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https://netbible.org/bible/Genesis+11-13/

Today we are introduced to Abram...a simple man who God called to become the father of His chosen people.

We begin Chapter 11 with the birth of the nations at the tower of Babel where God steps in to deal with the flawed plans of arrogant men who had refused to spread out and to fill the earth as God commanded. As God halts their vain efforts and confuses their languages, a world of nationalities and varying cultures is brought into existence as humanity separates into groups and spreads throughout the world.

One such group, a family led by a man named Terah, becomes the focus of God's plan to redeem the world to Himself. The rest of the book of Genesis (and the majority of the Bible) follows the descendants of this family. Most prominently, we are introduced to Abram. God promises to bless him and give him a land of his own. He also tells of a blessing that will be for the whole earth and will come through the line of Abram. That blessing is ultimately fulfilled in the man Jesus Christ. Join me in Genesis 11-13 and learn of the origin of the nations and of Israel.

Come, let’s go down and confuse their language so they won’t be able to understand each other.”

Then I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you, and I will make your name great, so that you will exemplify divine blessing.  

I will give all the land that you see to you and your descendants forever.  

https://netbible.org/bible/Genesis+7-10/

Today we will read about the devastation of the Great Flood and God’s preservation of life. Within 40 days, heavy rainfall and great geysers (the fountains of the great deep) covered the entire surface of the earth to a depth of 22 feet! As Earth is forever changes, God reveals His faithfulness through the protection and deliverance of his Servant Noah. After 40 days of devastation, the land begins to dry out and, 330 days later, Noah and all the animals are able to leave the ark and begin to fill the earth once again. As Noah exits the ark, he makes an offering to God and God, in response, makes a covenant with him that is marked by a miraculous sign in the sky: Never again will God flood the whole earth. Every time we see a rainbow, we are reminded of God's promise to us. Join me in Genesis 7-10 and marvel at the power and the mercy of God!

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month – on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst open and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.  

The waters completely inundated the earth so that even all the high mountains under the entire sky were covered.  

But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and domestic animals that were with him in the ark. God caused a wind to blow over the earth and the waters receded.  

I will place my rainbow in the clouds, and it will become a guarantee of the covenant between me and the earth.  

This is the account of Noah’s sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.  

https://netbible.org/bible/Genesis+4-6/

Today we see the tragic consequences of sin as it begins to spread through God's perfect creation. The passage begins with 2 brothers offering a sacrifice to God with very different intentions.

God's response is one that we will see countless times through our journey: Despite the words or deeds that we outwardly show to the world, God always looks within to see our hearts and our true intentions. We witness the hearts of two very different men and watch as the sin of jealousy leads to murder. Reading on, we come to my favorite chapter in the Bible! Genesis 5 introduces ten generations of men over 1600 years as Mankind begins fulfilling God's call to fill the earth. Unfortunately, we also find that the earth is filling with violence and sin. Seeing his creation tainted by such depravity, God regrets having made man and vows to destroy the earth. But, one man, Noah, is faithful in God’s eyes and is given a command that will save him and ultimately the whole of creation. Join me in Genesis 4-6 and see a God who is long-suffering, just, and, in the midst of our sin, still seeks to redeem His creation to Himself.

Is it not true that if you do what is right, you will be fine? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at the door. It desires to dominate you, but you must subdue it.”

He named him Noah, saying, “This one will bring us comfort from our labor and from the painful toil of our hands because of the ground that the Lord has cursed.”  

But the Lord saw that the wickedness of humankind had become great on the earth. Every inclination of the thoughts of their minds was only evil all the time.  

But Noah found favor in the sight of the Lord.

And Noah did all that God commanded him – he did indeed.  

https://netbible.org/bible/Genesis+1-3/

Today we will read about how it all began. In Genesis chapters 1-3, we witness the power of God as he spoke everything into existence. Seeing that His creation was very good, God continued to bless our world by instituting the concept of love, marriage, and family as he brought Adam and Eve together.

As we read on, we discover that, despite the perfection of God's creation, mankind easily falls into the trap of sin by breaking "the one rule" that God had set for them to obey. This first act of sin changed everything and caused a terminal separation between God and Humanity...a separation that could only be repaired roughly 4000 years later through the birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. While the sin of Adam and Eve led to centuries of pain, suffering, and death...chapter 3 also offers us hope: God gives a promise that the ultimate defeat of the evil one is coming. Even here, at the beginning of all things, God revealed that He had a plan to redeem his creation to Himself. Join me in worshipping our Creator today as we read Genesis chapters 1-3.

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

God blessed the seventh day and made it holy because on it he ceased all the work that he had been doing in creation.  

And I will put hostility between you and the woman and between your offspring and her offspring; her offspring will attack your head,and you will attack her offspring’s heel.”  

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