Genesis 9 // The Sons Of Noah Populating The Earth

we are in genesis chapter nine we're gonna finish up the chapter today genesis chapter nine how was last week how'd matt do yeah i like uh i like when i leave you know the fact that we have um so many talented guys that can just come in and pick it up and that's just a it's a cool thing so we're in genesis chapter nine and uh we're gonna start reading actually at verse 18. and we're going to do the whole chapter i'm going to get a whole bible study out of this so genesis 9 starting in verse 18. it says now the sons of noah who went out of the ark were shem ham and japheth and ham was the father of canaan these were the sons of noah and from these the whole earth was populated and noah began to be a farmer and he planted a vineyard then he drank of the wine and was drunk and became uncovered in his tent and ham the father of canaan saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brothers outside but shem and japheth took a garment laid it on both their shoulders and went backward and covered the nakedness of their father their faces were turned away and they did not see their father's nakedness so noah awoke from his wine and knew what his younger son had done to him then he said cursed be canaan a servant of servants he shall be to his brethren and he said blessed be the lord the god of shem and may canaan be his servant may god enlarge japheth and may he dwell in the tents of shem and may canaan be his servant and noah lived after the flood 350 years so all the days of noah were 950 years and he died let's stop by right there and let's pray father we uh come before you this morning and lord just again thank you for the day thank you for how nice it is out here and the lord just how good it is to be worshiping you lord as we're going through and talking about your word we pray that you'd be speaking to our hearts about the issues that are involved in this passage and lord that we could walk in a way that's just glorifying to you where we are literally caring about other people more than ourselves and just just having the kind of heart jesus that you called us to lord i pray that you bless your people and uh just bless this time and ask that you do this all in jesus name amen okay first off you got this ominous beginning in this passage you know who kanan is right so canaan is uh one of one of the things that we have in the bible is you don't necessarily have people identified by their countries that's how we identify people nowadays uh and so we're americans if you're from england you're english and so on right and so we identify people by their countries in the bible people are identified by their progenitors by their by their ancestors and so canaan is the father of the canaanites and you'll remember that when we started the book of genesis uh one of the things that uh you have in here is this structure where there where it looks like there were a bunch of documents that were put together in fact every time you see uh these are the generations of that's called that's called a toledoth and uh it's probably speaking about the fact or uh indicating the fact that the previous portion of the passage was written by the guy who's named there and so when you get to the time of moses moses put these things together he would have been the editor of the book of genesis and you see editorial comments you see points made as we're going through and so one of the things that we saw in genesis chapter 6 it says there were giants in the earth in those days and also afterward that's an editorial comment that's thrown in there by moses because he's going to talk because they're about to go into the land of canaan and there are giants in the land and so he's speaking in that fact in this passage you have this whole thing with uh canaan being named at the very beginning and that's a little ominous because again kanan is the father of the canaanites the canadian tribes inhabit israel and these are the people that are going to be thrown out by the israelites when they go into the land of promise these guys are enemies of god these guys are enemies of israel and it's specifically because of their sin one of the things that we're going to run into later on in the book of genesis when we get to genesis chapter 15 is god gives the land to abraham but he says you can't take it yet i'm not i'm not giving it to your uh to your descendants yet because the iniquity of the amorites is not yet full so god recognized that the canaanites were there that they were living there abraham was living there among them but god wasn't ready to judge the canaanites at that point because their iniquity wasn't yet full that's one of the things that you see with god all the way through the bible god doesn't just get teed off at people he just he doesn't just come and stomp them out of existence what he does is he waits and he'll wait a long time in the case of the canaanites it was at least 600 years that this guy waited while they were doing uh doing paganism that was uh the worst form of uh false worship that you have in all of history basically these people uh their their worship involved uh sexual immorality in temples they literally became prostitutes men and women became prostitutes once a month every year and it didn't matter if you were married or not you went down to the temple because of that they had all kinds of unwanted children and they offered those children up as as offerings to their gods they burnt them alive and then they would take the bones if they were building a new house some some of you may be in the process of moving going to a new house you built a new house one of the things that the canaanites would do and we see this throughout all all of canaanite culture they would take a baby they would burn it alive they would take the bones they would put it in a pot and they would they would bury it in the footings buried in the foundations they did the same things with cities and god watched this nonsense for over 600 years and then he said now it's time now it's time to judge them and so again it starts off with this ominous situation and that's that's kind of interesting in the passage and what what noah or excuse me what moses is going to do is let us know where the whole issue with the canaanites and god came from obviously the judgment that's coming down on the canaanites is because of their sin and their sin is known to god and it's known to god before the fact it's known that this is where this this whole world is going to be going you have a reiteration of the fact of the flood too uh sons of noah who went out of the ark were shem ham and japheth that's three sons and ham was the father of canaan these three were the sons of noah and from these the whole earth was populated and so again we know that we're not talking about a local flood we're talking about a flood that literally wiped out the whole planet this is where steve does science again i just i just want to uh address some stuff one of the things that i ran into when i when i read this passage for the first time was the um just kind of being incredulous about the fact that you could get the whole earth's population from uh from three people from three families about 4 500 years ago and uh the reason that i didn't really understand that was because i wasn't thinking about compounding you guys you guys know about interest and about compound interest and so if you start putting away 100 bucks a month when you're in your 20s you're going to be a millionaire by the time that you retire right and that's because of compounding interest one of the one of the ways to explain how quickly things can numbers can become radically large is a story about the the inventor of chess his king offered him a reward but instead of gold he asked for one grain of rice doubled for each successive square on a chessboard there's 64 squares so you would double it 64 times and so for the first number of grains would have been 1 2 4 8 16 32 etc the tenth square would have had 512 the 20th 524 thousand the 30th 537 million there's 64. by the time you got to the end of that whole thing you'd have more you'd have more rice than the whole rice harvest in modern times and that's what happens when you double a population of anything as soon as you start getting up into the 50s and the in the 60s that kind of thing you have huge numbers at that point and so when you're talking about population growth in the world we got about seven billion people actually over seven billion people on the earth now it was three and a half billion when i was in high school and now we've got almost 8 billion 7.8 billion people is how many we have on the planet and so when you're talking about population growth that's a population actually we have a population growth on the planet right now of about 1.7 per year and what that means is for every 100 million people there's 1.7 million people who are added every year that's net that's that's including deaths and and all that kind of stuff um a lot of times we assume that uh population growth is because of medicine and uh because specifically because of modern medicine people are living longer and that's not true it's not true actually in in more modern countries population growth is about half a percent at this point uh most of the population growth on the planet is in third world countries whether where they don't have the medicine that we have in fact in third world countries it's about three percent so when you when you go through and you look at all this stuff it's pretty easy to calculate the growth rate needed to get seven billion people on the planet today and all you need is half a percent per year growth half a percent that's not one percent it's half of one percent per year um and actually it's a little bit less than that when you when you look at the population at the time of jesus from the time of noah you have about 300 million on in the world at the time of christ's resurrection that would only be a 0.75 percent growth since the flood or a doubling time of every 92 years and you can get that many people on the planet okay i'm going someplace with this you guys when you again when you're when you're looking at modern population one of the one of the populations we know about specifically is the jewish population there are people who kept themselves distinct from everybody else and we know from the bible how the jewish nation started and so they're descendants of jacob you start with jacob and you start going down through his sons and by the time that you got to just before world war ii there were there were about 18 million jews on the planet and what you have there is a population growth of about 0.45 percent per year and that would be a doubling every 155 156 years you have exactly the same number for the population growth of people on the planet from the uh again from the time of noah okay so what okay here's the first what you can easily get the population that we have on this planet from from the three sons of noah exactly as the story reads 4 500 years ago and it's an easy thing it's not a hard thing here's the other thing though when you're talking about evolution and you know like i said before i was a convinced evolutionist uh before i became a christian when you're talking about evolution you're talking about um periods of time that are vastly larger than what we're talking about from the time of noah to the time of ma to modern times and so if you're talking about just mankind uh in the sense of hominids those are those are um you know all the ape men all the stone age men uh that kind of thing i'm not gonna go away into that but um they say that we departed from the apes about a million years ago okay if you just do a one-tenth percent population growth on on on two people and when you're talking about evolution it's a little bit different than that it's going to be more but you talk about a population growth of 0.01 you're going to have 10 to the 43rd people on the planet by the time that we get to modern times that's one with 43 zeros after it okay that's a number that's that's so huge it's it's not it's not something that you can recognize and so if you take the earth and you basically um split it up into square yards or let's use meters because that's the numbers that i've got here uh square meters you take you take the earth um the land surface of the earth and you have 1.5 times 10 to the 14th square meters that's the one with 14 zeros after it you'd have to take every one of those square meters that's that's that's people every you know it's like i'd literally have somebody standing right next to me okay you you have to take every one of those square meters and make another planet make another planet the same size as our planet fill that planet up with people one person on every square meter and if you do that you only have 10 to the 28th people we're talking about 10 to the 43rd and so the population stats will not support an ancient human race it can't happen um what evolutionists will say is people died off really quickly and and the population growth uh didn't really happen okay let's do that so you got a stone age they say they say that the human stone age lasted a hundred thousand years and that's a conservative number it's actually more like 200 000 depending on who you're talking to the conservative number is a hundred thousand years for the for this whole thing and so you just don't do population growth at all you get a population growth up to one million people and you keep that for a hundred thousand years you're gonna have four billion bodies four billion bodies and these people buried them and they buried them with artifacts and so they bury them with their tools they bury them with all this stuff and the question that archaeologists and this is serious they have a question about this where are all the bodies and people go well they turn to dust and all that kind of stuff no they don't no they don't you bear we have bodies that are supposedly way older than a hundred thousand years that have been buried again and they're still there and for sure the artifacts would still be there that's with one million people on the planet you do 10 million people on the planet and what you have is 40 billion bodies in the earth without population growth at all that's just 10 million people staying at 10 million people for 100 000 years you're gonna get 40 billion bodies and they're not there they're not there the article that i'm getting this from is from a guy in australia and he gave an illustration of the australian aborigines and it's believed that the aborigines were in australia for 60 000 years 60 000 years when uh westerners got to australia they found a group of people um there that was about 300 000 people and so when when you're talking about the biblical timeline it would only take a 0.28 that's a little bit over a quarter of one percent a 0.28 population growth to get that number of people uh in 3 500 years okay and so again it fits with the biblical narrative when you're talking about the evolutionary narrative you're talking about 60 000 years at that point and if you do it 0.28 percent uh population growth you have more people in australia than there are atoms in the milky way okay so when it says in chapter 9 in in verse 18 now that's the sons of noah who went out of the ark where shem shem ham and japheth and ham was the father of canaan these three were the sons of noah and from these the whole earth was populated it's absolutely rational absolutely scientific and that's my point okay [Laughter] it's good stuff to know right and that's the end of the steve science lesson for today in any case she has you have this uh reiteration of the fact that there was a global flood you also have a reiteration of the brotherhood of mankind and so we all came from one guy we came wow it's a little different than that because you have one guy with three sons and obviously their wives are involved in that whole thing but you have one would you have one population that come from eight people um on the ark and that makes us all the same family and so when you get to the new testament paul makes the point in acts chapter 17 that he has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth and is determined their pre-appointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings so that they should seek the lord in the hope that they might grope for him and find him though he's not far from each one of us the point being that we're all from one blood we're all from the family of noah and before noah obviously we're all from the family of adam um we talked about uh earlier on uh where all what we call the races come from races are not something that you have taught in the bible what you have taught in the bible is are families and actually the the uh biblical families are broken up into basically three roots and it's the roots shem ham and japheth so you have shemites that's where you get the word semitic and then you have japethites japathites are the indo-european peoples and then you have uh the hamites and the hamitz are some of the first civilizations that we have on the planet so shem ham and japheth all come from uh obviously again the same family and so how do you get the different colors the different characteristics all of that kind of stuff and it would be that would come by just the regular mechanisms of genetics and so you have variation in genes you have recombination in genes and from that you can get all the families of the earth derived one of the things that we talked about earlier is you cannot get all the colors of people on the planet from white people you cannot get all the colors of people on the planet from black people you have to have you have to have started with medium brown people that's the way that the genetics work and so shem ham and japheth were people who had medium brown skin basically and from that you can start getting all the different families of the earth and again it's the same thing that we see in in breeding animals um when you when you get dogs we get everything from chihuahuas to great danes from something that looks like a wolf and actually i've got an article that talks about the fact that they went back and checked all the genetics on dogs and wolves and found that all dogs are descended from wolves from the middle east that's interesting because when noah got off the ark it was where yeah it was in the middle east and so all dogs are descended from from wolves from that area in any case um you don't have a wolf that looks like a chihuahua and you don't have a wolf that looks like a great dane and what happens is as you breed the characteristics and as you separate the the the different dogs and you inbreed and you do that kind of stuff you have more characteristics coming out and that's just the way that genes work god has designed us to be able to live in multiple environments and he uses genetics to keep us healthy basically and so that again is where everybody came from it says that noah was a farmer it says noah began to be a farmer that word for farmer there is ish adama it means man of the ground and you may be familiar with the dhamma from battle star galactica right uh actually comes from adam that's where we get the term adam and it's because adam was taken out of the ground it also means it has a connotation with red and so it can mean red man so ish adama man of the ground and what the reference there is connecting noah to adam in the passage as the father of the race the other thing that you see here is this whole thing with noah getting drunk and the sin of ham in this situation sin has not ended satan takes advantage of the situation of noah's compromise in in this situation and ham's attitude and so they you know we don't know when this took place it could have been hundreds of years after they got off of the ark noah by the way lived in into if there is no gaps in the genealogies that we have after this noah was still alive when abraham was 56 years old and so those are that's the chronology that we're talking about in the passage and so there's a long period of time that can kind of taken place it looks like it's pretty quick after the flood and it's one of those things that's kind of poignant in the sense that god takes them through the flood and the reason that he does that is because of the sinfulness of mankind and the fact that their thoughts were you know always continually evil and the first story that you have after god makes a covenant with noah is this story of noah falling to drunkenness and then ham gossiping about his father and mocking him in the passage and i'll i'll show you why i believe that in just a second and so sin hasn't ended and satan just starts in on the first family after the flood he starts in and he starts in with a vengeance and causes all kinds of problems there one of the things that we need to remember as christians is the fact that god has taken us out of the world doesn't mean that sin is ended it doesn't mean that satan stops when you when you look at the way that satan works with people and again this is talking about from a from a non-christian perspective because that's my perspective i was i wasn't a christian before i got saved before i got saved you know it's like i didn't want to have anything to do with church i didn't want to have anything to do with church people i didn't want to have anything to do with this stuff i thought i was good enough on my own i thought i was you know i thought i was a christian because i lived in america seriously that's what i thought and um when christians would come up to me i thought that they were a little freaky because they were they were so into the jesus stuff and so it weirded me out i did not have any desire to go to church and i've told you i've told you that i did go to church with my grandma but it wasn't because i wanted to it's because my grandma asked me to and i loved my grandma that's why i went to church some of you may be here this morning because grandma invited you to church you're just like me right anyway when i got to when i got into church most boring thing ever most boring thing ever and so i went for a total of probably five times and that was it and then i had no desire to do the church thing um after that after that point until a guy witnessed to me and he invited me to church and i you know i was able to talk with this guy and um asked him why would i go to church and he convinced me that it was a cool thing and the the final reason that he gave me for going to church was because there's all kinds of foxy babes down there that's what we called them back then foxy babes and so the reason steve went to church was because there was a possibility of of meeting up with some cute girl and so i went and um actually he was supposed to meet me and he never showed up and so there i am at church by myself all dressed up while nobody else was in in any case i went in and i got a i got a different thing than what i was expecting um at that point um i gave my life to jesus and uh after i gave my life to jesus uh it was awesome but the attacks didn't stop and here's what i notice happens with people most times when they're they're starting to have this struggle with going to church you know you go and you witness to somebody you tell them you should come to church with me you should check this whole thing out and then they go yeah yeah i'll go with you and then something happens on saturday night and usually it's a party and they get all they get all wasted and they don't want to get up on sunday morning that's that's what it was like with me when i was witnessing to people my friends would always do something stupid on saturday night so they couldn't come on sunday and so i would i would convince them hey you know what you need to take a break for a weekend so that you can go with me yeah yeah okay i'll do that then something else would happen their car would break down and that kind of that kind of thing and so finally what i did was when i was inviting somebody to come to church with me i didn't invite them to meet me at church i said i'm gonna show up at your house nine o'clock on sunday morning and we're gonna go to second service i'll take you to breakfast man and it was to to keep that from happening and what was going on was satan was trying to keep them from going to church to hear the truth he's attacking them that's what's happening with them all these weird things would come up anything to keep them from hearing what the word of god has to say and it's an attack of the enemy and one of the things that i thought after i gave my life to jesus i understood that satan had been in control on my life and attacking me on all kinds of levels but one of the things that i thought after i became a christian was that all that stuff was going to go away that everything was going to get good and everything was going to be wonderful and i'm going to have this awesome life from that point on and my first week after i was a christian was one of the hardest weeks i ever had and i just got attacked left and right and the reason is because satan couldn't keep me from going to church satan couldn't keep me from giving my heart to jesus and so what satan wanted to do was discourage me after i did and make me fall by the wayside as jesus said in the parable of the sower he wanted he wanted me to be sloughed off as a christian satan doesn't stop attacking just because god does work in people's lives in fact sometimes the attacks get more and more intense and it's just satan trying to keep you away from everything that god has for you don't be a wimp don't be a la law and fold don't do it you need to understand that if it's if it's worth being attacked over it must be awesome if satan wants to keep you away so badly it must be something that's so good um that he's attacking you for and again that's what's happening in this situation so sin hasn't ended the attacks are ongoing um it says that noah plants a vineyard and then noah has problems with the fruit of the vineyard is this familiar yeah this is this by the way is the first mention of wine in the bible it's the first mention of wine first mentions in the bible are important first mention of love in the bible isn't for another actually it's in chapter 22 and when it's it's when abraham is going to offer up his son his only son as a sacrifice to offer up your son your only son whom you love is what god says he's going to offer him up as a sacrifice it's a picture of the sacrifice that god was going to make with jesus that's the first mention of love in the bible this is the first mention of wine in the bible and it's not good it's not good and so what happens is noah gets plants a vineyard then he drinks of the wine and was drunk and became uncovered in his tent that means he's laying in there naked in his tent naked and drunk and again does that sound familiar you know anybody who's partied on any kind of level whether you're talking about partying with alcohol or partying with drugs one of the things that ends up happening is stupid takes place and you get humiliated after the stupid takes place how many times did i watch my dad drink and see stupid take place i uh um my my dad had a problem with drinking actually my whole family was this way my dad had a problem with drinking and one of the ways that he would drink and get away with it with my mom is we would go night fishing and we would go out we'd go out to a lake in arizona is where we were living at the time and my dad would take a bunch of vodka i started drinking vodka when i was in sixth grade and so my dad would take uh a bunch of vodka he would he would give me sips of it and and that kind of thing and we would go night fishing build a big campfire my dad would get drunk and and then things would happen and sometimes the things that would happen where things like he would fall into the lake one time we went night fishing and he just had an operation on his knees wounded in vietnam he had an operation on his knee had a cast all the way up to his hip uh he was drunk got too close to the edge and it was a it was a sharp drop off and um he fell in and i was standing there right next to him i saw him disappear and it's a it's about a it was about a three foot bank and i'm in sixth grade at that time i see the guy disappear he comes back up and i have to drag him up out of the water and so that was really fun another thing my dad would do is he'd tell me to go you know take the fishing line and go out and drop it in the middle of the lake and so steve sixth grade steve is grabbing the end of a fishing line and i would go swimming out into the middle of the lake you know as far as i could swim in the middle of the night while my dad's on the short going go farther and i go is this far enough and i'm thinking about whatever is in the water and that and that kind of thing i i still remember him standing on the shore outlined because the fire was behind him and he's yelling at me go farther go farther and finally he let me drop the line and i came swimming back in and that's my fishing experience fishing is fun we ended up he he always wanted to catch a big fish we ended up catching a big fish with that one it was a carp so that's always great so anyway so my dad gets drunk i see my dad do stupid right and how many times have i done actually have you know did i do because i haven't drunk since i was a teenager how many times did i do exactly the same kind of nonsense and so what happens is you end up naked and ashamed there's a passage in proverbs 23 29-35 i'm reading this out of the niv it says this who has woe who has sorrow who has strife who has complaints who has needless bruises who has bloodshot eyes those who linger over wine who go to sample bowls of mixed wine do not gaze at wine when it's red when it sparkles in the cup when it goes down smoothly you see all these people on facebook and they're going out wine tasting and stuff every time i see that every time somebody puts that puts that on this is the passage i think of because they think they're so sophisticated don't gaze at the wine when it's red when it sparkles in the cup when it goes down smoothly in the end it bites like a snake and poisons like a viper your eyes will see strange sights and your mind imagined confusing things you will be like one sleeping on the high seas lying on top of the rigging you find yourself in all kinds of stupid places and you don't know how you got there lying on top of the rigging they hit me you will say but i'm not hurt they beat me but i don't feel it when will i wake up so i can find another drink i'm smiling here because that's that's stuff that happened in my life it's like it's like i you know getting fights and you don't feel anything you you're it it talks about who has strife people who get drunk you're you know there's there are um there are fun drunks who like to talk when they're drunk and they talk your ear off and then there are mean drunks and when when they get drunk they start um causing all kinds of problems who has needless bruises who has oh excuse me who has complaints then there's the drunks who want to tell you about their whole life after they get drunk they want to have long counseling sessions with you i can't tell you how many times i've had conversations with people who've come over to my house or come into the office and they're obviously high or they're drunk and they want to they want to talk about all their issues you know what i say to them go home i don't talk to drunks and i don't say i don't talk to drunks i'm not that mean to him but i don't talk to drunks because what happens is you sit there and you spend hours with some dude and he doesn't remember diddly after you get done with him he doesn't remember anything and all he's doing is complaining and all the complaints are coming up and oh woe is me you know that's my life is a mess well gosh i wonder why your life is a mess maybe put away the bottle dude maybe you should do that in any case who has needless bruises i remember waking up on a on a sunday morning and seeing bruises on my body and not knowing where i got them from and so it's you know literally what my life was like before i was a christian and after i backslid and so drinking is not something that is promoted in scripture um in fact when you look at drinking in the bible jesus drank and so there's wine in the gospels the wine you guys was always cut we know this it was always cut as always the formula was one-third wine two-thirds water and this is wine that was done in ancient times uh they weren't they didn't have the technology where we make sure with that we have high sugar content and then inject yeast into the wine it's not the same kind of wine that you have nowadays and so wine nowadays can be 16 17 alcohol back in those times it was anywhere anywhere from eight to twelve call it ten percent and then you take it you cut it with two thirds water and so that is the wine that you have in the new testament and so if you want to compare um wine drinking nowadays to new testament times what you have to do is first thing that happens the wine bottle comes to you comes to your table you ask for a bottle of water another cup you pour half the wine into that into that cup fill the other half up with water and you've got the same alcohol content right about as they did when they had uncut wine in the first century then you asked for some more water and another cup and pour in two-thirds water and one-third wine and that's what you got that's what alcoholic wine was in the new testament okay so it's not the same animal in the first place and obviously you can still get drunk on this stuff and it still has the the same problems you go through the book of proverbs on drunkenness it's not a good thing it's not a good thing and there are a lot of people in our fellowship there are a lot of people that you know that have serious problems with this and we're christians we're not supposed to be stumbling people and so romans chapter 14 the whole chapter is about stumbling people and one of the major issues is drinking wine it was written to the romans they were partiers and so they were in a party culture and what paul is exhorting them to is make sure that you're not stumbling people it's good to neither eat meat or drink wine or do anything by which your brother is stumbled or offended or made weak is what paul ends that whole thing up with and so again you have to watch out for this stuff i have the freedom to drink anything that i want and i have the freedom to um uh do it uh in any place that i want i have the freedom to do that the bible teaches that so i have the freedom to do it i don't have the freedom to stumble people i don't have the freedom to take their lives and make them a mess and so again um what what needs to happen is we need to love the people who around us i was a youth leader one of the first things that anybody in a youth group asks the youth leader is do you drink do you drink and you know why they're asking it right and so what i had to decide and actually this wasn't a decision that i made because i was a youth leader it's a decision that i made because i had friends who were drunks who were my who were my friends and we got drunk together and it's still like this to this day you guys um you know i've been out of high school for over it's been 42 years now i've been out of high school for over 42 years i go to a high school reunion they're still checking my glass to see what i'm drinking still at this point and the reason is because they want to see if steve winnery actually changed because steve wintery was a notorious partier right so they want to know if i've actually changed and so i care more about my friends that i knew in high school than i do about whether or not i like miller or i like a bud i care more about them than i care about my drinking i could drink kool-aid i can drink diet coke i can drink whatever i don't need to i don't need to drink wine i had a actually went to my 30-year reunion and had a friend of mine that was a it was a girl that i grew up with she came over grabbed my glass out of my hand and drank out of it we were pretty tight in high school she could grab my glass out of my hand and drink out of it and i go what are you doing and she goes just checking just checking and so you know people care about this stuff and we're representatives of christ and we need to make sure that we're not stumbling the people who are around us i don't want people taking my whole life and everything that i've said and dismissing it because steve went back to drinking is the deal so uh it's important it's an important thing you need to watch out for it this is the last thing we hear of about noah until his death it's the last story about noah noah gets drunk he's laying in his tent naked and his sons see him and you can have a life that's been lived for god in ways that are just awesome that's what you have with noah and the last things that happen in your life can nullify everything that took place before you know paul in the new testament talks about the fact that the life that we live is like a race and when you're running a race there has to be discipline and there can be disqualification in the passage i'm talking about first corinthians 9 24 it says this do you not know that those who run in a race all run but one receives the prize this is back in ancient times and so there wasn't a first second and third prize actually second place is first loser right second place is like kissing your sister i said i used to be involved in sports that's what i thought of second place i don't want to be second place i want to be first place back in these days they didn't have a trophy for everyone who participated uh back in these days there was only one trophy and it went to the winner to the to the guy who actually won so he didn't have second and third prizes everyone who competes for the prize is or excuse me do you not know that those who run and race all run but one receives the prize run in such a way that you may obtain it and everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things now they do it to obtain a perishable crown but we for an imperishable crown the prize that they ran for was a laurel wreath it was a crown of leaves that they put around their heads and he says they run for a perishable crown one that's going to rot and fall apart but we for an imperishable crown therefore i run thus not with uncertainty unless i fight not as one who beats the air not like a shadow boxer but i discipline my body and bring it into subjection less when i have preached to others i myself should become disqualified and so when i when i look at my life it's uh it's an it's important that i not let up it's important that i pay attention to what my lifestyle is like it's important you know i'm i'm a sinner like everybody else and and you look at my life you're going to find flaws but you're not going to see me down at the bar i'm a sinner like everybody else and there are times when i'm going to do things and you're going to find out that i'm a sinner just like everybody else but you're not going to see me beating the snot out of somebody you're not going to see me drunk you're not going to see me using drugs you're not going to see me in those arenas that that that stuff needs to be gone nobody expects you to be a perfect man nobody expects you to be a perfect woman i expect you to be a sinner that's why i expect you to be but i don't expect you to be a flake i don't expect you to be a lush i don't expect you to be somebody who uh just trashes people i don't expect you to be that you're a follower of jesus christ right and so that's the kind of life that we're supposed to live if you don't live that kind of life you're going to be disqualified uh ecclesiastes 10 1. you should write this one down ecclesiastes 10 1 says this dead flies putrify the performer perfumer's ointment and cause it to give off a foul odor so does a little folly to one respected for wisdom and honor so obviously again a lifestyle that is awesome something that smells like perfume can be wrecked uh by one act by one act at the end of your life and everybody dismisses you and so again this is one of those situations enter ham so noah gets drunk he's laying in his tent naked and uncovered and ham the father of canaan saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brothers outside and so he happens upon noah in this situation the word saw in that passage means saw with satisfaction four times that word is translated in joy so he looks at he looks at noah see him sees him sprawled out naked and drunk in his tent and ham enjoys it he looks at it and he and he approves he's happy about the whole thing which tells you ham's attitude this is not a word that means um that ham uncovered noah or it's not a word that indicates that there was any sexual sin at all it's just a word that indicates he looked on him and he enjoyed what he saw he enjoyed it thought it was funny whatever and obviously ham's got some kind of issue with noah and this is something that often happens between fathers and sons especially when you have a father who is who has a lifestyle that's supposed to represent something sometimes sons when they don't represent that same lifestyle start getting irritated at the father they don't like what he looks like they don't like the fact that every time you get around him um what happens is you you get put down not necessarily by what he says but by everything that he is there's a problem in ham's life and noah's lifestyle exacerbates the problem just because he's there this happens to you also because you're a christian you're a christian you walk into a non-christian environment the people know what you're like know how you are know that you're a goody two shoes that kind of thing you wreck the party by walking in the door and they don't like it you condemn them by being around them because you don't do exactly the same things that they do when they halfway like you what they want to do is they want to get you into the same kind of lifestyle that they're in so that they don't feel so bad about the lifestyle that they're in and when you won't go into the lifestyle that they're in they start having an attitude towards you anybody ever experience this yeah and again that's what's most likely going on in this in this situation he has some kind of issue with noah it may be a father-son thing it is obviously a heart thing on the part of ham and so there's disrespect for noah there's disrespect for his authority disrespect for his influence um there's probably jealousy involved in this whole thing because he's satisfied with noah's fault he's satisfied with this he looks on it with satisfaction there's a book uh a uh uh quote in proverbs 24 17 and 18. i'm reading this one out of the nlt it says this don't rejoice when your enemies fall don't be happy when they stumble for the lord will be displeased with you and will turn his anger away from them and so many many times we look at people and we go huh we see what god's doing in their life and sometimes god puts them on their back and we're like that guy totally deserved that you know god's sitting there watching you going really really and again it's the whole idea of watching your attitude so not only does ham look on his father and see his nakedness and he's satisfied with that but he decides to tell his two brothers and so he goes and spreads it around so did you know what noah did and obviously it's not in that context i'm putting it in our context you hear about somebody's fault you hear about somebody's major screw-up and you go around going oh did you hear about so-and-so and to make it spiritual you might add on we should pray for them that kind of thing but really what you want to what you want to do is you want to spread around basically their fall that's called gossip and the bible is clear on the fact that gossip is something that god hates there are six things the lord hates knows seven things he detests haughty eyes a lying tongue hands that kill the innocent a heart that plots evil feet that race to do wrong a false witness who pours out lie and a person who sows discord in a family and that's what you have in this situation by the way that's proverbs 6 16-19 you should keep that in mind when you vote let me read it again there are six things the lord hates knows seven things he detests haughty eyes a lying tongue hands that kill the innocent a heart that plots evil feet that race to do wrong a false witness who pours out lies and a person who sows discord in a family so voting's coming up keep it in mind that's where that's how god votes on the other hand you know you have you have ham going out and basically humiliating his father in front of his brothers look at verse 23 it says but shem and japheth took a garment laid it on both their shoulders and went backward and covered the nakedness of their father their faces were turned away and they did not see their father's nakedness this is a big thing as far as um the culture goes um you see this this whole phrasing in the book of leviticus about not seeing the nakedness of your mother not seeing the nakedness of your father and obviously we grow up in families and there are times when you burst into the bathroom and there's your mom or you burst into the bathroom and there's your dad and that kind of thing it's but uh jen and obviously you know when that happens you're like my eyes my eyes you know what have i seen i'll never get that out of my head and and uh and that kind of thing that's why that that's why this is there um it was a big issue and so what shem and jff do is they put a blanket basically across their back walking backwards lay it over their dad good to go let the guy sleep it off and so um you you have them literally covering noah's sin at that point covering his sin there's another passage in the book of proverbs that says hatred stirs up strife but love covers all sins when it's uh quoted in the new testament in first peter 4 8 it says love covers a multitude of sins so am i supposed to be somebody who when i see somebody sin go out and broadcast it to everybody that i can tell or am i supposed to be somebody who covers for people's sins and i'm not talking about covering for major things the bible also talks about exposing uh sin in certain issues but most of the issues that christians get into are not sins that need to be exposed you can talk to somebody you can share with them you can lovingly correct people but you don't have to go and go out and spread it around can you imagine what life would be like for every person that's ever come and talk to me if i spread around the things that they've told me i know a lot of stuff i know lots about people can you imagine what it would be like if i went around talking about these people people actually expect me to tell them to tell my wife what they say in counseling and the reason i know this is because i'll have a counseling appointment with somebody and they'll go up to my wife later on and go well you know what um uh steve and i talked about this whole thing and i know that you probably know about it they expect me to tell my wife about what goes on in a counseling session and you know what what they always get my wife always goes i have no idea what you said to steve in your counseling appointment because i don't tell anybody what's going on in counseling appointments it's private and so um i would expect that if i went into counsel with somebody and so i do that with the people who are around me it's not a good thing to take people's secrets and start spreading those things around and again it's just gossip it's not right hatred stirs up strife but love covers all sins you know when you when you're looking at this situation you know the bible talks about honoring your father and mother and many times when i talk with people about that because again of the culture that we grow up in a lot of people come back with um i don't you know my dad doesn't do anything honorable there's nothing honorable about him and so why should i be honoring him my mother doesn't do anything honorable nothing honorable about her why should i do anything for them um here's some i've had four dads in my life my mom was married to 10 men and we had a number of living boyfriends you guys know that about me and so i you know it's like i've got i've got a i've i've got a messed up life and the longest that i ever have had a dad in the house was about seven years that was the longest and the rest of them were less than two years and obviously that kind of thing and so when i when i'm talking to somebody i just want you to know what i think uh many times when i'm talking to people gripe about their their fathers the first thing i think is you know and sometimes i'll ask uh did your father live with you and just that just that is a bonus you guys and i under i understand that um sometimes people can be rotten in all kind on all kinds of levels but did you get fed did you have a roof over your head and again if you didn't get fed you didn't have a roof over your head you got some somewhat my my kind of lifestyle and and and that kind of thing but if you got fed you had a roof over your head at least your dad was doing the basics that didn't happen for most of my life and so that's kind of that's kind of my perspective on the whole dad thing and then on on top of it you know my dad did some pretty stupid things and i just told you about a couple of them my dad did some pretty stupid things but i still loved him i knew i knew that he wasn't like that when he was when he wasn't drunk i knew the difference between him having a problem and um uh him being the guy that um i always thought he was in fact when he left i was in shock that he left i didn't believe that he'd leave me i didn't believe that he'd stay gone i thought it was just another fight didn't turn out that way but i didn't believe it because i cared about the guy in any case when you're talking about noah here ham sees the the one thing that we see in the bible that so that noah does is a blow it he sees this whole thing and he capitalizes on it he just jumps all over it and makes a mockery of his father in this situation and so you know you could sit there and talk to ham about this and say hey you know scripture says later on admittedly but scripture says honor your father and your mother honor your father and he looks at it and goes there's nothing honorable about him look at him he's a drunk naked drunk sitting in his tent and you know the answer to that should be you know could you give the guy a little bit of grace he just saved your life you're one of the eight people who got to get on the boat a little punk maybe you should think that way and so noah finds out about it and he puts a curse on canaan and it goes on and says verse 24 so noah awoke from his wine and knew what his younger son had done to him then he said cursed be canaan a servant of servants he shall be to his brethren so you know when you when you're looking at the curse on the sun of ham it's like why would you curse canaan instead of ham you realize this is what we do routinely we we don't curse um the you know when we curse somebody what we're doing is we're putting a slander on their parents basically and so when when i get mad at somebody and i say you son of a mule face camel were you son of a motherless goat you know that kind of thing what i'm talk what i'm telling you is that your mom is a goat and she doesn't have a mom right your mom or your dad is a mule-face camel and when i put a curse on you what i'm actually doing is i'm cursing your parents and you can think and obviously i'm goofing around with the whole cursing thing but you can go through and you can look at the curses that we use and they are actually awful things that you're saying about your father about a person's father or about a person's mother we do exactly the same kind of stuff and so obviously when you put a curse on somebody you curse you curse his father not necessarily him it's meant to be a slam in that way so you occur if noah had cursed him then he would have been cursing himself in that sense but here's another thing with this whole thing is it not it's not actually a curse the fact that somebody says something doesn't make it happen this is a prophecy and what noah is saying here is ham this is this is something that you're going to be passing down to your family this is something that's going to spread this is something that's that's going to last and it's something that's going to be awful and you see in the passage that he goes through and he talks about the son of ham and then he talks about shem and then he talks about japheth and he talks about what's going to be happening with their families noah probably had already seen issues with ham he uh in the in the passage uh what noah does is he ends up taking this as an opportunity to talk about what's going to be happening with the families of his sons and he gives a prophecy about those things it's not not the only one that you have in the book of genesis abraham does it isaac does it jacob does it they all prophesy concerning the future of their sons and the people who are going to come from their sons and so in this passage you have the prophecy of noah's three-part there is a physical prophet a prophecy about the the physical and the spiritual and the intellectual properties of mankind and they come from the three sons and so when you talk about ham ham had a son uh kanan uh canaan begot sidon and heth the jebusite the amorite the hervite and all these guys and it talks about later on what the families of ham are uh it says over in verse six of chapter 10 the sons of ham were cush and misream put and canaan israel is egypt uh um cush and putt are lit are libya basically kanan is kanan or excuse me i said cush was libya kush's uh saudi arabia and so the hamitz were that group of people when you look at what came from ham ham would be the servant of servants it says in this passage and it looks in the in the passage like it's going to be something that's an awful thing being a servant to people isn't an awful thing a lot of times being a servant to people is exactly what god wants you to do and one of the things that you have with the uh the the genesis of the nations is you have this prophecy about what these groups of people are going to be doing and how they're actually going to be influencing the world and so when you're talking about ham kanan comes from ham but like i said the egyptians the sumerians the phoenicians the hittites the african tribes most likely the eastern tribes the mongols and from there you would get the american indians the south sea islanders all of them probably came from the line of ham some of them absolutely came from the line of ham when it talks about him being a servant of servants later on you see this fulfilled literally with the canaanites the gibeonites specifically are a group of people that became servants to the people of israel and they became servants because of their sin and their debauchery and actually they made themselves servants to israel but when you look at the hemetic peoples as being servants to other servants shem and ham are also servants to god but when you look at the hemetic peoples being servants to these other nations or these other families it's not a bad thing when you're talking about the hamilt peoples they were the first pioneers following the situation with the tower of babel they prac they explored practically every area of the planet and just with that list of people that i told you you can you can see that they were the first cultivators of staples like corn and potatoes and beans and cereals they were the first to domesticate animals and again what we're talking about is egyptian sumerians phoenicians hittites all these all these peoples right they were the first to develop basic types of structural forms and building tools and materials they were the first architects they were the first to weave fabrics they were the first to sew they were the first to make weaving devices they were the first to make medicine surgical practices and instruments they were the first to bring in the basic concepts of practical math and surveying and navigation they were the first to develop money and banks and postal systems they were the first to develop paper and ink and block printing and movable type so they were the first in communication methods and then what would happen is the other groups of people would move in afterwards it talks about in the passage blessed be the lord god of shem and may kanan be his servant um the shemites are the spiritual arena and so when you look at the hamidic peoples uh that would be the physical arena the shemites were the spiritual arena their major contribution to humanity is in the area of religion the three major religions are semitic and so when you're when you're talking about judaism christianity and islam they all came from the shemites all came from the semitic peoples and then the japhethites it says may god enlarge j-theft that word in large is usually translated persuaded it's the idea of having an open mind and so it may be an indication that the japanites would be open-minded they would be intellectually curious and that again would mostly concern them with the intellectual and the japanites from the japanites come the greek the greeks and the romans the western european civilizations the indian civil civilization and so you have science and all of those things that are are fulfilled uh in the japanite uh groups of peoples so the hamitz were the pioneers the shemites and the japhethites would take over the hermitic territories and their inventions and then utilize and develop them to their own advantages you don't have races once again these are not races there are people who have gone to the bible and said that when you're talking about this group of people the shemites would be dusky and the the japanites would be white and the hamitz would be black completely false completely false um you may read things at times that will say that you have the and the caucasian and the negroid peoples and people identify with those with shem ham and japheth again completely false there's there's no factuality to that in the bible and it's not scientific on any kind of level completely false when you look at the hamitz the hamitz include all colors and so if you're talking about african and you're talking about egyptian and you're talking about sumerian and you're talking about uh far eastern peoples and you're talking about western people as far as american indians native americans and south uh pacific peoples you have the whole spectrum of the color range in the hemetic peoples so they're not black people they're not the negroid peoples and so that's just nonsense when you're talking about the shemites you again have light and dark-skinned peoples with semitic people and so again you just talk about the middle east and you have the whole range of color when you're talking about the shemites and when you're talking about the japanites they're indo-european people with emphasis on indo you go you go to india and you have you have people in india that are everywhere from white to the darkest black in india and so it's not caucasian people that we're talking about so it doesn't matter which family group that you're talking about when you're talking about the hamitz they have all different colors when you talk about the shemites they have all different colors and when you talk about the japhethites they have all different colors and obviously when you're talking about western european and that's most of our culture when we're talking about this when you're talking about western european you have a bunch of white people but that's only because it's from western europe when you're talking about the other japhethites that are in other areas they have different skin colors and so again you can't you can't have that all shades races when you look at race uh is an evolutionary concept that's been used to discriminate against minority populations and so it doesn't matter what the population is there's racism in africa i've been to africa and africans are racist they have problems with different tribes that's why you hear about people just butchering whole tribes of people they don't like them right and so there's racism in africa there's racism in the middle east radical racism in the middle east there's racism in the far east there's racism everywhere and again it's something that you need to keep in mind every continent on the planet has racism and so then it ends up in chapter nine uh with the lifespan of noah it says noah lived after the flood 350 years so all the days of noah were 950 years and he died um and so again you have that when you uh when you look at this whole issue of race i just want to again read to you from the book of acts in acts chapter 17. and again in that passage it says he is made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth and has determined their pre-appointed times and the boundaries of their dwelling so that they should seek the lord in the hope that they might grope for him and find him though he's not far from each one of us we're all part of the same family and it's a good thing to keep in mind when you're looking at the people around you i'll end it with that let's uh let's pray let's get you out of here god thanks again for your word thank you again lord for the the grace that you've poured out on us uh lord many of us came from just a total non-christian background and we're just talking about that whole issue of satan attacking and continuing to attack trying to get us to a point uh where we're uh just discouraged in our walk with you unwilling to do the things that you've called us to lord he's always going after us in that kind of way lord we pray that you'd help us to have wisdom to understand what's going on around us when those things are happening even today lord people coming to church there's always a tax when you come to church and there's a reason for that satan doesn't want us to hear the things that we hear when we read your word so lord we pray that you'd help us to understand those things and to walk in the power of your spirit lord i love the the whole thing with shem and and just watching out for their dad instead of ridiculing him or we pray that you'd help us to have that kind of heart towards the people who are around us we want to be people who decide that we have the ministry of exposing every flaw in somebody else but that we have the ministry of ministering of speaking to them in love um even correcting them lord but covering a multitude of sins that's what you do for us lord help us to do the same for those who are around us lord we love you and uh we thank you again for the time together thank you for your word god i thank you for these people pray that you bless them and that you do this all in jesus name amen let's all stand so we call so we call upon your name so we call upon your name we call upon your name when jesus for there is no other and for there is no other name by which we can be saved and so we call upon your name jesus awesome god bless you guys have a have an awesome week um tonight we're going to be uh in the sanctuary uh it's getting too dark at the end of the service to be outside so we're going to be moving into the sanctuary tonight god bless you guys also a couple of things uh if if you are struggling with addiction we have a men's addiction study on friday nights at 7 pm in the cafe and then also if you're interested in school of ministry we're having a meeting after second service at 1pm in the cafe all right

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Length: 71min 43sec (4303 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 30 2020