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| Rev. Canon George Sinclair |
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Podcast of CFRA broadcast on Sunday, August 20th, 2017:
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Broadcast Notes:
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A shout out to Alma Churchill, whose generous donation in memory of her father, Chester Lucas, allowed this show to go on the air, today. Thank you!
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This CFRA talk is a
shortened version of a sermon that I gave at Church of the Messiah. It was part
of a series of sermons through the first eleven chapters of the book of
Genesis. The series is entitled, God, Creator And Sustainer Of All Things.
God's Promises to Every Living Thing
Today’s Reading:
Genesis 8:20-9:29 (ESV)
God's Covenant with Noah
20 Then
Noah built an altar to the Lord and took some of every clean animal and some of
every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21 And when the Lord smelled the
pleasing aroma, the Lord said in his heart, “I will
never again curse[a] the ground because of man, for the
intention of man's heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again
strike down every living creature as I have done. 22 While the earth remains,
seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall
not cease.”
9 And
God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and
fill the earth. 2 The
fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and
upon every bird of the heavens, upon everything that creeps on the ground and
all the fish of the sea. Into your hand they are delivered. 3 Every moving thing that lives
shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you
everything. 4 But
you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood. 5 And for your lifeblood I will
require a reckoning: from every beast I will require it and from man. From his
fellow man I will require a reckoning for the life of man.
6 “Whoever
sheds the blood of man,
by man shall his blood be shed,
for God made man in his own image.
by man shall his blood be shed,
for God made man in his own image.
7 And
you,[b] be fruitful and multiply, increase
greatly on the earth and multiply in it.”
8 Then
God said to Noah and to his sons with him, 9 “Behold, I establish my covenant with you and your
offspring after you, 10 and
with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the livestock, and
every beast of the earth with you, as many as came out of the ark; it is for
every beast of the earth. 11 I establish my covenant with you, that never again
shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood, and never again shall
there be a flood to destroy the earth.” 12 And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant
that I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for
all future generations: 13 I have set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a
sign of the covenant between me and the earth. 14 When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is
seen in the clouds, 15 I
will remember my covenant that is between me and you and every living creature
of all flesh. And the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all
flesh. 16 When
the bow is in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant
between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.”
17 God said to Noah, “This
is the sign of the covenant that I have established between me and all flesh
that is on the earth.”
Noah's Descendants
18 The
sons of Noah who went forth from the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham was
the father of Canaan.) 19 These
three were the sons of Noah, and from these the people of the whole earth were
dispersed.[c]
20 Noah
began to be a man of the soil, and he planted a vineyard.[d] 21 He drank of the wine and became drunk and lay
uncovered in his tent. 22 And
Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father and told his two
brothers outside. 23 Then
Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it on both their shoulders, and walked
backward and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were turned
backward, and they did not see their father's nakedness. 24 When Noah awoke from his wine
and knew what his youngest son had done to him, 25 he said,
“Cursed be Canaan;
a servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.”
a servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.”
26 He
also said,
“Blessed be the Lord, the God of Shem;
and let Canaan be his servant.
27 May God enlarge Japheth,[e]
and let him dwell in the tents of Shem,
and let Canaan be his servant.”
and let Canaan be his servant.
27 May God enlarge Japheth,[e]
and let him dwell in the tents of Shem,
and let Canaan be his servant.”
28 After
the flood Noah lived 350 years. 29 All
the days of Noah were 950 years, and he died.
Footnotes:
1.
Genesis 8:21 Or dishonor
2.
Genesis 9:7 In Hebrew you
is plural
3.
Genesis 9:19 Or from
these the whole earth was populated
4.
Genesis 9:20 Or Noah,
a man of the soil, was the first to plant a vineyard
5.
Genesis 9:27 Japheth
sounds like the Hebrew for enlarge
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NOTES:
1. God
has promised that He will never let human beings make the world uninhabitable
for human beings.
2. The
living God is the source of life, the sustainer of life, and sovereign over
life.
3. I am
the steward of "my" life. I am not the source or owner of
"my" life.
4.
God's love is not "need love" or "compelled love".
5. God
is love without need. He loves us because He is love.
6. In
this is love, not that we have loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son
to be a propitiation for our sins. 1 John 4:10
PRAYER:
Friends, if you have
not given your life to Jesus, there is no better time than as you listen to
this broadcast, just a call out to God and say, "Jesus be my Savior and my
Lord." Thank you, Father, for your great love for us. Father, I find it
frightening that your love for me would be so pure and so Eternal and without
need, but Father, every time I see a rainbow and as I just see the things
around me, as I'm reminded of the fact, Father, that you were such a generous
God and a good God and a God who's given himself to us in the person of his
son. Father, make me gripped by what your love and what you've done for us in
your Son. Grip us with what you have done. May that shape and form and control
my life. (AMEN)
Rev. Canon George Sinclair
Church
of the Messiah
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