WHEN FOLLOWING GOD IS NOT POPULAR
Genesis 6:1-10
In verse one and two we see the present of the Holy Trinity;
The person of
God the Father, God the Holy Spirit and God the Son all
working together.
The reason we say person is because God speaks of Himself
with human
characteristics. He has knowledge, He is in control, He gets
angry, and He is
grieved. He punishes those He loves and His grace and mercy
endures
forever.
MARRIAGE, THE FOUNDATION OF FAMILY
V:1-2. "When men began to increase in number on the
earth and daughters were born to
them, 2 the
sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they
married any
of them they chose. "
A. The estimated time frame between Genesis 1 and chapter 4
is 1700 years.
1. God's plan to
populated the earth continues through time.
2. Man's desire
for woman and the woman's desire for man never changes,
because it is
God's plan.
B. God's first human institution, marriage continues through
out time.
1. What we
consider in our hearts and see with our eyes, controls our actions.
2. What began with
Adam and Eve is in our DNA forever.
3. Family life
cannot continue without the relationship between a man and a woman.
a. The devil
is busy trying to destroy God's design for family
with
alternative life styles.
b. The devil
does influence some to rebel against God's plan for family.
but he
will not succeed because God's plan is permanent.
4. I have been
young, but now I am old, but my love for family has never changed.
5. It is not my
design, but God's.
WE ARE ALL LIVING TO DIE
V:3. " Then the Lord said, "My Spirit will not
contend with man forever, for he is mortal;
his days will
be a hundred and twenty years."
A. The moment Adam ate from the Tree Of Knowledge And Of
Good and Evil, death
became the
future of man.
1. Man became
mortal with Adam's disobedience.
2. Adam's sin put
a time frame on our lives.
B. Adam and his descendants originally lived 900 plus years.
1. Because of
man's continued sinfulness, God reduced man life span to
120 years.
2. Sin shorten a
man's life span.
3. God placed His
Spirit in man which gives him life.
4. When God
withdraws His Spirit, man dies.
MAN'S LOVE FOR HIS WOMAN CAN LIFT HIM UP OR BRING
HIM DOWN
V4. "The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and
also afterward when the
sons of God went to the daughters of men and had
children by them. They were the
heroes of old, men of renown. "
A. The word
"Nephilim' means bully or tyrant. Perhaps
from the Hebrew word
Naaphal
which means "he fell", an earth born man fallen from the true
religion.
1. The word
renown is the Hebrew word "shem" which means honor.
authority and character.
2. Some
interpret this as, the sons of Seth who married the daughters of Cain.
3. Men in
the past who had accomplished great thing married women of
sinful men and were changed to
sinful men.
4. To
please his woman, a man will do the wrong thing.
a.
That's how it all started.
b. To
please Eve, Adam ate the forbidden fruit.
B. Their
children born in sin became sinful.
1. We were
all born in sin and shaped in iniquity.
2. All men,
after Adam were born with a conscience, knowing good from evil.
3. God had
not given any new laws or commands for man to live by, except the
command He gave the first family.
4. Under
the influence of the devil, man chooses evil.
THE LORD IS GRIEVED BECAUSE OF OUR SIN
V:5. " The Lord saw how great man's wickedness on the
earth had become, and that
every
inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time. "
A. Once sin
entered into man, he became more sinful.
1. Without
rules and regulations, there is nothing to gauge the sinfulness of
man.
2. After Adam's sin, God instituted
the sacrifice of animals for the atonement of
sin.
B. We have no
Biblical record of God giving any new commands to man after
Cain
killed Abel.
1. What we
do know, because of the record of Enoch, God continued
to
talk with men who chose good over evil.
2. How
many of you have brought your children cell phone and tablets?
3. You
have exposed yourself and your children through multimedia
to
every evil inclination and thought of evil men and women.
a.
Pornography is a multibillion dollar industry that is open to you
and your children through your hand held
devices.
b. Social media exposes your children
to all acts of violence.
c.
Even with parental controls, evil can be back doored into your
hand held devices.
4. We are
in the same situation as man was before the flood.
5. We need
a more solid Christian foundation today than we needed
in
the past.
THE PAIN OF DISOBEDIENCE
V:6. " The Lord was grieved that he had made man on the
earth, and his heart was filled
with pain.
7 So the Lord
said, "I will wipe mankind, whom I have created, from the face of the
earth men and animals, and creatures that move
along the ground, and birds of the
air, for
I am grieved that I have made
them."
A. Can you imagine giving your children the very best that
money can buy.
1. You train them
with best teachers money can buy.
2. You took them
to Church to ensure that they had a personal relationship
with God.
B. Can you imagine the disappointment you would have if you
came to check up
on your
children and found that their live were in shambles and they
are mixed up
with all the wrong people, doing all the wrong things.
1. Can you
imagine counseling you children to get them on the right
track to no
avail.
2. Can you
imaging the pain you would feel when every time you turn
around your
children are in trouble no matter how much you pray.
3. God was so
grieve by what He saw in His children that he hated He
created
them.
4. God sees all
that we do and is grieved by our sins.
5. God was so
grieved that He decided to kill the human race and all
the animals
He created.
C. God took six
days or time periods to create a prefect palace for man.
1. God gave
man His house rules to live by which he rejected.
2. God gave
man a method to atone for his sins which he rejected.
3. God
tolerated man's rebellion against Him for 1700 years.
4. We cannot
take God's tolerance of our sinful behavior as a weakness.
a. We must
see God tolerance as His love for us.
b. There
is an end to God's tolerance when He punishes us for our sins.
c. God gives
us time to repent before He exercises His judgment.
D. One thing we must understand is we can be replaced.
1. God does not
need us.
2. We need God
to survive.
3. God can get
some folk to praise Him .
4. God did not
destroy His creation, He destroyed the man He put in
His
creation.
THE FAVOR OF RIGHTEOUSNESS
V:8. " But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord. "
A. The Word of the Lord never returns void.
1. From Adam to
Noah is 1700 plus years.
2. God preserves
His Word in hearts of a few men.
3. God's Word can be ignored and overlooked by the
majority of
the people,
but it will convict a few people.
4. Out of the
millions of people on earth, the Word of
God found a
home in the heart of Noah and his family.
B. Those who honor the Lord has favor with the Lord.
1. Just because
every one is jumping off a cliff don't mean its
right.
2. Noah and his
family ignored the sins of the crowd.
3. Sin is always
fun and popular.
4. But sin
dishonors God and leads to death.
5. God has a plan
of salvation for those who follow His commands.
6. Noah believed
God and was counted as righteous.
STARTING FRESH WITH RIGHTEOUSNESS
V:9-10. " This is the account of Noah.
Noah was a
righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked with
God.
10 Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth. "
A. Before you can train your family to follow God, you have
to follow God.
1. Three things we
can learn from Noah.
a. Noah did
what was right before the Lord.
b. Noah
treated his family and neighbors with respect.
c. Noah not
only talked the talk, but he walked the walk.
d. Noah was
blessed in the house and out the house.
2. Noah trained his
family to follow God and his command.
a. Noah was a man of faith.
b. Noah chose
good over evil.
3. Noah found favor
with God because of his obedience.
THANK GOD FOR HIS
Rev M. Mitchell
Asst Pastor Of Greater Macedonia
Baptist Church
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