Genesis 9:3 How are we to use the creation of God so that it may help towards our own supreme object? (1) We can _study_created things; we can see God Himself through them. (2) We may _use_God's creation for our necessity, for our advantage, and for our delight. (3) We are to _abstain_from it in obe... [ Continue Reading ]
Genesis 9:8 To understand this covenant, consider what thoughts would have been likely to grow up in the minds of Noah's children after the flood. Would they not have been something of this kind? "God does not love men. He has drowned all but us, and we are men of like passions with the world that... [ Continue Reading ]
Genesis 9:12 I. Among the many deep truths which the early Chapter s of Genesis enforce, there is none which strikes the thoughtful inquirer more forcibly than the connection between the disorder occasioned by man's sin and the remedy ordained by the wisdom and mercy of God. This connection may be... [ Continue Reading ]
Genesis 9:13 I. God sent a flood on the earth; God set the rainbow in the cloud for a token. The important thing is to know that the flood did not come of itself, that the rainbow did not come of itself, and therefore that no flood comes of itself, no rainbow comes of itself, but all comes straight... [ Continue Reading ]
Genesis 9:14 How often after that terrible flood must Noah and his sons have felt anxious when a time of heavy rain set in, and the rivers Euphrates and Tigris rose over their banks and submerged the low level land! But if for a while their hearts misgave them, they had a cheering sign to reassure... [ Continue Reading ]