.

553
00:26:04,300 --> 00:26:07,780
This very commandment is used as an exaltation

554
00:26:07,780 --> 00:26:10,320
in Ephesians chapter 6, verses 2 and 3.

555
00:26:10,380 --> 00:26:13,100
And we are expected to honor our fathers

556
00:26:13,100 --> 00:26:16,360
and our mothers, that our days may be

557
00:26:16,360 --> 00:26:17,500
long upon the earth.

558
00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:19,860
That's a word for the children in the

559
00:26:19,860 --> 00:26:20,360
audience.

560
00:26:21,120 --> 00:26:23,500
It's a word for young people, and a

561
00:26:23,500 --> 00:26:27,100
very necessary word in these days, the authority

562
00:26:27,100 --> 00:26:29,780
that God has given to the head of

563
00:26:29,780 --> 00:26:31,940
a family, or heads of a family.

564
00:26:32,780 --> 00:26:35,500
The response of Shem and Japheth is so

565
00:26:35,500 --> 00:26:35,940
different.

566
00:26:36,280 --> 00:26:38,080
They were grieved evidently.

567
00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:39,920
They were full of respect.

568
00:26:40,360 --> 00:26:42,840
They picked up a cloak, or perhaps even

569
00:26:42,840 --> 00:26:45,480
the cloak of the father, which Noah had

570
00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:46,440
thrown aside.

571
00:26:47,140 --> 00:26:49,000
They turned their backs.

572
00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:51,420
They put the cloak over their back.

573
00:26:51,660 --> 00:26:55,440
They backed over against Noah and covered his

574
00:26:55,440 --> 00:26:57,720
nakedness in order that they might look upon,

575
00:26:57,880 --> 00:26:58,840
not look upon it.

576
00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:02,780
What a beautiful illustration of the difference between

577
00:27:02,780 --> 00:27:05,200
children in the same family, incidentally.

578
00:27:05,980 --> 00:27:08,140
Here were three children with the same father

579
00:27:08,140 --> 00:27:11,000
and mother, the same privileges, the same opportunities,

580
00:27:11,260 --> 00:27:13,440
but oh how different one of them was

581
00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:14,120
from the other.

582
00:27:15,100 --> 00:27:18,720
We've often seen that illustrated in the children

583
00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:22,180
of individuals in this life.

584
00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:25,020
It also illustrates that a son may have

585
00:27:25,020 --> 00:27:28,920
very pious parents and experience many providential mercies

586
00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:33,140
because of the six, because of the parents

587
00:27:33,140 --> 00:27:35,060
and yet be at heart a child of

588
00:27:35,060 --> 00:27:35,540
the devil.

589
00:27:36,360 --> 00:27:38,600
It also illustrates the fact that in the

590
00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:42,520
final analysis, it often is the sovereign grace

591
00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:47,980
of God that determines what results from the

592
00:27:47,980 --> 00:27:49,080
same situation.

593
00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:52,720
Now of course the Bible specifically blames him,

594
00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:55,720
he is responsible for his sin, but it

595
00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:58,760
does illustrate that the reason that Shem and

596
00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:01,080
Japheth have their blessing is not because of

597
00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:04,080
anything in them, for they all three were

598
00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:05,000
equally wicked.

599
00:28:06,340 --> 00:28:08,200
But it was the grace of God that

600
00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:10,160
was manifested in the case of the other

601
00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:10,560
two.

602
00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:14,400
People often point to, Jacob have I loved

603
00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:17,760
and Esau have I, have I, Jacob have

604
00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:19,540
I loved, Esau have I hated, and they

605
00:28:19,540 --> 00:28:23,140
have said, how could God hate Esau?

606
00:28:23,980 --> 00:28:26,140
Now that is a problem, I would grant,

607
00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:28,480
but nevertheless it's in scripture.

608
00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:30,740
But the biggest problem is how God could

609
00:28:30,740 --> 00:28:33,100
love Jacob, that's the biggest problem.

610
00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:37,140
In other words, the exercise of grace on

611
00:28:37,140 --> 00:28:40,960
God's part is an even greater problem than

612
00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:43,580
the revelation of his sin, of his anger

613
00:28:43,580 --> 00:28:44,740
against sin.

614
00:28:45,660 --> 00:28:47,880
Well now we look at the prophecy of

615
00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:48,140
Noah.

616
00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:53,360
Eventually, Noah awakened from his drunk condition.

617
00:28:54,420 --> 00:28:57,220
As he sobered up, he reflected upon the

618
00:28:57,220 --> 00:28:59,540
fact that he was lying in a place

619
00:28:59,540 --> 00:29:01,700
that he was not accustomed to lying, and

620
00:29:01,700 --> 00:29:04,340
perhaps the cloak had been put over him

621
00:29:04,340 --> 00:29:06,140
in a way that he did not normally

622
00:29:06,140 --> 00:29:06,580
do.

623
00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:09,580
And so he recognized that something had happened

624
00:29:09,580 --> 00:29:12,940
to him, and that also someone had been

625
00:29:12,940 --> 00:29:14,780
involved, someone had seen.

626
00:29:15,300 --> 00:29:18,420
And so he inquired, and he learned, that's

627
00:29:18,420 --> 00:29:20,480
the meaning of the expression he knew in

628
00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:23,820
verse 24, he learned what his youngest son

629
00:29:23,820 --> 00:29:25,100
had done to him.

630
00:29:25,180 --> 00:29:28,480
He was told by either Shem or Japheth

631
00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:31,980
that Ham had seen his nakedness and had

632
00:29:31,980 --> 00:29:33,480
told them about it.

633
00:29:35,820 --> 00:29:38,120
Now what follows is a remarkable thing.

634
00:29:38,260 --> 00:29:40,700
It's one of the great messianic promises of

635
00:29:40,700 --> 00:29:41,460
the Old Testament.

636
00:29:41,620 --> 00:29:43,480
It's rather startling that it should come at

637
00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:45,700
a time when Noah has committed this great

638
00:29:45,700 --> 00:29:46,580
sin too.

639
00:29:47,540 --> 00:29:49,280
Did you notice as you were reading this,

640
00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:53,320
the remarkable parallel between this prophecy and the

641
00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:56,560
first messianic prophecy in Genesis 315 that we

642
00:29:56,560 --> 00:29:58,520
studied a few weeks back.

643
00:29:59,100 --> 00:30:01,340
There remember it was said that the seed

644
00:30:01,340 --> 00:30:03,420
of the woman should crush the head of

645
00:30:03,420 --> 00:30:07,100
the serpent, a mortal wound, so that someone

646
00:30:07,100 --> 00:30:09,800
from the line of Eve would be responsible

647
00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:12,380
for a victory over the serpent.

648
00:30:13,860 --> 00:30:15,620
Now I want you to notice the parallel.

649
00:30:16,940 --> 00:30:19,140
The first prophecy of the coming of the

650
00:30:19,140 --> 00:30:21,200
Lord Jesus Christ, for he is the seed

651
00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:23,240
of the woman, was given after the fall

652
00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:23,720
of Adam.

653
00:30:24,580 --> 00:30:27,420
This one is given after the fall of

654
00:30:27,420 --> 00:30:27,720
Noah.

655
00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:31,740
Both Adam and Noah had been commanded to

656
00:30:31,740 --> 00:30:32,880
fill the earth.

657
00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:36,540
Each of them was an ancestor of all

658
00:30:36,540 --> 00:30:38,380
men in their present world.

659
00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:41,480
Adam was the ancestor of those that followed.

660
00:30:41,720 --> 00:30:44,740
Noah was the head of those that followed

661
00:30:44,740 --> 00:30:47,240
him in the new conditions after the flood.

662
00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:51,720
Each sinned by partaking of a fruit, Adam

663
00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:53,080
of the fruit of the tree in the

664
00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:55,840
midst of the garden, Noah of the fruit

665
00:30:55,840 --> 00:30:56,720
of the vine.

666
00:30:57,520 --> 00:31:00,040
As a result of their sin, each became

667
00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:00,620
naked.

668
00:31:01,300 --> 00:31:03,580
When Adam and Eve sinned, they saw that

669
00:31:03,580 --> 00:31:04,220
they were naked.

670
00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:06,580
They had evidently been that before, but they

671
00:31:06,580 --> 00:31:08,600
saw their naked condition.

672
00:31:08,740 --> 00:31:12,360
And now we read of Noah's nakedness.

673
00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:16,200
Each was provided with a covering by someone

674
00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:16,700
else.

675
00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:22,120
And finally, following the fall of each, a

676
00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:25,280
tremendous messianic promise is given, and in the

677
00:31:25,280 --> 00:31:27,740
messianic promise there is not only promise, but

678
00:31:27,740 --> 00:31:29,320
also curse.

679
00:31:30,420 --> 00:31:32,000
It's striking, the parallel.

680
00:31:32,760 --> 00:31:34,140
I don't want to make too much of

681
00:31:34,140 --> 00:31:35,520
it, and I don't intend to do it

682
00:31:35,520 --> 00:31:38,440
by pointing out these parallels, but it is

683
00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:39,860
a rather striking thing.

684
00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:43,660
So along with the curse, there were blessing

685
00:31:43,660 --> 00:31:47,880
and anticipations of ultimate salvation given as well.

686
00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:51,260
Now let's look at the three divisions of

687
00:31:51,260 --> 00:31:51,800
the prophecy.

688
00:31:52,060 --> 00:31:53,900
It's a very symmetrical prophecy.

689
00:31:53,900 --> 00:31:56,900
There is a prophecy concerning Canaan, the youngest

690
00:31:56,900 --> 00:31:57,800
son of Ham.

691
00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:01,260
There is one concerning Shem, and there is

692
00:32:01,260 --> 00:32:02,780
one concerning Japheth.

693
00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:05,940
And first, concerning Canaan, we read in verse

694
00:32:05,940 --> 00:32:08,860
25, Cursed be Canaan, a servant of servants,

695
00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:10,660
he shall be to his brethren.

696
00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:13,680
Several questions are raised here immediately, and the

697
00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:16,420
first is, why was Canaan blessed instead of

698
00:32:16,420 --> 00:32:16,720
Ham?

699
00:32:17,700 --> 00:32:19,680
Canaan was the youngest son of Ham.

700
00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:21,860
Why did he not say, cursed be Ham?

701
00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:24,600
Well, the fact that that has proved a

702
00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:26,960
problem to people is evidenced by the fact

703
00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:30,780
that the Arabic version of this has inserted

704
00:32:30,780 --> 00:32:31,160
Ham.

705
00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:34,440
And so it reads, cursed be Ham, the

706
00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:35,400
father of Canaan.

707
00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:39,060
Because not only does that seem logical, but

708
00:32:39,060 --> 00:32:41,240
we have had this in the preceding context.

709
00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:43,780
Verse 18, Ham was the father of Canaan.

710
00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:46,260
Verse 22, and Ham the father of Canaan.

711
00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:49,360
So some scribe, thinking surely something has been

712
00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:53,220
left out here, inserted, cursed be Ham, the

713
00:32:53,220 --> 00:32:54,040
father of Canaan.

714
00:32:54,140 --> 00:32:55,840
That would make excellent sense.

715
00:32:56,460 --> 00:32:59,140
But unfortunately, in the manuscripts of the Old

716
00:32:59,140 --> 00:33:01,060
Testament, and in the versions of the Old

717
00:33:01,060 --> 00:33:03,220
Testament, it has no other support.

718
00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:05,800
So we must go with the text as

719
00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:06,320
we have it.

720
00:33:06,500 --> 00:33:09,180
Cursed be Canaan, a servant of servants.

721
00:33:09,300 --> 00:33:12,560
And ask, why should Canaan be cursed rather

722
00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:13,120
than Ham?

723
00:33:13,820 --> 00:33:16,980
Now some who have interpreted the sin of

724
00:33:16,980 --> 00:33:22,260
Ham as being of homosexual perversion have suggested

725
00:33:22,260 --> 00:33:26,880
that, nor given insight by the guidance of

726
00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:30,820
the Holy Spirit, perceived the perversion of Ham

727
00:33:30,820 --> 00:33:34,220
being found in his youngest son.

728
00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:37,740
And because of that, Canaan is cursed.

729
00:33:37,740 --> 00:33:40,720
Since the sin of the father, he is

730
00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:43,460
unable to see, will reappear in the son.

731
00:33:43,540 --> 00:33:45,260
Now the principle, of course, is true.

732
00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:47,020
We do know that that often happens.

733
00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:49,460
But so far again, as the text is

734
00:33:49,460 --> 00:33:52,340
concerned, there does not seem to be any

735
00:33:52,340 --> 00:33:55,200
real exegetical basis for it.

736
00:33:55,240 --> 00:33:57,500
So I'm inclined to go with another interpretation.

737
00:33:57,940 --> 00:33:59,560
And when I say I'm inclined to go,

738
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:01,940
you'll understand I'm not trying to be dogmatic,

739
00:34:02,420 --> 00:34:03,720
as is my custom.

740
00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:07,580
Because I do think there are lots of

741
00:34:07,580 --> 00:34:09,199
things in the Bible that I don't know.

742
00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:10,880
And then I know there are lots of

743
00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:12,500
things you think that I don't know that

744
00:34:12,500 --> 00:34:14,040
I think I do know as well.

745
00:34:14,159 --> 00:34:18,260
So the resulting things that I don't think

746
00:34:18,260 --> 00:34:19,940
I know, plus the ones that you know

747
00:34:19,940 --> 00:34:22,199
I don't know, make a great deal of

748
00:34:22,199 --> 00:34:23,520
biblical knowledge, I know.

749
00:34:24,060 --> 00:34:29,739
But I'm inclined to think that the thing

750
00:34:29,739 --> 00:34:32,659
that lies behind the cursing of Canaan instead

751
00:34:32,659 --> 00:34:34,320
of Ham may be this.

752
00:34:35,300 --> 00:34:37,639
After all, Canaan was the youngest son of

753
00:34:37,639 --> 00:34:37,940
Ham.

754
00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:42,040
And of course, the sin of Ham was

755
00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:45,940
a breaching of the proper family relationship.

756
00:34:46,480 --> 00:34:50,159
That is, children should honor their parents, their

757
00:34:50,159 --> 00:34:51,199
father and mother.

758
00:34:51,639 --> 00:34:56,280
And so the curse pronounced upon Canaan is

759
00:34:56,280 --> 00:34:59,360
really an indirect curse upon Ham in this

760
00:34:59,360 --> 00:34:59,820
sense.

761
00:35:00,460 --> 00:35:05,120
Since Ham has breached the family relationship, he

762
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:08,680
himself will suffer a breach of his own

763
00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:12,020
family relationship in the cursing of Canaan.

764
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:16,220
So Ham's family suffers since he breached his

765
00:35:16,220 --> 00:35:18,480
own family relationship with Noah.

766
00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:21,860
Now, that doesn't completely satisfy me, but it

767
00:35:21,860 --> 00:35:24,300
seems to be suggested by what follows.

768
00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:27,120
Cursed be Canaan, a servant of servants, he

769
00:35:27,120 --> 00:35:28,200
shall be to his brethren.

770
00:35:28,460 --> 00:35:31,180
But now that raises another question, and one

771
00:35:31,180 --> 00:35:33,980
that has been on the lips of biblical

772
00:35:33,980 --> 00:35:36,420
students for about 25 years now.

773
00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:40,320
Does this curse justify the practice of segregation?

774
00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:43,600
After all, we read, Cursed be Canaan, a

775
00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:45,420
servant of servants, he shall be to his

776
00:35:45,420 --> 00:35:45,740
brethren.

777
00:35:45,740 --> 00:35:47,620
Canaan is the son of Ham.

778
00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:51,220
The Hamitic peoples are supposedly the black peoples.

779
00:35:51,380 --> 00:35:52,640
That's wrong, incidentally.

780
00:35:53,080 --> 00:35:55,660
The Hamitic peoples are much broader than black

781
00:35:55,660 --> 00:35:56,060
people.

782
00:35:56,580 --> 00:35:59,640
They are the Hamitic peoples, and therefore the

783
00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:02,600
black Africans are included, and God has pronounced

784
00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:05,240
a curse upon them, and therefore segregation is

785
00:36:05,240 --> 00:36:05,860
justified.

786
00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:08,480
There isn't anything in the Bible really to

787
00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:11,820
support this, but it has had wide appeal

788
00:36:11,820 --> 00:36:14,720
among those who go through the Bible and

789
00:36:14,720 --> 00:36:17,220
do not give it the careful attention that

790
00:36:17,220 --> 00:36:18,420
it should have.

791
00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:21,500
In the first place, the curse falls upon

792
00:36:21,500 --> 00:36:23,240
Canaan, and not upon Ham.

793
00:36:24,140 --> 00:36:26,760
Now, we know from the biblical record that

794
00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:30,080
the Canaanites dwelt in the land of Palestine

795
00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:32,060
in the days of Joshua, and on into

796
00:36:32,060 --> 00:36:34,120
the days of David and Solomon.

797
00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:37,920
And when we read the Old Testament accounts,

798
00:36:38,100 --> 00:36:39,980
we can turn to the book of Joshua

799
00:36:39,980 --> 00:36:42,840
in chapter 9, verse 23, where Joshua brought

800
00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:46,280
the Canaanites, the sons of Canaan, under their

801
00:36:46,280 --> 00:36:50,260
dominion and made them hewers of wood and

802
00:36:50,260 --> 00:36:52,780
drawers of water, that is, servant of servants

803
00:36:52,780 --> 00:36:55,160
to the Semites.

804
00:36:55,780 --> 00:36:57,580
And there were some that were left, and

805
00:36:57,580 --> 00:37:01,220
they later also were subjugated by Solomon in

806
00:37:01,220 --> 00:37:03,640
his day, and in 1 Kings chapter 9,

807
00:37:03,700 --> 00:37:07,100
verse 20 and 21, it is specifically stated

808
00:37:07,100 --> 00:37:09,660
that that is what took place.

809
00:37:10,460 --> 00:37:14,260
Then, in the case of the wider group

810
00:37:14,260 --> 00:37:17,480
of the Canaanites, such as the Phoenicians and

811
00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:20,700
the Carthaginians and others who belong to the

812
00:37:20,700 --> 00:37:23,620
family of Canaan, they were subjected to the

813
00:37:23,620 --> 00:37:26,740
Japhetic Persians, the Macedonians, and the Romans later,

814
00:37:26,880 --> 00:37:29,860
and so the prophecy concerning Canaan has been

815
00:37:29,860 --> 00:37:33,240
fulfilled in Scripture as it is set forth

816
00:37:33,240 --> 00:37:33,640
here.

817
00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:35,780
In other words, there isn't anything in the

818
00:37:35,780 --> 00:37:37,480
Bible, so far as I can tell, that

819
00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:42,260
justifies the practice of segregating black peoples from

820
00:37:42,260 --> 00:37:42,760
whites.

821
00:37:42,940 --> 00:37:45,600
We are all members of one family.

822
00:37:46,780 --> 00:37:49,940
God has made of one all nations upon

823
00:37:49,940 --> 00:37:50,500
the earth.

824
00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:54,660
Now, the second of these prophecies, and it

825
00:37:54,660 --> 00:37:56,820
has to do with Shem, and this is,

826
00:37:57,020 --> 00:37:58,680
of course, the more important one.

827
00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:01,860
He also said, blessed be the Lord, the

828
00:38:01,860 --> 00:38:04,080
God of Shem, and let Canaan be his

829
00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:04,520
servant.

830
00:38:05,140 --> 00:38:07,940
Now, here is a place where we need

831
00:38:07,940 --> 00:38:13,180
to study the Bible carefully, carefully, looking at

832
00:38:13,180 --> 00:38:14,440
each word.

833
00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:18,300
Oh, I wish people in the twentieth century

834
00:38:18,300 --> 00:38:21,000
would study the Bible as if it were

835
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:22,120
God's word.

836
00:38:22,940 --> 00:38:26,120
People don't do this because basically they don't

837
00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:30,260
really believe that the Bible is God's word.

838
00:38:30,260 --> 00:38:33,080
If an angel were to stand here and

839
00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:35,320
say, this is God's word, study it, we

840
00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:37,400
think we would probably be better students.

841
00:38:38,100 --> 00:38:40,660
But we wouldn't, but we ought to be.

842
00:38:41,540 --> 00:38:44,660
Now, he says, not blessed be Shem, incidentally,

843
00:38:44,720 --> 00:38:48,340
he says, blessed be the Lord, Yahweh.

844
00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:51,200
Now, we have said over and over again

845
00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:53,640
that this name for God is the name

846
00:38:53,640 --> 00:38:57,500
for God that suggests that he is a

847
00:38:57,500 --> 00:39:00,700
God who makes a covenant and keeps it

848
00:39:00,700 --> 00:39:01,860
with his people.

849
00:39:02,500 --> 00:39:06,100
Yahweh, the Lord, the God of Shem.

850
00:39:06,900 --> 00:39:08,720
Now, he is blessed.

851
00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:12,420
Now, Shem is going to be blessed only

852
00:39:12,420 --> 00:39:14,700
because of his relationship to him, and so

853
00:39:14,700 --> 00:39:18,420
he says, blessed be the Lord, Yahweh, the

854
00:39:18,420 --> 00:39:21,220
covenant-making and keeping God.

855
00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:25,040
He is the God, the Elohim, the mighty,

856
00:39:25,260 --> 00:39:28,820
powerful, creator God of Genesis 1-1.

857
00:39:29,300 --> 00:39:31,240
He is the God of Shem.

858
00:39:31,700 --> 00:39:33,900
But now notice that little preposition of.

859
00:39:34,420 --> 00:39:36,940
He is the God of Shem.

860
00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:38,920
He is Shem's God.

861
00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:42,600
In other words, Shem possesses this God.

862
00:39:42,940 --> 00:39:44,340
That's a possessive relationship.

863
00:39:44,780 --> 00:39:50,240
Now, the possessive relationship suggests then that Shem

864
00:39:50,240 --> 00:39:55,920
is God's people, using the collective sense.

865
00:39:56,780 --> 00:40:02,440
And furthermore, not only is Shem related to

866
00:40:02,440 --> 00:40:06,260
God and his people, but God is the

867
00:40:06,260 --> 00:40:08,280
God of the Semites.

868
00:40:09,240 --> 00:40:12,120
Now, what is there in the scriptures that

869
00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:14,820
has suggested that there is this relationship?

870
00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:17,940
Now, that relationship to be their God and

871
00:40:17,940 --> 00:40:20,280
they to be his people is spelled out

872
00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:22,000
in the covenants of the Old Testament.

873
00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:24,580
You'll find it in all the unconditional covenants.

874
00:40:24,760 --> 00:40:25,800
It is expressed.

875
00:40:26,260 --> 00:40:28,280
They will be my people, I will be

876
00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:28,900
their God.

877
00:40:29,140 --> 00:40:33,240
He enters into an unconditional, gracious relationship with

878
00:40:33,240 --> 00:40:36,720
his people, climaxed in the New Covenant, when

879
00:40:36,720 --> 00:40:39,960
the Lord Jesus speaks about how in the

880
00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:44,660
New Covenant his people are to be redeemed

881
00:40:44,660 --> 00:40:46,340
through the blood that he shed.

882
00:40:46,640 --> 00:40:49,180
Blessed be the Lord, the God of Shem.

883
00:40:49,820 --> 00:40:51,720
Well, you can see from this that it

884
00:40:51,720 --> 00:40:54,420
is clear that Genesis chapter 3 and verse

885
00:40:54,420 --> 00:41:00,120
15 has implicitly involved a covenantal relationship between

886
00:41:00,120 --> 00:41:02,420
the seed of the woman and a certain

887
00:41:02,420 --> 00:41:04,480
succession of individuals.

888
00:41:05,240 --> 00:41:07,700
Now, we're right at the fountainhead of Messianic

889
00:41:07,700 --> 00:41:09,720
prophecy and we should expect things to be

890
00:41:09,720 --> 00:41:10,580
rather general.

891
00:41:10,780 --> 00:41:13,500
The details will be filled in as the

892
00:41:13,500 --> 00:41:15,260
biblical record proceeds.

893
00:41:15,960 --> 00:41:19,080
But you can see right here that Shem

894
00:41:19,080 --> 00:41:22,560
has a covenant relationship with God which will

895
00:41:22,560 --> 00:41:24,400
be spelled out later on.

896
00:41:24,620 --> 00:41:27,600
It's rather striking too that Shem, that name

897
00:41:27,600 --> 00:41:29,520
incidentally means name.

898
00:41:30,460 --> 00:41:32,540
And one of the things characteristic of the

899
00:41:32,540 --> 00:41:34,820
God of the Old Testament is his name.

900
00:41:35,860 --> 00:41:39,560
He is, that term name suggests all that

901
00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:41,920
he is in his attributes and powers.

902
00:41:42,700 --> 00:41:46,240
And Shem is given the name of name.

903
00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:49,980
Blessed be the Lord, the God of name.

904
00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:53,360
For he is the great name of the

905
00:41:53,360 --> 00:41:53,940
Old Testament.

906
00:41:54,080 --> 00:41:57,480
He's identified himself with Shem and those who

907
00:41:57,480 --> 00:41:58,600
are related to Shem.

908
00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:03,220
And incidentally, he does it by grace.

909
00:42:03,960 --> 00:42:06,380
There is nothing that Shem has done to

910
00:42:06,380 --> 00:42:07,880
justify that relationship.

911
00:42:08,280 --> 00:42:11,220
It is unconditional blessing on the part of

912
00:42:11,220 --> 00:42:11,580
God.

913
00:42:12,500 --> 00:42:15,220
Now, this is spiritual preeminence.

914
00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:17,700
Blessed be the Lord, the God of Shem.

915
00:42:18,560 --> 00:42:21,420
Now, later on as the Bible unfolds, added

916
00:42:21,420 --> 00:42:24,320
to the spiritual preeminence will be an ultimate

917
00:42:24,320 --> 00:42:28,320
political preeminence in the kingdom of God upon

918
00:42:28,320 --> 00:42:28,740
the earth.

919
00:42:28,740 --> 00:42:31,680
It will always be primarily spiritual, but it

920
00:42:31,680 --> 00:42:34,420
will also be political in the kingdom of

921
00:42:34,420 --> 00:42:35,580
God upon the earth.

922
00:42:36,340 --> 00:42:38,200
Now, let me make an application.

923
00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:44,240
Carolyn Custis is the person who is supplying

924
00:42:44,240 --> 00:42:46,900
the right-hand side of the bulletin with

925
00:42:46,900 --> 00:42:49,600
quotations from Mr. Spurgeon and others.

926
00:42:50,700 --> 00:42:53,540
And a few weeks ago, she had put

927
00:42:53,540 --> 00:42:56,560
in our bulletin some words that Mr. Spurgeon

928
00:42:56,560 --> 00:42:59,860
wrote concerning Psalm 56, verse 9.

929
00:43:00,980 --> 00:43:03,700
When I cry, then my enemies will be

930
00:43:03,700 --> 00:43:04,540
turned back.

931
00:43:04,740 --> 00:43:08,120
This I know, for God is for me.

932
00:43:09,680 --> 00:43:11,640
Now, Mr. Spurgeon goes on to talk about

933
00:43:11,640 --> 00:43:13,500
God being for us.

934
00:43:14,360 --> 00:43:16,820
He says it's impossible for any human speech

935
00:43:16,820 --> 00:43:19,640
to express the full meaning of this delightful

936
00:43:19,640 --> 00:43:21,860
phrase, God is for me.

937
00:43:22,720 --> 00:43:24,760
He was for us before the worlds were

938
00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:25,080
made.

939
00:43:25,080 --> 00:43:27,100
He was for us, or He would not

940
00:43:27,100 --> 00:43:28,860
have given His well-beloved Son.

941
00:43:29,360 --> 00:43:31,420
He was for us when He smoked the

942
00:43:31,420 --> 00:43:33,320
Only Begotten and laid the full weight of

943
00:43:33,320 --> 00:43:34,400
His wrath upon Him.

944
00:43:35,200 --> 00:43:38,720
He was for us, though He was against

945
00:43:38,720 --> 00:43:39,120
Him.

946
00:43:39,820 --> 00:43:42,180
He was for us when we were ruined

947
00:43:42,180 --> 00:43:42,860
in the fall.

948
00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:45,840
He loved us, notwithstanding all.

949
00:43:46,820 --> 00:43:48,960
He was for us, or He would not

950
00:43:48,960 --> 00:43:51,020
have brought us humbly to seek His face.

951
00:43:51,580 --> 00:43:54,160
He has been for us in many struggles,

952
00:43:54,440 --> 00:43:55,520
in many temptations.

953
00:43:55,680 --> 00:43:57,320
And then Mr. Spurgeon went on to speak

954
00:43:57,320 --> 00:44:00,200
about how He was with us and how

955
00:44:00,200 --> 00:44:03,080
He is for us in the infinity of

956
00:44:03,080 --> 00:44:05,960
His being, with all the omnipotence of His

957
00:44:05,960 --> 00:44:09,240
love, with all of the infallibility of His

958
00:44:09,240 --> 00:44:09,600
wisdom.

959
00:44:09,960 --> 00:44:13,240
He is eternally and immutably with us, for

960
00:44:13,240 --> 00:44:15,200
us throughout eternity.

961
00:44:15,200 --> 00:44:18,860
And because He is for us, He always

962
00:44:18,860 --> 00:44:22,180
hears the voice of prayer and will always

963
00:44:22,180 --> 00:44:22,960
give His help.

964
00:44:23,120 --> 00:44:25,100
When I cry unto you, then shall my

965
00:44:25,100 --> 00:44:27,460
enemies be turned back, the psalmist said.

966
00:44:27,720 --> 00:44:31,440
It is tremendous to have God for us.

967
00:44:31,660 --> 00:44:33,960
And that is what He is by virtue

968
00:44:33,960 --> 00:44:37,760
of the covenant, the new covenant, which He

969
00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:39,820
has made with His people.

970
00:44:40,040 --> 00:44:41,840
Isn't it great to be in the new

971
00:44:41,840 --> 00:44:42,100
covenant?

972
00:44:42,960 --> 00:44:45,840
Isn't it tremendous to have the salvation that

973
00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:49,180
comes from Jesus Christ and know that God

974
00:44:49,180 --> 00:44:52,180
is for us, even in all of the

975
00:44:52,180 --> 00:44:54,620
experiences of life, which may seem so bad?

976
00:44:56,060 --> 00:44:58,020
I want you to know that there is

977
00:44:58,020 --> 00:45:00,240
nothing that will take you through the deepest

978
00:45:00,240 --> 00:45:03,640
trials of life more than to know that

979
00:45:03,640 --> 00:45:07,340
He is for you in the experiences of

980
00:45:07,340 --> 00:45:07,660
life.

981
00:45:08,360 --> 00:45:10,020
Blessed be the Lord God of Shem.

982
00:45:10,120 --> 00:45:11,680
I'm not prophesying, I'm praising.

983
00:45:12,100 --> 00:45:14,540
Blessed be the Lord God of Shem.

984
00:45:16,020 --> 00:45:18,000
And let Canaan be His servant.

985
00:45:19,140 --> 00:45:22,600
Now the third of the divisions of the

986
00:45:22,600 --> 00:45:24,540
prophecy has to do with Japheth.

987
00:45:25,520 --> 00:45:27,380
May God enlarge Japheth.

988
00:45:27,660 --> 00:45:29,240
There is a blessing for Japheth though.

989
00:45:29,720 --> 00:45:32,300
He is not in the covenant, but there

990
00:45:32,300 --> 00:45:33,420
is a blessing for him.

991
00:45:34,280 --> 00:45:38,880
Japheth comes from the Hebrew word pathah, which

992
00:45:38,880 --> 00:45:42,160
means to give ample space.

993
00:45:42,540 --> 00:45:45,200
And so the Japhethic peoples are the peoples

994
00:45:45,200 --> 00:45:47,540
that have spread over the western hemisphere.

995
00:45:49,100 --> 00:45:51,560
And you'll notice there are two blessings given.

996
00:45:52,620 --> 00:45:54,640
May God enlarge Japheth.

997
00:45:54,740 --> 00:45:57,020
That is, He has given territory and also

998
00:45:57,020 --> 00:46:01,620
it would appear faculties, certain faculties, certain enlargement

999
00:46:01,620 --> 00:46:02,900
in His faculties.

1000
00:46:03,420 --> 00:46:05,760
And the second blessing is let him dwell

1001
00:46:05,760 --> 00:46:07,560
in the tents of Shem.

1002
00:46:08,240 --> 00:46:09,700
Ah, He does have a part.

1003
00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:12,220
He does have a part in the covenant,

1004
00:46:12,420 --> 00:46:14,140
but it's secondary to Shem.

1005
00:46:14,440 --> 00:46:15,940
And it's through Shem.

1006
00:46:16,560 --> 00:46:18,860
Let him dwell in the tents of Shem.

1007
00:46:19,420 --> 00:46:23,080
It's by virtue of union with Shem that

1008
00:46:23,080 --> 00:46:24,600
Japheth has his blessing.

1009
00:46:25,540 --> 00:46:27,140
Now the, we don't have in the Old

1010
00:46:27,140 --> 00:46:29,540
Testament the full revelation of all that is

1011
00:46:29,540 --> 00:46:30,220
involved here.

1012
00:46:30,300 --> 00:46:31,880
We have to come to the New Testament.

1013
00:46:31,880 --> 00:46:33,640
But what do we read in the New

1014
00:46:33,640 --> 00:46:34,060
Testament?

1015
00:46:34,620 --> 00:46:36,280
Well, we read in the New Testament of

1016
00:46:36,280 --> 00:46:40,700
how God has, in Matthew chapter 21, how

1017
00:46:40,700 --> 00:46:44,260
He has, for example, taken away the stewardship

1018
00:46:44,260 --> 00:46:46,820
of the Kingdom of God from the generation

1019
00:46:46,820 --> 00:46:49,820
of Jewish people who rejected our Lord Jesus

1020
00:46:49,820 --> 00:46:52,220
and given it to a nation that will

1021
00:46:52,220 --> 00:46:54,460
bring forth the fruits, a nation that Peter

1022
00:46:54,460 --> 00:46:57,080
identifies as Gentiles.

1023
00:46:57,080 --> 00:46:59,360
The Apostle Paul tells the story of the

1024
00:46:59,360 --> 00:47:01,220
olive tree and the cutting off of the

1025
00:47:01,220 --> 00:47:04,160
natural branches and the grafting in of the

1026
00:47:04,160 --> 00:47:06,780
unnatural branches who partake of the root and

1027
00:47:06,780 --> 00:47:08,420
fatness of the olive tree.

1028
00:47:08,900 --> 00:47:11,720
And so the Gentiles enter into the blessing

1029
00:47:11,720 --> 00:47:14,380
of the covenant made with Abraham.

1030
00:47:15,020 --> 00:47:18,240
They enter into the blessing of God of

1031
00:47:18,240 --> 00:47:22,200
Shem by virtue of the grace of God

1032
00:47:22,200 --> 00:47:23,280
later on.

1033
00:47:23,280 --> 00:47:27,140
And so we are told here beforehand of

1034
00:47:27,140 --> 00:47:30,440
the blessing that shall come upon the Gentiles

1035
00:47:30,440 --> 00:47:33,880
as they are united with the Abrahamic promises

1036
00:47:33,880 --> 00:47:38,180
through Israelitish disobedience in the time of our

1037
00:47:38,180 --> 00:47:38,600
Lord.

1038
00:47:39,100 --> 00:47:41,100
Now the Bible also goes on to say

1039
00:47:41,100 --> 00:47:43,600
all Israel shall be saved in the future

1040
00:47:43,600 --> 00:47:46,560
and the natural branches shall be grafted in

1041
00:47:46,560 --> 00:47:49,680
again into their own olive tree, as the

1042
00:47:49,680 --> 00:47:50,520
Apostle puts it.

1043
00:47:50,520 --> 00:47:52,780
But here you see we have almost an

1044
00:47:52,780 --> 00:47:55,600
outline of the religious history of the world.

1045
00:47:55,980 --> 00:47:59,760
It's remarkable, exceedingly remarkable that here in the

1046
00:47:59,760 --> 00:48:02,980
earliest stages of the revelation of God we

1047
00:48:02,980 --> 00:48:05,100
have what the Bible goes on to speak

1048
00:48:05,100 --> 00:48:07,560
about in many, many chapters and pages.

1049
00:48:08,260 --> 00:48:11,400
The expansive power of Japheth refers not only

1050
00:48:11,400 --> 00:48:14,600
to the territory and the multitude of them

1051
00:48:14,600 --> 00:48:17,880
but to other intellectual and active faculties.

1052
00:48:17,880 --> 00:48:22,360
For example, the Japhethic peoples include the Indians

1053
00:48:22,360 --> 00:48:26,420
and it includes also all who are to

1054
00:48:26,420 --> 00:48:29,260
be classified as Indo-European nations.

1055
00:48:30,180 --> 00:48:34,420
The metaphysics that we know is traceable to

1056
00:48:34,420 --> 00:48:35,080
the Hindus.

1057
00:48:35,860 --> 00:48:39,160
The philosophy of the Greeks who invented their

1058
00:48:39,160 --> 00:48:42,340
particular kind of philosophy, they are Japhethic peoples.

1059
00:48:42,840 --> 00:48:45,600
The military prowess of the Romans, they are

1060
00:48:45,600 --> 00:48:46,600
Japhethic peoples.

1061
00:48:47,080 --> 00:48:50,200
The spread of the western, of the world

1062
00:48:50,200 --> 00:48:52,900
toward the west is the result of the

1063
00:48:52,900 --> 00:48:55,140
influence of the Japhethic peoples.

1064
00:48:55,540 --> 00:48:59,300
We are largely Japhethic peoples and the blessing

1065
00:48:59,300 --> 00:49:02,340
that is pronounced upon them is that God

1066
00:49:02,340 --> 00:49:05,240
will give them ample territory, which he has

1067
00:49:05,240 --> 00:49:05,620
done.

1068
00:49:06,620 --> 00:49:09,360
The Hamatic peoples are most interesting of all,

1069
00:49:09,420 --> 00:49:12,060
I think, because we're inclined to think that

1070
00:49:12,060 --> 00:49:17,160
Americans are the great inventors of mankind, but

1071
00:49:17,160 --> 00:49:17,720
we're not.

1072
00:49:19,620 --> 00:49:21,840
It is the Hindus who founded, and the

1073
00:49:21,840 --> 00:49:25,820
Greeks who founded philosophy, and they are truly

1074
00:49:25,820 --> 00:49:27,680
two great philosophical races.

1075
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And we, I say, tend to think of

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ourselves as the inventors, but that is not

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true.

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Almost every basic invention can be traced to

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the Hamites, the Chinese Hamites, and others, such

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as the Egyptians.

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For example, incidentally all we do is kind

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of develop the philosophy of science and applied

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00:49:50,320 --> 00:49:51,100
technology.

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00:49:51,360 --> 00:49:54,940
The actual discoveries are made by the Hamatic

1085
00:49:54,940 --> 00:49:55,440
peoples.

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00:49:56,220 --> 00:49:58,760
The original explorers and settlers of the world

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were Hamites.

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They were the first cultivators of the most

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basic food staples, potatoes.

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Baked potato, traceable to the Hamites, I guess.

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Corn, beans.

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They were developers of the basic types of

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structural forms and building tools.

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00:50:17,400 --> 00:50:20,680
They were developers of the usual fabrics for

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clothing, and also for the tools of sewing

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and weaving.

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00:50:25,180 --> 00:50:26,760
Sing a sewing machine company.

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Hamitic.

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00:50:29,600 --> 00:50:32,920
Discoverers of a wide variety of medicines, inventors

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00:50:32,920 --> 00:50:36,400
of most of the practical mathematics, surveying navigation,

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00:50:36,580 --> 00:50:39,520
the machinery of trade and commerce, money, banks,

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postal systems, developers of paper, ink, block printing,

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movable type.

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00:50:44,680 --> 00:50:47,300
All of these things traceable to the Hamites.

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They were the inventors of humanity.

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And then the great religious peoples.

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The three great religions of the earth, Judaism,

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Mohammedanism, Christianity, all Semitic.

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They were given spiritual promise, and that they

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have had.

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Isn't it striking?

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Right here in Genesis chapter 9, we have

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an overview of human history.

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Oh that our sociologists, you see I got

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it right, oh that our sociologists and our

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00:51:25,200 --> 00:51:28,380
politicians and others would pay attention to the

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00:51:28,380 --> 00:51:29,500
biblical revelation.

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How much better off we should be.

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00:51:33,060 --> 00:51:34,920
Well let me conclude, time is up.

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There is one race of men, but there

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00:51:37,340 --> 00:51:40,740
are three families, all descendants of one man,

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00:51:41,240 --> 00:51:41,480
Noah.

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And the great hope of God, from the

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00:51:45,040 --> 00:51:47,720
standpoint of his preceptive will, is that the

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00:51:47,720 --> 00:51:51,620
nations of the earth would seek after God.

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00:51:52,760 --> 00:51:54,960
That of course they have not done.

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00:51:55,560 --> 00:51:58,500
There is only one place of safety, and

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that place of safety is in the tents

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of Shem.

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00:52:02,500 --> 00:52:05,220
There is only one place of safety, it

1131
00:52:05,220 --> 00:52:07,600
is found in trust in the seed of

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00:52:07,600 --> 00:52:10,540
the woman, and in the seed of Shem.

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00:52:11,360 --> 00:52:14,020
Biblical revelation lets us know of course that

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that is our Lord Jesus Christ.

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00:52:17,260 --> 00:52:20,800
He is the only hope of safety among

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00:52:20,800 --> 00:52:21,260
men.

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00:52:22,040 --> 00:52:26,060
And as the apostle writes in John chapter

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3 and verse 36, he who believes in

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00:52:28,420 --> 00:52:31,780
the Son has eternal life, but he who

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00:52:31,780 --> 00:52:34,180
does not obey the Son shall not see

1141
00:52:34,180 --> 00:52:37,240
life, but the wrath of God abides on

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00:52:37,240 --> 00:52:37,500
him.

1143
00:52:38,580 --> 00:52:40,300
May God speak to your heart.

1144
00:52:41,240 --> 00:52:44,580
May you sense your own need, your own

1145
00:52:44,580 --> 00:52:47,120
guilt and condemnation, the fact that you are

1146
00:52:47,120 --> 00:52:49,140
heading to spiritual death.

1147
00:52:50,020 --> 00:52:53,560
May the Holy Spirit reverse your path by

1148
00:52:53,560 --> 00:52:56,380
bringing conviction and conversion.

1149
00:52:56,380 --> 00:52:58,860
May you come to the Son to receive

1150
00:52:58,860 --> 00:53:00,400
the life that is life indeed.

1151
00:53:00,600 --> 00:53:01,440
Come to Christ.

1152
00:53:01,920 --> 00:53:03,080
Put your trust in Him.

1153
00:53:03,680 --> 00:53:05,920
The only place of safety is in the

1154
00:53:05,920 --> 00:53:08,620
seed of the woman, in the seed of

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00:53:08,620 --> 00:53:08,900
Shem.

1156
00:53:09,860 --> 00:53:13,240
The invitation goes out to Japhetic peoples to

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00:53:13,240 --> 00:53:14,520
dwell in the tents of Shem.

1158
00:53:14,680 --> 00:53:15,440
Come to Christ.

1159
00:53:16,040 --> 00:53:18,440
Don't leave this auditorium not having made that

1160
00:53:18,440 --> 00:53:18,880
decision.

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00:53:19,540 --> 00:53:21,200
May we stand for the benediction.

1162
00:53:23,080 --> 00:53:25,540
We are so thankful to thee, Lord, that

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00:53:25,540 --> 00:53:27,900
we are able to read in Holy Scripture

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00:53:27,900 --> 00:53:31,340
of the great plans and purposes that our

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00:53:31,340 --> 00:53:33,200
eternal God has for men.

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00:53:33,660 --> 00:53:36,260
We do not doubt for one moment, Lord,

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00:53:36,360 --> 00:53:39,060
that the word of God shall be fulfilled

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00:53:39,060 --> 00:53:41,760
in the most minute detail.

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00:53:42,200 --> 00:53:46,260
Not one jot nor tittle shall pass from

1170
00:53:46,260 --> 00:53:48,540
the Lord till all be fulfilled.

1171
00:53:48,540 --> 00:53:50,840
O God, if there are some in this

1172
00:53:50,840 --> 00:53:53,680
audience who have not yet come, may they

1173
00:53:53,680 --> 00:53:56,180
hasten to Him whom to know is life

1174
00:53:56,180 --> 00:54:00,420
eternal, who offered the atoning sacrifice, whose blood

1175
00:54:00,420 --> 00:54:03,080
covers our sin.

1176
00:54:03,760 --> 00:54:06,060
Now may grace, mercy, and peace go with

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us for Jesus' sake.

1178
00:54:08,060 --> 00:54:08,460
Amen.