DCLM Higher Everyday 27 April 2023 — Biblical Biographies – Noah
DCLM Higher Everyday 27 April 2023 Devotional by Pastor W. F. Kumuyi — Biblical biographies – Noah
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Topic: Biblical Biographies – Noah
Text — Genesis 6:5-14; 9:20-24
6And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
7And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
8But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
9These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
10And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
11The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
12And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
14Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
20And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:
21And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
22And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.
23And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father’s nakedness.
24And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.
Key Verse: “These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God” (Gen 6:9).
Message
After the sin of Adam, his descendants fell short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23). Only a few of them turned to God in repentance for righteousness. Sin soon assumed a very wide scope and it attracted God’s wrath for the first worldwide judgment and destruction.
Noah was a great-grandson of righteous Enoch. He lived at a time when the world was most corrupted with ungodly marriages and violence. God was very sad about the daily evil desires and practices among men. But Noah found grace being just and morally perfect before God. God planned to destroy the earth; He told Noah to construct an Ark for his escape.
Through obedience, Noah, his wife, three sons, and their wives were saved. God blessed Noah to repopulate the world. One day Noah got drunk with wine and was naked. Ham, one of his sons mocked him and told his two brothers. They covered their father’s nakedness with a piece of cloth. The lesson from Noah is that we must watch and pray after we have escaped the corruption in this world.
Quote: Watch and pray
Challenge: Steadfast holiness is the key to walking with God.
Prayer for today: Holy Father, keep me righteous by your grace, in Jesus’ name.
1. Admit that you are a sinner. "For all [humans] have sinned, and comes short of the glory of God....[and] the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord" (Romans 3:23)
2. Repent now. "Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out ...[for] if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness " (Acts 3:19, 1 John 1:9)
3. Believe that God loves you and Jesus died for you. "God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet Sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8)
4. Invite Jesus into your life through prayer of faith. Jesus says, "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me" (Revelation 3:20)
