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Why Genesis Matters For Israel

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Well everybody, welcome back to the Bible Breakdown Podcast with your host, Pastor Brandon. Today, Genesis chapter 9. We're gonna call this Trouble in Paradise. Trouble in Paradise. So remember, the whole goal of the flood was to kind of start over again. And it lasts less than a chapter. You know what I mean? But isn't that so true? We're gonna get all that in just a moment. If you have your Bibles, want to open up with me to Genesis chapter 9. We're just gonna dive right in in just a moment. But as always, right before we do, make sure you take just a moment to like, share, subscribe to the YouTube channel and the podcast. Make sure to leave us a five-star review on the podcast. It really does help. And make sure you're going to the Bible breakdown discussion on Facebook. There's an amazing group of people doing a wonderful job. And you can get all of that by going to thebiblebreakdown.com. Well, if you've been with us for a little while, we have been walking through the book of Genesis one chapter at a time. And remember, the overall goal of this is God is setting up the new, the true, the real beginning for the nation of Israel. They have recently been liberated out of Egyptian bondage, and they had been in this polytheistic, paganistic culture where they had been told that this God made this and that God did that, and this is how all this came to be. And God, through the inspiration, or the uh Moses, through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, is telling them, no, this is how it happened. And he is painting the narrative of all of this was from God for his creation, and he is laying it all out. We've been walking through all this mess that we got into. And then we finally get all the way to chapter six where God says, I've had enough. We're gonna start over again. I'm gonna take Noah and his family, and we're gonna get rid of the rest of you fools. And that's where the flood came from. And when we left them at the end of the last chapter, we had where God had told them, okay, you can leave the ark. We're starting over again. It's gonna be great, right? And I'm not gonna send another flood on the earth. Well, we get in chapter nine, and this is where he is gonna confirm the covenant, and then they're supposed to go and just kind of just start over. It's fine. It's fine. Everybody's gonna be good now, all the other stuff is gone. Let's see how long this lasts. Okay, you ready? Here we go. Genesis chapter 9, verse 1 says this. Then God blessed Noah and his sons and told them, Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth. All the animals of the earth, all the birds of the sky, and all the small animals that scurry along the ground, all the fish of the sea will look on you with fear and terror, because I have placed them in your power. I have given them for you for food, just as I have given you grain and vegetables. You must never eat any meat that still has the lifeblood in it. And I will require the blood of anyone who takes another person's life. If a wild animal kills a person, it must die. And anyone who murders a fellow human must die. If anyone takes a human life, that person's life must also be taken by human hands. For God made human beings in his own image. Pause. In other words, he is telling them, these are going to be the rules to get you started. You can now eat animals, and you gotta think coming out of the ark, they would have needed that extra substance to be able to do what they needed to do. But he's also saying, but but don't get this twisted. You can't kill one another, right? You can't do that, and animals can't kill people. And he is saying that you can't kill people because they were made in my image. They're my special creation, so you have to make sure you take care of one another. Right? Then in verse 7 it says, Now be fruitful, multiply, repopulate the earth. Then God told Noah and his sons, I hereby confirm my covenant with you and your descendants, and with all the animals that are on the boat with you, the birds, the livestock, and all the wild animals, every living creature on earth. Yes, I am confirming my covenant with you. Never again will flood waters kill all the living creatures, never again will a flood destroy the earth. I am giving you a sign of my covenant with you and with all the living creatures for all generations to come. I have placed my rainbow in the clouds, and it is a sign of my covenant with you and with all the earth. When I send clouds over the earth, the rainbow will appear in the clouds, and I will remember my covenant with you and with all living creatures, and never again will the flood waters destroy all life. When I see the rainbow in the clouds, I will remember my eternal covenant between God and every living creature on the earth. Then God said to Noah, Noah, yes, this rainbow is a sign of the covenant I am confirming with all the creatures on earth. So in other words, he's saying that every time you see the rainbow, you know the rains will stop. So before then, you know, there were there were no regular cycles of rain, most likely, and what would happen, because the Bible speaks to how before that time water had just come up almost like a Zedoo and it would water everything. Well, now, because of what happened and how the earth was probably reshaped because of the flood, you're gonna have now the rain cycles that was gonna come. Well, you know what would happen the next time it started to rain, they're gonna freak out. Well, where's the ark? Let's get back in the ark. And he said, No, no, no. Whenever you see the rainbow, you know it's not gonna keep raining. Like I promise you, and I'm gonna prove it to you over and over again. I'm gonna put that put that rainbow there, and every time when the light reflect refracts the way it does, you will remember it's gonna be okay. I love that. Verse 18. The sons of Noah who came out of the boat with their father was Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham, by the way, is the father of Canaan. From these three sons, Noah came from from these three sons of Noah came all the people that now populate the earth. So, in a way, we're all extremely distantly related cousins. After the flood, Noah began to cultivate the ground and he planted a vineyard. One day he drank some wine that he had made, and he became drunk and lay naked in his tent. Now pause for a moment. Well, you know what, let's finish reading this and then we'll pause for a moment. Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father was naked and went outside and told his brothers. Then Shem and Japheth took a rope, held it over their shoulders, and backed into the tent to cover their father. As they did, they looked the other way, so they did not see him naked. When Noah woke up from his stupor, he learned what Ham, his younger son, had done, and he cursed Canaan, the son of Ham. Pause. Now, trouble in paradise. What happened was is Noah planted a vineyard and he got drunk. Now listen, I'm not saying he should have got drunk. I'm not saying for whatever reason he should have got drunk and went naked. But can we all give him the slightest little bit of a break? Look at what he's just been through. Okay, he should have done that. But we kind of go, hey man, I get you. But then what was bad was, and there's a whole lot of commentary on what may have been going on here. There's a lot of commentary, especially old Jewish commentary, that says there may have been a whole lot more going on than Ham just seeing his father's nakedness and going and making fun of it. But at the very least, he went out and he cursed his father. He belittled his father in front of his family because of what he had done. And because of that, when he got up, it says he cursed Canaan, the son of Ham. And once again, God is not necessarily what he what what the Bible, what the Bible describes, it is not always prescribing. It is not saying that God thought this was a great idea. It is just telling you this is what happened. That Noah cursed Canaan, the son of Ham. So let's pick back up, verse 25, he says, May Canaan be cursed. May he be the lowest of servants to his relatives. Then Noah said, May the Lord, the God of Shem, be blessed, and may Canaan be his servant. May God expand the territory of Japheth. May Japheth share the prosperity of Shem, and may Canaan be his servants. Noah lived another three hundred and fifty years after the great flood. He lived nine hundred and fifty years, and then he died. So it took all of about one season for those grapes to grow before boom, they're right back in the same problem again. And that is one of the reasons why I love God so much. Is think about how many times somebody would have to mess up before you gave up on them. You know what I mean? Like, like, like if if I if if somebody like okay, imagine you were gonna go to a restaurant and you love this restaurant, you love the food, but the first time they came and they gave you the wrong dish. It was cooked wrong. You go, you know what, it could happen to anybody. It's fine. And then you come back and they do it again. And they come back, you come back and they do it again. How many times would you go back to that restaurant knowing they're going to get it wrong before you go, hey, listen, we gotta, we gotta, we can't do this anymore. We're gonna have to go do something else at this point. How many times? And that that's a restaurant. That's something that doesn't matter. God has created people in his image, and every time he gives them a chance, it takes almost no time before they fall again. And what I love is what we're gonna see in the next chapter. God keeps doing it over and over again. He never gives up. And you know why I love that so much? It's because that's my story. And that's probably your story. I can't tell you how many times that I've gone to God and I said, God, I'm so sorry, I'm never going to do X, Y, and Z again. And then like I haven't even hardly left the room before I'm starting to be tempted with that thing again. But God never gives up. He keeps on and keeps on over and over and over again. And even though it didn't take very long before there, could you imagine how much you would have have put your trust in the Lord and don't you dare want to put one foot out of out of out of where it needs to be. Like, don't do anything wrong. When you just saw God destroy the whole earth with a flood, that made me a little nervous to ever do something against what God wanted, right? But it didn't even take that long before he's already starting to mess up. And but but the thing is, it's that God still loves them. And you know what that means for us is that when we mess up, God still loves us and he still works to reach and lead us in the right direction. Let's pray together. God, thank you so much for today. Thank you, God, that that our history is so messed up, so full of difficulties and this just just trouble. But God, you're with us and you're for us, and you never stop fighting for us. And I love you for that today. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Anyway, well, God's word says in Genesis 1, verse 1, in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. I have a question before we end our time, and that is that if you are listening on the podcast, I'd love for you to go to the YouTube channel. Make sure you're you're you're subscribed to the YouTube channel. But then I want you to put down the comments, and if you're a YouTube uh watcher, I want you to put in the comments, what would you do the first day when you got off the ark? If you had a chance to get off the ark, what would you do? I want to know in the comments down below. I love you. I'll see you tomorrow for Genesis chapter 10.