Manifestations Of Acceptance-3

Series:

SUPPLANTING The LEGACY Of WICKEDNESS—Genesis 6:9—10:32

A—GOD’s REMOVAL STRATEGY—Genesis 6:9-22

Toward Removing the Legacy of Wickedness

B—GOD’s DESIGNED DESTRUCTION(& Salvation)—Genesis 7:1-24

C—SALVATION REALIZED(Getting to Normal)—Genesis 8:1-19

*D—EXPERIENCING The VICTORY(Man’s Response)-III—Genesis 8:18-22...

OR Rather--MANIFESTATIONS Of ACCEPTANCE-III—Genesis 8:18-22

E—POTENTIAL For RESTORATION—Genesis 9:1-19

F—SAME Ol’ SAME Ol’—Genesis 9:20-29

G—The NATIONS—Genesis 10:1-32

Noah exhibited a tell-tale acceptance of God’s salvation upon exiting the ark.

Salvation is made manifest in our acceptance of all that is associated with it.

What are some personal manifestations of God's salvation?

What manifestations of acceptance flow from salvation?

How do manifestations of acceptance flow from salvation?

3 manifestations of acceptance that flow from salvation.

We have found previously that

Acceptance of salvation is manifested in...

1. FREEDOM(:18-19)

2. WORSHIP(:20)

3—Acceptance of salvation is manifested in...

MERCY(:21-22)

Explanation:(:21-22) Decision/Promise—How do we live Mercifully?

:21—“And the LORD smelled a soothing aroma. Then the LORD said in His heart, “I will never again curse the ground for man’s sake, although the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; nor will I again destroy every living thing as I have done.”

a.—God’s Delight/Pleasure(:21a)

“And the LORD smelled a soothing aroma.”

This is the only recorded instance of God’s actually enjoyably “smelling” a sacrifice. However Exodus, Leviticus, & Numbers, et al record that any of the burnt offerings(sacrifices) are intended & considered to be a “sweet aroma” to YHWH(Ex. 29:18, 25, 41; Lev. 1:9, 13, 17; 2:2, ,9; 3:5, 16; 4:31; 6:15, 21; 8:21, 28; 17:6; 23:13, 18, etc.)

Eph. 5:2—“And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.”

Php. 4:18—“Indeed I have all and abound. I am full, having received from Epaphroditus the things sent from you, a sweet-smelling aroma, an acceptable sacrifice, well pleasing to God.”

Noah’s sacrifice pleased God. It is as if God literally smelled the sacrifice & it pleased Him. It pleased God because it tangibly represented or gave evidence of Noah’s faith & trust in the God who had saved him. Noah had been obedient to his God from the heart. Thus God was both pleased with the sacrific-er as well as with that which was sacrificed. Certainly the ‘stench’ of wickedness had long offended God(6:6-8).

“Through the soothing offering(Hebrew=nihoah), God is brought to rest(Hebrew=nuah) by Noah(Lit.=’rest’, cf.-5:29).—NAC

Having witnessed the obedience of Noah(& his family?) we are now told of another(See 6:6) determination in God’s “heart.”...

b. —God’s Intent(:21b)

“Then the LORD said in His heart, “I will never again curse the ground for man’s sake, although the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; nor will I again destroy every living thing as I have done.”

*God promised Himself 2 things:

1)That He would “never again” bring a “curse” upon “the ground” because of what man would do.

2)God also promises that He will “never...again destroy” all other creatures along with man ‘as’ He had done by means of the Flood.

1)--That He would “never again” bring a “curse” upon “the ground” because of the sinfulness of mankind.(Probably cf.-3:17-19, but possibly 6:5). The curse came upon man because man’s “heart is evil from his youth.”(6:5-8)—Matthew Henry/NAC

The flood did not & cannot change that fact—Man in his free will chooses self. This obviously applies to Noah & his progeny as no one else is living on the earth. The very nature of mankind is such that given the choice between God or flesh, he will generally & willfully choose to satisfy his own flesh. Even though by God’s intention & design man is given ability to willfully counter that same flesh by the power of God thru Christ!

The family of man which will arise from Noah, though he himself is righteous, will be party to the very same freedoms & struggles with sin as had Cain(4:7) & all the pre-diluvian inhabitants of earth(6:5).

Thus the flood did not permanently remove man’s real struggle, which is the continual struggle with the sin within himself(Rom. 7:15-21).

Rom. 7:15-25—“For what I am doing, I do not understand. For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do. If, then, I do what I will not to do, I agree with the law that it is good. But now, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find. For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice. Now if I do what I will not to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good. For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man. But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, & bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? I thank God--through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.”