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*Blessing and Responsibility ~~ Genesis 1:28-30*
/Preached by Pastor Phil Layton at Gold Country Baptist Church on August 5, 2007/
www.goldcountrybaptist.org
Many of you know the names John and Charles Wesley, well-known for writing many of the hymns in our hymnal, whose ministry God used greatly at the same time as their friend George Whitefield, who is more my theological hero – I would disagree with the Wesley’s somewhat, I’m not a Methodist or Arminian in theology, but I’m thankful God used these men greatly for His kingdom and conversions and spiritual awakening in England and America, and they were some of the most influential Christians of the 18th century.
I’ve read that the mother of the Wesley boys, Susanna Wesley had 17 children (that’s taking Genesis 1:28 seriously).
It’s been said that she spent an hour daily praying for her children, and spiritual time with each individually each week.
[As a young boy] John was rescued from a blazing house, a “brand plucked from the fire.”
Charles, born prematurely, was tightly bound for days in swaddling clothes.
And Samuel?
Samuel, born February 10, 1690, worried his parents from the beginning by refusing to utter sounds.
As he grew, no amount of coaxing would draw from him even one word.
Friends feared he was dumb.
But one day when five, Samuel hid under a table.
His mother, Susanna, became alarmed when she couldn’t find him, and that prompted Samuel to speak his first sentence : “Here I am, Mother!”
After that, there was no stopping him.
Susanna soon realized Samuel was a precocious child.
She taught him the alphabet in a snap, then she proceeded to teach him to read.
What textbook did she choose?
Genesis.
In short order, Samuel read all of Genesis 1:1 by himself.
Then the first ten verses.
Then he memorized the whole chapter, ending with the last verse : “Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good.
So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.”
It was a firm foundation.
Samuel became a clergyman, poet, and educator who exerted a lasting impact on many—including his younger brothers Charles and John (though he objected to their Methodism).
But Samuel’s life was cut short.
He went to bed in apparent health on November 5, 1739, age 49, only to awaken at three in the morning, ill.
By seven, he was dead.
His influence, however, outlived him and on his tombstone are the words:
/Here lye interred the remains of Rev. Mr. Samuel Wesley, A. M./
/A man, for his uncommon wit and learning, esteemed by all/
/An excellent preacher: But whose best sermon/
/was the constant example of an edifying life/.[1]
As we study Genesis 1, my prayer is that these would not be mere sermons, but would have effect on lives – that we would all be more known as godly men and women, whose greatest message besides the truth of scripture is “the constant example of an edifying life.”
I hope that these times will not be merely academic or interesting, but would in fact edify your life and motivate you to live more for the glory of your awesome and Holy Creator God.
 
 
*OUTLINE:*
#. *Blessing (v.
28a)*
#. *Responsibility (v.
28b)*
#. *Provision (v.
29-30)*
 
/First, the Blessing/
/1:28 God blessed them and God said to them “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth”/
 
Remember that in Genesis 1 this comes on the heels of the statement that mankind is created in God’s image, so when God says the purpose of this fruitfulness and multiplying is to fill the earth, we see that mankind is to fill the earth with God’s glory by multiplying his image and increasing His image-bearers abroad.
The KJV has “replenish” instead of “fill” but in 1611 English usage, it has the same meaning of “fill, to make full, to occupy the whole of.”
The word “replenish” is a little misleading with how the word is used today (to refill, fill again), but Oxford English dictionary shows it only later developed this meaning.[2]
The idea of divine blessing on reproduction is not what all the other ancient cultures believed.
For example, ‘ancient tales, hailing from urban Mesopotamia …  tell of the gods taking steps to curb human fertility by sending plagues, famine, flood and miscarriage.
The God of Genesis repeatedly urged the first people to be fruitful (1:28; 8:17; 9:1, 7) and promised the patriarchs that they would be successful in fathering innumerable children.
Sex is thus seen as an important part of God’s very good creation (31).’[3]
/The blessing and gift of life is something we don’t think of enough./
In English, this phrase “be fruitful and multiply” sounds like a command, but the Hebrew is really more of a blessing.
As we saw earlier in chapter 1 (v.
22), this not just an imperative or just giving permission, what God says here grants the power to reproduce.[4]
The blessing precedes the fruitfulness and multiplying, and in fact God’s blessing is actually what causes or endows the fruitfulness and enables the multiplying.
Life is dependent on Him and a gift from Him.
The word of blessing guarantees success, and the most visible evidence of that enrichment is productivity or fruitfulness.[5]
God not only made all living creatures, He blessed them with the ability to procreate, propagate, proliferate, and populate the planet.
If you read Genesis 9:1, and 7 you see this repeated to Noah’s family after the flood
 
Genesis uses this word “bless” similarly in 17:16, where God’s blessing of Sarai imparts to her the capacity to bear a child
 
“I will bless her, and indeed I will give you a son by her Then I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of peoples will come from her."
The idea of blessing through offspring is a theme in Genesis:
-          Abram (12:2-3, 22:17-18)
-          Ishmael (17:20)
-          Isaac (26:3-4)
-          Jacob (28:3, 48:3-4)
 
This idea of fruitfulness-multiplying-filling continues in the Torah
 
Exodus 1:7 (NASB95) \\ 7 But the sons of Israel were *fruitful* and increased greatly, and *multiplied*, and became exceedingly mighty, so that the land was *filled* with them.
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Deuteronomy 30:16 (NASB95) \\ 16 in that I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in His ways and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His judgments, that you may live and *multiply*, and that the Lord your *God may bless you* in the land where you are entering to possess it.
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Deuteronomy 7:13 (NASB95) \\ 13 “He will love you *and bless you and multiply you*; He will also *bless the fruit of your womb* and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock, in the land which He swore to your forefathers to give you.
CHILDREN ARE A BLESSING FROM GOD, NOT A BURDEN
 
READ PSALM 127:3-5 AND 128:3
 
You cannot read through even the first book of the Old Testament without noticing that the Bible is very pro-child in stark contrast to much of American society.
This idea also prominent in Hebrew poetry
 
There is no question that the biblical view of children sees them as a great blessing and not as a burden, and having a “full quiver” of children was both a joy and sign of divine favor to Jewish families.
Before we moved here, the nursery at our former church had a system where they would give you safety pins for each kid you checked in that you can wear and then would give to the workers for security purposes to match up with your kid upon pickup.
I put our girl’s safety pins on my belt loop and sometimes when I saw another dad with multiple pins on their belt lip, the little joke I liked to say is “blessed is he whose belt buckle is full of them”
 
Still I wonder if many of us fully view children the way they did in the Bible, or if we think more in unbiblical worldly terms
 
 
In 1800, American women bore an average of 8 children, in 1860 it was 5.2, and in 1964, the average woman still bore 3.5 children, but by 1988, the average was 1.93 (presumably still between 1 & 2).[6]
There’s a number of factors, but certainly one is the attitude that children are an inconvenience getting in the way of adult pursuits.
Daniel Doriani writes in a helpful article on family planning:
 
‘The American family is shrinking like a cheap cotton
shirt.
In a day of small families, people-watchers can
enjoy the reaction when a couple announces, “We are
pregnant again.”
If they herald a second child, faces
beam approval and arms extend affection.
The display
shows that we no longer take the multiple-child family
for granted.
A second child is an event.
It creates another
ideal family: mother, father and two children.
But the
body language changes for subsequent pregnancies.
In
my circles, body language suggests that three children
are a sign of faith; four, a sign of bravura; five, extravagance;
and six, lunacy.’[7]
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