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, the new
Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully
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
5510 West Sam Houston Park Way North
Houston, Texas 77041
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