A THANKSGIVING MOMENT
Genesis 8:15-22
SURVIVING THE STORM
V:15-16. " Then God spoke to Noah, saying,
16 "Go out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons
and your sons' wives with you.
A. God is good all the time.
1. No matter what
you are going through, God is good.
2. God is with you
going into the storm.
3. God is with you
during the storm.
4. God is with you
coming out of the storm.
5. God prepared
the storm for your good.
B. Obedience is the key to successful living even in tough
times.
1. Mark 13:13
And ye shall
be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that shall endure unto
the end, the
same shall be saved.
2. Salvation is
enhanced by our service.
3. James 2:17
Even so faith,
if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
4. Noah had faith
and works
5. The evidence of
our faith in God is our service
GOD'S PROVISIONS FOR MAN
V:17 "Bring out with you every living thing of all
flesh that is with you, birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps
on the earth, that they may breed abundantly on the earth, and be fruitful and
multiply on the earth."
A. Animals play a very important part in the lives of man.
1.As with the
creation story, animals were created first, before man.
2.The animals were first to enter the ark and
the first to leave the ark.
B. Animals are not more important than man, but they are
provided
to sustain man.
1. God made us
dependant on animals. for food, protection and
comfort.
2. We should be
careful how we treat and maintain animals.
A FRESH START
V:18-19. " So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife
and his sons' wives with him.
19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird,
everything that moves on the earth, went out by their families from the ark. "
A. Doing crisis situations, God can protect you, your
family and that which is
is important to
you.
1. All animals are dependant on each other.
2. We may not know the
reason for every animal or for every creeping
thing.
3. We can be sure
that God placed them in the food chain for a reason.
4. For example
coach roaches feed on decaying matter which releases
nitrogen back
in the soil for plants.
a. Spiders eat
common indoor pest. They eat roaches, flies, moth,
mosquitoes, bed bugs and cloth moth.
b. Earwigs
feed on dead plant matter and live and dead insects.
B. Each of us are dependant on the skills and talents of
others.
1. We are all
dependant on farmers for food.
2. Farmers are
dependant on truck drivers to get their produce to market.
3. Construction
workers are dependant on the growth of families for
demand for
houses.
4. In Noah's family
was the beginning of a new society.
C. Everyday we wake up is the beginning of new ideas for
growth and
development of
our nation and the world.
1. Everyday is the
chance for a fresh start.
2. A fresh start in
the righteousness of God.
THE FIRST CHURCH SERVICE
V:20. " Then Noah built an altar to the Lord, and took
of every clean animal and of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on
the altar."
A. When God has brought you through a storm, the first thing
you ought to do
is build an altar
to the Lord.
1. We should bless
the Lord at all times.
2. When God has
brought us through something we ought to
stand and be a
testimony for the world to know the goodness
of
Lord.
B. We ought to bring the Lord an acceptable offering.
1. We can't put a
value on the goodness of the Lord.
2. God put a value
on our life; the death of His Son.
3. We can bring God
a portion of what He blessed us with.
C. We can give God the praise of our lips.
1. We owe God all
of us.
2. Religion is the
important thing in our life on earth.
3. We all believe
in something.
4. Some believe in
themselves, some believe in idol gods
and some
believe there is no god.
5. It is best to
believe that there is a true and living
who has
control of our
lives
THE NOAHIC CONVENANT
V: 21 The Lord smelled the soothing aroma; and the Lord said
to Himself, "I will never again curse the ground on account of man, for
the intent of man's heart is evil from his youth; and I will never again
destroy every living thing, as I have done.
A. The Lord is pleased when we bring sacrifices to Him.
1. I will bless the
Lord at all times.
2. Noah prepared an
animal for sacrifice to the Lord.
3.This sacrifice
was a type of the sacrifice of our redeemer,
Jesus Christ.
B. God made a covenant with Noah that He would not destroy
the earth
and every living
thing with a flood again.
1. God recognized
that man is born in sin and has evil
in his heart from the time that he is aware of
good and evil.
2. Man naturally
chooses evil.
SEASONS OF THE YEAR
V:22 "While the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest, And
cold and heat,
And summer and winter, And day and night Shall not
cease."
A. God sets the seasons of the year..
1. A time to plant
and a time to harvest.
2. God set the earth
climate changes
3. Not only is the
earth rotating on it axis every 24 hours giving us day
and night, but
the axis is tilted as it rotates around the sun.
4. The tiled axis
of the earth gives us the four seasons of the year
as it rotates
around the sun.
5. He specifies
summer and winter
6. The seed time
is probably fall and the harvest time is spring.
(According to
Adam Clark).
B. The phrase " while the earth remains" indicates
that God has set a time
for the earth
destruction.
Revelation
21:1-
Then I saw a
new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had
passed away,
and there was no longer any sea. 2 I saw the Holy
City
dressed for her
husband.
God set in motion
the church in Noah and his family and
the redemption of
mankind promised in Genesis chapter 3
THANK GOD FOR BEING IN CONTROL
Rev M. Mitchell
Asst Pastor of Greater Macedonia
Baptist Church
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