Tag-Archive for ◊ Beginning ◊

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• Sunday, December 10th, 2023

Genesis 9:8-17 (NASB)

8 Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying, 9 ā€œNow behold, I Myself am establishing My covenant with you, and with your descendants after you; 10 and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the livestock, and every animal of the earth with you; of all that comes out of the ark, every animal of the earth. 11 I establish My covenant with you; and all flesh shall never again be eliminated by the waters of a flood, nor shall there again be a flood to destroy the earth.ā€ 12 God said, ā€œThis is the sign of the covenant which I am making between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations; 13 I have set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall serve as a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth. 14 It shall come about, when I make a cloud appear over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud, 15 and I will remember My covenant, which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and never again shall the water become a flood to destroy all flesh. 16 When the rainbow is in the cloud, then I will look at it, to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.ā€ 17 And God said to Noah, ā€œThis is the sign of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is on the earth.ā€

Theme: God promises to preserve His creation.

1) Godā€™s Covenant (9:8-11)

2) Godā€™s Sign of the Covenant (9:12-17)

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• Sunday, December 03rd, 2023

Genesis 9:1-7 (NASB)

1 Then God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, ā€œBe fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. 2 The fear of you and the terror of you will be on every animal of the earth and on every bird of the sky; on everything that crawls on the ground, and on all the fish of the sea. They are handed over to you. 3 Every moving thing that is alive shall be food for you; I have given everything to you, as I gave the green plant. 4 But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood. 5 I certainly will require your lifeblood; from every animal I will require it. And from every person, from every man as his brother I will require the life of a person.

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Whoever sheds human blood,
By man his blood shall be shed,
For in the image of God
He made mankind.
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As for you, be fruitful and multiply;
Populate the earth abundantly and multiply in it.ā€

God blesses mankind with provision and protection in the new world where sin and corruption will soon abound again.

Godā€™s Blessing: The Creation Mandate (9:1, 7)

1) Provision: Animals given for food (9:2-3)

2) Prohibition: Donā€™t eat the blood (9:4)

3) Protection: Sanctity of human life (9:5-6)

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