The Flood (The Life of Noah) (6): The Cursing of Canaan

Genesis 9:18-29 The Cursing of Canaan If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Genesis 9. We’ll begin in verse 18 tonight. As we have studied the book of Genesis together, we've seen the creation account in Genesis, chapter 1. We have seen God's special favor towards man highlighted in Genesis, chapter 2 and Genesis, chapter 3. We have gone through in some detail the account of the fall of man into sin and the consequences of that. In Genesis, chapter 4 we saw an interesting contrast between sin and grace in the human family. The sin of Cain, the righteousness of Abel and the line that descended from them. As we looked at Genesis 5, we saw Moses as he opens the chapter recounting for us creation, and then traces for us the godly line from Seth down to Noah.…

The First Things (Creation) (7): The Covenant of Works

If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Genesis, chapter 2, and we’ll begin in verse 4 this evening. We have reviewed Genesis 1 saying that the first two verses of that book bring us face to face with the ultimate reality, the one true God. And then the remainder of Genesis 1 tells us the sovereignty of God in creation as He creates day by day the whole of the heavens and the earth. And for the last couple of weeks we have been looking at the matter of creation ordinances and blessings given by God. We've said that a creation ordinance is a divine mandate or a divine principle which is established in our original pre-fallen state. This is a state of affairs which obtain prior to the fall of Adam. And it was designed, these ordinances, were designed to glorify…

The First Things (Creation) (5): The Creation…

If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to Genesis chapter 1 and verse 26. Last week we focused on the fact that man is created in the image of God. What we tried to do was briefly define what that means. We use that phrase a lot. We talk about being in the image of God and yet sometimes we have a little fuzzy conception of what it means to be in the image of God. So we tried to put some content to that language that we use a lot. And we said basically five things. We said that the fact that God made man in His image means first of all that man is distinct from the animal creation. We’re not just a higher animal, we're not just the highest animal or the most evolved or developed animal. We are not the human animal. We are distinct from the animal creation and…

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