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MPS: God sees, loves & has a plan for the world
MPS: God sees, loves & has a plan for the world
Prayer:
God, you love the world. You are patient and kind, relenting your anger to dish out grace. thank you for knowing and yet choosing to be present and to protect us. Above all, thank you for your plan to rescue and restore the nations to yourself. To you be glory on Earth and heaven forever and ever.
God sees, loves and has a plan for the world
Intro: The world is falling apart, what’s the plan?
[illustration]
movies that talk about the world ending and how much we are ruining it, and there is no plan
-The world is filled with corruption
-but people aren’t all bad, there is good in each of us
-yet, there is not enough good, and wickedness is way more prevalent
-but God isn’t the hero because, if he exists, at best he is indifferently watching.
Thats the problem today:
it feels like our world is falling apart and we thinking, this is a mess.
climate change, war, economic distress, overpopulation, disparity or just division.
does God actually know whats going on in the world?
does God care what about what is going on?
Does he have a plan to clean up this mess? It seems like its getting out of hand.
The problem then:
This one broken family multiplies and spreads and the chaos seems to be everywhere.
1 big unhappy family
divided, at odds
same as the world we live in.
we are one big unhappy family. Every person on this Earth a descendant of Noah and of Adam and Eve.
We are 1 family
important reminder for us in such an angry world.
with so many differences
to see the face of your enemy as the face of your brother or sister.
that is the problem we see here.
dysfunctional family, growing disfunction
how can that be possible with so many differences?
P1: God sees the world
[READ v1]
jumping timelines
(Gen 11 happens in the middle of all the time Gen 10 covers)
ch 11:1 says, “Now the whole earth had one language and the same words…
ch 11:4 says, “let us make a name for ourselves lest we be dispersed.
somewhere in the middle of Ch 10, there is a dispersion of people, land and language
(vv 5, 20, 31)
Peleg “In those days the earth was divided” (25)
God is introducing important characters and players into the story
70 names
scientifically, it is not exhaustive. These aren’t all the people, just specific ones.
Biblically it is a complete list
God sees the world. God knows the nations.
70 is a complete number without being an exhaustive list
just sons
again, not exhaustive, but complete for it’s purpose.
The plot
a son will save the world
we are being taught to look for him
The characters
first several verses focus on Japheth’s line
the middle chunk focusses on Ham’s line
The final section on Shem’s line
Japheth’s family plays a supporting role in the biblical narrative
Ham’s line will play a central role as the antagonists
Shem’s line will play the main role of the protagonists
a star will come from their line.
A real hero that is central to the entire biblical story
Japheth (see map slide)
Indo-Europeans
from Greece, to Russia etc
supporting role (2 generations deep) fewer names
gentiles, participants in God’s kingdom, but on the fringes
Ham
Ham and his offspring are the main antagonists
Enemies of God’s kingdom
that does not mean anyone with Ham’s DNA is evil
does not mean that everyone in Shem’s line is righteous
Jesus says to the jewish religious leaders, “34 You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil?” Mt 12:34.
children of Satan!
this is a story of all the families of the Earth being brought near to God and each other
to some extent every family is separated from God and each other.
to different extents
some nations today are closer to obedience to Jesus than others.
none are close to perfect, but some are closer and blessed for that fact.
Cush- Ethiopia (v6)
Egypt- Egypt
Put- Libya
Canaan- the land God promises to Israel. highlighting the antagonists.
7 Canaanite tribes (v16)
Why Canaan and not Ham (ch 9)?
We don’t know if Canaan did anything that day, but we do know his legacy.
Like Father, like son.
dishonors God and his ways
Author is foreshadowing for the audience the background to the coming conflict between Israel and the Canaanites
ch 9 and 10
enemies of God’s people and his ways
this land you are taking is filled with wickedness and godlessness. God is spitting these people off the land because of their corruption.
further Emphasized with the account of Nimrod (vv9-12)
to be a “nimrod”
now days it means to be a fool or a dull person
but up until recently, to be a nimrod meant to be a tyrant.
The name Nimrod means Tyrant or Rebel
“A mighty hunter before the Lord”
In Nevada, its a very fine compliment to be called a mighty hunter…especially if God gave you a prize for being a good hunter, that would be a great honor.
not the case- a murder
A violent man who boasted in the face of God
Babel and Assyria
Assyria is one of the great enemies of the Israelites
and a city in which God will save through the prophet Jonah
Babel (ch 11)
Later, Babylon where the Israelites are exiled and held captive for 70 years
and a city that God will save their king and turn many to him
“make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed”
kick down the gates of heaven, we are god’s ourselves!
You don’t need to be a murder to be a rebel and tyrant against God.
make a name for yourself
your money, your job, your social media
It’s not about you. If you are a son of God, it is about the family name, not your name.
It is about making much of the name of God our Father, and Jesus Christ, his true Son.
Shem
The father of the semitic people
the hero of ch 9. Showing his true colors as a son of God
Father of Eber. Emphasis on “Eber”
where we get the word “Hebrew”
the Hebrew people
The main protagonists to God’s story
The semitic family
the Hebrew people
God knows the world
names of everyone on Earth
God knows the movements of everyone on Earth
God knows the motivations
God is knows what is happening in our world and your life
He knows who you are, where you are and what your’e all about
bad news
Good news
God knows whats happening in the world
God also loves the world in the midst of what is happening
P2: God Loves the the world
He preserves them
Covenant of the rainbow
In the midst of sin
we see 1 small and broken family in the beginning of this chapter
1 big broken family by the end
“be fruitful and multiply”
God relents
while sin abounds, his grace abounds more deeply
covenant is standing in the midst of corruption
Genesis 10 is a list of people who need grace, and so do we
God uses broken people and families for his glory
this church is an example of that
everyone of us a sinner
no perfect marriage
no perfect parent
no perfect friend
no perfect person
does God care what about what is going on?
He is relenting,
being patient
dishing out grace
storing up wrath
heard someone ask the question, “aren’t you thankful God didn’t stop relenting 10 years ago? 20 years ago?
His covenant preserves and protects the world ensuring his grace
God loves the world,
Paul says to the greeks, Ac 17:26–30.
“And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, 27 that they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us, 28 for ‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are indeed his offspring.’ 29 Being then God’s offspring, we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man. 30 The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent”
God loves the nations. God loves the world and all the people in it.
Even when he knows us he loves us.
He did not disperse people as a curse, but so that we might seek him and find him.
The grace of jesus and the relenting judgement of God
No where do we see God’s grace more clearly than in the work of Jesus.
the true son of God who came to the nations, to
grace
[Application]
How can we be united when we have so many differences and there are so many of us?
p3: God has a plan for the world
We each have sin and differences
some of us speak different languages
we have different backgrounds, experiences, stories, clans, some of us, language and even nation
yet here we are as brothers and friends. How?
Noah could not united the world, but Jesus does.
Ethiopian Eunich
Paul’s trips
our sin no longer divides us, but unites us
Our sin
because of Jesus, the names of sinners can be written in the book of life
God knows the world
God loves the world
God has a plan for the world.
English Standard Version (Chapter 3)
Redemption
John 11:51b-52
English Standard Version Chapter 11
Jesus would die for the nation, 52 and not for the nation only, but also to gather into one the children of God
Unity in christ
adoption
peace among the nations
Birth of Jesus
Pentecost
One nation under God
-The Church
Global Diverse Family Unified in Christ
fill the Earth
God’s blessing to Noah being realized
diversity
He wants many children
of all kinds of skin colors, cultures. languages and flavors
God’s church is a kaleidoscope of beauty
He loves to give humans land and watch them build families and art and technology and worship to him
“Be fruitful and multiply”
most of all, he loves humans in his grace towards us and his pursuit of us as his children
Jesus
Go therefore…
-God’s plan is to use our family as a light to the nations, to create in himself one family
Conclusion:
Thats the problem today:
1. it feels like our world is falling apart and we thinking, this is a mess.
does God actually know whats going on in the world?
does God care what about what is going on?
Does he have a plan to clean up this mess? It seems like its getting out of hand.
2. in our own country we are a very broken and divided people
The problem then:
This one broken family multiplies and spreads and the chaos seems to be everywhere.
(to confess i get some anxiety reading this chapter. so many names, so much times, so much sin and separation from God and one another)
Cursed be Canaan. Not Ham?
2 times Canaan is foreshadowed as the offspring of Ham.
we are told this (v18 and v22)
Ham (The Father of Canaan)
Ham had 4 sons
Cush (Ethipoia)
Egypt (Egypt)
Put (Libya)
Canaan (The promised land)
do you see what's going on here? Moses is providing a theological justification for taking the promised land. He has recorded this story, this event, to illustrate to the people of Israel:
Canaanite peoples that are now occupying the land before them are descendants of Ham.
a man who mocks sin, mocks sinners and mocks salvation
He dishonors his father, is an opponent of God and as they say,
“like father, like son.”
So Canaan receives the curse.
Again- not just words from angry grandpa, prophecy from God
Big idea: The offspring of Satan are cursed. The land of Canaan is meant for children of God’s blessing.